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Over my lifetime I have tried so many different things to bring prosperity and abundance into my life. As my book details, life has not been easy for me or my family. But along the way we have learned to count our blessings. I am grateful for so many things, my relatively good health, I have a roof over my head and plenty of food to eat, the love and companionship from my cherished spoiled babies, Chuey and Cash,

the beauty of nature, just getting outside for a long walk, my part-time work as a caregiver for some wonderful clients who I love, and last but not least, my family and friends.

I have been blessed with a smidgen of talents, but I am never satisfied with my efforts when it comes to writing, painting, or the various crafts I dabble in. I always want to do better. In the back of my mind I have always felt that if I just keep persisting at it, my work will finally bring me the abundance and prosperity I have been longing for. To that end, I have started building a website where my art can be viewed and purchased, as well as my blog being published there. I also offer free shipping to everyone in the continental United States. I hope you will check it out, and if you like what you see, please spread the word. Thank you for your support!

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Random Thoughts

After a very long absence, guess what?.......I'm back! I believe this is the third time I have attempted to start my blog all over again. Maybe it will prove to be true, that "third time's the charm." I sure hope so!

This time I've decided that this blog will not be about any specific subject, but will be entirely random thoughts, depending on what appeals to me when the muse strikes. I have such a wide variety of interests, and my mind is always filled with ideas, so you never know what you may find here from now on.

I believe the last time I posted anything, I had just embarked on a new venture of living and traveling in an RV. That had been a dream of mine for a long time, and after selling my home I decided it was now or never, I just had to give it a try. Well guess what, that didn't work out so well. It might have been different if I'd had unlimited funds to purchase a new RV, but alas, that didn't happen. Not wanting to have any debt, I bought what I could afford, which was a 2002 Sandpiper 5th wheel and a high-mileage used pickup. After a brief driving lesson from my brother the truck driver on how to turn corners, back up, park, etc., I was off on my great adventure.

However, it wasn't long before I realized that driving a 36-foot long trailer down the Interstate made me extremely nervous, and no matter how many times I tried I just could not figure out how to back the thing up right. Not only that, while pulling the trailer my truck was averaging 7 miles per gallon. I knew at that rate my budget was not going to be able to handle the strain for long.

I wanted to come to Arizona where my two sons live to spend the winter, but the thought of driving all that way by myself made me very anxious. So my son, Jeff, flew up to Colorado and helped me drive back down to Casa Grande. No sooner had we left Colorado Springs when, while driving down the Interstate, I started hearing a funny noise. Then a car pulled up beside us and started gesturing wildly at my trailer. Glancing back, I was horrified to see the siding of the trailer on the driver's side flapping in the wind. As soon as possible, we pulled off the highway to check out the damage. About 6 feet of the siding had peeled back and insulation was coming out and the framework was exposed. I got sick to my stomach just looking at it.

Fortunately, we were stopped by a convenience store and went in and bought a roll of duct tape. Jeff managed to climb up on the bed of the pickup and tape the siding back together. By some miracle, it held together until we got to Arizona. See white duct tape at least matches the siding!
Even though the 5th wheel was pretty nice on the inside, the outside now looked like hell. There were plenty of other things that started going wrong with it too. I had to replace the hot water heater, which cost $600. The toilet wouldn't flush and I had to get that fixed. I woke up one morning and stepped on the living room carpet which went "squish," as something underneath was leaking. The list went on and on.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I soon decided that RV living wasn't working for me. The whole idea had been to be able to travel and spend time with family and friends around the country. But I certainly couldn't drive it anywhere with the risk of the siding coming off again. I had gotten several estimates on getting the siding repaired, but it would have cost more than the whole trailer was worth. So as you can see from the sign, I decide to sell it. I listed it on Craigslist and surprisingly, it sold! I was honest about all of the problems it had, but the person who bought it didn't want to travel in it, he just wanted to set it up permanently for a vacation home away from home. The guy got a good deal. I lost a lot of money on it, but I learned some valuable lessons, such as never buy an old, used RV, and sometimes your dreams just don't pan out the way you planned. But if I had never tried it, I would have always wondered what if.

So I now live in a lovely apartment here in Arizona near my sons and family. I am starting a brand new chapter of my life, and it's going to be a doozy. Follow me on my blog and come along for the ride.

By the way, I am pleased to announce that my new book, "A One-Percent Chance of Survival" is now available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.


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Automatic Manual Transmission - Future of Pocket Friendly Automatics?

Two basic types of gearboxes are in present in the market, one is the standard manual transmission and the other is the automatic transmission. Now, we all know how the manual transmission works, driver presses clutch pedal and shifts the lever into the new gear position releasing the clutch pedal and initiating the gear. In case of the automatic transmission, driver puts the lever into D mode and simply use punch the accelerator to drive around without any fuss.

However, Automatic Manual Transmission, is the new kid on the block, it’s an automatic gearbox mated with a manual gearbox, while the driver enjoys the fun of an automatic gearbox while being able to shift gears like in a manual gearbox, also getting a better fuel efficiency than a standard automatic gearbox.

In an Automatic Manual Transmission (AMT), there isn’t a clutch pedal, so the driver doesn’t actually get to decide the gear but simply shift up & down. There’s an onboard smart computer that will manage all the gear numbers, all the driver will manage is the up & down shifting. The usual automatic gearbox use something known as a “torque converter”, like in manual cars there’s a clutch that disconnects the gearbox from the engine, in automatic transmission cars there is a torque converter which allows independent movement of the engine.

For example: When you have stopped on the side of the road on neutral, the engine passes small amount of torque through the converter, because at idling the engine doesn’t need much power, which you do by applying less pressure on the brake pedal in an automatic transmission car. So, basically if you try to press the accelerator while the brakes are applied, you’ll have to squeeze the brakes harder for the car to not move from its position. Why this happens is because, when you press the accelerator pedal, the engine pumps in more fluid to the torque converter, meaning more power to the wheels. Meaning the torque converter decreases the fuel efficiency.

The automatic manual transmission gearbox doesn’t have a torque converter, hence gives better fuel efficiency. Fiat Group’s component division “Magneti Marelli” makes this gearbox for them. Chances are vast that the AMT will enter Indian market soon. With automatics being accepted by the Indian buyers nowadays more than earlier when even the knowledge of a car variant offered in automatic was dreaded just because of its low fuel efficiency.

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“The python is considered a good snake and a source of energy for the Orang Asli,” according to Achom Luji, a Semai man from Kuala Lipis in Malaysia.

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Last week, the 63-year old man shared numerous stories about snakes and the ways the Semai think about them with a reporter from the New Straits Times. He said that snakes used to serve as guniks, spirits that could be summoned by shamans to help out in various types of ceremonies. Earlier writings about the Semai provide additional information about that statement.

A 1986 journal article by Clayton Robarchek indicates that the Semai considered guniks to be benevolent, protective spirits that help people in times of danger, in contrast with the mara’, malevolent spirits that surround and threaten them.

Robarchek argued that the Semai believe the guniks, in fact, were powerful kinsmen that could be of considerable help when illnesses threaten people. Furthermore, any discord in a Semai village could seriously offend the protective guniks, so much so that they might leave the people, or perhaps even become mara’ and attack them. The belief in the guniks thus help the people retain their peacefulness. It is interesting to learn that the Semai associate their protective guniks with snakes.

The reporter for the English language Malaysian newspaper included the comments by Achom Luji in a piece published on Sunday, February 10. The article was a way of celebrating the Chinese New Year and the beginning of the Year of the Snake. The NST story focused on snake beliefs among the various ethnic groups of Malaysia—the Malays, the Chinese, the Indians, and the Orang Asli—specifically the Semai.

Achom Luji repeated one Semai belief, that pythons were kings in their previous lives, when they were venomous. But due to their doing wrong things, they lost their venom and were made to live in trees. Their venom was taken from them and put into Ipoh trees, he said, which produce the poison the Semai use on the darts in their blowpipes.

The Semai man related a story from their folklore about relationships among the snakes themselves. Evidently, king cobras and pythons used to be friends. But one day a young woman encountered a python while she was approaching some fruit that had fallen from a tree. She was afraid to pick it up.

However, the snake assured her it was a reincarnation of a man who was once fond of her, so the two got married. But then, the man introduced his sister-in-law to a friend of his, king cobra. The sister-in-law violated some rules so the cobra killed her. From that day on, pythons and king cobras have been enemies.

Achom Luji said that the Semai think that snakes represent the reincarnations of human beings. “We believe that all living things were once human. But because of karma, they are reborn as something else. The same goes for snakes,” he said.

The Semai also used to believe, he told the NST, that pythons would go up into the hills above villages to meditate, but when they did that, they might be transformed into dragons. If that happened, the dragons might create lakes around themselves to keep people away. “Sometimes, when there is a landslide, some of us believe that it is because the snake has left its meditation spot,” he added.

He said that, until the 1950s, Semai women used paste to paint the features of pythons on their faces, which symbolized the special values they placed on the snakes. To this day, when Semai artisans make pandanus mats, they sometimes use snakes as motifs.

The NST report suggests that the Semai formerly used snakes for medicinal and cultural purposes. A block of wood in the shape of a snake could be used to help remove bad spirits, or snake venom, from people. In addition, the Semai could retrieve fat from the body of the snake and make medicinal oils.


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A quick tug to open his belt is felt, ZZZZZzzip rings into my ear, as his zipper is pulled rapidly downward, the weight of his trousers hitting the kitchen floor is heard

Knees weaken as the mushroom tip of his manhood daps on the moisture clinging to my swollen lips,

My dew is slowly swirled on his manly tip, then its slid up and down my buttocks crack, intentionally slowly opening my crack up wider and wider which heats my loins up hotter and hotter

Heart flutters as my mind anticipate his hard mass entering from the back door position, my body tense as I feel the swollen head of his manhood press against my haven opening, my lungs groan in pain as his swell slowly stretches my vulva lips open wider, g

roans turn to moans as sensations of first penetration looms inside my loins

Lungs gasp loudly as the first inch of his massiveness enters my domain,

Stretching pain is quickly followed by pleasure pain as his massive girth stretches my lips further apart, as his round mushroom head paths the way for his long length,

After his length has slid half way inside my swollen folds, I whisper, "Hold still"...

His hips hesitate while the girth of his hardness pulsate against the tautness of my womb walls, A moan vibrates in my throat as surreal sensations rush into our loins,

A deep groan rattles in his chest, as the sensation of my tight walls enveloping around his girth crashes deep inside him

Hips ease backward, pushing his length into the depths of my womb,

As my hips slowly move forward, my womb stretch evermore...

Slowly back, then slowly forward,

Slowly back, then slowly forward, then I stop completely and let the vibrations of his pulsating meat soak into my womb walls,

A miniature eruption gives me a taste of what is too follow

Womb walls squeeze tighter,

which makes him moan, I glance back and watch his face grimace in ecstasy, then I precede back to slow gyrations of my hips

Hips gyrate faster,

His mass sinks deeper,

a quiet scream slips from my lungs ,

As the thick base of his hardness finishes the finale stretch of my womb opening

Faster my hips gyrate, slapping my butt against the waves of his stomach muscles

The sounds of moans and groans are joined by the sound of his balls slapping on my backside, as my slippery lubricate floods on his hardness flesh, my hips move quicker and smoother back and forth on his hard wide girth

Suddenly my hair is pulled back tightly,

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Male Erection and Ejaculation: The Mind-Body Connection

What is good sex?

Does it need to require orgasm, penetration, or certain amount of time or activity?

Nope. And yet our social understanding of what sex is and looks like can prevent activity to look however it wants/needs to look, often causing shame.

“You’re having good sex when you feel good about yourself, good about your partner, and good about what you’re doing. If after the act (and reflection about the act) you’re still feeling good about all three of these components. then you know you’re having good sex.” (coercion, deception, and activity again your own values excluded). –Carol Ellison.

So about about those times that we feel less than good about the act? As in times in which we want to maintain erections or have more control over our ejaculations and they just aren’t happening? What are some ways we can help ourselves get the sex life and experience that we desire?

Incorporating a holistic approach by involving your mind, body, emotions, and partner (if you choose to have one) are all important components to involve.

So you didn’t have an erection last time, you still have a chance to help yourself in the next time. It all depends on how you incorporate your mind in the play. The biggest sex organ you own is located right between your ears and plays the most crucial part of your experience!

What if I were to tell you that it did not matter what ‘reality’ is, but more so the perspective and meaning you make of it? For instance, two men could have experienced and inability to maintain an erection in their last sexual encounter with their long-term partner. Man #1 enters into the next sexual experience focusing on the pleasures he anticipates, the look of his partner’s face as she orgasms, the enjoyment he has when she’s giving him oral sex, the arousing fantasies, and positive thoughts of “this is going to be so sexy.” Man #2 goes into his sexual experience focusing on the problem: thoughts of “What if it happens again?,” “She’s going to think I’m a failure, not a good lover, or leave me”; plays imaging in his mind of his partner getting frustrated with him or of him losing his erection again; telling his partner a preface about how he ‘may’ not be able to keep it up.

Man #1 has a greater chance of maintaining his erection and DEFINITELY greater chance of simply having an enjoyable experience than man #2 who is probably now filled with anxiety and tension in the body making it more than likely that the problem will ensue. Now check in with yourself, which man have you been lately?

Be mindful of the thoughts that you entertain. Our brain consists of neuropathways on which images, thoughts, understandings reside and connect with one another. It’s as if one thought, self-statement, or image has a magnetic quality that then attracts other thoughts, statements, images of the same kind that then build on one another. Kind of like when one friend is talking about ice cream and it triggers thoughts of that summer time with your friends at the beach or the time a hot girl vomited ice cream all over your shirt or the revolting feeling you get with the image of melted ice cream puddles or the time….

If you are having a sex problem, you are probably contributing to it’s maintenance by engaging in negative self-statements that are then attracting more negative images, thoughts, feelings to support the original and end up self-fulfilling your own prophecy. When you focus on the problem or the ‘failure to erect’, you create anxiety, release stress hormones, disconnect with the body, and reduce your experience of pleasurable feeling. Be on the look out for patterns of catastrophizing and awfulizing. These are the tendencies for creating anything less than perfect into a catastrophe. Lack of erection leads to “I’m broken”, “I’m not man enough”, or “My partner will leave me.”

Instead, let’s practice focusing on the pleasurable sensations you feel and anticipate feeling which will maximize your chances for arousal (which translates to erection potential). Or engage in the power of fantasy and pleasurable images to increase arousal. Rewrite negative stories to ones that are more positive (yet still believable to you). Express compassion for yourself by engaging in internal dialogue or a pep talk to give yourself support. Focus on the strengths that you have as a person and/or lover. And remember, it doesn’t matter if an event is true or not, what matters is your interpretation and the effect you let it have on you.

How connected are you to your body and it’s pleasure, really? For those of us who struggle with anxiety, daily grind of work, relationship struggles, and negative self-worth, our bodies may have become an uncomfortable place to be in or our mind. Practicing skills like yoga, mindfulness, sensations, deep breathing exercises, stop/start technique (for strengthening ejaculation control), awareness of self and partner positions are all helpful in building a stronger, more preferable sexual experience.

I HIGHLY recommend tuning into your own behaviors in sex and discovering what actions you take to control the length of your sexual experience. You do this whether conscious or not conscious of it.  For instance: you may change your thrusting speed from faster to slower, move your hips slightly to change the angle of the trust, maybe change to circular movements, monitor your breathing. If there are actions that cause you to orgasm (like watching her face, holding her hips, or seeing her excitement that then gets you excited), maybe you avoid those until you’re feeling more ready. These adjustments help you to stay in control and enjoy sensations until you’re ready for ejaculation.

Learning the sensations that build in your body throughout sexual activity and knowing your points of coming close to the edge of ejaculation, points of no return, tension, pleasure, anxiety, arousal, or whatever else is arising in your body can help you ground back down into your physical being and gain better control over your own experience.

Nervousness, anger, resentment, depression, or guilt can contribute to erection and ejaculatory control issues. Understanding what is coming up for you emotionally, or what you are holding onto emotionally, and addressing these face-on will help to remove the barriers that are keeping you from pleasure or full functioning of your sex organs. Resentment can keep you from being generous with your partner, so no one gets pleasure! Working with a sex therapist or having intimate dialogue with your partner about what you’re experiencing can be a powerful way to move these through and get unstuck again.

Know your conditions for good sex. We all have them whether they have to do with ourselves, the enviornment, or our partner. Conditions can be that we need to feel clean or that our to-do list is done. Conditions can be that we need to feel accepted and loved by our partner. Conditions can be that we need to be in a space where no one can hear us having sex. Whatever it may be, discovering this for yourself can help you set yourself up to be able to relax into the experience and have good, enjoyable, sex.

To all my dudes who have struggled or struggle with erection or other sexual problems: stop apologizing for the problem or for yourself. Don’t feel bad because you ‘can’t deliver’. Don’t pretend that it’s not happening. Don’t feel guilty. You can say you’re disappointment because sex was something you were looking forward to with your partner. You can offer other sensual/sexual activity. You can offer a massage or holding. However, this is your body telling you to pay attention to it for SOME reason. Something is not in alignment, whether it’s something to do with the relationship, your physical health, anxiety, fear of too much closeness, depression, mental/emotional health, stress—and it needs your attention. Apologizing only brings attention to these things that you are less than happy with. Instead, acknowledge it, explain it, have a good time anyway, and get on with resolving it.

Now go play!

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INDIANAPOLIS - Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) and his colleagues on the House Intelligence Committee will conduct a long-awaited hearing on Russian interference on Monday, which is expected to include public testimony from FBI director James Comey.

In the video above, Carson discusses his hopes for the hearing and the investigation, as lawmakers also prepare to look into President Trump's unfounded claims that he was wiretapped by his predecessor.

Among other topics, Carson is also asked about the health care debate, and the legal battle to stop the President's revised travel ban.

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Apr 30, - Virgo (August 23rd – September 22nd). You make a Virgo orgasm hard by surprising her. She loves a mix of tenderness and good handling of her privates, so she'll always say yes to morning sex by the desk or on the kitchen table. She likes a quicky sometimes, so don't be a fuckboy if she comes by your. How You Give Your Partner An Emotional Orgasm, Based On Your Zodiac Sign | YourTango Albina. Age: 30. very nice meeting you... My name is jasmine... With Virgo, it's all in the details and doing things right. When you inspire each other, it frees up your creativity and allows for some major emotional release. Aug 25, - While having an orgasm is great for your health and your sex life, sometimes you need an emotional release. And though your horoscope may know how to get you to climax, astrology can also tell you how to give your partner an emotional orgasm. An emotional orgasm is when you experience a moment. Catarina. Age: 22. love beautiful brunette with a fantastic hard body that every woman envies?? well i am the gorgeous girl for you to invite you in paradise sasha is a open minded, bubbly and extremely feminine and passionate, my pretty face and hot body and my beautiful curves for sure you will be have a fantastic time together, I'm guaranteed the best of the best time with me Virgo Confusing Orgasm with Emotional Intensity. Sex is mostly psychological. Sex is mostly emotional. In a very real sense, it's also spiritual. Unfortunately, Virgos tend to confuse orgasm with emotional intensity. In other words, if they did not reach that particular stage in love making, they would feel that it's fake. In other words. Another play Virgos adore is to resist-and-to-surrender until he could burst out in exploding Heknows what woman likes and will do things methodically, giving herplenty of room for initiative. Don't barge in or force a discussion when you see that he is thinking, give him time to break away from his thoughts.

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Calaveras County Water District Board President Terry Strange discusses the impacts of the four-year drought on the District and the incredible conservation achieved by our community in part two of his three-part op-ed series about the drought. Both pieces ran on the Calaveras Enterprise Opinion page. Read part one here. Read part two here.

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This was the first album John Lennon recorded following the breakup of the Beatles, and there are few more effecive, raw expositions of emotional torment in pop. These songs are not always easy to listen to- for instance, the opening track, "Mother", about his feeling of having been abandoned and unwanted by his partents. It starts with heavy funeral bells and ends with Lennon screaming "Momma don't go, Daddy come home". But for the most part, they are not mere cathartic screaming exercises, but were songs that effectively conveyed his feelings because they were well-crafted pop songs. The one exception, and the album's one misfire, is "Well Well Well", which is little more than Lennon screaming. The songs feature bare-bones arrangements, with Lennon on guitar or piano, rounded out by bass and drums. Lennon also does not keep hitting you over the head with his angry despair song after song, but, for instance, follows up "Mother" with "Hold On John", a fairly lighthearted, optimistic song, and starts Side 2 with the quiet, beautiful "Love". But those songs only serve to make the other songs seem all the more intense. "I Found Out" is a stinging rejection the politics and spirituality that was trendy at the time-- which at other times he himself espoused. "God" is an even more comprehensive attack on the things and people being idolized.
Unfortunately, his process of questioning and dealing with his personal demons, and bringing down all the things he had held on to- his parents, his politics, his being a Beatle leads him by the end of "God" to say that all he believes in is as himself...oh, and Yoko too. But what was he without those other things? Not long after this album he would therefore be returning to many of the same 'illusions' he had so bravely, or foolishly, abandoned here. Still, he was brave in putting out an album, that on the face of it, seems rather intimidating and 'uncommecial', but not only conveyed his own personal problems but also feelings that most of us have at one time or another.

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I could listen to this over and over. If you've never heard of John Hiatt this is a great introduction. If you're already a fan it is great to have all of these cuts in one place.

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When John Hartford released this album in the early 70s I was suffering from a large dose of confusion and I didn't know where I was. These songs helped me out and helped me along. There's no way to explain the effect they have except to listen. Talk about your money's worth-there's no fluff or filler. Play it for your kids if you've got any or somebody else's if you don't. Maybe they can figure it out. Thanks to Hartford and Bromberg et. al., the old Philly folk scene for playing it the first time around and Amazon for keeping it.


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Research co-led by Western researchers identifies key risk factors for domestic homicide

A Western researcher has found that most domestic homicides are preceded by key risk factors — risk factors that if identified early could save lives.
New research co-led by Western professor Peter Jaffe found 80 per cent of domestic homicides have seven or more risk factors that are known to family, friends, coworkers and front-line professionals. These risk factors include prior domestic abuse, stalking, separation or substance abuse.
The researchers sought to identify risk factors among populations that are particularly at risk for domestic homicide. Indigenous women, immigrant refugee women, women who live in northern rural areas and children are all vulnerable populations, according to Jaffe, who's also the director of Western's Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children.
“We do the work to save lives. Domestic homicides are preceded by warning signs that are often overlooked or not understood by friends, family, coworkers and for many professionals,” Jaffe said.
In addition, Jaffe is co-directing the first Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Conference with the University of Guelph's Myrna Dawson. The conference  is centred around a series of workshops that study different fields relating to domestic homicide, each led by different professionals. It kicked off on Wednesday at the London Convention Centre, drawing 450 researchers, policy makers and representatives from more than 60 organizations.
“The purpose of the conference is to share the information and to enhance our strategies for dealing with the problems across the country.”
Helping Jaffe and Dawson tackle problems across the country is a $2.2 million, five-year research grant from the Social Science Humanities Research Council of Canada. Jaffe said they're working to develop a national database that will give insights about domestic homicide risk factors as well as developing better risk assessment tools for victims and risk management for abusers.
Beyond the research, another part of the grant is earmarked for educating students and making sure the research findings on domestic violence achieve broad outreach.
Mohammad Baobaid and Abir Al Jamal also led a workshop, “Preventing Homicide in Collectivist Communities,” at the conference on Wednesday. Baobaid is the executive director for the Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration. His research presentation focused around the cultural contexts of domestic violence, especially women in collectivist communities.
Boabaid discussed the challenges these women face when trying to seek help because of potential isolation from the community.
“It’s important because we are coming together to find ways to save lives,” Boabaid said. “Domestic violence that would lead to domestic homicide is a real problem in our society. We need to raise awareness and bring all the people engaged and involved in this kind of work together to do something.”


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After assisting the Town of Scituate in securing funding from Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), CEI designed a new drainage system and tide gate for the neighborhood. A 12-inch pipe was replaced with an upgraded 42-inch pipe that now drains into two 30-inch pipes. The design restored natural tidal flows to the salt marsh and significantly reduced extended flooding of the neighborhood.

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Wasatch Fault Flyover

This video is a flyover of the most active fault zone in the interior of the US. It is overdue for a large rupture.

A large quake could be very damaging to a lot of people and structures.

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Friday, April 29, 2011

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One of my students, Simone, was working on her project for my class and was messing around with the coloring of some of the raw footage. I really liked what she did so I am now "Simonenizing" Cerulean.

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Second Teaser Trailer is posted.

Also, Andres Montengro is working with some of his students with the creatures. He is working on what we have dubbed the Buffalion. Maggie Dye designed a creature that looks like a lion and a buffalo and it is really shaping up. The next trailer will have both the creatures and Andrew Glazebrook's ships!


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Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Motur tug 'Volunteer'

On Sunday I took the preserved tug back to her homeport of Bristol after much effort by her owner to save her since discovering her in Whitehaven over 6 years ago. Here's a bit of video of her on the passage leg from Cardiff to Bristol.

Sunday, 8 February 2015

Red Jet 4 inbound to Southampton on Friday.

Oriana's new funnel.

Tug Wyestorm at work

Sunday, 1 February 2015

Newlyn slipway

Two similar pictures but over 30 years between them. The top picture is of Elizabeth Ann  Webster taken by my late Grandfather W.T.Collard and the bottom picture is of Excellent on the slip in Newlyn taken in approx 2000 by me.

Fishing Vessel 'Excellent' PZ513

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Monday, September 8, 2014

Aid in all distress in Zagreb

Mother of God of the Stone Gate
Watercolour, crayon and marker
©2014 Charlene Brown

Fearing yet another Mongol invasion in the middle of the 13th century, citizens built defensive walls and towers around the highest part of present-day Zagreb. Of the four original gates, only the Stone Gate, consisting of a vaulted corridor that makes a right-angle turn through a gatehouse, has been preserved.

According to legend, a great fire in 1731 destroyed most of the gatehouse and all of its contents, except for a painting of the Virgin and Child. When it was reconstructed in 1760, the painting, believed by then to possess supernatural powers, was given a place of honour, with an inscription, ‘Aid in all distress and against fires.’ The altar was opened to the public, and the painting could even be touched – until 1778 when an artistically-forged Baroque iron enclosure was built to protect it from the steady stream of grateful citizens.

At various times, the demolition of the gate was considered, given that it ‘no longer served any purpose’ but those who believed the painting inside the gate was in fact serving a vital purpose always prevented it. In 1991 the Archbishop of Zagreb proclaimed the ‘Mother of God of the Stone Gate’ to be a special protector of Zagreb and the whole of Croatia (and foreign travellers too, according to some tourist guides). She is there today, surrounded by tiles with inscriptions of gratitude.


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Sunday, 9 August 2015

Christians reclaiming magic, occult and animism from the New Age

It will be easy for readers to misunderstand (or misrepresent) the following; so please read it carefully before jumping to conclusions about what I am advocating - it is somewhat different from what most others who have written on this theme have been advocating.

I came to Christianity late in life and via a decade or so of being a New Agey kind of person (but only in my reading, in my mind and private life - I have never been in any group) - and this grew from a lifelong feeling for myth, folklore, and the like.

From my Christian perspective, and from inside knowledge, it is crystal clear to me now that modern world of 'paganism' is set-up in on anti-Christian predicates, and most of its main writers and advocates are seedy, exploitative, devious and untrustworthy characters - with not many exceptions.

This was made clear yet again by reading The Book of English Magic by Philip Carr-Gomm and Richard Heygate, the text of which gave me a constant impression of camouflaged dishonesty and sordidness: the discernment of the heart warns me that the material described is emanating from an essentially (albeit not wholly) untrustworthy and ill-motivated subculture.

The New Age set-up has claimed for itself a vast swathe of paganistic stuff, and the New Age is mostly a mixture of airy fairy nonsense and nastyness of one sort or another (generally, the usual modern sex, alcohol and drugs stuff) - united only in its explicit and implict 'anything but Christianity is good' orientation; and it is therefore understandable that most Christians regard the whole subject with abhorrence as either fundamentally evil, or just too risky to be worth considering.

But I do not think this attitude is a viable option for modern Western Christians - I think that modern Western Christianity needs to reconnect with its animistic and pagan roots - and therefore the risk must be taken, and the good aspects of (for example) Shaminism, Witchcraft, Druidry, Magic, The Occult, Divinisation, Mediumship, Clairvoyance and so forth must be reclaimed from the New Age into a Christian context.

In this I follow CS Lewis who believed that Christianity was Paganism-plus - crudely put: real Christianity takes paganism and adds to it and completes it. The reason that this is not explicit from scripture is simply that it was so obvious to the people of the time that it did not need to be said.

The error of too many Christians has been and is to try and build a religion on what is distinctive to Christianity, deleting everything which is shared with paganism. This leads to a cold, detached, alienated, rationalistic Christianity that leaves the heart unsatisfied - and enables the New Age to monopolize many natural and spontaneous and good human aspirations.

My view is that it is simply not-an-option for Christians to dissociate from New Age preoccupations - and although it is risky to engage with them, Christians must recognize that there is no such thing as a safe path through life - risk cannot be avoided; and the attempt to avoid risk, is itself one of the deadliest of snares - often leading to a cold, heartless and covertly hate-driven species of pseudo-Christian zeal, which is all-too-common among self-identified Christians of past and present.

What I think would be best is for Christians to engage with this realm of 'paganism' insofar as each is drawn to it for good motivations; and insofar as their powers of discernment of the heart tell them that it is good, sweet and wholesome.

It is this discernment which must be cultivated, used and respected - it is the divinity within us that serves as a compass of good, and it will warn us if we are approaching wickedness or if we have taken a step into wickedness: then we must repent and turn-round to retrace our steps.

This is hazardous, but mortal life is hazardous. Men cannot avoid making mistakes; Men are not built to avoid making mistakes, nor is the world; but we can and should recognize when we have made mistakes; repent, and learn from that experience. We ought not to be afraid of life - and we ought not to be afraid of making a fool of ourselves - and then admitting that we have been fools!

This is not a matter of deliberately putting ourselves into the path of temptation! - a very stupid thing to do; but a matter of following our heart and being guided by our deepest discernment, meditations and prayers. Yes, we can deceive ourselves; yes we need help and guidance from informed others whom we can trust (if we happen to know of any such, but most people do not, and such people are seldom found in mainstream Christian churches) - but self-deception applies in every direction, and temptations into pride are just as strong on the path of strict and narrow 'Christian orthodoxy' as they are in exploration.

I fully recognize that some of the above arguments have been co-opted by Liberal Christians and actually-apostate but self-identified Christians to justify their conformity with the world of mainstream secular Leftism; but that path is taking Christianity into a world of politics and sexual revolution; as if such social and hedonic gratifications were our deepest contemporary need, rather than intrinsic with the very problem which needs addressing.

I am talking about a very different direction - the direction of personal contact with and participation-in the living universe.

Mainstream Christianity is, in general, an incomplete and unsatisfying thing; paralysed by the futile attempt to make life risk-free - and what we need is seldom to be found in any modern Western institutions - therefore of necessity we must explore, as responsible individuals, to find what we need to be alive and engaged with this world.

Note: The above was stimulated by a valuable conversation with the well-known reactosphere/ orthosphere pseudonymous blog commenter 'Thursday'; with whom I met for lunch last week while he was visiting my neck of the woods.

Mack Schuylkill said...

The OT bible says something along the lines of 'practice ye not witchcraft', and somewhere else it says 'follow not the whims of thine treacherous heart'. I enjoy your blog and some of your flights of fancy, but the text, sir, deserves an answer. Why not just keep it simple? Why retain pagan myth, tradition, trappings, and ritual? What have they to do with the cross and resurrection of Christ? (not a rhetorical question). Unless you believe that Christianity is relatively empty without those traditions. Perhaps we already do retain many pagan practices, unknowingly (I don't know).

Tangentially related, have you ever checked out the blog 'the spirit of the scripture'?
I'm not sure if LDS keeps up on the Hebrew Bible or the NT.

Valkea said...

Indeed, Christianity / New Testament is incomplete. Jesus referred constantly to Moses, and Jesus said (Matthew 23:1-7): "Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, 2 saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; 3 therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them. 4 They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger. 5 But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men; for they broaden their [a]phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments. 6 They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7 and respectful greetings in the market places, and being called Rabbi by men." Who are the Pharisees? They are the men who taught those things, which were later gathered to Palestian Talmud and ultimately to Babylonian Talmud. Babylonian Talmud is thus legitimate religious source to Christians. Also Christian Old Testament are full of errors. E.g. in ten commandments Christian Bibles say "Do not kill", but the right version in Jewish Bible is "Do not murder". (Legitimate) killing is not prohibited in the Bible. We could use e.g. this Jewish Bible:

Valkea said...

... When properly understood, Christians are at least to some extent Jewish, if not wholly.

William Zeitler said...

Francis of Assisi is someone to consider in this regard.

stats said...

Sounds suspect on the face of it, but your proposal is so vague it is hard to tell exactly what you are advocating.

Bruce Charlton said...

@MS- I think I answered most of your questions in the post - but you could also read:

As for the Bible verses, they don't settle anything at all since the Bible is not supposed to be read one verse at a time. For many people, including the Pharisees, Jesus and the Apostles would be regarded as doing magic, occult practices etc.The gifts of the Holy Ghost are also of this type (Healing, Speaking in Tongues etc). Exorcism is part of mainstream Catholic functioning.

It is a matter of motivation and context - 'magic' or clairvoyance or divination in a Christian context and for Christian purposes is something quite different from the same kind of thing done for power, gain, euphoria, manipulation, to harm etc.

I should clarify that I am not a Mormon except by conviction; but the Prophet Joseph Smith did not neglect, rather indeed revived, exactly these aspects I am discussing.

Bruce Charlton said...

@stats - You will have to read it more carefully. But would you also say it was 'suspect' if someone advised Christians to shun everything to do with paganism? Thereby surrendering a whole aspect of life and living to anti-Christians?

Then you would also need to shun art, literature, science, philosophy, dancing, feasting, sports... all of which are hazardous to Christians, in one way or another.

Bruce Charlton said...

@V- I think what you suggest is fairly mainstream doctrine - I mean the idea that after Christ all Jews ought to have become Christians - but of course Christianity was not *only* for Jews, meaning it was also for pagans - and (according to Acts of the Apostles and Paul's Epistles) these were not expected first to become Jews.

Odin's Raven said...

There's a withering comment on many New Age gurus, by a god-intoxicated American. 'The spirit is wilting, but the flesh is sleek.'

Joseph A. said...

Well said!

I have long pitied neo-pagan seekers for whom the Christianity of their parents or grandparents was so dessicated and lifeless that they have returned to paganism to find what should be abundantly manifest in Christian culture -- that the world is utterly enchanted -- that God, his angels, and the saints are active even in what the untrained eye sees as mundane. The sacramental approach to the world is super-magical -- from an unbiased perspective (with "magic" being the derogatory term for another religion's encounter with the super- or praeter-natural). And yet, Christian apostates delve into all sorts of alien, ancient, or fictional tradition to taste unripe wine, all the while their father's prized stock sits on the shelf at home.

Bruce Charlton said...

@Joseph - Yes, that is what I was trying to communicate.

Mack Schuylkill said...

These are satisfactory answers. Thank you for taking the time.

Odin's Raven said...

Alvin Boyd Kuhn wrote many works on symbolism in the scriptures. Most of them are freely available online.They're not for the literal minded.
A B Kuhn
Here's a reading list.List
Another source. Juan Schoch makes them freely available.
His basic work was 'The Lost Light'. Here it is.Lost Light
The letter kills, but the spirit gives light.

Wade said...

I'm glad you posted about this. I was raised in a "fundamentalist" christian setting here in the US South, and I am a practicing christian. Nevertheless, I've always been fascinated with our pagan past, especially that of the British Isles from which my ancestors (the Wade and Thomas families) hail, but by the same token turned off by the seedy new Age movement. Ironically, I was introduced to Tolkien's LOTR by a girl in college who considered herself a "witch." This turned me off immediately and made me not want to read LOTR at all (not knowing any better) because I associated it, wrongly, with new age "Magick" until I saw the first movie and realized that's not what Tolkien was about. Needless to say, reading LOTR was magic in a very good way.

Anyway, in school, even as a christian, I always felt a little sad whenever we covered the time period in European history when the conversion of the pagans to Christianity occurred through the expansion of the Roman Empire. I felt like something special was cut off from us: The heroism contained in the stories of Thor and the other Norse gods, beliefs in Elves, etc. The aesthetic of North European folklore and myth have an appeal to me that the Old Testament lacks. It is part of our roots and who we are whereas the Old Testament is about the past of a different tribe.

This might not be exactly what you are describing. I'm sure there is a lot more in your proposition than what I've described here but I hope that you elaborate on your thoughts more in the future because it's very interesting.

Tomas said...

I hope I'm not committing too egregious a necromancy on a 3/4 month old post.

Full disclosure, I'm a Latin Catholic worshiping in an Anglican-Use Parish entranced by Russian Sophiology with a sweet-tooth for science-fiction, fantasy, orientalism, and pagan myth and ritual (I sympathize with Proclus and Iamblichus over Plotinus, though I do love Plotinus). This is not a statement of credential but more a request of "Yes, I'm interested in this topic, help me see why that's okay?"

While you give a lot of large sweeping statements here, you're not giving any specific practicalities - what is present in paganism that would be useful for Christianity (coughCatholicismcough - sorry, my triumphalism is acting up)? You imply that a discerning spirit is needed to point out the good while putting away the bad, perhaps offering necessary orientations along the way. What are some examples of this specifically?

I ask, because I wonder if the things we would look for in paganism of any variety isn't already present in Christianity. You imply as much (sorry, I'm reading a lot of implications here and trying to get some explications) when you describe Christianity as "paganism plus". I can accept that. I think certain Buddhist or Zen practices are a good example - their efforts toward prayer is to calm the mind so as to have a more perfect focus. Christianity would agree with such practices and texts like the Philokalia and Abandonment to Divine Providence, the practices promoted by Carmelites and Benedictines and Eastern Catholic monks, agree with this. However, those texts and the practices of those order go a step further by saying one's perfected focus should not be an end in itself but a means to focusing perfectly upon Christ.

If this is the kind of appreciation you are promoting, I would wonder its usefulness. There's no doubt that many individuals will learn to perfect their Christian practice by appreciating non-Christian theory and practice. So too, a great many people can be brought to deny nihilism and accept Christ by a near death experience, but it would be imprudent to begin orchestrating such events for the greater number of people.

Now, I personally think we could list quite a number of things that paganism promotes that we could "learn from" - ritual, virility, living for a higher purpose, devotedness to a divine will, importance of earthiness. However, these are present in the Christian tradition. We have liturgy, we have militancy, we have abandonment to divine providence, we have iconography, statuary, St. Francis, the Theology of the Body.

The call to approach paganism seems, in my mind, just an attempt to hijack the natural exotic impulse many of us have, an excuse to indulge in our love for myth, the fantastic, the oriental, the pagan. However, in doing so we run the real risk of ignoring the treasures in our tradition, of attempting to reinvent the wheel when a well-tuned car is right next door (or worse, believing our wheel is, on its own, the equivalent of the car).

So back to my question - what are some examples of things in paganism that would be helpful to a Christian that they could not find easily in their own tradition?

Bruce Charlton said...

@Tomas - Perhaps the most important example is animism - the sense that everything is alive, and in communication of some kind; reverence to natural phenomena. That, therefore, Man can be in relation with the world, at home in the world.

Other examples might be telepathy, the significance of dreams - including prophesy, communications with the dead, divination (foretelling/ advising), belief in fairies and the like.

My suggestion is that such things are in themselves neither good nor bad, but by motivation and context - but in the right context they help to cure that horrible modern pathology of alienation.

Tomas said...

Firstly, we're just going to assume that pagan beliefs and practices can be given a similar sense of veracity as Christian practices and truth. This is a dubious proposition at best, but let's make it.

I think you need to split up your categories here - let's make some good scholastic distinctions.

In your examples, you appear to have two categories of pagan "borrowings" - beliefs ("animism", "belief in fairies and the like") and techne/art ("prophesy, communications with the dead, divination"). Let's assume the, what I feel is another dubious, proposition that such things are amoral.

With these distinctions, I would offer the following questions and some reflections: In what ways do these things overcome the pathology of alienation in ways our current beliefs and techne can't? In what ways do they better overcome that pathology than Christianity can?

To the first question, I would propose that the techne/art run the same risks of aggravating alienation which our current techne/art have succeeded in bringing about. Take for example the phenomenon of social media. As a techne, it is supposed to overcome alienation. Especially for those homebound (I am myself fully wheelchair bound so could be considered semi-homebound), social media was to be a way to interact where one could not before. It was supposed to help cross borders and unite the world.

I would contend it has clearly failed. It's arguable whether or not that is the problem of social media itself. It appears, to my thinking, to be an amoral techne, akin to the pagan techne you list. Analogously, it appears to my thinking that any pagan techne is easily able to fall into the same problem. This has to do less with the techne and more with the problems of men (utilitarian-hedonistic impulses run rampant, capitalistic brainwashing, etc. - basically sin).

As for the pagan beliefs, especially animism, such a thing would be quite helpful, at first glance, in overcoming alienation - recognizing the world as a living thing to which one is in constant relation. Though, even human relations have been sullied in the past, exploited in a variety of ways. In what ways would animism protect itself from such a thing?

But all of this, I assume, is already assumed and accepted by you. Pagan beliefs and practices, while, we are assuming, amoral in themselves, will be given a moral quality by intention of the believer or practitioner. Thus the pagan techne must be used morally and the beliefs must be oriented toward some greater whole.

Still, I wonder how these pagan practices or beliefs do anything "better" than historical traditional Christian beliefs and practices?

Take animism, as you describe it, the belief that all things are alive and in communication, calling forth a sense of reverence from man. In what ways is this different, in the practical goal you seem to give it, from the belief that the world is created by God and thus shines forth with his glory, dignified as a creation of the uncreated? Eastern Christianity shows this well in their teaching of the uncreated light - the world shines forth with the glory of God as is seen by the Saints. Or the Early Desert Fathers (and a number of recent Saints especially among the Russians) and their unique relation with the deserts, the forests, and the wild beasts? St. Francis comes to mind to most, but he is only one of many.

Tomas said...

Or what of belief in fairies or the like? Well, what are angels? Especially as understood by the Early Church or the Fathers, it is the angels which are the animating principle of the world (they keep the planets in motion - perhaps an idea which needs to be returned to?).

And as for the techne's? These are present in the Christian tradition, and not only in the far past. Every Christian is called to open himself to the trusting of God's providence, to learn to recognize his will. Certain extraordinary gifts are given to others - in the Catholic tradition we still have seers, visionaries, who God has granted these gifts. We do communicate with the dead - prayers for the dead, prayers to Saints.

One could argue that these are, in fact, gifts from the pagan tradition which Christianity baptized. Thus returning to the pagan roots will return us to the purity of these beliefs and techne.

However, I would say that's an assumption based on progressivism - post hoc ergo propter hoc. Christianity came after paganism, so its similarities to paganism come from paganism. Why could these similarities not be the fruit of revelation? Why could not paganism be only the shadow of the beliefs and techne of Christianity? If Christianity is the truth, would not paganism, where it is true, be but the foretaste of Christianity?

In this way, it would seem that returning to paganism would be returning to a polluted stream when the pure fount is at hand. Perhaps the polluted stream is not so polluted as to harm (another dubium), but why go to it? Perhaps you can see the polluted stream better than the fount? Well, perhaps it would be best to clear away the blinders rather than act with them on.

Appeals to paganism or extra-Christian practice seem to be only proofs of Chesterton's words - "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." The difficulty here is in actually living out the spiritual practices of the faith.

Bruce Charlton said...

@Tomas - Well, as you say, this is a scholastic approach, which privileges abstract analysis. The end result is not the same as experience. It seems perverse to try and cram everything good into Christianity, rather than letting it grow from roots in Christianity. My bottom line is not philosophy but lived experience and the discernment of the heart. The important thing is to know, feel, uses one's internal guidance system (which is divine) to feel when one is being helped, and when led astray. Error is inevitable - like sin - but that should not terrorize us into avoidance of all possible hazards when there is also possible good - so long as we are aware of falling, and repent it. Repentance is our greatest weapon in this world (correction, our second greatest weapon - Love is the greatest. But repentance, multiple - repeated, is indispensable.). The fact is that there is no safe path through life - Christianity is not a safe religion - it always involves zig-zagging between hazards; and a phobia of paganism is certainly a hazard, leading to dry, living-dead legalism.


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Saturday, December 20, 2014

Deco Art Glass Paint Markers

Back again with the Deco Art Glass Paint Markers!  I know I have discussed the virtues of these markers in the past but I am once again going to express how easy they are to use!  This is my last set which will be used as Christmas gifts.

My husband watched me doodle on these the other night and was amazed that I just sit down without a plan and doodle on the glass.  I guess I've done enough of these that I'm pretty confident that I can just go with the flow. I've tried to repeat the patterns from some of the previous designs but never seem to be able to duplicate them, I guess that is the beauty of hand-made.  LOL.  I hope you will give the markers a try, even if you have to order them directly from Deco Art I really feel that they are worth the time and money invested.  Merry Christmas.

 You can see in these photos I've used the markers on a few ornaments as well as the porcelain dishes.  The two flat ornaments in the front and the round one toward the back were all purchased at Michael's.  I preferred the round one to the flat, just a personal preference but will keep that in mind for next year.  In fact am planning to try my hand at doodling on colored glass ornaments which I have an abundance of.  I will keep you posted how they turn out.  That could be a wonderful surface to try this technique on.
My very favorite dish is the round one to the left of this photo, I just love how I integrated the colored markers into the piece, I felt the color set off the design.  I may have to keep that one for myself.

For some reason this has been an extremely popular series of blog posts, I don't really know if it is because you are all interested in using the markers or you just like the idea of doodling on porcelain.  I'd love to hear what you like about this series of blog posts.

I have a glass Patron bottle which I have been saving for the right project and may try my hand at doodling on it.  HMMMM.....

I'd love to hear what it is that has intrigued you all about this series of blog posts.

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