Sunday, July 8, 2018
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Baked Some Elven Lembas Bread This Eve
Elven Lembas Bread
2 ½ cups of flour (I used bread flour but you can use all purpose flour too)
1 tablespoon of baking powder
¼ teaspoon of salt
½ cup of butter
1/3 cup of brown sugar
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
½ teaspoon honey
2/3 cup of heavy whipping cream
½ teaspoon of vanilla
Preheat oven to 425°F. Mix the flour, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Add the butter and mix well till fine granules (easiest way is with an electric mixer). Then add the sugar and cinnamon, and mix them thoroughly. Finally add the cream, honey, and vanilla and stir until a nice, thick dough forms.
Roll the dough out about 1/2 in thickness. Cut out 3-inch squares and transfer the dough to a cookie sheet.Criss-cross each square from corner-to-corner with a knife, lightly (not cutting through the dough). Bake for about 12 minutes or more (depending on the thickness of the bread) until it is set and lightly golden.
Let cool completely before eating, this bread tastes better room temperature and dry. Also for more flavor you can add more cinnamon or other spices.
Friday, July 6, 2018
Mr Bigglesworth and the Human to Rabbit Ratio
This evening my wife Saun and I went to clean out our Mr. Bigglesworth the rabbit's cage and give him a nice bath. After cleaning out his cage, getting him nice and clean and dry, and back in his cage with some nice rabbit food, veggies, and fruit we took a moment to think about his age. We rescued Mr. Bigs July 22nd 2011 and when we rescued him he was already about 3 years old. That being said he would now be 10 years old. So Saun wondered what rabbit years to human years were. I mean they save the average dog to human years is 7, but what about our long eared friend here. So I went to searching. After comparing several pet sites and some veterinarian sites I have come to the decision on what a 10 year old rabbit would be in human years. Referring to the age ratios noted below our Mr. Bigs is around 75 years old in rabbit years. The overall consensus we have also found is that the average overall lifespan of a domestic rabbit is around 10 years. So for our Mr. Bigs even with his hair changing color some and losing a little weight in his old age he is looking pretty good for a Senior Citizen Rabbit.
| Rabbit Age | People Age | |
| 1 week | 1 year | |
| 2 weeks | 2 years | |
| 3 weeks | 4 years | |
| 4 weeks | 6 years | |
| 2 months | 8 years | |
| 3 months | 10 years | |
| 4 months | 12 years | |
| 5 months | 14 years | |
| 6 months | 16 years | |
| 1 year | 21 years | |
| 2 years | 27 years | |
| 3 years | 33 years | |
| 4 years | 39 years | |
| 5 years | 45 years | |
| 6 years | 51 years | |
| 7 years | 57 years | |
| 8 years | 63 years | |
| 9 years | 69 years | |
| 10 years | 75 years |
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Thursday, July 5, 2018
Before I Slumber
Day by day, step by step, let things flow as they may. Don't let things get you too up tight or upset. Never close out the day upset only to start the next the same.
Eternal Return
Eternal Return, also known as Eternal Recurrence is a concept that the Universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an Infinite number of times across Infinite time or space. The concept is found in Indian Philosophy and in Ancient Egypt and was subsequently taken up by the Pythagoreans and Stoics. In addition, the philosophical concept of Eternal Recurrence was addressed by Arthur Schopenhauer. It is a purely physical concept, involving no supernatural Reincarnation, but the return of beings in the same bodies. Time is viewed as being not linear but cyclical.
The basic premise proceeds from the assumption that the probability of a world coming into existence exactly like our own is greater than zero (we know this because our world exists). If Space is Infinite, then Cosmology tells us that our existence will recur an infinite number of times. In 1871, Louis Auguste Blanqui, assuming a Newtonian Cosmology, where time and space are Infinite, claimed to have shown that the Eternal Recurrence was a Mathematical certainty. In the post-Einstein period, there were doubts that time or space was in fact Infinite, but many models existed which provided the notion of spatial or temporal Infinity required by the Eternal Return hypothesis.
“Time is Infinite, but the things in time, the concrete bodies, are Finite. They may indeed disperse into the smallest particles; but these particles, the atoms, have their determinate numbers, and the numbers of the configurations which, all of themselves, are formed out of them is also determinate. Now, however long a time may pass, according to the Eternal Laws governing the combinations of this Eternal play of repetition, all configurations which have previously existed on this Earth must yet meet, attract, repulse, kiss, and corrupt each other again…”
...the most haunted house in England
*Pulled from other sources
Borley Rectory was a Victorian house that gained fame as "the most haunted house in England" after being described as such by psychic researcher Harry Price. Built in 1862 to house the rector of the parish of Borley and his family, it was badly damaged by fire in 1939 and demolished in 1944. The large Gothic-style rectory in the village of Borley had been alleged to be haunted ever since it was built. These reports multiplied suddenly in 1929, after the Daily Mirror published an account of a visit by paranormal researcher Harry Price, who wrote two books supporting claims of paranormal activity.
The uncritical acceptance of Price's reports prompted a formal study by the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), which rejected most of the sightings as either imagined or fabricated and cast doubt on Price's credibility. His claims are now generally discredited by ghost historians. Neither the SPR's report nor the more recent biography of Price has quelled public interest in these stories, and new books and television documentaries continue to satisfy public fascination with the rectory. A short programme commissioned by the BBC about the alleged manifestations, scheduled to be broadcast in September 1956, was cancelled owing to concerns about a possible legal action by Marianne Foyster, widow of the last rector to live in the house.
The first paranormal events reportedly occurred in about 1863, since a few locals later remembered having heard unexplained footsteps within the house at about that time. On 28 July 1900, four daughters of the rector, Henry Dawson Ellis Bull, saw what they thought was the ghost of a nun at twilight, about 40 yards (37 m) from the house; they tried to talk to it, but it disappeared as they got closer. The local organist, Ernest Ambrose later said that the family at the rectory were "very convinced that they had seen an apparition on several occasions". Various people claimed to have witnessed a variety of puzzling incidents, such as a phantom coach driven by two headless horsemen, during the next four decades. Bull died in 1892 and his son, the Reverend Henry ("Harry") Foyster Bull, took over the living.
On 9 June 1928, Harry Bull died and the rectory again became vacant. In the following year, on 2 October, the Reverend Guy Eric Smith and his wife moved into the house. Soon after moving in, Smith's wife, while cleaning out a cupboard, came across a brown paper package containing the skull of a young woman. Shortly after, the family reported a variety of incidents including the sounds of servant bells ringing despite their being disconnected, lights appearing in windows and unexplained footsteps. In addition, Smith's wife believed she saw a horse-drawn carriage at night. The Smiths contacted the Daily Mirror asking to be put in touch with the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). On 10 June 1929 the newspaper sent a reporter, who promptly wrote the first in a series of articles detailing the mysteries of Borley. The paper also arranged for Harry Price, a paranormal researcher, to make his first visit to the house. He arrived on 12 June and immediately phenomena of a new kind appeared, such as the throwing of stones, a vase and other objects. "Spirit messages" were tapped out from the frame of a mirror. As soon as Price left, these ceased. Smith's wife later maintained that she already suspected Price, an expert conjurer, of falsifying the phenomena. The Smiths left Borley on 14 July 1929 and the parish had some difficulty in finding a replacement. The following year the Reverend Lionel Algernon Foyster (1878–1945), a first cousin of the Bulls, and his wife Marianne (née Marianne Emily Rebecca Shaw) (1899–1992) moved into the rectory with their adopted daughter Adelaide, on 16 October 1930. Lionel Foyster wrote an account of various strange incidents that occurred between the time the Foysters moved in and October 1935, which was sent to Harry Price. These included bell-ringing, windows shattering, throwing of stones and bottles, wall-writing and the locking of their daughter in a room with no key. Marianne Foyster reported to her husband a whole range of poltergeist phenomena that included her being thrown from her bed. On one occasion, Adelaide was attacked by "something horrible". Foyster tried twice to conduct an exorcism, but his efforts were fruitless; in the middle of the first exorcism, he was struck in the shoulder by a fist-size stone. Because of the publicity in the Daily Mirror, these incidents attracted the attention of several psychic researchers, who after investigation were unanimous in suspecting that they were caused, consciously or unconsciously, by Marianne Foyster. She later said that she felt that some of the incidents were caused by her husband in concert with one of the psychic researchers, but other events appeared to her to be genuine paranormal phenomena. She later admitted that she was having a sexual relationship with the lodger, Frank Pearless, and that she used paranormal explanations to cover up her liaisons. The Foysters left Borley in October 1935 as a result of Lionel Foyster's ill health.
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Before I Slumber
Practice exhaling the negativity that is within you. Do not let it consume you to the point of pitch.
No Matter How You Celebrate...
No matter how you celebrate remember 22 years ago.
This man sacrificed his life to save the world. Have a safe and happy Independence Day.
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