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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/22814 | Legal en It is time to end the DMCA anti-circumvention exemptions process and put a stop to DRM <!--paging_filter--><p><img src="" border="0" align="left" width="160" hspace="20" vspace="20" style="padding: 17px 17px 17px 17px; box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #222;" /></p> <p class="dropcap-first">Although it is accurate, there's one aspect of the process that is missing from that description: the length. While the process kicks off every three years, the work that goes into fighting exemptions, whether previously granted or newly requested, has a much shorter interval. As you can see from the timeline of events from the 2018 round of the exemptions process, the process stretches on for months and months. For each exemption we have to prepare research, documents, and our comments through wave after wave of submission periods. For the 2018 exemptions round, the first announcements from the United States Copyright Office were in July of 2017, on a process that concluded in October of 2018. Fifteen months, every three years. If you do the math, that means we're fighting about 40% of the time just to ensure that exemptions we already won continue, and that new exemptions will be granted. If the timeline from the last round holds up, then we're only a few short months away from starting this whole circus back up again.</p> <p>Describing it as a circus seems an appropriate label for the purpose of this whole process. It's not meant to be an effective mechanism for protecting the rights of users: it's a method for eating up the time and resources of those who are fighting for justice. If we don't step up, users could lose the ability to control their own computing and software. It's like pushing a rock up a mile-long hill only to have it pushed back down again when we've barely had a chance to catch our breath.</p> <p><a href=""><img src="/files/read-on-white.png" alt="Read more" title="Read the rest of this article" /></a></p> GNU Legal Thu, 23 Jan 2020 04:54:51 +0000 Roy Schestowitz 133222 at Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt Against Copyleft <!--paging_filter--><ul> <li> <h5><a href="">Why Open Source Licenses With A Commons Clause May Become Less Common</a></h5> <blockquote><p>The Commons Clause also is ambiguous in its prohibition against selling "hosting or consulting/support services related to the Software" for any product or service whose value derives entirely or substantially from the software's functionality. A plain reading of this provision suggests that a cloud service provider cannot host the licensed software for free and charge a fee for customer support or consulting relating to the software's functionality (e.g., how to use the software). The Commons Clause documentation refers to a discussion board suggesting that consulting may be permitted, but the language of the clause and the contents of that online discussion appear to suggest otherwise.</p> </blockquote> </li> <li> <h5><a href="">Manage Your OSS Security Using a Free Scanning Tool</a> [Ed: "Enterprise License Optimization Blog" is Flexera marketing rubbish; it likes to talk all about "Open Source" (FUD), but its own stuff is 100% proprietary]</h5> </li> <li> <h5><a href="">Sonatype: improving software with open source technology</a></h5> </li> <li> <h5><a href="">Open source licence series - R3: The world needs audit licenses</a> [Ed: Typical old nonsense of proprietary software firms, looking to portray a licensing question as pertaining only to FOSS]</h5> <blockquote><p> The so-called ‘open core’ model is hard to get right. </p> <p> [As we know, the open-core model primarily involves offering a “core” or feature-limited version of a software product as free and open-source software, while offering “commercial” versions or add-ons as proprietary software.] </p> </blockquote> </li> </ul> Legal Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:42:33 +0000 Roy Schestowitz 133085 at Bruce Perens quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new data-sharing crypto license: 'We've gone the wrong way with licensing' <!--paging_filter--><p><img src=";y=293&crop=1" border="0" align="left" width="160" hspace="20" vspace="20" style="padding: 17px 17px 17px 17px; box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #222;" /></p> <p class="dropcap-first">Last year, lawyer Van Lindberg drafted a software license called the Cryptographic Autonomy License (CAL) on behalf of distributed development platform Holo – and submitted it to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval as an Open Source Definition-compliant (OSD) license.</p> <p>The debate over whether or not to approve the license, now in its fourth draft, has proven contentious enough to prompt OSI co-founder Bruce Perens to resign from the organization, for a second time, based on concern that OSI members have already made up their minds.</p> <p>"Well, it seems to me that the organization is rather enthusiastically headed toward accepting a license that isn't freedom respecting," Perens wrote in a missive to the OSI's license review mailing list on Thursday. "Fine, do it without me, please."</p> <p>Perens, for what it's worth, drafted the original OSD.</p> <p>Another open-source-community leader familiar with the debate – who spoke with The Register on condition of anonymity – claimed Lindberg lobbied OSI directors privately to green-light the license, contrary to an approval process that's supposed to be carried out in public.</p> <p>"I don't think that's an appropriate characterization," said Lindberg, of law firm Dykema, in a phone interview with The Register. "I think there are number of people who from the beginning made up their minds about the CAL. You'll see a lot of people jumping onto any pretext they can find in order to oppose it."</p> <p><a href=""><img src="/files/read-on-white.png" alt="Read more" title="Read the rest of this article" /></a></p> OSS Legal Sat, 04 Jan 2020 16:32:51 +0000 Roy Schestowitz 132478 at Allison Randal Joins Conservancy Board <!--paging_filter--><p><img src="" border="0" align="left" width="160" hspace="20" vspace="20" style="padding: 17px 17px 17px 17px; box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #222;" /></p> <p class="dropcap-first">We're very excited to welcome Allison Randal to Conservancy's Board of Directors. When it comes to free and open source software, there are few people who have had so much experience in so many different ways. Over the last 30 years, she has taken on projects that became instrumental in welcoming more people to the software freedom cause. She's made numerous critical technical contributions in addition to her impressive leadership contributions. She's also worked hard to get folks from very different organizations to collaborate on languages, licensing and events. We're very lucky that Randal has chosen to bring her uniquely broad and historical perspective to her work as a Conservancy Director.</p> <p>Randal is a board member at the Perl Foundation, a board member at the OpenStack Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for free software community leaders. At various points in the past she has served as president of the Open Source Initiative, president of the Perl Foundation, board member of the Python Software Foundation, chairman of the Parrot Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, Open Source Evangelist at O’Reilly Media, conference chair of OSCON, Technical Architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at HP, and Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She collaborates in the Debian project, and is currently taking a mid-career research sabbatical at the University of Cambridge. While on sabbatical, she has been teaching computer science.</p> <p><a href=""><img src="/files/read-on-white.png" alt="Read more" title="Read the rest of this article" /></a></p> Legal Fri, 03 Jan 2020 21:41:09 +0000 Roy Schestowitz 132462 at A Brief History of Open Source Software, Part 2: OSS Licenses and Legalities <!--paging_filter--><p><img src=" Stallman 100.jpg" border="0" align="left" width="160" hspace="20" vspace="20" style="padding: 17px 17px 17px 17px; box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #222;" /></p> <p class="dropcap-first">It would not be an exaggeration to say that the magic of open source software (OSS) is based as much on legal innovation as it is on collaboration. Indeed, the essential innovation that launched free and open source software was not Richard Stallmans GNU Project, but his announcement of a revolutionary new licensing philosophy, and the actual license agreements needed to put that philosophy into effect. Only later did global collaboration among developers explode, riding the wave of Stallman's licenses, Linus Torvald's pioneering work in creating the distributed development process, and rapidly increasing telecommunications bandwidth.</p> <p>In this installment, we'll explore how Stallman's philosophy spread and forked, and where it has taken us to today.</p> <p>The legal theories, agreements, and documentation that relate to OSS, and its precursor, Free and Open Source Software (for convenience, in this installment I'll refer to both types collectively as FOSS), are far too complex to explore more than superficially in an article of this type. But for current purposes, it is less important to acquire a deep knowledge of FOSS legal terms than it is to gain insight into why the legalities of FOSS are so important.</p> <p><a href=""><img src="/files/read-on-white.png" alt="Read more" title="Read the rest of this article" /></a></p> GNU Legal Fri, 03 Jan 2020 20:39:48 +0000 Roy Schestowitz 132457 at Nginx/Rambler Dispute Over Code <!--paging_filter--><ul> <li> <h5><a href="">What’s yours is ours Rambler Group claims exclusive rights to world’s most popular web-server software, six months after it's sold to U.S. company for 670 million dollars</a></h5> <blockquote><p>On Thursday, December 12, Russian law enforcement raided the Moscow office of the IT company “Nginx,” which owns the eponymous web-server used by almost 500 million websites around the world. According to several reports, Nginx co-founders Igor Sysoev and Maxim Konovalov spent several hours in police interrogation. The search is part of a criminal case based on charges by a company tied to the Russian billionaire and Rambler Group co-owner Alexander Mamut, whose businesses believe they own the rights to the Nginx web-server because Sysoev started developing the code while working for Rambler in 2004. Meduza’s correspondent Maria Kolomychenko looks at how Sysoev and his partners spent 15 years creating the world’s most popular web-server before selling it to an American firm for $670 million, and how Rambler decided, half a year later, that it owns the technology.</p> </blockquote> </li> <li> <h5><a href="">‘A typical racket, simple as that’ Nginx co-founder Maxim Konovalov explains Rambler's litigation against his company, which develops the world’s most popular web-server</a></h5> <blockquote><p>Russia’s IT industry is in the midst of a major conflict between businesses belonging to “Rambler Group” co-owner Alexander Mamut and the company “Nginx,” created by Igor Sysoev and his partner Maxim Konovalov. Nginx’s key product is the eponymous web-server used by more than a third of the world’s websites. Sysoev first released the software in 2004, while still an employee at Rambler, which is now claiming exclusive rights to Nginx, based on its interpretation of Russian law. The police have already joined the dispute, launching a criminal investigation and searching Nginx’s Moscow office. In an interview with Meduza, Nginx co-founder Maxim Konovalov described the police raid and explained why he thinks it took Rambler 15 years to claim ownership over the coveted web-server technology, which recently sold to the American corporation “F5 Networks” for $670 million.</p> </blockquote> </li> </ul> Development Server Legal Sat, 14 Dec 2019 11:17:50 +0000 Roy Schestowitz 131704 at OSI Transparency Reports <!--paging_filter--><ul> <li> <h5><a href="">October 2019 License-Discuss Summary</a></h5> <blockquote><p>We would like to introduce (and thank!) Amol Meshram, who has joined us here at the OSI to provide monthly summaries of both the License-Discuss and License-Review mailing lists. We hope these reports provide you with a helpful snapshot of the monthly activities on the lists, keeping you up to date with the latest topics, while also providing a reference point for further discussion. Of course all suggestions are welcome as we continue to enhance our reporting. We will try our best to include the feedback from OSI community members to make the summaries as accurate as possible and the discussions lively and fruitful.</p> </blockquote> </li> <li> <h5><a href="">October 2019 License-Review Summary</a></h5> <blockquote><p> Carlo Piana is not in favour of The Vaccine License and feels it is a trolling exercise. Filli Liberandum suggested to Carlo Paina to read the mailing list code of conduct. In furtherance to it, Filli Liberandum explained why there is a necessity of acknowledging The Vaccine License by OSI board and its members.<br /> Anand Chowdhary based on his experience of adding privacy compliance under twente open source license pointed out that there are better ways to protect privacy of individuals like local/national/international regulation instead of protecting it through open source license. He is of the opinion that there are better ways to advocate for vaccination and open source license is not the better way to advocate for it.<br /> Filli Liberandum countered to Anand Chowdhary by citing example of Cryptography Autonomy License of Mr. Lindstrom which ask for some release of data as a condition and head of OSI has publicly accepted this condition. Pamela Chestek brought into notice of Filli Liberandum that OSI did not endorse the view of Simon Phipps (referred head of OSI by Filli) on Cryptography Autonomy License data condition clause. Simon Phipps is member of the board along with others. Simon Phipps views on CAL are personal.<br /> Filli Liberandum raised a concern with respect to archives as it is stuck in a plaintext mode.<br /> Simon Phipps suggested to Filli Liberandum to familiarize with License-review process and change the tone of message and requested to leave moderating to the moderators to which Filli agreed and responded that here onwards Filli will directly reach out to concerned members.<br /> Gil Yehuda responded to Fil that Licenses usually do ask for things in return and appreciated the efforts of Fil in writing The Vaccine License, while considering the OSD. Gil raised an important point of enforceability of The Vaccine License in the real life scenario. Gil is of the opinion that one can right a blog and promote the importance of the idea instead of restricting it with copyright license. To buttress claim, Gil cited article written by Selam G which convinced Gil to support Free Software Movement. The reason behind citing this article is to explore other platforms instead of publishing work under copyright license.</p> <p>Carlo Piana responded to Fil that The Vaccine License is discriminatory and non-enforceable in nature. Carlo thinks that vaccination can be achieved through local authorities instead of enforcing it through copyright license. Carlo believes one should provoke reactions rather than genuine attempt of having a license approved.<br /> Josh Berkus agrees with Carlo on provoking reactions from members on license instead of attempting for approving the license. Josh suggested to take this submission as a use case and put it on for future reference.<br /> Carlo Piana is of the same view that should take this submission as a use case for future submissions to avoid duplication of work.<br /> Bruce Perens is also of the opinion that a direct law on vaccination will be more effective than a license. Similarly, Bruce also wrote two blog posts on the issue of “ethical” licenses wherein Bruce referred the proposed The Vaccine License.<br /> Grahame Grieve replied to Bruce’s blog post and appreciated the efforts of writing blog post on ethical license and also the basic arguments put forwards by Bruce. But Grahame bothered by the lack of ethics in the Vaccine License, judging vaccine license solely based on enforceability clause. Similarly, Grahame wanted to know whether the lawyers, courts and violators laugh at license and is there any precedent on when someone gives something of value away, on the condition that it not used in a particular way? Bruce Perens replied to all the queries of Graham Grieve. Firstly, Bruce Perens claims blog post argument is based on law instead of license terms. Secondly, Bruce has experience in handling litigation for various reasons and Bruce wants other should not get into litigation for same cause of action. Lastly, Bruce said Lawyers, courts and violators laugh at license and this whole exercise will be term as a ‘‘copyright misuse’’.<br /> Kevin P. Fleming replied to Graham and pointed that The Vaccine License does not talk about goals instead it focusses on action to be performed which is not in sync with the use of the software. Similarly, Kevin is of the opinion that The Vaccine License violates the OSD 5. To this Grahame Grieve countered by saying if The Vaccine license is applied to health software then in such scenario would Kevin change his opinion.<br /> Van Lindberg appreciated various aspect of the Vaccine License and efforts put forward by Fil in creating the vaccine license. But Van feels the Vaccine License does not qualify for OSS because it imposes conditions which are logically separate from and wholly unrelated to scope intellectual property rights that are licensed. Similarly, Van attempted to answer the question on what scope of action can be required of a license? Van observed if restrictions are closely related to the exercise of the intellectual property rights granted under license then such restrictions make sense and compatible with OSD.<br /> Filli Liberandum replied to analysis of Van and requested to reverse engineer the rules from the approved licenses which Fil believe will lead us to conclusion that the Vaccine License attempt is not an accidental in nature.<br /> Josh Berkus feels that The Vaccine License is very good example for ‘’unrelated conditions’’ license which can be referred in future as a textbook example to differentiate between what kind of licenses OSS supports and what can’t be supported by OSS license. </p> </blockquote> </li> </ul> OSS Legal Tue, 03 Dec 2019 01:15:06 +0000 Roy Schestowitz 131206 at The Road Towards KF6 & SPDX License Identifiers <!--paging_filter--><p class="dropcap-first">With KF6, I want to see SPDX license identifiers being introduced into KDE frameworks in order to ease the framework re-use in other projects. This follows the same approach e.g. the Linux Kernel took over the last years.</p> <p>The problem that the SPDX markers address is the following: When publishing source code under an open source license, each source code file shall explicitly state the license it is released with. The usual way this is done is that a developer copies a license header text from the KDE licensing policies wiki, from another source file, or from somewhere else from the internet and puts it at the top of their newly created source code file. Thus the result is that today we have many slightly different license headers all over our frameworks source files (even if they only differ in formatting). Yet, these small differences make it very hard to introduce automatic checks for the source code licenses in terms of static analysis. This problem becomes even more urgent when one wants to check that a library, which consists of several source files with different licenses, does only contain compatible licenses.</p> <p>The SPDX headers solve this problem by introducing a standardized language that annotates every source code file with license information in the SPDX syntax. This syntax is rich enough to express all of our existing license information and it can also cover more complicated cases like e.g. dual-licensed source files. </p> <p><a href=""><img src="/files/read-on-white.png" alt="Read more" title="Read the rest of this article" /></a></p> KDE Legal Sun, 01 Dec 2019 12:49:37 +0000 Roy Schestowitz 131154 at FSFE on Licensing in REUSE Initiative and Racket Moves to Apache 2.0/MIT Licence <!--paging_filter--><ul> <li> <h5><a href="">The last 12 months in the light of software freedom</a></h5> <blockquote><p>In the last 12 months, we have achieved a lot with the help of our volunteers, through their donations and hard work. Thanks to their support, we were able to successfully continue our PMPC campaign, simplify licensing practices through our REUSE initiative, and stand up for router freedom in Europe. We will be back in 2020 with even more vigour towards our work. Please help us with a donation so that we can continue our successful commitment to Free Software.</p> </blockquote> </li> <li> <h5><a href="">Racket 7.5 Changes License</a></h5> <blockquote><p>Racket has been updated and is being released under a new, less-restrictive license: either the Apache 2.0 license or the MIT license. The new release also adds a standard JSON MIME type for the Web Server.</p> <p>Racket is described as a “full-spectrum programming language” that goes beyond Lisp and Scheme with dialects that support objects, types and laziness. When coding in it, you can link components written in different dialects, and write your own project-specific dialect if you want. The Racket libraries support applications from web servers and databases to GUIs and charts.</p> <p>[...]</p> <p>Chez Scheme is both a programming language and an implementation of that language, with supporting tools and documentation. It is a superset of the language described in the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (R6RS). Chez Scheme supports all standard features of Scheme, including first-class procedures, proper treatment of tail calls, continuations, user-defined records, libraries, exceptions, and hygienic macro expansion. The Racket team says they expect that Racket CS will be ready for production use by the next release.</p> <p>Elsewhere in this release, the Web Server now provides a standard JSON MIME type, including a response/jsexpr form for HTTP responses bearing JSON; and GNU MPFR operations run about three times faster. </p> </blockquote> </li> </ul> GNU Legal Fri, 29 Nov 2019 02:59:36 +0000 Roy Schestowitz 131076 at Input for the BEREC's guidelines on Router Freedom in Europe <!--paging_filter--><p><img src="" border="0" align="left" width="160" hspace="20" vspace="20" style="padding: 17px 17px 17px 17px; box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #222;" /></p> <p class="dropcap-first">Router Freedom is the right of customers of any Internet Service Provider (ISP) to choose and use a private modem and router instead of a router that the ISP forces them to use. The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) drafted guidelines for national agencies how to deal with Router Freedom in their countries. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) provided mixed feedback to an ongoing public consultation.</p> <p>The status of Router Freedom in Europe differs from country to country as the monitoring by the FSFE shows. The core of the debate is the question of where the Network Termination Point (NTP) is located. This defines where the network of the ISP ends and where the network of the user begins. If the modem and router are considered part of the ISP's infrastructure, a user cannot claim sovereignty of their communication and security.</p> <p>The patchwork rug of different rules may change soon as BEREC, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications, has been commissioned to create guidelines for the National Regulatory Agencies (NRAs) and help them with implementing European regulation in a harmonised way. BEREC's current draft of the guidelines is up for public consultation until 21 November 2019. We analysed this draft and the EU Directives and Regulations it references, and provided our conclusion in a brief document.</p> <p><a href=""><img src="/files/read-on-white.png" alt="Read more" title="Read the rest of this article" /></a></p> Hardware Legal Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:17:24 +0000 Roy Schestowitz 130771 at Java License Fallout Continues Impacting IBM i Shops <!--paging_filter--><p><img src="" border="0" align="left" width="160" hspace="20" vspace="20" style="padding: 17px 17px 17px 17px; box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #222;" /></p> <p class="dropcap-first">Oracle’s decision to restrict the previously free distribution of Java version 8 tools and runtimes is impacting the entire IT industry. In our little neck of the woods, the decision to charge businesses for using Oracle’s Java has forced IBM i shops to take a hard look at the technology platform, and in some cases look for alternative solutions.</p> <p>Oracle ruffled feathers in the Java community in 2017, when it made substantial changes to its Java roadmap. The company announced that Java Standard Edition (SE) version 8, which is a legacy version of Java but is still in widespread use, “will not be available for business, commercial or production use without a commercial license” after January 2019. Licenses for Java SE 8 could be purchased for $30 per desktop per year or $300 per processor for server licenses.</p> <p>Oracle’s stated plan for the move was to accelerate the development and release cycle for Java in a bid to keep up today’s fast-paced DevOps environments (and perhaps part of its unstated plan, which was to squeeze Java users for revenue). The tech giant and the Java community hammered out Java SE versions 9 and 10 in quick fashion, in late 2017 and early 2018, respectively.</p> <p><a href=""><img src="/files/read-on-white.png" alt="Read more" title="Read the rest of this article" /></a></p> Development Legal Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:45:14 +0000 Roy Schestowitz 129673 at Graphics and Standards <!--paging_filter--><ul> <li> <h5><a href=";px=SHADERed-1.2.3">SHADERed 1.2.3 Released With Support For 3D Textures & Audio Shaders</a></h5> <blockquote><p>SHADERed is the open-source, cross-platform project for creating and testing HLSL/GLSL shaders. While a version number of 1.2.3 may not seem like a big update, some notable additions can be found within this new SHADERed release. </p> </blockquote> </li> <li> <h5><a href=";px=Vulkan-1.1.125-Released">Vulkan 1.1.125 Released With SPIR-V 1.4 Support</a></h5> <blockquote><p>Succeeding Vulkan 1.1.124 one week later is now Vulkan 1.1.125 with a lone new extension. </p> <p>Vulkan 1.1.125 has its usual clarifications and corrections to this graphics API specification. Meanwhile the new extension introduced in the overnight v1.1.125 release is VK_KHR_spirv_1_4. </p> </blockquote> </li> <li> <h5><a href="">Making Movies Accessible for Everyone</a></h5> <blockquote><p>For the first time, people who are deaf or hard of hearing will be able to enjoy the Nairobi leg of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, opening on October 15.</p> </blockquote> </li> </ul> Graphics/Benchmarks Web Legal Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:42:17 +0000 Roy Schestowitz 129281 at Contributor License Agreement and Developer Certificate of Origin references <!--paging_filter--><p><img src="" border="0" align="left" width="160" hspace="20" vspace="20" style="padding: 17px 17px 17px 17px; box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #222;" /></p> <p class="dropcap-first">In the last few years I have come across the CLA topic several times. It is and will be a popular topic in automotive the coming years, like in any industry that moves from being an Open Source Producer towards becoming an Open Source Contributor.</p> <p>In my experience, many organizations take the CLA as a given by looking at the google, microsoft or intels of the world and replicate their model. But more and more organizations are learning about alternatives, even if they do not adopt them.</p> <p>What I find interesting about discussing the alternatives is that it brings to the discussion the contributor perspective and not just the company one. This enrichs the debate and, in some cases, leads to a more balanced framework between any organization behind a project and the contriibutor base, which benefits both.</p> <p>Throughout these years I have read a lot about it but I have never written anything. It is one of those topics I do not feel comfortable enough to write about in public probably because I know lots of people more qualified than I am to do so. What I can do is to provide some articles and links that I like or that have been recommended to me in the past.</p> <p><a href=""><img src="/files/read-on-white.png" alt="Read more" title="Read the rest of this article" /></a></p> OSS Legal Mon, 14 Oct 2019 06:35:55 +0000 Rianne Schestowitz 129251 at Invasion of The Ethical Licenses <!--paging_filter--><p><img src="" border="0" align="left" width="160" hspace="20" vspace="20" style="padding: 17px 17px 17px 17px; box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #222;" /></p> <p class="dropcap-first">About 23 years ago, I created the Debian Free Software Guidelines to help the Debian developers decide what software was permissible to include in Debian, which aspired to be 100% Free Software, and what should be consigned to a “non-free” repository upon which Debian would never depend. Nine months later, those guidelines became the Open Source Definition, and I announced Open Source to the world.</p> <p> <br /> [...]<br /> <br /> Despite the seeming impossibility of its enforcement, the Vaccine License is the most professionally constructed of this pack, carefully targeting the approval process of the Open Source Initiative – and IMO missing it. But all three licenses appear to be unlikely to obtain the agreement of a court in enforcement, and scaling their requirements would be a sort of full-employment act for lawyers.</p> <p>Let’s work through how these licenses would be enforced.</p> <p>When these licenses are enforced, the copyright holder is the plaintiff, a fancy word for someone who makes a complaint. Their complaint is that the defendant, the licensee, committed a tort, a violation of civil law. The tort is copyright infringement.</p> <p>The important point here is that the complaint isn’t that the license was violated, the complaint is that the defendant did not have a license at all, and is infringing copyright. The defendant then has to prove that they did have a license, and that they were obeying the license’s terms, or that the court should for some reason not honor those terms.</p> <p>Licenses are also contracts, and thus the tort can be breach of contract. But contracts require the consent of both parties – the copyright holder, and the licensee. Real consent is indicated by signing the contract, but that doesn’t ever happen with this sort of license. Instead, there is a lesser indication of consent by the action of using, distributing, or modifying the software.</p> <p><a href=""><img src="/files/read-on-white.png" alt="Read more" title="Read the rest of this article" /></a></p> OSS Legal Sun, 13 Oct 2019 13:55:20 +0000 Roy Schestowitz 129232 at Digital Restrictions (DRM) Watch <!--paging_filter--><ul> <li> <h5><a href="">One Weird Law That Interferes With Security Research, Remix Culture, and Even Car Repair</a></h5> <blockquote><p>How can a single, ill-conceived law wreak havoc in so many ways? It prevents you from making remix videos. It blocks computer security research. It keeps those with print disabilities from reading ebooks. It makes it illegal to repair people's cars. It makes it harder to compete with tech companies by designing interoperable products. It's even been used in an attempt to block third-party ink cartridges for printers.</p> <p>It's hard to believe, but these are just some of the consequences of Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which gives legal teeth to "access controls" (like DRM). Courts have mostly interpreted the law as abandoning the traditional limitations on copyright's scope, such as fair use, in favor of a strict regime that penalizes any bypassing of access controls (such as DRM) on a copyrighted work regardless of your noninfringing purpose, regardless of the fact that you own that copy of the work. </p> </blockquote> </li> <li> <h5><a href="">One Weird Law That Interferes With Security Research, Remix Culture, and Even Car Repair</a></h5> </li> <li> <h5><a href="">Spotify is Defective by Design</a></h5> <blockquote><p>I never used Spotify, since it contains DRM. Instead I still buy DRM-free CDs. Most of my audio collection is stored in free formats such as FLAC and Ogg Vorbis, or Red Book in the case of CDs, everything can be played by free players such as VLC or mpd.</p> <p>Spotify, which uses a central server, also spies on the listener. Everytime you listen a song, Spotify knows which song you have listened and when and where. By contrast free embedded operating systems such as Rockbox do not phone home. CDs can be baught anonymously and ripped using free software, there is no need for an internet commection. </p> </blockquote> </li> </ul> Security Web Legal Sat, 12 Oct 2019 20:41:23 +0000 Roy Schestowitz 129214 at |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/22846 | Shape Shifting Matter No Longer Just A Beautiful Dream
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Sick of using all sorts of different shapes of things only for the purpose they were initially designed for? Step right up to the bold new future named programmable matter!
To make them self-folding, computer scientist Daniela Rus at MIT and her colleagues embedded strips just 100 microns thick – as wide as a human hair – made of a “shape-memory” nickel-titanium alloy that changes shape when heated or cooled. They also included flexible, stretchable copper-laminated plastic mesh ribbons on the sheets that served as wires.
When electricity running through the coppery ribbons was applied to heat the shape memory alloy strips to 70 degrees C (158 degrees F) or more, they went from flat to bent, causing the entire sheet to fold with them. In the end, the 32-tile sheets the researchers devised could fold into origami boats and airplanes.
This means a whole toolbox could be replaced by one single anamorphic shape shifting tool. Like Mystique, but with a phillips AND flat heads.
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Wallpaper/Desktop background
If you want to have a nice pic on your desktop instead of the default tinycore one, download it and save it in /opt/backgrounds. Then with the Wallpaper chooser (look in Control Panel), select if from the list.
That's all - if persistence is already up and running for you, the wallpaper will be there next time.
Names with Spaces or Unusual Characters
You cannot load an image with a space in it's name, or certain other characters, such as brackets. If an image file has a space, brackets, or other unusual characters, rename it, excluding these.
If you use Backup
Bear in mind that images are often very large files, and keeping many image files in /opt/backgrounds will blow out the backup time unnecessarily. Since these are static files, you can also place your image file somewhere else such as in /tce and create a symlink to it in opt/backgrounds.
For a hard drive installation, it is better to use permanent directories for ~HOME and /opt, avoiding backing up. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/22859 | Using a Child Theme for SYDNEY THEME Footer Modification
Use this to update your copyright for the Sydney Theme after you’ve followed the original tutorial. Download the child theme at NYC TECH CLUB (link below)
Text link:
There are a few steps involved to get your site to look exactly like it does before uploading the child theme. Make sure you watch! The only thing you need to do is change your settings in the customize tab to however you set them before.
None of your parent customizations changed, so you can always go back and references those by activating the parent sydney theme and clicking on customize to take a look.
47 Responses
1. Marvin Barnes
Jamison, thank your for great leaning tools for us novices. I created a website several months ago using your tutorial and it is great. 2018 is getting close and I want to change the copyright data at the bottom of the page. I have the child theme installed and the footer.php has been changed to 2018. I changed the the year in the php file and it took forever and eventually told me I have to do it manually. I used Firezilla and changed the file in the child theme. I then opened the site and it still says 2017. If I go into appearance and editor I see 2017 in tehe footer.php file. What am I doing wrong?
2. ashuma tak
How can i add hindi content in my website.?……and i haven't bought the pro version of sydney …..i don't know why sometimes the categories vanish ..some times i am not being able to update…..pleaze help …please
3. Cesar Cruz
Cool video. If you were using a text editor, would you enter the text in the page within the editor (like footer.php) or on the WordPress page interface? What's best practice?
4. yeopoon
I am using the Sydney child theme. For some reason, the editor under appearance/editor has disappeared? I used to able to access that, but now the option is no longer available. How to I get back the editor? Thanks!!
5. Sharron Harper
Things were going great until I got to 3:39. That's where you said you "uploaded the footer PHP". Now I have to leave this video and go figure out how to do that since you didn't want to show us.
6. Romy Kim
I finally had need and tried modifying child theme and was wondering… is it almost always a good idea to make child theme at the very beginning ?
7. Romy Kim
Why can't you simply edit from existing Sydney theme ? Is it for safety just in case code get screwed up ? Also, will child the page load slightly slower (just a theoretical question) like it loads most part from parent, then load footer from child ???
8. Mannuel Allswell
Man. you're the best. When wordpress was updated my footer was just messing up my site…floating all over the place. you cant imagine how grateful I am. Thank you
9. Gianvito Bono
Hello, I would like to change the index.php, so I added it to the child as the footer.php theme but when I change back to the original. What should I do?
PS.: Sorry for the bad english but my first language is italian.
10. Eileen Anderson
Love this! You have been so helpful in getting 4 of my websites up and running. I could not have done it without your help! I forgot to use child themes and you made it so simple to do. YOU ROCK!!!!
11. Joe Gruberman
Thanks for this tutorial. Will add to my toolbox. I'm curious about two things. (1) Rather than add your for the footer.php, would it not be better to copy the footer.php from the Sydney theme, in order to get the version that matches the current theme? And (2) if (instead) we only add footer.php, and not the other files of, would that spare us the angst of re-doing the front page images and menu? While it may be simple, ideally, we want to only change what we need to change, and not cause a reversion elsewhere. Thanks!
12. Luke EM
Hey, I really like you videos and I'm building now a website using Syndey child theme. But I cant modify CSS I want larger distance from my logo to the posts also my logo is too big. Seems like I cant modify anything with that theme..
13. Greg Salyer
Thanks! What I would really like to do is put the social media buttons in the footer so they appear on all pages. How can I do that?
14. Karin Johansson
Hey Jameson, thanks for this tutorial SO great! However, I do not have editor under appearances.. Is there any other way I can change the footer? Or do you know how I can get editor under appearances? Thank you 🙂
15. Marc Catalla
HI, how do I center the theme footer? I already have child theme and updated everything but the alignment stays on the left.
16. Dirk Borchers
Hi Jameson, great tutorials and thanks for the coupon. One question regarding the footer in the child theme: Right now it links to the homepage, but what if I wanted to link it to another page of my website? Or, for that matter, to a linkedin account?
17. Arun Rafi
Thank you Jameson!
this was really helpful. Just when i finished your make a website video, i figured out i had to make changes through child themes! and there you were to the rescue.
Suggestion: Do you want to add the child theme post details right below your main HOW TO post? that might save a lot of people time searching for it or trying to make it.
18. Michael A.
Hey Jameson, I've been through so many tutorials and your's BY FAR is the best! Everything has been flowing great so far but I'm running through some errors, is there any way you can help me? I don't know if something I'm doing. I've made sure all the plugins and everything else is up to date, but something is not working right. How can I contact you? I'd greatly appreciate any help!
19. thisis Beazley
Jameson, Thank you so much for the tutorials on Sydney. They are brilliant! I have one question. I used a child theme for Sydney from the beginning of my set up, so to update the footer I copied your code into the editor stylesheet, made the name change and then updated but unfortunately no change occurred. Any suggestions on what I may have done incorrectly? And, thank you very much again for the fabulous tutorials!
20. Nicole Xu
Just wondering if you have videos on how to backup WordPress so I won't lose everything when I upgrade it. Thanks 😀
21. suelady78
Freaking out! LOL I tried to edit the footer but again in the very new wordpress version 4.4.3.the editor section is gone. A idea how to fix it now with the footer? Almost done with my page! =) Just the footer and I'm ready to go…I installed also the child theme but jeez… doesn't show up what you show 😉 thanks again…
22. Shelby Gebbs-Posner
Jameson, is it possible to move the title and subtitles on the slides? Also will I be able to add an availability calendar to the Sydney theme? If so, which would you recommend? Thanks
23. Stacie Kellner
I had previously created a child theme through word press. When I try to change the footer by going to appearance/editor it does not give me an option to modify the Footer (footer.php), it only has Styles (style.css). If I try copying your custom css to this section nothing happens. How do I get the Footer info to show so that I can modify it? Thanks for your assistance.
24. Michael Alston
@NYC Can you help me with the call to action button link, I'm trying to add a anchor link in the link area to go to another page in a certain area. Sydney Theme, I have already added the anchor to the page and place I want to go, a little anchor icon shows up in vis mode. However when I put the page link in then the #gotothis ,update and it isn't working. It goes to the page but not to the correct area???Thanks Man….Mike
25. Benedict Odanga
Wow! I always thought I wasn't doing it right for the footer as it kept on going back to 'powered by Sydney' until I found this useful video, thanks again. I am on point. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/22860 | Cross database dependencies and automated builds
The first step of continuous integration is to build your software from your source code. The idea is that each time the source code changes you should build/compile your code from scratch to ensure that you can.
Why bother?
This is the lowest bar of all your tests, there is no point running your unit, UI or load tests if the thing won’t compile. There is no point creating a deployment artifact if the code won’t deploy. Hence, this is the first test that you will run, and ideally you will do this automatically every time anyone in your team commits to source control.
Databases are no different.
But you don’t “compile” a database? I say you do (ish). Compilation is the process of taking your source code and turning it into the bits and bytes of your working piece of software. If you keep your database source code in a source control system, probably as a set of .sql files, each time you modify them you should build your database. If you cannot build your database, from scratch, from your source code something is wrong. You have a broken build.
Building your database every time you commit to source control will provide fast feedback if you ever break the SQL syntax or break some types of dependencies. This is the sort of stuff that merge tools often manage to mess up. (Are your commas at the start or end of the line?) Also, annoyingly SQL Server Management Studio lets you break dependencies.
A problem
So what if your database depends on another database?
How do you build a database from scratch if it has a dependency on another database/linked server? I’ve been asked this question three times in the last fortnight so I thought that this time, rather than responding by email I’d write a blog post so that everyone can benefit.
How to solve it
DB1 depends on DB2.
DB2 depends on DB3.
DB3 depends on DB1.
I want to build one of these databases from my source code.
Yup – I have a circular dependency. The solution I’m going to suggest should support that.
You need to create a persistent environment that will contain a copy of each of the databases in your web of dependencies. Normally this will be done on a dedicated SQL instance. These databases need to be in line with source control as they will require the objects which other databases are dependent on.
Creating this environment may be a combination of manual steps and using SQL Compare. It’s likely to be challenging as you’ll need to add objects in an appropriate order. If you have a really complicated web of circular dependencies my heart goes out to you… Take solace in the fact this is a step you only need to go through once. And take a lesson from this exercise that your architecture may have room for improvement. And wouldn’t the whole process have been easier if your architecture was documented and your developers stuck to the intended design?
An obvious question is who is going to fund another SQL instance? Hopefully the well documented benefits of CI and automated testing will be enough to justify the cost. Have you ever shipped a regression by mistake that you could have written an automated test for? How much did your last failed deploy cost you?
Once you have this integration environment up and running and it is in line with source control – fantastic. Revoke everyone’s write access to it. (And I mean everyone.) The only thing making changes to this environment should be your build server.
Your build process should do the following as soon as the source code for any of the databases in the environment changes:
1. Delete all the objects on the corresponding database in the integration environment.
2. Re-build the database from source control, from scratch.
If using Redgate SQLCI you can achieve this using the BUILD command with the /temporaryDatabaseServer and /temporaryDatabaseName switches.
Effectively what you are doing is creating your entire dependency web in an isolated/disposable environment and you are punching holes in it in order that you can run your builds for each individual database inside that hole.
Further extensions
Once you achieve this, why stop at automating your builds – you have just created a platform for automated testing. You can use something like tSQLt or Redgate SQL Test with Redgate SQL CI TEST commands to automate unit tests. If you have to manually run a set of regression tests imagine how much time you would save and how much more confidence you would have if these were automated and auditable?
This approach, where you create your entire environment to handle dependencies, has the downside that you cannot run concurrent builds. If you try to build two databases that depend upon each other at the same time you’ll have problems. The solutions to this problem are:
1. Build more than one integration environment.
2. Have your build process create the entire integration environment from scratch for every build.
3. Sort out your architecture.
You might also want to bear in mind that linked servers require the transaction isolation level to be set to READ COMMITTED. You can do that using the SQL Compare command line switch /til:<transaction isolation level>. You can call this from SQL CI using the /additionalCompareArgs switch.
If you have a better way to solve this problem please leave a comment.
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Are Free fuck sites Really Free?
§ July 27th, 2016 § Filed under 18 and Broke Pics, Brunette, Small Tits § Tagged , Comments Off on Are Free fuck sites Really Free?
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Free fuck sites have taken the internet by storm. Of course, guys who are into this are not going to get on Facebook and tell all their friends that, “Hey, I’ve discovered that there are such things as free fuck sites.” Nobody is stupid enough to do that. Maybe somebody got drunk every once in a while and posts the URLs or the advertising materials of a freefucksite. Outside of that fairly limited situation, most people pretty much keep their own successful adult dating experiences to themselves.
You have to remember that as progressive and liberal America has become, there are still certain taboos. People still expect you to conduct yourself a certain way. You should retain your dignity, composure, and poise. Do you see where I’m coming from? So, it’s no surprise then that people don’t really make a big deal of a free fucksite, but make no mistake about it, these websites still make money and there is no such thing as free. I wish there was. I wish such an animal existed, but guess what, free lunch has yet to be invented. You are paying in one form or the other.
Pay attention to what I just said. You are, “paying in one form or the other.” Focus on the word “form”. You see, money online takes many different shapes. It’s not just the green pieces of paper on your wallet. It’s not just the electronic cash represented by your credit card. The most important asset you have is actually your time, and sadly when you hang out at free meet & fuck sites, that is what you’re paying. That’s how they make their money.
You might be thinking, “Well, I’m not really paying for anything. How can they make money off my presence?” Very simple. It’s a war of attrition. In other words, they’re trying to weight you out. What they’re trying to do is just to get you to keep coming back to watch more and more profiles, send more and more messages. Eventually, you’re going to crack. Eventually, you’re going to break and whip out your credit card because you find the website so credible and so valuable that once they show you some sort of teaser featuring a hot, new member from right around the block (or from Eastern Europe or wherever else), you can’t help but just whip out your credit card and try to hook up with that hotty. That is how these websites make money.
So, don’t ever feel bad that you watch all sorts of profiles on adult dating sites. The reality is that the guys behind these websites know exactly what they’re doing. They know how the game works and they know how to milk every red cent of value from certain visitors. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/22870 | Too often I forget about this handy SQL trick. Maybe I'll help to cement it in my brain by blogging it and hopefully someone out there will find it useful. Nearly every week I find myself rewriting SQL queries on an application that I didn't originally build. This typically involves replacing join criteria written in the where clause with equivalent joins in the from clause. Most of the time I just rewrite the statements on my own but you don't have to. Take the following example for instance:
Old School Method
SELECT E.FirstName, E.LastName, D.DepartmentName
FROM Employees E, Departments D
WHERE E.fkDepartment = D.ID AND D.ID = 5
This query seems simply enough, and it is. But when you add additional tables to the joins in the where clause and perhaps more filter criteria in the where, things quickly get unreadable. SQL's join statement does a much better job at specifying how your tables relate to one another without any filter criteria (like department ID = 5) getting in the way. Here's the above query rewritten using joins.
Preferred Method
SELECT E.FirstName, E.LastName, D.DepartmentName
FROM Employees E INNER JOIN Departments D ON E.fkDepartment = D.ID
While you can rewrite your old queries on your own let SQL Server's tools do the work for you. Open SQL Server's Enterprise Manager and right-click any table. Elect to view the contents of the table and once they show up hit the "SQL" button at the top left in Enterprise Manager. This will show you the SQL used to display the contents of your table. Next, copy the offending query and paste it over the SQL Enterprise Manager is displaying. Press the "!" (run) button and Enterprise Manager will take your old query, rewrite it using the appropriate joins, and display the results. Pretty handy.
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8 Responses to SQL Tip: Rewriting Old-Style Queries Into Joins
1. Jack
Who said the first method is the old one? It is also a standard SQL syntax!
If you also use "old" method in a proper way, you would have more efficient query results.
2. Polygraf
Exactly, apart from the fact that joins are far more taxing on the server than the simpler method of using WHERE clauses.
3. Dunno about anyone else, but I can never remember how inner, outer, left and right JOIN work, so for me the former syntax is much clearer.
4. Tom,
I used to find the join syntax more difficult as well. Once I started using it, however, I found that it really made the query much more clear. It is nice to have a clear indicator of which criteria or for a join and which criteria are really part of the filter.
The only drawback that I have found to the "new" method is that Access limits sequential joins to two tables - forcing you to use the "old" method or complicate your joins with parenthetical groupings.
As to performance, my tests haven't shown any significant difference in performance. I prefer the join syntax for clarity. In most cases, clarity trumps performance any way.
5. Ryan Cooper
There is no perfomance difference in the 2 join syntaxes above. The
query optimizer in SQL Server sees the two queries excatly the same.
Test for yourself by checking out the Execution Plans.
The main reason for using the join in the from clause is because
1) it is ANSI standard complient
2) you get the same query with less code
3) better support for full outer joins
6. I like using the JOIN / ON syntax as it allows you to put WHERE criteria directly into the ON clause. While this doesn't make much of a difference with a good SQL optimizer, since the ON clause it processed before the WHERE clause (it comes directly before in the command execution list), it gives you the ability to limit the size of the record set that is available at the time of WHERE clause execution. A minor, but cool optimization.
7. Adam Ness
As an aside, I've been told by our DBA that in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 the "old" ANSI method of joining in the From Clause is deprecated.
Personally, I prefer the LEFT JOIN ... ON ... syntax, because it makes it clearer which parts of the where clause are filters, and which parts are relational between tables.
As to the Access complaint, you can still use multiple tables in the join clause with Access, but you have to parenthesize them:
SELECT, as Manager, as divisionName
FROM (( People p
LEFT JOIN People m ON p.managerID = m.ID)
LEFT JOIN Divisions d ON p.DivisionID = d.ID )
WHERE p.loginid = 'foo'
8. Just like Steve I used to prefer what I called "old style" queries because they made more sense to me. Once I latched on to actually writing the joins my SQL became more clear than ever before. To me it is partially a style issue and a clarity issue. While Ryan says there may be no performance gains I can't help but think SQL Server intends for us to write join statements in the from clause since that is how the server itself will write them through the process I outlined in this post.
Furthermore, SQL 2005 does indeed deprecate some of the syntax. Apparently, writing outer joins in the where clause will no longer be supported.
All these things, when taken together, are why I personally prefer (and require of my development team) joins in the from clause. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/22886 | Sunday, December 1, 2013
Why have you never seen a superhero?
When people imagine what the Asteroid Belt is like, they imagine the scene from The Empire Strikes Back, where the Millennium Falcon is dodging a densely-packed array of space rocks. In reality, though, the Main Asteroid Belt in our Solar System holds only about 4% of the mass of the Moon, spread out over an orbit 1.5 billion miles long and over 100 million miles wide just at its core. When we send a spacecraft through it, our chances of even seeing an asteroid, let alone hitting anything, are statistically zero.
It's important to keep this perspective in mind when thinking about other rare, statistically improbable occurrences. A great example is shark attacks. On an average year, sharks kill five people worldwide. That is a ridiculously low number when you consider that there are an estimated 7,125,000,000 people living on the planet today. Even lightning strikes, another very rare form of death, still manage to kill 24,000 people annually. And yet, because the media reports each shark death, we sometimes think sharks are running amok. The reality is, your chance of being struck by either a shark or lightning in your lifetime is statistically next to zero.
Now what if the media didn't hype an ultra-rare phenomenon? Or what if the phenomenon was purposefully discredited by the mainstream media, either due to its own inherent bias or due to government tampering, leaving only "fringe" elements to cover "the truth"? Examples abound: Bigfoot, ESP, UFOs, conspiracy theories.
Well, let me add one more. It has come to my attention that there are approximately 500 "people" alive on this planet today who are endowed with extraordinary powers that cannot be explained by conventional science. Some may be the next phase of human evolution, some may be aliens in disguise, some may be using technology so advanced that it is incomprehensible to us. In any case, they are not "normal."
If you add to that the number of truly elite, non-superpowered humans - we're talking James Bond / Bruce Wayne / ninja-level awesomeness here - then the number of extraordinary individuals on the planet might be 1,000. That is 0.000014% of the total population of Earth. To put it in a different perspective, it is about half the number of people walking this Earth with a Super Bowl ring. Given that small of a group, what is your chance of accidentally bumping into one of them on the subway? And what is your chance of realizing it even if you do?
Contrary to popular belief, superheroes and aliens are not walking around our planet in broad daylight in day-glow outfits waiting for the FBI to come lock them up at Guantanamo. But they are out there. Suspiciously reclusive, orphaned billionaire with one too many defense contacts? Hyperactive multiple-doctorate scientist working as a freelance photographer? Gluten and corn-intolerant goofball blogger obsessed with aliens, robots and zombies?
Then again, maybe you've already met a superhero and you don't even know it...
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/22887 | Front Raises: Deltoid Exercises
And Shoulder Exercises
There are many deltoid exercises that you can do with dumbbells.
Front raises, lateral raises, reverse flyes and the military press are examples of shoulder exercises with dumbbells.
The deltoid is one muscle that has three sections: front (anterior), side (middle), and back (posterior). Front raises emphasize the anterior deltoid.
Below are the instructions for front raises.
Shoulder Strengthening Exercises: Front Raises
Starting Position: Simply begin by standing with dumbbells in your hands with the back of your hands facing forwards.
Form: Exhale and lift your arms to the front of your body. Only lift to about 90 degrees. Hold briefly at the top and then slowly return to the starting position.
Personal Trainer Tips: It is very easy to use momentum and move out of good posture during the exercise.
Engage your abdominal muscles and keep your lower back stable as you lift towards the front.
shoulder exercisesshoulder exercises
Front Raises complement Lateral Raises which emphasize the middle deltoid and Reverse Flyes, which emphasize the posterior deltoid.
These are all isolation dumbbell exercises that focus on the three parts of the shoulder.
Yours in Health,
Dr. Charles PT/PT
Return to the main Shoulder Exercises Page to learn more Deltoid Exercises
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I have been using BBEdit for years. I like how I can view invisible characters such as tabs and spaces.
I'm currently a computer science tutor, tutoring web development among other things.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/22936 | Tricep Dips
Prevention and Treatment of Youth Sport Injuries
an Online Resource
Stand with the back to a counter for an easier exercise or use a lower surface such a base of a sturdy chair for a greater difficulty. Place the palms on the counter behind you and while keeping the knees over the feet and the feet shoulder width apart slowly lower yourself using the strength of your arms. Hold this position as desired. If holding for 3-5 seconds repeat 15 to 20 times and if holding 15 to 20 seconds repeat 3 to 5 times. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/22971 | Feb 17, 2014
Breaking the TEAL SPELL -- UPDATE: The Noncasts
Crossposted from Reflections Journal.
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Update: The Noncasts (See Below)
Further Update: Blake Addresses Jason Freedman Mystery (See Below)
You're Freeeee! Wait. Not so fast.
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Teal Tribe Dating
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Favorite Teal's Video/Art/Quotes:
Members have little or no privacy, physically or mentally.
. . .
Hello all,
Here's the number for Jason Freedman:
Jason Freedman Number
Jason Freedman Detail
Here's the number for TEAL's Frequency Jewelry:
Frequency Jewelry
Frequency Jewelry Detail
Here's the number for Blake Dyer:
Blake's Number
Here's what happens when you put the phone number in Google:
google 8019499651
He admitted this himself.
That was the only thing "LAME" about this article.
Visit this link for a bit...
Pay attention, TEAL. That is irony.
Who and What is Teal Scott
The Artist Formerly Known as Teal Scott
Update: "The Noncasts"
Further Update: Regarding Jason Freedman, et al.
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Yet Another Update: Kicking "Tealers" Down the Memory Hole
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1. Me2yesu You did such a great job with your rewritten intro for "the spiritual catalyst" youtube channel. It took such a loud and bold and aggressive mirror to recognize a little teal in me.
In fact: my teal touch is bigger than I can digest right now.
Holy crap.
At the end of the day not so Golden.
Teal Andara
What just happened
2. Did y'all see her blog post about therapy? Pretty revealing, I think. This is a woman with some very serious emotional problems. And it's sad. It really is. But I'm sadder still for the people she's harming.
3. GA thanks for responding to my thoughts. I feel warmth toward Teal as a person. What I see her doing is instructive to my shadow. That is why I keep looking at her performance.... so I may critique the play.
I agree with you, LV that the saga is sad and YES, by speaking out about the ignorance in the way Teal speaks and behaves, maybe it will diminish any needless harm? Also Teal just must have controversy so appreciates our participation (hehe). She also, as I said helps me see contrast so maybe will be helpful in that.
Off the subject: Neville Goddard was of the esoteric Christian lineage and has had his own mystical experience. He states that this is all a dream. It is one we sought: god being on earth as the "son" of god: man. The son of god: man awakens in the dream and is resurrected as god.
The knowing one is in a dream means there is a law of creating and we may manifest whatever we assume. The painful earth is ours (asleep) as is the happy earth (awake).
But wait! there is more and I feel this is becoming heaven now on earth. The Promise is of the eventual rebirth and resurrection into glorified embodiment where we are just naturally and effortlessly love.
Seriously IMO this is something for me to listen in on several times...NOT Teal.
Neville Goddard A Standing Order
4. Thank you, Maggie, for posting that video. Golgotha means skull. I'm trying to remember if I knew that at one time. Pretty salient point, really.
I do think there's a bit more to waking up in the dream than realizing it's a dream, though. It's a fairly painful process, really. It means dying to this world and all those ego wants that spur us in that direction in the first place.
The thing about teal's therapy adventure that she has so graciously shared with the world, is that she's basically laying out in clear terms her borderline personality disorder. Isn't this the woman who claims that she cured herself or some such? But the suggestion that she should be an autonomous being throws her into a rage. And she wants to attach herself like a remora to a man.
"I am never satisfied with the intimacy level in my relationships, can never get enough closeness and cannot be alone, is because no man on earth can gestate me, which is ultimately what I am wanting from them deep down. This is the root of my separation anxiety and anxiety attacks, which are honestly the most debilitating part of my life overall."
No wonder she thinks Sarbdeep's boundaries are "too harsh." He lacks a giant womb and I expect he doesn't want to put her into an oversized Baby Bjorn. What's a girl to do? Yet somehow he's the problem.
Meanwhile, it's all the hospital's fault. I guess they induced labor and suctioned her out for no good reason. And then they made it all the worse by attending to her mother's birth injuries. Note the total lack of concern for what her mother endured and what medical care she needed. No. The hospital screwed her up for life, probably because they did exactly what was medically necessary. No argument that babies should be kept with mothers whenever possible, but note that we're not overrun with borderlines, so I really doubt that this was THE cause of her woes. The thing I always notice with teal is that there's always someone to blame for whatever's wrong with her on any given day. Her introspection always takes her just far enough to find a culprit.
Oh, and what's with the binoculars? What a strange analogy. Doesn't the problem of not being able to look at yourself except by reflection begin with the eyes and the fact that they're stuck in your own head? What do we need to imagine binoculars for to understand that basic fact of life? So strange.
5. I cannot comment on the "trust yourself" blog of teal's and that is because FOR ME the captcha thingie seems to be disconnected. I am so burning to comment.
"I have been following "TEAL the new age leader" because I sense that this role she has assumed is out of date for all humans. When people pay a ticket to see a "show" or to hear a "teacher", YES, IMO the show person or teacher is obligated no matter what. That means separating out the "role" from the personal...THE SHOW MUST GO ON....
If one is going to say "Hi I am your leader" and makes others followers, IMO both sides get locked into ROLES. The roles mean TEACHER better be READY to withstand a fellow teacher's style on stage. It is owed to the followers who make one the leader.
The acknowledgement derived from one's lectures has to be backed by behavior or people will jeer. They have that right because without the fan, no star. It is payback to fans to be able to criticize poor performance. That whole system is outdated.
What I see: the people like Teal who use a channeled TEAL and puffed up personae to claim fame and fortune are no longer valuable. Nowadays, we share ourselves with our friends (even if its on facebook) and there are no healers, guides or anyone OTHER than people mucking along learning new ropes in the NEW earth age.
The milk from the guru worship system and churchified preachers is all sour. The dissonance that Teal expresses means she feels it too. The role of "healer" AND "healee" HURTS because NO one can save us and yet we need NO saving HAHA. Swinging on the pendulum Teal shows us of needing and dispensing "healing"interferes with her being an authentic his/herself.
IMO Teal Swan could heal herself from the need to be a famous teacher and relax into being an intuitive owner of a happy life? But then she'd have to give up all perks...THAT is the catch and why the sick system continues.
6. LV, I want to share another Neville Goddard talk about the dream (the play). IMO Neville is one of my best friends.
The End of the Play (5/14/1971)
7. Just on a day when I feel the urge to communicate with Teal's blog, there is never a capthcha to put in?? I did post once before and wonder why it never works now?
The imprisonment of acting in/out and for/against the roles we assign ourselves is a Universal misery. Teal like all of us at the hoe down of the old age are finding that the pressure is on to jettison the burdens.
Teal is a poster child for the misery not the release.
Teal claims MANY roles that don't work well together like Teacher of principles like LOA while invoking victim. I look at her love life too as conflicting roles. Teal met Sarbs. Just like everyone, they had "role models" to describe the ideal in love.
If Teal needs to resume therapy NOW, I surmise that the irritation of being Teal is slapping against too many roles to juggle: "wife", "divine feminine", "mother", "Eucharist", "Universal sex object", "New Age spiritual catalyst" etc......
Teal writes that she feels the world for her looks failing but this is clear projection of an impossible challenge. IMO, It is a hopeless cause to try to be so many different "people" at once and looks like failure.
I definitely think we should keep talking up integrity and call out one another when given the evidence of manipulation. Manipulation is my major collective concern. It has made it possible to lure people into role playing. I will "blame" the whole collective mind for role playing. In fact I think calling out Teal is actually partially necessary for her to see the stakes.
Feeding the 4th dimensional reality construct where lying is esteemed and we are fuel sources is wrong. We have something that is burgeoning at a Universal level to dis-identify with roles and become real, neutral and sovereign.
IMO we have imagination for the purpose of reconnecting to the realm beyond roles. Neville says God is our own wonderful human imagination. Christ is the being in action of God.
So it is the living from imagination not roles we can have. That is addressed by Neville as the play we entered voluntarily and where we assume all kinds of roles but can wake up to the dream. This wake up can help us enjoy life.
I believe we have to trust that we are worthy as Christ, the active imagination which creates any way of manifesting in FORM. He calls it "feeling in the end" events filling in backwards from the end intention. We deconstruct to the qualities of the desires we naturally feel and "place ourselves there"..
If we did we stop using the conscious choice of intending of our imagination (Geometry of Goodness) does not mean we cannot resume using our Godness.
We really want our personal signature. If the character is fragmented like with BPD (not enough coherence), one cannot LOA anything coherent in reflection. But there are ways to reconnect. EFT was suggested to Teal and it is a coherence builder.
All of us who have taken the path of seeker know it is not finding. That is perfect. Any one can be a SEEKER and you don't have to pretend you ever find anything.
The reason why I glom onto being a magical CHILD is that I feel little weight there. Of all archetypes of role, it has the fresh, the unruly but cute, the loving, unfettered emotions can be displayed but they don't become entrenched, the world feels open, any injury felt is not long lasting. Childness is soft and has deep feeling like really getting into cuddling.
In Neville's model long before I know I AM, I may assume I AM. To take on the magical child feels so FREE. If I feel FREE, then it will harden into fact in Neville's system. I sincerely believe I may live in the state of a magical child after I imagine she is real.
I wish Teal the best. The best is what we each may enjoy when we imagine what that feels and stops imagining the worst.
8. "If Teal needs to resume therapy NOW, I surmise that the irritation of being Teal is slapping against too many roles to juggle..."
Maggie, she never should have stopped. She never didn't need therapy. And I love the way she makes it sound like, hey we all need a little perspective sometimes. Because we're all running around with our imaginary binoculars, which are somehow less objective than our eyes. Then, what follows is a self-description of a very mentally ill person, someone who can't conceive of life as an autonomous being and wants to be "gestated" inside a lover. Interesting isn't it that her personal mythology involves being sewn into corpses?
Some of these pressures may have forced her hand, but most likely it's the relationship where she's feeling vulnerable enough to return to therapy. That post on her therapy is all about how she functions in relationship. She's discovered that her new marriage isn't solving everything for her and needling Sarbdeep in teacasts isn't fixing him. Sometimes he still wants to leave the room.
She should be in dialectical behavioral therapy, though, because it's one of the only systems that shows promise for borderlines. And she really, really needs help. Not a little perspective. Help.
9. Golden Andara, speaking of Drunvalo, did you catch teal's video on the merkaba? It's like a giant FU to Drunvalo. And once again, everyone is "confused" on a topic but her. She alone understands and can speak on the issue of the merkaba and she's here to to tell you to stop all this silly talk about spinning your counter-rotating fields. All you really need to do is focus your thoughts on ascension -- in what way, we have no idea, except that it's not on consciously activating your merkaba.
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11. I doubt that there's any connection between Dru and teal, except for her aping some of his work just like she does everybody else's.
Drunvalo is a very mellow, humble guy. No argument. The one thing he is very picky about, though, is how that merkaba meditation is done. There's the flower of life curriculum and a new method. But when I was training in FOL, he was very clear that you can actually injure yourself by doing that meditation incorrectly. That's why he goes to great lengths to explain the geometry of it. And I know when I was doing the training he said that when the shift comes, these dormant bodies would activate themselves. But to hear teal tell it, there's no point in ever learning how to activate the merkaba. I'm pretty sure he'd disagree. In fact, according to him, we probably would have annihilated ourselves by now if it weren't for the number of people who have activated it already. We're doing the work of the entire planet. I'm not saying that's true. I don't know if it's true or not. I'm saying that's what he said in one of his telecasts some years ago.
I don't accept everything Dru says at face value. I don't think he sources his stuff well enough. Although he sources it hella better than teal. I take much of what he says with a grain of salt, but what I don't take with a grain of salt is that meditation. It's life altering. It's deeply important and transformational. It took me years to understand what a profound thing I'd done by undergoing that training.
And once again, she knows the real answer and everyone but her is confused. And once again, what she says is bullshit. Here, she seems incapable of considering that there might me different tools for different people and that activating the merkaba IS using "thought" to facilitate a shift in consciousness. But she just shits all over it basically tells everyone who works with some form of merkaba meditation is wasting their time and that she knows better, but then offers no other methodology.
Needless to say, I thought that other video you posted was sad nonsense. That woman is entitled to her opinion. We all are. But I don't see anything terribly special about teal or what she offers. A bunch of regurgitated half-truths far better explained by their original sources -- some good, some not, but none original. And, here's the thing, that she spews out a lot of misinformation that she barely understands, I could accept, if she weren't always insisting that she's the one whose got it right, while everybody else is "confused" or that they "don't understand" all the nothing she knows so well.
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15. easy right and ride... no difference I guess
16. I adore this men and his wisdom. I recently found this live poem by Leonard Cohen. Goose bumps all over me and a wild spine. Just listen to these words:
--The autumn moved across your skin, got something in my eye , a light that doesn't need to live and doesn't need to die
A riddle in the book of love, obscure and obsolete, till witnessed here, in time, in blood,
a thousand kisses deep---
A Thousand Kisses Deep
(by Leonard Cohen)
17. "Well you are right, surface scratch for all of her videos. I see it more as an introduction. the technology is not explained, taught or defined..."
GA, I can't even see where it's an introduction. If it was merely simplistic and surface, I could accept that she's just shallow and simple, say meh, and move on. The problem is that her simplistic grasp of things often means she's wrong on fact and that she misappropriates and often misrepresents other people's work.
"(except Teal's shadow work process®)"
If you mean the way she exposes her own underbelly, I agree that it's a shadow work in that she's showing the world her shadow. But I don't think it's a very constructive process. It's really just more of teal talking about teal and being her exhibitionist self. Debbie Ford lays out a constructive process, teal just emotes for everyone.
It's compelling and seems brutally honest until you notice that she always absolves herself of responsibility. Her shadow is always someone else's fault -- her "Satanic Mormon abuser," the hospital that delivered her, her parents -- and coming from an LOA person, that's just bizarre. And in the process, she frequently defames other people. That's not shadow work. It's what Jung called shadow projection. It's blame throwing.
"Well you can take on some god knowledge complex. I do think that she is aware of a lot - more than the majority of her surrounding field."
I can't even go that far. She's good at dazzling people with bullshit but nothing I've heard from her strikes me as either knowledgeable or self-aware -- self-absorbed but not self-aware. She's regurgitated some accomplished people in this field. Some of those sources I agree with and some I don't. I don't think any of them deserve to have their work misappropriated and misrepresented. I also don't think she's in a position to slag them, as she did anyone who teaches -- or does -- a merkaba meditation, which is what she did in that video. In part because she doesn't even lay out any real case. it's all still argument from authority. She never shows her work. Not only doesn't she cite sources, she doesn't even lay out a coherent argument -- just opinion stated as fact. And her repeated use of phrases like "what most people don't understand" is just offensive on every level. She keeps positioning herself as the person who understands what all these other teachers, including THE BUDDHA, don't. It's an astounding level of arrogance from someone who has no claim to the authority she asserts -- no training, no teachers, no tradition, and, most importantly, no coherent thought process or logical argument. She's an indigo, as if they're rare or something which they're not, and an Arcturian projected "Eucharist." And somehow this makes her right and everybody else "confused." It's audacious.
18. "LV did you get finally a piece of elite shungite to test and play with it?"
No. I haven't bought crystals in some time because it would mean I'd have to order them online which I won't do. I need to hold a crystal before I buy it. No two are the same and I've never bought a stone I couldn't have a clear dialogue with first. I don't intend to start now.
On the merkaba stuff, you're smart not to play with it uninformed. What you can do, without the training is activate the star tetrahedron. You just can't spin it. I think that part of it is even in the books. Just doing that much of it is very stabilizing.
I take Dru's warnings on this very seriously because I've learned over time that the meditation is very powerful and nothing that powerful should be taken lightly.
Thanks for the Leonard Cohen. The man's a ruddy genius.
19. I don't know if any one has looked at Mooji videos. he is pretty calming and my friends like him. In a way he has a similar 'gig" as Teal. He has free videos, paid sat sangs and a staff. he talks for a living. there is an attractiveness about him that is an entirely different kind than Teal. The MAIN difference is that he does not have a blog so people can see his personal difficulties.
The reason I say this is that I think the "placebo/nocebo" effect...the way our own belief and faith hapes our experience is never fully appreciated.
IMO we are each multidimensional conscious beings apart from the "body" experience. I think any any any encounter will be shaped by our own input.
I do expect that a teacher as well as the "student" will experience what is expected. Actually the more I contemplate, the simpler the schematic looks. The complexities of results will vary (partially IMO dues to schisms within that fracture. The schisms are ours to heal IMO... a good "reason" for being on planet Earth). The conscious participation and feedback of "reality" evidence is a learning process I think. But SERIOUSLY I question how can you begin to be the co-creator when you still foist off all responseability (good or ill) to others?
I saw this quote by a "follower" of Mooji...giving credit to him. Mooji is not the point to me...its's the tenedency to accept some are capable of transmitting. No it is the person who manufactures this as one's OWN placebo.
"A living buddha is something pretty great, the energy they give off can make your own meditation very powerful
I know since the day i met him i have not suffered even an inkling of depression, that speaks for itself imo
What i found the day i met him was priceless."
20. As indirectly mentioned on another blog thread, from the get go, Teal didn't strike me as true spiritual teacher type (for me that is someone that consistently is balanced and fast vibratory, and only has others best interests in mind) from the get go. But, thanks to the blog, i realized she was even more far gone than i realized from just watching a couple of videos.
As a somewhat young male (34), i did find her attractive physically, but i got the sense that she was using her attractiveness and deliberately putting out the come hither vibe, as part of her spiritual shtick and that's a bit of a turn off. To me, real spirituality is about Love, which is more platonic and universal in nature and not about romantic love and definitely not about lust.
However, reading this blog thread, i must say i'm a bit surprised of your support of Drunvalo, LaVaughn. He recently came up in my wife's and our life--somebody recommended him to my wife a little while back--more specifically his Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life book. I read part of the book and she read all of it. We both found it HIGHLY self aggrandizing, and in many cases really, really inaccurate.
An example of the highly self aggrandizing aspect. He claims to have been in contact with Thoth (ok, that's fine), and claims that Thoth has been incarnated for some 30, 000 or something continuous years (from memory, but the gist is a really long time), but it was until Thoth met Drunvalo and when the latter shared his meditation technique and wisdom with Thoth, that Thoth was able to fully ascend with "Dru's" help.
....Really? In essence saying that he himself has knowledge and wisdom beyond such a supposedly intune and enlightened being (which ancient accounts do speak very highly of Thoth, and some think that Thoth was an earlier incarnation of the same Spirit that projected/experienced the lifetime/self of Jesus. Legends link him to both Hermes and Thoth. Of note is that Cayce's guidance said that Hermes is the one that designed the Great Pyramid and hinted that this Teacher was an earlier incarnation of Jesus's Spirit).
As far as blatant inaccuracies, he "quotes" Cayce a bit in that book, and really puts words in Cayce's mouth. When i was younger, i spent some time deeply researching that work, and some of the stuff he was saying Cayce said, was really off base.
Some of his teachings in general are really, really far off. At one point, he seems to equate physical height with spiritual development and maturity, and he talks about giants in the earth that were over 35 feet in height. Now, some more credible sources , like Cayce do state that at one point in history, there were some giant types, but that they were more on order of 12 feet or so, which is pretty tall and big, but not so ridiculous as over 35 feet and at the same time linking great height with great spirituality.
I really don't know much about "Dru", but i recently watched part of a video of him--he definitely did not strike me has having a particularly expanded, balanced, aware or loving vibe. In fact, if i were to be completely honest, it struck me as kind of slower vibratory.
21. Continued... I guess what i'm saying is that the more effective and efficient way for people to come to truth, is to 1. live it themselves (which gradually, but surely expands your own perceptual capacity) and 2. use a combo of meditation and prayer, always seeking to be attuned and get help from the most expanded and most helpful there is.
There are very, very, very few people that have set themselves up as spiritual teachers that i really get that vibe strongly from, that they are more true spiritual teachers and exemplars. Most are either on some kind of ego or self delusion trip, see an easy way to make money, or a combo of both.
I have met a few people here and there that did strike me as very intune, but they haven't set themselves up as spiritual teachers with the whole shabang. They do share their advice and their perceptions with others, but don't seek or want followers and don't make any money to speak of off others. One is a friend of mine.
A good way to check outer teachers and teachings, besides intuition and discrimination, is to go into deep meditation with the stated, specific intent of getting help and guidance from only the most spiritually helpful, loving, aware, etc sources and ask these or this level (to me, it's more of a level because these individuals have become very, very collective oriented and are fully consciously aware of their Oneness with the Whole and with Source) about a particular teacher or teaching.
22. Hi Justin, I think your criticism of Drunvalo is fair, to some degree. I think he makes some real leaps and he very much has his own filter. In terms of teaching Thoth the meditation, it's not like Dru takes personal credit for that meditation. He says it was taught to him by higher order beings.
I've watched his entire FOL series on video, both versions, and I've met him and trained with him. I don't believe everything he believes. A good bit of it I put in the maybe pile. But I, personally, never picked up even a whiff of arrogance from him. If anything, I think he may be a little credulous about accepting a lot of other people's work at face value.
His claims, in terms of life experience may seem somewhat outlandish but I've experienced too much outlandish shit myself to discount things simply because they seem outlandish. Life is a constant source of amazement to me and I believe a lot of things today that I didn't 20 years ago because I've personally experienced a lot of otherworldly things. So I won't write off even his most out there shit. I also definitely get the impression that Drunvalo believes Drunvalo. I've looked him in the eye and felt him to be very sincere. I've also met him on the interplanes and found him to be very sincere and very helpful.
The proof is in the pudding and that's what it really comes down to for me. His sacred geometry work is solid and sacred geometry was my gateway drug. And that merkaba meditation, as he teaches it, is one of the single most important things I've ever done. I still do it every day because I've learned the hard way that it's necessary for me. And GA is right. His heart meditation is also very powerful. His central work is solid. So I stand by that work.
23. Earlier, i wrote, "Legends link him to both Hermes and Thoth". The last one was a mistake, meant to write Enoch, not Thoth.
Hi again LaVaughn,
I only mentioned a couple of brief examples, another quick red flag is that he claims to be a walk in E.T. of the Melchizedek Consciousness which is apparently higher than that of Christ Consciousness... Let that sink in for a moment, this aging, non radiant, fairly materialistic man is at a higher frequency or consciousness state than that of Christ Consciousness and Christ himself.
It doesn't get anymore self aggrandizing and self delusional than that imo (though Teal is quickly approaching that loftiness in her increasing claims), and that doesn't mean i lack for an open mind or have a lack of out there experiences or perceptions. There are other things in that book that raise red flags for me, but if i wanted to cite everyone, i would have to go back and read most of the book, and write a goodly amount of stuff down.
I would say that i have a fairly open mind, but i realize you don't know me from Adam, so i will give a very brief background. I was always a pretty intuitive person from a young age, could see into people very well and deeply--said some pretty unusual things to my parents around the time i was 4 or so (about what i wanted to be and would be when i grew up, talked about the importance of compassion, the necessity to address suffering in the world, etc). But some awarenesses got covered over for awhile, until around the start of puberty when i started to have a spiritual-intuitive re-awakening. Started receiving insights about the Oneness of life, the supreme importance of love and positive service. Started meditating and then also studying various metaphysics like astrology, numerology, etc at that age. Other lives and karma just made sense--couple of years later started to become aware of some of my other lives via dreams about being in a library or the like. Eventually started having some E.T. contacts and experiences, among some other non mainstream things.
Currently, make very little money, working in home with children who have disabilities, but i'm a pretty consistently happy and at peace sort (usually, not always, i have plenty of stuff to work on). All i really care about is growing in love, improving self so to have a positive influence on the Whole, and being of helpful service to others.
Anyways, i'm touching on some very general, brief outlines just to point out that i'm both a very intuitive and pretty open minded person because of my intuitiveness and because of nonphysical/spiritual type experiences and insights i've had and the research i've done for 20+ years now, but i also practice spiritual discernment and skepticism. I have been briefly hoodwinked once myself--not by a charismatic teacher/leader type, but by a teaching, a course, a book (with strong connections to MK Ultra project).
24. Since then, i have really looked more deeply with greater discernment into the New Age world and phenomena and have found it sorely lacking in real teachers and teachings in any more really deep, pure, spiritually transformative, and undistorted sense. It has become such a business, and that's not even addressing the manipulation from those some call the elite and the like or hindering spiritual influences (nonphysical, E.T., etc). Mostly when i look at outer sources (not much anymore, i prefer to go within), i most like reading about NDE's because they don't tend to be so laden with various belief system baggage or the strong desire of folks to become exalted spiritual leaders. Some folks connected to The Monroe Institute and Bob Monroe and Bob himself seem fairly good and ok--my wife and i spent our honeymoon there taking the Gateway Voyage program--was pretty cool. Actually was friends with his long time explorer Rosalind McKnight--she wrote one of the best and most holistic spiritual books i've yet to read, one that really rung the truth bells deeply and constantly--Cosmic Journeys (can be read for free online i think) --she made no exalted claims for herself---she was truly a humble and down to earth lady (she passed away a few years ago as a more elderly person).
Anyways, all that being said, i understand you still have no real reason to trust me or my perceptions, and i don't expect you to. However, if you are ever so inclined or curious, i think it might be interesting for self and/or others if you would sometime during a regular meditation, state the specific intent/affirmation i outlined earlier, along with feeling love and gratitude and ask those most expanded sources with no preconceptions what the real deal is about this guy Dru and whether he is as high as he claims. I would be curious to see what you get.
I've used this method myself a number of times have been told things contrary to what my personality/conscious mind had preconceived--perceptually, it's one of the ways to get out of the hamster wheel of limited beliefs and perceptions--especially if combined with living a life of positivity, love, service, gratitude and working on ones shadow aspects. All of which i do sense about you, and do appreciate you taking on the Teal issue.
Anyways, i won't write anymore about D.M. here--said all there is to say. Back to the soap opera of Teal.
25. Noncast: Veganism pt 1
The most recent not-podcast on veganism was notable for a number of reasons: There was very little discord between teal and Sarbdeep. It contained a couple of citations, although said citations were the Akashic record and lacked any other substantiation or explanation of process. It contained one valid argument from teal, valid but not necessarily sound. They both looked smashing -- the sari was really beautiful and a good color for her, so that makes for a nice change.
The teacast is still marred, however, by the problems that characterize all things teal: opinion stated as fact, lack of sourcing for assertions of fact, argument from entirely arrogated authority, overly idealized rationalizations not bolstered by fact or pragmatism, internal contradictions, and utterly fallacious statements.
One of the things we noticed was that while the Swans were largely in agreement, the basis for their pro-vegan opinions were framed very differently. Sarbdeep spoke almost entirely from his own experience and process. As usual, teal made a lot of authoritative pronouncements and assumed a universality that is not well supported.
As ever teal put herself in the position of speaker for the "universal perspective." Add this to the list of completely outrageous and arrogant tealisms. If teal believes, as she claims to, that all is one and one is all, she should know that this is a fallacious claim. If all of us are universe, and I certainly believe that we are, there is no one who is not speaking from a universal perspective ever. It would be impossible to not speak from a universal perspective. None of us could stop speaking from a universal perspective if we tried.
The topic of vegetarianism is a very charged one. In my experience, health and nutrition, in general, are extremely divisive and contentious issues. Everyone who makes these arguments cites a lot of "facts" but the vast majority prove to be matters of dispute and contradictory research findings. This is why I take the view that health and nutritional needs are highly individualized and that each of us needs to eat in the way that works best for us. My husband is a vegetarian and eats a largely vegan diet. I was a vegetarian but am not any more because it turned out to be disastrous for my health.
According to teal, I must have been eating a very poor vegetarian diet and/or I must have believed my health would suffer. But teal would be exactly wrong. I read all the books and ate a very solid vegetarian diet with lots of rice, beans, whole grains, and vegetables. And I bought the vegetarian narrative completely. I fully expected it to improve my health and energy level. It did not. I was a vegetarian for years, reading this, tweaking that, waiting for the promised great health to commence. I got worse and worse. I was a mess.
26. Noncast: Veganism pt 2
Part of the problem appears to have been that I had undiagnosed food allergies and gluten intolerance. These problems were greatly exacerbated by my vegetarian diet. When I began working with a chiropractor kinesiologist who diagnosed the food allergies, I removed said allergens from my diet but continued to eat a strict vegetarian diet. My health definitely improved, and although it's difficult to eat a healthy gluten free vegetarian diet, it's possible. I ate oodles of brown rice, vegetables, tofu... I made beautiful, delicious, and very creative meals. The only meat derivative I ate was traces in the vitamin C tablets he gave me. He explained that the research this was based on showed that vitamin C supplementation was not processed properly by the body without those extracts. I wasn't happy about it but when I took them, I felt better. In addition, he pressed me strongly to resume eating some forms of meat because his tests showed that my body needed it. I resisted because of moral qualms. This was a man who had absolutely established his credibility with me through drastic improvements to my health. I would have jumped off a bridge if he'd said it would help, but eating flesh was a bridge too far.
During a vacation on the Cape, while I was sitting by the ocean, the sea creatures began to talk to me, insisting that it was not wrong to eat them, that it was part of the natural process of life on Earth. I was suddenly awash in memories of fishing with my family as a child, of being totally in touch with that life/death process. Having made my peace with the sea creatures, I resumed eating seafood. I felt much better. But my chiropractor pleaded with me to get in a room with a piece of chicken because my body simply needed more animal protein. When I finally resumed eating chicken and other poultry, the difference in my health was dramatic enough to convince me that he was right.
I know that my experience is not unusual. I know a lot of former vegetarians who found their health suffered, despite following the guidelines, getting enough protein, and eating lots of vegetables. One friend had become so ill, her thyroid so out of whack, that her hair started falling out by the fistful, and her skin was pasty and broken out -- all despite reading all the books and following all the relevant nutritional advice. There were many visits to doctors and nutritionists insisting that she go back to eating meat. When she finally did, her health finally began correcting itself, her skin cleared up and took on a healthy glow, her hair grew back, she lost weight.
This is all anecdotal, but there's enough data to support the need for meat for at least a portion of the population, that a) it merits consideration, and b) I really do wish that self-righteous vegetarians with all their insistence that anyone can live healthfully as a vegetarian would just shut the fuck up.
Peter D'Adamo, naturopath and author of Eat Right 4 Your Type claims that only people with type A blood are natural vegetarians. It's very difficult for B types and nigh well impossible for type O people. His findings, like all research into health and nutrition, are disputed. Like most alternative health claims -- say, the merits of a vegan diet -- his work has not gained acceptance by mainstream science. Again, this is anecdotal, but everyone I know who's gone to D'Adamo -- and I've known a number of his patients through the years -- has seen major health improvement. Also purely anecdotal: my husband is type A, I'm type B, and my friend whose hair fell out on a vegetarian diet, is type O.
27. Noncast: Veganism pt 3
If this article in Psychology Today is to be believed, the vast majority of vegetarians -- roughly 75% -- go back to eating meat, nearly half of those for health reasons. Said one respondent to their survey, "I was very weak and sickly. I felt horrible even though I ate a good variety of foods like PETA said to."
This is what bothers me about, not just teal, but preachy vegetarians in general. They make assumptions about other people's health based on their own idealized view of reality. They let the ideology drive the facts when it really should be the other way 'round.
In the universe according to teal, vegetarianism and veganism are the natural result of spiritual evolution, which is offensive enough to those of us for whom meat is a health necessity. I guess we're just not very spiritually evolved. If Dr. D'Adamo is right, O types are doomed to be spiritual troglodytes.
Funnily, my vegetarian husband doesn't feel that he attained any great spiritual milestone. He just found that, eliminating meat improved his health. It was a largely pragmatic decision. Health and fitness are fairly important to a martial artist and Marine Corps Officer. And, for him, for today, this is the diet that works.
Also, he and I both believe in touching the world lightly, so if no animals die for him, he's good with that. Unlike so many vegetarians, however, he's never preachy or judgy about it all. He fully respects that what works for him doesn't work for everybody. He also says that in a survival situation, he'd eat whatever he needed to eat, even if that meant the "custom of the sea."
Minutes in, teal starts contradicting herself within her spiritual means vegetarian argument. As per teal, as we become aware of oneness, we also begin to eschew meat. We stop fearing death and our survival instinct ceases. With this comes an awareness that everyone is you. So when we kill to eat we're effectively killing ourselves and horrified at the idea... Huh? So when our survival instinct fades into the bliss of conscious oneness, we're more disturbed by killing and death? Makes zero sense.
There were multiple assertions of fact that seemed to make as little sense and were, as per usual, absent any kind of reference or citation. We can infer that teal read Diet for a Small Planet -- didn't we all -- but does not to appear to have looked at more recent work. The bulk of her arguments are woefully outdated and do not consider other research either in support of vegetarianism or omnivorism.
For instance she talked a good bit about eating rice and beans to add up to "complete protein." This idea has been pretty well debunked. Not even the author of Diet for a Small Planet subscribes to this view any longer.
28. Noncast: Veganism pt 4
She also asserts that B12 doesn't require supplementation in vegans because it's produced in the human body by bacteria. It turns out this is a heavily debated issue as it's produced mostly in healthy, lower intestines with lots of intact beneficial flora -- a major problem for many in our antibiotic abusing, modern world -- and it's not clear at all that the body can absorb much of it from even healthy lower intestines. B12 primarily enters the bloodstream from the ileum, the end of the small intestine, not the large intestine where it's produced.
Another puzzling assertion came up in regards to the digestive process. Meat remains largely undigested whereas vegetable matter is almost entirely digested, as per teal. She even offered statistics without citation, claiming that we only digest 10% of chicken but 80% of broccoli. This she claims is because humans, unlike cats, don't produce enough stomach acid to digest meats. The idea that we digest vegetables better than meat seemed absurd on its face. It's plant fiber that is nearly impossible to break down and can ferment in the lower intestines causing the obvious problem of intestinal gas. In fact, we eat plant fiber largely to provide water retaining "bulk" in the intestines.
I tried to run down her source for this claim. It wasn't actually hard because it appears to be well-disseminated vegetarian propaganda. I couldn't find anything backing up her statistics, but the idea that meat is very difficult to digest and vegetables easy is everywhere. To say that it is disputed is an understatement as it flies in the face of everything we know about digestion. A healthy stomach produces a great deal of pepsin and hydrocloric acid and meat is broken down pretty readily.
This provides an overview of the digestive process and explains why this particular vegetarian propaganda doesn't make any sense. This is a rather graphic description from someone who'd had a colostomy and saw what made it into the ostomy bag undigested. It wasn't the meat.
Animal sources of protein are more digestible and assimilable than vegetable sources due to the lack of fiber. This article provides a breakdown of usable protein in various foods.
* Whey protein concentrate: 100
* Whole egg: 96
* Cow milk: 87
* Fish: 78
* Beef: 76
* Chicken: 75
* Casein: 73
* Soy: 70
* Wheat gluten: 60
During teal's exegesis on our lack of adequate stomach acid (???), Sarbdeep started to become noticeably uncomfortable. It would seem that these ideas didn't go down so easy for him either. He started doing that "yeah... yeah" thing again. He grimaced, fidgeted, and at one point looked like he desperately wanted to "frame."
29. Noncast: Veganism pt 5
From his body language, Sarbdeep's discomfiture seemed to start with her claims about predators disappearing as our consciousness evolves. As per teal, in the future, there will be no predators. So say goodbye to your beloved cats because, by her own admission, they're pure predators. The idea that they will completely disappear in future is purely speculative and assumably more of teal's mysterious revealed knowledge, so there's no way to say one way or another. Who knows? But she also claims that predators are already disappearing. Again, she cites no source for this information.
It is true that populations of predators are dwindling, particularly large predators. I can see why she wouldn't want to cite the data that supports her argument, though. If she did she'd also have to admit that in every case, it's a human caused ecological nightmare. The advancement of developed civilizations have destroyed habitats and destabilized ecosystems. In case after case after case, the loss of predators is both the result of and the cause for further ecological destabilization.
Another of teal's more outrageous claims came when she stated that a hunting license would be far more expensive than purchasing food in supermarkets. There does seem to be some problem with hunting licensure in Utah. It's not the cost per se. It has to do with some complicated conservation measure that involves vouchers and raffles. So, I can see where she got this seemingly absurd idea. This is not true in states like California or Texas -- most states really -- where state resident permitting would allow a good game hunter to feed a family on far less than supermarket prices.
We agree, however, with both teal and Sarbdeep that hunting purely for sport is grotesque.
Sarbdeep shared a great deal about his personal revulsion for meat. I can respect that until it becomes a greater assumption for everybody else. Again, we're not all revolted by meat and a good many of us actually need it. He also extolled the virtues of the macrobiotic diet. Again, this is something that works for some people and good on them. But it's well documented that it doesn't work for everybody and can cause nutritional deficits. It's not advisable for children because it can stunt their growth.
The macrobiotic diet is believed to have originated in Japan, an island nation whose xenophobia and lack of nutritional resources may have resulted in island dwarfing even in the human population. The original name for Japan, bestowed by the much taller Chinese was Wo, which means dwarfs.
30. Noncast: Veganism pt 6
Throughout this not-podcast, teal claims that our ancient ancestors only ate meat for survival -- as if eating plants wasn't for survival -- and had no choice as we moved away from the equator. But while plants were more abundant in equatorial regions and were no doubt more heavily relied upon, this does not mean that meat wasn't consumed. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors probably ate what they could when they could and there is no evidence that they prioritized food sources based on anything other than availability. If plants were easier and more available, they ate those. If animal protein was easier and more available, they ate that.
The same appears to be true of indigenous tribes. Of Native American tribes, only the Choctaw relied on a mostly vegetarian diet. This appears to have been because they had little choice as their very large population had denuded game populations. They had a fairly developed agricultural civilization, but there is also evidence that they suffered from serious nutritional deficiencies.
When Weston Price set out to study the diets of pre-contact, indigenous tribes, he was surprised to learn that those that relied on animal protein and fats were substantially healthier than those that didn't. Even in South Seas islands, abundant in plant nutrition, wars broke out over access to seafood, because it was so necessary for health and survival. Price expected to find that vegan diets would be common among indigenous peoples and that their health would be better for it. He learned exactly the opposite.
If there's anything I've learned in years of studying shamanic and native practices, it's that indigenous peoples share a belief in oneness. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, as per Lawlor, the idea of separation appears to begin with the concept of negation and conceptual zero. This transition occurred in developed societies, beginning in India. Vegetarianism appears to also be result of increasingly developed civilizations. It seems to occur as we become less connected to nature and the interrelatedness of all things.
As per teal, it's spiritual evolution and our transition into oneness consciousness, that results in increasingly vegetable-based living. Everything I see tells me the opposite.
31. Noncast: Veganism pt 7
Her one cogent argument comes at the end of the teacast. She explains a kind of hierarchy. All eating involves killing conscious life because even carrots are conscious. I really appreciate that she finally acknowledged this because my biggest issue with vegetarians who claim they aren't killing anything is that plants are, by my estimation, quite conscious. Her claim, though, is that the more evolved we become, the less suffering we wish to cause, and plants, lacking a central nervous system, do not have a survival instinct. Therefore, they suffer less in dying. This is one of those very, very rare times that I've heard a clear, logical process in teal's thinking. It's a valid argument, meaning it's logical and internally congruent. Whether or not it's sound, or true, is debatable and really depends upon your belief system.
It would make just as much sense to say that plants suffer less in death because they are less removed from the consciousness of unity than we are, because they are actually smarter and more evolved than we are. This would be more consistent with a shamanic point of view as many indigenous people ascribe great wisdom the plants. It struck me as ironic -- not in either a teal or Alannis Morisette sense -- that Sarbdeep was moved by his experiences with ayahuasca towards vegetarianism. Mother Ayahuasca is a plant teacher and described by many as incredibly conscious and wise.
It seems to me that the more in touch we are with the life/death process of nature, the more comfortable we are with the simple fact that corporeal existence relies life turning itself over for life on a regular basis.
The argument teal puts forward is very pro-civilization. Higher civilizations have access to more diversity and allows for vegetarian living. But such civilizations are also increasingly disconnected from the natural world and seem less, not more, inclined towards unity consciousness. They also wreak havoc on the environment. The history of deforestation begins with the neolithic revolution, which is to say agriculture. And for all the talk about how vegetarianism is kinder to earth's resources, most forms of agriculture are anything but. The popularity in the developed world of the vegan staple, quinoa, has proved devastating to the native populations of Peru and Bolivia.
Most of teal's argument seems to reduce to the idea that the natural world is wrong. It's a little strange coming from the woman who a week before was waxing rhapsodic about the wonders of getting back to nature. But according to her the loss of animal predators is a sign of evolution, when, in fact, it's both the result and cause of ecosystem destruction. She extols the virtues of modern civilizations that allow for a healthy vegetarian diet, but such diets are rare in indigenous cultures. Civilizations are divorced from and damaging to nature in ways that hunting and gathering peoples were not. I don't see where this is such an ideal state. It seems like humans are destructive to their surroundings no matter what we do and what diets we eat. The most we can hope for is an ethic of touching the world lightly, taking no more than we need and taking our cues from the natural world and our bodies. In some cases that may mean a vegetarian diet. In many, possibly more cases, it does not.
32. Wow, thank you, LaVaughn, very informative piece and I really appreciated you sharing your experiences and perspective on this topic.
33. Noncast: Veganism addendum
So that was a long noncast. She just threw out so many unsourced assertions I thought it merited a bit of digging to see if I could trace some of it back to something factual.
In looking it over, I find that I left out one of the funniest bits. She kept referring to meat as a novelty, because it was once so challenging to obtain. I think the word she was going for was "luxury." That should tell you something about the importance our ancestors placed on it. But there was nothing novel about meat and there is certainly nothing novel about it now. Meat products are ubiquitous. Not as ubiquitous as processed carbohydrates, which promise much emptier calories than meat ever could, but ubiquitous all the same.
Anyway, the third or fourth time she referred to meat as novel, my husband just lost his shit, "Meat is not a novelty! A chipwich! Now that's a novelty!"
34. Hmmm, a big can of worms in these latest posts... I suppose i will keep it to my experience. At age 16, stopped eating pork and beef purely for health reasons, as my body was very toxic and imbalanced. Along with some other changes, eventually helped quite a bit.
Then some years later, just lost the taste/interest for meat all together. Not sure what happened, but since i was learning about factory farming, etc, a little while AFTER those initial feelings/change, it was a very easy transition to go vegetarian. Felt pretty good body wise--better than ever.
Tried to eat vegan, but didn't feel as good, so i stopped.
So i ate pretty strictly vegetarian for about 10 years or so. For whatever reason, i felt nudged to occasionally eat some wild caught fish--primarily Alaskan Salmon and sardines. That's been the last few years or so. Don't eat fish particularly often, but i don't have any problems ethically nor energetically with eating it. Would say that i feel slightly better than when a strict vegetarian. But really what has changed my sense of health the most is cutting out a lot of sugar and carbs (not all by any means), and eating A LOT more non starchy vegetables.
I've noticed for some reason that women as a trend don't tend to do as well on a strict vegetarian diet--i'm not fully sure why, just a fairly repeated observation.
I have a lot of respect for people that hunt and fish their own food. What i don't agree with is big agribusiness factory farming and supporting that. From a purely health viewpoint, it's either better to hunt your own, or at least get it from a small family type farm wherein the animal lives a more happy and natural lifestyle.
35. In any case, i think there are a lot of factors to consider in this topic--it's far from black and white on either side. Contributing to extreme animal suffering by supporting big agribusiness factory farming doesn't strike me as particularly in the spirit of Oneness or Love... but neither is denouncing all meat eaters or anyone who isn't eating strictly vegan. Like all things, there is a balance to consider.
I know for myself, that i feel best when i eat mostly vegetarian and occasionally pescatarian despite that i'm O negative blood type. Actually, i'm not so sure i buy into the eat for your blood type thing because it's based on a very mainstream and limited understanding of human history and evolution, that doesn't account for things like Atlantis, Lemuria, and the like, nor crustal shifts, consciousness influencing matter, and other factors that throw some monkey wrenches into these theories.
At the end of the day, i'm the biggest advocate for paying attention to one's own body and following ones own inner guidance and intuition. If more did this more consistently, there would be no need for diet fads, endless conflicting theories, and other distractions. Our internal guidance system knows what is best for us, and that can be different for different people.
Some people are so barely connected to their bodies and to the earth, that eating some healthy and responsibly sourced flesh foods can have a positive grounding influence. Some are so innately grounded and not particularly in a positive way, that eating less flesh foods can help a lot. Pretty wide spectrum out there. I will say, when i look into the further future and a much different humanity, i do see vegetarianism and pescatarianism as much more common.
I don't follow Teal Swan much at all except for these recent blogs, but i suspect it's another case of her using half or partial truths and twisting same to her advantage. Negative nonphysicals and E.T.'s know that there is a strong movement among younger generations towards that of the vegetarian, vegan, and/or more conscious type diets. It might be another hook, because i don't think Teal is on her own... she is a channel of a sorts alright, but not for the forces of Light--she is connected to some rather limited and limiting energies in the guise of the Light.
36. Earlier i wrote, " But really what has changed my sense of health the most is cutting out a lot of sugar and carbs (not all by any means), and eating A LOT more non starchy vegetables. "
I really should add in combination with the above, cutting out all the commonly "allergenic" foods like gluten, corn, soy, peanuts, cow dairy,etc and the more commonly G.M.'ed foods, in combo with the above has made the most difference. Technically, i do eat a little soy occasionally, but mostly the very fermented forms likes soy sauce, miso, and occasionally a little tempeh--and all of these always organic.
Most forms of soy i have found as quite mucous forming and hard to digest for my body.
Noticed my body can handle a wee bit of gluten in the right forms. Don't do it often because it's a pain in the butt, but occasionally i make both sprouted and then sourdoughed Kamut and/or Spelt bread. That and beer doesn't seem to bother my system but then again i'm don't have full on celiac.
Diet and health is a HUGE subject--i'm still very much learning despite being actively interested in holistic/alternative and more diet based health concepts for almost a couple of decades.
An odd trick i learned from the Cayce readings, to help with eating more vegetarian and to be healthy doing so, is to take just raw egg yolks and put it in beer (stir out carbonation). Helps with any tendency to vegetarian type anemia or the like. Never gotten sick once from it in the many years i've been doing it, though of course i don't use huge factory farm t ype eggs--we had chickens for a year or so, but they kept getting killed somehow, so stopped.
37. I'm with ya, Justin, on factory farming. It's not good for anyone's health, not the livestock, the plants, the bees, us. It's horrible. I also totally agree that the most important thing is listening to your body, your instincts, your guides. There's no one size fits all diet.
On the soy, there's some indication that unfermented soy can be really problematic because of the phytoestrogens. Again, I think some people digest it fine and have no problems but other people, not so much. And traditionally soy has always been fermented, which breaks the estrogen down somehow and makes it all more digestible.
38. As for her claim that nutritional yeast is great for B12 vitamin..."yeast cannot produce B12, which is only naturally produced by bacteria. Some brands of nutritional yeast, though not all, are fortified with vitamin B12. When fortified, the vitamin B12 is produced separately (commonly cyanocobalamin) and then added to the yeast." Same as in fortified soy beverages, some brands of almond milk, etc...
39. I got an impression that Teal was a bit tired (big yawn in the beginning) but 10 mins or so into the video she starts to perk up. Also, esp. in the beginning, I noticed, Sarbdeep was playing with his wedding band...instead of his usual mudra.
40. Ecosystem requires such a delicate balance.
Deers are cute and vegetarian, and have those big beautiful innocent eyes...and yet they might be quite harmful to their environmental niche if life gets too easy and safe for them and their popuation grows... without those "spiritually sentenced to die off" predators to take care of that.
Beautiful short clip on the subject " Reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone National Park":
41. Speaking of our ancestors and their hunting ways...
I agree. So maybe in order to be less destructive there should be less of us, humans, running around?
42. When teal says that predators will disappear, does it mean they go the way of dinosaurs or they will become vegetarians (the lion will lie down peacefully next to the lamb prophecy) ??? Cs these beautiful creatures will surely be missed :-((
43. Elena, she looked exhausted. They both did. They picked an odd day to talk about the wonders of their vegetarian diet. They weren't exactly poster children for the benefits, but we know they don't always look like that.
Good catch on the brewer's yeast. I missed that. The canards were coming 90 miles an hour weren't they. Wow but she believes a lot of stuff. And the thing is, I think she really does believe it. This is something my husband and I were discussing recently. She most likely believes in things every bit as emphatically as she states them. She needs to. Black and white thinking, splitting, is a feature of a number of personality disorders and it's very pronounced in BPD. Borderlines live in a world of extremes. There's no middle ground. She can't be wrong because wrong is on the black side of a black and white world. So all she speaks is truth. it has to be the truth or she falls afoul of herself. Can't go there. There be dragons. Me, I like dragons. I also really like shades of grey.
Sarbdeep was playing with his wedding band. Missed that as well. Poor Sarbdeep. All that fidgeting and framing and "yeah... yeah... yeah..." We think it's indicative of him wrestling with his cognitive dissonance. He's all in. He's radically changed his entire life. He's moved to another country. His thoughts have to be congruent with those actions. They have to. And by his own admission, he was drawn to her because she seemed so clear and certain. So she can't be wrong. There be dragons.
44. Thanks for that wolf video. Wolves rock. I have a wolf thing. I'm reading the Fire and Ice books, you know, Game of Thrones. Incredibly awesome. And I love the dire wolves. What a concept. Those books are sooooo good.
Apparently the wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone is imperiled by poachers and ranchers who consider them a menace.
It's honestly astounding how much damage human blundering can do. So much of conservation now is trying to undo a lot of the damage we've done, some of it very well intended. We think we're so bloody smart. How many times do we have to screw things up before we learn to shut up and listen? Nature is always smarter. It's not perfect but it works pretty well until we start mucking up the works. Like trying to cure famine through GMOs. That's how dumb we are. We rape and pillage ecosystems, destroy regions like Sub-Saharan Africa, and then say, no we can fix the abject poverty we've created through pharmaceuticals and GMO grains. Christ, we're like a virus.
45. I like wolves too. Here's another clip featuring them, it's in Russian but the video is nice to watch. About friendship:
46. Oh, so it's no wonder they appeared tired- being in the middle of moving would do this to you. In her new "begin anew" (got it right this time;) post, teal wrote they only have 5 days left in the house. I couldn't help but notice she used "anew" at least three times throughout her article, but in the last paragraph there is this sentence: "All guilt, all sorrow, all fear, and all resentment can be left behind as we begin a new this very instant." A new what? The very last sentence, however, explains: "Each moment is an opportunity for a new beginning."
I hate moving. I usually like exploring new places, and novelty they bring, but I really don't enjoy the actual moving process, packing and all the other hassle involved. I'll be moving soon myself... again. Just thinking about getting rid of all the stuff makes me tired. Not that I've accumulated much in my last 1,5 yrs in Toronto, but still.
47. I remembered about the yeast from another teal's interview with that french lady, Lisa Marie I think is her name. They were discussing nutrition and LM asked Teal about vitB12, and teal stated the same. Actually she repeated a lot of information she shared that time word for word in this teacast. So, I went to the health store and it wasn't indicated on the pack if the flakes fortified or not. But I got them and actually enjoy sprinkling on everything now, the taste is interesting. And in any case, this yeast naturally has other B vitamins and is a complete protein. I almost never eat meat these days. It's happened naturally, I never consciously made a decision to stop eating it, but overtime I craved less and less. Growing up, I had to eat what was put in front of me and back then in Russia, in our family, meat was a must daily, sometimes several times per day. Well, in those days over there, it would've been really, really hard to be a vegetarian anyway, because nothing fancy was imported from overseas, and we never knew what quinoa was, or avocado or soy or mango, or so many other things. Only local products and only seasonally were available. So as a vegetarian, you'd be eating only potatoes and pasta during wintertime....not very smart. On a plus side, we weren't exposed to so much processed foods, or chips, no fast food joints, no pizza, no chips...We also had our own garden.
Anyway, once I was on my own and free to eat whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, my diet started to change. I always liked veggies and fruits and preferred wholesome meals. And I loved seafood, I was never a huge meat lover. Also, when I had started to live in much warmer climates, I noticed I crave meat less and less...pork started to seem smelly to me, beef -too heavy, lamb - too gamey, and chicken tasteless and booooring. I started to eat LOTS of fish. But then, overtime, especially in the last 1.5 years I don't crave seafood too all that much. I used to have sushi every week, for example, but now...maybe once every couple of months or so. I tried to cut the dairy out completely at some point (that was a conscious decision), but after some time I started to miss it terribly. Sometimes I just FEEL that I need to drink a cup of milk, or eat that cheese. And I love yogurt. I do go for organic or goat and sheep's these days.My grandma lived on milk throughout her childhood and youth and never stopped drinking it. She is now 90 and still lives on her own, very sharp and fairly healthy considering. I think, if generation after generation survived in the villages thanks to cows, these people have little problems with lactose intolerance. Just ask those Dutch (and how tall they are btw!!) or demand french and swiss to give up their dairy. Like you said, LV, the digestive problems are more often caused by some vegetables. Brocolli, cabbage also beans are the most likely offenders and fruits can cause gas, grapes, for example, don't agree with some people. But I wouldn't force diary on Asians...historically they never consumed it and now those who live in western countries might have some problems with lactose. But then there are no rules, like mentioned in other comments, this is so individual. For example, my brother always hated milk and isn't crazy about cheeses. He loves to drink kefir though.
48. Another observation from the tea podcast. Sarbdeep mentioned that if only people saw the animals being killed, instead of just buying these clean, nicely packaged pieces, everyone would become vegetarian. That people don't realize that these cuts were once a part of a cute live animal...yeah, I can see this point- you don't think of that in the supermarket. But I would say this is mostly applies to the city dwellers, or those who might've never been exposed to where the food comes from and if they would see, say, a chicken being killed, they'd be in shock. Well, I spent a fair amount of my summers as a child living in the villages, and observed how farmers had no problems raising the animals, killing them, then making all those bloody sausages (stuffed into the cleaned intestines) and then devouring all those delicacies with lots of pleasure and little remorse. But yeah, agree, what is shocking, and to anyone sane, is how animals are treated (and how meat is treated too before it makes its way to the shelves) within the mass produced food industries. Movies like Earthlings, Forks over Knife, Food Inc. were disturbing to watch to say the least yet one has to be aware of what's happening.
49. LaVaughn wrote, "Borderlines live in a world of extremes. There's no middle ground. "
It's interesting that you say this. About a week and a half ago, a friend of mine into spirituality asked me to check out Teal Scott/Swan and see what kind of impressions i got from her (previously, i knew nothing about her). So i checked out a couple of videos. One of the things i told him was that i got the sense that she was an Uranian extremist and rarely experiences balance or integration.
In the astrology that i use to study, i most associate the Planet Uranus with that of extremes. When i call someone a Uranian, a Neptunian, etc, etc, what i mean is that the nonphysical dimension that they were primarily focusing in before they entered into the Earth, connects to that particular planet energetically and symbolically. In the chart, it's the planet that is most highlighted and strong, which represents the nonphysical consciousness we were at before entering in here. What's odd about Uranians is that their Spirits or "Higher selves" are combining both very slow vibratory (limited) aspects and energies in with fast vibratory (expanded, spiritualized) within their personality and this lifetime, but little to no in between and true Uranians see saw between these extremes, which in turn makes them tend to the extremes in almost every aspect of their lives. They most need to cultivate moderation and balance (and often times a sense of humility with true spiritual ideals based on Love), but that's the hardest thing for them to develop.
I don't know anything about borderline personality disorder or what not, but it's interesting that there is that connection. Not all strong Uranian types though, i would class as having a disorder, but the ones that do, are well more...extreme cases often.
quick p.s. (in the astrology i've come to use, often the Planets are much, much more significant than the Zodiacal signs as far as core and strongest traits).
50. Hi Elena,
Goat and Sheeps milk and their various other cultured products are excellent. They are MUCH easier to digest than non cultured cow dairy, and of course the cultured versions take so little energy to digest and digest very fully. I would say that Goat milk Kefir is a borderline "super food".
When hard core vegans say that there are no healthy animal or animal by product foods, i would point out goat and sheep dairy. I use to live in MA on the border of New Hampshire, which at the time allowed the sale of raw milk. So i would go up there to a small farm with goat's. That raw goat milk was amazing, my body simply craved the stuff. Raw Goat's or Sheep's milk, provided it's from healthy animals eating healthily, are the only foods that can be substituted for mother's milk for an infant that an infant will truly thrive on and become healthy from (though Mother's milk is even better). An infant can survive on infant formula, but thrive not so much.
There are some people who can digest non cultured cow dairy, but thanks to my strongly Celtic ancestry (lot's o' Scottish), i'm definitely not one of them. If i drink even a small glass of cow milk, the next few days i'm extra mucous filled, sneezing, feeling the need to hock lugees (hmm, never tried to spell that before, no idea how it's spelled), etc (i know, wonderful imagery, sorry about that).
Can do cow milk yogurt in moderation, but hard to find brands that source only from truly more kind and sustainable dairy farms. I can't say for certain, but my sense is that goats and sheep tend to be treated better than cows, simply because they are not so mass produced and more of a specialty kind of animal. Goats are also intelligent and aware as hell, and can be feisty to boot, and so will put up less with human shenanigans and abuse unlike more passive/docile cows. Go Goats! (my goat prejudice has nothing to do with being born under Capricorn Sun, i swear... ;)
51. Hi Justin,
I was just about to ask you: and how do you determine your Planet?
52. Another thought has occurred as I was munching just now on an apple. Sarbdeep, when explaining his revulsion to meat, says "why would you eat death, something which is dead". Well, I'm pretty sure that this apple I just had (organic, but still sold in plastic bags, the stem completely dry) has been dead for longer than any meat in the nearest supermarket. I'm not picking on Sarbdeep, I actually used to think the same, but now, could someone pls say what is a live food?How much life there is in the carrots that are now lying cold in my fridge? I do remember eating tomatoes, berries as I was gathering them in my basket without even washing them, with the soil crunching on my teeth (btw, potentially another weird source of this B12vitamin, lol), eating apples, pears, cherries straight from the tree, while sitting on the branch, in our garden. But how often, realistically, can you do it? I guess, the only really alive food I ate most recently was a dozen of oysters...but this is actually so mean if you think about it.
And what does your spiritual friend, the one who forwarded the links with teal, think about her? just curious
54. "I was just about to ask you: and how do you determine your Planet?"
Here are some pointers, but it tends to take a lot of practice, and the ability to see the chart as both a whole and in details at the same time.
The things i look at first are Angularity. Angular Planets tend to be very strong, active Planets. Planets in or near 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th House cusps. Above all the Ascendant/Rising degree is the most singularly sensitive point in a chart. Planets conjunct (close to) same, tend to be very, very highlighted in the psyche of the person. But Planets in the 1st House, or even sometimes the Planet closest to the Ascendant degree become very highlighted.
The next thing i look most at, is the traditional ruler of the Ascendant Sign and the strongest aspects to same. For example, say a person has Libra Rising, then Venus being the ruling Planet of the Ascendant sign becomes a very sensitive symbol. So, say Mars is closely conjunct Venus in this person's chart. Well, expect a very Fiery, individualistic, shorter tempered and less tolerant type person than Libra Ascendant would normally signify. In other words, Mars becomes very highlighted via the Conjunction to the ruler of the Ascendant/Rising.
Where it gets tricky is the relativity and complexity. Say someone has Neptune in the First House (with Cancer Rising) but not near the Ascendant degree, but Mercury is in the 10th House, is closely square the Rising degree and closely conjunct the Moon, the ruler of the Ascendant. Chances are, Mercury will be even more highlighted than Neptune in that chart. Simplified, you could say Mercury and then Neptune are the strongest Planets, with a slight predominance to Mercury, but almost on par.
Then throw freewill into the mix, and things can get really confusing! Charts cannot and do not show freewill and how that has or may influence the Chart. Charts are static, people aren't. A better and more up to date way to read people or self is via auras and aura colors. This too relates to astrology in some ways, but the aura is always up to date and accounts for/reflects current use of freewill.
So with an astrology chart, someone may have been born with a very strong Jupiter, Neptune, Mercury, Venus, etc in that order of strength, BUT if they choose to use their freewill very positively in this life, dedicate self to growing in Love, being of helpful service to others, etc, etc then they may grow more to the Solar or even Arcturian type consciousness. (Vice versa, someone starting off with a strong Solar and/or Arcturian consciousness may grow to a more Galactic Center type consciousness)
Or in aura terms, they go from tending to have a lot of purple and bluish violet type shades in their aura (signified by Jupiter and Neptune being predominant), to having a lot of golden in their aura (Sun and Arcturus).
It's a very deep subject, with many interconnecting layers. I don't really use astrology anymore myself, as i prefer to connect more to inner guidance and intuition. But, a practice of same can help to really hone intuition initially.
55. "but now, could someone pls say what is a live food?"
I've usually seen it defined as food that has enzymes and active enzymatic processes still going on. Foods usually spoil because of one or more combo of 3 processes. Enzymes within the food breaking the food down (which also happens in your digestive system also), oxidation breaking the food down, and micro organisms breaking the food down (also happens in your digestive system).
A long ago picked apple may still have some enzymes left if it hasn't actively spoiled at all yet, but probably not much. Some foods seem to last longer with this than others, like say lemons.
A lot of raw foodists will not heat a food above 118 degrees as to preserve enzymes because heat above same start to break down or inactivate enzymes, which is why lot's of time food that will be frozen is often blanched at first (quick boiled) as to stop enzymatic reactions, which further prolongs the shelf life of said food.
The theory behind it is that enzymes are catalysts that help to break down and digest foods, so when you eat foods that have a lot of enzymes left in them, it won't take away as much energy from your digestive system to break it down...
However, what raw foodists miss is that not all enzymes are good (some are anti nutrients), and plenty of super healthy foods actually become easier to digest with some cooking--particularly Cruciferous veggies or things like asparagus, etc. And they also miss the point you pointed out, by the time that you get to that piece of fruit or vegetable, chances are in many cases a lot of enzymes have started to become depleted. Now fresh picked food is awesome.
Personally, i feel better with a balance. I do like to eat a lot of raw food, especially mixed green salad, but i eat plenty of cooked foods, especially a lot of veggies in the form of steamed or soups. We had a garden going last year, but unfortunately we don't get enough sun and so it was only so so, and kind of disappointing. But gardens are where it's at, if you want truly life giving food. Next best thing are regular farmer markets. Lettuces and leafy greens imo, are the best things besides fruits to eat raw.
But nothing wrong with some cooked food and again some otherwise very healthy foods really need cooking to become more digestible. Like a lot of movements, there is some relative truth to the raw foodist thing, but it's definitely not the whole pie. Llllghhllghlll pie... (getting hungry with all this talk of food).
56. "And what does your spiritual friend, the one who forwarded the links with teal, think about her? just curious"
Well, he wrote a comment, on the last page of the "Who and What is Teal Scott" blog article. My friend's name is Albert. This is what he wrote over there (i made him aware of this site, after he asked me to look into her).
Albert wrote, "Please people, use your discrimination! Don't learn the hard way that there are a lot of false masters out there. Does Teal feel as if she is radiating a lot of love and wisom? I can't say I feel it. And no, I'm not jealous. Certainly your Soul is wise enough to find truth without being misled by the false masters of this World."
I will give a quick little fill in for my friend. When he first started on a spiritual path many years ago, he got involved heavily with Eastern based beliefs and paths, and became involved with a guru based group. The guru of his group, like many gurus have, claimed enlightenment for himself. Eventually Albert realized that his guru was not completely honest and all that he claimed and like many gurus used cultish, psychological influencing type tactics. He wasn't super abusive/extreme like some gurus have been, but he definitely wasn't a pure channel of Source either.
Albert got kind of turned off from the spiritual scene for awhile because of fake teachers, became semi atheist or agnostic for a little while, but he had some spontaneous spiritual/nonphysical type experiences which led him back to a spiritual path, but this time with a lot more emphasis on going within and contacting internal guidance. He eventually, after a period of time, built up a lot of trust in his guidance and that the process was real. Like me, his guidance has made him aware of a lot of things that deal with the bigger picture of what's going on with this earth. Like me, he has been shown some of the hidden hindering forces that are involved with humanity.
We both think that some guru or spiritual wannabe teacher types end up building strong energetic connections to some very "unspiritual" beings. These are sometimes former not so nice/immature humans, and sometimes these are a particular E.T. group. The latter is more effective in their efforts at meddling and they've been doing it for a very long time. I don't know if he believes this applies to Teal Swan or not--we haven't talked too much about it. Nor am i sure what to think either, so far i'm leaning to it--she would be a great person to influence to mislead more people. As she constantly mentions, she's got the pretty packaging, and knows how to work it especially on men, and also on women tending to the vain themselves.
Btw, my friend wrote a couple of books based on his experiences and guidance. One is called "Joining the Oneness: Beyond Nonduality" and the other is "A Night in Heaven". His full name is Albert A. Haust. I don't generally "plug" his books, but it felt right to mention them. He is one of the most sincere, spiritually dedicated, and more humble people i know or have so far met. While he makes no claims for himself, my sense is that he came into this Earth from a pretty expanded dimension/consciousness, and less for himself and more for service at this important time. But, he is not my teacher, we both look to those or that level which is much more expanded than ourselves, and contact them from deep within.
57. I have absolutely, totally and without a shadow of doubt about it, had my fill of other people trying to tell me what I should or should not eat, what I should or should not think, what I should or should not do, what I should or should not wear, and what my purpose in live should be.
I will eat what I want to eat, think whatever I want to think, do whatever I want to do, wear whatever I feel like wearing and passionately embrace whatever purpose I feel like embracing.
That said, I do lean more toward a predominantly vegetarian diet, although I won't turn down meatloaf that my sister has made or a pepperoni pizza that my kids have ordered. Those animals gave their lives so that I can live and I don't like to think that their gift would go unappreciated, especially if they had an unpleasant life to boot. And I make the best yogurt I have ever tasted, even if it's just with store bought cow's milk.
I don't believe that predators will ever no longer be a necessary part of a balanced ecology, but I do believe that we as humankind are headed toward more humane treatment of the animals we use for food. And wouldn't it be nice to go into the woods anywhere and be able to drink water right from the earth without worrying about the pesticides or feces that probably have found their way into it?
I can't stomach anymore teal videos right now, so I won't be watching this one, not even to see what outfit teal is modeling, (ok, well, maybe I'll just take a peak, hehe), but I sure do have fun reading La Vaughn's breakdown of the videos, they are ALWAYS good for a few very satisfying laughs!
58. PS: The idea that predators will someday be phased out reminds me of a Sylvia Browne book I once tried to read because a friend of mine at the time was pushing it on me. At one point she (Browne) was going on about how on the 'other side' there is no rain and no insects and I knew right there all I needed to know about her... she was a fuckin' idiot.
59. PPS: Loved those wolf videos Elena! My dog Wolf looked exactly like a wolf (although he wasn't named for that, his full name was Wolfgang, because we love Mozart so much, hehehehehe)
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61. I watched a documentary 9 years ago - we feed the world or so. Cant remember. The result was me hysterically crying for a day and a new openess to see if I can get my protein out of plants and let go of my old food habits.
I was blessed because I grew up on a farm and learned the healthy kitchen. No packed or processed food. This seed created a healthy food behavoir in me without excluding sometimes dirty enjoyable food without guilt and all this mindfuck (like in soooo many women).
Anyway I just didn't want to be part and supporter of the meat food industry anymore...what you are whenever you put a dollar on the table for mass farm meat.
Since then I live mainly from plant food, seeds nut, sometimes goats milk. I consider myself to be on a healthy well educated vegetarian diet and not the idiot-vegetarian diet which describes people just cutting out meat and bath in processed food. Never understood this.
I am a peaceful vegetarian. When you meet me I will not attack you, try to educate you or anything else. I will anwer all your questions and will do my best to deflect an aggressive meat eater who feels attacked by my plant food diet hahahha.
I will tell you more about my ideas and knowledge and MY experience with MY body reacting to certain foods. If you ask me I will tell you about some interesting parasites (a la dr robert cassar), I will also tell you about the benefits of home enema (people are so scared of their own asses - it is RIDICULOUS), regular blood test, the horror of artificial supplements etc. I read and studied a lot, my body is my test object and I watch and observe it falling into bits or blooming like crazy.
I do think that the diets of others are not my cup of tea and I am happy when you eat meat or don't eat meat. I am a happy, peaceful vegetarian and in summers I am on a 80% raw food diet.
I like it and everybody who is telling me to eat meat can go and fuck themselves. At the same time I will also tell you full hearted and in peace: enjoy your meat. It is your way of living and good for you if it suits you.
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63. "in summers I am on a 80% raw food diet."
Hi Golden,
Yep, during high heat periods of summer is when i tend to eat a lot more raw foods (and more vegan) too, and less protein--the combo seems to help keep the body cooler. In winter, it's the opposite, especially since i love to do a lot of backpacking out in the wilderness during these times. I simply loved the "Polar Vortexes" that made their way down to VA this winter, i was out on the AT hiking and camping for most of these (yep, some think i'm looney tunes).
Anyways, i don't care too much what others do or don't say, or do or don't do themselves. If it seems to be a worthwhile debate or issue, i might throw my 2 cents in as a counter-balance, but i don't get riled up by what others express or don't anymore, cause that is really a waste of energy.
Oh and btw, my ass is awesome, simply awesome, ass of a god i tell you--if i was a super hero--my name would be ass man, and if you really want to get into it, colonics are MUCH better than even home enemas, but probably a little less comfortable for the average guy (and maybe women as well, but they tend to be a bit more secure in certain areas wherein men aren't).
Elena, this, I think, is one of the reasons higher civilizations give rise to by choice vegetarianism, whereas less developed cultures do not. I think the more detached from that process we become, the more it seems wrong. I agree that when we consider that something that is neatly wrapped in plastic was once something with a face, we can become totally horrified. But, you're right, farmers eat creatures they've named and even felt affection for, without qualm.
I think when we become too civilized we lose the sense of our real place in the food chain. People who hunt and fish to survive and face what they kill have a very different ethos. I remember seeing The Gods Must be Crazy and hearing that whole thing about the tribesmen whispering into the ears of the creature they hunted that they themselves would one day feed the smaller creatures of the Earth and thinking, um, yeah. Life feeds on life. That's just how it works here.
I also don't understand this idea that we're feeding on death when we eat animal protein but life when we eat plants. We kill everything when we eat it. Even assuming that it's somehow more "alive" when we eat it, it's gonna be killed in the digestive tract. And I don't see how eating something "alive" is any more kind. it brings up visions of the vivisectionist for me.
Justin, I think there's little doubt that one of the reasons we eat fermented foods is their digestibility. The other, more obviously, is preservation.
I learned some years ago, though, that raw dairy is far more digestible. I think a lot of the problems people ascribe to dairy come from a lifetime of consuming only ultrapasteurized dairy. That stuff'll kill ya. When I discovered raw milk, I think I got for the first time why the Hindus worship cows. It's frigging awesome and it works WONDERS for the digestion. If I can get it, I rely on raw milk. If I can't, organic, pasteurized, but not ultrapasteurized dairy is my second choice. And I eat a lot of yogurt. I couldn't digest dairy for years until I got onto a steady diet of raw milk. It really fixed a lot of what was wrong with my digestion. Fuck big agra. There's a political, agribusiness war against raw dairy and it's only because they're so threatened by it. If people really knew the truth, that they only pasteurize milk because of its shelf life and so they can sell milk from diseased cattle, they'd switch to small farm, raw dairy in a heartbeat. It's frigging awesome.
66. "Teal once stated "I will never give up on you Blake" , in one of her online workshops. What a twisted view."
GA, one of the major realizations I had about the worst, most cultish, new age teachers I ever had was this: She builds 'em up with one hand, tears 'em down with the other. Builds 'em with one hand, tears 'em down with the other.
She hobbled people. She tried one of her little, cutting swipes with me once she thought she "had" me. That was the end of that. I. Was. Gone.
In that moment, I understood the entire formula -- a psychological abuse cycle of love bombing and enough criticism to keep the people closest to her weak and dependent -- certain that they were broken and needed her to fix them. Sick, sick, sick.
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68. HAve fun guys. Just watched the new podcast and it scares me what I heard. Glad that Sarb brings some sense and great thoughts to the table. WIshing them a good marriage. Wishing Graciella that my dream mirrows her future and wish Blake a wonderful wife and child. Wishing Teal to find peace and great business. Wishing Teal followers to take in, question a lot, take some stuff on board and distinguish the smelly stuff. LaVaughn all the best to you - thank you for your grounded writing and connections to the invisible. I enjoyed the time here of reflecting a lot. Time to move on. Teal's videos and podcast turned more into entertainment than inspiration. I am leaving here by recognizing the little Teal in me and will take care of this part. Everything else is like a muddy pond with some jewels in it.
Also all the best to the invisible 2.502 curious profile checkers.
I lift my hat, all the best, much love to everybody.
Hallelujah and good bye.
And here are my best wishes for you ( :
69. Hi LaVaughn,
I lived at an intentional community for a little while, and while there partook in a "cow share", and tried doing raw cow milk from a very small local farm. It was a little bit better for me than pasteurized, but my body still had issues with digesting it (still made me mucous'y). Yet, i can drink ultra pasteurized goat milk with impunity, which says something about the digestibility of goat milk vs cow milk to me. It's less about lactose and more about the very large and gluey Casein proteins that are found in Cow milk that seem to be more the culprit than just lactose. For some reason, this is not mainstream information. Most think Cow dairy difficulties is only related to lactose sugar.
But, i think yogurt or kefir made from raw cow milk is awesome stuff, and i can do that no problem. You're lucky you can do the raw cow milk straight up though.
70. "Justin you sound a bit too excited about asses to me."
Haha Golden, no not really, was just joking around. Odd sense of humor and all.
"There is no difference between man & woman and their relationship to their inner pipe system."
You're probably right...but when you're a straight guy, there is a bit of an extra societal/cultural/ gender stigma against putting things up ones sphincter. I know at least for myself, many years ago when i went to get my first colonic i was like, "you're gonna stick THAT thing WHERE?!" It was a wee bit intimidating at first. Thankfully, she was gentle and used a lot of lube. Every guy should be so lucky their first time. After the first time, wasn't so bad.
71. Justin, thank you for taking time answering my questions. :-)
Golden Andara <3<3<3
72. My oh my...Such a serious topic and yet I had quite a few laughs, I almost choked on my tea at some point, and no, it wasn't because they were intentionally funny, it's when teal was laying out her wisdom and ideas with such an air of self-importance and self-righteousness (btw, no hint of tea in this "tea time" "podcast" video. It's a joke.) Ok, I won't say no more for now. LaVaughn, embrace yourself! Oh, you gonna have fun with your husband!!
73. I know. My husband and I looked at the topic for this one and said, um yeah, we're gonna need to be a bit more rested.
74. Good decision.
Well, I can't resist a little spoiler. This part was simply...priceless
Sarbdeep is trying to tell a story: ".....They did everything right.."
Teal interrupts: Right by human perspective (Sarbdeep gives a little nervous laugh at this point) which is a lot of lies and not really in alignment.
Sarbdeep: Ok...well...we are humans..ummm, I am human anyway and I am looking from that perspective..
Teal is laughing
Not The End.
75. I've just done some grocery shopping and yeah, want to mention that raw milk, all kinds of milk and milk products, fermented or not, must be pasteurized in Ontario. It is illegal to sell raw milk. Even if I go to a farmer, most of them are too scared now, cs of the recent case of one of them being caught, dragged thru courts and fined...
"Ontario’s top court has slapped down an Ontario farmer who has long championed the right to sell and drink unpasteurized milk.
The court upheld a 2011 conviction against Michael Schmidt that saw him fined $9,150.
In its ruling, the court said Schmidt’s “cow-share” scheme – in which consumers supposedly bought an ownership interest in a dairy cow – was little more than a way to circumvent public-health rules.
Schmidt has been involved in a 20-year battle to make unpasteurized milk available to non-farmers.
The province has always insisted the unprocessed milk poses a significant risk to public health.
The Appeal Court said it saw no solid evidence to refute that view.
Willing consumers must have the right to choose what they consume, he said, arguing the ban is a “clear violation of fundamental rights.”
The Appeal Court disagreed, saying unpasteurized milk poses a high risk to public health, and the sales ban is constitutional absent definitive evidence of any health benefits.
The impugned legislation prohibits the appellant from selling or distributing a product that certain individuals think beneficial to their health,” the court ruled.
“Lifestyle choices as to food or substances to be consumed do not attract Charter protection.”
(Globalnews.ca, March11, 2014)
These "officials" care so much about public health they ban raw milk, yet cigarettes and alcohol you can get at every corner. And McDonalds, which not just potentially- it's proven, poses a significant risk for health. Ironic.
76. Sickening. It's happening here all over the US, too. States where it used to be legal, it's banned now. They're cracking down on interstate sales. It's fucking insane. And it's all about factory farms and the power they have to shove their crap down our throats. We live in an oligarchy.
77. It sure seems we are heading this way at present...and once it's set this way for sure, globally, the coffin lid is closed on humanity and nails hammered down, the way I see it. Teal help us.
78. I'm sure she'll get to it... just as soon as she's done reforming the criminal justice system.
79. Lol, oligarchs of the world, you better be scared, be VERY scared!
TEAL vs Putin, I wanna see that!
Back to milk, while living in UAE, I used to drink guess what kind of milk? Camel! It's delicious:-) And camel milk is three times higher in vitamin C than cow's milk and 10 times higher in iron, while cholesterol is lower than cow or goat milk.
Moose milk is a new craze in Russia.
Btw, Justin the goat admirer, coincidentally (?) Teal's yesterday's blog entry is about scapegoats (Are you a scapegoat?) and is filled with goat images and a brief history of where the term came from included. What is even weirder is that just a few hours before seeing that, I came across a song, sooo hilarious -too bad it's in Russian, called "A Song about a Scapegoat" (written by now dead system fighter artist).
80. LaVaughn, have you watched that yet? See, Teal doesn't want to punish you for being such a hater- her intentional family just want to put you in a middle of their circle and chant lovingly at you. Imagine that! You'll be cured from your pain and will stop writing these wicked articles. It works 100% in some Irish alternative community (Teal doesn't remember the name, don't ask) - they are completely free from crime there (hmmmm, yet they have to perform this rituals with some offenders, so shit happens, no?)
81. ...unfortunately it didn't work on Fallon, he went psycho in that house of shared love...oh well... speaking of scapegoats...
82. I peaked. I gave myself a little preview. And WOW!
83. Oh, here's a question. Does anyone know where she's moving to. First it was "Europe." Then she hated her husband's home country. And of course she's purchased an American vehicle so I assume she's staying stateside. So where is it? Cali?
84. Yeah, people are wondering in the comments section over there, but, keeping up with the best tradition of soap opera's tried and tested formula, the episode stops at such mysterious moments, building up excitement and anticipation, so you have to keep on watching for the surprising turns and twists of this unfolding story.
Cali is doomed ( a very big tsunami is coming, remember) unless of course by virtue of teal raising vibration it will be alright after all. In that interview with Laura Marie, teal actually said that vibrationally she felt south of France would suit her the best (her vibrations have a nice taste, what can I say) and she'd move there...Time will tell.
85. Grrrr Elena, that shite makes me angry, why can't people choose for themselves?! The original laws passed in the U.S. about pasteurization did make some sense because at the time a certain percentage of Cow milk was infected with tuberculosis, but a lot of that was because Dairy farmers in certain regions went from more natural, smaller farms to first trying to cut corners to produce cow milk more abundantly and cheaply, and the cows in those certain areas (if i remember correctly, mostly in New York and New Jersey at the time) were getting pretty unhealthy and sickly. Nor were they particularly careful about storage and sterilization of containers, etc, at the time.
It's kind of an obvious that if you force an animal to change it's natural lifestyle, start feeding it foods it shouldn't eat, not give it enough space to roam, nor get sunlight, clean water, exercise, etc, well yeah the animals are going to get sick and because of lower immune functions will start to carry more infectious pathogenic type organisms. But do healthy cows that live more natural lifestyles with more natural diets, often get TB in the milk? I doubt it.
But, i don't think there has ever been a case of someone getting a TB infection from raw goats milk, and that too is nigh impossible to find raw in most US states due to ban's as well. But back in the day, TB was a BIG deal and there was a lot of fear about it. It was probably a good thing that some pasteurization laws were passed then to cut down on people getting sick (which it did help), but unfortunately it became a standardized, unthinking, and overly generalized (the combo of which might as well define the term bureaucratic) process/implementation.
Interesting about the Camel milk. I wonder it's like Alpaca milk since they are related animals? There are a growing number of Alpacas in the U.S. for fiber production.
Odd about the Teal Scapegoat blog, and the Russian song synchronicity. I've had my fair share of being outcasted or scapegoated, but i don't view myself in that way nor do i go around expecting it with some kind of paranoia self defense.
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87. Justin, I've never tried Alpaca milk before, lol. To be honest, I've never even heard of them (South America is still unchecked on my list and I don't remember seeing them in any of the zoos I've visited so far, only Ilamas). I just looked them up- such funny looking and adorable creatures!
I think here they are not concerned with TB as much as they are with salmonella, E.coli and Listeria monocytogenes.
And yes, those enzymes in raw food are great. I guess it's also nice to fill up on light particles known as biophotons, which are understandably only present in fresh uncooked plant-based food. So glad that summer is around the corner! I eat tons of raw, although have to have some cooked stuff as well. But when I eat raw fruit and veggies, I just eat them as they are- I don't need to break them down and mix into smoothies or juices(not that I don't enjoy those occasionally), I like to chew I guess and feel the texture...
88. Re: Alpacas "I just looked them up- such funny looking and adorable creatures!"
Lol yep, and they produce awesome fiber too. I've been to the land of Alpacas--Peru. Depending on micron count (fineness of the fiber), it's a bit noticeably warmer than sheeps wool of similar micron count, has better moisture management, and is less innately irritating to human skin than sheeps wool (though the super fine wools don't bother too many people).
There is some debate about it, but some camps (i'm in one of them), believe it's best not to mix most kinds of fruits with most kinds of veggies within the same meal because they tend to digest differently. I've been following Edgar Cayce's advice on acid-alkaline balance and advice about food combinations for years, and experience less colds/infections than most everyone i know. I once went 2.25 years without even a hint of a common cold and while working at a school nonetheless! (i credit Cayce's guidance's wisdom with that one, though my self discipline certainly helped)
Anyways, there are some exceptions to the rule (aren't there almost always?), such as say tomatoes or avocados (both very low sugar fruits) with veggies--especially salads, are fine. But say melons with lot's of broccoli or the like, not so good. Melons digest super fast, and are best eaten a little while before any actual meal. Anyways, just figure i would throw that out there for consideration.
89. Noncast: Criminal Justice pt 1
Not only wasn't this a podcast, it wasn't even a teacast. Where's the tea? Is tea being phased out of Tea Time with Teal? Is this because of teal's dislike for tea... and British culture? And what about THE FROG?!!
So, the woman who can't get a billboard up is going to completely restructure the criminal justice system, armed with nothing but a belief in the law of attraction, an unprovable life story involving Mormon Satanists, an even less provable origin story involving extraterrestrial creators, and a whole lotta pluck.
In fairness, she's also packin' a wide array of erroneous assumptions. So, that should help.
Like all things teal, her description of the criminal justice system and how to fix it is high on grand ideals and opinions, but low on information, facts, data, and citations. One hopes that as she moves forward with this nonprofit venture called Headway, she assembles something a bit more substantial. One also doubts it. One would like, really, to be a fly on the wall if and when she has these proposed meetings with people in the system just to see what might happen. One can't help imagining the looks on the faces of criminal justice professions when they hear what she has to say. One expects that it could be hilarious.
The problem with criminals, as per teal, is that they just haven't been loved enough, or treated "softly." Even when they're treated with leniency, that's just not love or "softness." The problem according to teal is that we're punishing them and "you can't punish people into wellness."
What remains unclear, after listening to a half hour of this, is how exactly she thinks we're punishing them. We're confused about that because she says she doesn't disagree with removing these poor, unfortunate criminals from society. Aside from capital cases (and we would agree that you can't kill people to wellness) removing them from society IS the way we're punishing them. That's what the criminal justice system does if you commit a serious crime. It removes you from society. They take away your freedom to come and go as you please. Any "punishment" beyond that comes as a result of illegal activity within the prisons, largely inmate on inmate "punishment." (Turns out bad things can happen when you put a bunch of criminals together.) Under the current law, at least here in the US and the rest of civilized world, abusing prisoners is "cruel and unusual punishment" and it's illegal. So what punishment is she talking about?
We also have no idea after listening to half an hour of teal and Sarbdeep discussing, and at times arguing, about the topic at hand, how are we defining criminals? At no point do they give a breakdown of, say, any difference between petty criminals and violent offenders. Are they talking about people who commit victimless crimes like smoking marijuana in the privacy of their own homes? Would there be any difference in approach between such a minor offender and a serial rapist? We don't know. All we know is that criminals need love and empowerment, too.
According to Sarbdeep, 99.9% of prisoners are capable of being rehabilitated. What this statistical analysis is based on, we have no idea. That would seem to include a range of violent felons, so my husband and I remain dubious.
90. Noncast: Criminal Justice pt 2
What teal seems to be proposing is some sort of healing process that would prepare convicts to return to society with an ability to get jobs and become productive members of society. What a concept! Does she not know that we already try to do that? That rehabilitation is a stated goal in the prison system? That prisons provide job training and education and that the government incentivizes hiring ex-cons?
Billions of dollars have been spent, armies of psychologists have been employed, educational systems have allowed convicts to get degrees... The success rate has not been terribly high.
"What I'm about to do here in the justice system has never been done before," says teal. What this revolutionary approach to correction this would be, that would resolve what a range of professionals have been unable to, was not elucidated in this not-teacast.
The only thing I'm certain of after listening to a half hour of this is that she doesn't even understand the problems she says she wants to address.
As per teal, crime is all about the law of attraction. Criminals and victims are a vibrational match because they both feel powerless. Answer: We need to empower these poor criminals.
The people who wind up in prison wouldn't even be there if they didn't feel guilty and bad about themselves. Those few criminals who don't feel guilty, says teal, don't get caught.
"When you're dealing with a genuine sociopath, those people don't end up in jail."
Well that makes sense, doesn't it. If someone felt no guilt, they wouldn't law of attract a guilty verdict. They just wouldn't be a "vibrational match" to punishment if they were amoral and didn't think they'd done anything wrong. And psychopaths, sometimes referred to as sociopaths, are characterized by a lack of remorse.
But here in the real world, a world of stubborn facts, prisons are full of psychopaths. Most of the research on psychopathy comes from studying members of the prison population. Why? For the very simple reason, says the preeminent expert in the field and creator of the psychopathy checklist Robert Hare, that it's a good place to find them.
Psychopaths make up an estimated 1-2% of the general population, but they make up 20-30% of the prison population. So a whole lot of remorseless people have somehow "become a match" for prosecution. Does that disprove the law of attraction? I don't know. Maybe! I do know that teal's elucidation of the principle, in this context, fails miserably. But this is exactly the kind of specious reasoning she seems to think will change the face of the criminal justice system.
91. Noncast: Criminal Justice pt 3
We don't disagree that many criminals are injured people and that life has been unkind to them. Where we disagree is on where the focus needs to be to improve the situation. We think it should be more on "draining the swamp" so that fewer criminals are produced in the first place. That would mean addressing things like poverty and education. Unfortunately, by the time people get to prison a fair number of even non-psychopaths have become hardened criminals and don't respond well to therapy.
Criminologist Lonnie Athens identified four stages in the creation of a violent felon, a process he calls violentization. People who've achieved that fourth stage are not treatable, according to Athens. And prisons are full of them. Athens did years of qualitative research, interviewing scores of violent felons. Athens, who grew up in a violent family and subculture, attributes his avoidance of that fate to eduction and specifically the early intervention of a teacher.
Yes. We're all for draining the swamp.
We're also certainly not arguing that the criminal justice system, and the prison system in particular, isn't deeply flawed and doesn't fail miserably at rehabilitating those offenders who can be rehabilitated. We just think that a lot people who understand the issues far better than teal does have not been able to turn it around. And for all her grandiosity, she seems to be woefully out of her depth.
How ignorant is teal on this issue? Well aside from not knowing that many psychopaths do, in fact, get caught, she apparently thinks the prison system is profitable. According to teal this is why we're so attached to it. It puts money in our pockets, says teal. Of course the only people turning a profit from the prison system are the people in the private prison business. Private prisons are a fairly new phenomenon, part of the push to privatize many functions previously handled by state and federal governments. The argument has always been that privatizing will save money because for-profit businesses are smarter and more efficient than government bureaucracies. In terms of exploiting criminals for slave labor and even wrongful incarceration for profit, when it comes to private prisons, that is absolutely happening. There are people profiting off the pain of others. But it isn't "us." Private prisons are costing the taxpayer more than state run prison systems, which cost us billions as it is, and the only pockets being lined are the owners of private prisons. So, no, money is not why "we" are satisfied with the criminal justice system. I think it's safe to say that the cost to taxpayers is one reason that most people hate it.
So what does teal bring to the table? Well, she's not saying she has "all the answers." So that makes for a nice change. But what she can bring to some collaborative process is "the idea of how the universe works on a vibrational level which is the fundamental blueprint of our reality." Oh is that all! And would this be the same blueprint that doesn't allow for psychopaths becoming convicts? Because, I gotta tell ya, I think that particular blueprint might need a tweak... or two.
92. Noncast: Criminal Justice pt 4
She's also got some ideas about prac app. Like there's that thing that tribe that lives on some island somewhere does with it's members who act out. It involves encircling them and chanting and... Anyway, they have no crime. If only she could remember the name... but sociologists are very interested in it...
Let's assume that this nameless island tribe that nameless sociologists are interested in exists and has no crime. I, for one, don't find the idea terribly outrageous. Many indigenous peoples have very good systems for dealing with anomic personalities and they seem to have less intratribal anomie as well. They're small groups of interdependent people with a shared cosmology, shared ethics, shared mores. Members of many tribes are also strongly motivated not to act in ways that would cause them to be ostracized because they're dependent on these tribes for survival. Her example is of an island people. If you couldn't get along with your tribe, where would you go? The ocean? Leave say, the social structure in modern civilizations is quite different and such a system probably wouldn't work for us.
I can think of an example closer to home, though, that beautifully illustrates what happens when communities embrace their criminal actors and lovingly take them through a process of forgiveness and redemption. It's a community that eschews the criminal justice system because they have their own method for reconciling criminal actors. The Amish, right here in the US have a very compassionate system for dealing with their criminals. They confess their crimes, they are forgiven, they are accepted without judgment no matter what horrible thing they've done. And their reoffending rate is astronomical... particularly when it comes to their sex offenders. They keep raping women and children. They keep confessing. They keep getting forgiveness and acceptance. The Amish are much more concerned with the healing process of their rapists than their victims, who are expected to forgive like all good Christians.
In this regard, the Amish seem a lot like teal. She has very little to say about victims of crime. They were a vibrational match to the criminals who harmed them and if it weren't those perpetrators, it would have been others. At no point do you see teal brimming over with compassion for victims the way she does for criminals. Where's their non-profit? She seems to identify with criminals far more than she does with victims, which is particularly odd since she claims to be one.
This seems to be the major disconnect between teal and Sarbdeep on this issue. He wants to know about the victims. How does it protect potential victims?
Well, you can't protect victims -- not even if you removed all the criminals from the world -- because they'd still law of attract victimization because of their victim energy, says teal. Yet, you can apparently protect criminals from a criminal justice system that's "unfair" to them? I know I've mentioned this before, but why is it always the perpetrators who law of attraction types want to protect from consequences and never the victims? Victims being victimized? That's inevitable. They law of attract that shit. Perpetrators being punished? We need to create a non-profit to put an end to that.
According to teal, the universe already has a perfect justice system called the law of attraction. Why does the criminal justice system want to circumvent it? Hands off! Let the great universal system work!
Here's my question. If it's a universal law, how can it be circumvented by anyone? Does the criminal justice system live outside of the universal order somehow? Is it in some kind of pocket universe? Wouldn't prison just be what those criminals are law of attracting for themselves?
93. Noncast: Criminal Justice pt 5
Moreover, do we all live outside of the universe order?
"See from a universal standpoint -- I'll just give you this -- humanity is not ready to align with with the true spiritual perspective on this. The true, objective, spiritual perspective is we've given you law of attraction."
So she's saying... What's she saying? Am I the only one who notices that she spouts insane, grandiose nonsense whenever she's able to run her suck for even a few minutes at a time. She knows the objective, spiritual perspective and she's going to throw us a bone and tell us what it is. Once again, she speaks for universe. The rest of us, not so much... despite the fact that we're all universe because she supposedly believes in oneness. Wow. What. The. Fuck.
How do victims get justice under her system? Sarbdeep wants to know.
"To me, justice should be learning. Nothing else," claims teal. So one must assume that teal doesn't own a dictionary. In teal's world, justice apparently has nothing to do with fairness, equity, or balance, as it does to most people. It's all about the learning. Learning what, we have no idea.
Sarbdeep was getting schooled, though. My husband described her tone and affect as "scolding the pupil." Once again, teal is facing outward, toward the camera being all lectury. Sarbdeep is turned in, facing her directly, open, and trying to engage her in dialogue. Try watching the video, particularly around the 18:00 minute mark. The body language is very telling. She's pouty. She keeps putting her hand on her hip and shaking her head. Sarbs just doesn't "get it."
Well, we don't get it either. We get it far less than Sarbs gets it. We think it's nonsensical. My husband described her "plan" as: naive, simplistic, Quixotic, specious, fatuous, and feckless.
Sums it up pretty well, I think.
And what was going on with the video production on this one. It was blurry. The audio was poor. There were numerous weird edits that left us really wondering what ended up on the cutting room floor. The weirdest one is around 8:55. It looks like she said something about sex offenders and it was very deliberately edited out, because after the edit, out of nowhere, Sarbdeep says, "Yes, but, nobody wants a sex offender living next to them..." True that.
And the end was dubbed! What was up with that? Watch their lips and listen to the audio. Dubbed. So weird.
On the plus side, they were both well-dressed and we never felt like we were gonna see anyone's hoo-hah, so that was a relief.
94. your nonpodcast reflections are so brilliant, I need to stick around just for that although I actually left the boat. :D
Brilliant LV & husband: razor sharp, crystal clear, open.
your nonpodcast should get its own URL links you know...because teal's empty domination phrases, smart sounding claims and fluffy dreams of an ex victim (aka self realized, enlightened non victim) who deeply cares about the healing of her own perpetrator is like opium to the teal tribe masses.
There is no concept, there is no proof of concept, just great sounding claims, "the best", "never done before" "the only way.." "Let me explain to you". Now don't get me started on the headway foundation. I want to squeeze Sarb's cheeks because he is such a great student by asking all these wonderful questions…although he constantly earns slap on his cheeks for not getting it :D Awwww
What about starting a healing school for victims first, righT? makes sense, empowered victim will hopefully stop to attract such a mess of a perpetrator in future…in this way they may die out as the carnivorous animals of planet earth according to teal. Although I admire people with dreams for a positive outcome on this little rock floating through space…I am not such a big fan of
tealish, fat hot air ballons.
LV is a juicy needle. I love it.
96. damn it. I just realize I am hooked on celestial reflections. antidot please. I a such an addict.
Justin: Teal's original plans were provence but I guess they figured that they should conquer california first -they should make some use out of sarb's celebrity connections before the ajax's tsunami flushes everything away. As usual, Teal is a smart business woman and should try to get onto shark tank. I would love to see Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful debating about proof of concept for her business .mhhh brand mmmhhh product.
97. I am so glad to see you GA.
I consider this blog and comments gallery a Positive addiction.
This time I could not even read the pod review without feeling so TIRED, like a major suck even from a distance.
I studied sociology along with nursing. I personally have never been around people who go to jail. No one in my family and the only "friend" was someone busted for growing pot and served 5 years. Also, my 70 year old friend has a sig other (now). He is 12 years younger and used to be her supervisor in community projects. He was a psychologist who's exwife and the local machinery (who suspiciously disliked his "outsiderness" before the troubles), convicted him for "molesting" the 3 year old step daughter. This was after he left his wife and made her VERY angry. The trial was clouded but I think we know that local custom over rides "faireness". This gentle man served 15 years, is on the pedo registrar and is not bitter as he is a very spiritually attuned person dealing with "how he invieted such an incident)?? This is a question i consider valid.
He has been "out" for a year and he became an elder in the prison he served in...it is a whole culture.., more unique than portrayed with prison "arts" and craft and a hierarchy of "cons" who do have authority based on wisdom of how to survive prison.
I think we have an embedded belief in "prisonment", much like we believe money is necessary. We have lots of social ideas we do not question. I personally can't understand victimless crime, entrapment and also doubt prisonment itself rehabilitates. I see what prison as profit maker is wrong. I am on the side of segregation explained just as that.
Rehabillitation should be soft IMO. So once released, I would help people find a good place to live, school, a real job, integration into a noncriminal based social world. I would feed well (food is near starvation level in some place) and i would bring animals in for the people there to bond with and feel love from. Everyone deserves comfort IMO. I want to own my compassion for the jailed.
When someone does awful behavior, they lost a reputation they must earn again. Yes, if a pedo, yes, keep segregating but also I recognize that pedophillia is not a simple "us versus them"
Humans do not automatically stop acting out and carrying on a life based on their past. there is a need to learn new more effective behavior. I fee have NO sympathy for sociopathic behavior. Those who use their smarts to manipulate others must find it a strategy that works? I say educate and empower everyone to say NO to manipulation and to find other ways themselves to live...idealistic??? I can't help thinking this COULD be true!!
98. Sai Baba turned Teal Bosworth Scott Swan
99. Sai Baba turned Teal Bosworth Scott Swan
maybe she is Satya Sai Baba? He was known to "catylyze" young men and boys. I read several stories and when one young man was interviewed, he described the energy exchange so the "sexual" connection gave the devotee some energy at least in his case.
Does not teal give off energy of some kind? I don't think "charisma" is about holiness but a basic energy physiology that she does employ. It seems she is charismatic to the devotees who are "low in the vibe". She appeals to seekers who are suffering and I would say maybe de-energized enough so her energy exchange feels "better" to them than they were and they think this makes her "special" and holy.
She cannot use people long IF they get any kind of power. Like LV said, "You can build up the intended energy source IF you also simultaneously tear down your source with the other hand to make (making sure they don't gain enough inner strength to leave.)
Satya Sai baba was a sorcerer IMo and he still has devotees who see sacred ash falling from pictures. This then gets into who is "juicing" miracles. IMO the human by our nature is a creator. What we create is the issue. I see placebo in big bold letters as the evidence that we create the miracles.
Field energy exchange is something that if it could be SEEN, would have a better chance of deconstruction. I feel for Teal's plight and Satya Sai Baba too IF he was using others to power his empire. I do not know, only heard gossip. I have seen the ash from a devotee's home which is also a temple in Georgia. The devotees give LOADs of attention to the shrines there.
Notice how Teal cannot hold enough vital energy herself so gets sick and cranky. Not seeming "right" for a real avatar to be sick and cranky. That is a sign to me of delusional being pretending and IMO real avatars do not demonstrate like Teal demonstrates.
It may well be that the LAST test of a human before reaching godness is what we do when we could take power from others. Notice how this video is from a fan.
100. There was a discussion on one of these threads about how she claims to be the reincarnated Sai Baba but somehow different from the Sathya Sai Baba, who also claimed to be the reincarnated Sai Baba. She certainly does a have a guru thing going on. Too many of them abuse power and so much of it involves sexual exploitation. I was at Kripalu not long after the scandal with their guru went down. Hideous.
There is also a correlation, I think, between charisma and crazy. Scratch the surface on any of these people, spiritual leaders, political leaders, movie stars -- the most charismatic people turn out to be really off.
101. LV, you are so on that charisma is the gloss on a glamor having little to do with real. Keep poking and there is revealed the underpinnings of the truth. keep poking LV!!!
"Disturbed Gurus
Cult leaders are often charming, charismatic figures with above-average intelligence. The "charismatic charmer" is one their false faces — a pseudo-personality.
Many cult leaders suffer from borderline, disassociate or multiple personality disorders. Members feel honored to be with, and be seen, around them. But their personality can change dramatically in a flash. Cult leaders are always very disturbed individuals. They are usually victims turned persecutor, having a history of involvement in other social, political or religious cults and/or suffering the effects of a traumatic childhood. Behind their strong and confident exterior (pseudo-personality) they need their leader position to compensate for a very fragile sense of self-worth, self-esteem and self-identity.
This is also shown by the fact that they cannot "hack it" in the real world and need to live in a cult/sect environment to live out their problems. Their past histories show social marginality and a tendency to drift from one cause to another, one cult to another, one job to another, one marriage to another, etc. They spend their lives dedicated to their cause (also, increasing through the Internet, now). They are obsessive-compulsive, fanatical and manipulative.
Nothing will stand in the way of their visions, schemes and self-glorification — not even the well-being of their partners or children. They manipulate the minds of vulnerable members, extorting money and sexual favors and/or abusing them psychologically, physically and/or sexually. "
102. "Brilliant LV & husband: razor sharp, crystal clear, open.
Here's the thing: We're focused on the not-podcasts right now because they're fascinating on so many levels, but the simple truth is that if you analyze pretty much anything she says, it's a study in crazy nonsense. Particularly her video stuff. If you take away her pretty face, her certain, authoritative tone, and the fact that she blows through the craziest statements at light speed, and really look at what she's saying, it doesn't hold up. She contradicts herself all over the place. She says a lot that isn't consistent either with LOA material or a genuine belief in oneness. The only thing that's really consistent is her belief that's she very, very special and different from everybody else. That and the victimhood. She has a messiah complex -- she's suffered for all of us, but is blameless and is here according to some grand design to help us poor humans. That's the overarching theme. Not LOA. Not oneness. Those are popular ideas that she's repackaged. She doesn't understand them and isn't capable of articulating those ideas with any consistency.
When it comes to her body of work, it's not where you look. It's how you look.
103. A quick note on Sai Baba. There were some videos taken of him producing "miracles", which turned out to be nothing more than slight of hand tricks.
Maybe sometimes or even a slight majority of the time, but perhaps it's limiting to over generalize on this? There are different kinds of charisma i've observed. There is the charisma of the warm, loving heart that tends to be a bit more quiet or steady than the Uranian or Plutonian type charisma often exuded by people that are imbalanced beyond the usual.
My brother is a fairly charismatic person, and he isn't even close to being a negative cult leader type--he did go through a period wherein i think he felt a lack of attention and learned how to turn on the charm to somewhat compensate, but the same time a lot of it is more genuine and related to heart warmth too.
What are people's thoughts on doing a collective prayer/intention with the thought of helping Teal? While it's good to try to make people aware of her issues, it's also important to realize as wounded and imbalanced as she probably is, she still is a fellow human and child/part of Source and us and obviously needs help. While we can't change her with prayer, and shouldn't try anyways since that's a violation of freewill, perhaps praying for shielding for her from negative energies, as well as feeling Love towards her, could possibly help in some way? Perhaps she will have a moment of clarity and realize that she is not on a good path?
I don't know, but personally i think it's worth a try even if it's a long shot. I do know this, thinking and feeling non constructive thoughts/feelings to or about her, certainly won't help her at all.
104. Hi Justin,
I enjoy reading your comments and appreciate your perspective and information.
You said:
IMO, there is like with every collective presentation many layers. There is the person Teal and certainly I feel warmth and softness for her. My prayer is for all that we connect to our inner source and find fulfilled and nurturing life.
Then there is the TEAL who presents a personae that is just "wrong" because the implication is that others are unable to find inner connection and NEED what she offers because they have not got "what it takes". This is the excuse to get attention, energy of all kinds etc... She suffers under the same problems we all do. Maybe she has had extreme abuse. I think many have had various extreme abuses and just being in the Kali Yuga is hard for beings....
However, something has made her manipulative strategy look good and she refuses to deal with that something. Instead, she is balancing her lack with TEAL.
The wrongness is more than just seeking attention as SHE twists others around. This use of others is an aspect of the liearchy we have in many areas. Personally I wish to dismantle the beliefs in my own psyche. So, this TEAL business needs calling out!
I include Teal the person in my prayers for health of all beings. She looks suspiciously like my own mother and I also send Teal appreciation for holding up a screen to deal with the issues of narcissism and growing up from "cultish" worship of others.
If everyone has the knowledge of how this enticement to worship operates, people would not succumb to the petty power trip of TEALs. That in itself would help Ms Swan because the only way she can explain her "higher calling" is by saying she suffers FOR us. That means she must keep the the whole trip of being a scapegoat etc. According to all I am interested in studying, that "mission" keeps her in in prison.
105. LV and others ...Sometimes I wish we could have a lengthy discussion of manifestation principles. It seems that people like Lester levenson broke through to understanding. LL realized he had always been "seeking" love (love is equated with happiness). He realized "giving love" was the way that it really works (happiness comes giving love). Then he seems to have teased out that "thoughts" manifest. He had been "seeking happiness" through affairs, business etc. and things started well but ended. He was always anxious, had chronic self doubt and insecurity through life. He had ulcers and was chronically "ill"and ultimately had two major heart attacks and cardiac failure in his early 40's.
Near death he made his turn around. It is a here in his self analysis he makes a point:
"Quote However, I began to see that I could regulate the amount of power and
intelligence for my own use and that I could have control of it. I liked that so I
began to dig at it.
element of time between the thought and the happening.
But I did discover that with everything that was happening to me I'd had a
thought of it before it happened; and that, if I could grab hold of this concept and
find a way to use it, I could consciously pre-determine everything that would
happen to me!
simply my subconscious knowledge that this is not happiness which caused me
This was a tremendous piece of freedom, to think that I am not a victim of this
world, that it lies within my power to arrange the world the way I want it to be;
that rather than be an effect of it, I can now be in control of it and arrange it the
way I would like it to be. That was a tremendous realization, a tremendous
feeling of freedom."
The significant thing about all this is that OUR LOVE drives our experience. Giving this ultimate energy of creation" precedes created events. Love is not given to that which we feel indifferent towards. It is when we are constricted and staunching the flow in general in fear that we get very weak. We can hate something (flip side of coin) and still be extending the energy.
The Universal principle is "loving technology" IMO.
106. Glad he figured out that giving love is more important than receiving it. Opening the heart is EVERYTHING!
However, it looks to me, from that excerpt, like he traded one transactional control drama for another. The idea that we can "control" -- that word always comes up in LOA material -- to "pre-determine everything that would happen" is just another way of saying egomania. It can't be done, nor should it be. As it is we're too much in our egos and trying to control everything.
I also just don't put that much stock in thoughts. I'm not a material reductionist. I don't believe consciousness is produced by the brain. I believe the brain is more of a receiver and processor of consciousness. I believe that thoughts are more byproduct than producer. Did we think a thought and make it happen or was something happening as part of a much larger play of consciousness that trickled into our little brains as a thought? I'm more inclined to think it's the latter.
Yes, I appreciate what you are saying LV. LL recognized "the world" is an artifact of mind so "some"one is creating the illusion. By learning one's creative agency, is it easier then to let go of the charade? I dunno? No attachment after total immersion? Exhaustion of the limits of the world offerings?? ILL did talk about letting go (releasing) the thinking......
"There are two ways of growing: one is what I call the negative way, eliminating the negative, going into the
mind, seeing the cause of the problem that originated in
a thought some time in the past. When we see this
thought, when we bring it up into consciousness, we
naturally let go of it. We see how silly it is to hold onto it
and therefore correct that thought and behavior.
However, the other way is the better. It is the positive
way. Quiet the mind and see who and what you really
are, the infinite Self. In the over all, there's really only
two ways: eliminating the negative and the better,
putting in the positive, “I am that I am,” “I am He.” The
latter is by far the faster.
Let's now take a look at this so- called apparency,
the world. The world is only an illusion that we created
mentally. It is not external but in reality within us, within
our mind. Someday you'll discover that you created
this entire universe that you see. The method of creating is
by first creating what we call a mind. We create our
mind, which is nothing but a composite of all our
thoughts, conscious and subconscious, and the
thoughts create the material world. Every little thing that
happens to each and everyone of us is created in our
thinking. We mentally set up a thing called time which
makes it even more difficult to see things because we
think now and things happen years later. But the only
creator there is, is the mind, your mind. Is God a
creator? Yes, because you are. Thou are That! You set
up a mind and through the mind create. It is necessary
and good to discover that everything happening is
caused by our thinking. Everything that happens to us is
created in our thought. It's a stepping stone toward
realizing and recognizing that we are the creators.
First you discover that you created your trouble, then you
discover that you can create anything you desire. After
you discover that there is nothing that you cannot
create, you're still unhappy. The reason is that you have
separated yourself from the Infinity. Only on recognizing
your Infinity are you perfectly satisfied." http://www.stillnessspeaks.com/sitehtml/llevenson/keystoultimate.pdf
108. me2yesu:
Indeed a positive or inspiring LV&co addiction.
xxxx sending them all back. Just saw them ( :
In regards to Sai Baba - wasn't Teal the first to warn us not to get too involved into the past lives and their own charismatic thought activity story :D . I am amused about the claim in this regard - I believe it is part of her business plan and probably her own believe and contradicts everything she said a long the line. Ah well, probably that is the reason why she wants to destroy the guru image, considering that she was a big guru and unfairly treated in her let life ( ;
Mr. GabrielKundalini is a fan of teal. Climbed the mountains with her, interviewed her and adores her on some level. Fair enough for him to connect the dots on his journey. I just can't deal with this kind of life approach.
I fully agree and it makes sense because the very dark experiences are indeed a seed for spiritual inner and outer search. After the experience to have "found something or a solution" they tend to consider this as very valuable to human kind and if driven enough, end up in high chairs surrounded by audience. I once dated a potential cult leader… he always wanted to be this. He had one of the darkest childhoods I've ever heard and found safety in the arms of european, self taught budism…which he approached like a soldier, fighting for the final truth. he was charisma embodied, had a strong sexual drive to his partner AND co :D and was battled by all kinds of break outs, choleric to the core. When my girl friend got introduced to him, she backed off. I was sooo young…without realizing it, I was cut off my family, friends and he tried to make the perfect woman out of me according to his ideas. I was green behind my ears. Anyway, long story short: after 4 indescribable years I finally managed to bond with myself again and left the mad hatters house. I also reconnected with my old girl friend and she had the best description I've ever heard: She said that he reminded her of a fascinating, mythical creature which was deeply injured and unpredictable. She saw me running into the woods to follow this charismatic, unpredictable creature and got lost on the way. Awww she was wise and I was so dumb.
So i guess you can say that most of the cult leaders are fascinating, mythical creature which was deeply injured and unpredictable.
LV: "The only thing that's really consistent is her belief that's she very, very special and different from everybody else."
Well that is the base for the whole business plan. Otherwise everybody could do it right. :D
LV - to say it with Teal's words: you still add value to the universe by showing the crazy nonsense to those who follow the creature into the mystical fairy tale woods.
109. Justin W: "I do know this, thinking and feeling non constructive thoughts/feelings to or about her, certainly won't help her at all. "
I perceive the majority of our discussion and opinion sessions as very constructive and Clarifying and helpful to me! There is nothing I can do for this lovely lovely Teal and the business teal. I am and always was a lover of hers and one day the bullshit just overweighted the mezmorising presence of her in video and talk. I also think that Teal and Blake and Co who in fact read this blog, find clarity by doing so. I remember her saying that she finds it interesting reading other people's perspective on her because it helps her to clarify what she is and what she isn't. so there is enough chant on the sucking teal tribe page and the comment section of her blog. Many people sing for her already ( : …. This here is bitter medicine but probably more helpful (if you want to call it that way even it wasn't the intention) than the slobber from the praises. However I see the intention of your comment and thought that this was very very sweet.
me2yesu" He realized "giving love" was the way that it really works.."
I am a huge fan of dreaming bear. Please have a look at this short video where he describes his horrendous childhood (yes other people suffered as well, not only Teal) and I love his approach, which mirrors what you said.
also see his last sentence - I find it very interesting but can't really grasp it right now. Any thoughts?
110. GA...No please don't go... You have just framed something very important!! I know exactly what you mean!! But I feel as if I just SAW this "no fault" zone. Yes, I have met these creatures and I knew they were fascinating. But only with your words did it click that I don't need to keep making sense of WHY? and can just bless all of us again. I am so RELIEVED!! .
111. I saw the video of Dreaming Bear and I agree about the Tenderness being a Revolutionary act. Nice voice timbre and all good. I still discern the need for the BIG back story to have the "right" to say anything. In a way, could it be that by continuing to constantly invoke the need to be kicked around before one wises, that it makes others subconsciously believing being kicked around is what produces spiritual gifts???
Still marinating in what GA said about the process in which a baby might be hurt through trauma but seek out of that pain and then have a cause. The thing is, deep abuse does change a "person" and survival of trauma might actually be the evolution to "another kind". I know that is NOT what you said exactly GA.
We all have these various "set ups" between one another that seem quite "lawful" looked at in bigger frames. The Guru caught in power trips is the disciple in powerless trips...all bookended. one can't be without the other. FUNNY how "astrology" and other disciplines show these patterns that have their polarities and complements.
But seriously, seeing that one "likes" to run off to the woods and then "likes" to get mad at the mythical creature and go home and then likes to find the mythical in oneself, is just so without blame.
There is that phrase..."they lived Happily ever afterward." It is what cannot be written as NO one yet has been able to actually live the afterwards and TRULY I believe we are getting to that part now. Calling out the system is one really important step so people will question being made a bookend.
I appreciate that we need to make peace with all aspects to make that afterwards.
112. me2yesu: "BIG back story to have the "right" to say anything "
the big back story is the point of relation. without it, no harbor and no dock, people will not take you serious. that's why teal is picking up so many on a very low stream energy level (including me when i found her)… the story seems to make her authentic and real, your pain relates to hers, becomes smaller or balances itself out by the amount of her pain. … strange experience but very human. You feel understood.
"baby might be hurt through trauma but seek out of that pain and then have a cause."
beautifully said.
I think it is even simpler. black will always thrive to white. white maybe stays white or gets bored and turns black to thrive for white again. no stillness, movement in 3D and mind translator. no static pain free or pain full experience.
Nicely put, I see myself. I guess it is ONLY about the mythical, hidden, enigma-like vibe in a person or a circumstance which draws the attention of a person who wants to figure it out ( like me, a sweet sweet mind). The trails of these creatures and circumstances are like a drug for a longing soul aahhhmmm ego (which is known to love exciting story lines where it can participate in). they point towards a possibility to find. that is enough to be a drug.
Me2yesu: I just SAW this "no fault" zone"
I so get it now too! thanks Me2yesu for having the flash :D I was just mumbling in my unawareness hahaha
113. In regards to the point of teal's specialness..I had some thoughts on that one too
the thought tree which defines an ego would put the desire this way:
"I want to be special."
It is something that haunts me for a while now, SINCE I had my first experience where I was seen or reflected back to me as special. The emotions which arise following this thought (considering that it is accepted and taken on in the ego structure) is the opposite of all the pain and dark vibes which I encountered in my life.
Now: I am thinking about it for a while and the teal side in me obviously thrives on this kind of self definition. It motivates certain actions, decisions, exclusions, choice of people I surround myself etc. In fact it is the base of which I try and love to relate myself in life to other life which encounters me. I am also a seeker of the invisible technology. 80% of my energy goes into. If i look closely, the currency behind the wish of being special is "attention" - not money but attention. Considering that Teal is my sister ( : we share common thought structures and spin them over and over again through our consciousness. We defocus on the rest and this becomes the main branch of the ego tree. Why does attention (positive) feel so great and the abscense of it so painful?
wanting to be special --- attention ---- self worth what a fierce connection between all of them. I just watched by accident a video of Leija Turunen about comparing yourself to others. She was saying that it is like a tomato getting depressed because it compares itself to the potassium rich banana. So tomato is depressed and upset for not being able to have so much amazing potassium but doesn't notice that it tops the banana with its vitamin c (such a cute example) . On a side note: I am not a big fan of her, just neutral but have to say that this video is really cute and good
Can somebody solve the mystery of wanting to be special --- attention ---- self worth. How can self worth be connected to being special, judged by the amount of attention you get? Also it goes like the direct opposite to all spiritual teachings I am studying hahahaha that we are all amazing and special and nobody is more special than the other.
Acknowledgement, self doubt, being special, getting attention, feeling great, feeling worth, not getting attention, feeling bad, feeling unworthy.
WTF - who built the ground structure of this annoying thought? there is no sense in it but still…it is very real and logical in its experience of the emotion roller coaster.
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116. and me2yesu:...a follow up thought. It seems like that there are 3 models for being accepted as a approved leader of thought-creating and thought-deleting mind sets by:
1. was in the dark and turned the light on - created manual for human light switch!
2. brain inactivity by accepting master linage - they just know the stuff and come back over and over again to bring you into the light
3. the person who spent time in both states and constantly balances itself into the zero zone...usually doesn't talk about it but you just feel great by "knowing" that they are close to you or by spending time with them, never called him or herself teacher, leader or master and just express their embracement by amazing human actions.
I know 2 people like this, they live close to me, we dont see each other often but just "knowing" that they are there and exist, give me great comfort and love. I had a dilemma recently. the grass was turning into bushes and trees and my loan moar had no chance of cutting them ( I am a killer). SO I called them and asked them if I can borrow their hand held long arm grass cutter. On the phone she said, that she will check if they have it. 15min later her husband was standing in front of my door (very busy, always working, no time) with a monster lawn moar and said, that he will cut my lawn now with a big smile. I was soooo shocked. AMAZING. No 3
PS: sorry , needed to delete, the formating of text was all over the place for some reasons.
117. Even God wants to feel special and get recognition and admiration for this grand creation and the gift of life, and wants some attention, lol, otherwise why bother manifesting this mirror Universe and an illusion of separation...so that "we" can participate in this game....
Also, because there are so many of us here, on this planet, these days, there is this pathological (imo) fear of being just one of billion, having a common fate, all those billions want to be one in a million. Hence comes obsession with fame, trying so hard to feel unique in the crowd. It takes courage to be a" nobody" in this world. People come up with the most hilarious ways to fulfill this need for attention: some dye their hair pink, wear clownish colors and styles and call it self-expressing their artistic "rare" "taste" and "unique" individuality, get outrageous tattoos, participate in some silly contests, and dedicate all their time and effort in order to break some records...the list goes on and on. Only a handful achieve true immortality with their genius. Let's face it- the meritocracy rules right now. Mostly we get noise instead of music, fun instead of true joy, comfortable habits and rituals instead of full life and happiness, conventional safe relationships instead of romance, pseudo culture instead of true culture, useless fluff instead of philosophy... and science- they have their own issues there...
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Off the topic, is anyone here sensitive to solar flares?
118. http://teal-blog.s3.amazonaws.com/2014/05/1654664_10100724457678611_1841613660_n.jpg
So Teal writes next about being called selfish because (she?) WILL NOT give what (she?) CAN NOT give because (she?) DON"T HAVE IT to give.
I was reminded that I am contemplating love as the creative force that drives the Universe and I THINK she is mistaking LOVE for a "commodity". I am reminded that I have been reading LL who was dying because he was basically just refusing to be a conduit for this flow. It showed in his physicality,relationships and business.
This LOVE is all around like air and IMO, feeling you can't give it is like saying..."I won't breathe on you". I KNOW that my ego "self detractor" has been all that ever constricts the flow and it feels like suffocating to be so "unloving" which is how I know I am in danger of killing myself.
Ego says Gimme first ....then I will share. But it just don't work that way. Empty the lungs OUT and get the fresh air in.
Poor little rich girl is doing herself no favors by upping the ego ante of "guilt" and "shame" that having called on others to see her as a "spiritual leader", cannot lead herself to the water of LIFE. I love cliches unfortunately. The earth will be bread and she is skinny. The ether is inspiration of some new way, not copying the old tired collective meme. Then there is fire. Fire she may have as she inflames. Fire can warm but it can't feed. it consumes....
Two songs for Teal (and Moi).....
119. In case you have trouble with the new Swan with the Tea episode- here is the propper link
120. I think Neil deGrasse Tyson expressed it the best. The need of significance which I named "feeling special". Very beautiful, watch it and it will make your spine spin ( :
[Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D. (October 5, 1958)] Source: LYBIO.net
121. I wanna smile too! But the page was no longer available when I tried to open...
122. It's working for me. If you're not on Facebook, you may not be able to see it. It's just a graphic that says:
123. hehe, this vehicle is driving the ghost mad. Such a nuisance.
124. I heard that. It is one seriously whack piece of machinery isn't it.
125. I don't know if our DNA was tampered with and far from what it was supposed to be in the original plan....but the current human condition, the present state of our psychophysiological processes...how can it not be offensive to whatever is divine within us on many levels? Poor spark-it's so hard to shine thru all this grime and slime...My conscious mind finds it all almost appalling lately...For example, this subway ride I experienced today during rush hour: I felt tired, hungry and needed to pee (sorry for tmi) - all that discomfort cs of my physicality. And then all those other people around me(Sartre comes to mind) bumping into me- it was sooo crowded, and the day was warm and humid, and in the train someone was sneezing next to me, another one was talking way too loud, and it was smelly..... all of a sudden I wanted to be Teal's salmon (her latest blog). Or better yet, a flying bird, without one thought in the tiny head.
126. But then I really enjoyed the beautiful sunset walk in the big park nearby later. With lots of cherry trees blossoming there and stunning pinkish skies over the lake it almost felt as if I was transported from hell to heaven.
127. Elena, what a great confirmation that hell and heaven are a thought away.
This BBS Radio Talk Show with Timothy J. Glenn May 10, 2014, insights about destiny....
Lance White (Zany Mystic) says he had an excellent reading from Timothy Glenn. He suggested EVERYONE get one (high praise). The readings apparently use sign posts like numerology and astrology and then information that can go "pretty far afield" to show people their "destiny" (which I think means "Why did I come into form here like this and now?").
What is drawing us forward to fill out the "picture" of what kind of artlife we planned. The planning I accept as a co-creative effort of all aspects pointed in this little bit of matter.
Now is our reality.
I think what is very in the way of 'reality" IS the common ideas of the collective that actually keep being re-imprinted every day. But if we have our "destiny" to focus on, that is a pole star for us. We can say "Is this info supportive to my destiny?" and the inner being will tell us.
We each HAVE knowledge in our innards that leads straight home to our frequency that sang the destiny originally.
I keep being distracted by fears, doubt and second guesses so that I am NOT focusing on my "destiny" and how that feels and what details I see there but the past and the "matrix ideas" .
What I observe is something very personal and present for me. OVER and OVER, I sit still and feel just so close to my inner being and hear the truth. That TRUTH says clearly how all is well and moreover nothing is impossible. I hear that because I am the creator of a "life". No matter what others choose, my every desire is " worthy". I am worthy just because I am the source of "this life" and IF I am asking for anything with my heart in it, it is Good.
I have talked to many wayshowers in my own life and they each at least recall a time when they had to trust themselves. They had to choose "Will I live MY life? Or will I try to live life for others?" (some even trying to live ONLY for HUMANITY and getting slammed by the fact that they cannot DO for others).
What we live as our real desires ARE what we can do for humanity. It does not help others to pretend EVER. Even if we are trying to pretend away what the matrix says are flaws...this is NOT helping anyone. So, I will afford that Teal is just living her own response-bility.
My favorite Bashar and Abraham notice we don't "hurt" others if we make errors. Experience is temporary but yet for a grand purpose. The biggest error is "not living" from hesitation to be disappointed or a disappointment and other matrix consideration.
We are here to be the portal of a living creator expressing life as only we may.
I KNOW that listening "to others" seeks confirmation for me of what I already know to do...stay in the present moment and feeling in love, feel how wonderful life IS NOW (because there IS something right in my face wonderful), pray and meditate NOW and now and now as I am doing other things (i.e. ask and receive communication from my inner being....like walking around with the cosmic blue tooth in my ear).
We are not helpless AT ALL to experience the epitome of what "I AM" desiring now in this experience. The best thing way showers an do is live such a fulfilled experience that we make other so happy to see our EVIDENCE that each dreamer is cosmically in-carnated FOR the very dream that we think "is just too good to be true".
Quote from the first 3 minutes from Timothy Glenn:
"A lot of what I do there is confirmation. And it's not just confirmation like”Oh Gee I'm on my path. It's confirmation of “our wildest dreams really can become true."
Then Lance says "Ummmm......"
128. Elena, I know. In so many ways, we don't seem to make any sense. Humans don't seem to be well adapted to our environment. We destroy ecosystems. Our bodies are not built for survival. Our birthing process doesn't make any sense. Unlike other live bearing creatures, we can't actually carry our young to full term. They're born without a fully formed digestive system or cranium, and an inability to support their own heads. We have birth complications at exponential rates, unlike the animal kingdom where birth complications are far more rare. We're very strange, out-of-place seeming creatures.
I know some interpretations of the Gnostic writings say that we're soul sparks trapped in matter. It feels like that doesn't it?
129. LaVaughn, maybe our physical disadvantages are accountable for what we are today. We had to use our brains in order to survive in such an unfriendly environment to which we weren't adapted well -no fur, no claws; we had to become inventive and creative in order to keep warm and feed ourselves. It seems because life was so full of challenges for our species, we've been evolving so. I guess, from another angle, human organism is quite a fascinating and complex structure. It's just Mother Nature doesn't give without taking something too. There are lot's of contradictions in this material dualistic physical nature and we are constantly trying to balance it out somehow. We've developed our big brain and so the babies come into this life with their huge heads they are unable to support. This requires some wide hips from females. But because of our vertical stance, hip bones can't be positioned too wide. Solution: the fontanelles which allowed the infant's head to pass through birth canal and like you mentioned, human babies are not really full term, for example, elephant female carries a baby for 22 months. A fully formed human baby would kill its mother. But then, maybe because of the fact that kids come so helpless and they grow and become independent so slowly compared to other animals, that we just had to develop intelligence, compassion, motherly devotion and love. Back then, it was extremely hard to raise a human just by a mother, a couple even, and so the communities were formed, and people learned about cooperation, support, looking out for each other (there were still so few of them and each member's life was considered precious). Spirit might be trapped here or maybe matter was meant as "clay" to play and experiment with. But when I look around and look back at our history, this experiment seems rather cruel to me, as the conscious matter experiences and feels intense suffering, physical, emotional pain overweighs happiness.
Me2yesu: "what a great confirmation that hell and heaven are a thought away."
Well, in my case they were literally steps away from each other. But also, beside a thought, some action was required on my part. And a nice meal, and an access to my bathroom, lol. All rather prosaic :-))
130. Noncast: Messiah Complex pt 1
The topic of tea this week was how to find an "authentic" spiritual teacher. I suspect teal needed to handle this very carefully so as not to disqualify herself. She mouthed some platitudes, contradicted herself a bit, and, just when we thought this was going to be the dullest tea ever, she praised Hitler. I gotta hand it to teal on shock value. She really knows how to bring it.
This teacast actually had tea, the frog (YAY!) and, it would appear, Utah. I was rather expecting to be served my pod from teal's new location, or some point between the two. It would appear that her move did not go as planned and that this has turned her into a fish. Ah well. These things happen.
We had hoped to keep this as brief as the content of this teacast, but with teal there are always new rabbit holes to tumble into. In this case, she spat out the word "humility" like some angry, verbal tic, but never came back to the idea to explain her outrage. So we subjected ourselves to another 10+ minutes of her blather. This would be the video wherein she tealsplains everything that's wrong with the concept of humility. God help me.
As I've said before, my husband thinks the most scathing indictment of teal is her own words and that transcribing her videos word for word should settle once and for all what a worthless teacher she is. I'm less convinced of this, not because I think her material is cogent, but because I don't believe clarity is worth as much as you'd think in the marketplace of ideas.
Case in point: Thomas Friedman. He's a very highly paid columnist for the paper of record. He's published numerous books, some of which are required reading in college classrooms. But he's a terrible writer and a worse thinker. I used to think I was the only person who'd noticed this. It was a lonely feeling. My friends, very intelligent people, used to rave about him and email me his columns. I just didn't get it. Then one day I stumbled on this column by Matt Taibbi and I felt such relief. I was not the only person who had seen past Thomas Friedman's facade and noticed that he sucked. Taibbi has a certain skill for eviscerating Friedman and has done so many times. This column is also a must read.
131. Noncast: Messiah Complex pt 2
I think teal is the Tom Friedman of the New Age fembot circuit. She is, to borrow a descriptor from Taibbi, "the perfect symbol of our culture of emboldened stupidity." Of course where Friedman is merely porn-stached, teal has never really strayed far from her porn model roots and isn't afraid to trade on sex appeal that Friedman lacks. This gives her an even greater advantage when it comes to bypassing her viewers' higher reasoning. But like Friedman, she uses words like rubble masonry, building thick, impenetrable walls of mismatched ideas, mortared together with inexplicable confidence. She closes strong and the more nonsensical and convoluted her explanations are, the more emphatically she pronounces them. In this teacast, for instance, after a particularly incomprehensible bit, she exclaims "a hundred percent!" There are always those phrases like "this is super-important, guys," after some meandering bit of nonsense.
In the teacasts, she also has Sarbdeep to enable her most outrageous convolutions. In this one he began fidgeting with his wedding band again and looking a bit like a deer in the headlights at one point. When this happens, like the professionally trained codependent he is, he waits for the one thing he can agree with and refocuses the conversation onto that. Then they both look relieved. Sarbdeep, like her viewers, is strongly motivated to find agreement with teal, rather than to critique her ideas. To his credit he's challenged her more than most of her devotees, but she seems to be wearing him down. We've also noticed he's picking up her linguist patterns and dropping words like "super-important." She is not emulating his dignified speech and demeanor at all.
132. Noncast: Messiah Complex pt 3
I am frequently astounded at how many words teal will misuse to explain otherwise simple ideas. In this teacast, for instance, it takes her several minutes to say: message not the messenger.
Judge the individual teachings, not the totality, and not the teacher as an individual, she says for five minutes. This is odd, though, considering the extent to which she makes herself the message and has laid her personal life bare. This she has claimed repeatedly is her demonstrating her teachings about shadow work (Shadow House) and she publicly shamed Sarbdeep in the second teacast for wanting a private life.
And then, for some reason, apparently unrelated to the message, not the messenger idea, she referenced Stuart Wilde. As we know, Sarbdeep studied with Mr. Wilde and was quite fond. Of course, Stuart Wilde could be the poster child for: let's look at the individual ideas, rather than the totality, and let's leave his personal peccadilloes out of it. Mostly he's a cautionary tale.
She advocates picking and choosing from a smorgasbord of ideas and building your own religion. Again, very strange coming from a woman who delights in having people call themselves "tealers."
There is a larger problem to her build your own religion idea, something I like to call the dangers of dabbling. When we cherry-pick the teachings we like from complex systems and traditions, we run the risk of only choosing the bits that flatter our egos and avoiding the things that challenge us. We also may miss very important safeguards that are built into spiritual practices. Spiritual growth isn't all love and light. It kicks up our stuff and we need some kind of support around that process. If we're delving into the mysteries, reality itself may start to come apart for us, and when that happens, we need a proper framework or we may end up in the loony bin. (See: Spiritual Emergency) And, of course, if you're anything like James Ray, your dilettantism may kill people.
To her credit, teal gives several nods toward the idea that a spiritual teacher should lead the student inward, not to dependence on the teacher. I would be more impressed with that if so much of what she says didn't belie that intent. She never offers up her ideas in a spirit of: submitted for your consideration. It's always phrases like this one around minute 16:00, "This is what I want people to understand."
Said my husband, "I haven't felt this condescended to since boot camp."
She also keeps presuming to speak for source. Here she claims that source is playful and funny, not serious. (???) She also claims that some people are better able to channel source energy clearly than others.
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." ~ Animal Farm, George Orwell
Here I must digress, once again, and point out that this a dualistic teaching and not a oneness teaching. We are not channels for source energy. If we are channeling something, that implies that it is separate from us and must be brought in from somewhere else. We ARE source energy. Among other things this means that if any of us are serious, source is serious.
133. Noncast: Messiah Complex pt 4
She also dispenses with any pretense of being nonjudgmental about other people's paths to spiritual growth when she discounts the value of all but a few religious systems. At the same time she demonstrates total ignorance about those religions. Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and "some" of the earth religions, are the closest to "universal truth," despite being very different. Somehow Tibetan Buddhism isn't as good as Zen because Zen tells people not to be attached to Buddhism either, according to teal. Never mind that the Dalai Lama is an extremely ecumenical thinker and is on record as stating that we need to move beyond religion. I guess she missed that. (???) Personally, I like Karen Armstrong's description of religion as a means to "tip" us into transcendence. One of the things you notice about accomplished spiritual teachers like the Dalai Lama and Karen Armstrong is that they don't bash individual religions, or religion entirely, even as they address the problems and limitations. They respect that there are many paths to the divine.
And what is this "universal truth" of which teal speaks? She contradicts herself repeatedly on this one. She starts out talking about "objective truth" and periodically references this "universal truth" but about ten minutes in, she claims that "truth doesn't exist." Not according to source "perspective" which, again, is somehow different from our perspective, despite the "oneness" she claims to believe in. Such is the ideological house of cards this woman builds in even a few minutes of running her suck. She can't keep her story straight for even minutes at a time.
As per teal, she is enlightened. She's had two, count 'em, two enlightenments. She goes on to describe them but what she's describing doesn't match the accepted definitions of enlightenment. Spiritual enlightenment is an Eastern concept and refers to an awakening that takes us beyond the cycles of death and rebirth. In the West, enlightenment refers to the Age of Enlightenment which is something quite different. She can use whatever words she wants to describe her process, but enlightenment is a very charged term. It has a agreed upon meanings when it comes to spiritual work. The Buddha was enlightened. What she's describing reads more like an initiation, as in the beginning of a process of spiritual awakening, not the end state of an enlightenment. I say this despite her convoluted explanation of enlightenment being an ongoing process of keeping pace with the universe's expansion. Her definition is idiosyncratic indeed, which would be fine if she weren't stating it as if it's a fact. More to the point, by describing herself as enlightened, she arrogates to herself the authority of an enlightened master.
But, back to teal's "enlightenment(s)" that sound more like a mystical, or peak, experience and possibly a spiritual initiation. She begins by describing a choice to go into a dark "cave" and then she describes seeing everyone in the restaurant wearing her face. So, I'm not sure if that was a mystical experience or a half-remembered sequence from Being John Malkovich?
Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich...
Aside from the apparent solipsism of seeing, not so much that she is one with everything but that everyone is her, this reads like an initiatory experience -- the shattering intensity of it, I mean. It could have been, for instance, a sweep of kundalini energy.
134. Noncast: Messiah Complex pt 5
On a recent episode of Why Shamanism Now?, Christina Pratt describes the challenge of the modern westerner confronted with an initiatory experience in a society that has no real language or context for it. (One might, for instance, grab a word like enlightenment from another tradition, redefine it, and arrogate to oneself the spiritual mastery it implies.) Whereas, in shamanic cultures, these experiences are seen as the beginning of a shamanic ordeal and a call to start working with our teachers in the spirit world, westerners can become stuck in the spiritual cul-de-sac of the messiah complex. Pratt posits that this can happen whether someone is Christian or not because Christian thought permeates our thinking. It is the prevailing cultural context whether we accept, ignore, or reject, that paradigm. So does teal, actively contemptuous of all things Christian as she is, have a messiah complex? Well, she does call herself a Eucharist.
Easily the strangest moment in this teacast came when teal described Hitler as a great teacher of freedom. I initially wanted to allow that what she was really saying was that he was teaching by bad example. Sarbdeep seemed to take it that way. She would not be the first person to say that Hitler's crimes against humanity led to positive change, such as the acceptance into international law of Raphael Lemkin's definition of genocide. My husband was not so generous and insisted that I was giving her too much credit. So I listened to it again and found that he was right. She points to Hitler as an example of a bad leader whose good teachings need to be separated from the man and appreciated for their own value. Apparently rejecting Hitler's teaching is foolish ad hominem and his teachings about freedom (???) had value. Here's my rush transcript:
Sarbdeep: Yeah
Sarbdeep: How so?
So, according to teal, Hitler had a great message about freedom that's been unfairly discounted because of... all the... bad... things...
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What he taught that was so good she does not say. She doesn't even reference the two things that most historians will give him: the Volkswagen and the Autobahn. But this elusive teaching on freedom must have been good because he had a following of millions around the world, according to herself. This ignores the fact that he did not have a world following and never even had much of a following in Germany. He couldn't even get himself elected to the presidency, and actually united a majority against him into voting for the ancient Paul von Hindenburg. He had to wait for Hindenburg to die, suspend the constitution, revise the rules of governance, and elevate the chancellorship. This was not a popular leader. This was a leader who seized power through force, exploitation of the Reichstag Fire, and a series of parliamentary tricks. The kindest reading I could give of teal's position on this is that it's ignorant and ahistorical.
To sum up: Hitler good. Mormons bad.
Apparently Mormons are all hypocrites, so... Thanks, Hitler...
By comparison her warped ideas on the concept of humility seem tame, but we watched the video anyway. Once again teal has grabbed the wrong end of the stick and started beating around the bush with it.
In the same way that teal fights mighty battles against straw men of her own creation, here she's warring against a single, narrow dictionary definition of the word humility. Not only doesn't she delve into any meaningful treatment on the concept of humility, she never even takes into account any other dictionary definitions. The sum total of her knowledge of the concept of humility seems to be this definition from an unnamed online dictionary:
"a modest or low view of one's own importance; humbleness"
I could see how that one definition, read in isolation, might not appeal. But, if someone is going to weigh in on a concept that they concede is deeply rooted in "social groups from cultures to religions" -- which she talks about as if they're separate as opposed to interrelated things -- one would hope that they might do more than read a single dictionary definition. Such a person might even want to extend the energy to glance at a second dictionary definition, like say the Merriam Webster definition:
This is the thing about words. They are subject to a great deal of semantic variation and layers of meaning.
More telling still are some of the antonyms offered by Webster: arrogance, assumption, bumptiousness, conceit, egoism, egotism, haughtiness, hauteur, huffiness, imperiousness, loftiness, lordliness, peremptoriness, pomposity, pompousness, presumptuousness, pretense (or pretence), pretension, pretentiousness, pride, pridefulness, superciliousness, superiority, toploftiness
Worse still, the other dictionary definition teal bothered to look up, she misrepresents. This is the definition of modesty she provides:
"the quality of not being too proud or confident about yourself or your abilities"
She ignores the all important qualifier "too."
Her entire exegesis is based on the idea that humility and modesty are all about having a low and degraded opinion of your self worth, rather than not displaying excessive pride and arrogance, which, at least in this day and age, is how most people use these terms.
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Some of what she says would be a good argument against authoritarian structures and how that mindset permeates certain aspects of our culture, but that isn't the argument she's making. Of course, that might require actual research, as opposed to skimming an online dictionary. Mostly, this seems to be a fight she's still having with her mother over things she didn't like when she was two. She just comes across like an angry, petulant child.
"This is where humility begins. In the first few years of life, the child's needs are met entirely by their parents. This arrangement is one which the child becomes acclimatized to. He's used to it. But once the child turns two, and is now able to get their own juice bottle, or do things for themselves more, they're still acclimated to that particular arrangement where mom does everything for me. So at a certain point, the child does what it's always done. It asks for the parent to meet its needs. Now this time because the parent knows the kid can do it for themselves, the parent has an emotional reaction to that request. The parent feels suddenly as if the child has become entitled or self-important. The parent believes that the child thinks that what the child wants is more important than what the parent wants. How does a parent respond when they feel as if their child feels like their importance is higher than the parent's importance. They react by shaming. This is the first point in a child's life that they are shamed for feeling important. This is the point at which the parent switches their behavior toward the child from the aspect of I'm going to provide for you, by why are you requiring so much from me. Suddenly the child doesn't understand why it's level of importance is being so downgraded. It's confused as to why it is being approached with this kind of attitude. The child starts to think, maybe there really is something wrong with me. This is what it takes to create an attitude of 'humility' within a person." [emphases added]
I have no idea what went on in teal's little cabin when she was a child, but even if it went something like this, that doesn't mean that we were all "shamed" for wanting something from mommy when we were toddlers. Not all mothers handle it that way or feel put upon by their developing children's needs and wants. She seems to be inductively reasoning this one scenario into a kind of universal rite of passage into shame-based low self-esteem. Kind of a leap, doncha think? Of course, some children are treated far worse, and teal's scenario here would seem like a very minor issue by comparison. And what exactly is the alternative? That mothers should keep treating their children like infants in need of constant care into childhood, adolescence, adulthood, what? Somehow I think the result of that would be exponentially worse. At some point every child has to be moved towards self-reliance, lest they grow up hopelessly stunted and dependent. Doesn't it make sense that as children begin to develop the ability to care for themselves, that they be encouraged to do so?
As for the bolded statements, do you see what she did there? She went from describing first the child, then the mother, as third parties she was describing objectively, to sudden eruptions of personal rage. She seems very angry over this whole topic. I can't help thinking she's someone who's taken a good deal of reminding that she isn't the center of the universe and she just refuses to be disabused of the notion.
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Maybe it was just the overload effect of sitting through two teal videos in one week, but this one was hard to take. She just came across as really angry and manipulative, more than usual even.
"Universal truth time!" she blurts out around the 7:00 minute mark. No mention here of the "fact" that there's no such thing as truth.
Moments later as she stares coquettishly at the camera: "Ready for us to go deeper?"
Said my husband, "I'm in touch with my inner 14 year old as much as the next guy. I don't get it."
All in all, this was a very nauseating trip around teal's psyche.
138. Glad you enjoyed, Elena.
"Spirit might be trapped here or maybe matter was meant as 'clay' to play and experiment with. But when I look around and look back at our history, this experiment seems rather cruel to me, as the conscious matter experiences and feels intense suffering, physical, emotional pain overweighs happiness."
Precisely. Human history -- at least the recorded kind -- is fairly hideous. I don't think there's any question that humans have evolved and adapted -- such as the accommodation of underdone baby to allow for bipedal human. Our hips spread enough for us to stand upright, but not quite enough to allow for fully baked skull to pass through the birth canal. We've adapted but still poorly. We seem, to me, to be creatures out of place and time -- strangers in a strange land. I think we're overdue for some kind of evolutionary leap.
139. "I suspect teal needed to handle this very carefully so as not to disqualify herself"
"she praised Hitler"
oh did I miss this?
"This teacast actually had tea, the frog (YAY!)"
bad, bad, ugly frog …urghh
"a think tangle of mixed metaphors and physically impossible imagery that overwhelms the reader and actually shuts down the intellectual process."
YOU ARE BLOODy BRILLIANT. This is the best summery of Teal's green screen series. WOW
YOU NAILED IT. Teal is feeding all of us and with her very smart use of language (certainly very skilled) she can satisfy and reflect the belief system of a christian and an atheist in the same sentence. Talking genius. I think I could copy your whole article and confirm every sentence. LV you now how to put words in the right order. AMAZING. Heavy nod of assent on my side. I wish you all could see :D
hahha masterpiece of observation LV
140. "We've also noticed he's picking up her linguist patterns and dropping words like "super-important."
Well I guess that happens
:D so right. My brain always switch itself off in between and oneness, attraction and shadow work act like alarm clocks until I switch off again. I do not understand a single word of her new video series for at least a half year. I am a bit worried if there is something wrong :/ I just can't connect the dots. they seem to be all over the place and in between i am anyway like hypnotized by her eyes (hey blake did you set up the 3 light sources to make the eyes popping :D)?
This was her best business pitch to the public client ever. This is twisted in sooo many ways
1. just because we disagree about the genius side of Hitler…it doesn't mean that some other bits of my teachings will have a good impact on you….mmmmhhhh. I call this…dumb the other one down. In other words: "You don't need to hear to your inner voice who is jumping up and down with big red flags by hearing such horrendous statement - just ignore it, there may be some more helpful bits coming out of my mouth on the long road ahead of us."
2. "don't judge the teacher as an individual" - mhhhh are you sure? I once knew a lady who defined her whole being by having met the Dalai Lama and studying buddhism for 10 years. she offered healing sessions to others and didn't understand why I was refusing to use her "skills". Maybe it was BECAUSE I was judging the t(h)ealer as an individual because her whole personal life was a mess, showing trades of ugly social behavior, god complex etc. To be fair: some stuff sounded great coming out of her mouth but this is what I call a dirty vibration. constantly changing like a chameleon. To judge the teacher as an individual is very important - look at their lives like if they are strangers on the street you just met and follow your guts. We judge all the time. the boo boo is not the judgement process!
But I understand why Teal would say that. Some of her followers will suck it in like ice cream and will give them another half year to ignore the red flags :D
""This is what I want people to understand." "
Well, she is a bit bossy, isn't she? :D she probably would call it "certainty". Ah the game of words.
"Somehow Tibetan Buddhism isn't as good as Zen because Zen tells people not to be attached to Buddhism either"
mhhhh Teal. gently head shaking from the left to the right. mhhhh
there are people who define themselves by their religion and there are people who don't
141. "More to the point, by describing herself as enlightened, she arrogates to herself the authority of an enlightened master."
no wonder she does all these crazy ass videos, articles and podcast about the nonsense of humility hahahah. her latest blogpost about it" ..sugar coating" …. is a great alibi for somebody so fierce like Teal approaches reality.
"She points to Hitler as an example of a bad leader whose good teachings need to be separated from the man and appreciated for their own value."..."TEAL: I mean there's a reason that someone would be followed around by, what, millions of people at that point. Like you don't amass a world following of millions of people unless you have something important that people want to hear. "…"So, according to teal, Hitler had a great message about freedom that's been unfairly discounted because of... all the... bad... things…"
I would love to write a bit more about this. It is twisted. She has some valuable points but surprisingly (considering Teal's record) has chosen really bad words to express it. Will be back on Hitler in a while. It is pretty complex and nobody should shout out statements like her without putting the effort in to distinguish them better. I think Teal should do a video on Hitler and express her theories, downloads from the AR and messages of her guides…. I would be very interested in seeing the full picture from HER perspective. But of course she will not do this because it either "doesn't add to the expansion" or "it could be career suicide" or "she doesn't really now herself and just took on her abusers brainwash". i just noticed that she uses the word Hitler ALWAYS to replace the words "driven, fanatic, forceful, nothing can change my mind on this one….like her very strange example of pointing out that "I am like a nazi when it comes to breastfeeding."
I will write a bit more of my own view later on.
Best so far
I agree Elena ( :
142. "she praised Hitler"
oh did I miss this?
I actally realized that I never finished the Tea with the Swans .
It just slipped out of my consciousness....or maybe I was just soo bored. :D
143. "I will write a bit more of my own view later on."
After the 1st world war, Germany got all the blame on all levels. They need to pay huge reparations. btw: 4 years ago germany finally fulfilled the last payment to Britain!!!
in 1929 the whole word was battled by the great depression. Germany as a group dynamic was in bits, bad people, their fault, bad country… Suddenly Hitler comes along as says: "Enough is enough, it is time to raise the standards for us people., we will be a force, we will make it happen, I am your future". The german people felt so depressed and worthless, powerless to this stage so that when Hiltler came along, he offered the a vision, a positive vision by following him. we will upgrade the economy, our quality of life will improve, Germany is great, I will make your life better, patriotism….just follow me.
And people did. In this way he offered a vibration raising concept and there was a deep desire in the german people and he came to power.
But then he got power mad and it is hard to say, if it happened in the process or if this was always his original plan. He just couldn't stop himself. After his idea that the polish corridor should be part of germany again???…I think he never expected Britain to get involved and everything went down.
Everything changed, he created a climate of fear - reports, spy, killings etc. People became terrified and many of them followed him based on fear now. His twisted idea - his quest for perfection of the human race started hell. He blamed the usually very abundant jews for germany not being in abundance and started a heart breaking hunt, heart breaking. He took over countries here and there and some germans might have realized that this is a sick dynamic. But at the same time their economy - war economy is abundance - when a country is mobilizing, machinery, supplies for the front…. they had the conflict of and upgrading life and their real human judgments. …..
144. Now I am aware that this is a very loose summery of history but my goal was - according to my knowledge - to show the dynamic wave and projected intentions of a man and a country and what he and they lost on the way.
So Hitler offered a very beautiful concept to a country which was beyond depression. Is that a positive act - maybe?! Depends of his intentions. Had he already planned to take over the word in the moment of introducing his concept? Pure act of evil in my eyes. Did he loose his originally positively focused path on the way? Ended in evil as well but the starting point was pure empowerment on a positive note in this case. You also need to consider that his drive and vision was born when he was powerless in prison.
By this understanding when Teal is referring to "he is a bad leader whose good teachings need to be separated from the man and appreciated for their own value"…I am scratching my head. I am trying to find the good teachings other than motivating a deeply depressed country and offering him a glorified vision to allow each individual to lign up with a new form of life. These words at the right time had a great impact. However the same guy had the idea to take over the polish corridor which was the start of war war war. Did he keep his promise to the german people to be force, to be a country that will not be suppressed and ignored anymore, to have a blooming economy etc….? YES by introducing the concept of war to economy, people and the world. Could you see him as a bad teacher to become aware which way it should have been? Yes! Not by war- every idiot will get this.
To put "bad leader" and "good teachings" in one sentence to describe one person is strange
he was a good leader with a good teaching at the beginning (maybe also intentionally to the benefit of all beings…who knows) and then he turned into a good leader of bad teachings. The sentence she wrote it mirrored, twisted. Teal, the twist and twirl queen….tssss
Teals words and question "I mean there's a reason that someone would be followed around by, what, millions of people at that point.", is answered very simply - he was the opium to the masses. If you give millions of depressed germans a believable story, with great sureness and passionate use of smart wording….yes Teal you are right, millions followed him and maybe will follow you as well, considering that i found you during my depression.
Mhhh some similarities here isn't it.
145. A following of masses only prooves a dominating thought structure at a certain time with equal desires. If you access this with the right wording structure, vision offering and self belief (aka (s)he seemed so sure) you will have an ocean following this current and not just a tiny vini stream. It doesn't say anything about the improvement of real or fake happiness. It doesn't say anything about a good or a bad teaching. It just expresses that sb knows how to lead the masses in a certain direction - which is actually the big question here WHAT DIRECTION DID HE LEAD THIS DEEPLY DEPRESSED COUNTRY?
you can argue: ah well you go into the darkness for some years and you will recognize the light much better afterwards. Is this Teal's argument which defines a great Teaching? ?In this way we do not need to talk any more about evil or angelic. Everything is a great teaching then and we can all embrace hitlers, stalins, mass murderer etc. eyyyy great teachings for the world.
dont get it. Human life means judging constantly. How on earth would you ever be able to make a decision without this weighting- and clarifying process.
146. I would like to say that this is just a rough frame work of my personal belief. I am german myself, never met Hitler but heard a miollion stories of my grandparents about their personal pain of war, their guilt, their innocence. I always was angry that I am labeled as one of these Hitlerers opppps. considering they my german mother squeezed me out into this country which labled me as german. Now I know that there was some kind of thought and intention behind it on my side :D anyway... it feels sometimes very annoying, yes annoying to constantly being not freshly perceived but puked out predigested by history stories and mass energy fields. No idea what I was thinking when I chose this. But I am fine with it. Never felt patriotism, never felt that I belong to any country (how strange is this anyway???), always a stranger and I am enjoying being a stranger ( :
147. I don't know that it pays to speculate as to what good ideas teal thinks Hitler had. I think she needs to lay it out since she's the one who brought it up. She didn't explain herself at all. I think it's entirely possible that she has no idea what she means. The implication is that a popular idea must have some value which is fallacious enough. But the error is compounded by the fact that Hitler wasn't a popular leader. He had a following and his gang of militants leveraged what power they had against a weak, fledgling democracy and overturned it.
There were only two ideas on which Hitler was consistent and neither was good in my opinion: 1) women should return their traditional role of kinder, kucher, kirche and 2) Jews suck. Sure, you can eek out the stray good ideas: urban planning and socialist policies that would ensure the well-being of German citizens -- although that citizenship was pretty narrowly defined. He really didn't bring much else of value to the table. And mostly his message was one of hate, blame, and scapegoating. Where on earth she teases out the idea of freedom, I have no idea. But again, it would be guesswork. Maybe someone should "Ask TEAL" what she means and she can do an episode on it.
I think it's a dangerous topic for her, though, and not just because she doesn't seem to have any idea what she's talking about. She has a documented history of racist statements and outbursts. I mean watch her body language. She's very emphatic, nodding, and saying "Hitler had a teaching, I'll tell you that!" For a split second, I thought she was going launch into some Neo-Nazi diatribe and it's made worse by the fact that she really looks the part.
148. The non-cast was excellent.
I have done some study of the post WW1 German social environment and from the little I know, there was a collective demoralization/rage undercurrent and wounding of "pride" and then "shame". It seems as though "personae" of people is very aligned in some ways with "social" conception. Orderly, rational, clean, intelligent, reasonable, productive ideals.
It has always been "blamed" on the collective that the third reich was not protested. however, from what I have seen, there were deliberate steps implemented in carrot and stick form that by the time the wholesale sweep up of "undesirables" occurred, people were unable to mount a collective protest.
when I was a kid, the civil rights uproar was happening in MY life and when people from the University of Alabama were supportive, the University made it clear that dissent from members of the faculty wa taboo...even with tenure. My grandparents were in a fight with my mother who wrote letters to the editor. Then death threats (mentioning the names of me and my brother and where we went to school and even a picture of all of us in front of Mom's parents house) terrified the protest out of Mom. My mother was a narcissist but an activist kind (up to that "limit").
Looing back now in the US, it is hard to0 recall that just 50 years or so ago, the view on who has the status of full "humanity" in the US was very different.
There was mention of the odd physiology of humans and the seeming 'half baked" nature of the newborn. I say humanity as a "WHOLE" is half baked. Look at how the same themes get replayed in every generation? US is compared with Third Reich by some critics now?
It may be a part of the larger Soulness to come here half-baked and leave fully cooked through the fires of having to make "personal" choices "one way or another" that may be painful when set against the common hoard herd hardwired automatic reactivity of crowd mind?????
LV, You didn't touch on Teal Soothsayer Swan's jesus even briefly. Maybe best to leave that sacred myth alone? But Jesus was possibly NOT a man but the overwhelming MYTHOLOGY of the "man" who may have the makings of acting in form as God? IMO, true teachings show us the "way" to place oneself in a sacred oven and be bread fit for real life. But we have to knead to be that so much that we jump into the oven.
149. Yeah, I didn't get into the Jesus thing, mainly because it was already overlong and that wasn't the interesting bit for me. But it was stupid. Jesus's teachings weren't that great because they caused so many wars... Yawn! It's tired. And it's a canard. Wars aren't fought over religion. They're fought over wealth and territory. Religion just makes a useful pretext, as do bullshit claims of Iraqi soldiers pitching babies out of incubators. Same thing. Rile people up over moral issues and they're more likely to support a war. But religion is almost never the real issue. Here:
"According to the Encyclopedia of Wars (Phillips and Axelrod, Facts on File, December 2004) of the 1,763 major conflicts in recorded history, only 123 of them were classified as having been fought over religious differences. That’s just under 7 percent. The encyclopedia also explains that the number of people killed in these conflicts amounts to only 2 percent."
I think we're in relative agreement on the value of the Jesus myth. And it's a retelling of far more ancient myths. The Bible is a vector for some very profound mythos. There's much to criticize, too, but I'm loathe to throw out the baby Jesus with the bathwater.
150. I just read Teal's blog about desensitization. I feel angry personally about the same conditions that she is stating exist in "society". It is as if the ideal of the world I see is being a "great cog" in a "machine", one that maes the construction "wor". There is not much room to be vulnerable in this machine.
I go bac again and again to 'health care" as being the opposite of health or crae in principle. It hurts to see people believe in the system. I became depressed when I realized my "constriction" like when I was an RN where desensitization was making me sick. With "patients" I was feeling with others, my feeling made me want to weep at work. When I was "distant", I felt wrong and had terrible migraines too.
I could not see how to "change" my sickness.
I have mostly a meadow instead of a yard because I want the bugs and fairies to have a place. I cannot understand the beliefs of hierarchies that create competition, "lack" and scarcity of resources, economy based on perpetual debt and "prestige" based on how well one can play the system.
I personally would like to see individual destiny...even those of the bugs accomodated. I have been a new ager wanting a "new earth".
The only "good" for me is I have been recovering my own ability to 'feel" deeply as it seemed it was pummeled out by living. I feel heart ache but realize that is heart opening. So, I do feel an alignment with her angst here.
It seems to me that in some of her writings, there is a realness and I feel kindred with some of what she says.
However, I also feel that when I am able to see things from a larger perspective, there is peace about accepting what iI just cannot understand. Love is IMO what I came here to learn and Universal principles that make the senseless more in perspective from a larger context.
Personally, I do agree with her that we cannot behave except from what we KNOW. So again, I am flummoxed by Teal. She has her personal journey and she has every right to be wherever she is.
Her example of confusing initiation into the mystery (and LV said it well.... initiation is the FIRST step) with enlightenment and her claim to lead others is just abhorrent. IMO IF she were enlightened, she would be living peace. This would communicate and help others to feel the peace. Peace is the inner reunion and reconciliation that IMO does lead to the "way" to be in life while feeling whole.
It has NOTHING to do with the management of the social personae. It has nothing to do with books, theories and prescriptions. It is a big "I don't know" because my perception is so limited. When the ineffable and the person are in concert, there is IMO a willingness to give up "teaching" and be taught by the inner being. I aim there but she pretends she IS there.
151. I missed your comment LV before I posted again and here I am AGAIN. Just wanted to say YES, let's not throw out the baby jesus because he stands to some for the door to everything.
It always makes me laugh that people get hung on describing one's INITIATION: the way that was prepared for all of us to "grow in and out". Something huge happens and then attached to the only words we have for the experience.
IMO Initiation is Metascience where personal consciousness meets the BIG ONE and "I am not alone but all one and it is personal too" is known to be true!! Then the rest of the time we grow into the 100% behavior of that.....
I have such gratitude that we may one day have something so WEIRD happen to us that we cannot go back to "normal" and that no matter how hard it is at first to be alone in the strange "unknown", there is a personal presence who has sentience and knows us and says "I am with you always", no matter who we are or whatever we have "done". We are the children of life itself in a "meat suit". When we the sink into the presence, though we call it "whatever", the still small voice will never lie to us.
I just read a book of Black Elk's experiences. I also just read Joe Dispenza's "You are the Placebo". They are not exactly on the same subject but I am making them be so.....
One time Joe Dispenza said: http://www.drjoedispenza.com/index.php?page_id=the_four_pillars
"This intelligence knows how to maintain order among all of the cells, tissues, organs, and systems of the body because it created the body from two individual cells. Again, the power that made the body is the power that maintains and heals the body.
My subjects" illnesses signified that, to some extent, they had gotten out of touch or distanced themselves from part of their connection with this higher order. Maybe their own thinking had somehow directed this intelligence toward illness and away from health. But they came to understand that if they tapped into this intelligence and used their thoughts to direct it, it would know how to heal their bodies for them. Their greater mind already knew how to take care of business, if they could only make contact with it.
and once Black elk said:
"If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish." http://www.indians.org/welker/blackelk.htm
I am making it about the Ineffable who works through us and wants us to be wholey.
152. Oh. this is funny, though. I hadn't caught it before. So, Jesus, not a great teacher. Popular doesn't mean good, says teal. But Hitler clearly had something of worth to say because you don't have millions of followers around the world for no reason. How many ways does this woman contradict herself? It's impossible to keep up with it all. So, Jesus, pretty pedestrian thinker who started wars. Hitler, though, really doesn't get enough appreciation because of, you know...
153. How IRONIC it is! hehe
Our beloved Soviet dictator Stalin is still highly revered among many Russians, he is #3 most popular and the greatest person according to the latest nation-wide poll after all, despite being responsible for the deaths of millions of Soviets in labour camps and purges. He also thought people about freedom, I guess. This is how: according to teal's teachings, when we want to learn about something, for example, what love is, we come into the scenario where there is no love. Apparently, we can only know something when we are deprived of this very thing. So, by taking their freedom away completely, he actually managed to teach those lucky Gulag residents what this freedom is all about. Genius!
154. * correction: he taught
PS. At least he kicked Hitler's a**
155. Jesus most definitely wouldn't score much in Russia with his meek attitude. Russians adore their tyrants, the ones they love and respect and obey. Tsar Ivan the Terrible known for his brutality also made it on this "Most Popular" list. And the guy's been dead for more than 400 yrs...Yep, we are masochists. "50 Shades of Gray" is very very popular over there (despite complaining about the lousy translation. They think over there that it was some translator's fault that the writing appears to be terrible, lol...)
LV, when you said you liked the shades of gray, you didn't mean...?
156. LOL! No, definitely not what I meant. Damn, but that is some bad writing.
rotflmao... I can't decide what's worse. Loving Stalin or loving 50 Shades.
If you haven't seen this, you really should:
157. The book was so bad so very bad (in a different way than intended) and sold so many copies. It makes me wonder ....If Teal wrote mommy porn, wouldn't she become MORE famous than ever possible in the new age genre?
Seriously, she should consider switching. She Might even be interesting to read?
I would be happy to recommend her mommy porn to my 70 year old friend who loved the 50 Shades books and loaned them to me though I did not get her same thrill and only read half of the first book and skipped to the end to see what happened. Even Ellen parodied 50 Shades.
158. Oh, I don't even want that in my head. Bad as EL James is, she's fucking Flaubert next to teal. I don't think I can imagine anything less erotic than teal's clumsy, hundred words to any ten a normal person would write style, describing any sexual act. I don't know, though. Maybe if they got Tom Friedman to do read the book on tape... Nah, it's too much to hope for.
Speaking of Madonna.... were we.... sure, why not...
159. " Even Ellen parodied 50 Shades.
OMG hahahhahahaha
160. "Speaking of Madonna.... were we.... sure, why not...
hahahhaa you are killing me hahhaha
161. Why, LaVaughn, here's a promising start from Teal! I probably have some seriously perverted mind cs as I was reading that for the first time...
"...I was turned head first into a current. [?? hmmm] There was a calming lull about the pressure of it against my body.[oh...i see] My sense of smell was so acute that I could smell the feeling of the current. [smell is sooo important!] It felt familiar, it felt like home. That scent, gave rise to an instinctual pull in my body that I could not deny, it was so strong that to go against it would have been like trying to prevent an orgasm at the peak of it’s wave. I remembered the smell of this current, but I didn’t know why...[didn't you just say it felt like home? anyway...]
A deep and thick current [deep...thick..], with a different smell and look and feel that made my body turn a darker color [yep...that happens]. Here, in this current, the light touched every part of me. It had even turned my body a lighter color.[this happens too...] There were so many of us in this current that we brushed up against one another [ quite an orgy, huh]. And all around me are flashes and sparks of silver as they turn and the light catches the curve of their bodies. It is ecstasy [I'm sure it is]. The belonging and the sense of purpose and the way my body melts into the current like there is no difference between what I am, and what it is. [I want me some "current" too!]
‘Dance’ is the only similar human word there is to the feeling of my life there. Back and forth, I sway as animated muscle. Back and forth, I let the pockets of ‘above reality’ roll past my body and caress me (these are what people call bubbles).[bubbles. oh, so she's in Jacuzzi?] The above reality is another world. No one knows about it because it does not belong to us. It only crosses over. It comes down into our world and we leap into it from time to time. But there is nothing there for me. The current keeps us hidden from it. Back and forth is the dance that keeps my body alive...
I am going to ‘heaven’...[Hallelujah!] I recognize on some level that I have never felt this allowing in all my life. Allowing of myself, allowing of the current, allowing of my life. I do not conceptualize of death and so there is nothing to resist. [the life affirming power of "the back and forth dance"! Salut!!] I only heed my instinct, which is as strong in me as soundless cannon fire. I am reluctant to withdraw my focus there. [no, no, do...not...withdraw...just...yet...] But I return to my human body.[Booooooo]
Upon waking, I asked one of my guides “Desmond” what the experience was last night. His response was, “the one you asked for”. I asked for details....."[Mmmm, Desmond...I wonder what he looks like]
"Then he shows me an image of myself watching a documentary movie about bears recently in the movie theatre. He reminds me that as I watched that movie, I mentally thought, “I wonder what it would feel like to be one of those salmon”.
Whaaaaat???? those were the fantasies of being ....a fish??? Oh boy... At this point I'm thrown out of body and go thru (I spare you the details) a feeling of what it's like being one frustrated bear unable to catch that slippery, thick, silvery salmon... dammit.
What would uncle Freud say about this dream??
162. Sarah Silverman shouldn't have any problems recording those book tapes, i think. That girl will read thru anything without flinching :-D
163. I don't know if you saw them, but on one of these threads we posted a bunch of those Sarah Silverman videos. Eerie how much she sounds like teal -- the weird juxtaposition of peaceful new age tone with dark, morbid fixation and creepy sexual comments. She's nailed it. The hypnowheel eyes are a crack-up, too... and not far off. Maybe teal is more of a type than I ever knew.
I read the fish thing. She can't go long on her videos, her interviews, her blog, or anything really, without dog-whistling about sex and/or drawing attention to her body. And let me very clear. I have no issue with people writing sexual material. I have friends who've written professional erotica. I have no negative charge around people expressing themselves as sexual beings. I don't like when sex and women's bodies are reduced to currency and used to manipulate people, whether it's in advertising or, as in this strange case, to promote a spiritual teachings. It's just so cheap.
But I don't know if any of that is worse than phrasing like this: "I mentally thought..." As opposed to... some other kind of thought? What this woman does to the English language is abuse. It tortures my ears.
164. Regarding Teal's claim of her IQ being 170 - Einstein had, and Stephen Hawkings has, an IQ of 160. I sincerely doubt that hers is even close to theirs.
165. Oh sure that makes sense, Teal with an IQ of 170! I used to think she seemed fairly intelligent now I am convinced she just has a talent for spouting BS with a condescending tone of authority (if you can call that a talent?).
166. “The worse the haircut, the better the man.”
― John Green
right Sarbdeep ( ;
167. I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that, indeed, I am a man."
--Johnny Weir
Good solution S when being married to sb who has a history with emasculating men :D
168. Who was it who, with such sublime sarcasm, already pointed out that teal had just bumped Stephen Hawking off the top ten highest IQ's of all time list? I thought it was LaVaughn?
I once had a friend who told me that he liked his weight to be the same as his IQ. I asked him "how much do you weigh" and he said "170". I never asked him if he had succeeded in matching up the numbers, but he was definitely a genius in some areas, although that did not prevent him from being totally fucked up in other areas. In fact I think his fucked-upness helped create his genius, so it all worked out for the best. Everything is always exactly as it should be - as it is, on it's way to what it will become. I don't know what that last bit has to do with the subject of Teal's IQ, I just felt like saying it.
But boy, Teal sure looked like one UNhappy camper in this video, especially when the camera first focused on her. If I had been standing there in front of her I would have taken a step or two back. I even tried to sitting here in my computer chair. In fact, I think I would have just got the hell out of that house without any further ado. I noticed they both did some fiddling with their wedding rings in this episode. Teal reminds me of a predator, and Sarbdeep reminds me of her prey, except he doesn't seem to be going down too easily.
I wonder if his beard is his own idea, to display his manliness or whatever, or if it was teal's idea, like how she had Jared change his name to Fallon? She does like to mold others to her own specifications.
I LOVE Johnny Weir!!!
169. She has for the past two not-podcasts, zigzagbuddha. She looks tired and angry and her hair looks dirty. But I've been avoiding comment about their appearances and mood because, in fairness, they're in the midst of a move and it's apparently all gone awry. I expect I'd be grumpy if I'd packed up my life, driven to another state and found that I had nowhere to go and had to turn around and drive all the way back to a place I'd said goodbye to. I hate moving. I still haven't recovered from our last move, I'm still not completely unpacked or settled in, and that was nearly a year ago. I hate moving. It makes me cranky even when it goes relatively smoothly -- which it did not this time.
Good observation on the beard, GA. Again, it might just be that they're in flux and shaving isn't possible... for some reason. I don't know, though. He had it two weeks ago, last week he didn't, and now he does again. Well good for him. The power of beard may be just what he needs.
And, yeah, her IQ... please stop. I just can't... But, of course, she was tested twice, so you know...
170. I haven't stopped by for a long time now but I'm happy to see the discussion is still going! Hi again LaVaughn.
A quick update: I was just told by an acquaintance who is friends with a Teal follower that someone, let's call him Bob, sent Teal information about a healing technique he had learned. For some reason, I don't know. But anyway, he sent her all the info about this technique and didn't hear anything back from her.
Cut to a week later and she made a video about a new healing technique. Any guesses of what the technique was? Yeah, the same one he just emailed her about with a slight tweak. She did not give any credit for the original technique and did not disclose that it was not gifted to her from her BFFs, the ascended masters, but from a fan who emailed her about it. People have lauded her genius for it, worshipped at her feet for more gifts she pulls from the clouds, as per usual.
Anyway, thought it would be of interest to share it here. We all knew she does this all the time anyway, but now there's definitive proof.
171. And for the minions out there who will try grasping at straws: I have the emails to prove it, from the guy who emailed Teal as well. So shuddup.
172. which video is it data-sparrow. Can you email youtube link?
173. But dava-sparrow ....tsssss...did nobody ever tell you about cosmic coincidence. Teal had already planned to do this video and the human desire was so big at this time that it was reflected by your friend bob, sending her the exact information as well ( : you know about the idea net which spans around the world and few people tap into it at the same time ;;;;)
174. Healing the emotional body - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3V_Gtfr_YA&list=UU1KIUp4PNCyIwCPTq1hYzWQ&feature=share
175. (((((((((DAVA))))))))))
So nice to see you! See, what's funny about that is that I'm in the process of writing up the noncast on the last teacast, in which teal appears to have plagiarized from me. My, aren't synchronicities fun!
176. This moving situation Teal is in seems very strange to me. I have moved many, many, many times in my life but never had to turn around and go back because my housing fell through or whatever. There seems to be something very strange going on.
177. Yeah, back when a few of us had our little 'salon' going on over in the comment section of Teal's blog, Elena and I had talked about how fun it would be to get together over some spicy tea and tell stories. Then lo and behold, the next thing we know there is 'tea time with teal'.
I tried not to jump to conclusions because Sarbdeep is English and they do like their tea, so who knows? We had noticed a few other 'coincidences' like that too. Oh well, I think I'm just going to pretend she jumped in the various conversations and said something like "Hey you guys, what a good idea! Do you mind if I use it?" and we said "Sure, go ahead!" Hahahaha!
178. Well I think Teal is being smart by getting some inspiration over here or there instead of just complaining how her low selfestime attracted LV with the same problem and all the headache we are giving her by being so unappreciative here ;D
bu the way: Teal, Sarb, Blake take note - whoever is in charge of your worlddominating series Tealinxxx doesn't do a good job with the new aweful banners at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1431538940432456.1073741828.1428043210782029&type=3 for chicago.
shaking head - no no, not good. Think again, there are better ways for promotion of the business than gold, plastic and vegetable hearts. Branding 2.0 please.
not hating, just helping with the market research ( ;
179. And on moving... yeah, it can sure be a harrowing experience. I have done it so much I have it down to an art by now, but once we have had to live in a campground with all our stuff in storage until we found a place, but I have NEVER turned around and gone back where I came from with a fully loaded rental truck!! Especially not two states back!! Very weird!
180. Don't believe everything you read at Teal's blog ZZB & LD ( ;
On a site note: Teal finally gave me the pleasure of having my intuitive gut feeling being visualised by her in one of her recent humble bumble videos.If you scroll to 1 min and 06 seconds (be exact) - the whole process of "smiling" and "switching" (although I acknowledge that it was probably a creative tool to bring over the message...ah well) is the vibe I constantly get from her. Enough vibe to being totally put off by it. Thanks Teal for giving my guts and image sequence! Feel very clear now.
181. (((((((LaVaughn)))))))) :)
I was reminded I hadn't checked in when I got a message from someone on LiveJournal wanting to talk more about this after reading your articles and my comments. Then I got this news about Teal stealing a friend's technique. Tis kismet.
It might have been good if I'd included the name of the technique she'd stolen so everyone can see for themselves, right? Oops. It's this one: http://www.emotionalhealingtipi.com/#!sensory-regulation/c1ger
It's so ironic, if we're using Teal's dictionary, how these techniques are pretty much identical, dontcha think?
182. Well, she does still own the house, so it makes some sense to go back there. Thank goodness it wasn't sold. And she appears now to have taken it off the market. What I don't understand is that they moved lock, stock, and barrel, without something really firm on the other end. They really didn't know that they had no house to go to? How did that happen? I mean, I know it does from time to time, but I know I would have wanted something really firm -- signed lease, and key pick-up location -- before I went through all that. What the hell happened there? Really crappy realtor? What?
183. Hi Dava...Thanks for stopping by again and for the update. Interesting...
These synchronicities are fun. I think I know what you mean, LaVaughn (your material on DN?;-). I'll wait for the noncast to find out:-)
Yeah, Zigzag, we actually used "tea time stories" expression a few times right before the introduction of those "podcasts"....but who knows...Here's the shop I spotted recently:
In any case, it is clear that Teal doesn't think referencing is super important (now I'm stealing her dictionary ), especially giving credit to her own followers and those with below 170 IQ...It is important, however, to hammer into everybody's mind that Teal knows "what most people don't understand".
Lily and zzb, I wanted to remark on that bizarre moving situation too. Same here, wondering, how can it fall through on the very day of the supposed moving date??? Never happened to me too with all my moves, and I'm far from being organized. And how can they just go back to that house, I thought it would be sold and sealed by now too... Strange...Teal is not so transparent anymore. What is "ironic", is that the teal team can't even move successfully yet they plan on implementing all these major global changes:
184. Oh, and that Malkovich scene and her description of one of the elightenments she's had....Bwa..hahahahahaha
185. Malkovich scene?
186. Noncast#11:
"But, back to teal's "enlightenment(s)" that sound more like a mystical, or peak, experience and possibly a spiritual initiation. She begins by describing a choice to go into a dark "cave" and then she describes seeing everyone in the restaurant wearing her face.[podcast #11] So, I'm not sure if that was a mystical experience or a half-remembered sequence from Being John Malkovich?
Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich... "
187. @Elena
ok need to do my homework now and watch de movie :D
188. I have decided you must have a photographic memory Elena... and an uncanny ability to 'connect the dots'!
I vaguely remember somewhere where Teal was talking about her enlightened state and I saw the movie 'Being John Malkovich' but I didn't make that connection! Granted, I didn't much care for that movie and I have a hard time giving my full attention to anything teal says anymore - I find her style of communication very jarring, irritating and she can be so painfully trite. She does not communicate her thoughts in a very cohesive fashion, but instead delivers them all convoluted and crammed with a mind-boggling slew of excess words besides, rife with hidden significances, innuendo, misleading information and, of course, a shit-load of self-aggrandizement that I'm embarrassed for her, and I hate feeling embarrassed. Much better to just come here and get the streamlined, consolidated, cohesive version, hahahaha!
189. ZZBu I sometimes wonder too if Miss Elena can top Teal's IQ
190. Oh, that was LaVaughn who made this connection in the last noncast! Amazing. I haven't even seen this movie myself, GA :-) I don't care much for John Malkovich, I did go to see him live though in "Kazanova" play last year, but that was because of Russian actress I kinda like playing his love interest there.
191. Oh no, I wouldn't go that far, GA, lol. C'mon! :-)
There are people here I admire (you included) with so much wit, intelligence, education...I'm left speechless quite often
192. Hey Elena, you obviously didn't study Teal's humility video and quote hahahahah . Damn it, stop being so humbled. Noooot good. I just see a russian suga rcoating for Servility! I learnt that from Teal. Proud!
"Humility is not a virtue.
humility is a beautiful but thin,
sparkling sugar coat for Servility"
Teal Swan
On a side note: no capital Letters anymore?? - what happened ? Humility quote AND empathy quote. Is her boldness finally capitulating - which could be an indirect proof of humility in action in Teal Swan without even contradicting her own quote. Or does she ( :
193. Oh, btw, here I was, thinking that despite Stalin's and "shades of grey" popularity, at least Teal hasn't conquered Mother Russia yet, the way such phenomenas like pedestrian writer Dan Brown ( also known for his notorious plagiarizing), Paolo Coelho, Twilight have....For once I was grateful for our national laziness and reluctance to learn English. No one bothered to translate her videos too, the way they did in Chech. That could be one of the reasons...But, oi oi oi, there appears to be another MAJOR reason (and not one to be proud of unfortunately). I so wish I could brag that we have our own Russian versions of high-minded LaVaughns, who can see through the crap... but instead there is this "parody" stealing the spot light. And despite catering only to Russian speakers, look at the numbers of views and subscribers! Teal, you've got some catching up to do!
Here she teaches us how to read thoughts. Wow, this got me thinking...anal-lytically, as opposed to mentally.
And this one is on self-esteem. I am studying this hard, GA ;-) I'm making some serius progres, cs of how freakin clevah I am. Andara, I'll give you some Russian servility, you, you German ....you!! hahaha
194. I can totally see Teal doing an Intro like Психология. КАК ЧИТАТЬ МЫСЛИ.
This woman looks gooooorgeous. I haven't a clue what she is talking about but she is half backed as Teal and I feel kind of home now seeing half backed woman talking on my screen.mmmhhh
…. so i am at 4:24 and I am missing a fancy entertaining background and some images. But honestly, it truly reflects my understanding of Teals latest videos. hahahhaa NOTE Teal: outfit change makes it even more easy for the spiritual seeker to get your message.
After clicking the second link, I come to the conclusion that you are probably overtired because you posted two hardcore russian videos without any translation. hahhahahaa but I truly enjoy that she is not much different than Teal who talks clearly an unknown language as well. So well done E :D
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Pronunciation: AN-thun-ee or AN-tun-ee Origin of name: Latin Meaning of name: Uncertain; perhaps “priceless” The Story Behind This Historical Christian Baby Name The name Anthony does not appear in the Bible, however it is notable as a Christian name because of its historical significance. St. Anthony the Great was a man commonly referred to as […]
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/22985 | 6 thoughts on “The Universe In Your Hand – Paperback is out in the UK :-)”
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1. Hi Cat, and thanks for you message!
Well, that’s because we can muster enough energy for our muscles to match the gravitational pull! Were we made of water, we would splash on the floor. But we’re not water, we have muscles etc.
But on much denser planets where gravity’s pull might be much much stronger, we’d lie flat indeed.
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How to set exec bit while auto-mounting USB disk?
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I'm using cubian. Cubian is very smart. When I insert a USB disk, it will be mounted automatically. However, USB is automatically mount with noexec bit set, which means I cannot run binary executable files on USB disk.
What should I do to configure cubian, so I can run executable files on a automatically mounted USB disk?
I don't know how cubian does it, but I have a debian on my cubieboard and I use the usbmount package.
This is a very handy package for this type of thing. You can write scripts to run when a particular USB drive is mounted for example. (Put them in /etc/usbmount/mount.d/ )
If cubian is using usbmount, then have a look at /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf and change the MOUNTOPTIONS variable removing the noexec flag.
There are several different methods in use for auto-mounting USB drives, like I say I'm not sure if cubian uses this one.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23033 | Imagine you are Ethan the Ezrahite (author of the final poem in Book III of the Psalms). …Ethan – that famous sage in the entourage of wise men – along with Heman, Calcol, and Darda – in the days of King David and King Solomon. This Ezrahite saw firsthand the glory of the Davidic empire! They were unparalleled days of success and security. It was an exciting time to be alive, and it was especially exhilarating to have a position like Ethan’s – a premiere spot on the roster of elite wise men who lived in the thick of the prosperity. And there was every reason to expect bigger and better things to come, for David was only the second visible king in Israel’s history, and it seemed that his son would surpass him – a successor invincibly wealthy and wise! But then the kingdom faltered, the offspring of David contracted disease, the deterioration was dramatic and rapid. What started out looking so promising, was now careening off a cliff. They had hit some rough waters in the days of Saul and David, but they had weathered the wind and waves, and with the inauguration of Solomon it seemed that the golden era had arrived. But as Ethan surveys the situation he cannot help but observe, “God has cast off and rejected; He is full of wrath against His anointed. God has renounced the covenant with His servant; He has defiled his crown in the dust. God has breached our walls, and laid our strongholds to ruin. Kings and Queens no longer come to witness the wisdom of our king, but to plunder and scorn. God has caused our splendor to cease, and cast the throne of David to the ground.”
Ethan the Ezrahite, who had seen such a glorious, God-given, rise to power (the lowly shepherd boy turned king of the world)! Stands shocked and grieved over the ruins asking, “How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? How long will Your wrath burn like fire? …Who can deliver my soul from the power of Sheol? Lord, where is Your steadfast love of old, which by Your faithfulness You swore to David? Remember, O Lord, how Your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations, with which they mock the footsteps of Your anointed.”
Ethan is a wise man. He is wise enough to know that you tell God the truth. When you pray to The Maker, you don’t cover up your honest questions and quaking emotions; you lay yourself bare before the face of God.
Ethan is a wise man. He is wise enough to know that the beginning of knowledge is the fear of the LORD. Ethan knows that there is no other God like this one whose steadfast love will be built up forever; and in the heavens He will establish His faithfulness. So as this wise Ezrahite stands amidst his discouragement, he ends his poem with the words, “Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.”
Ethan – like Moses – endured as seeing Him who is invisible. And though he was perhaps not even aware of it, he considered the reproach of Christ. In Ethan the Ezrahite’s poem we have a prophecy of the One who knew no sin but who would become sin (cast off, rejected, object of full wrath, defiled, plundered, and scorned), so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. Here is the fulfillment of God’s steadfast love, which by His faithfulness He made forever promises to David. This is the One who delivers our soul from the power of Sheol. |
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The name ULTIMEGA was originally an idea I had for a wicked-crazy hard-to-beat Final Fantasy boss that I called ULTIMEGA WEAPON, which, in my concept game, would appear ONLY after you have beaten all the other secret bosses, including Ultima and Omega, and you can tell how the conjunction ULTIMEGA came to be. This was a long time ago, and since then, the name just stuck, even though it's not very creative. But at the time, it was the best I had. As for my personality, I'm pretty outgoing as far as the game is concerned. I like to push myself a little bit beyond my limits, and that helps make me a better player. I also don't have much of a life. But it's all good, considering the fact that I'd rather play games all day anyway. I'll do other things every now and then, but I'm mostly online surfing the net and checking out videos and listening to music. Whenever I'm not doing any of those things, I'm either watching TV or just chillin' with my friends. I have a pretty carefree lifestyle. I'm also very friendly and easy to talk to most of the time, but being a somewhat hyperactive individual, I also get frustrated easily sometimes. Not very often, though: It mostly depends on how I'm feeling that day. I'm very approachable in terms of companionship, but not quite ready for a real relationship. That's not to say that I hate girls, and you'll be able to read about that in the section below. I've already mentioned some of my personal hobbies up above, but a few more of them are swimming and rocking out to Heavy Metal and raving to Techno. I also have a Rubik's Cube that I like to solve again and again. And if I'm really in the mood for it, I'll sit down for hours at a time trying to put together jigsaw puzzles, which I used to be good at doing. I'm usually not this outward, though - I mostly keep to myself. But if you want to know more about me, I'd be more than willing to tell you.
My number one interest - and can I make it any more obvious? - is playing FFR, StepMania and DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION. I actually have seven versions of DDR for PS2, from MAX 1 to my most recent addition, DDR X, the sequal to which I am currently still trying to get. I also like to play Guitar Hero a lot, as well as other games like Ultimate Ninja and Kingdom Hearts. I also have a Super Nintendo (which, amazingly, still works, even after nearly 30 years - I wasn't even around when it came out) that I like to play every now and then, as well as a PlayStation 1. My favorite types of games are rythm, fighting, action, racing, adventure/rpgs, classic (Pacman, for example), bullet hell - pretty much anything that interests me right away. I have played Final Fantasy before, and used to have FFX, but sold it to a friend of mine. I still have VIII and IX, though, the latter I have beaten twice, the former I'm still only about halfway through. Putting together all the Nintendo and PlayStation games that I own, I have a total of 55 games. Not that big a collection, but still somewhat impressive. In terms of a relationship, I feel like I'm ready to finally settle down with someone. But here's the problem: Nowadays, a good woman is hard to find. I believe in tradition, but I also have my own problems regarding the erotic, so it's kind of hard to find someone that actually will go for you based solely on who you are and still put up with you every day of the week. I'm also interested in trying out for a band, or starting a band of my own. I don't really know what you have to do for that, but I'll figure it out eventually. If it ever does happen, I'll be like wow.
Fav Music:
I don't really have a specific favorite. If it has a good beat and a nice tune, I'll listen to it. But I mostly listen to hardcore techno and heavy metal. There are a few genres that I don't like, such as country and soft rock. I don't really get any of that stuff. On another note, I just love, love, LOVE DJ Sharpnel, who happens to be my fav techno artist duo (not many American fans of Sharpnel know that Sharpnel's a duo). Close second would be Yosei Watanabe, a.k.a. m1dy. (I've noticed here on the site that there are no m1dy tracks in the game at all). I also like Technorch, who is an awesome DJ. (Note: I only have two Technorch albums. I'm searching for the others.) I mostly enjoy Japanese Techno/Bubblegum pop, which gets me hyped up in case I'm having a bad day.
Fav Movies:
I don't really watch movies all that much anymore, but I still favor the action flicks where there's a lot of fighting, guns going off - the kill-or-be-killed kind of movies that get your heart racing. I also enjoy watching comedies like Ace Ventura and Bruce Almighty (both of which I have seen.) Not much else on this section, really.
Member for: 10.87 years
Gaming Region:USA - Gulf Coast
Location:Mineral Wells, Texas, USA
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ULTIMEGA's Gameplay Stats Today
1813 / 2135
2074 / 2135
Tier Points
1145 / 1500
Random Thoughts
Posted on: June 16, 2019, at 11:47:35am [3 comments]
Ultimega finally has a job! I'm pretty stoked about this. Been working with a master electrician for about a month now, and so far the job is going pretty good.
I also wanted to share a couple things. About a month and a half ago, I got in a wreck that gave me a minor case of whiplash. I'm okay though. Doing some therapy to help readjust my back and neck and, as it turns out, reset my nervous system, I didn't know was a thing.
Unrelated: Slowly working to improve some old scores that have been collection cyber dust the last couple years. Slowly bringing that average rank back up.
Posted on: March 30, 2019, at 11:21:59am [1 comment]
First random thought in I don't know how long, so let's get caught up with how I'm doing over here.
First and foremost, I'm now a competitive Smash player, even though you probably won't see my name on screen in quite some time because I'm nowhere NEAR that level yet. But hey. 13 local tourney wins ain't bad.
Same with Tekken, but I've been working around Tag 2 and hoping I can get good enough to join a tourney somewhere. Alisa and Lili are my mains, but I'm starting to branch out to other characters. Also, Electric Wind God Fist is hard as balls to do.
Job searching might be coming to a close. I've applied to Walmart SEVERAL times, but apparently I missed a singular point on that application.
Let's see....
Oh, yeah! I have a new girlfriend. She's out in Canada and doing tremendously well. Who would have thought that she'd be a bit freaky like me? I honestly didn't expect that, but hey! I'm not complaining.
So there ya go. an update from me. First one in.... I think a year or two? Someone check for me please.
Posted on: February 23, 2017, at 10:22:02am [1 comment]
I just contacted Kawaii to talk about a new ongoing event that will take place soon enough. I will be (hopefully) getting a response from him/her soon. We'll be going over details of the event with this random thought being updated as we go.
More to come soon.
Posted on: December 1, 2016, at 03:02:54pm [0 comments]
About 5 hours and 50 AAA's later, I finally managed to get Coactive today.
I played Doomsayer as the 50th song just to make things interesting.
Posted on: July 29, 2016, at 12:30:08pm [0 comments]
I might actually make this a mission for my FFR Mission Mode that I'm working on.
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revolutionomega writes at 10:33:15pm on 1/21/20
Thanks man! I'm still ass at harder stuff and I'm mind-blocking like crazy on a bunch of other things but slowly feeling little elements of play come back. 1300 AAA's soon.
s3od9991 writes at 5:28:34am on 11/10/19
Very kind Person, i wish i'd know how to do you back but i'll make sure to do so when i figure out ^w^/~
Sanjixcon writes at 4:20:36pm on 11/8/19
22,898 note FC :o
Josemba writes at 2:17:52pm on 11/8/19
I can't wait anymore, PASS ME XD
Josemba writes at 6:35:31am on 11/5/19
omg, I had to play some songs for passing you again XD, you acc GOD, go for it
revolutionomega writes at 11:25:06am on 11/4/19
On the other hand you're an absolute monster over there!
revolutionomega writes at 11:24:49am on 11/4/19
Appreciated on the MA comment lol.
I feel like I've always been more of an accuracy player than anything else and my hands/eyes just can't keep up with the crazy higher level stuff these days. Slowly improving again though.
revolutionomega writes at 11:24:30am on 10/23/19
Thanks so much man! I have a sinking feeling I'll probably never touch the heights that I've seen from some of you guys but I'm very happy with the improvements I've been making lately and have really enjoyed the huge catalog of music FFR has expanded to.
Josemba writes at 6:48:12pm on 9/26/19
Josemba writes at 7:55:06am on 9/26/19
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Questioning the truth“For Thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and Thy truth unto the clouds.” (Psalm 57:10)
Mercy and truth are so often grouped together in the Word of God. Psalm 85:10 says, “Mercy and truth are met together…” One of the most beautiful pictures in the Bible is that of the uniting of these two parts of God’s nature. He is wonderfully merciful, yet unwaveringly truthful – and these two attributes are never in conflict with one another! Having already thought about God’s mercy, how does His Truth affect our lives?
God is Truth – He will judge sin by His standard, and no one else’s. Romans 2:2 says, “But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.” As often mentioned, we would be in trouble if God did not tell us by what standard we will one day be judged. We could have no way of knowing if we could meet the standard. However, because He has told us what His standard is and how to meet that standard (through the Lord Jesus Christ), we can prepare for that judgment. This does not stop after salvation, though. God has told us what He would have to do to be prepared to hear, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” (Matthew 25:23) We are not left in the dark as to how He wants us to live righteously, forsake sin, and strive for holiness. Do we seek this truth? Do we take the time to consider if we are living by His truth by which we will be judged?
God is Truth – No matter what is happening in our world or in our lives. There is much happening in this world that is the antithesis of our God of Truth. If we focus on those things, we will find ourselves discouraged, confused, or even falling into the sin with the world. However, we have the assurance that Thy [God’s] Word is truth.” (John 17:17) We can always come to the Source of Truth in His Word to strengthen us midst discouragement, clear our confusion, and restore us to righteous living. We also know “His truth endureth to all generations.” (Psalm 100:5) Therefore, it doesn’t matter how much time passes, what society says is okay, or what is commonly accepted; we have the Word of God as our final authority to tell us what is true and what is not true. Do we allow ourselves to be drawn to the lies of the world and the devil, or do we come to the God of Truth to give us stability in a tumultuous time?
God is Truth – We need never fear that He will lie. “Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life…” (John 14:6) God has not only given us Truth, but He is also the very definition of Truth! Titus 1:2 says, “…God cannot lie…,” and Hebrews 6:18 affirms, “…it was impossible forgod is truth 1 God to lie…” The most truthful person we may know is still born speaking lies (Psalm 58:3). We can be guilty at times of attributing the faults of humans to our great God. What an awe-inspiring thought that there is no possibility for God to be anything or speak anything other than complete Truth! We need never worry that He will somehow change His mind on what He has promised, that He will be unable to keep His promises, or that He could even forget something He has promised. We can depend on Him every time because of His character of unfailing Truth. Do we doubt Him? Are we guilty of maligning His character by not trusting Him to be and speak Truth?
Viewing the God of Truth ought to cause us to fear Him – not with trembling, paralyzing fear, but rather a reverential fear, knowing His Truth pierces through all deceit of man. It is a wonderful attribute of our God on which to meditate. It is a surety in the midst of whatever we may be facing in life because we have that firm foundation of Truth that will never change. Then, piecing it together with His mercy – His favor and undeserved kindness – we can rejoice in such harmony of His nature that gives us such gracious gifts: salvation, fellowship, purpose in life, the ability to live righteously, hope of heaven, and so much more. When you have a few quiet moments in your day, think of Him Who is unchanging Truth and unending Mercy!
1. Emiliy
I am SO glad our God is Truth. I always wonder why, of all things, we often struggle trusting our God of Truth. The devil knows where to slip in the doubts.
1. Kristen
Yes, he definitely does, since the original sin in the Garden of Eden! Mankind has not changed at all – I am so thankful God is so merciful, even though we do doubt Him so many times!
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Homemade Capture-the-Flag, part 2
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Happy New Year, everybody!
Which number in the list is clearly a false CC number?
The flag for this problem is my password.
How many circular primes are there below one million?
We’ll save that for the next post.
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2. Using the terminal, download and install xscreensaver.
$ sudo apt install xscreensaver
What can you use this project for?
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Open Sourcing
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Parsons Problem Lesson: quad_functions
Learning Programming is Hard
Many challenges face the new Computer Science learner. One of the most interesting times for students learning to program is that period after they’ve learned a new feature or programming strategy, but before they’ve had a chance to really master it. The syntax may still be unfamiliar, or the strategy is “the same, but different” as something that they’ve seen before.
A Parsons Puzzle
I first stumbled upon the “Parsons Problem” type of question in a paper by researchers Denny, Luxton-Reilly, and Simon, Evaluating a New Exam Question: Parsons Problems, published in 2008, which led me to Parsons and Haden’s original paper Parsons’ programming puzzles: a fun and effective learning tool for first programming courses.
A “Parson’s Puzzle” is a programming problem delivered via computer, in which code fragments, manipulated via a drag-and-drop interface, may be assembled to form a correct, working program. Clicking a “Check” button would provide some sort of feedback. Parsons and Haden proposed that the nature of the puzzle would improve engagement with the topic, provide better structure for students still struggling to understand fundamental logic, strategies, or algorithms, and even intentionally allow for common errors so that a student could get immediate feedback on fundamental misunderstandings.
Parsons and Haden’s original idea of helping to teach students with an automated system was adapted to a paper-based means of assessing students by Denny, Luxton-Reilly, and Simon. Along the same lines, it’s certainly possible to use a paper-based strategy of helping students develop and clarify their thinking on any given computer programming topic.
A Paper-Based Parsons Problem in the Classroom
In an introductory computer science course taught using Python, students had recently learned about functions, and had had the chance to learn how to use functions in several different contexts. Students were paired randomly and given a paper copy of the activity here [PDF], and asked to a) arrange the lines of code into strips of paper that they would assemble into a working version of the program, and then b) enter their code into the computer to verify that it works as intended.
This program solves quadratic equations using three functions:
* one function to get the coefficients a, b, and c
* one function to calculate the two roots, and
* one function to print out the results
@author You
@version 1.0
def get_coeffs():
def get_coeffs(a, b, c):
def calculate_roots(a,b,c):
def main():
def calculate_roots():
def display_solutions(root1, root2):
def display_solutions():
a, b, c = get_coeffs()
root1 = (-b + (b * b - 4 * a * c) ** (1/2)) / (2 * a)
root2 = (-b - (b * b - 4 * a * c) ** (1/2)) / (2 * a)
x, y, z = get_coeffs(a, b, c)
display_solutions(r1, r2)
return root1, root2
display_solutions(a, b, c)
print(root1, root2)
return a, b, c
print("The solutions are: ")
a = eval(input("Enter coefficient a: "))
b = eval(input("Enter coefficient b: "))
c = eval(input("Enter coefficient c: "))
r1, r2 = calculate_roots()
a, b, c = get_coeffs()
r1, r2 = calculate_roots(a, b, c)
if __name__ == "__main__":
#!/usr/bin/env python3
Students took the assignment seriously, and seemed to appreciate the nature of the puzzle, and the fact that all of the information was available to them—they just had to (literally) put the pieces together. There were some lively discussions—”Do we need a function header with parameters or not? Do we need the function to return a value or not?”—as well as a desire to get done with the puzzle-solving as quickly as possible in order to move onto entering the code into the computer to test their program.
For a larger assignment or project with many variations, the Parsons approach is not well-suited: there are too many variations that need to be considered. For students just learning to master a new topic, however—functions, conditionals, while-loops, for-loops, etc—the Parsons Problem strategy is a great way to build students’ skills and confidence in programming.
Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, and Beth Simon. 2008. Evaluating a new exam question: Parsons problems. In Proceedings of the Fourth international Workshop on Computing Education Research (ICER ’08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 113-124.
Dale Parsons and Patricia Haden. 2006. Parson’s programming puzzles: a fun and effective learning tool for first programming courses. In Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Computing Education – Volume 52 (ACE ’06), Denise Tolhurst and Samuel Mann (Eds.), Vol. 52. Australian Computer Society, Inc., Darlinghurst, Australia, Australia, 157-163.
Demo: Encapsulation
The idea of encapsulation is fundamental to computers in a number of ways. Generally speaking, “encapsulation” refers to the idea of building a container around something, as if that thing were contained in a capsule. When it comes to computers, there are a couple of slightly different ways the term might be used.
Hiding code in a class, function, or library
Commonly in computer programming, encapsulation refers to the idea of hiding away the details of code. For example, you may write a bit of Python code that takes three coefficients for a quadratic equation a, b, and c, and calculates the real roots (solutions) of that equation:
a = 2
b = 4
c = -5
root1 = (-b + ((b * b) - (4 * a * c)) ** (1 / 2)) / (2 * a)
root2 = (-b - ((b * b) - (4 * a * c)) ** (1 / 2)) / (2 * a)
If you were having to write lots of programs to calculate quadratic roots, or if you wanted to be able to use those lines of code other places, you might very well write them into a small function or method called something like quadratic_solver that you could use in lots of different places. You might call that function like this:
roots = quadratic_solver(2, 4, -5)
In this single line of code, the messy details of multiplying, dividing, and square-rooting have all been hidden away from the main program. The details of that calculation have been “encapsulated” in the function.
Any time you import a library into your program–import java.util.Scanner; in Java, for example, or import random in Python–you are bringing in complicated bits of code that will be available for you to use without having to worry about some of the arcane, or mundane, or complex details that are contained in that code. The concept of encapsulation is extraordinarily powerful.
Programming languages: Machine code, Assembly, High-level
A second way of considering encapsulation is less obvious, but one that we use all the time.
High-level languages
You have almost certainly seen computer programs written in some “high-level” language like Python or Java. These languages are called high-level because they, for the most part, consists of syntax that might be recognized and understood.
Here’s a program that’s written in C, which adds up the numbers from 0 to 255 and prints out the result:
# include
int main(void)
int x, sum;
sum = 0;
x = 1;
while (x < 256)
printf("%d ",x);
sum = sum + x;
x = x + 1;
printf("\nSum = %d\n", sum);
You may not understand everything in this program, but it certainly has a few English words in it, and even a programmer who doesn’t know C might be able to work their way through this program to identify how it works.
We have a serious problem, however. You may have heard that computers don’t understand English: they only work in binary digits, or “bits,” the zeroes and ones that are represented by a billion switches being turned “off” or “on.”
So how does the computer run this program?
It doesn’t. But there is another program on the computer–a compiler–that is able to take this program and convert it to something called Assembly Language.
Assembly Language
In Apple’s macOS, if you have the Developer Tools installed, you can use the gcc compiler in the Terminal to output a compiled version of the program.
$ gcc -o sum sum.c
What does this new version of the program look like? We can see the Assembly Language version by using the otool program:
$ otool -tv sum
(__TEXT,__text) section
0000000100000f10 pushq %rbp
0000000100000f11 movq %rsp, %rbp
0000000100000f14 subq $0x20, %rsp
0000000100000f18 movl $0x0, -0x4(%rbp)
0000000100000f1f movl $0x0, -0xc(%rbp)
0000000100000f26 movl $0x1, -0x8(%rbp)
0000000100000f2d cmpl $0x100, -0x8(%rbp)
0000000100000f34 jge 0x100000f65
0000000100000f3a leaq 0x65(%rip), %rdi
0000000100000f41 movl -0x8(%rbp), %esi
0000000100000f44 movb $0x0, %al
0000000100000f46 callq 0x100000f84
0000000100000f4b movl -0xc(%rbp), %esi
0000000100000f4e addl -0x8(%rbp), %esi
0000000100000f51 movl %esi, -0xc(%rbp)
0000000100000f54 movl -0x8(%rbp), %esi
0000000100000f57 addl $0x1, %esi
0000000100000f5a movl %esi, -0x8(%rbp)
0000000100000f5d movl %eax, -0x10(%rbp)
0000000100000f60 jmp 0x100000f2d
0000000100000f65 leaq 0x3e(%rip), %rdi
0000000100000f6c movl -0xc(%rbp), %esi
0000000100000f6f movb $0x0, %al
0000000100000f71 callq 0x100000f84
0000000100000f76 movl -0x4(%rbp), %esi
0000000100000f79 movl %eax, -0x14(%rbp)
0000000100000f7c movl %esi, %eax
0000000100000f7e addq $0x20, %rsp
0000000100000f82 popq %rbp
0000000100000f83 retq
This version of the program contains a series of commands–push, move, jump, add, call, pop, return–that manage the data in the program, addresses in memory (listed along the left side), and registers (like %esi). Some people program in assembly language, but you can see that it’s a much more complicated affair. The process of storing the value 1 in the variable x is, in assembly language
movl $0x1, -0x8(%rbp)
We can say that the assembly language instructions are “encapsulated,” or hidden away, so that we don’t have to worry about those implementation details. We can write our high-level code, and rest assured that the compilation process will take care of the dirty work for us.
Of course, we still haven’t gotten down to the 0s and 1s that the computer needs to run a program. Let’s go one step farther down.
Machine Language
In the process of compiling, we actually created a binary version of the program, with nothing but 0s and 1s. We can use the xxd program in the terminal to view that code:
$ xxd -b sum | cut -c 11-64
11001111 11111010 11101101 11111110 00000111 00000000
00000000 00000001 00000011 00000000 00000000 10000000
00000010 00000000 00000000 00000000 00001111 00000000
00000000 00000000 10110000 00000100 00000000 00000000
10000101 00000000 00100000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00011001 00000000 00000000 00000000
01001000 00000000 00000000 00000000 01011111 01011111
01010000 01000001 01000111 01000101 01011010 01000101
01010010 01001111 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00011001 00000000 00000000 00000000
11011000 00000001 00000000 00000000 01011111 01011111
01010100 01000101 01011000 01010100 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00010000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00010000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000111 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000101 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000101 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 01011111 01011111 01110100 01100101
01111000 01110100 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
It is this code–these 1s and 0s–encapsulated several layers below our original version, that the computer uses to run the program.
These 0s and 1s are used to operate the digital hardware, the memory locations and the logic gates, that produce a given output. In fact, before we had keyboards, mice, and monitors, the personal computer was simply a set of switches with lights above them. Computer code was entered using the individual switches–a long, painful, error-prone process–and output was read from the computer as a series of flashing lights.
Here’s a programmer entering a program by hand onto such a machine. The resulting program displays (in binary, of course!) the prime numbers between 2 and 255.
Fortunately, we don’t have to enter binary logic instructions by hand. Those codes are encapsulated well beneath our high-level languages.
Demo: Binary Numbers
If you teach Computer Science, chances are that learning about the binary numbering system is part of the curriculum at some point.
Why teach binary?
Some people question whether or not binary numbers should be part of a high-level curriculum, given the multiple layers of abstraction between, say, a webpage and the binary code that brings that page to life. I’d suggest that:
1. Those multiple layers of abstraction / encapsulation are very much a part of computer science, and a perfect jumping off point for a conversation about binary numbers.
2. Students should understand that binary numbers are at the heart of every computer. A great video for demonstrating how people used to have to program computers is this one, demonstrating the programming of an old 8080 microcomputer. Follow that up with a demo of high-level / assembly / binary version of a program, described here.
3. Learning how to decipher a binary number is not that difficult, and provides students with a manageable gateway activity to the field of computer science.
Demonstration strategies
Binary numbers can certainly be displayed on a computer monitor or projected in front of the class. An interactive Python session works just fine:
>>> bin(13)
>>> print(bin(13))
A more visible and physical demonstration of binary numbers can easily be constructed using an outlet power strip, socket adapters, and low-wattage aquarium light bulbs (see parts list below).
This device can be easily manipulated at the front of the room, with individual bulbs easily turned on or off simply by screwing them in tightly (on), or unscrewing them slightly (off). Students can be asked to identify the decimal equivalent of a binary number, or asked to manipulate the bulbs themselves to produce the binary equivalent of a decimal number.
This inexpensive and physical, practical demonstration device can be used in the classroom, with parents, during open house events, etc. It has become a mainstay of every CS course I teach.
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A set of behaviours and attitudes that influence how students learn and interact with teachers and peers. Learning styles are cognitive, affective, and physiological behaviours that serve as indicators of how learners perceive, interact with, and respond to the learning environment. For example, for David Kolb (1984) learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. In Kolb’s model, learning is based on two continuums, namely: (a) processing continuum, e.g. approach to a task, such as preferring to learn by doing (active experimentation) or watching (reflective observation); (b) perception continuum, e.g. emotional response, such as preferring to learn by thinking (abstract conceptualisation) or feeling (concrete experience). The four combinations of processing and perceiving determine one of the learning styles (or learning preferences) of how individuals prefer to learn. According to the VAK (Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic – movement –, sometimes known as VAKT, Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, and Tactile) model, learners use these three/four modalities to receive and learn new information, one or two of these being normally dominant. An individual may have several learning styles which can change over time and according to the learning task.
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Dr Jonathan P. Eastwood
Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics
Senior Lecturer
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6M63Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus
I am a senior lecturer in the Blackett laboratory and a member of the space and atmospheric physics research group. Previously, I worked at the University of California, Berkeley, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD where I held a National Research Council Resident Research Associateship. From 2010-2014 I held an STFC Advanced Fellowship at Imperial. In 2012 I was awarded the COSPAR Zeldovich Medal (Commission D).
I conduct research into space plasma physics and space weather. I am particularly interested in a phenomenon known as magnetic reconnection which occurs in the boundaries between different space plasmas. As well as changing the topology of the magnetic field in space, it also rapidly releases energy stored in the magnetic field, creating jets of hot plasma. Whilst reconnection occurs in a wide variety of circumstances (e.g. solar and stellar atmospheres, accretion disks, tokamak sawtooth crashes), in the Earth’s magnetosphere it causes geomagnetic storms, an example of space weather. Space weather is on the national risk register because it represents a very significant threat to infrastructure resilience (e.g. power blackouts, loss of GPS, satellite damage).
I combine blue sky research into fundamental space plasma physics (magnetic reconnection) with the development of new cutting-edge simulations for space weather modelling and prediction. This is underpinned by multiple space hardware projects, both current and planned, in which I play a leading role.
I am a member of several operating science missions including Cluster (ESA), THEMIS/ARTEMIS (NASA), STEREO (NASA), and most recently Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (NASA). I am also a Co-Investigator on Solar Orbiter (ESA) and JUICE (ESA), both of which are currently in development.
I lead space weather research within the group. One line of research, in partnership with the plasma physics group, is dedicated to developing new cutting-edge simulations for space weather modelling and prediction.
A second line of space weather research concerns the development of new space instrumentation for both space plasma physics and space weather. This builds on the space and atmospheric physics group's considerable heritage and experience in space magnetometry. In particular I am leading Imperial's involvement in the space weather RADCUBE project which will launch in 2019. I am also leading Imperial's involvement in the European Space Agency Lagrange space weather mission, planned for launch in the mid-2020's. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23145 | Archive for February, 2012
My 28 Questions for God.
1) How can I trust you more? – But the real question is: Can I actually trust you more, given that I don’t fully trust you with what you are doing now? 2) What happens to the good people who don’t have enough strength to keep using your strength? 3) Would I be a Christian […]
Happy Valentine’s Day (see how normal the title is)!
I’m not against Valentine’s Day – let’s start there :-). Today is the day for lovers, friends, thinkers, feelers, dreamers, and rebels. The thing about Valentine’s Day that is so unique is it garners a response from everyone. You can never respond with nothing. If you think you are not slightly affected then you are […]
It has been 10 years since I graduated high school. I still remember those who were clever, those who were sort of smart, those who were naturally gifted, and those who worked really hard. Though my school was poor and academically challenged, there were 50 of us in my class that participated in the Advanced […]
The 8 year old boy and his freedom
Two nights ago, I had a dream. Most dreams are just dreams – but some dreams are more like visions – or something critical the Divine has to speak to a mortal. In the dream, I was watching my 8 year old self. I looked exactly how I looked when I was 8. Chubby, playing […] |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23157 | tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36263297.post2402325432055130580..comments2019-12-24T16:57:49.354-08:00Comments on Judeofascism.com: Daniel Bell, yet another liberal-capitalist Establishment-promoted Jewish intellectual who always kept an eye on "Is it good for the Jews?"[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-36263297.post-65730667257261991412011-02-01T08:50:12.968-08:002011-02-01T08:50:12.968-08:00Daniel Bolotsky: "...the outward life of an A...Daniel Bolotsky: "...the outward life of an American and the inward secret of the Jew. "<br /><br />This duality is the most troubling- this secret of their special shared ethnic identity. The arrogance multiplies in a room full of them. Just live in the nyc and often you'll see the clear reality of it - the mask comes off.<br />They're somewhat proud of this duality, if that makes sense. The rest of the country are fools, hicks, cant be trusted to vote, etc. It's no doubt treachery, But if your climbing the ladder, then you better laugh along with the group.Chuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected] |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23160 | Throwback Thursday: MSN Messenger
Thursday, 12 April 2018
First of all, a massive thank you for all the lovely feedback on the Myspace edition of Throwback Thursday, it seems a lot of us we're all in the same boat when it came to perfecting the emo fringe. However, before (and somewhat during) Myspace, there was another internet sensation that was the OG messaging system, MSN.
MSN Messenger was launched way back in 1999, when a lot of us were still using dial up internet connections or barely had a computer in our homes at all. In 2006 it was re-branded as Windows Live Messenger, and in 2013 was discontinued with the likes of Skype and Facebook Messenger taking over.
If you weren't hot on the MSN bandwagon, a lot of you may be thinking 'why on earth is a messaging platform such a TBT?' Well, my friend, a lot like Myspace, MSN was one of the first of it's kind, and just about every kid at the time would run home from school to log on and talk to friends they literally just said bye to.
Alongside a picture and a name, you could create a Personal Message which often consisted of Evanescence lyrics and wilted rose emoticons. That's right, emoticons were a thing before emojis. The fact I can happily list a handful of emoticon shortcuts just from memory 15 years later says it all: (W) (}) (P) (pi) (h5) ...
Over the years, MSN released many different versions of it's messenger, always improving the system. One year saw them introducing the 'Nudge', this was an extremely annoying feature that was built for impatient people. If you wanted your buddys attention, hitting the nudge button made the recipients screen shake and focus on their conversation. It was a pretty hacky feature if you think about it, and nothing but an inconvenience when I was in the middle of trying to win a game of Falling Furni on Habbo Hotel.
Then came then personalised emoticons. You might have thought Tumblr was the birth of the gif, but MSN saw these come in many moons ago. You had the kids that would just add the odd handful of emoticons, or those that would change every single letter on their keyboard to an emoticon meaning their message of a simple hello took about 3 minutes to load, to present you with sparkles, bounces and a guaranteed headache.
Another cool feature of MSN was the 'Show what i'm listening to' integration. This allowed your MSN to link to your Windows Media Player (or a dodgy version of iTunes that took 75 years to load on a Windows XP) and quite simply does what it says on the tin. This was crucial for Myspace Queens to make sure everyone knew they were listening to My Chemical Romance. Before Spotify was a thing and we all lived on Limewire, the 'what i'm listening to' feature also spurred on people to ask you to send them the song you're listening to. This would take at least half hour to receive and when you did, the beginning of the track included some pirate radio DJ bellowing "another one" way before anyone new who DJ Khaled was. This feature was how I discovered Luke Pickett, and how I then went on to be a massive Green Day fan for all of about 6 months.
I can still hear the log in sound in my head to this day, and god forbid if your crush ever logged onto MSN after you. That meant you had to appear offline and back online again so they would initiate the conversation. We also all did the "oops sorry wrong convo" to get someones attention, or even better, blaming your friend that you absolutely wasn't with at the time. You also had the weird people that were just always online but set to Away. They were clearly the guys already on broadband.
God forbid if anyone started a convo with 'wanna cam?' and you'd have to turn your webcam on and cover it with your finger to pretend it was broken, instead of just simply saying "no". Every so often you'd have a clear out of your friends list so you could get rid of the creeps from AOL chat rooms.
The people that had the most conversations going at once were those that started their display name with a dash so they appeared at the top of everyones online list. They also wrote their ѕ¢яєєη ηαмє ℓιкє тнιѕ, and they were also the people that picked their font style and colour very carefully. Comic Sans was (and still is) a big no no...
WhatsApp is great, but there really was nothing quite like MSN - where's the petition to bring it back?
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October 31, 2014
What's in a Name?
Everyone talks about God, but when we use that word, are we all talking about the same thing?
The Noahides aspire to unite all humanity in acceptance of the Seven Universal Laws, of which the first – not to commit blasphemy – includes acknowledging the presence of God, fearing God, praying to God, sanctifying the name of God…
Do Christians, Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists and members of other faiths agree with that? Will agnostics and atheists be able to agree? Do they all understand the same thing when the word God is used?<!--more-->
Pious Jews don't use the word God at all in everyday discourse – instead they talk about HASHEM. They would agree that when they talk about HaShem, they are referring to the same One to whom they pray, whom they also refer to in everyday discourse as HAKADOSH BARUCH HU, “The Holy One, blessed-be-He”. In Yiddish they call him GOTT, the Germanic word to which the English word God is related.
The “Essential” Name
HaShem is a Hebrew noun that means “The Name”. Ha- is the Hebrew prefix that means “the”, while Shem is the Hebrew word that means “name”, any name or noun. When Jews speak of HaShem, they are talking about THE Name – which they also call the “essential” name of God (SHEM HA-ETZEM), which appears throughout the original Hebrew scriptures, the Torah.
The actual Hebrew name to which HaShem refers is a name consisting of the four Hebrew letters Yod, Heh, Vav, Heh. However, Jewish tradition holds that because of the supreme holiness of this Name, it is forbidden to utter or pronounce it. Thus it is sometimes called the “ineffable” (=unsayable) name of God. Because it has four letters, many scholars refer to it as the Tetragrammaton (in Greek, Tetra is 4 and gramma means a letter). Sometimes Jews rearrange the order of the four constituent letters of the Hebrew name and refer to this name as HAVAYAH. This rearrangement of the letters is allowed to be uttered. (The old biblical English transcription of the Tetragrammaton which used j for the Hebrew letter yod is Jehovah, but pious Jews will not say this word.)
The reason why the Jews call this the essential name of God is because although a variety of names and descriptions are used in the Hebrew scriptures to refer to different aspects of God, the name of Havayah – HASHEM — is considered the root of all those names and descriptions – the complete and perfect unity that underlies all plurality.
For example, in different places in the Hebrew scriptures God may be referred to as EIL (= “The Power”) or ELOHIM (“Powers”, a plural form used with a singular verb when referring to God, and also used with a plural verb of angels and judges); YAH (the first two letters of the Tetragrammaton), sometimes translated as “Eternal” for want of a better word); HASHEM TZEVA'OT (God of hosts or armies – the armies of His “angels” or “agents” and creations), and SHADDAI (also translated as “Eternal” for want of a better word). God is also called RAHOOM (“kind”), HANOON (“compassionate”), GIBOR (“mighty”) as well as by numerous other epithets, which manifest different “aspects” of God's attributes.
When Abraham, Moses, David and other biblical figures and prophets address God, they use the Hebrew name ADONAY. In Hebrew an ADON is a “lord” or “master”, and the –AY suffix, which is only ever used to God, would indicate “Our Lord”. Addressing God as ADONAY, as Jews do numerous times a day in all their Hebrew prayers and blessings, indicates that we submit ourselves to God's complete dominion over us as servants submitting to our Master.
What's in a name?
What is so important about the name of HaShem, which first appears in the Hebrew scriptures at the climax of the account of the Creation and in the ensuing verses giving details about the creation of Adam (Genesis 2:4ff). Prior to these verses, the account of Creation uses only the Hebrew name ELOHIM.
The Torah sages teach that only when the work of creation was complete could HASHEM, The Name, be revealed. It was this Name through which God revealed Himself to Israel when they received the Torah at Mount Sinai: “I am HASHEM your God that brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of slaves” (Exodus 20:2).
Names and formulae
For better understanding of the significance this name in particular in the Torah, it is necessary to grasp that there is a fundamental difference between the words and names of Biblical Hebrew and those of modern English. In English, all kinds of names are attached to all kinds of things, but regardless of the etymological and other connotations these names possesses, the actual letters of any given name do not necessarily relate to the inner essence of the thing it denotes. English names are essentially made up of mere phonemes, sounds that are conventionally used by the speakers of that language to signify whatever thing or being each noun or name denotes. In writing, these phonemes are represented by sequences of letters of the alphabet.
However, the building bricks of Hebrew words are more than mere letters signifying phonemes that are conventionally attached to the things they denote. Each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet (Aleph Beit) has a mathematical value. Since the name of each letter is made up of that letter in combination with one or two other letters, each letter is a mathematical formula capable of joining with other mathematical formulae to make powerful combinations. (Note that the 22 letters of the Aleph Beit are all consonants, and in Hebrew texts the vowels are written as small dots or lines under or sometimes over the letters.)
Everyone knows that the conventional chemical formula for water is H²O because water is a combination of two hydrogen atoms to every oxygen atom. But do the words hydrogen and oxygen relate to the integral essence of their respective substances. Historically, they do relate to what was once thought to be the integral essence of those substances, but modern science views them differently. Yet in the more precise language of scientific theory, we see that formulae may possess enormous power. It is enough to consider the revolutionary implications of Albert Einstein's E=mc² equation, in which he formulated his entire theory of relativity.
The Torah sages of the Kabbalah tradition teach that the Hebrew names and words relate to the integral essence of the things they denote, because these names are the underlying formulae of God's creation. It was because Adam had knowledge of the secrets of creation that he knew the correct Hebrew name for each of the different creations: this is the underlying mystery of the verse: “…and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was its name” (Genesis 1:19).
Perfect Unity
Just as laymen and beginning science students find it hard to grasp Einstein's theory of relativity, so we should not expect to grasp the secrets of the Essential Name of HaShem in the short time we can remain standing on one foot. Nevertheless, it is unnecessary to have a deep understanding of Hebrew in order to gain a glimmer of why this holy Name of God enshrined in the Torah contains the deepest mysteries of creation. All that is required is a modicum of patience and effort in order to grasp some very fundamental concepts.
The Tetragrammaton expresses even visually how three-dimensional physical space, the universe (OLAM), emanates from a higher source that is so beyond our comprehension that it can only be expressed as a mere dot.
Thus the first letter of the Tetragrammaton (reading from right to left) is the Hebrew letter YOD ( י ), smallest of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and considered to be their root. The YOD is written as a mere dot or blob of ink on the page. True, the Torah scribe writes the YOD with a tiny hairline above it, suggesting that this dot comes from somewhere hidden, and a tiny line emanating from underneath it, indicating that the power and energy of this dot is going somewhere. But the essence of the letter is a dot – a blob of ink that contains potential, yet the potential is not yet manifested in detail. Mathematically, the letter YOD is 10, indicating that it contains in absolute unity the 10 axiomatic powers of God (the 10 Sefirot). Similarly the cyper 1 actually contains the ten decimals – .1, .2, .3, .4, .5, .6, .7, .8, .9 and 1.0 – which are all integral parts of the unity of 1.
The second letter of the Tetragrammaton is the Hebrew letter HEH, which is made up of three lines, two of which form a right angle while the third stands parallel to one of the lines forming the angle without touching the other. Three lines – three dimensions – with a suggestion of connection and disconnection. Here we have the beginnings of three-dimensional space, which emanates from God yet often seems disconnected from Him. Thus the HEH stands next to the YUD, emanating out of it.
This letter HEH is actually made up of two other Hebrew letters – the letter VAV, which is written with a single line or stroke, and the letter DALET which is made up of two lines joining to make a right angle. The HEH consists of a DALET with a small VAV parallel to one of the lines of the DALET while not touching the other. The DALET is considered a “womb” while the VAV is an embryo inside it. Both the VAV and the DALET emanate from the YOD, considered the “father”, and the VAV and the DALET reveal the inherent power of the YUD. Thus the name of the letter YUD is made up of the letters YUD, VAV and DALET.
The third letter of the Tetragrammaton is a VAV. What was an “embryo” contained in the “womb” of the second letter of the Name is now revealed as a complete letter in its own right. The VAV is like a YUD except that the thread coming out from underneath the blob of ink is extended much further downwards, to the bottom of the line on which the letters are written. Similarly God's creation and self-revelation stretch “from top to bottom”, from the spiritual to the material.
The fourth letter of the Tetragrammaton is HEH. This is a reflection of the second letter, which is also a HEH. Of the three base letters of the Tetragrammaton, only the HEH is repeated. Whereas the first two letters of the name, the YOD and the HEH are “father” and “mother”, respectively God's Wisdom and Understanding, the source of creation, the fourth letter of the name, the second HEH, alludes to the “kingdom” or “dominion” (OLAM, “Universe”) that He created for His own inscrutable purposes. This “kingdom” represented by the HEH emanates from the third letter of the Tetragrammaton, the VAV, which connects above and below. God's plan is that the actual creation in this world “below” should come to reflect and reveal the source of that creation in the spiritual world “above”, just as the fourth letter of the Tetragrammaton, the second HEH, reflects and manifests the second letter of the Tegragrammaton, the first HEH.
Being and the source of being
Almost all Hebrew words with only a very tiny number of exceptions have a root consisting of three Hebrew letters. HaShem, the Essential Name of God, also has its three-letter root contained in the last three of its four constituent letters – HOVEH, a verb denoting “being”. In Hebrew grammar the YUD that in the Tetragrammaton stands before this root expresses the active subject of the verb, in this case the unknown, inconceivable One who brings “being” into existence. In Kabbalah this is called EYN SOF, “no end” – infinite and inconceivable. He is totally above and beyond Creation, yet His very essence permeates all of Creation on every plane, material, physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual… Perfect unity encompassing and contained within all plurality.
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The Lord of the Flies Pr�cis After a plane crash, two boys, Piggy and Ralph, find each other on a deserted island. Piggy discovers a conch shell on the beach, and tells Ralph he could use it to call other survivors. Soon, young boys begin appearing out of the woods, including a choir led by a boy named Jack. The group of survivors elects Ralph as there leader, and Ralph allows Jack to become the head of a hunting party. The boys explore the island, finding no signs of civilization. On their way back to the beach, they come across a pig, but Jack is unable to bring himself to kill it. Ralph uses the conch shell to call the boys to another meeting, where they decide that each boy may only speak while holding the conch. They decide that a fire signal must always be maintained at the top of the mountain to increase their chances of being rescued. Piggy agrees to allow them to use his glasses to start the fire. ...read more.
The boys reach the one area of the island they have not explored, which is a giant hill with caves in it. Ralph volunteers to check the premises first, and Jack soon follows, but there is no sign of the beast. The next day, the boys continue their search for the beast, but Jack begins a hunt as well. Ralph joins the hunt, and is thrilled when he is the only one to stick his spear in a passing boar. That night, the boys climb the mountain on another hunt for the beast. There, they see what seems like a "great ape." Jack calls another meeting where Ralph and him tell the others what they saw. Jack announces that he feels Ralph is a "coward" like Piggy and should not be their leader, but the other boys disagree. Furious, Jack leaves to call the other hunters to join him. The others begin to build another signal fire on the beach, but soon most of boys have gone off to join Jack. ...read more.
There, they are met by a group of boys standing guard, and soon by Jack himself. Jack and Ralph begin to fight, and, after Jack orders for Sam and Eric to be captured. Piggy tries to be heard over the fight, but Roger soon pushes a large rock towards him, breaking the conch shell and knocking piggy off of a cliff. Ralph spends the night hiding, and the next morning Jack's party attempts to smoke Ralph out of the forest. Ralph stays in the forest as long as he can, where he finds and kicks over the sow's head. Soon, the entire forest is on fire, and all of the boys run to the beach. After arriving, they find that that fire has created a giant signal, attracting the attention of a British ship. An officer is shocked by the sight of the wild children, and asks Ralph to explain. Unable to describe what has happened, Ralph and the other boys begin to cry. Feeling both touched and "embarrassed," the officer turns away to give the boys a chance to calm down. ...read more.
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In 2008, three annoying chimps ventured into space. Unfortunately, they didn't stay there.
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...Well, most of them are.
Stumbling across a character who won't cooperate is unfortunately common in the writing world, and may seem difficult to deal with. Whether it's because the character is underdeveloped or just plain stubborn, uncooperative characters are a pain and can really mess up your plans for your story. So what do you do when your villain doesn't want to act tough or evil? How do you make your babies the people you've always envisioned them to be?
1. Put them through a character questionnaire. Yes, yes--I know this is a very cliche and typical technique. But this is still a very good way to help make your characters cooperate! A lot of the time when you can't seem to write your character how you want, it's because that character is underdeveloped. Putting them through a questionnaire is a great way to develop them more. Odds are you'll end up discovering something about that character that you didn't know before, which will then help you write that character correctly.
2. Toss them in another world. This is one of my favorite techniques. If your character won't work for you in his or her original setting, then throw them in some new surroundings; a fanfiction, if you will. This technique not only allows you to break the character out of his or her normal setting and see them in a different world, but also allows you as the writer to put them through any situation you think of, and see how they react. Testing reactions and experimenting with your character will allow you to expand their personality more, as well as let a bunch of ideas flow through your mind. A lot of times when I do this with my characters who won't cooperate, I learn valuable pieces of information about them and can then write them without trouble.
3. Let things play out. Say one of your supporting characters is supposed to be sullen and quiet, but instead has decided he is truly funny and outgoing. You put that character through a character questionnaire, but it doesn't help. So then you test his or her reactions in a different world, but that doesn't help either! In this case, it may be best for you to just go with it. Does your character have to be sullen and quiet? Is it really that bad that he's funny and outgoing? Sometimes it's just best to roll with it when a character switches up personalities on you, and sometimes it may have more benefits down the road than you could have ever known.
4. Delete the character. Did you just cringe? I just cringed. I hate the thought of deleting characters, but sometimes, it's necessary. This, of course, doesn't really apply to you if your problem character is your protagonist or antagonist. But if your problem lies within a supporting character, it may be a good idea to reevaluate the necessity and value of said character. You may in fact be struggling to write this character simply because he or she just doesn't belong in the story! And if that's the case, deleting him or her is your best bet.
5. Rewrite the character. If you've been seriously struggling with a character for most of your book but you just can't go through with deleting him or her, then it's time to do some serious brainstorming and rewriting. Sometimes you envision a character and know every single detail about them, and it turns out you could not be more wrong. I once a assumed a character in one of my stories was nothing more than a happy-go-lucky and funny supporting character, and then boom--turns out he's in fact a traitor and has some serious issues deep down inside. When I realized this, I had some rewriting to do, and I'm seriously glad I did it!
Despite how intimidating it may seem, taming your uncooperative characters is really not that hard. It just takes a little extra work, some creativity, and a lot of patience. But in the end, you'll be able to get back to your story and hopefully write your characters without a problem.
1. This is an excellent post, and well-timed. Currently, I'm having the worst kind of trouble with my protagonist, no less. He's the unruly sort. He won't accept any name that I assign to him, and I can't figure out his motivation for various things.
You've given some wonderful ideas for how to deal with these unruly characters, and I'm definitely going to implement several of them. I love character questionnaires, but I haven't put that particular character through one yet.
I'll also just let things play out. Scary thought, though.
(And, yes, I cringed when you suggested the deletion of characters. I also shivered.)
1. Thanks Abby! I'm glad you got something out of the post. And yeah, letting things play out can definitely be scary, but sometimes things turn out better than expected!
Good luck with everything! :)
2. Recently, I came up with an idea that changed everything about my characters. It's a surprisingly good exercise even with cooperative characters and it's extremely fun. Write a short story in first person about what would happen if your character came to your door and had a conversation with you. Write about how they act, who they come with, etc.
Then, a friend and I discovered that it is possible to ASK your characters what they would have wanted you to change about them and you can go ahead and do it. It brings to the light some of the problems with them that you had unconsciously known but had never thought about. It's super fun and interesting and I learned some amazing things about my characters! ;)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23203 | How to Make a Writing Resource Binder
As promised, today's post is a tutorial on how to make a writing resource binder! I made mine a long time ago, but I never thought about sharing a tutorial for it until last week. It seems like a lot of you are eager to learn how to make something like this, so here we go!
You will need:
* An empty binder (any binder, really. Pretty, ugly, old, new, thick, thin. Your choice.)
* A stack of lined paper
* A set of tabs
* Access to the internet and a printer
* A permanent marker or pen
Step One:
Using the marker or pen, write labels on your tabs. I originally had my tabs written in pen, but I found going over the writing again in permanent marker helps them stand out more. You can label your tabs however you want, but if you want to follow this tutorial exactly, make tabs for developing characters, plotting, editing, and random reference sheets. When you're finished, place them in your binder.
Step Two:
Fill your binder with all sorts of writerly goodness! Obviously, find and print things that correspond with the tab labels you choose so you can organize everything accordingly. Though I don't remember where I got everything in my binder, I'll give you a few links and suggestions to help you get started. The possibilities are endless here!
Character Development
* The Fleshy Character Questionnaire
* Pictures of people who resemble your characters
* Positive and Negative Character Traits
* Quotes that remind you of a character
* List of Phobias (Go Teen Writers)
* List of Traits (Go Teen Writers)
* Scene plotting chart (one POV, or two POVs) (Go Teen Writers)
* Lined paper for making notes
* Calendar/to-do list
* Self-Editing Dialogue Checklist (Go Teen Writers)
* Lined paper for making notes
* Weasel Words and Phrases (Go Teen Writers)
* How to write a one-page synopsis (Amanda Patterson)
* Cover and Query Letter Checklist (Writers Relief)
* Weapon diagrams (ex. bow and arrow, swords, pistols)
* This amusing gunshot wound chart
* Lists of fabric types
* Clothing diagrams (ex. types of sleeves, types of skirts, types of necklines)
* Diagrams of castle or building layouts
* List of potential magic and powers (Go Teen Writers has an AMAZING post here)
* Diagram of an army formation
* List of army titles (for fantasy, historical, and modern army types)
* Lists of insults and/or nicknames
* List of government types (again, Go Teen Writers has a great list here)
* Notes from your classes (English, History, Psychology)
* IEP (Individualized Education Program) forms
Step Three:
File everything under the correct tabs. If you want, add a stack of solid lined paper at the front of your binder for quick notes.
Step Four:
Add the finishing touches! In my binder, I put my own drawn maps, sticky notes, and a random photo advertisement that gives me inspiration in the front pocket. I also cut out the yearly overview section from a 2013 pocket planner and put it over my lined paper at the front. Because of the laminated texture of the calendar, I can write on it with a dry erase marker and it makes figuring out the timeline for my stories a lot easier. But of course, you can add whatever you want here!
Step Five:
Make sure everything is placed how you want it, and you're done! You now have an awesome organized binder chocked full of great resources! And the best part? You can add or take away pages whenever you want!
And there you have it! There are tons of possibilities for writing resource binders. You could add a tab for publishing research, or even create a whole binder for the purpose of plotting just one book. Be creative! No matter what you choose, in the end you'll have an awesome writing tool that will benefit you for years to come. Have fun! :)
1. Thanks for the tips Miranda! I am going to see if I have a empty binder sitting around somewhere so that I can start my own! :)
2. Same here! LOVE this post saving it to my favorites I am SO going to try this!!!!
3. This looks extremely helpful. (Of course mine will be extremely full because I never throw anything out.) :P
Oh, and that bullet wound chart just killed me. ;) :D :D :D (canned laughter)
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Want More Women In TV? Then We Need More Female Executives
A new study finds a correlation between the amount of female talent on a TV show and the presence of female producers.
In order for women to succeed in the television industry, there need to be more women in charge of it.
That's the conclusion reached by the 18th annual "Boxed In" study, which looked at random samplings from each program at 14 different outlets, including broadcast networks, basic and pay cable, and Netflix. What they found is that while the growth rate of female employment has stalled pretty badly, having women in executive producer or showrunner positions does help. It helps a lot, as a matter of fact.
According to the numbers, shows in the 2014-2015 season that had at least one female executive producer attached were far more likely to feature more women -- 43% of characters on these shows were female, compared to 37% of characters on shows that had only male executive producers.
But the biggest difference is in the amount of women working behind the scenes -- for broadcast shows with at least one female exec producer, 32% of writers, 15% of directors, and 25% of editors were female. Compare that to broadcast shows without any female exec producers, which only featured 6% female writers, 9% female directors, and 13% female editors.
Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film
Despite this, and despite a 2% increase in female executive producers from the 2013-2014 season, numbers are still pretty terrible for women working in television. Of the programs surveyed, only 25% of writers and 12% of directors overall were female -- both dropped 1% since last year. The number of female editors rose 4%, and the number of female DPs remains unchanged at a dismal 1%.
“There is a perception gap between how people think women are faring in television, both on screen and behind the scenes, and their actual employment," Dr. Martha Lauzen, executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, said in a statement. “We are no longer experiencing the incremental growth we saw in the late 1990s and 2000s.”
The CW
"Jane The Virgin," led by executive producer Jennie Snyder Urman, is one of the top ten shows for hiring women and minorities according to another recent study.
Of course, things aren't automatically better for everyone under female leadership, as depictions of women still skew pretty, white and younger no matter who's running the show -- 78% of female characters across all shows are white, and 60% were depicted in their 20s and 30s (compare that to the majority male characters, who are usually depicted in their 30s and 40s).
It's clear that television has a long way to go before it's a more equitable playing field for all forms of diversity, both on and off screen -- but having a wider, more diverse crop of executives would certainly bridge the gap. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23218 | There are a series of functions built into both PHP and MySQL which will help you when working with dates.
UNIX Timestamps
Where were you on Friday 13th February 2009 around half past four? This momentous date was when the UNIX timestamp reached the figure of 1234567890 – and boy did we party.
If you feel you are missing something here let me explain a little about the UNIX timestamp and why it is important in the world of PHP. The UNIX timestamp represents the number of seconds that have passed since the 1 January 1970 and for PHP it is the only way it really understands time and dates. However, PHP has lots of ways to manipulate and represent this number in all the many ways we do with dates and time.
Creating Timestamps with time(), mktime() and gmmktime();
The function time() returns an integer which is a UNIX date/time stamp.
echo time();
//outputs something like 1139328834
The function mktime() can be feed integers for the hour, minute, second, month, day and year for the required timestamp. The output would still be an unfriendly integer representing the seconds since 1 January 1970.
$mydate1 = mktime(1,30,50,12,13,1971);
echo $mydate1;
//outputs 61435850 the number of seconds since 1 January 1970
The function gmmktime() works the same as mktime() but whereas mktime() uses local time gmmktime() uses Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Using strtotime()
The function strtotime() can be used to create timestamps between December 13 1901 and January 19 2038. The function accepts dates in the format “05 DEC 2004” and “12/05/2004”.
Warning: Note the use of the American style of shorthand date ie 12/05//2011 for 5 December 2011.
$mydate = strtotime("5 MAY 2006");
echo $mydate;
This is useful when you are allowing the user to enter dates and need to compare it with another timestamp.
Getting the Current Date/Time with getdate()
The getdate() function will output the current date/time. The function takes a timestamp value as a parameter. If not is provided the current date is returned.
$today = getdate();
Notice that the timestamp can be output as an array.
Array ( [seconds] => 8 [minutes] => 4 [hours] => 14 [mday] => 8 [wday] => 3 [mon] => 2 [year] => 2006 [yday] => 38 [weekday] => Wednesday [month] => February [0] => 1139407448 )
A timestamp is an associate array.
The strtotime() function can also be used to get the current time
$currentdate = strtotime("now");
echo $currentdate;
The date is still in integer format.
Formatting a Date with date() and strftime()
The integer format of the timestamp is not particularly user friendly. Therefore there are various techniques to format date output.
The date() function takes a timestamp and formats it according to user defined format characters.
$mydate = strtotime("1/31/80");
echo date("D d M Y", $mydate); // outputs Thu 31 Jan 1980
Headline format characters are:
A textual representation of a day, three letters Mon through Sun
Day of the month without leading zeros 1 to 31
(lowercase ‘L’) A full textual representation of the day of the week Sunday through Saturday
Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros 01 through 12
Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros 1 through 12
Number of days in the given month 28 through 31
A two digit representation of a year Examples: 99 or 03
Taking our earlier example
$mydatetest = strtotime("1/31/80");
echo date("l j F Y", $mydatetest); // outputs Thursday 31 January 1980
In addition the strftime() function can be used for date formatting. Like date() this takes formatting rules (known as conversion specifiers) and a timestamp.
Headline conversion specifiers are:
abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale
full weekday name according to the current locale
abbreviated month name according to the current locale
ull month name according to the current locale
same as %m/%d/%y
day of the month as a decimal number, a single digit is preceded by a space (range ‘ 1′ to ’31’)
month as a decimal number (range 01 to 12)
year as a decimal number including the century
$mydatetest2 = mktime(1,30,50,12,25,1986);
echo strftime("%d %B %Y", $mydatetest2);
//outputs 25 December 1986
Validating Dates with checkdate()
Use checkdate() to check if date is a valid Gregorian date. Returns a boolean true/false. The date is passed to checkdate() in the format
checkdate( int month, int day, int year )
This is useful when allowing users to enter dates as it will catch incorrect dates such as 31 Feb 2012 and leap year adjustments.
echo checkdate('2', '31', '2001');
//no output as false date – no date 31 Feb
echo checkdate('1', '31', '2001');
//outputs 1 to indicate true – yes 31 Jan valid
Date Picker
A popular way to ensure date accuracy is to use a date picker. With many of the Javascript date pickers available you can choose to have the date formatted in a MySQL friendly YYYY-MM-DD format.
Tip: The jQuery UI project offer an excellent javascript based date picker that can be customized for almost any purpose.
HTML5 Form Fields
Although browser support is not yet consistent HTML5 offers a new form field type of date. In some browsers this will automatically produce a date picker with no need to use PHP or indeed Javascript.
<input type="date" name="startDate">
This is what your browser makes of it:
Outputting Dates From MySQL
In MySQL dates are stored in the date format YYYY-MM-DD ie 2012-11-30. This is not a particularly user friendly output format.
There are two ways to approach this. Either format the date via PHP or via the SQL statement.
Using PHP to Format MySQL Dates
To format a date from a database query we could use two of the date functions in combination.
The strtotime() function can be used to convert the YYYY-MM-DD format from MySQL into a timestamp.
$timestamp_date = strtotime($database_date);
Then the timestamp could be formatted with the date() or the strftime() function.
$display_date = date("D d M Y", $timestamp_date);
This could be combined in one line.
$display_date = date("D d M Y", strtotime($database_date));
Using SQL to Format MySQL Dates
In SQL the DATE_FORMAT() function can be used. The function is wrapped around a valid date field name from the database and feed formatting rules. In the SQL this formatted date should be allocated with an ‘AS’ to a new field name for outputting.
$query = "SELECT DATE_FORMAT(release_date, '%d/%m/%Y') AS df_release_date, product_name FROM products";
Like the PHP functions strftime() and date() the DATE_FORMAT function accepts specifers. Headline specifiers are:
Abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)
Abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
Month, numeric (0..12)
Day of the month, numeric (00..31)
Day of the month, numeric (0..31)
Month name (January..December)
Month, numeric (00..12)
Year, numeric, four digits
Year, numeric (two digits)
As such the following:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(release_date, '%D %b %Y') AS df_release_date, title FROM videos;
Would format the date as:
30th Nov 2011
Querying by Dates in MySQL
When querying a date in a MySQL database we need to place the date in the format:
YYYY-MM-DD ie 1999-05-30
YY/MM/DD ie 99/5/30
Warning: The date must be treated as a string in the SQL statement
Inputting Dates into MySQL
As with querying by date, the date chosen by the user needs to be in the correct format for MySQL. Notice how in the mysqli example below how the prepare statement treats the date as a string.
$filmDate = "2013-01-31" //YYYY-MM-DD
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("INSERT INTO movies(filmRelease) VALUES (?)");
$stmt->bind_param('s', $filmDate);
To generate a MySQL friendly timestamp using PHP we can use the date() method ie:
$thisDate = date('Y-m-d');
echo $thisDate; // output as YYYY-MM-DD
If you want the time as well then use:
$thisDate = date('Y-m-d h:i:s');
echo $thisDate; // output as YYYY-MM-DD H:M:S
Tip: If you want to use GMT then use the gmdate() variant of the date() method. It works exactly the same but returns the date/time according to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Date Stamps in MySQL
Often with a database it is useful to have a field that represents the last time (and date) when a particular field was updated. This can be done via phpMyAdmin. When creating your field in the database create it as a datatype of ‘timestamp’.
Then edit this field in phpMyAdmin and you will see the option to set a default value to ‘CURRENT_TIMESTAMP’. This will mean that when a new record is created the current date/time is entered automatically to that field. In addition, under the attribute option for that field, you can choose ‘ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP’. This will ensure that when the record is updated with a SQL UPDATE statement, the field is automatically updated – so you don’t need to send a new date value through to the database – neat.
Installations of phpMyAdmin vary so if you don’t see the option above you can run the following SQL to add a current timestamp when a field is updated:
ALTER TABLE `yourtable`
CHANGE COLUMN `yourlastUpdatedField`
2 Thoughts to “Handling Dates”
1. Another amazing section thanks again. Ran into an issue with an inherited mysql database where the date is string varchar and to analyze the data i obviously need date format. Finally through your examples found a way to get all my current strings switched over and am going to run a 1 time php script to update over 2000 entries. Then phpmyadmin should let me set to a date type without the “not a number” error. One thing i do not see is what to do about am and pm. For instance my current strings are stored exactly as
example : “12/29/2016 04:30pm”. per mysql it needs to be “2016-12-29 16:30”.
Is there anyway to grab the pm and am’s and somehow get that info to out put as 24hour time? I don’t know how to convert that part at all, if need be i know hours of operation are not before 7am and not after 7pm so i can phpmyadmin and manually set to a 24hour setup, but the lesson and practice would be paramount and worth the experience.
1. Sorry to self answer but this is very cool the am and pm seem to be automatically understood and processed in php so if you select H as your hour it will read your am and pm and attach time. Here is my example.
~~dtob is a variable pulled from the database using foreach however i shown it as static for the example
$dtob =12/30/2016,09:08pm |
$mydate = strtotime(“$dtob”); |
echo date(“Y m d H:i “, $mydate); |
2016 12 30 21:08 |
id say if your stuck with a sql database that is using the date column with a string value you can use this just attach the output to a variable and “update” rather than echo. If you force your database to “date” datatype and your strings are not in the correct format you will basically erase all of your dates to 0000-00-00. Trust me i had to backup and reload. But you can swap whenever you like as long as the string is correctly formatted without issue. I know I am not the first, or will be the last to have this database issue so hopefully this helps someone get a start.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23225 | National Geographic ChannelNat Geo WildNat Geo PeopleNat Geo People
By Patrick J. Kiger
Here’s the good news: Your plane has crashed, but you’ve managed to survive. But the bad news is that you find yourself crawling out of the wreckage in the middle of the mountainous Alaskan wilderness, where the average wintertime temperature is 20 to 30 degrees below zero, and it’s been known to dip as far down to 80 below.
You might imagine that you’re a goner. But that’s because you don’t know the real-life story of a woman named Helen Klaben, a passenger on a small plane from Fairbanks to Seattle that crashed in February 1963 in the similarly forbidding Canadian Yukon region. She suffered a broken arm in the crash, and the pilot, Ralph Flores, both suffered a broken jaw and other serious facial injuries. And as a vintage Life magazine account of the ordeal details, they had no heavy winter survival garb, and their supplies consisted of a few cans of sardines and tuna, two cans of fruit cocktail, some vitamins, toothpaste, and matches. They didn’t even have any tools, except for a hammer, a chisel and the pilot’s hunting knife. Nevertheless, 49 days later, rescuers found Klaben and Flores, who were gaunt and desperately hungry, but somehow, had managed to survive. They’d reinforced the plane’s cabin with spruce boughs to turn it into a shelter, fashioned a drinking cup from a broken light reflector so that they could drink melted snow, and avoided physical activity as much as possible, so that their bodies’ stored fat could sustain them after the food ran out.
Hopefully, you’ll never have to go through such a harrowing experience. But just to be prepared, here are some tips for surviving in the frozen northern wilderness, from the University of Alaska risk management team’s Remote Travel Safety Guide.
• Build a Snow Shelter. It may seem paradoxical, but snow can turn out to be one of your best protections against the wind and snowdrifts that you encounter in the wilderness. Build an enclosure that is about eight-inches thick, and inside, try to scrape the snow down to ground level, in order to capture radiant heat from the ground.
• Know How to Stay Warm. There are lots of different ways that your body can lose vital heat, and you have to be on guard against them all. If you’re traveling in a wilderness area, you need to pack garments that are going to block the wind. Ideally, the jacket should have a collar and a waistline drawstring that can be tightened. As much as 50 percent of body heat can be lost by radiating from the head and neck areas, so make sure you keep your hat on and your neck swathed in a scarf or turtleneck. Perspiration is another way of losing heat, so wear layers and remove them as necessary to prevent overheating. The inner layer next to your skin should be some fabric, such as polypropylene, thermax or silk, that will wick the moisture away from your skin (cotton is a no-no). A middle layer of wool or polypropylene, both of which retain heat when wet, will help you to trap air inside your clothing and insulate your body. The final outer layer should be a material such as Gore-Tex, a synthetic whose pores will allow water vapor to escape, but prevent liquid water from getting through.
• Watch For and Treat the First Signs of Frostbite. If the skin of your cheeks, ears, nose, fingers or toes redden or feel numb and tingly, you may have a precursor of frostbite, a condition in which ice crystals form in skin or deeper tissue. If this happens, heat some water to a temperature of 100 to 105 degrees Fahrenheit and immerse the affected areas. You also can utilize the body warmth of a companion, as long as that person isn’t excessively cooled that way. Don’t rub or massage the skin, because that will damage the tissue.
• Make Sure That You Disinfect Water Before Drinking It. You’re likely to find an abundance of frozen and liquid water sources around you. But unless you want to risk coming down with a water-borne disease such as Giardia, you need to treat the water. If you don’t have a purification kit or a water filter specially designed to filter out the microbe, ordinary household chlorine bleach—four drops per quart—will disinfect water in about 30 minutes. The most foolproof method, however is to boil water for 20 minutes.
• There’s Safety in Numbers. Don’t be like the foolhardy Alaska newbie in Jack London’s classic story “To Build a Fire,” who ignores an old-timer’s admonitions and ventures out alone on a day when the temperature is minus 75 degrees Fahrenheit, and ends up freezing to death. The University of Alaska’s risk management team suggests that you never leave your camp unless you’re with at least one other person. Also, if you head out from a downed aircraft, be sure to leave a note explaining where you’ve gone and describing the direction, so that rescuers have a better chance of finding you.
• Be Cautious About Ice. That frozen lake, river, or stream may look solid enough to cross on foot, but if you plunge through the ice, you can be in a whole lot of trouble. Don’t even think of stepping out onto it unless the temperature is 20 degrees Fahrenheit or lower, and check your path first with an ice chisel, pole, or another tool that you can use to tap the surface and test its solidity. If it sounds hollow when tapped, choose another route. Also remember that repeated use weakens ice, so if you’re on a route that someone else has traveled first, watch out for cracks.
• Learn How to Chase Away a Bear. Make a lot of noise, and pull your jacket up around your body, with your hands raised over your head, to make yourself bigger and more intimidating. Face the bear, and don’t run—that may invite the bear to pursue you. But if the bear actually gets close or grabs hold of you, though, you may want to lie still in a fetal position, in an effort to follow the bear into thinking that you’re already dead. As the University of Alaska guide notes: “This technique has been reported to be somewhat successful for brown bear encounters. However, it has not been reported as being very effective for aggressive black bears.”
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23283 | Review: Crazy Taxi
Crazy Taxi is an iconic game, one that was a staple title in the Dreamcast’s library. It brought the frantic fun of racking up exorbitant fares from arcades into living rooms. The digital release of Crazy Taxi is essentially repeating this step by increasing the availability of an extremely fun game. I was hesitant to jump back into Axel’s driver’s seat, given that the last Dreamcast port was basically a bust. What I was met with instead was a fine port of most of a great game.
Let’s get this out of the way early on: The Offspring and Bad Religion are not included on this version’s soundtrack. Pizza Hut has become The Pizza Parlour, and KFC is now FCS: Fried Chicken Shack. The game does, however, support custom soundtracks, which means it took me all of 10 minutes to find the original playlist and copy it onto my PS3. You’re not going to hear the beginning of Bad Religion’s “Hear it” looped while you’re browsing the menus, as the songs aren’t synced up to cues as they were in the old days. This isn’t a game breaker, though. Crazy Taxi features 720p widescreen HD graphics, something that Sonic Adventure’s rerelease glaringly lacked. It also supports global Leaderboards and Trophies. The loading screens are near non-existent, and the controls are tight. The only graphical problems come in the form of those present in the original game. This means that there are some draw-in and clipping issues, but again, it’s nothing that stopped me from enjoying Crazy Taxi years ago. So let’s go make some crazy money, are ya ready?
Here we go. Crazy Taxi has three main modes: Arcade, Original, and Crazy Box. Arcade and Original are basically the same game set in two different cities. Each city is sprawling enough to provide tons of replayability, and they’re varied enough to require different playstyles. Crazy Box is a challenge mode that offers 16 different driving tests. I recommend playing through some or all of this mode first, as it will definitely prepare you for driving in the big cities. The challenges range from speeding down a ramp to make a long jump to dropping off 6 elderly women while drifting around tight turns. Knowledge of both the Crazy Dash and Crazy Drift are required to tackle all of these tests. To perform a Crazy Dash, switch the car from reverse to drive, then immediately press the gas. The Drift is performed in the same way, except you’re going to want to turn after hitting the gas. To me, a longtime Dreamcast owner (it still works) who spent countless hours playing Crazy Taxi back in 2000, these techniques are second nature. I Crazy Dashed and Drifted my way through all of the Crazy Box challenges in one play session. Granted, the play session was about 4-5 hours long and filled with frustrating retries. I slept well afterwards, though, knowing that the game hadn’t lost its addictive charm (and that Sega didn’t mar another classic in porting it to the PS3).
Crazy Taxi is a fine score attack racing game. It was a must-have game back in 2000, and I’m glad to say that it hasn’t lost much of its flare in a decade. The licenses have expired, which is a shame, but it doesn’t take away enough to warrant missing out on an opportunity to replay a classic. My Dreamcast still works, and I own Crazy Taxi for it, but the convenience of playing it on my PS3 in HD is much nicer than popping in the GD-Rom and playing in stunted SD. Plus, if I get bored of The Offspring, I can always switch to something else. In the end, Crazy Taxi is worth $9.99. Its improvements and additions far outweigh its shortcomings. Plus, if you’re a PS Plus member, you can buy it for 20% off until the end of the month.
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Love ’em or hate ’em, haters are here to stay, you just can’t let them get to you. Here’s my favorite quote about haters (and probably one of the truest):
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Orangeberry Book of the Day - The Sin of Forgiveness by Edward F. Mrkvicka, Jr.
The Importance of Context
This book does not ask you to believe something “new,” but rather something old and true. Society as a whole, over the centuries, and especially in the last 50 years, has taken forgiveness to mean something not intended by the Bible. While we are to forgive, we are to do so as God directs, not as Dr. Phil and even some clergy suggest.
This treatise on the subject of forgiveness is not my opinion, but rather the result of a lifetime of Bible study and Bible-based counseling. There is probably no bigger mistake made by God-fearing Christians than not reading and understanding God’s Holy Word in context. I know I have made such error on numerous occasions, notwithstanding the altruistic nature of my biblical inquiries. It is just so easy to do, mainly because God’s Word is so direct and uncompromising. Consequently, when we read a verse in Scripture we immediately race to whatever seemingly obvious conclusion we glean based on the verse’s intent and the subject matter contained therein.
And yet there are many of us who have a misunderstanding about this or that spiritually, which caused me to try and learn why people of good faith could often come to what seemed to be obviously erroneous conclusions about God’s intent. The answer is biblical context. Context means (1) the text surrounding a word or passage: the words, phrases, or passages that come before and/or after a particular word or passage in a speech or text and help explain its full meaning, and (2) surrounding conditions: the circumstances or events that form the environment within which something exists or takes place. The word is taken from the Latin word contextus, meaning connected or to weave together. Put more clearly, context is the equivalent of a tapestry. It’s not until every single piece of cloth is woven together that we can see the picture the artists intended to paint. Without the completeness of their effort, all we would see is a pile of disconnected nothingness that may or may not lead us to the truth. The Bible is much the same. A verse of Gospel may stand by itself, but more than likely it does not. It usually has other text that fleshes out the subject and explain the entire picture. The matter of context is vital whenever we are seeking biblical answers to problems or questions we are faced with. Make no mistake from the above; God does not hide from us. He has gone out of His way to make His Word easily accessible. So what is the problem? Unfortunately, we are often in a hurry, or we’re lazy. And while being in a hurry and/or being lazy puts us at the both far ends of the spectrum, the result is always the same, we only get part of the solution or come to one that has little resemblance to God’s actual intent.
My favorite analogy in this instance is that of a father trying to assemble a birthday present for one of his children. Let’s say it is the child’s first 2-wheeler. As all fathers know, the instructions will almost always invariably start by stating “You’ll need a pair of pliers and a screwdriver.” Would any of us, after reading the instructions no further than step #1, assume we’re done after finding the pliers and screwdriver, and that the bicycle is complete? Of course not. It would be patently obvious that step #1 was just that, step #1, and we’d have to complete the remaining steps before the job was complete. Looking for answers in the Bible is much the same. We cannot just read one verse (step #1) and assume we’re done, because we’re not. It is essential to prove this point in order to show how this concept pertains to forgiveness. To do that, I want to review a prominent biblical topic that hopefully will make clear how we can come to the wrong conclusion by making doctrine out of one verse of Scripture that was meant to be but a portion of the entire picture. We’re going to look at “honoring our father and mother” by reviewing the generally accepted meaning of the Fifth Commandment, and then show how our understanding changes when we review the topic in context. In the process, I hope to give you a new perspective on Bible study, one that will expand your vision and give you a desire to know God’s truth regardless of how long it takes, or how much effort is required. From personal experience, I can share this; once given a contextual perspective, you will read the Bible in a whole new light. You will be excited, because, perhaps for the first time, you will see and understand the truth as never before. When you know the truth, you are, in fact, free. No longer will anyone, including those doing Satan’s bidding, be able to lead you astray.
The Bible says we are to: Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you. (Exodus 20:12) There are many, based on that verse alone, who believe we are to honor our parents no matter what they say or do. Yet, Jesus said,
—Matthew 10:34-36
But how can we honor our parents when our Savior tells us He came to separate us from the very people should they stand against Him? Is this an irresolvable contradiction? Allow me to take this one step further to make the point. Are children of God to honor their earthly parents even if they are committing adultery? Ephesians 5:11 states, And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose [them]. 2 Thessalonians 3:6 says, But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us. In 2 Corinthians 6:14 we are told, Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? Lastly, although there are other references, in 1 Corinthians 5:11 we read, But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or convetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner – not even to eat with such a person.
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{ A favorite from the best Tumblr: Fly Art Productions }
It's that time of year again! In 2015, it was the Dating Manifesto. In 2016, I hit you with the Drake Guide to Dating. This year, the Year of Our Lord 2017—I feel obligated once again to take stock of my current attitude towards love, relationships and when it applies, the lack thereof.
2016 was an interesting year for me romantically, but I honestly think I spent more time writing about dating than I spent actually dating. (Scoot over to Style Girlfriend to check out 5 Ways to Boost Your Confidence Before a Date, 10 Ways to Impress A Woman and 3 Style & Grooming Hacks to Try on Your Next First Date for proof.)
So here we are, it's Valentine's Day! (Dun dun dun!) The internet is practically bursting at the seams with relationship and dating advice this month, so figured I'd better to do my part to contribute to the noise. (Need gift ideas for your main man? Or the guy you just started dating? How about just for you?)
At this point, I'm quite good at coming up with advice that I have a hard time following myself, but it's never something that just comes to me out of the vacuum of space inside my mind. My friends, our conversations, and the romantic experiences we've all had are what help me articulate the tips and tidbits you read here.
Which brings me to my point: Is there anything new to say about dating in 2017? Has anything really changed in the last couple of years? I can't say for sure. I have a hard time distinguishing between actual changes in the broad sense and my shifting attitudes that are tied to my personal experience and of course, my age.
Nevertheless, I persisted. I grilled my friends and mined my own heart for ideas and advice that feel (at least somewhat) fresh right now. From mentality shifts to shifting locations, I hope you find these little nuggets (as arbitrary as they probably are) to be somewhat helpful.
{ The Ferris Bueller approach to dating, you might say. }
One of the most important things I've learned in all this dating I've done is that when you're single, 90 percent of all dating situations are what I would call "low stakes." Until you're like a month or two into something, everything is still the beginning. No matter how hard you might be crushing on a new flame—if it ends, if he or she ghosts, if he or she does something that triggers that little red flag in your mind—you will be fine! You will get over it. (The person may linger in your mind like a hanging chad, but trust me, the wound will cauterize and heal faster than you think.)
So here's my advice: Next time you're at a crossroads and unsure what to do or say in the context of a new relationship, pause and ask yourself what you really have to lose. Remember that you are far more likely to regret the stuff you don't do, than the stuff you do.
Send the second text in a row. Ask the question that's keeping you up at night. Randomly invite your crush over for Game of Thrones and chill.
{ You're better than this. }
Okay so, The Infatuation recently put together an awesome list of progressive date ideas, which partly inspired this advice. However, the true inspiration comes from the awesome, well-planned progressive dates I've been on here in the city.
Start with drinks then go around the corner for dinner, or reverse it and end your pasta-fueled night tucked into a cozy jazz bar with two Old Fashioneds. The point is the second destination—that's where you earn your thoughtfulness / taste level / ability-to-make-a-plan bonus points.
The ideal progressive should be walkable—no more than a few blocks from one destination to the next—and the two spots should complement each other. Ramen and sake, tacos and Tecate, steak and whiskey... You get the idea.
Spoiler alert: This goes against most of the modern dating advice you will read anywhere else. Apparently it's called "spamming" and it's quite disingenuous. But guess what? I don't care!
This is not my way of saying sincerity is dead. However, I do think that sincerity should be reserved for occasions when it will be appreciated. Here's my secret: When I start conversations on Bumble, for example, I send the same message to every guy in that batch of matches and just change their name. I have had great success with three waving hand emojis and a simple, "How's it going, [insert name here]?"
Or skip the chatter altogether and send each guy a friendly gif. (There's science to prove that this is an effective technique, by the way.) My current favorites? The above bear and the Kelly Kapowski wave
Here's my defense: App dating is exhausting. This is just one way to make it a little less stressful on yourself. I can't tell you how many times I took precious moments out of my day (like 15 minutes, I kid you not) to craft some witty, thoughtful intro to a guy only to get radio silence in return. Cut your losses, take back those 15 minutes and copy/paste your way to your next first date.
*I wrote a whole article for Verily about online dating intro lines and you can read it here!
This piece of advice comes straight from one of my guy friends. As it happens, I was working on a story for Verily magazine about fun and creative ways to introduce yourself when you're app dating. As I mentioned above, I have gotten in the habit of sending the same thing to everyone, which isn't exactly, what one would call... Creative. So, I did what any good reporter would do: I asked someone who had managed to glean an actual relationship out of an app what I should say.
Along with a personal message about a photo or something in their profile (barf!), he mentioned that "dad jokes" always went over well. Naturally, I proceeded to Google "best dad jokes" and then sent a bunch of them to my current Bumble matches.
Friends, I am here to report that, "Want to hear a joke about paper, [insert name here]?" is about 85 percent more effective than, "Hey [insert name here], I love to ski too! What's your favorite place to shred?" How do I know? Because I, a University of Arizona graduate, used that very line to get myself a date with a Harvard man. Harvard!
(PS: The answer to that paper joke is, "Nevermind, it's tearable.")
You guys, we have no idea what it's actually like to be Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds or insert celebrity couple name here. Seeing pictures of them looking at each other lovingly on the red carpet is not #goals. That's posing. That's PR. That's a carefully crafted moment designed for the internet. Never forget that as funny as she is, Chrissy Teigen's brand is "sexy, self-aware wife of John Legend and mother to adorable baby." She's never not trying to remind you of that.
More importantly, that Instagram photo posted by a girl you went on a group trip with that one time two years ago and her really attractive and smily boyfriend that's like, so cute, is definitely not #goals. Do not let the internet fool you into thinking that everyone is happier or more fulfilled than you are because spoiler alert—they aren't.
{ He cries in pretty much every episode. I love it.}
So as a general rule, I am not really "into" reality TV. In the same way that I prefer novels to non-fiction books, I like my television with a heavy dose of escapism, or at the very least, thoughtful dialog. The Bachelor has neither of those things, really, but there is one aspect of this season that I have come to find particularly endearing: Nick has been very directly breaking up with a lot of women.
Many of these send-offs could have been saved for the much less dramatic dismissal of the rose ceremony—yet he's sent girls home in the midst of a group date on pretty much every episode. Whether or not this is at the producer's suggestion we may never know, but if we suspend our skepticism for a moment, it appears that he's earnestly trying to find someone he could actually love, and doesn't want to waste the time of the women with whom he doesn't feel a connection.
Watching him sit these women down and try to explain that he doesn't feel a connection to them makes me so uncomfortable. It brings memories of my most upsetting break-ups flooding back to me—which is why it feels so believable to watch. I recommend tuning into this 2-hour manufactured drama machine simply to get hot tips on how to break up with someone. Seriously! Tune in to The Bachelor, resist the urge to send that long-winded text, buck up, and then set a date to sit on a couch somewhere and end things in person. You'll be better for it.
{ Just be your naturally wonderful self, you know? }
"I actually don't drink before the date," one friend told me. I found this to be shocking, quite honestly. So I asked her to elaborate. She obliged.
"I don't like showing up tipsy because I like to ease into the date authentically so we can actually get to know each other. If I show up tipsy I'm already happy and curious about what's going to unfold, which equates to being fine talking to the wall, or the chair, or a rude date, or a super late date... Basically it's not conducive to truly knowing how the date is going. So instead of pre-date drink, I switch my mind into 'date night mode' by brushing my teeth, applying lipstick and patting myself on the back."
That actually makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? I'm usually a big supporter of the pre-date whiskey neat just to steady your nerves a bit... But perhaps we need those nerves after all!
Oh god. Just, my god. The time I have wasted in romance and beyond—wondering and worrying and plotting excuses for people and their behavior. I could write a book about it, and I bet you could, too. When people don't say and do the things we hope they will, it can trigger something inside us. The part that justifies, downplays and normalizes the behavior that disappoints and upsets us.
When the guy who just got out of a long relationship says he's having fun but not ready for anything serious, believe him. When the girl you're seeing seems to be picking fights out of nowhere in order to create drama? She is.
For better and for worse, people will show you how they feel and how they treat the people in their lives, and they will show you very plainly. When they do, accept it as fact. If it makes you feel good, embrace it! If it makes you feel bad, if it makes you doubt your self-worth—get to stepping!
I have found that one of the best things I've been able to do for my mental state as a single person (and a woman, and a writer) is to add podcasts into my daily routine. I listen to a lot of them somewhat sporadically, but the four listed below are some of my longtime obsessions. Each one approaches love in a different way, and I've found great inspiration, joy, laughter and understanding through listening.
• Unqualified with Anna Faris: This podcast has blown up in the last few months, and I can't recommend it enough. While at times rambling and ambling—Anna and her celebrity guests (including her husband Chris Pratt) provide surprisingly introspective, smart and self-aware dating advice to callers. They also do a lot of silly "bits" and reveal some pretty interesting, candid tidbits about what it's like to be famous.
• Modern Love: We're all familiar with The New York Times column by now I'm sure—but I also think the podcast is worth a listen. Celebrities read essays new and old, and the authors call in with updates from the months and years since their work was published.
• Sex Lives: This New York magazine podcast has had many iterations since I started listening a couple years ago. Currently, it's hosted by Maureen O'Connor and explores a whole myriad of topics. She and her guests discuss everything from the state of the modern lesbian to sex robots and arranged marriage.
• Dear Sugar: Oh my god—my love for Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond knows no bounds. Their "radical empathy" approach to love and relationship advice is so smart, kind and robust, you can't help but be inspired to let some of their understanding and intelligence into your heart whenever a problem arises.
{ Like Romeo + Juliet, but with less suicide. }
I feel like there's all kinds of advice out there about how you should behave if you're looking for a long-term partner. Some of it includes only pursuing people and situations with staying power. If I only pursued guys that immediately seemed to have "long term love" written all over their face I'd have to change my address to Nun York City.
I think every person that comes into your life arrives for a reason, and that you can learn something about yourself (and what you want in love) from everyone. Some people fill needs, some teach lessons, and some are there to be a comforting warm body on a cold night. As long as you're emotionally equipped to be content with whatever "definitely not forever" situation you find yourself in—I say embrace it with both arms and kiss it straight on the mouth.
{ You're not Paul Newman and this isn't and old timey movie. }
Sitting might be the new smoking, but smoking is also still the old smoking. I can't really believe this is something I'm suggesting earnestly in 2017, but it is. I mean, if you're in a loving and committed relationship and cigarettes are a part of it for both of you—by all means go ahead and die a premature death together.
But everybody else... Can we not? I can tell you from personal experience that the smell of your cigarettes will seep through your skin days later and accost the person who is resting their head in your shoulder nook, causing them to question just what, exactly, they're doing in that nook in the first place.
{ Marcia was such a hater. }
One girlfriend told me recently, "High expectations are good, but make sure the foundation for your standards are solid."
Whoa. So true, right? She went on to say, "It’s easy to judge and categorize people from the get go. Saying to yourself, 'My friends won’t think he or she is cute or that their job isn’t the most prestigious…' That stuff only matters on the outside. Is he or she a good human overall? Do you see potential? Do they fulfill some of the basic line items from the beginning? I say give it a shot and follow your intuition, not your ego!”
There you have it. This advice feels especially relevant to me right now as we spend more and more time trolling people's social media presence and making wholly unsubstantiated assumptions about their life and their partners based on photos and captions. It's fun, certainly, but no exactly fair. Who cares if your pics cause your friends to comment "#relationshipgoals" or not? (Refer back to tip #5.)
{ Cher was a woman ahead of her time. }
One of the most interesting social developments of the past year (at least to me) has been the inescapable tide of political chatter in ever social setting I've found myself in. Even the least political people you know—myself probably included—have been forced to think deeply and feel passionately about who our 45th president is, and what he is doing to our country. Before 2016, I could probably count on one hand the number of people with whom I'd had a thoughtful political conversation. Now, the opposite is true.
Personally, I feel like I'm inundated on an hourly basis with political updates right now. I am distracted at work and constantly just a little bit on edge. I'm doing my best to stay informed and wrote recently about my desire to do more. But at some point, you need to give yourself a break, right? For your health, for your spirit, for your personal happiness. Perhaps it's a long run listening to music, or practicing meditation. Or, perhaps you just want to sit in a dimly lit bar next to an attractive person and talk about skiing and your family pets and how bad the ending of The OA was. And I think that's perfectly acceptable.
*I invite you to read more about my feelings about politics on dates in this Verily article right here.
I wrote about this a little bit over on Verily last month, and not surprisingly, it came up amongst my friends, too. I think the whole 'treat yourself to nice underpinnings' thing has as much to with being a grown 30-something woman as it does with knowing that feeling sexy—in life, on a date, on your couch—has very little to do with whether or not a guy sees you in your underwear on the reg. As one friend put it, "Wear fancy underwear. Just do it. He may never get to see it—but you will know you've got those lacy fun things on and really, that's all that matters."
{ When you and your date hit that sitting-side-by-side stride. }
Did you know that certain restaurants, like Raoul's, only serve their burger at the bar? Sitting at the bar is such a boss date move—even if there isn't a special menu. You sit closer, there's leaning, there's shoulder touching and it's always more fun to chat with a bartender than a server. (Sorry, servers!) It also feels a little less formal than a table, doesn't it? I think the more casual seating arrangement is conducive to a more relaxed, comfortable conversation, too. I can't say exactly why, I guess—I think it is largely due to the body proximity—but I can say with 100 percent certainty that all of the best dates I have ever been on have involved eating while perched on a stool. 2017: The year of bar dining!
*Not sure where to go to enjoy a date-worthy bar seat in New York City? Glad you asked! Try: Bar Sardine, Raoul's, the annex next door to Supper, Blue Ribbon Downing Street, Allswell, Le French Diner, and Minetta Tavern, for starters.
Sorry, sorry sorry but I couldn't not, right? I am mostly a fashion writer after all. I talk about this at length over on Style Girlfriend, and I brought it up in my '10 Things A First Date Should Be' post a couple of years ago, too. In fact, here's exactly what I said:
I'm a big proponent of honoring an occasion. Just because a first date is easier to procure than it has ever been before doesn't mean we should forget the power of the word "date" all together. This is a meeting built on the potential for romance, flirtation and courting. Putting your best self forward is important, and so is making a great first impression. Like it or not, that impression is largely shaped by how you dress. The point I'm making isn't to try and be stylish if that's not your thing—always be yourself. But, be yourself and a little fancy. If you don't want to wear a dress (I rarely do), go with a silky, pretty top and skin-tight jeans. For the guys, wear a sweater or collared shirt with slim-fitting pants and shoes that are not sneakers. Easy enough, no?
I can't put it better these two years later, so I'll leave it at that.
{ Me, writing this last piece of advice. }
In these trying times, we have been forced to come face-to-face with some truly saddening celebrity break-ups. I was most personally affronted by the separation of my favorite together-forever-so-chill-about-not-getting-married couple Joshua Jackson and Diane Kruger. Others were very impacted by the split of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Some were even shocked that the relationship between Bella Hadid and The Weeknd did not blossom into a love story for the ages. When you put all your emotional eggs into the celebrity love basket, you just can't be surprised when most of them crack.
Then there's Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. These two have been married for 29 years. I'm not going to blow up my own #relationshipgoals tip here at the very end, but I have to say that their low-key love appears to be pretty damn real. Why? They don't seem to front about it too much. They're like your friend's parents (or mine!) who have been together forever because, just, of course they have. Tom told People magazine in 2015
"We just like each other. You start there."
Works for me.
PS: You know what else he said? "No one should get married before they're 30." Sigh. Tom Hanks, the dating guru for 2017 we never knew we needed.
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At Each Moment
'God's will is to peacefully do, at each moment, what at that moment ought to be done.'
St. Katherine Drexel
Painting: William Kay Blacklock, Cleaning Fruit
1. Hi Nancy, what a sweet picture and lovely quote. I'm not too familiar with St. Katherine Drexel. Now I feel the urge to google her because I recognize her name but not any details. God bless!
2. This is so close to what I'm trying to concentrate on, Nancy! I love this picture so much and the quote, too. Spending the days going peacefully from task to task, nurturing the family and beautiful breaks in between - bliss!!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful pictures and inspiring quotes. They are so perfect for adding to the beauty in the day and giving it a boost:-)
God bless, Nancy:-)
1. Vicky, this is what I'm trying to do, too! Thank you.
3. Great quote, Nancy! The saints make it sound so simple, don't they? And the reason for this is because it really IS this simple...lol. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23415 | Around the Formula
by Stas Shuripa
(the reproduced works are made by Salvatore Puglia)
Generally, a formula is a statement that through a relation of abstract values shows the structure of a process. A formula can be understood without reference to any example: it expresses a reality that is exterior to it. A formula is material because it only exists if it is written. A work of art, in order to be able to express an array of concrete human relations and yet remain autonomous, should have the nature of a formula.
The following values make the Formula for a Monument:
Imagery, or the expressive quality that makes images possible
Multitude, or an indefinite number of human lives
Management, or control, or bio-logistics
Network, or the materiality of communications
Objects, or the visible parts of things
The Present, or exterior space
The Past, or the interior world
The Formula for a Monument processes the material referents to the values mentioned:
Pictures: from paintings to photographs
Public: from spectators to participants
Objects: from commodities to things
Symbols: from letters to shapes
Every formula expresses something that is multiple and universal. In this case, it is about the public function of art. Is art just a production of affect that can be used for various purposes by various societies and regimes? Is it just a sarcastic part of culture or an existential decorum? Should it react, annoy, construct, mock, or propose? The formula for a Monument is about being human in History, it’s about navigating the space of missed possibilities.
The relative autonomy of the aesthetic experience works as an axiom that allows the language of art to evolve out of its own premises. Thus, the new terms can be generated out of the above-mentioned: Management of Multitude brings forth the Imperial; Present through Past points to History; History, Multitude, and Object make the grounds for the Monumental.
Matter and Monstrosity: the Monumental
The queue management installation is a form of ordering the multitude. It decreases anxiety through increasing power’s capacity for counting. It is a folded line; it separates and yet keeps people close to one another; and the way through is much longer than the distance between its beginning and end. It makes space bigger by injecting in it a form of symbolic order, it slows down public time, and that is why the queue management device is monumental.
It works as a monument to the procedures of counting and control. As often happens with monuments, the meaning is imbedded in some effects of its presence rather than in its plastic qualities: the space dissected by it, traversed by the capacity to count and register. The queue management device works as a pedestal for an invisible figure, for the traffic of the multitude.
A Memorial relates to an event like a storyteller relates to the space of her narrative. The Storyteller, or subject (be it artist or spectator), is a binary singularity that in a unique way translates the event in the narrative.
Monumental optics of History is about temporal colonization. It can be compared with the view of the skyline of an abandoned megapolis. It originates from the pre-modernist mountainous visions of sublime monumentality: multiple traces of the human relations are like geological layers. Instead of colossal time spans the skylines keep the memory of an indefinitely big number of communications. The skylines control the space like mountains dominate the landscapes, like great achievements of the past form the focal points of temporal flows.
Monumentality is inspiration radiated by the constellation of past achievements that became a kernel of present self-recognition of a community. Monuments keep the power of the past to renew the public self-recognition, that fictive Thing that is the base of every community.
Time becomes space. The Present gets heavier from the awareness of its own selectivity: monuments look with the unseeing eyes of the timeless terrors of History. And the slowed down Present becomes a monument to its own amnesia, a prisoner of the fossil gaze from the Past.
Monumentality is equilibrium placed at the crossroads of temporalities: it speaks metaphorically about the Past from its own Present, and metonymically about its own Present, which unavoidably fades into history.
The historical experience of objecthood comes from the points of confrontation between the Monumental and the Antiquarian, public and private, production and perception. What is Antiquarianism? It is the shamanism of the spirits of History.
All spirits are only shadows of the Power in the murky horizons of language, positivisations of the human wish to be taken care of, to be possessed. Antiquarianism becomes historicism when it enters the markets of the creative Industry in order to enjoy laments about the irreversible. Objects replace situations, infinite possibilities shrink into the presence of the eternally past. The Past becomes a showcase, a scene where objects flatter, console, and convince the Present that real life is the afterlife.
Histories. These are the pictures that reflect the observer on the surface of the bottomless flow of sadness that is going from what will never happen again to what will happen but never be known. The always missed encounter of the Past and the Future: if melancholy would be electricity, the antiquarian thing would be a light bulb. The invisible Past sees the Now through the thousand eyes of antiquarian objects.
“The Monstrous is something that should have remained repressed but suddenly comes to light.” The excessive horror that usually subsequently receives the status of a great event – this is the stuff that any monument is built of. At the frontiers between the lightness and darkness of being, monsters appear as the incarnated fear of the future: every monument is born as a monster.
Exorcising the demons of power in order to hand victory to the ghosts of desire. The monument is like the eye of the storm: with the lessening of the pressure of meaning it gains stability, being the boundary between the past and the future as the temporalization of the internal and external. The empty eye of History: it is not so important whom monuments are dedicated to; what matters is their very presence—for they inscribe the pressure of the unknown into the architecture of the collective imagination.
Structure as Object: the Border of Autonomy
The object can be seen as a manifestation of the autonomous work of art: it is what appears to the senses, not the depiction of something else. The objects are just what they are, frontiers that have allowed art to stay aloof from functionalization.
After the ready-made, objects may look like waste, like monsters or apparitions, because according to the logic of design, the only place for them is on the margins of visual culture: objects mark the limits of the drive for the industry of beautification.
The object is excess, a memento mori, a border mark of the realm where the cultural production of meaning ceases to function. They echo those megaliths that for prehistoric societies marked the beginning of the domain of the unknown and sacred.
The character of the ready-made relates the work directly to non-artistic reality. The post ready-made object mediates the connection of art and life through the labor of the specifically artistic formal inquiry. However, the navel of a vague semblance to phenomena of the outside world may remain.
Post ready-made objects bring up the question of the Format. Standard form, or format, does not have to mean anything as such; it is the redundant condition of the possibility of communication. It marks the beginning and end of the message, the frame that gives form to the meaning. When taken into art, it becomes a general sign of all these ways of the production of meaning. This double abstraction, link-through-rapture, allows developing the language of autonomous art.
The object and the thing are not the same. The thing as “thing-in-itself” that perhaps lies just behind the object is unintelligible, and therefore uncanny. Being an excess, the object should not have the fixed hierarchical composition of the traditional work of art. Being different from the thing-in-itself, the object presents itself to the senses as something relatively stable. Both composition and chaos are extremes of what can be called structure, or a form that includes a set of interrelated components. Structure is the complication of form.
The object is a fragment that is cut out of a pattern by the gaze of the subject. The artistic effort can often be described as seeing structures as objects. Taking a dynamic multiplicity in brackets, estranging it from the causal chains and the demand for meaning, such is the act of establishing distance between the work and the world, of forming the situation of art.
The object-as-structure problematizes its uniqueness. It is an example of itself, since it does not represent anything else; and yet, its identity is not equal to its presence. Every visible structure can be stretched further in mental space. Thus, objects as structures are always partial. The locus of such an object is not just a simple place: it generates the space of confrontational balance between integrity and dissipation, the limited and the infinite, capacity and possibility—in other words, space as medium.
The hierarchical unity of the work of art, or composition, comes out of the old idea of the immortality of the soul and her autonomous interior world. Later, Kantian philosophy transformed this quality into the mind’s capacity to synthesize sensory data in the act of apperception. The work of art was analogous to the transcendental subject; it filtered the flow of visual pleasure that fueled and supported the center-oriented construction of this subject. This was the beginning of the ethical, i.e. political, function of aesthetics.
Today, visual pleasure has become ubiquitous and ornamental; its production and consumption are intensified and interrelated. In medialized and formatted reality, the integrity of the artwork thus becomes a crucial problem again: what other form can the work of art find if not that of the subject-centered composition or of a flow of evanescent imagery? Structure as object becomes research on the conditions of the production of visual pleasure.
An assemblage of misrecognitions: the age of immaterial labor and information capital dissolves integral commodity forms. The integrity of the artwork becomes a knot of heterogeneous data flows and associations. The composed unity of the work is replaced by networks of flows, but if autonomy remains valuable for art, structure-as-object can be a response.
Mute Form: the Aesthetics of the Disastrous
It is important to understand the link between contemporary object-as-structure and the intentions of Modernism. Visual poetry of Modernism conceived the world through two filters: the universalism of utopia and the totality of disaster. Eventually, utopia had to be recognized as a great failure and permanent catastrophe that happened to History.
The end of the Utopian imagination meant the end of the Modernist production of meaning through art. Here, in this subliminal conflict between utopia and disaster, lies the crux of the Modernist mystery: the Unspeakable, or personalized Unknown. The end of the poetic line had a name in ancient Greek: “catastropha.“ It cuts off all possibilities but gives form to the verse, finishes it through defining rhythm and style. Thus, every final form is a disaster.
Today, the utopian impulse is splashed throughout the networks of culture. The inexpressible is distributed by language cast in channels and formats, through the very architecture of communication. Utopian energy is transformed into entertainment, corporate spirit, and ideological manipulation. The inexpressible became the special effect, an element of the consumption of meanings.
The aesthetical lays at the intersection of production and the disastrous. The rise of control means the growth of resistance. The Utopian comes back in the form of the rejection of the given, in the dysfunctional interconnections of objects and signs, through generative miscommunication, through a new appeal for the formal after the lessons of modernism are learned: purity of the medium and sacrality of the spiritual are the camouflage of control.
Disaster is the definition of form. The production of forms and meanings today is so fast and multidirectional that forms often remain unconnected. As opposed to the layering that was an “organic“ way of producing the meanings by pre-informational hermeneutic culture, contemporary culture is based on ideographic modes of saving and transmitting, on “disjuctive synthesis“, on practices of epistemeological “stacking”. It makes no sense for art to hunt for hidden meanings, for there are bunches of them, registered or not.
The only way how an artistic act can be juxtaposed to the universe, or better to say multiverse, of this production of massifs of meaning is a disaster that sets the limits to this universe.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23439 | Monthly Archive: September 2013
Caracas Presidents
The day of the inauguration were missing nine Presidents. The thing started on the wrong foot. Hugo Chavez monopolized both once again the news. Even absent stole the media show in the early hours. Until well into the early morning was speculated with the possibility that finally appeared. This was announced by radio. But not. The plane from Caracas only the Bolivian fell Evo Morales, who came to meet with the President of Venezuela.
Paul Klee
The shunting line (Umweg) present in the placed Allegorie as image to be chore, a labyrinth where the idea of the loss of the orientation in finding an exit already is present. According to author, in the benjaminiana conception of the shunting line (Umweg) the being alone if shows for eclipse. In the labyrinth of the great city the Allegorie as Aletheia is capable to transmit a truth in a game of lusco-fusco, in it show-hides In the contemplation the truth fulgura while in the conscience the search of knowing it is Form (Eidos). In the contemplation the truth exceeds the mere speech (Phase). Benjamim, in the image dialectic, denounces the empty speech of the world-wide politics (Welpolitik) that it only has as objective of persuasion it enters the ones that do not know, to pass as to more than know what the ones that they know.
The represented civilizatrio legacy in the picture of Paul Klee, where one accumulated of rubbles is the result of the catastrophe of the civilization where if it accumulates ruins on ruins, can be interpreted as an image it criticizes where it to the shunting line of the reason in the direction to generate sensible for the world is possible. According to philosopher, for Benjamim the ruins are the attributes of: courage, confidence, firmness and mood, nominated to the loosers for the iluminista idea. Benjamim wants one another direction for the ruins. That one of the interpretation of the picture of Paul Klee, ahead of the ruins of the civilization, where historian and collector if bend to save fragmentos for the possibility to find in them the dispersed value. The angel who to breach with the established one, to awake deceased and to recoup what he remained unfurnished. But the storm that comes of the paradise (progress) hinders it. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23454 | Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Another Year......
almost in the books, with me, as I'm sure many of you, asking myself "where did the days go"?
It really does seem like it was just a few weeks ago that we were ringing in this year of 2016 and now here we are with 2017 staring us straight in the face!
"The older you get the faster it goes"..... I remember my elders speaking this line many a time, and oh how right they were.
So now we'll be hearing of all the New Year resolutions everyone will be making....and then of course most likely breaking by about mid January. Lose weight, exercise more, give up sugar, and all know the long list we see each year at this time.
I don't do a resolution, I use to, but like most I'd already sent it down the drain barely before I got started with it. My dear friend Tilda, or as some of you might know as Patricia Byers, suggested a few year back of adopting a word.....any word that might have meaning to you, and then build on that word through out the year. I have been doing just that since....I love that idea, and somehow when you take your "word" and use it, you do make a difference. Maybe in your life, or maybe of another.
I haven't decided upon my word yet, but when I do, I will for sure share it with you.
I have however been reflecting back on this past year, and I ask myself, did I do good....I don't mean, did I have a good year but really, did I DO good. Did I do good to others, or for others? Good without asking or expecting anything in return. Good to those even though they weren't so good to me. Good with no expectation of being glorified or recognized. I'm not sure, but I think I did.
This brings my thoughts to my Emma's words a couple of weeks ago when I asked her for something else to add to her Christmas list....her answer was, "all I need is your love, Gma"..... and then to the actions of my Adam and Hailey....they have no children, both work hard and have what they need and mostly what they want. They know of a struggling Grandma who has her young grand daughter with her....Adam goes to the Grandma's place of work and asks her if they might get the little one some "extra" gifts to open on Christmas. Of course the Grandma's pride makes her decline but Adam insists, he gets a list, Hailey takes the list and checks it off. Needfuls, such as shoes, sweatshirts and leggings. Adam delivers the gifts on Christmas Eve and tells the little one that he is delivering for Santa and she can't open until morning.
Now I sit and think of these things and I know in my heart that somewhere along the way....
most likely not in this year of 2016, but in a year long ago when Adam was small.....and maybe at some time along the years with Em.....
I did good.
Now....I will have to ponder some today on a word for 2017.
Wondering what Tilda's word is.....and maybe if any of you will adopt a word for the New Year?
Enjoy these last few days of this old year....
and look forward to all the new days ahead of us to do good!
From the Lane....
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1. I too have been doing a word but only for the last 2 years. I've used joy and kindness. I think I know what this year's will be. To have instilled wonderful values in your children is an accomplishment.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23463 | Somerset Carol (Traditional)
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Editor: Rod Mather (submitted 2008-12-29). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 61 kB Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Arr. for SATB and organ by Rod Mather with alternative text available.
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Editor: Glen Thompson (submitted 2004-01-13). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 140 kB Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: arranged for TBB a cappella by Glen Thompson. A robust arrangement of this popular, rollicking carol for men's voices. Not difficult.
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Title: Somerset Carol
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Number of voices: 3 or 4vv Voicings: TBB or SATB
Genre: SacredCarol
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or organ
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Come all you worthy gentlemen
That may be standing by,
Christ our blessed savior
Was born on Christmas Day.
The blessed Virgin Mary
Unto the Lord did say
"O we wish you the comfort
and tidings of joy.
We wish you the tidings of joy."
Christ our blessed Savior
Now in the manger lay.
He's lying in the manger,
While the oxen feed on hay.
The blessed Virgin Mary
Unto the Lord did say
"O we wish you the confort
and tidings of joy."
God bless the master of this house
And long on may he reign.
May happy Christmases
He live to see again!
God bless our generation,
Who live both far and near,
And we wish them
a happy new year.
And we wish you a
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23476 | The Jonas Brothers Played "Sucker" With Classroom Instruments!
The Jonas Brothers are back and better than ever with the release of their new documentary "Chasing Happiness," their album "Happiness Begins," and getting ready for tour.
Well the three brothers recently joined Jimmy Fallon and The Roots to perform "Sucker" with classroom instruments.
Nick was using a clapper, Kevin played the triangle, and the best part was Joe playing the banana shaker.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23493 | Structures of ACCS
Fri, Oct 19th, 2018 2:48:10 pm
The Association is governed by an Annual Convention and it operates under the direction of an Executive (Board of Directors).
The President is elected by the members at the annual Convention.
The Executive Committee comprises a maximum of eighteen (18) members, including the President elected by delegates at annual Convention as follows:
1. City and County of Dublin 3
2. Rest of Leinster 3
3. Ulster 2
4. Munster 3
5. Connacht 2
6. Comprehensive Schools 2
The elected members of the National Executive co-opt 2 others from the membership of the Association.
The Executive Committee elects from among its membership:
A Vice President, an Honorary Treasurer and an Honorary Secretary.
The Past President is also an ex- officio member of the Executive for 1 year after he/she steps down from the Presidency of ACCS.
ACCS Officers, Trustees and Executive/Directors 2018/2019
President: Mr. Paul Fiorentini
Vice-President: Mr. James Duignan
Hon. Secretary: Mr. Noralene NíUrdáil
Hon. Treasurer: Mr. Paul Thornton
General Secretary: Mr. John Irwin
Executive Committee
City and Co. of Dublin Community Schools
Mr. Paul Crone
Ms. Brenda Kelly
Ms. Elizabeth Tierney
Leinster Community Schools
Mr. Paul Thornton
Ms. Geraldine Keena
Ms. Mary Jackson
Munster Community Schools
Mr. Dermot Healy
M. Norallene Ní Urdáil
Mr. Denis Ring
Connacht Community Schools
Mr Michael Brett
Mr. Adrian Jackson
Ulster Community Schools
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Ms. Patricia Graham
Mr. Craig Petrie
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23498 | Bertrand Delacretaz
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Bertrand Delacretaz works as a Principal Scientist for Adobe in Basel, Switzerland. He's involved in software design and development for Adobe Experience Cloud products, which use many open source modules, mostly from Apache projects to which his teams contribute extensively.
Bertrand served ten terms on the Apache Software Foundation's Board of Directors and is active in the Apache Sling project as well as helping projects join the Foundation as an Incubation Mentor.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23501 | The blog of Blog of Christian Bär
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Installing Hugo Hugo is the static site generator I’m using for this blog. Here’s how I installed it on my Windows computer: Went to Decided to just download the binary (as opposed to using a package manager), so went to to download the ZIP file. Found there was a “regular” Hugo and a hugo_extended. Decided to use “regular” (find out why below). Downloaded the ZIP and copied the extracted folder to c:\program files Added the full path of that folder to the PATH environment variable Initializing the blog After having installed Hugo I can now use it to initialize my blog. [...] |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23502 | Stephan Wilkinson first wrote about composite aircraft (plastic as he called them) in 1968 while working as an editor for Flying magazine.
In April 1995, Aviation Consumer published an article by Wilkinson that reached a conclusion that remains valid today:
“You can reduce weight and you can reduce cost, but neither in 1968 nor in 1995 is it possible to do both simultaneously with composites.”
Further he quoted Peter Garrison:
“You’re using the stuff at different temperatures, the resin gets old, you may not mix it as well one day, you might not sand as zealously as you thought you did, or your sandpaper might even be contaminated. These uncertainties can be eliminated by careful quality control. But the fact is that none of them exist with metal.”
Wilkinson also posed some thought provoking questions:
“Have composites been overhyped?
Is it true-as one Boeing engineer was heard to say some years ago- that “the more we learn about composites, the better aluminum looks”?
Are composites in fact trendy, imperfect materials best applied to a few unusual scenarios-airliners that operate for tens of thousands of hours, cost-no-object military aircraft, kitplanes that require snap-together ease of construction? Should we assume that composites won’t ever replace aluminum as the material of choice in the general aviation industry?
Yes, no and maybe.” |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23521 | Tooth - Animality (CD EP) Cover Art
Tooth - Animality (CD) (EP)
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Origin: USA
Released: 2007
Catalog number: CKR001
Animality, the debut EP from Durham quintet Tooth, begins a lot like a chubby pop-metal record: "Moderate Monster" lurches with two thick chords tacked with bright, wobbly bends. The tease ends after 30 seconds, though, when the whole production stops on a dime to show Tooth's true, rangy colors. What follows is throttled thrash bounce, strapped with an unequivocal sludge gurgle that'd make fellow Dixie metallurgists Eyehategod proud. In those few minutes, Tooth manages a wildly rewarding hodgepodge of heavy influences, running the gamut from anything-core to ultra-crust. Still, as impressively diverse as the band's palate on Animality may be, its strongest suit is the consistency of its low-slung and low-strung guitars. Front to back, the record's got the detuned depth its panoramic girth deserves. In a year filled with Deep South pot-metal from Wilmington's Weedeater and psych-heaviness from Savannah bands like Kylesa and Baroness, this record holds its own.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23530 | Tom Swift and His War Tank
by Victor Appleton
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Chapter V - "Is He A Slacker?"
Mr. Nestor, whatever else he was, proved to be a prudent father. He did not immediately go into the front room, whither Mary and Tom hastened, their voices mingling in talk and laughter.
Mr. Nestor, after leaving the young folks alone for a while, with a loud "Ahem!" and a rattling of his paper as he laid it aside, started for the parlor.
"Good-evening, Mr. Nestor!" said Tom, rising to shake hands with the father of his young and pretty hostess.
"Hello, Tom!" was the cordial greeting, in return. "What's going on up at your place?" went on Mr. Nestor, as he took a chair.
"Oh, nothing very special," Tom answered. "We're turning out different kinds of machines as usual, and dad and I are experimenting, also as usual."
"I suppose so. But what nearly broke the fence to-night?"
Tom started, and looked quickly at his host.
"Were you there?" he asked quickly.
"Well, I happened to be passing—took a short cut home—and I heard some queer goings on at your place. I was speaking to Mary about them, and wondering—"
"Father, perhaps Tom doesn't want to talk about his inventions," interrupted Mary. "You know some of them are secret—"
"Oh, I wasn't exactly asking for information!" exclaimed Mr. Nestor quickly. "I just happened to hear the fence crash, and I was wondering if something was coming out at me. Didn't know but what that giant of yours was on a rampage, Tom," and he laughed.
"No, it wasn't anything like that," and Tom's voice was more sober than the occasion seemed to warrant. "It was one of our new machines, and it didn't act just right. No great damage was done, though. How do you find business, Mr. Nestor, since the war spirit has grown stronger?" asked Tom, and it seemed to both Mary and her father that the young inventor deliberately changed the subject.
"Well, it isn't all it might be," said the other. "It's hard to get good help. A lot of our boys enlisted, and some were taken in the draft. By the way, Tom, have they called on you yet?"
"No. Not yet."
"You didn't enlist?"
"Ned Newton tried to," broke in Mary, "but the quota for this locality was filled, and they told him he'd better wait for the draft. He wouldn't do that and tried again. Then the bank people heard about it and had him exempted. They said he was too valuable to them, and he has been doing remarkably well in selling Liberty Bonds!" and Mary's eyes sparkled with her emotions.
"Yes, Ned is a crackerjack salesman!" agreed Tom, no less enthusiastically. "He's sold more bonds, in proportion, for his bank, than any other in this county. Dad and I both took some, and have promised him more. I am glad now that we let him go, although we valued his services highly. We hope to have him back later."
"He can put me down for more bonds too!" said Mr. Nestor. "I'm going to see Germany beaten if it takes every last dollar I have!"
"That's what I say!" Cried Mary. "I took out all my savings, except a little I'm keeping to buy a wedding present for Jennie Morse. Did you know she was going to get married, Tom?" she asked.
"I heard so."
"Well, all but what I want for a wedding present to her has gone into Liberty Bonds. Isn't this a history-making time, Tom?"
"Indeed it is, Mary!"
"Everybody who has a part in it—whether he fights as a soldier or only knits like the Red Cross girls—will be telling about it for years after," went on the girl, and she looked at Tom eagerly.
"Yes," he agreed. "These are queer times. We don't know exactly where we're at. A lot of our men have been called. We tried to have some of them exempted, and did manage it in a few cases."
"You did?" cried Mr. Nestor, as if in surprise. "You stopped men from going to war!"
"Only so they could work on airship motors for the Government," Tom quietly explained.
"Oh! Well, of course, that's part of the game," agreed Mary's father. "A lot more of our boys are going off next week. Doesn't it make you thrill, Tom, when you see them marching off, even if they haven't their uniforms yet? Jove, if I wasn't too old, I'd go in a minute!"
"Father!" cried Mary.
"Yes, I would!" he declared. "The German government has got to be beaten, and we've got to do our bit; everybody has—man, woman and child!"
"Yes," agreed Tom, in a low voice, "that's very true. But every one, in a sense, has to judge for himself what the 'bit' is. We can't all do the same."
There was a little silence, and then Mary went over to the piano and played. It was a rather welcome relief, under the circumstances, from the conversation.
"Mary, what do you think of Tom?" asked Mr. Nestor, when the visitor had gone.
"What do I think of him?" And she blushed.
"I mean about his not enlisting. Do you think he's a slacker?"
"A slacker? Why, Father!"
"Oh, I don't mean he's afraid. We've seen proof enough of his courage, and all that. But I mean don't you think he wants stirring up a bit?"
"He is going to Washington to-morrow, Father. He told me so to-night. And it may be—"
"Oh, well, then maybe it's all right," hastily said Mr. Nestor. "He may be going to get a commission in the engineer corps. It isn't like Tom Swift to hang back, and yet it does begin to look as though he cared more for his queer inventions—machines that butt down fences than for helping Uncle Sam. But I'll reserve judgment."
"You'd better, Father!" and Mary laughed—a little. Yet there was a worried look on her face.
During the next few nights Mr. Nestor made it a habit to take the short cut from the railroad station, coming past the big fence that enclosed one particular building of the Swift plant.
"I wonder if there's a hole where I could look through," said Mr. Nestor to himself. "Of course I don't believe in spying on what another man is doing, and yet I'm too good a friend of Tom's to want to see him make a fool of himself. He ought to be in the army, or helping Uncle Sam in some way. And yet if he spends all his time on some foolish contraption, like a new kind of traction plow, what good is that? If I could get a glimpse of it, I might drop a friendly hint in his ear."
But there were no cracks in the fence, or, if there were, it was too dark to see them, and also too dark to behold anything on the other side of the barrier. So Mr. Nestor, wondering much, kept on his way.
It was a day or so after this that Ned Newton paid a visit to the Swift home. Mr. Swift was not in the house, being out in one of the various buildings, Mrs. Baggert said.
"Where's Tom?" asked the bond salesman.
"Oh, he hasn't come back from Washington yet," answered the housekeeper.
"He is making a long stay."
"Yes, he went about a week ago on some business. But we expect him back to-day."
"Well, then I'll see him. I called to ask if Mr. Swift didn't want to take a few more bonds. We want to double our allotment for Shopton, and beat out some of the other towns in this section. I'll go to see Mr. Swift."
On his way to find Tom's father Ned passed the big building in front of which Eradicate and Koku were on guard. They nodded to Ned, who passed them, wondering much as to what it was Tom was so secretive about.
"It's the first time I remember when he worked on an invention without telling me something about it," mused Ned. "Well, I suppose it will all come out in good time. Anything new, Rad?"
"No, Massa Ned, nuffin much. I'm detectin' around heah; keepin' Dutchmen spies away!"
"And Koku is helping you, I suppose?"
"Whut, him? Dat big, good-fo'-nuffin white trash? No, sah! I's detectin' by mahse'f, dat's whut I is!" and Eradicate strutted proudly up and down on his allotted part of the beat, being careful not to approach the building too closely, for that was Koku's ground.
Ned smiled, and passed on. He found Mr. Swift, secured his subscription to more bonds, and was about to leave when he heard a call down the road and saw Tom coming in his small racing car, which had been taken to the depot by one of the workmen.
"Hello, old man!" cried Ned affectionately, as his chum alighted with a jump. "Where have you been?"
"Down to Washington. Had a bit of a chat with the President and gave him some of my views."
"About the war, I suppose?" laughed Ned.
"Did you get your commission?"
"Commission?" And there was a wondering look on Tom's face.
"Yes. Mary Nestor said she thought maybe you were going to Washington to take an examination for the engineering corps or something like that. Did you get made an officer?"
"No," answered Tom slowly. "I went to Washington to get exempted."
"Exempted?" Cried Ned, and his voice sounded strained.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23556 | The Aramaic language has its beginning with the sons of Noah. The first biblical clue to the origin of Aramaic is found in Genesis 10:22, which informs us that Aram was the youngest son of Shem. What Aram spoke has been called “the Mesopotamian language.” This was the language that was then transmitted down to Abraham. It is the precursor of all the Semitic languages.
Abraham left his home in Ur of the Chaldeans and traveled with his father Terah and his brother Nahor to Haran in Syria. The son of Nahor was also called Aram (Genesis 22:21). This area of land in Syria became known as the land of the Arameans, or Aram. By 1000 BC, the people lived in strong city-states and had developed a cursive version of the North Semitic alphabet. The language and alphabet has continued in use until the present.
Abraham left Haran and crossed the Euphrates River and traveled to Canaan. There is a reference to Jacob as a “wandering Aramean” in Deuteronomy 26:5. His descendants were called “Hebrews,” a term derived from the Aramaic word abar, meaning, “to cross over.” Gradually, a unique dialect and script called Hebrew was developed. Moses and the subsequent authors of the Old Testament scriptures probably originally wrote these books in this Old Hebrew, which was not far removed from Aramaic.
Around 1000-800 BC, there were several major powers in the Near East: Assyria, Babylonia and Syria. They adopted the alphabet and language of the Arameans and Aramaic became the lingua franca throughout the Mesopotamian area. It was the language of commerce, trade and communication. It became the vernacular language of Assyria, Babylonia (Chaldee) and Syria. There was then a split in dialects between the east, consisting of Babylonia and Assyria and west, consisting of Syria. The eastern Aramaic was further divided into two dialects, Assyrian (northern) and Babylonian (southern).
The Assyrians conquered the northern ten tribes of Israel in 721 BC and transported the Israelites to Assyria. Those who came from Assyria to settle in Galilee and Samaria spoke this northern dialect of Aramaic. This dialect continued until the time of Christ.
The Babylonians conquered Judea in 586 BC and transported them to Babylon, where Eastern or Chaldean Aramaic was spoken. Daniel was written in Aramaic. When the people under Ezra and Nehemiah went back to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple, they spoke this dialect. This dialect of Aramaic continued down through the 1st century and is sometimes called Palestinian Aramaic.
That is how there came to be two different dialects spoken during the time of Christ in Palestine. The difference was not great, perhaps similar to the difference between the northern and southern parts of the United States. Jesus Christ and his disciples (all except for Judas Iscariot) spoke the northern dialect of Aramaic because they were from Galilee. Paul was born and raised in Tarsus (western Aramaic), but he was educated in Jerusalem (eastern Aramaic), so he must have been fluent in both dialects. Paul also spoke Greek (Acts 21:37).
The Gospels were most certainly written in Aramaic and, most likely, Paul’s letters were also. But as the gospel reached out in the 1st century from Jerusalem into Antioch of Syria and then on into Achaia and Macedonia, which were Greek-speaking areas, the Gospels and other letters were probably almost immediately translated into Greek. The transmission of the text then developed in parallel lines.
Constantinople was the capital of Babylon in the 3rd and 4th centuries, where Aramaic was still the lingua franca. Christianity was declared the official religion, so manuscripts of the scriptures in Aramaic were copied and passed on. There was a very careful preservation of the text and that is the reason for the integrity among the various Peshitta manuscripts.
Since the original split in the dialects to western and eastern Aramaic, Syria had grown in power and, after the 1st century, a center of teaching developed in Edessa near Haran. It is from here that the Peshitta version was compiled. The oldest complete manuscripts in Aramaic are this Peshitta version. The word Peshitta means “straight, simple, sincere, or true.” The earliest manuscripts used a script called Estrangelo and this script reached the height of its development by the 4th century.
There was a great controversy in the church at Ephesus and Chalcedon in 431 and 451 AD because of the Monophysite bishops and about the issue of Mary as the mother of God. The church split into two separate entities in the east and west and has never recovered from this controversy. The Aramaic language was already divided into dialects, but now each side also developed new scripts from the Estrangelo letters to differentiate them from the other side.
Jacob was the leader in the school in Edessa and the script in the west became known as the Jacobite script. At this time, vowel markings were also established. Almost all of the grammar books we have today and many manuscripts were written in this script.
The other script developed in the east is called Nestorian. It is squarer and uses dots for the vowel markings. The differences in the scripts were in the formation of the letters or characters, not in the words. Thus, we use the dictionaries such as Payne Smith and Jennings to translate the Estrangelo manuscripts, even though they are written in Jacobite script. There are differences in the script, not the language.
Aramaic continued as the lingua franca until Arabic and Islam replaced it in the 9th century. There are still some people today in Turkey and Kurdistan who speak Aramaic. Aramaic was the native language of Dr. George Lamsa.
The Peshitta Text
The text used in this translation as the base text is taken from The Syriac New Testament and Psalms, published by the United Bible Societies. In 1905, the British and Foreign Bible Society published an edition of the Peshitta, reprinted by permission from a critical edition prepared by Rev.
1. H. Gwilliam in 1901. This is a critical text of the Peshitta, meaning that it is a composite of readings from different manuscripts that were located in the British Museum. It is known as a western text of the Peshitta and varies to a small degree from other eastern versions of the Peshitta. In the footnotes, these differences from the eastern version are noted as variant readings. In this translation, the text is called the Peshitta. However, some would distinguish that the Peshitta is the name for only the eastern version and that the western text should be called Peshito. In order to simplify the reference in this translation, both versions are called the Peshitta.
Peshitta is an Aramaic word that means “simple” or “straight.” Although there are some alternative arguments, the best estimate is that the Peshitta was first written around 150 AD. The primary center that was responsible for its dissemination was Edessa in Syria. It is written in the Aramaic dialect of that region, which is called Syriac. This dialect differs from the Palestinian Aramaic of Judea and Galilee, but not to the extent that both parties would have not understood each other. Perhaps the best comparison would be between British and United States English. Since there are no surviving manuscripts of the New Testament in Palestinian Aramaic from the first century, it is very clear that the Peshitta is the closest text that we have readily available to study the Scriptures in Aramaic.
There is a particular reason why it is evident that the Peshitta must have been completed early in the 2nd century. It does not include the books of II Peter, II John, III John, Jude and Revelation, which were added to the Peshitta manuscripts later. These books were not completely accepted as canon until after the middle of the 2nd century, and their origin was in the area of Ephesus. This translation utilizes the later versions of these books to complete the New Testament text. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23592 | What size of the grating on GAIA RVS spectroscope ?
How many lines on mm, or what defraction angle for 850 nm wavelenth light ?
I find some more details here: http://sci.esa.int/gaia/44092-gaia-rvs-grating/ and http://sci.esa.int/gaia/44093-state-of-the-art-grating-for-gaia/ The GAIA RVS grating has dimensions of 20.5 cm × 15.5 cm and 302.11 grooves per mm.
• $\begingroup$ For RVS, Gaia uses two prisms, a blue and red one. That's a good thing to google. $\endgroup$ – AtmosphericPrisonEscape Jan 2 '18 at 12:54
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$\begingroup$ You are wrong. Prisms uses in the photometric instrument - spectrometer of low resolution. RVS (radial velocity spectrometer) use the grating, see sci.esa.int/gaia/40129-payload-module/?fbodylongid=1916 $\endgroup$ – tsikraserg Jan 4 '18 at 5:29
• $\begingroup$ Also see the question on this sight - Why does Gaia use only calcium NIR lines for stellar radial velocity measurements? - astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/18374/… $\endgroup$ – tsikraserg Jan 4 '18 at 5:40
• $\begingroup$ Ah you're right, I confused those two parts. The calcium triplet is simply very well detectable in most stars, just as the document you've linked also states. $\endgroup$ – AtmosphericPrisonEscape Jan 4 '18 at 16:42
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23607 | Boeing aircraft generally have a pointy nose, which seems to me to imply better aerodynamic qualities, less drag etc. Airbus aircraft on the other hand have rather bulbous noses.
Is this difference to give Boeing and Airbus aircraft a consistent, distinctive visual appearance, or is there any specific aerodynamic reason for the different designs?
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This image is only an example and my question is not about any specific model.
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$\begingroup$ I would highly doubt the engineers at Airbus ended up with the design (of the nose) they did because of "better identification" $\endgroup$ – CGCampbell Feb 26 '15 at 14:24
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$\begingroup$ "More pointy" isn't necessarily synonymous with "lower drag" $\endgroup$ – Jon Story Feb 26 '15 at 14:44
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$\begingroup$ @JonStory related $\endgroup$ – Federico Feb 26 '15 at 14:49
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$\begingroup$ aerodynamics involve the design of the whole fuselage, including the tail. $\endgroup$ – Manu H Feb 26 '15 at 20:27
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$\begingroup$ @Firee Right. I was just saying that I'm not sure your implication that Boeings generally have 'pointier' noses than Airbuses is actually true, aside from the 747 vs. A380 case. It doesn't appear to be the case when comparing the A330 vs. B767, for instance. $\endgroup$ – reirab Mar 3 '15 at 16:16
The answer to this is, in part to do with corporate culture and part aerodynamics.
The corporate culture and history part is that Boeing have always built their noses that way and senior engineers have a tendancy to return to designs they have used successfully before. If you look at the nose of a 747 and the nose of B-17 you'll see some distictive similarities that follow through all the major Boeing aircraft. This isn't surprising as lead designer of the 747, Joe Sutter, started working for Boeing on the 707 project under the direction of the engineers that designed the early flying forts. Airbus is a newer company with a different corporate culture. They tend to embrace new design techniques like CFD computer modelling to a greater extent and this leads to slightly more efficient but less aestetically pleasing nose and wing designs.
The science side is related to the speed that modern airliners travel at (around 0.85mach). At these speeds aircraft begin to encounter a phenomena called 'Wave Drag' which is the incremental build-up of compressive shockwaves along the wings and fuselage as the aircraft approaches the speed of sound. The effect of wave drag is to drastically increase the overall drag affecting the aircraft increasing the power output required from the engines.
There are several methods of combating wave drag, the first of these is the swept wing that has been a feature of trans and supersonic aircraft since WW2. The optimum angle of the wings sweep is determined by the cruising speed of the aircraft. A more recent innovation is the Transonic or 'Whitcomb' Area Rule which states that:
"Two airplanes with the same longitudinal cross-sectional area distribution have the same wave drag, independent of how the area is distributed laterally"
Wave Drag can be reduced by attempting to match the cross sectional proportions of an aircraft as closely as possible to those of a Sears-Haack body (an aerodynamically perfect shape for supersonic flight) This why airbus planes have blunter nose. it is also why there are strange bulges under the wing roots of the A380. they are both attempts to make the planes cross-section conform to a Sears-Haack body more closely.
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$\begingroup$ Welcome to the site. The pictures of Sears-Haack bodies that I can find do not look very blunt. Also, Mach 0.65 is a bit slower than most jet airliners cruise at. $\endgroup$ – fooot Mar 9 '15 at 16:20
• $\begingroup$ A true sears-haack body is 'pointy' because it is idealised for flight at exactly mach 1. The shape can be varied by biasing the centre of mass forwards or backwards for flight above or below the speed of sound so a 'slow' S-H body will be blunter. The aerospace designer then has to approximate the cross-sectional ratios within his design. Thanks for pointing out the typo with the cruising speed. edited to fix. $\endgroup$ – JonS Mar 9 '15 at 16:25
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$\begingroup$ The Boeing B-29 nose looks rather blunt to me. I do not think that the nose design back then was driven by branding. Also, wave drag would not explain nose shapes - on airliner noses we will not find supersonic flow. $\endgroup$ – Peter Kämpf Mar 11 '15 at 21:01
• $\begingroup$ Actually wave drag begins to be an issue for planes travelling as slowely as 0.65 of mach. during WW2, fighter pilots in steep dives found their control sucrfaces would lock up because of it. at 0.85 it is a definate problem and the whole of the aircraft, including the nose, contriubutes to the solution. $\endgroup$ – JonS Mar 12 '15 at 9:50
Airbus and Boeing are not the only airplane manufacturers who see the nose shape as something to sharpen their brand. Look at the Schleicher gliders (the left picture shows an ASW-20) and compare their pointed nose to those of Schempp-Hirth, which is distinctively more blunt (the right picture shows a Discus).
Alexander Schleicher ASW-20 (left) and Schempp-Hirth Discus T (right)
The shorter nose will incur higher induced speeds, but a shorter boundary layer and less wetted surface. Which is better depends on the particular flow situation.
Or take the canopy shape of Glaser-Dirks gliders which stand out with their stretched-out shape which allows even the feet of the pilots to be bathed in sunlight (see picture of a DG-300 below). This is like a brand label.
DG-300 over the Alps
Disgruntled Boeing engineers told me once that they spent three months optimizing the tailplane-fuselage intersection of the Boeing 767, only to have their design rejected by upper management because it looked "too much like McDonnell-Douglas". Yes, the outside shape is important to management to express their brand.
• $\begingroup$ Peter, it's absolutely amazing that an airliner would be designed with "body look" in mind! Thanks for this info ! $\endgroup$ – Fattie Oct 10 '19 at 15:18
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This ancient town, which in Saxon times was noted for its college, founded by Wulfruna, sister of King Egbert, and thence called Wulfrunes-hampton, from which it derives the modem name, is now a parliamentary borough (two members), and the capital of the iron trade. By the North Western, or narrow-gauge line, it is 126 miles from London (or 13 miles from Birmingham); by the broad gauge, via Oxford and Worcester, 142 miles. The branch covers about 30 square miles of barren soil, beneath which are rich crops of coal, iron, and stone. Population 147,670.
All kinds of articles in iron, brass, tin-plate, japan work, &c., are made here, as locks and keys, hinges, fenders, coffee mills, tea trays, bolts, files, screws, and other tools, besides engines, &c. Smelting-houses and foundries abound on all sides (see Bradshaw’s Hand-Book to the Manufacturing Districts). The making of tin-plate, that is, of iron tinned over, is a staple business. That of japanning was first introduced by Baskerville, the Birmingham printer, whose portrait may be seen in the counting-house of Messrs. Longman, in Paternoster Row.
Wolverhampton stands on high ground, and has never suffered from the plague, but it did not escape the cholera in 1S49, though the deaths were few compared with those at Bilston and Willenhall. The houses are of brick, and there are not any remarkable edifices. The Grammar School, founded in 1513 by a native, who became lord mayor of London, is well endowed, and replaces a hospital built by the Leveson or “Luson” (ancestors of the Gower) family. There is a literary institute with a public library.
Of its eight churches, St. Peter’s is the most ancient and striking. It is a later English cross, having a tall tower and carved stone pulpit, with monuments of the Levesons, and of Colonel Lane, who, with his sister, were the means of effecting the escape of Charles II., after the battle of Worcester, 1651. It was that officer who was hid away with the king in the Royal Oak. A pillar cross in the churchyard is 20 feet high. Until lately, the manor belonged to the dean and chapter of Windsor, to whom it was granted by Edward IV.
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In Saner Thought
Today we recognize that 16 years ago a handful of whacked out turds flew planes into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania….the worse case of terrorism to ever hit the shores of America.
This is an op-ed written for the Washington Times……a look at what has become of the society since that fateful day…..(I do not totally agree with some of their assumptions but a pretty good piece all around)…….
The approach of an anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 always concentrates my mind. It was, astonishingly, 16 Septembers ago that a team of foreign terrorists hijacked three American passenger planes and used them as weapons of mass destruction. Can anyone forget the images of people leaping to their deaths to avoid being consumed by fire and smoke, the twin towers collapsing, the ashes rising, children struggling to come to terms with the fact…
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23693 | How to Explain Standardized Testing to Your Young Student
Taking a standardized test is an entirely different beast from the regular day in and day out of your child’s school day. It can feel intimidating to some students, causing worry and anxiety. However, the great thing about standardized testing is how predictable it is! Your child can easily learn what to expect. The following concepts touch on how to explain standardized testing to your young student.
1. Question formats
The types of questions on standardized tests are fairly reliable and usually include multiple-choice, true-or-false, and short-answer questions, and sometimes, longer essays. Depending on the test, you’ll be able to familiarize yourself with it first by asking your child’s teacher about its details. Talk your child through different types of questions, especially ones he hasn’t experienced before on quizzes or tests in his regular schoolwork. Tell your child to read the directions and questions carefully, identifying keywords that will tell him what to look for in an answer or a reading passage. Students should also read all the answer choices before choosing what they believe is the correct one, in case there’s an answer choice later in the list that ends up working slightly better.
2. Time limits
Discuss with your child how timing works for standardized tests; they often are timed by subject and/or section. While the teacher or proctor will more than likely keep time on the blackboard (or if the test is electronic, there will likely be a timekeeper on the computer), students will have to understand how to pace themselves. Talk to your child about how to use her time effectively and wisely, perhaps by answering the easier questions first and coming back to the harder ones later. This will prevent her from wasting a chunk of time on a tougher question that she could be using answering simpler ones. Your child can always go back later to questions that she skipped and make an educated guess if needed. If the test has essay questions, talk with your child about planning her writing in the form of bullet points or a quick outline before beginning to actually write the essay.
3. Changes in schedule
You should receive information from your child’s teacher or principal about the change in schedule for the testing week(s). Discuss this with your child so he knows what to expect. You might also want to figure out whether your child will have any homework due on top of this (it will likely be a light load, but are there any reading assignments or long-term projects your child should still be working on?). Make sure your child gets a good night’s sleep the night before and eats a healthy breakfast the morning of the test.
4. Test prep
The standardized test is likely to align with your child’s regular curriculum somewhat, but not completely. If the test is district-wide, ask your child’s teacher how students will be prepared for the test, or ask for test prep ideas that your child can work through at home. Decide what will make you and your child feel comfortable and prepared for the test. Moreover, some standardized-test companies provide practice tests, which are great resources to help your child become familiar with how the test-taking experience will actually feel.
5. Understanding results
Test results can often seem mysterious and difficult to decode. The positive is they often don’t have any impact on your child’s subject grades. Your child’s teacher or principal can help you interpret your child’s scores, as well as what you can take away from them (perhaps the score report will indicate your child’s strengths and weaknesses, for instance). Discuss with your child the point system and what the percentiles mean, as well.
Standardized testing doesn’t have to be scary for you or your child. Familiarize yourself with the test format itself and ask around if you have questions, consulting with teachers and fellow parents. All of this will help your child get used to this system early on, before encountering it several more times in her school career.
Lisa Low
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23696 | Welcome to my new blog
Hi and welcome to my new blog, hosted on http://blog.lenzg.net/. I will keep the old blog posts around, unless someone has a suggestion on how to migrate content from Serendipity to WordPress, without breaking the existing URLs (and comments). I’ll elaborate on my motivation to switch and my plans for this site in following postings. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23756 | Motion and Measurement of Distances Class 6 notes - Chapter 10
What is Motion?
The term motion can be simply defined as the process of moving, or an object changing its place or a position. Running, walking, throwing, Jumping, bouncing are all examples of motion.
Types of Motion
There are four main types of motion.
1. Linear motion – A motion in a straight line is called the linear motion.
2. Curvilinear motion – A motion on a curved path is called the curvilinear motion.
3. Circular motion- A motion on a circular path is called the circular motion.
4. Periodic motion- A motion which recurs after every fixed interval of time is called the Periodic motion.
What is Measurement?
The method of comparing the known quantity with an unknown quantity is called the measurement. For example – Measuring the height and length of a table.
Standard Unit of Measurement
The Standard Unit of Measurement was introduced to maintain the uniformity in measurements.
The SI Unit or the International System of Units is the most widely used system of measurement in the world, which is based on the MKS or Meter-Kilogram-Second System. According to the SI system, the unit of force is Newton, length is the meter and mass is a kilogram .
Important Questions
1. What is the SI Unit?
2. How to express the distance into km.
3. What is motion? Explain with its types and examples.
4. Give examples of different modes of transport used by us.
5. What Is Measurement? Explain with its types and examples.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23814 | A solution of oxalic acid is mixed with a solution of cesium hydroxide. This chemical reaction requires double displacement. I got this as my chemical equation:
$$\ce{C2H2O4 + CsOH -> H3O + CsC2O4}$$
My teacher says it is wrong, is it really incorrect?
Is the one below the right one?
$$\ce{C2H2O4 + CsOH -> CsHC2O4 + H2O}$$
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$\begingroup$ I would start by considering what the products are. This is a special type of double displacement; it would probably also help for you to identify which one. $\endgroup$ – Zhe Oct 18 '16 at 3:21
You have a dicarboxylic acid (Oxalic Acid) reacting with a base (Cesium Hydroxide). This reaction will give you a carboxylate salt (Cesium Oxalate) and water. This is basically a neutralization reaction.
$$\ce{C2H2O4 + 2CsOH -> C2Cs2O4 + 2H2O}$$
You need 2 Cesium cations to neutralize the -2 charge of the dicarboxylic acid.
Here is an image of how Cesium oxalate looks like:
Structure of Cesium oxalate
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23815 | Momoko Sakura' (Sakura Momoko, さくら ももこ) is the main character of the Japanese anime and manga series ''Chibi Maruko Chan'. In the series she is always addressed through the nickname as 'Maruko (まる子)' or by her surname Sakura.
She is the protagonist of each and every known manga and anime episode to date, and is a character created based on the mannerisms and lifestyle of the author Momoko Sakura herself. She is a 3rd-grade elementary school student raised in a rather poor family within Shimizu City of the Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan.
Maruko has short black hair, with seven locks of hair which act as her bangs. Unlike most characters, she sports visible pink cheeks which easily distinguish herself from others and are a particularly unique trait to her image.
In most cases she is depicted wearing a white long-sleeved blouse, a red plaited skirt with attached shoulder straps, white socks and red shoes. Depending on the season during which an episode takes place, however, her clothes are changed to accustom the climate; in episodes taking place during summer, for instance, she instead weards a short-sleeved shirt (often in yellow) with shorts (often in red).
Maruko often carries a pleasant and co-coperative personality when in a good mood or amongst friends. She does also however possess a heavy tendency to become lazy or moody, especially whilst at home by sometimes back-talking to her parents or disobeying their orders - most often with her mother. She has a strong bond with her grandfather Tomozo, but is able to easily quarrel with her older sister Sakiko
There are times when she says things that trigger an awkward response from other characters, and has been known to sometimes sink into a pessimistic or negative atmosphere when she finds herself in an unpleasant situation.
She is most fond of animals, manga, drawing,
Hobbies & TalentsEdit
Maruko shows a great amount of interest in a wide variety of things; she likes to watch television whilst at home (often fond of funny variety shows or dramas), read books of various topics from famous people to wildlife and animals, interact with animals (cats and dogs in particular), buy candy (especially foriegn candy) and play with her best friend Tamae, nicknamed 'Tama-chan'.
Her main talents are focused on creative pursuits, most often through drawing in her free time whilst at home. She aspires to become a mangaka (manga illustrator) in the series, although she has also aspired for other positions such as a singing idol or world traveller.
Tamae ( her best friend )
Hanawa ( her crush )
• Maruko's favorite foods include hamburgers, pudding, fried shrimp, chou à la crème, torimeshi, dango, curry, hiyashi chuka, canned tuna & cucumbers, spaghetti, korokke, honey sandwiches, and umeboshi rice balls.
• Maruko's least favorite foods are hikarimono sushi and raw tomatoes. She also used to hate natto, but her mother helped her get over this.
• Maruko's most prized possession is her teddy bear.
• Maruko's favorite color is blue.
• Maruko recieves ¥30 a day for allowance.
• Maruko is skilled at dodoitsu and goldfish scooping. Her record at goldfish scooping is 38.
• Maruko loves to collect stamps.
• Maruko knows how to perform a ventriloquist act.
• Maruko was taught how to swim by Maruo-kun. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23824 | Linux Crash Dumping
Official builds of Chrome support crash dumping and reporting using the Google crash servers. This is a guide to how this works.
Breakpad is an open source library which we use for crash reporting across all three platforms (Linux, Mac and Windows). For Linux, a substantial amount of work was required to support cross-process dumping. At the time of writing this code is currently forked from the upstream breakpad repo. While this situation remains, the forked code lives in third_party/breakpad/linux. The upstream repo is mirrored in third_party/breakpad/breakpad.
The code currently supports i386 only. Getting x86-64 to work should only be a minor amount of work.
Breakpad deals in a file format called ‘minidumps’. This is a Microsoft format and thus is defined by in-memory structures which are dumped, raw, to disk. The main header file for this file format is third_party/breakpad/breakpad/src/google_breakpad/common/minidump_format.h.
At the top level, the minidump file format is a list of key-value pairs. Many of the keys are defined by the minidump format and contain cross-platform representations of stacks, threads etc. For Linux we also define a number of custom keys containing /proc/cpuinfo, lsb-release etc. These are defined in third_party/breakpad/breakpad/linux/minidump_format_linux.h.
Catching exceptions
Exceptional conditions (such as invalid memory references, floating point exceptions, etc) are signaled by synchronous signals to the thread which caused them. Synchronous signals are always run on the thread which triggered them as opposed to asynchronous signals which can be handled by any thread in a thread-group which hasn't masked that signal.
All the signals that we wish to catch are synchronous except SIGABRT, and we can always arrange to send SIGABRT to a specific thread. Thus, we find the crashing thread by looking at the current thread in the signal handler.
The signal handlers run on a pre-allocated stack in case the crash was triggered by a stack overflow.
Once we have started handling the signal, we have to assume that the address space is compromised. In order not to fall prey to this and crash (again) in the crash handler, we observe some rules:
1. We don‘t enter the dynamic linker. This, observably, can trigger crashes in the crash handler. Unfortunately, entering the dynamic linker is very easy and can be triggered by calling a function from a shared library who’s resolution hasn‘t been cached yet. Since we can’t know which functions have been cached we avoid calling any of these functions with one exception: memcpy. Since the compiler can emit calls to memcpy we can't really avoid it.
2. We don't allocate memory via malloc as the heap may be corrupt. Instead we use a custom allocator (in breadpad/linux/memory.h) which gets clean pages directly from the kernel.
In order to avoid calling into libc we have a couple of header files which wrap the system calls (linux_syscall_support.h) and reimplement a tiny subset of libc (linux_libc_support.h).
Self dumping
The simple case occurs when the browser process crashes. Here we catch the signal and clone a new process to perform the dumping. We have to use a new process because a process cannot ptrace itself.
The dumping process then ptrace attaches to all the threads in the crashed process and writes out a minidump to /tmp. This is generic breakpad code.
Then we reach the Chrome specific parts in chrome/app/ Here we construct another temporary file and write a MIME wrapping of the crash dump ready for uploading. We then fork off wget to upload the file. Based on Debian popcorn, wget is very commonly installed (much more so than libcurl) and wget handles the HTTPS gubbins for us.
Renderer dumping
In the case of a crash in the renderer, we don't want the renderer handling the crash dumping itself. In the future we will sandbox the renderer and allowing it the authority to crash dump itself is too much.
Thus, we split the crash dumping in two parts: the gathering of information which is done in process and the external dumping which is done out of process. In the case above, the latter half was done in a cloned child. In this case, the browser process handles it.
When renderers are forked off, they have a UNIX DGRAM socket in file descriptor 4. The signal handler then calls into Chrome specific code (chrome/renderer/ when it would otherwise clone. The Chrome specific code sends a datagram to the socket which contains:
• Information which is only available to the signal handler (such as the ucontext structure).
• A file descriptor to a pipe which it then blocks on reading from.
• A CREDENTIALS structure giving its PID.
The kernel enforces that the renderer isn‘t lying in the CREDENTIALS structure so it can’t ask the browser to crash dump another process.
The browser then performs the ptrace and minidump writing which would otherwise be performed in the cloned process and does the MIME wrapping the uploading as normal.
Once the browser has finished getting information from the crashed renderer via ptrace, it writes a byte to the file descriptor which was passed from the renderer. The renderer than wakes up (because it was blocking on reading from the other end) and rethrows the signal to itself. It then appears to crash ‘normally’ and other parts of the browser notice the abnormal termination and display the sad tab.
How to test Breakpad support in Chromium
• Build Chromium as normal.
• Run the browser with the environment variable CHROME_HEADLESS=1. This enables crash dumping but prevents crash dumps from being uploaded and deleted.
env CHROME_HEADLESS=1 ./out/Debug/chrome-wrapper
• Visit the special URL chrome://crash to trigger a crash in the renderer process.
• A crash dump file should appear in the directory ~/.config/chromium/Crash Reports. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23825 | Need My Veggie Hash
Oh Wow – Cauliflower Hash with Marinara and Fried Egg
Not sure if it was because I had just finished my workout, was hungry before my workout, or if I just outdid myself, but my dinner was sooooo gooood!
I have a confession, I have an obsession with cauliflower rice. I don’t even think of it as a substitute anymore. I’ll take cauliflower rice over real rice, couscous, pasta or potatoes any day. My other recent obsession if going full on Beyoncé but instead of putting a ring on it, I put a fried egg on it. Well, tonight, I put these two obsessions together and I ate it so fast I couldn’t even take a picture and share. But, I will share my recipe.
Michele’s Cauliflower Hash with Marinara and Fried Egg
I made this for one, but you could easily multiply this for four based on my measurements. I am also using some leftovers but you can substitute for fresh.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
1/4 head of cauliflower (will make about 5 oz ‘rice’)
1 oz baby spinach
2 T pine nuts
1/4 cup marinara sauce (scooped from a half used jar)
1 large egg
1 1/2 oz cooked hamburger (took a quarter from a portabella swiss burger made the night before)
1 T chopped garlic
pinch kosher salt
pepper from pepper grinder
Cut cauliflower roughly and add to food processor. Pulse until it is chopped. Add in spinach and pulse again until spinach is chopped and cauliflower is the consistency of rice.
Place pine nuts on a aluminum foil and toast in the toaster oven for several minutes until pine nuts become a toasted color. Keep an eye on them as they easily and quickly burn.
Cut up a cooked gourmet portabella and swiss burger into quarters. Take one quarter and chopped up. You can use any other pre-cooked leftover burger or simply cook up some fresh ground beef.
In hot pan, spray with cooking spray and add in cauliflower and spinach mixture. Sprinkle in the kosher salt and grind the amount of pepper you like. After about two minutes, add in garlic, pine nuts and chopped burger. Saute until cauliflower is tender and then pour onto a plate. Then add the marinara sauce over the hash.
In same pan, spray again with cooking spray and fry the egg. If you like, sprinkle egg with a bit of kosher salt and grind pepper over ( I do ). When egg is starting to brown at the edges, flip over to form a fast crust over the yolk. You want the the yolk to still be saucy.
Remove egg and lay over the top of your hash, then prick the yolk to allow it to flow over. Then eat!
Nutrition: 306 calories according to MyFitnessPal log
I could easily have changed out the burger for shrimp, chicken sausage, or ground turkey.
If you don’t like pine nuts, I’ve also added chopped cashews and pistachios. But I’m sure walnuts could also be good.
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Curt Sheldon JV, welcome to the show.
JV Venable: It's great to be with you.
Curt Sheldon: And we're happy to have you here. Before we get too far along here I probably should tell folks you and I have known each other for a long, long time. We don't generally call each other by our real names. It's that old fighter pilot thing. So you've left the military. So, I'm just going to kind of ask you a few questions about it, and you can let folks know what worked with you during the transition, and a little bit about what's going on with you in your life. So, let's start with that. What are you doing now currently?
JV Venable: I work with a Heritage Foundation. I'm a senior research fellow, which means I'm a pretty old guy, and I'm supposed to chart the course of what I think the Air Force and the Space Force and the Navy assets and the Army and Marine Corps aviation assets should look like over the course of the next decade or two, or the federal government, and I do that independently.
One of the great pieces of this job is that I get to be an independent actor, and then I enjoy the complete support of the entire organization, which is kind of unique here in the city.
Curt Sheldon: Cool. Sounds pretty cool. So, I've heard of Heritage a long time ago. I'm a fan. I tend to lean towards the conservative side a bit, but I've always wondered how many people actually show up at the lunchroom at Heritage? How big of an organization is it?
JV Venable: Well, we have about 300 people across the United States, 240 or 250 of which work in this building of ours, which is on Massachusetts Avenue here in Downtown DC, and there are probably 100, 90 to 100 folks who do the research, and the rest of the organization supports that research in one way or the other, either through congressional engagement or by being an HR specialist, but a pretty tight knit group of people, and I'd have to say if this is not one of the best organizations that I've ever been in, this may very well be the best.
Curt Sheldon: Okay. Sounds great. So, that's where you are now. We know you retired from the Air Force in 06 as a colonel. What were you doing your last day on active duty? What was your job when you retired?
JV Venable: I was working for the Chief of Staff and the A 3/5, or the Chief of Operations, as their Joint Actions Coordination Office Lead. I handled everything that the Air Force wanted to go down to the other services, and everything that came from the other services into the Air Force, and I was the final approval authority for most of it.
Some of that required my boss or his boss's signature, and I would go and get them, but the other job on daily basis was to prepare them for their respective battles in the tank where all of the Chiefs of Operations of the different services came together and/or all of the Chiefs of Staff, and they would do turf battles on topics, everything from airspace over Iraq back in 2005, 2007 timeframe to what the next joint acquisition will be.
It was a great job, and I got some incredible opportunities to learn and listen and watch senior leaders operating at the highest ends of an organization. It was a great gift.
Curt Sheldon: Okay. So that's where you ended up. I know a little bit about your career, but what are some of the other career highlights that you had while you were on active duty?
JV Venable: I started out as OV10 pilot. I went through flight school at Shepard Air Force base, got an OV10 and took that to George Air Force Base out in California, and served as a ground forward air controller and an air FAC in Europe, but mostly in the dessert west of the United States.
After two or two and half years I went on to fly the F16, and I got to fly that all over the world. Everything from Torrejon in Spain to Turkey throughout Europe, and then the Middle East to the Philippines, and I was based in Kunsan, Korea for a couple years.
Air command and staff, college, somewhere in the middle there I was diagnosed with cancer and told I would never fly again, and decided to put an old dream I had up on the -- as a kid up on the horizon, and I fought my way into the cockpit of the lead aircraft of the United States Air Force, Thunderbird, and did that for two years. Loved it, and loved that opportunity immensely.
From there air war college onto my command tour in the Persian Gulf as an expeditionary operations group commander. I had 16 squadrons underneath me, and we were flying in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I got to fly combat missions every other day. Just an incredible job, and then I went and finished up my career in the Pentagon in 2007.
Curt Sheldon: Okay. So, obviously a pretty cool career flying for the Thunderbirds had to been a real lot of fun and pretty exciting. I've got to say I'm just a little bit jealous there. So, retired. Let's see, as I recall, right around 2007, 2008. I know you didn't go to work for Heritage right away, and you worked through a couple different positions. Kind of typical I think of a lot of retired 06s is it takes a while to find that final job or a job where it's a really good fit.
So, what did you do from the time you retired to the time you started to work for Heritage?
JV Venable: Yeah, I took kind of a typical path. I remember going through the ETAP program, the transition assistance program the Air Force offered, and they told me the average retiree would take two to three jobs, some upwards of four or five, over the first five years after they left the service, and I kind of heard that and nodded, and then --
One of the things I knew I'd never wanted to be was a contractor who worked primarily in the Pentagon, and as I was stepping out the door I had a general officer that I knew retired. Wanted me to come work for him. It was so easy, and before I knew it I was driving the work, doing what I told myself I would never do, and I did that for a company called Systems Planning and Analysis, and then after a year or so I transitioned to General Dynamics Technology, information technology, and I had stayed in that job for another year, and then I realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do, and I went on my own.
Started a speaking career, and then started a start up company that worked explosive detection for the army research lab, and we did an R and D contract that I ended up winning, and then managed for our organization down in Memphis, Tennessee for the better part of four years, and that's pretty much the gap.
I had four jobs in that area before I came in to work for the Heritage Foundation, and here it was just a happenstance, and I think I've fallen into tall cotton all by the grace of God.
Curt Sheldon: Okay. So, you said the first job, a GO that you worked with, contacted you about that, or a previous GO. How did you find up about that startup? How did that come to pass?
JV Venable: Well, it's all about networking it turns out, and I had a ... My wife made contact with a family in a church that while I was in the Persian Gulf, and when I came back we ended up over at their house for dinner, and what do you do, and what do I do, and I was working countering weapons of mass destruction issues for the Air Force at that time, and he kind of looked at me funny and told me he had a paper he wanted me to read.
And I read it. It was about this detection system that could detect explosives in a moving vehicle, and I read it skeptically and asked if I could talk to the lead physicist, and one thing led to another, and we ended up forming a company, and that basically rented a warehouse and started from ground up, and ended up getting about 28 or 29 million dollars worth of contracts from the Federal government.
At the end of day our technology did not solve the world's explosive detection needs, and we ended up moving into other areas.
Curt Sheldon: Okay. And so that was a networking win, and I know in the ETAPs that I interact with they talk a lot about network, network, network. You just never know where your next contact and next lead's going to come from, and then with Heritage, was that basically through networking as well, or how did you find it?
JV Venable: I had a very good friend that he and I played golf together. I coached his son's playing baseball, and he helped me coach mine during my latter years in the service, and we just became good friends, and this explosives detection contract is kind of winding down he asked me if I'd be interested in a job that he had been asked to interview for, and he was not interested in it, and that was to come here and interview with the Heritage Foundation.
And so he had been approached by somebody that he knew, and then he handed that person off to me, and that's how this all materialized.
Curt Sheldon: Anything that you were either surprised with, or you found was interesting in either the hiring process or onboarding, again, you weren't expecting or caught you off guard, or you just said that's a really cool thing?
JV Venable: I would say I was disappointed throughout all of my new hire, onboarding processes. We're spoiled in the military. We've got that down to an art of being able to either be caught or catch new people coming into an organization, and the civilian world just doesn't have that down, and when you come in, as unfamiliar as we generally are with a new organization and how that operation function, what the specific jobs are, what I found was there was a significant need there.
Even here in the Heritage Foundation I found that, but the difference is when I brought up they asked me how I would go about fixing it, and I gave them the book that I had just published, and we started walking down that path together. It's been an incredible journey of writing something and seeing a company that was interested enough in you and what you had written to actually implement it, and that's what we ended up doing here at Heritage.
Curt Sheldon: So, JV, I'm a money guy and a finance guy. So, I always like to talk to folks a little bit about money. I'm not going to ask you anything real specific, but if you could talk to me just a little bit about the financial side of the transition for you, anything catch you off guard, even on the good side or the bad side, and how did that work out for you?
JV Venable: Well, I'll say, the only thing that really took me by surprise was the kind of cellophane, mayonnaise jar kind of attitude that many people had in reviewing the fact that you were in the military or I was in the military, and you had retirement. You had Tricare, and so they kind of wanted to take that into consideration with regard to what they would pay you.
It took a little coaching and reading a couple books about it, but you can work your way around it, but you just have to kind of gently force that issue to let them know that you need to be paid what you're worth, and not be paid what you're worth minus what the Federal government is giving you as a retirement.
Curt Sheldon: So, anything special, you said you read a few books. What did you ultimately end up doing to help you get paid what you're worth?
JV Venable: I think just sticking to your guns and having the right verbiage at your fingertips to do that in a genteel way as opposed to a confrontational way, and letting people know that you are worth the salary that you're asking for, and that's easy to figure out in the market. It's just making sure that they know that you know that you're valuable.
Curt Sheldon: Okay. Good stuff. I'm a small business owner, and small business owners have really good days, and we have some bad days too. Were there any low points for you in the transition?
JV Venable: I think the lowest point for me was recognizing that I'd let myself down. I wasn't doing what I told myself I wanted to do. I went into the contractor world. I was building Power Point presentations and reports that no one was going to look at or review or actually use, and that's probably an overstatement, but not much of an overstatement, and so when I realized that and actually took decisive action to move away from that world it was very cathartic, and of course it wasn't easy, but nothing worth having every is.
Curt Sheldon: Any, I guess, in general surprises about being a civilian that just for me civilians never answer e-mail. Any surprises to you there that when she was becoming a civilian?
JV Venable: I think it wasn't a surprise, but there was also the reality that unity and cohesion that you knew and the service was likely never going to be quite the same. This organization that I'm in right now, the Heritage Foundation, allows me to generate that, and we've got a tight little group, the division that I'm in is knotted up, and we do first Fridays and have very traditional celebrations just the way we did in the service, which is eye opening to folks who've never been through it, and it's glue for the folks who are in the middle of it, and that feels good.
Curt Sheldon: Okay. So, I'm going to give you the opportunity like I'm going to give to all my future speakers. Just your chance to -- I think it's spread into all 06s and prior 06s that we kind of like to pontificate. So, I'll just give you a chance here for an open pontification on anything you would like to cover regarding retiring and becoming a civilian.
JV Venable: It's a great journey, is what I'll say, and I've been out of the service for 12 years, and those years have gone by wicked fast. I thought the time in the service went by fast, but this has gone by even faster. It seems like every time I tell someone how long I've been retired I have to add another year to it, and those questions and those engagements really aren't that far apart it seems like.
So, enjoy the ride. It's not something to fight. It's just another stage, and I'm carrying a smile on my face every day that I'm given the opportunity to come back here in this great organization called the Heritage Foundation and work with this incredible group of people.
Curt Sheldon: Okay. Now there was one thing you mentioned in passing before that I did want to kind of highlight, and that is the fact, like me you have a book out, but unlike me, you actually had a publisher and went through the publishing process. Tell us just a little about the book?
JV Venable: The book is a compilation of episodes in my life that basically flow into a process for leading people. I know that's hard for folks who have been in the military to hear and digest without a little bit of a tight jaw, but most folks in the community outside the service really don't know how to lead teams, and giving them the foundation that we were all given is what I laid out in the book to onboard people to where you develop a relationship through commitment, and then over time pick key faculties in their life and passions and loves that they have and helping them fulfill those areas, and in that you develop loyalty, and over time and consistently being a man or woman of character you can pull them into that trust that we knew that we could bet our lives on the team around us.
And that's what I've packaged in this book. It's kind of like a harlequin romance only it has a good message to it, and the romance is the highs and lows of my career, and the things that I learned along the way through some pretty hard lessons, and I think those that have a moment might enjoy reading it. It's called Breaking the Trust Barrier by a company out in California called Barret Kohler.
It's a quick read. It was written by a fighter pilot so the words aren't very big, and the message is pretty crisp, so I think you'll enjoy it.
Curt Sheldon: And is that available on Amazon?
JV Venable: It is, on Amazon and I speak on occasion, and I'll be speaking at National Harbor tomorrow morning, and if you happen to be in the hallways there I'll have a stack of books with me. You can get them online, get them through Barret Kohler, or you can get them at an event near you.
Curt Sheldon: Okay. We'll make sure you put a link to it in our show notes so that people can get to it, and then one other thing, you mentioned there speaking. You are available for speaking, and how do people -- and speaking engagements. How do people find out about that, and contact you about that?
JV Venable: I have a website, and it will give you some insights and some clips and some partial presentations that you can -- and some pretty cool footage in there of my time with the Thunderbirds that you might enjoy, and the initials Juliet Victor at Juliet Victor, and then my last name, Venable. So, it's JV at JV Venable dot com.
Curt Sheldon: Okay. That's your e-mail?
JV Venable: That's my e-mail, and the website is jvvenable.com.
Curt Sheldon: Okay. Great. Great. So, one last question that I'd like to ask you to wrap things up, and if you can, like i said it's been a few years, but if you can remember back to a few more years or a few months past that your six months, 12 months out from retirement, and you're getting ready to retire, and what do you wish you would have known then that you know now?
JV Venable: To trust the folks that were telling me how things were going to flow out. Rarely have I heard the exception of people not stepping through one or two different jobs in their first five years out, but it's just to be amenable to that. Know that you might not pick the right company the first step, and it might take you two or three more to get it right, but eventually you will, and when you do, retired life is just fabulous.
It's not quite as an intense, and the occupation itself doesn't have those incredible highs that we knew in the service, but I got to tell you life is awfully good.
Curt Sheldon: All right, JV. Well thanks so much for agreeing to be number one on our first episode, and hopefully folks listening won't know it, but struggling through a couple tech difficulties on my side. We really do appreciate it, and best of luck with the book and the speaking going forward and continue to enjoy things at Heritage, thanks a lot.
JV Venable: My pleasure. Thank you very much.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23847 | The Risky Business of Silence #NaBloPoMo.
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That speaking profits me, beyond any other effect. ~Audre Lorde
For years I’ve carried a story untold. Two decades. Thank goddess I finally realized the untelling was its own telling; my silence its own story. Like an ill-trained architect, my silence designed a life that might not have been. And I suppose it had my permission – my silence was consent. But as of late I have been telling the story, rereading it and writing a new ending…building a brand new life.
Silence wasn’t a strategy. Not a conscious one, in any event. I didn’t know I needed to tell it. I didn’t know there was even a story; that there was anything worthy of telling. So I didn’t. I didn’t share it with anyone.
Not even me.
I carried a story untold, never bothering to see if the heroine, teenager that she was, needed to share her version of events. I never checked to see if she wanted to claim her space. Lift her voice. I gave her shelter, but no platform. I thought nothing of it, and without so much as gut check, I muted her.
And with each passing year, her story was reduced to a chapter, a vignette, a scene, a beat. A moment that no longer mattered because it was all those years ago, and here we are in a new time, and space, with new characters. No need for digging up the old untold.
There is a risk in the telling, yes, but the greater risk is in the untelling. In the silence. In the denial of your story. In the casual disregard of your truth. Voicing your story does not have to mean telling it out there to them, but at the very least, you owe it your life to tell it in here, to you. What truths are hidden in your silences? What love is lost? What life is secreted away, literally buried alive? Can you save it? (Tell it). What is the story that remains hidden so far in you that you barely recognize or remember it? (Tell it).
Funny thing about a story untold. We deny it audience, yet it finds one anyway. We hear echoes of characters past in the voices around us today. We recognize the scenery in our present circumstances. We don’t quite understand why the script, the players, seem familiar. It’s untold story, demanding recognition. When if we could just tell it and see it for what it is, we could get on with the very important business of writing the life we really want.
And of course I’m not promising that telling is easy. Sometimes storytelling is a dangerous, triggering business. But you are the author of your life. Name your reality. Share your story.
And then? Keep writing the rest.
8 Replies to “The Risky Business of Silence #NaBloPoMo.”
1. You write so beautifully and so compellingly. I also used an Audre Lorde quote this week in writing about risk. I adore her….
It is such fun to find kindred spirits here via NaBloPoMo… and like Shaunda says, whenever I step into truth when I finally get brave enough to tell my stories, people let me know how they have been blessed. I look forward to reading more of you!
2. We each have a story to tell, a testimony to share. It is the sharing of our stories and our testimony that encourages, motivates, or even inspire another. Sometimes it extends beyond our reach or our imagination. “Sharing is caring”. Tell your story and be a blessing to someone.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23850 | Leevee (colin_chaotic) wrote,
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Movie Quote Meme Tiem!
A. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
C. Post the quotes in your journal.
1. "You people. If there isn't a movie about it, it's not worth knowing, is it?" Dogma, guessed by dragonessasmith and jupiter_star
2. "The moment you set foot on that casino floor, they'll be watching you like hawks. Hawks with video cameras." Ocean's 11, sortof guessed by dragonessasmith and counterfeitcoin
3. "When are we gonna get there? I'm hungry. This car smells weird." National Treasure, guessed by trebekah
4. "You have made me the happiest juvenile delinquent in Baltimore." Cry-Baby, guessed by trebekah
5. "You know, I've always wanted a child. And now I think I'll have one... on toast!" Hocus Pocus, guessed by trebekah
6. "Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think?" Serenity, guessed by jupiter_star
7. "What's the situation?" "Two blokes and a fuck-load of cutlery!" Hot Fuzz, guessed by dragonessasmith
8. "I saw your face last night, Annie, and for a minute there I bet you would've traded places with me." The Invisible, sortofkindof guessed by dragonessasmith
9. "You're looking at me like, like... I just asked you the fucking square root of something." Smokin Aces, guessed by dragonessasmith
10. "We're navigators, we're aviators, eatin' taters, masturbatin' alligators, bombardiers, we got no fears, won't shed no tears, we're pushin' the frontiers of transcendental perception." Across the Universe, guessed by rlylaughable
11. "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." Fight Club, guessed by trebekah
12. "I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people to die embarrassed." Princess Bride, guessed by jupiter_star
13. "Did I ever tell you about the time I shoplifted a frozen turkey out of a Piggly Wiggly wearing only a tube top and daisy dukes?" Saved!, guessed by dragonessasmith and jupiter_star
14. "The Nutcracker is a patriarchal ballet. The only good thing in the Nutcracker is the rats and they die!" Bring It On Again, guessed by rlylaughable
15. "God, he's like the gay Antichrist!" Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, guessed by dragonessasmith
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23872 | New legislation could make it harder to tell how much your airline tickets cost
by Christopher Elliott, Savannah Now
An old ticket-price tactic for airlines may make a surprise comeback, thanks to proposed legislation.
Before a 2011 full-fare advertising rule forbade it, airlines displayed initial “base” ticket fares online without including the mandatory taxes and fees. The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, introduced last week, puts that rule in jeopardy. The bill funds the Federal Aviation Administration, but is also used for other purposes, such as revising aviation rules and consumer laws.
If Congress passes the act in its current form, it will give airlines clearance to quote an initial, low ticket price and then add taxes and fees before you pay. Proponents of the legislation say the act will “enhance” the air-travel experience for passengers. But experts, consumer advocates and many passengers consider a rescinding of the full-fare advertising rule as a license for airlines to use bait-and-switch tactics.
This is the third time in five years that the airline industry and its surrogates in Congress have tried to jettison the full-fare advertising rule, formerly known as the Transparent Airfares Act. Airline representatives say having governmental permission to quote a low but unbookable ticket price boosts ticket sales and helps the industry. They also claim it highlights the high taxes passengers pay for their tickets.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23895 | A Framework for Advising
The CSLP Advising Process
Advising Process Framework
This module provides an overview of the major elements associated with conducting a client consultation, analysis and presentation:
1. Helping clients identify and refine goals
2. Uncovering relevant details about the client situation
3. Identifying recommendations based on knowledge of the rules
4. Asking and answering relevant questions about consolidation, repayment, refinancing, and overpayment
5. Explaining the tradeoffs, risks, and rewards of all available options
1. Identify the records that contain needed student loan information
2. Become familiar with categorizing cases by expected outcomes
3. Know the questions to pose in each student loan case
4. Understand how to communicate with student loan clients. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23896 | History from Below: Memorialization Projects
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Our memorial was inspired by the idea of the Trans Atlantic slave trade being glossed over in history. Understanding that people of all ages and genders were incorporated in this slave trade brought the idea of every statue within the memorial being a different gender or age. The memorial’s specific location, White Point Garden in South Carolina, was chosen due to South Carolina harboring a major port in which enslaved Africans were funneled in to America. The floor of the memorial would be a map representing the enslaved African diaspora. The palm trees surrounding the memorial’s location are to be incorporated in the memorial itself; they are in a triangle formation which can be used to represent the triangle trade within the Trans Atlantic slave trade . The memorial represents enslaved Africans in a circle chained together at the wrists. From a distance, it may look like a group holding hands. However, upon further inspection, you can see each individual chained to one another. The idea is not to deceive people, but for them to come to the realization of the enslaved people’s struggle for themselves. Circular Process of Labor
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23912 | Cool Dog and the Hex Eye Woman
One day Cool Dog was walking down the road, going nowhere in particular, when he saw a woman sat by the roadside, with her hair all down round her face crying. Now you know old Cool Dog, or you should by now anyway. Stone cold killer in a fight, but you set a woman to crying at him and he just folds up like paper. Naturally he sits down beside her, and asks her what’s wrong. She spins him some yarn about how her fella done her wrong, and it gets Cool Dog so mad that he jumps up, and runs off down the road.
She’s still sitting there about an hour later, when Cool Dog comes back, all proud of himself, and throws her man’s head down at her feet. Naturally, she was a bit less thrilled by this than what Cool Dog had supposed. So she stands up, and throws her hair back, and that’s when old Cool Dog realises he might have made a bit of an error in judgement. Turns out that little lady had herself the Hex Eye.
Now, if Cool Dog had been aware of that little detail, he’d have realised that if she wanted her fella dead, he’d have been dead, and no messing about. But as it happened, she hadn’t wanted him dead at all, no matter what wrong he’d done her, and she was a tad upset at Cool Dog taking matters into his own hands like that. So she turns the old Hex Eye on him, and Cool Dog, he can feel himself starting to stiffen up. He never was one to hit a lady, but he knew it was her or him, so he swings his sword round, and her head winds up lying on the road next to the man who done her wrong.
Old Cool Dog, he heaves himself a sigh of relief, and goes to go on about his business of doing nothing in particular, when he realises he’s stuck. Turns out she got a bit more of the Hex on him than is healthy, and his legs had gone and got themselves all turned to stone, or as good as. No matter how he wrenched, they weren’t going nowhere.
And I reckon old Cool Dog’d be there still, if his pal Lug Nut hadn’t wandered past. But that’s another story entirely.
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Race: The Power of an Illusion (RPI) Learning Exchange in Des Moines
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Race: The Power of an Illusion (RPI) Learning Exchange
RPI is a 1-day learning exchange that brings together professionals, volunteers, and community members to have conversations about the intersections of race, equity and child welfare. The purpose of RPI is to build capacity to reduce disproportionality and disparity in the Iowa child welfare system by providing participants with a safe environment in which to explore and challenge their own beliefs and attitudes about race, to practice better ways of talking to one another about sensitive topics, and to begin to have courageous con-versations with one another about how the notion of race affects our attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. Defined as a learning exchange, rather than as a training, RPI is both a guided educational experience which uses a standard curriculum and a facilitated discussion that encourages and supports participants’ active involvement in the learning exchange. A team of intensively-trained facilitators with a background in child welfare, and commitment to eliminating disproportionality in the Iowa child welfare system, lead the learning exchange There is no fee to attend this workshop. Lunch will be provided. All registered attendees will receive a certificate of attendance. IBON provider #94 has approved 5.2 Nursing Credits for full attendance. The curriculum meets the requirements for the award of 6.0 SW CEUs & 5.0 foster parent training credit hours.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23949 | Use any C++ Compiler with Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 supports several C++ compilers to suit a wide variety of codebases. In addition to the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler that many of you are likely familiar with, Visual Studio 2017 also supports Clang, GCC, and other compilers when targeting certain platforms.
This post is intended to familiarize you with the variety of C++ compilers that are compatible with the Visual Studio IDE, and to understand when they might be applicable to use with your projects. Some compilers may be better suited to your needs depending on your project or target. Alternatively, you may be interested in checking out new language features, such as C++ Concepts, that are not available across all compilers without needing to leave the IDE.
You can select the compiler and corresponding toolset that will be used to build a project with the “Platform Toolset” property under General Configuration Properties for C++ projects. Any installed compilers that are applicable to your project type will be listed in the “Platform Toolset” dropdown.
Microsoft C++ Compiler (MSVC)
If you are targeting Windows, the Microsoft C++ compiler (MSVC) may be the way to go. This is the default compiler for most Visual Studio C++ projects and is recommended if you are targeting Windows.
Compiler options for the Microsoft C++ compiler.
Compiler options for the Microsoft C++ compiler.
You can use the Clang compiler with Visual Studio to target Android, iOS, and Windows.
If you are targeting Android, you can use the Clang/LLVM compiler that ships with the Android NDK and toolchain to build your project. Likewise, Visual Studio can use Clang running on a Mac to build projects targeting iOS. Support for Android and iOS is included in the “Mobile Development with C++” workload. For more information about targeting Android or iOS check out our posts tagged with the keywords “Android” and “iOS”.
If you are targeting Windows, you have a few options:
1. Use Clang/LLVM; “Clang for Windows” includes instructions to install Clang/LLVM as a platform toolset in Visual Studio.
2. Use Clang to target Windows with Clang/C2 (Clang frontend with Microsoft Code Generation).
Compiler options for the Clang/C2 compiler.
Compiler options for the Clang/C2 compiler.
It might make sense to use Clang/C2 if you want to bring a codebase that takes advantage of Clang’s language features to the Windows platform. Since the code generation and optimization is handled by the MSVC backend, binaries produced by Clang/C2 are fully compatible with binaries produced by MSVC. You can learn more about Clang/C2 from Clang with Microsoft Codegen – or check out the latest updates in posts tagged with the keyword “clang”.
If your project targets Linux or Android, you can consider using GCC. Visual Studio’s C++ Android development natively supports building your projects with the GCC that ships with the Android NDK, just like it does for Clang. You can also target Linux – either remotely or locally with the Windows Subsystem for Linux – with GCC.
Compiler options for GCC.
Compiler options for GCC.
Check out our post on Visual C++ for Linux Development for much more info about how to use Visual Studio to target Linux with GCC. If you are specifically interested in targeting WSL locally, check out Targeting WSL from Visual Studio.
Visual Studio also makes use of the Edison Design Group (EDG) frontend to provide flexible IntelliSense regardless of whether you use MSVC, Clang, or GCC to build your code. Visual Studio gives you access to a wide range of choices when it comes to C++ compilers. This way you can make sure that as you develop your code, it continues to compile against all major compilers.
Install Visual Studio today and give it a try. Please let us know if we have missed any compilers you use, and share your feedback as we look forward to improving your C++ development experience.
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Website Development
Website Development or Simply Web Development is a process to design a Web Page for the Internet (a Public Network) or for the Intranet (a Private Network). Web Development may have a different form like Simple HTML page, Text, Dynamic Web Page, Electronic Businesses and Social Network Services. Website Development also refers as Web Engineering, Web Design, Web Content Development, Web Application Development, Client/ Server Scripting, and E-Commerce Web Development.
Technologies used to Develop a Web Page.
There are so many client side and server side scripting language to develop a perfect Web Page. Web Development may include more than one technologies and Client/Server Side scripting language to design a complete Web Page.
Some of the technologies used include:
Web Page Lifecycle model
Web Page Lifecycle model includes a different phase of Development like Process, Requirement, Design, Engineering, Construction, Testing, Debugging, Deployment and Maintenance. This model is also known as Agile software development. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23958 | Three Egg Omelet @ Steakhouse 55
Price: $19.00
When: March 27, 2018, 10:45 AM
Reservations: Recommended
Verdict? Recommended
I’m a sucker for a good omelet.
Seriously: one of my favorite breakfasts. And I consider them a litmus test: if a restaurant can’t do a good omelet, I suspect the rest of the menu isn’t very good, either.
So. The scene: Steakhouse 55. I find their “Three Egg Omelet” and customize it with ham, cheese, and tomato. Let’s see how it goes.
The plate arrives, and it’s beautiful. The omelet is the star of the show, but the supporting cast (a small dish of roasted tomatoes, and a “shredded potato cake”) also look enticing. Everything smells terrific.
I try the first bite. This is … nearly perfect. The texture is silky and decadent. The flavor is excellent. The cheddar and ham are both top-notch. The eggs are bursting with freshness. They nailed it.
The potato cake is surprisingly peppery. Not that good, frankly. It’s over-spiced, and fairly mushy. Set it aside.
The tomatoes, on the other hand, are delightful.
The dish also includes bread. I picked sourdough. It’s good, but there’s not a ton of innovation there. Eat it if you’re hungry; ignore it if you’re not.
As I said: omelets are one of my favorite breakfasts. And this is an easy, easy, easy recommend. (Just skip the potatoes.) |
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Upgrading the BMC Remedy Mid Tier
With Service Pack 2, Apache Tomcat is upgraded to 7.0.53. Consider the following before you begin the installation:
• Ensure that the JAVA_HOME is set to a correct JDK path or is left blank.
• Back up the configuration files and <Existing_Tomcat_Install_Directory>/webapps folder. You need to these files to migrate after the upgrade.
• After the installation or upgrade, the Tomcat 7.0 folder is created with the mid tier deployment files. You must migrate you backed-up configuration this to this folder.
• (For fresh installations) If you have already installed Tomcat on UNIX, ensure that the localhost folder is present in <TOMCAT_DIR>/conf/Catalina/localhost. Otherwise, start the Tomcat server manually before starting a fresh installation of BMC Remedy Mid Tier.
• If you have BMC Atrium Single Sign-On in your environment, you must redeploy the BMC Atrium Single Sign-On agent after upgrading BMC Remedy Mid Tier.
To upgrade BMC Remedy Mid Tier
1. Download the BMC Remedy AR System installer on a computer other than where you installed the AR System server.
2. Open the ARSuiteKitWindow folder.
3. Open the Disk 1 folder.
4. Start the installer:
• For version 8.1 SP1 or earlier:
• (Windows) Run setup.cmd.
• (UNIX) Log on as root or nonroot and run setup.sh.
• For version 8.1 SP2 or later:
• (Windows) Run setup.exe.
• (UNIX) Log on as root or nonroot and run setup.bin.
5. In the lower-right corner of the Welcome pane, click Next.
1. Select Upgrade.
2. Navigate to the directory in which you want to install BMC Remedy Mid Tier.
The default locations are C:\Program Files\BMC Software\ARSystem and /opt/bmc/ARSystem (UNIX and Linux).
3. Select AR System Mid-Tier.
4. Click Next.
The installer validates the system resources of your computer and displays a list of available features.
7. Enter the correct JRE path, and then click Next.
8. Enter the values from the planning spreadsheet for BMC Remedy Mid Tier.
After you have entered the required information, the installer validates your input, and then the Installation preview pane appears, listing the product and product features that will be upgraded.
9. Click Next.
10. Click View Log to review the SEVERE error messages in the product installer log.
11. To exit the AR System installer, click Done.
12. Open the BMC Remedy Mid Tier Configuration Tool (http://<midTierServer>/arsys/shared/config/config.jsp).
The default password is arsystem.
13. Click General Settings.
14. Select the AR System server as the authentication server, and then click Save Changes.
15. Log out.
16. (Optional) Restart the BMC Remedy Mid Tier web service.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23970 | Find documentation for your version of Domino
Any user can look up the version of Domino that they are currently running by going to <your domino url>/version. For example, users on can see the version at
To view documentation for a specific version of Domino, click Read the Docs at the bottom of the left navigation menu, then click the version you’re looking for. Note that Domino only has versioned documentation for versions 3.6+. |
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Visually, the Ribbon interface consists of four main regions:
• Command Region - displays various commands combined into Ribbon Groups and Pages.
• Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) - a region within the Ribbon Control that displays frequently used commands. Users can add commands to this bar at runtime.
• Status Bar - a bar displayed at the bottom of a form. Represented by a stand-alone RibbonStatusBar component should be used with the parent Ribbon Control component.
• Ribbon Form - a DevExpress form designed for the Ribbon Control. When you use this form type, the Ribbon QAT is integrated into the form's title bar. The Ribbon Form also supports the semi-transparent Aero interface for machines that run Windows Vista/7. If you use the Form Assistant component to convert a blank form to the Ribbon Form, the Ribbon Control and Ribbon Status Bar components are added automatically.
The following figure illustrates all these regions in one form:
The command region is entirely implemented by the Ribbon Control. All Ribbon UI elements except for standalone Ribbon Status Bar and Ribbon Form components, belong to this control. This component provides the following elements.
Ribbon Pages <br><br> Ribbon Pages are Ribbon Page Group containers that are represented as tabs at runtime. End-users click these tab headers to browse commands. There are two types of Ribbon Pages:
• Regular Pages - always visible to your end-users.
• Contextual Pages - visible only upon certain events (e.g., when an end-user selects a text block).
Page Groups <br><br> A Ribbon Page Group represents a group of bar item links and/or galleries within a Ribbon Page. Page Groups are designed to combine commands have something in common (e.g., modifying the current font or applying different document formats).
Context Categories <br><br> Page Categories are the topmost containers that host Ribbon Pages. Again, two types of Page Categories are available - regular categories that host regular pages and context categories for context pages. Custom categories can be highlighted with custom colors.
Page Header Items <br><br> Bar items that are embedded into the tab header area. Any bar item type (a button, editor, static text, gallery item, etc) can be embedded.
Application Button <br><br> A button that invokes an application's main menu. The main menu typically contains commands such as New, Open, Print and Exit. However, you can place any command in the main menu if required. By default, clicking on this button does nothing. You need to assign a required control or menu to the RibbonControl.ApplicationButtonDropDownControl property to specify the displayed object. This topic contains the list of all controls that can be assigned to the Ribbon Application Button.
Search Menu <br><br> The ribbon can display a search box that allows a user to find a bar item by its caption or custom keyword. You can also exclude or add bar items to the search results.
BackstageView Control <br><br> The most modern main menu type, seen in Microsoft Office 2010 (and newer) applications. Typically, this control is not used as standalone and is assigned to the Application Button. The Backstage View's appearance and behavior may differ, depending on the currently applied Ribbon Style.
Recent Item Control <br><br> RecentItemControl is a separate control designed to simplify building content for the BackstageView control's tab items. This control provides the large variety of UI elements - buttons, tabs, separators, hyperlinks, pin items, etc. Mixing these items allows you to emulate the most complex menus similar to those provided in the latest Microsoft Office applications.
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