The Noble Pagan

101 Year Old Fauja Singh Runs the London Marathon

by Bill & Yuki Battan | on March 12, 2013
At 7 hrs and 49 minutes, Fauja Singh finished the London Marathon…..at 101 years old!
This man is amazing! He started running seriously in his late 80′s, an age when most people are giving up on life and whinning about their aches and pains. ”It’s not easy,” he says. “But the job has to be done. You don’t want to give up.”





How many dreams have you given up on in your life? Why? Was it too hard? Do you just feel it is too late to do it?
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE!!!!!! Realize your dreams today. Allow yourself to Believe and Achieve.

(reprinted directly with permission from Yuki Battan)

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Comet from depths of solar system to be briefly visible

Sunday - 3/10/2013, 8:51pm ET
March 12 through 18 is the prime time to view the comet, since it will start to fade after this week. (Courtesy of Sky & Telescope)


Greg Redfern, wtop.com
WASHINGTON - This week, the western sky will have a visitor from the depths of the outer solar system: the Comet PanSTARRS.
March 12 through 18 is the prime time to view the comet, since it will start to fade after this week.

Read more HERE

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Marslenitas: Russians Start Celebrating Pagan Spring Festival

March 11, 2013 Olga Lipich, RIA Novosti
Russia's Pancake Week, begins in Russia on Mar. 11 this year. People are preparing for the arrival of spring by gathering with relatives to eat pancakes. Typically, Maslenitsa is celebrated with sledding, burning scarecrows, and bonfire jumping.
Read more HERE
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Ladyhawke brought this article to my attention on FaceBook. It is about what life is like when you have lupus. I myself don't have lupus however I have Pulmonary Sarcoidosis which is another type of auto immune disorder, and while I don't have it as hard as the author of this article I can feel where she is coming from.

There are so many people out there who struggle with "invisible" illnesses ( illnesses that are hard to diagnose, hard to treat, hard to live with and yet the person affected by them don't look sick which can lead others to believing there is nothing wrong with them). This article gives you a glimpse into what one person's life is like living with one.

I hope you enjoy it.

http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/wpress/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/

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Alright folks, we're done for now.

The site is back online and functional again. So now onto the explanations.

1. We are hosted on a server that carries many other sites besides ours, and so what happens on their site can affect us if something bad happens with their site. This is what happened last night. The techies didn't give me a full explanation beyond there was an account or three on the server that was being slammed with bots and / or exploit scripts. Additionally, we were getting a metric ass-ton of "guest" users at the same time, each one putting a bit of a load on the server, so we contributed to the problem. There was no evidence of a breach on our site, but there were numerous attempts at getting through our spam filtering which would have flooded the forums with BS posts and spam, so that part worked as it should.
2. In the process of shutting things down for the techies to do their jobs I found numerous things that needed to be either scrapped, rebuilt, or...