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Die Amelungsburg ist eine frühere Wallburg die sich auf dem Amelungsberg im Höhenzug Süntel im deutschen Bundesland Niedersachsen befindet. Das Areal der Wallburg gehört zum Gemeindegebiet von Hessisch Oldendorf im Landkreis Hameln-Pyrmont. Es liegt vollständig im Naturschutzgebiet Hohenstein.

Beschreibung
Die rund 15 ha große Höhenburganlage liegt bei  auf dem rund 900 Meter langen und 300 Meter breiten Plateau des Amelungsberg, das nach allen Seiten steil abfällt. Die Befestigungsanlage bestand aus einem Wall an zwei Seiten des Geländes mit einer Länge von rund 1000 Meter. Er hat heute eine Höhe von etwa 1,5 Meter und ist bis zu 4 Meter breit. An den anderen beiden Seiten haben sich nur geringe Wallspuren erhalten. Reste eines früheren Torzugangs fanden sich auf der Südostseite des Plateaus knapp 70 Meter westlich des heutigen Durchbruchs.

Unterhalb der Anlage verläuft ein rund 300 Meter langer Vorwall mit Graben, der ebenfalls einen Durchlass aufweist. Der Wall hat eine Breite von rund 7 Metern und ist bis zu 2 Meter hoch. Der vorgelagerte Graben ist rund 4 Meter breit und noch einen Meter tief.

Ausgrabungen
In den Jahren 1954 und 1955 sowie 2005 fanden Ausgrabungen auf dem Gelände statt. Dabei wurde festgestellt, dass im Wall eine Trockenmauer von etwa 3 Meter Breite und bis zu 2,5 Meter Höhe vorhanden war. Aufgefundene Tierknochen, die als Abfälle der eingesetzten Arbeitskräfte angesehen wurden, ließen sich mittels der C14-Methode auf die Zeit um 400 v. Chr. datieren. Etwa 300 Fundstücke, darunter Werkzeuge, eiserne Wagenteile und Radreifen, ließen sich der Latènezeit zuordnen. Der Vorwall ließ sich durch ein Keramikgefäß in das 8. Jahrhundert datieren. Fundstücke aus sächsischer Zeit aus dem Innenraum der Burg bestanden aus zwei Fibeln, Reitsporen, eine Axt, ein Messer und eine Lanzenspitze. Auf die Anwesenheit von Metallhandwerkern weisen Ambosse,  Hämmer und Bronzeschrott hin.

Geschichte
Die Befestigungsanlage entstand nach Aussage der Ausgrabungsergebnisse in der vorrömischen Eisenzeit, wobei die Archäologen von einer Bauzeit von bis zu 6 Wochen ausgehen. Der Hauptwall wurde um 400 v. Chr. aufgeschüttet. Diese Nutzungsphase dauerte mindestens bis in die Mitte des 3. Jhs. v. Chr.

Im 8. Jahrhundert ist die Burg wieder reaktiviert worden. Ein weiterer Ausbau der Anlage durch die Anlage des Vorwalls während der Sachsenkriege Karls des Großen ist anzunehmen. Im Süntel wurde 782  unter der Führung des Sachsenherzogs Widukind ein fränkisches Heer vernichtend geschlagen, was zum Blutgericht zu Verden führte. Die Amelungsburg kommt wegen der wenigen Waffenfunde nicht als Schlachtfeld infrage, könnte aber in die Gesamtstrategie der Sachsen einbezogen worden sein.

Spuren eines möglichen Überfalls in der jüngeren Eisenzeit
Um das Jahr 2005 nahm das Niedersächsische Landesamt für Denkmalpflege umfangreiche Prospektionen auf dem Gelände der Amelungsburg vor. Das dabei geborgene Fundmaterial an latènezeitlichem Material konzentrierte sich in einem Bereich. Die Vielzahl der gefundenen Gegenstände sprach zunächst für eine Besiedlung der Befestigungsanlage, für die sich kein archäologischer Beleg finden ließ.

Der Archäologe Erhard Cosack entwickelte eine Theorie, wonach die Befestigung während der jüngeren Eisenzeit ebenso wie die Barenburg im Osterwald von Kelten überfallen  worden sei. Das ergibt sich aus Fundstücken, die auf dem Gelände in bewusst angelegten Depots vergraben wurden. Sie enthalten Inventare von Metall- und Holzhandwerkern sowie Metallgegenstände, wie Sicheln, Beile und Messer einer bäuerlichen Bevölkerung. Die Versteckfunde sprechen dafür, dass sich die Bevölkerung auf die Befestigungsanlage zurückgezogen hatte und ihr genügend Zeit vor einem Angriff blieb, ihre Wertgegenstände zu vergraben. Der Archäologe Erhard Cosack nimmt an, dass die Bevölkerung verschleppt wurde und ihre Eigentum deswegen nicht mehr bergen konnte. Einen Hinweis auf Kelten als Angreifer lieferte ein Hortfund im Oppidum von Manching. Er enthielt Teile von Gürteln und Fibeln, die von Form und Eigenheiten her mit Fundstücken der Barenburg und Amelungsburg übereinstimmen beim Fehlen von Vergleichsstücken in Süddeutschland.

Schlacht am Süntel 782
Archäologische Funde und Befunde auf der Amelungsburg sowie der Barenburg könnten im Zusammenhang mit der 782 stattgefundenen Schlacht am Süntel stehen. Dazu zählen Fundstücke, wie Messer, Pfeile, Lanzenspitzen und Reitersporen. Archäologen deuten dies als Hinweise auf den Aufenthalt von sächsischen Truppen, die sich in beiden Fliehburgen gesammelt haben. Als weiteren Hinweis auf die Schlacht sehen Archäologen die Begräbnisse von zwei Reiterkriegern, die im Jahr 2001 in Sarstedt entdeckt wurden. Sie waren mit ihrer Ausrüstung in Form von Stoßlanze, Sax und Schild sowie Pferd in Kammergräbern bestattet. Beide Krieger weisen Spuren von tödlichen Verletzungen durch ein Loch im Schädel und das Fehlen eines Unterschenkels auf.

Literatur
 Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Die ur- und frühgeschichtlichen Burgwälle im Regierungsbezirk Hannover. Hannover 2000, ISBN 3-7752-5645-8, S. 92–94.
Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Schaumburger Land – Burgenland, in der Reihe Wegweiser zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte Niedersachsens  (29), Oldenburg, 2010, herausgegeben vom Niedersächsischen Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und der Archäologischen Kommission für Niedersachsen, ISBN 978-3-89995-673-3
Danièle Bèrenger: Die Befestigungen der vorrömischen Eisenzeit im östlichen Westfalen. In: Ausgrabungen und Funde in Westfalen-Lippe 1 (1983), S. 45–48, 54.
Erhard Cosack: Die Amelungsburg bei Langenfeld, Hessisch Oldendorf, Ldkr. Hameln-Pymont in: Neue Forschungen zu den latènezeitlichen Befestigungsanlagen im ehemaligen Regierungsbezirk hannover, Neumünster, 2008, S. 37–45
Erhard Cosack: Keltische Überfälle in der niedersächsischen Mittelgebirgszone. in: Archäologie in Niedersachsen, Bd. 17. Oldenburg 2014, S. 51–55
 Erhard Cosack: Neue Spuren sächsischer Krieger in der Barenburg, bei Eldagsen, Region Hannover, und die Schlacht am Süntel 782 n.Chr. in: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 87, 2017, S. 233–246

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Archäologischer Fundplatz (Eisenzeit)
Geographie (Hessisch Oldendorf)
Prähistorische Befestigung
Archäologischer Fundplatz in Niedersachsen
Burgwall in Niedersachsen
Höhenburg in Niedersachsen
Bauwerk in Hessisch Oldendorf
Burg in Europa

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Fans of the Golden Arches are taking the idea of food and drink to a new level.
There's an emerging trend in Japan in which people pierce McDonald's hamburgers through a straw and rest it on top of the cup. Why? We have no idea, but we do know people have also tried it with Egg McMuffins, too.
Whether this trend goes global remains to be seen (not to mention tasted), but we can't help but think some enterprising folks are going to try this with other restaurants, although we don't think this will work quite as well with a burrito from Taco Bell.


The pet store (as in, "store that sells live animals", not "store that sells food and supplies for pets") in the local mall is closing. I am sorry for the proprietors, but this is a Good Thing. If you want to sell puppies, get into the breeding business, don't market them like bottles of soda.
Should Pet Stores Sell Puppies?
LONGMONT — An original tenant of Twin Peaks Mall is calling it quits.
Animal Kingdom, originally Pet City, opened when the mall did — Aug. 7, 1985. Several owners later, the store — purchased by its current owners only last April — will shut its doors for the final time Sunday.
Pam Freitik had previously worked for a law firm, and her daughter for Petland in Broomfield.
"That's what made us go, 'Let's give this a try,'" said Pam Freitik. She said the two contacted Steve Waugh, who owns several Pet City franchises in the area, and he suggested they buy the Twin Peaks store, which was struggling under its then-owner.
"A lot of people came in," said Stephanie Freitik, echoing her mother's comments.
Overall sales at the mall over the holidays were up from last year, but the increase did not transfer to Animal Kingdom's cash registers.
PetsMart, essentially a big-box pet store chain, opened across the street from the Twin Peaks Mall in early fall 2002, months before the Freitik's purchase of Pet City. While Stephanie Freitik said Pet City had been failing even before PetsMart came in, her mother said the giant store had a noticeable impact on their business.
Twin Peaks has seen a lot of changes over the years, but the pet store on the corner near the food court, with the big glass windows where kids could watch the puppies play, had been a staple since the very beginning.
J.C. Penney is the only original anchor remaining from 1985, and only a few other smaller stores — including the Coach House, Claire's Boutique and Wicks & Lather — have been there since the mall opened.
But the puppies in the window may have made Pet City — later Animal Kingdom — the most visible of all of them.
The two Animal Kingdom owners are disappointed that they couldn't make a go of the store. Pam Freitik said her husband and mother pitched in to help with the store, and even her 18-month-old grandson has gotten into the act — occasionally coming in to dust.
"So it has been a total family involvement," Pam Freitik said.
While her daughter will stay home to take care of her new baby, Pam Freitik said she's already been invited back to the law firm for which she used to work. But, she said, it won't be the same.


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Here is a fun way to take the game Jenga™ to a whole new level while helping your students to get to know each other better. Just download these free Jenga statement slips, cut them apart and tape them to the bottom of your Jenga™ blocks (great job for a student or parent helper).
The statements are designed to be quick so that no one gets bored. This would be great at a center at the start of the year and fun to play throughout the year.
You can also get basic addition and multiplication facts Jenga here (also free).
Back to School Resources Games in the Classroom Free Back to School Ice Breaker! Summer Projects for Teachers and Their Kids Brain Breaks Freebie!
LOVE this idea!!! Would also make a great indoor recess game.
Great idea! I am going to share your site and idea on my facebook page and blog. THANKS FOR SHARING!
So glad you can use this! I am planning to create more Jenga spin-offs soon!
Thanks for the shout outs, 4th Grade Froggies, much appreciated!
Great idea! Thanks for linking up.
Hey Rachel! I am in the midst of writing up a, "How to use Jenga in your class blog) http://eslcarissa.blogspot.com/2014/05/jenga-in-classroom.html and I've included a link to your freebie!


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In this module creating db, using openjpa for that.

A: It means that your bundle needs an EntityManagerFactory service for your persistence unit. This can be a bit difficult to track down.
You have to check that you have a bundle that defines this persistence unit, that it is correctly announced using the Manifest header and also that you have a suitable DataSource defined.
For the new error you get I think the problem is that you inject an EnityManagerFactory while I think you need to inject an EntityManager.

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Parson pay raise plan in limbo as $5.4 billion spending bill awaits vote
GOP splits over size of raise, base rate for state workers while Democrats back plan from Republican governor
By: Rudi Keller - January 24, 2022 5:04 pm
State Rep. LaKeySha Bosley, D-St. Louis, speaks during a new conference Monday by Democrats about state budget issues. (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent)
Missouri state employees counting on seeing a big raise in their February paychecks may be disappointed, as lawmakers fiddle with a $5.4 billion spending bill pushed by Gov. Mike Parson.
When the Republican governor in December proposed a 5.5 percent pay raise for all state workers, he said he wanted it in effect by Feb. 1. But a week to go before that deadline, the supplemental spending bill that includes the raises has yet to come to a vote in the House Budget Committee, the first of many steps before it reaches Parson's desk.
The bill received a public hearing on Jan. 10. Committee Chairman Cody Smith, R-Carthage, said Monday that he's trying to work through issues dividing Republicans, including whether every employee should get the raise.
"There are a range of opinions about how we implement a pay plan increase, with one view that we do targeted increases," Smith said. "The other view is that all state employees should get a raise at the same time. We have a spectrum of opinion in the caucus."
Republicans are also divided over whether Parson's proposal for a $15-an-hour base pay for all state jobs should be approved, Smith said.
The state minimum wage for private employers is $11.15 an hour as of Jan. 1 and will increase to $12 an hour on Jan. 1, 2023. The $15 base rate for state employees is intended to attract workers to jobs in mental health facilities, prisons and other facilities and compete with private sector wages being offered in a very competitive job market, state Budget Director Dan Haug said during the Jan. 10 public hearing.
Setting the state payroll base at $15 could make state jobs among the best-paying in some parts of the state, Smith said.
"If we do have actual minimum-wage jobs in the Missouri workforce, those don't need to be paid higher than the state minimum wage," he said.
The supplemental spending bill also includes $1.9 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds for public schools and $1.6 billion for Medicaid.
The Feb. 1 date isn't a hard-and-fast deadline for Parson to sign the bill into law in order to get the raises out on time. The first paycheck that includes Feb. 1 will be issued to state employees on Feb. 28, but any changes to pay rates must be made by mid-February to be reflected on that check.
The only sure deadline for passing the bill is March 24, when federal law requires the state to have appropriated at least 75 percent of the school funding. But the Medicaid program, which was expanded last year to cover working-age adults, is likely to need money sooner.
At a news conference Monday, House Democrats laid out some of their spending priorities in the coming year but also complained about the delays in the supplemental bill.
Rep. Peter Merideth, D-St. Louis and ranking minority member of the Budget Committee, said he is concerned about the delays. It is evidence that Republicans are not united on Parson's proposal, he said.
"We may have to actually fight to defend the governor's proposal," Merideth said. "What we do know is that feet are being dragged."
State employees received a 2 percent raise effective Jan. 1. When he proposed the 5.5 percent raise, Parson said he was reacting to high inflation in the final months of 2021 and the need to keep state workers from seeking jobs with better pay.
There are about 4,500 open jobs in the state government workforce of about 51,000, Haug told the committee on Jan. 10.
The raises are expected to cost the state $91 million through June 30, including $52 million in general revenue. Parson's release in December estimated the cost to continue the raises into the next fiscal year at $218 million, including $123 million in general revenue.
At their news conference, Democrats also said they would push for changes in Parson's proposed $47.3 billion budget for the year starting July 1.
The state will enter the year with nearly $3 billion in surplus general revenue, plus $2.8 billion from federal COVID-19 relief funds and hundreds of millions in other funds that can be spent like general revenue.
House Minority Leader Crystal Quade, D-Springfield, said there is a lot that Democrats like in Parson's budget, from fully funding expanded eligibility in the Medicaid program to more than $700 million dedicated to supporting the child care industry.
The capital improvements on college campuses, nearly $500 million, and support for removing lead water lines and expanding rural broadband access are also things Democrats will support, she said.
"The list of things we like in the governor's budget is long," she said.
But with the large surpluses, she said, the state can do more, even if the spending is likely to be a recurring expense. She gave school transportation funding as an example, saying meeting the state's obligation would cost about $182 million annually.
Parson put many of his large spending proposals into one-time expenses.
Meredith said he would be fighting for a bigger increase for state colleges and universities. Over the past 15 years, he said, state support for operations in higher education has been cut 14 percent.
"We have an opportunity," Merideth said, "to make up for that neglect of the past 15 years."
by Rudi Keller, Missouri Independent
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Listen: Daniel Vargas, Wdbo Orlando, Florida discussed on Power Trading Radio
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Barrhead-Westlock was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-the-post method of voting from 1993 to 2004.

History

Boundary history
Barrhead-Westlock was created from Barrhead, Westlock-Sturgeon and a small portion of Athabasca-Lac La Biche in 1993. Its largest communities were its namesake towns Barrhead and Westlock, as well as the town of Swan Hills. Its boundaries remained unchanged in the redistribution that took effect in 1997.

The riding was replaced by Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock in the 2003 electoral boundary re-distribution, which covered the entire area of Barrhead-Westlock and a small portion of Redwater.

Representation history

Barrhead-Westlock's only MLA was Ken Kowalski, who had already served as the Progressive Conservative member for Barrhead since 1979.

After the 1997 election, Kowalski became the 11th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

When Barrhead-Westlock was abolished for the 2004 election, Kowalski continued his political career, serving two more terms in the new riding of Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock as MLA and Speaker of the Assembly.

Election results

1993 general election

1997 general election

2001 general election

See also
List of Alberta provincial electoral districts

References

Further reading

External links
Elections Alberta
The Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Former provincial electoral districts of Alberta


If your child has swallowed something that you suspect might be poisonous, call the Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-1222.
Four o'clock is a bush, generally 1- to 2-feet high, with red or yellow flowers. It blooms in the summer and forms seeds that are round or pointed in shape. The seeds can cause stomach upset and cramping.
Foxglove is a low-growing bushy plant that forms a tall stalk with bell-shaped flowers. The flowers can be any shade of pink, peach, white or yellow. They have brown spots. All parts of the foxglove are poisonous and can cause changes in the rate and rhythm of the heart.
Jack-in-the-pulpit is found in woody areas. The pitcher-shaped wild flower develops a stalk with a cluster of seeds at the top. Eating the seeds can cause mouth pain and discomfort.
Lily-of-the-valley is a popular plant that grows from a bulb in the spring. It blooms with little white bell-shaped flowers on a short stalk. Bright orange seeds appear in both summer and fall. Eating more than three berries can affect your heart rate.
Morning glory is a decorative vine with rose, purple or white trumpet-shaped flowers. In the fall, the flowers become round, brown capsules with two or three black seeds. Eating the seeds may cause drowsiness and confusion.
A sweet pea is an ornamental vine with bean-like pods. Eating the peas repeatedly may cause muscle weakness and difficulty breathing.


Issue 411 of Unique Cars magazine is out now!
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In this issue of the mag, our man Mark 'Higgo' Higgins drives the excellent Scottish driving road, the North Coast 500, and finds out what all the fuss is about.
Higgo also shows off his new four-wheeled pride and joy – an absolutely mint 2002 Holden Monaro CV8 that's got less than 20,000 kilometres on the clock.
Editor Guido heads to Lorbek Luxury Cars in Port Melbourne to test drive a rather splendid 2010 Maserati Quattroporte.
Glenn Torrens continues work on his lovely 1980 Volvo 262C, and gives the old girl some much needed routine maintenance.
In addition, we've also previewed some of the Reader's Resto vehicles taking part in our Reader's Resto of the Year award, and anyone wanting to vote for their favourite car can click this link.
Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Convertible revealed!


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Vet Affairs Chair: DOD Bonus Recollection Freeze 'Ham-Handed' Attempt To Dodge Scrutiny
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October 26, 2016 3:23 PM ET
Rep. Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, is furious at the "ham-handed" attempt by the Obama administration Wednesday to dodge blame for trying to seize bonuses from troops.
For Miller, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter's announcement completely ignores soldiers who have already been forced to pay back their entire bonuses to the Pentagon, after it was revealed that California National Guard officials doled out bonuses to ineligible troops. Moreover, it also ignores the fact that the problem of bonus repayment is not restricted to California, but rather affects troops across the nation.
"Defense Secretary Ash Carter's announcement today on the National Guard bonus scandal is nothing more than a weak and ham-handed attempt to shift the focus away from the Obama administration's shameful treatment of service members and veterans," Miller said in a statement Wednesday. "Carter seems to have no plan to make those who've already been forced to pay back their bonuses whole, and by focusing only on the California Guard, he is ignoring what media reports indicate could be a national problem."
Carter announced Wednesday that the Pentagon would cease recollecting bonuses from troops until he is "satisfied that [the] process is working effectively," adding that the department would implement a relief solution starting Jan. 1.
Carter noted that some soldiers either knew or should have known they were ineligible to receive those bonuses.
As such, Carter's announcement does not constitute debt forgiveness. At this point, all that's been done is a suspension of bonus recollection efforts and a promise for "fair and equitable treatment of our service members" in the future.
"Ultimately, we will provide for a process that puts as little burden as possible on any soldier who received an improper payment through no fault of his or her own," Carter added. "At the same time, it will respect our important obligation to the taxpayer."
The hope is for the department to resolve all cases by July 1, 2017.
Elsewhere, advocacy organization Concerned Veterans for America Executive Director Mark Lucas came to a similar conclusion as Miller, namely that the proposed solution totally misses the mark. Instead of promising a "relief" resolution process, the Pentagon should simply waive bonus repayments.
"It's mildly encouraging that Secretary Carter has paused Pentagon efforts to take money away from veterans, but his solution misses the mark," Lucas said in a statement. "The problem here isn't the 'process,' it's the fact that forced veteran bonus repayments are happening at all. Adjusting the program with the hope of a resolution nine months from now is an insufficient solution. The answer to this problem is an immediate waive of these bonus repayments and legislation that will prevent Pentagon waste, fraud, and abuse from ever affecting American veterans again."
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform launched an investigation Tuesday.
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Welcome to our 2nd Daughter's event……Renewed!
You are in for an exciting adventure of all things old to new.
Do you long for some fun? Make new friends? Talk trends? Refresh your relationship with God? Then this is for you and….a friend, a mom, a daughter etc!
Ps Julie Thomas from C3 No Limits will be joining us along with a few of our C3 girls!
Pastor Julie, along with her husband Pastor Chris are both from the United Kingdom and are the lead pastors of C3nolimits Church in the lower mainland in Maple Ridge, BC. her and her husband's heart for the Holy Spirit to be present in everything that they do is so evident. They promote freedom and passionate worship. we are all worshiper's first of all, before we can be successful at anything else.
Pastor Julie loves to champion women of all ages and she will not rest until she sees each women rise and step out of their comfort zone and be all that God has called them to be. She will encourage you like none other and will leave you with a strong heart that you can do this and that you have so much more in you than you know.


1 Plagiarism is not a crime; it is simply bad manners.
Plagiarism is not a crime; it is simply bad manners.
Many people think that they can get away with copying other people's work simply because it's already out there, or because they're too lazy to reword ideas or cite them properly in papers or other formal documents. Avoiding plagiarism is easy, provided that you follow these tips and reminders.
Using an idea that's not yours, but you pass it off as your own. All ideas come from somewhere, and even the most original and groundbreaking ideas have to come from somewhere. If you use an idea that you know is not yours but pass it off to be your own, you are committing plagiarism.
Citing text improperly or recklessly. For formal papers and academic documents, citations are absolutely necessary for text or ideas lifted off or taken from another author. Plagiarism occurs when you do not cite an idea with the recommended format, or if you do not cite the text at all.
Copy-paste. Thanks to computers and the Internet, more information is available to many people. Plagiarism becomes so much easier with computers, because some people can merely highlight text or copy an image, paste it on a blog or a document, and pass it off as their own.
Plagiarism may not be a crime in itself, but for academics and journalists, the offense is very grave. Academic dishonesty can lead to suspension and expulsion, especially if a paper is found to be plagiarized. Journalists and writers frown upon plagiarism because it seriously violates professional ethics.
The key to avoiding plagiarism is to use original text as much as possible. For blogs and essays released to the public, it's very important to use sentences and passages that are unique to you and that you're not copying them from somewhere. Remember that plagiarized work, especially ones that are copy-pasted, can be detected very easily.
Paraphrase is a writing form where a certain passage is reworded into the writer's own words, but the thought remains the same. Paraphrasis is used best when you have to rephrase a few passages from a text.
Précis is a writing form where the whole text is summarized in the writer's own words. Instead of rewording specific passages, a précis is a short paraphrase of the entire text written in the past tense.
For academic works like theses, term papers, and dissertations, citations are absolutely necessary if you're quoting text or citing references. Your department may have a particular style manual used for academic papers, and you should consult the style guide from time to time to check if you're citing references properly.
Remember that you should stick to the rules of citing other people's work; do not attempt to make your own "unique style" of citations especially if you're making a formal academic text.
Plagiarism is the height of bad manners, especially for writers, journalists, academics, and students. With these tips, you can write anything with confidence, without committing academic and professional dishonesty.


German WWII-occupied Ukraine Deutsche Hilfspost set from Wladimir-Wolynsk (variety with 'Gebietskommission' printed over the city name). Mint no gum (MNG) as issued. Matched type II set, with the small 'd' in Wladimir. '17 CV EUR2050 -- scarce in all stamps, the small 'd' appears only in field 4 of the sheet. With only 2025 of the 6pf, that's the highest issue of any of these stamps. Only 510 pieces of the 60+90pf were issued meaning there were only about 50 of the 15II (CV EUR1000) made.


So you've listened to the cast… you've heard Podcast Rob and James talk about the movies they know and love… but how well do they know them.
These two unendingly quoting buffoons have decided to put themselves to the test in a show where they list off some of their favorite quotes from film and see if the other can name the movie it came from. Play along at home and see how many you get! Also make sure to listen close as we're running a little contest this show that might score you some of the first SomethingCast swag!
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For Larry Galizio, PhD, SBCC was the catalyst for his decision to pursue a career in higher education. Today, Larry is the president and CEO of the Community College League of California where he advocates for and supports all 113 California community colleges.
What was your focus while at SBCC? From a purely academic standpoint, my focus was on doing well enough in my general education courses to transfer successfully to a UC institution. However my larger focus and purpose was to counterbalance my overzealous focus on sports and socializing in high school and to become a responsible and productive citizen.
Best Memory? Apart from the sheer beauty of the area and being on the coast, it was the intellectual inspiration and learning that was stimulated by the fantastic faculty at SBCC.
How did the SBCC experience influence your professional path? My experience at SBCC was the catalyst for my decision to pursue a career in higher education.
What are you doing now? I serve as president and CEO of the Community College League of California. The League is responsible for advocating and supporting all 113 California community colleges.
How are you making an impact on the world? As the League's mission is to advocate and strengthen California's community colleges, we are helping our 113 colleges in their comprehensive mission of providing opportunity for all Californians to position themselves for a richer and more fulfilling life.
Why is SBCC an important educational institution for the Santa Barbara community? Not only is it an exceptional public institution of higher education, but it is a cornerstone of the community with innumerable benefits to area residents.
Are you proud to be a Vaquero Alumni? I am. As the catalyst for my undergraduate experience culminating in a degree from UC Berkeley, my graduate work leading to a PhD, and my career as a community college faculty member, program director, and ultimately college president, SBCC has been central to a lifetime of opportunities to pursue higher learning and a fulfilling career.


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* Contact Reports Volume / Issue: 1 (Plejadisch-Plejarische Kontaktberichte Block 1)
* Pages: 100–111 [Contact No. [[The_Pleiadian/Plejaren_Contact_Reports#Contact_Reports_1_to_400|1 to 38]] from 28.01.1975 to 13.11.1975] [[Contact_Statistics#Book_Statistics|Stats]] | [https://shop.figu.org/b%C3%BCcher/plejadisch-plejarische-kontaktberichte-block-1 Source]

* Date and time of contact: Wednesday, 26th March 1975, 15:20
* Translator(s): [https://www.deepl.com/translator DeepL Translator] {{Machinetranslate}}
* Date of original translation: Tuesday, 25th June 2019
* Corrections and improvements made: N/A
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| style="width:50%; background:LightSkyBlue; color:Black" | '''English Translation''' || style="width:50%; background:LightSkyBlue; color:Black" | '''Original German'''
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<big>'''Tenth Contact'''</big>
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<big>'''Zehnter Kontakt'''</big>
| <big>'''Wednesday, 26th March 1975, 15:20'''</big>
| <big>'''Mittwoch, 26. März 1975, 15.20 h'''</big>
| 1. It is now time to talk about things that are very important in the sense of the development of consciousness and mind of the Earth human being.
| 2. In this regard, I do not wish to answer any questions in the near future, unless they are related to these remarks themselves, which you will please understand.
| 3. The human being is the bearer of a spirit that does not die and never sleeps, even in the deepest sleep of the human being, who records all thoughts and emotions, who tells the human being whether his thoughts are right or wrong, if he has learned to pay attention to them.
| 4. This spirit in the human being is the bearer of the realm of Creation, and it is peculiar to all human beings.
| 5. It is incomprehensible that the human being speaks of a heaven and a heavenly kingdom in himself and is not content to just say: Creation, truth, knowledge, wisdom, spirit, consciousness and existence.
| 6. The human longing lies in the joy that remains after the imperishable life, the lasting peace, the spiritual and conscious wealth that never fades and lasts forever.
| 7. Heaven and Earth will pass away, but truth, knowledge, wisdom and spirit will never be changeable or pass away.
| 8. The mind and consciousness look for the perfect, for harmony, for peace, cognition and recognition, for knowledge, wisdom, truth and beauty, for love and for the true BEING, all of which are of absolute duration.
| 9. They all together give up that which forms the spiritual kingdom; they are all present in the Creation.
| 10. They are all there in existence, as geniuses of all genius, as melodies of all melodies, as abilities of all ability, as the highest creative principle, as miracles of all miracles.
| 11. In a dream the human being is able to create wonder worlds, as Creation consciously creates worlds.
| 12. This ability comes to the human being from his consciousness, which is present in him in existence, as all miracles are present in him.
| 13. He himself is the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of the Creation.
| 14. That is why the ancient earth philosophers spoke of man as the microcosm in the macrocosm, because everything contained in the universe is also in man.
| 15. The dimensions of the human interior are endless.
| 16. The image of Creation, the spirit in it, the existence that is dimensionless, it holds all dimensions in itself and at the same time transcends all dimensions.
| 17. The Spirit is the miracle of all miracles, from which all power comes.
| 18. But a miracle means using the power of the mind in perfection.
| 19. But man puts a miracle into something for which he lacks all possibilities of a logical explanation.
| 20. If a person is happy, then his happiness comes from within, because happiness is a self-created state, but happiness is never a place.
| 21. Joy comes from within man, created from spiritual and conscious balance.
| 22. So everything comes from the inside.
| 23. The things and people that seem to form the cause of happiness are only the external cause that happiness expresses itself in man when he has consciously worked towards it.
| 24. But happiness is something that also belongs to the innermost, to the spiritual being, and it is an inseparable characteristic of the existence of creation.
| 25. Infinite happiness and infinite power are contained in this existence.
| 26. The human being may be outwardly old, but that is only a temporary matter.
| 27. Fifty years ago he was not yet and will not be in fifty years when his body is dead, because only he can become old and frail.
| 28. But the spirit remains eternally young and is never subject to signs of aging.
| 29. Age is something like youth or childhood, like worries, sorrows or problems, something that passes by, like all the external conditions and experiences of the world pass by.
| 30. What is permanent is the existence of the spirit, the truth, the knowledge, the wisdom, the reality.
| 31. It must be recognized and built up, because only they make man free.
| 32. If a person recognizes the existence of his spirit, then old age can do nothing more to him.
| 33. No worries, no sorrows, no problems, no changes and no vicissitudes of life and environment, of the environment and the world can still throw him into mourning.
| 34. Wisdom is an ancient, mighty power.
| 36. And wherever light shines, darkness and ignorance disappear.
| 37. But ignorance is the actual darkness, and this is overcome by the light of wisdom.
| 38. Wisdom is a hallmark of the existence of mind and consciousness and carries within it the qualities of happiness, truth, knowledge, balance, beauty, harmony and peace.
| 40. But wisdom is also the mark of a person who has recognized the existence of his spirit and material consciousness and works with it according to the law of creation.
| 41. Wisdom is the unfolding of consciousness as well as the use of consciousness power and mental power.
| 42. Wisdom and Spirit as well as Consciousness and Truth are each two things that result in one, as Sunlight and the Sun are two things.
| 43. Sunlight only results from the heat of the sun, which it must first generate through its processes.
| 44. But so too is an all-creative existence in the universe, which generates forces by the power of its forces, which, following certain creative laws of truth, knowledge, and wisdom, uniformly and unswervingly follow and animate the endless aeons according to a given uniform guideline.
| 45. But this powerful existence is creation.
| 46. And there is therefore only one existence, which rules everywhere in the universe – only one creation, only one truth, one knowledge and one wisdom, which are rectified and constant for eternal times.
| 47. The eternal truth is not subject to fluctuations and changes, and its laws never need to be revised and therefore never adapted to a new time.
| 48. The power of the mind is as vital and dynamic as the power of consciousness, to the extent that it embodies wisdom within itself.
| 49. It is a sign of human weakness when religions and sects and their heresies are portrayed as instruments of creativity and wisdom thereby becomes unreal.
| 50. The human being then looks elsewhere for strength, freedom, joy and light, only not where they really are.
| 51. Wisdom is a characteristic feature of Creation, which dwells the human being as a part of it, as spirit.
| 52. Therefore, let the human being increase his knowledgeable wisdom through his consciousness, and he will recognize Creation.
| 53. He increases his search for truth, and he knows the power of wisdom.
| 54. Knowledge of the truth brings liberation from all limitations.
| 57. A man who is filled with love is also rich in wisdom, and a man who is rich in wisdom is also full of love.
| 58. But the Earth human deceives himself because he does not know love.
| 59. He interprets possessive feelings and other emotions as love, while real love remains strange and incomprehensible to him.
| 60. A man is only then a real man when he has recognized and worked out the truth, the knowledge and the wisdom, even when he does not use the word creation because wisdom is also love in best form.
| 61. So he always finds that enlightenment and recognition are knowledge and also wisdom and love, and where love reigns there is also wisdom.
| 62. Love and wisdom belong together because creation and its laws are love and wisdom at the same time.
| 63. Where there is wisdom and knowledge, there is love and knowledge, and where there is knowledge and love, there is creation.
| 64. Growth in love and wisdom teach man to recognize creation.
| 65. But only man learns the truth and will thereby attain freedom and peace, a peace that is imperishable, a power without end.
| 66. Wisdom and love are the two invigorating wings of the creative being and character.
| 67. With wisdom and love man is master of all creation.
| 68. Wisdom and love increase his devotion to the fulfillment of the given creative-natural laws because spirit and creation are one.
| 69. The terrestrial man speaks of love, which he does not know.
| 70. He thinks he knows that his emotions are love and deceives himself.
| 71. Love cannot be clothed in words, for it is, like happiness, a state and not a place.
| 72. True love is imperishable, and nothing can ever change it into anything else.
| 73. The path of consciousness power and mind power goes beyond the knowledge of truth, knowledge, wisdom and love.
| 74. The purpose and task of the spiritual teaching therefore lie in spreading truth, knowledge, wisdom and love.
| 75. If the teaching fails due to abuse or misinterpretation, then it is no longer a help, but becomes an evil cult that enslaves material consciousness through false teachings and creates ignorance, as is the case with the false teachings of sects and religions.
| 76. However, if it exercises the function of expanding consciousness and expanding spiritual knowledge, then it is a powerful instrument of creative order.
| 77. The spiritual teaching is about the spreading of knowledge, truth, knowledge, wisdom and love, the eternal, the immortal, the imperishable that overcomes death and spreads light, that embodies the balance of wisdom and love in itself, the peace that transcends all understanding.
| 78. Every person believes to know what is meant by peace, as he knows it from human experience.
| 79. But to understand the wise peace of the infinite existence, the spirit, the immortal creation, that simply goes beyond human comprehension.
| 80. Because he is trapped in religious heresies and in human-material things which deprive him of an understanding of inner experience.
| 81. The experience that is the true key to true knowledge and wisdom.
| 82. Miracles over miracles are contained in the Kingdom of the Spirit.
| 83. The visible universe which man is concerned with is only a small patch in this marvelous, infinite, spiritual intelligence of creation.
| 84. Universes such as these are contained in the infinite spiritual intelligence of creation in innumerable billions.
| 85. What is visible to man's physical eyes means only a small iota in infinity.
| 86. What is not visible to his eyes is immeasurable, incomprehensible and unthinkable, confusing and unimaginable to his unspiritual human intelligence and comprehension.
| 87. All the universe he sees is only one of many spaces to be measured by myriads, for there are universes in universes, universes beyond universes, universes under universes, universes above universes, and universes outside universes in this primeval, vast, and all-creative spiritual intelligence of existence creation.
| 88. And with this mighty spirit, with these primal forces of existence, of creation, of spiritual intelligence, man is connected, because a part of this spiritual intelligence of creation dwells as spirit in man and enlivens him.
| 89. His powers, his joy, his peace, his freedom, his wisdom, his knowledge and his ability are unimaginable for the consciously ignorant, the illogical, the critics, the know-it-all, the religious, the degenerate and other misguided.
| 90. And only a man who knows this truth and creates out of it knowledge and wisdom and love is a blessed man.
| 91. He knows the answer to the last questions of science, philosophy and also the questioning person.
| 92. But to become such a blessed man it is necessary to seek and find the truth, to create knowledge from it, wisdom and love; because man can only grow spiritually and consciously in truth, knowledge, wisdom and love through which he is freed from all human weaknesses.
| 93. He is only enlightened and completely liberated when he remains constantly and continuously in thought in the infinite creative-spiritual reality.
| 94. Spiritual intelligence is enlightened by lawful spiritual principles and is directed toward the creative being, the perfection, and the power of the creative himself.
| 95. This is in contrast to human intelligence, since human material consciousness is generally concerned only with single things of the material world.
| 96. The consequence of this, however, is that man is restricted and hindered in every direction, even caught, oppressed, plagued and tortured by all sorts of misfortunes, weaknesses and enslavements of all kinds.
| 97. Therefore a self-analysis of the human being in detail is one of the most essential methods to find the truth and to follow the path of conscious and spiritual evolution.
| 98. Therefore, it is necessary for man to constantly check his thoughts and see what kind they really are.
| 99. He must ensure that he is ultimately always guided, guided, and determined by creative-philosophical principles and realities, by creative-natural laws.
| 100. There should be a constant conscious feeling in man that he belongs to the Creative, with his actual spiritual breath, his actual spiritual BEING.
| 101. It should be consciously clear to him that his actual spiritual BEING is inseparably one with the Creative in order to overcome the material outer world in this consciousness.
| 102. This creative-philosophical truth and knowledge should always primarily dominate human thinking, feeling and acting.
| 103. Because only who is one with the spirit can recognize in the long run and also do good because he has the possibilities of creation in him.
| 104. Nothing negative in the infinite universe can touch him more and enslave him.
| 105. To this creative-philosophical consciousness is added the practical, dynamic, creative; that is, the mystical consciousness which consists of the perception of the one reality in all things.
| 106. Man is therefore a practical philosopher and mystic and perceives reality in its mutable transient forms.
| 107. Because what is a human being?
| 108. He's just a figure and a name.
| 109. If you take away the name and the form, what remains of it?
| 110. It remains the fundamental essence, the existence – the mind and the total block of consciousness.
| 111. That man who overlooks this will be driven away and around by the softest breeze, unstable, hopeless and always anxious to find a firm foothold somewhere, but which will never offer itself to him if he does not seek and find the fundamental truth.
| 112. Billions of people of the earth or other worlds look up to the stars in the sky, but without any consequences or knowledge.
| 113. But those who know the stars, by looking up to the sky, discover new worlds and write books about them.
| 114. But what they see and recognize, others cannot see and recognize, even if they can look up.
| 116. It is similar with the normal and consciously unconscious person, with the consciously unconscious person:
| 117. Man, who truly lives according to the spiritual laws of creation, sees and recognizes all around in every form of life, in every thing, in every thinking and acting, in every human being, in all work of nature and also in all imaginable circumstances and events the creative.
| 118. The normal human being, however, who is consciously unneeded and impaired by religions or other unreal teachings, is neither able to see nor to hear, nor even to recognize an iota of truth.
| 120. It makes him blind, deaf and ignorant.
| 121. Man who follows the laws of creation becomes the most blessed and fearless being.
| 122. His will is insurmountable, his devotion immeasurable and endless, and his wisdom and his love constant and perfect, not weather-bound and not full of doubts, like those of the religion-dependent and the otherwise misguided in general.
| 122. Sein Wille ist unüberwindlich, seine Hingabe unermesslich und endlos, und seine Weisheit und seine Liebe beständig und vollkommen, nicht wetterwendisch und nicht voller Zweifel, wie die der Religions-abhängigen und der sonstig Irregeleiteten im allgemeinen.
| 123. Its meaning resembles the vast, infinite sea and cannot be disturbed.
| 124. He's not trembling with fear.
| 125. Therefore he unfolds his spiritual sense, which is no longer reached by any degenerated negative power.
| 126. The sense that no longer gives shelter to negatively degenerated thoughts and also displaces all positively degenerated thoughts and actions.
| 127. Only a balanced mind rooted in creativity, creative service, creative wisdom, knowledge, love, and joy, more real than all the material walls around it and the human environment, are valuable and mind- and spirit-developing ministries.
| 127. Nur ein ausgeglichener Sinn, der verwurzelt ist im Schöpferischen, im schöpferischen Dienst, in der schöpferischen Weisheit, seinem Wissen, seiner Liebe und Freude, die wirklicher sind als alle materiellen Wände ringsum und die menschliche Umwelt, sind wertvoll und bewusstseins- und geistentwicklungsdienend.
| 128. Man is always great and constructive in terms of consciousness.
| 129. The spirit, the source of all infinite creative construction, is man's innermost being itself.
| 130. But the human outer being is full of limitations because it is not itself but only its shell, its material body, a limitation, a misleading matter, the source of trouble and pain, limited in knowledge and will, in sacrifice, in freedom, love and happiness.
| 131. If man regards his neighbor only externally, materially, then he sees nothing but the form and form, the material of this particular man.
| 132. However, if he sees it with the conscious and spiritual eyes of cognition and knows that this all witnessing consciousness in him is also in all others, even if unrecognized by them, then the way in which he sees his fellow human beings changes fundamentally.
| 133. Then he no longer simply sees a man, a woman, a girl or a child, but sees his neighbor as the bearer of a creative spirit, who knows about himself, about his existence and wants to be revealed by everyone, if only opportunity is given to him.
| 134. The one who knows the truth sees his fellow man out of this knowledge and recognition, because he sees the creative in him.
| 135. At least now he knows more than he knew before he knew the truth.
| 136. This proves that ignorance is nothing irreversible for all time.
| 137. Man can free himself from all ignorance if he is willing to accept the truth.
| 138. Man can free himself from everything, everything can be taken from him, only not the creative consciousness, the spirit, the existence in his innermost, this pure spiritual, creative realm in him.
| 139. He can be deprived of all his goods and possessions and driven out of his home, but no one can drive him out of his spiritual kingdom in his innermost being.
| 140. So man should be constantly aware of this creative, without which he cannot breathe, without which he could not grasp any conscious thought, without which he could not recognize, see, hear or experience.
| 141. That's why the great wise men of all time say:
| 142. "The creative spirit is closer to man than his own breath."
| 143. Man cannot escape this supreme consciousness, for sooner or later he falls for this creative reality because it is the life of his life, the spirit of his spirit, the consciousness of his consciousness, the light of his light, the central power of thought of all life, the existence which far surpasses all human thinking, which is sinking into absolute meaninglessness against all the force of human material-intellectual thought.
| 143. Der Mensch vermag diesem höchsten Bewusstsein nicht zu entrinnen, denn früher oder später verfällt er dieser schöpferischen Wirklichkeit, weil sie das Leben seines Lebens ist, der Geist seines Geistes, das Bewusstsein seines Bewusstseins, das Licht seines Lichts, die zentrale Denkkraft allen Lebens, die Existenz, die alles menschliche Denken bei weitem überragt, der gegenüber alle Kraft menschlichmateriell-intellektuellen Denkens in absolute Bedeutungslosigkeit versinkt.
| 144. He, the spirit, can live without the light of the physical eyes, as he can live without hearing, arms, legs and even without the outer mind of the outer material consciousness.
| 145. But there is always something that enables him to live on, namely his own creative power.
| 146. This self-awareness, this all-observing and all-recording spiritual consciousness in man, which observes his thoughts and impulses and stands behind all his thinking, which tells him whether he is knowing or ignorant, that is the creative, the spiritual consciousness.
| 147. To think again and again that the spirit is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, and beyond that infinite happiness, infinite beauty, infinite value, the value of all things, makes the word creation absolute to man and produces evolutionary changes in him.
| 148. As often as the words "spirit" and "creation" are memorized in his mind, psychological changes of greatest material-conscious significance take place in him.
| 149. His feelings and all his senses are changing.
| 150. The clearer his conscious intelligence becomes, the more his personality gains strength, and the more blessed his life becomes.
| 151. A wise man full of consciousness sees what will happen in the distant future, perhaps billions of years later, and he has the whole past of life forms and humanity before his eyes.
| 152. He's so admitted to the greatest knowledge.
| 153. But how is that possible?
| 154. Such a person offers within himself, in his mind, the necessary prerequisites for this.
| 155. Just as light can be perceived through the closed eyelids, so in every human being there is indeed a creative presence, the whole spiritual realm, but visible only to those who are actually able to look inwards through their inner eye.
| 156. It can only be useful to those who offer all the necessary prerequisites.
| 157. Every man carries within him the whole kingdom of the spirit, but it is covered and beaten by unused material consciousness of ignorance, error, imperfection, evil, error, and limitation of all kinds, which must be transformed into the opposite by the recognition and acceptance of truth.
| 158. All these evils must be dissolved and brightened up by consciously developing abilities that are opposed to anything negative and lead to a neutral balance.
| 159. The path of spirit experience is accelerated by the unfolding of consciousness and conscious searching and truth knowledge gathering, and this unfolding leads to true and all-encompassing cosmic-wide wisdom and love based on the realization that creation is present in everything.
| 160. Man is one with all in creation, in truth, wisdom and love, in the kingdom of the Spirit.
| 161. That truth and wisdom that man is separated by space and time and the body, but is overcome by inner experience.
| 162. Wisdom and love unite, knowledge and truth unite, the wisdom and love of consciousness and spirit lead through experience to unity and creation itself, to universal joy, power and perfection.
| 163. Because man does not know the creative and is misguided by false doctrines, namely by sects and religions enslaved to consciousness, he commits many mistakes, looks for the true treasures in the wrong place and thereby violates all natural and creative order and all rules of law.
| 164. As much as he respects the human laws of human society, he will nevertheless constantly violate all laws and rules and the order of the Creative in the universe and allow himself to be trapped in human-material needs, worries and problems, in horrors, heresies, deceptions and weaknesses, in misfortune, spiritual and conscious ignorance, and conscious enslavements and limitations.
| 165. It is precisely that which is most valuable that makes unreal sects, religions and human ignorance unattainable.
| 166. This ignorance and the misleading religions and sects as well as other false doctrines cover for man what is the source of all valuable things, the life of his life and the light of all intelligence – the spirit and creation.
| 167. Man accepts the whole area of daily life and his experiences as creative.
| 168. He sees himself everywhere in space and time and in all things.
| 169. He himself is everything and awakens the creative in everything and thus brings it into recognition and experience.
| 170. Because creation is in everything and everything is animated by its spirit, through which everything is one in everything.
| 171. The only question is how man should identify with everything if he does not know the way of the spirit.
| 172. He generally identifies with his body.
| 173. But what happens when he tries to get involved in the truth and inwardly aligns himself with the creative BEING and the spiritual reality?
| 174. Involuntarily the whole world dissolves in this real reality truth of the spiritual.
| 175. Everywhere there is one, only principle of the Creative-Spiritual.
| 176. But how can humans identify with everything?
| 177. He sees himself just the way he really is.
| 178. In general, he identifies with his body.
| 179. He cares for him like a treasure, nourishes him and tortures himself around him until self-sacrifice.
| 180. He surrounds him with pride, frippery and a nonsensical delusion, while he lets his consciousness atrophy.
| 181. But because of a little pain he becomes angry, grouchy and uncomfortable with others, or he even starts to complain and cry, has self-pity or robs himself of his life.
| 182. He surrounds his body with an indefinable glory and with vanity, anxiety, worry, pride and problems.
| 183. It's all about his body.
| 184. He often even extends his body identity to his material possessions or gets upset when a fellow human being touches him unintentionally.
| 185. But what will a person with recognized conscious and spiritual truth do?
| 186. He will identify himself with all things and all life forms of the world and the universes.
| 187. A man full of creative-spiritual wisdom, full of knowledge, truth, love and knowledge, who knows that everything came out of truth, is coming out and will come out for eternal times.
| 188. That's why he identifies with everything and everyone.
| 189. In his conscious being he will always be one with everything and everyone.
| 190. He will identify himself first of all, with his spiritual consciousness and with everything in the universe, just as the other, the material thinker, identifies himself with his body, with his money, with his belongings, with his mad speeches and false teachings and with the sound of his voice.
| 191. But if man has identified himself with everything in the universe, then no more hatred and greed can dwell in him, because he no longer makes selfish differences.
| 192. He has become one with the being in everything.
| 193. Others may claim something as their exclusive property, but the spiritual thinker identifies it with the truth in it and therefore has everything inwardly to himself.
| 194. All fear has departed from him by identifying himself with the truth.
| 195. This truth of creation and spirit, with which he is one, even directs the hand of the enemy who wants to rise up against him, so that it falls back on him himself.
| 196. The one who thinks about the spiritual is protected and protected, and all nature is friendly towards him, even his enemies must serve him in the end.
| 197. With their attacks they cause the forces of conscious reason to unfold in him to even greater strength and power and to overcome all evil, evil and degenerate.
| 198. The enemies ultimately only contribute to the growth of the consciously and creatively thinking and to the recognition of the truth.
| 199. They want evil, evil and bad for the truly thinking one; they think that by criticism, wisdom, lies and slander, by complaints, misrepresentations and false doctrines, by ridicule and condemnation they could destroy him; but they only harm themselves, because their actions testify to stupidity and ignorance, and from this the creatively thinking one learns even more and becomes even greater and more powerful in spirit and consciousness.
| 200. Are such truths suggestions?
| 201. It would be a delusion to say that, because it's completely wrong.
| 203. For the misthinker, the misguided, and the religious dependent, life is generally full of evil suggestions, imaginary ideas, heresies, and delusions.
| 204. The only way and the only means to repair these damages are to fundamentally recognize and follow the truths that render all human fantasies inoperative and to let the highest creative-spiritual and, of course, material-conscious forces prevail.
| 205. All unreal suggestions and human imaginings are corrected by man's observation:
| 206. "I am a part of the creation that animates me as part, as spirit."
| 207. But the knowledge that all imaginations and illusions are, except the creative-spiritual power, truth and reality, will by no means diminish the zeal that man unfolds in life, but will drive him to undreamt-of heights.
| 208. Only what is true and what remains truth can be regarded as truth; something on which one can rely in eternal times and which is never and under no circumstances ever in need of revision.
| 209. Truth never has to be adapted to another and a new time, for it is constant for all times.
| 210. It is eternally constant and always sounds the same, even if it is pronounced in other words.
| 211. It is the rock on which one can build in eternal times and in all spaces.
| 212. The truth was before life, and the truth is after life.
| 213. What only lasts for a short time is a danger, a bad deception, a false doctrine.
| 214. Creation and truth are always the same, today as tomorrow, they are always constant and of eternally equal value.
| 215. They do not change, neither by name nor by form, for creation and truth are nameless and formless.
| 216. So let man cling to the creative, for this alone is the truth.
| 217. It is the imperishable, like creation itself, it is the eternal, the relatively perfect, which is worth all energies and the whole will effort of man, because with it man does not fall into deception.
| 218. Therefore he clings to the truth and becomes unshakable in everlasting peace, joy, knowledge, love, strength and wisdom in all things.
| 219. Creativity alone is infinite wisdom and truth, for which no iota of error is possible.
| 220. Therefore man draws power from creative wisdom and seeks his light in his own mind as well as in his consciousness.
| 221. The truthful man knows well that he cannot move his hand in space without touching the creative myriadfold, since it is omnipresent in all times and spaces.
| 222. The true and real man is filled with joy when he knows the truth that the infinite and indescribably powerful Creative is omnipresent and surrounds him wherever he goes.
| 223. Creativity is full of endless peace, full of endless knowledge, and relative perfection.
| 224. It is the source of all miracles of the highest spiritual consciousness which is present all around – inside and outside.
| 226. In order to make rapid spiritual and conscious progress, the creatively thinking human being regards everything and everyone as creative.
| 227. As soon as he sees something, he sees the creative.
| 228. Behind everything and also in its manifestations, the creative always stands before him.
| 229. Therefore, the creation-minded person does not run here and not there to gain the highest experience, but just where he is, he always finds the best place to gain recognition and experience.
| 230. His spirit to be formed and his consciousness are in him and not in any other place.
| 231. By his own thinking and acting he must form mind and consciousness.
| 232. Out of this knowledge his attitude becomes a sanctuary, and all things with him become holy – even the earth under his feet.
| 233. Creative man does not regard the future as the time to experience creation and his spirit dwelling in it, but the immediate present, through which he lives for the unconscious normal man but already in the distant future – often completely misunderstood.
| 234. For the true create-thinking human being, time is not sometime, but always in the immediate present.
| 235. For him it is not necessary to see physically to see the truth.
| 236. He begins to seek within himself, and truth becomes more real and real to him, for his spirit is the all-seeing presence to his material consciousness.
| 237. Not a word spoken anywhere goes unheard.
| 238. In order to make faster progress, the person living according to this direction hears the sound of truth from every sound he hears, so that every sound penetrates into his material consciousness and is fixed.
| 239. Likewise, every thing reminds him of the creative and the immediate truth.
| 240. Every circumstance is a creative circumstance, every opportunity a creative opportunity.
| 241. In such knowledge the creation-conscious person lives and works, and thus he progresses inwardly.
| 242. The great, the spiritual, is present in his innermost being, for in the knowledge of truth dwells the infinite in the finite.
| 243. And in every human being the infinite has its seat, which however only very few are able to recognize.
| 244. For in order to awaken the infinite it requires reasonable logic and freedom from unreal teachings.
| 245. But to awaken the Infinite and make it effective is the goal of life – the relatively highest possible conscious and spiritual perfection.
| 246. The rich in consciousness become the instrument through which creation expresses the spiritual realm.
| 247. It is this excellence of creation that makes heaven arise.
| 248. The rich in consciousness are free from all limits of limitation and material selfish ego-consciousness, and therefore in constant contact with creation itself.
| 249. In humans, the gravity of the material principle still prevails.
| 250. In not too distant a time, however, earthly science will discover the principle of creativity in matter.
| 251. For creation is involved in everything created; in everything that unfolds and develops.
| 252. Only the unlimited spirit and creation itself mean true freedom, true relatively highest perfection, true knowledge, power, love, knowledge, truth and wisdom.
| 253. They are all in their realistic absoluteness the Creative itself.
| 254. Therefore, in order to attain anything truly exquisite in life, man must adhere to the spiritual, the unlimited and the unlimitable.
| 255. Everything that is limited and limitable creates unreal and problems.
| 256. However attractive it may seem, it will one day become a source of problems and unrealities.
| 257. The finite things of all forms are unnatural to the innermost being, the spirit, and still alien to man, and so he cannot recognize them as truth and love them without inflicting the most severe suffering on himself.
| 258. At all times and all the time, the finite things are afflicted with some shortcomings, because everything that is finite brings with it problems and difficulties.
| 259. If man loves or possesses something finite, it has at least the defect that it is transient with absolute certainty.
| 260. He can love it so much in human love, but when his time comes, it passes and he mourns it.
| 261. But the limited has weaknesses in other respects as well.
| 262. Even if it does not perish immediately, it is at least subject to change.
| 263. If it is filled with human love for a moment, it can be suppressed or filled with human hatred the next moment.
| 264. Whether it is a thing that changes or perishes, or a man who negatively changes his attitude towards his neighbour, the end is always sorrow and suffering, while the unlimited never changes and is not subject to change because it is of unlimited loyalty and absolute stability of value.
| 265. When wisdom and truth dawn in man and his consciousness and spiritual knowledge increase, when universal love guides him and his life becomes a blessing for him and others, then the knowledge of truth has matured in him.
| 266. Then he will become conscious of the part of creation in him, the spirit – the spiritual kingdom.
| 268. Whoever struggles for spiritual light and spiritual love opens the door to creation to him.
| 269. When man loves the truth then he loves that which is relatively perfect and wonderful and embodies the spiritual kingdom in itself because it is also the way to the kingdom of wisdom.
| 270. Man becomes conscious of the creative presence and lets spiritual intelligence shine forth from all.
| 271. He recognizes that even in the wide, infinite and open space the eyes of the Creative are on him and that the true intelligence is creation and sees him with the eyes that preserve everything and are endowed with senses that can respond to everything.
| 272. Therefore, consciously live spiritually under the eyes of the Creative; live with the consciousness of the spiritual, which is infinite power, of which he must always be conscious.
| 273. Then he can never be powerless.
| That's wonderful, Semjase, and I feel really happy after your explanations.
| 274. This is because you have a confirmation of your own way of thinking and of your spiritual and conscious knowledge, because you have known the teaching of truth for a long time – only that no one has been able to confirm it to you, because truth has become very scarce through the false teachings of religions, sects and other false teachings on earth.
| 275. But I'll tell you who!
| 276. Don't be dull of mind because of this, for the conscious evolution of man on earth is progressing inexorably.
| 277. But you are to help and spread the truth, for you are the prophet of modern times.
| How could I, and how would I get to it. That's a little too much of a good thing.
| 278. It's so for you.
| 279. You can read it in the Talmud.
| 280. Don't be so ignorant.
| That's supposed to be me? This is crazy.
| 281. Nothing can escape its destiny, you know that better than I do.
| I have got to digest this first, and I don't know if I can handle it.
| 282. You will, because I told you it was meant for you.
| I'll think about it. – If you don't mind, I have another question that has been on my mind for some time now.
| These are my calculations, which I made about the life and birth dates of Jmmanuel. You once told me I was only wrong about 200 years in my calculations. I can handle that. But the problem is that I probably calculated Jmmanuel's birthday wrong.
| 284. Your 200 years of miscalculations refer only to some things in the history of Jmmanuel's time, but not to the data of Jmmanuel himself, which you calculated correctly despite some mistakes.
| 285. You have intuitively put together the correct data, although you have ignored certain calendrical facts which have caused shifts.
| 286. But through your extreme way of thinking you came across things through which you recognized the whole picture of the truth.
| 287. This way you intuitively realized again that you could easily access the calendar time calculation known to you today and could fix the date of Jmmanuel's birth exactly to the day; February 3, calculated according to your Christian time calculation.
| 289. This means that a particular date remains the same as long as the time division in question is valid.
| 290. Well, I also have a question for you:
| 291. The photonegatives and the first film you took of our beam ships would be very important to us.
| 292. They are your property, but if you could leave them to us, it would be very useful for us.
| If you need them, I will be happy to give them to you, because if necessary I can make further copies of the photos myself. But can you explain to me why the negatives and the film are so important to you?
| 293. They are important not only for me, but for us, that is, for our scientists.
| 294. In the photos you gave me, we noticed some things that were unknown to us, but that are visible in the pictures.
| 295. In particular, it is the antenna conduction beam that attracts energies.
| Please tell me more, because I'm interested in these things.
| 296. I may only do that if it is for you alone, for they are secrets that you must not disclose.
| 297. But I can tell you openly that this is a completely new phenomenon in connection with the change of the earthly atmosphere, which suddenly makes invisible energies visible.
| I'm fine with that statement, thank you.
| 298. You can amaze me again and again.
| 299. It always touches me very strangely when you suddenly renounce your interests so as not to get me into trouble.
| 300. This is a completely foreign phenomenon to me, which I have not yet been able to detect in any form of life.
| Every life has its peculiarities.
| 301. Sure, but this is completely alien to me, but I also feel that it is connected with a great selflessness that banishes all egoism.
| Don't make me better than I am, because I'm selfish, too.
| 303. I know that your selfishness is only a game of deceiving others, because otherwise you would be exploited.
| Please, Semjase, let's not keep talking about me.
| 304. Of course, you are uncomfortable, I know; but from time to time you have to discuss such things.
| 305. But let's not do that today, because it's time for me to go again.
| 306. At our next meeting I will continue in the teaching of spiritual knowledge because it is the most important main task of our contacts.
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A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...
Good Lord Deliver Us!
And finally, wrapping up this week's trio of terrifying treats, here's a character sheet for another of my favorite horror role-playing games: Kult.
As much as I love classic/gothic and pulp horror, I also love contemporary dark fantasy/horror. I find myself inspired to new heights of imagination by such sources as the stories/novels/movies of Clive Barker, the stories/novels/comics of Neil Gaiman, and other sundry sources, such as DC's "Hellblazer" comic. (NOT the movie! Keanu Reeves as John Constantine? WTF?!) It's only natural, therefore, that a game like Kult should be attractive to me.
I've never had the chance to play a PC in Kult, but I did run an abortive campaign a few years ago. Unfortunately, one of my players found the game to be "too nihilistic," so the campaign ground to an early halt. More's the shame, because I had some great things in store for future games - and a plethora of dysfunctional NPC's: I had waaay too much fun making one "broken" character after another with whom the PC's could interact. (I also made the players' characters for them; the best of the bunch was the PC of the player who shut down the game: Bernie Dexter, a petty thief who suffered from a severe case of eisoptrophobia (fear of mirrors) - mainly because when he looked into a mirror or other reflective surface, he had a good chance of "piercing the veil." What a waste of a cool character...)
As with the other systems I've mentioned in the last two posts, Kult is not a perfect system. In fact, I preferred to use the system from R. Talsorian's Cyberpunk when I ran the game. More on this later. (If there's a perfect system in my world, it's Cyberpunk (2013-version) - with Chaosium's basic role-playing system running a close second. [Edit: An honorable mention should go here to Eden Studios' Unisystem - another solid game system that powers a bunch of really great games and comes close to being my Perfect Game System.] The core system is simple enough to make character creation a breeze, yet complex enough to cover most character actions smoothly. And I can't possibly say enough good things about "Friday Night Firefight.")
So, to satisfy your nihilistic contemporary horror role-playing cravings, here's a character sheet for (the now-defunct) Metropolis' Kult:
[NOTE: You can find an updated version of this sheet in this post.]
Superhero Necromancer April 28, 2009 at 5:13 PM
In fact, I preferred to use the system from R. Talsorian's Cyberpunk when I ran the game.Wow. We did this too. I ran Kult a handful of times back in the day. And every time we used Cyberpunk (though it was 2020 since that's what we had) for all the actual gameplay. So there's an interesting coincidence for you.
(We did the same thing with Dark Conspiracy.)
Christopher B April 29, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Very cool. As They say: great minds think alike. ;)
Superhero Necromancer April 29, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Yeah, I guess so :-)
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Rust Monster Reviews: Waterdeep: Dragon Heist First Impressions
So, my pre-ordered copy of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, the latest adventure book for Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition (from Wizards of the Coast ("WotC")), arrived yesterday. While I haven't had a lot of time yet to spend with the book, let me give you my first impression of it:
It's filled to the brim with pure awesome sauce!
The book, physically, is yet another example of WotC's exquisite design and production values for its D&D product line. The art and overall design complement the content nicely, as we've come to expect from the books that support this latest version of the game.
As for the adventure itself, its structure is described on page 10 of the book:
"Waterdeep: Dragon Heist consists of an introductory adventure designed to familiarize player characters with the city... and provide them with a base of operations... followed by a citywide treasure hunt... and descriptions of the villains' lairs."(Yes, villains, plural - more on t…
These Aren't Dice - They're Time Machines!
Of all of the products I was exposed to in my youth, there are a few that always manage to evoke a deep, nostalgic response.
One such examplet:
I can't look at the cool, stylized imagery of these old TSR "Dragon Dice" packages without feeling a serious pang of nostalgia. Just seeing these pictures (especially of that awesome blue package!) instantly transports me to 1982, where I'm standing at the counter of B. Dalton Booksellers, latest issue of Dragon magazine in hand, agonizing over which set to buy; I'm at my dining room table of the old farmhouse, rolling stats for a legion of back-up player characters/NPCs; I'm dashing through the streets of Sprechenhaltestelle dodging the bullets of KGB snipers; I'm taking a deep-dive into my imagination, surrounded by the people I care about most, my tribe.
Ultimately, I bought each of the sets pictured below, plus a couple sets of differently colored dice. (Yes, my dice addiction started early.)
I still have all …
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by Michael Hayward
The Death of Louis XIV
Jean-Pierre Léaud plays King Louis XIV of France during his final days.
If Jean-Pierre Léaud is the star of Spanish filmmaker Albert Serra's sumptuous and slow-moving depiction of the French monarch's final days, his co-star would have to be the fantastic wigs that he wears throughout: the grey hair teased and shaped into a pair of frothy clouds that envelope and cushion his head against the rich satins and brocaded silk of his bed cushions. Léaud is almost unrecognizable beneath the powder and the burdens of the flesh: he is no longer the boyish wunderkind who dominated the early years of French New Wave cinema, when he starred in such classic films as The 400 Blows and Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore. His performance here, though, is impeccable: a tattered lion, regal and weary, stoically facing his demise.
According to all I've read The Death of Louis XIV is a meticulously accurate recreation of the final days of the Sun King, based on first-hand accounts and contemporary sources such as the memoirs of the duc de Saint-Simon. There is no dramatic "action" in the usual sense of the word, the film playing out in a series of candle-lit tableaux that resemble the chiaroscuro paintings of Caravaggio and others, as the king's doctor and members of the royal court hover at the royal bedside with furrowed brows. From their covert glances, and their guarded exchanges of opinion expressed in hushed undertones, you gradually come to understand the dramatic tensions which are at play, everyone aware of the dramatic events that will be set in motion when the king's life finally comes to an end.
There are no more screenings of The Death of Louis XIV scheduled as part of this year's VIFF, but look for it in general release. You can watch a trailer of the film here.
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AT&T's CEO points to uncertain FCC regulations.
Three months after announcing Nashville would be among cities gaining its ultra high-speed Internet, AT&T is halting fiber investments, pointing to the potential for tighter regulations for Internet providers.
"We can't go out and invest that kind of money deploying fiber to 100 cities not knowing under what rules those investments will be governed," AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said at an analyst conference Wednesday, according to Reuters.
The announcement follows President Obama's comments Monday in which he urged the Federal Communications Commission to enact tougher rules for Internet providers and protect what has been called "net neutrality." The rules he recommended would prevent providers from charging for higher speeds and from blocking content from consumers.
AT&T, Time Warner Cable and Comcast were among companies decrying Obama's recommendations, and AT&T threatened legal action if the FCC complies with Obama's request, Reuters reported.
The net neutrality debate picked up in January when a federal appeals court threw out FCC rules requiring all Internet traffic be treated the same. AT&T and other providers have since urged the FCC to limit regulations concerning how they charge for their network.
At issue is how Internet providers account for the biggest bandwidth users such as Netflix. As consumers increasingly rely on the Internet for streaming video, providers are faced with growing costs to increase wireless capacity. By charging the biggest data consumers according to their use, Internet providers can avoid passing off the costs to all consumers, said John Bright, senior research analyst at Avondale Partners in Nashville.
"AT&T does not want to be exposed to unlimited capital investment that would be driven by unlimited data usage, particularly video," Bright said. "The message they are trying to send is you can't force us to invest."
But in sending that message, AT&T is frustrating the many consumers in each of the cities promised fiber. The company announced in April it would bring its GigaPower service to as many as 100 candidate cities and selected Nashville in July, along with Winston-Salem and Raleigh-Durham, N.C. The service is offered in Dallas, Austin and Fort Worth, Texas.
AT&T's Tennessee spokeswoman Cathy Lewandowski declined to comment on specifics concerning the Nashville market.
Earlier this year, Google Fiber said it was exploring Nashville for expansion. Google's and AT&T's announcements both generated strong enthusiasm from residents and businesses eager for faster connection and more competition among providers. Google Fiber is expected to make a decision on Nashville and other cities before the end of the year, and confirmed that its plans for expansion have not changed.
The GigaPower service would be an asset to Nashville, but the fact it was chosen and is still being scouted by Google Fiber is "a tremendous affirmation" of the city's direction, said Corey Johns, executive director of Connected Tennessee. With 8.7 percent of Tennessee households having gigabit access, the state is still a leader in high speed connectivity, he said.