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Review: The Reading Promise

The Reading Promise, Alice OzmaWhen Alice Ozma was in elementary school, she and her father—a school librarian—made a pact to read aloud together every night. This pact (known as “The Streak”) lasts through illnesses, rehearsals, traffic jams, and dates, and only ends when Alice leaves for college — an insane 3,218 days later.

The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared is about books, but it’s also about the relationship between fathers and daughters, single parenthood, and the importance of literature in the lives of children and adults.

A beautiful read

I came across this book while visiting the new library in my childhood hometown last year, and finally got a copy from my local library a couple weeks ago. I wish I’d picked it up sooner.

Alice’s father, James, spent his career as an elementary school librarian, and experiences firsthand the failing public school and library system. He recognizes the power of reading, and to Alice it’s a normal part of life. As she says in the beginning of The Reading Promise:

Why not read? Why not always read?

One of the things I enjoyed most about this book was how James and Alice’s reading tended to mirror what was happening in their lives: when Alice’s mother moves out, they read books with single dads and growing girls; and as Alice gets older the subjects get bigger and deeper.

Seeing myself

It’s easy to forget what kind of impact reading has had on me. It’s just always been something I’ve done, so much so that I’m often taken by surprise when I mention what I think is a well-known book and the people I’m with say, “Never heard of it.”

While there was never “The Streak” in my childhood home, there was a lot of reading. My mother is a huge bibliophile, and is fond of saying that I was a rotten little brat until I learned how to read. Learning this skill enabled me to learn and travel and experience new things, which was apparently all my brain needed to chill out a little.

What would our lives be like without books, and without people with whom to share them? Why do schools and governments cut funding to libraries despite the evidence that reading is crucial to developing imagination and creativity?

Would there be music, laughter, and imagination without books and stories? Would there be any life at all?

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  1. Paulita May 6, 2012 / 4:43 am

    This sounds like it will touch a lot of us who love reading. I can still picture the steps down to the children’s section of the library. Everyone would laugh at how many books I carried out of there, but I only got to go once a week, and I’d be finished with my pile of books by that afternoon.

    • amypeveto May 6, 2012 / 11:48 am

      I remember the library of my childhood well too. Along with the pool at the local country club, during the summer my mother and I would go there almost daily. It’s where I first discovered the American Girl books, and where I learned how to use a card catalog.

      I’m glad you have such good memories of reading. And I’m glad there’s such a big blogging community around books; it reminds me that they’re never going away. :)

  2. Susan Marlin Brehm May 6, 2012 / 9:17 pm

    I remember when I started driving and could drive to the downtown library by myself. Awesome. Or maybe I said groovy. 😀
    I want to read this book. My list for summer is getting really long! Lol…
    My answer to why administrators cut library budgets is that it doesn’t earn income. They cannot seem to see beyond that. Same with test scores – high scores = more income. Money, money, money.
    I’m delighted that little Nathan loves books. 😀

    • amypeveto May 7, 2012 / 7:25 pm

      The first library I could drive myself to was during college. Didn’t have my license in high school. :( It was definitely “groovy.”

      The great thing about loving books is the same as the hard thing about loving books: so many to read, so little time. I’m glad you’ve got the summer off, though. Plus it’ll be too hot to move anyway.

      Ugh, money. I spend all day answering the question “What’s the return on investment?” Some people just don’t understand that the ROI doesn’t have to be tangible, and isn’t always in dollars and cents. Sometimes it’s about building a community, or instilling a love of reading.

      I bought Nathan some books for his birthday. 3 years old and the kid’s got a wish list on Amazon. 😀

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In a testament to NVIDIA availability, we have retail products from two different vendors today. Aside from giving us the ability to test SLI with the 7950 GT, we can take a look at what we can expect to see from cards that are currently hitting the shelves. From EVGA, the e-GeForce 7950 GT KO offers overclocked core and memory with a fairly conventional HSF (which covers the RAM in addition to the GPU). XFX has made a very bold move with their 7950 GT and is offering two different silent models: the one we have features an overclock as well. Let's take a look at the EVGA card first.

This card doesn't look much different than we would expect an EVGA card to look. It's a very straightforward design with a copper HSF covering the RAM and GPU. The XFX design is a little more extreme as we can see here.

While we certainly expect overclocked products from EVGA as we have seen many in the past, XFX offering a passively cooled overclocked 7950 GT is quite a statement: the 7950 GT is a very efficient card. In spite of the fact that the X1950 has done a better job on power, heat and noise than the X1900, ATI just doesn't make a card at the $300 price point that could ever hope to be passively cooled. With the 7950 GT essentially being an underclocked 7900 GTX, we are quite impressed that this GPU doesn't need more powerful cooling.

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  • pmcguire - Thursday, September 21, 2006 - link

    Anyone tried the XFX card in a Zalman HD160 case?
    I have ordered one but now I am getting nervous that the heatsink is too high.

  • zemane - Saturday, September 16, 2006 - link

    Today also marks the day that ATI slated for the availability of their X1300 XT, X1650 Pro, X1900 XT 256MB, and X1950 series. We currently see very limited availability of the X1950 XTX, X1900 XT 256MB and X1300 XT cards, ...

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    With some versions of the 7900GT costing $280, you'd have to be nuts not to spend the xtra $20 bucks to get the additional 256Mb of ram. The performance increase is obvious from the charts, and since most Nvidia cores do OC fairly well (my BFG is running 580/800) you could most likely get the 7950GT to peform like a 7900GTX, for about 150-200 bucks less. Now if only they can get them to be DirectX 10 compliant... Reply
  • Pastuch - Thursday, September 14, 2006 - link

    In Canada you can buy an ATI/Saphire X1900xt 512mb for $299. A 7950GT goes for $350. These prices are pulled from this weeks flyer at, the Canadian Newegg.

    As always, Nvidia screws over Canadian customers.
  • yyrkoon - Monday, September 18, 2006 - link

    Gee, lets see, I wonder if buying a graphics card that is currently based in my home country is cheaper than one that has to be imported . . .

    Wait until ATI moves to the US . . .
  • Pastuch - Thursday, September 14, 2006 - link

    THe lowest price I can find in Canada on a 7900GT is $290.

    ROFL at Nvidia.

    P.S. I actually would rather buy Nvidia but the prices up here are so out of whack I can't justify it.
  • coldpower27 - Friday, September 15, 2006 - link

    Yeh, Nvidia currently is expensive in Canada, until prices normalize the X1900 XT 512 is a pretty good deal, as long as it remains in supply. Reply
  • xsilver - Thursday, September 14, 2006 - link

    down here in australia - its the other way around
    nvidia is cheaper
    7900gt = 374au ($280US approx
    x1900xt = 410AU (308US approx)

    ati is still the better buy because its faster.
    it actually gets worse in the lower price bracket of x1900gt as they are quite hard to find and really expensive
  • xsilver - Thursday, September 14, 2006 - link

    oh wait - just looked again
    that x1900xt is the 256mb model
    if u want the 512mb model
    = 525au (395US)

    7950gt 512mb = $430au = 325us

    big difference!
  • splines - Friday, September 15, 2006 - link

    Same with all electronics, pretty much. Everything from mobile phones up to the AUD$1000 PS3 - and Americans complain about $600?

    The really odd thing is we have the second highest standard of living in the world, yet our currency is also one of the most undervalued amongst western industrialised nations. Granted, our market is small, but 20-odd million people still have a lot of purchasing power.

    *sighs* Maybe one day they'll take us seriously.

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Colonial settlers acquired title to Alabama lands from the French, the Spanish, the British, and the Native Americans. Original copies of these grants from the first three groups may be found, respectively, in the Archives Nationales in Paris, the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, and the Public Record Office in London. When land title was transferred from Great Britain to the United States in 1783, following the American Revolution, preemptive landowners were required to file proof of their land title with the U.S. General Land Office (GLO). Abstracts of the files are found in the American States Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive of the Congress, Class VIII, Public Lands (Washington, D.C.: Gales and Seaton, 1832–61). These volumes are indexed in C.I.S. U.S. Serial Set Index, Part I, American States Papers and the 15th–34th Congresses, 1789–1857 (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Information Services, 1977).

Title to previously ungranted lands was vested in the federal government, and titles were conveyed to individuals either by sale, by bounty-land warrant, or homestead. The Land Act of 1800, as amended in 1803, simplified the claiming of land titles by authorizing local public land offices to survey and auction lands within their charge. Sales were sanctioned through thirteen land offices including St. Stephens (established December 1806, transferred to Mobile, 1867); Huntsville (established at Nashville in March 1807, transferred to Huntsville, 1811, transferred to Montgomery, May 1866); Cahaba (established at Milledgeville, Georgia, August 1817, transferred to Cahaba, October 1818, transferred to Greenville, 1856); Tuscaloosa (established May 1820, transferred to Montgomery, 1832); Sparta-Conecuh Courthouse (established May 1820, transferred to Montgomery, 1854); Montgomery (established July 1832, closed 1927); Mardisville-Montevallo (established July 1832, transferred to Lebanon, 1842); Demopolis (established March 1833, transferred to Montgomery, March 1866); Lebanon (established April 1842, transferred to Centre 1858); Elba (established April 1854, transferred to Montgomery, April 1867); Greenville (established 1856, transferred to Montgomery 1866); Centre (established 1858, transferred to Huntsville 1866); and Mobile (established 1867, transferred to Montgomery June 1879).

Indexes to Alabama land grants originating with the BLM are widely available. These indexes do not include pre-1820 land grants on credit, military bounty warrants (1842–58), and homestead applications that were not completed. The National Archives has an index to all of these grants and other federal land states, which should also be consulted for the otherwise omitted land grant records. These may contain significant genealogical information. Researchers should note that persons who gave aid to the Confederate cause were barred from receiving homestead land grants from 1866 to 1876.

When the land offices were closed, their original records were sent to the Washington, D.C., office. Photocopies of the original records may be requested from the Washington National Reference Center at Suitland, Md. (see page []). Presidential patents are available and can be searched and copied for free from the Bureau of Land Management website. The BLM Eastern States (750 Boston Blvd., Springfield, VA 22153-3121 has additional files and materials relating to Alabama lands. Duplicate copies of some of these records are located in the Alabama Department of Archives and History, the office of the Alabama Secretary of State, and the University of Alabama library’s special collections. Plat maps and field notes for these original land grants are also available at these repositories. The Southern Historical Press has published Marilyn Davis Hahn Barefield’s incomplete abstracts of several of the land offices’ records including those of Centre, Demopolis, Elba, Huntsville, Lebanon, Mardisville, Sparta, St. Stephens, and Tuscaloosa counties; Southern University Press has published her abstracts from the Cahaba Land Office. Abstracts for north Alabama counties published by Margaret M. Cowart abstracts are for Colbert, Franklin, Jackson, Limestone, Madison, and Morgan counties.

Tract books indicating the original sale of property from the federal government, or the state of Alabama in case of a sixteenth section, are housed in the county probate judge’s office. The books, arranged by legal description, include the name of the purchaser, the number of acres purchased, the price, date of purchase, certificate number, and whether or not the land was obtained under a military act. These records do not include lands cut away to form new counties or subsequent sales of original tracts.

All subsequent title transactions following the original title transfer from the federal government are recorded in the probate judge’s records of the county in which the property lies. These records include conveyance records, which detail the transfer of property either by sale or donation.

In some counties, mortgages were recorded in the same volumes as outright conveyance of real property, while in others, liens and deeds of trust are recorded separately as “Mortgages.” has a collection of land records that subscribers can search at Alabama Land Records.

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Good news for the 300 people who are tired of the Blackberry 8350i and haven't switched to another carrier yet.

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Where's all the Android 2 phones??!

motorola are releasing 17 new handsets this year, yes 17!!, so you can expect little to zero future updates.

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whatever happens I can safely predict that unless motorola has something extremely good up their sleve motorola will not be in a very good state in a years time

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Vegetarianism: Recommended in Vedic Scripture

By Stephen Knapp

Many times there seems to be some confusion or lack of clarity on whether the Vedic path condones or condemns the eating of meat. Often times I hear Indians and followers of the Vedic path explain that meat eating is all right, that the Vedic shastras do not condemn it. Of course, in this day and age meat eating includes and supports the whole meat industry, which is the systematic slaughter of thousands of animals on a daily basis. But if we actually research the Vedic texts we will find that there are numerous references in the various portions of the Vedic literature which explain in no uncertain terms the karmic dangers of meat-eating and unnecessary animal slaughter. These indicate that meat eating should be given up for one’s spiritual and even material progress. This means that the Vedic conclusions that some people present for meat-eating are not accurate, and that they have never studied their own religious books very thoroughly. This is something that is important to understand, so let us take a look.

To start with, the Manu-samhita clearly and logically recommends that, “Meat can never be obtained without injury to living creatures, and injury to sentient beings is detrimental to the attainment of heavenly bliss; let him therefore shun the use of meat. Having well considered the disgusting origin of flesh and the cruelty of fettering and slaying corporeal beings, let him entirely abstain from eating flesh.” (Manu-samhita 5.48-49)

However, it is not simply the person who eats the meat that becomes implicated by eating the dead animal, but also those who assist in the process. “He who permits the slaughter of an animal, he who cuts it up, he who kills it, he who buys or sells meat, he who cooks it, he who serves it up, and he who eats it, must all be considered as the slayers of the animal. There is no greater sinner than that man who though not worshiping the gods or the ancestors, seeks to increase the bulk of his own flesh by the flesh of other beings.” (Manu-samhita 5.51-52)

As we get further into the Manu-samhita, there are warnings that become increasingly more serious. For example, “If he has a strong desire (for meat) he may make an animal of clarified butter or one of flour (and eat that); but let him never seek to destroy an animal without a (lawful) reason. As many hairs as the slain beast has, so often indeed will he who killed it without a (lawful) reason suffer a violent death in future births.” (Manu-samhita 5.37-38)

In this way, the only time to carry out the need to kill animals for consumption is when there is an emergency such as when there simply is nothing else to eat. Otherwise, when there are plenty of grains, vegetables, fruits, etc., to eat, it is only mankind’s lust and selfish desires that motivate one to kill other beings to satisfy one’s tongue by tasting their blood and flesh, or to fatten one’s wallet by making money from participating in the distribution or the cooking of meat. Such violent actions create opposite reactions. For this reason the warnings are given, “He who injures harmless creatures from a wish to give himself pleasure, never finds happiness in this life or the next.” (Manu-samhita 5.45)

Nonetheless, there are also benefits that are mentioned that a person can attain simply by not eating the bodies of other creatures: “By subsisting on pure fruits and roots, and by eating food fit for ascetics in the forest, one does not gain so great a reward as by entirely avoiding the use of flesh. Me he [mam sah] will devour in the next world, whose flesh I eat in this life; the wise declare this to be the real meaning of the word ‘flesh’ [mam sah].” (Manu-samhita 5.54-55)

“He who does not seek to cause the sufferings of bonds and death to living creatures, (but) desires the good of all (beings), obtains endless bliss. He who does not injure any (creature) attains without an effort what he thinks of, what he undertakes, and what he fixes his mind on.” (Manu-samhita 5.46-47)

Also, “By not killing any living being, one becomes fit for salvation.” (Manu-samhita 6.60)

The earlier texts, such as the Rig-veda (10.87.16), also proclaim the need to give up the eating of slaughtered animals. “One who partakes of human flesh, the flesh of a horse or of another animal, and deprives others of milk by slaughtering cows, O King, if such a fiend does not desist by other means, then you should not hesitate to cut off his head.”

"You must not use your God-given body for killing God's creatures, whether they are human, animal or whatever."
(Yajur Veda

There are also references in the Mahabharata that forewarn the activity of eating flesh: “He who desires to augment his own flesh by eating the flesh of other creatures, lives in misery in whatever species he may take his [next] birth.” (Mahabharata, Anu.115.47)

“The purchaser of flesh performs violence by his wealth; he who eats flesh does so by enjoying its taste; the killer does violence by actually tying and killing the animal. Thus, there are three forms of killing. He who brings flesh or sends for it, he who cuts off the limbs of an animal, and he who purchases, sells, or cooks flesh and eats it--all these are to be considered meat-eaters.” (Mahabharata, Anu.115.40) All of these people will also incur the same karmic reactions for their participation in killing, distributing or eating the flesh of animals, as explained next.

“The sins generated by violence curtail the life of the perpetrator. Therefore, even those who are anxious for their own welfare should abstain from meat-eating.” (Mahabharata, Anu.115.33)

“Those who are ignorant of real dharma and, though wicked and haughty, account themselves virtuous, kill animals without any feeling of remorse or fear of punishment. Further, in their next lives, such sinful persons will be eaten by the same creatures they have killed in this world.” (Bhagavata Purana 11.5.14)

The following verses are from  the Tirukural:

How can he practice true compassion
who eats the flesh of an animal to fatten his own flesh?
Riches cannot be found in the hands of the thriftless,
nor can compassion be found in the hearts of those who eat meat.
He who feasts on a creature's flesh is like he who wields a weapon.
Goodness is never one with the minds of these two.
If you ask, "What is kindness and what is unkindness?"
It is not-killing and killing. Thus, eating flesh is never virtuous.
Life is perpetuated by not eating meat.
The jaws of Hell close on those who do.
If the world did not purchase and consume meat,
no one would slaughter and offer meat for sale.
When a man realizes that meat is the butchered flesh
of another creature, he will abstain from eating it.
Insightful souls who have abandoned the passion to hurt others
will not feed on flesh that life has abandoned.
Greater than a thousand ghee offerings consumed in sacrificial
fires is to not sacrifice and consume any living creature.
All life will press palms together in prayerful adoration
of those who refuse to slaughter or savor meat.

From these verses there should be no doubt that the Vedic shastra recommends that such selfish meat-eating must be given up if one has any concern for other living beings, or one’s own future existence, or for attaining any spiritual merit.

In Bhagavad-gita, however, we also find similar verses on what is recommended for human consumption. Lord Krishna says, “If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.” (Bg.9.26) This means that not only should one be a vegetarian and eat only fruits, water, grains, vegetables, etc., but such items should be made as an offering to God with love. The reason is that, “The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin.” (Bg.3.13) So what is offered are only those things that Krishna accepts. That becomes prasada, or remnants of foods offered to the Lord.

As further elaborated in Bhagavad-gita by Lord Sri Krishna: “O son of Kunti, all that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer and give away, as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done as an offering unto Me. In this way you will be freed from all reactions to good and evil deeds, and by this principle of renunciation you will be liberated and come to Me.” (Bg.9.27)

Herein we can see that the process of preparing and eating food is also a part of the Vedic system for making spiritual advancement. As the Vedic literature explains, what we eat is an important factor in the process of purifying ourselves and remaining free from accumulating bad karma. It actually is not so difficult to be vegetarian, and it gives one a much higher taste in eating and in one’s spiritual realizations. The level of our consciousness is also determined not only by what we think and do, but also by the vibrational level of what we put into our bodies as food. The more natural and peaceful the food, the more healthy and peaceful will be our consciousness. If it is further blessed and offered to the Lord, then it becomes especially powerful and spiritualized. This vibration goes into our own bodies and is assimilated by our consciousness to assist us in our spiritual upliftment. However, if we eat foods that are the remnants of animals that were petrified with fear before being slaughtered, or were tortured during the slaughter process, that fear, aggression and suffering will also become a part of our own consciousness, which is reflected back on our own life and the people with whom we come in contact. And people wonder why there is not more peace in the world.

Sometimes the idea comes up that the Ramayana indicates that Lord Rama ate meat, especially while He was in exile in the woods. However, there is no verse in Valmiki’s Ramayana that establishes that Lord Rama, Lakshmana or Sita ate meat while in or even out of exile. In fact, it seems to show that He very much disliked the notion of eating meat. The evidence for this is as follows:

The verse that comes in question in this regard in the Valmiki Ramayana, Sundarakanda, Skanda 36, Sloka 41, says: “Na mamsam Raghava bhunkte, na chaiva madhu sevate, Vanyam suvihitam nityam bhaktamsnati panchamam.”

The literal translation of this verse is: “Sri Rama does not take meat or honey. He partakes everyday of wild fruits and boiled (wild) rice fully sanctioned (for an ascetic) in the evening.”

Faulty English translations have put it as something like this: Hanuman to Sita, “When you were away, Sri Rama did not even take deer meat.” This incorrectly implies that Rama normally may have ate meat but did not do so while Sita was away from Him.

Now in this verse, the Sanskrit word bhunkte is a verb that means strong desire for eating. It comes from the Sanskrit bhaksha, which means voracious eating. When you say Na bhunkte, as we see in the line that says “Na mamsam Raghava bhunkte”, it gives a complete negative connotation, meaning that Lord Rama abhorred meat-eating. On the other hand, if the words were “Na mamsam Raghavo khadate”, it could then mean that Raghava may have engaged in meat eating before, but had stopped it at this point. However, this is not what is said, but is where some English translations present a similar confusion, or are simply unclear about this issue. Nonetheless, by analyzing the correct view of the proper translation, it indicates clearly that the Valmiki Ramayana shows how Lord Rama not only did not eat meat, but greatly disliked it.

Meat-eating and animal slaughter also disrupts and disregards the doctrine of ahimsa, or non-violence. It is not possible to kill animals for the pleasure of the tongue without violence. The Padma Purana (1.31.27) simply says that, “Ahimsa is the highest duty.” Therefore, one must honestly ask themselves if they intend to truly follow the Vedic tenets or not, at least if they call themselves a Hindu, follower of Vedanta, or a Sanatana-dharmist. If they are, then they must adopt the ways of ahimsa.

Ahimsa is more directly explained in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras (2.30) wherein it is said: “Having no ill feeling for any living being, in all manners possible and for all times, is called ahimsa, and it should be the desired goal of all seekers.”

It is also said in the Buddhist scripture, the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, “The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.”

One of the principles that one must follow in the endeavor to be free from acquiring bad karma and for spiritual advancement is being merciful, based on ahimsa. Mercy means more than just being nice. Mercy means being kind to all living entities, not just to humans, but also to animals, birds, insects, etc. This is because the living entity, depending on its consciousness, can take a material body in any one of the 8,400,000 species of life. Therefore, to develop and maintain the quality of mercy, one must follow the principle of no meat eating. This includes no eating of meat, fish, eggs, or insects. In this way, those who are serious about a spiritual path remain free from so many unnecessary karmic reactions. Karma means that for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. Killing an animal to eat is certainly an act of violence that creates a negative reaction in the atmosphere which returns as more violence. This comes back to us as reversals in life which we must endure in the future.

It is bluntly stated that meat eating is actually the grossest form of spiritual ignorance. To kill other living entities for the pleasure of the tongue is a cruel and selfish activity that requires one to be almost completely blind to the spiritual reality of the living being, that within the body is a soul like you, a part and parcel of the Supreme Soul. It also causes one to remain hard-hearted and less sensitive to the concern for the wellbeing and feelings of others.

As previously explained, according to the law of karma, whatever pain we cause for others we will have to suffer in the future. Therefore, a wise man does not even want to harm an insect if possible, what to speak of slaughtering an animal in order to taste its flesh and blood. As explained in the Manu-samhita, the sinful reaction for animal slaughter is received by six kinds of participants, which include, (1) the killer of the animal, (2) one who advocates or advertises meat-eating, (3) one who transports the meat, (4) one who handles or packages the meat, (5) one who prepares or cooks the meat, and (6) one who eats it.

      The sinful reaction shared by these six participants in animal slaughter is serious. In fact, the Bible compares the killing of cows to murdering a man: “He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man.” (Isaiah 66.3) It is also explained in the Sri Caitanya-caritamrita (Adi-lila, Chapter 17, verse 166): “Cow killers are condemned to rot in hellish life for as many thousands of years as there are hairs on the body of the cow,” which is also referenced in the Manu-samhita. So an intelligent person will try to avoid this fate.

Some readers may say, however, that the sacrifices in the early Vedic literature prescribed animal slaughter, so for that reason it is all right to kill animals. But such activities in this day and age are refuted by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in the Caitanya-caritamrita (Adi-lila, Chapter 17, verses 159-165) which He explains to the Chand Kazi who was a Muslim:

“The Vedas clearly enjoin that cows should not be killed. Therefore any Hindu, whoever he may be, does not indulge in cow killing. In the Vedas and Puranas there are injunctions declaring that if one can revive a living being, he can kill it for experimental purposes [in the ritual]. Therefore the great sages sometimes killed old animals, and by chanting Vedic hymns they again brought them to life for protection. The killing and rejuvenation of such old and invalid animals was not truly killing but an act of great benefit. Formerly there were great powerful brahmanas who could make such experiments using Vedic hymns, but now, because of Kali-yuga, brahmanas are not so powerful. Therefore the killing of cows and bulls for rejuvenation is forbidden. ‘In this age of Kali, five acts are forbidden: the offering of a horse in sacrifice, the offering of a cow in sacrifice, the acceptance of the [renounced] order of sannyasa, the offering of oblations of flesh to the forefathers, and a man’s begetting children in his brother's wife.’ Since you Mohammedans [and others] cannot bring killed animals back to life, you are responsible for killing them. Therefore you are going to hell; there is no way for your deliverance.”

This quotation makes it perfectly clear how anyone who participates in killing other living beings is responsible for such acts which cause one to attain a hellish future, or at the least, causes stifling of their spiritual progress. We mentioned the karmic reactions for killing the cow, but there are karmic results that one acquires from killing other entities as well, which is to suffer a similar pain or die in a similar way. Whatever you do unto others will later return to you, either in this life or in a future life. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. That is the law of karma.

We can now begin to understand how dark the future is for someone who owns or manages something like a hamburger or fried chicken stand. Not only is he responsible for the animals that are killed, cooked, and then sold by his business, but he is also responsible for those he hires to help with it, and those who buy and eat the dead animals. We can also begin to get an idea of the dark collective karma of the population of a country whose food habits are centered around the meat industry. The violence that is generated by such a society certainly cannot help but create adverse affects in the world.

The cow and bull are the prime targets of the meat industry. However, cows and bulls are very important to human civilization. Until the recent invention of the tractor, the bull was used for helping to cultivate fields for producing food, and the cow has always supplied milk. A moderate supply of milk in our diet provides the proper nutrients for developing a good brain for understanding spiritual topics. Some sadhus in India do not eat, but take only milk. From milk one can make many other foods that are used in thousands of recipes that we all appreciate, such as cheese or curd, yogurt, kefir, butter, ghee, and so on. (However, this is not to approve of the cruel and questionable practices of the dairy industry as found in western countries.) This means that, according to the Vedas, the cow is one of our mothers and the bull is like a father for the benefit they have done for society. To do outright harm to such creatures is considered extremely serious.

I have heard Western people criticize India for not slaughtering its cows, and talk about how there would be no more starving children if they would just eat the cows. That is not the cure. I have traveled all over India and have seen hungry people there as well as in American cities, which is more able to hide such problems. Homeless and hungry people are found in every country. For another thing, cows are one of India’s greatest resources. They produce food, fuel and power. Bullocks do as much as two-thirds of the work on the average farm. They help plow the fields, hall produce, and turn the presses. For India to convert to machinery to do these tasks, especially in villages, would cost as much as 20 to 30 billion dollars. For a country like India, that is out of the question and a waste of time and money.

The cows also supply up to 800 tons of manure each year for fuel. Cow dung gives a slow even heat, good for cooking. Using coal for cooking would cost 1.5 billion dollars a year. And besides, believe it or not, cow dung kills bacteria and is antiseptic. And keeping cows is cheap since they eat things like wheat stubble, husks, and rice straw, which people cannot use.

So why raise cattle for meat consumption when it takes seven times more acreage for a pound of beef than a pound of milk? Only four to sixteen pounds of flesh food is produced for every hundred pounds of food eaten by cattle. Ten to twenty tons of nutritive vegetable food can be produced from the same amount of land that can produce only one ton of beef. In one year, you can get much more protein from a cow in the form of milk, cheese, etc., than in the several years it takes for a cow to mature enough to produce meat. To produce one pound of wheat takes 25 gallons of water, whereas one pound of beef requires 2500 gallons. And water is not always a plentiful resource in countries like India. Obviously, using agricultural resources for meat production is nothing but wasteful.

Furthermore, if we are so concerned about the starving people in the world and the environment we live in, then let us consider the fact that 60 million more people in the world could be fed if Americans reduced their meat consumption by only 10%. Plus, thousands of acres of rainforest are lost every day in various countries, and it is said that 50% of that is directly linked to raising cattle for meat production. And though 76% of Americans consider themselves concerned about the environment, only 2.8% are vegetarians (at the time of this writing). Many Americans may say they love animals, but they still eat them on a regular basis. Obviously, they need to raise their consciousness about this. In any case, there are many books on the market that present this type of environmental information much more thoroughly.

For those of you who would like to learn more about what a vegetarian diet can do for you and how to cook vegetarian meals easily, there are plenty of books available to help you get started. Or check here on my website for additional information and resources to get started.

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The story actually wasn't that good as I hoped. Few cases were almost boring to watch. I was hoping to see that the characters would be more dragged into those cases. Yeah, they were involved and very deeply in it, but when things got interesting, the solving was quite often disappointing. Also I thought they will open up those characters and add more... emotional tension between characters. That girl crush thingy was just a bit pathetic to watch.

I'm quite picky on the animation part (Sorry, I don't speak manga or anime so Iäm gonna explain it my way) and that was... satisfying. I like sharpness and adult looking characters. Though it wasn't nothing special. For me it was neutral. Not disturbing but not something to enjoy.

That was honestly the first thing that made me keep watching. The opening song. But the music during the story - It was fine. Fitting perfectly, but not something that stands out. But I still love the opening and closing music.

Now they were great. I loved that they had different types of characters. Especially I liked the cold hearted ones. Anime really knows how to make them work in their shows. In this show, everyone were so different but still they made an excelent combination. I only wish they would open up more of the characters during those cases.

I'm gonna give it 7. It was a great show. Not a waste of time and it had some really good pearls in it, but also there were those holes, where I tend to fall a sleep. Still, I loved the main characters. Also the animation suited with the story. The whole picture  made it very watchable show, and I reccomend it. It is not a crap, but not an outstanding piece either.

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JoyRide Entertainment announces Fullmetal Alchemist TCG expansion plans for 2006

CHARLOTE, NC - Dec. 6, 2006 -- JoyRide Entertainment's Fullmetal Alchemist TCG has been the breakout hit of 2005, with a base set (Premier Edition) and expansion set (Blood & Water) selling well in hobby stores and receiving critical acclaim from players, collectors, and media. Many stores have reported frequent sellouts, and singles for the game are going for as much as $150 online!

The new year is already shaping up to be a big one for JoyRide and Fullmetal Alchemist TCG. The second expansion set, Artificial Human, releases Feb. 15, with pre-release events Feb. 3-5. It will add 110 more cards, with the same parallel foil set, chase, and transmutated plastic cards fans of the game have come to known. Also, for the first time, JoyRide will introduce a new card type (advantages) to FMA TCG and level-four leaders for all the major leaders in the game!

But that's not all JoyRide has planned for Fullmetal Alchemist in 2006! A Hero's Passing will release in May, and this extra-large set will have nearly 200 cards and cover events up to and including the tragic death of one of FMA's most popular characters. A Hero's Passing will also revisit some of the themes of earlier sets and include popular cards from those sets.

After A Hero's Passing, fans can look forward to Alchemist's Gate, coming in fall 2006, and Seven Deadly Sins in late 2006/early 2007. Both sets will be about 110 cards and cover approximately seven episodes of the anime.

Also, starting with Artificial Human, JoyRide will switch to a new display-box size. Artificial Human boxes will contain 12 booster packs, making it easier for stores to stock and representing a smaller initial investment for players and collectors.

"Fullmetal Alchemist TCG was a great success for us in 2005, and we look forward to continuing that success in 2006," said Brand Manager Edward Bolme. "We've even got another special product for FMA TCG in development; we can't announce it yet, but we think fans will love it when they hear about it. Thanks again to all the fans and retailers who make our game great! Fullmetal Alchemist was an excellent choice for JoyRide Entertainment's first TCG, and we look forward to releasing new games and new intellectual properties in 2006."

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Based on the top-rated anime series on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, the Fullmetal Alchemist TCG released in August with a 240-card Premier Edition base set. The first expansion set, Blood & Water, released Nov. 9, and a second expansion set, Artificial Human, releases Feb. 15, with pre-release tournaments Feb. 3-5. The game is supported with tournaments, leagues, a web site, and a dedicated volunteer corps. For more information, visit or e-mail [email protected]

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A cappella group to offer annual singing Valentines

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Jennifer Willox has been receiving singing Valentines from the Huron Valley Harmonizers for several years. Her husband Iain sings with the group.

"I always look forward to a very handsome quartet coming out to my work," Willox said. "I usually grab a few extra folks to go upstairs with me. I sit in a large chair while being serenaded and I try to keep eye contact with each of my suitors."

HVH has been offering Valentine's Day performances for about 15 years, said William Stutts, Jr., the group's assistant director.

"Out of the days of the barber shop calendar, this is one of my favorites," he said. "You get reactions and you get people who’ve possibly never heard barbershop before. It’s really kind of awesome."

The Huron Valley Harmonizers in 2012. file photo

Each year, people arrange for HVH to send barbershop quartets to serenade their loved ones, often at work or at restaurants over dinner. The quartet sings two songs and delivers a rose with a card.

Stutts said the performances tend to be pretty emotional.

“Sometimes people have a very visceral response," Stutts said. "...We get a spectrum of emotion that happens. Of course, usually the places that we sing at, there are other women who are around and they tend to get teary eyed."

HVH asks for $50 for each performance and all proceeds help fund the group. Customers can also pay $25 for a quartet to sing two songs over the phone, or send a video of the serenade to customers with Apple iMessaging.

Last year, they had 17 in-person gigs, Stutts said. This year, they're hoping for 30.

The service is offered between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. on Valentine's Day and customers are asked to designate a 4-hour window of time during which the Valentine can be delivered. If a more specific window is necessary, they can adjust rates to accommodate needs.

HVH will send quartets anywhere within 50 miles of downtown Ann Arbor. However, Stutts said the group can outsource valentines to other a cappella groups via the nationally organized Singing Valentines website.

The repertoire of songs to choose from includes "Let Me Call You Sweetheart,""Heart of My Heart," and "Love Me Tender". Additionally, one of the quartets in HVH offers "You Are So Beautiful" and "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You." If a couple is engaged, they also may request, "Sweet and Lovely."

The Valentines are arranged through HVH's website.

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Location: Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island

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As you make your way towards Rothera by plane, you can begin to recognise the mountains and islands you have seen in so many photos taken by others on the station. It is only when you are very close the station that you can make out Rothera Point and then the buildings. The most obvious feature of Rothera when viewed from the air is the 900 m long runway and even at this size, the entire station seems tiny in comparison to the surrounding scenery. After taxiing to a stop outside the hangar, you are instructed to take only your hand luggage and disembark to walk to the main building.

If you have arrived on RRS James Clark Ross, the ship will moor alongside the Biscoe Wharf at Rothera. The discharging of cargo usually begins immediately and can take two or more days. Lots of containers arrive for unloading and the technical crew are kept very busy driving the big machines needed to deliver supplies around the station. Lines of volunteers are needed to begin unloading these containers into the various buildings.

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It seems something of a shock to suddenly have come from sunny and relatively warm Falkland Islands into the cloudy, isolated and cold wilderness of Antarctica. You are escorted in a group over to the main building, led by the Base Commander (BC) who had arrived on the first Dash-7 flight. You pause only briefly as the BC points out various buildings. On arrival at the main building, you shed your outer layers, leaving your outdoor coats and boots in the aptly named 'boot room'. The BC explains that the first night is now your own, but that you will begin the training bright and early in the morning.

You collect your kit bags and head off to find your room. The current "pitrooms" sleep up to four people in a rather confined space. The metal-framed bunkbeds and wardrobes also mean you cannot easily get out of bed and dress without disturbing the other occupants! The toilet and washing facilities are shared.

Unloading the Dash7 at Rothera - Click to enlargeThe next day starts in earnest with lectures and training activities to be completed before you are allowed into the field. This is the start of an intensive period of familiarisation of the station, its rules and opportunities.

Training begins the next morning with a tour and an introduction to the various domestic base jobs you all have to take turns at. These include Sunday cook, gash (waste management and cleaning days) and communal scrub-out where everyone cleans part of the base. This is followed by a series of training sessions covering such topics as the base vehicles, radios, meteorological observations and the base medical facilities.

One of the most enjoyable parts is driving the personal, motorised oversnow vehicles. These are ski-doos made by Bombardier in Finland. You may be surprised how unstable they feel when driving over the bumps on the ramp up to the old aircraft skiway opposite the station. The precarious riding position kneeling on the seat and their speed (over 30 mph downhill possible) sometimes make you feel as though you are about to be thrown off the ski-doo even over small undulations! However, there are two 'doos for general use, so with plenty of practice your confidence will grow.

Following familiarisation of the station, there is a period of field training lasting three days.

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« on: March 07, 2014, 12:27:01 PM »
I am the failure of my family. I have my younger sister and older brother succeeding and doing things with their lives and getting jobs. Then there is me, 18, no friends, no job, depressed, suffering from anxiety and pathetic.
I can't explain depression to those who don't know what depression is like, they will never ever understand it, until they go through it; which is why I can't tell many people as I don't know anyone who has been through depression.
When I say I can't get out of bed or I can't function on a daily basis or I can't leave my house for weeks at a time or I can't tell anyone how I am feeling, I really can't. It's not about being positive or just being open with someone or even just getting up and taking a chance. My life sucks. I have nothing going for me and in the end we all die. So what is the point? I don't live for anyone...my family love me of course, but they don't care about me or know a single thing about me. Life is just an illusion. We are all an illusion. I would rather commit *****...I will admit, I don't have the guts, but I have tried. And sadly I am still here, in this depressing, cruel and pointless misconception we all call life.
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why is it that I cannot tell anyone how I feel? Even though I don't know how I feel, I would say...NUMB.
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« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2014, 02:40:24 PM »
First off I want to say, you're not a failure and very far from it. People with depression are the strongest people I know, they just don't know it because they are depressed.  It sounds like you are depressed because of your circumstances, I can relate. All you need is one positive thing and then follow up with another positive thing and slowly but surely you will get out of your depression. Now generally I would ask what meds you are on but meds only do so much. I recommend you join a group therapy session with people around your age so you can connect with people and maybe create a friendship or two. Are you in school? The best way to get of your depression is to create a routine. Now if your not on meds i recommend you go see a psychiatrist ASAP, that will be step 1, step 2 find a group therapy session and step 3 find an activity to do whether it be something you like or something totally new, for me I workout 2x a week, nothing extreme but just enough to get my mind busy and off things, some days I have to push myself other days I just do it because I've developed a habit of doing it. If you want to get out of your depression your going to have to push yourself, I know how tough that is believe me, I never want to do *****, but meds might give you the first push you need.

Also, to answer your question, people can't understand fully because they are not in your shoes. You can tell them how you feel until your blue in the face, it won't matter. And the feeling your feeling is "blah" it's literally nothing but because your depressed it's nothing good. I only partially know what your going through because I never really felt "numb" because I have a lot of anxiety along with depression. Anyway I hope I've helped in some way.
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Honest answer? I would say you are afraid of the reaction you might get. You might think others will be negative about you. But I would say they would want to help. When a person is down there seems no way out at all. There doesn't seem to be an up side of anything. Only a down side to everything. One thing we can fear is change. That might sound silly. But if we are offered help that might help change how we are again we think people might judge us. So a lot of people don't seek out that help. They suffer in silence. But there is so much going on in the world about depression today that how people view it is different than how they viewed it years back. It is acceptable that people suffer. Others accept that people out there need help. There are help lines for people who don't want to go anywhere for help. Just a voice to talk to. To listen to you. To guide you. They are all out there. People do really care. I spent 10 years looking at my bedroom walls. Afraid to get the help I knew I needed. Afraid of reaction to my problems. But nobody laughed at me. Nobody thought I was a waste of space. They gave me time. Most importantly they gave me help and room to do things at my own pace. Like been allow to breathe. No matter how bad it may seem there is always a road back. We just have to believe. Taken those early steps is the hardest part of all. But take them. You will never regret doing it.
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« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2014, 03:03:35 PM »
why is it that I cannot tell anyone how I feel? Even though I don't know how I feel, I would say...NUMB.

Because that's how society works. We focus on our own needs, and we all have our own perspective. They don't feel the pain and agony that you're going through, they have no leverage to aid you.

Have you thought of seeing a psychiatrist?

You can't let yourself beat yourself up. The best thing you can do is be you, Don't care what other people think, we live in a WORLD of judgement. that's just what we do, it's a sick world out there. But there's more to life by just having the mindset that you're just going to do you.

Easier said than done, I'm not going to lie, but the first thing you can do is just keep a positive mindset... think of what YOU want to do with your life, what career you want what type of education you want, and where you want to live.... and change the thinking to doing. Nobody is stopping you and if anyone were to stand in your way, you push past them like you'd kick a pop can out of your way on the ground.

Life is a precious thing, not one person in the world would say that it's easy, but why give up? There's so many fun things to do in life... if nobody understands you then keep your problems out of their grasp, they won't do you any good.

How old are you? Think about growing old... every time I feel down on myself, that life is tough... I look at the 70-80 year old men and women sitting at the local grocery store... drinking endless cups of coffee, talking about things that happened many years back.... not speeding, not getting mad, because they're not in a hurry.

Life isn't a race, and it's definitely not pleasant at times... it's simply what you make of it. If all you want to do in life is be a custodian... then be the best damn custodian south of Antarctica... it's all in your perspective.

Believe me, just as I believe you, You're rock bottom right now. the rocks and the cold wet ground you're currently on are uncomfortable.

Nobody said the hole that you're in is all that deep, so get out of that hole and accomplish great things. Don't do it to impress the family, or make them feel happy and joyful of you, that's just a sprinkle on a cupcake, do it for yourself.... be proud, but never satisfied.

Best wishes to you, keep us updated.
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