Lux - Illumination

If you know someone who has a drug or alcohol problem, it is important that the person gets help. This help can come from concerned friends or family members who realize the damaging aspects of the drug dependency, even while the drug user cannot. Intervention is important because the drug user is most likely literally unable to see their own problem or the effect it has on their lives and the lives of those around them. Interventions help addicts see what is happening to them and their families, and are often an important, albeit difficult, step in breaking the addiction cycle.

Interventions can also be highly successful in getting a person to seek treatment. Based on statistics provided by this drug intervention website, interventions are highly successful in helping individuals seek treatment:

75% of interventions end up with addicts entering treatment that very day. 92% of interventions land up with the addict in a rehab centre within the week.

If you know someone with a drug addiction, seek help. Find the information you need to begin the process of a successful intervention, and hopefully, recovery. Resources such as the aforementioned website (druginterventions.net), can lead you in the right direction.

Do you enjoy cooking? Are you looking for something new to try? Why not try some Indian recipes?

GreatIndianRecipes.com has a wide variety of Indian recipes as well as recipes from the greater asian region. You can find recipes by categories, such Chicken - Indian, Chicken - Fusion Continental, and Chicken - Fusion Oriental. Here’s a sample recipe (just the instructions, not the ingredients - head over to here to see the full recipe!) for Butter Chicken:

For the marinade, mix red chilli powder, ginger garlic paste, salt and curd together. Marinade is ready. Now mix the raw chicken in the marinade and keep it in the refrigerator overnight. Then roast the marinated chicken in a tandoor or an oven for about 5-10 minutes till it is three fourths done. For the gravy, heat white butter in pan. Add black cumin seeds, tomato puree, sugar, red chilli powder and salt. Mix it well. Now add the prepared chicken, white butter, fresh cream, sliced green chillies and crushed fenugreek leaves. Cook till chicken is done. Butter Chicken is ready to eat. Serve hot with rice or naan.

Find hundreds more oriental, continental, and Indian recipes at GreatIndianRecipes.com.

Dog Names come in all varieties - you’ve got the commonplace, funny, meaningful, and unique. Some dog name examples:

• Commonplace - Rex, Max, Buddy, Rocky
• Funny - Peanut, Nacho, Bungee
• Meaningful - Napoleon, Zeus, Princess, Bear
• Unique - Boz, Bogie, Fusby

For dog name ideas, like names for male dogs or female dogs, check around on the internet. You can find ideas for dog names even on every day sites not dedicated to pets and their names.

Miami is a great place. There’s tons to do, and alot of that ‘to do’ happens at night. So why not spice up the night with a Miami Limo ride?

A limo ride can really take your night out on the town up a notch. Of course you’re using a limousine rental service, so you’ll have to club hop a lot to get the most bang for your buck, but that’s part of the fun, isn’t it?

There’s a lot of different types of Miami Limousines you can rent: hummers, escalades, and of course, lincolns. You get one of those big hummers or escalades and you can seat 20 to 22 people in them things! Whew! That’s a lot of party in one truck…

With all the possibilities that New York City presents, you’re left with a lot of options. But if you’re planning a special occasion, why not make it even more special with a New York Limo ride? You can take a New York Limousine for your wedding, engagement or bachelor/bachelorette party. Of course, you don’t need a wedding for an excuse to take a limo…you could always get a limousine rental service if you’re just trekking around the big town, going to a ball game, taking a trip to the casinos, or even for the prom. You can make a special occasion even more exciting and fun by taking a limo ride through the city or to your destination.

Limos come in all sorts of vehicle styles now. You can get a stretch Escalade, Hummer, Excursion, or even BMWs. The limos can be equipped with TV/DVD/Playstations, strobe lights, fiberoptics, Stereo and CD player, leather, and of course, the bar!

So if you’re thinking about a night out on the town, grab a limo. It’ll be just that much more fun!

The riddle of Atlantis has captured the imaginations of students of the unknown and intrigued scholars for over two millennia. With the availability of the world’s libraries, New Age readers have at their disposal a veritable mountain of volumes concerning the legend of Atlantis, both non-fiction and a more fantastic read.

There are more versions of what the nature of this legendary locale was like and where it was located and beneath which sea the wisdom of the ancients could be found than nearly any other of the many stories involving prehistoric superior cultures. Indeed, the topic of an advanced culture which predated our earliest records has engaged the imagination of generations exactly because it resonates so clearly to the quester after knowledge.

Socrates’ student, Plato, originally wrote detailing a forgotten Paradise, which he referred to as Atlantis, around 355 BC. According to Plato, the lost Island lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and had perished about ten thousand years earlier.

American mystic Edgar Cayce wrote of Atlantis as a vast continent, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. According to the medium’s complete version, the people of Atlantis had mastered supernatural psionic abilities and technologies, and seeded colonies to the oddly congruent pyramid building cultures of the ancient Egyptians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The subject is in many cases grouped with past lives along with such diverse topics as crystals, sometimes referred to in New Age prophecies.

Theories about the true whereabouts of this culture’s remains include the Far East to the Carribbean, though, as might be expected the likeliest locations which are small local islands with a long tradition, most notably Sardinia and Malta.

The mystery may always remain concerning where the Island lay, nonetheless one thing seems clear: our species has achieved high levels of advancement in the distant past and the cycle of rise and decimation, possibly many times, prior to that which we commonly regard as being origin of culture.

93-year-old charged with drug dealing (AP)DURHAM, N.C. - A 93-year-old man was charged with cocaine-trafficking, the same day police netted three other people on charges of possessing heroine, opium and a slew of prescription drugs.

He calls them ‘Pop’s Poppers.’

Rich Russian tries to buy U.S. bomber at air show (Reuters)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A wealthy Russian tried to buy a U.S. B-52 bomber from a group of shocked American pilots at an air show near Moscow.

The pilots would have sold the plane, but then they would have needed a flight home.

Man accused of biting girlfriend’s snake (AP)

BELFAST, Northern Ireland - A Northern Ireland man bit his girlfriend’s pet snake in half during a fight and remarked that it “tasted lovely,” lawyers testified Friday.

Like chicken.

Ok, that seems a bit heavy and self-important for my first post title, but it gives a little hint about what I’m doing here. I plan to wade the the sea that is the internet and highlight some stories, topics, and sites that might be useful, interesting, or even just under-appreciated. I hope it’s not a terrible failure.