Picture gallery of Pondicherry, Palani,Madurai and Parangipettai.
The gate with three domes below is the place to enter and begin the climb up the mountain. We started from here.
Resting places in between to rest and recharge.
This year there was very strict security and no cameras were allowed inside the temple, so there were just a few pictures that we could take. However, those who have not seen the older pictures can see them now which was published on 8.2.13.
Except for Parangipettai, all the pictures are contributed by Nishith Patel. As mention in God Within-III, our focus this time on our trip was not on photography and hence the picture gallery is very basic and modest. Last year there was an elaborate picture gallery of Pondicherry and Madurai. Readers who wish to take tips or just like to go through it will find the links above.
Those readers who are reading the blog for the first time today please note that we are moving with an elaborate thought 'God Within' which has been covered over four weeks starting from 14.12.13. In them, there have been two sections A and B. Part A is my conversations with God during a meditation and part B is about my visit to some holy sites in South India toured lately. My recommendation to all readers is that once this post concludes, please read Part A of all three posts God Within I, II and III together so that you have a complete visualization of my inner vision and experience and you know all the conversations that took place at a propitious time. As the matter was very weighty, I broke my experience into three parts so that its constituent is absorbed meticulously and entirely bit by bit by all.
Similarly, read all the three parts of Part B one by one when you are done with reading this whole post and connect the complete story and apprehend all the layers and parts of the knowledge that I have received in a very little time as it came too fast through cosmological rays.
The Divine souls who are not living in body at this moment and communicate only through intuition from the astral skies, are communicating at a very fast speed because the style of their communication is refined and clear of any gross material particles.
Our mind has to be trained and developed through meditation and concentration to be able to absorb such high speed revelations coming straight from another world so full of Divine Light and Purity. Some of the souls are highly developed and hence their tank of knowledge is far larger than any other saint or holy soul that we have known. Our mind has to be very light and free like ether. In addition also extremely concentrated to enable us to communicate with them. In this way, we accept all the insights they are relaying through their mind power while we are on Earth.
Henceforth, the posts are going to go back far, far in time; millions or thousands of millions of years before in time!!! You will have to orient and re-position your mind as far as time is concerned. Probably, all of us must have never thought of events that occurred so far back in time. Thus, there are two things which you must keep in mind- First is that many saintly, divine souls who are not living currently in a physical form on the Earth are still active in the upper skies and are vigorously involved in social welfare and human race's evolution. Secondly, their way of working is entirely different from ours. They work in silence and through intuition only and hence their functioning is very rapid and subtle. Therefore, we must attune our minds very finely with theirs so that we are able to communicate with them.
Part B is a description of my own exclusive experience with one such exalted Maharishi of ancient times and it becomes quite a task explaining such a mystic and extraordinary experience by writing each word now as I recall my special moments with none other than Shri Bogarnatharji, the Guru of Shri Mahavatar Babaji. Weaving two different time zones as narrated in Part A and B respectively has been an intricate job. The ability to narrate such superfine mystic revelations is something I have very much enjoyed doing and it never appeared to me as a trial. It is my service to those revered Spiritual Teachers and the Almighty God from whom I have received the skill and deftness to do this task. Hence, even before we begin to read on what follows soon, I want to recite this shloka as a mark of respect and infinite devotion for the Holy Teachers.
Before the chronicle begins, please allow me to share some of my imaginings and ideas which I have been carrying with me and they are lying at the bottom most layers of my mind since a lot of years. It has a co-relation with the conversation with God as I am about to retell in Part A.
From the time I came to know about Shri Mahavatar Babaji officially in 2001, I have had this silent desire of writing a biography of him because his personality is so very intriguing and compelling on my subtle psyche. It is as though I found the mission of my life and the purpose of living on Earth. Since 2004 and that makes full ten years, I have been visiting many sites frequently which are associated with Babaji's life. I have made several failed attempts of meeting him personally in the Himalayas and each visit grew gruesome and hard to get the looked-for results. But this flame of my aspiration that got kindled on seeing the image of Shri Mahavatar Babaji in my friend's house accidentally in 1998 does not get extinguished with time. It is still kindling like the inextinguishable flame of desire. It is a desire which I will not let extinguish.
There is also one more thing that was my desire. I have been telling God residing within ever since to please give me at least the basic insight and some spiritual accomplishment that will make me entitled to see in person the towering figure, almost Godlike personality that Shri Mahavatar Babaji is. Whenever I am able to meet him in future with your consent, my meeting should not go in vain. I am aware that there have been saints and some laymen and people who have met Babaji personally because of their good fortune but I remain calm inside because I have a very different reason to meet him. In my opinion, I wish to see a human soul who over millions of years has been improving each state of God Realization of that human life to next still greater Spiritual Achievement!!!The comparison between him and me when done is too stark so I had decided that I will go on improving my own state of Consciousness to higher and higher state by doing intensive tapas or penance so that I can someday meet him at a point where I can do justice to his stature, accomplishments and persona. If he has done unprecedented tapas by bearing all the hardships, then I should at least purify myself enough to meet him midway somewhere. And then do justice to his Purity and Divinity that has been bestowed on him by God as he has done countless good deeds since zillions of years!!! So whenever I am destined with the wish of God to meet Babaji, I should have done the minimum required atonement, amendments and good deeds so that I can write about him for the world to listen and see such an exalted soul that has taken birth on this Earth!!
Therefore, my subconscious mind is still alive with these thoughts even though my daily life is full of activity and life keeps throwing its challenges at me. After many years, recently God did reply to my hidden, subdued question which was pestering me in the past. However, it was not Shri Babaji who answered my question, he is an epitome of pretentiousness and humbleness. When I became ready to have direct conversations with God with the help of many saints including Shri Mahavatar Babaji himself, so much information has been revealed about his inner sacred life. I feel extremely fortunate and blessed to become a recipient of this sanctified knowledge. I am optimistic that the day when I am totally ready to fulfill the purpose of my life to write the biography of Shri Babaji with face to face dialogues, it shall be done. I am waiting for God to decide how and when.
Nevertheless God, Babaji himself, many saints and other sacred souls like a few very old Banyan Trees have told me a lot about him in my visions, dreams and meditations through telepathy. With God's Grace I have been able to write about all of it on my blog which in turn does reflect a portion of Babaji's inner views on Dharma, Karma, Enlightenment, Consciousness, Purity, Meditation, Salvation and so many other pious topics which are rare to find in one place. I consider myself very blessed these days when it sinks in that merciful God chose me to carry out His mission and documenting a very small part of Babaji's life history and teachings through my blog…….Thank you God!
Now keeping this overview in mind, please see the next question that came up spontaneously in my mind which I put up to God in my meditation many weeks back.
God-"The birth of an idea, a thought or an impulse or sensation is sankalpa. Once the idea is born, it begins to have a shape, a complete picture then takes place in the mind of the jeevatama or soul. The re-occurrence of the following ideas and the desire to participate in completion of its formation is Ichcha Shakti or will power.
Actions performed to accomplish those ideas, the power to act and complete those desires is termed as Kriya Shakti.
13.01.14. It is 6 a.m.
Likewise my dear friends, in the past when I came to know through some sources that Shri Bogarnatharji was Shri Mahavatar Babaji's Guru and he gave him Kriya Deeksha in the dense forests, I became intrigued and restless. I wondered if I could ever get to communicate with him in this life time, if so I should feel grateful. It would be so wonderful to get in touch with a soul which was so early in existence. It was not happening in a very defining manner although two or three short messages did come as a grace sometime in 2004 or later than that.. Nonetheless my fascination to get in touch with such antique and graceful souls remained intact, I was still wishing very quietly. I used to ponder how did Babaji take Kriya Deeksha from Bogarnatharji who was not even alive at that time. The pictures shown in books present in such a way that it appears that they both were in a physical form. How did Agastya Maharishi initiate Shri Mahavatar Babaji when he is not living? How did they communicate?
My desire to converse with Shri Boganatharji and receive some knowledge was fulfilled most unexpectedly, it happened in Madurai recently. I was elated!
He appeared to me in a transcendental state in the hotel after a exhausting day in Madurai. It happened most unexpectedly when I was wondering what I would receive this time in Palani, the resting place or resting abode of Shri Bogarnatharji. The next day we were to go to Palani. I had a very strong yearning to hear something from him since I came to know that he initiated Babaji in Kriya Yoga in Katargama which I had visited twice.
The most surreal conversation began as I hit the pillow around 5 or 6 pm when we arrived from Pondicherry and wanted to take a short nap or at least some rest since we had set out so early that day.
He told me about himself- "Yes it is true that I took Kriya Deeksha from Kartikeya, the second son of Lord Shiva. I was third in line. Shiva initiated Kartik in this sacred Yoga who in turn taught me the sacred science. Mahavatar Babaji took Deeksha from me in Katargama. This is the lineage of Babaji. It ends at Lord Shiva. Shiva lived thousands of million years ago.
All the factual and accurate Science of Yoga and God Realization are received by intuition in meditative state of mind in a Trans. I gave Babaji Kriya Deeksha and advance teachings only through intuition in a Super Conscious state and not by direct body contact.
Whatever you have also received, which is accurate and genuine, has been acquired by telepathic conversation and in future also you will know the secrets of God's creation and hidden powers in mental communications only. True realizations and getting to peep into God's world and its creation is achieved only through the astral path and Cosmological rays. This is the only mode of imparting insight by the Almighty to us. The other normally accepted methods of acquiring God Realizations are not fool proof and are prone to wither.
At this delicate moment I very rapidly pleaded to God to rub out all the ego that I have now and to please, please bless me so that I never have any dash or drop of ego in any forthcoming lives that I may live again. I sought a boon from God in presence of His Holiness Shri Bogarnatharji that I should never be proud of my knowledge and achievements because I know nothing really!!! I am too, too small always. Imagine how big God is and we so small yet the ego, our biggest ignorance is too big to handle. I felt very ashamed of my limitations and decided to never allow any thought or wave of pride to come near me leave alone touch me. I mentally surrendered once more all my personality, my knowledge, my faith, my abilities and my divine perceptions at the humblest feet of Shri Bogarnatharji. I felt light and good by my act of submission after it.
Morning Illumination date not noted but happened since I returned from Madurai. It must have happened on 29th Dec'13 I suppose.
After my sincere submission to Shri Bogarnatharji in Madurai on 24th Dec evening, to my ultimate astonishment Shri Kalingartharji, the other Guru of Shri Boganatharji taught me something briefly when I came back home. He along with Shri Mahavatar Babaji, Shri Bogarnatharji, Maharishi Agastya and a few others are considered the deathless Gurus and are Siddhas of South India. They are worshiped very reverentially in villages as well as in cities even today. I have even seen their pictures in state transport and local buses plying between various cities and villages also.
He taught me in morning meditation that two things are required for knowing your Self or to know God Within- Mind Control and Breath Control.
Since I have come home from South India tour, I am more regular with doing my Kriya and meditations. I do them whenever I get time if I miss my morning sessions. Two meditations in a day are vital. I understand that Shri Bogarnatharji has blessed me when I went up to him in the shrine on the mountain in Palani. I consider Shri Kalingarnatharji's blessed arrival as an auspicious omen and he must have come because Shri Bogarnatharji was pleased with me. Or could it be because I am doing the seva of Shri Mahavatar Babaji? I don't know. All I know is that my desire of serving Shri Mahavatar Babaji remains aflame. The desire within will not die out and I pray to God that the flame of aspiration, the fire of soaring higher and higher should be kept alive so that the horizons of Spiritual Kingdom can be faintly touched………..May God and all our Gurus bless us.
On this trip to Pondicherry and other places, the focus was on learning and doing just meditations. We took very little photographs but instead I took a video of Parangipettai for those devotees and seekers who cannot visit the sacred spot. There may be so many devotees of Shri Mahavatar Babaji living across the world who cannot come to India to see these places. As a small gesture of my service, I humbly offer these three videos to God who is within and who resides in all of us.
As a group of four, our tour was very successful. Three other devotees of Shri Babaji accompanied me and there were classes or workshops every day. We meditated at all the important places and there were long sessions of explanations through question answers. With Babaji's blessing, this tour was very successful as far as open classroom is concerned. We also had our sessions in Pondicherry under trees in large parks resembling Shanti Niketan which added so much life force in our system. Learning under open sky and sunshine is such a boon, looking forward to more such group learning.
Two videos are of Katargama shrine. Please read How to manifest our soul-I where the history of Babaji's penance in youth is printed.
Dear friends, I am now active on FB since New Year eve as Sarika Nagrath. Daily short messages on Spiritual teachings are delivered with the kind grace of many saints like Shri Paramhansa Yogananda, Mother of Pondicherry, Swami Shri Nityananda and Swami Dayananda Shaligram of Ganeshpuri and last but not the least Shri Mahavatar Babaji. Sometimes other saints also whisper their messages for their disciples as well which I am pleased to receive and I deliver. I am revising my lessons as well as honing the sharpness of my brain by doing so. Quick delivery of these astral messages coming any time of the day or night are delivered even at odd hours on Fb because their children should be attended to and their messages should be delivered at the nick of time. The Divine souls are working silently in unison for our welfare and corrections. Many of their ex-disciples are today misled by the delusion of Maya and the use of electronic media is certainly a very good idea to find them and bring them home again! May we all prosper and grow in strength in every way by helping each other in our spiritual progress.
In very busy days, there could be intervals on Fb and I will keep the language very simple but matter will be grave as is seen on the blog too so that many people can adopt these teachings and benefit more and more.
My request to all of you-please do not mix up these two mediums. Please do not write topics of blog on Fb if you want to join it. Write only on the blog and I shall reply there. Fb is for those who cannot follow the blog's present topics as it has become very elaborate and topics are hard to comprehend as beginners. They may even get confused and lose interest. Some of the future devotees are being prepared on the other medium so that one day they can read Spiritinlife. Thank you!
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Facing ISIS: The Kurds of Syria and Iraq
Michael Stephens
Research Fellow Middle East
Head of Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), Qatar
Kurdistan has faced numerous tragedies in its time. Divided between four countries by Imperial powers, the Kurds have suffered political alienation, discrimination and genocide at the hands of various Turkish, Arab and Persian rulers. Despite a long and bloody history, the Kurds have never faced quite as virulent and destructive a threat as the Islamic State (ISIS), which has sought to utterly destroy Kurdish political and cultural life in Iraq and Syria.
The Kurds presented little in the way of a strategic threat to the Caliphate. Kurdish territorial designs stretched into only small portions of Arab-held territory in Iraq and Syria, and certainly not into the heartlands of ISIS control. ISIS' militant dislike of separatist nationalism in the Islamic world, especially when mixed with secular values, may have been a trigger. But ultimately it may prove to be a combination of hubris and a misguided sense of military capability that drove ISIS into battles against the Kurds that have been hugely costly in terms of weapons and manpower and deleterious to the group's perceived invincibility.
ISIS: A Blessing or a Curse for Kurdistan?
Despite ISIS' appetite for wanton destruction, a debate exists as to whether Iraqi Kurdistan has benefitted from the insurgents' repeated intrusions into their land. Kurds rejoiced in June 2014 when Iraq's army melted away from disputed Kurdish lands in the face of an ISIS attack. The long held desire for Kurdish control over Kirkuk was finally realised as the Peshmerga moved to secure areas long disputed between themselves and the central Iraqi authorities in Baghdad. As such, the ISIS advances in Iraq have provided territorial benefits for Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as bringing the Kurds into close security cooperation with a number of important international actors, most notably the United States, France, the UK and Germany. With such international backing the security of Kurdistan is virtually all but guaranteed, be it from ISIS or from any potential conflict with the Iraqi State, and this despite the preference in the West for a unified Iraq under Baghdad's control.
But the raucous optimism of that time has been replaced with unease about the future of the proto-State that is coming into being in Iraq. Kurdistan may well have gained the land it dreamed of, but the price it is paying is high. The Peshmerga have lost 1,200 men and women, and over 5,900 have been injured defending their lines from repeated ISIS attacks. The region has taken in some 1.6 million refugees from Syria and the rest of Iraq, straining the regional government's resources to breaking point. Additionally, numerous towns and villages along the front lines of Kurdish and ISIS fighters have been rendered uninhabitable by the destruction of war and by retreating ISIS forces.
Similarly, ISIS attacks against Syria's Kurdish region (known as Rojava) have proven a defining moment not just for Syria itself, but also for the future of Kurdistan. The siege of the Syrian border town of Kobani in particular focused minds on the Kurdish struggle, for the first time bringing Western air power, under the guise of Operation Inherent Resolve, to back Syrian Kurds in their armed struggle. Less economically developed than their Iraqi brethren, and only having achieved relative autonomous power since 2012, Syrian Kurdistan's mere emergence on the world stage as a political actor is almost entirely as a result of ISIS attacks. Although not assured of the same level of Western support as the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Syrian Kurds have been effectively given assurances by the international coalition that they will not be left alone in their struggle for survival.
The ISIS advances in Iraq have provided territorial benefits for Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as bringing the Kurds into close security cooperation with a number of important international actors, most notably the United States, France, the UK and Germany
As Rojava comes to life as a socio-political entity it faces numerous challenges, not least the devastation caused by ISIS. 80% of Kobani lies in ruins; the majority of its people have fled to Turkey and are unsure as to whether they will be allowed to return to a town ridden with hidden bombs and little working infrastructure. Rojava's three cantons of Afrin, Kobani and Jazeera remain separate entities lacking contiguity and a defined political future, especially as the war in Syria still looks far from being over. As ISIS weakens militarily, retreating from territories it once held, and factions such as the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al Nusra and Syrian regime look to capitalise, Syria's Kurds undoubtedly have to continue fighting as the war drags on indefinitely.
Economic Challenges
The fight against ISIS has deeply affected the daily lives of Iraq's Kurds, in particular through its effects on the KRG economy. Iraqi Kurdistan has suffered dramatically as a result of instability in the rest of Iraq. Failures by the central authorities in Baghdad to pay the KRG its allotted 17% monthly share of the national budget have led to a cash crisis in Kurdish-controlled territory.
Salaries of civil servants and Peshmergas have gone unpaid, sometimes for as much as six months, and the three incomplete payments made by Baghdad this year have only made up for salaries missed some four months ago. This while Baghdad has continually ensured the payment of salaries to Iraqi government workers in Mosul, working under ISIS. Given that 70% of the KRG's working population is in the public sector, this has proven devastating to the area's economy, the lack of money in the system leading to a cascade effect causing what little private sector that exists to shrink rapidly.
The solution to the problem is complex; corruption, bad fiscal management and tumbling oil prices all play their part in preventing a quick fix for Iraq's Kurds, and restarting regular payments from Baghdad will not cover the region's $1.2-billion monthly expense bill. It will be a slow rebuilding process that may take many years, and the damage to Kurdistan's drive to one day become an independent state will be long lasting. The war has exposed the fragility of the KRG, and while Iraq's Kurds have pulled together during this time of crisis, there is deep anger about the inefficiency and incompetence of political leadership, and the inability of Iraqi Kurdistan to put into place structures which afford them greater fiscal autonomy from Baghdad.
In Rojava, Syria's Kurds have also begun to grumble. The existential nature of the threat posed by ISIS has exposed cracks in the nascent autonomous project. Burdened by refugees from other areas of Syria, effectively blockaded by Turkey and by ISIS regions to the south, and with a limited border crossing into the KRG, Rojava has struggled to form any sort of functioning economic system or export goods in any substantial quantity. This despite its plentiful oil reserves and abundant cereal crop production, which has the potential to provide up to 30% of Syria's total need if it is not exported. The highly centralised system being put into place by the canton administration is, like Iraqi Kurdistan, highly dependent on the capital city for inflows of cash, and, consequently, the fate of Rojava is tied to the ability of Damascus to print money, which hugely affects Syrian Kurds' ability to push for complete autonomy in the near future.
Intra-Kurdish Politics and the Growth of a Pan-Kurdish Identity
The Kurds are infamous for their plethora of political divisions, and relations between the main party in Syrian Kurdistan the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and the most powerful party in Iraqi Kurdistan the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) are notably poor. But the problems of intra-Kurdish rivalry have undergone a strange metamorphosis as a result of ISIS attacking Kurds on both sides of the international border. Indeed the ferocity of the ISIS attack against Syrian and Iraqi Kurds represents the first time in Kurdish history that Kurds have faced a threat from the same entity, unbound by state or geographical borders.
This has translated into a deepening sense of pan-Kurdish identity. Iraq's Kurds watched anxiously as their Syrian brothers fought desperate battles in Kobani to repel repeated ISIS offensives, eventually leading to calls from among Iraqi Kurds to support Kobani with Peshmerga fighters. Indeed Kurds across Turkey, Iraq and Syria cheered when 150 Peshmerga, with Turkey's permission, crossed into Kobani to help defend the town from ISIS. Additionally, hundreds of Turkish, Iraqi and Iranian Kurds have been identified fighting among the ranks of the People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria, and Iranians, Turks and Syrians have also been seen fighting in Iraq alongside Peshmerga forces, a sign if ever there was one of increasing unity among Kurdistan's four constituent parts.
The problems of intra-Kurdish rivalry have undergone a strange metamorphosis as a result of ISIS attacking Kurds on both sides of the international border
This unity was also displayed by diaspora Kurds in Europe and the US who collected aid packages for each other's armed forces and joined together to demonstrate against ISIS with scant thought as to whose faction they stood alongside. This is perhaps the first time such unity has been observed in the diaspora, where political divides in the homeland are often starkly reflected.
But despite the closer emotional links and the security cooperation in Kobani the problems between the PKK-affiliated PYD, and the pro-Turkish KDP still run deep. This is most demonstrably shown in Sinjar, where the Yazidi population faced slaughter at the hands of the Islamic State in August 2014 following a withdrawal by Peshmerga forces. Locals in the area largely view the Syrian Kurdish forces as their saviours, and the YPG and PKK were able to secure areas of Sinjar in the absence of KDP Peshmerga forces. At the time of writing, YPG, PKK and Peshmerga forces all patrol the area without clear jurisdiction as to who is in charge of security.
As such the rise of the Syrian Kurds in the international consciousness presents a challenge for the KDP, not only because they are a rival Kurdish faction with a lot of guns and an organised army, but also because the loyalties of some populations in Iraqi Kurdistan are decidedly mixed, and it is unclear as to whether the KDP can fully reassert itself as the dominant player in its own region of Kurdistan. This is particularly significant given that Iraqi Kurdistan houses some 600,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees from Rojava, most of whom are loyal to the PYD. Although it is unlikely that Syrian and Iraqi Kurds would go to war over their differences, especially when ISIS still threatens, it does present a problem in the future. Given that the PYD maintains working relations with Iraqi Kurdistan's other main party the PUK, the KDP has adopted something of a siege mentality, feeling surrounded on all sides by parties aligned against it.
The biggest threat the weakening of ISIS poses to the Kurds, (quite apart from potential terrorist infiltration into Kurdish-controlled areas as revenge), is that it removes the glue that held the Kurds together
How the problems of contested space between rival Kurdish factions will be resolved is unclear at present. The power struggles between the PYD and KDP will no doubt continue, and inside both Iraq and Syria there is competition for influence. The question will be whether the politicians can both understand and reflect the growing desire of their own populations for closer integration and cooperation.
The future for the Kurds looks brighter than it did six months ago, the autonomous projects in both Rojava and Iraq have survived the worst of the ISIS onslaught, although they have been severely weakened. The blitzkrieg that saw ISIS sweep across Syria and Iraq has finished, and the edges of the Caliphate are fraying. ISIS losses in Kobani, Sinjar and Tikrit have shown that with Western backing, local forces on the ground can secure victory, albeit at a cost.
But cities can be rebuilt, refugees rehoused and the price of oil will rise again in time, offering more stable income and resources to tackle the devastation ISIS has left behind. However Kurdistan has changed and the once confident KRG is no longer on the definite pathway to statehood that it was in 2013. The demographics of the region have been altered by the movement of millions, political control and territory have changed hands and the balances of power inside Kurdistan have changed in ways that counter KDP influence and dominance. The biggest threat the weakening of ISIS poses to the Kurds, (quite apart from potential terrorist infiltration into Kurdish-controlled areas as revenge), is that it removes the glue that held the Kurds together. Only after the dust has settled will it be possible to know whether Kurds really can work together to build their future cooperatively, or whether the bickering and infighting will begin again.
It is most likely that problems with their respective capital cities will keep the Kurds busily engaged for some time. Syrian Kurds must negotiate a fraying relationship with Assad's regime as it battles back against the myriad of forces determined to remove it from power, all the while not becoming the target of either militia or regime retribution. Iraqi Kurds on the other hand face a long struggle ahead with Baghdad over the status of territories held by the Peshmerga, the distribution of oil revenues and the level of political participation for Kurds in what remains of the Iraqi political consensus.
The future of both Syria and Iraq is still unknown, and it is likely that the Kurds will focus on quietly building up their own structures of government in preparation for the day in which neither Damascus nor Baghdad can effectively extend any fiscal or political control inside their borders. At such a time, with ISIS gone and no rivals to match them, the Kurds will find they have become independent not through choice, but because there is no other option available but the full declaration of self-rule.

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Welcome to another Stamp Off! Friday. This week, we have a color challenge.
Aren't those colors fun? Mango Melody is one of the new colors in the Stampin' Up!® Brights Collection, Pool Party is an old favorite from the Subtles, and Pineapple Punch is one of the In Colors for 2018-2020. Here's my card.
It may look like I just gave a little nod to Pineapple Punch in that one tiny flower, but I really did use it more than that. When I colored the cat from the Sitting Here Stamp Set, I used Mango Melody and Pineapple Punch Stampin' Blends, blending them together to create my little yellow cat. The flowers, also from Sitting Here, are colored with various Stampin' Blends – Poppy Parade, Call Me Clover, Pineapple Punch, Pool Party, Cajun Craze, and Mango Melody.
Sitting Here has a porch swing in the set, but I decided to use a bench die-cut from the Pretty Park Framelits Dies in Crumb Cake. These dies coordinate with a new set from the 2018-19 Stampin' Up!® Annual Catalog, Sitting Pretty. (You can bundle the dies and Sitting Pretty stamps and save 10%.) One of the dies in the framelits set embosses the stones instead of cutting them, so I used that one the Gray Granite ground.
After adhering the ground, bench, and flowers to the Pool Party layer, I added it all to a Mango Melody card base. Then I added the cat to the bench with a Stampin' Dimensional.
Now, please check out what Susan and Jackie have created. I can't wait to see how they used the color palette.
I'm so excited about tomorrow. Miss Amelia is spending tonight with us, then we're taking her to a Book Fair. The fair runs for three weeks, but Saturday is "Ag Day," with farm animals, petting zoo, a free book, face painting and more. Of course, we'll also be checking out the books – especially in the kids' area. That little girl loves to read books. Mostly we read to her, but lately she's been reading them to us. If it's a story she knows well, she sticks pretty closely to the book. Sometimes, though, she makes up her own story to go with the pictures. It's really fun to listen to her!
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Thanks, Jackie! I will definitely post pictures!
I love this card. Jackie is right. It does look so relaxing and calm.
Thanks, Susan! That's why I used the Pineapple and Mango for the cat. If I had colored it like Ashlynn, it wouldn't be relaxing or calm. She's a psycho cat.
Buffy, I love this card! It is so cute. I love how you colored your cat. This is just such a calming card. I look at it and I want to sit on the bench and read a book. Great job!


You'll love the hot and spicy flavors of these quick-to-fix ground turkey skewers.
Combine the turkey, garlic, cilantro, lemon juice, ginger, coriander, hot pepper sauce, cumin, salt, and cinnamon in a large bowl; mix well. Divide the mixture into 4 equal portions. Roll each portion into a cylinder 5 inches long and 1 1⁄2 inches in diameter. Chill 30 minutes. Insert a skewer, lengthwise, into the center of each cylinder.
Place the kebabs on the grill rack and grill, turning every 3 minutes, until the turkey is cooked through, 12–15 minutes. Yields 1 kebabs per serving.
To get a head start on this recipe, you can make the cylinders of turkey the day before and refrigerate them, covered, until you're ready to grill them. Added bonus—the flavors will get a chance to blend and develop this way.


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By Tracey Watson
Traditional cancer treatments cause inflammation, promoting aggressive tumor growth, according to study
The study, conducted by a research team from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, found that the dead and dying cancer cells created by chemotherapy trigger inflammation which in turn promotes "aggressive tumor growth."
"In this study we demonstrate that chemotherapy-generated debris from dead and dying tumor cells can stimulate tumor growth, which has pivotal implications for the treatment of cancer patients," said Dipak Panigrahy, MD, the study's lead author and an assistant professor at BIDMC's Department of Pathology. "Conventional cancer therapy designed to kill tumor cells is inherently a double-edged sword." [Emphasis added]
News Wise notes that this research reinforces what the medical community has known since at least the 1950s, but it is the first study to try to determine the exact molecular mechanisms that cause this phenomenon.
Researchers have long understood that there is a distinct link between inflammation and cancer. A study published in the journal Nature in 2010, for example, noted:
Recent data have expanded the concept that inflammation is a critical component of tumour progression. Many cancers arise from sites of infection, chronic irritation and inflammation. It is now becoming clear that the tumour microenvironment [the infrastructure supporting the tumor], which is largely orchestrated by inflammatory cells, is an indispensable participant in the neoplastic process, fostering proliferation, survival and migration.
So, inflammation causes cancer – the medical community is aware of that – but here's the kicker: The BIDMC study found that chemotherapy causes inflammation, which is why it is "a double-edged sword." The very treatment that kills the cancer cells simply causes more to grow. And, not only does chemotherapy create cancerous tumors, but it actually spreads cancer throughout the body.
Learn more: https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-12-28-traditional-cancer-treatments-cause-inflammation-promoting-aggressive-tumor-growth-according-to-study.html
By: Linda Woolven & Ted Snider – reposted from July 31st 2017
Cancer patients are suffering from devastating side effects of chemotherapy, when antioxidants may be the answer.
It's morning in the chemotherapy ward. All around us are courageous people undergoing treatment for their cancers. Most of them have lost their hair. Some have nausea and mouth sores so painful they can barely eat. For many, the tingling in their fingers and toes has replaced the feeling that used to be there. And some have had their chemo terminated because their kidney toxicity has become too severe.
One person has been undergoing chemotherapy for well over a year. She still has most of her hair. She hasn't had a day of nausea and has never had a mouth sore. The tingling in her fingers is minimal and easy to ignore, and her kidneys and liver are fine.
Why are the others suffering side effects so much worse and having to discontinue their treatment? Because their oncologists told them that they had to come off all of their herbs and nutritional supplements because you cannot take antioxidants while you are on chemotherapy.
And that is the cruelest lie of modern medicine.
The lie is based on a theory. Chemotherapy kills cancer cells by creating free radicals; antioxidants protect cells from free radicals; therefore, antioxidants will protect cancer cells from the free radicals that are being unleashed on them to destroy them. Antioxidants interfere with the effectiveness of chemotherapy. Or so the theory goes.
But there are three problems with the theory. The first is that it is way too simplistic and probably untrue. The second is that all of the available data refutes it. And the third is that it is utterly hypocritical.
It's Not True
It is true that some chemo drugs produce free radicals. But, although some chemo drugs produce free radicals, most of these produce their anticancer effects in ways that do not involve the free radicals.
Learn more: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/antioxidants-chemotherapy-cruelest-lie-ever-told
By Sayer Ji, Founder originally posted – November 13th 2017
You know lemon, right? It is a tart, exciting, delicious and indispensable ingredient in recipes and beverages. But did you know that scientists have identified it is as a powerful medicine as well?
The most powerful healing substances on this planet are masquerading as foods, and this is all the more true for fruits. I've already written about The Amazing Healing Properties of 13 Common Fruits , including lemons, but it deserves its own mini-article for a number of reasons.
Here are 12 reasons why it deserves respect as a cutting-edge medicine, and not just something found in refreshing beverages or as an indispensable ingredient in a number of culinary recipes.
Lemon's Evidence-Based Healing Properties Revealed:
It Can Lower Blood Pressure: Simply smelling this fruit has been found in lower blood pressure.[1]
It Can Lessen Constipation: In combination with rosemary and peppermint essential oil, the smell of lemon has been found to relieve constipation in the elderly.[2]
It Can Remedy Bad Breath: In combination with tea tree and peppermint essential oil, it can reduce malodour and sulphur compounds in the breath of intensive care patients.[3]
It Can Reduce Esophageal Cancer Risk: Lemon, like all citrus fruits, contains physiological significant levels of flavones; Flavone intake has been found to be inversely associated with esophageal cancer risk. [4]
Oral Yeast Infection: Lemon juice has therapeutic value in the treatment of oral thrush (oral candida infection) in HIV/AIDS patients. [5]
It Can Dissolve Kidney Stones: Lemonade therapy appears to be a reasonable alternative for patients with hypocitraturic nephrolithiasis (a type of kidney stone).[6] [7]
It Can Reduce Inflammation: Lemon mucilage has significant in vivo and in vitro anti-inflammatory effects.[8]
It Can Protect Your Heart: Lemon juice antioxidant and cardioprotective properties. [9]
It Can Protect Against Cholera: Lemon juice is a biocide against Vibrio cholerae, the pathogen that can cause cholera.[10]
It Is A Powerful Antioxidant and Prevents LDL Oxidation: Excessive oxidative stress is a contributing factor to accelerating aging, inflammation and a wide range of acute and chronic health conditions. One of the primary reasons why LDL cholesterol can cause heart disease is that it oxidizes LDL cholesterol, resulting in artherogenicity (the ability to damage the inner lining of the arteries). Lemon is a powerful antioxidant and is capable of preventing LDL oxidation.[11]
It Can Help Lift Your Mood and Reduce Anxiety: Lemon oil possesses anxiety relieving (anxiolytic), antidepressant-like via modulation of neurotransmitters.[12]
It Can Help You Maintain An Ideal Weight: Lemon peel polyphenols suppress diet-induced obesity, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia and insulin resistance.[13
In addition, lemon is also one of the most concentrated sources of food vitamin C on the planet. Unlike ascorbic acid – which is the synthetic form of vitamin C, commonly derived from GMO corn – lemon contains all the essential cofactors needed to provide the body the means to utilize it, and maximize its effectiveness in disease prevention and treatment (Pssssst. Please don't tell the FDA, since its not approved to 'prevent, treat, or cure any disease,' and they wouldn't' look kindly on this statement).
For more information on the healing properties of lemon, view our lemon database and share this information far and wide. Also, view our popular blog on GMTV, 9 Reasons to Drink Lemon Water in the Morning. Also, learn more about the amazing healing properties of vitamin C by reading Research Proving Vitamin C's Therapeutic Value in 200+ Conditions.
This article is copyrighted by GreenMedInfo LLC, 2017 – Read entire article here: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/lemon-rx-12-evidence-based-reasons-why-it-powerful-medicine
By: Sayer Ji, Founder December 15th 2017
The global juggernaut of unremitting and unapologetic breast cancer overdiagnosis and overtreatment persists.
As we have recently reported on, high gravitas journals such as BMJ have begun to publish studies indicating that 'cancer screening has never saved lives,' or that what conventional medical authorities considered for decades to be 'cancer' really wasn't after all.
In the latest BMJ study on the topic titled, "Effectiveness of and overdiagnosis from mammography screening in the Netherlands: population based study," researchers analyzed stage specific incidence of breast cancer in the Netherlands in women who had been enrolled to receive mammography screening every other year since since 1989 (ages 50-69) and 1997 (ages 70-75). The study evaluated breast cancer mortality and the rate of breast cancer overdiagnosis.
The main outcome measures for stage specific age adjusted incidence of breast cancer from 1989 to 2012 were described a follows: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/mammograms-lead-invalid-diagnoses-cause-harm
The study makes clear that the primary goal of cancer screening, namely, to decrease cancer mortality, is not being reached. Instead, as high as 1 in every 2 persons diagnosed with cancer are overdiagnosed — a euphemistic term to describe being falsely labeled with a potentially life-threatening disease.
In situ 'cancer,' for instance, is profoundly misunderstood within the conventional medical establishment. Despite a 2012 study commissioned by the National Cancer Institute and published in NEJM which found that ductal carcinoma in situ was misunderstood as cancer over the past three decades, and should in fact be reclassified as benign or indolent lesion of epithelial origin, both medical professionals, the media, and the lay public still depend on outdated and outright false information, the consequences of which can be devastating to the health of the public. For instance, it has been estimated that 1.3 million women have been wrongly diagnosed and treated for 'breast cancer' over the past 30 years.
Overdiagnosis, and subsequent overtreatment, for breast cancer also has profound adverse psychospiritual and physical effects. As I have reported previously in, "'Hidden Dangers' of Mammograms Every Woman Should Know About," women who have been falsely diagnosed with breast cancer, even three years after being declared free of cancer, "consistently reported greater negative psychosocial consequences compared with women who had normal findings in all 12 psychosocial outcomes."
Moreover, not only do these women often undergo lumpectomy, mastectomy, chemotherapy and/or radiation treatment, and follow up drug therapy with highly toxic agents like Tamoxifen and Arimidex — the former of which is classified as a carcinogen by the WHO and ACS — but their mistaken diagnoses are acknowledged to be 'overdiagnoses' and therefore contribute to the illusion that their lives 'were saved,' and that mammography and agressive treatment is improving survival outcomes. To the contrary, these woman have survived despite their overdiagnosis and overtreatment (even though, assuredly, both the quality and duration of their lives have been significantly reduced).
The study concluded with the following highly provocative assessment, which implies that x-ray mammography not only doesn't save lives but is probably increasing mortality:
"The data on advanced breast cancer in the Netherlands indicate that the Dutch national mammography screening programme would have had little influence on the decreases in breast cancer mortality observed over the past 24 years. This conclusion accords with the mounting evidence that randomised trials have overestimated the ability of mammography screening to reduce the risk of deaths from breast cancer in the entire life period after first exposure to mammography screening.44 45 46 In contrast, the extent of overdiagnosis is continuously increasing with the invitation of older women to screening and the adoption of imaging technologies able to detect increasingly smaller breast tumours, most of which are of unknown clinical importance."
This article is copyrighted by GreenMedInfo LLC, 2017. Please read entire article here: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/mammograms-lead-invalid-diagnoses-cause-harm
For further information, read the following articles:
Mammograms Linked To An Epidemic of Misdiagnosed Cancers
Millions Wrongly Treated for 'Cancer,' National Cancer Institute Panel Confirms
Covering Up The Causes of Breast Cancer Since 1985: AstraZeneca's BCAM
By Press for Truth
We've been treated like guinea pigs and the lab results are in…smart phones are killing us! The current number of cell phone users today is 4.77 Billion and that figure continues to exponentially rise! Decades of cell phone use have now passed with a new generation of people coming into the world who have not experienced life without these devices! In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth goes over what the phone companies are telling you is a safe and acceptable level of exposure compared to what military documents have reported on as far back as the 1970's in terms of the clinical effects of microwaves and radio frequency radiation on human beings.
Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDdS4_Qneg
By Natural Blaze
The California-based nonprofit organization, Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC), recently reported in The BMJ that every year about 5,700 U.S. children suffer seizures from the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.
This finding is derived from results of the most statistically powered safety study ever to measure the association between MMR vaccination and febrile seizures. More than half a million children were evaluated, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, from a Danish population that is relied upon globally to examine vaccine safety. The results showed that seizures from the MMR vaccine occur in about 1 in 640 children up to two weeks following MMR vaccination. Applying this risk of seizures to the 3.64 million U.S. children vaccinated with a first dose of MMR every year results in about 5,700 annual MMR-vaccine seizures.
"To make accurate and ethical public health decisions, the risks of a vaccine must be compared to the risks of the disease one is trying to prevent," said Dr. Shira Miller, PIC president and founder. "When considering the MMR vaccine to prevent measles, the risks of the MMR vaccine need to be compared to the risks of measles."
There is a five-fold higher risk of seizures from the MMR vaccine than seizures from measles, and a significant portion of MMR-vaccine seizures cause permanent harm. For example, 5% of febrile seizures result in epilepsy, a chronic brain disorder that leads to recurring seizures. Annually, about 300 MMR-vaccine seizures (5% of 5,700) will lead to epilepsy.
Learn more: https://www.naturalblaze.com/2017/12/mmr-vaccine-seizures-5700-children-annually.html
By Matt Agorist
Apple stands accused of breaking a French law which makes it illegal to "deliberately reduce the lifespan of a product to increase the rate of replacement."
After a report and subsequent bombshell admission last week by Apple—that they are deliberately slowing down phones in an effort to make them 'perform better'—lawsuits have sprung up across the nation. Now, however, in France, Apple executives are facing far more than a potential civil suit, they are facing actual jail time.
In August 2015, France passed a law that makes it a crime to "deliberately reduce the lifespan of a product to increase the rate of replacement." The aptly named group, Halte à l'Obsolescence Programmée (HOP – Stop Planned Obsolescence), has brought the criminal lawsuit against Apple this week.
If convicted of deliberate planned obsolescence, the tech giant's executives found responsible will be jailed for up to two years and may have to forfeit up to 300,000 euros, and five percent of the firm's annual turnover.
Learn more: https://www.naturalblaze.com/2017/12/apple-slowing-iphones-jail.html
By Heather Callaghan
Three years ago, several mishaps occurred with vials of viruses that could have been potential bioweapons in the wrong hands. A moratorium on deadly virus creation was installed, but the ban was just reversed on Tuesday allowing scientists to begin manipulating benign pathogens into deadly, epidemic-worthy human disease.
Not only do the scientists want permission to create with abandon, they'd like to keep the results secret – i.e., keep them unpublished so that the work doesn't get into "the wrong hands" and cause an act of bioterror… Now that the government has lifted the ban, scientists essentially have carte blanche to breed laboratory horrors.
New York Times Reports:
Federal officials on Tuesday ended a moratorium imposed three years ago on funding research that alters germs to make them more lethal.
Such work can now proceed, said Dr. Francis S. Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, but only if a scientific panel decides that the benefits justify the risks.
Some scientists are eager to pursue these studies because they may show, for example, how a bird flu could mutate to more easily infect humans, or could yield clues to making a better vaccine.
Critics say these researchers risk creating a monster germ that could escape the lab and seed a pandemic.
Now, a government panel will require that researchers show that their studies in this area are scientifically sound and that they will be done in a high-security lab.
The pathogen to be modified must pose a serious health threat, and the work must produce knowledge — such as a vaccine — that would benefit humans. Finally, there must be no safer way to do the research.
These projects — known as "gain of function" research — are intended to "make pathogens more deadly or more transmissible" supposedly for the purposes of study. Consider this, however: the government has been studying pathogen manipulation for bioweapons – even testing some germs on Americans – at least as far back as 60 years ago.
Some examples of new viruses could be air-transmissible Ebola, the flu virus, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) – or any pathogen at all that can be manipulated to form a deadly human virus.
Turns Out the Moratorium on Lethal Virus Creation Was Largely Bypassed
Although the previous moratorium halted 21 projects, 10 of them were still allowed to continue.
Scientist Want Results to Be Known Only on A "Need-to-Know" Basis
"If someone finds a way to make the Ebola virus more dangerous, I don't believe that should be available to anybody off the street who could use it for nefarious purposes," said the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Government and academic actions like the above serve to create fear and powerlessness among the masses. It also gets them used to the idea and will soften any outrage should mishaps inevitably occur. Modern television and movies (Stephen King's The Stand is being remade) serve as predictive programming, the purpose of which is to get people acclimated to massive change before it happens.
Learn more: https://www.naturalblaze.com/2017/12/scientists-create-air-transmissible-ebola-lethal-viruses.html
Dec. 14th 2017
By: GMI Reporter
It has been four years since he first received a phone call from a scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concerning manipulation of vaccine safety data, writes Brian Hooker, Ph.D., in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. He had about 40 telephone conversations and exchanged about 10,000 documents by email with Dr. William Thompson. All the data has been shared with Rep. William Posey (R-Fla.)
Hooker states that the data show evidence of a relationship between the timing of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and "isolated autism," now called regressive autism, in African-American boys. He states that leading CDC officials have a "gross bias" that leads to "covering up for vaccines at all costs."
Dr. Thompson also published a 2007 paper in the New England Journal of Medicine that showed a "strong and statistically significant finding" that "thimerosal exposure via infant vaccines causes tics in boys."
Hooker notes that CDC never addressed this issue, instead claiming on its website that "There is no evidence of harm caused by the low doses of thimerosal in vaccines, except for minor reactions like redness and swelling at the injection site." Data showing that autism rates in Denmark went down after the removal of thimerosal were omitted from key publications, Hooker writes.
Hooker filed a complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in 2014, and "the ORI handed the complaint over to CDC to 'investigate itself.'" The investigation drags on with no resolution, as children continue to be injured, and their vaccine injury compensation claims are denied, Hooker concludes.
Learn more: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/cdc-manipulation-vaccine-data-reported-journal-american-physicians-and-surgeons This article is copyrighted by GreenMedInfo LLC, 2017. Originally published on https://globenewswire.com
Many New Zealanders are turning toward more meat free meals.
The worldwide trend is for eating more plant-based food. More people are breaking free from the violent ideology that meat eating is normal, natural & necessary. Eating less meat also benefits your health with a diet that's higher in fibre, vitamins, minerals and less carcinogenic or health crippling substances.
This is definitely not a fad, but an evolution of people making conscious changes in the way they eat.
Lord of the Fries are well known throughout Australia for their huge vegetarian and vegan menu, featuring burgers, hotdogs, poutine, nuggets, and shakes, as well as their delicious golden fries. Lord of the Fries is now providing vegetarian food to help feed the growing number of New Zealander vegans, vegetarians and those wishing less meat in their diet.
Read the entire article or watch the news clip here: http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/12/flexitarians-on-the-rise-in-new-zealand.html


Previously only available in Europe and Japan, Sony has now released a flash-based 12GB PS3 in the US and Canada. Unlike the massive storage options available on other PS3 models (up to 500GB), the 12GB PS3 might not seem too appealing. But at $199.99, it might be one of the best deals in gaming out there right now.
First thing that should be noted here is that if you purchase the 12GB model, you're not stuck with that amount of storage space forever. A standalone 250GB HDD accessory will also be made available, and if it's anything like previous PS3s, any standard 2.5-inch SATA hard drive should slot in nicely.
Second but perhaps even more important thing to note here is that massive storage is certainly not necessary to enjoy gaming with a PS3. If you're a casual gamer that plans to buy a couple of disc-based games to enjoy, or even someone who's planning to use the PS3 as a streaming box for Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Video, the 12GB is more than enough. If you find yourself needing more storage in the future (maybe for downloadable games), just buy more storage.
With a large amount of high-quality exclusive games that can't be played on other consoles or on PC, it's hard not to recommend. And despite the fact that the PS4 is coming in a few months, the PS3 has a large library of games already available and even more to come in the future.
If you're a gamer without a PS3, or even someone just slightly interested in it but were always put off by the price, this deal is hard to beat.
The 12GB PS3 can be found in Best Buy and Future Shop.


Work on a cathedral started in the early 12th century and was finished by the end of that century but quickly fell into ruin as the Bishops preferred Wells to Bath.
When Oliver King, Bishop of Bath and Wells, visited Bath in 1499 he was shocked to find the church ruinous. Work probably began the following spring. Bishop King planned a smaller church, covering only the area of the Norman nave.
The new church was completed only a few years before the dissolution of the monasteries and quickly fell into disrepair again. From 1572 to 1617 it was rebuilt into what remains today.
The structure is considered a triumph of Gothic engineering with no less than 80% of the walls being occupied by windows, something that pushes to the structural limits the Gothic ideal of flooding a church with light.
Bath Abbey is the joint seat of the Bishops of Bath and Wells but is not presently a cathedral as most bishops prefer Wells. It is currently a grand parish church.


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Low-Spoiler Guide to The Black Mirror: Hints and Tips
Welcome to my Black Mirror hints page. (-: If you're new to my series of low-spoiler computer game walkthroughs, the idea is to point gamers towards things they might not have thought of in each game rather than divulging puzzle solutions or giving step-by-step instructions. There's not much point in playing an adventure game if you know the puzzle solutions in advance, and there's no point at all in investigating a murder mystery like The Black Mirror's if you've already had the story spoiled for you.
So these pages are as close to spoiler-free as possible while still providing some valuable Black Mirror hints and game recommendations. If you are looking for the solution to a particular puzzle, I recommend UHS--due to their unique website setup you can only see one hint at a time, so you can get the answer to one pesky puzzle without ruining all the others for yourself. Here's the UHS page for Black Mirror, if that interests you. My site here focuses on exactly the things traditional walkthroughs don't: the non-critical bits of Black Mirror, detours you can take, little things you can do to smooth the gameplay out for yourself, extra details you might miss if you did only what was strictly necessary to complete the game. If you want even fewer spoilers--you're considering whether to buy the game, for example, and want to know whether there's anything you're going to detest in it--please try my Black Mirror Review page to find all the pertinant information in one convenient spoiler-free package.
Now, on with the game!
The Black Mirror Hints and Tips
The Black Mirror Walkthrough
The Black Mirror Game Spoilers and Easter Eggs
The Black Mirror Cheats and Links
Backseat Game Designer: The Black Mirror Critique
Black Mirror Hints and Tips
The Black Mirror is a modern PC adventure game by the prolific Adventure Game Company. Like their other graphic adventures, Black Mirror offers an elegant 3D point-and-click interface with which to move a pre-assigned character through a sequence of puzzles and a largely linear plot. This one is a supernatural murder mystery from Czechoslovakia, and it's genuinely terrifying in places. Play at night with the lights out for maximum effect. I'm not kidding. The graphics are mesmerizing in the dark, and the mood more affecting.
There are no bugs in The Black Mirror (at least, none that I found), and no serious gameplay issues. However, there are a number of things you may want to be aware of before beginning to play in order to get maximum enjoyment out of the game. Without spoiling anything:
Time Management: Time does not pass in The Black Mirror. On many occasions you will be told to wait for night to fall, a certain time to arrive, another character to return, etc. However, the only way this will ever occur is if you take some in-game action to trigger it. You could leave your computer running all week, and seven o'clock will still never arrive. So first of all, don't worry about deadlines in Black Mirror (even when your character stresses how important it is not to be late)--it is impossible to miss them. Second, if a game event is not occuring, it's your responsibility to scour the map finishing all the old quests and puzzles so that the plot can progress. The sun will not set at night without some unrelated help from you.
Incomplete Areas: At many points in Black Mirror, you will be unable to leave a game area because you "haven't done everything here yet." Adventure games are between a rock and a hard place on this one--if they let you leave one scene without a critical item, you could waste hours of your playing time before you find you're missing something important and have to start all over again. (Remember that stupid "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" game?) On the other hand, forcing a character to collect items he has no reason to believe he needs before he can leave a building is arbitrary and silly. It's a devil's choice, playability or realism. In The Black Mirror, you can rest assured that you will never wind up with an unsolvable game in Chapter Five because of something you forgot to do in Chapter One; but you will periodically find yourself unable to progress in the game and not know why. It's because you're missing an object you were supposed to have found, 95% of the time. Check the game environment carefully, and talk to everyone in the area to see if you're still missing an important piece of information.
Main Character: You control one character in The Black Mirror, the detached British nobleman Samuel Gordon. You will never have any input into Samuel's personality, attitudes, or reactions to anything--even his final decision of the game is beyond your control and not one most players would choose. It's unfortunate, because greater identification with Samuel would have upped the horror stakes, but if you want to enjoy this game, you'll need to think of him as a character in a movie you're watching rather than 'your' character. Besides the occasional decision of whether to lie during conversation, you will not be able to affect Samuel's behavior at all.
NPCs: One annoying flaw in The Black Mirror is that the game never explains who any of Samuel's relatives are. The servants, family physician, and local villagers are introduced to you within the game, but not your own family members--and since they all have the irritating habit of referring to each other by first name at all times, there's really no way to figure it out until later in the game. I suspect some of the family's story was lost in Black Mirror's translation to English. At any rate, knowing who those people you speak to over and over again really are makes the early part of the game more enjoyable, and there's no reason for it to be a secret (Samuel is not amnesiac), so here's the hint: William is your grandfather, Victoria is your grandmother, and Robert is their son (your uncle).
Clicking and Reclicking: The Black Mirror game interface is graceful and intuitive in most ways, but there is one frustrating exception: sometimes an object remains active (clickable) after you have already used it. When this happens, you need to either click it again or else right-click it to search it more carefully. There's no logical reasoning behind which mouse button you need to use to get this additional clue. The only solution is to get into the habit of mousing over objects you've just used and if they're still active, clicking each button once to see if anything happens. You're bound to forget this at least once or twice, so if you reach an impasse in the game, go back and make sure there isn't something you've already used that's still active. New objects become active as you progress further in Black Mirror anyway (either because Samuel learns information that makes him want to examine something more closely, or because someone has physically changed something in the environment since the last time you were there), so you'll need to reinspect familiar locations periodically anyway.
Movement: Although it's rather slow, movement in The Black Mirror is easy to navigate; you can check the exits out of any room by hitting the tab key, and right-clicking the map will let you shortcut back to the lobby or the main gate to save time. Even better, double-clicking on an exit cuts to the new game location immediately, without having to wait for Samuel to stroll across the screen. However, there's one movement pitfall it's easy to get stuck in--although most rooms are exactly one screen in size, a few are larger and you have to move to the other side to get them to scroll completely. This shows up as a little arrow to the scrollable side, if you hit the tab key. The first room you will encounter like this is the attic, so play around with that until you get the hang of it.
Conversations: Even if you've figured out what you need to do next in the game, Samuel, who obviously did not play Infocom games very much in his youth, is often at a loss, and there's no good way to communicate with him. The only way to move Black Mirror's plot along is to click on things yourself and see if he catches on, or have him talk to another person about the situation. Once he's discussed matters aloud, you'll usually have more options available. It can be frustrating to have to go ask the butler for a hint before the game permits you to enter a room you should obviously be exploring next, but that's just the way The Black Mirror goes.
Positive and Negative Responses: Occasionally, during conversations, you will have a choice between a 'positive' response (smiling mask) and a 'negative' response (frowning mask). It's not always clear what these game options represent--in some cases they mean "yes" and "no," in others "tell the truth" and "lie," and in others "try to be pleasant" and "be even ruder than usual" (Samuel is not a people person, for reasons that make sense within the game.) If you'd like to see what happens both ways, I've listed the (few) conversations that involve a choice in my walkthrough.
Problem Spots: This is a personal bias, but the older I get, the more I hate realtime sequences in adventure games. There are a couple in The Black Mirror, but neither of them is too annoying. Save before trying to open the door leading out of the old mines and before the lighthouse sequence. There's also one spot where you can use up a limited supply of something, condemning yourself to certain death a bit later. This won't pose a problem if you save your game at the two points I mentioned--otherwise you might have a lot of boring replaying ahead of you.
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Labour Day. University closed. No lectures.
Thanksgiving Day, University closed (except Taylor Family Digital Library, Law, Medical, Gallagher and Business Libraries). No lectures.
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Last day to submit Application for Degree for the February 2014 conferral of degrees.
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Alberta Family Day, University closed (except Taylor Family Digital Library, Law, Medical, Gallagher and Business Libraries). No lectures.
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If you thought that OnePlus 2 and its sub-$450 price tag was considered to be an affordable smartphone, then Mstar and its S700 Pro Phablet are quickly going to revert your opinion. This is because the Chinese handset maker has priced its large screen smartphone for a killer $479 price tag. For a $479 price, you'd expect a Snapdragon 810 SoC to be present underneath the hood of this smartphone right? Wrong, you will be getting a Snapdragon 820 running instead, along with a bunch of other goodies that will make chicken soup out of the other flagship handsets.
According to GSMDome, S700 Pro Phablet is going to feature a phablet sized form factor and just like OnePlus 2, the smartphone is going to possess a 5.5 inch display. Additionally, the smartphone will be resonating a 2K resolution, with a 2.5D glass on top, which will be reinforced with Gorilla Glass. Moving on, the RAM count on S700 Pro Phablet will be a whopping 4 GB, and will feature 32 GB of internal storage coupled with a 128 GB MicroSD storage limit.
How's that for eliminating the storage gap between your flagship handset? That's not that is present inside the mobile computing powerhouse. S700 Pro Phablet is also armed with a 21/11 MP rear camera sensor, with the rear shooter's sensor being Sony IMX230. Just to refresh your memory, this camera sensor present is slightly better than the one present in Meizu's MX5, and will allow you to start recording 4K videos without breaking a sweat.
The Chinese tech firm is keeping up with the trends, which is why you will be seeing a Type-C USB connector on this handset if do intend on purchasing on it. Other features of S700 Pro Phablet include a 4G LTE modem, 3,500 mAh battery and the latest tech satisfying fingerprint scanning.
Looking at the price tag (which we stated earlier, was $479), reigning smartphone giants are not going to be too happy looking at all features stuffed inside it. Let us hope Mstar does some effective marketing in order to garner sufficient popularity for its S700 Pro Phablet. The device is expected to arrive during Q4, 2015.


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Royal pregnancy evokes memories of Princess Diana
By Andrew Russell	Global News
Posted July 18, 2013 2:35 pm
Updated July 19, 2013 12:55 pm
Prince Philip (R) accompanies Prince Charles and Princess Diana on their wedding day as they wave from the balcony Of Buckingham Palace on July 29, 1981.	 Getty Images
TORONTO – As Prince William and his wife Kate await the future heir to the English throne, Kate's pregnancy and media attention have been compared to William's mother, Princess Diana.
The Duchess of Cambridge has drawn comparisons to William's mother in the past, in terms of their fashion style and similar wedding ceremonies.
In 2011, the royal wedding between William and Kate culminated in William slipping the sapphire ring his mother Diana wore on to the finger of his bride.
The public's attention to Kate's pregnancy is drawing similarities to Diana's first pregnancy, according to royal commentator and historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo.
"Prince William was the first member of the Royal Family to be born in a hospital," Heydel-Mankoo told Global News during a phone call from London, England. "William started the tradition which his child is continuing of being born very much in the public eye in a private/public hospital."
Princess Diana, who gave birth to William in 1981, was followed intensely by the media until her death in Paris in 1997.
And with the media camped outside the Lindo wing of St. Mary's hospital in Paddington, the Duke of Cambridge will have a difficult time keeping his child out of the spotlight.
"What you'll see through the early phase of this birth of the baby is an effort to retain the privacy which William feels perhaps he didn't get as much of when he was a child," said Heydel-Mankoo. "What we'll see happen is a concerted effort made to ensure there is some sort of agreement made with the media over the next little while to ensure that the privacy of the royal couple is respected."
William and Kate have struggled to keep their privacy in the past.
In 2012, the royal couple sued a French tabloid over photos of a topless Kate taken during a vacation.
Royal watchers say the aggressive legal strategy that followed showed their willingness to deter future intrusions from the press.
Diana had a long and often difficult relationship with the media that contributed to her death after her car crashed while being pursued by paparazzi.
"William's youth growing up… was one in which he was living in a toxic environment with the press' relationship with his mother," said Heydel-Mankoo. " He was her confidant during a lot of that period, which is a heavy burden to place on a child. And so he doesn't want his wife to go through what his mother went through. And he certainly doesn't want his child to grow in a relationship (with the press) that was that toxic."
Below are images during Princess Diana's first pregnancy with her son William.
Princess Diana pregnant with Prince William at Windsor Polo with Sarah Ferguson. June 1982 (Photo by Tom Wargacki/WireImage).
Diana wears David Sassoon red maternity dress at Barbican Centre in March 1982. (Photo by Anwar Hussein/WireImage).
Diana, Princess of Wales talks to Prince Charles, Prince of Wales as he rides his polo horse at Guards Polo Club in Windsor (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images).
A pregnant Princess Diana arrives for the premiere of 'Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom', London, 11th June 1984. She is wearing a Catherine Walker gown. (Photo by Princess Diana Archive/Getty Images).
Diana, Princess of Wales, seven months pregnant in April 1984 in Scilly Isles, United Kingdom. (Photo by Anwar Hussein/Getty Images).
Diana, Princess of Wales is 7 months pregnant as she watches the Grand National at Aintree race course on March 31, 1984 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Anwar Hussein/Getty Images).
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This planter is designed for planting round soil blocks directly into the ground from a standing position. the only non 3D printed part that is needed is a spring to connect the handle and tube sections. The idea is that a round soil block would be dropped into the tube, rest in the cone, the cone would be pushed into the ground and the handle pulled to release the seedling into position as the tube is removed.
The tube is made of three sections, the top has a handle and semi sphere for the spring to catch onto. The mid section has male and female connectors and you can add or remove mid sections depending on your height. The bottom section had the static half cone the acts as a digging end to be inserted into the ground.
The other half of the cone is the only part of the handle mechanism that is connected to the tube sections. It should be secured with a small metal hinge and some screws. The cone piece is connected to the handle by the angled handle section that uses the leverage of the long handle sections to open from the main tube. The top of the handle with the grip end has a semi sphere to connect the spring to the tube section, creating force to hold it closed. The angled handle section that connects to the cone piece is held in place with bolts and the handle extension sections can be held with bolts as well.
The handle is a free moving part and only held in place by the spring at the top section and this coupler that will be attached to the bottom tube section. This will allow the handle to move without too much wiggle.
Here are the different versions of the CAD files for this project. Feel free to modify and make it better if you feel like it.


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package com.flydenver.bagrouter.lexer.section.conveyor;

import com.flydenver.bagrouter.lexer.ParseException;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;

import static org.junit.Assert.fail;

/**
 * Tests for the converyor route parsing.
 */
public class ConveyorRouteTest {

	private final String goodFormaat = "A1 A2 3";

	private ConveyorRowParser parser;

	@Rule
	public ExpectedException exception = ExpectedException.none();

	@Before
	public void setup() {
		parser = new ConveyorRowParser();
	}

	//=[ good tests ]==========================================================

	@Test
	public void testConveyorRouteParseGood() {
		try {
			parser.parseSectionRow(goodFormaat);
		}
		catch ( ParseException e ) {
			fail( e.getMessage() );
		}
	}

	//=[ bad argument tests ]==========================================================

	@Test( expected = IllegalArgumentException.class )
	public void testTooManyLines() throws ParseException {
		parser.parseSectionRow( goodFormaat + "\n" + goodFormaat );
	}

	@Test( expected = IllegalArgumentException.class )
	public void testNullLine() throws ParseException {
		parser.parseSectionRow( null );
	}

	//=[ parsing tests ]==========================================================

	@Test( expected = NumberFormatException.class )
	public void testInvalidFlightTime() throws ParseException {
		parser.parseSectionRow( "A1 A2 " + Long.toString( (long) Integer.MAX_VALUE + 1000l ) );
	}

	@Test
	public void testTooManyParts() throws ParseException {
		String tooManyParts = goodFormaat + " 99";
		exception.expect( ParseException.class );
		exception.expectMessage( "Conveyor route line doesn't match pattern ^(\\w+\\s+)(\\w+\\s+)(\\d+)$" );
		parser.parseSectionRow( tooManyParts );
	}

	@Test
	public void testTooFewParts() throws ParseException {
		exception.expect( ParseException.class );
		exception.expectMessage( "Conveyor route line doesn't match pattern ^(\\w+\\s+)(\\w+\\s+)(\\d+)$" );
		parser.parseSectionRow( "A1 A2" );
	}

}

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