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Raw Honesty May Deepen the Bliss Into Actualization and Full Embodiment

shaman-heart-lemurianI’ve consistently been receiving information that something is missing from a lot of what I’m experiencing from others out there. This is a constant message that comes through and is what I have been discussing with close colleague, and touching upon in conversations and classes. I’ve also been sharing snippets in my posts and likely will continue to expand and reiterate this topic, as it feels so important to me to share.

The theme is around really living the ideas, not just talking about it, being able to throw out intellectually grand metaphysical explanations and “key” words, or inadvertently pretending to live it.

What I share may not be mainstream thought in the spiritual realm, but I have to share what I am feeling and experiencing. And given that I have my own 25 + years of experience in this realm, I do recognize the traps and the processes, since I have gone through them myself.

shaman-heart-lemurian3So, what I’ve been observing, feeling, and hearing from people is a lot of all the “so-called right words”, (and this comes from some of both spiritual leaders and the New Age community) but on an authentic energetic level, which is where my heart immediately pierces through to, I can feel there is simply something missing. The consistency and depth is lost in translation and staying stuck on the surface. People are looking like and talking the information, and even have moments of bliss, but it’s a bliss that seems to be more induced or trance-like, rather than in full conscious and deepened embodiment.

The mental faculties of concepts are all there and the fast forwarding to a Unity consciousness too, but the core foundation and deepening of this into integrated fullness is lacking. Therefore, this is also why many New Agers are unable to fully manifest and instead spend a lot of time in the bliss states and in the upper chakras solely.

There is no right or wrong in any of this, yet when I hear people coming to me with the same challenges, don’t embrace the answers they asked for, talk in metaphysical circles they aren’t aware they are doing, are having unyielding struggles, are unsatisfied when parts of their life are not in full operation to their liking despite them saying they’ve done what they have learned to do through their studies, reading, and workshops, are having things seemingly hit them out of nowhere that they thought they had already processed and healed, or find themselves leading two different lives where they experience a tug-o-war inside themselves between the part that knows and the part that can’t integrate it, then that is pointing to an opportunity in your evolution to another part of your experience to look at and embrace.

shaman-heart-lemurian4We each have our own experience so, again, there isn’t any wrong or right, nor anything in particular to attain to, unless you specifically have a desire and intention you are trying to create and find yourself unhappy or unfulfilled. Life is experience for experience sake – all of the so-called icky and nice – it’s all perfect. And, what works for one is not the same for others, and I do believe we are moving into a time where things are much easier and can happen quickly. It all depends on you.

But if you, yourself, behind closed doors, or when you approach a friend or help you’ve sought out, are not happy and intending for something more, then maybe there is something being overlooked.

And that being said, I get the sense of some new structures being built upon old and weak foundations and feeling many are “faking” it through and not even realizing it, which is taking up much more energy than simply coming back down to Earth and into the body and emotions to really move the energy through in its entirety – not just stopping at the mental level. It also is about coming into the truth and not hiding from yourself anymore, nor placing blame elsewhere.

There is an energetic, nonverbal portion of experience that sends out its own frequency and it may be very different than the frequency some “think” they are emanating from the place of bliss they have learned to maintain and feed. Sensitives will pick up on this immediately and feel that there’s something not consistent in the delivery and what they sense from you.

This has to do with how many use spirituality to avoid things like the shadow aspects, fears, and pains – called “spiritual bypassing”, how it is possible to lose yourself behind “spiritual fluff” or to over-dose on positivity without integrative grounding as a means of avoiding and repressing your inner truth and, ultimately, your inclusive Divinity being revealed, and how you may be convincing yourself you are beyond something and yet perhaps all you have done was run the other way or are just regurgitating what you “think” you should say or do spiritually, but without having fulling embodied the essence of what that truly means.

shaman-heart-lemurian5So yes, what comes hand-in-hand with this theme is not just about speaking truth to others, but in being completely honest with ourselves – and this can be done with humor and gentleness, so as to make the process one of fun rather than punishment.

If you keep having a recurring challenge come up, couldn’t it just be possible you are missing the mark that is something you don’t want to look at and address? Could it be that at this point in the game, there isn’t anything or anyone anymore to blame, and really it is that you’ve shifted that energy onto yourself and attacking yourself, but out of avoidance of responsibility are unable to acknowledge this, as this would mean your life would shift?

That can be very scary for some people to know they now have to live up to the highest potential and wholeness that they are innately. So many fears surround this, even ones we don’t want to admit, as how could you possibly be afraid to step into your fullness?

The fact is, nearly everyone is, or has been at some point in their life. But once they do step into it, they realize how silly it was to have ever lived anything but from that truth and wholeness. We fear that which we can’t see, or what it means in terms of the changes that would need to be made that alter the lives we have become accustomed to accepting, even if uncomfortable. It’s easier to do known maintenance, than to explore a whole new world of adventure where each moment is unknown.

So it is easier to project onto things and people than to actually say, “Yes, I’m the one keeping me from me.” If you’ve done everything and you know it all already, then what else might it be?

Again, there is no fault in this. It’s just truth shining its unconditional love on you saying, “Come into the light fully. You are Divine. You are loved and always will be. You’ve done nothing wrong, but it’s now time to live in the light of you.”

We have to be willing to let our ego and stubbornness step aside, to truly have courage to “see” and embrace what we ingeniously are hiding from. It isn’t enough to say, “Yes, I know that”. If we truly did, then there wouldn’t be an issue, would there? There is a slight, sometimes so subtle perception, acceptance, release, altering, that can make the difference. And indeed that can sometimes be to say, “I don’t have all the answers” and “I’m the one self-sabotaging myself”.

This is a subject I feel very passionately about from that Universal place of seeing everyone in their wholeness. I honor where everyone is in their own chosen evolutionary experience and I honor the truth you feel in your heart. But I also honor the parts you may not see and that you’ve shared are not fulfilled, and it is from this place that I share this so that one day it might open an inner dialogue within that begins a new journey of exploration for you.

This post is one, as I shared, that is based on an important theme message that keeps channeling through to me, but was inspired by a crystal friend whose energy speaks to the heart of this and the process.

Yesterday, I was sharing a crystal with a friend that was interested in any new crystals I may have available. I hadn’t yet put it in my shop, until this morning. Because of the inner promptings and the fact this crystal’s energy was brought into my awareness yesterday, I felt this was another nudge to write on this topic. The crystal that I’m sharing is a supportive tool to all of this and more.

shaman-heart-lemurian6It is called a Shaman Heart Lemurian and it is an amazing being that I adore and honor, but definitely only for a soul ready to really embark on a powerful journey without fear and to honestly face the necessary steps to bring everything you “know” into actualization. This is a time for no longer just talking about something. It’s about walking the walk. This crystal being will help access that transmutation if you are willing to really put your fears behind you.

Shaman Heart Lemurian Properties:

These unassuming looking Lemurians call to those who are ready to take the next step in the process of integrating higher consciousness on Earth by grounding it for expression in our lives and bodies. Shaman Heart Lemurian Seeds from Brazil activate the connection between spiritual consciousness and the powerhouse of light energy within the human heart.

The Smokey Quartz reflected in the base, as well as the iron and lithium on their surface, help these stones to bring higher frequencies down into the heart, then express them through the lower chakras into our physical reality. They also allow access to the higher frequencies more typical of Lemurian Seed crystals. Instead of simply sending you “out there,” however, they assist in the integration of higher frequencies on a physical level and are therefore very useful for those who wish to express these higher frequencies through their everyday activities and, especially, for those in the process of changing their life structures to reflect a higher awareness of their path.

The Shaman Heart Lemurian is one way we can support the process of integration and deepen that into “embodying” the higher frequencies you have come to love, in a way that encapsulates the full picture and will support you into “living” the concepts and manifesting your desires.

If you are interested in this piece and the courageous journey of integration it can support you with, you can find it in my Etsy Shop, Crystal Illumination, here:

Shaman Heart Lemurian

This crystal is one of many ways we can support the process of integrating all parts of ourselves in alignment and consistency – to really “be” that which we speak of enduringly, and not just momentarily.

If this post speaks to you, wonderful. And if not, that’s perfect too. But do pay attention to the subtle feelings you feel when you read it, as if you find something triggering you, listen to the words you say when that happens, and the feelings you feel when it does, and then do with it as you may.

Always honoring you in your wholeness only. ❤

Do You Wear a Spiritual Disguise? – Losing the Mask & Finding Your Truth

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth. ~Oprah Winfrey

The Truth needs no rehearsal. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

It can be easy at times to think of ourselves as two entirely different individuals – our old and our new self. This becomes easier to do, the more we journey along our spiritual path. This “new” self feels to us to be much more enlightened, and in many cases it is, however, sometimes even the spiritually evolved version of ourselves can still be wearing a mask that it hides behind – a spiritual disguise.

Energetic themes seem to flow in cycles and the last couple of weeks have made poignant a recurring one that feels of importance to share on. I have been picking up on the themes of integrity, authenticity, truth, and how that interrelates with the purity, innocence, and playfulness of our inner child – all leading back to that “return to natural harmony within and without” and “walking the walk.”

These aren’t just themes of importance for people who are just beginning to become more aware and conscious of things, or even for people who are operating with a majority of unconsciousness, but also for all of us who are already on a path of conscious evolution for quite some time. This feels to be coming through in order to support us in how we can take things to another experience of depth that will have profound effects.

What comes hand-in-hand with this theme is not just about speaking truth to others, but in being completely honest with ourselves – and this can be done with humor and gentleness, so as to make the process one of fun rather than punishment.

I juggled with how I wanted to share on these topics, finding there was a lot wanting to come through about them, but in the end had been guided, rather, to share a couple of specific, brief writings from others I was led to that I felt would provide not only insightful perspective, but in one case, some humor – something I feel to be of extra importance these days in approaching ourselves and our experiences.

The topics within these themes that I keep feeling strongly abound are:

  • Using spirituality to avoid things like our shadow aspects, fears, and pains – something author and psychotherapist Robert Augustus Masters calls “spiritual bypassing”
  • How we lose ourselves behind “spiritual fluff” or are over-dosing on positivity without integrative grounding, as a means of avoiding and repressing our inner truth and, ultimately, our inclusive Divinity being revealed
  • How we convince ourselves we are beyond something and yet perhaps all we have done was run the other way or are just regurgitating what we “think” we should say or do spiritually, but without having fulling embodied the essence of what that truly means

I really resonate with what Masters shares in this particular excerpt from his book, Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters:

“True spirituality is not a high, not a rush, not an altered state. It has been fine to romance it for a while, but our times call for something far more real, grounded, and responsible; something radically alive and naturally integral; something that shakes us to our very core until we stop treating spiritual deepening as something to dabble in here and there. Authentic spirituality is not some little flicker or buzz of knowingness, not a psychedelic blast-through or a mellow hanging-out on some exalted plane of consciousness, not a bubble of immunity, but a vast fire of liberation, an exquisitely fitting crucible and sanctuary, providing both heat and light for the healing and awakening we need. Most of the time when we’re immersed in spiritual bypassing, we like the light but not the heat. And when we’re caught up in the grosser forms of spiritual bypassing, we’d usually much rather theorize about the frontiers of consciousness than actually go there, suppressing the fire rather than breathing it even more alive, espousing the ideal of unconditional love but not permitting love to show up in its more challenging, personal dimensions. To do so would be too hot, too scary, and too out-of-control, bringing things to the surface that we have long disowned or suppressed. But if we really want the light, we cannot afford to flee the heat. As Victor Frankl said, “What gives light must endure burning.” And being with the fire’s heat doesn’t just mean sitting with the difficult stuff in meditation, but also going into it, trekking to its core, facing and entering and getting intimate with whatever is there, however scary or traumatic or sad or raw.”

I then came across a post by the light-hearted and humanistic Aalif Surti who shares, as he puts it, “a colorful mandala of spirituality, creativity and humor” through his blog. In his post, The Buddha Mask (And Other Spiritual Facades), he explores masks we wear as protection, elimination, and escapism, but as he says, “And while masks appear to prevent Life from hurting us, sadly they also prevent us from truly experiencing Life – except through narrow eyeholes.”

I hope you enjoy his humorous take on how even therapists, healers, and seekers put on a spiritual display and a way we can playfully take our power back in the realization of this.

Here is Aalif Surti’s post, which you can see also at the link above:

As seekers, we may believe we have become aware now and dropped our false personas, but sometimes we have only traded it in for a new mask – a spiritual persona. In a hilarious group session a few months ago, my mentor GD helped us dissect and laugh at the masks we may wear as seekers, healers and therapists. Here’s my light-hearted summation of the key spiritual ‘displays’:

The Buddha Mask: You’ve seen the statue, now meet the person. Unaffected by others, far removed from worldly emotions, this mask says: You can’t touch me… I am beyond it all. Behind it hides sensitivity, fear and confusion. During my early Vipassana days, some people called me ‘aloof’ instead of ‘aalif’!

The Positivity Mask: Those who practice affirmations and positive thinking sometimes feel compelled to uphold an abnormally high frequency of ecstasy. Ask them how they are, and an automated voice reply comes: “AMAZING! Life is full of miracles!!” But when it is a mask, their eyes, their energy, and their aura tell a different story.

The ‘Superior-Seeker’ Mask: They enter a room, and the whole room suddenly feels unworthy. They carry a subtle air of superiority. They are on the high road to heaven and they smile beatifically upon all the creepy crawlies with an air of cultivated compassion. Proving superiority all the time is a dead giveaway for a sense of inferiority inside.

The Messiah Mask: They are out to change the world – one flailing, resisting human at a time. These are the givers of support and nurturance and advice… whether anyone asks for it or not! But give they must, because they need to avoid the confusion and emptiness within. A beautiful, socially approved mask and hence more difficult to let go of…

The Pundit Mask: References obscure texts and uses big Sanskrit words. Will disrupt a conversation to quote a 16th century Indian mystic or a little-known modern non-dual teacher. It’s a mask when they talk the talk, but don’t walk the walk.

The Lost-in-Space Mask: They find a way to bring Pleiadians, Archangels and Entities into every normal conversation. They would interrupt you to whisper conspiratorially that there’s a 6th dimensional entity behind you right now! They take name-dropping to a whole new dimension.

While the masks may be twisted and rigid, the people underneath these masks are not foolish or nasty. They are you and me, GD said, innocently trying to cover up a wound of not-being-enough by putting on a show. Masks are a way of saying ‘I am special’ but ironically, each mask ends up proving the opposite: each mask reveals a lack of self-love and self-acceptance-as-I-am.

All of us play a variety of roles in life. When we are conscious of the role playing, there is no problem. Masks are problematic because they are compulsive and unconscious, and the behavior comes from ego not insight.

And whenever the ego creates a mask, it has to suppress the opposite in oneself – a compulsive giver finds it hard to ask for help; the intellectual ceases to listen and ask questions; Buddha-face cannot show vulnerability or intimacy when needed.

When someone asked GD at the end of the workshop how she could prevent the mask from coming back on later, GD replied, “Make a joke of it, phone us all up and say: ‘Hey look, my mask is back!’ The moment you become aware, it loses its power. And once you make it a joke, it disappears.”

And in the absence of masks, he reminded us, we can become like the beautiful little children we all are inside – who can be all of the above when required – and their exact opposite when required – without holding onto any particular face.

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(Chicago, IL) -- Luis Valbuena's three-run homer capped a six-run seventh inning as the Cubs clobbered the White Sox, 12-3. Brian LaHair and Starlin Castro clubbed two-run homers, while Alfonso Soriano and Geovany Soto added solo shots for the Cubs. Matt Garza went six innings to improve to 3-and-5. Travis Wood opposes Jake Peavy in the second game of the series tonight.

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(Lake Forest, IL) -- The Chicago Bears are giving fans an inside look at last month's Rookie Minicamp. A five-part video series was launched yesterday on ChicagoBears.com. The feature highlights first round pick Shea McClellin and sixth rounder Isaiah Frey as they head to Halas Hall to participate in minicamp. Chicago wrapped up its mandatory veteran minicamp last week. The Bears play their first preseason contest on Thursday, August 9th against Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos at Soldier Field.

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(St. Louis, MO) -- Defenseman Barret Jackman is sticking around in St. Louis. The Blues have re-signed the veteran blueliner to a three-year contract. Jackman was the Blues' first-round pick in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft. He had one goal and 12 assists with a plus-20 rating in 81 games last season.

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(Chicago, IL) -- The Chicago Blackhawks have agreed to terms with forwards Brandon Bollig and Ben Smith on two-year contracts and goaltender Carter Hutton on a one-year deal. The 25-year-old Bollig made his NHL debut last season, appearing in 18 regular-season games and four playoff tilts for the Blackhawks. He tallied his first career goal in Game Two of the Western Conference quarterfinals against Phoenix. The 23-year-old Smith registered three goals and three assists over 19 games with Chicago over the last two seasons, adding three goals in seven playoff games.

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Andy Couzens claims Leeds pace off the bench is extremely vital

Andy Couzens believes that Leeds United have a real advantage this season with the pace at their disposal on their bench.

The Whites continued their unbeaten start to the campaign with a 1-0 home victory over Brentford on Wednesday night and had to be patient before breaking finally breaking down their opponents.

It was substitutes Helder Costa and Eddie Nketiah that combined to net the winner, which means the Yorkshire giants sit top of the Championship table after four games.

Leeds speed machine Costa went flying down the wing in the 81st minute and his cross left it on a plate for centre-forward Nketiah to finish from close-range into an empty net.

Ex-Leeds midfielder Couzens was impressed by another win for his former side, highlighting the importance of injecting some pace into the game off the bench.

“Great result last night always a tough game against Brentford but when you have pace to come of the bench it’s makes a massive difference!! Great start for Eddie in the right place to get us the 3 points,” Couzens wrote on his personal Twitter account.

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Costa and Nketiah are having to be patient for their opportunities in the league, but most importantly are making impacts off the bench and the duo appear to be developing a decent understanding.

Costa has arrived at Elland Road from Wolverhampton Wanderers with experience of ripping it up in the Championship and his pace can torment full-backs.

The winger is proving to be a dangerous weapon for manager Marcelo Bielsa to introduce in the second-half, but he will surely wnat regular minutes.

Meanwhile, 20-year-old Nketiah is the second-choice striker behind Bamford and he has to be pushing for a start.

The Arsenal loanee is a fox in the box that is a clinical finisher, while he can stretch defenders too with his pace running in behind and his intelligent movement.

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To the Depression-era generation entering the workforce after World War II, one of the secrets of the good life was to catch on with “a big company with a pension.” Although fewer than half of private sector workers ever had a defined benefit pension, it was one of the trademark features of the American dream—a defined benefit pension, promising a set monthly payment for the rest of your life, and usually your spouse’s life, so long as you put in the service time.

The first realization that pension promises were not ironclad may have come when the Studebaker Co. folded in 1963 and defaulted on its pension obligations. Congress eventually responded with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974. ERISA established financing and accounting standards for defined benefit pensions and created the federal Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) to insure private defined benefit pension commitments.

The modern portfolio management industry is, to a great extent, a creature of ERISA’s requirement that companies set aside assets to fund their future pension liabilities. If the actuarially determined present value of pension liabilities exceeds that of pension fund assets, the shortfall is subtracted from the company’s net worth as if it were a debt. As of mid-2005, private companies have amassed $1.8 trillion in assets to support their defined benefit pension obligations, against future liabilities valued at about $2.2 trillion. Pension funds initially concentrated their investments in high-grade bond portfolios, but as the stock market recovered through the 1980s, funds gradually shifted to higher-yielding stocks, in the hope that higher returns would allow reductions in annual contributions. During the 1990s market boom, stock returns were so high that many plans became overfunded, and pension funds actually became an important driver of company earnings. When the markets reversed after 2000, pension fund underperformance hammered profits, at the same time as falling operating earnings reduced companies’ ability to increase plan contributions. Just as important, although not widely understood, the steady fall in interest rates after 2001 greatly ratcheted up the book value of future pension liabilities.

The negative swing in corporate pension fund positions has been roughly $750 billion since 1999—from a $300 billion surplus to an estimated $450 billion deficit as of mid-2005. Analysts at CreditSuisse/First Boston (CSFB) recently published a list of twenty major companies with pension liabilities that equal or exceed the company’s market value; the list includes Delta Airlines (which has since declared bankruptcy), with pension obligations 13 times higher than its market value; General Motors, 4.7 times higher; Ford, 2.7 times higher; Lucent, 1.9 times higher; and U.S. Steel, 1.4 times higher. Mounting deficits at the PBGC are creating the potential for a federal bailout on the scale of the 1980s Savings and Loan crisis. (Technically, the PBGC, which is supposed to be self-financing through fees and insurance premiums, has no legal call on the federal purse, but political pressure for a federal response could be overwhelming.)

A number of proposals are being floated to shore up defined benefit pension funding and accounting, but most would require companies to report higher levels of debt and lower profits. More likely, companies will accelerate the process of extracting themselves from their pension obligations. One path is the strategic bankruptcy. Shedding pension obligations has become practically a standardized financial engineering tool in the hands of private equity buyout managers—in steel companies, auto parts companies, and more recently, a string of airline bankruptcies. Collectively, it appears that United, Delta, and Northwestern airlines, and the auto parts maker Delphi will be relieved of some $32 billion in pension liabilities through the bankruptcy process. (The last four companies on that list have not yet officially requested a PBGC takeover, but that seems inevitable.) Less dramatic alternatives include terminating a plan, or closing it to new employees, or converting it to a “cash balance” plan. Even financially healthy companies, like IBM, have been taking the cash balance route; at least a third of employees in nominally “defined benefit” pension plans have been converted to the cash balance format.

In short, the days when defined benefit pensions were a major support of American retirement systems are over. Currently, only about 20 percent of private sector workers participate in defined benefit pensions, and that number will drop to the vanishing point over the next ten years or so. Overall, defined benefit coverage is higher because almost all federal employees and up to 90 percent of state and local government employees are members of defined benefit plans. Analysts have estimated, however, that the unfunded liabilities of state and local defined benefit plans are even higher than in the private sector. Pension fund payments have become the fastest-growing items in many jurisdictions, squeezing out education and other essential spending. State issues of tens of billions of “pension obligation bonds” to take advantage of rising markets in the late 1990s have only worsened the problem. The phasing in of private-sector-like accounting rules for state and local governments starting in the late 1990s is forcing accurate disclosure, although their initial effects have been masked by superb market returns—indeed, many jurisdictions fattened benefits. “Smoothing” provisions have also blunted the stated impact of market underperformance and falling discount rates, but the scale of the liability overhang cannot be suppressed much longer.


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A huntaway sheepdog attempts to herd three sheep through a gate at the top of the course during a sheepdog trial. Unfortunately, after nipping one of the sheep the dog loses control of the mob and they head off the course – a situation known as a blowout.

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Microsoft makes final free Windows 10 push with fullscreen ad

The free Windows 10 upgrade is making one final push.

As we near the first anniversary of Microsoft’s Windows 10 and its free Windows 10 push, the company’s tactics are getting more obtrusive. The Redmond company has spent the last year using whatever tactics it could to get people to upgrade. While some have seen mandatory upgrades to the update auto-installing on its own, it seems the company will stop at nothing to get people on the latest version of Windows.

Well, if you’re still on Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 get ready for one final barrage of upgrade notices. According to a Microsoft knowledge base article, you’ll be receiving a full-screen pop-up ad within the next 25 or so days. When you receive the notice, you’ll notice two new additions to the update notice. In the lower-left corner you’ll find that instead of just getting rid of the reminder, you’ll be able to be notified up to three more times.

If you don’t want to upgrade, you get a “Do not notify me again” message. This should stop any future prompts to upgrade. We say should because you never know with Microsoft. The notification won’t pop up if you’ve had to rollback from a failed upgrade attempt, your PC isn’t compatible with the upgrade, or if you’ve previously uninstalled Windows 10.

Those of you who have yet to upgrade can do so for free until Friday, July 29. After that, you’ll have to pay to upgrade as the company won’t be giving it away any longer. If you’re interested in purchasing Windows 10, the Home version is retailing for $120. Windows 10 Pro is retailing for $200. Of course, if you want to snag your free copy of Windows 10, you could always upgrade, lock your digital license in for future use, then roll back to your current flavor of Windows. If you do upgrade and like Windows 10, the anniversary update will be available Aug. 2, for your use.

Have you upgraded to Windows 10 yet? Let us know in the comments section below or on social media.

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Do you know where your spam comes from?

Like me you probably read lots of reports about unscrupulous Chinese and Russians invading your space with spam and unsavoury junk. Well it’s true a lot comes from those countries, but according to Spamhaus the authority on the subject, these countries pale into insignificance compared to the ‘Land of the Free’ – USA.

See the top 10 countries for spam (screenshot above from and you can see that 40% of all spam comes from USA and even ‘respectable’ countries like UK, France and Germany send out a fair bit!

If you are a website designer, like me, wanting to use an IP banning strategy then this is something you need to consider.

If you are a user then it is well to know that it is more likely that spam is coming from USA than anywhere else.

So, like the original SPAM that came to us before the second World War, this new generation of spam is coming from the United States.

Original SPAM from the Hormel Foods Corporation of Minnesota, USA.


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LG Android 10 update roadmap revealed; roll out starts in February 2020

LG has shared its Android 10 update roadmap for its phones. A few weeks back, the company rolled out the Android 10 update for LG G8 ThinQ smartphone. Now, we know when the company is planning to release the latest OS update for other LG phones in 2020. The LG V50 ThinQ will be the first LG smartphone that will get the Android 10 update in early February 2020.

As per the roadmap that LG has shared, the LG G8X will receive the Android 10 update in the second quarter of 2020. The company will push the same update for three more LG phones in Q3 2020. These include LG G7, LG G8S, and LG V40. The LG K50S, LG K40S, LG K50, and LG Q60 will get the Android 10 update in Q4 2020.

Watch: Top 5 Highly-Anticipated Smartphones of 2020

Talking about the top features of Android 10, one of the big changes coming to Android this year is a system-wide dark theme. With the dark theme, Google is offering a true black appearance across the system and not a dark grey theme. The upcoming Android 10 OS will also offer an improved smart reply feature. It will also improve the gesture navigation first introduced with Android Pie last year.

Google has also introduced peak as a new gesture to open left swipe menu but the interface has not won the hearts of every user. There will also be a Live Caption feature, which will help automatically caption videos, podcasts and audio messages across any app. Google is improving security and privacy with Android 10 where users can let apps collect location data only when you are using them. One will also witness a more enhanced version of the Digital Wellbeing feature.

FeaturesLG V50 ThinQ 5G
ChipsetQualcomm Snapdragon 855
OSAndroid 9 Pie
DisplayP-OLED-6.4-inch QHD+-1440 x 3120 pixel
Internal Memory6GB RAM with 128GB storage
Rear Camera12MP, 12MP telephoto, 16MP ultra wide
Front Camera8MP, 5MP ultra wide

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3 tbsp butter
1 clove garlic minced
1/2 red onion finely diced
2 leaks, white part only, thinly sliced
2 celery stalks finely diced
2 cups of thinly sliced mushrooms
3 cups dry cider
2 bay leaves
2 lbs of Ted’s Flash-frozen Trout Fillets, skinned and cut into 1” or so pieces
1 lb uncooked large prawns, shelled
1 cup whipping cream
1/4 cup finely chopped parsley

Over medium heat saute garlic, red onion, leaks and celery in butter for about 10 minutes. Add sliced mushrooms and cook 5 minutes more. Add cider and bay leaves and bring to a simmer. At this point add salt and pepper to taste. Add trout and prawns and cook until prawns are pink and trout is flaky, about 5 minutes. Gently stir in whipping cream and simmer 3 minutes more. Very gently, so as not to break up fish, stir in parsley. Serve piping hot with crusty fresh bread with lots of butter. Yum.

Serves 6.

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Two gas lines carrying dangerous hydrocarbons have ruptured at a chemical plant on a windy morning.

When the first firefighters arrive, an employee says he doesn’t know the fate of the maintenance crew that was near the flaming pump.

Suddenly, a hose opens up on the blaze, which has sent a black plume of smoke into the sky. Foam squirts toward the flames, knocking them down. Moments later, four men wearing bunker gear waddle toward the valve to prevent a massive explosion.

Fortunately, this is not another industrial accident in downtown Dallas. It’s an elaborately staged training exercise for firefighters from oil and gas plants around the world, hosted by Texas A&M University at a 120-acre training center that operates year-round on campus.

About 40,000 emergency responders come here annually for fire, rescue and hazardous-materials training.

The Brayton Fire Training Field has 22 props that produce real flames, including pumps, a rail car rack, a loading terminal and a liquefied natural gas plant that can simulate a variety of fires. It even has a hay-filled airplane fuselage and ship for rescuers to practice putting out flames in smoky conditions.

Experts say that of the hundreds of facilities nationwide that offer live-fire training, the A&M center is one of the best at preparing firefighters for chemical plant explosions like last week’s on Industrial Boulevard.

“It’s as close as you can get to real life,” said Pete Greco, a volunteer instructor who works for Lyondell in Houston. “You’ve got to make calls and decisions. You’ve got to make them quick. You’ve got to cut down on your personal hesitations.”

After the trainees have put out the blaze, sweat pours down their faces as temperatures rise into the 90s. Still out-of-breath, the students sit under a canopy and reflect on how they performed in a critique session.

“It happens in the heat of the battle,” said William Bennett, of Channelview, Texas, who commanded the response to the staged fire. “You try to minimize it.”

The scenario they practiced for is almost exactly what happened at Southwest Industrial Gases on Wednesday, when canisters of highly flammable acetylene exploded across the interstate.

Dallas Fire-Rescue sends some officers to programs at A&M, but the department relies on its own live-fire training facility at 5000 Dolphin Road to prepare first responders for industrial fires, said Deputy Chief Daniel Salazar, who cited a limited budget as one reason more don’t go.

“We have a large propane tank with several burners that expel the gas set on fire,” Chief Salazar said of Dallas’ training center. “It puts out tremendous heat. Recruits advance the line so they can experience a fire similar to the one we had the other day.”

Prepared for anything

About 475 students recently came to A&M for a full week of hands-on practice fighting petrochemical fires. Most work in chemical plants or refineries and sign up to be on their employer’s emergency response team. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires professional development for companies that maintain fire brigades.

“Very seldom do you see the fire burn in your plants. Here they see it every 15 minutes,” said John Quincy Adams, 71, who has trained here annually for 43 years. “When you train people with hands on, and they can see how dangerous fire is, you raise the safety awareness. It’s just like if you see a car wreck, you drive safer.”

Participants said most big oil and chemical companies take safety very seriously to avoid losing their employees, product and reputation.

“We live by Murphy’s law. If it can, it will,” said Mr. Adams, who works for Enterprise Products of Houston, which manages 37,000 miles of pipeline. “We have to be prepared to handle any situation.”

After catastrophes like last week’s explosion, the school sees an increased demand for training. It happened after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Sept. 11 attacks and the explosion at BP’s Texas City refinery in 2005 that killed 15 people and injured more than 170.

“We tend to forget about training during periods when we don’t have any large incidents,” said Robert Moore, the operations chief at the training field. “The larger the event, the more it affects industry and the more it brings us back to our core values of people and training.”

Changing with times

Better equipment has allowed industrial facilities to cut back on the number of people on fire brigades.

“We have to figure out how to fight the same size fire with a shrinking team,” said Ted Ivy, a health and safety specialist at Lyondell. “Ten or 15 years ago, we would have had 20 or 30 people working hand lines. Now we’ve got 10 people doing the same thing.”

The students — all but a handful of students are male — learn about evolving tactics and technology. The old-timers tell the younger ones that the fire service is very different than it was in 1968, when John Wayne played a fictional Chance Buckman in Hellfighters.

“John Wayne is dead. That freelancing mentality is not permissible anymore,” said George “Bud” Melder, a former chairman of the Channel Industries Mutual Aid association in Houston. “You just can’t rush in anymore.”

Matthew Lotz, an environmental engineer for Honeywell in Baton Rouge, La., said the fire service has changed with the times.

“As we continue to invent more and more chemicals, the emergency response sector needs to keep up,” he said. “You have to be smarter and on top of your game all the time.”

Technology is changing the training, too. When the risk of lightning forces his class on emergency rescue indoors, James Hyles puts Google Earth maps of the facilities where the students work on a big screen and has them identify vulnerabilities.

“Looking at the big picture helps first responders devise good action plans,” Mr. Hyles said. “They’ll draw to a close proximity how they’d get someone out at their individual plant.”

Firefighters come from as far away as Equatorial Guinea, but most who visit work in Texas or along the Gulf Coast. The men get to know each other at night, when they head to local restaurants with family.

At J.Cody’s, a barbecue joint in neighboring Bryan, two black fire helmets hung on the coat rack one night. Williams Fire and Hazard Control reserved two beer kegs in one corner. Outside, six older men standing around the bed of a black Ford pickup shared war stories about the fires they’ve put out.

And though much has changed, they say, the basic task is the same.

“You still put the white stuff on the bright stuff and the wet stuff on the red stuff,” Mr. Lotz said. “Water is your friend.”

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  Written by : Suryaa Desk Updated: Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 01:23 PM

Hyderabad: Around Eight people suffered injuries in a road mishap an Outer Ring Road (ORR) on Wednesday morning near Kothwalguda. It is learned that a car heading to Gachibowli from airport rammed into median and them jumped on to the other side of the road which fell on another car bound to the airport. Of the eight injured, the condition of two is stated to be critical. The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment. The police reached the spot and launched an investigation.


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Khajipur leads by example

Vexed over fleecing by private institutions, villagers reopen government school

By Author  |  Published: 3rd Jul 2019  1:43 am
IDEAL DECISION: The village Gram Panchayat also passed a resolution to make sure the parents of the students send their children to the reopened government school.

Khazipur (Karimnagar): Even as the most of the parents even in rural areas opt to send their children to private schools, the residents of Khajipur village in Kothapalli mandal which is located 17 km away from Karimnagar, the district are in the news by taking an ideal and commendable decision of putting an end to that practice of providing private schooling.

Though number of State-run schools in the State are being closed due to zero occupancy as the majority of the parents are admitting their children in private institutions by paying huge donations, Khajipur villagers girded their loins to reopen the upper primary school which was closed five years ago with a determination of school education to their children in that government shcool that too in their village only.

Going an extra mile, the villagers also unanimously passed a resolution in their Gram Panchayat which enables to penalize the families who send their children to private schools including cutting all the benefits they get from the government such as pensions and ration.

As a result, a total of 35 students turned up at the school on the first day of its resumption on Monday which caught attention from everywhere. The school, which started 30 year ago, once, used to run with a strength of 300 students. However, the strength gradually declined with parents sending their wards to English medium schools in Karimnagar town leading to shut down from the 2015-16 academic year due to lack of student strength.

Though the elders reopened the school by convincing villagers, there are still doubts among the parents over the proper running of the classes for the students.

Village sarpanch Illandula Rajavva said they have decided to reopen the school with the cooperation of the district officials as a number of poor parents were being fleeced by the private schools. some of the parents were borrowing money to clear fee dues, she said. To help the poor parents and protect the old grandeur of the school, the entire village decided to reopen it and teaching in English medium. In this regard, a resolution was also passed by the Gram Panchayat on June 27 to make sure the parents send their kids to the government school. It will take at least one week time to get the text books and other requirements to the chilren, she said.

Headmistress of the upper primary school, Kura Jayasree urged the officials to restore the facilities including the appointments of two more staff members.

Dumpati Anjaiah, who is sending his two sons studying in first and third standard to a private school in Karimangar, said that he was thinking to shift his children to the reopened school once got the confidence of the amenities like drinking water, toilets and the study at the school are reestablished.

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