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Scar tissue - Chapter 1
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by arkillian
Libraries: Angst, Drama, Fantasy, One Shots, Original Fiction
Published on 05:01AM, Dec 23, 2005 GMT / 1 Chapter(s) / 5 Review(s)
Updated on 05:01AM, Dec 23, 2005 GMT
This is another excerpt from my soon to be novel 'Dragon Twins', about this scar that I've just desided to slap on Bryan's chest. I explain it beter in the excerpt so do read it, but its another excerpt of Bryan explaining aspects in his childhood- his battle to find the strength in himself to continue in a world of war when he can't protect everyone he cares about. Oh- and Alex is being himself- AGAIN XD I love it- he is such a moron sometimes ^^
"That looks really hot, Alex. You sure we're not going to get burnt?" Julia asked, peering into the small hot spring at the base of Dagger falls. The water, despite its clarity, was stained a permanent brick colour from the surrounding rocks and minerals. Bubbles of a mysterious gas fizzled to the surface, making Julia's expression grow even more limp looking. "It looks caustic. I think even you would feel that kind of burn."
"Lets try it out then," Alex grinned, poking his finger into the water. Julia's face flashed white, diving to Alex's side. Grabbing Alex's hand and yanking it out of the water, Alex released a loud laugh as Julia found his finger still intact. Giving Alex a strong slap in the face, Julia threw his hand away from herself.
"You jerk. Why didn't you put a branch in there first?"
"Don't be ridiculous," Alex laughed, rubbing his cheek in offence. "Bryan has been down there hunting around for any surprises for the last ten minutes. He hasn't dissolved or anything. Apparently there is oxygen rocks at the bottom, which explode every now and then from the thermal activity around here. I wouldn't drink it, but the water is perfectly fine."
"Brilliant. I have no problems with doing this then," Julia replied, shoving Alex into the dubious pool. Alex yelped in surprise as he fell in, with Julia bursting into a storm of giggles. Julia smiled in accomplishment as she watched Alex's sinking body, waiting for him to swim back to the top again for her to laugh at him. Alex looked up through the water as if to start swimming to the top, but instead was jerked into the darkness in the water. Julia froze. "Al… ex?"
"What's going on here?" Athena's voice asked from behind. Julia jumped in surprise as Athena bent down beside herself and looked into the water. "Bryan has just told me that there isn't anything dangerous in these waters. What was all the commotion about? I could've sworn I heard our 'knight in shinning armor' being himself again." Julia burst into tears immediately.
"I… I pushed him in the water… and… he got sucked into the water… and…"
"Belly flop!" Athena's eyes widened in start, as Alex suddenly tackled the screaming Julia into the waterhole. Saturating Athena in a hot, but not quite burning shower of water, she instinctively clenched her fist as if to pound Alex as soon as he got out of the water. A hand clamped over hers- Bryan's stern look halting Athena in mid rant.
"We all should move to the other water hole for a swim. The water is a nicer temperature, and we'll be able to touch the bottom there." Bryan leant past Athena, and grabbed the distressed red head by her wrist, dragging her to the surface. Giving Athena quick smile, he added, "You can inflict pain on Alex for 'being himself later'." Athena ignored Bryan's tease, helping yank Julia to the shore. Alex's head popped above the surface of the water after Julia, bursting out with laughter.
"Oh, you should've seen your face Jules! You…" Alex 's eyes opened to a saturated Athena, glaring at him with her vivid blue eyes. Alex stopped in mid sentence, giving her a bashful grin. "Ah, I got the Amazon with the water too, huh? I'm not having great luck with the girls today!"
"Hey, you can't say I didn't warn you against it," Bryan shrugged from beside Athena, "You should try not destroying everything sometime."
"Easy for you to sa…" Glancing towards Bryan's voice, Alex froze in surprise- he had never noticed before now, a large, and deep looking scar most of the way across Bryan's bare chest. It hadn't happened recently either- this scar looked like it had been there for a long time. Maybe since he was a boy.
Bryan's eyes noticed Alex's questionable look, returning the favor as if to ask what the matter was. Alex grinned, taking his eyes off the wound in respect. "That's an impressive gash you've got there, Bryan." Bryan's eyebrows rose, glancing quickly down to his own chest and back to Alex. His face saddened.
"Yeah, there are some wounds that can not be healed." Bryan breathed, resting his hand at the top of his gash, "it happened when I was about 5. I tried to kill myself."
"You what?" Athena and Julia questioned in unison. Glancing at each other with a quick smile, Julia motioned Athena to finish off first. Athena nodded in appreciation, turning to Bryan.
"You were a rich boy with everything! Why would you want to end you life in such a drastic way? What could make a 5 year old to wish to die?"
"My Grandfather," Bryan breathed, giving Julia a grateful look as she crawled over to him and went to rub his back. Julia's eyes flashed wider as she touched Bryan's back.
"What did you cut yourself with? The wound is across your back too!"
"A sword, obviously," Alex butt in, narrowing his eyes at Bryan analytically, "You forced a sword into your heart, but somehow survived?"
"You saved me," Bryan smiled, relaxing a little from Julia rubbing his back, "You saw me pick up the sword and point it at myself. You grabbed me just as I went to drive the sword into me, and healed me as I pushed it into both of us." Giving Julia a nod in thanks, Bryan crawled over to his future father, knelling in front of him, "The High King, my grandfather, he hated me. He made every moment I was alive feel worthless. When you told us of Drakobitus's plans to destroy the castle, and kill all of our people, it broke me. I was too young to hear it, even at the age of five; I had only just started training. It has always been unnaturally easy for me to adapt my air powers to any given situation- I couldn't get enough of the praise you use to give me of it. You always had such a high standard of things. It was my fighting skills that were my downfall for my confidence in a fight. I'd use every excuse not to practice in hope that you'd never take me into the heart of a battle. It was one thing to use my powers to stop someone, or something, and an entirely different thing to brutally kill someone with force. I had never been so scared in my life. Scared to enter a battle that I could lose- I knew that my country would suffer if I didn't win. See, I hate the King with all my heart, but the people- they were like brother and sister to me. I believe that it one of the few things the King actually respected about me, although I think that it made him hate me more because he hated me for everything else I stood for. The Drakobitus making his final move made me realize that I couldn't protect my country against him, and that tore my heart in two. I couldn't stand to see the last of what I loved die." Bryan's eyes glazed over then, a tear crawling out of each of his eyes in remorse. Alex went to say something to make Bryan feel better- anything to make it all fine, but nothing came out. A fake smile suddenly appeared on Bryan's face, as he tried to cover his shame. Alex's expression dropped.
"So to stop that feeling of fear, you decided to kill yourself- but I healed you," Alex breathed, "that couldn't have been easy." Bryan nodded.
"I sliced the sword sideways, telling you not to worry about me and heal yourself. You laughed, with blood pouring from your mouth. Never, you told me. I tried escaping your grip, but not even becoming air seemed to work- you held me there telling me that you wouldn't let go till I stopped thinking like I did. You told me that suicide was foolish. I cried some more, saying that it was all hopeless. You then told me of the prophesy- how the combined power of the light and dark Dragon would put an end to the evil in our world forever. My heart became alive again. I may not have been able to do it by myself, but with you, I knew I could do anything."
"But by then, the damage was done," Alex closed his eyes, feeling Bryan's hand land on his arm. Alex opened his eyes back to Bryan. Bryan smiled.
"This scar is a constant reminder to me of my duty to Phauroraland. It reminds me that I can't quit. I must survive. I have to make this world what Dad wanted me to grow up in. One without the Drakobitus." Alex's face narrowed to an emotionless expression.
"Lets hope you find it then…"
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Claudia Tenney concedes to Anthony Brindisi in email three weeks after the election.
More than three weeks after the general election, Republican Claudia Tenney has officially admitted defeat in the New York 22nd Congressional district race.
Absentee ballots brought Democratic challenger Anthony Brindisi's lead of 1,293 votes from election night to about 4,000 over the one-term incumbent Republican.
In an email from Tenney's campaign, she said, "As the votes have been counted the last several weeks, it has become clear that while we remain on the right side of the issues and history, we came out on the wrong side of a very close race. Despite this setback, there is still a critical fight ahead for the heart and soul of this nation, and one which I will not give up."
More than 15,000 absentee and affidavit ballots needed to be counted after election night.
On WNBF radio earlier this week, Brindisi said he and Tenney have not yet talked since the election, but they were hoping to speak while they were in Washington this week.
Brindisi flew to Washington for freshman orientation while absentee ballots were still being counted.
The race between Tenney and Brindisi was one of the closest Congressional races in the election.
"I wish Congressman-elect Anthony Brindisi the best and my office will work with him to ensure a smooth transition and good constituent services for the people of the 22nd District," said Tenney. "We should acknowledge when Congressman-elect Brindisi does the right thing for this district, but hold him accountable for every vote he takes to advance a liberal agenda that doesn't help our community."


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Q: Calling java applets via NPAPI / NPRuntime in Chromium I found this bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=580#c69
stating that Chromium doesn't support LiveConnect.
One of the developers responded with

We don't ever intend to support LiveConnect in Chrome.  The newest
  version of the Java  plugin from Sun removes the need for this, since
  it uses NPRuntime to allow scripting.

Does anyone know how to make calls to/from java applets and javascript using the NPAPI / NPRuntime interface?  Just a simple example or resource would suffice.

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package org.unitime.timetable.onlinesectioning.custom.purdue;

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import java.io.Writer;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone;
import org.restlet.data.MediaType;
import org.restlet.representation.Representation;
import org.restlet.representation.WriterRepresentation;

import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext;
import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializer;
import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
import com.google.gson.JsonParseException;
import com.google.gson.JsonPrimitive;
import com.google.gson.JsonSerializationContext;
import com.google.gson.JsonSerializer;
import com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader;
import com.google.gson.stream.JsonWriter;

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AFL: A fit and firing Carlton squad are optimistic of big improvements in 2019 as they lap up a second consecutive pre-season camp on the Sunshine Coast this week.
They endured a dismal two-win campaign which saw them sink to the bottom of the AFL ladder last year, but young gun Lochie O'Brien is confident the Blues' experienced leaders will gel with fresh faces as they propel themselves toward a prime time, season-opening clash with Richmond next month.
Speaking after an open training session in front of their Queensland fans at the Maroochydore Multi-Sports Complex, O'Brien said the Coast camp presented an important opportunity for players to develop strong bonds ahead of Round 1.
"The boys are really enjoying their time up here, it's a bit of different scenery compared to Melbourne," O'Brien said.
"We've done a lot of team-bonding activities, team dinners and things like that, it's an environment where we're put together 24/7 to really improve our bonds and make sure we've got a great synergy heading into the season.
"For us younger boys coming off last year, I think it's great for the first years because this is their chance to really buy in to the team and develop good relationships with people who have been here a lot longer. It's also a good chance for them to get their head wrapped around the game plan.
"Now being a second-yearer (I'm) a lot more confident when it comes to structure and things like that, we don't have to think about all that stuff too much, we can just get back to playing normal football and all those things we've been training for in the last year is like a habit."
The second-year midfielder had plenty of praise for the Blues' new director of high performance Andrew Russell, who was involved with six AFL premiership-winning sides including four at Hawthorn between 2008 and 2015.
He said Russell's influence, along with the arrival of highly-touted Number 1 draft pick Sam Walsh, had helped inspire the playing group to aim high for the upcoming season.
"Russ' (has) got a lot of experience and the boys are really benefiting from that. He's a really good fella off the field as well ... he's a bit of a larrikin at times which is good because you need a bit of that for off-field balance," O'Brien said.
"He's bringing a lot to the group, I think people out here today and supporters can definitely be confident that we're moving pretty well.
"Walshy has been labelled as pretty much an AFL footballer coming in (to the team). The way he's been able to come into roles and get in good full sessions already has been really good."
O'Brien, who averaged 13.9 disposals across 18 games in his debut season, said he experienced "a few little (injury) issues" toward the end of last year, but should be "all systems go" by the JLT pre-season series starting on February 28.
He said two-time Brownlow medallist and former Blues skipper Chris Judd had also been a welcome presence on the camp and thanked the Queensland fans for their support.
"It's good talking to 'Juddy' and getting little bits of advice, coming from him I don't think you can get better advice.
"It's amazing for the boys to have support all over Australia and I think the way the Queenslanders get around us is second to none ... so a big thank-you to them and we really appreciate the ongoing support."


Who are you rooting for? For the RAMS, click the thumbs up, For the Patriots, click the heart!
Happy, focused, energizing. Works well for patients who have stomach problems and low energy. A fantastic daytime medicine!
Excellent all around SAINTS Grown hybrid that patients love for knocking out chronic pain, migraines, and insomnia.
An energizing Sativa for daytime medicating. Helps patients with depression and pain!


Most commonly used as the 90° joint between the top rail and an intermediate upright on safety railing. As there are two socket set screws in the sleeve, this fitting can be used where a join is required in the horizontal pipe. The Type 10 fitting can be used as an alternative when a join in the pipe is not required.
The basic function of the Type 10 Single Socket Tee is to join two pipes together at a 90 degree angle.


Beautiful handmade yarn bowl styled after the ancient symbol of wisdom and peace - the elephant - for your knitting and crocheting needs.
Measures 6x6x5" and weighs 1lb.
May contain small cosmetic cracks, lines, or spots in the glaze finish - this is natural and part of the hand-firing process.


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Q: Chrome:POST/OPTIONS requests Fails with net::ERR_TIMED_OUT The OPTION/POST Request is failing inconsistently with a console Error as err_timed_out. We get the issue inconsistently, it's only observed sometimes. Otherwise the request gets proper response from the back end. When it's timing out, the request doesn't even reach the server.
I have done some research on the stuff and found that due to maximum 6 connections to a resource restrictions it may wait for getting a connection released. But, I don't see any other requests pending ,all the other requests were completed.
In the timeline I can always see that it stalled for 20.00 seconds. Most of the time the time is same. But, it only shows that its been stalled for some time nothing else in the timeline.
The status of the request shows failed ERR_Connection_Timed_Out. Please help.
The Network Timing

Console Error

A: I've seen this issue when I use an authenticated proxy server and usually a refresh of the page fixes it.
Are you using an authenticated proxy server where you are seeing this behavior? Have you tried on a pc with direct access (i.e. without proxy) to the Internet?

A: I've got the same problem when I choose another ISP. I thought I would have only to put my new ID and password, but it wasn't the case.
I have an ADSL modem with a dry loop.
All others services were fine (DNS resolution, IP telephony, FTP, etc).
I did a lot of tests (disable firewall, try some others navigator, try under Linux, modem default factory, etc) none of those tests were successful.
To resolve the problem ERR_TIMED_OUT, I had to adjust the MTU and MRU values. I put 1458 rather than 1492, which is the default value.
It works for me. Maybe some ISPs use different values. Good luck.


Well-known EM Gauge modeller Tony Wood built Barber's Bridge in 1999 as an exercise in minimum-space modelling for use at home and shows as part of a modelling demonstration. Tony used many items he already had to hand, so the total build cost was just £20!
The trackplan is a simple 'Inglenook'-style arrangement, single road fiddle-yard (9") leading onto 2 points, giving 3 sidings – the front pair of roads will each take a single Bo-Bo locomotive and the rearmost siding will take 2 Co-Cos at a pinch. Operation is also simple – diesel locomotives run onto the 27" scenic section for fuel and stabling until their next diagram. A selection of classes may be seen, primarily ER and LMR locos from classes 08, 20, 24, 25, 31, 37, 40, 45 and 47. The middle and rear-most sidings are served by an either-side single-pump fuelling point with the storage tanks at the front, these filled via pipework and connectors on the front siding – an occasional single 45t TTA tank provides sufficient diesel for an average week's operation.
Control is usually via a NCE PowerCab DCC system, and many locomotives have been fitted with sound decoders.
Barber's Bridge was featured in Rail Express #44 (January 2000).


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Chill Space
The Second Psychedelic Revolution Part Three: Terence McKenna, The Rise of the Plant Shaman
By CLICKHEREx, June 16, 2014 in Chill Space
CLICKHEREx
Climate or location:Adelaide
http://the-nexian.me/home/knowledge/81-the-second-psychedelic-revolution-part-three-terence-mckenna-the-rise-of-the-plant-shaman
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By James Oroc
28 March 2014,
Metaphorically, DMT is like an intellectual black hole in that once one knows about it, it is very hard for others to understand what one is talking about. One cannot be heard. The more one is able to articulate what it is, the less others are able to understand. This is why I think people who attain enlightenment, if we may for a moment comap these two, are silent. They are silent because we cannot understand them. Why the phenomenon of tryptamine ecstasy has not been looked at by scientists, thrill seekers, or anyone else, I am not sure, but I recommend it to your attention. ~ Terence McKenna, The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelics, Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFO's, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, & the End of History. (1991)
The publication of PIHKAL and TIHKAL by Alexander and Ann Shulgin resulted in a plethora of new psychedelics (see Part Two) that are now commonly available largely thanks to the scarcity of Acid after the Y2K Kansas missile-silo LSD bust (see Part One). However, unlike the First Psychedelic Revolution, which was sparked primarily by the artificial psychedelic LSD and to a lesser extent laboratory synthesized mescaline, psilocybin, and DMT [1], (as listed in the introduction of 'The Psychedelic Experience: A manual based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead' by Leary, Metzner, and Alpert in 1964), the Second Psychedelic Revolution cannot be defined purely by 'synthetic' drugs alone. For although the LSD drought resulted in the popularizing of 2-CB, 2-C-T-7, 5-MeO-DIPT, and other previously unknown laboratory-discovered psychedelic compounds, it also accelerated an ongoing rekindling of interest in naturally occurring plant entheogens [2] and the popularization of the previously little known concept of plant shamanism and the idea that these plants were not so much 'psychedelic drugs', as they were 'spiritual medicines'.
The Shulgins' first volume, 'PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story', focused on Sasha's work with the phenethylamine family of compounds, and while these include many true psychedelics such as mescaline and the numerous 2C-x compounds, it was his work with the popular empathogens MDMA and MDA [3] that bought Sasha's work to the attention of the burgeoning 'rave' culture of the early 1990's. The Shulgins' second volume 'TIHKAL: The Continuation' [4], however, dealt with Sasha's work with tryptamines, the class of compounds that includes important neurotransmitters such as serotonin and melatonin, powerful natural and synthetic psychedelic/entheogens including psilocybin (5-OH-DMT), LSD, and ibogaine, and the only endogenous psychedelics, dimethyltrpyamine (DMT) and 5-methoxy-DMT.
Long regarded as the Holy Grail of psychedelics, DMT was comparatively rare on the illicit drug market even in the 1960's, its scarcity adding to its fearsome reputation—Grace Slick, the singer for the Jefferson Airplane, once famously said that while 'Acid was like being sucked up a straw, DMT was like being shot out of a canon—and it had effectively disappeared from general psychedelic culture long before TIHKAL was released. However it was not the publication of TIHKAL, but a pair of books in 1992, (a year after PIHKAL) by a little-known author with no training in either organic chemistry or cultural anthropology that would ultimately be most responsible for popularizing DMT in contemporary psychedelic culture. But unlike the DMT use of the 1960's, which utilized DMT either by IM injection or in its smokable salt form, this author's primary interest in DMT was as the active ingredient in an obscure Amazonian shaman's brew that was at that time still primarily known by its Spanish name yagé, rather than it is now, by the phonetic approximation of one of its many indigenous names, 'ayahuasca'.
When both 'The Archaic Revival' (a collection of Terence McKenna's essays and speeches) and 'The Food of the Gods' (his magnum opus on psychedelic plants that includes his 'Stoned Ape theory') were published in 1991, it had been nearly two decades since Terence and his younger brother Dennis McKenna had written The Invisible Landscape (1975), a strange alchemical volume describing their 1971 expedition to the Amazon in search of oo-ko-heé, a shamanic snuff that contained DMT. (Terence was seeking a natural source to the synthetic DMT experience that as both a linguist and psychonaut he had become utterly enthralled with). This first McKenna book was originally not long in print and became something of a collector's item for psychedelic bibliophiles, due to both the extraordinary tale of the expedition and the numerous radical ideas contained within its pages. (These ideas included an early compilation of speculations about time and casuality, which Terence developed into his 'Novelty Theory', as well as his prediction of the arrival of the eschaton: a singularity at the end of time, which he eventually predicted would occur in December of 2012[5].) While this now-legendary expedition was unsuccessful in finding the DMT-snuff that they were searching for, the McKenna brothers did find a species of very psychedelic psilocybin cubenis mushrooms, and in a now-lesser recognized part of the McKenna story, brought the spores of these mushrooms back to the United States and spent the next few years developing effective methods of indoor cultivation, the results of which they published in 1976 in the popular Psilocybin: A Magic Mushroom Growers Guide [6].
For this act alone—the introduction of readily available plant-entheogens [7] that anyone could cultivate and the first book on how to do so—the McKenna brothers would deserve a mention in this essay, but this would only be the beginning of extraordinary careers in the psychedelic arena for both men. Dennis McKenna returned to University, and has become a widely respected ethnopharmacologist. While over the last decade of his life—and now through the first decade of the 21st century—the philosopher, memetic engineer, and entertainer, Terence Kemp McKenna (1946-2000) has become the most popular and recognized spokesperson for psychedelics since Timothy Leary [8]. It is Terence who is most responsible for evolving contemporary psychedelic culture into its current state, thanks to his writings and lectures, many of the latter now having been transmogrified into a seemingly infinite number of internet podcasts since his death—a brand new medium that he had embraced enthusiastically in life as a new mode of communication and artistic expression, and that has now has fittingly immortalized him.
The publication of The Archaic Revival and Food of the Gods in fact coincided synchronistically with the nascent years of both the Internet and electronic music; and while Timothy Leary was truly an early pioneer of the Web, it was Terence McKenna that the global 'rave culture' of the 1990's emphatically embraced. In the last years of his life Terence was often the most popular speaker and draw at the various conferences he attended, as well as a main attraction at the raves themselves—the self-declared 'Mouthpiece for the Mushroom', Terence had the rare ability that could make a packed dance floor sit down between DJ's to listen as he waxed eloquently about the wild beauty of psychedelics, often for hours on end. His extraordinary capacity for the spoken word and the discovery of an often-captivated audience once again coincided with the Internet revolution, and many in Terence's audience were technologically advanced for the time (there is a long-going relationship between the psychedelic and silicon communities [9]) resulting in an incredible number of recordings and pod-casts, often set to electronic music.
Terence's unexpected and untimely death at 53 also happened to coincide with the LSD drought that followed the Kansas-Silo bust of 2000, and the period where many psychonauts were forced to consider new psychedelic options. Magic mushrooms thus increased in importance to psychedelic culture, and interest grew in both ayahuasca, which had first begun to appear on North American shores in the late 1990's, and, DMT, which after being incredibly scarce for decades, had also by the mid-2000's begun to be more widely available. This interest in Terence's central ideas, along with his popularity with both the electronic music and cyber-communities has thus increased McKenna's influence exponentially since he died. A process only amplified by his bold prediction of the arrival of the eschaton on December 21st, 2012—the prediction that most ironically (and unfortunately) he did not live to see.
Now over a decade since Terence's death, and more than a year after the aftermath of the 2012 hope and hysteria that he helped create, there can be no denying of McKenna's influence on contemporary psychedelic culture, or even on the fringes of popular culture itself. The veneration of 'magic mushrooms' and the reintegration of the Goddess figure; the current interest in DMT in all its various forms; the often-debated supposition that natural plant entheogens are inherently superior to synthetic or artificial compounds, most notably LSD; our concepts about plant spirits, shamanism, and the corresponding rise of ayahuasca tourism; modern festival culture's interest the idea of an 'archaic revival' to reinvigorate spirituality in Western society; the comingling of psychedelics and virtual culture; alien abductions and UFO's; and of course the viral spread of the 2012 meme; these are all now well-known themes that have been either born or popularized due to Terence's own ideas and interests, even though he ironically lived to see very little of the shift that he in many ways created.
In the decade following his death, the focal points of Terence's McKenna's life's work have become, for better and for worse, something of a blueprint for the rise of a global neo-tribal, techno-shamanic culture, evidenced in Burning Man, the BOOM! Festival, and the now countless other events that represent it. Terence's ideas have now influenced psychedelic fashion, the music we listen to, the psychedelics we take (and the way we take them), the countries we are visit, even the way we use the Internet. His bold prediction of a Singularity at the end of time within our lifetimes (if not his own) provided a modern coda to the ancient Mayan translation, and helped generate worldwide interest in what would have otherwise been an insignificant archeological date. But now that we are on the other side of Terence McKenna's 2012 Omega Point and everything is still standing, it is Terence's championing and popularization of ayahuasca that is most worthy of our attention.
Over the past decade the rise in interest in ayahuasca has been extraordinary; not since the original advent of LSD in the 1960's has there been a psychedelic that has so captured the artistic and spiritual imagination of the time, and ayahuasca use, while still nowhere near the numbers of LSD users in the late 60's, has become common enough that it has started to penetrate the mainstream media. (Marie Claire, a popular 'women's magazine', is the latest unlikely publication to include a feature article on ayahuasca circles[10]). Previously only known to psychedelic culture through William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg's slim booklet of correspondence The Yage Letters published in 1963, it was Terence McKenna's popularization of this unlikely Amazonian shamans' brew through the late 1980's and early 1990's that would subsequently give birth of an international 'ayahuasca culture'. Once the first South American shamans and Santo Daime members started to visit Europe and the US in the late 1990's, ayahuasca use spread rapidly throughout the psychedelic community in the early 21st century, a process that I believe was accelerated by the corresponding LSD 'drought' that followed the Kansas silo bust, as many psychonauts looked for other pathways to the psychedelic experience. (There has also been a renewed interest in San Pedro and Peyote, while smokable forms of DMT have reappeared in the underground market-place for the first time in decades, greatly aided by plant-based extraction recipes that are commonly available on the internet.)
Prohibition, it would seem, only creates diversification, and one noticeable difference that separates the Second Psychedelic Revolution from the First is the incredibly wide variety of psychedelics and empathogens, both natural and synthetic, that are now widely available.
Ayahuasca culture itself has, in several ways, begun to develop outside of the 'traditional' psychedelic community; many in the yoga community for example, have openly embraced ayahuasca, with independent yoga centers around the world hosting South American shamans and their 'ceremonies' that attract many spiritual seekers with little or no connection to the psychedelic community, since they do not view ayahuasca as a 'psychedelic drug', but as a sacramental medicine.
While ayahuasca contains DMT, a Schedule 1 drug just the same as LSD, ayahuasca use itself has (so far) not been prosecuted in the United States. Favorable federal court rulings in favor of the Brazilian synchretic Christian churchs União do Vegetal (UDV) and Santo Daime (who use hoasca, the Brazilian form of ayahuasca, in their ceremonies) in the early 2000's has been interpreted as a loophole in the law for many, and has undoubtedly been a factor in ayahuasca's rapid and wide spread rise in popularity. As more and more celebrities willingly endorse their life-changing experiences on the Amazonian brew, and more and more psychiatrists and psychologists speculate on the therapeutic value of the experience, the rhetoric around ayahuasca increasing resembles the tremendous excitement that LSD inspired before it was made illegal in 1966.
It is virtually impossible to quantify the psychedelic experience; ayahuasca has gained a special reputation due to the intense colorful visions that it can induce, while the LSD pinnacle is generally represented as dissolution into the mystic's white-light. When compared from a strictly phenomenological perspective, both have reputations for being able to induce heaven or hell, and both experiences are long and physically taxing. Both have been described as true entheogens, capable of inducing life changing spiritual conversions; both have been successfully used to break addictions; and both have originated as medicines. (LSD was originally a legal medicine.) Many of the extraordinary properties attributed to one—telepathy, an increase in everyday synchronicity, artistic flowering, deeper connections with nature, mystical and transpersonal experiences—have also been attributed to the other, as has the 'specialness' of the communities that form around them. So where is the difference between these two 'Psychedelic Revolutions', or have we merely traded high dosages of a potent entheogen once manufactured in a Swiss laboratory for a natural equivalent haphazardly harvested from the Amazonian rain forest?
The difference, I would argue, lies not so much in the phenomenology of the internal psychedelic experience, but in the external container; the experience of the shaman and their icaros, and the ritual provided in the ceremonies themselves. When LSD use really exploded in the 1960's after it became illegal, what the First Psychedelic Revolution ultimately lacked was a safe container for the experience itself. Too many young people slipped through the cracks of the Prankster model, and in the aftermath, psychedelics themselves became illegal. What we learned from the First Psychedelic Revolution is that in the West we lack the Mystery Schools needed to successfully and beneficially integrate the use of psychedelics into our society. Thus, much of the evolution of contemporary psychedelic culture has been a process of investigating and integrating ancient wisdom and techniques with the hard-won underground anecdotal psychedelic experience that the last fifty years have generated.
First looking for knowledge and direction in altered states of consciousness from the Gurus and Rinpoches of India, then the shamans of the Amazon Basin, and now from a wide-variety of traditional shamanism from numerous cultures, modern psychedelic culture has adapted to the entheogens on hand, and moved willingly back-and-forth between the laboratory and the ancient plant knowledge in search of the undiluted entheogenic experience. Terence McKenna's enthusiastic advocation of the shaman as a spiritual psychedelic guide (as opposed to the homeopathic healer that could be argued to be closer to the truth) has resulted in thousands of Americans and Europeans journeying to Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil in search of that guidance, and a wave of South American shamans having journeyed to foreign shores -- a psychedelic innovation which has inevitably spawned a horde of local imitators, and unfortunately made 'shaman' one of the most abused words in the modern vernacular. Sung ayahuasca icaros (guide-songs) can now be found melded into electronic music, the woven icaros found transmuted into festival clothing, and the habit of attending ayahuasca 'circles' has begun to approach a cult status in places as diverse as Asheville, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Portland, and Santa Fe. (To name just a few).
During this same period, academics studying Western history and anthropology have had to reconcile the fact that many of the world's major civilizations and religions—including the Greeks, Hindus, and Buddhists—utilized psychedelic plants. This is an idea that has been extremely unpopular, but is now increasingly obvious to the generations of psychedelically savvy anthropologists and mythologists born since the 1960s, many of whom can be assumed to be familiar with Terence McKenna's work. It is now increasingly realized and accepted that the Amazonian ayahuasca (and dmt-snuff) culture can in fact be considered the last [11] remaining sacramental entheogen of a great planetary era marked by at least five known distinctly entheogenic cultures, all of which lasted more than two thousand years; the others being the Soma of the Hindu Vedanta (India), the kykeon of the Eleusian Mysteries (Greece), the San Pedro culture which peaked in Chavín de hunatar (Peru), and the astonishingly broad variety of entheogens (cubenis mushrooms, morning-glory seeds, peyote cactus, and toad venom) used by the Mayan-Toltec-Aztec cultures (Mexico).[12] Plant shamanism is now recognized to be the primary shamanic model world-wide, not a 'vulgar substitute for (the) pure trance' of shamanic methods such as drumming and chanting, as Mircea Eliade [13] originally supposed in his classic 1951 text Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstacy. (Eliade himself changed his mind at the end of his life, pointing out to Peter Furst in an interview not long before his death that prior to the 1960s anthropologists didn't have enough of a psychedelic perspective to recognize the significance in the various local rites, and so the evidence simply wasn't there.[14])
Terence McKenna was one of the first writers who really grasped the psychedelic history of humanity and ayahuasca's link to our own ancient past. It was largely his writings that have helped bring the beauty, myth, and magic of the Amazonian people and culture a wider audience, and despite his association with the 2012 phenomenon and the unfortunate comingling of the two, his championing of plant entheogens, and reintroducing the shamanic process to the modern Western World will ultimately be remembered as his enduring contribution to psychedelic culture. Even his 'Stoned Ape Theory'—the idea that spoken language evolved as our primate ancestors developed a diet that included psilocybin mushrooms—may still one day be mainstream enough to be given serious consideration. His untimely death at the too young age of 53, both robbed the psychedelic movement of its most charismatic spokesperson, and guaranteed Terence's immortalization thanks to the emerging technology of the Internet which he had enthusiastically embraced, and of which he will one day surely be remembered as one of the early pod-cast stars.[15]
[1] DOM or 'STP', which could also be included in this list, did not appear until 1966.
[2] Entheogen (God-contained-within); a plant or compound that can induce a mystical experience; and is often held as sacred.
[3] which are generally only psychedelic in larger dosages
[4] Tryptamines I have known and loved.
[5] The original date of Terence's prediction was the16th of November, 2012 (coinciding with what would have been his 66th birthday); Terence later changed it to 21st of December, 2012, to correlate with the conclusion of the Mayan calender.
[6] Under the pseudonyms OT Oss and ON Oeric.
[7] entheogen: ('God contained within'); a psychedelic plant or compound capable of inducing a spiritual or mystical experience.
[8] And the most controversial since Leary!
[9] See What the Doormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture shaped the Personal Computer Industry (2005) by John Markhoff.
[10] http://www.marieclaire.com/world-reports/ayahuasca-new-power-trip
[11] While both Soma and kykeon have long since disappeared, their true identities unknown, the San Pedro culture of Peru somewhat survives, albeit in a very diluted synchretic Christian form, as do the remnants of some mushroom 'cults' in Mexico; but the wide-spread traditional snuff and ayahuasca use of the Amazonian tribes represents the last major entheogenic tradition still in effect on the planet, and had remained largely unaffected until post-War War II. Ironically the ayahuasca churches of Brazil (Santo Daime, UDV) that have achieved some modicum of legality thanks to the Supreme Court ruling are also synchretic-Christian religions. These churches attribute the discovery of the hoasca (the Brazilian form of ayahuasca) to their mestizo founders, and not to the indigenous Amazonian tribes.
[12] An argument can be made that with the invention of LSD, and now with literally hundreds of 'designer drugs' available, we are in the process of creating the 6th —and first planetary— entheogenic culture.
[13] The Father of Phenomenology of Religion, and the man who coined the term 'shaman' (from the Siberian) to apply to indigenous healers.
[14] "What did we know in the early 1950's about these things?" Eliade confessed to Furst.
[15] Google Terence McKenna and you get 1.6 million results, many of them pod-casts and recordings.
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"The difference, I would argue, lies not so much in the phenomenology of the internal psychedelic experience, but in the external container; the experience of the shaman and their icaros, and the ritual provided in the ceremonies themselves."
I think a botanical community such as ours demonstrates that it is not just the ceremony that makes plant based psychedelics more rich, but the interaction and study of plants and the natural world that inevitably occurs if one does not rely on someone else to hand you the sacrament on a silver platter. Growing and preparing plant, fungi and animal based psychedelics is perhaps the best preparation for the ensuing experience. The alchemy of making synthetic compounds is perhaps also a good teacher, but ultimately reduces to cold hard science rather than the mystery of life.
Really great article by James Oroc!
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Cardwell is one of Far North Queensland's earliest frontier towns and today Cassowary Coast Regional Council and the Queensland Government opened the region's historic crowning glory, the Cardwell Library-Museum, as part of Queensland's 150th Celebrations, Curtis Pitt, Member for Mulgrave said today.
The Queensland Government granted the Cassowary Coast Regional Council $100,000 in Q150 Legacy Infrastructure funding towards its more than $1.3 million Cardwell Library-Museum project.
"There's a lot of history in Cardwell as well as natural beauty," Mr Pitt said.
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"The Cardwell Library-Museum is the new home of the region's artefacts which include a spring cart used in the town's centenary celebrations in 1964.
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Shaklee earned $515 million in revenue in 2013 and has a network of 1.25 million representatives around the world. It's been around since 1956 and sells products in 8 countries around the world. Shaklee heavily advertises its daily regimen packages, including the popular Foundations Regimen, Healthy Solutions Regimen, and Smart Heart Blood Pressure Regimen, all of which include multiple Shaklee products.
Network marketers may also find a degree in marketing or business administration very useful. A degree program in marketing helps students understand the consumer market and the factors that influence consumer-purchasing decisions. A degree in business administration prepares students to plan and direct the everyday operations of small businesses and large corporations.
I'm from the uk. I am a Matron in a GP practice and have been approached by Arbonne. Ur video confirms most of my thoughts although doing aesthetics as a side line I though I might be able to run along side that and so not have to approach family n friends as that is horrendous!!! – i am really interested in ur local league marketing though – how would I find out more about this
Eric hit it it square on the head with Go Pro. Honestly…the title says it all. If you want to become a professional in network marketing, then his book is a must read. That means non-negotiable. If I want to become a pro, it is a requirement to read;Go Pro;. Get his book now! This book is already destined to become an all-time classic for our profession. --Todd Falcone, Network Marketing Speaker, Coach and Trainer
A quiet giant in our Profession, Donna Johnson has been involved in Network Marketing for nearly 40 years - 30 of those with her current company. During that time, she's built one of the largest sustainable organizations in the world based on culture and ethics. She has hundreds of leaders earning six and seven figures each yearend her business is thriving and growing globally.
If you want to learn about the wonderful (and massive) world of internet marketing from the pros, Digital Altitude is where it's at. Their products might cost up to $10k+, but you're getting access to a toolbox of pure gold. Then there's their commission rate…up to 60%. Just take a second to think about what a 60% commission rate on a $10k+ product looks like. Not bad, huh?
The other company is Paparazzi. The advantage here is that the entire style is different. You're selling inexpensive pieces that people can buy easily – without having to order and wait for delivery. Paparazzi uses a purchase-first model, so you should plan and weigh up the risk carefully. But, there is certainly potential. If nothing else, the style is a welcome change from the countless jewelry companies that charge $50 or more for a single item.
Much has been made of the personal, or internal, consumption issue in recent years. In fact, the amount of internal consumption in any multi-level compensation business does not determine whether or not the FTC will consider the plan a pyramid scheme. The critical question for the FTC is whether the revenues that primarily support the commissions paid to all participants are generated from purchases of goods and services that are not simply incidental to the purchase of the right to participate in a money-making venture.[46]
I spent about 3 years selling Amway back in the 70's. There was a lot of hype but I made enough money to achieve several of my more modest financial goals. I went on to use some of what I learned to make extra money in various ventures and eventually started a small business out of my home. The business grew until mainstream retailers began offering the same product I was selling at comparable prices. The MLM as a learning tool has some value as long as the product is decent. This MLM ranking is a good way to attract attention and I am curious about Your service. I am selective about what I spend my time and effort on.
Commission Quick View: Details about the compensation plan are scarce as well. Unilever briefly highlights this on the site, focusing on the way that there are multiple levels that you progress through. They also highlight how long each level tends to take – suggesting a duration of around seven to eight years to reach the highest rank in the company.
Besides earning money off your own sales, you also earn a percentage of the income generated by the distributors that you've brought into the program (these are known as your downline). Often there are bonuses for selling particular amounts of product or signing up a certain number of new members; you can earn cars and trips as well as cash. Sounds good, doesn't it? And being part of a well-run MLM business can be a lot like being a member of a large extended family.
On the other hand, many people have gotten into Network Marketing and have made a fortune from it. People such as John Haremza, who signed up as a sales rep for a small water filter company, and is now worth millions. Alternatively, Sebastian Greenwood, who made an investment in Onecoin, and put in the hard work and time necessary. He is now considered an ambassador of the company, having made his fortune there, and spends much of his time helping others grow successful.
I learned seo and blogging, failed at that. I learned Facebook ads and email marketing, learned how to target the right demographics for Doterra, now people contact me wanting to know about the oils, then I got present and sign up, this my friend's is the best of both worlds and what everyone should learn, find your form of marketing, go teach and sign up and leave for friends and family alone, unless you know they'll want it.
In 1959, two employees of Nutrilite, Rick de Vos and Jan van Andel, founded their own company: Amway. Amway was created using the MLM organizational structure and paved the way for MLM companies to be established in other countries like Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and France. Amway allowed for companies like Panasonic, Palmolive, and MasterCard to include network marketing in their omnichannel marketing strategies. Amway's success has even led them sponsor an NBA arena, the Orlando Magic's Amway Center (and the older Amway Arena), since 1989.
When you look at our hypothetical MLM, it's hard not to notice that it pretty much works like a pyramid scheme: you make money by recruiting people below you. Instead of the people below you giving you and the people above you money in order to be part of the MLM — as in a traditional pyramid scheme — you (and the people above you) get a commission off the product purchases the recruits below you are required to make from the MLM. Distributors make little to no money selling product to people outside the company.
Multi-level marketing (MLM), also called pyramid selling,[1][2] network marketing,[2][3] and referral marketing,[4] is a marketing strategy for the sale of products or services where the revenue of the MLM company is derived from a non-salaried workforce selling the company's products/services, while the earnings of the participants are derived from a pyramid-shaped or binary compensation commission system.
But many people can't recruit enough folks and they end up spending a lot of their own money. As Laryea points out, "Recruits are often expected to purchase 'starter kits' or inventory to start selling products, which also earn the recruiters (and the recruiters' recruiter) commission. Thus, multilevel marketing as a business strategy incentivizes participants to grow a sales network underneath them, also called a downline."
She soon found that there were major downsides. The company billed itself as something that could be done on a part-time schedule with very little money down, but Cramer was working around-the-clock and racking up costs, including fees to travel to company meetings and buy new inventory. Earning money required bringing on new recruits, and Cramer felt guilty when an unemployed woman fighting bankruptcy was willing to invest her meager savings in getting started, even though Cramer knew the woman didn't have the skills or temperament to succeed. Cramer eventually soured on the experience and quit. "It cost me about $10,000 by the time I got out of it," she says.
Herbalife is a network marketing company that specialises in meal replacement and other fitness supplements. One of their big name brand ambassadors is Cristiano Ronaldo, who is a world famous footballer. Herbalife did undergo some trying time in 2011 with a few legal issues here and there; the company is however, back and better, with more of its products making its way to the grocery shelves. Herbalife offers network marketers the opportunity to resell its products for profit, although marketers will earn no compensation for recruiting new marketers.
If you don't understand something, ask for more information until it is absolutely clear to you. Your sponsor and other distributors should be willing to answer your questions. Remember that your sponsor (and others above your sponsor's level) will make money if you join the program. So take your time, and resist pressure to join. Be aware of shills — fake references paid by the company or distributor to pretend they were successful earning money through the plan.
The Internet has made it so easy now. In the old days you had to actually visit people, or at least call them, to pitch your fabulous new opportunity. Face-to-face marketing is still practiced, but it is not so common these days. Besides, no one really loves the idea of having someone over, so they go online where everyone can be as safe as they want. They create sites with videos, testimonials, and pictures.
Do you know why there is such a big drop off rate in Network Marketing? It is because they were told that the profession was a piece of cake. They were told that they would hardly have to work, don't have to sell anything, or the product sells itself. Then when they get started, they realize that there is a lot of work that goes into building a ...…
Hmmm, what should I say about this company, well it still seems like they are far from "the finest and most-respectable retail energy provider in America," I feel this way because it was just a few years ago that they were dealing with a class action lawsuit. But when you have $1.5 billion in revenue in the bank from your global business, a lawsuit doesn't really seem to break your stride.
These nonsalaried workers may be stay-at-home parents, college students or part-time workers hoping to make money by selling products such as vitamins and makeup to their friends and family. But experts note that just selling products is typically not enough to make a profit, and workers are encouraged to recruit a "downline," a team of underlings from whose sales they also earn a commission, creating a pyramid-shaped compensation structure.
Some companies even let their products speak for themselves by developing excellent quality and highly effective product performance. They allow prospects to taste their products, asking for feedback, ideas, and suggestions on how to improve the products. Satisfied customers will then provide testimonials to convey the benefits and advantages of using the merchandise. These testimonials will now be used by the companies as their promotional tools.
Network Marketing is a business model that relies on a distribution network to build the business. Network Marketing business structures are Multilevel Marketing in nature, as the payouts occur on many different levels. You might hear the terms Person-To-Person Marketing or One-on-One marketing, which are just other ways of describing Network Marketing. Basically, network marketing involves the direct selling of merchandise or services. Some popular Network Marketing businesses you most likely have heard of include; Avon, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Amway and Herbalife Ltd.
Well it seems like forever, but isn't that how long ago 1993 feels? That's when this MLM popped its head onto the scene and they haven't gone anywhere since. This is how you build a company from the ground up. Step 1: trustworthy name brand and Step 2: strong foundation. With these solid steps businesses can go anywhere, and a half billion in yearly sales won't hurt either.
There is some stigma attached to networking marketing, especially with regard to multi-tier and multilevel structures, which attract pyramid schemes. Still, the appeal of network marketing is that an individual with little skill but a lot of energy can create a profitable business for themselves with little monetary investment. A good rule of thumb, according to the Federal Trade Commission, is that single-tier network marketing operations tend to be more reputable, but multi-tier schemes in which people make money based on the number of distributors they recruit — rather than self-generated sales — can be problematic. Some reputable examples of single-tier network marketing operations are Avon, Mary Kay and Excel Communications.
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If the company is solvent, meaning it has the capital required to grow, maintain a solid infrastructure, attract talented management, keep pace with technology, and pay your commissions, then you may proceed. Publicly traded companies are required to disclose their financial condition in great detail every 90 days to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other governmental agencies. Unfortunately, private company financials are not available to the public, so you may have to take a risk in working for one.
Nerium is a network marketing company that deals with skin care products. They invest 30% of all funds realised from sales into research to ensure that their products remain among the best in the market. Nerium skin care products are known to be anti-ageing creams developed by using a substance known as Nerium oleander. The company has placed adverts on top American shows such as Wendy Williams Show and Good morning America.
First of all, Avon "has" been. Second, Avon really needs to work on their appeal to a younger generation. Third, Avon makes it difficult for representatives to make any money unless you are purchasing a ton of catalogs and knocking on doors. The company really needs to allow representatives to advertise online, and I don't mean spamming friends on a Facebook or Twitter feed.
MLM has stretched its sticky fingers out into just about every product market out there, so it's kinda hard to do something new nowadays. But Jamberry Nails did it. Their adhesive, custom nail designs BLEW UP when they hit the direct sales floor. They built up an army of over 100,000 consultants in the time it takes most people to get a mediocre pay raise at their 9-5.
Starting out as a casual customer, and then moving into the business side of the company, Kierston set the pace and laid the foundation for her family's future when the unexpected happened and they were at risk of losing everything. Two years later, Kyle joined his wife in her business and, together, they have become million-dollar earners while building a wildly successful Network Marketing business.


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Car crash in Dartmouth sends 2 hospital
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This is a photo of the car and the utility pole involved in a crash on Jan. 15, 2023 on State Road At Maine Avenue in Dartmouth. (Dartmouth Police Department)
DARTMOUTH, Mass. (WLNE) — A car crash in Dartmouth send twi people to the hospital Sunday morning.
The single-car crash happened just before 8:30 a.m. on State Road near Maine Avenue.
Police said a Nissan Sentra, driven by a 19-year-old New Bedford woman, left the roadway and hit a utility pole, causing it to crack.
Traffic on State Road was detoured for about 20 minutes.
Det. Kyle Costa said the driver and the passenger in the Nissan were both taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
At about 11 a.m., Eversource Electric was at the scene replacing the utility pole.
No further information was immediately released.
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A member in our ward was recently released, however if look at his individual record it still shows the calling. But if you go the that organization he is not listed under that calling. Any ideas on how to remedy this issue. Thanks.
Did you open his individual record after you made the change under organizations? The individual record page doesn't refresh automatically.
Yes we have opened the individual record. When I pull it up on lds.org under clerk resources it shows as a custom calling. But in mls at the church there is no callings under the custom tab.
What is listed for the member in CDOL? If there is a calling for him there then MLS and CDOL have gotten out of sync. To correct this follow the procedure in Correcting duplicate or missing callings.
bloomfieldj wrote: Yes we have opened the individual record. When I pull it up on lds.org under clerk resources it shows as a custom calling. But in mls at the church there is no callings under the custom tab.
Yes we have done a send and receive. It's not just between lds.org and mls though. In the individual record it shows his calling as organization - bishopric, calling - assistant ward clerk. But under the organization tab if you go to bishopric he doesn't show up. This is all in mls. However if I access it from home through clerk resources he does show up as a custom calling under the bishopric organization. Now back again to mls if I look under the custom callings in the bishopric organization he doesn't show up.
bloomfieldj wrote: Yes we have done a send and receive. It's not just between lds.org and mls though. In the individual record it shows his calling as organization - bishopric, calling - assistant ward clerk. But under the organization tab if you go to bishopric he doesn't show up. This is all in mls. However if I access it from home through clerk resources he does show up as a custom calling under the bishopric organization. Now back again to mls if I look under the custom callings in the bishopric organization he doesn't show up.
I believe the official, non-custom calling is "ward assistant clerk," not "assistant ward clerk."
From his individual record the calling should be a link that will let you edit it.
When you look in Clerk Resources, do you see multiple bishoprics? We discovered an issue in MLS where callings may not import correctly from CDOL when there are multiple bishoprics. This sounds like it could be related to that. If so, it will be fixed in MLS 3.7.1 as part of a major revision to the CDOL file processor.
Without having a look at the data, it's hard to speculate beyond that guess.
Thanks for all the responses, have to wait until I get back to the ward house to give it a try. Thanks.


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The cost for registration is $15 per adult and free for children up to the age of 16.
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We hope you will join with us as we come together as a loud and proud community to help bring epilepsy out of the shadows.


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As a driver, you're taught how to drive defensively. This is to help ensure the safety of everyone on the road, from fellow drivers to the pedestrians walking on sidewalks by the road. By being a defensive driver, you're doing your part to keep the roads and streets safe.
You could say that being a defensive driver is a responsibility for anyone with a driver's license. However, not a lot of people take this responsibility seriously. Unfortunately, it's a reality that many drivers choose to forego their role in safety and opt to be irresponsible instead. This is how many accidents happen.
Aside from the reality of having to deal with irresponsible drivers, accidents are another reality people have to deal with. While no one wants these to happen, sometimes they're unavoidable. What's worse is that when an accident does happen, there's usually someone that's badly affected.
When it comes to car accidents, those affected can range from other drivers to pedestrians at the wrong place at the wrong time. Whatever the case, these people become victims and now have to face the consequences of someone else's negligence.
Most accidents have consequences that are felt after the fact. Unfortunately, this is where the victims most feel the brunt of the accident. Ask any person who's fallen victim to an accident, and they'll tell you that navigating through this situation is challenging to say the least. However, as difficult as it may be, there are ways to help make things more bearable. In the case of car accidents, one great way to get help would be to look for the Best Car Accident Lawyer in Denver.
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When you get into a car accident, a lawyer may be the last thing on your mind. If anything, you'd first think about calling a traffic enforcer to help you sort out the immediate situation or going to a doctor to seek medical attention. There's nothing wrong with doing either of these things after an accident as it is the most responsible thing to do. However, most people stop there in terms of what to do after an accident.
Depending on the kind of car accident you get into, its effects can be felt for a short time or a long while. But, most of the time, you will have to deal with the aftermath of an accident for quite some time, and for many reasons. This is where a lawyer will come in handy.
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While a doctor can help you with any medical needs pertaining to your accident, a lawyer can naturally help you with all the legal aspects that may arise from the accident you were in. This covers things such as compensation and dealing with insurance-related claims.
You see, should you ever become a victim of an automobile accident, your primary focus should be on recovery. Of course, you still have to get what's due to you, especially if the accident was due to someone's negligence. However, it may be too stressful to deal with while you're trying to recover. If it isn't too stressful, it might get overwhelming to the point that you won't get to cover all necessary aspects of your accident. With all that in mind, it makes sense that getting the help of a lawyer may be the most logical thing to do.
The right car accident lawyer can help you build your case, learning more about the incident and how it unfolded. Then, they can help you make your claim, take things to court, and get the compensation due to you. For example, if you were made to spend money to cover your medical bills, lost wage-earning days, or experienced trauma relating to the accident, a lawyer can help you get financial compensation for that. A good lawyer can also help keep your best interests in mind and fight for the outcome that you deserve, one that'll help you better recover from the accident.
Drivers are taught to drive defensively for the sake of safety, both for themselves and for others. By doing so, you help keep the roads a safer place. But, unfortunately, many drivers still choose to be irresponsible and opt to drive recklessly. As a result, they endanger the lives of other people. Accidents are a perfect example of what this recklessness can bring.
Unfortunately, accidents can have a lasting impact on the lives of their victims. From causing severe injury to even death, the recklessness of some drivers ends up affecting those who never wanted to be involved. As a result, the victims are left to deal with the consequences of someone's selfish acts.
However, as difficult as these situations may get for the victims, there are ways to help lighten the burden. One way would be to seek the help of a car accident lawyer. Someone familiar with these situations can give you the support you need to help you get the compensation you deserve. It might not be much, but it's one way to get the justice you deserve from someone negligent enough to not care about others.
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Q: Axiomatic system and Hilbert's 2nd problem Hilbert's second problem asks if the axioms of arithmetic are consistent. Has this problem been resolved? Shouldn't an axiomatic system ideally be consistent and complete(given that we have the freedom to choose the axioms)? I have read Godel's Incompleteness Theorem but I don't understand it completely.
What implication does this problem have for mathematics as a whole since mathematics can be regarded as the study of patterns and structures within the framework of an axiomatic system?

A: You raise two issues different (though not unconnected) issues here.
(1) Are the axioms of arithmetic consistent? Which axioms? Suppose we fix on first-order Peano Arithmetic. We know that no theory weaker than PA can prove the consistency of PA. That's because of Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem for PA, which says that we can't prove the consistency of PA even assuming PA, so we can't prove it with less. But proving PA's consistency using a theory stronger than PA wouldn't be much use (though we can do it, e.g. in ZF set theory): that's because if we have doubts about the consistency of PA we will presumably have doubts about any theory which is stronger than it. However that leaves the possibility of proving the consistency of PA in a theory which is weaker in some respects but stronger in others. And that can be done. Gentzen did it in 1936, and Gödel himself did it in his Dialectica paper in 1958. Though neither proof is easy to sketch and make plausible in the confines of an answer such as this.
(You might wonder whether either proof could be used to convince someone who had doubts about the consistency of PA. That would depend on the source of those doubts. If the worry is about PA's use of an unrestricted induction rule, then  Gentzen's and Gödel's proofs -- since they only use induction for quantifier-free predicates -- might soothe those doubts. And it is certainly a moot point whether either Gentzen's or Gödel's proof is the sort of consistency proof that Hilbert was hoping for -- it is debatable what kinds of reasoning should be acceptable to a finitist working on the Hilbert Programme.)
(2) "Shouldn't an axiomatic system ideally be consistent and complete?" Ideally, maybe. But in this life, we can rarely get the ideal! And no sensibly axiomatized theory can even be complete for the truths of the first-order arithmetic of successor, addition and multiplication. That's what Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem shows us. (There are plenty of good expositions of that theorem out there: but you can always try my Gödel Without (Too Many) Tears notes, which you can get at http://www.logicmatters.net )

A: A first order theory is inconsistent if it can prove every well-formed sentence. This is equivalent to being able to a sentence $A$ and it's negation $\neg A$.
The Incompleteness Theorem of Godel asserts that sufficiently strong axiom systems which include well-known theories such as Peano Arithmetics and ZFC set theory can not prove its own consistency unless it already inconsistent.
This above answers Hilbert's question : If Peano Arithemtics could prove itself to be consistent, then it was already able to prove every statement, i.e. is inconsistent. A axiom system in which everything is proveable is not very interesting.
These incompleteness result do not cause any major harm to mathematics as it is practiced. Indeed, you can not prove in Peano Arithmetics or ZFC that Peano Arithmetic or ZFC, respectively, is consistent, but, as most mathematicians do, you can just assume your axiom system is consistent (as no one has yet to find an inconsistency) and continue on your business.
So the consistency of theories is not mathematically proveable within itself. Assuming the consistency of stronger axiom systems, you can prove the consistency of the weaker. For instance assuming the consistency of ZFC, you can prove the consistency of Peano Arithmetics. Again by the incompleteness theorem, it is impossible to establish the consistency of ZFC in itself. In end, you will run into the trouble of convincing someone the stronger theories are really consistent.
Hence, you will be able to prove the consistency of your theory using method that are entirely formalizable within some first order theory. Philosophically, it is a very interesting as to whether certain axiom systems are really consistent even if you can't actually prove it formally. Some can argue that Peano arithmetic is a model of some portion of the human reasoning and is as consistent as human reasoning. Some people can informally argue that people have used the concept of arithmetics for thousands of year and applied it to myriads of real world applications without encountering any major problems. All of these are philosophical.
Ultimately, you should consider how much do you believe in arithmetics and how useful it is to you? What do you believe in more that the moon really exists or that arithmetic is consistent!