Archive for August, 2009
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
A and B Are The Same
A lot of people find it hard to believe, but if you open the picture in Photoshop and measure the color values, you will see that it’s true…
I don’t have Photoshop so I just held pieces of paper up to the screen and looked at A and B only, with all the context blocked out […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
He Finally Expressed His Emotions
Last week, three college students and a recent graduate visited New Vrindaban. These young people are energetic, enthusiastic, spiritually-oriented, and socially aware. Their common interest revolves around the environment. Therefore, they spent the night in New Vrindaban in order to work in the Organic Teaching Garden and the Garden of Seven Gates.
On their first […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
An Adventure In Vegetarianism
“Whether meat-eaters are more material in mind, grosser in appetite and more irascible in temperament than vegetarians is another point for scientists to enlighten us upon. It is the general impression among modern thinkers, however, that the bloodless diet results in strong, healthy bodies, great powers of endurance, good resistance against disease, clear heads for […]
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
Prabhupada Letter March 22, 1972
Date: March 22, 1972
Camp: ISKCON Bombay, Box 387, Fort, Bombay.
My dear Devakinandana,
Please accept my blessings. Thank you for your letter of March 1, 1972, and I am especially happy to see the pictures of such nice cows, so I shall pay the full $2,200 for the five cows you have suggested. Now you must […]
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
Rules And The Art Of Surrender
“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”
Claude Debussy
“Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.”
Bg 18.66
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Janmastami Gift For Krishna — Ru’usa The Cow
From Hare Krsna dasi
After various vacations and travels, we’re finally meeting with up Asto again and finding out about his trip to Congo in July.
I ask him, “What is that tall wood vase filled with water sitting on the floor?”
Asto, “That is what the villagers in Katobo use instead of a bucket to hold the […]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
The Wisdom of Radhanath Swami: The Sincere Footsteps At Our Doorsteps:
“The Sincere Footsteps at Our Doorstep”From a darshan with the monks of the Bhaktivedanta Ashram, NYC, on 7-23-09As our humble temple here in the East Village blossoms into The Bhakti Center, a front-line dynamo of progressive outreach and spiritual sh…
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Cool Roofs
Relying on the centuries-old principle that white objects absorb less heat than dark ones, homeowners like the Waldreps are in the vanguard of a movement embracing “cool roofs” as one of the most affordable weapons against climate change. Studies s…
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
In Hot Water: World Sets Ocean Temperature Record
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Steve Kramer spent an hour and a half swimming in the ocean this week—in Maine.
The water temperature was 72 degrees—more like Ocean City, Md., this time of year. And Ocean City’s water temp hit 88 degrees, toasty even by Miami Beach standards.
Kramer, 26, who lives in the seaside town of Scarborough, said […]
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
“If We Were Honest” by Albert Goldbarth
When I tell you that cultural ritual is an artifice
composed of simultaneous social-dynamic complexity vectors acting in …anthropometric units,
I’m thinking of sex. I mean it.
We all are. It isn’t just me. Or when I say
the war, or the god, or the list with the juice and the cereal…
sex. What is it the psycho-experts are claiming?—every […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Random Thoughts
Last night I went outside and the air was saturated with crickets and cicadas, wondering when the katydids will start sounding.
Overhead I could see the brightest stars in the sky, all the North Dakota stars filtered out by particulates in the air.
At midnight Janmastami the Deity arotik began and a press of bodies surged to […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
King Of The Ridge
by Navina- Shyam das
Age of Garden: 20 years
Size of Garden: 100 feet by 100 feet
Food-bearing Crops: Apples, Beets, Bell peppers, Blueberries, Broccoli, Brussel sprouts, Carrots, Cherries, Chili peppers, Corn, Cucumbers, Dudi squash, Grapes, Green beans, Karela, Lettuce, Methi, Neem, Okra, Papadi beans, Patra, Pawpaws, Potatoes, Pumpkin, Radish, Raspberries, Snow squash, […]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Photo Shoot With Vidya
Vidya is going to do a show she was invited to at Jackson’s Mill State Park near Weston, West Virginia on the Labor Day weekend. Actually Friday through Sunday, not Labor Day itself, in case anyone wanted to go check it out.
A reporter called to say she was going to be featured in the local […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Archived Posts By Title
I use WordPress blogging software for my blog, free using their hosting. They have recently added a feature that I have incorporated.
It is a simple way to index. All I had to do was drop a ten character sequence onto a page and it displays the index either by date or title. It would […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Darwin Is Dead!-Signature In The Cell
From a Scientific History and Philosophical Defense of the Theory of Intelligent Design by Stephen C. Meyer”Earlier in the 1960s and 1970s, physicists had already begun to reconsider the design hypothesis. Many were impressed by the discovery that the …