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Fine Gael rules may delay leadership election
FG will be unable to hold a vote until autumn if Enda Kenny does not stand down in June
Taoiseach Enda Kenny during his visit to Canada on May 4th. Photograph: Reuters/Christinne Muschi
Fine Gael will be unable to hold a leadership election until the autumn if Taoiseach Enda Kenny does not stand aside in early June, party colleagues have said.
Party rules on membership renewal dictate that if a new leader is not in place by July 1st, it will mean that the “membership electorate” eligible to vote in the leadership race will be those registered for 2017-2018, rather than 2016-2017.
This administrative change could take between six to eight weeks to process, said one TD who has studied the rules, effectively pushing the election date until the autumn.
The deputy said the effective deadline for the Taoiseach to actually stand down is June 8th.
Under party rules, the leadership campaign must take place within 21 days. The electorate is comprised of three colleges: TDs, Senators and MEPs, who have 65 per cent voting strength; county councillors (10 per cent) and the party’s 25,000 members (25 per cent).
That June 8th deadline would be the latest that would allow a new leader to be appointed by July 1st, ahead of the date for membership renewal.
While all but one of a dozen Fine Gael TDs and Senators contacted by The Irish Times expect Mr Kenny to announce his timetable for departure next week, some supporters of leadership front-runners Simon Coveney and Leo Varadkar remain sceptical about his intentions.
Earlier this month, there were expectations that Mr Kenny would outline his timetable for stepping down soon after his return from his visit to Canadian prime minster Justin Trudeau last week.
However, there was a near-unanimous view that it will not happen this week because of the visits to Ireland of the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (he addresses the Dáil on Thursday) and of Prince Charles on Friday.
“The Taoiseach will not want an internal Fine Gael matter to interfere with those two important visits,” said one colleague.
Mr Kenny has refused to address the issue when questioned by reporters in recent weeks, giving a terse response to a question about his leadership when it was put to him during his visit to Canada last week.
Those close to Mr Kenny have privately refuted the contention that he was annoyed or angered at the question being put, claiming there was no rancour involved other than him expressing the opinion it was not an appropriate question to put on that particular occasion.
The two leading candidates to succeed Mr Kenny have effectively started canvassing party colleagues, councillors and members.
Both have been travelling throughout the State over the past week addressing constituency meetings and both have their full teams in place.


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Darwin Denied #7 | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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New Saint Andrews College Faculty members, Dr. Gordon Wilson and Pastor Doug Wilson have come together to discuss some of their favorite books addressing Darwinism. This week they review The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn.

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Liberia's Taylor in Accra 'ambush'
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The West African press appeared shocked by the issuing of an international arrest warrant for Liberia's President Charles Taylor which overshadowed the peace talks convened in Accra to resolve the Liberian conflict.
Mr Taylor was allowed to slip back to Monrovia, leaving the talks without one of their key players.
The Statesman in Accra hailed the decision by the UN-sponsored war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone to issue the warrant for Mr Taylor as he arrived to attend the talks.
An editorial in the paper lambasted the West African Ecowas group and the African Union (AU) for "pussy-footing" over Mr Taylor and failing to implement its peer review policy to tackle "recalcitrant and irresponsible African leaders".
Mr Taylor is an "African shame" because "African leaders have dilly-dallied to call the bluff of this infamous leader for the better part of a decade".
The paper urged Ecowas and the AU to follow the UN lead by "taking the bull by the horns" and left readers in no doubt that in its view the removal of Mr Taylor from office would help bring peace to Liberia.
Beginning of end?
In Ivory Coast, Le Temps saw the development as worthy of a book called "Ambush in Accra".
Whatever the outcome of the talks, it predicted the arrest warrant "marks the beginning of the fall of the master of Monrovia ".
This is the end for Mr Taylor, West Africa's "biggest common destabilizing agent," the paper said.
But Ghana's Daily Graphic reckoned the indictment was a deliberate attempt to "scuttle the peace process".
The paper conceded that in cases like Sierra Leone it was acceptable to bring to justice those who had inflicted "barbarism and carnage".
However, the arrest of Mr Taylor at this time, it said, "serves no positive purpose", adding that "no meaningful justice" can be achieved.
It also worried about the damage to Ghana's international reputation, saying the UN announcement came as an "embarrassment to all associated with the peace talks", especially Ghana's president and current Ecowas chairman John Kuffour.
If Ghana had arrested and handed over Mr Taylor, the country "would have lost her credibility as a genuine peace-broker and would have been an unwitting channel of deceit and intrigue in ousting a sitting president of a sovereign African country."
Race against time
Before the controversy around Mr Taylor's arrest, the prospects for a genuine peace at the Accra talks occupied the region's editorials.
The News in Monrovia expressed concern about the prestige of Liberia and urged delegates at the summit to put the interest of Liberia above all else to "restore credibility" to the country's politics and economy.
"Liberians need peace that would rekindle lost dignity among other world bodies, and with their neighbours," it said.
The Ghanaian Chronicle saw the possibility for a Liberian solution to a crisis that has "bedevilled" the country since the late 1980s, but it warned that "time to pursue peace and stability... is running out".
The daily Accra Mail hoped that Liberia's "warring factions" would be able to "iron out their differences and bring peace to that overbled country".
"The Liberian madness- any hope?" an editorial asked.
The paper looked back at presidential elections which brought Mr Taylor to office and gave "a semblance of normalcy" even though "it may not have been the perfect solution".
The success of these peace talks it said, "rests on one proviso... the willingness of the different factions to put Liberia and her suffering people first", but wondered if any of leaders assembled share that view.
And an editorial in Sierra Leone's Awoko focused on border security issues in the region. It pointed to the refugee crisis resulting from the Liberia conflict and the presence of Guinean troops on Sierra Leone territory, as a "real cause for concern".

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A spate of wheelie bin fires in a Christchurch suburb has police urging residents to bring their bins in at night.
The majority of the fires have occurred near Waimairi Rd and Greers Rd in Ilam, at night during the weekends over the past two months, Senior Sergeant Stephen McDaniel said.
Properties and vehicles have also been damaged following the fires.
Police are asking residents to remember to bring their wheelie bins in at night, and ensure they're not visible from the road.
"If residents are planning to go on holiday, police advise asking a neighbour or friend to bring them in rather than leaving them out over a period of days," McDaniel said.
Anyone who has any information that could assist police with their inquiries, or who witnesses any suspicious activity, is asked to contact Christchurch Police on (03) 363 7400.
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julia kettley cupcake, 2017-04-22 10:56:25. Another popular cupcake shop on the West coast is Sprinkles, located in Beverly Hills. Celebrities can be seen basking in cupcake glory just like the rest of us. Oprah, a very famous cupcake lover, has even given away free cupcakes as a treat to her audience. At some weddings, couples and their guests are enjoying a wedding cupcake tree instead of a traditional wedding cake. A cupcake tree features many decorative cupcakes - like a flower cupcake - sitting prettily on a cupcake stand or each delicate cake is placed into an individual cupcake box. If you don’t happen to live close to a cupcake shop, you can always indulge in some delicious cupcake eating at home. Why not get some friends together and throw a cupcake party? Cupcake decorating is fun and each of you can use your imagination to create your own cupcake decorating idea. Of course, every good cupcake decorating party has to include cupcake sprinkles, but you can also use marshmallows, cookies, candy bits, maraschino cherries, decorative frosting bags and tips and, of course, lots of creamy frosting. You too can take cupcake decoration to new heights of sugary sweet temptation. Red Velvet Cupcake Recipe When you do get to visit a cupcake shop, you’ll often find that this incredibly rich cupcake with the cream cheese frosting is among the most popular. Cupcake 1 1/2 cup sugar - 1/2 cup shortening - 1 cup buttermilk - 1 teaspoon vanilla - 2 eggs - 1 teaspoon vinegar - 2 tablespoons baking soda - 2 oz. red food coloring - 2 tablespoons cocoa powder - 2 1/2 cups sifted cake flour - 1 teaspoon salt, Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees.In a medium sized bowl, cream together the sugar and shortening. In a glass measuring cup, add the vinegar to the baking soda and let it dissolve.....Add the following ingredients to the shortening mixture: buttermilk, vanilla, eggs, vinegar and baking soda mixture. In a small bowl, mix together the red food coloring with the cocoa powder; add this to the shortening batter. Slowly mix in the cake flour and salt. Mix in the cream cheese filling (if desired) to create a marble effect. Pour into muffin cups and bake for 45 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cream Cheese Filling and Frosting - 1/3 cup sugar - 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, softened - 1 egg - 1 teaspoon vanilla Directions In a small bowl, combine the sugar, cream cheese, egg and vanilla. Swirl 2/3 cup of the cream cheese filling into the red velvet cake batter. Reserve the rest for the topping (you can always use another flavor of frosting for the tops).
Minka Marjan cupcake, 2017-04-29 00:05:51. Here a few of my special tips for making kids cupcakes for toddlers: 1. Make it sweet. Toddlers have a huge sweet tooth. I know this because my daughter has no problem eating two ice-cream cones- one in each hand! Don’t serve toddlers lemon or carrot cake flavored cupcakes; they may not eat them! Chocolate or vanilla is your best bet for kids cupcakes. 2. Buy special decorating tools. The more tubes and tips you have, the more designs you can make! A basic cupcake and cake decorating set will allow you to make hundreds of different designs. Decorating tools will allow you to make some really fun kids cupcakes that your toddlers will love. You can find decorating tools online or at your local craft store. 3. Use lots of color! Toddlers love everything about color; they love to color and they love to eat anything that is colorful! For instance, have you ever noticed how much kids love Lucky Charms? Guess what their favorite part of the cereal is; the colored marshmallows, of course! If I make a few different colored cupcakes, it seems my toddler always goes for the ones with the most vibrant colored frosting. 4. Remember, toddlers love texture! If you add some kind of candies to your kids cupcakes, there is no way any toddler will leave your side. A yummy cupcake with delicious looking frosting will probably make your cupcakes compelling enough to eat, but the ultimate way to hook your picky eater is to add candies. These rules are not only useful for baking kids cupcakes your toddler will love. Follow my rules and you will have an arsenal of tools and a variety of candies on hand for whatever baking adventure you pursue! Melody A enjoys baking cupcakes, cakes and party planning. She is always looking for new cupcake decorating ideas and can be found on her Party Cupcake Ideas
julia kettley cupcake, 2017-04-28 00:05:49. If you’re going to decorate your cupcakes, make sure they have cooled completely. Warm cupcakes can melt your decorations or icing and give them an amateur look. The sky is the limit when decorating your cupcakes. Multi-colored sprinkles or dressage give a festive look without taking much time. Use your imagination and let your creative juices flow when decorating. You may surprise yourself. With these tips as your trusty companions in cupcakes baking, your cupcakes are pretty much guaranteed to improve. Practice makes perfect, so make plenty of cupcakes to test these tips out. It will all be because you’re on a quest to bake the perfect cupcake, of course. Cupcakes are really popular these days so knowing how to bake and decorate your delicious cupcakes will give you star status with your friends and family!
Jadzia Luba cupcake, 2017-04-26 00:05:48. Sunbeam- Another leading brand is Sunbeam, where you can cook 6 cupcakes in just 10 minutes. Again, this will be very appealing to kids of all ages because of its fun-shaped cupcake housing. Cleaning is also easy because of its non-stick cooking plates. You don’t have to worry about over or undercooking because it has an indicator that tells you when your cupcakes are ready. Girl Gourmet- Cupcake makers are just one of the things that Girl gourmet manufactures. If you want to get a whole lot of baking appliances and tools, then you can get everything that you need from Girl Gourmet.
Macia Imber cupcake, 2017-04-27 00:05:49. And, there’s so much you can do with cupcakes. As with cakes, you can add fillings, sculpt into fun designs and stack them. While some of the upscale cupcake boutiques use expensive ingredients like Madagascar Bourbon vanilla, you don’t have to go all out to create cupcakes fit for a special event like a wedding. Just be sure to use fresh and natural ingredients, such as butter and fresh fruit instead of margarine and frozen.
Macia Imber cupcake, 2017-05-02 00:05:54. Hopefully, I didn’t scare you too much! It wasn’t a decorated cupcake that my daughter refused; just a plain, unfrosted boring one. Load on the frosting to whichever kids cupcakes you decide to make and every toddler will love them! Frosting is a big draw for toddlers. My daughter will lick the frosting off her cupcake first. As soon as she has finished her frosting, I see her eyes immediately travel over to my delicious looking unbitten cupcake! Let your toddler have a lick of the frosting when your making your kids cupcakes; you see what Im talking about! It’s important to take your time and pick out really creative kids cupcakes toddlers really seem to be attracted to the most attractive looking cupcakes.
Minka Marjan cupcake, 2017-05-01 00:05:53. So you’re planning a birthday party for your little toddler and are looking for really creative cupcakes you can make. Or maybe you just feel like baking cupcakes one day! Either way, there are some really adorable kids cupcakes out there. Before you start looking for cute kids cupcakes, remember you’re baking these cupcakes for toddlers; and toddlers are picky eaters! You may think I’m crazy for telling you this. There isn’t a child on earth who wouldn’t want to eat a cupcake, right? I believed that too until the day I put a cupcake in front of my 18 month old daughter and she didn’t want to eat it! So it’s important to keep this in mind when baking kids cupcakes.
Minka Marjan cupcake, 2017-04-30 00:05:52. I love cupcakes. There’s something special about a cupcake, isn’t there? Well, the great news is that cupcakes aren’t just for kid’s parties and bake sales anymore. Cupcakes have become an adult sensation! yes, that’s right. Grownups from 20 to 95 can openly indulge in their love of cupcakes. According to news reports, there are lots of us cupcake lovers out there. From coast to coast in the United States, millions of adults are reveling in their cupcake fixation by lining up in droves to pay anywhere from $1.75 to $4 a piece for their little slice of cupcake heaven. As with many things in pop culture, this new cupcake craze has its roots in Hollywood. A few years ago, popular television characters were seen enjoying cupcake treats at a certain cupcake bakery in Manhattan. Of course, all the drooling cupcake lovers out there said to themselves in unison: "Whaa . . .? You mean there’s a place that I can go and buy nothing but cupcakes?
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Roof wind design in the 2001 California Building Code was based on the 50 year “fastest mile” wind speed, a fairly generous definition of an “enclosed” building, and made no reference to FM or UL wind uplift test standards. By 2013, the California Building Code had “evolved” to require roof wind design to be based on “ultimate” 700-year 3-second gust wind speeds, a much more restrictive definition of an enclosed structure, and required all low sloped roof system be tested in accordance with FM and/or UL test standards. And, BTW, there is still no clear direction in the building code regarding how to assess the wind uplift resistance of an existing roof covering (e.g., no reference to FM Global LPDS 1-52).
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The unicorn is one of the most famous and endearing of mystical creatures associated with fantasy, mythology, and magic. Images of the unicorn have fascinated people all over the world for centuries. Such a powerful and easily recognized symbol can have an important place in magical practice.
Symbols are integral to our lives, especially for magic and visualization. Often the success of a spell relies heavily on the symbolism that is chosen and how deeply it affects the user. Many people are drawn to magical creatures and have an affinity for certain ones, collecting various images of that particular creature. Since unicorns are among the most popular, here are some ways you can incorporate unicorn symbolism into magical practice.
Even if you have never been particularly fascinated with magical creatures, getting to know them by investigating their characteristics can add a new dimension to your personal power.
First, consider what the creature symbolizes to you. Unicorns have many standard associations, but we can build on this by adding our own personal characteristics or feelings.
For example, I first fell in love with unicorns as a child, so to me they represent not merely innocence, but a playfulness and lightness of spirit, a carefree time. As I grew older, that sense of joy and happiness was tinged with the melancholy moments of adolescence and the unicorn matured with me to become an escape from the sometimes painful events of growing up. But more than anything else, I associate the unicorn with imagination and purity—and the beautiful free spirit we need to recapture to avoid becoming jaded by the sometimes harsh realities of life. In short, the unicorn is hope and possibility.
But you may have different associations and feelings when you look at an image of the unicorn. That’s fine—the point is to use the symbolism for something meaningful to you and to focus on these feelings in your magical practice. Unicorn imagery can be used in spells for healing, peace, comfort, and inspiration. Still others may associate the unicorn with love, or to some they may represent bravery or strength. Choose what the unicorn means to you and incorporate that image into your spells and meditations.
Begin by collecting a variety of images. Or, if you already have a substantial collection, take inventory to see what you have and think of ways you can use them. These items may be statues, drawings, jewelry, clothing, or anything else you can find.
The most basic way to get started is to place a unicorn statue or other type of image on your altar or use it to represent deity. Unicorns have a long history of being associated with spirituality. And of course, statues and images can be placed in other special places in your living and working environment. Wear unicorn jewelry when you need to get in touch with the qualities the unicorn possesses. Place drawings where they can remind you of your goal.
You can anoint statues for special purposes to be placed around your home, in various rooms or outside. This would be ideal for a protection spell. I have a unicorn in almost every room of my house. They’re usually tucked away in a subtle location, but they’re present to remind me of my goal of keeping a youthful spirit and remembering the time when I felt that first touch of magic.
There are other countless ways to incorporate unicorn imagery into your magical practice. Because of the healing associations with the horn, a unicorn image would be excellent in a healing spell or one simply for general health and well-being. Unicorns are often symbols of vitality and strength.
You can also create a unicorn altar with different styles of statues to represent each element. Imagine different encounters with the unicorn for whatever needs you have. If you feel the need for comfort or healing, visualize yourself being healed by the unicorn. Create a detailed scene in your mind and make it as vivid as possible. For strength and confidence, visualize yourself as a unicorn or try a visualization of yourself riding a unicorn to create a feeling of freedom or to relieve stress.
Read about unicorns—history, legends and stories for inspiration. Create unicorn art; even if you don’t have a talent for drawing or painting you can create collages of unicorn images or try sculpting with clay. Write some unicorns stories and poems of your own—create your own myths. If you have children, ask for their help and create a story together.
Cultures all over the world have claimed unicorn stories and legends of some kind. This creature is popular for a reason—it speaks to us on a symbolic level that can be very powerful. Tap into that power by discovering, or rediscovering, what the unicorn means to you.
In the hoodoo tradition, the reference to Bats or Bull bats refer to the following:
- Leatherwing Bats ~ night-flying insectivorous mammals.
- Bullbats ~ night-flying insectivourous birds, aka Goatsuckers, Nighthawks, or Whippoorwills.
Bats are under devastating ecological pressure from human beings who destroy their habitats, so no reputable spiritual supply house will carry Bat body parts, but Devil Pods (Bat Nuts) can be substituted. Bat’s Blood ink, used in pact-making, was once truly the blood of a Bat, but since the 1920’s, it has been a mere brand name for red ink scented with herbal essences. A recipe for Bat’s Blood Ink can be found here: Magickal Apothecary.
Old time gambling charms:
A bat heart, a whole dried bat, a bat wing, the wing-feathers of a Bullbat, or a drop of Bat blood kept in a vial of perfume are all considered lucky for gambling, especially when wrapped in red flannel or red silk and tied to the upper arm, or carried in a mojo in the arm-pit.
Omens and Signs:
The Bullbat is said by some to portend death if it flies into a house, but folks of European descent say that of all birds, not just Bullbats. Omens and signs associated with bats can be found here: Bat Symbolism, Mythology, and Lore. For information on Bats as an Animal Totem or Spirit Helper can be found here: The Bat.
The Four Bats of Happiness:
In China, the Bat is lucky because the Chinese word for Bat (“Fu”) sounds like the word for “Happiness.” Fortunate is the family that plays host to the four bats of long life, health, children, and wealth. Bat Nuts symbolize happy Bats in China.
Bat Wing Magick:
Bat wing is also the nickname for holly leaves, a plant of good fortune, doubly enhanced by its resemblance to the flying mammal’s wings. And even if the spell calls for an actual bat wing, holly leaves can be effectively substituted.
- Here is how to make a lucky conjure bag using “bat wings.”
Place a pair of bat wings (holly leaves) in a red conjure bag together with a High John the Conqueror root and a matched pair of lodestones. Sprinkle with lily pollen, if possible, and/or magnetic sand periodically for enhanced power.
In both ancient Greece and Rome, it was thought that sleep could be prevented either by placing the engraved figure of a bat under the pillow, or by tying the head of a bat in a black bag and keeping it near to the left arm. In Hesse, he who wears the heart of a bat bound to his arm with red thread will always be lucky at cards.
Many other beliefs suggest that bats have the power to make people invisible. In Trinidad there is an old belief that if you drank the blood of a bat, you would become invisible. Tyrolean gypsies have a similar belief, claiming that carrying the left eye of a bat will accomplish the feat. In Oklahoma carrying the right eye of a bat pierced with a brass pin will have the same effect, while in Brazil a person carrying the hearts of a bat, a frog, and a black hen will become invisible.
Bat magic can also be an antidote to sleepiness. In both ancient Greece and Rome, it was believed that you could prevent sleep either if you placed the engraved figure of a bat under your pillow, or if you tied the head of a bat in a black bag and laid it near your left arm. In many parts of Europe, a practice said to ensure not only wakefulness, but also to protect livestock and prevent misfortune is to nail live bats head down above doorways. Not for the faint of heart, this practice was reported as recently as 1922 in Sussex, England and may indeed continue today.
Canadian Indians relate that bat “medicine” can also bring about the opposite effect of staying awake; traditions claim that placing the head or dried intestines of a bat in an infant’s cradle will cause the baby to sleep all day. In a similar vein, Mescalero Apaches believe that the skin of a bat attached to the head of a cradle will protect a baby from becoming frightened.
Bats have also been said to induce love or desire. In Roman antiquity, Pliny maintained that a man could stimulate a woman’s desire by placing a clot of bat blood under her pillow. In Texas, one lovesick suitor was told to place a bat on an anthill until all its flesh was removed, wear its “wishbone” around his neck, pulverize the remaining bones, mix them with vodka, and give the drink to his beloved. A similar love potion from Europe recommends mixing dried, powdered bat in the woman’s beer.
Bat hearts or bones are often carried as good luck charms. Variations on a belief that apparently began in Germany, and have been repeated in the United States, predict that bats bring good luck at cards or lotteries. The prescription is to wrap a bat’s heart in a silk handkerchief or red ribbon and keep it in a wallet or pocket, or tie it to the hand used for dealing cards. Some also believe that tying a silk string around a bat’s heart will bring money.
Another superstition from Germany relates that bullets from a gun swabbed with a bat’s heart will always hit their target. According to the Egyptian Secrets, attributed to Albertus Magnus in the 13th century, mixing lead shot with the heart or liver of a bat will have the same result. Some American Ozark pioneers had another variation of this belief: they carried the dried, powdered hearts of bats to protect them from being shot and to keep wounded men from bleeding to death.
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Animal magic is use of an animal for its symbolism and energies. Animals can also be animal spirit guides. Similar to spirit guides, they are used for their strengths, skills, and guidance. Using animal symbols in your spell work can be very effective. They can be used to represent persons or situations, and/or to add strength and ability to what it is you are working to achieve.
Here is a listing of many common animals and the general properties associated with them. You can also use this list as an aid when deciphering dreams, omens, shapes in tea leaves, etc.
- Alligator : aggression, survival, adaptability
- Ant : team player, worker
- Armadillo : active, nocturnal, protection
- Bat : guardian of the night, cleaner
- Bear : power, adaptability
- Bear Paw : strength, mobility
- Beaver : builder, gatherer
- Bobcat : fierce, loner, intensity
- Buffalo : sacredness, life builder
- Bull : strength, warning
- Butterfly : metamorphosis, carefree, transformer
- Camel : weary, enduring
- Cat : independence, grace, healing
- Cougar : leadership, courage
- Cow : patience, stoicism
- Coyote : prankster, insight, playful
- Crane : solitude, independence
- Deer : love, gentleness, kindness
- Dog : loyalty, protection
- Dolphin : kindness, play, bridge man to ocean
- Dragonfly : flighty, carefree
- Eagle : divine spirit, connection to creator
- Elephant : long life, self : preservation
- Elk : strength, agility, freedom
- Fox : cunning, provider, intelligence
- Frog : connection with water element
- Giraffe : watchfulness, mobility
- Goat : stubborn, omnivorous
- Gorilla : brute strength, adaptibility
- Goose : faithful, communicative, traveler
- Grizzly Bear : hunter, nature’s pharmacist
- Hawk : messenger, stopper of time
- Hippo : linking water and earth, survival
- Horse : stamina, mobility, strength
- Hummingbird : messenger, stopper of time
- Kangaroo : feisty, funloving
- Lion : power, strength, respect
- Lizard : conservation, agility
- Loon : solitude, song, romance
- Manatee : peaceable, unassuming
- Monkey : playfulness, agility
- Moose : headstrong, unstoppable, longevity
- Mouse : timid, secretive, sneaky
- Orca : focus, power
- Ostrich : fickle, fast moving
- Otter : laughter, curiosity, truth, patience
- Owl : wisdom, perseverance
- Panda : playful, kindness
- Pelican : ever watchful, grace
- Penguin : playful, loving
- Pheasant : confidence, attraction, perseverance
- Pig : intelligence, hunger
- Polar Bear : fearlessness, power
- Quail : sacred spiral, ceremonial, Holy
- Rabbit : alertness, resourceful
- Raccoon : bandit, shy, determination
- Ram : new beginning, teacher, hoarder
- Raven : trickster, mischievous
- Rhino : durability, strength
- Road Runner : speed, agility, cleverness
- Salmon : instinct, persistence, determination
- Seahorse : confidence, grace
- Shark : hunter, survival
- Skunk : wary, conspicuous, intense
- Snake : shrewdness, transformation
- Spider : creative, pattern of life
- Squirrel : trusting, innocence
- Swan : grace, balance, festive
- Turkey : smart, elusive
- Turtle : self : contained creative source
- Water Buffalo : enormous strength, hard working
- Whale : wisdom, power, cleanser
- Wolf : loyalty, success, perseverance
- Wolf Paw : freedom, success, guidance
- Zebra : family : oriented, alert

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Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2013: David Simon – Some People are More Equal than Others
When I read about this contribution to the Festival Of Dangerous Ideas in Australia by David Simon I thought I’d love to hear it in full. Having, now, heard it all the way through I thought it definitely made interesting listening for anyone who lives in the inner city, has their own thoughts about the current global crisis and is interested in the future role of a socially divided America.
David Simon is a Baltimore based author, journalist, and a TV writer/producer. He worked for the Baltimore Sun city desk for 12 years. In 1991 he wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and then 6 years later co-wrote The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood with Ed Burns. NBC series picked up the the former and adapted it for TV. The latter appeared as the HBO mini-series The Corner which, in turn, led to him become the executive producer and head writer for the whole 5 seasons of The Wire. Simon also co-created the excellent post Katrina drama series Treme with Eric Overmyer.
If you’ve got a spare hour and a bit. Kick back and give it a listen.
Excellent, he really nails it. He’s always a pleasure to listen to.
All the best for 2014 Paul.

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Alex Sink Not Running For Governor
As the guy who started the "Stop Alex Sink" campaign, I was relieved when I received an email that Sink would not run for governor and Give Rick Scott a second term. It's Charlie Crist's race to lose. Here is the Sink press release.
I want to thank my many friends and supporters from around Florida who have reached out to me over the past months with words of encouragement for my continued involvement in the business and political life of our state. After careful consideration, I have decided that the best way for me to make a positive and lasting impact on our state is to continue the work we've started together. I plan to continue my involvement with the Florida Next Foundation, working to build a state of innovation and inspiring the next generation of young Florida leaders. And of course I am going to be supporting candidates who I believe share my vision that Florida can be a state of opportunity for all of its citizens. That being said, like so many Floridians, I am appalled at Governor Rick Scott's failed leadership on the economy, education and the environment. I will continue to speak out and to aggressively hold him accountable for ignoring Floridians' best interests. AlexI wish Sink well and hope this is the last post I will ever write about her.


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Daisy's Prince Charming by Ruth Ann Nordin
Daisy’s always envisioned marrying a tall, dark, handsome man with literary prowess who appreciates classical music. Fate, however, has other ideas when she meets Otis Mills while visiting a friend in Montana. Otis is nothing like she envisioned. He’s a blond, short ranch hand who never reads books or listens to fine music.
Aware that she must be polite with her mother nearby, Daisy gently rejects Otis’ courtship. Or, at least she thinks she does. To her horror, Otis follows her all the way back to Nebraska. Not only does he believe she wants to marry him, but her parents decide it’s a great idea if she marries him, too.
This is a romantic comedy where Daisy learns that behind every frog is a prince.


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Kevin Brennan, author of Parts Unknown (William Morrow) has rung in the new year in Red Square, performed as a busker in the London Underground, wandered the California desert, and auditioned unsuccessfully for a chance at stardom on reality television. He lives in Petaluma, California, and will be publishing his second novel, Yesterday Road, in the fall of 2013.
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I would have to call this satire. These are funny stories. I started off thinking I was going to read some heartwarming tales of how parents try to cope with their darling children, but each of these tales goes terribly wrong somehow. The humor isn’t so much in the stories, which take on some fairly serious issues like child neglect and abuse, but in their offbeat perspective on things we normally take for granted in society. “Car Trip” reveals a collision of single-mindedness about bathroom breaks. “Baby Teeth” is about child neglect, misplaced values and then rationalizing the results. “Taking Off” is about climbing mountains and establishing relationships. “Overexposure” deals with things we all try to keep invisible. “Daycare” is about saving money on child care. This is a quick read—highly recommended.
(reviewed 4 months after purchase)
on Sep. 02, 2013 :
The five “tiny tales” in this collection of short shorts are like slices of life, glimpses into the lives of some pretty selfish people. In “Car Trip,” you have the father who refuses to pull over to the side of the road so his children can relieve themselves, a story told entirely in dialogue. I felt like I was in the car with these people, the parents yelling at each other, the children crying. In contrast, Brennan also presents us with “Overexposure,” a story about a dad who is a nudist and who wants his children to have the freedom to go to school in the nude.
Brennan has a gift for characterization. One line that will always stay with me: “The wife is as white and particulate at the top of the stairs as a pillar of salt.” He could have said she’s as white as a pillar of salt, but he added the word “particulate” so there’s an added dimension to the description of the wife. Something that is uniquely her. Brennan incorporates details that make the characters stand out that much more from each other. In “Day Care,” a mom works for the DMV and purposely takes bad pictures of drivers. She may have a boring job, but that bit of info tells you what kind of person she really is.
What fascinated me about these stories was how oblivious the parents seemed to be, how unaware they were of the impact they were having on their children. Brennan captures the dark side of family life but in a way that is entertaining and thought-provoking. He packs a lot of story into each of these five tales, each one as satisfying as a novel. I highly recommend this book, and I am looking forward to reading more by Kevin Brennan.
(reviewed the day of purchase)


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Sinus node dysfunction in ATX-II-induced in-vitro murine model of long QT3 syndrome and rescue effect of ranolazine.
Wu J., Cheng L., Lammers WJ., Wu L., Wang X., Shryock JC., Belardinelli L., Lei M.
The aim of this study was to characterize the role of the late Na+ current (I(Na,L)) as a mechanism for induction of both tachy and bradyarrhythmias in murine heart and sino-atrial node tissue. The sea anemone toxin ATX-II and ranolazine were used to increase and inhibit, respectively, I(Na,L). In sixteen hearts studied, exposure to 1-10nM ATX-II caused a slowing of intrinsic heart rate and prolongations of the P-R and QT intervals, the duration of the monophasic action potential, and the sinus node recovery time, accompanied by frequent occurrences of early after depolarisations, delayed after depolarisations and rapid, repetitive ventricular tachy and sino-atrial bradyarrhythmias. ATX-II also slowed sinus node pacemaking, and induced bradycardic arrhythmias in isolated sino-atrial preparations (n=5). The ATX-II-induced alteration of electrophysiological properties and occurrence of arrhythmic events were significantly attenuated by 10 microM ranolazine in intact hearts (n=11) and isolated sino-atrial preparations (n=5). In conclusion, the I(Na,L) enhancer ATX-II causes both tachy and bradyarrhythmias in the murine heart, and these arrhythmias are markedly attenuated by the I(Na,L) blocker, ranolazine (10 microM). The results suggest that I(Na,L) blockade may be the mechanism underlying the reductions of both brady and tachyarrhythmias by ranolazine that were observed during the MERLIN-TIMI clinical outcomes trial.

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Why make things complicated? If you have $4000 there is no reason to be that complicated. You do not need to follow stocks or subscribe to major newspapers to invest your $4000. Rather, by keeping it simple and following the data points in the stock market $4,000 invested on Jan 3 2007 would have already grown to $7964.00! That is just shy of a 100% rate of return and it was SIMPLE!
The stock market moves in trends and I use four trends to make what I call a Tornado. A Tornado LIFTS our returns. When the four trends start weakening the tornado dies out and our profits start diminishing. If we can spot the trends as they weaken we can change our investment direction to capitalize on the trend.
Lets keep it simple. I am going to use 2 mid cap ETFs. The two I am going to use are the MVV or the midcap long ETF for an advancing trend. I am going to use the MZZ or the mid cap short etf for the declining trend.
Then, I am going to use the blog at www.myspace.com/investing1 to spot the trend.
Jan 1 to Feb 23 the trend was positive. The MVV grew in value from $79.60 to $90.60 or 13.9%.
On Feb 23rd the trend turned negative and I sold the MVV for the MZZ short. From Feb 23rd to March 15th the market trend was down. The MZZ gained in value from 54.43 to 60.43 or 11%
March 15th the trend changed to an up bias. I sold the MZZ and bought the MVV. This trend stayed strong until July 19th where the trend turned. I sold the MVV for a 22.2% gain. (81.64 to $99.80)
July 19th I bought back the MZZ and sold the MVV. I held the MZZ from July 19th to Aug 23rd when the trend turned again. The gain here was 15.6%
Aug 23rd thanks to the change in trend, I bought back the MVV long index and it is currently up 11.48%
I use 2 ETFs and simply spot the trend as it is taught to me at www.myspace.com/investing1 My $4000 investment becomes $7964.00
It is that simple! I need not worry about finding a winning stock and I need not worry about losing money. I simply have to learn how to spot the trend or read a blog that tells me the trend.

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With wild and wicked weather/earthquakes/tsunamis/hurricanes/tornadoes/any other not previously mentioned natural disasters seemingly smashing our globe to smithereens, it makes you wonder, as you watch the Japanese nuclear plants poised to burn down to ash, how safe are the nuclear plants in the U.S.
Granted, nobody can be California cool about the fact that nearly half of the 104 nuclear reactors operating in the United States are close to major fault lines.
And who knows when thunder is gonna shake again from below the earth or from the heavens?
So The Daily Beast ranked the country’s power plant sites based on three, equally weighted tenets: risk of natural disaster, safety performance assessments, and surrounding population.
It’s not comforting to know that Limerick, just a long 3-wood with the wind at your back away from Reading, is No. 3 on the most vulnerable list.
And Three Mile Island, which already is infamous for nuclear near-meltdowns, in Middletown is No. 42 on the list.
Keep your fingers crossed, Mr. and Mrs. Berks County. And keep your medicine cabinets stocked with iodine radiation pills.


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The process behind the Curated Artblocks Generative Art NFT Drop.
From the moment I learned about Artblocks - around November 2021 - I was SUPER excited about the idea of applying with a project. I quickly became obsessed with the idea of dropping on Artblocks and thought about it day and night.
One day I was really jet-lagged from an overseas flight and trying to adjust my sleep schedule. I went to bed early only to wake up at 2 am with a clear art idea in my head - a single drawn line that went vertically from top to bottom on a canvas, wiggling around in the middle, and then gets messed up with digital liquid. I got up, went straight to the computer, and spent about 2 hours coding up the very first version of this project. What you see on the left is pretty much the result of that initial inspiration.
At first, I played around a lot with the liquid spill itself trying to make it look as realistic as I could. I experimented with the darkness of the bleed and also with how much of the original line to leave in place.
Notice I hadn't yet thought of making the line look calligraphic.
At this point, I felt really stuck. I did like what I had come with so far, but couldn't think of any creative approaches toward developing enough interesting variation for an Artblocks drop.
I made a few mockups to help myself see the art from a new perspective and was quite pleased with how it looked in a contemporary setting. I decided to take a break and let this project breathe a bit, whilst I continued to work on other generative art.
A few days later it came to me that I could try experimenting with different types of drawn line styles. I tried making a sort of 'brushed' effect but didn't really like it all that much.
I then had two major breakthroughs in one day. I tried a calligraphic line and LOVED the result. But the particular way I chose to do it at that time, made the entire project run slowly. I now had to think of ways to optimize my code.
I realized the blur for the bleed was probably taking up most of the computation, so I decreased the 'quality' of the blur all the way down from 100 to 3.
What emerged amazed me, as all of a sudden the spill had SO much more character and texture! It was really a big ’aha' moment, honestly.
Still trying to think of how to add variation, I played with line width and different coloring. I even tried adding a rainbow option for a bit, but it didn't make the final cut.
Having come this far, I was still struggling with knowing that the variation that was developed so far wasn't enough for me. It was too simplistic in output but had so much potential, so I continued to ponder a more varied range of options.
In the next few days, I got the idea to turn the whole thing sideways and make it landscape format to emphasize the feeling of it resembling a written text format. I also decided to make a 'baseline' from which there would be shapes rising up. I was thinking that those shapes could also resemble things like mountains, trees, people, etc. The first image I saved from that experiment is on the right.
Also at this point, I added different 'spill types' and some black circles which eventually became the 'blots'.
I still had MONTHS of tweaking ahead of me to get everything to look just the way I liked it. The circles had to be warped, and the different spills all had so many different things about them that had to be adjusted. But one could say that the base of everything was present at this stage of the development.
I tried several other things that didn't make the final cut. For example, layering different spills on top of each other in a way that they didn't interact with each other. I actually did really like the results but I had to cut it for performance reasons.
My daughter absolutely loves this piece which she has titled 'the' and insists that I show you.
At one point I even tried animating the piece.
While I do enjoy the animation, I found it to be problematic for consistent performance and I didn't feel it added enough to the overall piece to be worthwhile, so it also didn't make the final cut.
The end of the project consisted of months of editing, trying things, backing up, redoing this thing or that thing, and polishing, polishing, polishing. Deciding on how much creative mess to make, how much line to leave under the blotchy surface, and how to develop a pleasing color palette that suited the mood of the project took up most of the time.
The absolute hardest part of the entire project for me was testing in the Artblocks renderer and making sure the outputs were consistent across all browsers and devices and were performant enough to get a good render without crashing.
I had finally arrived at a harmonious balance where I could celebrate the beauty found in an accidental mess and simply loved the arising details in a drop of spilled liquid. I do find it ironic how much work I put into making sure the accidental mess was just right.
What is interesting to note is that I actually thought about the concept of trying to simulate an ink bleed with code for years before it came to me as a complete idea for an NFT drop. Having thought that it would be really hard to code it successfully, I now just had to prove to myself that it could be done.
I also wanted to make sure that it was really fast and didn't make the computer struggle to render it - that was sort of a geeky obsession of mine throughout the whole process.
Through this piece, I hope that I have pushed a few boundaries. I do feel that we are JUST NOW starting to see what this art form is capable of achieving and I hope to be one generative artist that helps the world really see what an amazing creative medium this is.
Thank you all for following along on this journey. I hope you love Sudfah as much as I do!


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The U.N. declares October 16 World Food Day annually, so the chattering classes are talking about how to feed a growing world population. Are they discussing employing science-based agricultural techniques that reputable authorities find safe, like biotechnology? Of course they aren’t, because when America’s elites discuss “feeding the world,” they don’t turn to the heirs of the late Nobel Prize-winning agronomist Norman Borlaug — a man who is credited with saving over one billion people from starvation — but rather unicorn-and-fairy-dust food snobs.
So it fell to Mark Bittman of The New York Times to explain how the world might be fed using the earthy and charming techniques of the Middle Ages. This time, Bittman cited an anti-corporate ax-grinding activist who basically believes that everyone should be a subsistence farmer to suggest that everybody just farm like peasants. (Really, he used the word “peasant.”) If you don’t want to be a peasant, tough beans.
His kind, the wealthy lords and landed gentry, could eat wild game and pasture-grazed animals occasionally, but the middle and working classes would be back on the all-porridge-all-the-time diet. Bittman isn’t the first food activist to demand that we go back to eating like peasants (CSPI’s Michael Jacobson has been on this kick for over two decades), but he may be the loudest.
And now Bittman has found another reason to call for America’s peasantry to eat in accordance with his perception of their “place.” A California chicken producer, Foster Farms, is currently facing a Salmonella scare that has sickened over 250 people. In response, the company met with the US Department of Agriculture and implemented emergency procedures to determine what went wrong and how a future problem might be avoided. (Nobody wants unsafe food, especially the people who put their reputations and business on the line by selling it.)
Bittman sees the situation differently, choosing instead to suggest people shouldn’t eat any chicken, and scolds the USDA. Bittman strongly insinuates that the USDA and the Food and Drug Administration (which regulates animal drugs) don’t have food safety plans. That is absolute bunk: The USDA mandates that producers develop and follow a system of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) to reduce the risk of transmitting foodborne illnesses. If an illness occurs, HACCP analyses can provide guidance on where new controls can be added—exactly what Foster Farms and the USDA have done in response to this outbreak.
His whole rant on the issue lies in his biased assumption that all corporations (except COSTCO, the darling of the left) are bad and that the USDA would rather kowtow to the ag community than keep consumers safe. Any recent food safety scares regarding organic produce have unsurprisingly not prompted the same reaction from Bittman.
Bittman would rather see a Congresswoman’s speculation that Salmonella bacteria have become more resistant to heat over a USDA administrator’s science-based rulemaking. No wonder Bittman wants to go back to the Dark Ages: Science shows he’s wrong. So the real question is, should anyone read Mark Bittman?

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GBP/USD Fails to Sustain Strength above 1.4600 Mark
Following the release of UK GDP print, which matched consensus estimates, the GBP/USD
recovered from early losses and climbed back above 1.4600 mark just to
erase all of its gains to trade nearly unchanged from yesterday's close.
Earlier on Wednesday, the UK Office for National Statistics reported a tepid 0.4% economic growth during the first quarter of 2015. Although, the reading was below 0.6% growth recorded in the last quarter of 2015, it was still in-line with consensus estimates. The yearly growth rate was unchanged at 2.1% and was higher than 2.0% expected. With the Fed scheduled to announce its monetary policy in few hours from now, the pair seems more likely to holding within day's trading range.
Technical levels to watch
On Tuesday, the pair tested a key resistance near 1.4640-50 area marking 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level of 1.5930-1.3835 downslide and retraced back below 1.4600 mark. This 1.4640-50 area might continue to act as immediate resistance on the upside. Even if the pair manages to clear this immediate resistance, any further up-move might confront resistance just below 1.4700 handle (1.4685-90 area), representing the upper trend-line resistance of a short-term ascending trend-channel formation on H4 chart.
Meanwhile on the downside, weakness back below 1.4550 immediate support seems to drag the pair towards testing the ascending trend-channel support, currently pegged near 1.4460-50 area. Only a decisive break below the trend-channel now seems to negate the pair's near-term bullish bias.


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Hoping to draw attention to this group with troubled links with the Kremlin, three NGOs filed a complaint on Monday in Russia against mercenaries from the opaque “Wagner” organization for the extremely cruel murder of a Syrian in 2017.
“This is the very first time that such an action has been brought by the relatives of a Syrian victim against Russian suspects”, noted in a statement the three NGOs – the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Russian organization Memorial.
A chain of impunity
They claim to have identified and “produced evidence” attesting that Wagner’s men tortured and beheaded a supposed deserter from the Syrian army, in 2017. “This complaint is important because we are not dealing with a single crime but with a whole chain of impunity, ”said Memorial official Alexandre Tcherkassov.
Sent to the Investigative Committee, the Russian body responsible for the main criminal investigations, it must now examine it and decide whether or not to initiate criminal proceedings. The video of the murder was revealed in 2018 by the independent newspaper Novaïa Gazeta. Russian-speaking men are seen hitting their victim with a hammer and then dismembering him, eventually spraying him with gasoline and setting his body on fire while his head was suspended from a pole.
A complaint with little chance of success
It is in the name of the family of this man, Mohamad A., that the complaint was filed. However, it has little chance of leading to a trial, the Russian justice being reluctant to investigate the crimes of its soldiers.
A first complaint filed in 2020 by Novaïa Gazeta, which had identified a man in the video and reported other abuses, had gone unheeded. This complaint comes on the tenth anniversary of the Syrian conflict, in which Russia intervened in 2015 to help Bashar al-Assad.


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Leviticus 12:1 – 13:59
Leviticus 14:1 – 15:33
(She Will Bear Seed)
This portion details the laws concerning purification after childbirth and the
laws concerning Tzara’at. It goes on to describe just how the one who has been
healed must be welcomed back to the community.
THESE CHAPTERS ARE CONCERNED with the delicate times when one’s condition necessitates a period of separation from communal life. How does that separation happen and how is that person later re-integrated into the community?
Tazria begins by discussing the condition of a woman immediately after childbirth. She is blessed with a time of separation and then given a path for returning. I understand this condition not only in the context of childbirth, but in regards to the creative process. During a time of intense creative output, as with childbirth, a person steps outside the boundaries of time and space. She touches the realm between the worlds where ayin (“nothing”) gives birth to yesh (“existence”).
In that place between worlds she is completely taken up by the process of birth. The artist lives inside the poem, painting, or song, and the rest of the world, for a time falls away. The blessing of Tazria is in knowing that there will again be a way of returning to the community, to normal life. The time of alienation, which is necessary for the creative process to unfold, is also finite. The artist may return and bring with her the riches that she has mined and be re-integrated, welcomed back, and appreciated by her community.
DURING THE PROCESS of re-entry, the mother, or artist, brings two offerings, a Chatat and an Olah.
The Chatat is the offering that celebrates the purification from unintentional sin. If during my time of separation and focused creativity I have by necessity neglected other parts of life, I can be cleansed of guilt and blame, and with the offering of the Chatat be re-connected with the life of the community.
The Olah, the burnt offering, is completely consumed by fire, completely given. After creating something wonderful and being consumed by that process there is a danger of identifying your ego with your creation. When that creation is praised you may become inflated; when it is criticized you may become defensive. The offering of the Olah is a way of completely giving your creation to God, to the wholeness of the cosmos.
THERE ARE MANY TIMES in life when it may be necessary to seclude oneself for a time. Tzara’at, which is usually translated as “leprosy,” can be understood as a difficult inner psycho-spiritual passage that manifests as a disturbance on the surface. Someone with this condition needs to separate himself from the community for a time in order to pay close attention to those inner changes, which are the causes of the outer confusion. At a time of inner growth, it might feel like your life has become too small. There is a chafing or an irritability, and it is time to ‘leave the camp.’ It is time to go on a retreat.
The blessing of Metzora comes to us as the force of re-integration, symbolized by the priest, as it reaches out to you in your place of alienation, recognizes your transformation and brings you back to the community. In the ritual of re-entry, two birds are brought. One is killed, to symbolize the old self that has died; and one is set free in the open country to express the re-born self flying free into an expanded life.
THE SPIRITUAL CHALLENGE
OFTEN, A PERSON’S GROWTH happens on the inside before it manifests in the outer world. The spiritual challenge lies in navigating this awkward time of dissonance between inner and outer. During this time the two realities must be reconciled. It is an uncomfortable time because there is a tendency to resist change and that resistance can manifest in the physical body. Retreat time is required in order to attend to and integrate the inner changes.
The spiritual challenge of Tazria/Metzora is to know when to separate yourself from the community and to know how to return.
The separation depends on having a community, relationship, or family who honor and trust the process. This means that they understand the process of retreat as necessary and valuable to the life of the community.
WHEN SOMEONE ‘leaves the camp’ to do the inner work that is calling them, they will be fully available upon their return and will have an integrated wholeness to give back to the community.
The process of retreat requires paying attention to the subtle messages of the soul in an atmosphere of spaciousness, without the everyday distractions and demands of the outer life. For some it may seem selfish to take this time for yourself, but it really is a requirement in the life of service.
GUIDANCE FOR PRACTICE
PLAN A ONE-DAY retreat for yourself.
PREPARE FOOD IN ADVANCE, shut off the phone, clear your space, or go out into Nature.
LEAVE THE ‘CAMP’ of your normal life. Spend the day in prayer and meditation, listening to the promptings of your heart.
FIND TWO STONES. Bring them back with you when you return to the ‘camp’ of your normal life.
ARRANGE FOR A FRIEND TO WELCOME YOU back at the end of the day and listen as you articulate and integrate your experience.
HOLD ONE OF THE STONES you brought back with you and describe the part of yourself that you have outgrown, that is dying, that has ceased to be useful.
WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH throw that stone away as far as you can.
HOLD THE REMAINING STONE and describe the place in yourself that is new, that wants to grow in your life.
KEEP THAT STONE and place it on your altar as a reminder of this day.
COMPLETE THE RITUAL by sharing a sacred meal together.
Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land
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Can there ever be another Reagan Revolution? Kimberly Strassel from the Wall Street Journal shares her view on what it will take to unify Americans. She says that the key to overcoming the widespread discontent consuming the country is finding a Conservative candidate who embraces the idea of a “Reagan Revolution” that harkens back to the time after the Carter years. With Republicans in control of the House, Strassel and host Rebecca Weber discuss potential investigations the Oversight Committee should focus on in the coming months. Strassel, a veteran journalist of 30 years, also reflects on the downward spiral her profession has been caught in since 2016, noting that some journalists now justify outright political bias in the name of ‘Saving America.’
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IF DOUBLE AND TRIPLE FOOD PRICES DON’T DO IT, OUR NATION IS DOOMED DUE TO DUMB, FN liberals, who ENJOY THE HIGH PRICES AND OF FUEL, ALSO
This discussion is ridiculous in light of the fact we are now past the tipping point we were all warned about that was fast approaching, how many years ago? The women having the discussion are so naive they are actually asking the question, “are we ready for the next Reagan revolution?”.
We are the proverbial boiling frogs in the pot wasting time making comments on these ridiculous discussions all the while ignoring the truth of our circumstances and having intelligent discussions to make actual practical change starting right where I live. Anything else is just blah blah blah as we contribute to turning up the heat to the very pot we’re all in.
Reagen Revolution 2.0
Jocko is right folks. We well beyond elections. So what shall we do next ????
DEPORT ALL libs AND illegals, STAT, TO MAGA, OR CIVIL WAR, WHICH IS A MORE SURE AND PERMANENT WAY TO MAGA
We all know that, as things actually are, many of the most influential and most highly remunerated members of the Bar in every center of wealth, make it their special task to work out bold and ingenious schemes by which their wealthy clients, individual or corporate, can evade the laws which were made to regulate, in the interests of the public, the uses of great wealth. – T. Roosevelt, 1905
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In the words of E.W. Scripps: A newspaper must at all times antagonize the selfish interests of that very class which furnishes the larger part of a newspaper’s income… The press in this country is dominated by the wealthy few…that it cannot be depended upon to give the great mass of the people that correct information concerning political, economical and social subjects which it is necessary that the mass of people Shall have in order that they vote…in the best way to protect themselves from the brutal force and chicanery of the ruling and employing classes – E.W. Scripps – American Newspaper Publisher 1854-1926
The American people don’t believe anything until they see it on television. – Richard M. Nixon
After Watergate, to protect the public from the appearance of corruption, The Federal Election Campaign Act abridged the freedoms of speech press and assembly of the regulated class: candidates for Federal Office, political parties, PACs and individual citizens.
But the corporate media were exempted because government could not infringe their 1st Amendment rights
52 U.S. Code § 30101 – Definitions (9)(B) The term “expenditure” does not include— (i) any news story, commentary, or editorial distributed through the facilities of any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication, unless such facilities are owned or controlled by any political party, political committee, or candidate; – .law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/30101
This created a “Royal”, “State Approved” press!
But if candidates and political parties have to pay for time/space in the media, then why are favorable editorials considered to have no value if they are published by corporate media, unless the media is controlled by a political party, political committee, or candidate?
“The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.” -Alex Carey, Australian social scientist who pioneered the investigation of corporate propaganda
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe. – George Orwell
It is normal for all large businesses to make serious efforts to influence the news, to avoid embarrassing publicity, and to maximize sympathetic public opinion and government policies. Now they own most of the news media that they wish to influence. – Excerpt from Media Monopoly by Ben H. Bagdikian – 1920-2016
In 1983, 90% of American media was owned by 50 companies. In 2011, that same 90% is controlled by 6 companies.
Campaign laws are responsible for the corporate voice having more influence in our elections than the voice of natural persons!
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreicate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. – Frederick Douglass
To restore equal rights to citizens, federal candidates, political parties and PACs “We the People” should ask our representatives in the Senate and House to revisit “S. 2416 — 113th Congress: Free All Speech Act of 2014.”
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 3, 2014
Mr. Cruz introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To apply laws that restrict the political speech of American citizens to media corporations.
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Free All Speech Act of 2014 .
2. Application of laws that restrict the political speech of American citizens to media corporations
(a) In general
Any law that restricts the political speech of American citizens shall apply with equal force to media corporations, such as the New York Times, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and the CBS Television Network.
(b) No application to American citizens if application to media corporations found unconstitutional
To the extent that the application of a law to a media corporation under subsection (a) is found unconstitutional, such law shall have no force or effect with respect to American citizens.
I agree with Kimberly. If we don’t start taking care of our country, I’m afraid my grandkids won’t enjoy our.
It’s a tuff pill to swallow Leon. But the wake up call here is our grandchildren have been brainwashed into wanting exactly what we are going through right now. Turning that back is going to take much more than a Reagan Revolution????????
We won’t have another Reagan revolution until we get another Ronald Reagan. And Trump isn’t him.
Yep, Trump isn’t him, but Trump is a He(double hockey stick) of a lot better than anyone the DemocRats can or will offer.
That is all more the reason for Trump to bow out of 2024 race & let another Republican candidate run for POTUS.
I think the populace has been so “dumbed down” there will not be another “Reagan Revolution” Donald Trump was the last revolution. You see where that went. 80 million votes for Biden? Are there really that many hate filled, gullible people? I’m afraid so.
Rigged election … if you don’t believe that then you grossly underestimate the complicity of the DemocRat Party.
Do you really believe Biden got 80 million votes? That’s a good one!! LOL
I personally know many people who took great pride in voting for the first time in a long time in 2020 — and they voted for Biden. I tried arguing with them but they didn’t want to listen. They even openly admitted that they knew very little about politics just that “Trump was bad”. So yeah, I believe it, breaks my heart, but I do.
I believe a lot of votes went Biden as a vote against Trump, and not because they wanted Biden policies. And that explains some of the 80-million votes
I remember the trucker who delivered some 7 million ballots with only one vote on each ballot. Biden. (I don’t remember if it was 7 million, but that is what my old head remembers, right or wrong, it was a BIG #.) It was obvious all the ballots were printed at the same time with the vote already on the page.
Strassels column is usually the best among the wsj offerings. However, looking back to Reagan is not going to show the way forward. The country was vastly different 42 years ago. Most people led conservative lives even if they voted for dems. Carters utter incompetence shocked them just as Reagan stepped forward. Any sort of renewal or revival in our country today will not be conservative but some version of populist. Two thirds of millennials prefer socialism. The reaction to dobbs in states like kansas and michigan is instructive. We had a way forward in Trumps america first theme but we allowed him to be savaged by the globalist swamp. Even the wsj, long a champion of so called free trade as well as cheap immigrant labor did their best to subvert him in their writings. Strassel was the most balanced. In short, no one is on deck who can combine kinder gentler trumpism along with conservatism palatable to younger people. Without them forget it.
People in Kansas were duped into believing that all abortions would be illegal, but the prolife groups were cut off by misinformation from the left and millions of dollars in false advertising that confused voters. The majority wanted a heartbeat bill…. Instead were now an abortion Mecca.
Hats off to you Morbious. You hit that nail right on the head! Besides everything you said todays conservatives are just to complacent to fight for what we believe. We will nearly let them trample right over us.
Here is something you may not be aware of. The WSJ, a part of the FOX corporation, was never actually in favor Trump or any of his policies. Senior management back in 2015 and 2016, meaning Rupert Murdock, wanted Jeb Bush as POTUS and their news coverage on both the news network and the WSJ reflected as much. Both mediums weren’t even subtle about their preference. Both entities were for the globalist agenda, that Bush and the other so-called establishment GOP candidates at that time were campaigning on. The only part of FOX that got on board the Trump train were the opinion shows that were part of the FOX entertainment division. Shows like Hannity etc., that were more reflective of what the actual average people in the GOP wanted.
Today with FOX corp now being run by Rupert’s 2 sons, both uber progressives, who want to remake both FOX and the WSJ into much more mainstream, progressive outlets that reflect their political views, the gloves are off so to speak. Slamming Trump and indirectly his MAGA agenda left and right, all while pushing a return to much more standard GOP globalist agenda of establishment Republicans. The old country club values of the GOP, that ignored the average person and focused solely on what is good for the 1%. The same folks that orchestrated the mass migration of millions of American manufacturing and high tech jobs over to China and elsewhere over the last 30 plus years.
The idea of a “kinder, gentler form of Trumpism”, with all the benefits, but none of the necessary hard choices and strong, decisive actions needed to make it all actually work as well as it did in Trump’s first term, is kind of a fantasy like the garbage G.W. Bush was pushing with “compassionate conservatisim”. Which turned out to be nothing more that Democrat-lite policies masquerading as something else. In short, a complete dumping of the MAGA in favor of a return to GOP establish,ent policies called something else.
As for the younger people, you are correct. They won’t find anything short of pure socialism palatable to them. That is what they were educated for the last 40 years, via our public education institutions, to believe will lead to the Utopia of endless free stuff that someone other than themselves will happily pay for with no downside consequences. As I’ve said literally thousands of times on this site over the years, we live in a completely bifurcated country. Two population groups that have diametrically opposing views of the direction and values that this country should pursue. One to success, freedom and prosperity. The other to a de-evolution of society and standards of living, all while freedoms and rights slowly get stripped away and we look more and more like other failed socialist democracies around the world. This could have all been prevented by strong, decisive actions 40 or 50 years ago, to clean out the leftist subversives from our educational institutions, the the public was as now too apathetic and lazy to get off their a$$es and demand change. So we are where we are at this point. Attempting to attractive young progressives with a Democrat-lite candidate and platform will fail, just like it has done so in the past. Why would they opt for Democrat-lite, when they can vote for hard-core Socialists? They wouldn’t.
John O’Sullivan of National Review said compassionate conservatism is a redundancy.
Well said Paul… It will be a long, slow recovery to return to sanity if it ever happens at all…Today’s young people have been thoroughly indoctrinated into this utter liberal to the extreme madness, not all, thank God, but most, yes…
This includes the clueless parents of the young people I speak of, very sad indeed…
Population heads up one-o-one. There are more Americans over 44 than there are 18 to 43 year olds in this country. We have to reach out through the adults, parents, to get to this 18 to 43 group who, think socialism can work; to search out the truth. Socialsim won’t and can’t work! To many countries have tried it and totally failed ending up in broken governments suspended under total authoritarian control where any objections end in death.This year I sat down with my kids and spelled out some common sense for them. Freedom isn’t free and free is never free. If it were there would still be someone controlling it and measuring out who gets free. Big government always wants control and to use other people’s money to stay a big government. The truth is, governments print money they don’t make it. If everything is free you don’t need to earn money so how will the big government stay in power. Reduce free, then dictate who gets free. It’s a fact of life that a majority of people want to do as little as possible and will when they have no incentive. In most cases over the past 40 years, since Hillary Clinton got involved with K-12 and the unions to indoctrinate our childern instead of teaching then to think for themselves. That is what we are facing as parents.I listened carefully to what they had to sad and asked for honesty and I got an ear full. But I didn’t hear anything that couldn’t be reverted to a common sense resolve. However, that didn’t win the day, it did open their eyes but to close the deal I told them that if they did not vote in this mid-term that I would start spending their inheritance.. even that didn’t finish the discussion, because we live in a credit card world and people, somehow think that is for them to spend and they can pay it back sometime. That’s a new math mentality. However, with some general math representation I opened some eyes who were using their Democrate thinking on spend now pay maybe regarding getting by on credit cards.The end result is all my kids voted and they were required to send me a picture of the poling place and their I voted decal. I am not sure I convinced them to vote totally conservative, but they seemed to be convinced that free still cost and anyone in the existing government were not working for the people any more, it was for themselves and how much money they could earn, not how much they could benefit Americans in their states and the United States as a whole. Look listen, ask questions and look for a common sense resolve.Maybe more conservatives should consider teaching their childern, of all ages that common sense is the real power and big government in socialism is not free! It also can’t hurt to let them know that their inheritances isn’t a given. Our generation spilt blood here and build our families. Our childern need to remember that everyday! The future belongs to them but history, the guidelines of the future we lived.
Dominion and ballot boxes will put a damper on any revolution unless they are dealt with. 2020 and 2022 are excellent examples of that.
I don’t think anything will ever come out of investigations but pomp and circumstance. Politicians talk the big talk but don’t ever walk the walk. No one ever goes to jail for their crimes, certainly not any congressmen, let alone a president. Congress and the judicial systems are all corrupt and the FBI is a joke. I’ve lost faith in this government. I would reverse ever bill passed by this illegitimate administration based on their unconstitutional bias. I don’t think nothing will be done with these self serving politicians from both sides of the isle. It used to be an honor serving the people in their position but all I see is power grabs, control, greed from these self serving congress which will get worse. Just follow the money and you’ll know where their hearts lie!!!!
The FBI has become the American version of the German NAZI’s.
Interesting!Especially since Weber represents the Wall Street Journal.
THERE IS ONLY ONE SURE AND PERMANENT WAY TO SAVE OUR CRASHING NATION FROM FURTHER DESTRUCTION BY THE CANCEROUS, ANTI-AMERICAN, LYING, CHEATING, libs AND IT’S NOT ELECTIONS……………..
“I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.”
– President Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1986
Yes, but there were strict stipulations:President Ronald Reagan signed a sweeping immigration reform bill into law in 1986, which provided a pathway to citizenship for immigrants who had entered the country before 1982. The bill also tightened up border security and penalized employers who hired illegal immigrants.
And none of it was EVER enforced. Democ-rats lie cheat and steal to get their way. They haven’t changed since before the Civil War.
And the Democrats reneighed on their commitment to President Reagan to fund security for the border and tighten immigration policy to prevent further illegal immigration after he agreed to give amnesty to 3 million illegals for that deal. Even Reagan later admitted that the he should have demanded the Democrats pass that necessary legislation and spending that they had agreed to BEFORE he granted that one-time amnesty.
Yeah, the Dems were smarter back then!
Dems just can’t help but lie. They are like drug addicts in that they do anything to get what they want, even have family beat or swindled. Evil is just that, Evil.
But he did that thinking it would stop people entering illegal
The quote is about him believing in the ideal, not what he was willing to do on a transactional basis. I agree with him and that’s why I posted it.
Always a pleasure spending some time with Rebecca Weber on these presentations…Kimberly Strassel clearly gets what is going on, very much enjoyed listening to her views on current political events. It is fortunate that the WSJ has her on board… I enjoyed both these women’s stories about their fathers & their patriotism. A very down to earth conversation by two accomplished women…


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Becky Scamp wowed the Sterts audience with this fun 1910 comic Music Hall 'party piece' made famous by Patricia Routledge
I want to sing in Opera
I've got that kind of voice
I'd always sing in Opera
If I could have my choice
Told me I ought to do so
That's why I want to sing in opera
Sing in op-pop-pop-popera.
Our Summer 2014 performance will be at Sterts Theatre, Liskeard PL14 5AZ www.sterts.co.uk
“A Rough Guide to Opera” Saturday August 2nd 2014 at 7.30 pm
Tickets: Full £10 Concessions £8 Child £6 from Sterts box office 01579 362382
A whistle-stop tour of the operatic repertoire with some well-known pieces and some lesser known ones, from the birth of opera, through the main centres of excellence – Paris, London, Vienna - and leading to 19th/20th century opera in Italy/France/Russia/Germany/USA and England. A highly entertaining semi-staged production with solos, choruses and ensembles.
The Sterts Singers will also be taking part.
A delicious homemade two-course meal, cooked by the two resident chefs Wendy and Sally, is available for £13.00 – book it with your tickets.
[Please note that the two previously advertised performances in the new amphitheatre at Trebah Garden have been postponed due to circumstances beyond the control of Duchy Opera. Watch out for the rescheduling of these two events in 2015]

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We all known that RSA can be compromised using quantum Shor's algorithm. The horsepower underlying this algorithm is the Fourier transform. However, we can use alternatives to perform this function, such as An optical Fourier transform coprocessor with direct phase determination.
In accordance to the paper, you may need a high resolution optical sensor for this task. But how high does it need to be? Can we get a rough estimation using a lower resolution and guess something close?
Are such alternatives viable (in a near future) to break RSA?
PS: The largest optical sensor in existence is a 3.2 gigapixel


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Bristol Post took the bold move of naming and shaming social media abusers who made threats and wrote disgusting things about Greta Thunberg this weekend.
She said the climate emergency is being “completely ignored by the politicians, the media and those in power”, adding that she will “not be silenced when the world is on fire”.
The speech was met with rapturous applause from the crowd, with chants of “Greta, Greta” from the schoolchildren who had gathered in the rain, some holding placards and banners.
But not everyone seemed to embrace the cause.
A number of ‘grown men’ have been outed by the Bristol Post during the rally for posting threats and disgusting things about the climate change activist.
Many shared unkind memes about her, calling her a ‘puppet’, questioning her own actions travelling the world, or just calling her names.
Some went even further – calling for, encouraging or inciting people to take physical action against either Greta Thunberg or those taking part.
The people who were appearing to make those suggestions of physical actions and violence were very often parents and grandparents themselves.
Those named include Kev Bennett, who called for Greta Thunberg to be ‘Ms Trunchbulled’ and thrown over the fence by her pigtails.
Stevie Ralph-Taylor said “she should be burnt at the stake” and Max Poncho Morgan said “milkshakes at the ready” ahead of the protest.
Read the list in full here.


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U.S. farmers and agricultural businesses are expected to suffer long-term losses in export sales as a result of the administration's trade wars that "lingered on multiple fronts," warned a study published Wednesday by Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
The study said past federal policy changes, including tax cut and deregulation, "have been a mixed blessing" for the agriculture sector, but the benefits "have been more than offset by falling prices due to trade wars that have flared up and lingered on multiple fronts."
BCG cited the example of the plummeting U.S. soybean price, which it said hit a 10-year low as of September 2019, down 20 percent since March 2018. "That is when the U.S. began sharply hiking tariffs on a wide range of goods imported from China and on steel and aluminum from many other nations."
U.S. agricultural exports, the study said, increased by only one percent in 2018, compared with a three-percent increase in 2017. They were down five percent year-on-year during the first seven months of 2019, it said.
"The growing risk is that much of the market share abroad that U.S. agribusiness is losing to foreign competitors will be hard, if not impossible, to win back -- even if current trade conflicts are resolved to the U.S. government's satisfaction," the study said.
It predicted that with less faith in the United States as a stable supplier, importers of U.S. farm products will more likely "hedge and further diversify."
"Over time, importers could completely unwind complex relationships with U.S. suppliers," the study said.
The study said the "knock-on effects" of trade conflicts "have rippled through the entire U.S. agricultural supply chain, including suppliers of inputs such as farming equipment."
It further contended that "sustained, record-low prices will probably eventually force many growers out of the market, and this is having a knock-on effect for input suppliers."
The study painted a gloomy picture ahead for the U.S. farm industry, despite the administration's aid packages to farmers caught in the cross-fire of their government's uncertain trade policies. The administration spent 12 billion U.S. dollars last year to help farmers mitigate the negative impact, and pledged another 16 billion dollars this year.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has refused to promise further subsidies beyond the current total, and farmers have said the measure is not a solution to ending the damage done to them.
U.S. farmers interviewed by Xinhua over the last few months, including those growing soybean, peanut and cotton, said they would rather sell their products at fair market prices than receive one-time assistance from the government.
"My personal view is less than half of that demand will come back, even if a trade deal is concluded in the near term," Decker Walker, one of the study's leading authors, was quoted by Bloomberg News as saying.

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Super Retail Group
, owner of brands such as Super Cheap Auto, and Goldcross Cycles, has outperformed its competitors on the ASX so far this year. The secret to its success in an otherwise depressed retail environment is its stores’ bargain basement image, making them less sensitive to consumer discretionary spending, say analysts. In a presentation in early May, given just after the stock hit a record high of $7.49, managing director Peter Birtles identified issues facing the company, including increased competition from online channels, the underperformance of the Goldcross Cycles’ chain and the fluctuating cost of products sourced in China. The company has clear plans for growth and is looking for opportunities to “organically grow and/or acquire businesses to expand the group’s operations into adjacent retail categories". The share price has increased 12.8 per cent so far this year, but the majority of brokers believe it has further to run, with an average 12-month share price target of $7.58.


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Set on a spur of rock in one of the most panoramic settings of Sorrento where at one time there was a " Tonnara" from which the hotel takes its name, "La Tonnarella" is an oasis of peace and tranquillity for those who wish to sample a corner of paradise. Started out as a residential summer villa belonging to the Gargiulo family, still keeping its fascinating atmosphere with antique furnishing, ceramic tiles andthe interesting architectural style of interwoven tufa stone cornices, “ La Tonnarella” has been transformed into a delightful hotel with a backdrop of blue sea.
The rooms have a wonderful view of the bay and the bay of Sorrento. Some have large terraces or balconies, some have whirlpool tubs and are decorated in antique style. The hotel has a small private beach with facilities. Hidden among the rocks like a pearl in its shell, “ La Tonnarella “ beach is a magical and little known ravine- an explosion of colours and perfumes. The violet and yellow of the wild flowers offering a contrast to the blue of the sky and the sea.
It is possible to lunch at this beautiful place immersed in nature and only a few paces from the sea.
With a stay at Hotel La Tonnarella in Sorrento, you''ll be on the waterfront and minutes from Marina Grande and close to Piazza Tasso. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Wooden Marquetry Workshop-Museum and Dali Universe.