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4 Delicious Red Mullet recipes

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 18, 2011 at 11:51am

Baked Red Mullet with Garlic and TomatoesThis is a fish that appears often in Mediterranean cookery.ingredients4 even-sized red mullet45 ml (3 tbsps) olive oil45 ml (3 tbsps) dry white wine1 lemon2 cloves garlic, crushedSalt and pepper340 g (12 oz) fresh tomatoes, thinly sliced or 400 g (14 oz) canned tomatoes, strainedSprigs of fresh dill for garnishmethod1. Preheat the oven to 190°C (375°F) Gas Mark 5. First scale the fish by running the blunt edge of a large knife over the skin of the fish going from the tail to the head.2. Using a filleting knife, cut along the belly of the fish from just under the head to the vent, the small opening near the tail. Clean out the cavity of the fish, leaving in the liver if desired. Rinse the fish well inside and out and pat dry.3. Trim the fins and neaten the tail with kitchen scissors. Place the fish head to tail in an ovenproof dish. Mix the oil and the wine together and squeeze the juice from one of the lemons. Add the garlic, salt and pepper and pour over the fish. Place on the tomato slices or if using canned tomatoes, crush them slightly and spoon over. Bake for about 25 minutes, basting frequently until the fish is tender. Garnish with dill.serves 4Citrus Steamed Red Mullet with FennelSteaming really emphasises the beautiful vibrant colour of red mullet or snapper.ingredients4 small red mullet or red snapper, cleaned1 tbsp soy sauce1 inch (2.5 cm) piece fresh root ginger, peeled and shredded4 spring onions, trimmed and shredded1 lime, thinly sliced1/2 lemon, thinly sliced2 sprigs fresh fennel or dill1/2 green chilli, deseeded and thinly sliced (optional)method1. Make 3 slashes in each side of the fish and rub with the soy sauce.2. Put a little ginger and spring onion in each cavity and place on a plate.3. Cover the fish with the lime and lemon slices, fennel and chilli.4. Scatter over the remaining ginger and spring onion. Cover and steam for 7 minutes.serves 4Grilled Red Mullet with Fresh Lime and ChivesIngredients8 X 5 - 8 oz (150-250g) red mullet, scaled but not guttedfresh chives, chopped1 lime, quarteredfor the marinadeJuice of 2 fresh limes6 tablespoons olive oil4 tablespoons chives, choppedFreshly ground black peppermethod1. Wash the mullet and pat dry with kitchen paper.2. In a shallow glass or earthenware bowl combine the marinade ingredients and leave the fish in this for 15 minutes, turning them occasionally.3. Meanwhile, heat the grill to high and lightly oil the grill rack.4. When you place the fish on the grill rack, make sure they are well coated in the marinade and chives as the latter are appealing to the eye as well as the taste buds.5. Grill the mullet 2 or 3 minutes, turning and basting them and heaping on more chives as they cook, continue to grill for a further 2 or 3 minutes.6. The skin of the fish will be crisp and the tails slightly charred.7. serve them hot on warmed plates with quarters of fresh limeserves 4Red Mullet NicoiseIngredientsRed mullet is now widely available and its attractive appearance lends itself to this colourful dish.2 tbsps red wine vinegar8 tbsps olive oil1/4 tsp French mustardHandful of chopped fresh mixed herbs1 shallot, finely chopped1 clove garlic, crushedSalt and pepper120 g (4 oz) button mushrooms, quartered4 red mullet, descaled and cleanedSeasoned flourLemon juice450 g (1 lb) tomatoes, quartered and cores removed1 green pepper, seeded and sliced90 g (3 oz) pitted black olives, halved2 hard-boiled eggs, quarteredSmall tin anchovy filletsmethod1. In a screw top jar, shake together the vinegar, 6 tablespoons of the olive oil, the mustard, herbs, shallot, garlic and seasoning, to make a vinaigrette.2. Put the mushrooms into a bowl and pour over the vinaigrette. Stir to coat the mushrooms evenly and refrigerate for about 1 hour.3. Toss the mullet in the seasoned flour to coat lightly Heat the remaining oil in a frying pan and fry the fish on both sides for 2 - 3 minutes per side, taking care not to break the fish. Sprinkle lightly with lemon juice and salt and pepper, and allow to go cold.4. When ready to serve, add the tomatoes, pepper, olives and eggs to the mushrooms. Stir together gently, to coat the salad with the marinade.5. Pile the salad onto a serving dish and arrange the red mullet on top. Garnish with the drained anchovy fillets.serves 4Mullet in Tomato SauceIngredients4 red mullet, whole and cleaned2 level tbsp seasoned flouroil or butter for frying2 tbsp (30 ml) fresh white breadcrumbs1 tbsp (15 ml) chopped parsleyfor the sauce1/2 onion, skinned and finely chopped1 clove garlic, skinned and crushed, optional2 tbsp (1 oz) 25 g butter1 lb (450 g) tomatoes, skinned and quarteredsalt and pepper2 level tsp sugar1 bay leafmethod1. First make the sauce. Fry the onion and the garlic (if you are using it) in the butter for about 5 minutes, until soft but not coloured. Add the tomatoes, salt, pepper, sugar and bayleaf, cover with a lid and simmer gently until soft and pulped - about - 1/2 hour; remove the bayleaf,2. Rinse the fish and dry them well. Dip them in seasoned flour and fry them in shallow fat until tender, turning them once and allowing 6-8 minutes in all.3. Place half the tomato sauce in a shallow ovenproof dish, lay the fish on top, then cover with the rest of the sauce; sprinkle with the breadcrumbs and brown under a hot grill.4. Sprinkle with parsley and serve at once.

Time is Precious: Dr. BJ Miller's Journey

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 18, 2011 at 11:41am

Time is Precious: Dr. BJ Miller's Journey--by Patricia Yollin , Original StoryDr. BJ Miller is only 40 but he thinks about death a lot. He is the new executive director of the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco and a palliative care specialist at UCSF Medical Center. He is also a triple amputee, co-founder of a tea company, owner of a farm in Utah and a newlywed who still looks like the Ivy Leaguer he once was."I have no fear of death," Miller said. "I have a fear of not living my life fully before I die."On Nov. 27, 1990, he came close to dying. Miller, then a sophomore at Princeton University, got together for drinks with two close friends he'd made on the crew team. Around 3 a.m., they were walking to a convenience store when they decided to climb an electrified shuttle train parked on campus."I jumped on top," he recalled. "I had a metal watch on and I was very close to the power source. The electricity just arced to the watch. Sadly, the train was called the Dinky - of all things to lose a limb to."As a result of Miller's encounter with 11,000 volts of electricity, his left arm was amputated below the elbow and his legs below the knees. He still has flashbacks to the explosion and remembers the difficulties of fitting his nearly 6-foot-5 frame into a helicopter bound for a burn unit.Princeton and beyondAfter several months, he returned to Princeton and graduated with his class in 1993. Two years later, the university and shuttle operator, New Jersey Transit, agreed to pay him a multimillion-dollar settlement, which included safety upgrades to the train station where previous incidents had occurred.Over time, Miller has undergone many operations and often experiences nagging discomfort, as well as significant pain on occasion."BJ's doctor said, 'When people have these life-altering injuries, it doesn't change their nature,' " said Miller's mother, Susan Miller. "BJ was a sweet, affectionate, loving child. It didn't change who he was at all."It might not have changed Miller's nature, but it refashioned him in ways that inform what he does today. "I learned so much," he said. "Particularly about perspective. It's not what you see but how you see it."His father, Bruce Miller, said, "BJ has always had incredible insight into people."It's an indispensable quality in the doctor's current line of work."BJ is an extraordinary physician," said Dr. Mike Rabow, director of the Symptom Management Service at UCSF. "Perhaps the best I've ever seen at understanding the pain and suffering of others, bearing witness to it and helping people face it and begin to heal. The most remarkable part is that BJ is filled with joy and humor."Miller said he largely avoided self-loathing and self-pity after the accident because of his mother's example. She was diagnosed with polio as a baby and relied on a brace and crutches when her son was growing up. Two decades ago, she developed post-polio syndrome and now uses a wheelchair most of the time.'It was wonderful'"BJ realized that disability doesn't determine who you are," said Susan Miller, who still recalls what he said after learning he'd lose three body parts. "He told me, 'Mom, now we'll have even more in common.' It was wonderful."Justin Burke of Seattle, who later co-founded Tribute Tea Co. with Miller, visited his old boarding-school roommate in the hospital a few weeks after the accident. "His left arm was the size of a watermelon," Burke said. "But he wanted a mountain bike for Christmas."This wasn't a fanciful notion. After he recovered, Miller hiked, bicycled and competed on the U.S. volleyball team in the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona."BJ's journey has taught me to appreciate things many people take for granted - and I never will because of him," said Pete Austin, a senior producer for "Nightline" at ABC News in New York, who was with Miller when the accident happened and helped bring his body - smoking and bleeding - down from the train.Bruce Miller Jr., who goes simply by BJ without punctuation, was born in Chicago and grew up mostly in its suburbs. He described himself as a melancholy and overly sensitive "mama's boy," who was insecure but made friends quickly. His father was a successful businessman, the family was affluent, and Miller was handsome, even working as a model for a while. But he said he felt like a misfit."Now I'm grateful for being a little bit of an outsider," he said. "It made me question the reality I was living in. Life was just a little too easy. I could feel myself devolving before I'd even evolved, so I elected to go away to boarding school and become more independent."At St. George's School in Rhode Island, Miller turned into a recluse and a bookworm. But by the time he graduated in June 1989, he'd joined choir, made a few friends and earned top grades."I had come to realize how much of my angst was self-propelling," he said. "And I learned how to drop some of those ruminations."Inspired by the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing a few months earlier, he planned to major in Chinese and Asian studies at Princeton. "It dovetailed nicely with being a suburban boy, boarding school, all this zone of privilege and homogeneity," Miller said. "I was very attracted to something foreign, and Tiananmen awakened in me a human rights consciousness."He switched to art history after his accident, focusing on how music served as inspiration in visual art of the early 20th century. "It's all about the human condition and what people do with their humanity," he said. "Artists are dealing with that subject all the time."Art played a major role in his recovery. For example, Miller used to put a sock over his left arm because he thought it was grotesque, and he wore foam covers over his prosthetic legs. He stopped his attempts at concealment after studying the style of building known as the Chicago School of architecture."They let the structure do its own thing," said Miller, showing off his carbon fiber prosthetics. "I found that to be an extraordinarily therapeutic concept."'The silver lining'He made another discovery as well: "I'd always been aware that the way people treated me had nothing to do with my internal life," he said. "The world saw me as over-privileged. This changed all that. I didn't have to explain, 'Oh, I suffer, too.' It was very handy. And I was inclined to look for the silver lining."After graduating from Princeton, Miller worked in the archives of the Art Institute of Chicago and spent several months in Paris as an intern with the State Department. His service dog, Vermont, accompanied him."We were together for 11 years, 24 hours a day," he said. "When I couldn't find the words for what I was feeling, I'd go play with him and everything was fine. It remains the single most profound relationship of my life."When it was time to find a calling, Miller chose medicine because he could use his experiences to connect with people and he felt an affinity for anyone going through an illness. He took pre-med courses in Denver and at Mills College in Oakland before starting medical school at UCSF in 1997, with the notion of entering rehabilitation medicine. He changed his mind after doing a rotation in that field."I felt like a poster child," he said. "When I'd walk out of the room, I'd hear some family member say, 'See, he can do it.' And I knew what those guys needed was to wallow and get angry. They didn't need some jackass with really white teeth saying, 'Hey, you can climb a mountain.' They just wanted to learn how to take a leak again."Sister commits suicideHe finished medical school in 2001. It was a difficult time. He was devastated by the suicide the previous year of his lone sibling in her New York apartment, just shy of her 33rd birthday. The news about his sister's death came in a call he got on the way to a follow-up appointment after yet another surgery. He started questioning his decision to be a doctor, but an internship at the Medical College of Wisconsin changed everything: He learned about palliative care, which uses a team-oriented, holistic approach to treat the symptoms of illness and relieve pain and suffering."It was very immediately clear that this was the place for me," Miller said. "Being a full human being has a lot to do with suffering."He worked two years at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara and was a hospice and palliative medicine fellow at Harvard Medical School for a year before joining UCSF in 2007. Dr. Stephen McPhee, who retired in January as a professor of medicine at UCSF, helped recruit Miller."He has great presence and a light touch," McPhee said. "It might seem inappropriate for end-of-life care but it is exactly right. He's a wonderful teacher, too. He has the ability to move an audience."McPhee said Miller and the 24-year-old Zen Hospice Project are a good match."Compassion and open-heartedness are BJ's defining characteristics," McPhee said. "Being disabled does not define him. But from a patient's point of view, seeing him walk into the room, they get it that he gets it. He has obviously been through a lot."Karen Schanche, a UCSF clinical social worker and psychotherapist, said Miller is especially effective with older men not prone to sharing their feelings."One veteran, a Marine with metastasized pancreatic cancer, was really not into talking or being vulnerable," Schanche said. "He looked at BJ and started tearing up. ... There is a small opening to reach into with people, and BJ is not afraid of that kind of intimacy."But Miller knows it can be dangerous. "These quick spelunking exercises are an occupational hazard," he said. "If you don't have time to process them and crawl fully out of the hole and shake off the dust before you go back down again, you are operating from a deficit."70-80 hours a weekThese days he is working 70 to 80 hours a week, given his full-time job at the Zen Hospice Project, his outpatient clinic work at UCSF, and late-night home visits to people who are dying. He's hoping things will settle down soon."He can't say no. And he sees himself as an usher who can take people through a transition in their lives," said the former Jori Adler, 33, who married Miller in Inverness on Sept. 11 - his parents' anniversary. At the end of October, the couple threw a bash for 180 in Palm Springs. In January, they honeymooned in Chile and Argentina.Jori Miller met her future husband in 2007 at a party in Los Angeles, where she worked as an associate producer in television. Now she's pursuing a master's degree at Sonoma State University and wants to be a marriage and family therapist. They live in Mill Valley with a dog named Maysie and three cats: Zelig, the Muffin Man and Darkness. The doctor never got another service dog after Vermont died.Miller loves to go to art museums and movies, ride his bicycle and drive for hours in his Audi station wagon. Pizza is his favorite food and his tastes in music range from Frank Zappa and The Who to jazz and chamber music. Eight years ago, he bought a 10-acre farm in Boulder, Utah.Like a different planet"It's almost like a plan B," he said. "It's somewhere I can go that doesn't operate by the same rules as in the city. It looks like a different planet and makes me feel nice and small, where I'm thinking on geological time."The Zen Hospice Project's renovated Guest House reopened in September after a six-year closure and formed a partnership with UCSF, which pays for two beds for its patients. UCSF medical students will begin rotations there this summer, joined eventually by UCSF fellows in hospice and palliative medicine."Our vision is to marry the medical and social models of care," said Miller, who has been an attending physician at hundreds of deaths over the years. "Bring in the best of medical science while beefing up the nonmedical components."Those components include a cadre of trained volunteers and programs for bereavement support, self-care for caregivers and legacy work, such as writing letters to grandchildren. The six beds in the Guest House are reserved for people with a prognosis of six months or less to live.Miller is spiritual but not a Buddhist. However, he finds Buddhism "beautifully inarguable," especially because it sees kindness as the antidote to suffering - a principle that guides his work.Time is precious"A big part of my job is to remind people about the preciousness of time," he said. "You don't want to preordain or prognosticate, but you don't want to abdicate your role either. It's this tender little dance between leading and following a patient and their family."Open houseThe Guest House of the Zen Hospice Project: Open house 4-5 p.m. first and third Friday of every month. 273 Page St., San Francisco, CA

The world's most expensive dessert which has been cooked-up with the eye watering price tag of £22,000.

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 18, 2011 at 11:40am

The world's most expensive dessert which has been cooked-up with the eye watering price tag of £22,000. Styled like a Faberge Easter egg the extravagant chocolate pud is believed to have broken all previous records thanks to its pricey list of ingredients which includes gold, champagne caviar and a two carat diamond.

A solution to Mexico City's dense population and strict Government building policy

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 18, 2011 at 11:39am

A solution to Mexico City's dense population and strict Government building policy - an inverted pyramid-shaped building 55 storeys below the surface. Proposals for the 'Earthscraper' were recently unveiled by a Mexican architectural firm, BNKR.

A Secret Scrolls #68 to #73

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 18, 2011 at 11:33am

A Secret Scrolls #68 to #73A Secret Scrolls #68A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda ByrneCreator of The Secret and The PowerFrom The Secret Daily TeachingsMost people can manifest the small things quickly. This is because they do not have any resistance around the small things, and because they don't think thoughts that contradict them. When it comes to the bigger things, however, people often emit thoughts of doubt or worry that contradict those bigger things. This is the only difference in terms of the time it takes for something to manifest.Nothing is big or small for the Universe.May the joy be with you,Rhonda ByrneThe Secret and The Power... bringing joy to billionsA Secret Scrolls #69A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda ByrneCreator of The Secret and The PowerFrom The Secret Daily TeachingsThere are two kinds of people:Those who say, "I will believe it when I see it."And those who say, "To see it, I know I must believe it."May the joy be with you,Rhonda ByrneThe Secret and The Power... bringing joy to billionsA Secret Scrolls #70A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda ByrneCreator of The Secret and The PowerFrom The Secret Daily TeachingsWhen you exist in the great state of gratitude, you become a person who only wants to give. You become so grateful that it takes over your life, and you can't find enough opportunities in a day to give. You give joy, you give love, you give money, you give appreciation, you give compliments, and you give kindness. You give the best of yourself in your job, in your relationships, and to strangers.You will know when you have really found true gratitude, because you will become a giver. One who is truly grateful cannot be anything else.May the joy be with you,Rhonda ByrneThe Secret and The Power... bringing joy to billionsA Secret Scrolls #71A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda ByrneCreator of The Secret and The PowerFrom The Secret Daily TeachingsStress, worry, and anxiety simply come from projecting your thoughts into the future and imagining something bad. This is focusing on what you don't want! If you find that your mind is projecting into the future in a negative way, focus intensely on NOW. Keep bringing yourself back to the present.Use all of your will, and focus your mind in this very moment, because in this moment of now there is utter peace.May the joy be with you,Rhonda ByrneThe Secret... bringing joy to billionsA Secret Scrolls #72A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda ByrneCreator of The Secret and The PowerFrom The Secret Daily TeachingsHere are four fundamental things to do to manifest money using the law of attraction.1. Think more thoughts in a day of abundance than of lack of money.2. Be happy now, without the money.3. Be truly grateful for everything you have now.4. Give the best of yourself to others.Four easy steps. You can do them if you want it enough.May the joy be with you,Rhonda ByrneThe Secret... bringing joy to billionsA Secret Scrolls #73A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda ByrneCreator of The Secret and The PowerFrom The Secret Daily TeachingsWhatever you want to bring into your life, you must GIVE it. Do you want love? Then give it. Do you want appreciation? Then give it. Do you want understanding? Then give it. Do you want joy and happiness? Then give it to others.You have the ability to give so much love, appreciation, understanding, and happiness to so many people every single day!May the joy be with you,Rhonda ByrneThe Secret... bringing joy to billions

My Rule Of Life

Posted by Paulette on October 16, 2011 at 8:47pm

My Rule of Life

The Little Monk, p. 92

One looking for greater discipline: "Can you give me a rule of life?" The little monk: "I can only tell you mine. It serves me well, but may kill you. My rule of life is:

To win my world to a sense of wonder,
To spoil my world with small decencies,
To color my world brightly with endless splashes of beauty,
To ruin my world’s standards by always living out my baptism,
To surprise my world with unexpected kindnesses,
To fill my world with the incense of undeserved love,
To teach my world a more excellent way,
To startle my world with good news,
To listen deeply in a shallow world,
To pray without ceasing and...
To never let life end with ‘uh-oh,’
For that would mean being unprepared."

18 Random Rules of Life

Posted by Paulette on October 16, 2011 at 8:39pm

Here are 18 random rules of life worth posting on your mirror or, better yet, using as dinner-time discussion starters:

Find the lesson in every failure, and you'll never fail.
The likelihood that you're right is not increased by the intensity of your conviction.
Real friends help you feel worthy and make you want to be better.
When you're in a hole, stop digging.
Don't confuse fun with fulfillment or pleasure with happiness.
Refusing to let go of a grudge is refusing to use the key that will set you free.
Hating hurts you more than the person you hate.
Counting on luck is counting on random chance; your odds are much better when you plan and work.
It's better to be kind than clever.
Don't underestimate the power of persistence.
The easy way is rarely the best way.
It's much easier to burst someone else's bubble than to blow up your own.
You can't avoid pain, but you can avoid suffering.
Self-pity is a losing strategy; it repels others and weakens you.
Shortcuts usually produce short success.
Control your attitude or it will control you.
It's more important to be significant than successful.
The world is waiting for you to heal it.

Sign the Disclosure Petition

Posted by Chris Comish on October 15, 2011 at 11:30pm

Sign the petition! I did!

The Obama White House ET disclosure petition

Formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race - Disclosure.

"We, the undersigned, strongly urge the President of the United States to formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and immediately release into the public domain all files from all agencies and military services relevant to this phenomenon."

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"Hundreds of military and government agency witnesses have come forward with testimony confirming this extraterrestrial presence. Opinion polls now indicate more than 50% of the American people believe there is an extraterrestrial presence and more than 80% believe the government is not telling the truth about this phenomenon. The people have a right to know. The people can handle the truth."

What the Obama White House can do about the ET disclosure petition

The White House website states, “The White House plans to respond to each petition that crosses the 5,000 signature threshold. In a few rare cases (such as specific procurement, law enforcement, or adjudicatory matters), the White House response might not address the facts of a particular matter to avoid exercising improper influence. In addition, the White House will not respond to petitions that violate We the People’s Terms of Participation. In some cases, a single response may be used for similar petitions.”

The Obama White House website continues, “Petition responses will come from a variety of Administration officials, including staff at the White House. From time to time President Obama may respond directly to petitions, but we expect most of responses to come from other Administration officials.”

Sign the White House ET disclosure petition

Readers can sign the Petition by clicking at the URL below.

http://wh.gov/gKC

A Secret Scrolls 62 to 67

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 15, 2011 at 5:13pm

A Secret Scrolls 62 to 67

A Secret Scrolls #62

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret and The Power

From The Secret Daily Teachings

You can most certainly help others through your thoughts, and they can help you. Every good thought you send to another is a living force. However, the person you are sending the thought to has to be asking for the same thing you are sending. If the person does not want it, then they are not in harmony with your thought frequency, and it will not penetrate them.
You cannot create in another's life against their will, but if it is something they want, your thoughts are a real force that helps them.
May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne

The Secret and The Power... bringing joy to billions

A Secret Scrolls #63

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret and The Power

From The Secret Daily Teachings

When a big change occurs in your life it forces you to change direction. Sometimes the new path may not be easy, but you can be absolutely certain that there is magnificence for you on the new path. You can be absolutely certain that the new path contains things that you could not have experienced otherwise.

When we look back at a negative event that occurred in the past, we often see how in fact it transformed our life. We see how that event directed us toward a life that we would not change for anything.

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret and The Power... bringing joy to billions

A Secret Scrolls #64

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret and The Power

From The Secret Daily Teachings

When things change in our life, often we have resistance to the change. But if you understand the structure of the Universe, life, and creation, then you will understand that life is change, and nothing ever stands still. Everything is energy, and energy is in continual motion and change. If energy stood still you would be gone, and there would be no life.

Change is always happening for the good of you and for everyone. It is the evolution of life.
May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne

The Secret and The Power... bringing joy to billions

A Secret Scrolls #65

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret and The Power

From The Secret Daily Teachings

If you are complaining about things in your life, you are on the complaining frequency, and you are not in a position to attract what you want.

Get on to the frequency of good with your thoughts and words. Firstly you will feel good, and secondly you will be on the frequency of receiving more good.

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret and The Power... bringing joy to billions

A Secret Scrolls #66

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret and The Power

From The Secret Daily Teachings

If there was a particular house you wanted, or a particular relationship or job you wanted, and you didn't get it, the Universe is telling you that it was not good enough and did not match your dream. It is also telling you that it has something BETTER and more worthy of you.

Something better is coming . . . you're allowed to be excited!

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne

The Secret and The Power... bringing joy to billions

A Secret Scrolls #67

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret and The Power

From The Secret Daily Teachings

The things that come most quickly into your life are the things that you BELIEVE in the most. You can only bring to you what you BELIEVE, so you must BELIEVE to receive what you want.
May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne

The Secret and The Power... bringing joy to billions

Iranian actress sentenced to 90 lashes for film role

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 15, 2011 at 5:11pm

Iranian actress sentenced to 90 lashes for film role
Marzieh Vafamehr also given a year in prison for starring in ‘My Tehran for Sale’

It’s a depressing case of life imitating art.

An Iranian actress has been sentenced to 90 lashes and a year in prison for starring in a film that shows artistic repression in the country, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Marzieh Vafamehr was arrested in July and received her sentence at the weekend.

In the 2009 film, ‘My Tehran for Sale’, Vafamehr plays an actress whose work is banned by authorities and is forced to lead a secret life to express herself artistically.

Vafamehr often appears with a shaved head and no headscarf, and there are scenes of drug use in the film, according to Iranian opposition website kalameh.com.

Controversial... Marzieh Vafamehr in 'My Tehran for Sale'

Her lawyer has appealed the sentence, according to reports.

Iranian news agency Fars said the movie, directed by Iranian-Australian Granaz Moussavi, had not been approved for screening in Iran and was being distributed in the country illegally.

However, Adelaide-based production company Cyan Films said the low-budget, independent movie was never meant to be distributed in Iran.

[See more: Steve Jobs movie planned already]

The movie’s producers Kate Croser and Julie Ryan were stunned by the news. They said in a statement: “We would like to express our deep shock and sadness at the sentence.

"We continue to offer our support to Marzieh and her family by respecting their wishes to let the case and the appeal follow the proper legal channels."

They said that Vafamehr’s role was limited to acting and that she had no input behind the scenes.

Australia’s foreign minister Kevin Rudd also expressed “deep concern” at the reports.

"The Australian government condemns the use of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and is deeply concerned by reports that Ms Marzieh Vafamehr has been sentenced to one year in jail and 90 lashes for her role in an Australian-produced film," a spokesman for Rudd told AFP.

Largest virus found off Chile coast

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 15, 2011 at 5:10pm

Largest virus found off Chile coast

Megavirus chilensis is so large it can be viewed using an ordinary light microsc

Scientists have found the largest-ever virus in water off the coast of South America.
Researchers said the "giant virus", Megavirus chilensis, is "isolated off the coast of Chile".

Like the Mimivirus, previously thought to be the largest, it thrives in freshwater amoebae, single-celled organisms.

It has more than 1,000 genes and its genome is 6.5% larger than the DNA code of the Mimiviru
The Megavirus has the "largest viral genome fully sequenced so far", the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal said.

It is between 10 and 20 times longer than an average virus and is larger than some bacteria, Professor Jean-Michel Claverie from Aix-Marseille University in France told BBC News.
He said: "You don't need an electron microscope to see it - you can see it with an ordinary light microscope."

The scientists found the virus when they were sampling sea water near a marine station in Las Cruces, Chile.

Dramatic footage of Cornwall cliff collapse emerges

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 15, 2011 at 5:09pm

Dramatic footage of Cornwall cliff collapse emergesAn amazing cliff collapse that was caught on film in Cornwall is thought to have been Britain’s largest for over a decade.

The footage, filmed on Cornwall’s North Cliffs near Hell's Mouth, shows thousands of tonnes of rock from a cliff-edge 150-200ft high suddenly crashing into the sea. It has captured the attention of geologists worldwide who rarely see such footage of unpredictable rock falls.“You get something like this once every five years maybe – the chances of catching this on video are incredibly slim, I suspect the cameraman must have noticed something,” British Geological Survey engineering geologist Pete Hobbs told the Guardian.“The action of the wind, the sea and the ice will break up a rock mass like that and you’re losing support for the cliff from below.“It’s an ongoing process around the coast but it’s very, very unusual to catch a large event like that,” he added.The footage has since gone viral, being watched more than 730,000 times.

Urgent Key Cards from Hotels

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 15, 2011 at 5:08pm

Urgent Key Cards from Hotels

friends and family This is pretty good info.
Never even thought about key cards containing anything other than an access code for the room!

HOTEL KEY CARDS

Ever wonder what is on your magnetic key card?

Answer:
a. Customer's name
B. Customer's partial home address
c. Hotel room number
d. Check-in date and out dates
e. Customer's credit card number and expiration date!

When you turn them in to the front desk your personal information is there for any employee to access by simply scanning the card in the hotel scanner. An employee can take a hand full of cards home and using a scanning device, access the information onto a laptop computer and go shopping at your expense.

Simply put, hotels do not erase the information on these cards until an employee reissues the card to the next hotel guest. At that time, the new guest's information is electronically 'overwritten' on the card and the previous guest's information is erased in the overwriting process.

But until the card is rewritten for the next guest, it usually is kept in a drawer at the front desk with YOUR INFORMATION ON IT!

The bottom line is: Keep the cards, take them home with you, or destroy them. NEVER leave them behind in the room or room wastebasket, and NEVER turn them into the front desk when you check out of a room. They will not charge you for the card (it's illegal) and you'll be sure you are not leaving a lot of valuable personal information on it that could be easily lifted off with any simple scanning device card reader.

For the same reason, if you arrive at the airport and discover you still have the card key in your pocket, do not toss it in an airport trash basket. Take it home and destroy it by cutting it up, especially through the electronic information strip!

If you have a small magnet, pass it across the magnetic strip several times. Then try it in the door, it will not work. It erases everything on the card.

Information courtesy of: Metropolitan Police Service.

PLEASE FORWARD to friends and family

LARGE UFO FIREBALL OVER CUSCO PERU 2011 + UFO Peru Meteorite Cusco meteor disburses UFO fleet over Machu Picchu + UFOs Over London 2011 - UFO fleet over Tower Bridge London

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 15, 2011 at 4:48pm

LARGE UFO FIREBALL OVER CUSCO PERU 25TH AUGUST 2011

This object has two tails not one. You will view the clear edges of this object
http://youtu.be/FgAgMQ-xiIQ

UFO Peru Meteorite Cusco meteor disburses UFO fleet over Machu Picchu 8/25/2011

http://youtu.be/Cc_o7hB0Emo

UFOs Over London Friday 2011 - UFO fleet over Tower Bridge London 6/24/2011

http://youtu.be/wQmut0XtD3s

Russia Unveil Space Hotel

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 15, 2011 at 4:44pm

Russia Unveil Space Hotel they def already have that prob plenty of them & that explains Russia sending food up to space...

Well they tried lol.... their gonna live in their awesome hotel(s) while looking down & watching us suffer

http://youtu.be/wsw24cX1mL0

Addiction Poems about Family, Because He Loves Cocaine

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 15, 2011 at 4:30pm

Addiction Poems about Family, Because He Loves Cocaine
Posted: 10 Oct 2011

I wrote this because I want him to quit. Because He Loves Cocaine
©Melissa Scott

I can see it in his eyes
when he comes creeping in.
He's been somewhere he promised me
he'd never go again.
He thinks that I won't know it.
He thinks that I can't tell.
But he forgets how many times
he's put me through this hell.
The deceit is never-ending.
The betrayal . Silly lies.
How can he even sit there
and look me in the eyes?
I've cried so many tears.
I feel so all alone.
He's sitting right beside me,
but he's not really home.
This drug has taken over him.
It's eating up his soul.
It's made his heart so ugly.
Black, like a piece of coal.
I try to stand beside him.
I try to give him love.
I beg him to love me more than it,
but I'm not good enough.
This burden is so heavy.
I cannot tell my friends.
I pray to God to help him.
I pray it someday ends.
Please God hear me praying.
Please God help him soon.
We have a little baby
who thinks he hung the moon.
He is just 8 months old
and I think it would be sad,
If a kid as great as him
has to grow up without a dad.
But his daddy is slowly dying.
Killing himself, without a care.
I wish that he could understand
that this just isn't fair.
I have no happiness anymore.
It's killing me as well.
We always fight. We never laugh.
We only scream and yell.
This is our lives he's tearing apart.
It's not a funny game.
It's destroyed our family, and killed our love.
Because he loves "Cocaine".

The Deepawali 2011 Transmissions

Posted by Aditya Narain Mulla on October 13, 2011 at 5:50am

The Deepawali 2011 Transmissions would be available for 60 days from the transmission date so you can go ahead and call them any time during this period. The format has intentionally been kept open by me so any one desiring to call in can do so,(they are available as Empowerment’s also but then they need registration). Normally they are taken in serial wise order but each being independent can be taken separately also, yes they can be called in multiple times with suitable interval in between and other normal precautions for energies.(Please no intoxicant or caffeinated drink at least one hour before and after as they interfere with the energies.) They each take 1 to 2 hours (Varying from person to person) to fully integrate with your energy body so be prepared for it. Space transmissions suitably when taking multiple Transmissions the same day.

Schedule is as follows (all at 7pm IST on the relevant date, IST is GMT +5hrs.30 min.)

Dhanatrayodashi day: Dhanavantari 24th Oct. 2011(Recommended for all healers)

Narakachaturdashi day: Mahakali 25th Oct.2011.

Deepawali day: Combined Ganesh, Kuber, Maha Lakshmi 26th Oct. 2011(They may be taken individually or combined.)

Call in by saying “I am now willing to receive the Dhanavantari/Maha Kali/Combined Deepawali (As per the relevant day) divine energy transmission sent by Aditya”

I may post the links to notes etc. later on.

Thank you all for the warm welcome.I haven't learned how to put attunements out in the Universe on certain days and times.I am assuming, like many other things, it's done by intention.I haven't had a

Posted by Glenda Hughes on October 11, 2011 at 9:50am

Thank you all for the warm welcome.I haven't learned how to put attunements out in the Universe on certain days and times.I am assuming, like many other things, it's done by intention.I haven't had a chance to find and check out all the groups as of yet but I want to. I love it how we can put music to our page.I would like to learn how to do that as well.

Granny's PIE (and other profound observations)

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 10, 2011 at 5:33pm

Granny's PIE (and other profound observations)

A Hug is like a perfect gift.One size fits all and nobody minds if you give it away .

Bettee Davis - The Anniversary (1968): Part 10 of 10 Videos

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 10, 2011 at 5:32pm

I loved this later film with the great hollywood star Bettee Davis. She was so sarcastic and rude, it really made me laugh when I was a child. Enjoy the film.The Anniversary (1968): Part 1/10 http://youtu.be/OBB8UWm1zy4The Anniversary (1968): Part 2/10 http://youtu.be/3uG_REJcCOQThe Anniversary (1968): Part 3/10 http://youtu.be/ZH-QRHgFssQThe Anniversary (1968): Part 4/10 http://youtu.be/A23MjJu42ygThe Anniversary (1968): Part 5/10 http://youtu.be/LpGeWjKH0VgThe Anniversary (1968): Part 6/10 http://youtu.be/tEGuDRxkIOoThe Anniversary (1968): Part 7/10 http://youtu.be/Yq4f0KMnPY0The Anniversary (1968): Part 8/10 http://youtu.be/0NKF0-GZ5AYThe Anniversary (1968): Part 9/10 http://youtu.be/DbHrhpZNNXkThe Anniversary (1968): Part 10/10 http://youtu.be/p9I-sxk5Y_w

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