Woods Creek Nursery | Open to the Public. Growing 500+ species.
We specialize in hedge material, flowering shrubs, native plants, Japanese Maples, evergreen, deciduous and specimen trees.
We specialize in unique and hard-to-find specimen trees, especially Japanese Maples, as well as evergreens, deciduous, flowering trees and natives.
Welcome to Monroe, Washington! We're a 40-year-old wholesale grower nursery near Seattle and open to the public. We can help you with your landscaping design ideas and native plant restorations. We have a large selection of shrubs and specimen trees on-site, well suited for use as large or small privacy barriers, hedges or screens.
Our selection of plants and specimen trees is unmatched by most nurseries in the Northwest. In total, we grow over 500 different types of plants, shrubs, hedges, and trees within our 25-acre nursery and arboretum. Many of the varieties we grow are native to the Northwest.
If you are setting up ground cover to stabilize a slope, looking for the perfect rock garden plant or shopping for an unusual specimen for that special spot, we've got what you need. Come on out and take a walk through our 37 greenhouses and arboretum.
Yes, we deliver to garden centers, job sites, landscape professionals and for large orders!
We provide standard delivery to nurseries and landscape contractors for larger orders and unique tree purchases. Let's work together to get your specialty Japanese Maples, native species plants and specimen trees delivered where you need them.
If you sell a wide variety of plants, but want to offer more, our huge selection gives you the chance to offer rare plants and unique varietals without the overhead of stocking and caring for them. And our low prices still give you room to maintain your profit margin.
Make one call and let us fill your entire order, or let us grow your inventory for you! We work with garden center nurseries and landscape designers and contractors.
Contact us now to order your unique showpiece or specimen tree.
We specialize in helping our customers with native plant restoration projects, and we have a number of native species available at the nursery.
Typically, if we don't have the exact plants you are interested in here on site, we can have them delivered from our growing-acerage. Allow 24 hours on a weekday, and sometimes minimums will apply.
We generally do not stock the numbers required for complete restorations at this location, so if you are planning a restoration project, it is always a good idea to contact us in advance of coming out to the nursery.
We were awarded "Merit Farm" status in 2013 by the Snohomish Conservation District in cooperation with the Washington State Department of Ecology.
Woods Creek Nursery uses Sustainable Horticulture practices. The quality of our plants is the result of our diligent stewardship of our soils and water over 40 years.
We weed by hand at Woods Creek Nursery. Our plants are grown in our greenhouses and in our nutrient rich beds on our 25 acre property.
If you're in Seattle, Bellevue, Renton, Kirkland, or other close-in suburbs, you'll likely have only shopped in city retail nurseries. Urban nursery prices are usually higher than Woods Creek's, often because of higher costs than here in rural Monroe.


Multi-award winning journalist Sue LloydRoberts sadly died last year at the age of 64, before she could finish her last book. She was a brave investigative journalist, and a pioneer in putting women's rights on the agenda, thus fighting back in her own way in this terrible war. Her book contains 12 examples of horrific gender inequality.
Following Lloyd-Roberts' much too early death her daughter, Sarah Moris, finished the book. Here is a BBC interview with her. She rightly says there is still so much to do. But I'm happy to report our women's army is growing!
Women entrepreneurs outwit male predators and sexism with fake man. Go for it, Witchsies!


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BDO boss doubles down on flexible working: 'Individuals are better placed to make that choice'
Rival audit firm KPMG has told staff to return to the office
BDO boosted partner profit to £760,000
James Booth
Thursday December 2, 2021 3:55 pm
BDO's managing partner Paul Eagland said he is strongly committed to the firm's flexible working approach, in contrast to rival audit firm KPMG which is asking staff to return to the office.
BDO's staff have been allowed to work flexibly since May and Eagland said the firm was committed to continuing to give staff the choice of where they worked.

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There was in the Brahms none of the mysterious and marvelous alchemy by which a great conductor can bring soloist , orchestra and music to ultimate fusion .
One growth center in a short_bone - distal phalanx of the second finger - was chosen as an example for discussion here , primarily because epiphyseal diaphyseal fusion , the maturity indicator for Completion in long and short_bones , occurs in this center for girls near the menarche and for boys near their comparable pubescent stage .
Accordingly , if epiphyseal diaphyseal fusion occurs in this phalanx near menarche , early and late menarches might have been forecast rather precisely at the time of Onset of ossification for the 18 girls with `` same schedule '' .
It should be added that in man neocortical hypothalamic interrelations probably play a role in the fusion of emotional processes with those underlying perception , memory , imagination , and creativity .


Why choose The Platinum Group?
The Platinum Group Realtors was formed by seven long-time Colorado Springs Brokers, offering a combined 120 years of Real Estate experience and a wealth of knowledge that provides the community unprecedented services beyond expectations.
To gather this type of talent within one company is very rare for any field. Typically, the best Brokers are scattered across several Real Estate companies in a city. Now, the Top Real Estate Agents are under one roof, The Platinum Group, Realtors. This creates a level of Real-Estate competence that is unparalleled in Colorado Springs.
Uncompromising client service is our starting point. From there, every Platinum Group Realtor strives to exceed your expectations and get the results you demand. When you work with The Platinum Group Realtors, not only will we achieve your Real Estate goals, you will get an extraordinary value for what you pay!
Over 80% of our Clients are referred to us through personal referrals. This is a strong testament to our unwavering client service and the success of The Platinum Group Brokers. In addition, as members of Leading Real Estate Companies of the world, we tap into an extensive relocation base not specific to a certain franchise, providing you the best service possible.


I show this clip to clients and prospects, quite often we have a perception of things that are embedded in the past, if coaching represents someone dominating you and intimidating you, then perhaps your mind was made up years ago.... or there are current examples of coaches working this was....what I call OLD SCHOOL Coaching.
In short they are INSPIRED..!!
Enjoy the clip.....by the way this is not my dad!
What if your life depended on it..??
Diana Nyad was the greatest long-distance swimmer in the world.
In 1979, she stroked the longest swim in history, making the 102.5-mile journey from the island of Bimini (Bahamas) to Florida.
She also broke numerous world records, including what had been a 50-year mark for circling Manhattan Island, setting the new time of 7 hrs 57 min. She is a member of the National Women's Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
What do you think - feel - know about what you can or cannot achieve??
What if your life depended on it...?
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Ernesto Sirolli is a noted authority in the field of sustainable economic development and is the Founder of the Sirolli Institute, an international non-profit organization that teaches community leaders how to establish and maintain Enterprise Facilitation projects in their community.
The Institute is now training communities in the USA, Canada, Australia, England and Scotland.
In 1985, he pioneered in Esperance, a small rural community in Western Australia, a unique economic development approach based on harnessing the passion, determination, intelligence, and resourcefulness of the local people.
The striking results of "The Esperance Experience" have prompted more than 250 communities around the world to adopt responsive, person-centered approaches to local economic development similar to the Enterprise Facilitation® model pioneered in Esperance.
Great talk...but important - Great Listen...!
books, and articles you will likely have read all about creating a sales funnel with your marketing efforts; where you move your leads down the funnel until they become paying customers.
I think of marketing as being more like spirals going around and around, building relationships and engagement, with one interaction leading into another, a like a dance "lead your partner round and round..."
I was recently doing a workshop with a client where we were talking about setting up an online marketing plan using social media, blogging, and a newsletter, her question was: "but what do I DO with each of those things. Aren't I already engaging with people on Facebook, why do i need a blog? Aren't I already sharing content on my blog? Why do I need a newsletter?"
The beauty of these tools is that they are not exclusive; they work together and build off one another like a group of dancers going around and around. I did up a sketch to show how I use these tools (no funnels involved). I do have lots of overlap, lots of linking, and notice that it is all about the customer, not about the business or me.
if I find that a question on Facebook gets lots of engagement I can write a longer blog post to help people. If it is truly helpful, it will get shared by others using social media, that will then bring traffic to my website where people will see my call to action to sign up to the newsletter.
When they get the newsletter they will see more links to other helpful blog posts as well as stuff we chatted about on social media all week long.
That will get more traffic to my Facebook page which will mean that more people will see my future blog posts which will then get shared too, and all three of those places have links directly back to my website where people can get more help by purchasing my products and services.
It's a dance, not a funnel and if one of those circles were missing, the others wouldn't be nearly as effective...nor as much fun!
Absolutely love Karen's style and approach....great job..!!
The basics of understanding your client is all about asking simple questions and listening to the responses and answers.
This classic scene with Peter Falk and William Shatner...from the series Columbo is a bit of fun but you get the point?
But what do these words mean...how are we using them and how are they shaping our worlds...?
They say WORDs Create, WORLDs..
What words are creating and defining your world, your business, your family and your passions?
I have been looking at the word Collaboration recently with an intention of unifying a group of highly motivated and talented people, to create a business that will impact the hearts, minds and lives of all we work with.
What are your favorite words and why?
How do these words define you and your business?
but you need a strategy, WHAT's YOUR's....?
The deeper meaning of each element of VUCA serves to enhance the strategic significance of VUCA foresight and insight as well as the behaviour of groups and individuals in organizations.
The lack of predictability, the prospects for surprise, the sense of awareness and understanding of issues and events.
The multiplex of forces, the confounding of issues and the chaos and confusion that surround an organization.
How to make your business bullet proof?
is a good option and somewhere you can get started.
So here we are, coming to the end of yet another year...2012 is drawing to a close, list your successes, try to forget your failures, possibly some break evens?
I wish you all a fab 2013 and may all your challenges go the distance and get the best from you...!
Have a fab new years eve....and a wonderful 2013.
This is a really great lecture from Alan Watts, a British philosopher. It's well worth the three minutes to watch. It brings up some points that I struggle with a lot.
Watts talks about encouraging his students and listeners to do the thing they love most, because there's no point wasting a lifetime trying to earn enough money to be stable enough to begin doing what you love to do.
Better to lead a short life doing what you love than a long life doing what you don't.
What would your life be for....??
Call me on 020 8123 6617 - I am interested.
Social media although pretty new and considered by many adults to be "for the kids," has become of increased importance to companies and how the sites affect business.
What's so great about social media is there is a humongous network of people all there in one place (1 billion Facebook users and half a billion twitter users) and you can potentially inform, advertise or share with any number of them just as soon as they click that like or follow button on your companies page. Not only is it an insane amount of people all on one site it's also FREE!!!!
The perception of social media marketing has shifted quickly: no longer viewed as a trendy or passing fad, having a flexible and well-managed presence in each of the "big three," has become a must for any business seeking to secure a place in both the traditional and digital marketplace.
What could once be done by just a companies website has now turned into a multi utilisation of several websites tools including LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
His style is respectful and informative.


An inquest has found that neglect contributed to the death of Christopher Ajayi, who died after being discharged from Maudsley Hospital in 2012 having been admitted under the Mental Health Act.
Catherine Oborne represented the family of Mr Ajayi, who died on 27 September 2012. He suffered from schizoaffective disorder and insulin-dependent type II diabetes, and had a history of self-neglect and homelessness.
Mr Ajayi was admitted under s.3 Mental Health Act 1983 to the Maudsley Hospital in May 2012. He was discharged in August 2012 without anyone checking whether he had a GP and without a GP or district nurse in place to organise his insulin medication. Mr Ajayi failed to attend numerous appointments with the community outpatient team but no home visit was carried out until nearly a month after he had been discharged, by which time he was almost certainly already dead. Though he was discharged with only a fortnight's worth of insulin, no one checked on him after 14 days (after which his insulin would have run out). He was discharged to a bed and breakfast outside the borough with no support, despite having failed in bed and breakfast accommodation and despite having been assessed as needing low to medium accommodation support. Mr Ajayi's body was eventually discovered in a severe state of decomposition, meaning that the pathologist was unable to determine the cause of death.
Following the medical evidence of a diabetes expert, the coroner ruled that Mr Ajayi had died of uncontrolled diabetes as well as his schizoaffective disorder and that this had been contributed to by neglect. In a narrative conclusion, the coroner found a total of nine failings, including four gross failings, by those responsible for his care. These included the failure to appoint a GP on Mr Ajayi's discharge into the community and the failure to check on him after he had been discharged.
The coroner also agreed to write a Preventing Future Deaths report into the role and responsibility of the "care coordinator": the nurse who has responsibility for an individual's care at the transition point between inpatient and outpatient care.
Catherine was instructed by Chris Topping and Jenny Fraser of Broudie Jackson Canter solicitors.
Catherine Oborne is a member of the Garden Court Chambers Inquests Team.


"As only about a third of South Africans are of the opinion that the country is going in the right direction, it should come as no surprise that the public are not impressed with government performance in most of the policy areas we measure," says Mari Harris, Director of Public Affairs at Ipsos South Africa. "Looking at the trend over the last three years, there has actually been a decline in public perception of how well the government is doing. According to Ipsos' "traffic light measurement", 15 out of the 25 policy areas were rated as 'red lights' (i.e. 50% or below) in November 2011. A year later in 2012, 17 policy areas fell into this category, while in November 2013, most of the policy areas fell into the red light category - 22 out of the 25 policy areas" states Harris.
These findings are according to polls by market and opinion research company, Ipsos. TheIpsos Government Performance Barometer measures public perceptions about the government's performance in handling key policy areas as well as the views on the performance of the president, deputy president and the national government. These polls are undertaken every six months.
In November 2013 a total of 3,564 randomly chosen adult South Africans were interviewed in their homes and home languages (see Technical Detail at the end of press release for more information).
It is important to try and find reasons for the source (or sources) of this feeling of apprehension about the direction in which the country is going. Ipsos measures the evaluation of the public of 25 government policy areas in the areas of the economy, social issues and governance and administration.
Government Policy Areas...how well did they do?
It is clear that the economy is a source of deep concern for South Africans - all six policy areas are in the red, with four of them registering a decline of more than 2%. The issue of unemployment has been identified as the most important issue in the country in all polls of this nature done by Ipsos since 1994. After 20 years of democracy it not only needs urgent action, but a radical and workable plan, combined with the political will to change the circumstances of so many South Africans. Currently almost a third (31%) of South Africans are unemployed and looking for work, while a further 6% are unemployed and not currently looking for work.
The handling of social issues by the government is seen slightly better than the handling of economic issues. However, for six of the nine social issues there also was a decline of two percent or more over the last year. In the whole study only two policy issues, namely "building houses" and "delivery of basic services such and water and electricity" achieved a 2% increase in the proportion who thought that these issues are handled "very well" or "fairly well" - although the actual satisfaction levels are still very low.
The area of governance and administration covers a wide scope, as can be seen below. However, the scores of 7 of the 10 governance and administration issues also decreased by 2% or more, confirming the overall finding that South Africans are currently very critical about government performance.
In November 2013 half of adult South Africans were of the opinion that the president is not doing his job well, while a smaller proportion of 46% indicated that he was doing very well (17%) or fairly well (29%). However, the deputy president and national government in general are in much the same situation.
On Thursday evening South Africans will listen to President Zuma's State of the Nation speech with interest, as they would like to hear more than election promises, but rather some clear direction regarding the way in which the government plans to address the issues the electorate are concerned about, how the government will rebuild credibility, consolidate resources and deliver on the plans that exist and make new plans to create some hope for the future.
 The findings of the poll on government performance are presented in the form of a traffic light: red light areas (50% and below) needing immediate attention and action; orange light areas (from 51% to 74%) needing urgent attention and green light areas (75% and above) needing maintenance.
 This is statistically significant, as the margin of error for the study is 1,67.
 35% are working (either full-time or part-time) and 28% are students, housewives or retired.


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Archive for the 'Nemesis-Sedna' Category
Rebirth II
We mentioned in the last post, "Rebirth is our next big Station event, as dwarf planet Haumea, named after Pele's Hawaiian Fertility-Goddess Daughter, Stands Still in the Sky at 10:45 am PST 26 January 2021, in 29 Libra. We're already immersed in its Energy" and "It may be a Help to [to replace olde Karma with new Patterns] while asteroid Klotho is lit up, such as this week or the week of 15 February, as that should make it much easier to Begin a New and Better Pattern to replace the olde Karmic one." We recommend this week because the Haumea Station Merges with (Conjoins) Klotho.
A process we recommended in that post for Replacing olde Karma was… "Consciousness is our Get Out of Fate Free card. Well, almost Free. We have to not only bring our Fate or Karma into Consciousness, but then we have to Notice when it begins to recur, Choose to Do or Invite something different, and then Repeat many times till it becomes the Dominant Habit." And of course before we do that we need to Own our Karma. If we're still a Victim to our Karma, still Blaming it on someone else or the Universe or some Curse, we've at least Identified our Karma, but we haven't Realized that this is a Free-Will Planet, and therefore that the only person Responsible for our Karma is ultimately us.
And our Karma does derive from a Curse, a self-administered Curse. We Initiate Karma with a Decision or Vow or Oath or Promise that Limits our Freedom. When circumstances Change and that Decision is no longer useful to us, we may not remember that it was Us who made the Choice, especially if a Lifetime or two has elapsed between the Decision and the new circumstances. Once a Choice has become cast in Stone, it may be difficult to sweet-talk it into returning to Clay. If we've Owned it and persistently Worked to Replace it and it still follows us around like a Puppy, we may need a Soul Retrieval or other Shamanic Intervention, a big Ego Death, or even a New Lifetime to help find it a new home.
There's no sense in which this is about Blame. In many cases, our Original Choice was the only one we had. Depending on our Birth Order, in much of European History we may have had to Choose between Starvation, Banditry, and Pledging Fealty to the Duke or to a Monastic Order. And seldom through Herstory does any Religion espouse the Inclusiveness which I was taught that Christ recommended. With the possible exception of Buddhism, Religions have been mostly Us-Versus-Them institutions. Once we Allow ourselves to be Taught Us-Versus-Them, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy and it becomes increasingly difficult to even find a Reason to not consider it Good Karma.
The other critical issue to remember around Karma is that it's only our own Karma that concerns us. Once we get into They Have to Change territory, we're Lost. Yes, it's the Ego's natural Duty to Protect us from others who would Harm us, but the Urge for them to Change is always a Projection of our closet Unhappiness with ourself. We need to be Unconditionally Loving with all of our Projections, but we also need to withdraw those tentacles and apply the suction to our own Integrity. Nothing Changes till we Accept it Unconditionally, but that doesn't mean we don't want to Change it.
The Stationary Haumea and it's mate Klotho have only one Stressful Angle, an Isolated Square or Challenge (the red line), from asteroid Moira, from Mother Fate Herself. Note that Fate is Feminine, as it Connects people. The idea that Anything is inherently Good or Bad is an obvious Either/Or, tautologically a property of the Observing Dualistic Mind and not a property of the Observed Thing. Every bit of our Fate – Karma – is a fantastic Skill. We just need to be able to Choose Otherwise when Otherwise would be more appropriate to the task. The only negative about Fate is that it's Frozen and needs to be Thawed. When we're first Learning to Unlearn a Karmic "Skill," we Reject it entirely because we need to Clear Space for something else. Once we've Melted the hardwired Connection and replaced Reacting with Responding, we can begin to appreciate it for the Skill that it is and use it – when it's appropriate.
The Haumea Station chart…
…does have one Major Challenge (T-Square, the red triangle). What a "coincidence" that the focus of that T-Square is none other than asteroid Karma. As our Chief Asteroid Officer used to say, "You can't make this stuff up." The base of the T-Square is even more "coincidental" – asteroid Nemesis (Converting Guilt to Ego Death) and dwarf planet Sedna (Converting Fear to Power), or, before we Heal the Wounds, Guilt and Fear. In other words, it's our Karmic Guilt and Fear that are our Greatest Opportunity to Replace. The Sedna story also contains significant threads of Anger, Intimidation, and Abuse of Power. Come to think of it, it'll be a good time to work on Healing our PTSD from the last four years.
The core Configuration in the Haumea Station chart is a Square Fez – a trapezoid with Square (red, 3 Signs) sides, a Trine (blue, 4 Signs) bottom, and a Sextile (blue, 2 Signs) top (it's on its side here, with its top to the left). A Square Fez is composed of two Major Tricolors and two Minor Tricolors. A Tricolor combines Stress (red, Square), Grace (blue, Trine or Sextile), and Curiosity (green, Quincunx). In a Tricolor we Liberate the Grace from the Stress by Failing to Anal-yze the Confusion inherent in the Curiosity. For instance, if we can leave the relationships between Fear (Sedna) and Rebirth (Haumea-Klotho), and between Fate (Moira) and Karma (Karma) as Mysteries instead of Analyzing them, we Liberate the Grace between Fate and Fear and between Karma and Rebirth, thereby avoiding the Stress that would Otherwise prevail between Fate and Rebirth and between Fear and Karma. Easy, eh?
In a word (or several), in this blog we've been considering Fate and Karma to be more or less synonymous. But this chart tells us that, at least for this week, we need to consider the concepts and Realities of Fate and Karma to have Subtle and Occult (which means Hidden) Differences in multidimensional Reality. Being limited by our Intellect to two Dimensions, we just don't know, other than through our Intuition, what else may Complicate their Relationship. We can Solicit our Intuition by PIAVAing – Praying, Intending, Asking, Visualizing, Affirming, or any of many other forms of Magnetic Manifestation that didn't make it into the acronym (visit the link for more).
For instance, we might request, "Great Spirit, please download Important Subtle and Occult Information to me about the Mysterious Relationship between Fate and Karma." Then we'd have to Change the Subject and wait for the Information to download while we have our Attention focused on something else. If we don't Change the Subject, our existing Paradigm will constrain the Information we might Receive. This Information would be relevant for us alone, and only in the current situation. But it would Allow us to Replace the potential Stresses (between Fear and Karma and between Rebirth and Fate) with the Graces embedded in the Fez (between Fear and Fate and between Karma and Rebirth).
The chart also informs us that there's a Subtle and Hidden Relationship (Quincunx) between Fear and Rebirth that we may not Grok. We have to Avoid "Left-Braining" that, and PIAVA that our "Right Brain" pick up the Information, maybe with something like "God/Goddess, Creator of All Things, I Command that I Experience the Deep Mysteries in the Multidimensional and Unitary Relationship between Rebirth and Fear!" After a Command like that we'd probably want to go into Meditation.
Posted in Haumea, Haumea-Sedna, January 2021, Karma-Haumea, Karma-Moira, Karma-Nemesis, Karma-Sedna, Klotho, Klotho-Haumea, Moira-Haumea, Moira-Sedna, Nemesis-Sedna | 1 Comment »
Quantum Jump 12
This is an excellent time to take a Searching and Fearless Inventory of our Fears – all of the things that trigger our minds into "helicopter trips" of What-Ifs. What If that weird Pain or Blemish is Cancer? What If Pootin' and his Toady finish remaking the Supremes in the Image of Andrew Carnegie? What If I lose my income next week? What If the whole Economy collapses? What If so-and-so doesn't like me? What If I get Banished by my Family of Origin, or by my Family of Choice? What If I'm not Cool? Or not Hot?
I'm sure you can think of many more. Now, how many hours over the last week have we spent "Worrying" about each of these Fears? That's time we could have spent Focusing on What We Want In Our Life instead – excellent Health, Life-Affirming Leadership, Abundance, Equality, Unconditional Self-Love, Respect for All Things, and the like. Every minute we spend Focusing on What We Want, or better yet…
Focusing on How We'll Feel When We Have Everything We Want (including both Stuff and Attitudes)…
puts us closer to Having Everything We Want, and Being Who We Want To Be. The closer we are to Having-Everything-We-Want-and-Being-Who-We-Want-To-Be, the more Psychic and Material and Emotional Support we'll be providing for Everyone to Have-Everything-They-Want-and-Be-Who-They-Want-To-Be.
I know, we have such great examples of Leaders who seem to be Having-Everything-They-Want-and-Being-Who-They-Want-To-Be and Destroying the Planet in the process. Look at it this way. If we ALL Have-Everything-We-Want-and-Are-Who-We-Want-To-Be, there are probably a million ways that they could Have-Everything-They-Want-and-Be-Who-They-Want-To-Be without Destroying the Planet in the process.
The Antichrist and his Masters are Adepts at Self-Love. They just don't give a shit about anyone else. When the Universe presents Mirrors to us, they're often Funhouse Mirrors – a bit warped and distorted. It's up to us to filter out the Distortion and Detox it. That's What We Do. That's Why We're Here. Not to Wail and Gnash our Teeth over what's Wrong, but to Detox it and join the throngs sending out More and More Powerful Vibrations of What-We-Want.
If What-You-Want leaves anyone else worse off, then work on your formulation of What-You-Want to clean up its rough Edges. What-We-Want needs to leave everyone else Better Off, and with a little work we can Easily convert our Wants to meet that need, if they don't already.
Posted in July 2018, Manifestation, Nemesis-Sedna | 1 Comment »
Well, we don't seem to be able to escape this Quantum Jump Province yet, which is fine, or at least, it Is What It Is. More of our Big Rebirth, in other words. 20-21 July features
The Station of Eris (6am PDT) at 25 Aries (which I somehow failed to notice until just now) – meaning that we might encounter Insights about the cornerstones that keep our Limiting Beliefs in place.
The Initiation of Sappho by Lachesis (10am PDT) at 25 Taurus, "A vast public park"; the Cycle is about Choosing What to Love about Ourself, begging the question, "Why would we Choose NOT to Love anything about Ourself?" The Degree says that Choosing to Love ALL of Ourself will open up a Vast Public Park for us to play in.
The Station of asteroid Karma (2pm PDT) at 1 Sagittarius – more likelihood of Insights about the Edges between Who We Are and Who We Think We Are, and, since Karma is now full-time in Sagittarius (Letting Go), we may find it easier to Let Go of our Self-Judgments.
The Initiation of Nemesis by Sedna (5am) at 28 Taurus, "A woman, past her 'change of life,' experiences a new love"; when we Claim Fear as Power, we have no need to Fear Ego Death of any sort, including Ego Deaths that Challenge the deepest levels of our Identity both Personally and Culturally.
Notice that if we use six-Degree birth-chart Sensitivity, which is appropriate since Rebirth is what we're talking about, these all make significant Dances with each other. In fact, except for a Vacancy at the end of Aquarius or beginning of Pisces, we have a "Grand Unx," or twelve planets more or less equidistant from one another, which is the Ideal situation for Breaking Up Old Habit Patterns, Karmic or otherwise.
The Vacancy is filled by the Fixed Star Deneb Algedi in the Mertail of Capricorn. Bernadette says (Brady's Book of Fixed Stars, pp.302-4) "the law-giving, justice-oriented god trying to civilize his people is probably the best [interpretation], since this would reflect its long history. This is the star of the person who is a benefic ruler, one who is trying to use wisdom and knowledge to protect and help the people around them." Then she goes on to cite Mother Teresa as her example.
Wouldn't it be great if such a person would step forward to save us from Sinki into Hel, now that the Antichrist is so clearly and blatantly illustrating the Exact Opposite. Remember that in the Unconscious, which does not do Duality, Opposites are Equal. Or do you suppose that the Antichrist was just playing Br'er Rabbit to his friend's Br'er Bear? That's too funny.
Posted in Eris, July 2018, Karma (asteroid), Nemesis-Sedna, Sappho-Lachesis | Leave a Comment »
Quantum Jump 2
Here's what the 8 July (7:30 am PDT) Haumea Station looks like…
Here's what we wrote in July I (https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2018/06/28/july-i/)…
"Stationary Haumea (Rebirth) Opposes Eris (Revelation of what was Denied), T-Squared by Pluto (Compulsion), Lilith (Self-Sovereignty), Klotho (Start of a New Timeline), and BZ509 (Transcendence)."
We had a senior moment and omitted Lilith from the version in July I (since corrected). So we're Reborn (thrice really, with Haumea, BZ509, and Klotho all Lit Up) into a World where we're Compelled to Express Who We Really Are, Following no one's advice except the Wisdom of our own Soul, and encouraging Others to Follow theirs as well (Lilith). Of course that could be Difficult (T-Square), as Lilith was considered a Pariah and a Demon by the Patriarchy.
Consider though that this Energy will effect Everyone. If the Generals of the Patriarchy Follow their own Empathy-Less and Compassion-Less Souls, they'll drift further from everyone else, whose Souls are likely to Lead them into greater Compassion and Empathy. The Sergeants of the Patriarchy, who Follow because they Fear not to, or because they Believe they Should, may turn away from the Generals. Continuing our July I extract…
"There are Trine Bridges (Easy Paths around the T-Square's Difficulty) from Moira-Chaos (Choosing to Let Go of our Limitations) and from Vesta-Ixion (Letting Go of the Limiting Beliefs we've used to squelch our Hidden Genius)."
These are Trines – Dumb-Luck Blessings. But they also involve Difficult tasks – Allowing Ourself to Let Go of our Limitations and Allowing Ourself to Let Go of the Limiting Beliefs we've been using to squelch our Hidden Genius. Some people will wake up tomorrow and without giving it a second thought, they'll just Let Go of their Limitations and Let Go of the Limiting Beliefs they've been using to keep their Genius Hidden. When enough of us do that, the rest of us will find the Courage to do the same.
Remember that Jupiter (Expanson) is also Stationary (Strong), turning about on 10 July (10 am PDT). That will embolden many.
It should be obvious to veteran readers that there will be Ego Deaths involved in all this, as we will definitely have Ego Attachments to many of those Limitations and Limiting Beliefs. For some (those associated with Held Emotions) it will feel like "I'd rather Die," and for others (those installed by our programmers) it will feel like "They'll Kill me" – either are trademarks of impending Ego Death.
But we also said in July I …
"There is also a Quincunx Bridge (another Easy Path if we can Hold our Curiosity as Curiosity and not try to 'Figure It Out') from Lachesis-Nemesis-Sedna (Letting Go of our Fear of Ego Death)."
Letting Go of our Fear of Ego Death. Great! But that complex isn't Complete yet…
"Lachesis (Choosing to Alter Timelines) Initiated Nemesis (Ego Deaths) on 3 July (11pm PDT) at 21 Taurus, "A finger pointing to a line in an open book." Lachesis is about the Length of Timelines – Fated when we're Unconscious, and Chosen when we're Conscious. Point at the line (Timeline) that you Want to Change, and you'll write your own Autobio book."
So far so good. We're five days into that 27-year Cycle, so we still have plenty of time to Point at the Timeline we Want – such as…
I Choose to Quickly Become Effortlessly Adept at Sailing through Ego Deaths with aplomb.
That should serve us well for the Initiation, and should be more than enough to Get us through these Stations. To assist with the Lilith T-Square though, we need to maintain our Curiosity (Quincunx) about it, so let's add…
"I wonder what will happen around my Self-Sovereignty when I Sail through my Ego Deaths Effortlessly."
Feels Powerful.
The other two Initiations haven't occurred yet, so we can plan for them…
"Sedna (Embracing Fear as Power) Initiates Nemesis 21 July (5am PDT). Embrace Fear as Power by training yourself to Respond to Fear with Breathing, Kegels, Tapping, and Thetas.
"Sedna Initiates Lachesis 30 July (1:30 pm PDT). Both Sedna Initiations occur at 28 Taurus, 'A post-menopausal woman experiences a new love.' Once you've Befriended Fear and Learned to maneuver your own Life by pointing at the Timelines you Want, your only Limits are the ones you Choose."
And from the sound of all that, we can Look Forward to them. Meanwhile we can Enjoy using our new-found Self-Determination and Freedom from Limitations to Let Go of Judgments (15 July Hopi Station) and Sterilize any remaining Karmic Impediments (20 July Station of asteroid Karma).
Then we have the Eclipses woven into this Tapestry of Liberation, a Partial Solar Eclipse at 21 Cancer (there's that number again) on 12 July just after the Jupiter Station, and a Total Lunar Eclipse at 5 Aquarius on 27 July. Eclipses represent Illumination, because they cast that-which-we've-Taken-for-Granted into Darkness, and we Suddenly Become Aware of it through its Absence. We can Expect Epiphanies around our natal planets near 21 and 5 Degrees.
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July I
♥ July begins with a Station of Chiron. Stations are a planet's Strongest times, and Chiron can be about Discouragement. Discouragement is actually easily Healed, though, with Empathy. We recommend Self-Empathy, in the form of what we call a "Poor-Sweetheart" – say to yourself, "You Poor Sweetheart, you're Feeling [Discouraged] [whatever else], aren't you." Then Change the Subject – put your mind on something else. Empathy makes Miracles.
The Chiron Station is 4 July (10pm PDT) in 3 Aries. As it Stations, the Moon approaches, so we can expect the Peak Experience to stretch until 2:30 am PDT or so, when the Moon crosses Chiron. Stay well away from fireworks, ok?
The Chiron Station chart features two Challenges (T-Squares) and two Big Blessings (Grand Trines). The peak of each T-Square is a corner of a Grand Trine, indicating that the Challenges should be Easy, if we Allow them to be. We'll call these combination T-Square-and-Grand-Trine Configurations "Magic Mushrooms."
The first Challenge is to Accept that The Most Important Thing is Being Fully Responsive to your Survival Instincts. If you pay attention to the "news" at all you know that the 3D World is rapidly Collapsing. Tap Out your Fears till you're Neutral, and Theta your Wants till you're fully Confident in them, but after that, Follow your Instincts.
Moon-Chiron Opposes Eurydike-Makemake (Trust that you can Manifest What You Want) Square to Saturn-Pholus-Quaoar. The corresponding Earth Grand Trine (Big Blessing) is Saturn-et al to Ceres (Sustainability) to Juno-Uranus (your Soul's Wisdom Coming into your Consciousness). It's a Kite with OR10 (Intrusive Memories), so you're likely to be Remembering Parallel Lives where you are Living at a Higher Level.
Tapping – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzVd6Ww0as4
Thetaing – https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/category/manifestation/piava/theta/
The second Challenge is kind of the Opposite – our Intrusive Memories will be about the Lifetime(s) inhabited by Heavy Emotions and Self-Sabotaging Patterns. This is a Boon, as it gives us the Opportunity to Recognize that they aren't Present Moment (Tap them Out) and Liberate ourself from their Yoke. You well know what you would Prefer – Theta exactly that, iteratively, until you're Confident you can Manifest it. Contradicts the first Challenge? It's Both/And, isn't it.
The accompanying Grace is Restoration of the Life Force. If you've been wrestling with Autoimmune Bummers, this is an Opportunity to Poor-Sweetheart them into oblivion.
Asteroid Karma at 2 Sagittarius is the focus of a T-Square on the Opposition between OR10 and Ceres. The Fire Grand Trine connects Karma, Varuna, and Moon-Chiron. Eurydike-Makemake is the head of a Kite on the Grand Trine.
We'll talk about it in a few minutes, but on 3 July (peak 11pm PDT) we have the Opportunity to Choose to replace our Painful Ego-Death Patterns with Graceful Transitions.
♥ Having thus Survived and Thrived through these Tests and Blessings, 5-10 July is about a Major Rebirth.
♥ On 8 July (peaking at 7:30 am PDT) we're Lifted into Transcendence, as our hard work over the years Recovering our Abandoned Genius pays off.
Stationary Haumea (Rebirth) Opposes Eris (Revelation of what was Denied), T-Squared by Pluto (Compulsion), Lilith (Self-Sovereignty), Klotho (Start of a New Timeline), and BZ509 (Transcendence). There are Trine Bridges (Easy Paths) from Moira-Chaos (Choosing to Let Go of our Limitations) and from Vesta-Ixion (Letting Go of the Limiting Beliefs we've used to squelch our Hidden Genius).
There is also a Quincunx Bridge (another Easy Path if we can Hold our Curiosity as Curiosity and not try to "Figure It Out") from Lachesis-Nemesis-Sedna (Letting Go of our Fear of Ego Death).
Lachesis (Choosing to Alter Timelines) Initiates Nemesis (Ego Deaths) 3 July (11pm PDT) at 21 Taurus, "A finger pointing to a line in an open book." Lachesis is about the Length of Timelines – Fated when we're Unconscious, and Chosen when we're Conscious. Point at the line (Timeline) that you Want to Change, and you'll write your own Autobio book.
Sedna Initiates Lachesis 30 July (1:30 pm PDT). Both Sedna Initiations occur at 28 Taurus, "A post-menopausal woman experiences a new love." Once you've Befriended Fear and Learned to maneuver your own Life by pointing at the Timelines you Want, your only Limits are the ones you Choose.
♥ Meanwhile, Jupiter – Expansion – is Stationary till 10 July (10 am PDT) at 14 Scorpio, which will jet-propel our Rebirth. Its major feature will be Letting Go our Judgment. There are two keys to maneuvering through this…
"I Wonder what I will Feel if I Let Go of this Judgment." That needs to be Genuine Curiosity. It's about Discovery, not Figuring Out what to Expect.
"I Wonder how my Life will Change if I Let Go of this Limiting Thought Pattern." Again, Avoid Expectations and be Willing to be Surprised and Delighted.
The Jupiter Station Conjoins asteroid Hopi – Respect for All Things. In the resulting Square Fez, Jupiter-Hopi Quincunxes (Curiosity) the Moon (Authentic Emotions) and Mercury (mind) Quincunxes Neptune (Growing beyond the Ego).
♥ 12 July (8pm PDT) features a partial Solar Eclipse in 21 Cancer.
♥ Then Hopi itself is Stationary on 15 July at 17 Scorpio, so the whole notion of being Reborn into Non-Judgment occupies 5-15 July. The Midpoint of Scorpio is one of the major Power Points of the Zodiac, one of the Four Horsepersons. Go for it! Allow yourself to be Surprised and Delighted by Persistently Dismissing your mind's repeated attempts to Anticipate and Expect.
Living through Expectation prevents you from ever leaving the Past, since our Expectations are based on our Past Experiences. If you Want to Experience Life As It Is, Moment to Moment, you have to "Cancel, Neutralize, Upgrade," thank the mind for attempting to Contribute, chuckle at it, and Open to an Blank Slate.
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Review: Los Angeles Athletic Club Hotel
Los Angeles Athletic Club Hotel (Photo by Brad A. Johnson)
Overview: The Los Angeles Athletic Club opened as the city's first members-only club in 1880. The social and athletic organization moved several times before buying the 12-story building that it still occupies today in 1912. The club includes several floors of gym facilities and a glorious swimming pool on the sixth floor. But for most of its history, the club remained strictly for members only, with three levels of rooms set aside for visiting members or their guests who wished to stay overnight. In its early heyday, the club spawned the Riviera Country Club and the California Yacht Club, but they are no longer affiliated. In the early 2000s, the Athletic Club transformed its three floors of guest rooms into a 72-room boutique hotel, but it was awfully frumpy and dated. All that changed a few years ago, when the hotel completely renovated and upgraded everything.
The location: On the corner of Seventh and Olive streets, an area that has become a sort of restaurant row. The hotel entrance is on Seventh, while the club entrance is on Olive, but both doors get you to the same place.
Room: Beach Club Suite, room 1027. I reserved a Deluxe Queen, City View, but when I checked in, I was upgraded to a suite simply because it was available and the hotel occupancy was low that weekend. The living room has enough seating for six or eight. The separate bedroom comes with a king bed dressed in Frette linens and enough feather pillows to build a fort. Blackout blinds and heavy curtains make the city streets seem far away. Frette robes and slippers are a nice touch, too. The closet is oddly configured and difficult to access, but that's not a deal-breaker.
Public spaces: The entire members-only club is open to hotel guests, and their guests. This includes the multilevel gym and the pool. Pay no attention to the the drab first-floor lobby and front desk. Once you get into the elevator and go up, everything changes. The real lobby and social scene are on the third floor, and it's gorgeous, like a library in an old mansion. The decor throughout is classy, clubby and masculine. And if you're watching the current season of "If You Think You Can Dance," you'll recognize the rooftop terrace as the place where Justin Bieber's dance crews were filmed, surrounded by a spectacular wraparound view of the city.
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WiFi: Free and fast.
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Bottom line: Don't let the drab first-floor entrance scare you. This is a lovely little hotel and one of the best-kept secrets – and best values for the money – in downtown L.A.
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Colby Covington doesn't like Alexander Volkanovski and Brian Ortega as TUF coaches
UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington is not happy to see UFC Featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski and top contender Brian Ortega as the new coaches of Ultimate Fighter season 29.
A few months back there were rumors that Colby Covington and his best friend turned rival Jorge Masvidal will be coaching the new season of the Ultimate Fighter. But somehow this concept never came into reality and instead, we have got Alexander Volkanovski and Brian Ortega as our new coaches. As the tradition goes on the coaches might be facing each other soon after the end of the season. But no one really thought of them as the new set of coaches except the UFC.
The 29th season of The Ultimate Fighter premieres June 1 on ESPN+, and the UFC has announced the list of fighters competing for contracts with the promotion. With the featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski and contender Brian Ortega as coaches, the season will feature eight bantamweights and eight middleweights.
Colby Covington isn't happy with the new coaches
Speaking to James Lynch ahead of The Ultimate Fighter 29, Colby Covington said that he doesn't agree with the new coaches as he feels there is no entertainment between these coaches and the fans won't be entertained by this at all. He also said that he was disappointed that the UFC did not consider him as the coach and it would have been much more fun if he and his rivals like Kamaru Usman or maybe Jorge Masvidal would have been appointed as coaches.
"Yikes. I know Hunter Campbell and Dana White probably had to go behind closed doors and be smacking themselves in the head because you don't want those two guys as your coaches as your comeback season of The Ultimate Fighter," Covington said. "Those guys are going to make a complete mockery of the show. There's just no entertainment factor there. Those guys, yeah, they're decent fighters for the little weights, for the little midgets, but they don't sell. There's no controversy, there's no drama, there's nothing. There's no storyline. So I feel bad for the show. I wish I could have came back to the show and give the people what they want."
The UFC has yet to announce when the TUF 29 Finale event will take place, as well as a date and location for the featherweight title fight between Volkanovski and Ortega.
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Overview of Diseases of the Peripheral Nerves and Neuromuscular Junction in Animals
Degenerative Disorders of the Peripheral Nerves and Neuromuscular Junction in Animals
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Metabolic Disorders of the Peripheral Nerves and Neuromuscular Junction in Animals
Neoplasia of the Peripheral Nerves and Neuromuscular Junction in Animals
Nutritional Disorders of the Peripheral Nerves and Neuromuscular Junction in Animals
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Trauma of the Peripheral Nerves and Neuromuscular Junction in Animals
Vascular Diseases of the Peripheral Nerves and Neuromuscular Junction in Animals
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Diabetic Neuropathy in Dogs and Cats
Diabetic neuropathy, an uncommon complication of diabetes mellitus Diabetes Mellitus in Dogs and Cats Diabetes mellitus is a common endocrine disease in dogs and cats, occurring in about 1 of every 300 patients. Clinical signs reflect hyperglycemia with resultant glycosuria. Diagnosis is made... read more is seen in cats and rarely dogs. Signs include weakness, ataxia, and muscle atrophy. Affected cats often have unilateral or bilateral tibial nerve dysfunction, evident as a plantigrade stance. Several pathophysiologic mechanisms have been proposed, but prolonged hyperglycemia seems to be the important underlying factor. Pathologic findings in nerves consist of demyelination with remyelination, axonal degeneration, or both. Diagnosis is based on clinical findings, laboratory evidence of diabetes mellitus, and nerve biopsy. The prognosis is guarded, but partial or complete recovery can occur with insulin therapy.
Hypothyroid Neuropathy in Dogs
Hypothyroid neuropathy is a potential complication of hypothyroidism Hypothyroidism in Animals Hypothyroidism is thyroid hormone deficiency. It is diagnosed by clinical features such as lethargy, weight gain, obesity, haircoat changes, and low serum thyroid hormone concentrations. Management... read more in dogs. Mature dogs, especially large-breed dogs, are predisposed. Several syndromes have been reported, including tetraparesis with proprioceptive deficits and hyporeflexia, vestibular dysfunction, megaesophagus, and laryngeal paralysis Laryngeal Hemiplegia in Horses Left recurrent laryngeal hemiplegia is characterized by paresis or paralysis of the left arytenoid cartilage and vocal fold. It manifests clinically as exercise intolerance and inspiratory respiratory... read more . In some cases, classic signs of hypothyroidism (eg, obesity and dermatopathy) are absent, and neurologic dysfunction is the only sign of illness. Pathologic findings in peripheral nerves consist of demyelination or remyelination and axonal degeneration. The pathophysiology is poorly understood, and, in some affected dogs with motor deficits, a myopathy may also be present. Diagnosis is based on clinical features, laboratory assessment of thyroid function, and response to thyroid supplementation. In some, but not all, cases, signs resolve within several months of starting thyroid replacement therapy.


Or coffee. Or Diet Coke. Sigh.
We've tackled many questions when it comes to airplane food: Who has the best in-flight meal? Can you ever ask for second helpings? But what about the dishes and drinks you should always avoid, however hungry or thirsty that long-haul flight makes you? We asked some airline insiders what they think you should avoid on a plane—their suggestions include some surprises (Diet Coke?).
Drinking coffee on a plane is one of the most-debated questions when it comes to in-flight F&B. But Bobby Laurie, a travel expert and former flight attendant, has a simple two-part answer: Should you drink it? Probably not. But will it poison you? Also unlikely. "The reason why coffee has such stigma attached to it is that the water is loaded into the airplane into a tank that never actually gets emptied when the aircraft is serviced, so some of the water is constantly recycled [every time]," Laurie says. "That's why it gets that stale taste that bleeds through in the coffee maker." (The same problem occurs when making tea).
...but not one that requires a shaker or bar-top equipment, which airlines often tout for making a Cosmo or margarita seat-side. Crews hate how much it slows down service, and the service carts aren't configured to keep the shaker and other tools easily at hand (often, they're stuffed in the ice draw with the beer, so you'll end up with sticky cans, too). Better to opt for a simple G&T.
Tomato juice is one of the most popular onboard drinks; the umami factor kicks in at 30,000 feet, activating your taste buds to appreciate savory foods like tomatoes. But don't succumb to the lure of that Bloody Mary mix: It's loaded with sodium, which can cause swelling at altitude. It also makes you thirstier, forcing you to drink more water to offset it—cue more bloating, and lots of inconvenient bathroom trips.
If you want to earn eyerolls from a flight attendant, order a Diet Coke. They say it fizzes more than other beverages, so takes longer to pour and serve. (Even on the ground, diet drinks tend to fizz more than regular sodas.) Even if you brave their disapproval, you might not enjoy that soda anyway. "Some FAs get around it by opening all the cans in the galley but what they don't realize is that the drinks end up being rather flat when they get to the passengers," says travel expert Ramsey Qubein.
When passengers are asked to deplane, say, because of a mechanical problem or weather, the catering carts will remain onboard. "The food is just sitting there, and in the summer, it will be without air conditioning," warns Laurie, who often opted not to sell fruit and cheese boxes in that scenario. He recalls one flight that took off after an eight-hour delay, where a first class passenger asked about dinner service. "I told him the meal had been cooked on a Sunday, you were supposed to leave on Monday, and now it's early in the morning on Tuesday, with the food onboard for 10 hours. You decide." The frequent flier opted to go hungry.


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If you use an iPhone or iPad to email important clients, friends, and relatives, then you probably want to try to minimize as much unnecessary typing as possible.
Signatures are great for when you need to include your work address and phone number, an inspirational quote, or any other information you think necessary for your recipients to know. Signatures can make short work of adding routine and repetitive information to the end of your messages. And just like any mail client, you can easily create, edit, and assign signatures to your Apple Mail accounts on your iOS device.
To get started, first open the Settings and scroll down to and tap on "Mail, Contacts, Calendars".
There are a lot of options here, but the only one we're looking for is the "Signature" settings. You may have visited it before, if you ever wanted to remove the default "Sent from my iPhone" or "Sent from my iPad" signature.
There are two ways of setting up signatures on your iOS device. The "All Accounts" signature means that you assign one signature for every email account you have. It doesn't matter if it's a personal or work address, recipients will see the same bit of text at the end of you messages.
The other option is the one that will probably appeal to more people who want a more refined approach. The "Per Account" method allows you to add a signature for each account, so if you have three accounts, you can have three signatures.
This is a better option if you are using your device for both work and personal use. You can have a funny quote appended to your home emails and pertinent professional stuff at the end of your work emails.
Assigning signatures on your iPhone or iPad is really simple and straightforward. You won't be able to have multiple signatures for each account, like you can in Apple Mail on macOS, but that's not the point. These are simply to save you time and typing.


This week's budget made few mentions of the voluntary sector, and you might be forgiven for thinking the Chancellor had forgotten all about it. Scratch beneath the surface, however, and some changes can be found that will impact on charities which we explore below.
Gift Aid – perhaps most significantly for charities, the Gift Aid regime will be simplified. The middle threshold of the scheme will be scrapped, meaning charities can claim a higher level of benefit on donations up to £100. New legislation will formalise existing extra-statutory concessions. These changes have been welcomed by the Charity Tax Group, although some have suggested that removing small benefits from the scheme entirely would have been more helpful for smaller charities.
VAT Recovery – an "Accident Rescue Charities Grant Scheme" is introduced, to help accident rescue charities to recover VAT. For context, the charity sector as a whole currently suffers an estimated £1.5bn in irrecoverable VAT each year. Some rebate schemes already exist for certain types of charities, and this scheme will expand the relief further. Recovery will remain an unaddressed issue for the remainder of the sector.
VAT Threshold – The freezing for 2 years of the threshold at which organisations must register for VAT purposes at £85,000 will be of comfort to smaller charities (the fear had been that it will be dropped). Similarly, the current rates of Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) will remain fixed despite fears that they might be increased.
Libor Charity Funding Scheme - The scheme's last tranche (of £36 million) has been released and will be spent on charities supporting the armed forces and emergency services.
Indirect assistance – Less directly, extra budget funding pledged to the NHS and to address homelessness may relieve pressure on health-related and homelessness charities. That said, the budget promised very little to the voluntary sector in the way of specific extra grants or funding.
Charity Commission funding - No increase to the Commission's annual grant – could this result in charities being levied an annual fee?
European Social Fund - No replacement offered for the fund, which will come to an end in 2020 following Brexit.
Dormant assets - No direction has been made on the expenditure of dormant assets in the voluntary sector.
Tech investment - No investment for programmes providing charities with training in finance and technology, in which they would greatly benefit from support.
Business Rates Relief – The Charity Finance Group and others have long been calling for the rates relief available to charities to be extended, to assist those occupying commercial property.
Local authorities and social care – No extra support has been made available for local authorities or social care services, which puts extra pressure on charities to help vulnerable groups in society such as the elderly, the disabled and the homeless.
Overall, the budget provides some concessions and stability in relation to taxation, but promises little in the way of additional funding, and has avoided a number of concerns raised by the sector. The financial pressures that many charities face continue to be exacerbated by austerity policies, which increase demand for charities' services, and high levels of inflation, which both decrease the value of donations received and make it more difficult for donors to give to charity. This week's budget does little to acknowledge or address these issues.
If you would like more information on any of the above issues or how best to manage your charity's finances following the Budget, please do get in touch with Ben Brice in the Charities team.


i'm not going to be able to get any work done today. my coworker christy sent me pictures of Danke, the world's smallest dog, who was featured on Channel 4 this morning. that led to me finding the site's Feedroom, which is filled with video clips of a monkey riding a sheepdog, another world's tiniest dog candidate and a pug-fest. oy.
Margie J says I'm in LOVE!


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Confiscation and Civil Recovery: A Guide to Parts 3 and 5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
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This is the first dedicated Scottish book to deal with the confiscation and civil recovery regimes under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
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1899 Rare First Edition - The RED BOOK of ANIMAL STORIES by Andrew Lang Illustrated by H.J. FORD.
Author: Andrew Lang. (Henry Justice Ford, illustrator).
Title: The Red Book of Animal Stories.
Publisher : London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1899. First edition.
Pages : xvii-379 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good full morocco leather binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed, title label slightly faded and scuffed - as shown) under a protective mylar cover. All edges marbled.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, some foxing and staining - as shown, gift note of a previous 1912 owner on the second blank).
Illustrated: Complete with all the beautiful illustrations by Henry Justice Ford.
The book: Nice morocco leather binding for this First edition of the Red Book of Animal Stories - A collection of true and fictional tales from various sources about wild, domestic, and mythical animals edited and selected by Andrew Lang.
The author: Andrew Lang FBA (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
The illustrator: Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific and successful English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. Sometimes known as H. J. Ford or Henry J. Ford, he came to public attention when he provided the numerous beautiful illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, which captured the imagination of a generation of British children and were sold worldwide in the 1880s and 1890s.
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is to be born on October 1, 2003, merging the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL), and the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA). The official English name, "Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)", represents our enthusiasm not only for exploration but also for broader activities including research and development by the use of the word "exploration". In the new logo, "A" for "Aerospace" is designed as a star to symbolize "hope", "pride", and an "exploratory mind", and to signify a guidepost pointing to our future. It reflects our hope for JAXA to be a star of Japan and for all of human society, as well as to shine brightly.
In following photo, it seems as if Japan's first spacewalker is holding the flag and quite clearly here, while romping about during a training flight.
Kibou (Hope) is the name of the Japanese module of the International Space Station (not yet launched due to the interruption in Shuttle flights, I think). JAXA also has a small manned shuttlecraft named HOPE-X in development, designed to be launched on the H-2 booster.
A white paper airplane flying on the red sun and the Japanese character Hiragana "Kibou" meaning "Hope" is written on the flag.
The rounded blue square w/ red sun and paper airplane emblem is or has been also used as a spacesuit patch, among other things: see image at JAXA.


Note: Jo Nesbo was WINNER of the Peer Gynt Prize in 2013 for his contributions to Norway.
Author photo by Brian Howell.
Without a place to stay and desperately in need of sleep, he goes into a small church, takes some vestments from a closet to wrap around himself for warmth, tries unsuccessfully to swallow some communion wafers for food, and curls up on the floor. Ironies abound. A young child, Knut, wakens Ulf and announces that he can't sleep there because his mother has to clean the place. His mother, Lea, overhearing, says that if he needs a place to stay, "You just have to knock on a door and they'll give you a bed." Working as both sexton and vicar in the church, the boy's mother offers him the use of her husband's hunting cabin, since her husband is out fishing. With a rifle supplied by Knut's mother, and plenty of money brought with him from his job with the Fisherman in Oslo, he is able to buy food from a vendor in town and settle in, often attended by the lonely Knut, who enjoys his company.
Kasund is a "suburb" of Kautokeino, pictured here.
Nesbo's new, more concise style is seen in his ability to create mood and atmosphere through description, while also revealing character and background through point of view and dialogue. "The scenery which had looked so monotonous from a distance was constantly changing, from soft, earthy browns covered by green and reddish-brown heather, to stony, scarred lunar landscapes, and suddenly – in the light of the sun…like a red discus – it looked like it was glowing, as though lava were running down the gently sloping hillsides…" As Ulf and Knut are walking through this scene, young Knut is creating unfunny jokes and trying to become a buddy with Ulf, and Ulf is asking innocent-seeming questions of him to familiarize himself more fully with the landscape, native plants, and animals so that if/when the Fishermen's men find him, he'll have a better chance to save himself.
Lars Levi Laestadius, founder of a fundamentalist religious group based on Lutheranism.
For the first fifty pages, the reader accompanies Ulf as he tries to assess his options if/when the Fisherman's men arrive. Nesbo's honest and appealing point of view and characterization for Ulf show a kinder, gentler Nesbo, featuring a "fixer" who is in touch with the natural world and connecting with a young boy, and eventually his mother, the vicar, a situation in which the ironies are unexpected. Through flashbacks and memories, the reader learns about Ulf's background in Oslo, his pre-criminal life there, and his hopes for the future, eventually discovering why Ulf ended up as a fixer. At the same time, Ulf is fully experiencing life in a new world, with shamans and ceremonies, and a fundamentalist sect of Lutherans, the Laestadians, which include Knut and his mother. Though the threat of the Fisherman never leaves Ulf's mind, he is also fascinated by what he is learning of the culture and about the nature of good and evil: "It's only a stone's throw from the drumming of a shaman and witchcraft to the Laestadians speaking in tongues," their goal being "to impart the old, true creed," a rigid, absolute belief in the nature of good and evil and a person's tiny place in the universe. Though he likes and admires Knut, Lea, and others from the town, he is horrified by the abuse that frequently arises under the leadership of Lea's father, the priest, who is the sole interpreter of the Word of God. Ironic parallels between this lifestyle and that of the criminal underworld of people like the Fisherman (whose own name is ironic) are impossible to miss.
The Fisherman's men do, of course, arrive, as everyone including Ulf expects, and a showdown and face-off do occur. As the killers approach the cabin where Ulf is hiding, Nesbo cannot resist poking fun at the clichés which so often accompany mystery stories with their obvious foreboding and foreshadowing, and when Ulf concludes that there is only one way he can possibly escape discovery, every reader will be reminded of some of the other outrageous tricks seen in other Nesbo novels. Fans of Nesbo will easily imagine the author creating this culminating scene with a huge smirk on his face.
Sami children on their reindeer-drawn sled. Their shoes are of traditional reindeer hide.
For those accustomed to the high-octane action, bloody violence, and even horror in Nesbo's past novels, this novel, like Blood on Snow, will come as a major surprise. Fewer than three hundred pages long, the novel focuses on Ulf's well-developed character and the themes of what it means to be "good," how one defines "right," and whether life has any "real" meaning. Beautifully paced, far more introspective, and more literary than what one finds in Nesbo's first twelve thrillers, the novel maintains high interest and plenty of excitement. With its smaller scope and its unique cultural setting in the Land of the Midnight Sun, the novel employs aspects of nature – the world of tooth and claw – to show parallels between the animal world and the world in which Ulf himself has been living. By using Kasund and the world above the Arctic Circle as the microcosm for life, Nesbo creates a novel of genuine sentiment without resorting to sentimentality, and thoughtful themes without becoming ponderous.


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"Think that Roe v. Wade happened right after the American Revolution"
Do millennials know anything about historical atrocities? It was bad enough that only 4 in 10 millennials understood the Holocaust, but now a new poll shows that as many as 57% of millennials know little to nothing about Roe v. Wade, the ghastly SCOTUS decision that made abortion a constitutional right by judicial fiat.
According to a Democratic pollster, millennials do not know what Roe v. Wade is about, or when abortion was legalized, with many believing it happened after the American Revolution, nearly 200 years before it was decided.
"Millennials think that Roe v. Wade happened right after the American Revolution," Celinda Lake, president of Lake Research, said on a Friday episode of "What America's Thinking."
When Roe v. Wade was handed down, many abortion supporters stated that abortion would be "safe, legal, and rare." That has proved itself to not be the case. Even some abortion advocates say the poorly-written case has no constitutional basis, and its loose language has opened the door to widespread abortions.
Because of Roe and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, the United States is one of only seven countries in the world that permits elective abortions past 20 weeks — a fact confirmed by the Washington Post fact checker.
Roe v. Wade opened the doors to 60 million abortions in America. The case, along with Doe v. Bolton, forced states to allow abortions for almost any reason up to birth. The two decisions took away states' power to regulate abortions and protect unborn babies. More recent Supreme Court rulings have allowed for modest abortion regulations and restrictions, but abortions remain widely unregulated in the first and second trimester of pregnancy.
The polls may show ignorance of the issue, but a Gallup poll did find that more than half of Americans want a serious rollback on abortion or made illegal. A Knights of Columbus poll also found that 76% of Americans support abortion restrictions.
President Trump's SCOTUS pick could very well sway the court rightward enough to overturn Roe or hollow it out significantly.


Road trip to Devon, autumn 2014. Wimbleball Lake. However many times we try the dog just won't swim! I like that this image is so full but yet broken up by the activity in the middle of the scene. I especially love that the dog is looking straight at the camera!
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