Book of Revelation: "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away".
Book of Revelation 21:4 also says; And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away (This is the transformation process rebirth Phoenix Bird from a physical being to spiritual man (or a living stone).
To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God" (Revelation 2:4–5, 7).
Superconscious Finally, if the collective unconscious is the water, the superconscious is the air above the iceberg. This is the "God mind" or the higher mind in nonreligious terms. This is the part of the human mind posited to be directly linked to a higher intelligence that, depending on one's beliefs, exists within us, is external to us, or both.
The superconscious transcends human consciousness and is our field of all possibility and potentiality. Some call it the quantum field, where nothing and everything exists at the same time as both wave and particle until we, the observers, serve to collapse the wave function and measure or fix reality into position. Until then, all is in a state of superposition.
The superconscious is the superpositioned mind. Where the other levels of consciousness are closely tied into our physical nature, the superconscious goes beyond physicality. An interesting analogy for all of this comes from today's obsession with technology. Imagine your own personal computer. That is your conscious, active mind. Your computer is linked to others all over the globe via the global "network" that allows you to converse with folks in other countries in real time and access almost instantaneously anything you want or need. That is the superconscious mind. Your computer runs on selected programs you chose to have installed with time and may have forgotten you did. That is the subconscious mind. Below all of this is the amassed collective of all of the information on all computers all over the world past, present, and future. That is the collective unconscious.
The "higher mind" may or may not exist outside of the body/brain as a consciousness that interacts with our brains. This is the domain of universal consciousness, which we are all able to tap into for information we need. This mind knows nothing of linear time or the limitations of space, and is often described as "infinite mind." Here, we find the highest levels of knowledge, creativity, spiritual awareness, oneness, wholeness, and connectedness with the All.
Like the Bible's Kingdom of Heaven, it is in and through us and all around us. But we don't have to believe in a religious God to experience this open awareness and destruction of ego and separation.
Where the collective unconscious is the deepest part of us, connected to the unconscious minds of everyone else that get their power from symbols and past programming, the superconscious is the highest part of us, connected to all the conscious minds as well as the mind of what created us: Source, God, Kingdom of Heaven, The Zero Point Field. It is a pure field or "grid" of potentiality from which we co-create our manifest reality.
Some psychologists and scholars claim the superconscious and collective unconscious are the same, but in fact they are quite the opposite of each other. The superconscious knows all and allows us to access it by becoming one with a creative source or force. The collective unconscious is the land of hidden symbolic information of humanity through time, yet continuing to drive our behaviors and personalities below the radar and behind the scenes.
Superconsciousness is God Mind. It is transcendent and divine. The collective unconscious is Humanity Mind. It is instinctual and primal. Both are critical to our understanding of who we are. As powerful and superior as this level of mind may be. we rarely use it. when we do, we are inspired, acting on what we sense is our higher selves or our creative source energy moving through us, speaking to us.
Our conscious mind will often keep us distracted from the whisperings of the superconscious, and our subconscious and collective unconscious might even serve as gatekeepers that refuse to let us into the gates of heaven, so to speak. Acting to keep us afraid, in our comfort zones, safe, and curled into a little ball of habit, pattern, and self-sabotage, the other levels of mind will stop at nothing to keep us from experiencing more of the connection with the superconsciousness we seek in order to align ourselves to our purpose here on Earth.
We can use many tools to reach the superconscious and soak up that inspiration and energy, but we first must deal with the deeper parts of ourselves that resist this because we might change—and change is scary. So whereas the superconscious may be the most desirable level of mind to experience, it is still the rock-bottom level of mind that is driving us away from that experience. That rock-bottom level is the collective unconscious, where we dance the dance of life immersed in universal beliefs, symbols, and ideas that may or may not be our own, may or may not serve us, and may or may not be in our best interest.
Having a visual understanding of how the mind is structured and what each level is responsible for is helpful in realizing what makes us who we are as individuals and as a species. But it doesn't go far enough to show us why we are who we are, and how we can make changes to ourselves and our lives that more fully reflect the truth and authenticity of the person we know somewhere deep within we can be. To do that, we have to step back from speaking the language of the conscious mind, which is focused on words, unexamined beliefs, thoughts, goals, and plans, and begin speaking the language of the collective unconscious.
Think of it this way: if a diver wants to get the object on the ocean floor, he/she has to go all the way to the bottom. Unless it floats, it is stuck there in the sand and sediment to be pulled out and examined up in the light of day. To dive that deep, though, we have to learn to speak in symbols, and the most powerful of these are the archetypes. These mysterious and enigmatic symbols run our lives from their domain, or kingdom, and yet most of us have never even met or acknowledged them. Until now.
The end goal was the transformation of the archetype that represented the totality of the psyche is: the self. SELF: This is the idealized, unified whole of our psyche that balances the shadow and the self, the anima and the animus. This is the real person actualized and was, to Jung, the ultimate goal of a human being and the greatest state of personal and spiritual achievement. The self is the unity of the personality as a whole, an entirety.
Consciousness existed before the appearance of matter—before the appearance even of time and space. In this con-text, Pure Consciousness is not really even omnipresent: It simply is. It was vibrations of that consciousness that produced energy, and then, through grosser vibrations of energy, produced matter. Without these movements of consciousness, time and space wouldn't exist.
Only in humankind does consciousness reveal its potential for abandoning its material identity altogether. The fact that human beings seem to possess a capacity for increasing their awareness indefinitely suggests that they may even have the potential to continue that expansion to infinity. Rational thought suggests, and the experience of great mystics—the "scientists" of the spiritual world—confirms, that human beings, with their more highly refined nervous system, have the potential to transcend ego-awareness altogether, and attain cosmic consiousness.
Subconsciousness lies, as the word implies, below the level of conscious awareness. Its physical seat in the body is the lower brain and the spine. The more our energy and awareness are uplifted in the spine and projected forward through the brain toward the frontal lobe, the higher our level of awareness will be. Concentrate in the frontal lobe of the brain, at a point midway between the eyebrows. The spine is the tunnel through which consciousness ascends to enlightenment. It begins from the dimmest awareness at the base of the spine, and ends at the seat seat of superconsciousness between the eyebrows (third eye).
The subconscious, instinctive, or automatic mind. It controls the involuntary functions of the body; it is the seat of lower emotions and animal instinct, and it also carries on the auto-matic functions of our daily activities.
Conscious mind or intellect. Intellect can control and guide the subconscious and is the basic requisite for the ego or "I" consciousness. Reasoning is the function of the intellect.
Superconscious mind, or higher mind. The function of this mind, which is above intellect, is to achieve intuition and higher consciousness. Beyond these three levels of the mind is the pure consciousness known as spirit, soul, or self, which is formless, timeless, changeless, and infinite in its nature.
Compared to the conscious mind, the lower self is superconscious. The Crown chakra and the Pineal gland is connected to the subconsciousness mind. A balanced flow of energy in this chakra may result in the ability to access both the subconscious and super- conscious minds.
The superconsciousness is the bridge between your Divine Mind and your point of consciousness – the superconsciousness is the bridge to reaility.
The superconscious mind, or Higher Self. The conscious mind, or middle self. The unconscious mind, or lower self. The superconscious mind is an aspect of Universal Consciousness and the Monad, it is the "inspirational body." The Soul, the Christ Overself, and the Higher Self are aspects of the superconscious mind. The conscious mind is the middle self. It is the self-reflective analytical mind, or ego. The conscious mind has less information processing abilities than either the superconscious mind or the unconscious mind.
The subconscious mind is an aspect of the middle self. The subconscious mind should not be confused with the unconscious mind, which is known to exist at a much deeper level. The lower self is the unconscious mind. It should be understood, however, that the lower self is anything but unconscious. Compared to the conscious mind, the lower self is superconscious, as it automatically processes a great deal of energy and information. The first three chakras constitute the spiritual consciousness of the lower self: Will, manifestation, and the connection to primal, creative life force Kundalini. What psychologists refer to as the subconscious mind is the intermedi-ary level between the conscious and unconscious minds.
The super conscious mind is the higher level of personal consciousness with access to the universal of collective unconscious. It is where the 'gods' or powerful archetypes and spirit guides can be found.
First, there is the superconscious mind. Our superconscious mind is located in our cell in the divine brain on the spiritual plane. Our superconscious mind is still directly connected to the Cosmic Consciousness, but we, our conscious self on the material plane, are separated from direct access to this superconscious mind due to the superconscious mind being on the higher planes and our lower, conscious mind being bound to the material plane. So the subconscious mind was brought into being to step down the high vibrations of the superconscious mind.
The subconscious mind is a bridge between the superconscious mind and our conscious self, our conscious mind. It is through the subconscious mind, which steps down the full power of the superconscious mind, that we receive communication from our higher self. The subconscious mind then communicates with our conscious mind and conversely, the subconscious mind is the communications link between us, our conscious self, and the superconscious mind. This stepping down process is necessary or we wouldn't be able to receive messages from our higher self that would be understandable.
The subconscious mind has two functions. It is the controller of the automatic functions of the body and it is the connecting link between the conscious mind and the superconscious mind. The superconscious mind initiates 'intuition', or those impulses that impel us through life. The superconscious mind is constantly giving us impulses directing us to move out of our fallen state, the prison we are bound to on the material plane. The superconscious mind constantly sends impulses to our subconscious mind for us to move in certain desired channels and directions in life.
Earth is symbolized by the soul. Since the subconscious mind works through symbols, it is important to cultivate the ability to interpret these symbols to decipher their meaning.
The Philosopher's Stone, and the secret of all secrets, and the gift of God.
But it is difficult to discover the gift that is the philosopher's stone and that exists in each one of us. The difficult part is uncovering the gift of the Philosopher's Stone, which exists in each of us. It is sought by many and found be a few. It is beheld from afar and found near, fort it exist in every thing, in every place, and at all times.
'THE SUBSTANCE OF THE UNIVERSE IS CONSCIOUSNESS. NOT MATTER. MATTER DOES NOT EXIST. IT IS ONLY A PERCEPTION. IT IS AN ILLUSION. ONLY ENERGY EXISTS. ENERGY VIBRATING AT DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES. CONSCIOUSNESS IS ENERGY. EVERYTHING YOU THINK EXISTS DOESN'T AND EVERYTHING YOU THINK DOESN'T EXIST, IS ALL THAT DOES. THE ONLY THING THAT EXISTS IS CONSCIOUSNESS. EVERYTHING IS CONSCIOUSNESS. YOU ARE CONSCIOUSNESS. You ARE EVERYTHING THAT IS. THERE IS NOTHING THAT YOU AREN'T. You HAVE NO IDEA HOW VAST YOU ARE BECAUSE YOU'VE SO LONG ACCEPTED THAT YOU ARE SMALL THAT THERE IS NO ABILITY IN YOUR MIND TO REALIZE HOW BIG YOU ARE.
Look up into a clear night sky and it appears infinite. It is you. And you are vaster than what you can even perceive. Through human self-reflection, the universal force that is consciousness also self reflects to some degree. This is so because there are no real boundaries between human beings and Nature, other than those we impose. Humanity is an extension of nature and natural laws.
This is why we are a medium for That Which Creates and Understands in the Universe. As a part of this creative Cosmos, we too create, self-reflect and come to know the Creator Within This is why one of the very best ways to know God, is through the knowing of self. Our daily reality is not only a matter of connection with God or Universal Consciousness. We are in fact actually composed of the same essence as that which is called God. In essence, we are as cells in the infinite body of Godt There are no ultimate boundaries in the cosmos The universe is actually composed of the very same underlying substance in all places peoples, and times. We are all 'made of God, or in other words, Consciousness.
In other words, the universal subconscious mind is the fabric of the universe, it is "prima materia" (or prime matter), which is an eternal process of becoming; the mental stuff from which everything springs. In Jung's interpretation, the prima materia is some form of psychic energy, which contains the two opposites, the sun and moon or the conscious and the subconscious.
We call the pineal gland our aging clock because it is the body's timekeeper. We age because our pineal function declines over time, and as it does it produces less melatonin. This reduction in melatonin signals to the rest of the body that it is time for it to age. But if we reset our aging clock by taking melatonin, we can reverse those signals and stave off the downward spiral. Is this merely some vague and nonspecific promise of renewal?
Research indicates that melatonin supplementation can forestall the very real and very destructive effects of aging, including weakened immune function, cancer, sleep disorders, and heart disease. The promise of melatonin may at first strike you as miraculous but there is nothing magical or mysterious about it. Melatonin works by restoring the function of the pineal gland, and thus it restores the balance to our body that we need to maintain the health we naturally enjoy in youth. The pineal gland is the "regulator" of the glands in our body that produce the hormones that run all our essential bodily systems.
Are we just our Physical Bodies which we inhabit, or are we Supernatural Beings having a Physical Experience here on earth? What if we were far more then what we have been told and commanded to believe? Imagine if we discovered that we were Devine beings with extraordinary powers and capabilities of immeasurable, unlimited, infinite potential. How would this new found information change your life?
Let' s continue with this theme of imagining and say we discovered that our personal thoughts really do influence this seemingly physical world that we are experiencing. This would be a powerful skill and ability to possess and harness, allowing us to create and shape our realities. What if the ideas of "Space and Time were nothing more than conjured up concepts developed to control humanity in order to limit our infinite Wisdom and Power? These are just a few questions that have perplexed all of humanity from the beginning of our "Conscious Awakening" .
We have grown accustomed to depending solely upon our five sense organs which seem to work well enough in this three dimensional reality, but compelling evidence is indicating that we are experiencing a holographic reality. Our understanding beyond this seemingly physical solid realm may not be as solid as we have been taught to believe, and so the concept of "Matter is brought into question and physics tells us that "Matter" does not exist.
So how is it that we exist as matter? Albert Einstein alluded to this answer. We, the people of this beautiful planet, are really beings made of energy, but we exist at the 3rd dimension because our atoms have a specific frequency which makes us able to exist in this very 3rd dimension. This specific frequency is stable enough for all our lifetime. Using this information, if we are indeed capable of accelerating and decelerating the frequencies to make us able to exist in the 3rd dimension, then naturally, we can use this in order to travel inter-dimensionally throughout the infinite multiverse…and here lies the key to the true evolution of the human being race. Once we learn, or progress far enough, to accelerate and decelerate the vibrating frequencies of our atoms, then, in theory, we will be able to exist in the 5th dimension and in parallel universes of this wonderful multiverse.
The inner consciousness itself, thus affecting the forms consciousness expresses itself within (the creation of the physical matter, emotional states, thought patterns, and temporal experiences). This light expresses the radiation in patterns and forms specific to the rules and structures (root assumptions) of the local system (cellular, individual, en masse, physical universe, or nonphysical space), while being inherently capable to express their pattern of frequency in an infinitude of ways. These rules and structures are plastic and capable of evolution. They stay in place to maintain a continuity of structure and rage of accepted experiences.
Any change is a total change and the paradigm of experiences moves in totally new spheres of directions. The light within us is as wide and deep as we are capable to perceive. Put another way, our light in not governed by the same physical laws of time and space and is capable of reaching outward in continuous expanding ways in distances and achieve unimaginable levels of illumination. Perception is relative to our ability to focus the direction of the light. We perceive where our focus of attention gazes, while not negating the other directions our radiance emits to.
What becomes available from allowing this inner light to shine brightly from within us? This light within allows us to embody our true nature we have become. That which represents our expansion will continuously seeks expression from this state of being. It orchestrates all things that is representative of our furthest most platform of becoming. Stations and stations of new insights and experiences become available. Our focus discriminates our direction we move in but it doesn' t matter because we are within our light in any choice we choose. Our ability to thrive becomes more pointed as we actively practice tuning in to specific spaces. The light is a state of being capable of being carried and activated from situation to situation. It becomes a manifested goal and achievement like any physical creation. Yet this is the well of life and the tree of knowledge of sorts. The light we activate illuminates all things in our gaze. Our attention need only turn in a direction to begin to pierce through any surface to discover new intoxicating level of experience, exploration or insight. As we tune into our vortex, we allow our broader perspective to express itself in fuller and deeper ways. Our experiences then begin to more adequately express the nature of our becoming. More and more of our escrow reveals itself from the less inhibited space.
The universe will delight in orchestrating all of the fabulous rendezvous that make up the total experience of our true nature expressing itself. Contrasts expansion is active and alive within us. The key that unlocks the manifestational door can only be activated through practicing our true nature' s opinion through emotional terms. These characteristics and properties of the physical universe offers some assurance. I know in unmistakable terms that it is done. So I can take those goals off of the table as ulterior motives. I can erase them from my list and carry their essence in my heart. They are active and their existence has been established. Bring that established set point forward is a function of my ability to carry their tone and tune into their vibrational reality. The contrast only becomes an indicating feedback for my proximity to the treasure chest.
We are vibratory light, manifested from the pure thought of the One. Light is the first creational tool. It is needed to shine on the screen of the non-vibratory construct. As we project our light through awareness onto this screen it reflects it back as creation. This non-vibratory informational construct that gives us our reality, is the earth matrix. Our higher selves are made up of the real light, not the reflection we see in our holographic world. They exist within our deep subconscious mind. The reality we experience is projected from our higher light, within to without.
Our divine light is made out of particles of the creator. Through the energy of the One they start to rotate, through this action they emit light and vibrations which creates sound and color that is associated with these properties. The rotation also creates a magnetic field.
These divine particles of light are made manifest from the mind of the One, therefore they are intelligent.
All intelligence has awareness as one cannot exist without the other, thus they are vibratory thought.
In order for the game of creation to operate these particles of light need to interact with a form of intelligence, to learn and evolve. This is the reason for creation, without it there would be no purpose.
A construct of intelligence in the form of non-vibratory information is used as the learning tool.
Since it does not vibrate it does not emit light and is therefore dark. This is where the two forces of light and dark originate from.
The human characters we animate through our divine light are a part of this non-vibratory informational construct called the earth matrix.
The ego is the awareness of an individual separated human; it sees everything through this perspective.
This is where the conflict that is played out between the higher self and the ego is created, or what is often called good and evil. It is the awareness of unity and the unawareness of it.
In this game of creation the two forms interact. The vibratory light is the non-physical and the non-vibratory reflects the illusion of the physical as the light is reflected off the screen of the non-vibratory.
The vibratory thought energy vibrates the non-vibratory and animates it as it starts to vibrate.
The rule in creation is, the higher the vibration the more light that is refracted and will dominate its impression on what refracts less light and vibration and have more influence over it.
The vibratory particles of light through the action of their rotation create energy through their motion. The energy and motion generate emotion or e-motion.
The emotions of joy, ecstasy and happiness are of higher vibrations and generate more energy. The emotions of fear, greed and hatred are of low vibrations and energy.
As the higher selves plug into the earth matrix they activate the thought program of the human being and interact with creation through it. The human being operates between these two opposite poles of light and dark. If the human vibrates at a low vibratory rate the earth matrix will have more ability to influence its desires onto it. If the human being can increase its rate of vibrations it can impose more of its desires into its creation. Through synchronizing your vibratory rate with that of your higher self, beautiful and better worlds will open up for you.
It is about taking the whole of this physical universe and moving it back up the Ladder of Creation (or Tree of Life) to return it to the rarified and super conscious dimensional levels that exist just beyond our normal work-a-day consciousness.
The "One Soul" he often refers to when trying to explain his gift, is part of everything in the universe, unlimited by time and space. … The superconscious is linked to the consciousness of the One Soul, the source of all Wisdom coming from God.
The primitive man, connected to the world of plants and animals, has evolved to the point where he, his consciousness, is capable of "taking" the divine element. However, the current stage is not his final, finished state. We are creatures still inhabiting physical bodies, which are subject to destruction. Only when mankind has reached its "winged" (spiritually speaking) form, can it rejoin the One Soul. The "I" with its subjective forms of perception (which can be conquered through clairvoyance) will disappear forever. Thus all people are brethren, striving for the evolution of the soul toward the divine.
You're made up of Consciousness, which is what we called "INFINITY".
You have a mind (and EGO is the center), and a body, which are your tools for accessing different forms of reality.
The mind and the body have many levels and many dimensions.
So, you the "CONSCIOUSNESS", "INFINITY", has a mind and a body which have many levels and dimensions. The average human being is only aware of two dimensions. The human dimension (physical world) and the dream dimension (spiritual world).
And their minds are also your higher minds: The Super-conscious minds.
Why are you not aware of this? Because your Consciousness is limited by your human mind!
Your human thoughts, mind and body are blocking your awareness of these other higher parts and dimensions of you.
To become aware of the higher dimensions of your being, (your higher self, other parts, beyond your humanity) you must go beyond your human mind and body.
God is a symbol that represents Consciousness or INFINITY.
Consciousness, the essence of the self which thinks and feels, regardless of whether or not we are incarnate in a physical body, resides within the DNA of the human body. This means that we have to change our DNA in order to shift consciousness, and it also means that when we change our consciousness, we change our DNA_ From the old world view scientific perspective, the idea of being able to change our DNA is considered impossible. Too many of us have been brought up with the understanding that we inherit our DNA from our parents and are stuck with those aspects of being human.
We cannot discount the facts of our existing bodies, but we can begin to change our thinking to accept that we can — and do — change our physical bodies on a day to day basis. Because change happens cell by cell, we often don' t notice it until sufficient cells within a specific organ of our bodies have changed. This creates a very noticeable effect. Nothing in the human body is static and every single one of our cells is renewing themself, or dying, all the time. The author and endocrinologist, Deepak Chopra, popularized this notion of mind body medicine in his book 'Ageless Body, Timeless Mind' and 'Quantum Healing' , among others.
It is so much more beneficial for us to change the patterns of our cellular behaviour consciously, rather than let the cells continue to respond to the influences of our subconscious minds, or our unconscious, minds, as well as the myriad of influences from the environment and people around us. Changing cellular patterns amounts to reprogramming the cells. As they respond to the vibrations of our new, consciously created, habits of thought and emotion —especially high frequency ones such as love, peace, tolerance and compassion —they themselves harmonically resonate with these created vibrations. This amounts to the development of new habits of cellular behaviour. And thus we evolve, by choice.
In support of DNA changes, we can easily utilize high frequency outside sources of information to raise our resonance. With these high frequency vibrations coursing throughout our bodies, we naturally supply the necessary information to our cells that enable them to change the way they do things. Cells readily respond to anything of a higher frequency nature than themselves, because all living organisms will be drawn towards anything of a higher order.
If a raised resonance vibration is maintained within, or repeated often enough, it becomes the new order within. This higher level of cellular functioning naturally creates a better quality of life, overall.
The consequence of reprogramming our cells is that we will increase our awareness of what is already out there. In this way we trust the process of life more easily, we go with the flow of life more easily and we create what we want more easily. This all amounts to the collapse of resistance and the acceptance of our creative abilities. Life becomes happier and easier, and health, joy, abundance and love flows from this.


Often, I have to review films for which I am totally not the target demographic. (Frat-boy comedies, I'm looking at you.) In this film's case, though, its heart-wrenching bullseye could not have been more squarely positioned right across my forehead. So, it should come as no surprise that, despite copious tears and a plot made of chest-squeezing tragedy, I really enjoyed it.
For anyone who hasn't yet been caught up in the zeitgeist, TFiOS is based on John Green's bestselling young-adult novel of the same name, and centers on the relationship between two teenagers as they slowly fall in love. The catch? Both spirited Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and charmer Gus (Ansel Elgort) have cancer. The pair meet in a church-basement support group, and Gus immediately turns the flirt up to 11 in a bid to win Hazel's guarded heart. Before long, they're staying up until the wee hours talking, planning a trip to Amsterdam to find Hazel's favorite author (Willem Dafoe) and, eventually, having their star-crossed romance run face first into the harsh, familiar reality of their disease.
Largely carried on the more-than-capable shoulders of Woodley, who's fantastic and believable and wholly committed to her role, TFiOS does possess many of the hallmarks of this sort of movie but somehow manages to feel, for the most part, authentic. Yes, you know where the story is headed, and yes, the surprises and unexpected moments are few in number, but it all still works. An unabashed four-hanky tearjerker, TFiOS is nonetheless peppered with moments of levity and truth, and blessed with as much heart-swelling as heartbreak.
While Woodley delivers a stellar performance (seriously, she's excellent), her co-star Elgort is a little less awesome. Still good, just not great. There's a detachedness to his performance that turns Gus into more of a caricature than a character – he never really feels rooted in reality, and it's as though he's more of a dreamy construct than a three-dimensional person. Elgort will no doubt have teenaged girls swooning around the world, though, and that's sort of all that matters for this kind of movie.
Even though the young stars get top billing, Laura Dern deserves more than a little praise for her turn as Hazel's loving, amazing, fleetingly fragile mother, who's simultaneously her daughter's rock and the person most terrified of losing her. To be honest, her scenes made me weep as much, if not more than, those without her. And Dafoe is effective as a bitter writer who lashes out with words to mask his own pain.
One of the life lessons taught by The Fault in Our Stars is that being loved by many is no more meaningful or significant than being deeply loved by just one. And I suppose that's fitting when it comes to the film itself, as well. It doesn't really matter how many hearts this movie touches, it's that it touches some. And mine was among them.


NESCO, Canton, Mass., has acquired Detroit-based Deco Lighting Design. Deco Lighting Design has a strong customer base and a successful track record working with national retail accounts, NESCO said. Deco Lighting's Founder and President David Ely joins the NESCO national accounts division as a senior account executive and will continue to be based in Detroit. Ely has more than 25 years of experience in the lighting industry.
Joseph A. Cincotta, CEO and president of NESCO, said Ely's experience in providing total lighting solutions to national accounts would be instrumental in accelerating NESCO's growth.
NESCO, with approximately 125 employees and six locations, ranks as the nation's 107th biggest electrical distributor, according to Electrical Wholesaling's 2006 listing of the Top 200.


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REVIEW: Cube Escape: Arles (game)
Cube Escape: Arles is a puzzle solving game in the Cube Escape series. Art buffs in particular might find this entry exciting, since you play as Vincent van Gogh in his bedroom in Arles. You have to collect various objects and use them to solve puzzles in order to try to get out of the room.
One content warning that also counts as a spoiler, sort of: at one point in the game van Gogh must cut off his own ear. There's no emotion that goes with this - it's just something he does, and he doesn't seem particularly concerned about it after the act is completed.
As far as I can tell, the only way this relates to the other games is that Laura had a print of this particular painting in her home in Cube Escape: Case 23. It doesn't seem to add much to the overall Rusty Lake story, beyond providing another confirmation that mental illness is likely the start of the creation of corrupted souls. I do hope that one of the later Cube Escape games demonstrates that there's a way to purify (?) corrupted souls, because otherwise this series appears to be making a pretty bleak statement about mental illness.
I turned to a walkthrough for guidance a couple times while playing this, but for the most part this was another game in the series that I was able to play through on my own. Much of the game involved collecting various items and using them in different places in the room, and I don't recall any puzzles that particularly stood out for me or that I particularly liked. I did enjoy the slightly creepy feeling that the "alternate" room inspired, though, and the painting puzzle was nice.
Overall, this doesn't really add anything to the larger Rusty Lake story, but it's a decent puzzle game with an interesting setup. It would probably make for a good first Cube Escape game for those who haven't tried the series before.
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REVIEW: Cube Escape: Harvey's Box (game)
Like all the other Cube Escape games, this one can be downloaded for free. I'd recommend playing some of the other entries in the series before this one - at least Cube Escape: Seasons - because otherwise it'll probably come across as extremely random.
Anyway, in this game you play as Harvey the parrot. If you've played the other games, you know that Laura is going to Rusty Lake Mental Health and Fishing. For some reason she decided that the best way to transport her parrot was to stick him in a box with some of her other belongings. Your job is to complete a few puzzles in order to find a way out of the box.
Although it didn't add much to the overall Rusty Lake story, this was still a nice little game. The puzzles were just difficult enough to be interesting, but not so difficult that they frustrated me and drove me to check a walkthrough (and I have a pretty low frustration threshold when it comes to puzzle games, anymore). My absolute favorite puzzle was probably the fly and maggot one. It took me a beat to figure out what I was supposed to do, but then going through line by line and thinking through the logic turned out to be extremely satisfying.
I wouldn't recommend this as anyone's first Cube Escape game, and it's not terribly interesting story-wise, but it's a nice little entry if you just want spend some time solving puzzles.
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REVIEW: Cells at Work! (manga, vol. 1) by Akane Shimizu, translated by Yamato Tanaka
Cells at Work! is an action and comedy manga series with educational elements. It's licensed by Kodansha Comics.
Cells at Work is a semi-educational series that takes place inside a human body and stars a bunch of anthropomorphized cells. Red Blood Cell is a cheerful delivery girl who takes oxygen to cells (I suppose they'd qualify as the "ordinary folks" of this world) and carbon dioxide back to the lungs. There are lots of potential dangers along the way, so different kinds of White Blood Cells protect everybody. One recurring character, for example, is White Blood Cell (Neutrophil) 1146, who is part of the force that acts as the body's initial defense against foreign invaders and infectious diseases. He's depicted as a savagely violent man who is nevertheless polite and maybe even a little friendly towards Red Blood Cell.
In this volume, readers get to see White Blood Cell and others deal with Streptococcus pneumoniae, cedar pollen, Influenza virus, and a scrape wound. This results in the introduction of characters like Helper T Cell, the violent and manly Killer T Cells, hilariously intense and dramatic Memory Cell, Mast Cell, Macrophage, the adorable Platelets, and more.
Tags: Cells at Work, manga
REVIEW: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World (audiobook) by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale, narrated by Abigail Revasch and Tara Sands
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World is a Middle Grade (probably?) superhero book. I picked it up on Audible with one of my remaining credits when I decided to end up subscription.
I'm going to start this off by saying that I've never read any of the Squirrel Girl comics. I wouldn't even know she existed if it weren't for people's reviews on Booklikes. I bought this because the excerpt I listened to sounded good and because I vaguely remembered Squirrel Girl seeming like a fun character when I read those comics reviews.
I should also mention that I took a lengthy break in the middle of listening to this audiobook - not because it was bad, but because I got into one of my "I don't want to listen to audiobooks" moods. I think I slid back into it and remembered things pretty well, but if I get some details wrong that's probably why.
In this book, Doreen Green is 14 years old and has just moved from California to New Jersey. Going to a new school and making new friends isn't easy, but Doreen happens to have the most powerful positive attitude on the planet. And also the powers of a squirrel, complete with the tail and teeth. All her life, Doreen's parents have told her that she has to hide her tail and abilities - after all, they're so awesome that everyone around her would instantly be jealous and sad that they weren't like her. But Doreen can't help herself and accidentally reveals what she can do while dealing with a local group of troublemakers.
Thankfully Doreen's identity is safe. It seems that her tail has magical attention-diverting powers. While it's out, she goes by the name she has always secretly called herself: Squirrel Girl. Unfortunately, even though Squirrel Girl isn't technically a superhero (you can't just call yourself a superhero, right?), it isn't long before she finds herself dealing with what appears to be an actual supervillain.
Tags: audio books, books, Hale (Dean), Hale (Shannon), middle grade
REVIEW: Mermaid Splash! Passion Festival (game)
Mermaid Splash! Passion Festival (MSPF) is a "pay what you want" f/f visual novel.
CiCi the mermaid has decided that she's going to finally take part in the Passion Festival. There's only one problem: although CiCi has many interests, she's never really focused on one particular hobby. In order to make a good showing at the festival, she'll need to pick an interest (martial arts, gardening, dance, or painting) and stick to it. Will she be able to hone her skills in time, and maybe even find love along the way?
Tags: games, Mermaid Splash! Passion Festival
REVIEW: No Longer Human (manga, vol. 2) by Usamaru Furuya, based on the novel by Osamu Dazai, translated by Allison Markin Powell
I checked this out via interlibrary loan.
This review includes a few spoilers.
[Content warnings: this volume includes on-page sex, and there's a deliberately disturbing sequence in which a children's manga character is given an enormous penis, has sex, and is then killed and left to be eaten by birds.]
This volume picks up where the previous one left off. Yozo has survived his attempted double suicide with Ageha. The idea of being punished for her death gives him the sense of purpose he craves, but this is snatched from his hands by the police's decision to set him free and deliver him to the hands of one of his family's former servants. Yozo blames his father and stews in his own bitterness while essentially living trapped in the former servant's home.
Yozo manages to escape one prison only to end up in another. Having no other place to go, he ends up living with his friend Horiki's editor, Shizuko. She dotes on him, seeing his pretty face and nothing else. Although outwardly things appear to be going well for Yozo - he now has a roof over his head, a job as a children's manga artist, and somebody willing to fork over money anytime he wants to go out and buy booze - he feels stifled by Shizuko's love and her young daughter's wish for him to be her real father.
By the end of the volume, Yozo has finally found something like happiness. Will it last? Ha ha, of course not.
Tags: Dazai (Osamu), manga, No Longer Human
REVIEW: The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku (book) story by Muya Agami and cosMo@BousouP, art by Yuunagi
The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku is a Japanese novel based on a song. It's licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment.
You have no idea how excited I was to learn that 1) a Vocaloid light novel existed and 2) it was available in English. I ordered a copy for myself a few weeks after finding out about it.
A few years ago I was really into Vocaloid (singing synthesizer software). I wasn't interested in using it myself, just in listening to other people's songs and reading about the various Vocaloid and UTAUloid avatars. I gradually found a few Vocaloid/UTAUloid tuners I particularly liked (kyaami is my top favorite) and developed a few Vocaloid/UTAUloid preferences (Kaito was probably my first favorite Vocaloid, and Ritsu continues to be my favorite UTAUloid).
I went into this book with an okay background knowledge of Vocaloid in general and Hatsune Miku in particular. Also, I was familiar with the song the book was based on (here's one version on YouTube), enough to know that the book probably wouldn't have a happy ending.
The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku stars Shinosato Asano, an ordinary university student who spends his days going to class and doing tedious work at a robotics lab and his nights working as a bartender at a nightclub. He's shocked when the professor in charge of his research lab singles him out to do a field test of a very special new android named Hatsune Miku. The professor wants a student like Asano, who's responsible, can keep a secret, and doesn't know too much about artificial intelligence, to see how well Miku can pass for human out in the real world. He's not supposed to tell anyone, not even his family members, what Miku really is, and he has to make sure Miku goes back to the professor for regular data collection and weekly maintenance.
Miku's speech and behavior is a little odd and stilted at first, but it rapidly improves. Asano introduces her to everyone as his very intelligent cousin from England (in order to explain why a 16-year-old girl whose Japanese is still a bit rough is suddenly attending university classes), takes her on a tour of the university, and invites her out to lunch. Lunch becomes their regular activity together, and Asano gradually incorporates activities relating to music once he realizes that Miku particularly enjoys it. He starts to realize, to his dismay, that he might be falling for her. What will happen once the field test is over?
Tags: Agami (Muya), books, cosMo@BousouP
REVIEW: The Naturals (book) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Naturals is YA Criminal Minds with some of the usual "secret school for special teens" mixed in. I read an ARC copy I picked up at a conference several years ago (yes, I'm terrible about reading ARCs, which is why I rarely request them).
When Cassie was 12, she entered her mother's dressing room only to discover a bloody crime scene, but no body. Her mother's body and murderer (because how could she still be alive after losing that much blood?) were never found. Cassie is now 17 and living with her father's family. She doesn't feel like she fits in, but she also doesn't want to be the focus of her family's often overbearing love and concern.
Ever since she was little, Cassie has had a knack for noticing little details about people and figuring things out about them using those details. She used to use her ability to help her mother, who worked as a psychic. Since her mother's death, she hasn't used her skills for much beyond privately guessing things about customers at the diner where she works, so she's both intrigued and suspicious when a handsome boy gives her an FBI agent's business card.
The agent presents her with an offer she can't resist: she can become part of his "Naturals" program, a team of teens with natural skills that take most adults years of training to learn. Because the program members are all minors, they only get to deal with cold cases, but Cassie still jumps at the chance to do something good and useful with her abilities. However, she and the other program members can't resist getting more and more involved in a difficult, and possibly personal, active case.
Tags: Barnes (Jennifer Lynn), books, young adult
REVIEW: This, My Soul (game)
This, My Soul is a free sci-fi visual novel. The first time I saw it, it was listed as "in development." I was cautiously excited - it looked slick and the android main character interested me, but there was no guarantee it'd ever be completed. I prefer to play finished products rather than demos.
Thankfully, this is now out of "in development" limbo. I've played it through three or four times since downloading it, and my final verdict is...meh. It has some really nice and ambitious aspects, but it doesn't entirely follow through with all of them, and the android-human romance could have been better.
Backing up a bit, the story: You play as a woman who is the sole survivor of a spaceship accident of some sort. The game allows you to choose the woman's name - if I remember right, the default is "Kyndle." Kyndle was rescued by a laborer-class android named Silas, who put her in cryogenic sleep. Because the cryogenic pod is old, Kyndle can't stay asleep for the entire trip back to civilization, but she also can't stay awake for the full trip. The plan is for her to be awake at the beginning and then go back to sleep near the end.
In the meantime, Silas helps Kyndle get her strength and full range of movement back, and makes sure she regains some of the weight she lost. At times, Kyndle can't even move without Silas's help.
Players have several ways they can approach the game: they can be suspicious of Silas and resistant to the idea of being attracted to an android; they can be friendly towards Silas and more than a little attracted; they can be openly flirtatious; or they can be some combination of all three. There are three possible endings, which the developer/author called the Normal end, Friendship end, and Romance end. However, those aren't really the best way to describe them.
Tags: games, This My Soul
REVIEW: Cube Escape: Theatre (game)
In Cube Escape: Theatre, Dale Vandermeer is back and exploring more of his memories while in the endless elevator. This time he travels to 1971 and an event surreal enough that it (maybe) never happened. Dale finds himself at a theater with a bartender and a depressed man who wants to get drunk enough to drown out the past. Unfortunately for him, in the Cube Escape games "The past is never dead, it's not even past."
This game had lots of crossover with other Cube Escape/Rusty Lake games, especially Rusty Lake Hotel (Ms. Pheasant makes an appearance in human form!), Cube Escape: The Lake, Cube Escape: Seasons, and Cube Escape: Case 23. Part of me thinks it would be best to play this after playing all those other games, and part of me thinks that playing this one first might add a bit more weight to the other games. Cube Escape: The Lake now seems a bit less random to me, for instance.
This was one of the few games in this series that I had the patience to go through without a walkthrough. Well, almost: I broke down and consulted one after spending several fruitless minutes searching for a cube that turned out not to exist. I really enjoyed the various stage puzzles, even though it took me longer to catch on to what was going on with some of them than it probably should have. I wasn't a huge fan of the "hunt for cubes inside the man's head" bit (gross), but the part with him in the bathroom at the end was wonderfully creepy.
All in all, this was an excellent entry in the series, both from a puzzle-solving perspective and from a story perspective.
Tags: Cube Escape: Theatre, games
REVIEW: No Longer Human (manga, vol. 1) by Usamaru Furuya, based on the novel by Osamu Dazai
I checked this out via interlibrary loan. Warning: this review includes spoilers.
This is technically the first volume of a manga adaptation of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human. However, in reality it's more like a work inspired by Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human. It has a lot of the same characters and a lot of the same events, but also enough important changes that the impact of certain familiar scenes and characters is completely different. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
The volume begins with Usamaru Furuya as a character in his own manga. He's trying, and failing, to think up an idea for his next serial when he suddenly gets an anonymous email pointing him to an online "ouch diary." The website contains three images: one of 6-year-old Yozo posing with his family while wearing a wide fake smile; one of Yozo at age 25, his expression lifeless and worn down; and one of Yozo at age 17, cool and handsome. Furuya proceeds to read the diary that goes with those images, to learn how Yozo fell so far so quickly.
Then readers get the story of Yozo's life, starting with a few pages showing him as a child and middle school student, behaving like a class clown in order to get people to like him. The story quickly progresses into Yozo's high school years, when he is befriended by Horiki, who Yozo believes is truly what he has spent his life pretending to be, a friendly and shiftless clown. Although Yozo starts off with everything in life handed to him on a silver platter, things rapidly fall apart, and the volume ends with Yozo's first suicide attempt (I'm assuming the manga will include the next one).
REVIEW: The Edge of the Abyss (book) by Emily Skrutskie
The Edge of the Abyss is YA f/f science fiction.
This review will include spoilers for the first book. You've been warned.
At the end of The Abyss Surrounds Us, Cas decided to stay with the Minnow and her crew. I wish I had written down her reason for doing so, since one of my problems with The Edge of the Abyss was that I couldn't remember why she'd have wanted to stay when staying seemed to cause her nothing but grief.
At any rate, she stayed - I think because she wanted to get more evidence on the guy who was trading Reckoner pups to the pirates, and because she loved Swift so much? Except the latter reason turned out to be less than wonderful, because right after deciding to stay with the Minnow, Cas learned that Swift had personally been responsible for Durga's death.
So that's Cas's emotional state for much of The Edge of the Abyss: upset at Swift for what she did, upset at herself for essentially turning traitor and staying with pirates, and perversely drawn to Santa Elena and whatever scraps of praise she was willing to give out. Bao is somewhere out in the ocean, and Cas mistakenly thinks he's the only free Reckoner. He very much is not - the crew of the Minnow discover others, which they nickname Hellbeasts. Every last one of them was a Reckoner pup illegally obtained and improperly raised by pirates, and they're complete destroying the ocean ecosystem. If life in the ocean is to be saved, the pirates, all of them, will somehow have to band together, admit their mistakes, and defeat the Hellbeasts.
Tags: books, Skrutskie (Emily), young adult
REVIEW: Cube Escape: Seasons (game)
In Cube Escape: Seasons, you explore your memories of four different time periods: Spring 1964, Summer 1971, Fall 1971, and Winter 1981. Spring 1964 is a good time. There are indications that things aren't quite perfect (you're on Prozac and have a note about something called Rusty Lake Mental Health & Fishing on your bulletin board), but life is decent. Things take a turn for the worse in Summer 1971, and everything is well and truly bad by Fall 1971. It appears that you may be a murderer. But wait! You may be able to go back in time and stop your terrible actions from happening!
I wasn't fond of this game, at first. It seemed to be using mental illness as ham-handed shorthand for "disturbed future killer," and I didn't have much sympathy for the protagonist, who didn't seem inclined to do much to prevent their actions until after they'd already done something terrible and (in a normal world) irrevocable.
I liked the game a lot more once the time travel aspect became a thing. I'm still a bit confused about what, exactly, happened, but I loved how the phrases from the weird person (?) over the phone became more than just random strange messages. "Everything you touch you change" indeed. Warning: my review includes spoilers from here on out.
Tags: Cube Escape: Seasons, games
REVIEW: Cube Escape: The Mill (game)
Cube Escape: The Mill starts with you apparently alone at the Rusty Lake Mill. You will eventually discover that 1) there is another person in the mill and 2) that there is a task you need to complete that requires the mill to be operational.
This game directly ties in with Cube Escape: Case 23, which I later wished I had played prior to Cube Escape: The Mill. Some parts of Cube Escape: The Mill might have made slightly more sense, if I had. Oh well.
I wasn't really a fan of this entry, although I liked that it added a bit more to the overall Rusty Lake story and the mystery of Mr. Crow. The puzzle involving the old woman's teeth was bizarre (also, wow is that woman a knitting machine), and I loathed the memory puzzle. I ended up frantically scribbling notes to myself during the few seconds where the game allowed you to see the cards.
FYI: I just remembered, this is another game in the series that includes a few animal deaths. And people deaths, although apparently the blonde lady was definitely dead (I guess?) when she arrived at the mill.
Tags: Cube Escape: The Mill, games
REVIEW: Cube Escape: Birthday (game)
Cube Escape: Birthday appears to be a direct sequel to Rusty Lake Hotel: it starts with the endless elevator scene that Rusty Lake Hotel ended with. You play as Dale Vandermeer (any relation to the Vanderbooms, I wonder?), who is transported back to his memory of his 9th birthday. Dale's birthday includes several ominous moments and ends in a massacre. However, if Dale can figure out just the right things to do, he can change his past and prevent the tragedy.
This one was more violent than I expected, although I appreciated that the developer didn't kill the cat. Actually, for the most part this developer tends to go out of its way to not harm animals in its games. I can only think of two, at the moment, where animals were harmed: Rusty lake Hotel and Cube Escape: Seasons.
This entry in the series was a bit weird (they all are, I guess) - I'm still not sure whether Dale actually changed the past, or just his memories of the past. The puzzles were pretty good and, for the most part, made sense to me. The only one that I hated was the poster puzzle. Even after I figure out what I was supposed to do, I hated having to do it - it's not really difficult, but you do need to be able to think fast and have halfway decent reflexes.
The story was excellent, almost as interesting an entry in the series as Rusty Lake: Roots. I loved the "travel back to the past to fix the past" aspect, which seems to be a recurring theme in this series. Oh, and the code from Rusty Lake Hotel reveals a little scene that provides a bit more information on one character (who I hadn't even realized was a recurring character).
Tags: Cube Escape: Birthday, games
REVIEW: Cube Escape: The Lake (game)
Guess who's been playing lots of Cube Escape games in the past week? Me, that's who.
Most of the games are really short, and all of them are free. From the look of things, they can be played in any order, although there's some serious crossover between some of them. They're all weird, and some are darker than others. I'm currently playing one where you can die if you don't solve certain puzzles fast enough (Cube Escape: Case 23), but most of them allow you to complete the puzzles at your own pace.
Anyway, be prepared for lots of short reviews. Here's the first one I played: Cube Escape: The Lake.
In this game, you're in an abandoned cabin on an island in Rusty Lake. All you have is a knife, a fishing rod, and some other items.
This was one of the weaker entries in the Cube Escape/Rusty Lake series. I couldn't figure out the logic behind the safe combination puzzle. I was only able to get through it with a walkthrough. The mirror clue was fairly helpful, but beyond that I couldn't figure out why the safe combination was what it ended up being. The ending was very sudden and didn't add much to the overall Rusty Lake story, as far as I could tell.
Tags: Cube Escape: The Lake, games
REVIEW: Rusty Lake: Roots (game)
Rusty Lake: Roots is another puzzle/adventure game in the Rusty Lake series. Whereas I was unimpressed with Rusty Lake Hotel, I thought Rusty Lake: Roots was amazing. It had some problems - a few puzzles that were more annoying that difficult, occasional iffy logic, and an abrupt ending - but for the most part it was a wonderful and fascinating experience and a vast improvement over Rusty Lake Hotel.
Rusty Lake: Roots is a family saga with a dark edge to it. You watch over multiple generations of the Vanderboom family as they learn about their family's magical/alchemical past and work to achieve their goals. You gradually learn more about yourself (it isn't immediately apparent, but you are playing as a character in the game) and about the motivations of the various Vanderboom family members. Oh, and there's a little immortal dog.
Tags: games, Rusty Lake: Roots
REVIEW: Rusty Lake Hotel (game)
Rusty Lake Hotel is a puzzle/adventure game with a disturbing edge. I believe it started off as a mobile game, but I played it on my computer via Steam.
Warning: my review includes spoilers for a few of the game's puzzles.
[Note: I didn't find this out until after I'd played Rusty Lake Hotel, but the entire related Cube Escape series of games can be downloaded and played for free on mobile devices. I don't know what the Cube Escape games are like, but they might serve as a nice taste of what this series is like, if you're reluctant to spend $2-3 on Rusty Lake Hotel or Rusty Lake: Roots.]
I got this on sale, as part of a Rusty Lake series bundle. You play as an employee (?) at the Rusty Lake Hotel, interacting with five guests at the direction of their host, Mr. Owl. You must provide the guests with food, which involves going into a different guest's room every night, completing some puzzles in order to gather various ingredients, and ultimately killing that particular guest so that they can be the final ingredient in the meal.
Although this was labeled as "horror," a genre I'm not fond of when it comes to games, it looked more creepy than scary. Now that I've played the game, I don't know that I'd even label it "creepy." You sometimes do some very terrible things to the guests before you kill them (or provide them with the means to kill themselves), but the end result was more disturbing or morbidly fascinating than creepy.
Tags: games, Rusty Lake Hotel
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He addressed a largely union crowd in his bid to become mayor.
With feisty promises of better schools and safer streets, U.S. Rep. Bob Brady (D., Pa.) launched his Philadelphia mayoral campaign last night before a boisterous crowd of union members, elected officials, and loyalists from the city Democratic organization that the congressman has commanded since 1986.
"Don't lose hope - help is on the way!" Brady shouted in a speech interrupted several times as an overflow audience in an upstairs room at the Convention Center chanted his name.
Brady vowed to put 1,000 new police officers on the streets, institute a "SchoolStat" system to monitor schools' performance, and eliminate the city's much-maligned business privilege tax.
He eschewed "25-point plans" and repeatedly vowed to tackle problems with "one good idea and the strength and experience to make it happen" - while also promising to fix up the waterfront, restore the buildings of Fairmount Park, and even to save the elephants at the Philadelphia Zoo.
But at the core of his address was Brady's own story: The blue-collar father who turned himself into the ultimate fence-mender in Philadelphia politics. He began by evoking his days as a young carpenter wondering where his next paycheck would come from, and quickly moved to reminding the audience how he stepped in to mediate such thorny local standoffs as a SEPTA strike and a teachers' strike.
"It is now time for the citizens of Philadelphia to make this call - to choose who among us who has the strength and experience to meet some of the toughest problems our city has ever faced," Brady said.
The mayoral campaign may turn out to be as big a challenge as any of those tasks. Brady faces a field that includes three savvy legislators - U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, State Rep. Dwight Evans, and former City Councilman Michael Nutter - as well as a self-financed multimillionaire candidate, businessman Tom Knox.
A loss could imperil his status atop the Democratic machine as well as the congressional seat he has held since 1998.
But the Brady campaign's strengths were also on display at last night's event. The crowd of roughly 400 - largely white and about 80 percent male - was dominated by men in union regalia, a sign of the former carpenter's support among organized labor.
The room was also full of the Democratic ward leaders and political insiders most candidates must beg to help them round up votes.
State Rep. Louise Williams Bishop gave the invocation, and the audience included City Controller Alan Butkovitz, City Councilmen Jim Kenney, Frank DiCicco and Daniel Savage, State Rep. Frank Oliver and judges including Seamus McCaffery, the administrative judge of Municipal Court. Brady singled out Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll from the lectern.
Brady was introduced by former City Controller Jonathan Saidel, his longtime friend. Saidel himself was in the race for mayor - but he abruptly dropped out under pressure to make way for Brady. The pair has quickly buried the hatchet, though: Last night, Saidel gave Brady a shouting, fist-pumping introduction, and Brady, in turn, said Saidel would chair his campaign and serve as his point person on tax cuts.
A large number of political contenders dropped by, too, including mayoral son and City Council candidate Sharif Street, Council candidates Andy Toy and Marc Stier, and judicial candidates Ellen Green-Ceisler and Dan Anders. As chairman of the city Democratic Party, Brady's endorsement can make all the difference in a close election.
The large crowd and testosterone-drenched rhetoric served to set Brady's event apart from those thrown by many of his mayoral rivals. A more striking difference was his dismissive tone toward the detailed policy proposals that Evans, Fattah and Nutter have rolled out.
Brady said his rivals' anticrime plans would result in "tying up the next police commissioner with 25 campaign promises." That also provided Brady with a way to sidestep what critics say could be his Achilles' heel in running against a field full of policy wonks: Command of the intricate details of governance.
Eventually, though, Brady will be pushed to talk about one thing that got short shrift at yesterday's announcement: how he will pay for the new investments while also cutting taxes. In his speech, Brady said improving accountability in schools would help free up state and federal money to pay for changes.
Rather than dwell on budgets, Brady - reading from a TelePrompter - stuck to the pugilistic language that brought his crowd to a frenzy, repeatedly vowing to "fight" for the city.
Campaign aides said Brady spent considerable time this week preparing for the speech, rehearsing it in the car as he traveled back and forth to his congressional duties in Washington.
"I think it's great," said Jim McCusker, 59, a longshoreman from Port Richmond who was in the audience. "We need a change; it's beautiful. He's a very experienced politician. Plus he's one of us, a regular guy."
Education: Graduated from Saint Thomas Moore High School.
Experience: U.S. House of Representatives, 1998-present; chairman, Democratic City Committee, 1986-present; 34th ward leader, 1982-present; Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission member, 1991-1998; Philadelphia deputy mayor for labor, 1984-1987; sergeant-at-arms, Philadelphia City Council, 1975-1983.
Family: Married to Debra Brady; adult children Bobby and Kimberly; four grandchildren.
Inquirer staff writers Marcia Gelbart and Thomas Fitzgerald contributed to this article.


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Infertile Ground: Why today? Well, why not.
I'm at 9 dpo, sort of, I guess. Since the whole cycle was "staged," the correct phrasing is that I'm 6dp3dt. What I know is that by either 9 dpo or 10 dpo in a natural cycle, my body clearly tells me that AF is on its way: I have a restless night; my chest deflates and any soreness goes away; my basal body temperature starts falling; and I feel a sensation I can only describe as uterine gurgling (I've come to decide it's the endometrium starting to break down).
All I can say to those tell-tale signs this Mother's Day at 5:30 a.m. is check, check, check, and check.
I don't write this to solicit a flurry of "don't give ups." I'd prefer not to get any. I just write what I know. I know it on the surface. I know it from years of cold, hard experience. And I know it in my heart.


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Some of the best books in English on Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
1. Muhammad the Perfect Man – Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Alawi Al-Maliki
This book is considered one of the best about the sublime perfections of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. Written by the leading Islamic scholar of recent times – Sayyid Muhammad ibn Alawi al-Maliki al-Hasani of Mecca, it is presented in English for the first time. The author writes with great erudition and love about the perfection of the last of the Messengers, Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him, sourcing every point from careful exegesis of ayat of the Quran, well known hadith and episodes from the Sirah. The book starts with the perfection of the noble lineage of the Prophet, followed by the perfection of his physical form and discusses in detail the perfection of the Muhammadan heart. In the 300 pages that follow the Perfection of the Prophetic attributes are listed in great detail – ranging from the perfection of the Prophetic knowledge, justice, mercy, humility, leadership, courage, generosity, patience, loyalty, wisdom, oratory and forbearance to name but just a few.
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2. Our Master Muhammad (pbuh) The Messenger Of Allah – His Sublime Character & Exalted Attributes – Imam Abdallah Sirajuddin Al-Husayni
Modern times have made it even more important that Muslims acquaint themselves with their Prophet (asws), not only for the sake of their personal spiritual development, but also for the sake of the religion as a whole. There has perhaps never been a time when the world was more in need of an authentic depiction of the Best of Creation (asws). Our Master Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah (asws) is a unique work discussing the noble qualities and characteristics of the Final Prophet (asws) in a way that is infused with love and devotion. In the first volume of this book, the author depicts all the fine attributes of our Prophet (asws) with respect to his physical beauty, his eloquence and wisdom, his exalted status, his sublime character and his mercy (asws). This incredible expression of Prophetic love was written by the scholar of Aleppo, Imam Abdallah Sirajudd n al-Husayni (ra), who was not only a Hafiz, a leading scholar of Hadith and exegete of the Quran, but also a true Saint, referred to by scholars as The Pole of Prophetic Love of our Times. His book is the product of true scholarship and virtue. It is as though the Shaykh (ra) was looking directly at the Messenger of Allah (asws) before him as he wrote, deriving his beautiful expressions from the light of his (asws) countenance, so that by divine providence his insight was opened, and he grazed in the pastures of subtle secrets, uncovering the beauty and perfection of the Messenger's (asws) character, imbibing the fragrance of the Prophetic Sunnah, bathing in the light of the Muhhammadan reality and its meanings, and tasting of its fruits, and then gathering all of these illuminations in a work so noble and rarefied that it would not be surprising if it were to be read to a sick person and so cure him. – Shaykh Muhammad b. Yahya al-Ninowy
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3. The Mawlid – The Blessed Birth of the Prophet – Imam Ibn Kathir
4.Muhammad – The Perfect Teacher – Sheikh Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah
Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), The Perfect Teacher – An Insight Into His Teaching Methods. A study of the teaching methods of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), the effectiveness of which can be gauged by the tremendous impact he had on his companions. His methods incorporated analogies, similes, anecdotes, diagrams, interactive dialogue, humour, repetition, continuous evaluation, physical contact, gestures, and customisation, amongst others. A fascinating analysis, as the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) was unlettered, and yet could be called the perfect teacher.
5. Muhammad His Character and Beauty : Wasa'il Al-wusul Ila Shama'il al-Rasul- Shaykh Yūsuf b. Ismāīl al-Nabahānī
The best way to approach studying the Prophet's life is through the lens of his character traits. In this work, Shaykh Yusuf al-Nabahani masterfully weaves the longstanding Shama'il tradition into an accessible read that combines both the erudition of a scholar and the love of a mystic. The auspicious arrival of this work in English is a blessing the magnitude of which cannot be expressed in words – and what a better a translator to present it than Sidi Abdul Aziz Suraqah. Yahya Rhodus Al-Maqasid As a traditionally trained calligrapher I have the honor of writing the description of the Messenger Muhammad. Each time I pen his hilye I am overwhelmed with a renewed sense of love and appreciation for him. This work of Shaykh Yusuf al-Nabahani eloquently explores the persona of our Prophet and will engender all readers with a deeper love and admiration of him. Ayman Hasan Master Calligrapher Having authored many works centered around the Prophetic persona, Shaykh Yusuf al-Nabahani was known for his immense love and admiration of the Messenger. He once described himself in poetry as the "Servant of the Master of Prophets" yearning to be the Anas bin Malik of his time. His deeply rooted affection is felt in the work before you and serves as a springboard for seekers attempting to walk the path of loving the Messenger of Allah. Moutasem Atiya Al-Madina.
6. The Clarification of Noble Character – Al-Habib Umar bin Hafiz
If Allah wishes to bestow His grace upon someone, He places in their heart the desire to travel the path towards self-purification and gives them the ability to rectify the attributes of their soul. Allah decreed that success in this life and the next be judged according to the degree to which people purify their souls and attain noble character. It is thus the duty of every believer to seek to attain noble character and emulate their Prophet SAW who said: I was only sent to perfect noble character. In a series of thirty lessons, al- ab b Umar bin af discusses the importance of character refinement and focuses on the traits and qualities that every believer should strive to acquire. He demonstrates how the Prophet SAW and the pious people of his nation embody each character trait and shows the reader how to emulate them. In our times we have never been more in need of improving our character and rectifying ourselves. This is a book for every seeker, every believer and every family. May it be a source of light for every heart and the catalyst for moral transformation.
7. Prophetic Grace: The Qur'anic Merits of the Prophet Muhammad – Shaykh Ahmad bin 'Ajiba
Renowned for its unique style, Ibn ¢Ajiba's commentary of the Qur'an, Al-Bahr al-Madid (The Vast Ocean) combines traditional exegesis with spiritual contemplation, exploring the inner meanings of the sacred text. The genius of his work is especially clear in his commentary of the Qur'anic verses which highlight the nobility and exalted rank of the Prophet Muhammad s . In these selected commentaries, the reader can begin to appreciate both the depth of divine revelation and the grace and countless merits of the Messenger s. 'Love is an indispensable part of faith in Allah and His Messenger, peace be upon him. This is the difference between the philosophy of theological faith as a logical conclusion and Islamic faith as an act of the heart. Ibn Ajiba's commentary on the Qur'an demonstrates this in an excellent manner. It is a must-read to understand how a Muslim should believe in the Messenger of Allah with his whole heart.' Recep Senturk, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Waqf University in Istanbul 'Al-Madina Institute's excerpts from Ibn ¢Ajiba's Al-Bahr Al-Madid provide an exceptional explanation on the modes of expression as well as the subtle symbolic insights that provide layers of meanings to the Qu'ran and the spiritual legacy of the Prophet of Islam.' Imam Mohamed Hag Magid, Imam of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society 'Ibn 'Ajiba's explanation of the Qur'an brings together the three core components of Islam: submission, faith and spirituality. Al-Madina Institute is to be commended for rendering this important work into English. I strongly recommend it to anyone seeking an intimate relationship with the Qur'an.' Suhaib Webb, Founder Ella Collins Institute.


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OrcaCon 2023
Welcome to OrcaCon 2023! We've got our Scheduler set up for this year, and over the next few months, you'll start seeing it populated full of games, panels, workshops, and special events.
Are you new to Sched?
We've created a FAQ for you! It's a living document, so we'll be editing it over time as we answer more questions and we get closer to the show.
Have questions about OrcaCon? Email info@orcacon.org and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.
Friday, January 6 • 7:00pm - Saturday, January 7 •12:00am
Archipelago (2012) - Medium Length Game Mode - New Players Welcome!
Playing a Medium length mode of the amazing "Archipelago", along with the "War and Peace" Expansion. Aiming for 4 players to keep the game-time tight, estimating between 2.5-3.5 hours.
See these videos for more info to learn more about the game -
Review - https://youtu.be/KeHUkmd_T1s
Learn To Play - https://youtu.be/QHq46yHFJeA
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/105551/archipelago
In Archipelago, players are Renaissance European powers competing in the exploration of a Pacific or Caribbean archipelago. They will explore territories, harvest resources, use those resources in markets both internal (for their use and that of the natives) and foreign (to sell it in Europe), build markets, harbors, cities and temples, and negotiate among themselves (and maybe betray each other) – all this to complete their secret objectives. They will also need to guess the secret objective of the other players to be able to benefit from them.
But players also need to be careful of the natives; if they make them too unhappy or if too many of them are unoccupied, they could revolt and declare independence. Then everyone will lose!
According to the author, what he's tried to create is a "German" economic worker-placement game, but without the two things he dislikes in them: the superficial theme and the lack of interaction. Indeed this game includes a very present theme and a lot of negotiation and potential backstabbing.
Interested Players - If you are Interested in the game but cannot make it to this session, we will be playing the more challenging "Long" mode of the game in another game on the calendar. Feel free to come by if interested in case we have no-show players.
Your presenter is Ben Hemry.
Suggested age range is Adult 17+.
Some experience helpful, but not necessary.
Maximum number of players is 3.
Session ID: C-Skyview-208
Ben Hemry
Friday January 6, 2023 7:00pm - Saturday January 7, 2023 12:00am PST
Board/Card Games


Join Shawn & Alex as we spend the day at Chessington World Of Adventures for the 2019 Annual Pass Preview Day! In this vlog we check out the many different changes across the park for the new season. We also share a mix of on and off ride footage from some of our favourite rides at the park including Vampire, Zufari and The Gruffalo River Ride Adventure.
We also check out the maintenance work that's still taking place on some of the rides across the park along with sharing our thoughts on whether the park is ready to fully open for the 2019 season. As mentioned in this vlog, our review and POV from the new Room On The Broom attraction can be found via the following links.


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This piece resurrects that powers of the confessor and prophet who is known as St. Adamnanof Coldingham. He is an Irish Saint who undertook a series of penitential pilgrimages so that way he could better serve God. Adamnan eventually moved to Scotland, where he met Saint Ebba at the Monastery of Coldingham. He then became a monk, leading a life of severe austerity. As a reward he was given the gift of prophecy by God, for which he would be known until his death.
With this piece, you will resurrect the spirit of Saint Adamnan. You will gain his divine prophecy ability, at which point you will gain a white light connection to god that works like an umbilical through which God will feed you prophecies for the destiny of the world. This piece will also see to it that you are cfomfortable financially so that you may help yourself and others. You shall not want for anything. This is one of the pieces I like the best.


Salmon is a disorderly group of fish belonging to the Salmonidae family. It migrates, spawning in freshwater, and after a while, smaller fish move in the ocean. Salmon can easily be found in June, when the new fishing begins to be offered directly from the fishermen.
Salmon is thin, elongated and laterally compressed, with silver leather and branched short tail. The head and back of the fish are dotted with tiny black dots. Small fish weigh 1 to 2.5 kg, but some species such as king salmon reach 40-45 kg. Atlantic salmon reaches up to 1.5 m in legth.
Salmon is one of the most popular fish in the world, people consume it for any reason - for weight loss, health, muscle mass. Not as expensive as truffles, we can certainly put it in the gourmet foods column. In Ireland, for example, salmon can be found even in the deli at the airport. In the heart of Dublin, this store has stood for 180 years, preserving the traditions and spirit of its people, offering all specialties, led by salmon.
Depending on the habitat - if you live in the Atlantic and Pacific salmon has several types: Atlantic Salmon, King Salmon, Salmon Japan, Kuca Salmon, Pink Salmon, Sockeye salmon, Gorbuca and silver salmon.
Cultivation of Atlantic salmon dates back to the 19th century when the UK introduced the first hatchery techniques. At that time, they produce juveniles that are intended to replenish the rivers for sport fishing.
In 1960 the first marine farms in Norway install floating cages in fjords to market adult salmon. The initiative is reaping success, and fish farming began to develop first in Europe and then in all temperate seas. Too rapid an increase in production caused a glut on the market in the late 20th century.
Salmon is an excellent source of vitamin A, vitamin B-group /B5, B6, B12/ and vitamin E. The content of omega-3 fatty acids in salmon is unmatched. The composition of this valuable fish has large amounts of sodium, phosphorus and potassium, followed by magnesium, zinc and iron.
100 grams of salmon contains 142 calories, 6.34 fat, 55 mg cholesterol, 69 ml of water, 19.8 g protein.
Salmon is chosen like any other fish. However, this fish comes more often in frozen form, so be extremely careful about the expiry date.
Marine fish is stored more easily than freshwater. Fresh salmon dries well, wrapped in parchment paper and placed in an airtight container.
Wrapped this way, the salmon should be placed in the coldest part of the refrigerator. Thus, the fish is kept for 2-3 days. It is possible for salmon to remain in temperature of -18 degrees. Salmon can not last more than a month and a half, because the amount of fat in it is great.
The basic rule that you must follow is to never freeze fish that is not fresh, and clean its insides.
Salmon can be eaten pickled, baked, smoked or fried. Do not forget that it can be consumed raw, in the form of sushi or sashimi, only slightly salted.
From gastronomic perspective, combining salmon with something pungent, sweet, ketchup and cheese is completely unacceptable. Consider these details when you prepare for a culinary preparation of this type of fish.
The process of cooking the salmon should not be too long because the fish can become excessively dry and unpleasant to eat. It is difficult to determine what the exact time of heat treatment, because the factors that influence it are different – shape of the fish, thickess and fat.
To get a real idea, it is best to measure the fish at its thickest part, then it cook 5-8 minutes for each measured centimeter.
Salmon is served well with chilled white wine. Best for cooking is absolutely fresh salmon. It can be eaten raw with tartar sauce, or as mentioned, be prepared into sushi or sushimi. Marinate in lemon juice, olive oil and herbs.
Fish is one of the most nutritious foods in the world. Salmon, which has an extremely high content of omega-3 fatty acids and many other valuable substances, is among the best of healthy foods. It is an extremely dietetic fish - low calorie and easily digestible.
Omega-3 fatty acids are found in almost all fish, but in salmon, they are the most easily digestible. Salmon reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, protects against various types of cancer /especially cervical/. It is believed to protect against Alzheimer's, depression, reduces blood clotting and regulates blood pressure. Salmon oil is an excellent tool in the fight against osteoporosis.
What Type of Garnish is Suitable for Salmon?


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FlashAcademy® Wins 'Educational Resource Provider of the Year 2019'
by Zmina Hawthorne
Learning Labs are excited to announce FlashAcademy® has won Educational Resource Provider of the Year at the Education Awards 2019.
The awards celebrate the establishments, individuals and organisations who go above and beyond to deliver excellence within the education sector. The Education Resource Provider Award in particular celebrates and recognises external organisations that provide schools, students and pupils with valuable resources to aid their progression.
FlashAcademy® CEO Veejay Lingiah with the 'Educational Resource Provider of the Year' Award
Coming up against educational video tech company 'Onvu Learning' and employer training company 'Independent Training and Skills Services', Birmingham-based Ed-tech, FlashAcademy®, triumphed with top honours for their platform which specialises in EAL, MFL and English Literacy for schools and workplaces.
On Friday (July 5th) evening FlashAcademy® were described as a team "that solves the bigger problem, working closely with schools and educators to ensure that its users are given the best experience when it comes to language learning and continue to develop in close collaboration with schools to better support EAL and MFL".
When speaking to FlashAcademy®'s CEO Veejay Lingiah on the win and the success of the educational platform, he expressed that, "As the only non-white pupil at my own Primary School, the EAL challenge across the country really struck a chord with me and it's incredible that the team are now winning this kind of national recognition for all of the hard work that has been put in to support both pupils and teachers. We certainly won't stop here and we're looking forward to launching the first ever digital EAL baseline assessment tool to run alongside the FlashAcademy® learning platform in the new academic year. The team, supported by a Ufi grant are also currently testing a workplace version of FlashAcademy®, which is starting to be deployed in the automotive and construction sectors to support employees that do not have English as their first language."
2019's Education Award Winners
FlashAcademy® is available to access on a smartphone, tablet and PC/laptop and accelerates English and foreign language acquisition through curriculum-mapped lessons, challenges and games which simultaneously teach and test pupils. Features include the object translator, which can translate any object into English just from a picture taken by the user, a real-time leader board where pupils compete for the top spot, an exciting range of word games to test pupils' understanding, as well as the ability to learn English from 38 different home languages.
Click here to book a demonstration of the platform and here for more information.


Unity Homes, a developer of inclusive residential communities in Kenya, will build 1,200 affordable homes at Tatu City, the U.S.-backed, mixed-income development in Kiambu County. The Ksh 4.5bn ($45mn) project will address the shortage of affordable homes in Kenya and provide opportunities for local employment in the area.
Unity Homes are built with the modern family in mind, in an environment that allows children to flourish. At Tatu City, Unity Homes' 23-acre community will enjoy 24-hour security, a fitness centre, 5-aside football pitch, swimming pool, restaurant and shops. It is located adjacent to a 50-acre woodland park in close proximity to Tatu City's Business District, as well as the nearby Tatu Industrial Park, the largest industrial and logistics zone in Kenya.