Biscuit crumbs

[dada]

Thanks dada, but na, not he one.

It's a saying and not part of a story as far as I know...

Well I thought it was an interesting enough saying to go on a search. So, thanks for that.

And I should have been clearer. I found the saying 'When your house is finished, it's time to die,' in that book, but it was only in passing.

The story was me paraphrasing a totally unrelated 'Nasruddin' bit that I was reminded of.

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Humans created 5 billion gigabytes of digital information in 2003; in 2013 it took only 10 minutes to produce the same amount of data.

We're being very loose with the definitions of the words 'information' and 'data' here.

I blame Urban Dictionary for this.

[KUAN]

Burnt Hill, DrEvil, km artlu, Searcher08, tapitsbo and 59 guests

59 guests, fuck!

[Iamwhomiam]

Hmm... seems like there's a Majestic 12 bot here now, and of course, googie.

Never before saw the Majestic12 bot., but I rarely pay attention to those who are listed as being present.

[PufPuf93]

There is an arab saying, (I think I read somewhere), that goes something like:

'When you have finished building your house, it's time to die'

Can anyone at RI help me find it? Ta

Not an Arab saying but are you aware of the Winchester Mystery House?

The house is now (and has been for decades) a tourist attraction in San Jose, CA. I have driven past but never actually visited but once had a grandparent that threatened to take me there as a child but it never happened.

From: http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/s ... hester.cfm

Sarah Winchester

Woman of Mystery

It is easy to imagine how the combined grief of losing both a child and a spouse could be very crippling. But if you had $20,000,000 and all the time in the world to help you cope, can you imagine what you would do?

Mrs. Sarah L. Winchester’s response to the deaths of her child and husband left a bizarre and impressive architectural reflection of her psyche. The fascinating story of the Winchester Mystery House™ has its roots in the personal tragedies suffered by Mrs. Winchester and in the legacy of the Winchester rifle, “The Gun That Won The West.”

Early Life

Born around 1840, Sarah Lockwood Pardee was the daughter of Leonard Pardee and Sarah Burns, a carriage manufacturer in New Haven, Connecticut. Known as the “Belle of New Haven,” Sarah enjoyed all the advantages of a cultured upbringing, including an education at the best private schools. She spoke four languages and played piano beautifully.

In 1862, Sarah married William Wirt Winchester, son of Oliver Fisher Winchester, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and manufacturer of the famous Winchester repeating rifle. The couple’s life together was happy, and they moved in the best New England society. However, in 1866, disaster struck when their infant daughter, Annie, died of then mysterious childhood disease marasmus. Mrs. Winchester fell into a deep depression from which she never fully recovered. Fifteen years later, in March 1881, her husband’s premature death from tuberculosis added to Mrs. Winchester’s distress. It is said, she ultimately sought help from a spiritualist.

Is it Mystery or Misery?

The Boston Medium

According to some sources, the Boston Medium consulted by Mrs. Winchester explained that her family and her fortune were being haunted by spirits – in fact, by the spirits of American Indians, Civil War soldiers, and others killed by Winchester rifles. Supposedly the untimely deaths of her daughter and husband were caused by these spirits, and it was implied that Mrs. Winchester might be the next victim.

However, the medium also claimed that there was an alternative, Mrs. Winchester was instructed to move west and appease the spirits by building a great house for them. As long as construction of the house never ceased, Mrs. Winchester could rest assured that her life was not in danger. Building such a house was even supposed to bring her eternal life.

more at link

[KUAN]

What a mess - she should've been shot

[Joe Hillshoist]

I saw that house once on a tv show called "That's Incredible!" It was when i was a little kid in primary school so the first or maybe second season.

For some reason it made an impression on me. i don't remember the details just that the owner felt compelled to keep building the place to keep the ghosts of the dead quiet. There were doors in front of walls and staircases that went nowhere. It seemed like a massive haunted maze.

Looks like a great place to go tripping.

[semper occultus]

Bubba The Love Sponge (the DJ who shot the Hulk Hogan sex tape) has allegedly also got a sex tape of... General David Petraeus.

[KUAN]

Japanese long time friend of Kim Jong-Nam says his tummy tattoo is missing - can't be him



http://www.chinapress.com.my/20170224/% ... %EF%BC%9F/

[KUAN]

We've probably all been told by a doctor to use an ice pack, I was just a few months ago and ignored the advice (because I'm lazy)

Ice baths no good for muscle recovery

13 February 2017
New evidence suggests ice baths do nothing to help muscle recovery after exercise.

Ice baths have long been used by elite athletes and sports people after competition and training. The assumption was that soaking in cold water promotes muscle recovery by reducing temperature, blood flow and inflammation in tissues of the muscles.

But a new study by an international team that includes Liggins Institute scientists shows that immersion in cold water does not reduce inflammation.

“Ice baths have become almost standard practice for a lot of athletes, yet until now there have been no studies on humans to test their effectiveness,” says Professor David Cameron-Smith from the Liggins Institute at the University of Auckland.

“Our study found ice baths are no more beneficial than a simple low intensity warm-down at reducing inflammation and muscle damage after intense exercise.”

Not only do ice baths not combat inflammation, an earlier study by the same international research team showed they actually reduce the benefits of training hard, with smaller gains in muscle mass and strength following weight training.

In the latest study, published in the Journal of Physiology, researchers got nine physically active men to do leg resistance training exercises for 45 minutes on two separate days at least one week apart.

On one of the days, the men cycled at a low intensity (active recovery, or a warm-down) for 10 minutes after exercising, and on the other, they immersed their lower body in 10C water for 10 minutes post-workout.

Muscle biopsies were collected from the exercised leg before training and then at two, 24 and 48-hour intervals afterwards.

Analysis showed the same pattern of inflammatory responses in muscles following ice baths and active recovery.

Professor Cameron-Smith says there is some evidence that ice baths may be helpful in endurance training, and may be beneficial for tendon and ligament injuries.

“If you have a quick turnaround between games or events, ice baths may be useful to help you relax and provide short-term relief to muscle pain, but they’re not going to reduce inflammation and will be detrimental to building muscle in the long run,” he says.

“Apart from times when you need a quick wind-down, our advice would be drop them.”

https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/new ... overy.html


audio: http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player?a ... =201835699

[cptmarginal]

Not sure where else to post this.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/art ... ended.html

Prince Harry's visit to Guyana children's home founded by Moonies sect defended

By Press Association

Published: 15:36 EDT, 4 December 2016 | Updated: 15:36 EDT, 4 December 2016

Prince Harry's visit to a Caribbean children's home founded by the religious sect known as the Moonies has been defended by Britain's High Commissioner to Guyana - who described the work of its manager as "amazing".

Harry spent an hour touring Joshua House Children Centre in the capital Georgetown, an institution run by Gladys Accra, who is a member of the Unification Church - known as the Moonies after its founder Sun Myung Moon.

Her work caring for abused, neglected or poverty-stricken youngsters was praised by Greg Quinn, Britain's High Commissioner to Guyana.

Mr Quinn, who was present during the visit, said: "What is she doing? She's helping 50 kids who would otherwise not have a great standard of life - what she and her husband and her family have done is amazing.

"I find it hard to question what she's doing in any way because she's doing very good work."

He stressed that a number of organisations and bodies both local and international have supported the children's home and that even the crew from the Royal Navy patrol vessel HMS Mersey did renovation work at the centre earlier this year.

Harry's visit to the centre came at the end of his 15-day tour of the Caribbean, which has seen him take an HIV test with superstar Rihanna in Barbados to promote World Aids Day, release baby turtles into the sea in St Kitts and Nevis, and visit Guyana's stunning Kaieteur Falls.

The children's home is next door to the Unification Church of Guyana, and when the Prince arrived he walked past a quotation from the Reverend Moon painted on an adjoining wall.

Part of it read: "We are not living for our personal ideal but for the ideal of God."

The visit saw Harry interacting with some of the 50 children, aged seven to 17, who are referred to the centre by a child protection programme if they are at risk from issues including abuse, neglect or poverty.

He held a question and answer session with some of the teenagers, and when asked what it is like to be a prince, he replied: "Good and bad, there's lots of privileges of course you get from when you're born, but with privilege comes responsibility."

Asked what his middle names are, he said: "I was christened Henry but everyone calls me Harry and I have, let's see where it starts, Charles, Albert and David - I have three middle names."

After hearing the long names of some of the children, he joked: "Mine are really boring."

But the light-hearted nature of the visit is likely to be overshadowed by the origins of the children's centre, which was founded in 1977 by the sect famous for its mass wedding ceremonies.

Mrs Accra, 63, began running the home on a voluntary basis in 1994 with her husband Clifford, who died last year.

They were married with 6,000 other couples in South Korea, where they were blessed by the Reverend Moon.

She said: "The church established the home, the community now funds the home. Every day people make donations to help with things like the breakfasts and the groceries, and bringing items and clothes, not the church, the support is from the community.''

Speaking about her faith, she added: "The Reverend Moon was a great man who only worked for great peace - from 16 years old he got a calling from God to work."

Known as Auntie Gladys by the children, she went on to say: "He never talked about religion, he talked about being a good human being."

She stressed all religions and churches are welcome at the centre, and some outside churches provide support as well as the Guyanese government.

Her son Godis said some Unification Church members volunteer and the church provides "moral support" at the centre.

Kensington Palace declined to comment.

Later, Harry heard the harrowing stories of girls, some as young as nine, rescued from lives as sex slaves when he joined First Lady Sandra Granger at State House, the official residence of her husband, President David Granger.

Many were snatched from captivity by the Guyana Women Miners Organisation, a group set up to represent thousands of women working in the country's interior extracting gold, bauxite, titanium and other precious metals and minerals.

In remote mining areas women are often mistreated, some held as forced domestic servants but many, particularly indigenous people, trafficked as sex slaves.

The women's organisation has set up a safe house, with the Sisters of Mercy nuns, which is home to 29 young women and girls. Its trafficking unit often sends in snatch squads to rescue the victims.

Marina Charles, head of the unit, said: "If we tell the police and authorities about it in advance, they tip the men off and the women have gone by the time we get there. It is often dangerous work."

Harry met one nine-year-old girl who was raped repeatedly for two years from the age of seven by a man now aged 38.

The girl, who like all the victims cannot be identified, was rescued by her brother, who killed her paedophile abuser, strangling him during a struggle to free her. He has now been jailed for 15 years.

Harry, 32, also met a 12-year-old girl who has a six-month-old daughter fathered by her abuser.

"This is very sad. They are so young and little," Harry said. "She shouldn't be a mother yet. She's so young."

The group, whose cause has been championed by the First Lady, said the girl was by no means the only one so young to have a child as a result of abuse.

From there, Harry and his entourage headed to the airport, taking a charter plane to Barbados after a ceremonial farewell with a guard of honour.

The Prince and his entourage were due to pick up a scheduled service to London later.

http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unifica ... 850400.htm

When a neighbor told Mrs. Barbara van Praag, our missionary to Guyana, about a piece of property for sale in the capital city of Georgetown, she knew it had to be a very special place indeed. The building was a large yard space with the word "God" designed into the floral arrangement.

The house and property was at first used as a Unification Church center, but it was located too near the general hospital to allow for expressive singing during Sunday service.

On Christmas day, 1974, a local one-year-old baby was thrown out of a window by his stepfather. The church center took the child in, and it has been used as an orphanage ever since. Named the Joshua House, the orphanage has sheltered over 700 children from age one to 16, and has accommodated as many as 60 children at one time.

"The children discover a new family here," said Mrs. van Praag. "The children call the people who take care of them 'aunt' and `uncle'."

She said that many of the children come from the northern part of the country -- the area of Jamestown -- and feels that some may have been saved from the 1978 massacre in that city. The orphanage was run for eight years solely by the Guyana family. In 1982 the orphanage began to receive help from the International Relief Friendship Foundation (IRFF). They sent a crew and donated $10,000 to restore the building. In late 1984 the building began to lean to one side and the entire three stories had to be almost completely taken apart and restored. The work is now almost done.

WTF

[cptmarginal]

Philip Willan, The Last Supper:

Calvi himself had a penchant for cloak and dagger activities, as well as an abiding fascination with secret power. Among the scraps of paper found on his body was a narrow strip about three inches long containing a simple alphanumerical code: ten one-digit numbers and their corresponding letters of the alphabet.

[KUAN]

Remote View Lasagna Recipe

Ingredients: remote view

Method: remote view

[tapitsbo]

Chabad is one year older than the USA

[KUAN]

Pope Francis creates fourth pathway to becoming a saint

Not forgetting path one, wink wink..

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... ng-a-saint

[norton ash]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/wo ... f7e9da0a12

Teenagers record drowning man and laugh as he dies
NIRAJ CHOKSHI
The New York Times News Service
Published Saturday, Jul. 22, 2017 1:03PM EDT
Last updated Saturday, Jul. 22, 2017 1:07PM EDT

The video was shocking in Florida, where shocking videos seem like a genre. A group of teenagers laughed and watched as a man struggled in the water of a pond. The man drowned, and his body was not found for days.

The five teenagers did nothing to help him, not even call 911, but after examining the video the authorities said this week that they did not break the law.

“In the state of Florida, there is no law in place that requires a person to render aid or call to render aid to a victim in distress,” Yvonne Martinez, a spokeswoman for the Cocoa Police Department, said on Friday.