Archaeologists cover up Afghan heritage

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By Joris Fioriti (AFP)

August 12, 2012


*More than 10 years on Western experts say Afghanistan's ancient Buddhist and early Islamic heritage is little safer (AFP/File, Massoud Hossaini)*

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — "It's there," says an archaeologist pointing to the ground, where fragments of a Buddha statue from the ancient Gandhara civilisation have been covered up to stop them being stolen or vandalised.

Just months before the US-led invasion in 2001, the Taliban regime shocked the world by destroying two giant, 1,500-year-old Buddhas in the rocky Bamiyan valley, branding them un-Islamic.

Freedom Project

Joy is Your Teacher: Pain is Your Compass

2012 AUGUST 15

Posted by Vina

Joy is Your Teacher: Pain is Your Compass

through Brenda Hoffman - August 15, 2012

www.LifeTapestryCreations.com

These next few days may test your patience.

Not because you will necessarily feel uncomfortable, but that others will slowly grasp concepts you understand so quickly.

Those of you reading these materials have decided to test your new software.

We cannot delineate what the results of your testing will be or has been – for your software is designed for you and your role. General New Age software was downloaded to all earth inhabitants months ago. Within the past few weeks, many of you added to that general software to better perform your unique role.

Which is little different from purchasing an automobile with a back-up camera that others find an unnecessary feature. Both automobiles will drive from one place to the other – just with different features. So it is with you.

Ground Crew Updates

Record Warm Water in Long Island Sound Shuts Down Connecticut Nuclear Power Plant

National Geographic
Posted by Joseph Eaton on August 13, 2012

Millstone Nuclear Power Plant (Photograph via NRC)

In a sign of the severity of this summer’s record heat, one of the two reactors at Connecticut’s only nuclear power plant has been shut down due to historically high water temperatures in Long Island Sound, source of the facility’s cooling water.

Unit 2 of Millstone Power Plant near New London was shut down Sunday afternoon after temperatures in the sound exceeded 75 degrees for 24 hours, the maximum temperature at which the nuclear power plant has permits to extract cooling water for the unit, said Ken Holt, spokesman for plant operator Dominion.

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Oracle Report - Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Balsamic Moon Phase - Moon in Cancer/Leo

Today's energy shows us an imbalance - a place where we may have put something on hold in favor of something else. In addition, the astrological aspects that marked yesterday's energy (Venus opposing Pluto and Mars conjunct Saturn) are still in effect, with control dynamics and obsessivesness in the mix. Although the Sun is relatively quiet, today's energy works heavily on the physical body, so you may be aware of some aches or pains. It is important to take care of your body today; stretch and take a walk if possible. This energy seeks to balance the burden this past month took on our emotional bodies. As everything changes form around us (the lingering effect of the past month of intense cardinal energy), we need to work on our own forms. Our own structure need strengthening. Don't make the mistake of thinking the physical body is inferior to the mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies. We are grounded to the planet through our physical bodies. The "upgrade" of the last month affected us on all levels. Today, as we continue through the quiet, dreamy, mystical Balsamic phase, we are focused on shifting forms.

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Visionkeeper – Seasons changing

Seasons changing

Posted on August 15, 2012

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As we try to grab onto the last few weeks of summer by placing the remnants of bright colored flowers into vases and placing them about our homes, one cannot help but smell the scent of autumn wafting in upon the air. It is closing in quickly and it stirs many in their hearts. I get a pang of sadness thinking about the warmth of summer days slipping away and the chill of Autumn filling the air instead. I love Autumn, it is perhaps my favorite season, yet I feel sadness at summers departure. It got me wondering about why it is we feel these emotions as the seasons change. Why do we have a need to hold onto things? We know, much like the sun that always shines down upon us, that as summer wanes away it will return one day soon for us to enjoy again. It is not lost forever, yet we feel the heaviness within and grieve in our own small ways.