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Homeless in Brooklyn
Changing little by little is not enough.
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New York City really is the sancurary city.
Ignorance of people is everywhere. When its directed at yours truly it can be unraveling.
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First Time at Disney World
Just a little advice on flying or driving to Disney. Do your research
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Did We As People Forget To Be Ourselves First?
"I want to be like you" She told me... It got me thinking.... which led to what I want to talk about.
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I Think I Saw Him, He's in My Dreams Too?
This was too indescribable and awesome to ignore
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I Can't Believe My Eyes
He was walking past the sliding glass doors. Nobody is supposed to be on this property. Its 33 acres and its dead winter. Snow is coming down and I'm all alone, six months pregnant and scared.
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Accountablility For The Gym
The more I think about it, the longer it becomes.. (laughing out loud) Because I'm sure I'm not the only one..
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Moroccan Kufta with Eggs and Tomato Sauce
Want to make something quick and easy and yummy? You can spend very little time cooking and prepping this dish and everyone will think you spent forever doing It!!! Just ask anyone who ate it.
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Work and Work, Trying To Get Fit Doesn't End
Going to the gym always feels like, when I'm walking there I am ready to get started.. I get there, I walk in the door, I scan my card and think what next? It's always a constant battle.
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Moroccan Style Beef Stew
This dish is so easy and one of the first recipes I learned for Morrocan
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Some Pigeons in Brooklyn
In essence, I really miss having pets, so I created something that I could feel like I was contributing and enjoying watching and it's a way to relax for five minutes and feel l did something good
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Daily Try for Fitness
Being on a daily fitness regimin is not as easy as I thought it was going to be. The work is very hard, I'm pretty sore and I'm fifty years old wondering is this all worth it?
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It's a Vendor's Life
It starts early in the morning. Sleepy eyed people show up and say their good mornings. They all have so much work to do. One lady has brand new lovely dresses and blouses, she has slacks. As she carefully sets up the tarp for over head so the...
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Thinking of the Homeless
Where do they go? Why are they homeless in the first place? Where is their family? What can I do?
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Laundry? or Money?
Just noticing people on an ordinary day
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Sweet Revenge
"Sweet Revenge" that is the name of the place. It's a little place that a person probably wouldn't think twice about when passing it on the street. It has all the quaint little decorations that a little place like this has. I would think that...
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The Age of The Renaissance
I was just driving back from the hospital. My father has been there for five weeks now, it's a touch and go situation. I am very upset driving back for they just incubated him to try to breath for him. I was told yesterday that there was this...
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Passover Diner 2012
This is a time of year that I look forward to every year now. My mother in law can cook up a storm for two straight days and still finds the strength to serve it on special dishware and the works. I mean she really goes all out and makes...
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1st Day P90X
Hi folks, I have told you that I have lost 195 pounds in a period of two and 1/2 years. I have joined a gym and I could feel some difference in my pants and shirts and even my boobs are placed differently!!! Here is the deal though. I've been...
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Dharma The Old and The New
DHARMA, THEN AND NOW To truly understand what the meaning and purpose of dharma is we must define it first. As I looked into this very abstract meaning of this, the meanings became even deeper and more complex. “The belief of...
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My Views on The Epic of Gilgamesh
I just read for the very first time a piece of literature, besides the bible. The story was the Epic of Gilgamesh. I never realized or wanted to know how interesting literature could be until I read this. Gilgamesh was apparently a man who was 3/4's...
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13 Years And Going
Something may have went wrong along the way, maybe I rushed to conclusions Maybe I seen something in you that was pause for my confusions Everyday I looked close for some sign of change, for some resolution I wanted answers but nothing would...
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Orignial Head of Klu Klux Klan Wasn't Predjudice
Hiram W. Evans unflinchingly wrote about his ideals on what American are. He thought of Americans being from the “Old Pioneer Stock”. He truly believed within the debts of his soul that the people that were truly Americans are the people who...
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Operant and Adverse Conditioning To Stop Smoking
I finished this paper today for psychology and thought I would publish my findings.. tell me what you think.. Describe how a therapist might use both aversive conditioning and operant conditioning techniques to help a client overcome a...
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Let Me Sleep A Little Longer
Let Me Stay Asleep If this is a dream state I’m in let me sleep I don’t want to wake to reality What you say are words, even though just that, they have meaning that I havent’ heard Encouraging, engaging, and finalization in what they...
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First Five Techniques
Principles of Ninjutsu - Philosophy Basic philosophy The Five Manifestations http://www.ninjutsu.co.uk/principles/philosophy.html Chi Earth - a solid state, a natural posture. Sui Water - a liquid state, a defensive posture. Ka...
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Domestic Violence Hard To Leave
It is something that is all too common with women, with children, with elderly people. They are either afraid to say something out of retaliation from their abuser or they love their abuser too much.
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Using Sensory Adaptation in Martial Arts
Sensory Adaptation and Pain Reception Is sensory adaptation a form of pain control that is maintained or influenced by our motives, expectations and psychological state of mind? Since sensory adaptation is diminished sensitivity as a result of...
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How Did Ellis Island Become The Gateway to America?
The American Promise (A Compact History) http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/ellis_island_history.asp http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/italian4.html# ...
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National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Breast Cancer Breast cancer is a word that most women don’t really think about unless they are diagnosed with it. It is something that men and women could get. I’m sure men never think about it. They have mammalary glands...
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Fidoshin Part 2
one night of many in class Sensei and Phil Immovable Heart You better know the answer to this question because in a real situation that you are required to do this you better stand there and have courage in your heart and most of all learn how to...
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Fudoshin
Fudoshin is the Japanese word that means immovable heart, it also has an underlying meaning of imperturbability, having a calm that can't be broken by circumstances. Having courage without recklessness. I took the meaning from a website I found...
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The Power of A Japanese Weapon Called the Bo
Well our weapons section of class last night was the very first time I ever picked up a Bo staff. I used to swing a Jo which is much shorter and the one I have is a little heavier so I had no idea what to expect. Sensei had one person with the bo...
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Six Months Strong and Still Holding
I made a promise to myself in janurary. I ddin't want it to be one of those cleiche promises for New years. My New years resolution I decided had to be for myself and no one else. I am glad to say six months later I'm still holding true to it. I...
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How To Live When Power Is Out
At first all that sets in is panic... but don't let it get ahold of you. You have to relax yourself so you can think. There are several things you need to do at this point. You need to sit down and and write a list of what you have and what you...
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Comparing Harry Potter to The Debt Ceiling
I was watching the news this morning half enjoying what I saw and half in horror. How does our government compare to the #1 Box office hit of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? I wasn't too sure but I could swear they were comparing our...
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Energy, Intent, Blocking Out
I've been training for four months straight now. I never let myself make an exuse that I don't feel well, or I'm too tired. I just go. it has gotten to the point where Sensei takes turns with us now to be "Uke". I like when I have to be that because...
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Scary Training Night
You know everytime I go to class I know I could expect pain and soreness. That is ok, its too be expected. I am training and if you don't feel these things you are training for sport not for real. I should not of been surprised about what...
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Watch, Listen and Learn
Grab lapel, punch to the face. Being Uke is alot more than it sounds. You must have your stance low enough. Loosen up, get ready to take a fall, because you will!!! Doing the technique. You cover, step back in kamae and shift your body so you...
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First Time "Uke"
I have never had the honor of being an "Uke" like I did last night. In classes before I was called up once in a while to show a differential to a technique because I am pretty flexable and it's a little more difficult to apply technique on my...
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My Semi Private Muteki Class
I had the opportunity to train in a class that had one other pupil in it last week. It turned out to be a very intense training indeed. We were doing things I never thought I would be doing and I find I want to do them again. It was very...
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Italian Sauce Made My Way
Virgin Olive Oil Ground Beef or Pork Bones 4 cans of 12 oz. crushed tomatoes 2 cans of small tomatoe paste 1 onion 1 green pepper 1 red pepper 3 cloves of fresh garlic a sprig of fresh parsely oregano basil Have to start by...
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Muteki/Bujikan Training
In Muteki the training varies day to day. It is a constant moving art. We who train in the Ninja or Bujikan must be able to adapt to our surrounding, whether it is pitch black or raining or whatever the case may be. Center ourselves and feel around...
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Training Outside
This is Sensei's favorite way to train. Like the Ninja long ago he uses every aspect of nature to teach his students to be quiet and look and listen. We can be like the wind, constantly moving, silent and feeling, or we can be as sturdy as a...
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Muteki-Ryu
Basics...very important in anything you are attempting to do. Whether it is building a house or learning to walk. If you don't plant your feet correctly, you are not going to take a step, you will fall. With that in mind, it is also...
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Third Week In Martial Arts
I have to say that at first this place sounded like a joke to me. I wasn't gonna even try it. You seen my post of my first night. I have been there for 3 weeks now. I love it even more now than when I first started. One of the idea's that...
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A Poem To Live By
I wake up in the morning now and thank God for my day. Even though some things are bad or not going to go away. People dying, natural disasters, living in the streets I still have my family and my health and food to eat I may have some...
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The Doctor Said, You are going to have this baby, and frankly, it ain't gonna survive!!!
Danielle One month old Danielle's First Dance My Oldest, my youngest Everything we do our kids see and they learn. They learn how to handle different situations by the way that we handle them. These are my kids. Through the years I have had hard...
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The Old School Verses the New Martial Arts
We all sit in seiza. The Sempi of the group leads us all in rei to the sensei. We bow, and get up and all line up on the mat. We sit and start small wrist exercise or kote subori. When we are finished we move on to break falls. Lets see if I can...
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The Town of Lakehurst NJ
Did you ever want to find a place where you could just relax a bit, be yourself and not have to worry about the outside world? I think I have found such a place. I am willing to bet my life on it. I lived in Keyport NJ for most of my adult...
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Japan: Our Hearts Go Out To You
Japan aftermath Japan - Yahoo News I am no news caster, I am simply a woman who is overwhelmed with what has happened in Japan. My heart and prayers go out to the people there and to the people here in the United States that have family and...
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Positive Thinking In Times of Trouble
That sort of thinking takes a lot of momentum to get started, because let me tell you , it does not come easy at all. Back in my teenage days, I didn't think positive at all, I just went with whatever idea came into my scattered brain at a time....
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Sick People Suck!!!
Lindsey never came home from school that day. When she didn't come home the family went frantic. She was just fifteen years old and she wasn't the type of girl to get in trouble. Mom called the school. She never went that day. They...
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Learning to let go a little at a time.
He's getting older.. conducting himself in a more mature manner even though he still has adolescent tendancies. Of course he does, what am I talking about, he is 12 going on 13 in March. I guess I lean on him alot because he was always the...
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Venicin Cutlets
This is an original recipe from my father Anthony Panzera: He has been a deer hunter most of his life. He is known for his specialty cooking skills. He has a special way of cooking venicin meat. He knows how to hang the deer, skin the...
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Primpo's view Valentine's Day
VALENTINE’S DAY Not everyone has their special someone on valentine’s day. When I go into a restaurant on a normal day, I especially watch the couples at tables. Some of them are engrossed in deep conversation. Some of them are...
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Christmas 2010
I always wanted one, found the perfect deal at a yard sale.. ten bucks!!! awsome, and it turns out we had all the little characters to fit it just right! Our christmas Nativity He is now 15 months Joshua, my grandson She is getting big and it is...
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First starting out to lose weight
I have to admit, getting the inspiration happens differently for each person, I don't know what it takes for some people. I know what wasn't working for me. Seeing beautiful young women on magazines, tv, bulletin boards didnt work for me, I...
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Losing Weight: Is it Possible at this age?
What do you think I weighed in 2005? I had a massive stroke March 18th 2005. I was told that I would never walk or talk again. As a matter of a fact the very first night in the hospital, I'll never forget. I was in the emergency room not...
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Chicken and Pasta With A Twist
Ingredients: Grilled Chicken; over the grill or sauteed up with virgin olive oil, sliced in stripes Red Bell Peppers: slice them in half, take out the seeds and proceed to slice them in julian slices or strips. Fresh Spinach raw.. A small...
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Family and Friends Are Always There.
It has always been a mystery to me growing up that everytime I seen my family or friends , it was around the holidays or funerals.. I never understood that , that is until I reached this age in my life. I moved not too far from my...
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Planting a Seed
Put the seed in the ground, now water it and watch it grow. It seems simple enough... wait, look what is growing. Money. It's a money tree!!! I can't believe my eyes! I keep hearing someone say, "plant a seed and watch your finances grow." ...
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Remember 9/11
by Tinamarie Matsil on Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 3:47am Today is 9/11 . the day that sticks in everyones mind, so i dont have to tell you to remember, what I would like to bring out however, is tha no matter what...
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It Keeps On Coming, and My Faith is Even Stronger
Hurry, got to beat the sun going down,, I would rush home from work. Out side there would be solar lanterns set up. I'd get home before the sun would go down. Inside the ktchen I had swepted the floor and cleaned off the table before I left...
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Memorial Day, I Will Never Forget
This is the memorial that Colleen's husbnd made for her This is for a woman I never even met or knew anything about. I wasn't going to stop. I've gone past the sight over 100 times on my way to and from work. I almost always...
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Military Ghost of Lakehurst
Ok you are not going to believe this, ready? Here it goes. I was walking to my kid’s school today to do conferences, I had some time so as I passed the funeral home, I noticed the door was open. I walked up on a whim and walked...
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Verichip Coming to Reality
Well according to this document we have 36 months until this chip that I am shouting about comes into reality. You can take the information and do what you want with it. I can only say from my heart that things are going to get very...
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FROM THE ASHES RISES THE PHOENIX
FROM THE ASHES, RISES THE PHOENIX He was extremely angry this time, placing his hands around my throat. He...
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Radio Frequency Control Chip Under Your Skin
Globalization: One Small Aspect with Big Consequences If you look on the back of a one dollar bill, you will find a pyramid. It has an eye strategically placed above it. It forms the top of the pyramid. The eye represents that all of us...
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To Honor Skrat the Cat
I didnt realize what a blessing this cat was until I observed her one morning in my yard with my son. She was sitting on his shoulder waiting with him for the school bus to come. She was hanging out with him everymorning on his shoulder until...
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Stevens Ghost
"Tinamarie, get off the phone". She said even stronger this time, "Tinamarie get off the phone, someone wants to talk to you." I was thinking to myself. my dead grandmother or some other person "Who is it?" My sister says...
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A Ghost I'll Always Remember
I did move out of my father's eventually and I am writing these stories as I remember them. I moved to a little town in New Jersey called Keyport. I found us a great deal on this house. It was an old victorian style house with 3 bedrooms,...
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Starting To Have Acceptance
Joshua Rose Christopher Brandi Look at him. He is perfect. The eyes, the face.. he is just a little bundle of "I want to squish him" He is seven months old now, and I am a grandma. I didnt think it would happen this soon but it has and I'm...
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Hard To Believe
I didn't know it happened, I was taken by surprise. I was in my room getting some clothes together. This is on a second story of a house that has been in the same place for 180 years. She was born October 30th. She was married to my...
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The starting of seeing paranormal.
I SAW HIM ONLY ONCE It was the end of what seemed like an unthinkable decision. I was pregnant. I didnt pray before I made this decision, I made it in haste against every belief I had in me. If I didnt, He would hate me and not be able to...
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embracelife
Here I am, now what? THIS WAS A BIG DECISION: Introcing Buddy, this puppy is the beginning of a long healing process.. I had a beautiful german shepard who I had for 15 years. He died a couple of months ago back in June, I was hurting so...