PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Soldiers from the 229th Military Intelligence Battalion, Presidio of Monterey, join with the Military Order of the Purple Heart, Chapter 549, Monterey Bay, to spread some holiday spirit. On Dec. 21, the group of volunteers assembled 80 gift packages full of non-perishable foods that were distributed among local military families, veterans, and community members.

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PHOTO by Steven Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Corporation employees provided some much needed holiday cheer for military families in need by donating 156 family meals at their corporate offices here today. The company, NCNG and Army Reserve volunteers braved a chilly morning to load many of the boxes full non-perishable food for a Thanksgiving feast onto North Carolina National Guard Light Medium Tactical Vehicle for distribution. “It is a great opportunity for the team,” said Vince Toscano, a Wells Fargo consumer loan underwriter. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs)

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Corporation employees provided some much needed holiday cheer for military families in need by donating 156 family meals at their corporate offices here today. The company, NCNG and Army Reserve volunteers braved a chilly morning to load many of the boxes full non-perishable food for a Thanksgiving feast onto North Carolina National Guard Light Medium Tactical Vehicle for distribution. “It is a great opportunity for the team,” said Vince Toscano, a Wells Fargo consumer loan underwriter. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs)

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Corporation employees provided some much needed holiday cheer for military families in need by donating 156 family meals at their corporate offices here today. The company, NCNG and Army Reserve volunteers braved a chilly morning to load many of the boxes full non-perishable food for a Thanksgiving feast onto North Carolina National Guard Light Medium Tactical Vehicle for distribution. “It is a great opportunity for the team,” said Vince Toscano, a Wells Fargo consumer loan underwriter. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs)

My organic food delivery sometimes uses dry i

My organic food delivery sometimes used dry ice to cool perishables. So I found myself with a little bag of dry ice on Thursday. What do do with it? Boil it of course!

My organic food delivery sometimes uses dry i

My organic food delivery sometimes used dry ice to cool perishables. So I found myself with a little bag of dry ice on Thursday. What do do with it? Boil it of course!

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Corporation employees provided some much needed holiday cheer for military families in need by donating 156 family meals at their corporate offices here today. The company, NCNG and Army Reserve volunteers braved a chilly morning to load many of the boxes full non-perishable food for a Thanksgiving feast onto North Carolina National Guard Light Medium Tactical Vehicle for distribution. “It is a great opportunity for the team,” said Vince Toscano, a Wells Fargo consumer loan underwriter. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs)

The 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division’s Brigade Support Medical Company conducted a Mass Casualty training exercise on Fort Wainwright, Alaska Oct. 16. Nine simulated casualties were picked up at the Vehicle Maintenance Facility by Field Litter Ambulances and moved to the field aid station that had been set up in the Brigade Support Battalion’s headquarters area. There they were assessed and treated for simulated wounds and either placed in a recovery area or prepped for evacuation to a higher level of care.

“This is one of our basic tasks,” said Maj. Kelly Seiber, commander of the BSMC, “to EVAC from the point of injury to our facility, treat the casualties, then move them to a higher level of care if needed.”

The entire BSMC participated in the training, not just the companies combat medics, so every member of the company was able to practice their part in the operation.

“We have several new Soldiers as well as new platoon leaders in the company, so we wanted to get them all up to speed,” said Seiber. “We’re good at this, but it’s a perishable skill, so we need to go over and over it again to maintain our level of proficiency.”

(U.S. Army photos by Sgt. Michael Blalack, 1/25 SBCT Public Affairs)

My organic food delivery sometimes uses dry i

My organic food delivery sometimes used dry ice to cool perishables. So I found myself with a little bag of dry ice on Thursday. What do do with it? Boil it of course!

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Nov. 15, 2019) Midshipmen, faculty, and staff collect non-perishable food for the U.S. Naval Academy's 11th Harvest for the Hungry campaign. The Midshipman Action Group organized the Brigade awareness campaign and in-kind food donation drive for those in need of food assistance throughout Anne Arundel County. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the US. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by MC3 Josiah D. Pearce/Released)

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Corporation employees provided some much needed holiday cheer for military families in need by donating 156 family meals at their corporate offices here today. The company, NCNG and Army Reserve volunteers braved a chilly morning to load many of the boxes full non-perishable food for a Thanksgiving feast onto North Carolina National Guard Light Medium Tactical Vehicle for distribution. “It is a great opportunity for the team,” said Vince Toscano, a Wells Fargo consumer loan underwriter. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs)

The first casualty when war comes is truth

As things play out, the second appears to be the retail supply of toilet paper!

In the complete and utter absence of even a whiff of leadership in preparing for the inevitable spread of the novel coronavirus, now tagged COVID-19 as not to distress its oriental progenitors cf. the Spanish flu, Hong Kong flu, Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome and so on that preceded it, the populace was left to formulate its own response.

China provided the clues with the shutdown of Wuhan. If we all have to stay home, we'll need to eat. Let's stock up our pantries with non-perishable food! Then we can just eat our way through the problem. Wait. All of that food will turn to s#!t. We need toilet paper. Most households don't know how much food=how much toilet paper. There probably isn't even a recognised measure like the BTU and energy. OK, better buy, and buy big.

This is the result — empty shelves. Not just empty today, but for weeks. These aisles were battle grounds, almost but not quite as fierce as the Somme. Blows were thrown and fended; arrest made and charges laid. Over toilet paper.

Will it end like this, with violence and thuggery?

Meanwhile over in the fresh food aisles all the meat, chicken and potatoes are gone. But there are lots and lots of cabbages and fresh fruit. You can see what's coming can't you? When the hoarders go into lockdown that diet of meat and potatoes without leafy greens or fruit will set like cement in their bowels. They won't need toilet paper. They'll need laxatives. The next rush after laxatives is likely to be for hemorrhoid cream, then codeine for the pain and as the codeine clogs everything up again, more laxatives. Dear Governments of Australia, see how your lack of action has ruined the bowels of the Nation?

You'd think feedback from this fiasco would start to get Governments switched on to the importance of listening to the epidemiologists, the manufacturers and distributors of toilet paper and the people who selected them as their servants. Yeah...nah.

As the country shuts down, our erstwhile Prime Minister, not in Hawai'i just at present, has decided to ban weddings and funerals with more than five or ten attendees respectively to slow transmission rates while it's still perfectly alright for 500 kids to congregate in school. WTF? He said it's safe. No, what he said is he doesn't give a sh#!t if kids and teachers get sick just so long as they provide the free babysitting needed to keep taxpayers at work and paying taxes. Really he means mortgages because the economy is so falsely based on housing contruction, house sales, land taxes, negative gearing and loans that if people don't keep paying the under-prepared banks then we'll all be stuffed. Thank you everyone for those years of not preparing for, not thinking about and not listening to the messages that none of these falsehoods were sustainable.

And the first thing most people knew about it was that all the dunny rolls disappeared. At least they've still got their apartments and McMansions in which to bathe their shredded fundaments...until their mortages are foreclosed.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Nov. 15, 2019) Midshipmen, faculty, and staff collect non-perishable food for the U.S. Naval Academy's 11th Harvest for the Hungry campaign. The Midshipman Action Group organized the Brigade awareness campaign and in-kind food donation drive for those in need of food assistance throughout Anne Arundel County. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the US. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by MC3 Josiah D. Pearce/Released)

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Corporation employees provided some much needed holiday cheer for military families in need by donating 156 family meals at their corporate offices here today. The company, NCNG and Army Reserve volunteers braved a chilly morning to load many of the boxes full non-perishable food for a Thanksgiving feast onto North Carolina National Guard Light Medium Tactical Vehicle for distribution. “It is a great opportunity for the team,” said Vince Toscano, a Wells Fargo consumer loan underwriter. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs)

My organic food delivery sometimes uses dry i

My organic food delivery sometimes used dry ice to cool perishables. So I found myself with a little bag of dry ice on Thursday. What do do with it? Boil it of course!

The Koyambedu Market is the largest perishable goods market in Asia. Built on the outskirts of the city, it eventually has reduced a lot of traffic movement for goods within the main city. Even at 6 a.m in the morning, the place was abuzz with activity.

Urban Camo Ski Mask Project

These artworks are build from pieces of paper sourced mostly from the streets of Amsterdam. These bits and pieces are mixed up with torn screenprints, magazines and comicbooks. They are glued in the shape of a ski mask forming an urban camouflage pattern. The eyes and mouthpieces are made of laser-etched and or laser-cut photo’s, comics and logo’s.

Ski masks to me are a symbol of the current struggles around the globe. The news is dominated by men wearing ski masks whether it be terrorists or the special forces battling them.

MAHAVATAR BABAJI CAVE

Mahāvatār Bābājī (literally; Great Avatar Dear Father) is the name given to an Indian saint and yogi by Lahiri Mahasaya and several of his disciples,[2] who reported meeting him between 1861 and 1935. Some of these meetings were described by Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi, including a first-hand report of Yogananda's own meeting with the yogi.[3]Another first hand account was given by Yukteswar Giri in his book The Holy Science.[4] According to Sri M's autobiography (Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master) Babaji, was Shiva. In the second last chapter of his book, he mentions Babaji changing his form to that of Shiva. All of these accounts, along with additional reported meetings, are described in various biographies.[5][6][7]According to Yogananda's autobiography, Babaji has resided for at least hundreds of years in the remote Himalayan regions of India, seen in person by only a small number of disciples and others.[3][8] The death less Master is more than 2000 years old. He belongs to a very powerful lineage of Siddha Boganthar and Rishi Agastya as his Gurus. He acquired this deathless, non perishable body through tough yogik kriyas.

Again, according to his autobiography, shortly before Yogananda left for America in 1920, Babaji came to his home in Calcutta, where the young monk sat deeply praying for divine assurance regarding the mission he was about to undertake. Babaji said to him: "Follow the behest of your guru and go to America. Fear not; you shall be protected. You are the one I have chosen to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West

There are very few accounts of Babaji's childhood. One source of information is the book Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga tradition by Marshal Govindan.[9]According to Govindan, Babaji was named Nagarajan (king of serpents) by his parents. [8] V.T. Neelakantan and S.A.A. Ramaiah founded on 17 October 1952, (they claim – at the request of Babaji) a new organization, "Kriya Babaji Sangah," dedicated to the teaching of Babaji's Kriya Yoga. They claim that in 1953 Mahavatar Babaji told them that he was born on 30 November 203 CE in a small coastal village now known as Parangipettai, Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India.[10] Babaji's Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas Trust (Kriya Babaji Sangah) and their branch organizations claim his place and date of birth.[10] He was a disciple of Bogar and his birth name is Nagarajan.[9][10]

In Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, many references are made to Mahavatar Babaji, including from Lahirī and Sri Yukteshwar.[3] In his book The Second Coming of Christ, Yogananda states that Jesus Christ went to India and conferred with Mahavatar Babaji.[8] This would make Babaji at least 2000 years old.[11] According to Govindan's book, Babaji Nagaraj's father was the priest of the village's temple. Babaji revealed only those details which he believed to be formative as well as potentially instructive to his disciples. Govindan mentioned one incident like this: "One time Nagaraj's mother had got one rare jackfruit for a family feast and put it aside. Babaji was only 4 years old at that time. He found the jackfruit when his mother was not around and ate it all. When his mother came to know about it, she flew in blind rage and stuffed a cloth inside Babaji's mouth, nearly suffocating him, but he survived. Later on he thanked God for showing him that she was to be loved without attachment or illusion. His Love for his mother became unconditional and detached."[9]

When Nagaraj was about 5 years old, someone kidnapped him and sold him as a slave in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His new owner however was a kind man and he freed Nagaraj shortly thereafter. Nagaraj then joined a small group of wandering sannyāsin due to their radiant faces and love for God. During the next few years, he wandered from place to place, studying holy scriptures like the Vedas, Upanishad, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita.

According to Marshall Govindan's book, at the age of eleven, he made a difficult journey on foot and by boat with a group of ascetics to Kataragama, Sri Lanka. Nagaraj met Siddha Bhogarnathar and became his disciple. Nagaraj performed intensive yogic sadhana for a long time with him. Bhogarnathar inspired Nagaraj to seek his initiation into Kriya Kundalini Pranayam from Siddha Agastya. Babaji became a disciple of Siddha Agastya. Nagaraj was initiated into the secrets of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama or "Vasi Yogam". Babaji made a long pilgrimage to Badrinath and spent eighteen months practising yogic kriyataught to him by Siddha Agastya and Bhogarnathar. Babaji attained self-realization shortly thereafter.[9]

It is claimed that these revelations were made by Babaji himself to S.A.A. Ramaiah, a young graduate student in geology at the University of Madras and V.T. Neelakantan, a famous journalist, and close student of Annie Besant, President of the Theosophical Society and mentor of Krishnamurti. Babaji was said to have appeared to each of them independently and then brought them together to work for his Mission in 1942

By Kailash Mansarovar Foundation Swami Bikash Giri www.sumeruparvat.com , www.naturalitem.com

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Nov. 15, 2019) Midshipmen, faculty, and staff collect non-perishable food for the U.S. Naval Academy's 11th Harvest for the Hungry campaign. The Midshipman Action Group organized the Brigade awareness campaign and in-kind food donation drive for those in need of food assistance throughout Anne Arundel County. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the US. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by MC3 Josiah D. Pearce/Released)

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Corporation employees provided some much needed holiday cheer for military families in need by donating 156 family meals at their corporate offices here today. The company, NCNG and Army Reserve volunteers braved a chilly morning to load many of the boxes full non-perishable food for a Thanksgiving feast onto North Carolina National Guard Light Medium Tactical Vehicle for distribution. “It is a great opportunity for the team,” said Vince Toscano, a Wells Fargo consumer loan underwriter. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs)

MAHAVATAR BABAJI CAVE

Mahāvatār Bābājī (literally; Great Avatar Dear Father) is the name given to an Indian saint and yogi by Lahiri Mahasaya and several of his disciples,[2] who reported meeting him between 1861 and 1935. Some of these meetings were described by Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi, including a first-hand report of Yogananda's own meeting with the yogi.[3]Another first hand account was given by Yukteswar Giri in his book The Holy Science.[4] According to Sri M's autobiography (Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master) Babaji, was Shiva. In the second last chapter of his book, he mentions Babaji changing his form to that of Shiva. All of these accounts, along with additional reported meetings, are described in various biographies.[5][6][7]According to Yogananda's autobiography, Babaji has resided for at least hundreds of years in the remote Himalayan regions of India, seen in person by only a small number of disciples and others.[3][8] The death less Master is more than 2000 years old. He belongs to a very powerful lineage of Siddha Boganthar and Rishi Agastya as his Gurus. He acquired this deathless, non perishable body through tough yogik kriyas.

Again, according to his autobiography, shortly before Yogananda left for America in 1920, Babaji came to his home in Calcutta, where the young monk sat deeply praying for divine assurance regarding the mission he was about to undertake. Babaji said to him: "Follow the behest of your guru and go to America. Fear not; you shall be protected. You are the one I have chosen to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West

There are very few accounts of Babaji's childhood. One source of information is the book Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga tradition by Marshal Govindan.[9]According to Govindan, Babaji was named Nagarajan (king of serpents) by his parents. [8] V.T. Neelakantan and S.A.A. Ramaiah founded on 17 October 1952, (they claim – at the request of Babaji) a new organization, "Kriya Babaji Sangah," dedicated to the teaching of Babaji's Kriya Yoga. They claim that in 1953 Mahavatar Babaji told them that he was born on 30 November 203 CE in a small coastal village now known as Parangipettai, Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India.[10] Babaji's Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas Trust (Kriya Babaji Sangah) and their branch organizations claim his place and date of birth.[10] He was a disciple of Bogar and his birth name is Nagarajan.[9][10]

In Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, many references are made to Mahavatar Babaji, including from Lahirī and Sri Yukteshwar.[3] In his book The Second Coming of Christ, Yogananda states that Jesus Christ went to India and conferred with Mahavatar Babaji.[8] This would make Babaji at least 2000 years old.[11] According to Govindan's book, Babaji Nagaraj's father was the priest of the village's temple. Babaji revealed only those details which he believed to be formative as well as potentially instructive to his disciples. Govindan mentioned one incident like this: "One time Nagaraj's mother had got one rare jackfruit for a family feast and put it aside. Babaji was only 4 years old at that time. He found the jackfruit when his mother was not around and ate it all. When his mother came to know about it, she flew in blind rage and stuffed a cloth inside Babaji's mouth, nearly suffocating him, but he survived. Later on he thanked God for showing him that she was to be loved without attachment or illusion. His Love for his mother became unconditional and detached."[9]

When Nagaraj was about 5 years old, someone kidnapped him and sold him as a slave in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His new owner however was a kind man and he freed Nagaraj shortly thereafter. Nagaraj then joined a small group of wandering sannyāsin due to their radiant faces and love for God. During the next few years, he wandered from place to place, studying holy scriptures like the Vedas, Upanishad, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita.

According to Marshall Govindan's book, at the age of eleven, he made a difficult journey on foot and by boat with a group of ascetics to Kataragama, Sri Lanka. Nagaraj met Siddha Bhogarnathar and became his disciple. Nagaraj performed intensive yogic sadhana for a long time with him. Bhogarnathar inspired Nagaraj to seek his initiation into Kriya Kundalini Pranayam from Siddha Agastya. Babaji became a disciple of Siddha Agastya. Nagaraj was initiated into the secrets of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama or "Vasi Yogam". Babaji made a long pilgrimage to Badrinath and spent eighteen months practising yogic kriyataught to him by Siddha Agastya and Bhogarnathar. Babaji attained self-realization shortly thereafter.[9]

It is claimed that these revelations were made by Babaji himself to S.A.A. Ramaiah, a young graduate student in geology at the University of Madras and V.T. Neelakantan, a famous journalist, and close student of Annie Besant, President of the Theosophical Society and mentor of Krishnamurti. Babaji was said to have appeared to each of them independently and then brought them together to work for his Mission in 1942

By Kailash Mansarovar Foundation Swami Bikash Giri www.sumeruparvat.com , www.naturalitem.com

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Corporation employees provided some much needed holiday cheer for military families in need by donating 156 family meals at their corporate offices here today. The company, NCNG and Army Reserve volunteers braved a chilly morning to load many of the boxes full non-perishable food for a Thanksgiving feast onto North Carolina National Guard Light Medium Tactical Vehicle for distribution. “It is a great opportunity for the team,” said Vince Toscano, a Wells Fargo consumer loan underwriter. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs)

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Corporation employees provided some much needed holiday cheer for military families in need by donating 156 family meals at their corporate offices here today. The company, NCNG and Army Reserve volunteers braved a chilly morning to load many of the boxes full non-perishable food for a Thanksgiving feast onto North Carolina National Guard Light Medium Tactical Vehicle for distribution. “It is a great opportunity for the team,” said Vince Toscano, a Wells Fargo consumer loan underwriter. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs)

Army-Navy hockey

The Gagetown Warriors from the Canadian Army's 5th Canadian Division Support Base in Oromocto, New Brunswick, faced off January 26 against the CFB Halifax Mariners in a charity game at the Dr. Carson and Marion Murray Community Centre in Springhill, Nova Scotia. Both teams used the exhibition game as a warm-up for the Canadian Armed Forces' Atlantic Region Hockey Championships to be held February 3 to 7 in Gagetown. Admission was a non-perishable food item or two dollars, with proceeds going to the local food banks. The Mariners won the game 8-5.

Photo by Warrant Officer Jerry Kean, 5th Canadian Division Public Affairs

Hockey Armée-Marine

Le 26 janvier, les Warriors de Gagetown de la Base de soutien de la 5e Division du Canada de l'Armée canadienne à Oromocto, au Nouveau-Brunswick, ont affronté les Mariners de la Base des Forces canadiennes Halifax au centre communautaire Dr. Carson and Marion Murray, à Springhill lors d'un match de bienfaisance. Les deux équipes ont utilisé ce match hors-concours comme exercice de préparation au championnat de hockey de la région de l'Atlantique des Forces armées canadiennes, qui aura lieu du 3 au 7 février à Gagetown. Le droit d'entrée à la partie était un aliment non périssable ou deux dollars. Tous les fonds recueillis ont été remis aux banques alimentaires locales. Les Mariners ont gagné la partie 8-5.

Photo de l'adjudant Jerry Kean, Affaires publiques de la 5e Division du Canada

#971 was the last eastbound for the day, with lower priority trailers and perishables from northern California. GP50's 3841 and 3853 were leading SD39 4002 and B23-7 6411.

The axle box on the centre wheelset only has one flange as opposed to the two on the outer wheelset. This allows the axle to move in relation to the "W" irons allowing the axle to move and follow the curve of the track round a bend. A rigid axle would fight the curve and hinder progress.

Urban Camo Ski Mask Project

These artworks are build from pieces of paper sourced mostly from the streets of Amsterdam. These bits and pieces are mixed up with torn screenprints, magazines and comicbooks. They are glued in the shape of a ski mask forming an urban camouflage pattern. The eyes and mouthpieces are made of laser-etched and or laser-cut photo’s, comics and logo’s.

Ski masks to me are a symbol of the current struggles around the globe. The news is dominated by men wearing ski masks whether it be terrorists or the special forces battling them.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Nov. 15, 2019) Midshipmen, faculty, and staff collect non-perishable food for the U.S. Naval Academy's 11th Harvest for the Hungry campaign. The Midshipman Action Group organized the Brigade awareness campaign and in-kind food donation drive for those in need of food assistance throughout Anne Arundel County. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the US. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by MC3 Josiah D. Pearce/Released)

It's been a while since I'd seen a Cold Train refer car. CN train L517 at New Richmond, WI, January 27, 2013. NRDX 13255

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Corporation employees provided some much needed holiday cheer for military families in need by donating 156 family meals at their corporate offices here today. The company, NCNG and Army Reserve volunteers braved a chilly morning to load many of the boxes full non-perishable food for a Thanksgiving feast onto North Carolina National Guard Light Medium Tactical Vehicle for distribution. “It is a great opportunity for the team,” said Vince Toscano, a Wells Fargo consumer loan underwriter. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs)

MAHAVATAR BABAJI CAVE

Mahāvatār Bābājī (literally; Great Avatar Dear Father) is the name given to an Indian saint and yogi by Lahiri Mahasaya and several of his disciples,[2] who reported meeting him between 1861 and 1935. Some of these meetings were described by Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi, including a first-hand report of Yogananda's own meeting with the yogi.[3]Another first hand account was given by Yukteswar Giri in his book The Holy Science.[4] According to Sri M's autobiography (Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master) Babaji, was Shiva. In the second last chapter of his book, he mentions Babaji changing his form to that of Shiva. All of these accounts, along with additional reported meetings, are described in various biographies.[5][6][7]According to Yogananda's autobiography, Babaji has resided for at least hundreds of years in the remote Himalayan regions of India, seen in person by only a small number of disciples and others.[3][8] The death less Master is more than 2000 years old. He belongs to a very powerful lineage of Siddha Boganthar and Rishi Agastya as his Gurus. He acquired this deathless, non perishable body through tough yogik kriyas.

Again, according to his autobiography, shortly before Yogananda left for America in 1920, Babaji came to his home in Calcutta, where the young monk sat deeply praying for divine assurance regarding the mission he was about to undertake. Babaji said to him: "Follow the behest of your guru and go to America. Fear not; you shall be protected. You are the one I have chosen to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West

There are very few accounts of Babaji's childhood. One source of information is the book Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga tradition by Marshal Govindan.[9]According to Govindan, Babaji was named Nagarajan (king of serpents) by his parents. [8] V.T. Neelakantan and S.A.A. Ramaiah founded on 17 October 1952, (they claim – at the request of Babaji) a new organization, "Kriya Babaji Sangah," dedicated to the teaching of Babaji's Kriya Yoga. They claim that in 1953 Mahavatar Babaji told them that he was born on 30 November 203 CE in a small coastal village now known as Parangipettai, Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India.[10] Babaji's Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas Trust (Kriya Babaji Sangah) and their branch organizations claim his place and date of birth.[10] He was a disciple of Bogar and his birth name is Nagarajan.[9][10]

In Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, many references are made to Mahavatar Babaji, including from Lahirī and Sri Yukteshwar.[3] In his book The Second Coming of Christ, Yogananda states that Jesus Christ went to India and conferred with Mahavatar Babaji.[8] This would make Babaji at least 2000 years old.[11] According to Govindan's book, Babaji Nagaraj's father was the priest of the village's temple. Babaji revealed only those details which he believed to be formative as well as potentially instructive to his disciples. Govindan mentioned one incident like this: "One time Nagaraj's mother had got one rare jackfruit for a family feast and put it aside. Babaji was only 4 years old at that time. He found the jackfruit when his mother was not around and ate it all. When his mother came to know about it, she flew in blind rage and stuffed a cloth inside Babaji's mouth, nearly suffocating him, but he survived. Later on he thanked God for showing him that she was to be loved without attachment or illusion. His Love for his mother became unconditional and detached."[9]

When Nagaraj was about 5 years old, someone kidnapped him and sold him as a slave in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His new owner however was a kind man and he freed Nagaraj shortly thereafter. Nagaraj then joined a small group of wandering sannyāsin due to their radiant faces and love for God. During the next few years, he wandered from place to place, studying holy scriptures like the Vedas, Upanishad, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita.

According to Marshall Govindan's book, at the age of eleven, he made a difficult journey on foot and by boat with a group of ascetics to Kataragama, Sri Lanka. Nagaraj met Siddha Bhogarnathar and became his disciple. Nagaraj performed intensive yogic sadhana for a long time with him. Bhogarnathar inspired Nagaraj to seek his initiation into Kriya Kundalini Pranayam from Siddha Agastya. Babaji became a disciple of Siddha Agastya. Nagaraj was initiated into the secrets of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama or "Vasi Yogam". Babaji made a long pilgrimage to Badrinath and spent eighteen months practising yogic kriyataught to him by Siddha Agastya and Bhogarnathar. Babaji attained self-realization shortly thereafter.[9]

It is claimed that these revelations were made by Babaji himself to S.A.A. Ramaiah, a young graduate student in geology at the University of Madras and V.T. Neelakantan, a famous journalist, and close student of Annie Besant, President of the Theosophical Society and mentor of Krishnamurti. Babaji was said to have appeared to each of them independently and then brought them together to work for his Mission in 1942

By Kailash Mansarovar Foundation Swami Bikash Giri www.sumeruparvat.com , www.naturalitem.com

Currently, Dover Cargo Terminal has a flourishing trade in perishables freight with three reefer

container ships calling at Dover on a weekly basis.

These deep-sea services are operated by Africa

Express Line, bringing in fresh produce from West Africa and Seatrade which has Dover as a port of

call on its Costa Rica-Colombia-Europe line. This equates to the Port of Dover contributing to at least 25% of bananas imported into the UK.

People can donate non-perishable food items for the less fortunate families in Cockburn.

I’m not sure what it was used for -- perhaps someone out there will know. My guess is for food and other perishables (and maybe the sacramental wine!). It might have also been used as a smokehouse. But it looks like this will last "forever." I love the cute, tin roof As the church in front was founded in 1877, it’s likely this was built around that time.

Behind St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Good Harbor, on M-22 (AKA Manitou Trail) at Townline Road, Schomberg, Michigan, between Glen Arbor and Leland. The church was founded by German immigrants to Leelanau County in 1877.

(Click on image to view on black -- looks better.)