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avs.1.21 [0102103] Strike down the fiend, strike down the foes, break thou asunder Vritra s jaws.
avs.1.21 O Indra, Vritra slayer, quell the wrath of the assailing foe.
avs.2.5 [0200503] Swift conquering Indra, Mitra like, smote, as a Yati, Vritra dead.
avs.3.21 [0302101] All Fires that are in water and in Vritra, all those that man and stones contain within them, That which hath entered herbs and trees and bushes to all these Fires be this oblation offered.
avs.4.10 [0401005] From ocean sprang the Amulet, from Vritra sprang the Lord of Day: May this protect us round about from shaft of God and Asura.
avs.4.32 Slayer of foes, of Vritra, and of Dasyu, bring thou to us all kinds of wealth and treasure.
avs.5.8 [0500807] Exertions which that man hath made, Exertions which he yet will make Turn them, O Indra, back again, O Vritra slayer, back again on him that they may kill that man.
avs.5.8 [0500809] Here, Indra Vritra slayer, in thy strength pierce thou their vital.
avs.6.85 [0608503] Even as Vritra checked and stayed these waters flowing every way, With Agni, God of all mankind.
avs.6.134 rend napes asunder, even as the Lord of Might the neck of Vritra.
avs.6.135 [0613501] Whatever I eat I turn to strength, and thus I grasp the Thunder bolt, Rending the shoulders of that man as Indra shattered Vritra s neck.
avs.7.76 [0707606] Boldly drink Soma from the beaker, Indra! hero in war for treasure! Vritra slayer.
avs.8.5 [0800503] With this same Amulet wise Indra routed the Asuras, with this he slaughtered Vritra, With this he won this pair, both Earth and Heaven, and made the sky s four regions his possession.
avs.11.10 [1101027] With this which Gods attend, with this which never fails to gain its end, Let Indra, Vritra slayer, smite, and with Trishandhi as a bolt.
avs.12.1 [1200137] The purifier, shrinking from the Serpent, she who held fires that lie within the waters, Who gives as prey the God blaspheming Dasyus, Earth choosing Indra for her Lord, not Vritra, hath clung to Sakra, to the Strong and Mighty.
avs.18.1 [1800138] For thou by slaying Vritra art the Vritra slayer, famed for might.
avs.20.5 Slay, Vritra slayer slay thy foes.
avs.20.6 [2000608] From far away, from near at hand, O Vritra slayer, come to us: Accept the songs we sing to thee.
avs.20.7 [2000702] Him who with might of both his arms brake nine and ninety castles down, Slew Vritra and smote Ahi dead.
avs.20.11 [2001103] Leading his band Indra encompassed Vritra; weak grew the wily leader enchanters.
avs.20.12 [2001207] Impetuous, Thunderer, strong, quelling the mighty, King, potent, Vritra slayer, Soma drinker, May he come hither with his yoked bay horses.
avs.20.18 [2001806] Thou art mine ample coat of mail, my champion, Vritra slayes, thou.
avs.20.21 [2002106] These our libations, strength inspiring Soma draughts, gladdened thee in the fight with Vritra, Hero Lord, [p. 281] What time thou slewest for the singer with trimmed grass ten thousand Vritras, thou resistless in thy might.
avs.20.23 [2002304] O Vritra slayer, be thou pleased with these libations, with these hymns, Song loving Indra, with our lauds.
avs.20.35 Wherewith he reached the vital parts of Vritra, striking the vast, the mighty with the striker,
avs.20.35 [2003510] Through his own strength with bolt of thunder Indra smote piece meal Vritra, drier up of waters.
avs.20.35 [2003512] Vast, with thine ample power, with eager movement against this Vritra cast thy bolt of thunder.
avs.20.37 [2003705] These were thy mighty powers that, Thunder wielder! then swiftly crushedst nine and ninety castles. [p. 298] Thou capturedst the hundredth in thine onslaught; thou slewest Namuchi, thou slewest Vritra.
avs.20.47 [2004701] We make this Indra show his strength, to strike the mighty Vritra dead: A vigorous Hero shall he be.
avs.20.52 Here where the filter pours its stream thy worshipper round thee, O Vritra slayer, sit.
avs.20.57 Here where the filter pours its stream thy worshippers round thee, O Vritra slayer, sit.
avs.20.77 [2007707] He smote away the flood s obstructer Vritra: Earth conscious lent her aid to speed thy thunder.
avs.20.92 [2009216] He who as sovran Lord of men moves with his chariots unrestrained, The Vritra slayer, queller of all fighting hosts, preeminent, is praised in song.
avs.20.93 [2009306] Thou art the Vritra slayer, thou, Indra, hast spread the firmament: Thou hast with might upheld the heavens.
avs.20.97 [2009703] What manly deed of vigour now remains that Indra hath not done? Who hath not heard his glorious title and his fame, the Vritra slayer from his birth?
avs.20.104 May the most mighty Vritra slayer, meet for praise, come to libations and to hymns.
avs.20.105 When thou attackest Vritra all the hostile bands shrink and faint, Indra at thy wrath.
avs.20.107 [2010703] The fiercely moving Vritra s head he severed with his thunder bolt, His hundred knotted thunderbolt.
avs.20.112 [2011201] Whatever, Vritra slayer! thou Surya, hast risen upon to day, That, Indra, all is in thy power.
avs.20.116 [2011602] O Vritra slayer, we were thought slow and unready for the fray: Yet once in thy great bounty may we have delight, O Hero, after praising thee.
avs.20.128 [2012813] Easily conquering Maghavan, thou, Hero, bentest Raji down, Rentest asunder Rauhina, calvest in pieces Vritra s head.
avs.20.137 [2013712] We make this Indra very strong to strike the mighty Vritra dead: A vigorous Hero shall he be.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42293 | Mindscore, the composing revolution at Techcrunch Disrupt in SF!
Are you a composer? A musician?
Even though I am not really a composer, I must admit that I have attempted to write (and actually did write) a piece of music for flute or piano a few times in my life.
But what do you do when you’re for example in the metro, or with some friends and all of a sudden you have that great tune or melody in your head and you are afraid for forgetting it before you get a chance to write it down?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42316 | 15 Apr 2013
The Metro
Having recently told you about how you shouldn't get around Barcelona (see here) it is only fair that the BigBarcelonaBlog tells you how you should.
First and most importantly, you should use your feet. For the benefit of my readers from the United States I should point out that your feet are the things on the end of your legs that you usually keep on the couch. More than any other city the BigBarcelonaBlog has visited, Barcelona responds best to being walked around. There is simply no other way to experience the ridiculously narrow alleys of the old Jewish quarter in Barri Gotico (I mean, I say, quarter but whichever person who did the naming obviously flunked fractions at high school). The Old Jewish Sixteenth would be a much better description. Nor can you find another way to explore the surprisingly quiet and romantic streets above the Picasso museum in El Borne. Nor can you express your inner hipster in Gracia or your outer gangster in the Raval. Walk and walk and walk and if in doubt walk some more. This is the most valuable bit of advice I can give you.
Oh apart from remember to look the right way when crossing the road. That is even more important. Because Spain, like every Latin country in the world, has instituted driving laws which are simply poorly camouflaged attemtps to cull the world's population of innocent Celts and Anglo-Saxons. You think they're still not smarting from the Armada going pear-shaped? Think again.
However, the BigBarcelonaBlog must acknowledge that there comes a time when ones feet are not enough. I'm again particularly thinking here of my readers from the Land of the Free who after a few hours of walking will doubtless already have large pustular-like blisters forming on their too, too soft flesh (I have one word for you. That word is micropore tape. Damn, I have two words for you.) We would not want our unquiet American friends to suffer the indignity of being diagnosed with a strange new strain of pediatric Bubonic plague and hence be forced to experience what a proper health system feels like, as the whole idea of universal care seems to bring the whole country out in hives which, ironically, at least half of them don't have the insurance to get treated.
It could also be that you have read other articles from the BigBarcelonaBlog about, say, Parc Guell (here) or the Sagrada Familia (here) or Montjuic (here) or Gracia (not here cause I haven't written it) and thought I must make my way to these tempting sounding spots to see if the reality can live up to the prose.
Move your eyes away from the Tour Bus which sits temptingly at the top of the Las Ramblas. True it will take you to all these places but it will take your soul at the same time. And a soul is going to come in handy one of these days. Just ask the pope. Or Sam & Dave
Instead gird your loins (a fantastic piece of advice I think you'll agree and one all too often, scandolously overlooked in these lax modern days. How many of us, I wonder, are sauntering through the streets with ungirded loins?) Head for the nearest metro station here's one I photgraphed earlier and they all look pretty much the sameand take the plunge into the unknown.
But BigBarcelonaBlog, I hear you protest, - they'll speak Spanish to me or even, perish the thought, Catalan. Fear not oh subterranean explorer for I have prepared you for such eventualities with my blog about learning to speak Spanish using only fifty words (here) and Catalan in only five words (here).
And anyway you won't have to speak to anyone. Simply approach a ticket machine. It will look like this.
On closer inspection you will see you are being offered 8 options. If you click on the Union Jack you can be offered them in English. You want a T-10if you squint you can see it there on the top level second from the left. Touch the screen to select it and then put your money in the slot on the right (it's about 10 Euros at the moment). You are now the proud owner of ten metro journeys.
An important thing to know is that the cards can be used by more than one person at the same time. After you've put it through the machine and passed through the whooshing door (OK whoosh is an exagerrationjuddering clunk is more accurate) all the other people you want to use it have to do the same (one swoop per person). That's all there is to it. It's incredibly well-signposted so if you know where you're going you shouldn't have any trouble.
The ticket technically only covers Zone 1 but as Zone 1 is so wide that it reaches practically to Madrid that shouldn't concern you very much. Which speaks volumes for the value of the ticket (in London Zone 1 stretches about as far as Boris Johnson's floppy hair). The trains come very regularly. Admittedly they can be crowded in the centre and especially at rush hour but nothing too bad. The last metro on weekdays and Sundays goes at 12, it's 2 on Friday and they run all night on Saturday and the nights before public holidays.
There are a couple of drawbacks. First, pickpockets. They are there and will pounce on an unwatched open bag but if you keep your stuff closed and in front of you you should be fine. The horror stories of Barcelona pickpockets, whilst not entirely untrue, are certainly considerably exaggerated. Do, however, be especially alert if a crowded escalator you are riding up suddenly comes to a stop. This is a well know chaos causing technique and there is a very good chance someone is about to lose their wallet. Try not to let it be you.
And the other drawback. Buskers. There is no easy way to say this but Barcelona has possibly the poorest quality buskers in the entire world combining the five big no nos of busking in one extremely resistable package, In no particular order, these are:
1) Intrusion and Pursuitrather than strumming Knocking on Heaven's Door dolefully in the tunnel like the British buskers I grew up with, Spanish buskers come into the carriage to play for you.
2) Amplificationoh yes. Each busker has their own personal generator.
3) Tinny backing trackthe buskers may attempt to play different songs over it but I swear the backing track is always the same.
4) Accordions.
5) Accordions. I really hate the accordion.
But apart from that what's not to like? It's cheap, it's fast and it's reliable. And, though I find it hard to believe, there may be some of you out there who even like accordions. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42322 | Thursday, 14 May 2015
Bloody grapefruit beers!
A passing reference by The Beer Nut to a Polish grapefruit-Weizen Radler reminded me that this is also one of the fastest growing beer-mixes in Germany. The best-known, and probably the best-seller, is almost certainly Schöfferhofer Grapefruit, but pretty much every larger brewery now seems to do a grapefruit Radler – and yes, they all call it grapefruit rather than the older German name, pampelmuse.
Initially they were all 2.5% ABV mixes with Weizen/Weissbier, but now mixes with blond lagers are appearing too, as are 0% mixes made with non-alcoholic Weizen. And while they may be flat and watery with little noticeable beer character (hello Schöfferhofer!), I don't usually find them as offensively sweet as traditional lemonade Radlers and shandies can be.
Then I suddenly realised – grapefruit is also one of the aromas and flavours that's often associated with craft beer, to the extent that those who don't like modern citrus-hoppy pale ales and the like tend to disparage them as “bloody grapefruit beers”.
OK, in this case the grapefruit character is from the hops, usually (but not exclusively) US ones such as Cascade or Chinook, and the flavours are more grapefruit bitterness than sweetness. But the parallels are there.
And sure, you can see it with other citrus fruit too – lemon is a long-standing one of course, and I recently greatly enjoyed Beavertown's Bloody 'Ell, which is an IPA with blood oranges in the boil – but grapefruit is the one that's taken off with both the aficionados and the mass market.
So what is it about the characters of beer and grapefruit that make them go together so bizarrely well?!
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
A sideways-statewise look at American craft beer
Just a quickie, as I'm snowed under with (paid!) writing work this week/month. It's American Craft Beer Week, and the organisers have produced this occasionally amusing, occasionally weird infographic marking each US state's contribution to craft beer.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42328 | The first American socialist experiment.
Doubtless you have all seen this before, but it needs repeating, (and it is free content, being long out of copyright)
Governor Bradford, repeatedly re-elected governor of the Puritan settlement tells us in his journal “Of Plymouth Plantation”:
All this while no supply was heard of, neither knew they when they might expect any. So they began to think how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop then they had done, that they might not still thus languish in misery. At length, after much debate of things, the Governor (with the advise of the chiefest amongst them) gave way that they should set corn every man for his own particular, and in that regard trust to them selves ; in all other things to go on in the general way as before. And so assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number for that end, only for present use (but made no division for inheritance, and ranged all boys & youth under some family. This had very good success ; for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted then otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn, which before would allege weakness, and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.
The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years, and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato’s and other ancients, applauded by some of later times, that the taking away of property, and bringing in community into a commonwealth, would make them happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser then God. For this community (so far as it was) was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For the young men that were most able and fit for labour and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children, with out any recompense. The strong, or man of parts, had no more in division of victuals & cloths, then he that was weak and not able to do a quarter the other could; this was thought injustice. The aged and graver men to be ranked and [97] equalized in labours, and victuals, clothes, etc, with the meaner and younger sort, thought it some indignity and disrespect unto them. And for men’s wives to be commanded to do service for other men, as dressing their meat, washing their clothes, etc, they deemed it a kind of slavery, neither could many husbands well brook it. Upon the point all being to have alike, and all to do alike, they thought them selves in the like condition, and one as good as another; and so, if it did not cut of those relations that God hath set amongst men, yet it did at least much diminish and take of the mutual respects that should be preserved amongst them. And would have been worse if they had been men of another condition. Let none object this is men’s corruption, and nothing to the course it self. I answer, seeing all men have this corruption in them, God in his wisdom saw another course fit for them.
So the true lesson of thanksgiving is that socialism leads to famine and slavery.
This, I think, is why anglosphere leftism has lasted considerably longer than the others: Because being Godly men, they were humble, and so eventually realized that leftism really stinks, whereas the usual reaction of leftists to this unwanted discovery is to start executing more people, setting children on fire in front of their mothers to force their mothers to reveal where the seed corn is hidden, crucify starving children for eating grass when they were supposed to be working, and rip the baby out of pregnant woman, pour petrol inside her, and set her on fire in order to punish her husband for thinking dangerous thoughts.
These days, however, they are no longer Godly men. Their response to the crimes of Aristide, and some of their fantasies such as “10:10, no pressure”, suggest that a return to form is increasingly probable. Zimbabwe and the Congo show the Cathedral in action in places far from their center of power. In the Congo, Cathedral forces ( Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo) are notorious for terrorizing hostile populations by killing women using genital impalement with large objects and sexually mutilating both men and women. That is an army that is 100% armed and paid by the Cathedral, answerable to a government 100% installed by the Cathedral and completely dependent on Cathedral money and UN forces. So far, however, the Cathedral has been pretty civilized, indeed exaggeratedly and absurdly civilized, when operating closer to home.
You can, however, tell that terrorizing hostile populations in the Congo with sexual impalement by large objects is Cathedral policy because the New York Times, when it does not piously avert its eyes, will piously tell you that militia men are the ones doing it, which lie reveals mens rea. Not that the entire Cathedral is going along with this, but those that don’t go along are reluctant to fuss overly loudly. More like murmuring quietly.
One Response to “The first American socialist experiment.”
1. red says:
They have made attempts at implement such policies. Waco and Ruby ridge are good examples of leftist policies that are being implemented at the local police level these days. Lots of non evil Americans are being murdered by our own police in SWAT raids. American cops look for every opportunity to kill people whenever they feel like it. The only rules seem to be don’t do it to actual criminals and make sure you can make a bullshit reason to justify your actions. Most law abiding people are quite terrified of the police these days.
Sending men to jail because they can’t pay child support seems to a pretty fucked up thing leftists are doing Americans these days. Though maybe that’s insanity. I can’t for the life of me see any value in doing that.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42330 | Wednesday, August 10, 2005
The Sad, Tortured Life of Rev. Karl Gutzlaff
Karl Gutzlaff has a tiny street named after him in Hong Kong's trendy SoHo district - but blink and you'll miss it. You'll see it on the map to the left. It is effectively bookended by two military men, the General Gage in charge of Army military operations during the First Opium War, and the much more famous Wellington of Waterloo fame. Quite fitting really, since Wellington was still active in politics in the 1830s, during the period when Gutzlaff was doing his best to ship opium into China. Who was this Gutzlaff fellow, and what was this Pomeranian missionary doing in the drug trade?
Reverend Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff was a Pomeranian saddle-maker turned missionary that was sent by the Netherlands Missionary Society to the Far East. His first port of call was Java, where he learned Chinese (surprisingly - I wouldn't go to Jakarta to learn Mandarin today!). He then went with his young English wife (who he met in Singapore) and child to Bangkok to spread the good Word. But then tragedy struck - both his wife and son died while he was working together with her on a Khmer/Lao dictionary into English. Heartbroken, he moved in the late 1820s to Macau. There he wanted to create a business out of printing Chinese Bibles and distributing them into the interior.
The only problem was, he didn't really have the money to print all these Bibles. Since he was one of the only Europeans that actually spoke Chinese, though, his linguistic services were in demand. Specifically, from one William Jardine, who made him a proposal - ride with his opium clippers that were illegally selling opium up and down the China Coast to translate for his captains, and he would get the money for his Bibles. Gutzlaff had a crisis of conscience that lasted about 48 hours and then readily agreed. He was to be in the drugs and bible business. He later wrote a book about these voyages, with opium only incredibly tangentially coming up in his book; it was called Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832 and 1833.
He did not really get to print or distribute as many Bibles as he had originally desired however, because he was usually thrown out of China, and so spent the rest of the decade working on local flocks. From this local flock he tried to turn them into preachers, and have them distribute the Bibles themselves in China. By 1848, he apparently had 200 missionaries working for him from his new base in Hong Kong (founded 1841). He had in the meantime also taken a position in the Hong Kong government as the Secretary in charge of Chinese affairs. His daily routine was described thus:
Daily, between 7 and 8 am, scores of Chinese came to the government offices to hear him expound the Bible in Hokkien. Then, after a hasty breakfast, he taught in Hakka or another dialect before beginning his dayÂ’s work. After office hours he went into the Chinese villages to preach or worked at home on his own translation of the Old Testament.
He began to raise money, quite successfully at first, from abroad for his exertions, given his impressive track record of an apparent 600-700 converts baptized a year.
But then other missionaries began to smell a rat amongst his new converts and missionaries that he was having proselytize and distribute Bibles in China. He refused to believe it, but his contemporaries thought he was being cheated. They were right. According to one Christian website that seeks to learn lessons on how not to preach in China quotes Dr. E.J. Eitel, author of Europe in China:
"They came and went with the utmost regularity starting from Gutzlaff'’s office with bags full of Bibles, traveling money and directions for the route; returning at the proper time with well-written journals of travels they had never made, skeletons of sermons and lists of converts they had never baptized. Poor Gutzlaff - —he believed them all to be inspired with his own holy zeal. The very Bibles he bought from the printers with his hard-earned money were sold by them again to Gutzlaff."”
Gutzlaff finally had to admit his faith in his missionaries for several years had been misplaced, and the funds taken from abroad frittered away, not to mention his life's work. In shame disgrace, he died on August 9th, 1851, 154 years ago yesterday - perhaps of a broken heart. Many people today look back on him as the ultimate hypocrite, but one does have to believe that at some level he meant well; certainly anyone that had such a tragic life is bound to be slightly unhinged...!
Madame Chiang said...
13 years in HKG and I never even knew that the street existed..or the name!!! Thanks for yet another educational read!
Anonymous said...
thanks for the interesting information. I was going to write a short biography on an obscure but Godly Christian missionary and found Gutzlaff's name, but now I think I will look for someone else. The Opium trade doesn't fit very well with "Godly testimony"
dimbulb said...
sad to devote your whole life to something you believe in only to find you've been deluded by the very people you put your faith in. must run in the family (gary guetzlaff, 2007) |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42331 | Power to the (cell phone using) People
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq learned the same lesson older US politicians learned in the last congressional election, the broad use of cell phone videos by the hoi polloi means that if you have your pants down you will be caught (on video).
Praise be to the internet and the people’s video!
There is, however, a dark force at work to limit the power of the cell phone and that force is the commercial service providers. For example, the only documented means of getting a ringer for my LG VX8100 cell phone is to buy the ringer and then pay Verizon a $9.99 charge per month to use it! Do they know that if we could load our own ringers they would not be able to charge such outrageous fees? Do they know that this might result in non-conformist expressions of individuality from which they would not profit?
My niece told me about a website that provides free ringers that sound like endangered species. I excitedly went to the website only to learn that my cell phone was not supported. Dejection. Frustration. And then . . . stubbornness.
I began to search for a rescuer. I googled here. I googled there. . .
And discovered we are not alone in our struggle against the corporate dragon – oh no. The fine folks at bitpim.org have developed a means by which the fortifications of the obstructionists can be circumvented. It is like a tunnel under the wall so that you can rescue your princess, er . . ., I mean your data.
With this sweet little program and bluetooth (a gift from my mommy) I was able to turn any mp3 into a ringtone. This morning when my cell phone alarm notified me it was time to go to work it did so by generating the sound of gentle waves.
When my phone rang, I heard the sound of humpback whale songs. Now, I am limited only by the single gigabyte on my miniSD card instead of by The Man. This is right and just.
Power to the people!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42340 | Alphabet’s Google And Verily Develop AI For Health
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is quite a trending topic in modern technology with many businesses adopting its use in their daily operations while others are skeptical about its relevance in the workplace. The robot’s arms automatically work together, dividing tasks as needed in the same way humans use their own arms. Of course, any AI algorithm is based on learning from the past. We focus on both data & algorithms, and support the open source AllenNLP deep learning platform.
In this article, we’ll look at the various categories of AI being employed and provide a framework for how companies should begin to build up their cognitive capabilities in the next several years to achieve their business objectives. Rather than serving as a replacement for human intelligence and ingenuity, artificial intelligence is generally seen as a supporting tool.
Cognition, Computation, And Intelligent Systems
Artificial Intelligence
The CNAS Artificial Intelligence and Global Security Initiative explores how the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution could lead to changes in global power, the character of conflict, and crisis stability. To identify this vulnerability, researchers created a special set of training data: images that look to us like one thing, but look to AI like another—a picture of a dog, for example, that, on close examination by a computer, has catlike fur. Many companies are already in the process of garnering the potential power of artificial intelligence and are working with intelligent chatbots to enhance their marketing efforts.
The Benefits Of Artificial Intelligence In The Workplace
Everything we love about civilization is a product of intelligence, so amplifying our human intelligence with artificial intelligence has the potential of helping civilization flourish like never before – as long as we manage to keep the technology beneficial. Theory of mind artificial intelligence is a very advanced technology. … Read More.. |
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Linux Installation Short Guide
This howto describes the basic steps to bring your new beroFix card into your network, and howto configure it so that you can make SIP to ISDN calls and vice versa. This howto is intended to use Asterisk as SIP Proxy, but you can use most of the setup for other SIP Proxies as well.
So the Steps are:
1. Setup Networking
1.1 Discovering and Resetting berofix
2. Add User for berofix in the Proxy/Registrar
3. Setup SIP/ISDN and Routing in beroFix
After these steps, you should be able to place and receive calls with berofix.
Setup Networking:
beroFix uses a Realtek PCI Network Chip to communicate with the Host PC. Which means it looks like a Network Card when you put it into a PC. This means that you don't have to compile or load any additional driver instead of the Network card driver ( 8139too on Linux). The layout looks basically like:
LAN <----> NIC_LAN (eth0) <-> PC <-> NIC_BEROFIX (eth1) <---> BEROFIX CPU
The PC can directly talk to the beroFix CPU via IP, but to make the beroFix CPU talk to other network Elements an additional Setup is required.
There are 3 common ways to make the Berofix CPU visible to the LAN components:
1. a Ethernet Bridge (recommended) 2. proper Routing 3. NAT
We will focus on howto use a bridge for now, since this makes the easiest setup and allows the most flexibility. It is also possible to use bridges on other operating systems than linux.
You can setup the bridge with the "brctl" utility. This utility is provided by the "bridge-utils" package on debian based systems (like ubuntu).
The beroFix cards have MAC Addresses beginning with "00:50:c2", so you can identify these cards with "ifconfig -a" :
ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:6E:D3:86:C6
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:797562 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:35206 errors:20 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:20
collisions:7447 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:141351732 (134.8 MiB) TX bytes:19431622 (18.5 MiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:C2:83:D0:01
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:35124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:276362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:20636164 (19.6 MiB) TX bytes:28931756 (27.5 MiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr: Mask:
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:720 (720.0 b) TX bytes:720 (720.0 b)
In this example eth1 is the berofix card.
To setup the bridge, you need to enter a few commands:
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth1 up
brctl addbr br0
brctl addif br0 eth0
brctl addif br0 eth1
ifconfig br0 up
These commands will first remove the ip-addresses from your network card, will create the bridge and add your network and the berofix card to this bridge. In this case the bridge gets the IP
The default IP of the berofix CPU is, you can change this later, then you can modify the bridge IP too.
To setup this bridge in a persitant way, you can modify your "/etc/network/interfaces" file on debian like systems (like ubuntu):
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
bridge_ports eth0 eth1
Then you can restart your networking with:
/etc/init.d/networking restart
Now you should be able to communicate with the berofix CPU. You can do this by simply using a webbrowser and browse to the IP of the berofix CPU, simply enter:
In your favourite Webbrowser. You will be prompted to enter a username and passwort, which are user:"admin" password:"admin" by dafault.
Discovering and Resetting berofix:
The following mechanisms require a bridge Setup! See above (1.).
If you ever get lost, while setting up a wrong IP or DHCP without a DHCP Server you can use the bfdetect tool to find and reset the device.
The bfdetect tool can be fetched via:
Simply untar and compile it with:
tar xzf bfdetect.tar.gz
cd bfdetect
make install
now you can discover the berofix device with:
You'll get a menu with every found berofix, then you can configure it's IP Settings.
Add User for berofix in the Proxy:
Assuming that you use Asterisk as SIP Proxy, you can make a very simple setup for berofix. Simply add the following lines to the "/etc/asterisk/sip.conf":
In the "/etc/asterisk/extensions.conf" you need to add a context "from-sip" like:
exten => _X.,1,Playback(tt-monkeys)
So every call from berofix will be routed to Playback(tt-monkeys). When you want to send calls to beroFix you can simply use the following dial statement:
exten => _0X.,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:1}@berofix)
exten => _0X.,n,hangup
To make this work you need to reload the configs on the asterisk cli:
asterisk -rx "reload"
No you need to setup these paramters at berofix as well, and you should be able to make basic calls.
Setup SIP/ISDN and Routing in beroFix:
beroFix can be completely configured by your webbrowser. So simply browse to berofix, by entering:
in your webbroswer. Now log in with "admin:admin". You will see a Web GUI with The major Points:
• ISDN Hardware - modify hardware related Settings (NT/TE, PTP)
• ISDN - group Ports together
• SIP - manage SIP Server registrations
• Dialplan - manage routing
In the first step you should put your isdn ports into groups. In the most simple scenario you can put your 4BRI Ports together in one group named "BRI".
Then create a SIP Server entry, which gets the name "asterisk" Serveraddress: "", User "berofix", Secret "berofix" Type "proxy" and default "enabled".
Finally you need 2 dialplan entries, one for "SIP-ISDN" and one for "ISDN-SIP".
From ID: "(.*)" To ID: "g:BRI" Destination: "(.*)" New Destinatoin: "\1" Source: "(.*)" New Source: "\1" Configuration: ""
As you can see, berofix understands regular Expressions Patterns. The Setting above means that every SIP Call is directly routed to the "BRI" group, the dialed number and the callerid are transported transparently.
From ID: "g:BRI" To ID: "g:asterisk" Destination: "(.*)" New Destinatoin: "\1" Source: "(.*)" New Source: "\1" Configuration: ""
This setup means that every ISDN Call coming from the ISDN Ports of the "BRI" group are routed to Asterisk.
As last step you need to activate the configuration. Do this by clicking on the "activate" icon.
Setting up a Bridge on other OS than debian
Open Suse
Howto setup a bridge on Suse: |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42411 | Thus begins the celebrated book Hamlet’s Mill by Giorgio De Santillana and Hertha Von Dechend first published in 1969.
Through studying some of the world’s most incomprehensible and rarely-known myths, the authors conclude that ancient man knew and understood the complicated movements of the Earth, the stars, the heavenly spheres, and most importantly the complex Law of Precession, known as the Precession of the Equinoxes – and long before the Greek astronomer, Hipparchus ‘rediscovered’ it sometime between 162 and 126 BC.
The above extract describes quite succinctly the almost impossible task that had been laid before me: to understand why an unknown source culture; a very ancient people of advanced intelligence, had encoded clues to this knowledge – a mystery to which the authors of Hamlet’s Mill could offer no solution. After all, it was enough that they brought these encoded references to public attention.
It may be difficult to believe, but indeed strong evidence suggests that a methodical, technical knowledge has been around long before the conventional dates given to human prehistory* and that an unknown, advanced culture had encoded traceable ‘hints’ that would one day lead the astute, intelligent and perceptive to the fount of their knowledge.
*This statement is supported by the authors of Uriel’s Machine: The Ancient Origins of Science
by Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas. (Arrow Books, 2000).
Quote: ‘Our analysis of the failings of prehistoric theory seemed to be pointing towards the pre-existence of knowledge’ . p. 32.
The key medium through which this knowledge could be strategically delivered and widely disseminated to those who would one day understand it, are the time-enduring myths and fables that were passed onto each generation via oral tradition and simple folk who were not aware of the cosmological secrets these moral “fairy tales” contained.
This ancient cosmology which has been encoded in numerous sources, is about the truth of man’s immortality as many have suspected – a knowledge that is still being largely ignored and ‘officially’ denied us. But furthermore, this ancient cosmology leads us to the hidden processes behind all cyclic phenomena and more importantly, the ‘birth-death-rebirth’ cycle, which can be observed everywhere in nature.
To preserve this knowledge it’s now becoming increasingly obvious that an ancient brotherhood or priesthood with time on its hands, had originally encoded key segments of this cosmology in almost everything man-made and conceived, hoping that the “jigsaw” pieces of this elaborate code – when looked at in total – would one day provide man with proof of his own spiritual immortality as well as the secrets pertaining to the collective psyche and how it is intimately linked-in with the processes that underlie our reality.
The first question that comes to mind is, who originally began encoding this data?
Based on the fact that much of this information is conceptually ‘shamanic’, my guess would be that it was the people behind the ‘cult of the serpent’ – the ‘Shining Ones’ – which, in my view was most-likely a shamanic-based priesthood which has ancient origins and is still in operation today – although much of the knowledge relating to these ‘Shining Ones’ has been kept hidden from us for almost an eternity by the Catholic Church, and other organised religions – especially the three main Abrahamic religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
What is astounding is the fact that many of these fragments of ‘connective,’ encoded information are related to the earliest forms of Gnosticism and the Arthurian Grail myths and legends, and also seem to be leading to the Giza necropolis in Egypt – especially the Great Pyramid and its North-South alignment with the star constellations of Orion (South sky) – said to be associated with Osiris the ‘good god’ (also a god of rebirth and resurrection) – and Draco, “the Dragon” or “Serpent,” (North sky) – said to be associated with the brother of Osiris, the ‘evil god’ Set or Seth.
We will discover that the theme of Duality is a common one and runs throughout everything we are going to be looking at in these presentations. The principal theme of Duality has a purpose, in that by giving reference to the dual opposites in nature, attention is really being brought to the “third thing” that exists between them – the neutral point of balance – which can lead to inner wisdom, knowledge and enlightenment.
Indeed BALANCE is everything, and meant everything to this unknown, ancient 'source culture' as we will discover. In this respect, one could say that symbolically, the sacred Giza plateau adopts a neutral and central, 0º position on an axis positioned between the opposites of “good” and “evil” – the positive and negative polarisation of the Earth and the Cosmos – and therein lies a clue as to the true purpose of Giza and the Great Pyramid which I found to be intimately related to the legends surrounding the ‘Grail’ and which has its origin in ancient Sumeria and beyond.
In fact, the Great Pyramid encompasses many of the principles of the Grail mysteries and more besides as I discovered in the course of my research. This is what we would come to expect if the Grail is also associated with man’s ‘immortality’ – something that the ancient Egyptians appear to have been obsessed with and something that still continues to mystify us today. Some parts of this complex puzzle have already been uncovered by joint authors and researchers Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval. Of especial interest is Bauval’s OCT (Orion Correlation Theory).
Although much has already been uncovered, what hasn’t yet been acknowledged is that the mysterious monuments that stand so silently on the Giza plateau are really symbolic pointers that can help us to ultimately understand the "mechanical" processes that underlie reality and how these processes are closely tied-in with the collective human psyche. Not only this, but despite what we may believe today, they also provide clues as to how the ‘immortal human soul’ can escape the repetitive incarnation cycles associated with these processes, as was once deeply believed by our ancestors and with the utmost conviction.
What I discovered points to a ‘Golden Age’ in our past when the principles of this knowledge associated with the enlightenment experience were practised and which no doubt produced the first ever religion, or all-encompassing ‘belief system’ based on man’s concept of the Centre – which is shamanic in origin. This was a working cosmology, in which all the religions we know today have their origin but still remain peripheral to – even though this Centre or Hub of the whole wheel is also the unconscious and hidden ‘nucleus’ of each.
The people whom this ‘system of knowledge’ belongs to, and the ancient serpent-worshipping cult just mentioned, could only be the ‘Shining Ones’ – also known (depending on the cultures who named them), as the Abgal, Abkarlu, Akeru, Akhu, Anak, Anannage, Ancient Masters, Annedoti, Angeloi, Angels, Annunaki, Apkallu, Archangels, Devas, Deiwos, Egrogoris, Elders, Elohim, Feathered Serpents, Fish-Beings or Fish Deities; Gibborim, Genii, Grigori, Jabaariyn, Jin, Nagas, Nephilim, Neteru, Nommos, Rephaim, Rishis, Seraphim, Seven Sages, Serpents, Shemsu Hor, Tuatha dé Danaan, Urshu, Watchers, Monitors . . . the list goes on and on.
These Shining (“Mighty” or “Majestic”) Ones – also illustrated in the stars and constellations through which the stories of their lives were conveyed – were seen as “gods”, “sons and daughters of gods” and ‘shepherds of men’, whom it is said, taught and civilised mankind.
More recently, we find that many prominent occultists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries claimed to have been in touch with these beings, which they said exist in another dimension.
Alice Bailey called them the ‘Ascended Masters’; Aleister Crowley referred to them as the “Hidden Chiefs”; Idries Shah called them the ‘Guardians of the Tradition’; while John Bennett named them the ‘psychoteleios’ or “perfected ones”.
Others refer to them as the ‘Ancient Ones’, the ‘Immortals’, the ‘Hidden Directorate’ and the ‘Children of Seth’. Recently we find these beings also under the name of ‘the Nine’ – supposedly the nine Ennead of ancient Egyptian religion.
It has been established that the term ‘God’ in the Bible, Elohim, is in the plural and means, ‘Bright’ and ‘Shining’ and also translates as “These Beings”. Therefore the term ‘gods’ encompasses not only this early shamanic-based culture of highly-skilled and intelligently advanced individuals – who over time and because of their scientific and astronomical knowledge, their spiritual wisdom and their supposed shamanic, extrasensory abilities, made them appear as “gods” . . . but also the supernatural “beings” (also “Shining Ones”) that these shamans communed with and which exist in the psychical or ‘other dimensional’ realms, and who no doubt also had an influence – both good and bad – in shaping human destiny. All were thought of as “gods” by lesser developed people who lived peacefully aside them in the surrounding countries and domains.
According to the Illuminati, who in recent years have emerged from the shadows and have come forward to dispel the disinformation, lies and propaganda that's been said and written about them, we are told that their oldest writings declare that the Order, which is Gnostic in principle, was founded by the Illuminators – the Phosters (again, “Shining Ones”), to impart mathematical knowledge to the wisest peoples of the Earth – i.e., nomadic holy men, mystics and philosophers.
See: The Illuminati by Adam Weishaupt (pseudonym) Hyperreality Books, 2011.
My own findings, suggest that a number of these advanced people the Illuminati call the Phosters, survived a major global catastrophe. The date of the initial event is still to be determined. Evidence suggests – also supported by Masonic symbolism – that the original perpetrator was a comet, and that the survivors of this advanced race or culture, while preserving their knowledge in the monuments they built and the myths that they inspired or created, taught the rest of mankind how to survive the new conditions on Earth.
Although the reality of this mysterious ‘godlike’ culture is not taken seriously by the majority of mainstream historians, not alone the ‘worldwide catastrophe scenario’ which is forever being concluded in individual research, much has now been written about the evidential presence of this unknown culture in the distant past and throughout history. And today through authors and researchers such as the late Zecharia Sitchin (Annunaki), Christian O’Brien (Elohim), Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock (Neteru, Akhu, Shemsu Hor), Andrew Collins (Elders), Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas (Grooved Ware People), and Tracy R. Twyman (Watchers) the subject is now very popular and not without reason as we are discovering more about this primordial ethos everyday.
Evidence suggests that these people – humans – were ‘scientifically advanced’ and believed to possess certain psychic or clairvoyant abilities which they, or those around them could often use to their advantage, in that they could easily manipulate those who believed they held supernatural powers akin to “godhood”. In addition to this they were expert magicians and could therefore easily be perceived as being in contact with, or holding the “power of the gods” through their advanced knowledge.
They were intrinsically shamanic in origin, as their cosmology contains the same key concepts we find in the shamanic tradition. It would seem that their ‘power base’ evolved from the influence the early primitive shaman had over his tribe and his people which then developed into a Gnostic ‘brotherhood’ or ‘priesthood’, and over millennia into a sophisticated and scientifically advanced community. These people are still with us today as the Illuminati.
In any case, it is now obvious to me that the original ‘Shining Ones’ knowledge was based on the ‘mid-point’ or ‘neutral balance’ between all opposites, including “good” and “evil” and that it was this principal which these advanced people tried to uphold, preserve and maintain – even when some of their own kind had fallen into the illusions of duality taking the greater part of the human race along with them.
My own view is that this knowledge along with geophysical data concerning the Earth’s tilted axis is greatly preserved in the monuments of Giza as a code, and that one must first acknowledge and understand what this ‘Neutral Point’ in consciousness is before one can begin to decode it and this is the purpose of these presentations.
In his book, At the Edge of History (1989), William Irwin Thompson reflects on the fact that the wisdom and knowledge preserved in these myths show that the simple and primitive cultures that presented them, are not the beginning of something but the end of something else.
Considering the technology we have today, and the myths that seem to allude to a previous technical and scientific era, one could be forgiven for suggesting that mankind has perhaps come ‘full circle’ and that this has happened many times.
Personally, I certainly did not set-out to tackle this particular mystery but it was inevitable that I would eventually be led onto this path having first made a major discovery based on encoded information in several Baroque-period paintings (17th century) that on the surface seemed unrelated to the evidence provided in Hamlet’s Mill.
As described in the above extract, the mythical terrain is difficult: the evidential but subtle ‘key references’ – comparative data – found in myths from different nations and cultures, and even the cultures of divided continents, are frequently interwoven with nonsensical schemes and plots and conveyed via a narrative that is often florid and tiresome, and so its sometimes impossible to place what is understood into some kind of logical, rational order. But I am certain we are now close to understanding exactly why our distant ancestors encoded these clues and references . . . ‘keys’ to the profound knowledge they held in their capable grasp.
During the course of this research, and before my findings began to dovetail quite naturally with the astrophysical themes given in Hamlet’s Mill, I discovered that a large number of the world’s major literary works, architecture, and various works of art (both ancient and modern) contain hidden clues; small fragments of significant data: pieces of a “giant jigsaw”, some of which seem to have been deliberately placed, intentionally encoded and with intelligent design. I discovered that this encoded information is linked to an ancient ‘system of knowledge’ developed by a mysterious, primordial, obviously, shamanic-based culture known universally as the “Shining Ones”. This peculiar culture seems to have all but vanished – although its influence is continuous and very much alive as it has always been.
In my written works I have gone some way in uncovering the existence of these ancient shamans as well as reveal the influence they had on society and still have today. One example is our many traditions. In these presentations, I wish to deal with the ancient and secret knowledge – incorporating science, religion, mysticism and philosophy that hundreds of authors and researchers have “wrestled” with for decades to understand, simplify and clarify. Many have failed or could only go so far, because it is indeed a fact that we tend to concentrate separately on one theme or subject at a time without recognising that everything is deeply connected.
This ancient knowledge is very different to the knowledge we understand today, in that it was/is more holistic compared to our own, which is fragmented; divided into separate subjects, fields of study and disciplines and has no system to it other than each subject being sectioned and compartmentalised between A and Z. In comparison to ours today, the ancients had a 'system of knowledge' based on correspondences and the hidden connections between things, as encapsulated in the Hermetic maxim – “as above, so below”.
Their knowledge was also communicated through advanced mathematics and sacred geometry that reflected the workings of nature and was imbued with a profound wisdom and spiritual excellence, which is more akin to the ‘perfection’ we are supposed to be evolving towards rather than the ‘humble beginnings’ we have “evolved” ‘from’, as is generally believed.
I would emphasise that like today, none of the early civilisations we know of had a complete and thorough understanding of this ancient ‘system of knowledge’ which belonged to a former time in man’s long history. Its clear that these ancient cultures owe their development to the more ‘elementary’ tenets of the cosmology that had been divulged or passed onto them: but even so, its clear that they didn’t know the whole story or picture, and what had been passed onto them was often fragmentary, also misinterpreted, misconceptualised and further degraded by the new interpretations or belief systems that were forever springing up, and so in the process much of this original ‘core knowledge’ became buried and hidden over time.
However, by and large, there have always been the initiated amongst us who have understood this ‘system of knowledge’, and so it’s indeed possible that a number of said individuals felt the need to deliberately encode certain ‘key themes’ belonging to this knowledge in the relevant sources throughout history. I have found this to be a fact.
The fragments of cleverly-encoded data pertaining to this ancient cosmology turn up in various religious literary works: they turn up in the Bible, in the Gospels (those that are included in the Bible and mostly those that have been excluded from it), and in many of the well-known folk-stories, allegories, fables and myths from around the world – as made known to us by the authors of Hamlet’s Mill.
They also turn up dramatically in many so-called ‘factual events’ that have been recorded, and all are accompanied by what we find in esoteric literature and symbolism – especially the Hindu scriptures, and particularly, the Alchemical, Hermetic, Cabbalistic, Sufi, Masonic, Rosicrucian, Gnostic, Templar, Theosophical, mystery schools. We also find this ancient knowledge encoded in the buildings and structures erected, not only by our distant and erstwhile ancestors, but also by certain individuals living in our own times – and which even now remain a mystery to many of us.
Of course, one of the richest veins associated with this ‘underground stream’ are the Arts – sculptures, paintings, illustrations that contain a profusion of symbols, secret codes and sacred geometry, some of which we have already seen. If we really are dealing with a code in which an ancient belief, religion, cosmology or veritable ‘system of knowledge’ has been preserved, then evidence shows that this information was:
1), symbolically encoded when many of these mythological stories and other works and texts were first being conceptualised, disseminated and cultivated – and,
2), also added to by more data being inserted into these sources throughout the centuries and as time went on along with certain works of art produced by those who were initiated into this knowledge.
It’s only natural that we also find many modifications and amendments given to the original data, and in respect to our current understanding relating to different periods in history – i.e., those times when the data was revised in some way or perhaps supplemented.
This is evident in the small changes and additions that have been made to the Phoenix and Grail myths throughout history – to give just a few examples. Many of these pieces of information will often lead us on a highly convoluted trail of ‘double’ and sometimes ‘multiple meanings’ – the life and Crucifixion of Jesus being a typical case in point.
It must be said that the story of ‘the Christ’ or ‘Saviour’ is really part of a much bigger story – a ‘bigger picture’ that has its origin in the world-wide shamanic traditions. When each, or maybe even a few of these clues are spotted, their significance is easily overlooked, ignored or explained away as something mundane or at best a ‘coincidence’. However, the deeper meaning – i.e., what these clues are all pointing to – can only be seen when looked at in total.
Figure 6: The tree at 23.5 degrees.
tree at 30
The ancients calculated the ‘Great Year’ of the Precessional Cycle to be 25,920 years.
The Platonic number 25,920, also known as the ‘Mythical’ or ‘Canonical number’, is again a roughly correct or overall figure – favoured because being based on multiples of nine, it was easy to remember and was easier to encode. - e.g., 2 + 5 + 9 + 2 + 0 = 18 . . . 1 + 8 = 9.
References to the number were again placed in the earliest myths and folk stories using fractions of this number, all of which again reduce down to nine, which when multiplied, added or subtracted with each other, can result in the Platonic number of 25,920.
Keeping within the 360 limit of a circle, the numbers below are each related with the time-related, celestial mechanics of the Earth resulting from the ‘law of precession’.
9, 12, 18, 27, 30. 36, 54, 63, 72. 108. 360.
Indeed, it has been noted that the numbers above, all of which reduce down to the number 9, have been encoded in many myths around the world, and as we have seen the numbers of 12, 30, 360 and 72 all appear in the myth of Osiris.
The reader will remember that in the Osiris myth, Thoth won a 72nd part of every day which amounted to the extra five days of the year - possibly resulting from the tilt of the Earth's axis. Also, Osiris was tricked by his evil brother Set and became trapped in a coffin nailed down by "72 conspirators"
How is the number 72 an important number related to Precession?
72 is a key precessional number – in that it takes roughly 72 years for the Sun to move only one degree backward along the Ecliptic.
Unfortunately, Precession occurs at a variable rate so current estimates given to the Precessional Cycle are 25,770, 25,776 and 25,826 years. For general discussions, an overall figure of 26,000 years will suffice.
Why does the duration of the Precessional Cycle vary?
Again, the duration can change according to the period of the ‘Eccentricity Cycle’ – the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, which over 100,000 years moves from a circular orbit (perihelion – closest to the Sun) to an elliptical orbit (aphelion – furthest from the Sun).
This variation in orbit affects the length of the Precessional Cycle, which over a 100,000-year period, can change drastically.
In any case, current estimates give the number 25,776 as the correct one, as it has been calculated that the Sun takes 71.6 years to move a degree in the precessional cycle. 72 is therefore an approximation and some have used this to debunk and vilify the view that the Osiris myth carries important information about the Law of Precession.
However, as stated by Graham Hancock, it would have been difficult to say that Set was assisted by ‘71.6’ conspirators – hence the reason why the Platonic number was used by the ancients which was close enough for one to grasp the “bigger picture”.
On the subject of ‘precession numbers’, many have tried to discredit Graham Hancock’s work in this regard by providing more accurate numbers. It’s true that although they are very close to ‘precise’, the numbers encoded in the myths – and which are all multiples of 9 – are approximate figures, and its what we would expect.
However, many of us do not realise that the main reason why these particular numbers are encoded in myth and many sacred buildings and temples around the world is because these numbers are associated with the cycles of nature and reality itself, and this is something I will expand on at the end of this section.
Now, how does this 'precession numbers' code work in first giving us a geophyical picture of the Earth?
How do they present to us a consistent geophysical picture of the Earth's and its orbital dynamics?
Let's go back to what we learned earlier in the Preliminary . . .
During the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes – being the two points in the year when the Equatorial Plane intersects the Ecliptic Plane – the Sun will rise exactly in the East and will set exactly in the West and so day and night are equal in length.
As mentioned, the Earth is spinning in an anti-clockwise direction, but due to the slow ‘clockwise’ shift of the axis due to precession, the point on the horizon where the Sun rises on the Vernal Spring Equinox is shifting to the west by just over four feet every year. Again, from our perspective on Earth, the Zodiac is seen to move behind the Sun in a clockwise direction – each sign being completed in a month and the whole Zodiac completed in a year. This is really due to the Earth’s anticlockwise orbit around the Sun, which again, takes a year to complete.
However, the Sun’s own orbit around the Zodiac is much slower.
Again at present, we are living in the ‘Age of Pisces’, which is said to have began around 1 AD, and so every year on the Spring Equinox – the Sun is seen to be rising against the Zodiacal constellation of Pisces. In other words, the Sun is moving backwards slowly and in a clockwise direction from Pisces towards the ‘Age of Aquarius’ – but won’t reach the constellation of Aquarius for another hundred and fifty years . . . Why?
Well, the total number of degrees in which the Sun travels around the Zodiac is again 360, as in a 360-degree circle. And so if it takes roughly 72 years for the Sun to move just one degree along this path, then it takes 2,160 years for the Sun to move through any one of the 12 Zodiac signs or constellations – again, each sign consisting of 30 degrees.
At present, the total number of years for the Sun to complete a full precessional cycle (again known as “The Great Year”) – being all 12 Zodiac constellations is 25,776 years. Although out by 144 years, this is still quite close to the mythical 25,920 years, which is simply based on 12 x 2,160 or 360 x 72.
Going back to the numbers encoded in the myth of Osiris, each of the numbers 12, 30, 360 and 72, can be multiplied by any of the others in the sequence so as to give the duration figures of different cyclical periods associated with precession.
For instance, 30 x 72 = 2,160 – again, being the number of years it takes the Sun to move through one of 12 star constellations or signs of the zodiac.
72 x 360 = 25,920 – being the number of years that the Sun takes to move through all the signs – i.e., once around the Zodiac.
30 x 360 = 10,800 – being the number of years it takes the Sun to move halfway through any one of the Zodiac signs – and 30 x 12 = 360 – which speaks for itself.
More significant is the fact that the Great Pyramid of Giza also incorporates these precession numbers, as we will discover in subsequent presentations.
What other advanced knowledge and wisdom do these simple numbers contain?
For example . . .
In effect we could say that Osiris is "trapped" by the number 72 - representing the Sun's movement in the precessional cycle and therefore all cycles of nature as a result of the 23.5-degree tilt of the Earth's axis - the number 72 being also related to the number of years in an average human life span or cycle – being around three score years and ten.
72 is also related to the movement of blood in the physical body pumped by the heart – which on average is moving at 72 pulse beats a minute. On average we breathe 18 times a minute – 4 x 18 = 72. If we breathe 18 times a minute, then in a day we will have breathed 25,920 times.
We can see that he number 72 is also associated with our sexigesimal time-measuring system, which itself has been based on the Precessional Cycle.
Take a 24-hour day:
24 hours divided by 60 minutes is 1440. 1440 x 60 seconds = 8,640 – being a third of a precessional cycle in years.
Or, 1440 x 18 = 25,920.
Or, 18 x 24 = 432. 432 x 60 = 25,920.
So in effect, each breath we take corresponds with one year in the precessional ‘Great Year’. And again, one lifetime corresponds with one degree of the precessional cycle of 72 years. Of course these are general round figures, but if we are too precise in our measurements then we would never notice these correspondences telling us that all cycles are relative to each other.
Above all, we are being told that all cycles are basically the same cycle at different scales and frequencies: the larger the scale – the slower the frequency – the smaller the scale – the faster the frequency – and these cycles range from the rotation of galaxies to the spin and oscillation of subatomic particles . . . everything has a cyclical nature.
These numbers encoded within the myths as well as many ancient sacred buildings and temples, are not only about the cycles of precession . . . they relate to all cycles . . . the cycles of reality – the message being, that man is trapped within cycles of his own making, which is why his life-span and the number of breaths he takes in a lifetime is also related.
Could it be, that just as an individual's lifetime takes roughly 1 degree (72 years) of the Great Year cycle of 25,920 years, that in a collective sense, the evolution of man's development from humble beginnings to a sophisticated, scientifically-advanced stage, takes the duration of the whole cycle – the whole 25,920 years?
And if so, does this mean that man goes through the repeating pattern of either destroying himself or his civilisations are almost wiped out by a recurring major global catastrophe at the end-beginning point of this cycle?
Again, if so, then he would have to begin again at the start of the next cycle, until he becomes conscious of this and learns to do something about it – i.e., becoming consciously aware OF and AT this point in the cycle, so as to come off the cycle. Perhaps this is the real significance of the Alpha-Omega, - the end-beginning point of the cycle - as we will also discover in the course of these presentations.
The number 1440 has further significance.
As we know there are 1440 minutes in a day. 12 x 12 is 144.
Two times 72 is 144. When we multiply 1440 by 100, we get 144,000.
144,000 divided by 72 = 2000. 144,000 divided by 400 = 360.
It's interesting that in bringing attention to the work of author Bruce Cathie, author David Wilcock concurs that 144 is the fundamental “building block” of all sound vibration frequencies and is the fundamental Gematrian “frequency number” for light.
An esoteric understanding of cyclic phenomena then, is essential before we can understand the deeper significance of these numbers and their correspondences and so in being precise, one misses the point entirely. We shall come back to these deeper connections later.
Mather Walker is a specialist whose Website is dedicated to bringing to light the scientific and metaphysical knowledge contained within the Plays of Shakespeare – which he says were more likely to have been written by Francis Bacon whom many believe was a Rosicrucian. There is also evidence to suggest that with others, Bacon was directly responsible for the writing and dissemination of the two Rosicrucian Manifestos that first appeared in Europe in 1614 and 1615.
Walker’s essay about Hamlet, entitled Mirror for Everyman: A View of Hamlet's Midnight, is enlightening – especially in view of Santillana and von Dechend’s study which he acknowledges. In Walker’s view, Hamlet is the focus for “Everyman” – in that he represents the present condition of the human race . . .
The Earth losing its alignment with the Sun, means that the Earth lost its alignment with the ‘Ecliptic Plane’.
Again, the Earth’s axis is tilted by 23.43 degrees – meaning that the equator is tilted 23.43º in relation to the Ecliptic Elane – the Earth's orbital plane around the Sun.
The axis being tilted means that the North polar axis is no longer pointing to the Ecliptic Centre – the ‘still point’ location in the heavens it would be pointing if it were upright and aligned with the vertical Pole of the Ecliptic.
Walker’s words reflect man’s obsession with the vertical Pole of the Ecliptic, and the Ecliptic Centre, and his spiritual realignment with both. As we will discover, it’s possible that the Ecliptic Centre was seen by the ancients to represent the ‘spiritual source’ that Walker mentions.
It should be noted that in his essay Mather Walker also makes associations with the Great Pyramid of Giza and Francis Bacon's view that the pyramid and other ancient temples and monuments were built as models of the universe - a view also shared by the high-ranking Freemason Frank C. Higgins.
Following is a series of quotes attributed to Francis Bacon himself, who comments on his 'Pyramid of Philosophy' based on his seven principles of learning; each imagined to be stacked on top of each other and arranged like an inward-sloping pyramid - the apex or capstone being the mystical seventh.
These quotes from Bacon's books are important in a lot of ways, in that they indicate that Bacon, who again was a Rosicrucian and most likely known by Poussin as some researchers have suspected, was familiar with both the sacred geometry and the spiritual aspects of the pyramid as encapsulated in the Great Pyramid of Giza:
And as we will discover, these words are well founded and show that Francis Bacon was an initiate who understood the principles of esoteric knowledge and ancient sacred geometry and science I am attempting to uncover in these presentations . . . but returning to the skull and whom it might belong to . . .
We saw how the skull along with the loaves of bread in Elsie Russell's Vanitas paintings, are clear symbolic references that appear to be pointing to the ancient Egyptian god Osiris, the 'corn god' and 'god of wheat'.
We can conclude then that the skull belongs to Osiris. This is supported by the fact that the story of Hamlet is also based on the Osirian myth, in which Horus avenges his dead father and previous incarnation, Osiris, and that in the earlier stories of Hamlet, Osiris/Horus is disguised behind the names associated with the "proud owner of the mill" - symbolising the Earth's axis.
We will now return to Poussin's painting . . .
Next: the shepherd clothed in Black and at the centre, between his companions dressed in Red and White, appears to be holding a wooden staff (although it could just as well be the Shepherdess who is holding it), which is angled at 30 degrees from the vertical - an angle perpendicular to the sarcophagus which is at the angle of 30 degrees from the horizontal.
As is evident from these examples of many, the lance or spear of the hero St. George (who was based on the ancient Egyptian god Heru/Horus), is at the axis angle of 23.5 degrees, and therefore the lance/spear symbolises the Earth's celestial polar axis; conveying the message that this is what the spear of Horus really represents in the ancient Egyptian depictions of Horus slaying the serpent crocodile and hippopotamus associated with Set. Furthermore, the majority of these depictions show the lance or spear piercing the head of the dragon like the images of Horus who spears the head or eye.
As we will see, it’s possible that the message is this:
When the Earth became tilted, the pole first fell towards the head of Draco, the constellation of the dragon or serpent, and so one of the stars of Draco became the first Pole Star. Its no wonder that Set, who was associated with Draco, was then blamed for the “fall of man”, as played out in his murder of Osiris
Its interesting that high-ranking Freemason, Frank C. Higgins, mentioned Set (the Greek Typhon) as the Pole Star:
As we will see, Higgins' words about the ancient Egyptian Triad being related to the cycles of nature and human consciousness are correct; and its possible that the reason why Typhon (Set) was viewed as the Pole Star, is because the first Pole Star that the Earth's axis pointed to and which began the Cycle of Precession, was one of the stars of Draco, a constellation associated with Set. If so then this star is located in the head of Draco. What this star might be exactly, is something that will become apparent the further we go on, although there will be clues presented along the way.
The mythical terrain is a difficult one to navigate: we are literally dealing with centuries upon centuries of myth, metaphor and symbolism involving different cultures, but what is becoming clear is that the paradise known as the Garden of Eden, the Golden Age and Arcadia, as we will discover, are all related to a time before the Earth fell . . . Zep-Tepi, the first time of Osiris.
For now, we can safely establish that Osiris was the "Shepherd god" that Plato was referring to, and who reigned on Earth during the Golden Age when "the seasons blended evenly".
Its also possible that Osiris was the 'god shepherd' of Arcadia, whose skull and tomb feature in the Arcadian Shepherds paintings by Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665).
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Figure 3: Depictions of St. George spearing the Dragon at the Earth's axis angle of 23.5 degrees.
Left: A Byzantine plague, on which is represented St.George rescuing the emperor's daughter. 15th century.
Third image (large): St George Slays the Dragon by Fortunino Matania. (1962).
Top Right: Detail from a painting by Giorgio de Chirico. (1940). Rome, Italy. Others Uknown.
“It is now all but certain that the Egypian triad, Osiris, Isis and Horus, were three philosophical aspects of Jehovah, representing 'consciousness of existence,' 'abstract intelligence' and 'wisdom,' personified in a variety of ways, both spiritual and material; they also personified sun, earth and animate nature and the Nile, Egypt and her harvest.
A mystic drama enacted by the priests at certain epochs exhibited the slaying of Osiris by his vengeful brother Typhon, the Polestar, the search for the mutilated body by his widow, Isis, and its final reserrection as the glorified young god of fertility, Horus, who becomes Osiris at maturity, the husband of his own mother, and enacts the same cycle of events over again”.
The serpent depicted is often the evil god Apep or Apothis - the deification of darkness and chaos and an opponent of light and Ma'at (order/balance/truth).
Set, who murdered Horus' father and former incarnation, Osiris, eventually became thought of as the "god of evil". Set gradually took on all the characteristics of Apep. Consequently, Apep's identity was eventually entirely subsumed by that of Set.
Figure 1: Horus and Pharaohs spearing the head or eye of the hippo or serpent or Set
The first syllable of the word Arcadia, ‘arc’, is from the French and means ‘curvature’ as in an 'arch' or dome and the ‘bow’ of archery.
In geometry, an ‘arc’ is again, a curved line, and in particular it is a portion of the circumference of a circle or sphere.
We are reminded here of certain locations on the Earth – i.e., certain habitable ‘portions’ of the Earth where people would enjoy the continual springtime climate as a result of the Earth’s upright axis.
The Earth’s surface is measured in ‘arc’ hours, minutes and seconds. ‘Arc’ is also used to describe movement on or along a curved path.
As we know the word ‘Arctic’ and Antarctic are associated with the North and South poles – being the names given to the icy regions that surround it. The word ‘arctic’ derives from the Greek Arctos meaning ‘bear’ – possibly because the celestial polar axis once pointed to the area between the “Great and Little Bears” – known as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor respectively. Between the “Great and Little Bears” is the “Dragon” or “Serpent” – the constellation of Draco.
If the Earth’s axis were once upright then again it would have been aligned with the Pole of the Ecliptic and the Ecliptic Centre, so it would indeed have been in-between the two “Bears” and within the coils of the “Dragon” or “Serpent”.
It has been said that Draco is also the serpent Ladon, who, with the sisters known as the Hesperides, held guard over the three golden apples of the tree – the tree being the ‘world tree’ – the Earth’s axis.
‘Ladon’ is also the name of the tributary river associated with the river Alpheios or Alpheus that ran through Arcadia – Arcadia also being a name for the ‘Ecliptic Centre’ to which the Earth’s upright axis had once pointed.
The name of the river God associated with the ‘Underground Stream’ of esoteric knowledge is also Alpheus, and this god is featured in many of Poussin’s paintings - especially in the Arcadian Shepherds painting we have been examining above, in which he is shown reclining in the foreground, pouring the water of the River Alpheus, its source being in Arcadia.
In their book, Hamlet’s Mill authors, Santillana and Dechend tell us that when the constellation of Draconis was wound around the top of the ‘world tree’, the plane of the ecliptic lay in the same plane as that of the equator. Again, this meant that days and nights were of equal length all year round and that there was an “eternal spring”.
The authors add that due to some great misfortune, the plane of the equator had become separated from the plane of the ecliptic and the axis of the Earth became tilted. The serpent was therefore “cast down” and so the constellations of Orion and Virgo – which represent Adam and Eve, as well as the ancient Egyptian deities Osiris and Isis, were also “cast down” from their place on the equator and the plane of the ecliptic. In effect, both had become evicted from the original “Garden of Eden” – ending up at a location far below the equator . . . the “Underworld”.
The constellation of Draco is shaped like a large ‘S’ in the sky – and so it can also be viewed as a winding river – which again also brings to mind the central river Alpheus or Ladon whose source was Arcadia and which would have represented the sushumna channel in the body, as did the River Nile, as we will see. Furthermore, it’s possible that the constellation of Draco – being a backward facing ‘S’ – was the original inspiration for the Chinese Tai Chi or yin-yang symbol, as theorised by some researchers. The two dots in the symbol which illustrate how each opposite contains the other within it, was possibly represented by the Great and Little Bears – Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
Looking up the etymology of the word ‘arc’ or ‘ark’ brings some interesting results:
Ark in Old English is arc, or earc – meaning box or coffin’ from the Latin arca meaning, ‘chest’ and arcus meaning, ‘bow’.
In Old High German it is arahha or arka. In Middle High German it is arche). In Old Slavic it is raka or rakev, meaning, ‘burial cave’ or ‘coffin’. Then we have the term arcane or arcãnum, as in ‘arcane knowledge’ associated with the esoteric and the occult.
The Latin arcānum means, ‘secret’ or ‘mystery’ – i.e., that which has been originally ‘enclosed in a chest’ – again from arca, meaning ‘chest’, and ‘coffin’ also associated with the word arcēre meaning ‘to enclose’ or ‘keep away’.
Joscelyn Godwin tells us that ‘the pole is the supreme Arcanum or “secret”, for Arx is the celestial pole’ – meaning the polar axis of the Earth. This would go along with my theory that the name 'Arcadia' is a code name associated with the ecliptic centre – the abode of the gods and the abode of Atum-Ra in particular – the point in space to which the celestial pole was once aligned or should be.
Godwin adds that according to 19th century writer John O’Neill, the word Arx is derived from the Latin word for ‘summit’, ‘high hill’, ‘fortress’, ‘stronghold’ and ‘citadel’.
‘All arks, sacred chests, and boxes then become repositories of the secret of the polar sanctum of Arcadia’.
So what we can gather from this is that the Arx is a man-made structure – a ‘sacred mountain’ perhaps – which contains secret information or knowledge about the celestial axis. The symbol for arc is Λ which of course reminds us of a pyramid.
One imagines that the Arx could only be the Great Pyramid og Giza, located as it is at the centre of the world like the original Omphalos – a pyramid or dome-shaped (arched) stone said to be placed at the navel of the world. In certain apocryphal accounts we find the word Arka – the name of the region to which Cain and his descendants were banished by God and not surprisingly, Arka too is said to be at the centre of the Earth.
We also have the ‘Ark’ that carried the survivors of the ‘Great Flood’, and the ‘Ark of the Covenant’ which some claim to have been an ancient power or energy source – a device associated with the "Shining Ones", the survivors of an advanced civilisation that was destroyed during a global cataclysm so it is said. The word Ark, also seems to bear some relation to the Egyptian word Akh – the name for the Creative Source – the ‘Shining One’. We should not forget the word Archon – meaning ‘ruler’, and Archives – meaning ‘records’.
What can we make of all this?
A logical way of “stringing all this together” is to say that our arcane knowledge contains information in regard to a worldwide catastrophe which caused the arx – the celestial axis of the Earth, to arc or arch – i.e., move or tilt from its upright position and alignment with the Ecliptic Centre - Arcadia . . . Akh. And so man ‘fell’ into repeating cycles – being the cycles of the seasons.
The “Great God Pan had died” . . . man fell into “sleep” as personified in the pagan god who represents the Earth and everything on it as well as the centre of the world and therefore the Earth’s axis, his spine.
The long periods of sunlight and wintry darkness as well as the alternation between hot and cold temperatures, represent the struggle between opposites to find balance and equilibrium and which goes on at every level of existence – i.e., light and darkness, “good” and “evil”.
The survivors of this catastrophe – i.e., those who built Arks (boats) and those already at sea – were the Arcadians (possibly Atlanteans as is believed)– and possibly those ‘Shining Ones’ of Sumeria, the Akkadians – the people of the former “Golden Age”.
It’s also possible that much of our ‘arcane knowledge’ – the “secrets” (archives) enclosed in an arca’(chest) – could have been preserved and passed on by those Arcadians who survived and who then found a centre at Giza – the centre of the Earth’s landmasses, which became the location for the world's first zero or Prime Meridian.
A residual memory of these secrets of wisdom comes through when we discover that one of the items kept in the famous ‘Ark of the Covenant’ was Aaron’s rod. This distinctive item is said to be a Tau Cross or ‘axis mundi’ symbol with serpentine shafts – a symbol utilised again and again in arcane folklore from Gnostic sects to Templars – as this rod is also the Caduceus – otherwise known as the Staff of Hermes, and also the Arcadian Rod – which wouldn’t surprise us.
Its possible that the Great Pyramid is also the Ark – the ‘chest’ that contains this Arcadian, Arcanum of knowledge which survived the catastrophe.
The original Ark is claimed to still be held by the descendants of “serpents” in Axum, Abyssinia (Ethiopia.)
Is this Ark, and all the symbolism, which surrounds it, a statement from the Golden Age and therefore those ‘Arcadians’ or Akkadians?
Is the Ark of the Covenant a contraption of some kind associated with tapping the terrestrial energies of the Earth?
And if so, did it once belong inside the Great Pyramid, kept inside the sarcophagus in the King’s Chamber?
I would emphasise that the term ‘Arcadians’ is not to be used literally in terms of a race or civilisation who named themselves “Arcadians”, but in terms of Time – being a term we would use for those who perhaps lived during the “Golden Age” and those Akkadians who perhaps walked with the ‘Shining Ones’. But all in all, perhaps the reader can glimpse the hidden clues in all this – etymological connections that are also pointing us to the location of the body of Osiris (the Archon or ‘god archetype’) – a theme we will keep returning to. With these clues in mind perhaps we can now decipher the Latin phrase associated with the Arcadian Shepherds paintings.
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Figure 23: The Caduceus, also known as the Staff of Hermes and the Arcadian Rod, from a drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger.
Many have tried to interpret the meaning behind this enigmatic inscription. The most direct translation is, “And in Arcadia I . . .” but this incomplete sentence just adds to the mystery. Poussin’s first biographer, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, interpreted “Et In Arcadia Ego” as quoted: “ . . . the grave is to be found even in Arcady and that death occurs in the very midst of delight” .
Another interpretation is “And I Am In Arcadia”. A popular interpretation is that it is an anagram of TEGO ARCANA DEI (“Begone! I conceal the secrets of God”).
Furthermore, author Tracey R. Twyman writes that the first four letters in the phrase – ET IN – was once an alternate spelling of EDEN – “the Judeo-Christian notion of Paradise and the Golden Age”.
This too is interesting as Arcadia to the Greeks meant ‘Paradise’ and the ‘Golden Age’.
Quoting statements made by microbiologist Michio Kushi in his book based on his own research into ancient Japanese documents, Barabara Hand Clow writes that,
If all the above has some truth to it – and I would emphasise that this was the time of the ‘Shining Ones’; what I would propose to be a scientifically-advanced, shamanic-experience-based culture – then Poussin’s painting is showing us that the ‘spectre of death’ had once visited Arcadia.
The theme of ‘death’ as symbolised by the tomb and the eulogy in the inscription, goes far beyond the natural death of the individual – which would have been commonplace, even in paradise – but to the sudden death of many . . . as in a worldwide catastrophe bordering on ‘Biblical’ proportions. One cannot help but consider the notion that this was also the time of the sinking of Atlantis.
So, Arcadia was/is obviously a place. But again, does Arcadia mean a place in time, or perhaps ‘out of time’? . . A period before the tilt of the earth’s axis? . . A period before the symbolic death of Osiris, and a time “before time” associated with God’s paradise – the Garden of Eden?
Much has been said in regard to the real meaning behind the name of ‘Arcadia’, which appears to have been used as a code device between members of some kind of secret fraternity of artists, writers and poets; but we find that most of the more recent interpretations given to it, and mostly stimulated by the references to Arcadia in the book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, are often wide of the mark.
It appears that Peter Dawkins is closer to the truth when he writes:
The significance of this quote is even more intriguing when we discover that the source from which this quote was taken is entitled: Arcadia: The Ancient Egyptian Mysteries. Nowhere do we find in these recent discussions on the name ‘Arcadia’, a link with ancient Egypt. But as I will reveal, Poussin’s Self Portrait paintings contain encoded references to the Great Pyramid of Giza, and his second Shepherds painting, Les Bergers d'Acardie version II, has clear references to Orion as a marker for the Cycle of Precession. I would stress that it was through Poussin’s paintings – especially his self-portraits – that I was led to make the discovery that the Great Pyramid contains information about the tilted Earth’s axis in its geometry.
These paintings and others I have examined appear to be telling us that Giza contains information regarding advanced geophysical knowledge of the Earth, and reference the Earth as it is now and as it was during the former Golden Age now referred to as ‘Arcadia’.
On the subject of Poussin’s first Arcadian Shepherds painting, Professor of French and Classics, Marc Wiesmann, has this to say:
As everything happens in cycles, it’s possible that whatever ended the “Golden Age” is something that could happen again, and if true, then why would important information about it be encoded? – Especially if our own survival depended on it.
The answer to this is complex – especially when we find that there are people who believe that the next event could possibly even right the Earth and bring it back to its vertical position, creating a new Golden Age.
The simple explanation is that this catastrophe was encoded in mythical stories by those who survived the catastrophe and that this information has been preserved by certain mystery schools to be divulged in full when the time is right. However, many of these are idealistic ideas often reiterated by many of today’s ‘new-age’ writers, and its possible that only fragments of this information is known; that the mystery schools each possess a piece of the “jig-saw puzzle” and that only a handful of people know the whole story – if true.
This first version of the Arcadian Shepherds was completed some years after Poussin settled in Rome, and there is now reason to believe that Poussin was a member of the ‘Underground Stream’ that had both preserved and encoded esoteric knowledge in many different sources throughout history. That this knowledge has been passed down through this ‘Underground Stream’ is again indicated by the god Alpheus, the ‘River god’, reclining in the foreground in this painting by Poussin.
As mentioned, Alpheus is also the name of a mythical river that flowed through the Peloponnesus in Greece and through subterranean channels from its source in Arcadia. In Renaissance symbology this river indicates an underground stream of esoteric traditions or secret knowledge.
It’s also obvious to me that the tombs depicted in Poussin’s two versions of the Arcadian Shepherds are symbolic of a tomb or bloodline that belongs to someone who once lived in Arcadia, and more importantly someone who personifies Arcadia, as well as the Earth’s axis - the Arx.
As we have seen, Osiris was indeed associated with the Djed Pillar – which was symbolic not only of his backbone, which represented strength and stability, but also represented the axis mundi – the “axis of the world”.
Finally . . .
Writer and Rosicrucian, Anneke Korremans told me that the term ‘Ego’ (also meaning ‘I’ or ‘the One’) was used by mystics during the Renaissance to address the ‘Divine Self’, and so the phrase Et in Arcadia Ego should be read as: Et-in-Arc-a-Dia-Ego:
“And in the Ark is the Divine Self” – the divine soul in each of us.
Dia is derived from Deus – meaning ‘God’.
Looking back at the hidden references made to the ancient Egyptian god Osiris in the Arcadian Shepherds painting by Poussin, it is possible that Poussin is telling us that the sarcophagus in both paintings, as well as the skull in the first version, belong to Osiris.
Again, Arca means 'chest' or 'box' which could also be a coffin or tomb, and applies to the word 'Ark' as in protection and preservation.
Dia means 'God'.
Possible correct translation:
"And in the Ark of God am I".
The results, if correct, are interesting, as again, it has been said that the real 'Ark' is the Great Pyramid of Giza, which not only preserved the Kingdom of Egypt - functioning as a "recovery vault" in the event of predicted local and global disasters, as Scott Creighton and I have suggested in our book The Giza Prophecy - but possibly also preserved the artifacts and knowledge of a lost, advanced culture. It has also been suggested that the Great Pyramid may have housed the Ark of the Covenant and that it was placed within the sarcophagus inside the King's Chamber.
The tomb in the paintings may indeed belong to a shaman-priest-king such as Osiris – a "Shining One" who was initiated by having reached enlightenment (ascension), and who in later years was portrayed as a “god”. This individual – a Shining One – now personifies the 'Golden Age' – his death symbolising the death of many which ended the Golden Age and so it is he who also personifies the Divine Self of the collective.
Its also possible that his body, or his remains, still exist, and if so, then the remains of Osiris may have been stored within an as yet undiscovered or unkown chamber within the Great Pyramid, along with artifacts belonging to the shining culture he was associated with.
This appears to be the premise that everything is leading to . . .
If the existing location of the tomb of Osiris and the so-called "Hall of Records" is indeed part of the codes in these paintings and other sources, then its only logical to assume that the location of this chamber was known because it had already been discovered at some point in history. If so, then its also possible that the tomb was sealed again and kept secret by a group inititated into these mysteries.
We could perhaps speculate that this group were the same people who led the Rosicrucian (Order of the Rose Cross or Rose Croix) movement - the leading members of the group having anonymously created the three Rosicrucian Manifestos which first appeared in Europe in 1614, 1615 and 1616. The paragraph below taken from a paper on Poussin and the cryptic, Arcadian Latin phrase, appears to support this theory.
We see the same symbolism in depictions of Heka, the god of magic who is depicted holding the dual serpents, (as also depicted in Hindu serpent symbolism relating to the pingala and ida nerve channels of the physio-kundalini-chakra system), which are crossed diagonally over the centre of his body and at the location of the neutral and central sushumna channel, aligned with the spinal axis.
In esoteric thought, the crook and flail would also represent the opposites of Summer and Winter in the yearly cycle, and this is one of the messages in Poussin's painting.
So symbolically, these two items represent the opposites of Summer and Winter and this is why they are placed in front of and on either side of the tree leaning at 23.5 degrees in Poussin's painting, which represents not only the Earth's axis, but also the spinal axis or backbone of the god Osiris, as symbolised by the Djed pillar - the shamanic axis mundi.
“The Djed also symbolised the Nile – the “natural meridian” of Gizeh, also seen as Osiris’ spine” – according to friend and author Philip Coppens.
We find that the Djed column was raised up during the Equinox - the only days in the year when the Earth returns to the same conditions of the 'Golden Age' of the upright axis as appears to have been believed. And if the spinal column of Osiris signifies the Earth’s axis and vice-versa, then we can see why Orion in his image was also used as a "gauge marker" for the Cycle of Precession, as presented in the book I co-authored with Scott Creighton, The Giza Prophecy. See here:
This 'Orion-as-Precession/gauge marker' theory is also supported by the information Poussin encoded in his second painting on the Arcadian Shepherds. See here:
Having looked at how the theme of Duality and the Triad of 'three forces' in human consciousness also ties in with these themes concerning the tilt of the Earth's axis as presented in Poussin's painting, the following scenario as regards ancient spiritual concepts and the cosmological beliefs behind the symbolism, begins to make more sense.
Man's fall from the Garden of Eden and the springtime paradise of the Golden Age of the vertical axis, as told through symbolic myth - (for example, the myth which describes the death of Osiris) - means that man's connection with the heavenly kingdom had been severed with the tilt of the axis, and so man is now trapped within the cycles of Time; as in moving from Summer to Winter and back again - a continuous cycle . . .
However, the ‘X’ formed from the crossed crook and flail marks the spot where man can escape these cycles - not only in terms of consciousness, but also in terms of the cycles of celestial phenomena as a condition of the tilted Earth; marking the only moments in the year when it was believed that the Earth makes a return to the 'Golden Age' – the ancient Egyptian Zep Tepi, the ‘First Time’ - also known as the ‘Time of Osiris.’
Like Osiris, it’s possible that the dead Pharaohs were placed in this position and depicted that way on their coffins so that they could enter through that ‘X’ “gateway” - associated with Truth and Balance - to be resurrected again as Osiris, or be with Osiris – their god in paradise.
If true, then this would mean that the Equinoxes were seen as “windows” or “gateways in time” – “portals” to heaven, and the Golden Age of the upright axis, and therefore the portal to the gods who still live in paradise, and there is much to support this conclusion.
In relation to the crook staff, the staff at 30 degrees is possibly meant to represent a ‘flail’, and if correct then Poussin was careful not to make this obvious.
For some reason Poussin found it necessary to use the esoteric method of conveying important information while at the same time ‘veiling’ it – in the belief that those who overlook this information actually prove themselves “unworthy” in not noticing it.
Now what is interesting, is that in ancient Egypt, the Crook (heka) and the Flail (nekhakha), were symbols of power and rulership. They became the insignia of the god Osiris who was always depicted holding them. They were often held by Pharaohs and high officials as symbols of authority, much like the ceremonial scepter and orb held by royalty today. Like the god Osiris the Pharaoh was considered the “shepherd of his own people” and it’s a fact that many ancient peoples (especially in Mesopotamia) referred to their kings as ‘Shepherd Kings’ – as if in respect of those divine teachers of wisdom and ‘Shepherds of men’ – the "Shining Ones".
The Sumerians named the constellation of Orion ‘the Shepherd’, and as we know Orion was seen to contain the soul (sah) of the ‘resurrection god’ Osiris and represented both Osiris and Horus in its image.
Osiris is usually depicted holding the crook and flail (his emblems) in each hand and also with his arms folded across his chest – the same regal position that Tutankhamun and other Pharaohs were depicted; and these two power symbols were held in such a way that they either made a 'V' shape (as held by Osiris shown below), or a diagonal cross, intersecting at a point over the heart like an 'X'.
Another amazing thing about this painting by Poussin, is that the crook is in the correct position in this tilted, diagonal cross to create the Chi-rho (also spelt Chi-ro) monogram or symbol . . . XP.
Remember that we are compelled to create this cross in the painting by drawing lines based on the obvious perpendicular angle of the staff and the edge of the tomb. The crook then falls into place as the ‘P’-like head of the Chi-Rho symbol.
Furthermore, its interesting that there are only three references in the painting - sarcophagus and the two staffs - for the same number of lines - two diagonal and one vertical - to create the monogram.
Of course, many would be asking: What does this Christian monogram symbol have to do with Osiris?
Its a fact that this symbol is recognised as a Christian symbol associated with Jesus Christ, and although most mainstream historians will reject any notion that Jesus was based on earlier, pagan ‘resurrection gods’ like Osiris and also his son and reincarnated self Horus, 32nd Degree Mason, Frank C. Higgins tells us different:
Sir Flinders Petrie, the Egyptologist who measured the Great Pyramid of Giza, and whose measurements have been officially accepted as standard, also believed that the Chi-Rho monogram was the emblem of the Egyptian god Horus, thousands of years before Christ.
For example, an identical symbol to the Chi-Rho has been found inscribed on rocks dating from 2500 BCE in Sumeria, and was interpreted as 'a combination of the two Sun-symbols' - symbols of the ancient "Shining Ones". It was also used on the coins of Ptolemeus III from 247-222 BC, as well as being an emblem of the Chaldean Sky/Sun god, and has the definition 'Everlasting Father Sun'.
It would perhaps serve us well to look into the history of the Chi-Rho and see how strong and credible these links are to the pagan gods Osiris/Horus, and perhaps we will learn a few more things along the way.
It is said that the Greek Ptolemys who ruled Egypt after their conquerer king Alexander the Great had died, acquired the Chi-Rho monogram from the ancient Egyptians during the second century BCE. The Greeks called their version of Horus (Heru), Heracles or Hercules and applied the Greek Xpnc (Chres) to him.
This led to the ancient Horus being given the title of Lord, Chrestos, and inevitably 'Christ.'
Indeed many European scholars have actually identified Heracles or Hercules as none other than an emblem of Jesus Christ, and of course the name Heracles, is related to the words and names Hero, Heru and Hu, which mean, “shining”, and can be found the world over as a word for the Sun, but again etymologically, these names lead back to Horus.
Furthermore, and this is interesting in terms of its connection with the enlightenment experience known as Kundalini by the Hindus,; the Greek title 'Christ', like Heru, was also derived from the Egypto-African word Karast, and Kristos or Christos is the KRST (Karast).
The “Karast” is a person who is anointed (an 'enlightened' or “shining” individual) also known as a Heru (Hero) during his or her own lifetime. It is only when deceased that one receives the epithet 'KRST' or Ausur. Again, Ausur is none other than Osiris.
Foremost this 'anointing', applies in the spiritual sense, but in the physical sense it is derived from the body or cadaver being anointed with spices, oils, and resins to preserve it. The body is then wrapped in bandages, placed in a coffer, which is then placed upright to symbolise resurrection. It was believed that the Heru (Heroe) or KRST (Christ) - (enlightened one) - would rise again to save the world as a fully divine being and thus become the 'once and future king.' It seems then that this tradition emerged out of Egypt and then into Greek and Christian legend, bringing with it the original symbols of Osiris.
Most people - especially Christians - believe that the Chi-Rho monogram goes back to the Roman Emperor Constantine.
The story goes that Constantine had a vision before a great battle and was told that with the symbol of the Chi-Rho, which was also called the Labarum, he would gain victory . . . “By this sign, you will conquer”.
Using the new Labarum as his battle standard, Constantine took the field and the Empire was “born again”.
In fact, the Christians had been using this symbol secretly as a sign of their faith and Constantine (or somebody who advised him) simply picked up on the fact that this symbol and the whole saviour process was ancient and widespread - and according to some - it was used to plunder the treasuries of the pagan temples. Amazingly, on the coinage during and after Constantine's death, we see the Laburnum or Chi-Rho, underlined with the serpent - a symbol used throughout time and especially by the Gnostics for wisdom associated as it is with Kundalini-related enlightenment.
Chi also has another meaning - 'Great Fire' or 'Light' and again 'Shining.'
The 'P' (Rho) is etymologically related to the word 'Pen', and 'pen' in some languages means, 'head', thus implying that the loop on the top of the 'P' is a head, and in the very place that a skull would be in the Skull and Crossbones symbol, which relates back to Osiris.
This revelation that the Chi-Rho monogram has original links to Osiris/Horus, is supported by other similar elements – the Skull and Crossbones, "Deaths Head" symbolism being just one of them. The skull in this symbol, like the 'P' in the Chi-Rho monogram, represents the head of Osiris (again, a skull rests on top of the ornate sarcophagus in Poussin's painting) and it is his thighbones which are arranged in an X, like the crook and flail, and like the diagonal cross of the Chi-Rho monogram.
We also find that the thigh bones in the earliest and official depictions of this symbol are at the Earth's obliquity angle of 23.5 degrees, and by now this shouldn't surprise us.
Not many people are aware that the Skull and Crossbones symbol - familiarly associated with pirates and piracy (the so-called "Jolly Roger"), as well as being a warning emblem for poison - was used by the Templars.
The Jesuits are said to swear an oath upon the symbol of the skull and crossbones, and the Freemasons also use this symbol in reference to Osiris. For example, in the Tracing Board symbolism, Osiris is occulted or hidden in the "skull and crossbones" marked crypt seen under the floor of the Freemason's Temple floor.
In the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Virginia, USA, there is an anteroom with a large portrait of the Colonial period, Grand Master Lafayette, wearing the Templar Apron bearing the 'skull and crossbones.' The same apron images have also been found elsewhere, such as Michigan, Detroit and Jackson.
As I alone discovered, and based on the words of Frank C. Higgins, the Masonic Apron encodes an ancient Geometric Formula; the same formula from which the proportions of the Great Pyramid of Giza, along with the geophysical/geodetic angles that were also encoded within it, was constructed. See here:
Today the ‘skull and crossbones’ is a universal symbol used to represent danger and death – and although it is a six-sided emblem hiding the fact that it is really eight-sided as referenced by the A (Alpha) and Ω (Omega) letters arranged on a hidden horizontal line – the diagonal cross, which represents the tilted axis and equatorial plane, as well as the four colures or fixed signs of the Zodiac relating to the precessional cycle, is clearly featured in the symbol – as if symbolising the catastrophe that caused the axis to tilt; uppending the Earth, an event which nearly wiped out the human race, so we are being told.
It is apparent that Osiris as "god of the dead", personifies this catastophic event, and in the myth of his own death at the hands of his brother Set (also Satan, known as Tython by the Greeks. Tython is also the name given to a comet), and it is Osiris who holds the symbols of the diagonal cross - the sections of the inclined Earth - in the crook and flail, which symbolise each of the opposites evident in all cycles.
Furthermore, the star constellation of Orion, considered to be the sky image of Osiris - representing his soul (sah) - only shows his arms and torso. The head and femurs (thighs) of Osiris are missing. However, the missing head and thighs are present in the Skull and Crossbones symbol, revealing that this symbol is indeed related to Osiris.
Next, the male shepherd in Red is holding a shepherd’s crook which is bent slightly; and as we can see, the top of both staffs are equally aligned to the horizontal. If we now measure a line from the point where the two 30-degree angles intersect and extend it to the end of the crook/staff held by the bearded shepherd in red, we find that the angle of this line is exactly 72 degrees - a noted Precession-related number.
30 degrees
‘According to the American Seer, Edgar Cayce, man who has lost his spiritual self is like a ship without a rudder.
This is a clue for understanding the story of Hamlet. Hamlet is curiously unable to direct himself on any course of action'.
On the surface Hamlet is an entertaining story. Underneath Bacon has fashioned two faces. One looks to the past to the origin of the story of Hamlet which had its basis in the astronomical symbolism of the pole, on which the earth turns, breaking loose from its peg, and the tilting of the earth’s axis which resulted.
As Hamlet said: “the time is out of joint, O’ cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right”.
The face which looks to the past finds a mirror for everyman in antiquity. That mirror is the ancient doctrine that events which take place in the great world of the macrocosm (the earth,) are reflected in the little world of the microcosm (man).
When the axis of the earth became tilted. When the earth lost it’s alignment with the sun, the macrocosmic event was reflected on a microcosmic level by man losing his alignment with his spiritual source (symbolically causing the death of his spiritual self)’.
In doing this, the angle of the downward-pointing finger moves from 6.5º to 23.5º, and the Thyrsus staff from 13º to 47º.
Of course 13º + 30º = 43º. But measuring the angle from the horizontal gives us the inverse angle of 47º - i.e., 90º - 43º = 47º. And as we now know, 47º - (2 x 23.5º) - is the angle of the 'Cosmic Cone' relating to Precession.
What we appear to have here are TWO obliquity angles, as well as their related, precessional, diameter values.
We recognise the obliquity angle of 23.5º and its related precessional diameter of 47º, which is the present condition of the Earth today.
So what do the other two values relate to?
Is the painter who encoded this trying to tell us that the axis was once almost upright at 6.5 degrees?
If so then he has also given us the related precessional diameter of 13º . . . 2 x 6.5º = 13º.
Looking at the logic of this, and if I'm correct in my conclusions that the artist encoded this, its possible that he is telling us that the Earth's axis tilted from an almost upright obliquity of 6.5º to the 23.5º angle the Earth is at today. It may not have shifted to this angle in one fell swoop, but what this is indicating, is that the Earth was originally at the obliquity angle of 6.5º - almost upright, and if so, then the continual Springtime conditions would still have applied.
Returning to Poussin's Shepherds painting, it would appear that he was communicating the same thing, but in reverse; in that by rotating his painting backwards, we are moving from the 23.5-degree obliquity the axis is at today, back to the former 6.5-degree obliquity, as if expressing the theme of resurrection - i.e., resurrecting Osiris and the Earth's axis back to the former 'Golden Age'.
As the angle of 6.5 degrees is also a recurring feature in paintings and other sources, we will discover more evidence for this theory of a former 6.5 obliquity, the further we go on.
Bacchus 23.5 and 47 AI File twisted Black2
Although the name or term, ‘Arcadia’ is quite popularly used today, its origin remains confusing and indecisive.
The word ‘Arcadia’ is often used to encapsulate our quixotic vision of a pastoral earthly paradise; a utopian Eden, which exists partly in the collective imagination.
Arcadia has been described as a place of ‘perfection’ and a place where happiness reigns – a stark contrast to the complicated life in today’s urban societies. This idealised version of Arcadia is based mostly on the writings of the Roman poet Virgil.
It is said that the physical and historical Arcadia was once a district of the Greek Peloponnesus – a land of numerous valleys surrounded by high impassable mountains. Renowned for its high fertility and peaceful way of life, it is said that the people of Arcadia were pagans – simple rustic-folk consisting of shepherds and herdsmen.
Here we have our first connection, as again, the ancient Egyptian gods like Osiris for instance, were seen as “shepherds of men”.
However, like the city of Troy, the literal existence of a Greek ‘Arcadia’ – especially during recorded history – remains unconfirmed and really makes no sense. This leaves us to consider that the reference to Arcadia in the inscription included in two of Poussin’s paintings, is ‘allegorical’ – in that the name given to this rural ‘shepherd’s delight’ believed to have once been a peaceful land amidst the evils associated with the Greek City States – is being used as an analogy to bring to mind the paradise once enjoyed during the “Golden Age”.
This would mean that this simplistic Arcadian, Eden utopia was universal – in that the term applies to other places around the globe – possibly the belt areas which begin 30 degrees north and south of the equator and at a certain time in man’s history.
I would personally interpret Arcadia to be the Zep Tepi of the ancient Egyptians – the ‘First Time’ or the ‘time before time’.
After all, we are told that after the tilt of the axis, time was measured by the seasons as agriculture became a necessity.
It’s interesting to note that Osiris, the "Green Man", is a god associated with the harvest; that like Jesus Christ, his rebirth from the Underworld coincided with the Spring Equinox when Day and night are equal and balanced; a day from which begins the positive half of the annual cycle and when the crops begin to sprout and life begins anew. Again this was the day when the Djed column was ritually raised-up (resurrected) by the Pharaoh.
We will return to the reason why the headless Orion is the source of legends and stories about severed heads - the decapitation of John the Baptist, who represents Osiris, being a case in point; suffice to say that the symbolism really relates to shamanic experience and enlightenment.
Going back to Poussin’s painting we can see the center of the Chi-rho cross falls on the spine of the bearded shepherd in Red, which again identifies him with Osiris, with the other two figures completing the Triad as Isis and Horus . . . and as we now know the spine of Osiris – symbolised by the central Djed Pillar – also represented the axis mundi.
In any case, it’s clear that Poussin is bringing attention to the archetypal ‘Shining One’ as represented by the ancient Egyptian god Osiris.
So with the additional information we are given concerning this particular Christian-related symbol - the Chi-Rho monogram - and in a painting that already gives reference to the pagan god Osiris, it’s possible we are being told that Osiris/Horus and Jesus Christ are the same in essence and carry the same message for mankind – a belief that would have been considered ‘heretical’ at the time, but one that many were aware of nethertheless - including Poussin.
Researcher Jim Fournier tells us that it was Astronomer, Sir Norman Lockyer (1836 –1920), who first pointed out that,
"The Babylonians distinguished the pole of the equator [the Earth’s axis of 23.5°] – which they called Bil, [also Bel, Baal – a god equatable with Osiris] from the ‘pole of the ecliptic’ [of 0° zero obliquity] which was called Anu" – the ‘father god’ in the heavens equatable with RA or Atum-Ra.
Again I will quote Frank C. Higgins who writes:
“ . . . Horus, the animating spirit of the Earth, “Horus of the Pole” and “Horus of the Two Horizons”, so he is called”.
It would appear then, and based on good authority, that the dead Osiris represents the tilted, celestial pole of 23.5°, while Horus or Heru represents the resurrected and re-erected pole when raised back vertically to the Pole of the Ecliptic, to be realigned again with the Ecliptic Centre as represented by the god Atum-Ra.
The epithet "Horus of the Pole", and Horus being "the god of Light who maintains the universe in equilibrium", suggests that like Atum-Ra, Horus - Osiris' son and reincarnated, resurrected self - also represents the upright and balanced 'Pole of the Ecliptic' which is aligned with Atum-Ra the "Light" and the Source-Centre of Creation.
However, because the Earth's celestial polar axis is tilted away from the vertical 'Pole of the Ecliptic', the direct connection which the Earth once had with the Source-Centre, has been severed - hence the reason why the spine of the dead god Osiris represents the Earth's axis, and why in death he holds the diagonally-crossed crook and flail associated with the Summer and Winter halves of the year - the Solstices; a diagonal cross which also marks the four colures (the four fixed signs of the Zodiac) in the Precessional Cycle - precession also being the result of the tilted axis.
Earlier we saw evidence in the paintings of the Crucifixion, which appear to express a belief amongst the people that encoded this information, that like Osiris and his resurrection through the symbolic "Raising of the Djed column", Jesus too who was raised up on the Cross, was also associated with resurrecting the Earth’s axis to its former upright position.
Again, the raising of the Djed column of Osiris is replicated in the story of Jesus, who carries the cross on his back (tilted axis) to the Hill of Golgotha (the “place of the skull”), where Jesus is raised up with the Cross to enter the heavenly kingdom.
We see this in Poussin's painting; the tilted cross at 30 degrees which is centred on the back or spine of the shepherd in red and next to a tree angled at 23.5 degrees. Before him and resting on top of the tomb is a skull – indicating the Hill of Golgotha and therefore the “place of the skull”.
In any case, it is on this hill (symbolising the ‘primordial mound’) where the cross is lifted up (upright axis) and from this position Jesus enters the heavenly kingdom (the Ecliptic Center) and at the point of enlightenment.
Here, ‘enlightenment’ really expresses the time of the 'Golden Age' and the balanced condition of the Earth and human consciousness during this time and when man was possibly more intuitive and psychic and attuned to the natural world around him. It’s likely that the prediluvial landscape (Holocene period) as described by Allan and Delair in their book Cataclysm, in which the Earth enjoyed continual springtime is this ‘Golden Age’.
So then the connections made between Osiris the ‘resurrection god’ and the Earth’s axis, is that it is the Earth’s axis that should be resurrected, according to ancient belief, and that this is the real purpose and meaning behind the conception of the universal ‘resurrection god’ and all related beliefs and traditions. In other words, the whole messianic mythos is based on the belief that this archetypal hero or god whose own spine represents the celestial pole and vice-versa, therefore has the power to bring back the ‘Golden Age’ of the upright axis which was lost in ‘the Fall’ – a more balanced world along with his own rebirth or resurrection through reaching ‘enlightenment’.
In terms of the collective human consciousness, this is the real meaning behind ‘Ascension’.
Again, these three colours relate to the Triad – being the positive and negative, male and female opposites (Red and White), and the neutral "third force" (Black), in which the positive and negative opposites become neutralised (cancelled out) and/or united and fused together as One. Some researchers like Richard Cassaro are only now writing about these esoteric principles in a way that is clear and spreading the connections they have made to a wider audience.
The Red and White, male and female opposites, as in the 'Red King' and 'White Queen' of Alchemy, are also expressed in the Solar (pingala) and Lunar (ida) nerve channels or meridians, called Nadis in the Hindu tradition associated with the physio-kundalini-chakra system. These two nerve channels are often symbolically depicted in the Caduceus - also known as the "Staff of Hermes" and the "Arcadian Rod" - as twin snakes or serpents; spiralling up the central sushumna channel aligned with the spine in a double helix pattern, crossing each other at each of the seven chakras (energy vortices). See here.
In esoteric literature, the neutral "third force" as represented by the central sushumna channel (See "Law of Three", Gurdjieff), is known as the generative, creative force. It is both the Source and 'product' of the first two forces, just as the Sun-god Horus is the child produced from the union of Osiris and Isis in the ancient Egyptian Triad.
Returning to the Arcadian Shepherds painting by Poussin, we find that on top of the tomb or sarcophagus rests a skull – likely to be the head of the one who rests inside it, or for whom the tomb was made.
30 and 72 degrees
Aside from the moon god Khonsu, and a few other minor gods who hold the crook and flail, Osiris is the only god who is identified with these two staffs and the Djed, and perhaps this is because he is the ‘resurrection god,’ in that he ‘died’ at the hands of his brother Set, and went to the Underworld, but is resurrected again during the Spring – and just like the ‘Golden Age’ which is temporarily resurrected again on the Spring Equinox time in the year.
First of all, the three individuals who are inspecting the tomb are wearing the familiar colours of Red, White and ‘dark blue’. Sometimes, and not often, the colour blue -especially dark blue - is substituted for the non-colour Black.
Like the Guercino painting we examined on the previous page, the painting we are going to examine in this presentation was first featured in the book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, (1983), along with several others on the Arcadian theme.
Since that time the consensus opinion is that these paintings contain a cipher or code associated with the Rennes-le-Château mystery, possible treasure or artifacts relating to the Holy Grail and the secret bloodline of Christ. Many believe that this code is based on pentagonal geometry which appears to be pointing to specific locations in the South of France.
The book The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is a fictional work spun from the theories first presented in this book, but the bloodline of Christ or the Holy Grail is not what these paintings are about – well not directly in any case. In my view, these paintings, which indeed contain revelatory information, have never really been satisfactorily deciphered.
My own view, based on years of research, is that the symbolic information we find in these paintings are really associated with an ‘ancient code’ (if we can call it that), relating to a global catastrophe unparalleled in our officially-gathered recorded history; an event that caused the Earth’s axis to tilt from an upright or almost upright position as believed by those who have encoded this information.
There are persistent speculations that link this event to the "Fall of Man" from the Garden of Eden, the Great Flood, and the destruction of Atlantis.
The encoders also use the ancient myths to convey this theme as did the ancients themselves. One myth in paticular which is recurrent in these paintings, is the ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris, whose backbone was symbolised by the Djed Pillar which also represented the shamanic axis mundi - the "world axis". Again, and as expressed by Higgins, the Triad of Osiris, Isis and Horus was also used to convey ancient spiritual truths associated with balance, while at the same time pointing to the Duality and imbalance in human consciousness caused by the tilt of the axis, as was believed.
The encoders also appear to be telling us that factual, geophysical data regarding the orbital dynamics of our planet, as well as information pertaining to this catastrophe and more besides, was encoded in the Great Pyramid and the other monuments at Giza in Egypt.
Some modern-day researchers like authors Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock, suggest that Giza is a ‘precessional clock’.
Based on my own interpretation of these paintings and the data gleaned from other sources that support it, I am compelled to take the same view, and of course Scott Creighton and I have presented some of our own findings in the book The Giza Prophecy.
In the book, Scott and I show how the designers and architects of Giza, intentionally arranged these massive structures to create an astronomical timeline, recording catastrophic events in the past as well as warning later generations of the precise times of future catastrophes.
It appears that what has been encoded at Giza also correlates well with the information that has been encoded in these paintings, as we will discover.
I have already mentioned the significance of these three colours on the previous page in my analysis of Guercino's painting, Et in Arcadia Ego. These three colours which I first brought attention to in the book The Serpent Grail, (2005), are a familiar theme in numerous esoteric sources . . . the following being one example.
In the Timaeus by Plato, a Socratic dialogue written in about 360 BCE, Critias talks about his grandfather's meeting with one of the seven sages named Solon; an Athenian poet and famous lawgiver. Solon had been to Egypt and listened to the priests there who compared the cultures of Egypt and Athens and talked about their gods and comparable mths and legends. However, one of the stories the Egyptian prieststold Solon was the sunken land of Atlantis.
Plato goes on to describe the stone that was said to have been quarried from Atlantis and tells us that one kind of stone was white, another red and a third black, and that the hillsides displayed veins of red, white, and black marble alongside deposits of every kind of precious metal. We are also told that Atlantean architects used this red, white and black marble to design their buildings with these same three colours tastefully combined and contrasted.
The existence of Atlantis remains inconclusive. However, the fact that in the Hindu cosmology, the god Shiva is red, Vishnu-Krishna is blue-black and Brahma is white, reveals that we are again dealing with a ‘system of knowledge’ which has been spread worldwide and obviously from the same source.
Furthermore, the Hindu myth of Manidvipa is said to be an allegory pointing to the destruction of Atlantis by the Flood and of the survival of its three races – red, white and black – and in a special kind of Ark.
The Hindu trio, Shiva, Shava and Shakti, are often depicted fleeing their destroyed world the ‘Island of the Jewels’ Manidvipa. But could this also be interpreted to mean that this knowledge was rescued, preserved and carried over.
We are told that these three aspects of the Hindu god also correspond to the three “sons” of Noah, who each symbolize the three different coloured races of mankind. Again, we can see the symbolic device of the Triad being used both on an individual level, as regards the three aspects of Self – one’s consciousness – and also on a collective level as the three aspects or ‘races’ of man.
Can we take these stories literally, loaded as they are with the same metaphorical symbolism?
One would note too, that in ancient Egypt, the land was divided between,
1,) Upper Egypt in the South, which was signified by White, and
2,) Lower Egypt in the North, which was signified by Red.
The Nile itself and the soil around the Nile, was Black – as the ancient name of Egypt, Khem, which means ‘black’, appears to confirm it. We are told that this is where the name al-Chem-y is said to have derived. The ancient art of Alchemy in which it is often claimed that base metals could be transformed into gold - one of its claimed practical uses - is ultimately about one’s own physical and mental transformation; one's spritual ascension through the union or fusion of opposites.
Below are a few examples which feature these three colours.
Figure 4 Atef
Is it a mere coincidence that the crook and staff held by the shepherds in Poussin’s painting are in the same slanted positions as the crook and flail held by Osiris, as depicted in ancient Egyptian art?
Below I have superimposed the ancient depiction of Osiris over Poussin's painting to show that the positions of the two staffs held by the shepherds match the same positions of the crook and flail held by Osiris. We would also note that the tree in Poussin's painting, which appears to represent the shamanic ‘world tree’ or axis mundi – a metaphor for the Earth’s celestial axis - is leaning at 23.5 degrees and is at the same position as the Atef Crown worn by Osiris and which is leaning close to the same angle.
There is no doubt in my mind that Poussin had encoded a reference to the ancient Egyptian god Osiris as the Shepherd God, and that it is his tomb and his skull that the shepherds are examining, along with the cryptic phrase ET IN ARCADIA EGO.
Furthermore, the shepherds themselves appear to be representing the Triad of Osiris (shepherd in Red), Isis (Shepherdess in White) and their offspring Horus (shepherd in Blue/Black who is in the central, 'neutral' position).
Due to the writings of the Greek author, Plutarch (1st century AD), the myth of the Egyptian deities Osiris and Isis was well known amongst the intellectuals of Europe, and from the 16th century many artifacts find their way into Europe from Egypt.
One would argue that there is no proof that Poussin had seen an ancient depiction of Osiris like the one above taken from the Papyrus of Hunefer, which was only discovered in the 19th century. However, the existence of the Book of the Dead from which this image of Osiris was taken, was known as early as the Middle Ages. There are many depictions of Osiris in Egypt, and though hundreds had visited Egypt before Poussin’s time, only the explorations of a handful of adventurers had written their own accounts or had their visits recorded and documented, so it’s possible that Poussin, may have seen, or had been passed on information regarding the detailed imagery of Osiris from others “in the know”.
It’s a fact that we are often only taught or given the official version of history, when there is always a ‘hidden version’ which is perhaps closer to the truth. In any case, there is much evidence to suggest that Poussin was a member of an ‘Underground Stream’ that had both preserved and encoded esoteric knowledge in many different sources throughout history.
This first version of the Arcadian Shepherds was completed some years after Poussin settled in Rome and after he had been initiated into the mysteries, as we will see.
It is clear that Poussin and other contemporary painters of the era, like David Teniers (the Younger) and Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (otherwise known as “Guercino”) were privy to important information associated with certain mystery schools.
It is said that investigations into the Rennes-le-Château mystery, as outlined in the book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, has uncovered Poussin’s links with the Prieuré de Sion – again, a self-proclaimed secret society whose ‘Grand Master’ list (according to a leaked dossier that some say is false), boasts some of the most enlightened and influential individuals to have walked the Earth: people like alchemist, Nicolas Flamel; artist and inventor, Leonardo Da Vinci; physicist, Sir Isaac Newton; poet and novelist, Victor Hugo; composer, Claude Debussy and surrealist, Jean Cocteau.
According to the author's sources, the Grand Master of the Priory is known as the Nautonnier – meaning, “navigator” or “helmsman.”
These nautical terms suggest a link with the sea and most possibly a ‘survival situation’ – i.e., one’s navigation through treacherous waters or perilous terrain towards safety, refuge or sanctuary.
Although this detail is most interesting, again we should be cautious with anything associated with the Prieuré de Sion – especially the history of this secret society, as given by the sources relied on by the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
However, even if the whole mystery that surrounds this so-called “secret society” turns out to be a hoax, then the ‘Nautonnier’ theme could still warrant further investigation as it could indeed belong to a valid source of information which the “hoaxers” may have tapped into and adopted without knowing the deeper meaning behind it all. And if so, then Poussin’s connection to the intriguing speculations and mysterious events that surround what might amount to a ‘fictitious’ Prieuré de Sion, may indeed only be a consequence of the information and profound knowledge these “impostors” were exploiting.
That Poussin knew something of profound importance cannot be denied, and we find justification for this in the things the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail discovered – clues that matched the criterion of esoteric knowledge I had already come to understand to some degree.
For instance, we are told that in 1656, Poussin received a visit to his studio in Rome from the Abbé Lois Fouquet, brother of Nicolas Fouquet – Superintendent of Finances to Louis XIV of France. What the two men discussed will never be known exactly, but soon after this meeting, Lois Fouquet dispatched a letter to his brother, describing what he learned from Poussin:
On the request of his king – and not long after receiving his brother’s letter, Nicolas Fouquet (King Louis’ Superintendent) was arrested and imprisoned for life. The king then seized and inspected all of Fouquet’s correspondence. We are told by the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, that according to some accounts, Fouquet “was held strictly incommunicado – and some historians regard him as a likely candidate for the Man in the Iron Mask”.
In recent times, and since the publication in 1983 of the The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, the theme of The Arcadian Shepherds have become Poussin’s most popular and well-known paintings.
We are told that in the years that followed, King Louis went out of his way to secure the original of Les Bergers d’Arcadie (The Shepherds of Arcadia) Version 2.
When at last he succeeded in 1685, he ordered that it be locked away in a vault in the Palace of Versailles, and so there it stayed for many years, and though it is now on display to the public, still it has remained a mystery until the day I examined it up close while visiting the Louvre. But first we will take another look at Poussin’s first version in this theme.
In terms of art, the Poussin era was the Baroque period, in-between the Rennaisance of the 16th century and the ‘Age of Enlightenment’ which had its inception in the late 17th century and came to fruition in the 18th.
The Baroque period reflects not only the religious tensions regarding Catholic vs. Protestant, but also a new and more expansive worldview - especially in terms of world exploration and the science that had developed during the Renaissance.
We will look more closely at the life of Nicolas Poussin later, and within the context of interesting associations and acquaintances he had with some of the greatest minds of his era, and having examined some of his paintings, there is no doubt that Poussin indeed encoded secret information in them for initiates like himself as the following quote shows.
Poussin was a prolific artist. His work is said to be divided between two themes: scenes from the Biblical Scriptures and those featuring the pagan gods Pan and Apollo and the beautiful, idyllic landscapes associated with pagan mythology.
Could it be that his paintings on the pagan theme depict the world before the tilt of the Earth’s axis? – being the “Golden Age” of myth and legend?
If so, then it’s possible that his Biblical paintings are associated with the world just before and after the tilt of the Earth’s axis – if it indeed happened.
Although he is not as well-known as that other great artist Leonardo Da Vinci, for some readers the name ‘Poussin’ will sound familiar while others will not have heard of him at all, but still he remains a controversial figure in the pages of cryptohistory.
The name ‘Poussin’ crops up constantly in conjunction with the mysteries surrounding a small church named Rennes-le-Château . . .
Gary Osborn
Nicolas Poussin and the Rennes-le-Château Mystery
Copyright © Gary Osborn 2005. All Rights Reserved.
Figure 4: Les Bergers d’Arcadie (Version 1) by Nicolas Poussin, (1626 - 1629).
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‘He and I discussed certain things, which I shall with ease be able to explain to you in detail – things which will give you, through Monsieur Poussin, advantages which Kings would have great pains to draw from him, and which, according to him, it is possible that nobody else will ever rediscover in the centuries to come.
And what is more, these things are so difficult to discover that nothing now on this Earth can prove of better fortune nor be their equal’.
The Arcadian Shepherds (Version 1)
There are two versions of the Arcadian Shepherds by Poussin. Unlike his second painting on this theme, the first also entitled Les Bergers d’Arcadie, painted between 1626 and 1629 is not in the Louvre but in Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England.
It’s interesting that the heraldic emblem of the Devonshire family, who have been at Chatsworth for over 450 years, is a snake or serpent. Depictions of the serpent is everywhere at Chatsworth. When I inquired into the origin of this emblem, a spokesman for the gentry there said they didn’t know, but assumed it had some classical leanings.
Poussin’s first version shows two male shepherds and a shepherdess examining a decoratively-designed tomb with the Latin inscription “ET IN ARCADIA EGO” on the side – again a phrase we will examine later.
Although the second version, painted c. 1640 is more popular, this first version is very interesting as it holds several significant clues that many researchers have overlooked. Scholars will tell you that Poussin made many references in his paintings to the Greek god Apollo. However, Poussin’s first painting contains unmistakeable, symbolic references to the ancient Egyptian 'resurrection god' Osiris, who is synonymous with Apollo, as is his son and reincarnation, Horus.
Figure 5: The angles of 30 and 72 degrees.
This law applies to everything in the universe and humanity, as well as all the structures and processes'.
Figure 7: Osiris (the Green Man) with crook and flail.
Figure 3
As revealed earlier, Freemasons, Manly P. Hall, and Frank C. Higgins brought attention to the fact that the “ornate headgears of certain gods and Pharaohs are inclined backwards at the same angle as the Earth’s axis”.
This is true in some of the ancient Egyptian images of Osiris - especially this image from the Papyrus of Hunefer - and we note that not only is the Atef Crown at this angle, but also the beard, the flail and the angle positioning of the arms - as if the arms are again representing the two Solstice positions of the Sun as we see in the two 'Solstitial Lions' that flank the central upright column above the Gate of Mycenae. (See here, figure 8). There is more encoded, sacred geometry in this image of Osiris according to Higgins and so we will return again to it later.
Figure 8: Left: The Earth's Obliquity angle encoded in the Atef Crown and the Solstice and central Equinox positions of the Sun in the
colours of the Triad. Image of Osiris from the Papyrus ofthe Scribe Hunefer.
Right: The Masonic Compass, its open legs at the angle of 23.5 degrees, again illustrating the Triad
of the two Solstice points of the Sun and the central position of the Sun during the Equinoxes.
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Figure 9: Detail from the Papyrus of the Scribe Hunefer, superimposed over Poussin's Shepherds of Arcadia painting.
Crook and Flail . . . Duality Symbols
Middle Coffin
Figure 10: The Middle Coffin found in Tutankhamun’s tomb.
(18th Dynasty.) Dead Pharaohs were depicted as Osiris.
“The ancient Persian worship was essentially “light” worship, the Persian light god, Ahura-Mazda, or Ormuzd, being the same as the Hindu Asura, the Babylonian Assur, the Egyptian As-Ar (Osiris), and the Hebrew Aur and Or, all apparently derivations from the Sanskrit Rch, the “PX” character for which was read by the Egyptians as “XP” or Chr, “Horus,” and was incorporated by the Greeks in “Chr-istos,” their translation of the Egyptian “Horus of the Pole,” the god of light who maintains the universe in equilibrium”. (My Italics).
Located in the Languedoc region in southern France, the Chateau is said to be connected with the Cathars, Gnosticism, the Knights Templar, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, the genealogies of the legendary Merovingian Kings of France and hidden treasure.
The stories surrounding Rennes-le-Château, which has now become a “cottage industry” in France, was first brought to the public’s attention by the best-selling book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln.
First published in 1983, this book set a precedent for other books of its genre and spawned a whole new international, media industry specializing in conspiracy theories, alternative history and the latest study known as ‘cryptohistory’.
The central theme of the book is based on what appears to be an “archaic” secret society, the Prieuré de Sion, (the ‘Order of Sion’ or ‘Priory of Sion’), which claims strong links with the Knights Templar. On the surface lay the beliefs that the Prieuré de Sion has guardianship over the Holy Grail (thought to be the sacred icon of the Merovingians) and that the Society has an agenda to restore the monarchy in France – the chosen monarch being a descendent of the Merovingian line of Frankish kings who were deposed by the Carolingians and who were themselves former court officials to the kings of the Merovingian dynasty.
It is said that the Merovingians were the descendents of the ancient Hebrews – especially the ‘Tribe of Benjamin’ and the ‘House of David’ – and therefore Jesus and his “sister”, “wife”, or “lover”, Mary Magdalene.
According to a document, the Priory of Sion ‘Grandmaster list’ includes many historically renowned figures such as the alchemist Nicolas Flamel who was Grandmaster between 1398–1418, Rene d’Anjou (1418–1480), Leonardo da Vinci (1510–1519), Sir Isaac Newton (1691–1727), Claude Debussy (1885–1918) and Jean Cocteau (1918–1963).
Much has been written about the Rennes mystery with some claiming to have solved it, others presenting the story as fact, and others presenting the story as fiction.
The associated themes are many and convoluted and so I won’t dwell too much on it here – suffice to say that the phenomenon is still going strong, indeed stronger than ever. However, when we dig deeper into this mystery we find that many of these beliefs have their origin in a multitude of suppositions, ideas, theories and projections that only serve to cover an even greater secret.
Like most things, the Rennes mystery has become a focus for what we believe or ‘want to believe’ – in that we tend to project our own ideas and beliefs onto this mystery which has now become a “broth” spoiled by the attendance of too many “chefs”.
It’s possible that many of these theories bear some factual relevance to the whole mystery as everything in existence is closely connected at some ‘deeper level’. And its indeed possible that some theorists are pointing out certain ‘facts’ that even the “conspirators” of the mystery were/are unaware of, as there also exist the more ‘subjective connections’ which are no less meaningful as everything is intimately linked to the collective human psyche. I say this because there are some interesting themes associated with the mystery that indeed allude to the conclusions I am putting forward in these presentations.
If much of the mystery surrounding Rennes-le-Château really is a hoax as many now believe, then it’s possible that in their endeavour to falsify or fictionalise certain exoteric and esoteric connections – which on the surface are generally seen as “non-existent” – the “hoaxers” may have tapped into a rich vein of information known only to the ‘mystery schools’ and occult traditions, and which had remained in secrecy for thousands of years. In this regard, again my interest is in the paintings of Nicolas Poussin – one of the few artists who are cited in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail as having held the “key” to an important secret – at least this much is fact.
As we will see in the course of these pages, I am now convinced that much of the hidden information encoded in Poussin’s paintings, and the secrets they convey, point to one of the most important locations on the Earth – Giza – and point to something more incredible than any of the more sensational religious theories that have emerged from the Rennes mystery, only to find their way into a recently published fictional novel, and then exploited as the truth.
Of course, it’s possible that Poussin’s connections to the mystery have been falsified and that he had nothing to do with the so-called mysteries of Rennes-le-Château. However, there’s no question that Poussin, a Jesuit, was also an initiate into the mysteries. Some of his close friends were Rosicrucians and he was no doubt associated with some very powerful people who understood and adopted the principles of Egyptian mysticism and who had reason to believe that the ancient Egyptians were heirs to the knowledge and wisdom of a lost civilisation or culture that was believed to have once flourished during a ‘Golden Age’ when the Earth was upright and everything was in balance, as we will see.
Poussin's Links with the Prieuré de Sion
Red, White and Black
Triad 2 Triad 1 Triad 3
Figure 3: The Hindu physio-kundalini-chakra system illustrating the Nadi nerve channels.
Note that the positive, male pingala is Red (Solar) and the negative, female Ida is White (Lunar).
Being neutral, the human 'Prime Meridian' - the central Sushumna channel - is often depicted as the non-colour Black.
Figure 4: 30-degree angles, creating a diagonal cross.
Figure 11: The god Heka. Detail from the papyrus of Khonsu-Renep. New Kingdom.
djed tree2
Figure 12: Osiris as the Djed Pillar.
In Poussin’s painting the two staffs are featured in front of a large tree like the crook and flail
held by Osiris – especially when Osiris is depicted as the Djed column or pillar.
Detail from Aniho papyrus, 19th Dynasty.
Figure 13: The god Khonsu holding the upright Djed column between the tilted Crook and Flail - like the central pillar
between the two "Solstitial Lions" above the Gate of Mycenae, and the third pillar between the Masonic pillars of Jaochim and Boaz.
It should be noted that the Djed in this positionrepresents the spine and the central sushumna between the pingala and ida channels.
Note also the Uraeus, (Kundalini serpent) exiting Khonsu's brow at the location of the "Third Eye".
Figure 14: The XP Chi-Rho monogram hiding within the Arcadian Shepherds painting.
Figure 15: The Skull and Crossbones which is based on the XP Chi-Rho monogram.
Its no longer a surprise to find that the thigh bones in the earliest official versions of the symbol, are at the Earth's obliquity angle.
Skull and Crossbones Skull and Crossbones masonic
Figure 16: The Skull and Crossbones of Osiris on the lid of the coffin in the Masonic Tracing Board.
Skull and Crossbones
A similar practice was observed by the Knights Templar five and a half thousand years later when they were buried. By adopting this practice the deceased Knights Templar became as one with Orion and, by implication, Osiris. The "skull and crossbones" . . . Orion's missing head and legs … were also adopted by the Knights Templar as their emblem, their symbol of recognition. [ . . . ] the severed head of Orion is in fact the Sun. Moreover it is the headless Orion which is the source of legends about severed heads".
Figure 17: The "arms" and "Torso" of Osiris reflected in the constellation of Orion.
Now looking again at the encoded information in Poussin's Shepherds painting and the conclusions we have arrived at, we are compelled to ask ourselves . . . why would a reference to the ancient Egyptian god-king Osiris be in a painting that also includes the name Arcadia – a place believed to be associated with Greece and the god Pan?
Arcadia . . . A Place ‘Before’ and ‘Out of Time’
‘ . . . the prediluvial world had a system of global transportation – boats as well as airplanes – and natural agriculture based on the idea that Earth would produce all that was needed if it was “untouched”. He [Kushi] says, “People in Paradise had freedom without the concept of freedom, health without any idea what health was, happiness without the need to speak of happiness”.
“Arcadia was one of the primary mystery names given to the state of the world in a Golden Age, and the whole Arcadian imagery and allegory is that of a Utopia or Paradise on earth that might be achieved. The world is on the threshold of that achievement now, according to the way the evolutionary cycles of divine law work. Jesus Christ and the Buddha prepared us for it in an outstanding way; Francis Bacon...and the Rosicrucian Brotherhood have inaugurated it. All have used Arcadian imagery, the meaning of which pierces deep, right to the heart of all mysteries”.
‘From Poussin’s painting, Arcadia now takes on the tinges of a melancholic contemplation about death itself, about the fact that our happiness in this world is very transitory and evanescent. Even when we feel that we have discovered a place where peace and gentle joy reign, we must remember that it will end, and that all will vanish’.
Black Osiris, Horus, Isis and Chi-Rho
Figure 18: The Original Symbolic Meaning behind the Chi-Rho monogram which incorporates the Geophysics of the Earth,
the Sun at the Solstices and Equinoxes and how each component applies to the ancient Egyptian Triad of Osiris, Isis and Horus.
We can see that the deeper symbolic, astrotheological meaning illustrated above, has been passed down through the Gospels, and then finally presented in the Masonic 'Two Johns' symbolism.
John, John and Jesus and Chi-Rho
Figure 18: The 'Two John' of Masonic symbolism. Jesus Christ emerges as the generative "Third Force" (Horus) - formerly hidden behind the Circumpunct Sun/Solar symbol centered between two parallel lines, and which is often placed between the Two Johns. (Image bottom right).
In the gospels, Osiris is portrayed by John the Baptist, and we can see why in many of the paintings that feature John the Baptist, he is depicted pointing at 23.5 degrees - as this is an angle associated with Osiris, whose Atef Crown and arms are depicted at the same angle in ancient Egyptian art telling us that he represents the conditions relating to the tilted Earth.
In the gospels Isis is occulted; hidden behind the character of Mary Magdalene, and is later also portrayed by John the Evangelist, otherwise known as John "the Divine".
But as we can see, Jesus Christ emerges as the generative "Third Force" in this particular Triad and takes the place of Horus.
In Masonic symbolism, the 'Two Johns' are both shown flanking the circumpunct, Sun/Solar symbol, which is really in reference to Jesus as Horus the Sun god, and in the central Equinoctial position of the Sun.
Earlier we saw examples of Mary Magdalene holding the Crucifix (Jesus on the cross) at the axis angle of 23.5 degrees.
Because Osiris and Horus are interchangeable - both being aspects of the same individual - Jesus here at the angle of 23.5 degrees is being portrayed in the role of Osiris who represents the tilted axis, and it is really Isis, not Mary, who is mourning him.
This is the Gnostic message being conveyed to the viewer of these paintings and from one initiate to another, and though it may appear confusing and convoluted, it was intended that way to confuse the uninitiated - especially members of the Church who, if they had the eyes to see the message and could prove it - which would be difficult if not impossible to do because of its purposely-executed, subtle ambiguity - would waste no time in having the artist arrested and charged with heresy.
It could just as well be that by hiding and obscuring much of Mary Magdalene’s presence behind the male personality of John the Evangelist, the writers of the gospels - and/or even the Church itself who had edited the gospels it chose to go into the New Testament - had downplayed the feminine role which was prominent in earlier pagan religions, and tried to hide the fact that the lives of John, Mary and Jesus, were really based on the ancient Egyptian, pagan Triad of Osiris, Isis and Horus; anthropomorphic deities who really personified the ‘three forces’, known as “The Law of Three” in esoteric lore that were observed throughout nature and also within man and within the collective consciousness.
If these people existed at all, then they were later moulded into the symbolism associated with the internal processes of the human psyche. John and Mary can therefore be equated with the ancient Egyptian Osiris and Isis, and Jesus with Horus.
While reciting the words “In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost”, one makes the sign of the cross by touching the forehead, then bringing the hand down to the heart and then touching the left shoulder and then the right shoulder. Sometimes one just touches the head and then both shoulders.
Rch ("Light")
Osiris, the Celestial Pole and Horus, the Pole of the Ecliptic
To conclude then:
Its clear to see that the ‘Two Johns’ then, also represent the male and female opposites as represented by Osiris and Isis, who stand on either side of Horus (Jesus).
Again, we have here the Triad as expressed in the colours Red, White and Black; of positive (male,) negative (female) and the higher and generative, neutral third force, being born from the first two and who is a composite of both these opposites . . .
The symbolism here describes man’s union with God through a state of consciousness we would call ‘neutral,’ which is said to be the nature of the androgynous or genderless soul, compared to the positive and negative, male and female opposites that belong to the physical world and in which man’s consciousness is divided.
We can see then, that the ‘neutral third element’ or “third force” (a term used by the Sufi mystic, Gurdjieff), takes things to whole different level; in that it represents a higher state of consciousness, closer to God and the Source.
This higher state of consciousness is personified in the hawk or falcon god Horus on whom Christ was based – the “son of the Sun” (Inner Sun) and the son and reincarnation of Osiris and Isis.
Like the highest Sun god RA, Horus is a falcon – a bird – and because again he represents a higher state of consciousness and is closer to God (RA) than the being that is divided in two by his or her focus within a world made up of opposites.
We should note further connotations here in the fact that Osiris (male) is dead and Isis (female) is alive. It appears we are being told that to exist in the physical world of the senses and dual appearances, one’s consciousness must also be divided in two, but we are being told that one can also rise above all Duality and the inner conflict this can bring, and ascend in frequency to this third, ‘neutral state’ where both these divisions are united as one again.
This is basically the meaning of the Holy Triad – its three components, positive, negative and neutral, which are really all present in one person, as indicated by my placement of Osiris, (who represents "Everyman") at the centre of the Chi-Rho cross as illustrated above.
“Every triad has a male, female and androgen . . . Eve is within Adam . . . They are the first androgen. I found the same idea in ‘The Gnostic Gospels’. [In] ‘Isis Unveiled’ Mme Blavatsky compares the Indian, Chaldean, and Ophite systems. The One becomes dual, or Father and Mother, when manifesting. From the union of the two emanates a third, which is the Son, or manifested Logos . . .
“Blavatsky had an idea about the creation process... [T]he male aspect of the Deity has the ideal thought for a creation. This implants a seed into the womb of the feminine aspect of Deity (Sakti), who then ‘gives birth’ to the Son, the Logos, The Word made flesh. She and others say that the ‘Son’ is actually an androgen ‘Child'”.
I like the fact that if we were to now 'tilt' Poussin's painting - rotating it 30 degrees backward or to the right, so that the 30-degree cross becomes perfectly upright and square - i.e., 0º - we find that the 23.5º angle of the left side of the tree now reads as 6.5º, and the right side of the tree, which is also 30º becomes 0º.
Tilt Twist
Figure 19: Rotating the painting to the right so that the 30-degree cross is upright.
In doing this, the angle of the tree "magically" transforms from 23.5 degrees to 6.5 degrees.
23.5º + 6.5º = 30º.
These three angles expressed a deep relevance to me personally. It was a logical step to rotate the cross and with it the painting to square the cross, and in doing so, the result was these three angles which I have seen encoded elsewhere, and in one of the world's most famous monuments . . . a fact I will reveal later.
Based on these results, and suspecting that it contained the same code, I decided to do the same with the painting, Bacchus: John the Baptist in the Wilderness. As mentioned earlier (see here), this painting was originally completed by an unknown follower of Leonardo Da Vinci between 1510 and 1515, and based on a sketch of John the Baptist by Leonardo titled Design for John in the Wilderness. It was then overpainted between 1683 and 1693 and given the title Bacchus. As many will know, the Greek god Bacchus is equatable with the ancient Egypian god Osiris - more evidence that John the Baptist was based on Osiris.
Again, we are dealing with a 30-degree angle in this painting made by John's pointing finger, which we can rotate backwards and to the right to make it perfectly level at 0º.
Figure 20: Rotating the Bacchus painting to the right so that the 30-degree angle is level - i.e. 0º.
The Skull and Hamlet’s Mill
"I have held up a light in the obscurity of Philosophy, which will be seen centuries after I am dead. It will be seen amidst the erection of Tombs, Theatres, Foundations, Temples, of Orders and Fraternities for nobility and obedience — the establishment of good laws as an example to the World.
For I am not raising a Capitol or Pyramid to the Pride of men, but laying a foundation in the human understanding for a holy Temple after the model of the World. For my memory I leave it to Men's charitable speeches, to foreign Nations and the next Ages, and to my own Country after some Time has elapsed"..
"But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe . . . For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge—which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence".
"For knowledges are as pyramids, whereof History is the basis. So of Natural Philosophy, the basis is Natural History; the stage next the basis is Physique [Physics]; the stage next the vertical point [apex] is Metaphysique. As for the vertical point, opus quod operatur Deus à principio usque ad finem, the Summary Law of Nature, we know not whether man's enquiry can attain unto it".
Interim. Inverse
"Poussin himself said his paintings had a definite and even secret import when he suggested that “ …these things, (the meaning in his paintings) I believe, will not displease those people who know how to read them”. Art scholar Judith Bernstock says that to ‘receive Poussin’s paintings … must study them continually and closely, always searching them for connections’. As Bernini said Poussin was ‘an artist who works up here' (pointing to his head: i.e. with his brain) and he was someone who was also 'a great storyteller’. The suggestion that the paintings of Poussin have a hidden meaning then comes from the mouth of the artist himself. Poussin had indicated that the meaning in his paintings could be discerned by those who knew how to read them. By this he meant his patrons or others who were able to read the canvases, in other words, those who were initiated".
Arc . . . Ark . . . Arx
Arcadian rod Draco with bears
Figure 21: Left: 15th century engraving of the constellations of the serpent/dragon Draco and the bears Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
This illustration is from Poeticon Astronomicon (Poetic Astronomy), a star atlas by Hyginus that was published in 1482.
Credit: Royal Astronomical Society.
Right: Star asterisms for the constellations of Draco, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, also showing the Precessional cycle and the Ecliptic Centre.
Tai Chi
Figure 22: The Chinese Tai Chi or Yin Yang symbol.
"Although the connection between Draco and the yin-yang symbol has been almost completely lost, it can be re-established via consideration of the relevant mythology. Most people know that the yin and yang represent forces of positive and negative energy, which balance each other and sustain the universe – but an older myth gives the same role to the serpent.
"In Chinese, yin literally means “moon.” The dark patch, with the white sphere inside, represents the full moon (often portrayed as a woman with a snake’s body). Yang, on the other hand, literally means “sun,” and is represented by a Tiger (similar to the Western sun-symbol, the lion). Together, they formed the body of Draco; the sun became a symbol for the dragon’s head while the moon became a symbol for the tail. It is the separation of these two energies, and the interplay between them, that generates and sustains the universe – known in the East as the “Tao.”
"This is not a balance or a harmony: it is an active, constantly moving relationship. The polarities both attract and repel each other, like two sides of a magnet. This is why Draco is always spinning, or “chasing its tail” – he has been divided and is trying to get back together. His head (male) keeps trying to catch up to his tail (female)".
"Recent research by Oliviero has suggested that the enigmatic phrase on the tombs painted by Guercino and Poussin may actually mean: “I am also in the divine tomb” or “also I am in the divine tomb”.
He went on to say:
The translation can even be improved (by) using the past tense for the verb to be, as the sense seems to suggest.
The sentence then becomes “Et in Arcadia ego (fui)”: Also I was in the divine tomb.
As a matter of fact, the word “fui” (I was) is composed of three letters and can perfectly fit the three dots (if we think of them as markers for lacking letters) Pierre Plantard talked about. The sentence could, in this way, represent a marker to recognize “those who know the secret”, as a kind of sect or elite group, who had the privilege to go inside the “divine tomb”(whatever it could be) because the clear meaning of the motto is “I also am one of those who entered the divine tomb”.
If true, then who were these people who had first discovered and entered the tomb of the "Shepherd God or "Shepherd King"?
The answer to this may lie in the title of the Arcadian Shepherds paintings themselves, as it is possible that this group called themselves "The Shepherds of Arcadia". And we find that such a group did indeed exist in the 15th century who went by this name; a circle of artists and poets led by Lorenzo Medici and who met regularly at the Villa Medici, according to art historian Erwin Panofsky.
Its possible then, that the shepherds we see in the paintings represent the group or society that may have discovered the tomb; a group who guarded a 'sacred tradition' associated with Arcadia and went by the secret name the "Shepherds of Arcadia".
“Though generally revered elsewhere in ancient Egypt, at Edfu and Dendera the crocodile is the subject of ritual slaying in temple scenes. The rituals of these “anti-crocodile” cults are an easy fit into the story of Horus and his struggle for kingship against Seth. The final destruction represents victory over chaos and evil”.
horus Krishna
Figure 2: Left: Horus spearing the head or eye of the crocodile. Right: The Hindu god Krishna crushing the serpent's head under his heel.
But its when we examine the latter-era depictions of St. George and the Dragon, that it truly becomes apparent as to what the symbolic meaning behind this ancient imagery is really pointing to.
St. George
Figure 2: Left: Illustration from page 21 of The Book of Abraham the Jew (14th Century) associated with the Alchemist Nicolas Flamel.
Note the Black, Red and White colours of the chargers, ridden by the "Horsemen of the Apocalypse". The fire being discharged by the dragon and the neck and head of the dragon are at the Earth's obliquity angle.
Right: Detail from "Baptism of Christ: Christ, John the Baptist and angels" by Piero della Francesca (1450).
Note the three angels clothed in the colours of the Triad, Red, White and Blue/Black.
As we saw earlier, a skull features quite prominantly in the painting Et In Arcadia Ego by Guercino as it does in numerous Vanitas paintings - a theme that was popular with some artists in the 17th century. A skull also makes its way into Shakespeare’s Play of Hamlet.
Hamlet examines a skull, and wonders whom it might have belonged to. This connection is all the more significant when we realise that Hamlet is based on an ancient myth about the “Mill”, a metaphor for the Earth’s axis.’
In their book Hamlet's Mill, authors Giorgio De Santillana and Hertha Von Dechend, reveal that Hamlet is based on the Amleth, Amlodhi or Frodhi of Scandinavian myth. This individual was the proud owner of a mill – again, a metaphor for the Earth’s axis on which the Earth turns and gyrates.
Surprisingly, the story of Hamlet is a very ancient one reaching far back into the depths of antiquity.
The authors trace the same story in Livy’s account of Lucius Junius Brutus in Rome; the national epic of Finland, The Kalevala and its hero Kullervo Kalevanpoika; the national epic of Iran – i.e., Firdausi’s Shahnama (the Book of Kings) and its hero, Kai Khusrau – as well as the ancient epics Yudhishthira and the Mahabharata, of India. And lastly but not least, the ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris and his son and avenger Horus, on whom the character Hamlet is originally based.
In the story, Hamlet avenges the murder of his father by his uncle, just as Horus avenges the murder of his father Osiris by his uncle Set. The Walt Disney movie The Lion King is a recent rendition of the same story.
After comparing these stories with other ancient myths the authors conclude that these astronomical myths seem to allude to a “cosmic collision” of some kind which caused the obliquity of the Earth’s axis and which then gave rise to our seasons and the 25,800-year Cycle of Precession. Again, it’s possible that the perpetrator of this global disaster was a comet or meteor as theorised by contemporary authors, Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, also David Wood and Ian Campbell – to give just a few examples.
The Numbers of Precession
In the narrative of the myth of Osiris, I highlighted certain numbers in red and bold. These numbers are 12, 30, 360 and 72.
In his book Fingerprints of the Gods, journalist and author, Graham Hancock highlights the significance of these numbers based on the work of Egyptologist, Jane B. Sellers who tested the theories put forward by the authors of Hamlet’s Mill.
Seller’s thesis is that these key numbers are associated with the ‘Law of Precession’. If so, says Hancock, then it would seem that these numbers have been encoded in the myth by an advanced civilisation as a means for preserving information and knowledge about Precession.
As already mentioned, the numbers 12, 30 and 360 could be associated with the time before the tilt of the Earth’s axis when it was believed to be vertically-aligned with the Pole of the Ecliptic and the Ecliptic Centre. If so, then during that time a year would have consisted of 360 days. Again, it’s possible that the 360-degree circle originates from this time.
As also mentioned earlier, it’s also possible that the Moon was also aligned with the Ecliptic, resulting in a month of exactly 30 days – every month beginning with a Solar Eclipse and ending with a Lunar Eclipse.
If so, then a year would consist of 12 months, each month consisting of exactly 30 days – unlike today. The 12 also relates to the twelve signs or star constellations of the Zodiac – each sign closely related to each month. Each sign of the Zodiac, as shown on a 360-degree circle, still consists of 30 degrees and 3 sets of decans consisting of 10 degrees each.
With the tilt of the axis and its slow precessional wobble, which takes, just under 26,000 years to complete – again, the ‘law of precession’ and its cycle - also known as the ‘Great Year’ or Platonic Year of 25,920-years - comes into effect.
Returning now to Poussin's painting:
In my view the large inclined tree behind the sarcophagus represents the axis mundi or 'World Tree'. I say this, because if we measure the left side of the tree, we find that it is exactly 23.5 degrees from the vertical – the same angle as the Earth’s axis.
Interestingly, the right side of the tree is 30 degrees from the vertical, and again perpendicular to the 30-degree angle of the sarcophagus.
‘This is meant to be only an essay. It is a first reconnaissance of a realm well-nigh unexplored and uncharted. From whichever way one enters it, one is caught in the same bewildering circular complexity, as in a labyrinth, for it has no deductive order in the abstract sense, but instead resembles an organism tightly closed in itself, or even better, a monumental “Art of the Fugue”.’
Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge
and its Transmission through Myth by Giorgio De Santillana & Hertha Von Dechend.
(David R. Godine, Publisher Inc, 1969). p. 1.
For the original text featuring the Shining Ones see The Book of Enoch. R. H. Charles, W. O. E. Oesterley. (Book Tree, 1998.)
Also, see here . . . and here.
Earth's Geophysics
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42426 | Put Some Monster In Your Pocket!
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by: RFR Casket Crew Claymation Werewolf
Hiya folks! Seems like here lately there’s been an awful lot of talkin’ about Monster In My Pocket. Kids today with their hula hoops and their electric widgets and discoteques have been all a’flutter over these multicolored mini monsters and questions have been a’flying fast and loose. What do they mean? Are the colors significant? Where did they come from in the first place? Why do you have so many of those Monster In My Pockets? Why do you just sit around writing those ridiculous blogs all day? Why don’t you get outside, maybe meet a nice girl…get a job and move out of my basement? Maybe make something of yourself, I mean you are 45 years old, Greg! Ahem, anyway everybody’s just gotta know more about these little critters…and don’t get me wrong they ain’t just toys. They made a cartoon or two, they made a videogame for one of them Nintendos. And to answer everybody’s questions; they even made one of them funny books to explain the “origin” of the Monsters. Now, I read that funny book and I gotta say; in the words of my Grand pappy “That’s pretty good, but it ain’t how I hear’d it!” You see I happen to know that those “toys“? Well they aren’t quite just children’s play things. And the monsters their based on? Well they happen to be real.
The Original Monster In My Pocket
The Original Monster In My Pocket
I suppose the year was nearabouts 1990 and unbeknownst to most of the world, America was dealing with quite a monster problem. Yes you heard right, monsters! You know them varmints from the movies; wolfman, the witch, chimera, invisible man and what have-you. Well them beasts were just running amuck and playing fast and loose with public safety and property. Folks were dying, disappearing, turning into vampires, etc and it became crystal clear that it had to stop. And those folks that make the big decisions (shadow government as I heard tell) they came up with themselves a plan. As you all know in the late 80’s and early 90’s most of the federal budget was devoted toward repelling the invasion force from the planet Melmac in retaliation to us capturing the head honcho of their orbital guards. It goes without saying that we couldn’t just throw together a Monster Hunting Battalion…boy I still remember the good old days when we DID put together Monster Hunting Battalions…good times. Anyway, they thought themselves up a doozy of a plan; let the people do the work. Americans are a resourceful lot and they always seemed to defeat the forces of evil with a reasonable success rate in the movies, so why not try it in real life! All they needed was some initiative; something to make it worthwhile for the average Joe and Jane out there. So they used the motivational tool that has kept people working harder, longer and using more creativity than anything else in history. They used the satisfaction that comes with doing your best toward a noble goal!
I’m kidding, they used money.
The ultimate plan introduced placed a specific point system, and dollar amount, on the monsters. The more dangerous a specific critter was, the more money its destruction or capture brought you. For instance the Behemoth was one of your more powerful creatures and brought nearabouts Five Million dollars! Compare that to a hunchback! Now a hunchback would bring you about 15 bucks and was hardly worth the trouble of clubbing one. On top of that, half the time it just ended up being an elderly person or someone with bad scoliosis and it could quickly become a pretty embarrassing situation. No, you were better off chasing the big beasts; more danger but a whole lot more reward. Someone who brought in a really bad beast like a TV programming executive, got enough reward money to buy the network, and in fact that happened more often in the 90’s than most people think.
Sgt. Mat “C.H.” Box ran the program as efficiently as a secret paranormal government program coulda been run and in fact received several top secret unofficial medals for his invention of the rubber toy currency tracking system. The medals were of course invisible but the plan they represented was brilliant. A line of “toys” was created and distributed thought the country and a strong advertising campaign made them a national craze. Once customers became hooked, the MIMP administrators began to place information on the REAL purpose behind the collectors items. Each toy represented its ghoulish counterpart; the rubber figures would serve as a visual guide to help in spotting the creature and were marked with the point each creature held to inform the hunter how much cash they would get for bringing it down. Everybody got really into “the hunt” turning in monsters left and right. In fact, even the monsters began to turn in each other. They would collect the reward money, get tossed in monster jail, eat all the guards and then start the whole process over again. After enough guards were eaten and the monsters dispersed, the program soon faded into non-existence.
With the monster population supposedly dealt with and some nice “walkin’ around money” in the pocket of hunters, everybody walked away happy. The toys became actual collectors items and joined the ranks of trends gone by. But friends, here is a secret just between you and your old pal Claymation Werewolf, those toys are still around if you pay close enough attention. And the real monsters? They‘re around too…try as they might, they never were able to get rid of all of us. Oops! I mean them…
Until next time, sit back, relax and rot away! And happy huntin’ …
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42438 | Vortragsankündigung 2017 Heidelberg Flesh, Blood and Bones
Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Heidelberg, 18. Juli 2017
Flesh, Blood and Bones: the forgetting of the carnal in the anthropology of hunting
Thorsten Gieser, Universität Koblenz-Landau
Anthropological accounts of hunting tend to focus on the hunters‘ worldview at the expense of the hunters‘ lifeworld, i.e. the realm of lived experience. In doing so, anthropologists have neglected the concrete human-animal encounter in ‚hunting situations‘ (Widlok 2016) in favour of sociocultural ‚context‘. In this lecture I will argue that in order to understand hunting as a practice we need to describe and untangle the entanglements of the hunting situation in its embodied, sensuous, material and affective strands first before considering ‚context‘. At the heart of this situation we find the carnal: human and animal bodies entangled and transforming in the meshwork of the landscape; bodies alive with feelings and sensations (the Leib), but also wounded and dead bodies (the Körper). |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42492 | Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia
Made famous during the Battle of Britain, the Spitfire was without doubt the fighter of 1940. The Mk Ia was one of the earliest of Spitfire variants armed with eight 0.303 Browning machine guns and 300 rounds per gun. During the Battle of Britain, Spitfires would take on the German fighter cover while the more numerous Hurricanes would take down the German bombers. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42495 | Scientists have proposed to deprive children of a day dream
Researchers from the technical University of Queensland found out how NAPs affects the quality of life of children. Meta-analysis was subjected to all studies that addressed NAPs and its impact on children under five years of age. From 781 research 26 has not lost its relevance. The data presents The Hindustan Times.
It was found, sleeping after lunch, affect the quality of sleep in young children. At the age of two years he increased the time to waste to night sleep, shortened its duration. Note, each family takes NAPs in different ways. For some it's a 20-30 minute break in the afternoon, for others - a full three-hour sleep. Therefore, to perceive clearly the results are not worth it.
In another study, researchers from University of Massachusetts proved that daytime sleep improves brain function and helps children to remember more information. During sleep the activation zones, responsible for training and "digesting" the information obtained during wakefulness.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42510 | Allergen Fail
Chili’s served me pretzels which had BBQ sauce on them. (Tasted it on the first bite.) I left to go get benadryl and Ron asked them to change them out. We got them to go. 2 of the 4 had BBQ on them again. Some people can die from allergens added randomly to their food. Thankfully the most likely result for me is three or four days of difficulty walking, typing, driving, any type of movement. I am hoping I got the benadryl in time to avoid that.
Thought for the day
Ronald Reagan
Today is Ronald Reagan’s birthday today and I saw the quote as a comment on a Facebook post about that.
When I first saw the post, I was like, “What?! I forgot Reagan (my niece’s) birthday?”
Then I remembered she was born the day he died, not the day he was born. And, yes, she was named for him. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42514 | 1. Swiss government commissioned an extensive research review regarding the effectiveness of homeopathy. The following report was published in 2011: Homeopathy in Healthcare – Effectiveness, Appropriateness, Safety, Costs, by Bornhoft and Matthiessen and published by Springer Verlag. http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642206375/.
1. Robert Medhurst an Australian Homeopath provides a partial list of published homeopathic research showing the clinical effectiveness of homeopathy in a wide range of conditions http://www.homeopathy-healing.com/research-homeopathy-robert-medhurst/.
1. Cuban government, a long time supporter of homeopathy, conducted large-scale trials of homeoprophylaxis on millions of people with excellent results. See trials here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=cuba+leptospirois%2C+homeoprophylaxis
1. Dana Ullman, an American author, publisher, journalist, practitioner, and proponent in the field of homeopathy. Discusses the Scientific Evidence for Homeopathic Medicine: http://www.wholehealthnow.com/homeopathy_pro/research_1.html
2. Ultra-diluted (i.e.: homeopathic potency) Toxicodendron pubescens attenuates pro-inflammatory cytokines and ROS- mediated neuropathic pain in rats.Scientific Reports volume 8, Article number: 13562 (2018); https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-31971-9 |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42517 | Slavery of Fear
Flee, fight or freeze
In the natural world, there are two kinds of responses to imminent threats: either flee or fight. Most of the time, in order to maximize chances of survival, the decision has to be made by individuals or groups in less than a split second. On one hand, the option to flee is motivated by this immediate assessment. It has, of course, an important fear factor. On the other hand, the option to fight seems brave on the surface, but intense momentary fear perhaps had to be overcome by a massive adrenaline rush. Fear is a primal and powerful emotion that is essential for survival, but it can also be used as a tool to control people through mental, emotional and even physical paralysis.
There is a third behavioral option when fear completely paralyzes the individual or a group: it is the freeze option, similar to the imaginary sense of the impossibility to act or react for someone going through a deep clinical depression. As a collective or a nation, this freeze or depressed state when facing danger is also possible. Eighty years ago, with the exception of General Charles de Gaulle and a few men who decided to flee to carry on the fight, France capitulated to the German enemy. France froze and became trapped in the ignominy of a collective depression that was the collaboration by the Vichy government.
In human society, during the barbaric lunacy that has been called the art of war, many substances have been used in history to make soldiers less fearful before combat. Drinking alcohol is an obvious one in Europe; chewing coca leaves for South American native tribes; smoking or eating hashish in the Middle-East and Asia — this concentrated form of cannabis is the etymological origin of the word assassin; more recently, during World War II’s spectacular German Blietzkrieg 1940 attack on France, German troops were given the powerful methamphetamine Pervitin. Naturally, the notion of the fearless master-race Nazi soldiers was nothing but a mythology! The intrepid soldiers of the Reich and their beloved Furher, Adolf Hitler, had the fearlessness of crystal-meth addicts. Pervitin kept Nazi troops awake and fighting for days and nights, and increased their aggressive behavior.
Of course, one cannot reduce the apparent fearless madness of the entire German nation during World War II to the massive consumption of Pervitin. What was probably the most sophisticated propaganda machine of the time had been put together by the Nazis; it had been brainwashing the minds of Germans, young and old, for almost a decade. Hitler and co. spent about 10 years molding a sophisticated and cultured society into their ideological monstrosity with the mythology of the purity of blood, master race, and crucially the invention of Jews as evil, depraved and subhuman personified. If this was possible in an advanced society like Germany circa 1930, one must consider that such a gruesome turn of events is possible anywhere at any time, as madness can be a contagious disease.
Fear of other cultures is a crucial component of racial hatred. Once a group of people like the Jews in Nazi Germany or the Africans during the slave trade to the Americas have been thoroughly dehumanized, it becomes easy, almost trivial, to torture and kill them. All propagandists are psychologists. Therefore they understand that their manipulation of fear gives birth to powerful dark impulses. A fear of abandonment as a child can later bring about morbid jealousy and various sociopathic behaviors. A fear of destitution drives the compulsion to greed. Collectively, fear can be a giant web of invisible chains that enslave a society in a psychological straight jacket. In this regard, September 11, 2001 and its aftermath was a turning point, and to some extent the Western world has been conditioned to live in fear ever since.
The war of terror
Putting aside the inside-job narrative, what matters is how crises are used. The net benefit of 9/11 for some was to create a constant sense of uncertainty for the population, and cynically a jackpot for the military-industrial complex. It was the notion that the enemy could be lurking anywhere. The war on terror was, and still is, a conceptual war: an absurd Orwellian war without end because it is supposed to fight diffuse groups of people called terrorists whose only common ground is the use of fear as a weapon. Because fear breeds more fear, the 20-year conceptual war made people, almost worldwide, believe security was more important than personal liberty. The war on terror made people slaves of fear, and they were told it was for their own good.
Do not blame only Donald Trump for the current authoritarian police state in the US. The Department of Homeland Security was a fascist invention of George W. Bush, using 9/11 as a pretext, and it was maintained by Barack Obama, every time with the complicity of Congress. On one hand, the war on terror wrecked several countries: killed or displaced millions at a cost of several trillion dollars. Everyone knew it was not winnable. On the other hand, what worked for the US and its Western allies was the almost 20-year old war of terror that slowly victimized their own populations with the jackboot of a police-military apparatus constantly on their throats. When fear overcomes an entire society it can be beaten to submission. Where fear rules, servitude becomes acceptable.
Strategy of fear and the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has given an entirely new dimension to the slavery of fear initiated on 9/11. There have been almost two decades, which is one generation, of a war of terror on the collective psyche. There could not have been a better introduction to the global fear of a pandemic. A diffuse Muslim fundamentalist enemy who could be anywhere has morphed to an invisible virus that is everywhere. The quantum leap was easily made, because it is intrinsically the same mechanism. It went a lot further than 9/11, because governments managed to convince their populations to submit themselves to various level of lockdown. Imagine this! Almost all complied worldwide, with little resistance and absolutely no organized rebellion.
Just like the post 9/11 world infringed on human rights and privacy with various invasive policies, the post COVID-19 world has adopted its own arbitrary rules. They have in common that they fuel a fear of everyone and everything and engender agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorders, Stockholm syndrome, and depression. The panoply of mandatory social distancing measures and mask wearing decrees have made people hostile, fearful, and paranoid. Authorities worldwide have been on a joy killing mission. Populations have been successfully infantilized and traumatized by forbidding the most essential human behaviors: the joy to see a smile or the surprise of a flaring nostril; the smell of a ripe fruit at a market; the fortitude of what seems to be a time gone when you could dance with a stranger and perhaps steal a kiss.
More than two hundred years ago, Haitian slaves managed to free themselves, and in the process they defeated the world’s three largest empires: respectively, the French, British, and Spanish. Have we all become such pathetic shadows of our former selves? Are we so weak and cowardly today that we cannot free ourselves from the billionaire class and the fear it is imposing on us?
Editor’s Notes: Gilbert Mercier is the author of The Orwellian Empire. Photographs one by Nathan O’Nions; two by The Malt; three by Torbak Hopper; four by Kyle Pearce; five by Mark Rain; six and nine by Hartwig HKD; seven by Duncan C; and eight by Terence Faircloth.
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9-1-1's Next Frontier
November 23rd, 2010 by George Krebs
After a tour of the high-tech operations room, Chairman Genachowski and Admiral Barnett spoke to the promise of next-generation 9-1-1. Here's an excerpt from Chairman Genachowski's speech.
"Even though mobile phones are the device of choice for most 9-1-1 callers, and we primarily use our phones to text, right now, you can’t text 9-1-1. Let me reiterate that point. If you find yourself in an emergency situation and want to send a text for help, you can pretty much text anyone EXCEPT a 9-1-1 call center.
"...It’s time to bring 9-1-1 into the digital age."
Read the rest of the Chairmans’s speech, view more photos and see the benefits of Next Generation 9-1-1 after the jump.
(This is cross-posted on The FCC Official Blog.)
One Response to “9-1-1's Next Frontier”
1. ForestWander says:
That looks like a pretty high tech facility.
Are those LCD or HD screens on the wall?
That is a good idea for a call or tech center.
So everyone can be on the same page.
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Why I keep glancing in the Black Mirror
Black Mirror, an International Emmy winner, is a sort of mash-up of many things Brooker has written and spoken about. He's confessed to loving gadgets and checking his time-line too often. But it's in his Guardian column that we've seen the seeds for Black Mirror sown. Hyper conenctivity, over-sharing, 'look at me' generation X self-obsession and his guide to winning the Turner Prize have all popped up in episodes of Black Mirror to date. Described by Channel 4 as "a hybrid of The Twilight Zone and Tales of the Unexpected which taps into our contemporary unease about our modern world", it is genuinely unmissable television.
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xbmc requires glxinfo
Added by Hammel about 8 years ago. Updated almost 8 years ago.
Status:ClosedStart date:25 Nov 2012
Priority:NormalDue date:
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Category:00 - Basic Build Issues
Target version:0.5.0 - Beta 1
When I tried to run xbmc from the opkg installation I got an error that glxinfo was not found. glxinfo is not included in the userland tools. I'm guessing that glxinfo, which I think is in the Mesa3D packages needs to be compiled against the userland tools, which means it won't build directly out of buildroot. I've posted a question about this to the Raspberry Pi forums.
#1 Updated by Hammel about 8 years ago
• Project changed from xbmcbox to PiBox
• Target version deleted (Beta 1)
This issue requires a fix within the core PiBox, not to xbmcbox.
#2 Updated by Hammel about 8 years ago
• Status changed from New to In Progress
• % Done changed from 0 to 20
I think, but am not certain yet and based on this dicussion, that I only need to build the basic Mesa3D libraries via the X.org build in Buildroot to satisfy this issue. After that, if the ld conf is correct, then xbmc should be able to find the tools it requires.
Note that after this build, the xbmc build should be rerun so that I can assure it picks up the ARM OpgnGL libs and not the x86_64 libs from the host.
#3 Updated by Hammel about 8 years ago
Mesa builds easily enough, but the version in Buildroot is recent enough to not include the GLU, GLUT or demos packages. These have to be added as selectable packages to be built if Mesa3D is enabled or that enable Mesa3D if selected.
I know I need the demos package to get glxinfo. I don't know if I need GLU or GLUT. I'll have to check the dependencies list for an XBMC build.
#4 Updated by Hammel about 8 years ago
The mesa-demos package requires glew.
#5 Updated by Hammel about 8 years ago
• % Done changed from 20 to 30
GLEW has a Makefile-based build that doesn't look easy (at first glance) to convert to cross compile usage. GLUT was similarly difficult.
Because I'm unclear if glew and glut are really needed, I'm going to test a rebuild of xbmc without these. I've built the rootfs with Mesa3D and GLU and then rebuilt xbmc against that new rootfs. Now it's time to load both the new rootfs and the xbmc opkg onto an SD card and try them.
#6 Updated by Hammel almost 8 years ago
• Priority changed from Immediate to Normal
• % Done changed from 30 to 50
• Severity changed from Critical to Medium
I think the problem here is that xbmc is not getting built correctly, not that we need glxinfo. Tests with ldconfig on the rpi show tools like busybox are okay, but xbmc.bin is broken. So this is probably a fix needed in xbmcbox and now here.
For now, lowering the priority of this issue until I can verify xbmc is getting built properly. Then we'll see if it really needs glxinfo.
#7 Updated by Hammel almost 8 years ago
• Category set to 00 - Basic Build Issues
• Status changed from In Progress to Closed
• Target version set to 0.5.0 - Beta 1
• % Done changed from 50 to 100
I've cleaned up the XBMCBox build so it properly cross compiles. I think the binary is valid but it still doesn't run, possibly because of the way I've installed the Raspberry Pi firmware and/or userland tools.
To get around the glxinfo problem you have to edit the /opt/xbmc-bcm/xbmc-bin/bin/xbmc script and comment out the check for glxinfo. It's not really required in this case. However, that means I'll have to add a modified version of this script to the XBMCBox source tree and make sure it gets copied in during the build of that project.
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Hue in the HSB/HSL encodings of RGB
An image with the hues cyclically shifted in HSL space
The hues in this image of a Painted Bunting are cyclically rotated over time.
Hue is one of the main properties of a color, defined technically (in the CIECAM02 model), as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue, and yellow,"[1] (the unique hues). Orange and violet (purple) are the other hues, for a total of six, as in the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. The other main correlatives of color appearance are colorfulness, chroma, saturation, lightness, and brightness.
Usually, colors with the same hue are distinguished with adjectives referring to their lightness and/or colorfulness, such as with "light blue", "pastel blue", "vivid blue". Exceptions include brown, which is a dark orange,[2] and pink, a light red with reduced chroma.
In painting color theory, a hue refers to a pure color—one without tint or shade (added white or black pigment, respectively).[3] A hue is an element of the color wheel. Hues are first processed in the brain in areas in the extended V4 called globs.[4][5]
• Computing hue 1
• Computing hue from RGB 1.1
• Specialized hues 2
• Usage in art 3
• Hue vs. dominant wavelength 4
• Hue difference: \Delta h or \Delta H^*? 5
• Names and other notations for hues 6
• See also 7
• References 8
• External links 9
Computing hue
Specifically, in CIELAB:[6]
h_{ab} = \mathrm{atan2}(b^*, a^*)\;
while, analogously, in CIELUV:[6]
h_{uv} = \mathrm{atan2}(v^*, u^*) = \mathrm{atan2}(v', u')\;
Where, atan2 is a two-argument inverse tangent.
Computing hue from RGB
Preucil[7] describes a color hexagon, similar to a trilinear plot described by Evans, Hanson, and Brewer,[8] which may be used to compute hue from RGB. To place red at 0°, green at 120°, and blue at 240°.
h_{rgb} = \mathrm{atan2}\left( \sqrt{3} \cdot (G - B), 2 \cdot R - G - B \right)
Equivalently, one may solve:
\tan( h_{rgb}) = \frac{\sqrt{3}\cdot (G - B)}{2\cdot R - G - B}
Preucil used a polar plot, which he termed a color circle.[7] Using R, G, and B, one may compute hue angle using the following scheme: determine which of the six possible orderings of R, G, and B prevail, then apply the formula given in the table below.
HSV color space as a conical object
Ordering Hue Region Formula
R \ge G \ge B Red-Yellow h_{Preucil\ circle} = 60^{\circ} \cdot \frac{G - B}{R - B}
G > R \ge B Yellow-Green h_{Preucil\ circle} = 60^{\circ} \cdot \left( 2 - \frac{R - B}{G - B}\right)
G \ge B > R Green-Cyan h_{Preucil\ circle} = 60^{\circ} \cdot \left( 2 + \frac{B - R}{G - R}\right)
\ B > G > R\ Cyan-Blue h_{Preucil\ circle} = 60^{\circ} \cdot \left( 4 - \frac{G - R}{B - R}\right)
B > R \ge G Blue-Magenta h_{Preucil\ circle} = 60^{\circ} \cdot \left( 4 + \frac{R - G}{B - G}\right)
R \ge B > G Magenta-Red h_{Preucil\ circle} = 60^{\circ} \cdot \left( 6 - \frac{B - G}{R - G}\right)
Note that in each case the formula contains the fraction \frac{M - L}{H - L}, where H is the highest of R, G, and B; L is the lowest, and M is the mid one between the other two. This is referred to as the Preucil Hue Error, and was used in the computation of mask strength in photomechanical color reproduction.[9]
Hue angles computed for the Preucil circle agree with the hue angle computed for the Preucil Hexagon at integer multiples of 30 degrees (red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, magenta, and the colors mid-way between contiguous pairs) and differ by approximately 1.2 degrees at odd integer multiples of 15 degrees (based on the circle formula), the maximum divergence between the two.
The process of converting an RGB color into an HSL color space or HSV color space is usually based on a 6-piece piecewise mapping, treating the HSV cone as a hexacone, or the HSL double cone as a double hexacone.[10] The formulae used are those in the table above.
Specialized hues
Usage in art
Hue vs. dominant wavelength
There are two main ways in which hue difference is quantified. The first is the simple difference between the two hue angles. The symbol for this expression of hue difference is \Delta h_{ab} in CIELAB and \Delta h_{uv} in CIELUV. The other is computed as the residual total color difference after Lightness and Chroma differences have been accounted for; its symbol is \Delta H^*_{ab} in CIELAB and \Delta H^*_{uv} in CIELUV.
Names and other notations for hues
See also
1. ^ Mark Fairchild, "Color Appearance Models: CIECAM02 and Beyond." Tutorial slides for IS&T/SID 12th Color Imaging Conference.
3. ^ "The Color Wheel and Color Theory". Creative Curio. 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
4. ^ Conway, BR; Moeller, S; Tsao, DY. (2007). "Specialized color modules in macaque extrastriate cortex". Neuron 56 (3): 560–73.
External links
• Editing of hue in photography
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Don't Swallow Your Harmonica
I'd never seen such a tiny harmonica. When my father-in-law put it to his mouth, I thought for sure that if he hiccuped, he'd be playing "Auld Lang Syne" in his sleep with every snore.
After a rendition of "Oh My Darling Clementine," he said, "Amazing, isn't it? I can play a song with just four holes."
"That is amazing," I said. "It's also amazing that you can keep hold of it. You could use that thing for a tie tac."
Dad lifted up a slender, silver chain that draped down from the end of the tiny harmonica. "Do you see this?" he asked. I nodded. "I keep it on this chain in case I accidentally swallow it. Then I can pull it back up."
I had to laugh. It's good to have a plan.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Who's That Crippled Lady Yellin' At Me?
It was supposed to be a fun ride, a clever way to lose a few extra pounds and get in shape. I never thought it'd be mistaken for a wheelchair. It's my new Tadpole EZ rider recumbent tricycle. Yeah, that's a mouthful, and if you've ever been on one, it's a sweet ride. I rode my sister's in Idaho Falls last summer and fell in love. I determined to get one... some day. Some day came sooner than I planned when I found the squirrely little buggars offered at an inventory reduction sale from a bike shop in Colorado. After extending my line of credit, I ordered the trike to be delivered to my house, even though the Fly Bike Shop wanted it delivered to another bike shop. Well, guess what? We don't have one in our town. Apparently, unless the little amphibian is put together by a professional, the 90 day warranty is void. Well, from where I'm standing in life, 90 days is not long enough to worry about. Besides, my nearly 14-year-old son was eager as all get-out to put the bike together. He's got quite a mechanical mind, so he read the book (which didn't have instructions for our model anyway) and started fitting things where they belonged, or looked like they belonged. You can learn a lot through trial and error. We recruited our neighbor, Doyle, to help with the project, and he said it looked like we had our machine upside down and backwards. Still, he was helpful and patient until Dad came rolling in to the rescue and put the chain on...twice. (The first time the trike would go forward only if you peddled backward. Thrilling!)
As soon as it was rideable, my sons were in line. They rode it into the night, even taping a flashlight to the front frame so they could keep on riding on the dark streets. I had to wait until today when they were all in school to get my turn. As I was tooling down the street, I saw my old 87 year old neighbor in his yard, so I called, "Hi, Roger!" and pedaled toward him. He slid his hat back on his head and looked at me in frank surprise. "Well, hello," he said when he recognized my face underneath my floppy sunhat. "I wondered who was that crippled lady yellin' at me."
I laughed. "Does it really look like a wheelchair?"
"More than it looks like a bike," he said.
After my ride, my thighs were burning. I could have used a wheelchair. I don't remember ever having such a fun workout.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Boxed and Ready to Sleep
While raising sons, I’ve discovered that each one has their own style. It does absolutely no good to take one boy and try to stuff him into his brother’s mold. If you persist in the attempt, they tend to yell a lot, because it’s not a good fit.
When my seven-year-old, Michael, showed delight over a huge cardboard box left over from an oversized printer his Dad ordered, it didn’t surprise me. It actually brought back memories of when I was a kid. I found a cardboard box on our front porch. No one seemed to want it, so I cut a doorway with a bread knife and forced a chair into the narrow end. It was a child-sized chair, and a tight fit, so in hindsight I realize that the box must have been narrow enough to ship a card table. But at the time, I didn’t care. I sat there in my own space, my own castle, for what seemed like hours.
Now think about your own childhood. You haven’t forgotten those racecar apple boxes, have you? Orange boxes work, too, as long as you pop the bottom flaps out. Holding the rectangle car up around your waist, you’d run around trying to smash into brother and sister cars that wove equally erratic paths around the yard. It was even cooler if you drew headlights and doors on your box. Once I even managed to turn a picture of an apple on the side of my box into a doorknob.
Now I was the Mom, and Michael asked if he could sleep in the box that night. Why not? It was no worse than camping. I figured he’d get tired of it after a night or two.
I figured wrong.
After he’d slept on a pile of blankets in his box on the bedroom floor for three nights, I got him tucked in his bed and started reading a story. After a couple of minutes he said, “Mom, I’m cold. Can I sleep in my box?”
Of course he could.
Monday, October 15, 2007
YIKES! I've been tagged by Don "Fast Fingers" Carey!
Four jobs I've had:
1. Swimming Pool concessionaire
2. Cutting hearts and livers out of turkeys
3. Writing my boyfriend's name in the dust on top of high cupboards... (otherwise known as summer scrub crew)
4. Playing saxophone in a musical duo with my sister dubbed "My Sister and Me." (Then she went and had triplets, and our career went down the drain with the dirty diapers.)
Four places I've lived:
1. Haddon Heights, NJ
2. Manti, UT
3. The amazing Triads (student housing) in Logan, UT
4. one magical summer in Boston, MA
Four movies I love:
1. Sphinx
2. Naughty Marietta
3. Japanese version of "Shall We Dance?"
4. Spirited Away
Four movies I'd like to see:
1. Hawgs
2. Hairspray
3. Get Smart
4. "Gold" series (My novels made into movies!)
Four favorite foods:
1. Pizza
2. Popcorn (cooked on the stove top, not the microwave mumbo jumbo)
3. Watermelon
4. Pumpkin Cookies
Four weird things about me:
1. I imagined Elvis bouncing little pink pigs off his knees so I wouldn't cry while singing a hymn at my Dad's funeral. (Well, one of us sisters had to do something to carry the tune, and my Dad was such a tease, he still is, I'm sure, and I know he loved it!)
2. I like to sleep with a dog bed pillow on my stomach.
3. I make up my own patterns when I sew clothes for myself. (I won't tell you how many of them end up in the Thrift Store.)
4. I don't mind if my boys play in the mud. (I only have sons, six of them, all wonderful and all muddy!)
Four places I'd rather be:
1. Backyard swing
2. On a recumbent bike, racing around the streets
3. On a four wheeler, racing around the streets
4. Someplace tropical
Four people to tag:
I don't know! Who's been tagged? Who hasn't? And how do I do this, exactly? I'll just push some buttons and see how it goes.
1. Girl in a Whirl (what a cool blog name!)
2. Lords of the Manor (cute little people on there)
3. Living In Spin Cycle (I can relate... and it even has music!)
4. Mind Muffins (Oh, my, the picture on the site was priceless!)
Teachings from an Aloe Vera
It was a funny looking thing. Dark green leaves, fat with healing juice, stood straight out from the little pot of soil as if they’d been electrified. The luscious round stalks soared up until the tips collapsed into brown, limp strands, sagging over the edge of the pot like burnt Christmas tinsel.
It was all my fault. I’d meant well, but a long Indian Summer lulled me into a false sense of security, and I left the little aloe vera plant on the porch too long. It liked being there at first, stretching its crown of green toward the un-window-filtered sunlight.
Then, all of a sudden, it was cold one morning when I stepped outside in my sandals. I stared at my aloe vera in disbelief. Brown dreadlocks covered its icy green face.
Was I failure as an aloe vera owner? Was the Aloe Vera Welfare Service headed for my doorstep?
I scooped up my frostbitten charge and smuggled it inside, looking both ways for blue ribbon gardener spies. There was no one in sight.
For days the forlorn plant sat on the windowsill above the kitchen sink, reminding me of my failure to keep it safe. I knew I should trim off the dead ends, but I didn’t trust myself. Not then. What if I’d killed it? What if it wasn’t all the way dead, but just nearly, and if I took scissors to its traumatized extremities, I’d kill it for sure?
So, I hurried in and out of the kitchen on my endless errands, casting guilty glances at my transformed plant. Finally, I noticed that part of it was still stubbornly green. So I took the scissors, hunched my shoulders, and did what had to be done.
Now the little guy’s got himself a spiffy new ‘do. He looks like a child all ready for Sunday School. The fresh ends of his blunt haircut glisten like rain. His round leaves soar upward and end in horizontal slants.
It’s hard to remember him in his saggy state. I don’t even want to.
And do you know what? That little aloe plant doesn’t even remember his dead ends. He’s ready to soak up the winter sun through kitchen window without a single thought for what went wrong last month.
We could learn a lesson from this little guy. When we make a change for the better, let’s let all the old stuff go down the garbage disposal. We certainly don’t need to retrieve whatever gets ground up down there. I don’t know about you, but I value my fingers too highly.
I hope you do too.
Hey, that green spiky ‘do with the blunt ends might not be such a bad look after all.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
The Mystery of the missing Halloween globe
We have a Halloween globe in our front yard with flying styrofoam bats and light up ghosts inside. Since it's October, we have it out on the lawn with stern faced jack-o-lanterns. One morning we all left for the day, and when we came home, the Halloween globe was missing. I questioned everyone in the family, but no one admitted to knowing anything about where it was.
I was incensed! Who would steal a Halloween globe right off our lawn in broad daylight? Heart pumping with indignation, I got a long piece of paper that fit across the front of our house and wrote in big black letters: "God saw you take our Halloween globe. Is it worth your immortal soul? BRING IT BACK." When my husband, Bob, saw the sign, he took it down because he thought it was a bit extreme. Our teenage son, Zack, said that anyone who would steal a Halloween globe would just laugh at my sign.
A few days later, our youngest son, Michael, asked me to open the gate to our small side yard so he could get his bicycle. When I did, I stopped and stared in disbelief. There, mashed against our fence, was the Halloween globe. How did it get there? Someone said it must have blown over the fence, but the fence is made of solid wood boards, and it's taller than me! Weird. So I patched the tear in the plastic bubble and set it up in our front yard again. Whenever I come home, the ghosts flutter above the flickering flame inside, circled by swirling bats, stubbornly silent about the mysterious details of the dis-apparition of the Halloween globe.
Friday, October 5, 2007
Why Energetic Children Should Not Have Alarm Clocks!
When he was six years old, my youngest son begged for an alarm clock. I figured it would be a passing fancy. What does a six year old need to get up for, except to pee, and there’s a built in alarm clock for that.
For a while, it was a novelty. He made it ring over and over, moving the alarm indicator and then the watch hands to enjoy another full minute of clatter. I asked him to close his bedroom door.
One early summer morning I even heard the distant “dingaling” of his alarm clock and climbed up the stairs to turn it off. Michael lay with eyes closed, mouth slightly open, obviously dreaming of a drawer full of silverware doing the hokey pokey.
Even when his room fell silent, he didn’t stir.
Definitely a passing fancy.
But when he turned seven, something happened. He came into my room at 3:30 am. Thinking he’d had a bad dream, I instructed him to go to the bathroom before he got in bed with his dad and me. I didn’t want to risk his internal alarm clock failing to wake him up when he reached critical bladder mass.
It was only after he finished the night with his feet in my back and his hard skull doing its best to knock me unconscious that I found out the truth.
He’d purposely set his alarm clock for 3:30 a.m. “I wanted to get up earlier than anyone,” he said.
The next night, we talked about him not setting his alarm to go off so early.
“But I still want to get up before everyone else,” he said.
“Dad goes to work at 6:00 a.m. so why not set your alarm for 5:30?”
He grinned and set his alarm.
And was up at 3:30.
This time he didn’t come into my room.
He had a bath.
And played on the computer.
And watched a movie.
He forgot to eat until I got up at 7:00 and offered him breakfast.
And he went to school happy.
That night, we all got ready to go to the high school to watch his big brother play basketball. Michael wasn’t sure he wanted to go. “I might fall asleep.”
You know, Michael, maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Not So Clever Credit Card Trick
I had the greatest idea when I needed to go to the store and also needed my morning walk - I'd combine the two tasks. Trouble is, I walk with hand weights and I didn't want the burden of a handbag over one shoulder, so I tucked my credit card in my shoe. (All right, I can hear you wondering how I would carry my purchases home if I didn't want to carry anything. All I was after was an extension cord, and I planned to wear the plastic bag on my back. Yes, you can! Put an arm through one of each of the carrying handles with the bag at your back and slide the handles up to your shoulders. Let the bag hang down like a backpack and walk away!) So I got to the edge of the parking lot and one of my ankle weights fell off. (Inferior Velcro!) I was close enough to the store that I dug in the side of my shoe for the credit card. It wasn't there. I took my shoe off. It still wasn't there. With panic rising, I pulled my shoe on and hurried back along my route, scanning the ground for my lost card. A couple of times a stray turkey feather pretended to be my credit card. I prayed I'd find it, but when I got to my block I knew it was gone. Someone had picked it up, and I needed to cancel it the very second the bank opened. I popped in the front door, popped off my walking shoes, and my credit card popped out of the shoe I hadn't removed in the parking lot! Isn't it awesome when your prayers are answered so PLAINLY? (I just love it!)
Eau de la Snowmobile Fuel
"What's that smell? sniff, sniff. It smells good, like...snowmobile fuel. sniff, sniff. Mrs. Bahlmann! It's you!"
I raised my eyebrows in surprise at the beaming young high school student.
"No, really, it smells good," he assured me. "When I'm out riding, sometimes I get behind the snowmobile in front of me just so I can breathe in the exhaust fumes."
Well, that explains it.
Perfume shopping is one of the least desirable joys of my feminine life. After high school, when I went through my fruit basket phase (Lemon Sunburst body spray, Strawberry Fields essential oil, Peach Delight perfume), I've preferred to find one scent and stick with it. In college it was "Smitty." Then it disappeared from drug store shelves. After some painful, headache-inducing forays to the perfume counter, I finally found "Scoundrel." That was a relief, until they quit making it. There was one with an Italian name that I forget, which is just as well, because they quit making it, too.
"Just go without," my non-feminine husband, Bob, suggested.
I opened my eyes wide at him. "You mean just smell like deodorant?"
He shrugged. "Yeah."
"Then I'd smell like a guy," I said, and launched my next best plan.
I took several small baggies and cotton balls to the department store. I spritzed cotton balls with sample scents and sealed them in plastic so the mixed smells wouldn't assault my poor nasal passages and make my brain ache. I wrote the perfume names on the outside of each baggy, and took my soggy little treasures home. Each day, I tried a different cotton ball behind my ears, on my wrists, and in the crooks of my elbows. Each day I asked my husband and sons if they liked how I smelled. None of them cared, until the day I dabbed on vanilla scent. "Do you like how this smells?" I asked, holding my wrist under one son's nose.
His eyes snapped open, he leaned in toward me and took a big sniff. "Wow," he said. "Are you baking cookies?"
Another son perked up. "Cookies! That's what I smell! When will they be ready, Mom?"
A chorus of "Cookies! Cookies! Where are the cookies?" filled the air.
After I'd baked a quadruple batch of cookies, and eaten far too many myself, I sorted through my perfume baggies to get rid of the vanilla flavor. That's when I noticed that most of the marker labels had rubbed off, leaving me to wonder what smell was in which baggie.
Aw, forget it. I tossed them all in the trash.
Now, without even trying, I've found myself smelling like a popular winter sport. I have six bottles of this scent stashed in my underwear drawer. Ah, well. At least it doesn't give me a headache, and there are worse things I could smell like.
Hey, how's the powder this year?
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Why I Think Now Is A Good Time For Machine Learning
As we all know, since the mid 18th century, when the scientific methods were established, we have gone through a few technological revolutions. Most recently it was the industrialization revolution, and now information is the current revolution. The availability of information is more noticeable with the decreasing cost of storage. Now it is easy to acquire large amount of information; what to do with it is the question. The answer is machine learning. To participate in the information era, you can start off learning about machine learning.
Learning machine learning has a few benefits, which I'll talk about.
1. There are patterns in the large quantity of data, but it is infeasible for humans to analyze.
2. Success = Opportunity + Preparation. And there are lots of opportunities. We need the preparation.
Clearly, it is in your favour to study machine learning, so you too can develop the necessary tools to deal with large amount of data. In other words, the availability very large data sets is one of the resources fuelling the information revolution. It seems obvious that being able to utilize this information is key to being part of the current information era.
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Benefits of Salamba Sirasana
Salamba Sirasana is known as the king of asanas. As in any story the king and queen play different role, in the same manner the asanas also play a different role. The Queen of poses, the shoulder stand helps in the development of the right brain which comprises of stability and patience. Whereas, left brain triggers the brain by pushing through the walls of obscurity towards clear vision.
You cannot master this asana in the first attempt. You have to learn it slowly and steadily without straining your neck and back. The presence of a yoga instructor would be the best thing to start off this asana. After many attempts and by the use of props like the wall you can be a maestro of this asana.
As the blood flows to the brain it improves the circulation of blood and gives a calming effect to your body and helps in relieving stress. In comparison with all the inverted poses this pose also helps in soothing your tense nervous system. The pressure applied on your shoulders and head make them stronger.
Your brain receives fresh supply of blood making it more appropriate for better health. Circulation of blood makes you prone to fewer diseases. It helps in removing fatigue from your body to relax you.
The problems and ailments you face with your chest like bronchitis, asthma and breathlessness can get a sense of relief by this asana. Your digestion improves by this asana and stimulation is provided to the pituitary and pineal glands. The headstand helps in strengthening your arms, legs and spine as the entire pressure is put on them. The abdominal organs are toned by this asana which also strengthens your lungs. This asana is very therapeutic if you are suffering from conditions like asthma, infertility, insomnia and sinus.
Kevin Pederson manages number of sites on Yoga such as, which provides information on the importance of yoga and how to make best use of it. Salamba Sirasana helps in creating the right balance of stability and strength. |
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Before you start going nuts, I want to warn you that this blog post is clearly a reason. Having actually resided in Europe for 12 years as well as in NorthAmerica for 14, I really feel rather comfy contrasting the 2. This write-up might come in helpful if you’re american brides for marriage along withan European background or if you’re simply curious regarding various societies. What I just like concerning Montreal is actually – it incorporates eachInternational course and North-American proficiency in an understated manner in whichmerely operates. There are, nonetheless, certain variations that I discovered, especially in the dating world. Allow’s think of a married couple that only fulfilled eachother and also are happening an initial date.
1. Picking a dining establishment
American girl: She may propose a few bistro possibilities to choose from and allow you recognize if she is actually vegetarian or is allergic to particular things. An American girl could intend to take initiative and also choose where the two of you ought to have dinner at.
European girl: An International girl is most likely to allow you determine where you desire to take her out for supper. You have carte blanche.
2. Reaching the bistro
American girl: She may advise to assemble straight at the restaurant. It’s your 1st day, she is actually certainly not relaxed withyou pertaining to choose her up.
European girl: An European girl is going to perhaps assume you to follow and also select her up.
3. Buying at the restaurant
American girl: She may recommend to discuss a platter … she can also get a full hearty meal, like steak as well as frenchfries. If she’s famished, she will not care what you think of her eating preferences.
European girl: She is going to most likely opt for one thing illumination, like a salad. As an alternative, an European girl can invite you to select one thing for her.
4. Flirting
American girl: An American girl may be extremely flirtatious and open about the way she really feels concerning you. If she likes you, she may completely say something like, “I truly like you, you are actually a bunchof fun.”
European girl: An European girl likes to be mysterious and also not speak about the means she really feels concerning you. You will definitely have to resolve her like a puzzle.
5. Consuming
American girl: She doesn’t mind a handful of glasses of wine that can possibly develop into tequila shots as well as sake explosives. An American girl recognizes exactly how to have a great time. Acquiring sloshed at a time makes everything a great deal a lot more stimulating.
International girl: She will most likely adhere to red wine and also keep it in control. If you were planning on obtaining her inebriated, you could would like to rethink your strategy.
6. Paying the bill
American girl: She won’t mind sharing, but she is going to appreciate it if you use to pick up the bill.
European girl: She is going to most likely anticipate you to pay.
7. Biding farewell
American girl: If she likes you, she’ll probably create withyou in the end of the evening. When an dating american girl REALLY likes you, she may completely invite you over for some beverages that exact same night.
European girl: You are actually certainly not acquiring any type of action, certainly not even an embrace. Physical devotion requires to become made.
8. Going residence
American girl: The most you have to carry out is actually stroll her back to the automobile or even taxi, however it is actually certainly not actually needed. She’s an independent female and also doesn’t need your assistance.
European girl: You are actually steering her property, remember?
9. Delivering the “good night” message
American girl: If an American girl enjoyed along withyou, she will send you a message that same evening or even the upcoming day, “I possessed a good time along withyou! Our company need to do it once again soon:-RRB-”
European girl: You will not hear back coming from an European girl unless you text message her 1st.
10. Preparing a second date
American girl: She may absolutely welcome you on a 2nd companion! Carries out joining her and also her team of close friends for a fun evening out audio really good? Amazing. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42644 | Uri Avnery
Arab News (Opinion)
October 24, 2011 - 12:00am
THE MOST sensible — I almost wrote “the only sensible” — sentence uttered this week sprang from the lips of a 5-year old boy. After the prisoner swap, one of those smart-aleck TV reporters asked him: “Why did we release 1027 Arabs for one Israeli soldier?” He expected, of course, the usual answer: Because one Israeli is worth a thousand Arabs. The little boy replied: “Because we caught many of them and they caught only one.”
For more than a week, the whole of Israel was in a state of intoxication. Gilad Shalit indeed ruled the country (Shalit means “ruler”). His pictures were plastered all over the place like those of Comrade Kim in North Korea. It was one of those rare moments, when Israelis could be proud of themselves. Few countries, if any, would have been prepared to exchange 1027 prisoners for one. In most places, including the US, it would have been politically impossible for a leader to make such a decision.
Israelis could (and did) look in the mirror and say, “aren’t we wonderful?”
Immediately after the Oslo agreement, Gush Shalom, the peace movement to which I belong, proposed releasing all Palestinian prisoners at once. We organized a joint demonstration with the late Jerusalemite Arab leader, Feisal Husseini, in front of Jeneid prison near Nablus. More than ten thousand Palestinians and Israelis took part. But Israel has never recognized these Palestinians as prisoners-of-war. They are considered common criminals, only worse. This week, the released prisoners were never referred to as “Palestinian fighters”, or “militants”’ or just “Palestinians”. Every single newspaper and TV program, from the elitist Haaretz to the most primitive tabloid, referred to them exclusively as “murderers”, or, for good measure, “vile murderers.”
Some of these prisoners have assisted suicide bombers in killing a lot of people. Some have committed really atrocious acts. But others were sentenced to life for belonging to an “illegal organization” and possessing arms, or for throwing an ineffectual home made bomb at a bus hurting nobody. Almost all of them were convicted by military courts. As has been said, military courts have the same relation to real courts as military music does to real music.
All of these prisoners, in Israeli parlance, have “blood on their hands.” But which of us Israelis has no blood on his hands? Sure, a young woman soldier remotely controlling a drone that kills a Palestinian suspect and his entire family has no sticky blood on her hands. Neither has a pilot who drops a bomb on a residential neighborhood and feels only “a slight bump on the wing”, as a former chief of staff put it. The main argument against the swap was that, according to Security Service statistics, 15 percent of prisoners thus released become active “terrorists” again. Perhaps. But the majority of them become active supporters of peace. Practically all of my Palestinian friends are former prisoners.
But during the endless hours of waiting for Gilad’s return, all our TV stations showed scenes of the killings in which the prisoners-to-be-released had been involved. Yet all these prisoners fervently believed that they had served their people in its struggle for liberation.
How was Netanyahu brought to bend? The hero of the campaign is Noam Shalit, the father who came out and fought for his son every single day during these five years and four months. So did the mother. They succeeded in raising a mass movement without precedent in the annals of the state.
If our intelligence services had been able to locate him, they would have undoubtedly tried to liberate him by force. This could well have been his death sentence. The fact that they could not find him, despite their hundreds of agents in the Gaza Strip, is a remarkable achievement for Hamas.
Foreign correspondents repeatedly asked me this week whether the deal had opened the way to a new peace process. As far as the public mood is concerned, the very opposite is true. The same journalists asked me if Netanyahu had not been disturbed by the fact that the swap was bound to strengthen Hamas and deal a grievous blow to Mahmoud Abbas. They were flabbergasted by my answer: That this was one of its main purposes, if not the main one.
Abbas’ moves in the UN have profoundly disturbed our right-wing government. This government, like all our governments since the foundation of Israel — only more so — is dead set against Palestinian statehood. For Netanyahu and Co. this is the real danger. Hamas poses no danger at all. That, by the way, also explains the timing. Why did Netanyahu agree now to something he has violently opposed all his life? Because Abbas, the featherless chicken, has suddenly turned into an eagle.
On the day of the swap, Abbas made a speech. It sounded rather flat. Abbas, with all his Israeli and American friends, has got no one released for years. Hamas, using force, has released more than a thousand, including Fatah members. Ergo: “Israel understands only the language of force.”
As for the prisoners — another 4000 are still held in Israeli prisons, and this number is liable to grow again. If all of Israel is drunk with emotion because one boy has been returned to his family — what about 4000 families on the other side? How to thwart the efforts to capture more soldiers? There is only one alternative: To open a credible way to have them released by agreement. Such as by peace, if you can excuse the expression.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42682 | The Most Common 300C Problem
We've pulled together a list of the most widespread problems that 300C owners have to deal with.
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Theory of planned behavior
General theories and models[edit]
Each behavioural change theory or model focuses on different factors in attempting to explain behaviour change. Of the many that exist, the most prevalent are learning theoriessocial cognitive theory, theories of reasoned action and planned behaviourtranstheoretical model of behavior change, the health action process approach and the BJ Fogg model of behavior change. Research has also been conducted regarding specific elements of these theories, especially elements like self-efficacy that are common to several of the theories.
Self-efficacy[2] is an individual’s impression of their own ability to perform a demanding or challenging task such as facing an exam or undergoing surgery. This impression is based upon factors like the individual’s prior success in the task or in related tasks, the individual’s physiological state, and outside sources of persuasion. Self-efficacy is thought to be predictive of the amount of effort an individual will expend in initiating and maintaining a behavioural change, so although self-efficacy is not a behavioural change theory per se, it is an important element of many of the theories, including the health belief model, the theory of planned behaviour and the health action process approach.
From behaviourists such as B. F. Skinner come the learning theories, which state that complex behaviour is learned gradually through the modification of simpler behaviours. Imitation and reinforcement play important roles in these theories, which state that individuals learn by duplicating behaviours they observe in others and that rewards are essential to ensuring the repetition of desirable behaviour. As each simple behaviour is established through imitation and subsequent reinforcement, the complex behaviour develops. When verbal behaviour is established the organism can learn through rule-governed behaviour and thus not all action needs to be contingency shaped.
According to the social learning theory[3] (more recently expanded as social cognitive theory[4]), behavioural change is determined by environmental, personal, and behavioural elements. Each factor affects each of the others. For example, in congruence with the principles of self-efficacy, an individual’s thoughts affect their behaviour and an individual’s characteristics elicit certain responses from the social environment. Likewise, an individual’s environment affects the development of personal characteristics as well as the person’s behavior, and an individual’s behaviour may change their environment as well as the way the individual thinks or feels. Social learning theory focuses on the reciprocal interactions between these factors, which are hypothesised to determine behavioral change. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42735 | Giveaway: Losing It All by @marshacornelius
Pain’s a bitch.
The doctor at the VA called it phantom pain, nerve trauma that would eventually go away. Yeah, right. Frank was twelve years and counting.
This morning, he woke to a cold, sluggish fog that had his foot throbbing before he even stood. His only relief was to shift his weight to his toes and keep pressure off the heel. Of course, the gimp-walk didn’t do much for his appearance. People already shied away from his long hair and shaggy beard. The shuffling limp and tortured expression convinced onlookers that he was a derelict.
They should have seen him twelve years ago at the VA. The pain was so intense all he could do was lie in bed, groaning and thrashing, his hospital gown soaked in sweat. Once he was up and around, he’d rolled down the hallway in his wheelchair, ranting at other Vietnam veterans with missing legs and arms. His rage seemed to ease his pain, but like a drug, he needed more. So he started ramming into other wheelchairs, then chasing after those who could walk, bruising their ankles with his metal foot-plates.
On his feet, Frank was a regular fighting machine, wielding a crutch like a club, or throwing sucker punches when least expected. It never occurred to him that those guys were battling their own pain.
In desperation, he pinned a doctor to the wall with his own clipboard, threatening to decapitate him if he didn’t up Frank’s morphine dosage. An orderly put him out on the street.
Then the pain really took hold. The dribble of morphine still in his system wore off while he slouched in the back of a city bus headed for downtown Atlanta. When he threw up in the aisle, the driver tossed him off. Unable to stand, much less walk, Frank crawled into an alleyway and passed out.
A wino rummaging through a trashcan woke him. Frank offered the bum some dough for his bottle of Thunderbird, and slugged the wine down in one long gulp. From there it was all downhill.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42756 | Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Transcription by [Atkinson, Kate]
Juliet Armstrong is 18 years old at the start of the Second World War, and her mother has just died. She doesn't have any other family, and nor does she have any money - she's working as a chambermaid to get by - but she does have an excellent typing speed and a gift for lying. It's these things that see her recruited to M15, where she's given a role as an audio typist, transcribing recordings of secret meetings between Godfrey Toby, a secret agent, and a group of fifth columnists who believe Toby to be a Nazi spy to whom they pass information.
Juliet, however, soon becomes more than a typist, and before long she's been given a new name, a lesson in picking locks and a gun for her handbag.
On one level, Kate Atkinson's Transcription is a gripping period spy novel, full of tension and intrigue, but on another, it's a book about identity, belonging and control. Juliet is often flippant, sometimes coldly observant, occasionally mercenary, but at times her vulnerability shows through, and paradoxically, it's perhaps this vulnerability and her lack of the anchor normally provided by family and friends that helps her assume new identities with such ease.
"Don’t let your imagination run away with you, Miss Armstrong," she remembers people telling her. "But why would you not when the reality was so awful?"
Juliet's position as a single woman in the 1940s and 50s is also explored. She observes herself that her career, both during the war and in peacetime, has been shaped by the men she's encountered, and she's well aware that she's often a pawn in their game, and not just when it comes to espionage. The war itself further reduces her options - choice, she notes, is one of the first casualties of war. Everyone around her seems to have secrets, so it's perhaps unsurprising, then, that she becomes attached to the idea of keeping a few secrets of her own - it's one of the few ways she can retain a degree of control.
Throughout Transcription, there are constant references to books, films, plays and acting. Everybody is hiding something, everyone is pretending - even the weather, as the London fog descends, seems determined to conceal and confuse. Juliet herself observes that her MI5 colleagues are "like characters in a Henry James novel. One of the later, more opaque ones, perhaps. Who, she wondered, was the most opaque of them all?"
Like all Kate Atkinson's novels, Transcription is often very funny, full of beautifully observed details and caustic asides. There are also some astute - in the current political climate, all too relevant - analyses of the fine line between nationalism and fascism, and the eagerness of certain groups to look for a scapegoat for every problem their country faces ("women and the Jews tend to be first in line"). It's almost painfully sad at times - yet never in a way that's melodramatic or overblown; this is, after all, a very British novel full of very British characters.
It took me until New Year's Eve to post this review, but Transcription is definitely a late entry in my list of contenders for my favourite novel of year. Read it now. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42770 | New working paper
I put up a new working paper on SocArxiv today.
Jones, M. (2018, October 10). Exploring Difficulties Faced in Teaching Elective English Listening Courses at Japanese Universities.
In this paper, an exploration of the problems encountered in teaching two elective English listening courses at Japanese universities in 2017 and 2018. Intended as a working paper with an intended audience of teaching professionals and those who support them, problems in working memory, motivation and general listening pedagogy are detailed. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42771 | Tuesday, March 9, 2010
I have been busy, busy, busy working on my blog! I do have one thing completed. I can now officially let you know that I have transitioned to my domain name. It has been a long time coming as I purchased it almost a year ago before I even had a blog. I got my renewal notice recently and knew it was time to either let it go or buckle down and figure out how to configure it and direct my blog there. So I took a few days and got it done. My new website address is now:
The Stamping Inspiration title will remain. Don't worry! If you already have my old link bookmarked or have signed up via google reader, etc., you will be redirected to the new site and won't miss a thing! Hopefully, it will be easier for you to remember (especially since it mirrors my demonstrator website name: http://www.mariestamps.staminup.net/) and/or type in.
1. Congrats, Marie! How exciting!! Blessings to you!
2. Congratulations - the site is beautiful! All of your hard work has paid off...well done.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42777 | Narrated Yazid: (the Maula of Munba'ith) The Prophet was asked regarding the case of a lost sheep. He said, "You should take it, because it is for you, or for your brother, or for the wolf." Then he was asked about a lost camel. He got angry and his face became red and he said (to the questioner), "You have nothing to do with it; it has its feet and its water container with it; it can go on drinking water and eating trees till its owner meets it." And then the Prophet was asked about a Luqata (money found by somebody). He said, "Remember and recognize its tying material and its container, and make public announcement about it for one year. If somebody comes and identifies it (then give it to him), otherwise add it to your property." |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42782 | Blockchain Technology Framework (BA, MA)
Internal advisor: Matthias Pohl
Blockchain technology (BT) is, after well-known application scenarios as a crypto currency and smart contract, now also an interesting basis for distributed applications. Within the scope of previous investigations, known BT (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum) were examined for their technological components and summarized in a framework. The goal of a bachelor thesis is to complement this framework with further basic technologies that other BTs consist of. For this purpose a comprehensive analysis of literature, developer documentation and use cases will be carried out. As an extension/option a development of a new modular BT is possible, but requires programming skills.
As an extension to a master thesis, a software feature model from the field of software engineering can be derived from the Blockchain Technology Framework. The introduction to feature-oriented programming and feature modeling is necessary. A subsequent evaluation can be done by developing an own block chain based on the software feature model. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42837 | Welcome to Sellner.org !
Welcome to the electronic home of the Sellner family; if you're here, you probably already know who we are. :-) We'll be expanding this to include family archives in the near future, but for now sellner.org consists of Brennan's and Maria's personal sites.
You may have been looking for John Sellner's professional site; it can be found at www.montelaw.com.
If you're family, you might be hunting for the family gift registry.
Family members may be contacted via email at firstname@sellner.org.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42843 | Childhood ear infections are very common. Almost every child will have an ear infection at one time in their life, with the first few years of life being the most common. Ear infections (acute otitis media) are usually caused by bacteria and will respond to antibiotics.
Unfortunately with the increased use of antibiotics, some bacteria have developed resistance and will not respond to normally prescribed antibiotics. In the past few years several medical societies and the Center of Disease Control ( have tried to educate parents about preventing ear infections and health care providers on the treatment of ear infections.
There are several reasons why some children have more ear infections. A family history of ear problems and prematurity places your child at greater risk for infections. Breast feeding has been shown to reduce the risk of otitis media. Pacifiers, second hand smoke, and daycare also increase the risk. The Prevnar vaccine can reduce your child’s risk of ear infections.
Knowing when a young child has an ear infection can be very difficult. The only reliable symptom is ear pain, but not many one year olds can tell you this. Rubbing or pulling of the ears, poor sleep patterns, vomiting, or poor appetite are not reliable indicators of an ear infection.
It can also be difficult for your health care provider to know if your child has an ear infection. Examination of the ear drum will tell if your child has fluid behind the ear drum (middle ear effusion), but the presence of fluid does not mean that your child needs an antibiotic. Most children with fluid will resolve without treatment.
The new guidelines take into account the age of the child and other symptoms or signs of illness. Most infants (under the age of 6 months) will be treated with antibiotics if there is any suspicion of an ear infection. In toddlers (under the age of 2) your health care provider will look for other suggestive signs of an ear infection such as a high fever or a runny nose. For children over the age of 2 in the absence of ear pain or severe symptoms, your provider may elect to observe your child, usually with a follow up in a few days.
If your child should go on antibiotics, amoxicillin is still the most commonly recommended antibiotic for otitis media. In children who are allergic to penicillin, azithromycin (Z Pack) or a sulfa based antibiotic (i.e. Pediazole) may be used. In children who fail treatment, either Augmentin, clindamycin, or an injection of ceftriaxone (Rocephin) may be necessary.
Most children will eventually out grow ear infections without major problems; however, some children with difficult to treat ear infections, developmental problems, or anatomic deformities may need to have ventilation tubes surgically placed. Your pediatrician or other health care provider can help you navigate through the variety of options for your child.
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May 26, 2015
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42855 | Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Pinball Summer
Pinball Summer (Flipper Girls, Pick-up Summer) Directed by George Mihalka, starring Joey McNamara (1980).
Just one year later, this director made My Bloody Valentine, one of my favorite Great White North slashers. What makes that film so enjoyable is how ear assaultively Canadian it is--I mean heavy on the ooots And ooses on words like "house" and "about" plus gratuitous Molsen and Moosehead beer swilling. Since this one (which is also super Canadian) just played at the SF Mission Drafthouse, I figured I'd dial it up on YT and check it out, also I think I heard Hollywood Highs #1 fan Paul "Sharkey", my best pal and Porky's fan fiction aficionado mention it. That dude knows bad teen schlock, he has a degree in Frat-onomics (he even teaches cartooning at Oakland's 3 O' Clock Rock) and I always trust his recommendations. I urge everyone to see it in the theater though, I'd imagine it will be a crowd pleaser.
The only character I sort of liked in a sea of retarded cut off wearing dicks and bra less butt cheek flashing babes is Whimpy (Joey McNamara). This runty virgin has no idea how to dress properly (his belly is always hanging out) and he wears a sailor type hat with a King Crimson button, (brownie points for that shit)! Bert the biker attempts to get him laid while fucking with the main characters. I was dying during one part where Whimp attempts to have sex with a hooker and she gets grossed out by his smelly socks.
you really gotta hear Lark's Tongues in Aspic on meth and screaming yellow zonkers aye?
Speaking of music, the soundtrack is power pop lite puke by Jay Boivin and Germain Gauthier. The one thing this plotless sexploitation flick has going for it is all of the girls are super hot! All the guys led by Greg (Michael Zelniker) and Steve (Carl Marotte), two white dudes with Afros are typical leering potential rapists. I guess Whimpy would be the I Spit On Your Grave Mathew character, but thankfully it never goes beyond light and airy beach party fun. There's a greaser guy named Burt who's busty girlfriend works at a burger joint that everyone is constantly eating at. She was in a few other Canuxploits like The Blue Man, with Karen Black by this same director and even the mainstream Fly remake as Jeff Goldblum's trophy lady for melting a bikers wrist during that famous arm wrestling scene. Bryan Thomas even waxes nostalgia like on the Night Flight site.
Let's reenact that Jodie Foster gang rape scene in The Accused
There's more scenes of people spying and secretly listening while others have sex, smoke dope or hang out at the drive in then in any other film I can think of (maybe it's influenced by the recent Watergate scandal)?
It's never boring even though it's extremely plotless and derivative. There's a stubby jew-froed manager of the arcade named Pete who looks like Cousin Larry and the singer from Air Supply if they mated, the big finale contest offers a trophy and a date with the pinball queen. Man, in the 70's everything seemed to revolve around pinball, check out this pic of Bob Dylan playing the flippers.
It's all about context, if you compare it to Rape Squad (aka Act of Vengeance) where the women being objectified and seen as militant feminists, fight back they're met with disdain, but in this era where dudes can just feel up chicks and as long as they giggle it's total cool--no lawsuits! I know I'm kind of zapping the fun outta this one but it's interesting to see a bad teen sex comedy in this perspective. I like how there's an old timey trench coat flasher who's in almost every scene lurking in the background.
I'll solve that flasher case, right after I polish off this case of Ontario swill
People's lives just revolved around pinball back then and there's even a beauty contest at the arcade ( not a Ms Pacman or Q-Bert machine in sight sadly)! There's a frightening talking clown game named "Arthur" that talks and even reacts when a bikini babe sits on it, I'm fascinated by this weird oddity but it's never explained.
Oddly enough this uber horny machine doesn't make an appearance in tonight's feature
The most surreal part of is the end pinball battle on the featured movie game (which has the cast or characters featured on the machine)! This is like Spaceballs when they're able to see the movie before it's finished. If you're a completist for UP ALL NIGHT style shit and why wouldn't you be, then definitely give this a whirl, it's fun in a totally lecherous creepy way.
I hate this Nova Scotia remake of Dawn of the Dead
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42865 | Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Humanities Reference
It's cool guys. I didn't want you to comment anyway.
I feel sick in the library. Really. Like I might throw up on the table. What would happen then? There are always intriguing social observations to be made when something dramatic happens in an otherwise silent public place. It would be one thing if I dropped my books. The boy one table over with the shaggy hair would help me pick them up, a few other people would look, I'd blush, and minutes later the incident would be forgotten. But if I were to toss my cookies? Would anyone help? Or would I be entirely ignored while my fellow studiers tried their hardest to repress their own gag reflexes? Lucky for all of us, I'm not God, and I'm not the decider of post-mortal placement. But I'm pretty sure that if anyone were to provide assistance in such a moment of trauma, they'd be just the sort of person who will breeze right into heaven, nigh unto an Angel.
K but really guys, no comments? That's harsh.
1. i would provide assistance but probably only in the form of getting an employee to get a janitor. i don't think God would allow much breeziness into heaven for that.
2. Whoa take it easy, thanks for YOUR comments shawty.
If I was at the table and it got on me I'd help, then I'd terminate our friendship.
3. I hope you do not throw up.
I threw up a couple weeks ago on the metro. I started feeling sick, so I jumped off at the stop, opened my newspaper and vomited into it...lovely. In front of everyone.
Then I threw away the newspaper, got back on the metro and went to work.
...it feels good to be a gangster...
4. I've been thinking about this "throwing up" thing. A lot. Here is my answer.
If it were an eighties teen movie: I would be embarassed because I'm a teenager and don't want to be associated with the girl ralphing in the library. But I would wipe your mouth of with my neon colored oversized t-shirt and we would scramble away embarrassed.
If it were a nineties Clueless-type movie: you vomited and everyone would be laughing and I would swoop in and say something to them about how they shouldn't be cruel and then you and I would become friends and I would give you a makeover that would be acceptable then but never stand the test of time.
If it were a current chick flick: I would do something to distract everyone in the library. Then you and I would do something outrageous (think dancing on tables or a gymnastics routine) which would make everyone forget that you blew chunks. Also, some hunky guy would see how brave you were and he would try to date you but couldn't find your number until a later time when it's more serendipitous.
5. allyson, can we refrain from using the phrase "blew chunks?" ugh, just thinking that phrase makes me gag.
6. I beat you. But only because you almost puked, but didn't actually do it. Had you let go of your fear of social awkwardness and your lunch you'd have beat me.
Story time.
I walk toward my table on the 4th floor of the good ole HBLL. It is silent in there, but I don't know that because my headphones are blaring. As I sit down I set my cell phone on the table and get out my laptop. I start going to town on homework. Five minutes later I get a tap on the shoulder. I turn, take out my ear bud, and receive the news that my phone is ringing. At this moment I pause and hear the last two seconds of "Jizz in My Pants" playing. That means that the whole section of the library was introduced to an incredible song. Fifty percent of the people probably didn't know what the song was talking about, but 100 percent of them were embarrassed. More embarrassed than I was. I apologized to those people trying to avoid eye contact with me (everyone) with a loud "sorry about that." I was nice enough to leave the area to call my friend back.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42866 | Tuesday, October 23, 2012
A Neat Finding From 1962
Hello my dear friends,
The magazine even still had it's coupons inside.
a can of mushroom soup and dinner was halfway there.
I hope you are well and life is treating you kind.
Have a peaceful and creative day,
Karen B.
1. I've been making my escalloped potatoes like this for years Karen! Do try! I've layered the potatoes with pork chops or ham. Delicious! One of my husband's most requested meals.
Your scarf is so pretty. Where did you find the pattern!?
2. I've not made this particular recipe, but I've got a number of dishes that include a can of Campbell's soup. I started cooking at a very young age (out of necessity) and many recipes that were easy for a 10 yr old used a can of soup. Your scarf is beautiful. Your life sounds very very busy right now...hope you can find time to relax every so often!!! |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42874 | Swamp Loggers
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42886 | TwitterNotifier: A Twitter Client Notify Updates on Balloon
TwitterNotifier is Twitter Client that notify updates via balloon.
You can also update your status via text box by clicking icon in notification area.
TwitterNotifier doesn't interrupt you because it is hidden usually, and close notification automatically after showed message for a while.
If you are a programmer, you may customize code easily because it is single and small Python script.
• Python runtime environment
• PyGTK 2.0 or higher
• python-notify module
• it is usually comes with recent Debian and other derived distributions (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42894 | Ex 4.2 Advertisements
Being out-and-about affords the student the opportunity to see ‘public space’ advertising such as billboards, posters and bus/tube adverts. We don’t have much of that in rural Devon but there are many examples online.
The brief asks for comment on how the text informs the image. Much of modern print advertising uses text to open up the meanings, in some cases almost to the point of incomprehensibility. The text is designed to evoke a concept, an idea of the effect the product will have on the purchaser. Since the establishment of the Advertising Standards Authority in 1962, advertising has been subject to more and more restrictions and standards. This was largely a matter between the Authority, agencies, broadcasters and publishers until ‘legal, decent, honest and truthful’ became the mantra, sometime in the early eighties. After that the public, when outraged, knew what to do and they did it with relish. The behaviour of advertisers was beginning to be shaped by public morality which was good in one way, because it reflected social appetites, but bad in another because those appetites just kept changing.
Anyway, back to the brief. I mentioned earlier the tendency for advertisers to concentrate their efforts on conveying a feeling about the product rather than emphasise the qualities of the product or service itself. We started off with “Our Butter Is Good” (a real example from Heald’s Dairies, Cheadle, Cheshire in the sixties) to this:
Image result for single word adverts equality nike
The ad assumes a great deal of knowledge on the part of the potential buyer. That simple tick under the word has cost Nike millions to promulgate and protect; it is recognised worldwide. The text being used was part of a larger campaign which included various phrases, expanding on the values of equality in sport. In this case the text opens the effect of the device (the tick) to almost unlimited associations.
This one closes it right down – there’s pretty much nowhere to go, it’s all in the frame.
Image result for single word adverts meat
It painstakingly explains the advantages of meat consumption. The only slight departure from underlining the obvious it the reassurance that the consumer’s choice is rooted in some fundamental truth.
Our local Tesco has some pretty compelling examples:
Here the text has an obtuse relationship to the image. The suggestion is that the product has been very recently baked, either in the store or at the consumer’s home. The intended message is that there is a wholesome connection between the process of production and the quality of the product. Using the word ‘straight’ implies a more personal connection with the customer, an immediacy. The mix of typefaces and styles is contrived in an attempt to convey individuality – text style has a serious role to play in print advertising and someone has thought hard about this, I expect, but it’s difficult to assess whether the effort was worthwhile. In fact the success of advertising as a whole isn’t easy to determine. John Wanamaker, a nineteenth century American retailer said:
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42914 | The other day we talked about washing your sheets before you used them.
The general consensus was yes, you wash your sheets before you sleep on them. Factory dyes and a process called sizing might leave chemicals on them and they might irritate your skin.
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Also responses from the peanut gallery ranged from "eww" and "gross" to "momma taught you better" and "it's mom advice so do what she said".
Ok. That brings me to my next question.
Because I'm originally from down south and my MOMMA always said (and did) wash whatever meat we got from the grocery store before we cooked it.
Please note, washing = rinsing it off with water or soaking in water and then rinsing it off. No soap or chemicals were used. Just a "rinsing" off of the meat.
Chicken, beef, pork...and mind you cuts of meat. Not this.
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For some strange reason if it was ground, it went straight from the package to the stovetop/skillet/grill. Everything else got washed.
Weird. I just remembered/thought of that.
So I've always washed whatever meat I got from the store before I seasoned it and cooked it.
Unless it was pre-seasoned. I mean, I don't want to wash that off.
I think I'm blowing holes in my own argument here.
Let's take it to the folks that know. Introducing our good friends at the USDA.
And they got me good. First with this. They went right after momma.
Some consumers may wash or rinse their raw meat or poultry because it’s a habit or because a family member they trust has always washed their meat. Recent USDA research has found that washing or rinsing meat or poultry increases the risk for cross-contamination in the kitchen, which can cause foodborne illness. (USDA)
So the reason we're not washing the meat is because said water might splash and get on other stuff.
What about the cleanliness of the meat I just bought people? I have to wash veggies to make sure I get the stuff off of them. You're telling me the meat is safe?
While washing meat and poultry to remove dirt, slime, fat or blood may have been appropriate decades ago when many slaughtered and prepared their own food, the modern food safety system doesn’t require it. Meat and poultry are cleaned during processing, so further washing is not necessary. Never use soaps or detergents on your meat or poultry products. They can contaminate your food with chemicals and make it unsafe to eat. (USDA)
So it turns out everything I know (or thought I knew) about washing meat before I cooked it, I learned from my mom and was WRONG.
Trust, I'm going to tell her about this AND IT WON'T CHANGE A THING.
She's probably going to throw me out of her kitchen.
I'm probably still going to do it too. This is one habit that's going to be hard to break. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42933 | Github issues data - ozunconf 17
What a great two days I had at rOpenSci’s ozunconf 2017. two days of meeting fascinating and friendly new people two days filled with great conversations two days of learning new things and breaking things two days of inspiration two days of communal git ups and downs two days of not having to explain ‘why R’ Before, during and since the ozunconf I have been the interested in the idea that since actions create data - our own actions in attending and participating generate their own data that would be interesting to analyse. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42954 | Why Starbucks Failed in Australia?
Are you shocked to find out that Starbucks has failed on the Australian continent? Well, keep reading to find out exactly why it happened.
Starbucks is a truly global coffee brand, with more than 20,000 stores in 2016 spanning from Shanghai to Argentina. But there is one continent that was uninterested in the coffee giant: you guessed it, Australia. According to CNBC (2018), Australian consumers were not impressed by the way Starbucks decided to enter the market. This has led to a major failure for the American coffee brand.
Starbucks opened the doors to its first store in Australia back in year 2000. However, in the first 10 years Starbucks accumulated $105mil in losses, forcing the company to close 70% of its stores in Australia.
So what went wrong?
Here’s a summary of 4 reasons why Starbucks has failed in the Australian market:
1. Failing to understand the Australian consumer
Australia’s coffee culture has been strongly formed over a century. Since 1900s, when the first Italian and Greek immigrants moved to the continent, they introduced the espresso, which is the key ingredient to Australians’ favourite coffee beverage today – the flat white. Like Italians, Australian consumers didn’t fancy the sweet coffee offerings on the Starbucks menu, preferring smaller sized coffee, black and unsweetened coffee tastes. Starbucks tried to replicate closely the US business model and failed to research the market beforehand, to understand the Australian consumer preference and match its menu to local taste – instead, Starbucks served sweeter coffee options for which they charged more than local cafes.
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Starbucks Australia Menu Sweet Coffee Offering (Starbucks.com.au 2018)
2. Underestimating Brand Loyalty
In markets like the UK and China, Starbucks were extremely successful mainly because they were in a large part responsible for introducing coffee culture in markets where the preferred cup of hot beverage was tea. But in Australia independent coffee shops and coffee culture was already well established. “Starbucks failed to realise that Australian consumers were brand loyal to their local coffee shops and they were not going leave that and switch to a global brand” (Brook 2016). People preferred drinking coffee in small cafes, with a small and personal community feel and sharing stories with their local barista.
3. Projecting an Arrogant Brand Image
When it first entered the Australian market, Starbucks claimed its aim was “to be the most successful coffee chain in Australia” – which was seen as an “arrogant” statement by the Australian consumers. Prof. Patterson from Uni. of New South Wales told News.com.au (2016) that the main issue with Starbucks was that it misunderstood Australia. “I don’t think it has to do with coffee, the problem was the brand”. He added ” Americans assumed that Australians would fall in love with an American brand – and it did not happen. Australians are not anti-American, but they are anti arrogant American brands” (Brook 2016).
4. Aiming Rapid Expansion as Opposed to Organic Growth
Another issue was the fact that the Seattle-based coffee brand didn’t give the Australian consumer the opportunity to really develop an appetite for the brand. Starbucks moved too quickly and expanded too fast in the Australian market – and aimed to grow at a faster rate than its popularity (Turner 2018).
Eight years after opening its first store in Australia and suffering major loss on its operations, Starbucks sacked 700 staff and closed 61 branches across Australia (Brook 2016).
Today, in the Australian coffee market, Gloria Jeans has more than 450 branches in Australia while Coffee Club has 350 outlets. In comparison, Starbucks Australia maintains only 42 stores in Sydney, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Melbourne areas and caters mainly to tourists who are familiar with the brand.
Nevertheless, Starbucks will not disappear from the Australian market as it needs to maintain outlets in Australia’s major cities to cement its global presence. However, researchers remain sceptical that Australians are going to embrace the joys of a “caramel popcorn pretzel frappuccino” anytime soon.
“Do you want to get a good coffee down the road from a barista you know or from a global brand where no one knows you and you pay an extra dollar? It’s a no-brainer.” (Brook 2016).
The image below indicates the map locations of the remaining Starbucks stores in Australia.
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2018 Starbuck Australia Store Locations (11 stores in Brisbane-Gold Coast; 18 stores in Sydney; 13 stores in Melbourne)
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What do you think is the main reason for Starbucks’ failure in Australia?
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Brook B. (2016) “Starbucks coffee is quietly expanding in Australia after humiliating retreat eight years ago” [online], available from <https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/starbucks-coffee-is-quietly-expanding-in-australia-after-humiliating-retreat-eight-years-ago/news-story/b7f136c4d78f24aaa600a3822b1e31b4> [accessed 10th Nov 2018]
Turner A. (2018) “Why There Are Almost No Starbucks in Australia” [online], available from <https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/20/starbucks-australia-coffee-failure.html> [accessed 9th Nov 2018]
Starbucks Australia (2018) “Starbucks in Australia” [online] available from <https://www.starbucks.com.au/Home.php> [accessed 9th Nov 2018]
Starbucks (2018) “Starbucks Company Timeline” [online], available from <https://www.starbucks.com/about-us/company-information/starbucks-company-timeline> [accessed 9th Nov 2018]
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42980 | Digital rights resources for children and young people
This is a list-in-progress of resources to use with children and young people to educate them about digital literacy and digital rights.
Most of these resources are suitable for use with older children and teenagers, and some may also be appropriate for introductory university-level courses.
Please contact me with any other resources I can add to this list, or let me know if any of the links are broken. I am particularly interested in resources aimed at younger children primary/elementary school age. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42981 | Adding Components, Pipes and Services to a Module
In the previous section, we learned how to create a module with just one component but we know that is hardly the case. Our modules are usually made up of multiple components, services, directives and pipes. In this chapter we are going to extend the example we had before with a custom component, pipe and service.
Let's start by defining a new component that we are going to use to show credit card information.
import { CreditCardService } from './credit-card.service';
selector: 'app-credit-card',
template: `
<p>Your credit card is: {{ creditCardNumber | creditCardMask }}</p>
export class CreditCardComponent implements OnInit {
creditCardNumber: string;
constructor(private creditCardService: CreditCardService) {}
ngOnInit() {
this.creditCardNumber = this.creditCardService.getCreditCard();
This component is relying on the CreditCardService to get the credit card number, and on the pipe creditCardMask to mask the number except the last 4 digits that are going to be visible.
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
export class CreditCardService {
getCreditCard(): string {
return '2131313133123174098';
name: 'creditCardMask'
export class CreditCardMaskPipe implements PipeTransform {
transform(plainCreditCard: string): string {
const visibleDigits = 4;
let maskedSection = plainCreditCard.slice(0, -visibleDigits);
let visibleSection = plainCreditCard.slice(-visibleDigits);
return maskedSection.replace(/./g, '*') + visibleSection;
With everything in place, we can now use the CreditCardComponent in our root component.
import { Component } from "@angular/core";
selector: 'app-root',
template: `
<h1>My Angular App</h1>
export class AppComponent {}
Of course, to be able to use this new component, pipe and service, we need to update our module, otherwise Angular is not going to be able to compile our application.
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { CreditCardMaskPipe } from './credit-card-mask.pipe';
import { CreditCardComponent } from './credit-card.component';
imports: [BrowserModule],
providers: [CreditCardService],
declarations: [
bootstrap: [AppComponent]
export class AppModule { }
Notice that we have added the component CreditCardComponent and the pipe CreditCardMaskPipe to the declarations property, along with the root component of the module AppComponent. In the other hand, our custom service is configured with the dependency injection system with the providers property.
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Be aware that this method of defining a service in the providers property should only be used in the root module. Doing this in a feature module is going to cause unintended consequences when working with lazy loaded modules.
In the next section, we are going to see how to safely define services in feature modules. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/42987 | New Publication: Counter-Recruitment Campaigns Internationally
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From ad-busting to nonviolence training, to promoting peace education and others, the contributions in the booklet provide many ideas for different tactics to counter the recruitment of young people. They also suggest that methods for resisting recruitment necessarily vary across different contexts.
Given the diversity of these campaigns, the booklet is not so much a how-to-guide for counter-recruitment as an exploration of the issues in counter-recruitment. We hope it will be a useful starting point for groups wanting to begin this work, and thought-provoking for those already doing it.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43004 | Strange problem with Nov32 / Hepax
I use my Nov-32 with Hepax to store Focal programs, executing them within Hepax. I've been working in this way for several months without problems.
Last night I allowed the batteries to run down (forgot I'd executed "ON"). This morning the batteries were flat. The Hepax contents were all there thanks to the Nov-32. I cleared the HP41 memory to be safe, and started work...
Now the strange bit: The Focal programs in Hepax cannot be directly executed as before. They have not been corrupted: if I COPY to main memory they run as expected. But when I attempt to run a program in Hepax it returns immediately, without any error message but without executing any of the program. BUT, if I GTO that program and press R/S it runs correctly!
It seems to be only the ability to execute Hepax programs directly that has been affected. This applies both to my original programs and a test program I just created and saved to Hepax. Any ideas, before I resort to reprogramming the Nov32 from scratch?
More info:
I have tried the Nov32 in a different HP41, with the same results, so the problem appears to be corruption of the Nov32 contents.
If I manually execute a program in Hepax memory using GTO xx followed by R/S then programmable key assignments to labels in that program don't work but show an XROM code, e.g. XROM 63,12.
Certainly, this is a weird behavior. Not so strange due to the fact that the system has been brought to an unpowered state in very irregular way: i.e. leaving the batteries runnig out overnight.
NoV-32 is not designed to face such situation and, although not harmful to the hardware itself, it may well have led NoV-32's RAM contents to a corrupted state.
With this in mind, I'm affraid that your better choice is to erase NoV-32's RAM pages and reload the programs. Sorry for the bad news.
As you're handling FOCAL programs you could move them to main RAM and use a card reader to avoid re-typing.
Please let us know about the results.
Thanks, Diego. I'll try this later. No time at the moment as I'm working to a deadline, and fortunately the Focal programs I'm using for this job will fit (just!) in main memory.
This is indirectly related to the fact that Nov32 doesn't like the auto-off function of the HP41. So I normally manually execute "ON" to be safe - this time I forgot to switch off and the charger wasn't plugged in either. Ooops.
Is there any way to support auto-off or is this a fundamental limitation of the HP41's expansion bus?
Hi again,
I'll need a while to check my code database, but I think I fixed the auto OFF bug, both for NoVRAM and NoV-32!! At least I'm positive I did for the NoVRAM code, but I may have forgotten updating the NoV-32 code, oops sorry if this was the case...
For the records, this was not a limitation of the 41 I/O interface whatsoever, on the contrary, PWO and SYNC lines perfectly define the HP-41 power state in any case. However, as NoV's are designed to minimize power drain, I leave PIC processor into sleep as soon as PWO goes low, thus, handling the SYNC line to detect Auto OFF, msut be done via interrupt to allow PIC "wake-up".
It took a nice code compression effort to make enough room for the interrupt handling routine that allows such handling. I finally got the time to rethink the power management and write the appropriate line by '05 3rd quarter, while I was dealing with NoV-32 developement.
In any case, you won't need to execute "ON", should your 41 goes to Auto OFF, just unplug NoV-32, plug it again and turn your calc ON. It won't lose a single bit, granted.
Best wishes.
That's excellent news! This was the only problem I had with the otherwise excellent Nov32. It's made the HP41 much more useable - no need to mess around with card reader etc except for occasional backups.
Unfortunately the unplug/plug/power-on routine didn't work reliably for me, occasionally resulting in a high-current state in the Nov32 which would pull down the supply and corrupt the HP41 memory. That's why I usually execute ON to be safe. (we discussed this by email a few weeks ago: I'm peter at giastar com.) So support of auto-off is very useful.
I'll download the latest Nov32 firmware before continuing with this. Perhaps you could confirm when/whether the auto-off fix is included in the Nov32 firmware - I don't mind waiting for this, my NOV32 is still working fine as a non-volatile memory, I just have to COPY any stuff I'm using to main memory first.
Edited: 27 Jan 2006, 5:13 p.m.
Hi, Diego,
Does the latest Nov32 code have the sleep mode fix? I'm still using the original version I got with the module, and it has the problem with deep sleep on the mainframe.
I've had to dig a bit into my "old versions" directory to find out what happened to the *Auto-OFF bug free* version of "NoV-32-H.asm".
Finally I manage to re-create the "crime scene" :-)
- I wrote the code for NoV-32 based on NoVRAM (obviously), this code was intended to provide enable/disable features at page (4k) level.
- Then I modified the NoVRAM code to fix Auto-OFF bug.
- Modify the NoV-32 code in the same way
- At this point page enable/disable feature revealed unreliable and I rush to correct that.
- I modified NoV-32 again to allow "block" (16K) swapping... but (here it the point) I did it on the file that wasn't been modified with the code to fix Auto OFF bug... Ouch!!
Please accept my apologise, I'm confident I can rebuild a bug free version for NoV-32 along next week.
Best regards.
Ooops! Anyway, it's really good news that auto-off will soon be working on the Nov32. This module has transformed my HP41, which is still the calculator I reach for when I want to do serious work.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43018 | Explosive strength, a component of speed strength, refers to acceleration or rate of force development, or "the neuromuscular system's ability to generate high action velocities." [1][2]
Developing Explosive Strength
Stone states, "Exercises used to develop explosive strength are defined as those in which the initial rate of concentric force production is maximal or near maximal and is maintained throughout the range of motion of the exercise." [3][1]
1. 1.0 1.1 Berry, Mike (n.d.). Explosive Reps and Variable Resistance. Retrieved on 2008-08-11.
2. Staley, Charles (n.d.). Quality Strength for Human Athletic Performance: A Guide to Speed Strength Training. Retrieved on 2008-08-03.
3. Stone, M.H. (1993). "Position Statement. Literature review: Explosive Exercises and Training.". NSCA Journal 15 (3): 7-14. |
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During 25 years in this city, I’ve consistently witnessed women welcoming, supporting and treating each other with respect, admiration and a genuine desire to spread the wealth—for the greater good and, often, just for the joy of seeing a sister succeed.
This hasn’t always been the case in many other American cities where I’ve spent time. There’s coldness and competitiveness and bitchery out there. And although I’ve seen a ration of that in Austin (like everywhere humans live), I can count those instances on one hand. With the other 500 hands, I’ve been lifted repeatedly—and I’m mad appreciative.
The positive vastly outweighs the negative among women in Austin, and for that reason, I never stop feeling lucky to live here. Every city has intelligent, motivated, creative women who make things happen, but it’s an extra gift when those women are also loving, compassionate, collaborative and community-minded.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43030 | Whilst working on creating a new Packer deployment set with version 1.6.2, I had some strange issues whereby the Windows Server 2019 ISO on my vSphere datastore would randomly not connect. I admit I did scratch my head a bit on this one. Through some ‘Google-Fu’ I found an issue that is going to be resolved in the next release of Packer.
The issue appears to be related to having characters other than a letter or number in the datastore name that held my iso. After I removed the ‘-‘ character from my datastore name, everything worked fine!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43031 | One of the errors for a pitot tube is 'compressibility.' However, I don't understand this in detail. I get that the ASI will read slower because the ram air is compressing against the air already in the pitot tube. My question is when does this happen? What would cause this?
• $\begingroup$ I am certainly no expert, and I look forward to learning more by reading the answers, but isn't the ram air compressing against the air already in the pitot tube exactly how it measures air speed in the first place? $\endgroup$ – FreeMan Jan 13 '16 at 17:13
• $\begingroup$ @FreeMan No. It measures the lower dynamic pressure due to the velocity of the fluid in the tube (Bernoulli's principle). They work just as well (or, given the premise of this question, better) in water, which is incompressible. $\endgroup$ – Sanchises Jan 13 '16 at 18:21
In subsonic flow, a pitot tube measures the total pressure $P_{0}$, while a static port measures the static pressure $P$. For very small Mach numbers, we can use the incompressible form of Bernoulli's Equation for determining the speed.
As there is no energy due to compressibility, the density $\rho$ is constant. This means that along a streamline,
$\frac{P}{\rho} + \frac{1}{2} v^{2} + gh = constant$
Neglecting gravity, we have,
$\frac{P}{\rho} + \frac{1}{2} v^{2} = constant$
Using this, we can determine the velocity as
$v = \sqrt{2\frac{P_{0}-P}{\rho}}$
This equation, however does not take the effect of comprehensibility into account. While at low speeds this is not a problem, this causes an error as the Mach number increases above ~0.3. As the speed increases above this value, the term $\frac{1}{2}\rho v^{2}$ no longer gives the difference between the Total and static pressure.
In case of compressible flow, neglecting gravity we have,
$\int_{P_{0}}^{P}\frac{dP}{\rho} + \frac{1}{2} v^{2} = constant$
along the streamline as $\rho$ is no longer constant.
For adiabatically expanding gas, we have,
$\frac{P_{0}}{P} = (1 + \frac{\gamma-1}{2} M^{2})^{\frac{\gamma}{\gamma - 1}}$
where $\gamma$ is the specific heat constant and $M$ is the mach number. In this case, the velocity can be calculated as,
$v = \sqrt{\frac{2 \gamma}{\gamma - 1} \frac{P}{\rho} [\frac{P_{0}}{P}^{\frac{\gamma - 1}{\gamma}}-1]}$
This difference gives rise to the error, which is positive i.e. compressibility error produces ASI readings that are too high. In terms of the pressure ratio, the error is more than 8% as the aircraft approaches transonic speeds. The following image shows the difference in pressure ratio between readings using assumptions of incompressible and compressible flow.
Image from Mechanical Measurements and Metrology - Measurement of Fluid Velocity by S. P. Venkateshan
Basically, the issue is with the assumptions in the method use to calculate the velocity- for low speeds, we assume that the density is constant, which is clearly not the case as the speed increases. Usually, M = 0.3 is taken as the cutoff point.
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$\begingroup$ "does not take the effect of comprehensibility into account" - are you talking about your answer in general, or the equation? $\endgroup$ – Peter Kämpf Jan 13 '16 at 22:38
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I was taking a break sitting in the eighth floor lobby of the Marriott Marquis and reflecting upon what I learned during the course of the workshops I attended, when I heard a voice.
“Ms. James?”
I looked up. A young man was standing nearby my chair. He looked vaguely familiar but didn’t have a name tag.
He put down his Starbucks mug and extended his hand. “Hi, it’s Austin.”
I studied him and noticed that he looked as I imagined, but I was creeped out to see him. What was he doing there?
As though he read my mind, he answered. “Well, you created me, but when you began to talk about me, you brought me to life.”
I was dumbfounded. “I brought you to life?”
“Yes, you did! All those chats with the ladies who had suggestions on how to make me better, that’s how it happened.”
“You were at the workshop when we discussed your first chapter?”
“I was.” He took a sip of his coffee. “They were right you know. Your ideas about my story being shorter than the other ones? Not a good idea.”
“I have a lot of things to say, people to meet, things to do. So my story needs to be longer.”
I looked around. “Is Natasha here?”
“No, she said that since this is my story, she didn’t have to show up. Maybe she wants to be surprised.” He grinned. “She will come around eventually.”
Since he talked about the other books, I asked whether he knew the main characters.
“Of course I know them. They are here, just like me, and they want to talk to you.”
Suddenly, his phone pinged. He took it out of his pocket and checked for a text.
“They’re on their way.” He held up his hand. “But not Helena and Leon. They said it’s too soon.” He brought some chairs closer to where we were sitting.
Ayanna and Todd were the first to appear. They looked well put together, since I worked with them after they had their session with the developmental editor. Bobby and Suzette looked less certain and secure, since I read the editor’s report but didn’t have a chance to meet with them.
I felt overwhelmed as I reached for my notebook. I was in for some heavy duty note taking.
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The creature, known as Microdocodon gracilis, was an ancient mammal separated from the modern age by 165 million years. Going back that far, you might expect that its style of eating was quite a bit different than our own, but a new study says that’s definitely not the case.
The remains of the tiny rodent-like animal were preserved as fossils so perfectly that they shocked researchers. Among those remains was the creature’s U-shaped hyoid bones, which show strong similarities to those in today’s mammals.
These unique hyoid bones are what give mammals, including humans, the ability to chew food and move it into a position to be swallowed. Other animals with less complex hyoid bones, like reptiles, for instance, have to bite and tear off large chunks of food to swallow or even just swallow their entire prey whole.
“It is a pristine, beautiful fossil. I was amazed by the exquisite preservation of this tiny fossil at the first sight. We got a sense that it was unusual, but we were puzzled about what was unusual about it,” Zhe-Xi Luo, senior author of the paper published in Science, said in a statement. “After taking detailed photographs and examining the fossil under a microscope, it dawned on us that this Jurassic animal has tiny hyoid bones much like those of modern mammals.”
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You can request Ardor Testnet coins here: https://nxtforum.org/testnet/some-testnxt-to-test-asset-exchange/
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43108 | Wednesday, January 11, 2017
More 2017 IGF nominees
More assorted comments on games!
(See Monday's post for the six Narrative nominees.)
In this post:
• Rusty Lake: Roots
• Able Black
• Neptune Flux
• She Who Fights Monsters
• Islands: Non-Places
• Code 7 - Episode 0 - Allocation
• Mu Cartographer
• Inside
• Burly Men at Sea
• A Normal Lost Phone
Rusty Lake: Roots
You explore a creepy family's genealogy in their creepy house, down through the generations. I enjoyed this series back when it was Flash room-escape games. ("Cube Escape" was the original series title.) The author has kept the same puzzle style, but revamped the formula for mobile by wrapping up a bunch of escape "chapters" as one game.
I still enjoy them. The author is good at the creepy-surreal tone, and the puzzles have enough variety that they don't feel repetitive. There's a postgame puzzle sequence -- not quite what you'd call a metapuzzle, but it gives a really nice "ooh more to explore" feeling to the experience.
The one caveat is that the creepy sometimes degenerates into sophomoric nudge-wink innuendo. To be fair, the series always had a tendency towards cheap body-horror shock -- chopped-off fingers and popped-out eyes. Now that's been extended to include childbirth and wanking jokes. Is that worse? I roll my eyes more, definitely.
Able Black
I always love a mystery-interface interactive story, and I enjoyed this one. The visual design was striking and the story was pretty good. It's the "AI humanity test" story -- a SF trope which I admit is getting seriously overused in the past couple of years of gaming -- but it's well done.
The weak point were the puzzles, which were weak and unthematic. They did not feel like assessments that the android protagonist would undergo; neither did they feel like allegorical challenges within the theme of developing emotion and empathy. They didn't build on each other in an interesting explorable way, or with a metapuzzle. They were just a bunch of randomly-selected riddles thrown in for pacing. Pacing is important, but this is not the right way to go about it.
On the other hand, the game redeems itself somewhat in the "postgame" (whatever you call the puzzles after the five main chapters). I only got a little way into these, but they were integrated with the story and seemed to be interestingly explorable. Although, on the other hand yet again, the dexterity challenge was more of a nuisance than was warranted.
Neptune Flux
You operate an undersea waldo, collecting resources to preserve humanity after some kind of civilization-destroying event.
This is a puzzle game, but it's more of a homebrew action-adventure than a simple Myst clone. Oh, I suppose action-adventure is the wrong term -- no fighting, no jumping -- but you have a space to roam in and a couple of systematic tasks to occupy your time in between completing the main story beats.
It sounds like padding when I put it like that, but in fact those tasks pace out the game pretty nicely. It's still a short story, no question. But it's a short story that lets you poke around at your own pace; you can decide whether to rush to the next objective or scour the sea floor for a while.
(The traditional first-person adventure game would handle that pacing by flooding you with visuals: detail, detail, detail. And, you know, I'm a sucker for that. But there are other approaches, and this one is perfectly valid.)
All that said: the story does not work particularly well. It's trying to hand you a lot of concepts -- a post-catastrophe world, your job, your mother, AI, failed space colonies, alien artifacts, shipwrecks from various periods of history. But none of these really have a chance to settle in or feel real. I suppose this is where more visual detail would have helped! Or more game mechanics, or more characters... more engaging voice actors... more of anything to anchor the story. Lacking those, the story beats fail to connect up or have impact.
I feel like the designers tried to take a moderate approach -- just enough of everything -- but the total falls short.
(Note: I was a Kickstarter backer on Neptune Flux.)
She Who Fights Monsters
Last year I had trouble evaluating Undertale because Final Fantasy just isn't a big part of my gaming history. I recognize the tropes, but the way that the game riffs on them largely go over my head. Also, it's enormous so I never saw the thing as a whole.
SWFM is a simpler and shorter game with the same approach. Which is good, on the one hand, because I finished it and I pretty well understand what it's doing with its JRPG riffs. But, by the same token, it's less ambitious.
The topic is child abuse, and the game tackles it by means of traditional JRPG gameplay. That's interesting. And the story is clear and honestly offered. But the game doesn't do a whole lot with it beyond the basic concept of "let's present an emotional contrast using JRPG tropes". (Contrast, that is, between Jenny's fantasy life in games and her wounded reality.)
Perhaps I just wanted more story arc for Jenny. Her path in the story is essentially reactive and static. The new-game-plus options are trying to open this up, I think, but they feel awkwardly tacked on. The player is asked to re-experience (much of) the game, but in a distanced lens-of-memory way. The repetition mutes the impact. Or, I should say, the frame is inside out: I want the story to begin with mature Jenny reflecting on her history, and then ramp upwards to the raw impact of her early life. That's the "traditional" way you'd tell this story. But then of course the "final choice" of how you live your life would come at the beginning of the game, which is weird. I don't know! It's a hard problem.
Islands: Non-Places
That was a thing. It was just my kind of thing. 11/10 best puppy.
I'm not sure what else I have to say about this! It's a series of wordless images -- snippets of the urban landscape -- which you are invited to provoke into some kind of reaction. When you succeed, you move on to the next one. It's not a storybook; it's not a story at all; but it's involving and entirely charming.
I am going to tie this back to the genre of nonsense children's art: Graeme Base, David Wiesner, Shaun Tan. Nonsense which embodies a wordless looking-glass-logic. That's what this is. Not entirely new in videogames (anybody remember Haruhiko Shono?) but we can certainly use more of it.
Code 7 - Episode 0 - Allocation
This is a promo for an episodic game. I saw the Kickstarter go by but I didn't investigate it at the time. Now I see why people are talking about it. It's a smart take on the "text adventure" idea.
You wake up in a dark place with only a computer terminal to connect you to the outside world. You have to steer your friends through laboratory/complex/base by hacking on the computers that they connect you to.
If I put on my IF theorist hat, I would say that it's not equivalent to a full-on parser-based IF game. This is not a complaint; Code 7 goes off on its own thread, exploring the idea of a computer CLI rather than an object-based world model. That is entirely appropriate for the story it wants to tell. And it finds appropriate explorable mechanics within the CLI concept: the computers have a consistent (but expandable) set of commands, and the database search is a uniformly-available choice which the player can go back at will. There are also hacking scenes (which use a virtual map as a chase/puzzle environment), and scenes where the characters are chased by robots (same idea, but on a real-world map).
Altogether, a great pile of gameplay. Very polished presentation, too. My only complaint is that the real-time chase segments were a bit rough. The final hacking challenge took me a lot of tries -- enough that it wound up feeling tedious, rather than thrilling.
Now, the story is very old hat indeed -- a pile of sci-fi cliches. (With lanterns hung on them.) But the design is interesting, and the authors have the opportunity to take the story to more interesting places in future episodes.
Mu Cartographer
Excellent and indescribable!
I realize Mu Cartographer is pretty much aimed at my hot buttons: it's the love child of an abstract fiddly-toy and an explorable puzzle box. With bits of narrative about a psychogeographical landscape. I won't go so far as to say it's a story, but there's enough narrative text to provide a sense of place. Without that, it really would be an entirely abstract puzzle.
(Okay, there are snapshots of famous real-world landmarks. But those wouldn't sell sense-of-place on their own.)
My design quibble is that the various tasks aren't well balanced. There are three general categories of Things To Do (after "understand what to do".) One is pure grind (unless I missed a clue?) The second is easy (you can go straight to the solution); the third is hard (requires experimentation but you can tell when you're close). So you go back and forth between slog and non-slog, which makes the game pacing uneven. I finished it, but I felt that I'd spent too long on the job -- that is, too much blind-hunting time. Not the fun kind.
But this is a quibble. I enjoyed the heck out of this and would play six more just like it. ("Just like it" in the sense of each being completely different and unique, of course.)
A moody monochrome platformer, which is a genre. This is a beautiful example of that genre. The artwork takes a spare, minimal style and lifts it to breathtaking levels. Backgrounds, animation, lighting -- gorgeous.
The platforming mechanics are familiar terrain, but well-executed. You start with running and jumping, and move on to several other mechanics. These are (mostly) well-introduced and then mixed up in (mostly) reasonable variations; there's plenty of variety to keep your interest. Variety, heck -- the game physics achieves some brain-twisting weirdness.
The strength of this game is visual (of course) and... I don't want to say "world-building". The pieces do not fit together to build a world. But each piece is, individually, razor-sharp -- a lucid shape of game mechanics, scenery, and visual tone which conveys a situation.
The weakness of this game is that sometimes you just have no idea what it's trying to get you to do. You can screw around until you figure it out. I did. But you might die six times in a row while not learning anything. It's just a little too eager, sometimes, in introducing a new mechanic that's hidden in the scenery. Or maybe the scenery is a bit too distractingly artistic.
(They usually add enough blinky lights to clue you in, but not always.)
Inside is getting a lot of chatter as a superlative narrative game. It is a superlative game. But not narrative. Sorry! A narrative has a beginning, middle, and end. This has a starting point and a stopping point. That's not narrative.
As I said, the pieces don't fit together. Wordless platformers develop character, if they ever do, by giving you short-term goals which add up to game-spanning achievements. This game has the short-term goals, but they don't add up to anything. "You kept running." Not running to anything, or from anything. The threat in any given scene is clear, but you know no more at the end than you did at the beginning. I'll grant a thematic consistency -- the game is about control, and maybe that speaks to the platformer genre. But theme is not enough.
I loved Inside but it did not speak to me. It has a deep willingness to be nastily perverse, to bother the player. I admire that, and I've written works in that mode... but it's not the same as narrative.
Burly Men at Sea
Three burly sailors go on an odyssey. Then, if you like, they do it again!
It is undeniably adorable. The interaction is playful and distinctive -- more so when I got the iPad version. (Mouse control just doesn't suit the thing.) The writing is simple but sharp; I was immediately able to hear the characters' voices.
The visual design is great. The soundtrack is great (and makes me laugh). There's a nifty gimmick where you can buy any run-through as a printed storybook.
I feel like the game falls short of greatness, however. It asks for repeated play-throughs, but it doesn't particularly reward them. Scenes have first-time and subsequent-times variations, but no more than that. (That I saw.) They don't build on each other as you discover more of the map.
If the third run-through added as much as the second -- and so on, to some higher purpose -- this would have been one of my favorites of the year. As it is, it is a delightful toy that runs down too soon.
A Normal Lost Phone
• (Accidental Queens / Rafael Martínez Jausoro, Estelle Charrié)
• IGF entry page
A database game presented as the cell phone of a teenager in small-town America. As you explore the photos, email, text messages, and so forth, you uncover layers of Sam's life and how the phone came to be lost.
I expected this to be a fairly static environment. But you discover passwords and so on as you play, each of which unlocks a new section of the game. There aren't many of these; the story could be described as four gated "chapters" plus an epilogue. But then, the game is quite short overall, so it's not out of balance. The "puzzle" moments are all plausibly different, which wouldn't be possible in a longer game of this sort.
The designers do a good job of packing high school life into the non-linear environment of a phone. Exploration is gated by passwords, as I said -- but even within those chapters, you necessarily encounter the story piecewise. Messages and email are grouped by person, so you can't just browse Sam's entire life chronologically. This gives a nice putting-the-pieces-together feel even above the puzzle structure.
I won't be spoiling much if I say that the narrative turns into a coming-out story. The later sections involve a dating app and a support web forum. Again, these manage to convey a lot of information -- perhaps to the point of didacticism, but then I'm not close to the topic. If you are younger or these issues are personal to you, I think you'll appreciate the depth of detail.
The result is sweet and doesn't outstay its welcome. My only quibble is that the "American" setting is shaky -- not so much the character voices, which seem fine, but in random details like European date formatting and implausible town names.
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Chris (Jan 12, 2017 at 9:25 AM):
The reference point for Undertale is more Earthbound than Final Fantasy, but same difference :).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43112 | Letter to a Catholic friend exploring Islam: by Ryan Hunter
Letter to a Catholic friend exploring Islam:
Hello, [Name redacted]! Salam alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh
Peace be with you, and the mercy of God and His blessings.
I hope this note finds you in good health and spirits. Thank you for your kind message. It seems that we have quite a lot in common in our respective faith journeys. I am someone who was raised Roman Catholic as you were. From my earliest conscious memories of theological belief, I had always believed in the eternal, divine sonship of Jesus the Christ (may God’s peace be upon him) and in one God subsisting as the three Persons of the Holy Trinity. Growing up, I was relatively devout in my teenage years, attending weekly Mass with my family and receiving all the Church’s sacraments. I prayed often and often composed written prayers, which I have continued to do throughout my life. In my teen years, searching for truth amidst the rather banal atmosphere of the post-Vatican II parish liturgical life of suburban Long Island, I was drawn theologically ‘eastward’. I studied extensively and with much intellectual reflection about the Baha’i faith, Islam, Judaism, and a bit about the various “Hinduisms” (Sanātana Dharma, mainly Advaita Vedanta), as well as Chinese Confucianism, and Mahayana and Theravada Buddhist thought.
Then in my early college years in Washington DC—having become much more solidified in my Christian faith conviction—I became fascinated by Eastern Orthodox Christianity. After a year and a half of intense study, frequent church participation, and prayerful reflection, in 2011 I converted to Orthodox Christianity, having been deeply awestruck by its radiant liturgical patrimony of beauty and majesty, rich history, immense Patristic wisdom, and the richness and integrity of its mystical theology and rigorous daily praxis as compared with so much of contemporary lukewarm post-Vatican II Catholicism. Of course, there are degrees and elements of truth in all authentic religious traditions, and I certainly continue to appreciate many Christians’ sincere love for God and reverence for Jesus (peace be upon him).
I was a devoutly practising Orthodox Christian from fall 2010 (when I began attending weekly Liturgies, Saturday night vigils and vespers) through to spring 2018. I recall the period with immense warmth, peace, and spiritual joy. My weekly life as a student and paid intern and writer became increasingly focused and oriented toward daily prayer following the liturgical hours in the morning and evening. My consciousness became imbued with the different holy days and saints’ days, and praying as much of the Divine Office as I could with my dear Catholic and Orthodox apartment-mates and friends. I was very involved in my cathedral parish, sang in the choir, and became close to my bishop, whose impact on my life remains very dear to me.
However, in all this time, that earlier seemingly inexplicable pull toward Islam never quite went away, and my attraction to it never quite left me. I continued to study its teachings in much detail, and was often disturbed and dismayed by how most of my Orthodox and Catholic friends’ perception of it was rooted more in caricature and the worst news-based generalizations about Islamist terrorism than authentic, integrated engagement with Islamic history, beliefs, and principles.
Most of my theological questions came down to two: “Who was the real Jesus?” and “who was the real Muhammad?”. As always, I read widely, from modern lay scholars and clerics to ancient saints and fathers. In spite of what was initially a tremendous emotional barrier to the notion of ever embracing Islam, I gradually became convinced of Islam’s particular truth claims (insofar as the differences on Christology and the nature of God are concerned) in early 2018. This was a time when I began to closely examine the historicity of the Biblical accounts, their texts’ theological positions relative to the official Trinitarian Orthodox and Catholic dogmas as established by the foundational imperial Church councils, etc.
One day, either in late spring or early summer 2018, I was rather surprised to wake up and realize that I no longer could believe in the Christian sense of original/ancestral sin or the Trinity—not because I didn’t want to believe these things, I desperately still wanted to remain a Christian, having been a convinced Christian for years, but I could no longer believe that these doctrines about God were eternal truths about Him. I was no longer able to believe in the chief particular truth claims of orthodox, catholic Christianity, such as 1) the idea of Jesus/God the Son’s sole incarnation and salvific death as the savior and redeemer of mankind from original sin (since I no longer believed in original sin), and 2) the notion that God always existed eternally as one-in-three and three-in-one, but that the Second Person of the Trinity (God the Son) become incarnate (as Jesus Christ) only once in human history, 2,000 years ago, to a people on the edge of the Roman Empire who rejected Him.
If one takes the Christian position—dogmatically codified at the first imperial council held at Nicaea in AC 325 some 300 years after Jesus’s alleged crucifixion, about a quarter-century before what would become the New Testament canon was finalized—that Jesus was God, one has to admit that this is a curious God utterly unlike the ‘god’ Krishna in the Gita or the God of the Old Testament’s Torah, all of whom repeatedly asserted their divinity. Jesus never once directly claimed to be God in the New Testament, but actually commanded everyone to worship God, repeated the Shema Yisrael (Hear O Israel) prayer of absolute monotheism, and said that he didn’t know when the Day of Judgment would be and that his Father (e.g. God) was greater than him. These verses clearly support a more Arian reading of the Scriptures, so why were they put into the final New Testament canon by what came to be known as the Nicene or orthodox/catholic Imperial Church?
In this time, I asked a number of other pressing theological questions which none of my brilliant, well-meaning priest and bishop friends were able to adequately answer, such as:
–Who exactly did Jesus worship in the Biblical account? Jesus repeatedly worships God [the Father] in the verses of the New Testament, so if Jesus is God, he is seemingly thus worshipping himself in a different form, if in fact the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three Persons of one Godhead. How or why does God worship Himself?
—Why would a God thus worship Himself, or how can one part of God worship another part without the nature of the Divinity being confused? This presents a problem. Or, if one says that Jesus is worshiping God, and clearly differentiating between God and Jesus, clearly this shows that Jesus is not God.
–What was Jesus’ religion? How did he worship? We know that during his lifetime, anything resembling later institutionalized Christianity and post-Temple rabbinical, Talmudic Judaism didn’t yet exist. Most historians call the Judaism of Jesus’s time Second Temple Judaism, in reference to the cult of temple sacrifice there, and of course this religion ended in AC/’AD’ 70 with the very Temple’s destruction by the Roman army under future Emperor Flavius Titus.
So if Jesus is the eternal God-Man, one is presented with this bizarre paradox that he was never a Christian, as it were, nor a Muslim in the post-Muhammadan sense, nor a rabbinical Jew, but rather, he worshiped at and in a temple that was destroyed. The religion Jesus observed and practiced in his earthly lifetime, according to the Biblical canon, doesn’t exist anymore. How does this make any sense? Muslims of course say that Jesus was, in the pre-Muhammadan sense, a Muslim—a worshipper of the one eternal God.
Thus, as these questions began to gnaw at me unansqered, my core foundation of orthodox Christian belief crumbled. It was a disturbing experience, certainly jarring, but I realized that I still absolutely loved and revered Jesus (peace be upon him) as an incomparably holy person unbelievably close to God. I deeply loved him, and all the prophets and saints. I just couldn’t any longer believe that he was somehow the uncreated, eternal, omniscient God of the universe. This flowed from reading the Bible itself and examining how and when the New Testament canon was established—at around AC 367, over three centuries after Christ. From a Muslim perspective, three centuries corresponds to when the last of the most authoritative ahadith were authenticated and canonized some 250-300 years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family). As a historical reality, by contrast, from a secular perspective, the Qur’ān was canonised in its final form within a generation of the death of the Prophet. The comparative historical integrity of the canonisation of the Qur’ān as opposed to the Bible deeply impressed me—and this was as someone who had of course read numerous Christian articles striving to attack the Qur’ān’s integrity.
To affirm, as a former Christian, the first part of the Islamic Shahadah was and is quite easy, since Christians consciously believe in only one God but in a way quite different from Tawhīd. The second part, of affirming Muhammad as the Seal of the Prophets (literally one just affirms that he is God’s Servant and Messenger), of course took much longer to emotionally and psychologically settle into and accept, given my Christian background. Since this time, however, I have developed a great love for Muhammad, since literally all that is beautiful within Islam comes from either his direct example (his Sirah/vita) and his embodied Tradition or Way (Sunnah), or from the beautiful divine Revelation which was revealed by God to him and imprinted upon his heart and soul. In terms of the canonical Islamic daily prayers and spiritual life, I have never ceased to marvel at what a wealth of prayerful tradition and discipline (salaat), supplication (dua), and remembrance of God (dhikr) Islam has. Its spirituality is unbelievably deep, beautiful, and grounding.
Once I did extensive research to examine and test all the various negative Christian and Western portrayals of the Prophet Muhammad, I came to instead see how he was and is this magnificently noble and heroic model for all attributes of human behavior and life, and how the theology he taught offers the most comprehensive, all-encompassing, balanced cosmological framework for peaceful, harmonious, and virtuous human existence. The inner dimension and reality of the Prophet’s life and all the teachings of Islam as found in the ocean of the Qur’ānic revelation are a radiant lighthouse guiding spiritual travelers in navigating, illuminating, and transforming our relationship with God, each other, and all creation. In no other historical figure can one find an example to refer to a man who was all that the Prophet Muhammad was:
–an effective ruler and statesman (many kings and queens were this, but not most prophets…)
–a strategic general and commander
–a fair, impartial, and far-minded judge
–an astute merchant and scrupulously just businessman
–a devoted, gentle husband and loving father
—a pious worshipper of God and teacher of spiritual truth
—a charitable lover of the poor, but also an educator in teaching the poor to become more self-sufficient
—an utterly holy spiritual mystic who taught an integrated model for perfecting human behavior and spirituality, while never himself claiming to be anything other than a mortal prophet, a man who suffered much and stood to lose everything in terms of worldly success from preaching the religion he followed.
As you may be aware, quite a lot of authentic Sufi Muslim spirituality—while necessarily being firmly rooted in the inner and outer theological life of Islam—has much in common with the authentic, legitimate aspects of Eastern Orthodox hesychia and prayer of the heart.
Regarding the Islamic view of salvation, our salvation depends on and flows firstly from the all-encompassing mercy of God, our Beloved Lord, the Necessary Being, First Cause, and source of Reality itself, who created us each with a unique soul bearing the individuated imprint of His own eternal Spirit. He did this out of His eternal Love, because—existing of eternity within and by Himself—He longed to be known and loved, as the beautiful hadith qudsi of God speaking through the Prophet shows. This is why He created the cosmos: for all things to worship and adore Him by their very being.
Alone of all God’s beautiful creatures, mankind enjoys the benefit of a fully rational soul so that we might grow to choose to love and worship Him, growing closer to Him inwardly in prayer and fasting, and outwardly through our loving acts of kindness, charity, and humane concern for others. As was the case with our father and progenitor Adam—to whom God taught the names, attributes, and realities of all created things—God longs for us to be careful vicegerents or caretaking stewards over the earth on the macrocosmic level. This same vicegerency exists over our nations, towns, and families on more localizdd levels, and then our own souls on the microcosmic level.
Like our father Adam, we may choose to either ignore or we may passively forget the Truth—that is, to turn away from God in sin—and then repent, having fallen short of our innate human potential and either aggrieving or angering Him. Mindful of the Divine Mercy, in our act of repenting, we actualize our free will in turning toward God, who, in His loving gentleness, turns again and again toward us.
From this Divine Mercy—manifested in 1) God’s very creation of the cosmos (the breath of the All-Merciful One animates all entities and things) and 2) His sending down numerous (symbolically 124,000) divine guides and prophets to every people—men and women who were spiritual teachers and warners who strove to call us to remember Him, His laws, His mercy, and our own noble ensoulment and our radiant free will to draw nearer to Him—stems our acknowledgement of Him as our Lord and Creator. God alone can bestow forgiveness and mercy on His creatures, and our existence itself by His permission is the greatest sign of this mercy. Islam is the foundational and outer dimension of the Path taught by Prophet Muhammad. In the most direct sense, it means free submission to God’s will and providence, by which we are reconciled and reconstituted to all things in Him.
From all of this flows our abiding faith in God as our Loving Sustainer, Provider, and Ruler. It is this faith–in God, His angels, prophets, divine scriptures, laws, decrees, justice, and Providence—which should inspire our ever-deepening love, beauty of character (ihsan) and remembrace (dhikr) of Him throughout our day, most especially in the prescribed daily prayers, by which we draw as wayfaring lovers into ever-ascending communion with our Beloved Lord. The most basic but integral level of wayfaring, the foundational rung in the Ladder of Divine Ascent, is the dedicated, pious performance of these daily prayers which the Prophet termed “the ascension (of the soul) of the believer” since they deeply anchor the mind, heart, and soul in God.
By this wayfaring, we gradually confront, master, and eventually (God-willing) overcome or annihilate the constraints of our ego or ‘oppositional self’ (nafs al-amarra) that within us which veils us from seeing God as the all-pervading, utterly immanent-yet-transcendant Reality, the immutable Divine Essence from which all existence takes its form and essence.
In the lifelong, recurring process of overcoming the ego, the attachments and illusions which distract us from seeing our true spiritual selves before God and seeing Him in everything, we come, God-willing, to see Him alive and manifest in ourselves and in others, and all creation. We then realize that there is nowhere that He is not, save in the vain earth-tethered egoistic imaginings of the ignorant soul which is blind and deaf to His Reality.
We externally manifest the visible fruits of our interior faith and deepening ascension to God within the depths of our heart and soul by fulfilling our core moral and religious obligations, avoiding sin, repenting of any sins, and doing numerous good works of charity and piety to become more and more spiritually pure and beautiful. While we strive toward spiritual perfection, we can never escape our created essence, which makes us distinct from the uncreated, eternally Divine Lord.
Married to faithful observance of the external religious obligations of prayer, fasting, charity, and repentance, we strive—under careful spiritual direction from a trained guide—toward encompassing states of ever-deepening spiritual transformation, purification, illumination, and ultimately perfection or godliness in the station-by-station Ascent toward mystical union with God our Beloved. In this union, we rejoice in the indescribable transcendence and radiant immanence of He who is the Cause of all causes, the Reality beyond and behind all realities, and the Creator of all creatures.
In closing, I hope this note has served to answer some of your questions and concerns. I would be happy to talk with you further and, if I’m able to, answer any more of your questions or direct you to someone with greater knowledge who may have a better or fuller answer. May God bless you in all things and illumine you in your search for His Truth! I ask your prayers for me as always.
WRITTEN BY Ryan Hunter
Independent scholar, historian, and philosopher specializing in Islam, Sufism, Orthodoxy, metaphysics, and comparative religion. Lover of Wisdom in all forms 🕌
Categories: Bible, Christianity, History, Islam, Jesus, Muhammad
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1. May God bless you in all things and illumine you in your life here and after.
Sometimes I (born Muslim) feel jealous to muallaf(s) because God erase all of their previous sins until the day they become Muslim. They start again their life with 0 (zero) sin.
Anyway, very interesting journey to Islam, welcome to Islam brother Ryan Hunter, may Allah gives you strong iman.
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• You should note however that Power Function motors and accessories that can be found in large TECHNIC sets won't work with Mindstorms without the addition of (expensive) adapters. – Shadocko Sep 21 '15 at 16:01
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There are two sides to this, building and electrics.
In terms of building yes, mindstorms can be seen as an extension of Technic and most of the Elements in a mindstorms set will be "Technic" elements. The old RCX was orientated towards "old-style" Technic that used a mixture of pins and studs while the newer NXT and EV3 are orientated towards new-style Technic that mostly uses pins.
In terms of Electrics things are more of a mess.
LEGO has had various electric systems over the years, broadly speaking there are.
1. The 4.5V/12V system, this is ancient and completely incompatible with Mindstorms. This used plugs with two pins, sometimes with a central bump.
2. The "electric system 9V", inroduced in 1990 and used for motorising many Technic sets. Also used by the RCX. This used contacts built into the top of lego studs.
3. The NXT/EV3 system this uses a RJ style connector but with the clip in a different position from normal.
4. The "Power functions" system, introduced in 2007 and has now mostly replaced the "electric system 9V". This uses a custom connector with two lego studs and a custom contact block next to them that is roughly 1x2 but won't stack with lego bricks.
Lego sold an adapter cable to go from the NXT to "electric system 9V" part number 8528. Unfortunately it is no longer sold. They also sell two different lengths of extension/adapter cables which can be used either to extend power functions or to connect power functions to "electric system 9V" part numbers 8886 and 8871.
It seems that Lego never made an adapter to go directly from the NXT to power functions though you can connect the NXT to power functions motors by combining the two adapters above.
Also it seems that the EV3 is not really compatible with the Lego adapter cable, apparently sensors won't work at all and motors will only work with special software hacks. There is discussion of this and possible workarounds with custom cables at How to use Power Functions with Mindstorms EV3? and Use legacy RCX sensors with EV3
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I didn’t know what I was going to cover this week, but then I got this tweet:
Readers may not know this, but I love music, and I often find myself thinking about how it relates to comics; which characters would listen to which artists, and so forth. But that’s something you can ask me about on Twitter. Today I want to get at Katie’s question about music in comics, because it’s been relevant to some of my favorite recent titles.
The classic way to visualize music in comics is just to put the lyrics in a word balloon with some musical notes scattered around to convey singing. I’m going to be honest; I hate this approach, and in this day and age, I’m sure I’m not the only one. Even if the lyrics are better than the example above, I find it impossible to read them as a song instead of a tuneless poem. I’ve never been sure if the writers who use this method even know what the tune is supposed to be, but even if they did, there’s no way to convey it on the page.
Then there’s the option of not really portraying it at all. When Dazzler first appears in Uncanny X-Men #130, Chris Claremont simply describes her performance in captions, and lets Cyclops tell us how talented she is (even though he knows nothing about disco). There are no lyrics to her songs included, and the only visualization of the music itself is the lightshow that Dazzler’s powers make of it.
You could make an argument that Dazzler is the ultimate comic book musician, because her mutant ability is literally taking sound and translating it into something you can see. But she’s rarely used that way, and she’s also always had the problem of being a little bit out of touch with what’s actually cool at any given moment. Even here, in her very first appearance, she’s a disco diva who has arrived just in time for the 1980s. Now to be sure, there were still plenty of discos in 1980, but the whole thing was already on the way out.
And that’s a whole other problem comics has with music — you don’t have to focus on whatever is the current trend when you include music in a comic book story, but when that’s what you’re trying to do and you’re failing, it’s really, really obvious. Mainstream comics have historically not been very hip. But more recently, there are a few books working to change that.
You can’t do a Jem and the Holograms comic without somehow depicting music, and Kelly Thompson and Sophie Campbell have found a pretty unique new way to do it. The music itself is visualized as a kind of brightly colored energy that pours out of the instruments and makes shapes in the air. The lyrics to the songs are included within, but it’s less about reading them than about giving the reader an impression of what it would be like to be a in a space filled with this music.
What’s cool about this technique is that it allows for the visual depiction of different styles and sounds. Thompson has pointedly avoided describing what the Holograms and the Misfits are meant to sound like, but you can tell by the way Campbell draws the shape of their music that they sound different. The rolling curves of the Holograms songs and the pointed angles of the Misfits match the appearance of their lead singers, and combined with them have always given me the impression that the Holograms have a dreamy pop sound while the Misfits are harsher and more punk-influenced.
And then there’s Silica. The sentient computer virus who takes over Synergy and begins infecting people’s minds with her weird, jarring music. Although its sound is also never described, the jagged black shapes of her music make it clear how unsettling it must be.
Brenden Fletcher and Annie Wu’s Black Canary has a much grittier style than Jem, and that “holographic” colorful music wouldn’t work there. So they take a somewhat Claremont-esque approach of not directly depicting the music, and instead Fletcher describes it in the voice of a fictional music writer, which I think works quite well. Of course, there was also an EP released of Black Canary’s music, so unlike Jem and the Holograms, we know exactly what they sound like.
Archie Comics’s depiction of music has evolved recently too. This spread from Mark Waid and Fiona StaplesArchie #1 uses a combination of color and musical notes to give the impression that yeah, the boy can play. There’s no singing in this particular performance, so the question of how to deal with lyrics is entirely avoided.
There’s something else that I think is at least as important to doing comics about music as the visual depiction of notes on the page, and that’s the visual trappings that come with the music. In Jem and the Holograms, we never doubt that the Misfits are rock stars because they look like rock stars. I mean, look at them.
You can say the same thing about the band in Black Canary. You know this is a group with an edge because they look, for lack of a better word, edgy. Not to mention both that book and Jem and the Holograms deal with tour buses and record labels, and all the things that, even if we’ve never worked in music, we’re familiar with from movies about being a musician.
Even Archie #1 has a bit of this realism, but from a different direction. Here we see a teenage boy who’s learned to play guitar from his father, and learns to his surprise that his peers actually think it’s pretty cool how good he is at it.
Basically what I’m getting at is this: If you tell a story that’s about music, that engages with your readers in ways that make them think in terms of music, then the reader is primed to engage with whatever method you use to depict the music itself. But even then, doing something a little more interesting than rhyming lyrics over floating musical notes is worth the trouble. |
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***Spoke to Dom today and these rotors (dubbed “e-slit”) have been available for their monoblock BBKs since January of 2008 (Yeah, seriously where the F have I been). They have recently begun producing these for OE sized applications as well.
The benefit of this rotor design is to increase modulation and reduce brake judder. I also found out the rear kit on this car is the brand new 4 piston monoblock setup that is new for ’09. The front kit is the 6 piston monoblock that has been out for some time now.***
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Name VariantsCMOKaygusuz Abdal
TMKl-NefKaygusuz Abdal[ TMKl-Nef/IV.i, p. 166 ] [ TMKl-Nef/V.ii, p. 228 ]
MA2Gaybî[ MA2/II, p. 250 ]
Lived in the 15th century. (Müzik Ansiklopedisi, MA/III, p. 701)
Possibly the same person as Gaybî (TMKl-Nef/V.ii, TMKl-Nef/V.ii, p. 217)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43260 | How does a sports drink actually increase hydration more than water?
It's not so much that it can increase hydration as opposed to water; it's the fact that sports drinks contain other things important to maintaining performance during longer events. When we lose fluids, especially during exercise, we also lose electrolytes (including sodium that helps retain water) that are involved in muscle and nerve function and glycogen (glucose/sugars), the body’s fuel. Therefore, proper intake of all three is the general formula for maintaining proper hydration for extended periods. Additionally, sports drinks can help with over-hydration of water. Inexperienced runners, including charity participants, often function under the outdated notion that you can’t get too much water. Yet they move slowly enough during events to become overloaded with fluid, which can cause hyponatremia. Hyponatremia occurs when blood sodium concentration falls to an abnormally low level prompting a rapid swelling of the brain that can result in seizures, coma and death. The key risk factor is excessive drinking—especially non-electrolyte fluids such as many types of water. The risk of hyponatremia can be reduced by making certain that fluid intake does not exceed sweat loss and by ingesting sodium-containing beverages or foods to help replace the sodium lost in sweat.
General Fluid Requirements
Pre-exercise Guidelines
• Drink ~16 to 24oz of fluid 2-hours before activity
• Warm or humid days, drink an additional 8-16oz 30-60min before activity
• Water is adequate for activities less than 1hr
• For endurance events, training sessions longer than 60min, or multiple practices a day, choose a sport drink containing 4-8% percent carbohydrate
During Exercise
• Depending on your sport, consume 3-6oz of water or sports drink every 15min
• For prolonged exercise greater than 60min, choose a sports drink with small amounts of electrolytes
Post-exercise Guidelines
• Drink an additional 16oz with your post workout meal. This meal should be consumed within two hours after activity
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43282 | Reusable vs. Disposable: an Environmentalist’s Dilemma
I’m down with the “reuse” part of the “reduce, reuse, recycle” mantra.
When I was 23, I bought myself a fake Christmas tree. I think real trees look a lot nicer, but though there’s nothing quite like that real pine-y smell that fills the living room over the Christmas season, I opted for a fake version that I could store in the cellar during the other 11 months of the year. Partly, I made this decision because real trees are pretty expensive and for around the same price, I could get a “tree” that I could use over and over again. But, a larger part was because I thought it was a more environmental choice. I was wrong.
Making choices is a big part of living a more sustainable lifestyle. Sometimes, it can feel like an uphill battle, because it feels like you’re surrounded with things that involve pollution, exploitation, and long-haul transportation. It feels like no matter what you choose, you’re contributing to the problem. Some people get overwhelmed and turn a blind eye, whereas others struggle through it. Personally, I feel that a middle road is the best approach for me. Obviously, I can’t avoid harming the planet 100 percent of the time, but I can cut back my impact. This is a learning curve and I’m always learning about new ways to lead a greener lifestyle.
One of the biggest things I’ve done is try to reduce my consumption and the subsequent waste of that consumption. To avoid throwing things out or buying new things, I often use reusable products. Still, “reusable” doesn’t necessarily mean sustainable, because some products involve far more energy to produce than they’re worth. Over an entire life cycle, they still involve more resources than using disposable products over that period of time. If you’re struggling with the reusable vs. disposable issue, here’s a handy guide.
Cups, Mugs, and Glasses
It takes fewer than 40 uses for a reusable cup of any material to break even with disposable paper cups, even when you throw washing the reusable cups into the mix. Ceramic mugs take the longest to break even at 39 uses. Plastic travel mugs take only 17 uses to break even. That means that if you go to Starbucks twice a week, it only takes a couple of months to make your reusable travel mug more responsible. Reusable cups and mugs take longer to break even when you compare them to Styrofoam cups, but considering the fact that Styrofoam takes forever to break down, I think the overall impact of reusable cups is still lower, especially if you use them for years. Most coffee-to-go comes in paper cups, so get yourself a travel mug or two and hand it to the barista when you get coffee on the go.
Water Bottles
I think most people are pretty familiar with the fact that reusable water bottles are better than disposable ones, but I’ll still say it: reusable bottles are better. Plastic takes a lot of energy to produce, so throwing it out after a single use is not green. I know some people are thinking “but I recycle my water bottles” or “but I reuse my water bottles” but neither of those are great options. Recycling is usually better tha throwing things away, but it still takes energy. In comparison, washing a reusable bottle doesn’t have much of an impact. If you reuse your bottles, you shouldn’t. They are not designed to withstand several uses and break down faster than bottles designed to be reusable. This can cause bacteria to grow in the little cracks that form in the plastic.
Grocery Bags
Recently, California became the first state to ban plastic bags. A lot of people gave them a big pat on the back, but others were a bit more critical. Some reusable bags have to be used a lot to break even with single-use plastic bags. Cotton is the least sustainable reusable choice, as it requires a lot of water and energy to produce. You have to use a cotton bag 131 times before it breaks even with a plastic bag and more than that if the plastic bag is reused a couple of times or used as a garbage bin liner. Other materials only require a few uses to break even, so they’re a much better alternative to disposable plastic bags. Overall, reusable bags are still better, but you should make sure that you reuse them enough to make it worth your while and you should only use cotton bags if you plan on keeping them for a few years. Personally, I have had most of my reusable bags for years and I use them a lot, but I also seem to acquire reusable grocery bags. They just appear out of thin air and sometimes I don’t know what to do with them. It’s definitely something to think about.
Christmas Trees
A couple of years ago, I learned to my dismay that real trees are almost always more sustainable than fake ones. First of all, trees absorb carbon, so tree farms are fairly neutral in terms of carbon emissions. Because trees grow in a good chunk of the Western Hemisphere, they’re also usually growing in similar conditions to their natural habitat. That means that they don’t require all that much energy to produce in the first place. Second of all, most trees come from close to home, so they don’t travel very far to get to your house. Finally, most fake trees are made of plastic, which has a pretty high carbon footprint. It can take over 20 years to make the environmental impact of a fake tree as low as that of using real trees for the same amount of time.
If the trees in your area have to be shipped in from somewhere far away, then a fake tree can be a better bet if you use it for many years in a row; otherwise, opt for a real tree. If you do have a perfectly good fake tree and want to switch to using real ones, find it a new home instead of tossing it.
Reusable cloth napkins may seem like a better choice than disposable ones, but the issue is actually kind of complicated. Cotton is not a “green” fabric and as many cloth napkins are made of the stuff, they can have quite the impact. Reusable napkins also tend to get dirty quite quickly, which means that you have to wash them a lot. Still, paper napkins also require a fair bit of resources to produce and transport and create a lot of waste. In restaurants, paper napkins are usually the better choice, because reusable napkins take too much wear and tear and usually end up damaged before they break even, and napkins must be washed after every single use. However, you can tip the scales in your own home to make reusable options more sustainable. Wash napkins in cold water, hang them to dry, and don’t wash them unless they’re actually dirty. You can make them even greener by choosing linen or polyester fabrics.
How Can You Make Reusables Even Greener?
As you can see above, reusable usually comes out the winner, although there are a few exceptions. Because reusable items get greener with each use, there are a few things you can do to help reduce your footprint.
Buy Second Hand
You can find most of these and other reusable products in thrift stores and garage sales. Cotton grocery bags and napkins are a lot “greener” when you stretch them out into a longer life cycle. If you really must get a fake Christmas tree because of your budget or because your apartment doesn’t allow real trees, look around for a used one. I got my first Christmas tree for free at a yard sale. I originally took it as a joke because the house I was renting had a weird window looking into the storage room (which used to be a carport) and I wanted to decorate it as a Christmas scene as a prank on my roommates, but I ended up using that tree for 3 years.
If you’re bored of a perfectly good reusable item, donate it or give it away instead of throwing it away! That way, you continue its life cycle.
Get Crafty
If you sew, use fabric remnants to make things like reusable placemats, napkins, coffee sleeves, and grocery bags. I’ve made some pretty nifty things over the years using fabric left over from clothing projects.
Repurpose old or broken things into other things. You can turn old tees into carrier bags, jeans into placemats and pot holders, dress shirts into napkins, and so on.
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Monday, June 26, 2017
Progressive Weakness
I have been thinking a great deal about the study I linked to last week, about how the timing of childbirth is dictated not by the size of the baby's head, but by the limits of the mother's metabolic ability to sustain the growth of the baby. In my 39th week of pregnancy, I feel this growing limitation keenly. My energy levels and ability to move around are decreasing. It is harder this week to climb stairs than it was last week, because my ligaments are looser and achier. Climbing up into the driver's seat of the van is also becoming a more painful, onerous process because I'm having difficulty moving my legs around. (Thank God I have no reason to mount a horse -- I couldn't do it.) Each day my stomach muscles carry more strain as the baby grows, and I wonder, "How much longer can I do this?"
Doubtless there are other fast-moving conditions out there. Perhaps someone with a growing tumor feels measurably weaker each day until surgery. Or maybe someone with a degenerative disease can notice each day the deterioration of the affected body parts. I can barely type any more right now because I'm falling asleep, also an increasingly daily phenomenon. Pregnancy is not a disease, we are always told, but it is progressively debilitating. I'm almost done, of course, and even if I go past my due date, the doctor will . But each day it gets objectively harder. He grows, and I slow. He must increase, and I must decrease.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Notes on Catholic Literature
After an uncomfortable weekend of false labor symptoms, the OB has cleared me to go to the Trying To Say God conference at Notre Dame, assuring me that I'm extremely unlikely to deliver my baby in an Indiana cornfield. So now that I actually believe we'll be going to a conference on the state of Catholic literature -- indeed, are driving up to ND today -- it seems a good time to chew over what exactly the hallmarks of a Catholic literature are. And since I had several hours yesterday sitting in the tire repair shop to meditate on the subject, here are a few starting points, not necessarily in any order.
• Moral Realism. As Catholics, we believe in an objective reality, an immutable truth, and we believe that Catholicism is the systematic revelation and response to that truth. And we believe that humans can act in accord with that truth and move closer to it, or can act in opposition to it and stand in contradiction and defiance of it. Even authors who are not Catholic can tap into this truth of the human person, and the truths embodied in Catholicism, writing literature that takes a clear-eyed moral stance, holding some actions morally correct because they participate in truth, and some actions wrong because they are evil, or try to worm around the essential truth of the human person. And of course, plenty of authors who call themselves Catholics or claim to be writing Catholic literature can write fuzzy moral literature, trying to justify or gloss over moral truths.
• Free Will. Our actions are not dictated solely by circumstances or nature or nurture. We have the ability to choose good or evil, and every moment is a fresh moment to participate in truth or reject it.
• Grace. We do not choose good entirely of our own volition. There is higher help to be had even at the weakest moments of human existence. Even characters who have consistently made evil choices are given the opportunity to accept this grace. Grace comes in many forms: small, sublime, gritty, painful, persistent, dry, consoling.
• Sin. Our fallen nature means that even the best human will choose to act badly, and most humans aren't the best humans. Humans struggle to choose the good, often failing spectacularly. Many actively embrace a self-centered worldview, either through ignorance or by deliberate choice. Virtue can become more or less a habit, but it isn't a perfect defense against our inclination to sin. And often sin seems more pleasant or easier or more fulfilling than virtue.
• The Physical World As Sign. Creation signifies a deeper reality. Humans, the pinnacle of creation, can also participate in God's creativity by becoming co-creators, either through our creative works or by direct physical participation in bringing forth new life. Our bodies have a moral significance, and our physical actions can embody love.
• Quality. The usual formulation is "good, true, and beautiful". What God creates must be good, and if our human creations are to reflect his goodness, truth, and beauty, they must have these qualities. (Interpretations of beauty vary -- it can be stark, lush, simple, amazingly complex, painful, or gracious.) But in a Catholic literature, quality matters. Technique matters. Skill matters. Honesty matters. Truth without skill is cloying and one-dimensional. Skill without truth is hollow and ultimately unfulfilling.
• Truth Is Deeper Than Identity. Only God creates. I am not the sole creator myself, nor can I entirely define myself. My "identity", self-proclaimed or assigned by others, is not the core of who I am. Freedom doesn't consist in assembling the right labels, but in finding how I can participate in the deeper objective reality of truth, and rejecting any label or behavior or identity that draws me away from that truth.
Note that none of these ideas depend on Church sponsorship or affirmation, or having a bigger Catholic publishing presence, or building new platforms for new media, etc., though those are often the focus of discussions about how to revive Catholic literature. And yet any attempt to "revive" Catholic literature through Catholic presence in the media has to grapple with the fact that professed Catholics themselves often distort the truths that Catholicism claims to represent. Is Catholic literary culture defined simply by having members of the Church getting published and reviewed? Do organizations devoted to Catholic writing necessarily produce literature that's worthy of being called literature? Do programs that teach writing technique at Catholic institutions focus more on workshoppy technique to the exclusion of actual small-c catholic qualities? I'm curious to see how these topics are addressed this weekend.
Friday, June 16, 2017
The Agony in the 37-Week Garden
I've had the happy experience this week of becoming a proud auntie not once, but twice over, to a fine niece in New Jersey, and a fine nephew in Cincinnati. With these blessed events, along with the arrival of my nephew Robert in February, it's left to me to bring up the rear of the Baby Boom of 2017. I'm glad that my sisters-in-law are delivered of their nine-month ordeals and now get to hold their squishy sweet babies, but now that they've given birth, I feel free now to write about my own impending labor without giving them undue worry in their last days of pregnancy.
I'm right at the 37-week full-term mark, but I expect to have three more weeks to prep for giving birth. I've been reading Susan Windley-Daoust's The Gift of Birth, a spiritual meditation on the Theology of the Body as reflected through labor and birth, and following her guided exercises. (You can read it for free online here.) I've been resting a lot lately, strangely comforted by this study that claims that the nine-month threshold for human pregnancy is dictated not by relative head-to-pelvis side, but by the metabolic limit of human ability:
Instead, gestation is determined by energy. Studies of mammals show that during pregnancy females reach their species’ “metabolic ceiling,” the upper limit of the amount of energy they can expend. In humans, the metabolic ceiling is 2 to 2.5 times the baseline amount of energy needed during rest. Dunsworth and her colleagues say women reach that limit by their sixth month of pregnancy. Then at nine months, the energy demands of a fetus go beyond this metabolic threshold. “Extending gestation even by a month would likely require metabolic investment beyond the mother’s capacity,” the team writes.
I've been around the pregnancy block a number of times by this point, so the milestones of late pregnancy aren't foreign to me. Some things are new and pleasant: never before have I had the flawless skin that supposed to be part of pregnancy, but it is some consolation for the aches and pains of the third trimester that when I look in the mirror, my face approaches poreless perfection. (My hair is marvelous, too.) They say that once a woman reaches a certain age, she must choose between a nice face and a nice ass, and right now I have a good basis for hoping that the rosy glow of my face distracts from the increasing girth of my lower half.
The front half of my lower half, along with the last occupant.
Also, my PUPPP has cleared itself mostly up. Just as the experts don't know what causes it, they don't know what makes it go away, but my itching has almost entirely ceased, and for that I'm most grateful.
Some new experiences aren't so pleasant.
The other night, I was leaning against Darwin with my arms around his neck, my stomach providing a rather large buffer between us, and despite whatever innocuous conversation we were having, a creeping anxiety began to tingle along the nerves in my fingers. After a moment I identified it: I had been in this position during a number of increasingly painful contractions during my last labor, and my muscle memory was responding in panic.
This isn't the only time this has happened lately. As we were sitting through the end credits of Wonder Woman, apropos of nothing my breath started coming faster and waves of anxiety washed over me. I felt flushed and panicky, out of proportion to what TS Eliot called the "objective correlative". Why? I had had a passing thought of going into labor, maybe a twinge or a cramp or some flashback, and although I could move and talk normally, it took fifteen minutes for the tension and the nervy tingles to subside.
I'm not afraid of dying while giving birth. I'm not afraid that I'll have to have a c-section for some reason, though I'd much prefer not to go under the knife. I'm not afraid of an adverse outcome. I rather expect things to be uncomplicated and straightforward as always, ending up with a snuggly little baby in my arms. I've had lots of practice relaxing and breathing during contractions. No, I am cravenly afraid of the excruciating pain. When I've tried to express this to friends, several people have said, "You've done this six times! What do you have to be worried about?" People, think. A man who has been on the rack six times is not eager to get back on a seventh time. I have a lot of experience with the standard progression of labor, and it almost always gets much worse before it gets better.
We give birth, or we die. There's no way through but out. I know all this. I'm no stranger to having a baby. Out of my six births, five have involved grinding, miserable contractions, culminating in the terrible moment of the baby tearing your body apart as you give birth. Perhaps this time will be better. Perhaps I'll try my first epidural. Perhaps lightning will strike again, and I'll have another painless labor. But my body is gearing itself up for the long ordeal, and each weird but painless Braxton-Hicks contraction or gas bubble or shift in internal pressure reminds it that the storm is coming.
I handle the panic attacks the same way I'll handle the contractions: breathing, counting, praying. Even Jesus sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemani, so I think I'm allowed to be increasingly anxious about my own lesser impending passion. There's a lot of toil to go before I get to say, "It is finished."
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Personality and Homeschooling
We all had a summer cold last week. While the kids took it easy and vegged out in front of The Great British Baking Show, I took the opportunity to do a little homeschool planning for next year. For some people, planning involves actually opening books, counting chapters, scheduling out work, etc. For me, it involves reading about philosophies and going down rabbit holes doing personality research.
Recently my second daughter took a Meyer-Briggs test and determined that she was an ESFJ. Reading up on the ESFJ type, many things fell into place for me. (Although of course a generalized personality profile isn't going to get everything right, there was enough that rang true on this site that I found it overall helpful.) Her personality is almost the opposite of mine. We approach many things from different angles, and often end up frustrated with each other. Understanding her strengths and weaknesses helps me to give her a better educational experience.
We went the round of personality tests with the older three girls (15, 13, and 11) and discovered different results.
Eleanor: INFP
Julia: ESFJ
Isabel: ESTJ
For reference: I am INTJ and Darwin is ENTJ.
For some personality fun that even the younger ones could get in on, the kids found a site that sorted them into their Hogwarts houses:
Eleanor: Ravenclaw
Julia: Hufflepuff
Isabel: Gryffindor
Jack: Slytherin
Diana: Ravenclaw
(I'm guessing that William is Gryffindor, based on his willingness to do just about anything, no matter how reckless. Maybe that's just being three, though.)
I'm putting myself in Ravenclaw because that's what I like.
All this knowledge is well and good, but how does one apply it to homeschooling? Simply Convivial has a page devoted to how personality type affects your homeschooling style, which was fascinating even for the kids to apply to themselves. But for me:
INTJ - the determined homeschool mom.
INTJs are the most rare type among women, but you will find them disproportionately represented in the homeschool world. That's because they have zero tolerance for stupidity, they have drive, and they prefer to be unconventional and do things their own way. An INTJ will always create a system that is consistent with her principles, but following-through on it quickly becomes tedious and draining. Likewise, she has a keen awareness of the underlying worldview or principles she encounters, but her sense of her physical surroundings suffers the more she exercises her attention to ideas.
Strengths: confidence, problem-solving, ability to turn theory into practice, fostering independence in her children
Difficulties: handling noise & hubbub, obsessing, showing affection, noticing emotional or physical cues
Style: nothing scripted, everything researched, decisions made based on their own priorities and principles; generally focused on reading & writing with few outside commitments or activities or also likely to be STEM-invested.
As with everything, it's not 100% applicable, but pretty close. For example, I don't have difficulty picking up on emotional or physical cues. I simply choose to overlook them if I don't want to reward certain histrionics with notice, or if they are out of proportion to the situation. But I do carefully note when outbursts or frustrations seem to coincide with being sick or hungry, or with monthly cycles, or whether some people just need a nap or quiet time. It's not hard for me to pick up on emotional cues, and it's not hard for me to ignore them either.
But four functions are not enough to understand personality. Let's kick it up to eight.
These four functions — intuition, sensing, thinking, feeling — are actually eight. Each of them can be introverted or extroverted, used for internal operations or external activity.
Here’s a handy chart to help summarize this information:
How you learn and what you notice (by cognitive function).
Each of the Myers-Briggs types has a primary function, a secondary function, a tertiary function, and an inferior function. Every primary/secondary pair has one introverted and one extroverted function, one perception and one decision function. The lower two will be sort of a mirror pair of the top two.
How you decide the right thing to do (by cognitive function).
This is key to understanding how to manage energy for your type.
If everything you do requires you to act outside of your primary function, you will be worn down quick as anything. It’s extra work to use anything other than your top one or two functions.
Again, applying this to my children, it seems to account in some key ways for their personalities, in ways that make me laugh out loud with recognition.
So for me, my functions are:
Primary: Ni -- introverted intuition. Perspective is key; wants deep insight.
Secondary: Te -- extroverted thinking. Effectiveness is the goal; wants to do what works.
Tertiary: Fi -- introverted feeling. Authenticity is the goal; wants to act with conviction.
Inferior: Se -- extroverted sensing. Sensation is thrilling; wants verifiable information.
Looking at the bottom two functions, the tertiary Fi explains why I've never been able to make Latin work in our homeschool. It seems so authentic! But just feeling like "real homeschoolers do Latin" is not enough to make it stick for me. And the inferior Se says everything about my avoidance of hands-on science experiments, and why last year's time-intensive lab-heavy science curriculum was dropped within weeks. And it speaks to why co-ops wear me out and make the rest of the day dead time.
On the other hand, the primary Ni fits perfectly with my readaloud culture and love for big ideas and the big picture. The secondary Te explains why we keep coming back to certain workbook math curriculum and phonics pages. They just work.
The next step to create a plan based on this information. I've been reading through some planning series at edsnapshots and flipping through the posts at Simply Convivial. Also, even if you're not battling serious illness or physical inconvenience, there's a lot of good advice and perspective to be gained from Brandy Vencel's series, The Low-Energy Mom's Guide to Homeschooling, which contains the post where I found the eight function personality chart above.
You'll notice that none of this is about specific curriculum choices. That comes later, to my mind, because if there's one lesson I learned over this past year, it's that you have to know who you are and how you function before you go throwing just anything onto the bookshelf.
Monday, June 12, 2017
1918 in History and Wonder Woman
Over the weekend MrsDarwin and I had a chance to catch the Wonder Woman movie, which the eldest three children had already watched and enjoyed on opening weekend. I enjoyed it a good deal as superhero movies go. It's not a genre that I'm deeply into, but I do enjoy light hearted action spectaculars, and super hero movies are where a lot of that acting, directing, and writing talent are directing their energies these days.
Within the range of superhero movies I thought this was better written, acted, and directed than most. Gal Gadot is not only visually striking brings an innocence and warmth to the Diana/Wonder Woman character which really carried the movie. While Diana learns during the course of the movie that saving humanity from self destruction is not as easy as she initially thought, her idealism becomes deeper rather than jaded as she gains a clearer view of what people outside of the isolated island of the Amazons are like. There's a key way in which I think the ending could have been more interesting in that regard, rather than sticking with the traditional battle-between-gods ending of a superhero movie (in this case, literally, since the world of Wonder Woman is one in which a modified Greek pantheon actually exists) but I'll address that in the spoiler section after the break. Overall, a good movie and I'd recommend it.
One of the interesting things about this Wonder Woman is the choice to set it in 1918. The comic book character originated in 1941 and her early adventures apparently involved fighting the Nazis as well as various criminals. The movie's creators explained the decision as follows:
When Heinberg and producer Zack Snyder were first breaking down the story structure for the film, WWI was appealing for a few reasons. “It’s the first time we had an automated war,” Heinberg says. “The machine gun was a new invention. Gas was used for the first time. New horrors were unleashed every day.”
“World War I is the first time that civilization as we know it was finding its roots, but it’s not something that we really know the history of,” [director Patty Jenkins] adds. “Even the way that it was unclear who was in the right of WWI is a really interesting parallel to this time. Then you take a god with a moral compass and a moral belief system, and you drop them into this world, there are questions about women’s rights, about a mechanized war where you don’t see who you are killing. It’s such a cool time.”
It's also obvious that it was visually interesting to the film makers, letting them use a steam-punk palette blending the Edwardian and the modern that contrasts strikingly with the fantasy-Hellenic ethic of the island of the Amazons. 1918 is a year short of a hundred years ago, and as such it's edging into the mythic past of popular memory. World War II, by contrast, is still "grandpa's war" to a lot of people, and as such still has a prosaic quality to its appearance. And the Great War famously stood on the threshold of modernity. When Diana visits a department store in London, she's shown clothing that wouldn't be much out of place in the stories of Sherlock Holmes. (Actually, one of the later Holmes stories, "His Last Bow", involves Holmes catching a German agent as the war is beginning in 1914.)
And yet we also see airplanes, tanks, poison gas, and a fairly fanciful version of one of the German heavy bombers which were used in the latter part of the war.
Yet I wish that the filmmakers had incorporated a bit more of the actual historical dynamics of 1918 into the movie. It would have fit well, and perhaps even helped round out a final scene which was one of the few somewhat weak writing choices in an otherwise well done movie.
First the history:
By the spring of 1918 the major powers had been at war for nearly four years. The mobile and incredibly bloody months of fighting in 1914 had brought both sides of an exhausted standstill and the troops had dug defensive position, the trenches which are the primary visual impression that we have of World War One. During 1915-1917, both sides took turns trying to break the stalemate through building up their industrial capacity to allow attacks using hitherto undreamed of quantities of munitions, new battlefield tactics, and new weapons such as poison gas and tanks. But each new development by one side was met by new counters by the other, and so rather than the hoped-for breakthrough both sides had been forced to content themselves with waging a campaign of human and material attrition, hoping the other side would run out of men, munitions, and food first.
In 1917 two potentially game-changing things happened. Imperial Russia fell to a series of revolutions, the last of which delivered the communist Bolsheviks to power. The communist leaders negotiated a separate peace with German, taking one of the key Entente powers out of the war and giving German vast swaths of Ukraine and Poland from which to draw food. However, the United States also joined the war, declaring war on German in April 1917. While peace on the Eastern Front meant that Germany could shift many of its troops from the East to the West (potentially giving them a large enough numerical advantage to stage a war-ending offensive) the entry of the US into the war promised that over the next 1-3 years millions more troops could be added to the Entente side, shifting the balance of power distinctly in their favor.
To try to end the war before the US became a major factor, Germany staged a massive offensive on the Western Front beginning in March 1918. These smashed through the French and British lines, advancing up to thirty miles and putting Paris under serious threat of occupation for the first time since 1914. However, the battered French and British troops still had enough fight left in them to inflict massive casualties on the attacking Germans, who also suffered huge difficulties keeping their troops supplied as they advanced over the broken landscape of the Western Front. The Germans suffered nearly a million causalities during the attacks, and ended them an exhausted force. With fresh (if inexperienced) American troops pouring in, the Entente began their own offensive in August 1918 and during the next three months retook all the German gains from the spring offensives, then drove them back another fifty miles, ejecting them from virtually all of France and from parts of Belgium.
At the end of September, General Ludendorff (the quartermaster general of the Imperial Army and the right hand man of supreme commander General Hindenburg, and recrafted into a villain in the Wonder Woman movie) declared that a collapse of the line might be only hours away and the army's general staff encouraged the civilian government to seek an armistice with the Entente. The civilian government proceeded to open negotiations, but these were made slow by the fact that Wilson wanted the Kaiser to abdicate and be replaced by a fully democratic government while the British and French wanted a peace that looked a lot more like a German surrender than the high minded phrases of Wilson's fourteen points had suggested. In this sense, the British and French were simply noting what the German high command had also seen: that the German army was increasingly a beaten force. They knew they could crush the German empire militarily fairly soon if there was no armistice, and though there was eagerness to end the war (and the horrifically high casualty rates which the resumption of mobile warfare had caused) sooner if possible, they wanted to make sure that the fangs of their enemy were fully pulled if they were to lay down arms.
Throughout October the allied armies continued to advance and the negotiations continued. At the last minute, objecting to what he saw as the harsh terms of the armistice, Ludendorff changed his mind in late October and insisted the German army should fight on. However, by this time it was clear that the German Empire was in a state of near collapse and revolution. On November 8th a delegation of German officials crossed the lines to negotiate the final terms, though they were in little position to push back against allied demands. On November 9th the Kaiser abdicated and a republic was declared. At 5:00AM on November 11th, they agreed to the armistice, which was to be effective as of 11:00AM that same day (deemed to be as soon as word could be got to all positions on both sides.)
The Wonder Woman movie is set in these final days of the war and involves an attempt by the movies villains to prolong the war just as it is coming to an end. However, aside from the fact that an armistice is being discussed an a character named General Ludendorff is trying to prolong the war and achieve a German victory, the setting is more of a generic WW1 than the particular moment of fall 1918. When Wonder Woman encounters the trenches of the front line, her guide tells her that despite heavy fighting these lines have moved only inches in the last year of fighting. The negotiations for an armistice are ongoing, but in the movie world it seems to be a general agreement of both sides to stop fighting, rather than an allied victory. I think there are some interesting choices the writers could have made to incorporate more history and at the same moment strengthen a weakness of the ending.
Spoilers to follow:
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Death Comes for the Guinea Pig
Last Saturday evening we were running all over the house, straightening up for a Pentecost potluck. People were yelling at each other, tripping over each other, bossing and objecting and protesting. Added to that was the mechanical noise -- the dryer, the dishwasher, the vacuum I was pushing around the dining room, sucking up dinner debris and the hay around Piggy's cage. Piggy, whose given name (not given by us) is Big Electric Piggy, has been a resident of the dining room for the four years since her cage was put there temporarily while her owners across the street staged their house to sell. They moved, she didn't, and ever since we've been the bemused caregivers of a guinea pig.
Piggy is a harmless creature and doesn't do anything novel, so I thought it odd that she was laying on her side kicking her back feet in a way I'd never seen before. A second later, I realized that she was convulsing. I called for Darwin, and he and everyone came running, and the evening abruptly shifted gears.
While Darwin snuggled Piggy in a towel, the oldest googled for information about guinea pigs and convulsions, discovering in the process that the life expectancy for piggies is 4-8 years. Piggy was at least 10 years old, though nobody knew for sure, so the prognosis didn't look good. Everyone took turns patting her head and telling her she was a good piggy, and after about ten minutes she grew very still and her eyes became glazed and opaque.
A shoebox was found, and a grave was dug, and Piggy was interred with all due ceremonies. The mourning continued on, with younger children wailing for the lost pig, and stuffed animals needing to be located and tucked in with everybody for comfort -- Piggy more essential in death than she ever was in life. In the morning, grief was assuaged, and we went on as usual, but without the little presence in the corner of the dining room to give an amiable squeak every now and then.
The kids are already asking for another guinea pig, but I'm not willing to add another animal into the house before the baby is born. But I do think we'll get another piggy soon. She was a good and gentle creature, and probably more missed now by the parents than the children. I told the kids, the night she died, that she was probably nibbling grass now in the Garden of Eden, and why not? Piggy was the least offensive creature that ever lived, and the primal paradise seems about the right place for animal souls. I hope she's adding her small squeak to the celestial harmony.
Tuesday, June 06, 2017
D-Day: Planning, Chaos and the Human Decision Maker
I was reading this old Atlantic piece by WW2 army combat historian S. L. A. Marshall, in which he recounts the fates of several of the hardest hit companies that landed on Omaha Beach 73 years ago today.
D-Day is a fascinating intersection of complex, detailed planning and completely unpredictable, seemingly chaos-driven, human choices and experiences. Massive amounts of planning, logistics, and training went into getting the American, British, and Canadian troops to the Normandy beaches, delivering them in effective landing craft and providing them with the necessary equipment. The attack plans, the naval bombardment, the areal bombardment, the parachute drops-- all were meticulously planned.
And yet the story of many of the units which went ashore is one of chaos: Boats foundering, boats landing in the wrong place, men drowning or wounded in the water.
The breakthroughs off the beach are seemingly a combination of unbelievable courage and complete chance. Many brave men full of initiative were killed without any chance to lead up and off the beach. Others escaped horrendous fire by seemingly random chance and led the way inland.
Those who trained the men in the first waves might have had a good idea which men had the most leadership and courage, but they had no way of knowing which would have the opportunity to use those skills.
Does this mean the work of the planners and trainers was all for naught? Was the operation really simply a matter of chaos and chance? Was it the sort of battle in which the work of the staff and logistics officers were useless while the day was won by the bravery of individual grunts, NCOs, and junior officers?
The answer is that all elements were essential to the success: the grunts, the planners, the supply lines, and a dose of luck.
The planners could not have known which men would have the chance to make it through the storm of fire on the beaches, but they were responsible for getting enough men there, on time and with the right equipment, so that whoever did have the opportunity to lead men off the beach would be able to do so. The plans for a huge operation such as this can seem mechanistic: put all the pieces in place and expect them to move through the planned motions like pieces on a game board. However, these are thinking pieces, responding to the situations they face with fear, bravery, leadership, or paralysis. At each individual point, the success or failure of the attack was the result of the very individual actions and reactions of the Allied attackers and German defenders. And yet it took incredible planning to put all those men there, with the confidence that in the chaos of the day enough of them would win through.
Itch Report
To all who made recommendations for treating poison ivy, my grateful thanks. I'm sorry to report that the Zanfel didn't do anything for my case except to pop the innumerable sensitive blisters on my forearm. On the other hand, my 11yo, who used it on her face, cleared up very quickly.
The poison ivy on my arms lingered on for another month. Finally I went to the urgent care and was given a prescription for a steroid cream, Benedryl, and Pepcid. (Something about Pepcid is supposed to disrupt the poison ivy? I didn't find that it worked all that well.) Everyone knows that oral steroids are the fastest way to clear up poison ivy, but they're also a class D drug in pregnancy, and certainly counterindicated for someone as far along as I am. Like I need baby getting any bigger!
The cream didn't work much better than a placebo, to be honest, and the patches on my arm looked like I'd been badly burned. I eventually switched from the steroid cream to a scar cream to try to mitigate the permanent damage. Now, seven weeks later, I'm finally healing up. My blotches are still visible, but much milder and smaller than they were. Much as having a body wears me out, it's remarkable to watch it healing itself from the edges in. The texture of the skin is creeping back to normal, even if it's still sensitive and itchy when brushed.
All well and good, but then, as the poison ivy was first showing signs of healing, I broke out in itchy spots elsewhere: stomach, upper arms, the backs of my thighs. This itch, friends, was misery. I still have a scab on my shin where I scratched the skin off in a frenzy. I laid awake at night, rotating through the inventory of scratching, wondering what on earth was going on. It wasn't poison ivy anymore. This was something new, and unfair, I thought, considering that I'd just been through one iteration of itch.
One day my daughter wanted to see what the baby looked like, so I pulled up a pregnancy website and read about 34 weeks. After we cooed over the baby image, I read down the rest of the page and came to:
If you notice itchy red bumps or welts on your belly, and possibly your thighs and buttocks as well, you may have a condition called pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP for short).
Up to 1 percent of pregnant women develop PUPPP, which is harmless but can be quite uncomfortable. See your healthcare provider so she can make sure it's not a more serious problem, provide treatment to make you more comfortable, and refer you to a dermatologist if necessary. Also be sure to call her if you feel intense itchiness all over your body, even if you don't have a rash. It could signal a liver problem.
I consulted Dr. Wikipedia and did a little self-diagnosing.
Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP), known in United Kingdom as polymorphic eruption of pregnancy (PEP),[1] is a chronic hives-like rash that strikes some women during pregnancy. Although extremely annoying for its sufferers (because of the itch), it presents no long-term risk for either the mother or unborn child. PUPPP frequently begins on the abdomen and spreads to the legs, feet, arms, chest, and neck.[2]
Papules and plaques usually start appearing on the abdomen (although not on the umbilicus/bellybutton) and often spreads to the legs, chest, underarms, etc. The face is usually also spared and does not seem to become affected.
Skin distension (stretching) is a common factor in PUPPP, which is more common in mothers with large fundal measurements and/or those who are carrying large babies, twins, and triplets. The papules and plaques often first appear within stretch marks.
Certain studies reveal that this condition is more frequent in women carrying boys, although no formal research has been conducted. Statistics cite that 70% of PUPPP sufferers deliver boys. Some researchers think it has to do with male DNA interacting with the mother's body causing irritation.
PUPPP's occurs in about 1 in every 200 pregnancies and is not always easy to diagnose.
My children are delighted to think that I may be carrying twins or triplets (dream on, kids).
When I next went to my OB, I mentioned it, and had my self-diagnosis confirmed, every internet researcher's dream. My many friends who sell essential oils will be glad to know that the OB said that the only thing he'd ever heard of that helped the PUPPP itch was lavender oil (properly diluted), and that I've already acquired some lavender oil, but thanks anyway. And it does seem to work! I slather myself up each evening, and my itchiness is generally appeased.
I'm beginning to think, though, that we should just name baby Spot.
Saturday, June 03, 2017
Reading, Translating, and Decoding
As we wrap up a year of family German classes (fulfilling foreign language requirements for the old kids and providing a chance to for me to check off something that I've been wanting to learn in order to help with research, etc.) I find myself taking stock of my abilities in the language. What I want, even more than the ability to converse fluently (which I have little opportunity for) is the ability to read in German relatively well. Right now I'm at something of a halfway stage. I know enough of the grammar and the most common words that I can translate a passage, with ample help from a dictionary to look up words I don't know. (Honestly, I'm usually just typing unfamiliar words into my phone or computer, because it's faster than turning pages to learn meanings.)
However, as I was working through a couple pages of German this way the other night, it was striking me that aside from my vocabulary issues there's still something fundamentally different about what I'm doing in comparison to how an actual German reader would deal with a text. What I'm doing right now might be better termed decoding, because in some ways I'm still turning things into a more standard English structure as I figure them out.
For instance, the use of a past continuous is very common in German, and a standard sentence order in that case is: [Phrase denoting time or place] [helping verb: a form of sein (to be) or haben (to have)] [subject] [object] [past participle].
Laying something like that out in English might go like this:
Early in the morning had we on the train to Berlin to ride.
Of course, in English we'd keep the verb together, and a natural order would be something like:
We had to ride on the train to Berlin early in the morning.
Now, these are easy enough words that I'd make it through fine on my own and wouldn't even be consulting the dictionary, but throw in a bunch of vocabulary and I find myself going back to my old schoolboy Latin habits. Latin, of course, also has the habit of saving the verb for last. We all get the explanation during the early weeks of our first Latin class that this creates a sense of anticipation as you want to find out what is being done by the subject to the object in the sentence. However, I virtually always did what a lot of beginning decoders of a foreign language do: I would identify my subject, then jump to the end of the sentence and wee what my verb was, then go back and pick up the rest of the sentence. In essence, I was transforming the sentence into English sentence order as I went along.
This is fine for getting the sense of what's written, but it strikes me that if you stick with this, you never really move into thinking in the other language the way a speaker or reader of it would. Germans, I would assume, are not constantly jumping to the end of the sentence to see what the participle is. They see "hatte" (I had) or "war" (I was) and then they just hang on until they reach the end of the sentence and find out what I was or I had been doing.
Perhaps speed and vocabulary is a good part of what helps here. When I'm reading in English, even a weird sentence order doesn't leave me hanging so long that I get confused or frustrated and go searching for my verb. I'm moving fast enough that I take in all the parts and assemble them into a sensible whole.
So continuing to improve my vocabulary is probably part of what it will take to move from this decoding or translating approach to actual reading, but the other part is to develop some greater flexibility of mind such that I don't find it hard to simply process the sentence in the order that it comes, rather than mentally rearranging it to its "correct" order.
Jen Fitz has a great response post on developing natural reading ability in a foreign language.
Bearing also has a great response post about techniques for addressing alien grammar.
Boy, all this engagement is also like the old days of blogging. I should write about language learning more often!
Friday, June 02, 2017
One Impossible Thing, Before Breakfast
8:30 am, Friday. Summer.
One child in the bedroom, on the laptop, with earphones on, after bellowing, "Get out!" at siblings.
One child in the shower, bellowing "Part of Your World".
One child sitting on the floor, sifting through the container of the guinea pig's "cereal".
Two children on Netflix, watching Weird Wonders of the World.
And one child standing at my shoulder as I try to write out a grocery list.
"Mom? Is it true that the man pees into the woman, and that's what makes a baby?"
"Wha...? No, he doesn't pee."
"Then what does he do?"
"It's a different fluid, called sperm. The sperm is the seed that fertilizes the woman's egg."
"So he pees sperm into her belly button?"
"No, not the belly button... And he doesn't pee."
"So, the man basically doesn't do anything?"
I struggle to keep down a shout of laughter, but my face is fighting me, just as it did the other day the second after I demanded, "Why did you call your sister 'buttface'?"
The child knows something is up. "What's so funny?"
"Nothing. The man has to put his private parts into the woman to get the sperm in her."
"In her bottom?"
"No, where she pees. The baby has to go in the same way it comes out."
"Yes, isn't it? And that's why only married people who love and trust each other should do anything to make a baby. Now let me make my list if you want to go to the picnic today."
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43289 | Campy, by any other name….
Extremes. I suppose it’s all a matter of perspective, as well as where you are on the cultural timeline. What used to be viewed at insipid and grotesque can now be seen as tongue-in-cheek acceptable. Only currently, it’s called “campy”. From my professional orientation, “campy” indicated an intestinal bacteria that caused, well, things generally not printable except in medical contexts. I see we also have an alternate definition:
Camp (n.) and Campy (adj.): Being so extreme that it has an amusing and sometimes perversely sophisticated appeal. Over the top and farcical, intentionally exaggerated so as not to be taken seriously. Found primarily in television, theatre and motion pictures, camp endeavors for satire and, for those who fully understand and appreciate the risible nature of its material, it’s not surprising when it develops a cult following.
by Lisa Pease January 01, 2015 from “The Urban Dictionary”
The Urban Dictionary is a new one to me. The Collegiate or the Oxford, or even the tome of Funk and Wagnalls, these I’m familiar with, but the Urban?
Anyway, here’s a smattering of movies that have been showing on a particular cable TV channel as of this writing, that probably illustrate the above definition:
• Sharknado (1, 2, and 3…with a promise that #4 is in the making, oh joy)
• Sharktopus versus Whalewolf
• Lavalantula
• Mega-shark versus Crocosaurus
• and my favorite title thus far: Big Ass Spider (not kidding…)
Here’s the thought: what was once considered extreme can become the norm very quickly, especially when we give it a more acceptable moniker. Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop wrote of this concept in his brilliant essay called “The Slide to Auschwitz”, in that our collective conscience becomes slippery as we gradually give way, even in our figures of speech. Gross becomes “campy”, unacceptable becomes “novel”, false reasoning becomes “tolerance”, and sin becomes “relative”.
Our culture is certainly not the first to redefine things, albeit our technological access has thrown considerable oil on our already combustable moral fire. Here’s what the Old Testament prophet Isaiah said back in his day (and they weren’t the most popular people in society, either):
“What sorrow for those who say
that evil is good and good is evil,
that dark is light and light is dark,
that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.”
credit: dvdloc8 google images, and yes, we OWN this!
A campy cult following? It’s all around us.
And my parents thought long-haired musicians from Liverpool were extreme….
Author: dawnlizjones
4 thoughts on “Campy, by any other name….”
1. You quoted C. Everett Koop! You are a kindred spirit😊. BTW I also recently discovered The Urban Dictionary—I resort to it when there isn’t a teen around to consult. I’m going to use campy in conversation as much as possible today and enjoy the baffled looks I get.
Great to connect here at WP.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43303 | Design Thinking: A Way of Working
You hear the term “design thinking” all the time, but what does it mean to you? In my opinion, it involves considering the relationship between design, collaboration, education, writing, politics, culture, and context. But where do we begin to unravel some of these ideas?
First, let’s start with the Design & Thinking Documentary:
Collaboration is an important component of modern design. I have found this short, and powerful, explanation of what it means to collaborate as a wonderful introduction to its power. It is a beautifully poetic example of what we are trying to do as we work together with other designers locally and globally.
“How many sides do you see?”
“One,” I said.
“Now how many do you see?”
“Now I see three sides.”
Good Design
It’s important to remember that ‘design thinking’ is ‘good’ design.
Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design makes a product understandable.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is long-lasting.
Good design is thorough down to the last detail.
Good design is environmentally friendly.
Good design is as little design as possible.
Brush up on Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles of Good Design with this video from Design Silesia
Politics & Design
What can politics learn from design? Jocelyn Bailey discusses some of the traits, behaviors and attitudes often exhibited by designers, and the inspiration they provide for those fed up with dysfunctional politics. She notes that designers “change existing situations into better situations” and that politicians can learn from designers by approaching a problem without bias, thinking of people in the context of the problem, and finding new knowledge about the situation through experimentation.
Her cross-policy manifesto states that policy-makers should:
– Don’t rely too heavily on history
– Tone down the party politics
– Find ways of generating new knowledge (and experiment)
– Care about the artifacts (material objects carry social connotations and the material quality of things matters)
– Be more optimistic
Writing & Design
Great advice from English Author Neil Gaiman. If you write, this is for you. If you design, replace “write” with “design” and it’s for you, too. If you create, replace “write” with “create”… and so on.
1. Write
7. Laugh at your own jokes.
Education Paradigms
This RSA Animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award. Although it is not about design thinking per se, I believe his ideas about shifting our ways of learning and making are completely meaningful for designers. |
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Python Dev Environment Part 1: setup.py, venv, and pip
bowmanjd profile image Jonathan Bowman Updated on ・3 min read
While Poetry and similar tools are being utilized more and more, I sometimes find that my Python development needs are satisfied by built-in Python features.
The tools venv and pip, and pip's cousin dependency setuptools, are usually included in your Python distribution. Add a robust and well-documented Python test framework like pytest, as introduced in Part 2, and you are golden.
In this first article, we will set up a simple directory structure, write a Python module, configure the distribution package using setup.py, and install our new package in a virtual environment.
Create a new directory
Create a new directory for the project. We'll call the directory pygreet. Now cd into that directory in your favorite terminal so that it is your current working directory.
Create package directory
While a variety of ways to structure your distribution package exist, I like the approach of placing Python code in a src directory.
So, let's create the src directory. Now your directory structure should look something like this:
└── src
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Write the code
Now let's edit greet.py:
"""Functions useful for sending greetings."""
def greet(greeting="Hello", recipient="World"):
"""Greet someone."""
return f"{greeting}, {recipient}"
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Friendly. Flexible.
(This is a simple module. Want to make a more complex package with submodules, or still deciding which to do? You might enjoy reading my article on Python modules and packages.)
Define the distribution package in setup.py
Now we create the setup.py file to define the distribution package. Here is a basic one that should serve the needs of the moment:
"""Package configuration."""
from setuptools import find_packages, setup
package_dir={"": "src"},
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Explicitly specifying the src directory is necessary, since we have our code in that location.
See the Python Packaging Guide for more details about setup.py and packaging in general.
Create and activate a Python virtual environment
Within the pygreet directory (or any other directory) use the following to set up a new virtual environment with the Python you specify and its own dependencies, etc.
python -m venv venv
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To parse that out a bit more: use the Python executable you want to use in the virtual environment. That might be called python, as above, or it might be python3 or python3.8 or python3.9; you get the idea. Then tell it to execute the venv module, followed by the name of the directory in which you want the virtual environment to reside. As seen above, I usually use the name venv.
List the contents of your directory (using ls or dir) and you should see the new directory (likely named venv).
Now activate the virtual environment with
source ./venv/bin/activate
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or, on Windows:
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If not using Bash or Powershell, you might look in the ./venv/bin or .\venv\Scripts directory to see other options for CMD, fish, or csh.
Install the new distribution package in the virtual environment
We can use pip to install the package. When a package is still under active development, I like to install with pip using "editable mode". That way, I can make changes to the package and continue testing and development without needing to reinstall.
pip install -e .
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Of course, if pygreet is not your current working directory (and you don't want it to be), then adjust the path. For instance, if you put pygreet in your my_dev directory in your home directory, then something like this may work for you: pip install -e ~/my_dev/pygreet/
Now, try it out:
>>> import greet
>>> greet.greet()
'Hello, World'
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If the above works, then you have built and installed a Python distribution package!
See Part 2 for adding tests with pytest.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43323 | Blender Documentation Contents
Welcome, this document is an API reference for Blender 2.64.0 r51018, built 2012-10-03.
A compressed ZIP file of this site is available
API Info
The Blender Python API has areas which are still in development.
The following areas are subject to change.
• operator behavior, names and arguments
• mesh creation and editing functions
• render engine integration
• modules: bgl, mathutils & game engine.
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A tenant admin uses the Manage Users page to add new users, delete users, edit the properties of existing users and download/upload a csv file containing user data. Click the Manage Users link to display the Live Forms user list. To the right of each user name are icons described below.
On this page:
Add New User
Create new tenant users on the Manage Users page.
1. Complete the new user form.
2. User names can contain characters, numbers, dot (.), hyphen (-) and the underscore (_). User names can only be started with a character, number or underscore (_) as the first first character. Max length is 50 characters.
3. Change Password on Next Login is checked by default. Live Forms recommends keeping this checked for best security practices. Users will be prompted to enter a new password that meets strength requirements on their first login.
7. Submit the form
Add Tenant Admin
1. Create a new tenant admin
2. Edit the original tenant admin and add the role frevvo.ReadOnly
Edit Admin Users
CSV Upload of Users and Roles
Live Forms customers that have a large number of users with assigned roles, may need to import these (userids/roles) into Live Forms. Live Forms provides the ability to perform a bulk import of user data.
Download Users and Roles
• Make sure you are logged in as the tenant admin. Click the Manage Users link.
• Click thedownload users csv file icon.
• This downloads a complete comma separated file that includes the list of the users and their assigned roles in the current tenant. Roles that exist in the tenant but are not assigned to any users will not be included in the file.The fields are comma separated. The following is an example:
Field/Column NameDescription
userIdThe unique user id used for login. Required
firstNameUser's first name.
lastNameUser's last name.
emailUser's email address. Required
enabledSet to 'true' to enable the user
• Although csv files can be opened in other programs, they are best viewed through some kind of spreadsheet program. Here is the file when it is opened with Excel:
Upload Users csv file
Downloading the user csv file will provide you with the format needed to import users and their associated roles into Live Forms. Once you have your csv file ready, follow these steps to upload it:
• Click the upload csv users icon.
• Browse to your users csv file and then click Validate. User data is validated prior to successful import. You will see "Validating..." until the validation process is completed. It is useful to report the status especially if you are loading a large csv file. Once validation has succeeded without error, the Load button is enabled to allow the upload. When you click on the Load button, you will see "Loading...".
• Click the Load button, the system uploads the same data again from the file. Another validation is performed and if still no error, the users are loaded individually or deleted if specified in the transaction column of the file. Roles are also inserted as necessary.
Updating Users and Roles using a CSV file
• Create a csv file with the changes - change the last name of a user and add a new line for a new user (mary) with the role of Coordinator.
• When you upload the modified file, you will see this message: "Users Loaded successfully. 1 Added, 1 Updated, 0 Deleted, 1 Roles Added". The existing user will be updated with the new last name, the role of Coordinator will be created and new user Pat will be added with that role.
• notifyNewUser for mary is set to TRUE, so Mary will receive an email to create her password.
• Customers who have automated csv uploads via the API (set up on versions earlier than v9.0) should be aware that passwords are no longer supported in csv upload and will be ignored.
Current Tenant Validation Error
Spaces in Role Names
View User List
• Click at the top of the user list to add a new user.
• Click at the top of the user list to add a new tenant admin user.
• Click to display that user's home page.
• Click to edit that user's management functions.
• Click to upload a signature image file that will be applied to all forms/workflows this user signs in place of his or her first and last name. Refer to Signature Images and Electronic Signatures for more information.
• Click to log into Live Forms as that user.
• Click to edit a user's profile including password, e-mail address, max upload attachment size, disable the user.
• Click to remove a user from the server.
You should not assign any roles (such as Manager, Supervisor, etc.) to a tenant admin user, as this can adversely affect the execution of tasks and activities in workflows. A tenant admin with roles may be accidentally assigned a task actually intended for other non-admin users who have the same role, and the tenant admin could perform the task and thereby disrupt or compromise the workflow or its data.
Adding Superusers
Signature Images
The tenant admin can add/manage signature images for Live Forms users that is applied to all forms/workflows this user signs in place of his or her first and last name.
To upload a signature image for a user:
Edit Users
• The default maximum size for attachments in the frevvo Cloud is 20 MB or 20971520 bytes. In-house customers can use the frevvo.attachment.maxsize property to configure the maximum size for attachments.
Maximum Size for Attachments
There are three places to set the maximum size of attachments in Live Forms.
Reset Passwords
Login to the tenant admin's account.
1. Click Manage Users.
3. Click the icon to edit a user's profile.
4. Set the password and re-enter password fields.
6. Submit the form.
Disable Users
Manage Personal Information
The Task List does not automatically refresh. Users who rely on their Task List instead of Task Notification should manually refresh the list regularly.
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HTTP Response Codes and Errors
DevGuide2.png Purpose: Describes the HTTP responses that your application can receive from UCS.
The Universal Contact Server returns HTTP status codes and messages for every operation, in the requested format. Status codes match standard HTTP codes, but messages can differ and provide additional details included in the header of the response. Important.png Additional result and error codes may be returned due to external web servers and layers involved in your operations.
Read Log Lines
Log lines are compliant with the following syntax:
14:33:39.485[1] Trc[2] 29998 [let-3851106] 2010-04-02[3] 14:33:39[3][4]
8080[5] GET[6] /cv/server/status[7] - 200[8] - 0 2[9]
http://localhost:8080[10] Apache-HttpClient/4.0-beta2 (java 1.5)[11] -
• [1] = timestamp
• [2] = loglevel
• [3] = date and time when the request was received
• [4] = ip address
• [5] = server port
• [6] = http method
• [7] = requested url
• [8] = http response code
• [9] = execution time in ms
• [10] = called host/port
• [11] = user agent making the call
Successful Result
A successful response to a request is marked by HTTP Status Code 200 (OK). In that case, your application may get additional information in the header and the body of the response. Refer to the Response section of your operation's page to get the detailed list of returned information. Questions about the returned content can be submitted as comments in this wiki. The following table lists the standard HTTP codes used by Context Services for a successful response.
Successful results
Code Title Description
200 OK Success!
204 No Content The operation was successful and returned with no content.
For responses with HTTP status code 4xx or 5xx, the response body contains an application-specific description of the error instead of a representation of the requested resource. Context Services errors consist of an application-specific error code and description, and are formatted in JSON as follows:
error = {
"http_method" : "POST",
"title" : "bad parameter",
"description" : "bad parameter 'server mode' reason : server mode has not a correct value 'something'",
"code" : 4020,
"uri" : "http://localhost:8080/server/mode"
The following table lists the specific errors that operations can encounter. This list is not restrictive; additional error codes could be returned due to external web servers and layers involved:
Code Title Description
303 See Other General error which can occur if your application refers to a URI which moved, due to API changes.
• Missing required parameter.
• Parameter value of unexpected type.
• Invalid object syntax<ref name="javascript">If you used JavaScript objects in your operation's input.</ref>.
• Missing required attribute<ref name="javascript"/>.
403<ref name="r400">Not available for now.</ref> Forbidden The operation is forbidden and the reason is specified in the error message. This error is returned in the following cases:
• Attempt to query customer profile or service information when the server is in Maintenance Mode.
• Attempt to alter the schema while the server is in Production Mode.
• Attempt to change the server mode times out, due to maintenance operations or schema modifications to complete.
415 Unsupported Media Type
In the header of your request, Content-Type is not set to a valid value. Most operations of Context Services support only "application/json". Check the operation description in the API.
500 Internal Server Error An unexpected error occurred in UCS (for instance, a runtime exception). The error message suggests to forward logs to Genesys Customer Support.
502<ref>Context Services is not responsible for this message. This error may occur due to external proxies or cache involved in your operation.</ref> Bad Gateway Returned when one or more of the backend systems required to fulfill the response (the CV database or UCS, for example) are either unavailable or returned an error.
503 Service Unavailable UCS is unable to process the given request. Example situations include:
• Requests on a whole, or for a specific client/tenant/role, are being throttled.
• The server is switching from production to maintenance mode, or vice versa, and does not accept requests for the moment.
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This document is an attempt to explain concepts you’ll face when deploying and managing applications using tsuru. To request additional explanations you can open an issue on our issue tracker, talk to us at #tsuru @ or open a thread on our mailing list.
How do environment variables work?
All configurations in tsuru are handled by the use of environment variables. If you need to connect with a third party service, e.g. twitter’s API, you are probably going to need some extra configurations, like client_id. In tsuru, you can export those as environment variables, visible only by your application’s processes.
When you bind your application into a service, most likely you’ll need to communicate with that service in some way. Services can export environment variables by telling tsuru what they need, so whenever you bind your application with a service, its API can return environment variables for tsuru to export on your application’s units.
How does the quota system work?
Quotas are handled per application and user. Every user has a quota number for applications. For example, users may have a default quota of 2 applications, so whenever a user tries to create more than two applications, he/she will receive a quota exceeded error. There are also per applications quota. This one limits the maximum number of units that an application may have.
How does routing work?
tsuru has a router interface, which makes it extremely easy to change the way routing works with any provisioner. There are two ready-to-go routers: one using planb and another with galeb.
as of 0.10.0 version tsuru supports more than one router. You can have a default router, configured by “docker:router” and you can define a custom router by plan
How are Git repositories managed?
tsuru uses Gandalf to manage git repositories. Every time you create an application, tsuru will ask Gandalf to create a related git bare repository for you to push in.
This is the remote tsuru gives you when you create a new app. Everytime you perform a git push, Gandalf intercepts it, check if you have the required authorization to write into the application’s repository, and then lets the push proceeds or returns an error message. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43341 | Serum of Blistering Heat
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The Serum of Blistering Heat is a powerup in DUSK. It can first be found in E2M5: The Escher Labs and appears in several levels throughout The Facilities and The Nameless City.
Overview[edit | edit source]
The Serum of Blistering Heat resembles a syringe filled with a sparkling red liquid. When picked up, time will only move when the player moves. This effect applies to the level itself, all weapons, projectiles, enemies, sound effects, music, and props. The Serum's timer is also affected, and will only go down when the player is moving. While not moving, all sound effects and music will be pitched down. The Serum is useful for dodging multiple enemy projectiles at once or increasing the player's reaction time against enemies. However, weapons that have a slow fire rate such as the Hunting Rifle are less viable when using this powerup.
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• The Serum of Blistering Heat's name and ability are both a reference to the game Superhot, where time only moves when the player moves. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43378 | EMSOW User Manual
Configuring connection between diagnostic equipment and computer
If you want to transfer images to EMSOW via an Ethernet cable, please use the following settings on your diagnostic equipment:
Local IP address:, static
Subnet mask:
DICOM Server/Service:
IP address:
Port: 39999
Compression: jpeg
Compression level: medium or high
Note: The network is used as the recommended example for a direct Ethernet connection between your computer and diagnostic equipment. Other local IP ranges are supported as well; however, you should make sure to avoid address conflicts.
On your computer, change the IP address of the Ethernet interface to by doing the following steps:
1. Press Win+R on your keyboard, enter ncpa.cpl and press Enter. The “Network Connections” control panel will open.
2. Right-click your Ethernet adapter, select Properties.
3. Select Internet Protocol Version 4, click Properties, and enter the following settings:
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