Kaṭukassaratā

Spreading corn gluten inhibits the formation of root hairs through which a seedling absorbs water. Without these root hairs, a seed will die before it pushes above the soil. A natural product, corn gluten is what’s left of corn after the sugars and starches have been extracted to make syrup, cornstarch, and other food products. One application of corn gluten can suppress successful germination by 80 percent. A second application 30 days later can increase suppression to 90 percent. That’s on a par with highly toxic postemergents like Roundup. A third application after another 30 days will produce nearly complete suppression.

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There are many things in my life that I look back and go...huh...how in the world did I get involved with that...or manage to do that. An experience that I would imagine runs through all our lives...so...I am curious...what things do you look back on and go wow...how did I manage/get involved/etc...?

Here are my top 3:

• Worked on 3 political campaigns one of them being my own
  
• Part of a firebase freedom "concom"
  
• I have been finger printed 26 different times in my life
  

and it seems no one has heard of it: Fido

Lionsgate presents "FIDO", starring Carrie Anne Moss, Billy Connolly, Tim Blake Nelson, and introducing K'Sun Ray. What begins as a small town story about a boy and his best friend becomes a biting satire about our world, the price of fear, and the rewards of risking love. FIDO will rip your heart out.

I watched it when it came out and really enjoyed it. Short live in theaters and no one ever remembers it when I bring it up when the conversation turns to zombie movies. Which is too bad, especially with the cast they managed to pull together.

Well I created a twellow for Arc Therapeutic Massage and that means, of course, that we had to create a twitter account

Only the actors are real. All else is CGI. Shot entirely green screen in 2005. Finished in 2007.

Don’t recall: Let go of what has passed
Don’t imagine: Let go of what may come
Don’t think: Let go of what is happening now
Don’t examine: Don’t try to figure anything out
Don’t control: Don’t try to make anything happen
Rest: Relax, right now, and rest

This is going to be interesting to see how it pans out.

By Todd Wallack
Globe Staff / December 23, 2008

GateHouse Media Inc., the owner of 125 local newspapers across Massachusetts, sued The Boston Globe's parent company yesterday for linking to GateHouse articles on the Globe's new local websites.

In a lawsuit filed in US District Court in Massachusetts, GateHouse argued that The New York Times Co. violated copyright law by copying "verbatim" headlines and the first sentences from articles in the Newton Tab, Daily News Tribune of Waltham, and other GateHouse papers on the Globe's own websites, along with links to the full articles.

Read the entire Article from boston.com

It is very simple
to eliminate suffering.
Accept everything with ease,
And let go completely.

----- By Venerable Master Shen Kai

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The site is now live with active online appointment scheduling

Arc Therapeutic Massage

I still have to add the services, contact us form, and other things. So really it's the main page and Make an appointment page. LOL. But it's good for why I want those two active. I have the content for the rest. I just need to get it done and put up.

Career Fair tomorrow at the school. We'll see how that goes. Then immediately head up to work after.

I am not so sure that it is a good idea to be so connected at times. We are in a world where we can IM/Text/SMS/Voice post our thoughts and feelings or journal/blog about our experiences all secure in the knowledge that we will have instant gratification....that what we write will be, or has been, immediately communicated.


I see several points around this:

1. The first point is that it can allow for us to quickly and easily document things we may wish to follow-up on later or thoughts we want to explore later. In the case of twitter it literally served as a nice way to document my mundane departures and arrivals to let phawkwood know I hadn't gotten myself killed in Chicago. LOL.

2. These various online services really do let us connect with others and get to know them and the things going on in their lives that we ordinarily would not. I have several friends that I would not otherwise really know or be able to keep up with if it weren't for LJ.

3. While it is very nice to post a thought about things or have a conversation with someone, our attention becomes split and I think we lose the full experience of the things around us. I felt this way in Japan. It was when I realized I had become so focused on getting the pictures and hanging onto the camera as I went places, that I started getting frustrated. The camera and trying to get pictures really interfered with
being there. I didn't necessarily see everything that went on because it took me out of the moment. Pictures are not bad to take here or there, but they can imo overshadow the experiences around you.

I think that our sms/texting/im devices are vulnerable to pretty much doing the same. We no longer really focus on the moment around us and wind up split attention and out of the moment. The conversation can overshadow the experience around a person in much the same way pictures can.

4. Reinforces our thought patterns/habits. One of the points of the Dharma talk last week was that if one person practices finding things they are grateful for each day and the other person practices finding things they are unhappy about, frustrated over, etc.. each day then the first person will be a pretty positive, upbeat individual and the second one is going to be miserable and unhappy. I know while I was in the corporate world I felt like I had allowed myself to focus on negative things all the time. I would even stop posting in LJ because I felt like I was always negative and didn't want that.

I think the online services with their instant gratification of posting allows us to reinforce such things. Though I do think in our world people are more likely to post their 'vents' their negative thoughts rather than their positive ones. It's so easy to just type "my day really sucks" or "my boss is pissing me off" and send it off.

It's too bad our society is focused on the negatives, it would be good to see someone post, even to twitter, about how nice another person was to them that day or other things we might be grateful for in our lives. I think it would be nice to see things like "The store clerk was really happy today."

I suppose it could be used as a way to break out of our patterns too, if the person is able to recognize such things in their lives. When we see one of our negative patterns popping up we could stop and post about something we really enjoy in our lives, or something we are grateful for about the person who may be pissing us off at the moment, how do we have compassion for that person.

5. I think this kind of ties into the previous ones, but with the connectivity and ease of communication I think it really can enable us to rely too much on others and less so on ourselves. An enabler of our poor self-esteems or other neurosis we might have. It becomes a way to escape those things in ourselves and our situations. So that we do not deal with the reality of our daily lives. An escape that can not only take away the focus on our own issues and situation, but can also bring further issues and situations into our lives.

So it is all a double edged sword really. A debate that I know has actually gone on for a while now and much has been written about it. Ultimately technology, connectivity including is neither good nor bad, it's all in how you use it. I could say it comes down to society and the issues we face, blah blah blah, but in anything I truly believe it comes down to personal accountability, views, beliefs, awareness, attitude, etc...

Taken from kashma

Find a piece of artwork that represents where you'd most like to be, right now. Post in your LJ with the header, "I wish I was here." Invite others to do the same, should they choose.

So the Star Wars LARP I will run for U*Con this year will be Imperial Court:

Court is about to convene on Coruscant and the Emperor has recalled all of his entourage to attend. Come see if you can manage political maneuvers in the Imperial Court. Characters include Sith, Apprentices, Courtiers, and more.

The LJ User Rep voting is now open.

Jedi Squirrels vs Sith Squirrel Posted by cherydactyl.

I was recently introduced to the Vietnamese Mahayana concept of "The Fourteen Teachings of Buddha" and I really like the way the Sutras are summarized in them:

1. The greatest enemy in life is the self
2. The greatest ignorance in life is deceit
3. The greatest failure in life is vanity
4. The greatest tragedy in life is jealousy
5. The greatest error in life is to lose oneself
6. The greatest crime in life is disloyalty to parents
7. The greatest pity in life is self-belittlement
8. The greatest pride in life is recovering from failures
9. The greatest bankruptcy in life is hopelessness
10. The greatest wealth in life is health and wisdom
11. The greatest debt in life is affection and love
12. The greatest gift in life is acceptance and forgiveness
13. The greatest weakness in life is lack of awareness
14. The greatest consolation in life is charity

vajrasattva posted an article on it in LJ with the authors interpretations.