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Here’s a new podcast. My creative mojo seems to be returning and I’m churning it out at present… erk. This is what it’s about:
In our time we’re going through an intensification of events and pressures, globally, socially and individually. We’re heading into harder times, and it’s not going to go back to normal. But there are things we can do about this. It doesn’t have to be as bad as currently it looks.
The costs and difficulties we have in life can be made a bit easier by not grinding on about it quite so much, by making things less difficult inside ourselves. Sounds easy, but it takes some work.
There are also gifts in any situation that become visible if we shift our focus, take a deep breath, own what we’re responsible for and focus on what’s really most important.
I’ve faced some stuff in recent times and seem to be gaining something from it, deep down, underneath. It’s a lot to do with finding what’s available in any situation – anything that can cheer us, lift us up and open up pathways – and going on from there. Following a path.
If your spirits have some sparkle, you’ll be alright. Though often, ‘alright’ isn’t what we originally thought.
Thinking of people living in places like Kharkhiv in Ukraine, and what it’s like to be on the receiving end of war, here’s an article by a young Gazan, called ‘Three Wars Old’, about her experiences as she grew up. What’s remarkable here is that people like the author, Samah, can be far more balanced and accepting of their benighted situation than we would expect, when we see things from our own viewpoint of living in a (largely) safe and comfortable country. Not that it’s easy for her. I’ve learned so much from people like her.
Some years ago I was involved with We Are Not Numbers, an NGO which trained young Gazans to write articles about their lives in English for worldwide consumption. It is so important for people in wars to know that other people round the world know what’s happening to them. They feel isolated, unseen, uncared about. One of the functions I’ve served in the Middle East has been the simple task of ‘witnessing’ – sharing people’s experiences, hearing their stories, letting them express their feelings and feel heard. This is a great healer in itself.
Later, the NGO started training young Gazans in working with video, supplying the necessary equipment and support (smuggled, probably). This bore fruit in the last Gaza war, when young Palestinians communicated freely online on Youtube, letting the world see fully what was happening to them. And the world got it. In a way, they won the propaganda war in that instance. That’s the amazing thing about Palestinians: they get beaten every time, yet they never lose. That’s called resistance.
You hardly ever hear of cholera, widespread starvation or absolute destitution in Gaza: whatever their situation, they act together to deal with whatever comes at them. They’re well organised and have the right attitude. Nevertheless, once upon a time I asked a young friend who had been a male nurse in Gaza, asking him what had been the most difficult thing about nursing there. He said: ‘Holding down a person while we operated on them without anaesthetics’.
This kind of thing is a personal matter too. Warfare arises from the deep belief that other people are different from us, a threat, and they’re hurting us. This happens in everyday life, in our own lives. In recent months, struggling with a deep emotional issue, I’ve been faced with my own self-defensive patterns of falling into this, of thinking badly of others, flailing around in aggrieved resentment and pain which rears its head and grinds around in my psyche when I’m wobbling and grinding my stuff. Then I get a battle between that side and the understanding, empathic, compassionate side of myself, which sees things completely differently. In a way, that’s even worse, with the contrasts of viewpoint and feeling grating and scraping against each other.
I grind and wrestle, sometimes getting lost, sometimes getting found, churning inside over and over, digging in the pain and feeling the pain of the other person or people too, lost in a confusion of exaggerated inner dramas. Yet, like spilt petrol on a wet road, there’s a beauty that emerges, a peace that dawns surreptitiously from underneath. It comes eventually. I come to a smiling peace again, worn out perhaps. So I’m at least making progress. But even then, when I feel I’ve laid something to rest, it can come back with a vengeance later on and I’m back to square one. It’s relentless.
Isn’t it strange? We humans, we make so much more difficulty for ourselves than we need to make. We externalise our grating struggles onto others – talk of crimes against humanity, we’re all at it. Confused mass murderers, us lot. Go on, own up. Look at what you’ve done. Don’t worry though, ‘cos I’m much worse than you, and you can take consolation from that! I’m the worst sinner around, hehe.
Well, that’s a part of us. But there’s another part too. It really is a matter of which part we choose, and how we then deal with the other part that got sidelined. This is what is at stake in wars. We humans create horror and destruction for each other – and even the winners never truly, fully, permanently win, and all that is won is eventually lost. It’s tragic. This seems to be in the nature of things on this planet. We share a home and threaten to blow it up, just to prove that it’s ours, not yours. We do it because we refuse to sort out our differences by other means.
Our fundamental interests are actually shared, and we sit in the same boat. It’s not about you and me, it’s about us. We have a dilemma, and something needs to be worked out.
It’s not just about diplomacy, treaties and cease-fires. It’s about that inner conflict, the feeling that others are out to get us and do us in, and that we’re the best. This will take generations to heal, and this is one of the key areas of focus in the coming decades. It’s a deep emotional issue and, in a way, the wars of today are, with tragic repetition, acting it out.
It’s difficult to believe, but over time there is progress. Regarding Kharkhiv or Gaza or Yemen or Mali, the devastation is exhausting us, taking us up to the fence where humanity has to choose. For, as a Bosnian said in the video from Sarajevo I posted on Facebook a few days ago, ‘In war, who loses? – everyone‘.
Samah in Gaza demonstrates how even those who have had the worst happening to them, grilled by the painful intensity of life, can become remarkable people. I think she has a future.
Now and then, in my blogs and podcasts, I’m sharing some of the ET and metaphysical experiences I’ve had over time. This one concerns crop formations, and a specific one, The Sparsholt Face, which, for me and for others who visited it, was unforgettable. I wrote this in 2002.
In all my years of croppying, this has been one of the most fundamental and deeply stirring of experiences, a privilege for which I feel deeply grateful. This is about my subjective experience of the formation – or more correctly, of the ‘space’ within it.
The picture the formation makes is impossible to distinguish on the ground. Unlike most formations it is not swirled and flowing, but definitely right-angular in the lay of the wheat. The face part is made up of parallel lines of varying thickness, using a ‘rasterising’ effect to create a subtly shaded image, as seen from above. Steve Alexander (a photographer) told me that, while hovering over it in a helicopter, it was very difficult to perceive exactly what the picture was, so he photographed it from as many angles as possible, and only saw the full picture when the film was developed.
The formation was very energy-dense. When we approached it I was in quite a balanced and calm state. Stepping into the first bit of the formation (its ‘frame’) I suddenly felt shocked, as if falling suddenly into a deep end, out of my depth. The magnitude of the experience was quick to be felt – a heart-fluttering thing. I felt almost forcibly ‘pulled within’ and found that, although there were several old friends there, my social skills were zeroed out immediately. It wasn’t unpleasant, and I think everyone there was experiencing roughly similar things. As with some other formations, I felt as if I could be seen inside by X-ray eyes above me, read off and monitored. It’s as if our normal relativistic universe dissolves, leaving us in empty, wide-open space – though, in another sense, as if we’ve come home – a bit like landing in a foreign country and feeling instantly familiar with it, even if you don’t speak the language.
The ‘energy-signature’ of the formation was different from others I’ve been in. In the ‘main series’ formations over the years, I get quite an intimate feeling of a presence or of energy-fields, but these presences distinctly don’t want to tell who they are or what they are saying or doing. It’s a bit like being a child watching an adult, without understanding why adults do what they do though nevertheless knowing that there must be some reason and sense to it which is beyond us. It seems that the main point of these is to present us with unanswerable questions which have a deeply transformative effect on consciousness and our sense of reality. An opportunity for communion, a chance to step into ‘their’ world while remaining on or in ‘ours’.
It seems clear to many croppies that these beings are not ETs as such, but interdimensional beings of a non-physical yet non-earthly nature. We don’t know who they are, but somehow we know them well, and the experience is recognisable, tweaking deep memory, even if unique and entirely new. Then, of course, there are those who are desperate to assert that crop formations are man-made, but, sad to say, that’s their problem, and their cosmic constipation will no doubt one day be relieved!
This formation felt like a personal message from a specific being, with a distinct identity ‘he’ was revealing to us. Sheila said she felt it was a rather shy being, tentatively offering itself to us, to see how we would respond. Clearly, the face in the aerial photos is an ET face – unlike the Face at Chilbolton (six miles from this one) last year, which was humanoid. The picture, when first seen, brings up mixed reactions, but the atmosphere in the formation is undoubtedly friendly and benign.
The Face of 2001 looked straight at us. To me it said ‘We are watching and eyeballing you – and we are you watching yourselves’. The 2002 face looks over our left shoulder – and the feeling I got was that it was looking and communicating with our soul, which stands, as it were, just behind us (perhaps because we omit fully to incorporate our core and heart into our worldly lives).
I looked and felt my way around the face part of the formation for a while, but was drawn into the disk – and everyone else was there too, mostly lying on their backs and ‘far away’. (It was a bit like a who’s who of currently active croppies, actually!). The disk reminds me of psychic experiences I’ve had, of being given a ‘rote ball’, a hologram-bundle of multidimensional information which, once given, unfolds itself gradually over time (rather like being given a CD of information to look through, as you find ways of opening the files in it).
Settling down close to the centre of the disk, I went inside and felt as if an energy-information download had started to take place. At one point Tulki (my son, then six years old), spoke to me, and I surfaced and replied, only to feel that the download was half-way through, so I went inside again to complete the download, and a point came where I felt it was complete. A few others verified this experience too. God knows what happens next, with that experience, and today (Sunday), the day following, I’m left wondering what to do with it or, more specifically, what this ET wants of me. It feels totally okay, and a great blessing – and I guess I’ll find out!
I opened my eyes at one stage and saw Tulki alone in another part of the formation, just standing there for some minutes, silent and utterly still, staring into space. There was a crackling, crisp aura around him, and he was just being. Later, he came charging toward us waving a few stalks of wheat, as if carrying a sparking antenna or a magic wand, and waving them around. Something in him probably knows more about all this than we so-called adults do.
The ‘disk’ is made up of a fine spiral, with ‘blips’ on it which are spaced and sized in such a way as clearly to represent a coded and decodable message – my croppy friend Michael Glickman, earlier in the day, had said “Well, that’s given me a winter’s-worth of work to do!“. Someone will hopefully decode it in due course by linearising the ‘track’ of the spiral and analysing the patterns and spacing of the ‘blips’. Virtually all previous formations (except the Chilbolton ‘Face’ and ‘Code’ of 2001) distinctly represent clear patterning, mathematical principles and geometry, while the specific ‘message’ cannot be interpreted, at least in the language and concepts we currently possess. Yet this seems to be something we can decode, a specific message from a specific source.
Some people threaded the spiral of the disk but, frankly, my capacity for physical movement was strongly reduced (until I left the formation, when it returned), so I didn’t do that. My body felt like stiffened rubber, stable and grounded, but in another way my motion-connectors weren’t wired up and motion was thus reluctant. Subjectively, I felt that each blip on the disk’s spiral was not just a piece of information, but a kind of ‘file name’ to a whole bundle of information in its own right – it felt as if a whole library, not just a statement, was being given. I presume that a series or sequence of insights or life-experiences might follow from here.
This felt to me like a distinct ‘close encounter’ – a very intimate one, perhaps closer than we can get to our own selves. Interestingly, the face itself, though quite clearly ET, does not seem to be specifically one of the ET faces I’ve seen in people’s drawings of the beings they’ve met in close encounters. In my own psychic adventures I have not met this kind of being before (though I’ve met a few). It was not a ‘Grey’ or a ‘Nordic’ or anything of that nature – nor humanoid.
Everyone stayed there for a few hours – it was difficult to leave, as if we were already ‘home’. While in the formation and reflecting on the experience, I was aware of being a part of history. Perhaps the men who were with John Cabot when he ‘discovered’ Newfoundland in the 1400s would not have been aware of all that would unfold thereafter, and of the subsequent significance of their landfall (the whole history of USA/Canada). I felt this was similar, as if more will unfold in the centuries to come which will render this event significant in a new light.
Of course, this event should be front-page news, but its true significance will hardly be noted or seen publicly. The materialists amongst us might well ask what has this to do with Iraq, guns, cars and stock markets? and, although the logical connections are perhaps flimsy, I’d say this event is totally relevant, by dint of its timing and also the larger light it throws on our vexatious human affairs.
We have contact, and those of us who are open to it, whether or not you can visit the crop formation, need perhaps to send back the signal “Message received with thanks! And we await further developments“. I do find myself wondering what I am to do with this gift, though I trust that answers will be revealed in due course. But one immediate conclusion is that I find myself reaffirming my commitment to the life-path I have chosen. Even though it’s a ridiculously small number of people involved in croppie research, I feel blessed to be one, to suspend my intellectual neuroses, metaphysical control agendas and fear of madness and the Unknown, or of loss of reputation or friends, and to simply follow this trail.
The crop season is now ending – the combine harvesters are out as we speak – and the formation will probably be gone within days. These things are not built to be permanent. The wheat was crisp and ripe – most people were nibbling at it!
We shall see.
If ETs interest you, try this podcast by Palden, A Close Encounter With Other Worlds. For another article by me, Afterthoughts about The Face, go here. For an interesting analysis of The Sparsholt Face and its message by Michael Barber, go here.
Something is beginning to come together, and that’s a relief. I went through a big loss and crisis nearly three months ago, with my world disintegrating and hope plummeting, but I plugged on through it, taking it day by day. A blessing arose in that darkness that I didn’t see at the time. As my health and spirits sank it felt as if I was coming close to dying. As I mentioned in my last blog, we’re all partially dead, and at that time I went from (perhaps) 50% to (perhaps) 80% and started feeling pre-death shutting-down feelings. (Today I’m back around 50% again.)
There comes a point where you have to accept that you could be going. However, what I find is that, when I reach that place, everything changes. I go further toward dying, or my homoeostatic, self-healing capacities kick in, and a revival of some kind follows. You might have experienced this yourself in a breakdown or overwhelming crisis with death-like characteristics, even if it was mainly a psychospiritual wrenching out of the past and a squaring with the present.
The great thing about dying or near-death is that it clarifies and simplifies a lot. You see things more as they actually are, not what we tell ourselves they are. You’re less caught up in life’s ins and outs and see more clearly the underlying threads, meanings, connections and inevitabilities of things. And life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
So the rather deep and murky experience I had in February seems to have started me on a new chapter of exploration. I’ve decided to probe the inner experiences leading toward disincarnation, to see what I can do about sensing or perhaps experiencing some of the post-death stages – at least as they might apply to me. It strikes me that, if I am willing and give it attention, it’s possible to disentangle many of the processes that occur around death, and to work with them in a different order or a different way.
I’m finding hints of this already. It has something to do with making good use of the end-of-life phase, when much of the stuff and processing that comes up around death can be done. This phase can last from days to years, and everyone’s story is different. I realised that, with issues currently emerging in my life, if I don’t process them now, I’ll need to do so at death. There’s a kind of quiet urgency to it. So from this came the idea of taking some of the pressure off the moment of death – removing some of the unnecessary confusion from it.
Several people have been contacting me as a result of things I’ve written and podcasted, and this is where something is coming together. The beginnings of a team is perhaps forming. I do wish to share as much as I can of the process with anyone who is interested. On the other hand, when I’m on my way out, I’ll probably need a small, tight team, with relatively little to-ing and fro-ing of people in the last stages.
It’s like childbirth: in the births I’ve been involved in, there is usually a need for about 5-6 people, no more, each of whom take different roles, either close-in and personal or managing the phone, the food or the people, with one person sitting quietly in the corner holding the energy, and I think the same applies in the case of dying. Besides, if anyone wants to see me, please do so while I’m alive, since there’s no point feeling sadness and loss once I go. And if you seek a true sharing, it’s best to come alone.
But there’s more to this. I’m finding that visitors can find it challenging stepping their energy down to where I’m at. They’re living with busy timetables and agendas while I am not, and their minds are racing compared to mine. My energies do quicken when people visit me, and I can come half-way, but I do need people to sensitise themselves and come half-way too, to connect on the level that we need, and which most people visiting me actually seek. It’s not just to do with talking, it’s do do with what Hindus would call ‘darshan’ – inner connection and communion. I don’t have a lot of time and energy to mess around, and there might not be a ‘next time’.
This vibrational issue will probably intensify around the time of my passing, and the people who will be welcome will be those who are sensitive and empathic enough to step themselves down sufficiently, vibrationally speaking. There’s a profound quietness involved. Without this, the ‘angelic connection’, the vortex, the wormhole we need to go through when we pass over, doesn’t function so well.
But then, all of this might be the stuff of imagination. How and when we pop our clogs is not something that is controllable. It can happen to any of us tomorrow. Some of us have this truism facing us more hauntingly than others. We shall see how this all pans out when we get there. However, the experiences of the last few months, having shoved me through the grindstone, seem now to be yielding some fruits. And it’s springtime. And I’m still alive.
This end-of-life perspective has led to other things too. In my teens and twenties I chose a path of change, seeking, with so many yet so few others, to change the world. Well, it has taken a far longer and far more than I, or people like me, first thought. Even when being realistic, we still thought it would happen by the time of the Millennium. The purposes for which many of us were born have not been able fully to come about.
In my own case, I feel I was born not exactly to help bring about the big change in the world, but to lay tracks for what needs to happen after it. Much of my life purpose has been predicated on that, and I feel I haven’t done all that I might have done, though what I have done is good enough in the rather adverse circumstances of recent decades. With this in mind, I’m leaving quite a big archive of material on my website, just in case folks in my grandchildren’s generation, or even one or two of my own grandchildren, find it useful.
This issue, for me, has involved quite an internal struggle. And I’ve come to this…
Change takes seven generations. Several ancient cultures say this. That’s rather thought-provoking and difficult to face if you’re a change-making activist, but it’s true. Starting out in adult life as a revolutionary, this is what I’ve had to learn in order to make sense of the way my life and the world unfolded thereafter. Because it isn’t what I and we dreamt of. The world didn’t give peace a chance. However, there’s progress, even if, to us with our limited life-spans, it’s really slow. A lot of groundlaying has been done, and a lot of possibilities have been explored and trialled. Free energy is available, though it awaits its time.
If you count the enormous global change we’re a part of to have started moving in the 1960s, with my generation being the one that started shifting things, then our children’s generation, now mostly in their 30s and 40s, and their kids, now young or up to 25ish, make three generations. Those two younger generations have already shown signs of pushing the process further along than my generation could.
There are four generations to go. That takes us into the 22nd Century. If you come back once you’ve popped your clogs, you might perhaps see this completion in your next life or the one after that. Depending of course on how things go. We earthlings have, after all, chosen to go for a cliffhanger. Not even God Almighty knows what we humans are going to do next. It rests in our hands.
My feeling is that my grandchildren’s generation, the children of today, will shift things sufficiently to swing the overall tide of change in the world – especially in the so-called ‘developing’ or majority world, where young people currently form majorities. I sense that the crunch will come around the 2050s, when they are in mid-life and in power. (For more on this, see here.) That is, the world could well tilt from a net-damaging to a net-fixing mode around then, in de facto terms, but it will still take time.
Yet each generation stands on the shoulders of those who came before, expressing its missed or repressed possibilities. My generation brought us the Summer of Love in 1967 but Britain’s unmentioned, more secret history tells a story of widespread free love, free-thinking and spiritual growth during WW2, amidst the pain and disaster of war. The biggest orgies of recent centuries took place in Hyde Park and similar places on VE day on 8th May 1945, not in 1967. This upwelling of energy got shut down and bottled up when the war ended, and my generation therefore needed to bring it out of hiding (and The Pill helped).
Similarly, the gender-loosening going on in Gen-X today stands on the shoulders of the gays and lesbians of former decades, and the abuses and deaths they went through, and the more communitaire values of many young people today are moving things toward a more human, just and caring kind of society that some in my generation dreamt of and strove to build, even if our rampant individualism rather got in the way.
In terms of longterm change, two things are going on here: one is long and slow, the stuff of centuries, and one is more intense, the stuff of decades. They’re confusingly intermixed. The long, slow one is all about becoming a planetary people, a sustainable and genuinely civilised global culture capable of taking its due place in the universe. That’ll take a while, since it involves healing the damage and trauma of millennia.
The shorter one is the crash-response period we must go through to stop the damage we’re causing and deal with its immediate effects, during this century and in the coming decades. This period of instability and change started in the 1960s and, after a delayed-action start, it’s beginning to gain momentum. Kind of. Hopefully. I think that, by the late 2020s, things could be moving much faster – we could actually be in for an avalanche of events and developments, for which Covid and Ukraine were but the foothills.
If we had started with necessary changes in the 1960s-70s, many of the problems we have now would be very different – we’d be further along the road toward sustainability, justice and peace, though it’s likely that we would not have progressed sufficiently to be ‘out of the woods’ by now. It takes time to fix planets and planetary races, and ultimately it has to be done at every level of reality and in all of the micro-worlds that make up this highly variegated planet we call Earth.
A planet is a mass experience with a particular flavour. Our planet has quite strong gravity-fields, and we therefore have to have quite robust bodies to handle it. Like some kinds of beings of other worlds, we can operate both in the physical and the metaphysical realms, except here, rather psychotically, we separate it into ‘waking life’ and ‘sleep and dreams’, while on other worlds the process is more integrated and conscious. Problem is that the intricacy and immersive quality of life here, together with the strong gravitational fields, pull our thoughts and beliefs downwards and we lose the plot, forgetting the real reasons why we came, the main agenda of life. We’ve made cultural institutions of this and we build our belief systems around quite alienated, separative, distrusting, competitive, threatened assumptions. That’s really weird.
This getting lost business is a big one. We all do it. It is a key part of the planet Earth process. The big question is whether we are able and willing to return to balance, to centre, to sanity, to proportion and to peace, when we do get lost. If we’re willing, the challenge is then to make a habit of returning – however we do that – so that it becomes an inbuilt, default pattern. This becomes important when we face death because marshalling all our forces at that time can be quite an operation. In death, you tend to go the way you habituated yourself to during life. Though it’s also important when we confront a moment of truth or a reality-crunch at any time of life: if habituated to centring and collecting ourselves, we resort to it as a default behaviour. This is important because, when we have a crisis, our control over things drops dramatically. So if you’re able to surf with it, drawing on experience, you’re more likely to make progress in life and in dying – and afterwards. You become psychospiritually more flexible.
So really, the way we deal with our crises and crunch-points in life sets the patterns for the way we die. If avoidance or denial are our default patterns, this makes for a more difficult death, since there can often be far more ‘stuff’ to deal with when death comes. So acceptance, non-resistance, becomes important. You can neither block nor push the river. Even if we feel we can’t handle it, it’s happening anyway, so acceptance is vital.
Even in the new age movement, many people, so anxious to heal and make things better, and somehow thinking that death is some sort of failure, something wrong or perpetually avoidable, suffer big acceptance problems – and this syndrome, not unique to them, stretches across society.
So what are the fears that we each have, that cause us to turn away from dwelling on something that is going to come to every single one of us anyway? Dying is inevitable and unavoidable. The best preparation for death is a full life, lived as well as possible, and there is no standard recipe for it since the answers for each of us are innately programmed within us. So near, yet, sometimes, so far.
So if I seem to be harping on about death and dying, it’s because I feel our society doesn’t talk enough about it, and it’s part of my exploration. Being a pathological communicator, and long ago having tied my growth path to that of the world by taking a spiritual-and-political stand on things, I feel it’s worth going on a bit about it. Or perhaps I don’t have a lot else to do. Even so, I’m grateful for your reading this: it gives me a reason to be here!
Here’s a re-tweet that I keep re-learning over and over: it’s all okay in the end, and if it’s not okay, it’s not the end.
And… so involved in writing was I that I forgot my breakfast, and now it’s past lunchtime. That’s the kind of thing that happens on Earth, especially with me. Time to put the kettle on.
Life never stops throwing stuff at us. Well, until it does.
Here you can see photos of a man who is 60-70% dead. Though in another way, I’m very much alive. Let me explain.
In our society we’re addicted to defining death as clinical death, when the heart stops. But actually, dying is a gradual process where the psyche, you or me, leave the body we used for becoming incarnate on Earth and we move into another existence. Most people are only 10-20% dead – that is, mostly on an unconscious level, only a small part of them is in touch with the otherworld. This sense of connection might increase at special moments such as being present at a childbirth or at the death of another person – part of your psyche goes over to the other side with them. Especially if you let it. But when near the end of life, you edge gradually closer into dying, often in stages and down-steps. Social attitudes tend to make this a secret process for many people at the end of their lives – no one wants to talk about it.
You can see it in my eyes – there’s more of a once-removed look in them than there used to be, if you knew me some years ago. It’s because part of me has already gone over. This is partially because I came close to dying two years ago and then came back, and partially because I’m more or less okay about dying, so I’m not blocking myself from slipping into that kind of space and awareness. I had a near-death experience at age 24, which made me more easygoing about dying – and having a Buddhist background helps too.
Since I contracted cancer in late 2019, life has been very much a day-to-day, uphill grind, an effort, where I have had to apply myself to the art of living much more decidedly and in a much more focused and mindful way. It can be wearing at times. In that context, when you’re growing tired of staying alive and you’re dying, whenever and however it comes, it is likely to be a relief. After all, for me I shall be going home, where there will be no more gravitation and bodily constraint to deal with.
For now I’m okay about being alive, for there is something quite remarkable about this end-of-life phase. There’s a certain clarity to it that comes from a simplification process in the psyche – my capacity to handle complexity, or even my interest in it, is reducing, and this simplifies things. Complexity, human guile, head-trips, hidden agendas and evasions become rather irrelevant. There’s a deep realism to it. For me, it’s a time of honesty with myself, in the knowledge that if I don’t process truths now, I’ll have to process them at death. I’ve been thrust into this state by cancer and relative disability, with a fair dose of isolation thrown in, and having had quite a life over the last seven decades, starting my life in a completely different and distant time of history, I have plenty to reflect on. There’s quite a lot of past and not a lot of future left for me, at least in a bodily sense.
Even now I’m having deep, earth-shaking learning experiences, and I talked about what’s been going on for me in a recent podcast, ‘When it all gets too much’. Growth never ends – it isn’t the domain only of the young and able. One tricky issue I’m facing at present is that I’ve been fucking up. Life is proving too complex, I get out of my depth and I’m not functioning with the same intensity as most people – life’s intricacies get to be a bit too much. So I fuck up. This complicates things and I find it difficult to deal with.
I seem to be managing though. I don’t have enough life left to get really tangled up with things as I used to, and complexity boggles me. One of the drugs I’ve been given, the steriod Dexamethasone, seems to have exaggerated my Aspergers tendencies – in one sense an incapacity to deal with human headtrips and manipulations, with complexity, and in another sense a rather inspired genius, creativity and deep seeing – the Aspie blessing that brought us the Theory of Relativity, the computer, the iPhone and the Tesla. Though in my case it concerns ancient sites, geopolitics, astrology and other weird subjects I’ve given my life to. I don’t have time to hang around resisting life as it presents itself and feeding my fears and neuroses. This isn’t an avoidance: it’s more to do with zeroing in on the really important, fundamental, underlying stuff, the tough, abiding truths, and leaving the complexities to sort themselves out by themselves.
The next bit I’ve thought about long and hard. I’m not seeking to make a public discussion about this because it concerns two real people who are fine souls and deserve good treatment. Also because, in writing this blog, I undertook to tell you my cancer-and-life story, and I cannot genuinely omit this development. This isn’t about taking sides or making judgements. It concerns something that can and indeed does sometimes happen for some cancer patients and for those involved closely with us.
The biggest challenge I’ve recently had to face was a big shock when it came – the sudden ending of my relationship with Lynne. She had good reasons – it had been really difficult for her when I tipped into cancer and went through big changes, including in my personality – and then I fucked up in January, really upsetting her, and suddenly it was all over. It all became too much for her, and suddenly it was over. For me, I could both empathise with her situation and pain and also feel my own loss and inner bleakness. The next month or so was a deep and dark struggle, with emotional and health issues merging into a churning journey that seemed to last a thousand years. Later blood tests revealed that a key cancer indicator (paraproteins in my blood) had gone up – not a good sign since they’d gone down over the last year and more. When I mentioned this emotional storm to the haematology specialist she said, “Oh, that won’t affect anything”. No, she’s wrong there. I’m amazed how a doctor can say such a thing and believe it.
Leaving a cancer patient is difficult. It can lead to public judgement and that’s not fair. So I honour Lynne for being brave at this time. It is not right for a person to feel tied to another, by force of circumstance. She has a life to live too, and perhaps she’s done her bit.
Around spring equinox I started rallying and reviving – the warrior in me kicked in. Falling helplessly into the great cosmic plughole isn’t really my style – well, not for long. I’m going to try to make my cancer readings go back down again by working on reintegrating myself and getting my life-energies pulsing better. This might or might not work. If it doesn’t work, the haematologist wants to change my cancer drugs to Lenalidomide (a new word for Thalidomide) which my mother happened to take for ‘morning sickness’ when I was inside her before birth – I was lucky not to be born severely disabled, and I’m nervous about taking this drug now since I anticipate that it could worsen my Aspergers symptoms yet more or it could affect my spirits, my core medicine-source.
I go up and down on different days, getting to grips with this strangely new chapter of life and letting myself feel and experience everything that comes up, so that these experiences may evaporate into the vastness of things that never were and things that are best forgotten. But it’s hard work. As always, I look for the gift I’m being given in life, and undoubtedly, through Lynne and her absence I’m being given a gift of truth and reality. My homoeopath prescribed me Pearl 1M – pearls are created as an outcome of irritation and ‘things going wrong’. Thanks, Helen.
I wish to thank Lynne from deeper than the bottom of my heart for all she has been and done with me. She looked after me and saved my life two years ago, and her kindness and love were exceptional, a life-changer. Not many people would be able to do that, nowadays. We’ve been such good companions, lovers and soulmates. I sincerely hope she too has benefited deeply from what I have offered her. My going down with cancer wasn’t part of our plan and we’d been together only three years by then – she didn’t really get enough of the me that I once was. I wish her well, bless her. She’s been such a shining soul in my life. Also she’s a very gifted astrologer, and I miss our discussions. I’ve been difficult for her and she has been really good to me, in the last two years. It’s funny and also tragic how life goes, and what we humans do to each other, even when we don’t really mean to. So now we are both ‘free’. I sincerely hope life works well for her and miss her enormously.
Now it is time to move on and make good use of the life that I have. It will take time to repair, yet I need to keep moving forward. It’s time to do the best with life as it presents itself, to uncover the TLC within my own heart and to let myself receive what support life will provide, as if being carried in the open palms of the Goddess. After all, our existence is all about two things that aren’t entirely connected: life as it factually presents itself and life as we choose to see, experience and respond to it – and in the latter lies our power. But it’s true also that it’s really strange encountering an experience such as this at my current stage of life.
One thing I’ve learned is that separation and aloneness do not mean I have to close my heart and block off, just because I find myself on my own or in an emotionally barren state. Love is something that resides in our hearts, in the core of our being – it generates its own warmth and inclusion without having to be dependent on the closeness or the absence of another soul. Though, this said, I must admit that I have to really work on that, and it really is nice being enwrapped in love! Talking to and caring just for myself isn’t quite the same. After all, even as a crippled cancer patient I still love looking after others to the extent I can.
And I still welcome hassle-free, relaxed visitors, and bring your knitting – I serve really good springwater tea.
Life is all about change. All that starts comes to an end. It really does. This is the nature of life on Earth. The Talking Heads once sang that heaven is a place where nothing ever happens, and there’s some truth in it but not a lot, since life goes on everywhere and the progress of the soul on its long evolutionary journey continues wherever we are. Different forms of existence offer different openings and opportunities. One difference between ‘heaven’ and Earth is that, in ‘heaven’, as in your dreams, you experience what your psyche is capable of tuning into, and it often manifests pretty quickly, while on Earth it’s a lot more complex (and we humans make it even more so) and there’s a much bigger gap between possibility and fulfilment. In heaven you can rebuild the bombed cities of Ukraine in an instant, but on Earth it will take decades and it will involve lots of complications and the future just won’t be the same as the past.
I’ve been thinking about my blogs and podcasts. There will come a point where I can’t continue, so the whole series might not conclude in the same neat way as a fiction story. So in the next few weeks I’m going to write and record a final blog and podcast in advance, for my son Tulki to release when the time comes. The funny thing for him is that I’ll be leaving next to nothing in terms of property and money, but he and his sisters will inherit a load of digital assets instead! The list of passwords and digital details I’m leaving is far longer than my will.
But there’s another question too, that I haven’t resolved. I hope and intend to communicate after I’m gone, at least with folks in my family and inner soul-circle, and I’m wondering who will actually have their receptors open and their antennae up when the time actually comes?
Lots of love from me. Paldywan Kenobi.
You’ll find my podcasts here and my website is here and my forthcoming book is here.
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Flying Saucer’s Gose Tasting
Ever since my first taste of Bayerischer Bahnhof’s Leipziger Gose, I’ve absolutely loved the gose style of beer. The mingling of salt and coriander with a sour wheat base is interesting and delicious, and the low alcoholic content is a perfect touch allowing extra enjoyment of more goses. So when I heard that the Flying Saucer, in my opinion the home of Houston’s best beer program, would be hosting a $20 gose tasting, I knew there was no chance I could pass up on it. And I’m glad I didn’t.
Led by the Saucer’s own Joshua Justice, the gose tasting started out with a glass of the recently-released Prairie Flare from Oklahoma. I found Flare to be very soft, with only a little salt and a nice hint of citrus. It paired excellently with a Peruvian ceviche and a French sheep brie. The citrus in the ceviche actually paired well, rather than distracting from the gose, and, very surprisingly, the cheese complimented the light saltiness.
Between goses, Josh treated us to information on the history of gose, including the fact that, since its invention in Goslar well before its 16-17th century migration to Leipzig, it has died out as a style three separate times. As the discussion continued, we were treated to our second pairing: Destihl’s Here Gose Nothing, from Illinois, with a smoked salmon dip. This one has been in Texas for a few months, but the first cans of it were recalled after reports of undesirable off-flavors. This time, however, the flavor was much more similar to what I recall from having had it a few years ago: lightly tart with a good balance and lime notes throughout. The smoke in the dip worked well as a counterbalance.
Those two pairings wrapped up the formal part of the tasting, but it wouldn’t be a party without party favors, and Josh and the Flying Saucer arranged a few free tastings of extra goodies that are not available for sale in Texas. The free tastings included Vermont’s Lost Nation Gose, Oregon’s de Garde Hose, and South Carolina’s Westbrook Gose, three of the more well-known goses outside our state, paired with Linie Aquavit. In addition, a few participants got to taste some even more limited free tastings, including two more beers from de Garde (Nelson Hose, which was my favorite by far, and Cherry Gose), another treat from Lost Nation (The Wind), and finally a delectable treat from Connecticut’s OEC (Artista Zynergia: Gosatequin).
To say the event was awesome would be a major understatement. There should be no surprise that the Flying Saucer would put together an event of this caliber (and price), but somehow I still left amazed. Hopefully when the next tasting is on the schedule (Josh hopes to do American Pale Ales next), you’ll be able to join!

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Lauren Leigh Kelly
Lauren Leigh Kelly is an Assistant Professor in the Urban Social Justice Teacher Education program at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Education. She is also the founder of the annual Hip Hop Youth Research and Activism Conference. Kelly taught high school English for ten years in New York where she developed courses in Hip Hop Literature and Culture, Spoken Word poetry, and Theatre Arts. Kelly received her Ph.D. in English Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on critical media literacy as a lens through which young people can better understand, navigate, and influence their social and cultural environments.
Her workshop, Exploring History, Geography, and Culture through Hip Hop Lit Circles, supports the development of Hip Hop literacies as well as sociohistorical understandings of cultures and communities through the examination of Hip Hop narratives in rap lyrics. Participants will work in groups to read diverse Hip Hop narratives rooted in particular times geographic locations. Using internet resources, each group will research the locations referenced in the songs and discuss the social, historical, and lyrical significance of this place both within and outside of Hip Hop culture, including local knowledge. We will also explore the relationship between time and these locations. Through research, geographic mapping, critical reading, and discussion, participants will work collaboratively to contextualize the authors and narratives of these Hip Hop texts through understandings of the histories, cultures, people, and locations that are embedded in them.
Solange & Seeing What We Imagine: Building compassionate spaces for learning, leadership, and critical self-reflection will explore identity, perspective, story-telling, and how all of these come into play when building brave and compassionate spaces for students and faculty.

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School Administrator, August 2021
School districts can use new school-by-school financials to determine the equity implications across schools.
Because all states now report school-by-school expenditures each year, decisions that districts make about how to apply their federal dollars will show up in the school-by-school financial reports. Districts will want to consider how their investments impact different schools with an eye toward equity.
The accompanying graph uses those new school-by-school financials to show an East Coast school district’s spending per pupil for each of its elementary schools in 2018-19.
Perhaps more importantly is a first-ever equity provision attached to the federal relief funds, namely the Maintenance of Equity requirement. Not to be confused with the Maintenance of Effort provision, this new equity requirement applies to school districts with more than 1,000 students and specifies that if districts make cuts in the 2022 and 2023 school years, they must not make larger cuts per pupil to higher-poverty schools.
Another part of the provision prohibits disproportionate cuts to staffing in each district’s highest-poverty schools. In this case, a school is considered higher poverty if it is in the district’s top quartile of schools with respect to poverty concentration. This new equity requirement means that districts will need to watch carefully how decisions on hiring, staffing or even layoffs impact the finances at various schools.
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A Complete Overview of Reduced Tillage
- Conservation tillage has proven to be advantageous in terms of soil erosion control and water conservation and e.g. no-till farming (NT) is widely adopted, particularly in dryer regions. However, no-till can reduce yields and seems profitable only in combination with other measures of conservation agriculture like improved crop rotations and residue management.
- The scope of this study was to monitor N2O and CH4 trace gas fluxes for two years and to assess SOC stocks in an organic long-term tillage trial. In interaction with tillage systems, two organic fertilizer types were included to assess the impact of different C and N availabilities. The cropping sequence included a grass-clover ley and winter wheat as typical crops in organic rotations found on European farms.
- Organic reduced tillage aims to combine the environmental benefits of organic farming and conservation tillage to increase sustainability and soil quality. In temperate climates, there is currently no knowledge about its impact on greenhouse gas emissions and only little information about soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in these management systems.
- We therefore monitored nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) fluxes besides SOC stocks for two years in a grass-clover ley – winter wheat – cover crop sequence.
- The monitoring was undertaken in an organically managed long-term tillage trial on a clay rich soil in Switzerland. Reduced tillage (RT) was compared with ploughing (conventional tillage, CT) in interaction with two fertilisation systems, cattle slurry alone (SL) versus cattle manure compost and slurry (MC).
This study filled important knowledge gaps about the impact of organic reduced tillage on greenhouse gas emissions, SOC stock changes and its potential for climate change mitigation.
- organic reduced tillage increased SOC stocks after 13 years compared to ploughing in slurry fertilized plots and that tillage system effects were of minor importance in terms of N2O and CH4 emissions when the cropping seasons were considered. N2O fluxes after single tillage events were however higher in the reduced system. We further observed that
- fertilizing with manure compost increased N2O emissions and SOC stocks compared to fertilization with slurry with little effects on CH4 uptake.
The results indicated that reduced tillage and manure compost application were both valuable measures for climate change mitigation in relation to the traditional ploughing system with slurry application due to the domination of SOC sequestration in the first decade after conversion. N2O fluxes were triggered by actual pedoclimatic conditions and influenced by soil biochemical properties. To reduce the impact of tillage operations on N2O emissions, it is recommended to reduce tillage frequency and to adjust tillage timing to cold and dry soil conditions whenever possible.

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Now this is comedy gold! Lady Gaga is fuming after finding out that fashion failure Kim Kardashian has pinched her top-end stylist.
As Gaga languishes in her wheelchair (which she’s weirdly named Emma) after injuring herself on tour, Kim, 32, has been wooing the pop star’s cherished stylist, Nicola Formichetti via email to convince him to come and work for her.
And that’s not all! Our source revealed that Kim was so set on working with Nicola that she flew from Miami to shoot with him in New York, changing her schedule at the last minute. And Gaga, 26, is not happy!
“Gaga was fuming when she discovered Nicola was working with Kim,” says an insider. “She’s fiercely protective of the people she works with and she’s always been determined to have Nicola all to herself.”
For our exclusive complete story, including why they’re having a fashion face-off, get your copy of Ahlan! out on stands Wednesday 28 February.

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KUALA LUMPUR: A goal that was scored well into injury time by substitute Jonathan Reis, saw high riding Kedah Darul Aman FC escape with a 1-1 draw against Sri Pahang FC in a Super League match at the Darul Makmur Stadium in Kuantan, yesterday.
The draw was the first for Kedah in their six outings and ensured they remained in second place, five points behind Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT), in the league table.
JDT has 18 points after six matches (won all six matches) while Kedah are second on 13 points with four wins, a draw and a loss.
Sabah are third, also with 13 points, but have an inferior goal difference compared to Kedah while Red Giants, Selangor are fourth in the table with 13 points as well and Sri Pahang are in fifth place with 10 points.
In yesterday’s match that started late due to the fasting month, Kedah dominated the first half but could not turn their chances into goals and both teams made it to the dressing room after a goalless first half.
Sri Pahang started the second half on a better footing and gave Kedah all sorts of problems and it was from one of those attacks that the home side was awarded a penalty in the 60th minute when Kpah Sherman’s strike was handled by defender Muhammad Ariff Farhan Md Isa.
Argentine striker Stefano Brundo stepped to convert the penalty and in fact could have taken a 2-0 lead in the 86th minute when Mohd Aiman Afif Md Afizul brought down Sherman inside the box but Silva ballooned his shot wide.
Meanwhile, fans who came to watch the match despite observing the fasting month, were treated to a six-goal thriller at the Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium in Paroi when Negeri Sembilan scored a 4-2 victory over Kelantan FC.
Mahalli Jasuli gave Negeri a flying start when he opened the score in the 16th minute but Ismaheel Akinade equalised in the 36th minute from the penalty spot.
Two minutes (38th min) later though, the home side managed to restore the lead with a powerful header from French import Herold Goulon but Akinade was again on target in the 45th minute to make it 2-2 before half time.
Negeri Sembilan coached by K. Devan, made it 3-2 through Shahrel Fikri before Brazilian import Anselmo Arruda Da Silva made it 4-2.
In a match played earlier at the State Stadium in Kuching, bottom of the league side Kuching City FC lost 0-1 to PDRM with Brazilian import, Bruno Suzuki scoring the winner at the State Stadium in Kuching.
Kuching City FC has yet to win a match despite having played six times. The side from Sarawak has a single point from a draw. -Bernama


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We state that the politics, poetics, ideas, and practices of dwelling represent a privileged standpoint for uncovering how contemporary transformations are materialized, embodied and felt in everyday life.
Carsten recently argued that anthropology should be more engaged in "listening" to homes, not considering them just as objects, but as "interconnections between individual trajectories, kinship and the state" (Carsten 2018: 103). Taking into account Carsten's call, we state that politics, poetics and practices of dwelling represent a privileged standpoint for uncovering how contemporary transformations are materialized, embodied and felt in everyday life.
Anthropology has interpreted houses, on one side, as complex results of societal dynamics. On the other side, houses have been seen as active loci that promote changes in society. Without falling into determinism, we want to explore how societal transformations influence perceptions, praxes and ideas of house and, dialectically, how certain perceptions, praxes and ideas of house can retroact on those same dimensions.
These dialectical dimensions invite to consider houses as part of a wider process, that we could defined as "being at home". Many factors promote the theoretical necessity of interpreting different "being(s) at home": transnational migrations, social media, economic crises, wild urbanization, touristification, represent some of the phenomena that are changing the experience of dwelling.
In this panel, we are interested in tracking social changes - in a global perspective - from the peculiar point of view of houses. We are interested in papers that ethnographically explore the relationship between houses and everyday practices, between the broader "built environments" and their social contexts. In particular, we are interested in dwelling experiences that show how people deal with changes, in the forms of precarity, risk, and vulnerability.
Rosalie Stolz (Heidelberg University)
Claudius Stroehle (University of Innsbruck)
José Mapril (Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Stefano Pontiggia (Politecnico di Milano)
Jonathan Alderman (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)

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Noise Health and fitness: Navigating Audiology with Otolaryngology Techniques
This subject connected with otolaryngology, encompassing this examination in addition to treatment method connected with diseases relevant to this the ears, sinuses, throat, in addition to scalp in addition to fretboard, provides it is get to into your dominion connected with audiology. Audiology, some sort of specialised control in otolaryngology, targets on this deterrence, analysis, in addition to managing connected with ability to hear in addition to sense of balance diseases. In this particular detailed guideline, most of us examine the crucial purpose connected with audiology in otolaryngology techniques, mentioning benefit connected with noise health and fitness with entire well-being.
Part 1: This Vital Network Concerning Otolaryngology in addition to Audiology
Otolaryngology in addition to audiology write about some sort of symbiotic marriage, seeing that the healthiness of this the ears in addition to ability to hear 睡眠窒息症 functionality is usually intertwined while using the bigger considerations on the scalp in addition to fretboard. That part delves in the way otolaryngologists in addition to audiologists collaborate to produce detailed health care, emphasizing benefit connected with approaching ability to hear difficulties from the situation connected with entire head health and fitness.
Part 3: Composition in addition to Physiology connected with Ability to hear
Realizing this subtleties on the oral process is usually standard towards process connected with audiology. That part explores this composition in addition to physiology connected with ability to hear, on the surface head towards intrinsic head in addition to oral trails. Audiologists leveraging that expertise to help analyse in addition to spot a variety of ability to hear diseases, by conductive ability to hear burning to help sensorineural ability to hear burning.
Part 3: Ability to hear Opinions in addition to Diagnostic Testing
Audiologists hire a range of testing in addition to opinions to help analyse ability to hear functionality in addition to distinguish likely difficulties. That part examines popular diagnostic instruments, as well as pure-tone audiometry, dialog audiometry, tympanometry, in addition to otoacoustic emissions examining. Most of these lab tests produce precious skills into your form in addition to quantity ability to hear burning, helping treatment method options.
Part 5: Ability to hear Burning: Reasons in addition to Class
Ability to hear burning can certainly originate from several different variables, in addition to realizing it is reasons is critical intended for useful managing. That part explores different classifications connected with ability to hear burning, as well as conductive, sensorineural, in addition to merged, in addition to examines making contributions variables like age-related improvements, your age, contact with disturbance, in addition to medical conditions.
Part 5: Buzzing in the ears in addition to Sense of balance Diseases: Audiological Sides
Audiology provides further than ability to hear burning to help entail disorders like buzzing in the ears (ringing from the ears) in addition to sense of balance diseases. That part explores the way audiologists engage in a significant purpose with diagnosing in addition to coping with most of these disorders, typically getting work done in tandem having otolaryngologists to treat this all-round characteristics connected with ear-related indicators.
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If you are having ability to hear burning, ability to hear products is usually transformative equipment of which strengthen verbal exchanges in addition to enrich entire well being. That part delves into your progress with ability to hear assistance technological know-how, dealing with a digital ability to hear products, cochlear implants, in addition to bone-anchored ability to hear products. Audiologists engage in some sort of middle purpose with size in addition to fine-tuning these devices to meet up with the suitable desires of specific.
Part 7: Pediatric Audiology: Beginning Intervention in addition to Progress
Ability to hear health and fitness is vital from the developmental development connected with lifetime, in particular with little ones. That part explores this purpose connected with audiologists with pediatric audiology, emphasizing benefit connected with beginning intervention intended for maximum dialect in addition to cognitive progress. New baby ability to hear screenings, diagnostic lab tests, in addition to intervention tactics usually are outlined to guarantee noise health and fitness with pediatric populations.
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Further than this technological tasks of ability to hear lab tests in addition to equipment, audiology will involve some sort of human-centric method to oral rehabilitation. That part explores this purpose connected with audiologists with giving direction in addition to service to help those with ability to hear burning. Tips for verbal exchanges, working with ability to hear burning, in addition to bettering entire oral well-being usually are vital different parts of audiological health care.
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Audiologists promote bigger open health and fitness attempts, in particular from the dominion connected with work audiology. That part examines the way audiologists collaborate having companies to enhance ability to hear conservation, carryout disturbance subjection lab tests, in addition to put into practice strategies to keep work ability to hear burning.
Part 10: Foreseeable future Movements in addition to Inventions with Audiology
This subject connected with audiology continues to advance having progress with technological know-how in addition to exploration. That part explores foreseeable future movements in addition to inventions with audiology, as well as trends with ability to hear assistance technological know-how, telehealth products and services, in addition to likely strides with dealing with ability to hear diseases. This integration connected with manufactured learning ability in addition to tailored drugs in audiological techniques is additionally outlined.
Realization: Noise Health and fitness, Energetic Day-to-day lives
Finally, audiology is usually an vital component of otolaryngology techniques, triggering noise health and energetic day-to-day lives. This relationship concerning otolaryngologists in addition to audiologists makes sure an all-inclusive method to ear-related considerations, by diagnosing ability to hear burning to help giving rehabilitative products and services. For the reason that subject continues to enhance, one’s destiny supports ensuring trends with audiological health care, finally triggering much better oral health and well-being if you are off a long time. This beneficial intersection connected with otolaryngology in addition to audiology reaffirms this unique impression connected with noise health and fitness within the entire well being.

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Metal Structure Sazabi is the latest ambitious project from Bandai Namco. Coming with all metallic parts, it towers in at Perfect Grade scale, however with all parts and base considered, this is hte biggest kit ever released, totalling 8 kg.
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The British Cattle Veterinary Association (BCVA) is co-hosting a sixth conference in the global fight against bovine TB.
The three-day programme will include keynote speakers who will present on a range of topics surrounding bovine TB, including vaccination, innovations and wildlife policy options.
Wales’ chief veterinary officer, Christianne Glossop said: “TB is one of the most serious animal health issues faced in Wales, and we have a commitment to eradicate it.
“As well as learning from others from across the world, we are looking forwards to sharing our eradication programme based on an annual testing regime and improved standards of biosecurity.
“Production systems and farming conditions may vary but the basic principles of infectious disease control are the same the world over and this is a fantastic opportunity for Wales and the UK.”
The conference runs every four years and will take place between June 16 and 19 at the City Hall in Cardiff.
For more information, visit www.bcva.eu/bcva/m-bovis.


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So I have been doing my research on literary agencies and agents that might take my query into consideration and I noticed that a lot of them ask for Author’s bios. I looked into what that entails and a lot of websites suggested that it has to do with the author’s publishing history, which I obviously don’t have. They also suggested that if you don’t have publishing experience, you can demonstrate your dedication to your craft by talking about literary societies you’re involved in.
Well… I’m not involved in literary societies either. I’m actually quite a hermit. Interactions with other humans exhausts me, and I try to avoid it if I can help it. The only thing I can think that might demonstrate my qualifications for writing the novel I’m submitting for query is the fact that I share my protagonists profession (seamstress), and I have lived in my protagonists home of origin (England). That’s about it. I don’t have any published works, I haven’t won any reputable writing contests. I don’t even have a Twitter account. I’m just a recluse trying my hand at traditional publication.

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Katy Perry discusses why she has decided to take a touring hiatus.
The 2019 winner of “American Idol” will take home an unforgettable grand prize.
Three musicians will act as judges when the 2019 season of “American Idol” premieres.
Antonella Barba was given a federal indictment on Monday for conspiracy to deal heroin, cocaine and fentanyl, the Virginian-Pilot reported.
Brian Dunkleman began working for Uber in March 2016. He said he earns about $800 a week by working 45 hours.
The judges earn a large salary for coaching contestants on “The Voice.”
Kelly Clarkson crushed rumors pitting her and Carrie Underwood against each other.
Katy Perry admitted during the season finale of “American Idol” that she’s “not single.”
The top 4 contestants moving on to the finals of “The Voice” Season 14 were revealed.
“American Idol” has been renewed for another season on ABC.
Katy Perry might have just let it slip that she is back together with her ex-boyfriend, Orlando Bloom.
The top 14 contestants on “American Idol” have been named, and they will compete for America’s vote starting this Sunday.
The first seven contestants who will perform on “American Idol” live have just been named.
The first 12 contestants from “American Idol’s” top 24 have already performed.
Some fan favorites did not make it past Hollywood Week in “American Idol.”
All of the contestants who made it past the auditions will head to Hollywood in “American Idol.”
The 2018 winner of “American Idol” will take home a memorable grand prize.
Three musicians will act as judges on the “American Idol” 2018 reboot.
Fox’s “O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession” and ABC’s “American Idol” reboot will both air on March 11 at 8 p.m. EST.
Ryan Seacrest’s colleagues came to his defense after the host was accused of sexual harassment by his former stylist.
NHL player Mike Fisher has responded to reports saying he and wife Carrie Underwood are divorcing.
“American Idol” reboot will be different from the original singing competition that aired on Fox in a lot of different ways.
More Shondaland series and more reality shows are on the way.
He posted a video on Instagram of him gifting the animals to his wife, Wednesday.
Jordin Sparks and husband Dana Isaiah took to Instagram to announce the gender of their baby.

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Climate change and geological events have long been known to shape biodiversity, implying that these can likewise be viewed from a biological perspective. To study whether plants can shed light on this, and how they responded to climate change there, we examined Oreocnide, a genus widely distributed in SE Asia. Based on broad geographic sampling with genomic data, we employed an integrative approach of phylogenomics, molecular dating, historical biogeography, and ecological analyses. We found that Oreocnide originated in mainland East Asia and began to diversify ∼6.06 Ma, probably in response to a distinct geographic and climatic transition in East Asia at around that time, implying that the last important geological change in mainland SE Asia might be 1 Ma older than previously suggested. Around six immigration events to the islands of Malesia followed, indicating that immigration from the mainland could be an underestimated factor in the assembly of biotic communities in the region. Two detected increases of diversification rate occurred 3.13 and 1.19 Ma, which strongly implicated climatic rather than geological changes as likely drivers of diversification, with candidates being the Pliocene intensification of the East Asian monsoons, and Pleistocene climate and sea level fluctuations. Distribution modelling indicated that Pleistocene sea level and climate fluctuations were inferred to enable inter-island dispersal followed by allopatric separation, underpinning radiation in the genus. Overall, our study, based on multiple lines of evidence, linked plant diversification to the most recent climatic and geological events in SE Asia. We highlight the importance of immigration in the assembly and diversification of the SE Asian flora, and underscore the utility of plant clades, as independent lines of evidence, for reconstructing recent climatic and geological events in the SE Asian region.
- Evolutionary history
- SE Asia
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- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Molecular Biology


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I'm gonna take a look at Gintama, at the same time I'm watching Toriko, Persona 4, Fate Zero, HxH Remake and Fairy Tail
I'll pick one more series to watch at the same time.
My choices are:
Ao No Exorcist
One Piece, but is so long that I prefer to wait until FZ and P4 are finished
Saint Seiya the Lost Canvas, only if the anime is complete
Digimon Xross Wars
Kenichi's strongest disciple
Guilty Crown, I have watched three episodes and I'll say that is mid level only.
At the same time I'll be reading a manga, the time I usually spend on anime per day is from 2 to 5 episodes at most 10. And I want to enjoy at full my vacation, so I cannot watch all those at the same time
So I'll ask the public a suggestion. Consider that I prefer good plot over just shonenly violence

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Project Pablo (a.k.a. Patrick Holland) is a Montreal-based, Vancouver-raised producer at the forefront of Canadian house music. His crisp, jazzy productions continue to provide the perfect poolside soundtrack. This week, he dropped a new single titled “Warm Priority.”
Holland is part of the excellent 1080p Collection who release predominantly via cassette and fly the flag for the warm, crackly sound of new Canadian house music.
This single is part of the new Priorities EP, which will release on April 7th through Magic Wire.


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Rihanna made an appearance at the ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ premiere, one day after teasing she’s making a musical comeback on the film’s soundtrack. The singer enjoyed a date night out with her beau, A$AP Rocky, and the two rocked coordinated outfits. Rihanna expressed just how honored she was to be a part of the movie. The GRAMMY winner’s song, ‘Lift Me Up,’ is set to be the lead single of the soundtrack and was written as a tribute to late actor Chadwick Boseman. ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ is in theaters Nov. 11.
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Technically Incorrect: A Seattle cyclist is miffed that a woman has parked in a bike lane. He posts a helmet-cam video to YouTube, where many have watched. But who comes out of it better?
A recipe found in a ninth-century Anglo Saxon book of medical remedies has proven effective in killing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
The microcomputer designed to get kids interested in coding powers down when hit with high-intensity, long-wave flashes from cameras.
NBC is rebooting "Heroes" in 2015, and took to the Super Bowl to release a new teaser trailer for the upcoming "Heroes Reborn" series. Will the reboot actually be decent?
A quick attempt to reattach the king's beard with epoxy-based glue has defaced the Egyptian Museum's biggest draw forever.
Technically Incorrect: The contestants are gathered in Miami for Miss Universe. Israel and Lebanon are still at war. This is not the time for modern diplomacy. Can a selfie cause an international incident? Yes, it can.
The potentially landmark Silicon Valley trial nears its end, with closing arguments expected Tuesday.
If you got new tech toys over the holidays, consider donating your old gadgets and computers to organizations that can refurbish or resell them. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports on ways you can recycle your technology while helping those in need.
The 115th annual New York auto show starts next week -- we'll see new cars from McLaren and Cadillac, not to mention exciting updates, from a hybrid Toyota RAV4 to a new Nissan Maxima.
Raising money for medical bills, memorials, sports and other worthy causes are now fee-free on the popular crowdfunding service.


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Custom Map: Cdncool's Creed
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Level 31 : Artisan Architect
If you want to support me, I make gaming videos on my youtube channel. Comments, likes, favorites, and or subscriptions are very nice. I would love the support. I will be trying to make videos weekly. Thank you
If you are a big fan of Assassin's Creed, you may notice that the architecture in my map is somewhat different from the game. I wanted to make a new and original design.
P.S.- If you plan on making a role-play server with this map, you are allowed to, but please inform me. I am a big fan of role-playing, and I would love to join.
-Version 2 is released! I hope everyone likes it! Sorry for the wait. :)
-For the Custom Kingdom. Make a PlanetMinecraft Project, and send me the link in the comments section below. It must have atleast 3 pictures of the kingdom, a download link, and it must be in the area i designated(you may tamper with the walls if you have to). I will take the best three kingdoms, and show them on this post. Have fun. :D
I am using a Johnsmith texture pack. I recommend it.
|Tags:||Cdncool Challenge, Adventure, Assassins Creed, Parkour, Ezio, Assassin, Weapons, Rome, Desert, Revelations, Brotherhood, Stop, Reading, Tags, Challenge|
Final Update : 04/30/2012 5:29:38 pm4/30/12
-finished custom kingdom
-fixed some stuff.
- Released V2! :D
Update #8 : 03/30/2012 12:15:41 pm3/30/12
-finished market area.
-working more on custom kingdom, and economy
- sorry for the wait everyone. I was extremely busy
Update #7 : 01/11/2012 8:52:07 pm1/11/12
- Started the Custom Kingdom for V2
- Finished up the parkour tactics
-Finished the houses exterior.
Update #6 : 01/03/2012 6:20:57 pm1/03/12
-lit half of the houses with torches
Update #5 : 12/23/2011 4:12:09 pm12/23/11
-filled every house plot.
-made the prison.
-made the market.
Update #4 : 12/21/2011 10:35:48 pm12/21/11
- Blacksmith's building
- more buildings (including Assassin's Dens)
-did i mention more buildings?
Update #3 : 12/19/2011 12:26:43 pm12/19/11
-Yep. I added a graveyard.
- added alot more buildings.
-built a bank.
-built a pub.
-built a hotel.
enjoy the new pictures :D
Update #2 : 12/18/2011 4:29:16 pm12/18/11
-That is right. I added a reed farm for amazing chase scenes.
-fixed sand patches
-finished the roads
-even more buildings
Update #1 : 12/16/2011 9:25:00 pm12/16/11
- more buildings :P