YOGA AND THE BRAHMA KUMARIS AT A CATHOLIC COLLEGE IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOMBAY 13. NEW AGE GURUS 01-SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR-THE 'ART OF LIVING' 11 PAPAL CANDIDATE OSWALD CARDINAL GRACIAS ENDORSES YOGA 12. IS BISHOP DABRE FORMER CHAIRMAN DOCTRINAL COMMISSION A PROPONENT OF YOGA 10. FR JOHN VALDARIS-NEW AGE CURES FOR CANCER 9. FR ADRIAN MASCARENHAS-YOGA AT ST PATRICK’S CHURCH BANGALORE 8. FR JOHN FERREIRA-YOGA, SURYANAMASKAR AT ST. FR JOE PEREIRA-KRIPA FOUNDATION-WORLD COMMUNITY FOR CHRISTIAN MEDITATION 6. DIVINE RETREAT CENTRE ERRORS-05 YOGA PROMOTED 5. CARDINAL OSWALD GRACIAS ENDORSES YOGA FOR CATHOLICS 3. BRAHMA KUMARIS WORLD SPIRITUAL UNIVERSITY 2. The present compilation may be considered as a continuation of the 114-page 2007-2009 compilation YOGA serial no. The list of these is copied immediately below. There are already a number of reports and articles on yoga at this ministry’s web site. Due to the large number of items, I am not able to reproduce them either chronologically or in any other way that makes searching and reading easy for the visitor to this page. It contains informative or controversial articles that are pro-yoga for academic purposes, and also Catholic and other Christian information that exposes the Hindu meditation system as a dangerous New Age spiritual exercise. ![]() YOGA - 02 This is a compilation of information on yoga from data that I saved over the last three and a half years. COMMENCEDJULY 18, 2013/HOSTED ON WEB SITE NOVEMBER 27, 2013
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![]() The only reason I can think this has never been brought to the tables is because people simple don't understand the cords system used on the minimap.Īdditionally people didn't know that a minimap ping is also a left click on your terrain map!! Why do I smell suntan lotion?Hehe your comments are much appreciated :) Now if you could just write a script that will get hot bikini models to show up at my door, naked except for the 12 pack of new castle they are carrying!Īnyway, got to go. Did anyone else know this was possible?ĭamn Falkor, a member for a hole 24 hours and already added TWO useful things to the community. As long as I have been multiboxing I've been asking people how to do targeted AoE attacks while five boxing on one machine. I am wondering why this is the first time I have seen this brought up. I got a little chub just reading this post. This also means you need to have /script Minimap:PingLocation(X,Y) in your main's macro twice since the first one appears to be gobbled up and never actually pings the map. You would have to stagger the cast to take into account latency for the minimap ping to make it to the clones. To coordinate your clones who may not be facing the right way, you can probably do /script Minimap:PingLocation(Minimap:GetPingPosition()) in their macros so they will get the appropriate relative position of where you main casted. Let the AOE shows begin! Infernals, rain of fire, laser beams, hellfire, portals. I'm not sure how this works inside instances that have 'floors' Either way I'm sure it will raise the fun factor of 5 boxing locks in AV that much more, and would make a nice 'pop that stealther' spread AOE. It appears that you must be standing on the actual terrain and not any raised flooring like the center of Shattrath City or the rock parts in Lower City. ![]() Then it just started working and figured out why. When I first tried it I kept getting the targetting overlay and was a little disappointed. script Minimap:PingLocation(X,Y) in your main's macro twice since the first one appears to be gobbled up and never actually pings the map. script local x, y = Minimap:GetPingPosition() Minimap:PingLocation(x * 140, y * 140) in their macros so they will get the appropriate relative position of where you main casted. To coordinate your clones who may not be facing the right way, you can probably do Thanks to Mudd for this extra information: The second 0 is a vertical value on the minimap (Min:-70 Max:70 ) The first 0 is a horizontal value on the minimap (Min:-69 Max:69 ) The following command will ping your minimap at a set location, this can then be used after using a macro to cast say blizzard or any other spell that requires you left click on the floor. Not sure if this has been explained but here goes for a refresher. ***Thanks to everyone for their hard work on this while it lasted - Fursphere 11.10.08*** "You can no longer click the minimap to cast ground targeted spells." You can use the templates World of Warcraft Wiki foorum and World of Warcraft Wiki foorum to indicate locations on a map using the map coordinates.This functionality was removed in a recent patch (2.4.3). ![]() Your present coordinates for the zone will appear in the default chat frame. 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As an item encounters dots, it changes them into larger dots which are worth 50 points instead of 10, but will also slow Jr. As in the previous games, bonus items (such as tricycles, kites, and balloons) appear in each round, starting above the ghost regenerator and bouncing around the maze like in Ms. A total of seven mazes appear throughout the game, and five of them have six energizers instead of four - but none of them have tunnels which wrap around from one side of the screen to the other. Pac-Man which will sometimes allow the ghosts to be off-screen. The mazes are now two times the width of the monitor, and a virtual camera scrolls left and right through the mazes to keep up with Jr. This game contains some of the most significant differences to the Pac-Man formula, both in terms of cosmetics and gameplay. Once the maze is cleared, a new maze will be presented and the gameplay will continue. The player can eat an energizer to turn the ghosts blue, making them vulnerable for a short period of time, and allowing the player to eat them for extra points. Pac-Man (who wears an animated propeller beanie), and scores points by eating all of the Pac-Dots in the maze, while four ghosts chase him around the maze and attempt to kill him. Pac-Man is very similar to that of its predecessors: The player controls the eponymous Jr. This, along with Professor Pac-Man, was one of the two games that would eventually lead to the termination of the licensing agreement between Namco and Bally Midway in 1984. Pac-Man, Baby Pac-Man, and Pac-Man Plus, this game was created without the authorization of Namco. It is based on Pac-Man and its derivatives, but is not officially part of the Pac-Man series - along with Ms. Pac-Man is an arcade game, released by Bally Midway in 1983. 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Whilst that rule was in effect, I contented myself with a re-read of Ursula K Le Guin’s Earthsea Quartet and then a re-read of Stephen Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen, both of which I was already familiar with and didn’t need to take notes on. After finishing Girard’s Things Hidden, I gave myself a rule: I can’t start another book until I’ve got through the backlog. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard.īecause I couldn’t bear the thought of declaring book-bankruptcy and not taking notes on these texts, I got serious about the problem. The Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Kogaīeyond Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot The Telomere Effect by Elizabeth Blackburn The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de MesquitaĮnergy A Beginner’s Guide by Vaclav SmilĬonfessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins In The Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrentīeyond Economics and Ecology by Ivan Illich The Mediterranean in the Ancient World by Fernand Braudel Philosophical Remarks by Ludwig Wittgenstein The Architecture of Community by Leon Krier Hitler A Study in Tyranny by Alan Bullock Volume Three of The Complete Works of Primo Levi The full list, in order of consumption (because I don’t shine enough light on what I’m currently reading and enjoying): Between the 9th June and the 27th October of this year I read thirty-four books, and by the end of October I had taken notes on none of them. 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"Hardly a single other German corporate dynasty acts in such unpredictable and relentless way as the Merckle clan from Blaubeuren."įorbes recently ranked Merckle as the fifth-richest person in Germany, with a fortune worth an estimated $9.2 billion.Īccording to Forbes, Merckle's fortune was inherited from his Bohemian grandfather, but he has nurtured a chemical wholesale company, Phoenix Pharmahandel, into the largest pharmaceuticals wholesaler in Germany, with annual sales of €21.6 billion.After market traders started to short Piggly Wiggly stock, Saunders vowed to hit back. "Adolf Merckle collects companies like others collect watches," wrote Manager Magazin, in one of the few extensive portraits of the German billionaire. ![]() He has assembled a business conglomerate with about 100,000 employees and €30 billion in annual sales. Ratiopharm and HeidelbergCement are just two companies in Merckle's vast portfolio, which also includes a maker of grooming vehicles for ski slopes, a sugar refinery and one of Germany's oldest foundries. The losses have fueled speculation that the industrialist could sell the generic drug company Ratiopharm or part of his stake in HeidelbergCement, both of which are based in Baden-Württemberg. But Merckle has become the most well-known casualty of the massive short-squeeze that briefly made VW the world's most valuable company late in October, when its share price rocketed to just over €1,000, or $1,260, from €210 in two trading sessions. Little is publicly known about the 74-year old industrialist who lives in the southwest German state of Baden-Württemberg and is said to enjoy skiing and mountain-climbing. "He had a reputation for being very, very prudent, very cautious - a typical entrepreneur who always remained down to earth," said one analyst, who asked to remain anonymous because he was expressing a personal view rather than his bank's opinion. Merckle, the 94th-richest person in 2008, according to Forbes magazine, incurred massive losses from wrong-way bets on Volkswagen shares, putting him under pressure to sell some assets or seek bridge loans. FRANKFURT - The German billionaire Adolf Merckle may be media-shy, but he is not afraid to place big bets and make the headlines on the back of them. |
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