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The Saudis Respond The Saudis Respond The global war against radical Islam has gained an important partner. On 15 December, Saudi Arabia announced a plan to organize a 34 nation coalition to fight against radical Islam and global terrorism. It is important to note the 34 member coalition organized by Saudi Arabia consists of nations with a predominately Muslim populace. The Saudi Defense Minister, Prince Mohammed bin Salman stated this coalition’s focus will be on efforts combating radical Islamists in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt, and Afghanistan. Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia have yet to formally agree to join the alliance, and Iran, a Shiite-centric nation was not asked to join the coalition. The Saudi’s have been engaged in combat operations in Yemen, targeting rebel Houthi forces who are supported by Iran. The operations in Yemen have largely been air strikes, with limited ground operations against the rebels. Saudi Arabian Special Forces fought alongside Yemen security forces in the Battle of Aden, driving the Houthi rebels out of the coastal city. The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen currently consists of nine Arab states and Yemen security forces. Saudi Arabia and its Arab neighbors have come under considerable scrutiny in recent months regarding the current campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Jordan and Morocco have committed to targeting ISIS in Iraq and Syria, whereas other Arab states have very limited forces targeting ISIS in Syria. Turkey has committed to targeting ISIS ground forces along its southern border, but has largely only targeted Kurdish militants who are fighting ISIS. No Western power has formally agreed to send conventional ground troops to combat ISIS, although special operation forces and military advisors are assisting Iraqi security forces. Should the Saudi-led coalition actually commit to waging war against ISIS, it could be a considerable shift in the current military operations. The Arab states are the most threatened by ISIS, whether in the Middle East or North Africa. The Kurds have been conducting successful operations against ISIS, but lack the necessary manpower and weaponry to overwhelm the terrorist organization. The numbers vary regarding the current strength of ISIS militant forces, with the US claiming they only possess 20-31,000 militants, whereas the Kurds who are actually conducting the ground war put that number well over 100,000. An Arab/Muslim-led coalition could overwhelm ISIS without the need of western ground forces in the fight. Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia possess the largest armies of the 34-nation coalition. These nations also possess modern, western-produced armament that would be useful in combating ISIS. Whether this Saudi-led coalition actually pulls the trigger in combating ISIS and radical Islamists is the real question. About The Author Related posts Leave a Reply	<urn:uuid:00bf976f-29b9-4701-9464-1233fbc7191f>	http://modernwarmagazine.com/mwm/the-saudis-respond/	en	0.945875	0.026361	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Outlook PST Data Recovery Last time I gave a brief description of a RAID that we received here at the shop. I also shared some of the things the client had done to try and get their RAID back online. I also explained that chkdsk had been run. What made this RAID unusual was that the client had replaced a drive and was in production for a short period of time. This made the data set spread across four drives in a three drive array. Now that we have a basic idea of the RAID situation how do we solve the problem of a data set that is spread across more drives in the array. One last note, I believe there was a stale drive in the array so that made it even more complicated to build a data set that would get this particular PST file off. The situation with this particular file was that it was fragmented very badly. This in itself is not a terrible thing but file fragmentation slows access and is very difficult to recover from if the file is deleted. As I had mentioned before ‘chkdsk’ had been run on this drive, and in addition, the drive had a file size of zero. In order to understand file fragmentation it is important to understand the NTFS file system. I’m not saying you have to be a guru, however, how the file system stores the cluster map is of paramount importance in this recovery. The following is a brief description of how the cluster map is stored in the NTFS file system. All files and folders in the NTFS file system have a single record that houses all its information. Attributes like the file name, file size, security parameters, the date of creation, updates, and much more is stored in a 1024 byte record in a database called the Master File Table (MFT). The MFT is the heart of the NTFS file system and if destroyed will cause all data to be lost. One of the attributes that is stored in the MFT is the cluster map. This map houses all the information as to where the file is stored. NTFS uses a storage unit called clusters to store data on the hard drive. Each cluster is normally 4096 bytes (8 sectors). The cluster map is extremely simple in concept but in application is horrific. Basically it consists of two numbers. The first number is the starting cluster, the second is the number of contiguous clusters from the starting cluster. This is an extremely simplified explanation, but it is basically correct. This cluster mapping is called a runlist. Now, if a file is fragmented you have many of these cluster mapping pairs. In fact there are files that have so many cluster mapping pairs that the cluster data must be stored in another record. In other words, the runlist must be stored in a second, third, or more records. NTFS has a facility for doing this called an attribute list. As briefly as possible, if an attribute grows so large that it cannot be stored in the main MFT record then an attribute list is built and the runlist is stored there. The file that I had to recover had two extra records that stored an enormous runlist. Next time I will explain how the fact that the file I had to recover was fragmented actually made the recovery much easier. Until next time… 1. Kristin Gassick says: Does this mean that there’s hope? I have a friend whose over-sized PST (Outlook 2k) disappeared after an improper shutdown (power outage) which we have not been able to find / recover by any normal means. Might the process you are describing here work in this circumstance? • Kristin, I believe we spoke on the phone an that in this case because the customer had made a new pst file in an attempt to recover he had dashed the hopes of getting it back. 2. I have someone at church that had a 1GB PST file. The got an error message while in Outlook about the file and needing to check it with the ScanPST file. Before doing this the system was rebooted and did a chkdsk which did find some errors and corrected. When the system came back online the Outlook.pst file was showing as 0 bytes. When examining the *.chk files that were created there were only a few and they were all under 8kb. The unit has not been used since then. What would you recommend to try and recover this? It’s not a deleted file so a simple undelete will not do it… my guess is the MFT has been altered and I don’t know if there are any recovery tools capable of helping here. Thanks for your thoughts. Speak Your Mind	<urn:uuid:03ed2d5e-19e5-4120-bded-a21a37cea20b>	http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/09/09/outlook-pst-data-recovery/	en	0.974508	0.073429	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
No. 437 Every once in a while a person comes into my life that makes a lasting impression. I bet the same is true for you. My most recent example of this is a lady who lives down in the great state of Alabama, Walker County to be more specific. Her name is Ruth Teaford Baker and I've told you about her before when I wrote a column about her book, Southern Homespun. Ruth Baker was the youngest of 12 children who grew up on a 250-acre farm during the Great Depression of the 1930's. After high school she went on to college and became a teacher and distinguished herself as Alabama's Teacher of The Year, Walker County's Mother of the Year, State of Alabama's Governor's Award and many others. Over the past several weeks I have thought many times about why I related to her so much and I finally figured out a couple of the reasons. First, she is a woman of integrity and excellent character, qualities that I admire in any person. But more than that, her writing has a way of touching my roots and providing me a link to my past. Personally, I believe this is very important for every American. If we don't know where we have been and who we are, we don't have an anchor or anything to hold on to when things begin to unravel in our lives. When Ruth was growing up, in her own words she was a "Tomboy" and "tough as a pine knot." Apparently her mother and father were the Ôsalt of the earth' kind of people and their home was, more or less, the hub of the community. Back in those days they all worked, the mother and father and all 12 kids. They had to just to survive. They grew a crop to earn the income they needed to buy staples and they raised cattle, hogs, chickens and a big garden to provide for everything else. A big wood-burning cook stove, and a mother who worked from sun-up to sundown and beyond, was the glue that held the family together. When I think about life today and compare it to the life these people lived, I am very grateful. I can get in my car and go anywhere I want to go, get on a plane and get there faster, turn on the television and get instant news, e-mail my friends anywhere in the world with the click of a button, call 911 if I have a fire or a medical emergency and so many other blessings that it would take a month to name them. The people who lived back then had none of the modern conveniences that we just take for granted. That's why I said that Ruth provided a link to my past. She also does this for many others on a regular basis, as she has been writing a weekly column for the Daily Mountain Eagle in Jasper, Alabama for the past 25 years. If you will forgive me, it's along about here that I would like to get personal. A little earlier I said it was Ruth's hard working mother that was the glue that held the family together. Depending on your age, if you will think about your own mother, or perhaps your grandmother, I believe you will see many of those same qualities that helped you to get where you are. A few weeks ago Ruth sent me a copy of her latest book titled, "Barefoot Dreams" and you talk about "links" to the past, they are throughout the book. In little short, one or two page articles, she relates many different aspects of a young child growing up in this era. They did not know they were poor. One of the chapters that touched me was titled, "My Mother's Apron." I never knew there were so many uses for an apron, which is a testimony of the kind of life that women of this day and time lived. Here is an excerpt that says it better than I could. "The apron was the most useful article of clothing. It became a potholder if a pot started boiling over on the stove. Gathered up from the bottom, it formed a bag just right to hold eggs while gathering from the nests. It seemed to be just the right size to hold a "mess' of beans, squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, or other garden goodies. It also held splinters of rich pine or chips for starting a fire in the wood cook stove. The apron became a soft cloth to dry tears from children's faces. It was used as a fan when the heat became unbearable and a mop when perspiration dimmed the vision. She used it to fan a sluggish fire to life. When it came time to milk twice a day, she found the apron held the right amount of corn to feed the cow while filling her milk buckets. Gathered up from the bottom, she carried shelled corn to throw out to the chickens." There are even more uses that space do not permit me to give you. This is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it. The title is "Barefoot Dreams" and the cost is $10 plus $1.50 postage. Send orders to Ruth Baker, 2100 Hwy. 102, Townley, AL 35587. Ê(Jim Davidson is a motivational speaker and syndicated columnist. You may contact him at 2 Bentley Drive, Conway, AR 72034.)	<urn:uuid:4b113408-a2b6-4279-bd38-cd3ec4b96c93>	http://www.jimdavidsoncolumn.com/columns/node/449	en	0.981857	0.022028	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Warning: This Post May Contain Sulfites Potassium Metabisulfite is an anti-oxidant and is used to preserve both color and freshness, in addition to protecting the wine from unwanted spoilage microbes that can be airborn. It also comes in a Sodium form, although Sodium Metabisulfite is usually used more in the winery during the sterilization of equipment but it can be used in wine also. Most winemakers prefer, however, to not introduce any sodium into their wine and therefore use the Potassium Metabisulfite in the wine. Metabisulfite (of either form) is also commonly referred to as just sulfite (also spelled sulphite) or SO2 (which is sulfur dioxide and is the gas released when either form of Metabisulfite is combined with water). I will use the term sulfite from this part forward. First, a word of caution, if you add a full dose of sulfite at the same time you add your enzymes, you will inactivate the enzymes. Therefore, I add the sulfite as the very last of the juice is being pumped into the tank. In other words, I add enzymes as the grapes are being crushed and pressed. Then, when the press is finished and I am pumping the last of the juice into the tank, I add the sulfite if I plan to use any. There are a few schools of thought on sulfite addition at crush and you will hear many arguments. The wine industry has gone back and forth over adding or not adding for all the years I have been making wine. Personally, if I determine that my fruit is fresh and sound with no rot and I will be adding the yeast in a timely manner, I do not use sulfite. I almost never use it on my red wine fermentations. If I add sulfite at crush or press, it is generally anywhere from 20 to 50 ppm (parts per million). A word of caution…if you plan to have your wine go through malo-lactic fermentation later (which I will discuss in detail at another time), also known as secondary fermentation, it is very important to keep the sulfite level low, no more than 20 ppm, as malo-lactic bacteria is very sensitive to sulfite and will not work. Amateur winemakers often use a product called campden tablets because they are pre-measured. One campden tablet per gallon is equal to 75 ppm metabisulfite. There are two problems with campden tablets, though. First, it is difficult to accurately measure smaller additions of sulfite and second, even when crushing them up and dissolving them in water (which you must do), it seems almost impossible to get it all to dissolve leaving you with some little particles floating in the wine. I would suggest changing over to using the powder form just like the professional winemakers do. Example for home measurement: 25 ppm per gallon of P. metabisulfite = .1601 grams X 5 gallons in carboy = .80 grams = 1/8th teaspoon. Sodium metabisulfite is higher strength so the calculation would be: 25 ppm per gallon of S. metabisulfite is .0931 grams X 5 gallons in carboy = .47 grams = just over 1/16th of a teaspoon. Sulfite is certainly not unique to the wine industry and you may have noticed this product in the ingredient lists of many foods. Some years ago, the Federal government decided that wineries had to put warning labels on their wine to tell people they had added sulfites to the wines because of allergic reactions to sulfites that had occurred, especially in asthmatics. In truth, this gave both wine and sulfite a bad rap, so to speak. What was happening was that people were having terrible allergic reactions after helping themselves to the offerings at salad bars in restaurants. Every restaurant had a huge salad bar in those days. I bet you thought that person who came out and sprayed the lettuce periodically was just keeping it nice and wet and fresh. In truth, that spray bottle contained a mixture of sulfite and water intended to keep the lettuce from browning. Unfortunately, if you happened to be the first person to take that lettuce off the top, you got a whopping load of sulfite. There were even deaths reported from asthmatics that had severe reactions to it. That, of course, was when the government stepped in and declared that, if any sulfite was added, there needed to be a warning label. To put your mind at ease, though, you should know that wine has a legal limit of 350 ppm and, in fact, generally contains far less as levels this high would not taste very good. In comparison, the offending salad bar lettuce that was tested had 2000 ppm or more. A small amount of sulfite is actually a natural byproduct of the process of fermentation (of anything) and so it is impossible to not have it in a fermented product. As I mentioned, sulfite is also commonly used in the sterilization of equipment: The most important consideration in making wine is keeping the equipment clean and sterile. To this end, there is a simple solution that can be made up and used to rinse everything that touches your wine – hoses, crusher, press, pumps, fermenters, carboys, clamps, gaskets…everything. In a 5 gallon bucket filled with water, add ½ cup of citric acid and about an ounce of metabisulfite. Most people use the sodium metabisulfite for this solution because it is cheaper. Mix well with a long handled spoon. Then rinse everything with the solution. The usual procedure is to rinse clean equipment with water, then the solution, and then water again. The citric acid does 2 things. It gets all of the equipment to a good (low) pH level, and it provides a good environment for the sulfite to work well. Sulfite needs an acid environment to gain its strength and the higher the acid, the less sulfite you need. 1 comment: 1. When was the sufite warning label added to Wine bottles sold in the U.S. We do not remember seeing it in the 80s. We also thought that the added sulfites were used in place of egg whites that were used to wash wine barrels.	<urn:uuid:902f1afd-fedb-41fb-927d-813ce9bcc99e>	http://www.ladyofthegrape.com/2008/03/warning-this-post-may-contain-sulfites.html	en	0.961195	0.053585	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
1080 Sprint: After-hours work outshines ‘negative results’ at University of Guelph “Negative results” should be an oxymoron, the sort of throwback phrase you use ironically	<urn:uuid:78d9ab69-a6f6-4070-9aea-1eda9aa41af1>	https://1080motion.com/2018/04/	en	0.937143	0.034095	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Electronics have really become prevalent in the past decade, and I can relate to the struggle of limiting screen time. However, with the Coronavirus pandemic, we have modified our rules. This doesn’t necessarily mean more time, and I don’t use screen time as a babysitter, but we have allowed some extra time on devices, especially when it comes to communicating. The first exception: FaceTime and other communication Being quarantined and exercising social distancing means that the kids aren’t getting to hang out with friends or family. So when there is an opportunity to FaceTime or chat online, I usually let them do that over other activities. For example, chores can wait while they chat with their friend over FaceTime. No electronics until chores / homework / etc Normally, the kids would get home from school and have to do chores, homework, and other things. This goes for screen time too. They can still have a few minutes in the morning if they want to check on something like their messages, but otherwise they are expected to get school work and chores etc. done first. No electronics if it is nice out If the weather is beautiful, no electronics. Spring weather has slowly been making its way to us, so on nicer days, I make sure we get outside after lunch to get a good dose of sunshine and fresh air. It is perfect too if the kids want to read a book or eat lunch in the sun. Set limits We still allow the kids to use their devices, but within limits. I still want them to have fun and play games, but it is limited to certain amounts. You can use parental control apps, timers, whatever you need to put electronic use to a stop. If you want to limit screen time to an hour, for example, make sure that you follow up and either take the device or lock it. On your iPhone, you can go right into Settings -> Screen Time and pick from a multitude of limits. Crayons child school Detox from electronics Not every day needs to involve electronics, and in the past, there were days I completely took away electronics for the day. I will admit this has not happened yet since we are home because the kids talk to their friends on FaceTime. However, I have taken away the electronics for most of the day so that the kids can focus on school work and other things, instead of being distracted by their electronics. I find that this is when the kids hang out together more, they use toys and crafts that normally gather dust.. it generally has great effects!	<urn:uuid:09de1d3d-d4db-466b-833f-95d47822d594>	https://anationofmoms.com/2020/03/screen-time-coronavirus-quarantine.html?replytocom=135579	en	0.959317	0.093352	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Tumblelog by Soup.io Newer posts are loading. You are at the newest post. Click here to check if anything new just came in. February 12 2015 The 3 Types of Music Producers The professional title of producer is amongst the most commonly misused titles in the music industry. This article will cover these different types of music producers along with the roles they play inside the music industry and within the recording studio. Drake type beat What A Producer Isn't A producer isn't a musician that makes his very own music. The proper title with this position would be a musician, simply. Producers also often work with a team of recording professionals, industry executives and reliable musicians to finish a recording project. For the reason that skills involved in owning a recording project take time to learn and are very demanding, somebody that works on their own to create music isn't typically considered a producer. The title of producer is often wrongfully associated with the roles of songwriters and general musicians. Partynextdoor type beat Executive Producer An executive producer is generally the person that funds the recording project. Executive producers also ultimately determine the direction of the recording project and thoroughly maintain the relationship between the artists or bands involved in the project and the record label that oversees the culmination of the project. Executive producers essentially take care of the bridge between the record label and the recording artists along with make sure that the project is smart financially from a business perspective plus a creative perspective. Music Producer A music producer typically spends a majority of their time creating or arranging music to the recording project. Music producers most often have a strong background in music theory and often have degrees in music theory or music composition from established universities and colleges. Another job in the music producer is usually to make sure that the music within the recording project is of the highest possible quality which the musicians mixed up in the project are making the most effective music they are able to. Sometimes music producers can also be given the task of maintaining communication between the artists and the record label executives, and this can be a task that is harder than a lot of people from the music industry realize. Engineering Producer The engineering producer understands the technical facets of the recording studio a lot more than the other two types of producers. Engineering producers understand how to work the recording console, setup the microphones for recording, utilize recording software helpfully ., and keep the recording project organized. A lot of engineering producers start as either mixing engineers or assistant engineers to record label producers. Additionally, they tend to understand the technical facets of recording and what it requires to make the music sound great from an engineer's perspective. No Soup for you Don't be the product, buy the product! YES, I want to SOUP ●UP for ...	<urn:uuid:94bb1423-1f2f-476d-88d2-ad295c712aa4>	https://draketypebeat5.soup.io/	en	0.970119	0.799792	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Lindsay Buziak Murder Lindsay Buziak Murder on November 11, 2011 Thank You, Justice for Lindsay Supporters DATELINE NBC “Unsolved: The Dream House Mystery” Brain Scratch – John Lordan Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: 6,427 responses to “Lindsay Buziak Murder 1. Jeff Buziak says: What about B.C. Rail? Release those documents which are locked down! What secrets are the authorities keeping from us about Lindsay Buziak’s murder and why are Saanich police allowed to bumble along with it in secrecy as the usual B.C. historical practice? Where are Attorney General David Eby and Minister of Public Safety Mike Farnworth with the Saanich police cover up of Lindsay’s unsolved murder? 2. Wyatt says: From Gangsters Out website! Good on you, nice to know you’re not intimidated by a bunch of dirty cops & their city paid lawyers! The corrupt message is loud and clear all you politicians, take heed. On February 27th I received a letter in the mail from Giles P.G. Deshon with the CARFRA Law firm in Victoria. He claimed that he had been retained by the Corporation of the District of Saanach and that he was contacting me about material I posted about Chirs Horsley, the police officer from Saanach PD who is in charge of the Lindsay Buziak murder investigation. On February 2nd I attended the Lindsay Buziak Rally for Justice in Victoria and got an earful of complaints about Chris Horsley. On February 7th I made a blog post about how Chris Horsley went to Calgary and made several bizarre threats against Lindsay’s father Jeff Buziak. P Diddy wanted me to take down those blog pots and had a whole list of demands all about Chris Horsley specifically. On March 12th I sent my response to Mr Deshon. I thought it was interesting that he had been retained by the Corporation of the District of Saanich not Chris Horsely. I guess the District has money to burn in their budget. In my response I stated that: “Chris Horlsey visited Jeff Buziak in Calgary and threatened him. That is a true statement. Based on that event, it is my sincere opinion that he is now in a conflict of interest with the case and should not be on it. The conflict of interest that I see is the fact that he visited Jeff Buziak in Calgary and threatened him. For that reason I will continue to lobby that he is removed from that case as that would be in everyone’s best interest. It would be in your client’s best interest if they simply handed the file over to IHIT and rid themselves of this matter. ” Since then I found out about the Campaign to merge the Saanich Police Department with the Victoria City Police. I completely support that campaign. IHIT should take over Lindsay’s case. • Jeff Buziak says: This just disgusts me to the nth degree but doesn’t surprise me because it’s the Saanich way. Cops rule in Saanich like gangsters and the Saanich taxpayers pay for the cops to play. Meanwhile it’s okay to murder women in Saanich because the very same police could care less about a murdered woman and are not capable of solving anything. 12 years, No Results-No Respect Justice for Lindsay Buziak • Svetlana says: That is appalling that they went to such lengths to get a lawyer to now threaten a blogger site that reported on Lindsay. What is going on here? What is wrong with assigning the case to someone new? New people, who are NOT afraid to go after evidence instead of sitting on it. It’s been 12 1/2 years with not a peep from the police to the family. They deserve to be heard. Lindsay’s case deserves to be heard. Instead they go after a poor news reporter blogger. This is sad. Need police be reminded of the real victims here in this tragedy and their priorities? 3. Real man says: I guess gangsters out has a new lawsuit everyone should check it out. • It was just another letter from another law firm which are a dime a dozen. I have not yet received a reply to my response nor a court writ so it’s just dust in the wind. I thought it was strange the lawyer was retained by the District of Saanich for Chris Horsley and not by Chris Horsley. I think it’s time to support a merger of Saanich and Victoria city halls. • Jeff Buziak says: ……along with Oak Bay, Esquimalt and View Royal all as one. • ConnectTheDots says: Chris Horsley’s behavior ultimately rests on the shoulders of the municipality of Saanich. I suspect you haven’t heard back from them because you called their bluff and now they’re not sure what to do. They should be concerned/alarmed about the way their police force interacted with Richard Atwell while he was looking to replace the sitting mayor too. Both instances bizarre, and from what I understand illegal, behavior that should be investigated. 4. ConnectTheDots says: I found it. On June 9, 2019 at 7:44 a.m. Tyler Denniston posted this: Tyler says: June 9, 2019 at 7:44 AM My name is Tyler Denniston and I have something I need to say to everyone. This has been bothering me for quite a while. I want to turn my life around to be a better person and learn how to be a man my family is proud of instead of the scumbag I am. Basically, I sell illegal drugs in Victoria, B.C. and I beat women who are crazy enough to fall for me. That’s been my life. I hang out mostly in Langford with losers because I am a loser. My drug supplier is a fat biker prick from up island called Jason Bader. Horsley the cop knows him too. I’ve never done anything else in my life. I hang around with other lowlifes including the Zailo brothers. This is what I want to say that is eating at me. Ryan Zailo has bragged to me and other people how he killed Lindsey Buziak. Ryan said the biggest high he has ever experienced in his life is when he plunged the knife into Lindsay’s neck then continued to stab her over and over again. He said the rush he got from that was the most incredible thing ever. The loser side of me got excited when I heard that but the little bit of good left in me is sick about it and I can’t take it any more. There are other guys who know and you guys need to support me here. Jason Zailo was there and my bro Rhys. Keegan knows too. I’m done with being a loser. I want to turn my life around and be a better person. I want to do the right thing. Please believe me. I’m talking to police about all this, my life and everybody I know living the loser life. I’m done. Here is who I am right now. Be sure to read the posts following from people who know him and other commentators. Has anyone heard if this was ever properly investigated? Does anyone know how Tyler is doing today? This would certainly explain why the whole family was in the neighborhood that day. 5. eight says: Has it been determined whether Aurick de Sousa was back in town for a visit in late January/early February 2008, and whether his wife would have an accent? 6. Svetlana says: DNA. Did Jason provide his DNA? From what I gather, he hasn’t. Why not? What is there to hide? Why didn’t a Court Order him to do so? 7. Faith McCain says: What remains witchy is the fact that this couple arrived on foot. This area of Gordon Head isn’t really accessible by foot, certainly not a road you’d stroll down in February unless you lived in the area. Did neighbors from the main road, not De Sousa, see a car parked off to the side of the road that’s right beside the backyard of the house? It would be nearly pitch black by the time the murderers left by 5:45-6:00pm. Personally I think the female murderer may have been Mila Beltran, along with perhaps Leo Beltran. She matches the description of the woman in the sketch. It certainly wasn’t Shirley, as the De Sousa neighbours saw an interaction between Lindsay and the couple that didn’t indicate familiarity. It’s plausible that when Jason saw the couple come out the front door, and then retreat back into the house, that he thought the house showing had just started or they were inspecting something. Lots of people show up late, although this couple was on time. One more thing, does ANYONE know the business address attached to the burner phone? Although the name registered to it was fake, the address given was legitimate though police didn’t see a connection. I would like to know the address and or business attached please. BTW, do the names JORDAN and MICHELLE ring a bell? I’ve heard these names loosely attached to this murder once. • Robin says: Hello Faith Have you ever thought that the actual murderer was already inside the house by maybe 4:30ish. I believe the couple showing up at 5:30 was all for show and to create a show for potential witnesses. I also think that person was not Lindsay who met the couple but someone pretending to be her. Lindsay and JaSIN left restaurant by 4:30 pm and Lindsay would go straight to house to check things over and that is when she was murdered. It was JaSIN who concocted the story about Lindsay going home to change. That was BS created in the mind of SZ. I believe Lindsay was murdered around 5:00-5:15. Owner of house was there around that time, he admits, so lock box would not have been used by Lindsay at all. I believe Jasin sent message from his vehicle to the house to say Lindsay was on her way. JDeDousa let Lindsay in. He knew Shirley or Ryan or both were upstairs then he lured Lindsay into house and upstairs with some nonsense story, then he immediately left. By the time the couple showed up they took part in clean up and escape plan. Poor Lindsay didn’t stand a chance with all those psychopaths. Her demise was thought through with every detail taken into consideration. SZ ran it through her twisted mind over and over and over. That family had motive and means and hate filled hearts. They resented Lindsay because she did not want to be part of their tainted life. This burned in SZ’s being. There is that much loathing in her to commit this crime. Please think about this because it is along these lines. Lindsay was a problem to them and whatever Lindsay knew would put them all in jail. This is really the only scenario that makes sense imo. No one else had any reason to hate Lindsay Buziak like SZ, the evil broom rider. • see closely says: • see closely says: I think that we all will be shocked when the truth will eventually come out. • Lynn Carmichael says: I agree with you. • see closely says: Almost two decades before Lindsay was murdered,another mystery was sprung on Victoria.Most people will remember the disappearance of Michael Dunahee.This assumed crime was never solved by Victoria Police Department.Strangely,nobody blamed VPD for inability of solving this disappearance of young,innocent boy like they do blame SPD for inability to solve Lindsay’s murder. What happened then?Nobody seems to know.This will remain so because sometimes the regular methods of investigation are not adequate. Statistics shows that very large percentages of murders and disappearances are due to familiar relationships and inter-human actions. Since this is factual,we need to accept that another,unorthodox methods of investigations are perhaps needed to intrude into the orthodox means of investigations. For example,we know that within two days of Michaels disappearance the part of Michaels family went for a long hike/trip to Cape Scott Park west of Port Hardy/Holberg.Did VPD spent any time to investigate whether there may be any linkage between this family trip and Michael’s disappearance?VPD never informed public anything relevant that could be interpreted by the public. In the same waySPD and/or AG prosecution never informed the public about any potential leads in Lindsay’s murder beside the possible link into presumable Zailos ,involvement or non-involvement, or drug linkage in Lindsay’s murder.I find it very odd and I believe that any means(orthodox or non orthodox)should be used -by anybody to try to help solve this crime. Personally,I will do my best on my own to help. • ConnectTheDots says: Sounds right to me Robin. We talk a lot about Jason but I think that Ryan played a pivotal role in this. Someone did post that he was heard bragging about his role. • David J Anderson says: CTD, Ryan confessed you mean? • ConnectTheDots says: I remember reading a post that said that Ryan had bragged about his role in the murder. Does anyone else remember that? It was a while back and there are so many posts….. • ConnectTheDots says: The description of the people who showed up for the showing sounds a lot like Ryan and one of the Lum sisters one of which was known to have a blonde wig just like the one worn by the woman. Or Shirley wearing that wig and one of her dresses which has been shown to be her type of dress. They could have changed after the murder and presented themselves as the buying couple. As the woman greeting them probably wasn’t Lindsay there would be no concern with anyone recognizing them. Wasn’t Ryan’s alibi that he was in the neighborhood at one of the Lum sister’s house? • Svetlana says: The police know a lot but they aren’t giving out the information, at least to the family they should. Are they afraid that outsiders will put two and two together? • A matter of public record says: Robin the Coroner determined the time of death to be 5:40 pm. If you have any doubt you can email the coroner and request a copy of the report. • lbmurder says: Saanich police reported that is what the coroner said and we know how reliable Saanich police are. The coroner will not release that information to the public regardless. • A matter of public record says: Coroner’s reports are public documents. For a copy of a coroner’s report, contact the regional coroner office in your area. Case No: 2008-0197-0013 is a public record. • lbmurder says: Well then why don’t you get it and put it on this site? • Robin says: If you have that information why haven’t you put the report on this site by now Mr. Public Record. What are you waiting for? Odd to me that you have that and done nothing with it. Another indication of the Saanich way I suppose. • Robin says: How would you know that? You have no idea when Lindsay lost consciousness or how long it would take her to bleed to death so maybe the time of death was 5:40 pm but that time does not mean that Lindsay was not attacked 40 minutes sooner by fk heads lying in wait. I don’t need a coroner’s report to tell me what my brain in capable of figuring out. • Robin says: How would you know that? You have no idea when Lindsay lost consciousness or how long it would take for her to bleed to death. Maybe the time of death was 5:40 pm but that time does not mean that Lindsay was not attacked 40 minutes sooner by fk heads lying in wait. I don’t need a coroner’s report to tell me what my brain is capable of figuring out. • Rosanne says: It is easy to look up. A woman has about 4 litres of blood. There are major arteries in the neck. The way her neck was cut (as her Father said) it would take about 60 seconds to go unconscious and 3 minutes to death. When you add the other wounds it could have been faster. • Wyatt says: Time of death can not be stated accurately, especially to the minute! This is a very misleading statement and any “professional” coroner will not commit their “opinion” with such a specific time. • Justice says: First of all, Zailo was fully aware that the clients arrived at 5:30 on the dot. Not one minute early or one minute late. Zailo has a text message that shows the exact time he was made aware of this fact. Great orchestration! Zailo drove up to the house and saw the clients walking out the front door Without Lindsay about 15 minutes later. When they saw him, they abruptly turned and re-entered the house and closed the front door. He said he saw maybe 2 people behind the smoked glass door. He got a good look at the man because he was just 10 feet away with headlights pointed directly at them as the The car turned the corner onto DeSousa Place. Lindsay was alone In an empty house on a vacant street on a Friday evening past sunset, with these unknown clients who had not been vetted and had a deal “too good to be true”. Lindsay explicitly told her co-workers (statement is available in the media) and Jeff that the woman had a weird, fake sounding accent and she was apprehensive about going alone. She told all that Jason agreed to be there with her for her safety, a realtor’s SOP. So why would Jason believe they showing just started 15 min after the clients arrived? And why would the clients be leaving out the front door in the dark without the realtor Lindsay, if it just started? Why did they immediately go back into the house when they saw Zailo drive up? So if we were to look at Zailos thought process: the showing started at 5:45 inside the house and then immediately the clients went out and back in the front door without the realtor, Lindsay? She was concerned for her safety so why wasn’t Zailo? Zailo was also a mortgage broker. Why wouldn’t he have tried to up-sell a mortgage to the clients since they were cash buyers? Also why would he think Lindsay wasted 15 min before starting the showing when she had a birthday party to go to that evening? And if as he says, the only reason he was at the house was because he had papers that needed her immediate signature and was on his way to dinner and a hockey game, why would he just sit outside and wait for 20 min without trying to make contact? I also find it strange that the clients settled on only one house to view that Friday evening. They said they had 3 days to buy and Lindsay was going to Vancouver on Saturday for another party with her girlfriends. How often do people buy the first million& house they see after seeing it only once. They had 3 days to buy. It would be normal if they set up 4-6 showings over Friday and Saturday during daylight. There are so many red flags about these clients, there is no way Lindsay was not concerned. Zailos are obsessed with luxury vehicles. I’m sure he would have checked out the clients car to size them up. If I was a cash, million$ buyer, I would have brought my car over on the ferry. Although possible, it would be inconvenient to rent a car or have taxi-limo drive me around to shop for homes. So where was the vehicle Zailo? I know you would have been checking it out if you believed it was legit. Since there was no car anywhere insight, and you saw no cars on Torquay when you moved your car, why were you not concerned enough to do a welfare check? What is more important, seeming like you were a professional realtor from Lindsays office checking in (you called it meddling) or just sitting outside and waiting when all of these red flags were waving in your face?? So Zailo, If Lindsay made a bigger sale because you up-sold the clients a $500k mortgage, the commission would have been 50% higher. Then you get to collect interest on the mortgage. This is not small potatoes. You appear to be a savvy businessman with all of your wealth and luxury homes, boats and cars. You sell mortgages and real estate. This exact kind of deal is the source of your bread and butter. If you believed these clients were legit, you would not have let a huge opportunity like that slip away especially in a down market when the financial stability of the world was in such despair. Your momster is also a savvy business woman. Word on the street is that it involves some illegal business but nonetheless, she is overbearing, controlling and greedy. I don’t believe for one minute that she would’ve ordered you to go and up-sell a house with a big fat mortgage. Who are you Zailos kidding with your pathetic explanations that go against everything your friends and associates know about you. • Svetlana says: There was another birthday party in Vancouver? I thought there was just one but locally. • Rosanne says: You make some very good points. As with everything so over thought out, what comes to my mind is that Jason drove up with a witness, so maybe the whole door show was to give him something to witness, that way when he tells the police what he saw, it becomes another fact. The two people (Jason and Cohen) independently collaborate each other that they saw murderers at the house. Which goes along with the other witnesses and what they saw. So it has to be a hunt for the “real killers” and couldn’t have anything to do with anyone else. What would be the point of having red herring decoy killers if nobody saw them? Professional hit people would have been more stealth. Hide the car and then walk down the street in a noticeable distinct dress??? • bruce barber says: this makes total sense to me justice. I stated on here a few years ago that it is connected to the bc rail fiasco and I still believe that to be true. Which would explain the cover up by the police.I also believe that the Saanich police department has been corrupt for decades hence the perfect partners in crime.I also believe that they are getting very nervous with all this police defunding movement going on. What was done in the dark will be brought to light. • Jus cause says: I am wondering….. if… the Zailos did this and had help which is likely.. how much help will that help be once a light right and proper has been put on this will that same person again advise them?? If such a person exists • ConnectTheDots says: I think there was no car for either the buyers or Shirley when she showed up on foot ( put those two situations together and it goes from being extremely unusual and suspicious for each to screaming out suspicion for both ) as they were all in the area I’m guessing at one of the Lum sister’s houses or both. • Magdelina says: Robin, I believe your 100 right! Lindsey was killed much earlier, I believe. Couple all staged. Everything u said, I thought about it. So right on you are. 8. Jus cause says: This will get solved we know your watching threatening fuk likely scared and you should be … • Just a Canadian Citizen says: There appears to be alot of talk in beautiful BC about this horrific case. People need to be willing to sign a statement and stand behind what they heard. This needs to be first hand evidence, not through gossip. I am sure somehow Jeff can get you to sign your statement in confidentiality and take it out of BC. 9. Svetlana says: Of all the times, 24 hours before Lindsay was murdered, she took a walk with Shirley (as per Shirley), and they talked about Matt and how Lindsay was afraid of him. Isn’t that a strange discussion and walk? Sounds more like an attempt to throw suspicion away from Zailos. • Robin says: These bizarre scenarios play out constantly on February 02, 2008. It is overplanned. It’s built to make the Zailo’s out to be kind, considerate caring people. The BS stinks to high heaven. What the powers that be are looking at is as effd up as it can possibly be. Lindsay’s story makes me hate the people I vote for, what’s the point? So much for living in a democratic society. Assholes……the police, the politicians, the Zailo’s and all the other low life people in Saanich and Victoria. FO all of U. Your ways will hit u square in the face eventually. 10. Mark Roush says: The Honorable Janet Austin, OBC. Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. Government House. 1401 Rockland Avenue. Victoria,British Columbia V8SiVg. Phone:250-387-2080. Fax:250-387-2078. Everyone,Express Your Disapproval Concerning The Saanich Police Department! 11. Jus csuse says: Again someone has mentioned Bear Mountain… didn’t a developer go broke ?? Something to do with angry investors and the nhl somehow whether he was a previous player or such? Just interesting it keeps popping up… • Jeff Buziak, father says: Current Saanich cop and Head of Lindsay’s murder file, Chris Horsley, is/was a friend and business associate of Len Barrie. Horsley is also the cop who came to Calgary unannounced and threatened me with another Saanich cop Trevor Dyck. I was told by Horsley to shut down this website and stop what I was doing or he would publicly destroy me. Fucker still hasn’t apologized for that “slight” gangster-like indiscretion. I guess when you are a cop, a millionaire real estate investor, friend with Len Barrie and trucking firm owner you can get away with that type of behavior in Greater Victoria-Saanich. Saanich Police chiet Scott Green and Mayor Fred Haynes, head of the police board, don’t seem to care one little bit. Business as usual in Saanich. “The Saanich Way” is I’m told how Saanich police describe it in molding their officers. • Bob-from-the-island says: I wouldn’t take anything Media Coop says as even remotley true, they are know communist, liars and propagandist. Zoe Blunt is also a liar, a violent agitator and has rubbed shoulders with a communist city councillor form Victoria BC Ben Isitt, whom is another lying sack of bovine faeces that represents extremist and radicals of Victoria BC he also acts like a 15 year old. Zoe Blunt and Media CoOp lie lie lie and doxx people they don’t agree with, Call them racists with no real evidence of such. They are vile and should be treated only with the absolute most aggressive language possible. Do not trust anything that is written or said by Media Co OP or Zoe Blunt or deep green resistance (zoe blunt identifies with that group) Forest “ethics” which has changed their name because of the bad reputation they got from their Vandalism and defamation campaigns. I’m not defending the actions of Len Barrie but never ever ever ever trust Media Co_op esp Zoe Blunt. • Robin says: Ok fair enough I don’t know who media Co Op is but the Times Columnist isn’t that much better. They are doing a piss poor job of reporting what is going on with Lindsay Buziak’s unsolved murder? It would seem to me by this point the Times Columnist would be questioning just what is going on over at the Saanich Police Department for the past 12.5 yrs. You would think the TC would be doing a five (5 ) Sunday’s in a row explanation of just why Lindsay’s unsolved murder is at such a standstill. The TC seems tightly controlled by SOMEONE since investigative journalism doesn’t seem to be happening for Lindsay in her own hometown. I believe the SPD referred to the TC their media partners at one time. That seems like a conflict of interest to the public don’t you think? So my question is who’s better in your opinion Media Co-op or the Times Columnist? • Dwayne says: Apparently this Zoe Blunt her real name is Tracie Park from what I understand, I did ask my past co worker about Jason and his remarks about Lindsay which he made at the gym, seems he just liked to brag to people, what a lo life. He should be dragged in with handcuffs on now and hung from the highest tree. • Rosanne says: There is a bit of a problem with the gym statement as it has been reported a number of times that the builder and owner of the house Lindsay was showing said the exact same words. Look up Joe DeSousa in the Lindsay Buziak timetable. • ConnectTheDots says: What was he bragging about? • Retired Detective. says: So fill us in. This is important. What did your past co-worker tell you about what Zailo said about Lindsay? DeSousa said the bitch got what she deserved did Zailo day that too? So Rosanne and Dwayne seem to know something we don’t. Please fill us in Dwayne and Rosanne. Will your former co-worker be willing to share this information with the police? Back up you post or cut the BS. • Rosanne Day says: Were you trained to be like that? I do not take bullies well, so gathering up the most mercy I have this is my response to you. I am sure both Dwayne and I are only trying to help a bit. I am thinking what I know that you don’t is logic and sense. It is all over that Joe DeSousa said “The bitch …” and now 12 1/2 years later Jason is saying the same exact words in a gym. What I seem to know is that the longer this case hangs around the more reasonable doubt it is showing up. NOT more truth or great police work but tasty bites for any lawyer to chomp right down on so justice will never be served. The “clearing” of the Zailo Family is already an ax to the heart of any case going for conviction and take a look around, other police don’t do that in such haste. There is evidence out there that other police won’t even clear a suspect that has just won a wrongful conviction case. I don’t feel I have the time or energy to fill you in. There seems to be a lot of space there. • Just a Canadian Citizen says: Why would this Joe DeSousa guy ever make such a comment? His business dealings obviously need to be looked into.Where is the person that heard what he said? Everyone is hiding, scared. Yup bet Lindsay was terrified that day,. • Jeff Buziak, father says: One more time. A person I know well told me Joe Desousa said that to him. I have no reason to doubt this individual. Also, I’ve also been told Shirley Zailo said to a good friend, “Time for her to go” in reference to Lindsay. • Just a Canadian Citizen says: So time to get all of these people to sign a statement and find someone that will read and listen. This case needs proof, people that will stand behind what they say. Come on time to get it solved. • Jus. Cause says: Hi bob …. you have our attention ….and certainly Dwayne knows who you are talking about. Want to share anything else? 12. Jeff Buziak, father says: My Birthday Message Stand Up for What is Right I want to share with you some of my thoughts on another passing year in my interesting, well experienced life. I’ve always been one to tell it the way it is and not be afraid to speak my mind or stand up for what is right. We have that freedom. Along the way I suffered at times for opening my mouth but generally it was the right thing to do and I don’t regret any of it. I’ve been beaten, verbally abused, ostracized, shot at, had a gun in my face and threatened lots but I am still here because you learn how to adapt and get toughened up. You don’t allow them to scare, intimidate or put you down. I don’t mean toughening up by muscles or learning how to fight either. I have always felt the physical abusive type are the weakest because they don’t have the brain power to have a discussion or at least a healthy hollering match. They revert to physical threat and violence which is the weakest form of human there is. They even murder! Weak cowards. I also managed to get a University Degree in Psychology which I take very seriously as some of you know. It set me on a path of deep understanding of people and lifelong improvement which is invaluable. I have also engaged in some very valuable counselling because of life and I see that as strengthening and not a weakness as many messed up people like to call it. An extraordinary woman/counselor/guide/mentor really cemented everything in for me many years back and I hold her in high regard to this day even though we don’t speak to each other for silly reasons but the right thing to do for now. She taught me the real meaning of telling the truth, being direct, being honest, not compromising and above all else being true to yourself. I am. Thank you, stubborn, wonderful woman. The truth. Cowards and very weak human beings conspired and murdered my daughter Lindsay. They will pay. It wasn’t a cartel or any other nefarious group who are unreachable. That’s just bullshit and another excuse espoused by Saanich police and their warped side kick, the “I used to be” and “pee collector” from Nanaimo and his TWO supporters. Saanich police are a useless, incompetent, dysfunctional and outdated organization who have failed in their duty and made a complete mess of Lindsay’s murder investigation because they really just can’t accomplish what is required of them and lack the leadership to make things happen. This isn’t just me speaking but “time” has spoken loud and clear. 12.5 years to do a job you are hired to do as professionals is just not acceptable in the world especially when the answers are staring you in the face. Incompetence! Don’t let anyone con you otherwise. Consider them false prophets if they try. Time doesn’t lie. I recently came across the writings of Canadian investigative journalist and author Yves Lavigne writing about police and criminals in Canada. Here are some excerpts of what he wrote in 1999 which best describe police culture and Saanich police today 21 years later. It’s horrible that this has been allowed to continue in Saanich, B.C. “The new millennium does not belong to the short sighted, the self-serving, or those who compromise. Law enforcement has failed society with its willingness to curb the growth (of crime)…. We must look at and treat our police differently at the end of the century. They resist change, scrutiny and accountability; they fight society with spies who try to dig up information to silence police critics; they hire lawyers to stymie legitimate investigations into their actions;(they load the OPCC) they intimidate those who question them, with threats of newspaper ads and exposing their lives to the world(Horsley and Trevor Dyck on their taxpayer paid trip to threaten me in Calgary) and they manipulate the media to scare society into giving them money. Some of them have succumbed to corruption and there seems to be a systemic acceptance of deception calculated to increase budgets and the commission of crimes in the course of investigating others(even covering some up like Lindsay’s murder).” “Our law enforcement agencies have mutated into bureaucracies that have less to do with enforcing the rule of the law and more to do with creating secure niches, jobs and power bases from which to exercise political clout and shape public policy(View Royal councilor as lead investigator). Bureaucracies Kill. they smother initiative, drive, self-respect and, ultimately, the society that fostered them and allowed them to fester. The time has come to dismantle the police bureaucracies that burdens and stifles true law enforcement. The police should not be allowed to take control of public policy they were created to implement, enforce, and defend. Our police, who are SUPPOSED TO BE PUBLIC SERVANTS, are now at war with society in a grab for power and control.” “….the police fail to keep up with the times. Just as bikers use wannabes to do their dirty work and take the blame, the police have taken to using fawning wannabe writers(pee collector) and journalists(Times Colonist) to push their public relations efforts. (Horsley calling the media their media partners) These unquestioning stenographers transcribe as gospel everything given to them(by police). The police are not to be worshiped or adored. What they do is a job. If they do it well enough, they merit respect. The police think the media are theirs to manipulate to influence public opinion. The media are supposed to be an independent component in a system of checks and balances that keep society stable. They should report what works and what doesn’t, and give voice to ideas that will make the system work better. Too many media outlets and reporters curb criticism and commit stenography for fear of alienating so-called sources.(I was told this in reality by a Victoria so-called journalist) They let themselves be used as mouthpieces and have weakened their own power. Journalism is not a matter of filling space or time: it is a consciousness, conscience, compassion and combativeness….” “Many police actions seem to be driven by intellectual sloth and the lack of the sense of justice. Rather than uncover the truth, they contrive to cover up their ineptitude……our police agencies are sick….The police have become a law unto themselves and have let organized crime spread so they can create self-serving career-generating bureaucracies to manage the problem…..They are at war with society…..The police must always be accountable(Saanich police are not) and held accountable(our job and lazy media). The police must serve and protect, not be self-serving and self-promoting(Saanich police and Horsley are the poster people). The ability to recognize, admit, and correct failings is a sign of capability, maturity, and professionalism. Cops who shield their mistakes and incompetence or corrupt officers are THE WORMS THAT FEED OFF BAD APPLES.” “When a public institution such as a law enforcement agency sets out to manipulate public perception and fears through control of the media(Horsley and his media partners), no one is being served. This abuse of power and distortion of reality harms society, undermines attempts by more responsible media to expose the truth, and blinds the public to the facts they need to know to formulate informed opinions that can sway political thought and action….The police are causing irreparable damage to law enforcement and eroding public trust in the institution. Police officers are not elected. They have no right to play politics. THEY ARE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES BOUND TO OBEY ORDERS. Police who seek to control issues, intimidate or manipulate the public into supporting them, and silence their critics, are driven by a pathological sense of importance fed by their UNWILLINGNESS TO DO THEIR JOB. Their job is to enforce, not control. Police could best influence the public through actions, not rhetoric and deceit; by doing their jobs, rather than contriving and conspiring.” There you go folks. That is Saanich police in a nutshell. Something I have discovered and have been trying to inform people about for years now while my precious daughter’s murder remains unsolved and held in the clutches of an outdated, antiquated, manipulative, corrupt police agency. They need to be removed from Lindsay’s murder investigation Now! My Birthday message and my truth. Thank you Jeff Buziak, father • Jus cause says: It’s so unbelievable that this is not solved after all this time, and that IHIT or some other organization has not been asked to step up and assist. I find it as shocking, if not more so when I hear about what you your self have been subjected too. It sickens me to think that while trying to protect your family and seek justice for your family that such awful things have happened to you it’s truly beyond belief!! It’s saddens me more to think that In Canada Bc truly means bring cash 😦 I believe in my heart that those involved watch this site from time to time which makes you wonder … tho they have tried to intimidate you, they also fear you… • Jus cause says: And Happy Birthday! I wish this is the year you get closure. • ConnectTheDots says: This reminds me of the fiasco surrounding Richard Atwell’s bid for the mayors seat in Saanich. Saanich police publicly endorsed the then sitting mayor, Frank Leonard, who had been mayor for ever. I found this very surprising that a police force would publicly endorse a politician. They then, according to Richard Atwell who was very open about this when being interviewed and when speaking to media, harassed Mr. Atwell before the election and after the election, which he won. Big upset in Saanich. According to Mr. Atwell, they harassed him by pulling him over in his car for no just cause and making him blow into a breathalyzer. They did this at least 3 times and each time he blew 0.00. Shocking if these allegations are true. Even more shocking is that even though Richard Atwell went public with these allegations nothing was ever done about it. Is that not criminal behavior? When Mayor Atwell took his seat at town hall, he was shocked to find that Saanich had installed spyware on his computer behind his back. He, being a techie, found it and had it removed. He said that Saanich council froze him out and would not cooperate with him to the point that he worked from his home for an extended period of time. Saanich council allegedly did this to the duly elected mayor on tax payers dollars!! Mr. Atwell also said when asked about this that he found it strange that he had hardly sat down in the mayors seat when he was approached by the police and told that everything was under control when it came to the Lindsay Buziak case. Basically made a point of telling him there was nothing to see there. And yes, the answers are staring them in the face. • Jus caus says: Interesting ….. it’s almost like ppl on this island forget that ferry carriers and helicopters take you to and from the mainland in short time …. I have to wonder is anyone listening I find it hard to believe that they are not 13. Amy McGregory says: The boyfriend and his mother killed Lindsay • ConnectTheDots says: Hi Amy, Do you know this for sure or are you stating what appears to be the obvious given the circumstantial evidence? Do you know the cast of characters and have inside information? 14. Svetlana says: I am shocked that the police will not give you back Lindsay’s diary. Totally unacceptable. Whose daughter was killed, theirs or yours? • eight says: Speaking of diaries, I’m playing catch-up here and the old hands that have been dogging this case from the start may find my questions and assumptions redundant. But in the spirit of there being no such thing as a dumb question when groups are trying to solve a problem, and the thought that sometimes it’s helpful to go over old ground, I’ll continue. Does anyone know how fastidious Lindsay was concerning diary entries, did she keep one besides the one from which the photo was taken showing February 01, 2008, and who would have had prior access to either? It niggles me that there was no name attached to the entry Lindsay made regarding the showing appointment. The killers would have to make a determination that not revealing a name would pose less of a risk of scaring Lindsay off than leaving an alias subject to checking. What would make that determination easier would be someone on the other end managing Lindsay’s reaction. The experienced realtors surrounding her should have been expected to be all over the major red flag presented by someone trying to book a showing without leaving a name, but it appears that they instead assuaged any trepidation she may have felt. Why? Name and number. A salesperson’s gold. One without the other makes no sense whatever. Lindsay wrote down a number. The most elemental logic, let alone standard business practice, would necessitate asking, “Okay, who do I ask for when and if I call this number?” And apparently the person who gave Lindsay the number provided her with the name of a previous client as a reference. When Lindsay called that client to check, they were evidently unavailable. But if she had made contact, who was she planning on asking about? “ Hi. Someone called me and gave me your name but wouldn’t give me theirs. Do you know them?” Awkward at best, major red flag at worst. Do we know for certain whether Lindsay just neglected to obtain a name in any of several calls, or whether the client(s) actually refused to reveal one? And is it possible the reason Lindsay didn’t write a name on the February 01 diary entry is that she wrote it somewhere else or on a previous page on the date of first contact, and police are withholding it (even if it is an alias) for “investigative” purposes? The answers to these questions are key to determining whether the killers just got unbelievably lucky at several points in the execution of this plot, or whether they had the necessary help that could only come from a select few. • Retired Detective says: The name would have certainly been fake like the name used to register the phone. Lindsay didn’t nick-name them “the Mexicans” from what I understand. That name came from Jason like all the other information the SPD are basing their incorrect facts on. • eight says: On the Lindsay Buziak Murder Timeline page of this website the following passage appears: “While driving Jason said to Lindsay ‘I’ll come meet you and I’ll be 10 – 15 minutes or so’ and that’s when Lindsay said to Jason…. ‘okay I’ll see you in abit I gotta go the Mexicans are here’. Apparently this was Lindsay’s short hand name for her clients.” The conversation is not identified as a text, while other interactions in the sequencing leading up to the murder are. It would be important to know whether it was voice or text. Is there any evidence Lindsay referred to the clients as “Mexicans” at any other time to anyone? So far in my reading all I’ve come across is her reported description of the woman’s accent as sounding “weird”, and she couldn’t pin it down. I feel it’s important to know if she ever referred to them as “Mexicans” before and whether the conversation was voice or text because if there is no previous evidence of her using the term, and all the police have is Jason Zailo’s version of what she said in a phone call, the obvious question becomes how he knew they were Mexican. On the other hand, if it was a text the police know whether she used the term or not. Anybody know for sure? • Retired Detective says: I believe he called Lindsay and called Ryan. DateLine showed a phone with a text but that has not been confirmed by police that it was a text. Since Lindsay didn’t refer to the clients as “the Mexicans” it is likely there was a call and that information came from Zailo. The police said the text to Lindsay from Zailo saying he would be there in 5-10 min was the last. He claims he texted her around 6:00. We do not know what is true since Horsley’s story didn’t match Jason’s. Just with this small but important piece of evidence, can’t everyone see the confusion and inconsistencies surrounding the information released to the public by the SPD? It appears they are unorganized, uninformed, unprofessional, ignorant, and disrespectful to the Buziak family and the public. They are employed by the public and are required to answer to the public. Saanich and BC overall, needs major police reform. And as always, we have come full circle back to the source of the problem, the Saanich Police Department. • Jeff Buziak says: Bingo! Saanich police have made a complete mess of this whole investigation from day one! They are solely the reason nothing has been done on Lindsay’s murder in 12 and a half years! Arrogance to the extreme. Zero transparency. Deception, confusion, no continuity and piss poor to no effective leadership yet they proudly shine their badges and walk around with their heads up defending with explanations and excuses……mostly blaming everyone for their failure. They get their friends to review them and stroke them but we don’t get to see the review. This whole scenario stinks to high heaven of another cover-up by Saanich police. If it helps, Lindsay never once referred to the mystery couple as the Mexicans to me and we had various conversations about them. Saanich police are basing their entire investigation on what OJason Zailo and Cohen Oatman said and blaming the Del Alcazars and “A Cartel” so they can make like it is impossible to solve if it is cartel when really everything they need was in the house and is right under their white powder coated noses in Victoria! They want to squash the Del Alcazars so their friends can control the trade in Greater Victoria. Just ask the very well connected Chris Horsley, developer, financier, trucker, party boy, media partner, project manager and, oh ya, Saanich cop. He knows everything but won’t tell. No Results – No Respect Justice for Lindsay • ConnectTheDots says: Everything you would expect to see in a cover up. • ConnectTheDots says: I find it very interesting that he called Ryan as it has been said that Ryan has bragged about his role in this murder. 15. Svetlana says: Just wondering just how single was Jason when he met Lindsay… 16. Jeff Buziak, father says: Nancy Hixt – Crime Beat Hi Everyone. I’ve been communicating with Nancy Hixt about doing a feature on Lindsay’s unsolved murder. Nancy and I have done some work on Lindsay’s murder and the effects of homicide on family and friends in the past. She has been very supportive and I respect her a lot for what she has done to help. Moving forward, Nancy has assured me Lindsay’s unsolved murder is on her radar and she is very aware of where it’s at since we’ve been in touch. Your support in emailing her is greatly appreciated and Nancy has got the message loud and clear of the support Lindsay’s unsolved murder receives. We can probably back off emailing her. Here is part of our conversation. “Hi Jeff, I wanted to touch base…I have been receiving a lot of messages about Lindsay’s case this week– which is always great– but if it’s possible to let any one you are dealing with know that this is already on my radar– and that I’m already looking into covering this for the podcast series–that would be great. I’m not sure if you are in contact with these people– but if you are it would be great to reassure them that I’m already on it 🙂 Hope you are having a great week!! and hope to talk soon!” Nancy. Thank you all for your dedicated support. The Lindsay Buziak Murder Posse. You are the Best! Jeff Buziak, father • Rosanne Day says: 🔺🚔BREAKING: West Shore RCMP make arrests associated with 2019 murder of Metchosin man following prison break🚔🔺 James Lee Busch and Zachary Armitage have been ch… See More 64You and 63 others · Reply · 3h Jeremy Mar Jeremy Mar Arrested? I don’t get it…weren’t they put back in jail? This one seems pretty easy to figure out. Don’t get it twisted either I have compassion for the family and am happy they have answers BUT I also have a question when I read posts like this on social media. To look at all the dedicated resources and people used to solve this “mind boggling” case of who dun it.WHY CANT THEY TURN TO THE BUZIAK CASE and put THAT one to bed! This was posted in the “What the Hell just Happened” facebook page with over 25,000 members. • Robin says: Because Saanich Police are clued out maybe, Or maybe they are protecting the Zailo’s or maybe Chris Horsley is corrupt. I don’t live there but if I was a tax player in that community or a woman who lived there, or if I knew Lindsay or her family I would have raised HOLY HELL by now. The people in that community should be twisting off by now over Lindsay’s unsolved murder. Seems like lots of people need to stand upto the bullies who are scaring YOU from speaking your truth. Don’t be patting to many detectives on the back on your island they haven’t really done fuck all for Lindsay and her family in 12.5 yrs. “Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.” … • Jus cause says: True that… but who say mr Horsley not waking up nights with sweaty feet ? I would imagine it’s getting harder to explain… bad ass friends or not… 😉 • Jus cause says: This will come to light …. • Svetlana says: I saw this comment on a youtube video. Now why am I not surprised? “the boyfriend through the rumour mill was seen partying it up at a local nightclub a week after her brutal murder…hmmm” • Dwayne says: Svetlana your comment just brought a comment to light that a young coworker made very shortly after Lindsay’s death. We had stopped for coffee at work and the topic came up, he lived at Bear Mountain in a condo at the time. he went to the gym with Jason every day ,not sure if they were close friends or just gym buddies. He mentioned Jason told him the B##ch deserved everything she got. But again your comment brought that to light. Thank you I hope it can help • Svetlana says: There is a need for criminals to brag what they’ve done but in an indirect way. It’s obvious the boyfriend is involved. 12 years free so far. But hopefully his luck will run out. • Jus cause says: Hello 25000 members…. you all have email?? Want to be helpful? 17. Jus cause says: I also sent a request email to Nancy 18. Jus cause says: I just saw a new show in “crime beat” a B.C. based show focuses on murders locally maybe a good idea to reach out to them … 19. bryan ralfs says: The Boyfriend Did This. Its Painful to See a Dad So Dedicated and Being So Misled. 20. Kevin Bradford says: Wonder if it was someone in real estate”Jealous of her success” Someone with enough crime scene experience to know how NOT to leave evidence. Knife attacks usually end up cutting the suspect as well and would leave DNA evidence. Hope ya find justice and in any case God knows and you can be sure he will handle matters in his own due time. Take care and be safe and I’m so sorry for your loss. • Lucinda says: My thoughts exactly after watching the show on ID. The Personal vicious attack, the way it was planned, it had to be someone she knew and someone who hated her, a competitor in the realtor business is likely. If someone felt she was taking $ away from them by succeeding is a real possibility. I’m sure the police checked all the people who worked with her? • Robin says: I don’t think Lindsay had been in the business long enough to have enemies other than the family she did not want to be part of. Lily took it as a real insult I think. They bought her all the nicest things and it didn’t work so next is anger. The Munsters were rejected and it is that simple. Lily thought she should have respect like the Godfather. Poor Lindsay just didn’t know how twisted people could be. 21. Justice says: So this is what I don’t get: If uncle C, Leo Beltran and the DelAlcazars lost the money in the Alberta drug bust, who told them Lindsay was the snitch and had enough fabricated evidence or influence to convince them of that lie? Lindsay did not try to contact Erickson when she went to Calgary in December 2000. She sent a friend who happened to be his relative, a message on FB. That is the only information about that visit that was collected. A big nothing burger. Ziggy was part of the Hell’s Angels operation so they likely didn’t loose anything in that bust and may have been happy to see a competitor fail. The Strong connection Between Ziggy, Jason, Cohen and Shirley would tell us that if the Zailos Were in the money laundering business with the Hell’s Angels (as speculated because of their businesses and unexplained wealth during a time when the mortgage and real estate business just crashed and Jason is wearing a shirt with angel wings in one of his photos interestingly) they would not have a need to give anyone up as a sacrifice for the loss. The connection between Lindsay and Uncle C and the huge loss from the bust Would be RG. She is also connected to the Zailos because she worked in the office.RG was Vid Acevedo’s ex GF. She was insecure, had trouble with her BF relationships and was easily manipulated by men. The problem here with believing That she was the mastermind for setting up Lindsay as a snitch is that she had no motive to murder one of her only good friends who had helped her in the past. I also do not believe RG Could have influenced Or convinced Uncle C To murder Lindsay. I also do not see the RC having the resources to set up the Artfully planned Murder alone. Vid and company are too dumb And lazy to set up something like that. Women who have been scorned are the ones who set-up elaborate murder plans. I can’t see a bunch of goods sitting around planning anything to this extent. RC May know something though and should be harassed within the limits of the law by SPD. Also if Vid knew the plan was to murder Lindsay, he likely would have told her ex and that would have been the end of that plan. Vid knew Lindsay was not a snitch and would have checked with the ex before going to Uncle C. So let’s look at the other scenario. Lindsay was leaving Zombie nation. She knew something that would hurt the Z nations future assets. Z nation set up the murder plan, a type of plan typically set up by a woman. They got pleasure from taunting Lindsay with money from a huge sale. They got pleasure from setting her up to take the bait and then showing her she got fooled and she shouldn’t have betrayed them By leaving the fold after all they did for her lol. We know Vid picked up the burn phone from the ferry and took it home for the night. Did he know what was in the box? Or who he was bringing home? His phone was on and pinging. He left it on because I believe he didn’t know what was happening. The burn phone was left on,I believe intentionally so it could be tracked to Vid. If he Had known what the burn phone was for and was turned on, I doubt he would have left his on and then brought it home for the night. This tells me Vid likely didn’t know what was going to happen with the phone and that takes RC out of the equation leaving the only other people with access to information used for the murder plan: Z nation. Who did Vid give the phone to??? Or did he just drop it off somewhere? There is a photo with Vid and Ziggy Hanging out together out there. I think Vid was set up with the phone pings to point the finger at Uncle C and the Alberta drug bust and Shirley lying about Lindsay being afraid of her ex was just another attempt At that. 22. mullings says: The call that Lindsay friend Nikki got from SZ should be looked at and it will give the police cause to dig into their phone records, and that is where they will find who really planed it. As for motive Zailo’s family is the only ones with a motive, Lindsay was leaving their office, leaving the relationship and they just new that she new too much, its why her boyfriend encouraged or better yet convinced her to take the sale, cuz he knew what was planned, if police look very closely at his movements on that day they would see that he knew what was happening inside the house, by his action and movements after he arrived at the house, he notice that only Lindsay car was there, first red flag, the couple open the door to walk out saw him and then close the door and reparks away from the front door? and waits 10 minutes!!!! knowing he was already late. all this case needs a more pressure on the Zailo family. • Justice says: So since Jason passed a poly, whatever that means, everything and anything he says is now accepted as the truth lol. So if Jason said Lindsay Never said she was going to break off the relationship, then it must be true lol in spite of what her Friends said on camera. So if Jason saId Lindsay wasn’t worried about the showing and didn’t ask him to be there for her safety and protection when meeting strangers at night in a deserted house on a deserted street, then it must be true in spite of her co-workers saying the opposite to the media. The fact that there are unbiased witnesses who have already testified in the media to the contrary of what Jason told police, should raise questions about his truthfulness and the accuracy of the poly. A poly works if it intimidates a person into confessing. We all know about false confessions now too. Horsley needs to get his head out of his ass and stop believing Jason and Shirley who also lied on DL about Lindsay saying she was afraid of her ex. Basing a case on the results of 3 people who may have been coached or worse yet, had a bad poly tech, is irresponsible and down right an insult to our intelligence and to justice. • Retired Detective says: Good point Justice. When Shirley was asked why Lindsay was afraid of Her ex, her response was weird. She said “I don’t know, she was disappointed in the relationship”. It seemed the question Was unexpected and she had not prepared a and couldn’t come up with an answer so she stumbled just like Jason stumbled and the nervousness in his demeanor seemed to intensify when he told DL why he called police, “you know, uh like I went into panic mode, uh like you know”. When some one says “you know” it is a way to try to get them on your side and when someone starts stumbling with an answer, it indicates possible deception. Stating clearly, she didn’t answer phone so after several attempts, we went to the front door and found it locked. We rang the bell but there was no answer so since her shoes and car We’re still at the house, We called the police. But no, lots of stumbling through that part of the interview like Shirley’s answer. The rest of the interviews with J and S were calm even when he described finding Lindsay’s body. Pretty weird if you ask me and I believe that’s why people who saw the episode became seriously suspicious of the munsters; they may not have known why but subconsciously they sensed deception. So if the majority of the general population sensed Munster Deception then why are the police not? Oh yeah, the poly results show The munsters are truthful people. If someone told me they were afraid of someone, my immediate and unequivocal response would be WHY??? Being disappointed in a relationship is not a legitimate answer to why a person is afraid of an ex. • ConnectTheDots says: Interesting that the SPD did not say that Jason and family had passed the polygraph. They said that they had participated to their satisfaction, whatever that means. I think that if they had passed the test the SPD would have said that. They took a polygraph and passed it. That they did not say that makes me think that they most likely did not pass it. Which makes it all the more damning imo that the Zailo’s ( all three of them ) were cleared in one swoop early on in the investigation. Did Ryan take a polygraph? Does anyone know? Someone posted that he had been heard bragging about his involvement in this. • Svetlana says: He’s bloody guilty. Hope they catch him this year. Panic mode. Like he’s some sort of electrical equipment that turns off and on. His mother probably turned his panic mode on. • lbmurder says: “Passed a poly” is a misnomer. According to Craig Samson of Saanich police, then head of Lindsay’s investigation, this is the official wording of Saanich police. Quote Craig Samson. “The Zailo family participated in polygraph interviews to our satisfaction at this time” That is not passed. Whatever Constable Horsley says in the media, as we now know, is often misdirection, misleading and not entirely accurate. The official statement is the quote above so people have to quit saying they passed, Jason passed etc…., because according to Saanich police that is not the official word. It is the words of wankers. Don’t be one! • eight says: Saanich police Sgt. Horsely on video in his own words seems to be a wanker by your definition. “Mr. Zailo and his friend were under intense police scrutiny. However, Mr. Zailo was cooperative with police,” said Sgt. Horsley. “He also partook in a polygraph exam, and he passed. “Based on forensic evidence, timeline of communications, witness testimony, video surveillance, we know he’s not the killer,” said Sgt. Horsley. “Was he perhaps somehow involved in the planning? Well he successfully passed a polygraph and he successfully took part in all these interviews with us. So at this point in time he’s not considered a suspect.” • lbmurder says: It’s good of you to agree and provide the clear evidence. • lbmurder says: Horsley was a mere minion at the time. Craig Samson was his superior officer and fully in charge of the investigation and all actions involved including the polygraph interviews. Who would you believe? The minion or the commanding officer? Craig Samson gave the official word. • eight says: Horsley’s statements on a national broadcast were specific. His superior’s (as quoted by you), are open to interpretation based on what one assumes would satisfy him. What should the public think? Section 2 of the Police Act provides that, “The minister must ensure that an adequate and effective level of policing and law enforcement is maintained throughout British Columbia.” The Saanich police, in neither word nor deed, engender trust that they will ever solve this case. That is therefore neither adequate nor effective, and Minister Farnworth is in neglect of his duty. Time to let another investigative body have a crack at it. • Jeff Buziak, father says: Those are the exact words spoken to me by Craig Samson of Saanich police who was head of Lindsay’s investigation at the time. • Justice says: Horsley’s response is a bit weird here anyway. Normally, they would say that the suspect took a poly that showed he was being truthful about not having any knowledge or involvement in the crime. Saying someone passed, passed how? Did he study and get all the answers correct? Well that would be more than “passed”. You only need to answer 70% to get a C in order to pass at University. He didn’t say he aced the exam now did he? I think we can see that Horsley’s statement isn’t specific enough but just enough to be misleading. But Horsley did say “So AT THIS TIME he is not a suspect”. At this time can Always change to a different conclusion at another time down the road. No one from the SPD has ever stated that any of the Zailos have been cleared Because they do not have enough information to be able to clear anyone at this time. If anyone claims that the SPD told them anything about the poor Zailos being innocent, they are ignorant fools. The SPD will not tell Lindsay’s family that the Zailos are innocent, why would they tell anyone else who could put the investigation in jeopardy by blabbing it on a public forum? • eight says: Mr. Buziak, apparently there was some controversy regarding Saanich police and Detective Sampson regarding the use of lie detection devices as illustrated in this link: Given that the Saanich police did not have a polygraph machine at the time, but did have a CVSA and three active or former detectives as principals in a firm marketing that competing technology, do you know whether the public was ever accurately told which technology was used to “clear” the Zailos, and who actually performed the tests? • Justice says: They were not cleared!!!!!! And they took polygraphs but we only know “they passed” but we do not know what that means. Passed how and why and what? What does passed mean technically? They did not say the results of their polygraphs indicated no deception so we believe they have been truthful about not being involved in the murder. That is a typical statement made by police, not they passed. • eight says: Your use of six exclamation marks is noted. You might notice the use of quotation marks in my post to indicate that I by no means consider the statements by Saanich police surrounding polygraphs as proof the Zailos are not implicated in this murder. • Amy McGregory says: not necessarily. The questions on the poly are not about wether they were breaking up or not but about if he killed her . Polygraphs are just a few questions that are yes or no answers • Svetlana says: Crime Watch Daily show. I am in disbelief. Hey you passed our interviews, you are not guilty, you are free! We reached out to Jason for an interview – HE DECLINED but Jason did talk to police. Detective Horsley: Mr. Zailo and his friend were under intense police SCRUTINY. However, Mr. Zailo was cooperative with police. He also partook in a polygraph exam and HE PASSED. Interviewer, Ana Garcia: Is Jason at all under SUSPICION by the police? Detective Horsley: Based on FORENSIC evidence, TIMELINE of communications, WITNESS testimony, video surveillance, WE KNOW he’s NOT the killer. Was he perhaps SOMEHOW INVOLVED in the planning? Well, he SUCCESSFULLY PASSED the polygraph and he successfully took part in all THESE INTERVIEWS with us. So at this point in time, he’s NOT CONSIDERED a suspect. 23. No says: Maybe Jason know the victims(his cooperation with police only for he will not kill her) and the Canadian friend related to the comment in the website . 24. Svetlana says: 25. mullings says: Boyfriend and his mother is the conspirators, motive is clear, police are not looking into them deep enough. • Robin says: You say not looking very deep?? Lol how about looking the wrong way completely. Kindergarten cops!!! Chris Hor$ley is still trying to use his shoe as a phone. 26. Presumption of innocence says: A vacant house on a new street, in a quiet neighbourhood, viewing after the sun goes down. A suspicious phone call from a no name client. Needs to buy in two days. Client calls Lindsay not the listing agent. All warning signs that something isn’t right. A manager won’t know every time a realtor in their office has a showing and what the circumstances are, but here this is not the case. If manager Shirley Zailo got a call to show a home under these circumstances would she have gone alone? Lindsay should have been advised to take a back-up realtor with her, and who knows maybe she was. None of this proves the Zailo family had any involvement in Lindsay’s murder, but it does show they are irresponsible and just didn’t care about Lindsay’s well-being. Was Shirley so busy that day that she didn’t see the danger brewing? So many things that happened that night make them look guilty, but are they really? Consider the possibility that they are innocent, and consider the harm that has been done to them by all the speculation. I will reserve judgement until arrests are made and we hear the facts of this case in a court of law. • Robin says: You just convinced me more of their guilt. You are exactly correct that SZ should have intervened more for Lindsay’s safety but she was the one who set it all up so you can’t be the cat and the mouse at the same time. Who else had all the means to arrange it right at her fingertips? Yes yes yes they are guilty and getting this case to a court of law is the problem. You go ahead and look the other way like the SPD but not me. Why don’t they go on the walks for justice for Lindsay if they are innocent? Why did they decline the Dr. Phil show? Why are they not helping to look for the perpetrators? We hear zippo from them! That is not the way a boyfriend behaves when the girl he loved has been murdered. Why won’t he give his DNA? Why did he lawyer up with slimy BHicup immediately? Birds of a feather flock together. • Just a Canadian Citizen says: Bingo Robin. The tricky thing is to have the evidence needed to take it to the prosecutor. When the cops say there is no evidence or DNA then what? I have watched many true stories on Dateline, 48 hours where the criminals were sent to jail on just circumstantial evidence. Whoever killed Lindsay committed overkill so this is a very personal crime. Who in BC has the guts to take this to the prosecutors, perhaps they are on the take too? Disgusting. • Svetlana says: Lindsay must have fought them and in doing so got DNA under her fingernails and they must have gotten scratched. If someone remembers anyone with scratches they should speak up. Put these vile filthy monsters away for good. • ConnectTheDots says: If they attacked from behind, which I think they did, they could have rendered her helpless to fight back. • Presumption of innocence says: There is a video that shows the Zailos on the walk in 2011, and Jason spoke to the press on that walk. The family co-operated fully with the police and we’re cleared. You failed to consider that someone else in the Remax office could be involved. Every realtor in that office had the same opportunity to access information. As did the support staff and owners of the company. I don’t consider the Zailos suspects in this murder, and maybe in the end I will be wrong. • lbmurder says: If I may, you are spreading false information by stating everyone else in the office had access to the same information. Only support staff, management and those working with Lindsay would be entitled to all Lindsay’s information. • Robin says: Well I’ll be a monkeys uncle!!!! JZ went on a walk in 2011…. let’s do some math. 2020-2011=9….. holy smoke he went on the walk 9, nine, neuf years ago… JZ please move to the front so you can collect your reward for being boyfriend of the century! You know I am sure any MAN who was innocent of any involvement in the crime I would make it a point to be visible on that walk every single year. Would that not support the fact that you say you “had nothing to do with it” as far as him speaking to the media..yes he mumbled something to the media that really said nothing much considering he is devastated that his girlfriend was murdered and he was suppose to be there to make sure nothing nefarious happened. Yes u r right it could have been someone else in that office, maybe but I doubt it. The Munsters had means, motive and Lily is very connected to Joey DeSousa and his million $$ property. As far as others in that office goes well they are probably scared to help convict the Zailo’s and the Munsters count on their bullying techniques. • ConnectTheDots says: Sure, there is a small possibility that someone else from that office “could” be involved. You still don’t clear your most obvious ( those closest to her who also had access to the information required and had relationships with the homeowner of the murder house, the SPD and other people who look like they may have been involved ) suspects. • Justice says: They were never cleared by SPD. They cooperated and were not considered suspects at the time when the police said that. That does not mean they are cleared. This is an ongoing investigation and until a person is charged, no one will be “cleared” so don’t get confused by that statement. We know Jason took a Poly but that’s all. We do know he lied about several critical points because there are witnesses who have testified in the media to the contrary. The police are basing their investigation on what lying Jason told them because he passed a poly in spite of contrary statements of Lindsay’s friends and coworkers who had nothing to gain by lying. Jason’s lies have never made sense either. These lies are huge red flags to everyone but Horsley, Looser ex-cop pee-tester and his 2 wanna-be minions. Pee-tester said people hide behind pseudonyms. I think he does so he can post here too since nobody visits him, jelly pee-tester. • lbmurder says: “Passed a poly” is a misnomer. • ConnectTheDots says: What you have mentioned here is a small drop in the bucket of odd/bizarre/suspicious behavior on the part of the Zailos on the day of and after the vicious, very personal slaughter of Lindsay. Does some of this shout absolute guilt? No. But put it all together and it paints a picture that can’t be ignored and most certainly screams that these people should not have been cleared! 27. Marcus Landry says: Best of luck find these fucking pukes karma will get them but hopefully they get delt with before it all comes around goes around god bless 28. eight says: At the time of Lindsay’s murder, the long-running BC Rail trial was under way. Court filings, including to the Supreme Court were being made regarding secret witnesses. Also at the same time, two prominent people in the Vancouver Island real estate industry were under indictment for bribing a public servant to get land released from the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). The public servant was not only under indictment for accepting that bribe but was also named in several indictments in matters at hand in the BC Rail trial. (Eerily, given Lindsay’s similar reference to the fake buyers, he referred to Christy Clark’s brother Bruce as “The Mexican” in the transcript of a recorded RCMP wiretap.) The assistant special prosecutor in the BC Rail trial is on record as saying the individuals in the ALR trial were waiting to plead until they saw how the BC Rail trial would play out. And that wait appears to have been worth it. Charges against the two prominent real estate chaps were dropped, and their company was fined $200K in October of 2010. But here’s the thing: they couldn’t have known that in February of 2008, when they were staring down the barrel of prison time and the issue of secret witnesses was being litigated in the BC Rail trial. Same goes for the civil servant they bribed. He was in even more of a jam. On page 32 of this link (para #41) he is said by the RCMP to have $870,000 of unexplained income in his bank account: Click to access Search_Warrant_App_1068801a.pdf He also had personal and family ties to some in the same cast of characters we met in the Beltran saga. One of them was the brother of Lindsay’s ex-boyfriend and apparently was on the BC Rail trial’s witness list for some reason. Another, his cousin, was a drug dealer sentenced in 2008 to nine years in prison in part based on wiretaps from 2003 that may have also been produced as evidence (implicating who knows who in what) in the BC Rail trial had it not been shut down prematurely. But the government was so anxious to get the BC Rail trial put to bed without any high-profilers and their skeleton closets called to the stand that it cooked a secret (and illegal) $6.4 million plea deal with the civil servant behind the backs of the special prosecutor and the judge. The question that might be asked here is whether this was made possible because somebody had the motive, means, and morals in 2008 to eliminate a witness who saw something she shouldn’t have. A witness that should have been, and expected to be, protected by the Crown perhaps? I make no allegation about the individuals actually on trial; they may well have been squeaky clean except for the offences they were being tried on, but there were many in the shadows watching those trials with bated breath. All hoping nothing would come out implicating them. And some with a special interest in what a secret witness might reveal. Could Lindsay have interacted with any of the players in the web of that BC Rail or ALR trial to the extent she learned something that troubled her enough to secretly report it? Would she keep that secret from her close circle and even her father if asked to by the authorities, thinking (incorrectly) that those authorities would protect her? Would those same authorities be willing to look hard (or at all) into the many connections between the underworld and the politically and corporate elite and where Lindsay may have unknowingly and inconveniently intersected? Until the Saanich police or another investigative body recommends charges against the killers, we the public should feel free to ask any and all questions that come to mind. Because until the police can tell us who did it and why, our guess is as good as theirs. • Justice says: Lindsay was not a witness or informant anytime or anywhere. She had parted ways with her ex 2 years before. This is all an interesting theory but you have nothing that would make her a threat to anyone but the Zailos. Lindsay had relationships with people Who were connected to selling illegal drugs just like all the other girls on Vancouver Island. There is nothing, not one shred of evidence to tie here to a bust of any sort. There were several people in the office who are the obvious suspects: The Zailos and Rianne. Who had the enough Influence and resources To set up the plan?? Influence is the key. • ConnectTheDots says: You just described Shirley Zailo. • Robin says: As interest and annoying as the information on B.C. Rail you just can’t shake the Zailo’s off. Jason’s behaviour on the day Lindsay was murdered cannot be brushed off. The fact that Paul Bergshoeff and Joe DeSousa and SZ had a connection adds upto them. Is it not obvious when JD’s house just happened to be the one Lindsay showed. The requests of the caller would take to that very house and I am sure SZ was hanging around Lindsay the day she got the call to point Lindsay in that very direction. There are many many reasons why you can’t move past the Zailo’s. If you are not aware of them then you will not need to go very far back to come across them. They have been pointed out many times. What about SZ saying she went for a walk with Lindsay and Lindsay said she was scared of Matt, such bullshit. Slightly over planned. The couple who were out of town they happened to give Lindsay’s nbr to people, more bullshit. The odds of winning the 649 are higher than all the occurrences coming together like they did. This has SZ’s mark all over it. These aren’t all the synchronicities either. Maybe the SPD should turn this case over to the Fire Department to get solved. Cops aren’t apples. There can be one bad apple in a barrel of good. But if you have one bad cop in a precinct, and 99 cops who don’t call the bad cop out, that’s a hundred bad cops. • eight says: The possibility that Lindsay discovered something related to money laundering connected to some “elite” members of society and the possibility that the Zailos were involved are not mutually exclusive possibilities. There is evidence (provided by her father) that Lindsay discovered something that troubled her and she was unwilling to tell him what it was. It is a fact that she was involved in real estate and was connected to people (including the Zailos) who were connected to many shady individuals who have strong links to high profilers involved in the BC Rail affair. That trial resulted from information gathered in an investigation into drug trafficking and money laundering. It therefore remains a possibility that Lindsay was witness to information dangerous to some and ultimately herself, and to assert with certitude that Lindsay was not a witness or informant anytime or anywhere, is among other things, premature. It seems to me that if the goal is to light a fire under the investigative feet of the Saanich police or to have the file transferred to another body, then the individuals who can make that happen will need to become uncomfortable with the status quo. They seem quite comfortable now with public speculation focused on the usual suspects. Asking questions that have not yet been canvassed may jog memories or make someone uncomfortable enough to create some movement and start threads unraveling. The current focus isn’t working. 29. eight says: One theory I’ve read online posits that Leo Beltran was led to believe Lindsay was the informant responsible for the investigation and so he moved within a matter of days to plan and personally carry out the killing. Did Beltran have motive, means and morals to carry out the murder? You bet. My question is whether he would be reckless enough to do so given the circumstances. Knowing that there had obviously been a police investigation into the activities of his crew (even though he had not yet been arrested), he would have had to consider the possibility police were watching him. He would also have to consider that if Lindsay was indeed the informant, the police might be keeping a protective eye on her. Would it be wise then for him to personally and immediately set out from Calgary to unfamiliar territory on Vancouver Island to commit a murder under the possibility that both he and the victim were being surveilled? Or would he have felt it wiser to let it be known that the cartel would be looking for some rapid indication that whoever the snitch in the supply chain was, they had been dealt with? Apparently some midnight rousing to that effect did take place according to Sgt. Horsley. That might have prompted whoever the real informant(s) were to find a scapegoat. They would know that Lindsay wasn’t the real snitch and therefore not under police watch, and as time was of the essence in mollifying the cartel they had to act quickly. Of course that possibility presents major problems as well. Lindsay was likely to recognize any of the locals, so they couldn’t act as potential buyers. Nor obviously could the real informant, who was known to the police and would surely attract their immediate attention upon Lindsay’s murder. Any number of those attached to the drug scene and their acquaintances on the Island could have contacts in Vancouver or elsewhere willing to do a job for a price or to pay off a debt. And some had local contacts in the realty business to facilitate a ruse. But other than Beltran or the real informant(s) who would have a motive connected to the Calgary drug bust? Beltran or the real informant(s) had obvious motives but would have had to realize that because of that they would be very conspicuous and immediate suspects. If not already under surveillance both should have been, and should have expected to be in any case. It appears then that the Calgary drug bust was probably used at most (if at all) only as convenient cover for some other motive. By someone who had the connections to the underworld and Lindsay’s real estate circumstances necessary to plan and carry out the hit using very few people, and those few being capable of maintaining complete radio silence. That someone may have been more connected to the laundering arm of illegal drug operations than the import and sale division. There is a public inquiry under way right now looking into the rampant money laundering that was going on back then. Real estate agents and mortgage brokers are key players necessary for laundering money. Lindsay, by way of her occupation and connections to certain individuals in that industry may have unintentionally entered the laundromat. I wonder how capable the Saanich police are in that area, and whether they have been loathe to look around some corners for fear of what they might find. • lbmurder says: Time has shown Saanich police are not capable. No question there now. The tricky part is how close is Constable Horsey considering his part time police focus and his success as a real estate entrepreneur financier. Red flag? • Rick Larsob says: Let’s be honest you have every mother fucker pin pointed and done in . The cops are useless bastards worse than the fucking scum that run the streets shooting up. Except they cost a lot more. Ever wonder why the police and government workers hate being filmed because they are doing fuck all. FUCK ALL useless bastards. • Svetlana says: If there was money laundering going on at Camosun then there could’ve been a number of agents involved. • Following says: More often than not it’s the obvious. The fact the boyfriend was there, the mother arrived so quickly, the whole story had a narrative, it’s probably Lindsay saw something, didnt want to marry the guy, she needed to be eliminated to preserve the source of money. It writes like a novel. 10 years ago you could read a lockbox. The lockbox could have told the key story. If the lockbox is still part of evidence it’s going to involve one key access. Whether a copy of the key was made, the times the key was accessed, even lack of any key access tells you the story. Since the novel is so precise you cant help feel there was a rehearsal. The key access would tell you a lot. • Retired Detective says: Good point Justice. When Shirley was asked why Lindsay was afraid of • lbmurder says: “Passed a poly” is a misnomer. 30. Just a Canadian Citizen says: We all know there is corruption in BC. I think it is pretty clear what happened to Lindsay and by who. What I don’t like is name calling on this site. I assume we are all adults and name calling just make this site less credible. Can we stick to names and not name calling? I support this site but when I have to read posts and posts with name calling I find the posts to be childish. Sorry if you don’t like it but can we just stick to the facts and the real names of those involved? Thanks • Robin says: Just a Canadian Citizen I apologize for offending you but for me I am just calling it as I see it. They are not proving to me in any way that they deserve the titles they are carrying right now. I hate putting lipstick on pigs. Maybe I did get a bit carried away but it sure felt good and even better to see it in print. However I will consider your opinion for sure. • Just a Canadian Citizen says: Thanks Robin. I understand the anger and hatred and pain but this is a serious site. I want to read posts that hold up to the standards of being respectful to Lindsay and her family. Name calling takes this site to a lower level and we are all respectful Canadians whether those we spoke of deserve it or not. Thanks. • Robin says: Just a Canadian Citizen Just to be clear I have total respect for Lindsay and her family and this site. That’s a given. Anger, pain, and hate, no chance of any of that over any of them. I always think of my Dad’s quote when thinking of THEM, he said this after we watched the police carrying all those boxes out of the legislature building the night the B.C. Rail scandal broke on the news. “When I see what goes on around me I think I am a GD genius”. Also sorry to tell you I am becoming a disrespectful Canadian because of what goes on in B.C. (Being Corrupt) maybe if I had a hockey bag of money to launder my disrespect could be bought back. Being that Cohen O. is a manager at a B.C. Casino now he could get me at least one of those hockey bags. • ConnectTheDots says: While Just a Canadian Citizen has a good point I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed your post Robin and I think that you are bang on with your points and the direction of your sarcasm. • Robin says: I laughed while writing that post and I did enjoy the truthful feelings it brought to my gut however I also know better and my Mom would be appalled. I agree thst JACC had a point too. However…………………………. Politicians and Police are a very frustrating bunch. It becomes very frustrating when they do not answer questions from the people who pay them. I’ve lost faith in the system that does not act with honesty and integrity which is what has happened in B.C. Why are politicians hiding the details of the B.C. Rail Scandal from the people of this province? Obviously because the public would be outraged at the details. This information belongs to all of us and any government that hides details from the people is a dictatorship. I despise the Liberals and now the NDP for covering up deceitful behaviour of criminals, this is criminal behaviour all by itself. I know for a fact how many people have written our politicians and SPD about Lindsay’s unsolved murder and they haven’t even got the decency to respond. With so many people questioning the going ons the least they could do is remove Lindsay’s case from the Saanich Police after 12 yrs of nothingness. They at least owe that to Lindsay, her family and the public. If they can’t have arrests in 12 yrs it is obvious they need an intervention. With what the politicians have allowed to go on in B.C. why would we trust police or government, look how Rich Coleman has slinked away now that the public are onto him. When was the last time Gordon Campbell poked his head out of his ass? The public are ignored! It is insanity. I’m real tired of it hence my post full of name calling and swearing. I’m tired of not being listened to, I’m disgusted that we have to fight for the police and government to get a handle on Lindsay’s unsolved murder, there is a cover up going on here, what else could it be with what we are witnessing all around us. If we can’t get justice for a young women who was viciously murdered by criminals in 12 years what’s the point of being in a civilized society? To any people who have a daughter how would you feel if it was your daughter that was lured to her job and viciously MURDERED? Why aren’t the police and politicians doing more for Lindsay and her family? What about all the other murdered and missing women in B.C.? I respect JACC and Jeff’s site and everyone else too enough that I know I was out of line with name calling and lack of respect for those men but maybe they’ll listen to that, they aren’t listening to rational, appropriate language and proper titles. I know the police and politicians can do way more to see that we, the people see justice for deadbeats who think murdering someone is ok so get doing it! I do not want to live amongst people who are capable of ruining the lives of so many people. How do you think Lindsay felt knowing the end of her life was near and her death would be what her family would be confronted with soon? You can bet that thought crossed her mind when she realized or was told she was going to be killed. The gut feelings she had been getting since she took those phony calls came together then. She was betrayed by people who had pretended to care about her. She had just had lunch with one of them. There is a place for psychopaths that can go that far and it is called JAIL. Put them there FFS. • ConnectTheDots says: I laughed when I read your post too. I agree with everything you have said. The most damning aspect of this case imo is the clearing of the whole Zailo family early on in the investigation. Who does that? Everyone knows, and I hope the police would be part of that, that the people closest to a murder victim are your most likely suspects. Especially a murder with the kind of personal over kill that you see here. The SPD seem to have forgotten who they work for. Hint: It is not the Zailos. They either need to unclear the Zailos or make some arrests. NOW WOULD BE GOOD. • Just a Canadian Citizen says: I can’t imagine the heartache this family has gone through. We need to find a way to get this declared a cold case. I don’t live in BC but I believe there is alot of illegal actions going on in all of the provinces. Honestly besides all the letters, this site, the petition I have no answer how to get through to anyone in charge. This truly breaks my heart. 31. Rosanne says: These two items appeared back to back in my newsfeed. What has this got to do with Lindsay? There are some very strange coincidences. The first article states how money laundering with mortgages is happening, ” Making a connection between criminals and real estate. Canadian banks offer ‘one-stop shopping’ for money … 25, 2020 ” This second podcast is very interesting and more coincidences. This case is 18 years old and unsolved. The police apparently know what happened but it remains an open case and they seem to be waiting for some kind of confession. The main suspect comes from ” a prominent real estate family,” So the police somehow back off on him. Heavy criminals are also quickly brought into this case. “Case of missing Nanaimo woman inspires new true crime … Nanaimo News Bulletin-May 26, 2020” When did Real Estate, Police, Criminals become connected and why when a murder takes place with all 3 elements does it seem that some pretty influential eyes are turning away? The police on their own without help higher up the power chain could not get away with this crap! The banks on their own could not either! Real Estate is regulated and watched, how can they literally get away with murder? My personal experience with real estate has been with a few real nice ladies who probably have never had a traffic ticket. What the heck is going on here? • Following says: I completely agree. A real estate forensic of Shirley’s business wouldnt be a waste of time. Number of all cash deals, lists of repeat buyers and sellers, spacing of those purchases, profits made, losses made, closing statements and bank trading of funds. If there was a sudden pause just before Lindsay’s death in all cash deals and then a resumption of all cash deals. Electronic access to lockbox records. This was a well written script that obviously had planning. If there is an all cash transaction gap and a resumption after her death, that’s telling. Wouldnt be surprised if SZ did it herself • Robin says: Money, money, Money, dirty money, drugs, money, inflated real estate prices, dirty money, Hong Kong going back to China, dirty money, shifty real estate owners/managers, Rmx Camosun, criminal minds, politicians, power, dirty money, police, dirty money, dirty, dirty money, drugs, drugs, drugs, dirty money, on and on and on…… lack of morals, shifty, selfish people, connections, liars, cheaters, murderers, money, money, money, DIRTY money, connections. That’s how and why they can get away with murder. BUT they aren’t going to get away with murder because we are here a long time not a good time. 32. EyeWitness says: HEY COHEN!! Didn’t you find it strange that your buddy drove away from the house not once but TWO times? First time, Second time. One, Two. Secret messages? You witnessed it. You were there. • Robin says: And Cohen you know don’t you, but u are bullied into silence aren’t you? Must be awful to look that POS everyday knowing he used you as his scapegoat. What goes around will surely come around. How ya sleeping at night Cohen? • Blackjack says: In January 2008 he started working for Dominion Lending Centres Inc., for 6 years as a mortgage broker. That’s right before Lindsay was murdered. Then he worked for Mortgage Alliance and Zilla Mortgages, again as a broker this very year when he becomes a General Manager for the CASINO. • ConnectTheDots says: I thought his association with Jason was mostly through hockey. Interesting that he joined up with them professionally just before Lindsay’s murder. What was he doing for a living before that? • Robin says: So good old Cohen has been promoted by the dirty people, interesting. Did you say MANAGER of a casino, lol, an effd up corrupt B.C. casino… the ones where you can get a hockey bag of cash to mess around with? Holy FK… hey SPD, Chris Hor$ley, Chief WTF, Detective who gives a FK, Mayor Fkface, Premier fkhead, AG David, ignoring all U FK heads, P$ Minister Mike, fk it all…… WAKE THE FUCK UP, who’s running this shit show of a province the LIBERALS? This is a bloody script for TV right before my GD eyes. How was it that none of you were born with balls? Aren’t ya all pathetic, weak men! • see closely says: What you conveniently omitted from your opinion is that the government of BC for the last three years is NDP in cohort together with its Green party’s a** lickers.That put your opinion and bias in right perspective. • Robin says: I could have continued on believe me with every politician but I think we all know the history of the Liberal government in B.C. my point being really just who are any of them looking after way up there at the top. They can’t possibly be oblivious to what is going on with Lindsay’s unsolved murder so just who the fuck are they serving? I have tried over and over to get the attention of all these so called MEN at not one has enough balls to confront a serious issue like MURDER of a young woman who was just beginning to put her life together on her terms. These men and all politicians need to be called out on this, they are all looking the other way on purpose. They are disgusting sheep posing as men in suits. Wimps effin wimps. • ConnectTheDots says: If this information about Cohen is correct it really does complete the script. How is it that the SPD have gotten away with clearing these people? And so quickly into the investigation? • Justice says: Thanks for speaking the truth!! They have balls but they like the money more than justice. • Jus cause says: I’m guessing night time is the time it creeps into your thoughts… feet get sweaty 🥵 you wonder. replay in your mind … gotta be awful • Robin says: Yup I bet hey Cohen. The nights must be awfully restless for ya. I guess both you and Lindsay learned a real tough lesson about getting involved with the Zailo’s. The wolves in sheep’s clothing family. I bet ya Jason asked ya if you wanted a job at Dominion lending too hey Cohen, they were plotting Lindsay’s murder I bet by November 2007. You played right into their dirty, grimy hands CO. FO CO 33. Felicia says: Lindsay Buziak knew too much information about the drug break in Calgary of that year. She knew that her boyfriend was a part of the gang that was busted and the gang was worried that she knew too much and would call the cops. The boyfriend hired the lady in the colourful dress and the man to kill Lindsay while acting as buyers. This is how her boyfriend knew where to find her after she buttdialed him during her murder. He didn’t look around, he ran straight to the master bedroom where she was killed. He was a mastermind and knew exactly how to make himself seem completely innocent. • Robin says: You seem very sure of what you say. Where did you get your information from please? OR is this your opinion from watching shows and reading what is in the media. • Svetlana says: He knew she was at that house so he was not trying to find her – not sure where you got that statement from which makes no sense about buttdialing him. And people should stop using that term buttdial – it is POCKET DIAL. 34. Concerned says: You should speak to Sharon Price. She owns and operates a few BnB’s on Trutch street, and had rented to the men who were arrested in SK for human trafficking earlier this year. These men were also selling cocaine and there have been some people speculating that these men and the woman they were arrested with may have had something to do with Lidsay’s murder. As we all know Lindsay said she “saw something she shouldn’t have” and unfortunately there is a strong feeling amping the community that she saw something regarding drugs (either buying, selling, or influential people taking them – maybe something worse). I hope that Saanich police will actually investigate this horrific murder as her family deserves to know what happened, and the people responsible for this crime should be brought to justice. • lbmurder says: It is also believed that Saanich police May have been involved in what Lindsay saw that was criminal in nature. Saanich police have been very quiet about this tragedy and try to hide everything about it including details and protecting key suspects while attacking and discrediting Lindsay’s father. • Donald Kimble says: This makes the most sense as to why this case has been buried so nefariously by Saanich police. She saw something that implicated them and whatever it was must’ve been serious fucking shit for them to be so obviously in on this coverup. • Magdelina says: I believe ur 💯% right. It makes so much sense. I’ve been reading and watching the same shows over and over, believing its so solvable, now I believe this is the reason why! • ConnectTheDots says: This makes total sense. It explains a lot such as the location of the murder ( Saanich ) making it within their jurisdiction. The day the murder took place ( the day after the retirements of their most experienced homicide detectives. Why this case has been headed by the same police officer that has been unable to solve it after all these years. Their refusal to declare this a cold case after way too many years of it not being solved by their police department. The conflicting information given out by that same police officer. The completely unorthodox visit that Jeff received from again that same police officer who illegally directed his side kick to not identify himself. • Justice says: Yes that is the best way to describe it, Chris Horsley buried the case and to protect who and why?? • Svetlana says: They wanted easy money in the criminal world BUT these men were about 10 years old at the time of Lindsay’s murder in 2008, with the exception of the Iranian woman Shermineh Sheri Ziaee who was 24 at the time. I think they’ll be doing jail time in Saskatoon. lol “Those facing charges include Victoria resident Shawn Alexander Kelly, who is facing five charges, Nanaimo resident Seyed Kourosh Miralinaghi, who is facing five charges, Nanaimo resident Seyed Kamran Miralinaghi, who is facing five charges, and Victoria resident Shermineh Sheri Ziaee, who is is facing six charges.” 35. Robin says: New podcast today about Lindsay’s unsolved murder. This is very well done. We hear more from the perspective of a family member and what it is like to endure such a loss. I believe we have all become numb to the number of unsolved murders in Canada. We can not accept this as the new “Norm”. Murder in unacceptable in our society, who are these losers that think they can take people away from their families? Why are they sharing the earth with the rest of us? Where THE HELL are the politicians and our supposed justice system allowing this scenario to continue and grow? At least enforce justice and the laws existing on criminals rather than turn a blind eye as in Lindsay’s unsolved murder . It’s been 12 years since Lindsay was viciously murdered and where is this investigation exactly? Obviously the Saanich Police can’t get Lindsay and her family justice so I say “Time UP” give the file to the police that can get arrests, why is that too much to ask? That is the least that should be done after this amount of time. Good grief! • Rosanne says: The depth of this tragedy comes through in every word of this podcast. Frustration and disgust for how this victim and her family have been treated and their inability to get answers or help, is growing beyond the pain of a horrible murder. Canada, British Columbia and Saanich we have to be able to do better than this! • Just a Canadian Citizen says: Just listened to the new podcast. Great job Jeff for sharing your personal side. Those of us with empathy will want to help even more. This so needs to be declared a cold case. 36. see closely says: While we are back in fairly recent history. Apparently,sometimes, in 2008 in the semi secret judicial trial,the judge committed one male person to Coquitlam’s Forensic Psychiatric Hospital.The information about this person,s name and the reason for his incarceration(a protective custody?)was prevented from coming out in public. Could this person be the one SPD referred to when they said that they are waiting for a confession? 37. Robin says: For some reason I can not get the URL for part 1 however it is available at the end of part 2. 38. Jus cause says: And jus like that justice has silenced us all…. jus sayin… • Svetlana says: Leave a Reply to Just A Canadian Citizen Cancel reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s %d bloggers like this:	<urn:uuid:49cc5de2-270a-48a2-b5e2-c02850b09800>	https://lindsaybuziakmurder.com/2011/11/11/justice-for-lindsay/?replytocom=69589	en	0.976964	0.023117	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
King of Prussia Matchmakers \| 5 Toxic Habits of Couples Have Family problems. Whenever a relationship starts to get stable and settle down, a lot of people make the mistake of taking their relationship for granted. And our King of Prussia matchmakers know that’s where a lot of problems start. They fail to notice all the details in the relationship that could potentially be a cause for a breakup. You always need to be on top of things in your relationship if you want it to survive. A successful relationship doesn’t just work by accident. Our King of Prussia matchmakers know that you have to put a lot of time, effort, and attention into the relationship. You are going to go through many bumps along the way, no matter how great your relationship may be. This means you and your partner will have to find a way to get over those bumps together. Today, our King of Prussia matchmakers are going to reveal the worst toxic habits of couples. Don’t mistake that habits in your relationship as healthy. Otherwise, you could end up hurting your relationship in the end. 1. Refusing to claim each other on social media. Not showing your partner love on social media is a bad habit. For one, it makes you seem like you don’t care about your relationship. Furthermore, it makes it seem like you’re embarrassed of your relationship or are hiding it for some odd reason. While there are a lot of reasons to keep the relationship private or on the low key side, that’s something that both parties need to talk about. If the secrecy is just from one partner, that’s a huge problem. The main reason for one partner to keep a relationship hush-hush is because they’re keeping their options open. They might not want anyone to know they’re in a relationship because they don’t want to be viewed as “off the market.” 1. Fighting in public. Another major red flag that your relationship is toxic is if you and your partner are constantly fighting in public. Yeah, fights and disagreements happen all the time between couples. But part of being in a relationship is communicating well enough to avoid having a fight in public. If you and your partner can’t keep things civil in public and are constantly getting into heated arguments, it’s a major indicator that the relationship is toxic. It’s also a good indicator that the two of you might be feeding off each other’s drama. If this sounds like you and your partner, talk about it and come up with ways to prevent it from happening. Put together a list of solutions to keep a public outburst from happening again. 1. Keeping scores and holding grudges. One major sign of a toxic relationship is constantly holding grudges or keeping scores. Keeping a scoreboard of things the other person did wrong and bringing it out every time there is an argument is very toxic. Doing this just says that you don’t want to forgive your partner and you feel like you can get away with things because the other person owes you for something they did wrong in the past. It’s seriously one of those things that can quickly ruin your relationship. 1. Dropping hints instead of being direct. If you’re dropping hints to your partner instead just coming out and saying something to them, that’s not a good sign. Weirdly enough, this is one of those toxic behaviors people excuse the most because we love to idealize having a special language only our partner understands. While this is a real thing for some couples out there, there’s a difference between communicating this way and not communicating at all. You need to speak up if something is going on. Communicating relationship issues is the only way to solve them. Sweeping them under the rug or expecting your partner to read your mind will only hurt the relationship. 1. Not letting your partner in on your plans. Whether it’s dinner and weekend plans or bigger things like career and life goals, you never want to leave your partner out. Leaving your partner in the dark about what’s going on in your life will make them feel excluded. Resentment and disconnection will do a lot of harm to your relationship. We’re not saying you should ask your partner’s permission for everything you want to do, not at all. But you should be direction, open, and honest with them. You should want their support and vice versa. If you want to maintain a happy and healthy relationship, make sure you’re not making any of these mistakes. After all, once you find love, you don’t want to let it slip away due to silly mistakes. Tired of dating people who don’t know how to be in a relationship? Contact our King of Prussia matchmakers today and let us help you find true love. Let us introduce you to quality singles in Philadelphia who are fit to date and compatible with you.	<urn:uuid:3d2ed50c-b9f3-41a0-96aa-3cf4c8cc1ee4>	https://philadelphia-singles.com/blog/2019/12/12/king-prussia-matchmakers-5-toxic-habits-couples/	en	0.954859	0.020846	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
FaceApp’s Russian Ties Spur Fears of Online Photo Privacy Adam Rowe The Russian startup FaceApp has swept the internet this week, offering a feature that gives users an aged-up, AI-powered look at their future selves. But it has spurred backlash as well, thanks to three troubling facts: FaceApp's policy offers little data privacy, the company is based in Russia, and it captures its users' photos in the cloud. The writer of one tweet that kickstarted the uproar has already apologized for a misleading claim that the app harvested your details without explicit permission. The app doesn't upload every single photo on users' phones; Just the ones that they select and allow. The backlash might not be entirely justified, but it definitely says a lot about how public opinion on photos has evolved. Poor Data Privacy Isn't Unique to FaceApp FaceApp's privacy policy has drawn ire, thanks to a lawyerese-packed terms of service page that grants the application a lot of power over your likeness: While FaceApp might technically be able to use the 80 million faces they've collected for billboards, they probably won't. The bigger question is, why aren't we mad about how terrible all terms of service agreements are, particularly in your favorite apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat? For example, Facebook's terms of service explain that it won't sell your data… but it will create a user profile based on the data, and might be able to sell that. Furthermore, you can't stop it from collecting your data by changing your privacy or ad settings. And the platform can collect information about you even when you're not actively using it. And other people can grant Facebook access to your data. And it can access your GPS location. Yikes. Here's a snippet from the Twitter ToS, which explains that everything you add to the platform is theirs to do whatever they want with: Plenty of other tech companies have equally wide-ranging agreements, as Tech.co has covered before. You can avoid FaceApp and maybe even Twitter, but it's tough to fully avoid Facebook, making it arguably the bigger threat to your data privacy. Are Russian Companies a Threat? This line of reasoning makes sense. The Russian government did indeed interfere in the 2016 US election with the goal of sowing political discord, and doesn't seem to have a reason to stop. This isn't even the first time a Russian tech company has gone under the cybersecurity microscope in recent months. Kaspersky made the news last month when Russia’s telecommunications regulations agency blocked every other top VPN providers for refusing to link their servers to the government system. Kaspersky's Russian VPN service will now be censored by the Russian government, somewhat undercutting the general point of a VPN service. The issue isn't unique to Russia, either. The China-based Huawei has been banned from US government agencies due to fears of spying. In all cases, there might not be explicit evidence that Kaspersky, Huawei, or FaceApp are compromised, but just a suspicion is reason enough for most privacy-conscious users to avoid them. Uploading Photos to the Cloud Faced with the claim that they are uploading photos, FaceApp has officially responded to state that they don't keep the images longer than 48 hours. “Most of the photo processing happens in the cloud,” FaceApp founder Yaroslav Goncahrov said in a statement, and “the user data is not transferred to Russia. Granted, there's no way to fully confirm this is factual. But, even if FaceApp does store your images indefinitely, this is yet another privacy incursion that massive tech companies have already been doing for years. Facebook has access to billions of users' images, with databases stretching back a decade, and, as previously mentioned, Twitter can do whatever it wants will all images uploaded to its service. The uproar over FaceApp isn't unwarranted. But the lack of a widespread exodus from Facebook and Twitter suggests that our fully justified and steadily growing fears of who is accessing our online images still haven't hit critical mass. It's possible that, by the time they do, we'll all actually look as old as our FaceApp selfies. Read more tech news from Tech.co This article was last updated on: Explore More See all news	<urn:uuid:f0c24321-e882-4378-a39b-8afd4c6230e3>	https://tech.co/news/faceapp-russian-online-photo-privacy-2019-07	en	0.954677	0.127791	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
How To Get Out The bull market that has basically defined the past six years seems to have stalled. After recording no gains for December or January it remains to be seen whether or not the market is experiencing a temporary lull or has reached a summit. With the Federal Reserve expected to raise interest rates in June, one can only expect that the market will push down further in the medium-term. What should you do if you’re currently holding stocks but want to get out? First of all, don’t panic – you should assess your situation and deal with it accordingly. This article is catered for strategies of liquidating stock holdings so if that is not your plan then please read one of my other articles! Scenario 1: Holding lots of short term stocks Answer 1: If you’re holding a lot of short term stocks and want to get out, you should first determine if you have any capital gains on those stocks. If you are selling at a loss, then go ahead and sell these stocks now and make sure to record your losses in order to benefit from capital loss carry-overs in the future. If you’ve made a lot of money off of these stocks and are in a high tax bracket you can sell with the knowledge that you will be paying high tax on these gains or buy put options for these stocks that expire when you can sell these stocks as long term gains.This really only works when that date is in the near future, since put options’ price is largely influenced by a factor of time. If you have to wait six more months before selling it usually does not make sense to buy put options since the cost of those options may trade at around 20% of the stock’s price. In the case of Apple, which has gone up 20% in the past six months – it’s $115 put options trade at around $11 dollars per share, which upon purchase would cut a 20% profit into only a 10% profit, which would only benefit those who are paying more than 50% short term capital gains tax (I’d hate to live in an area where my combined federal/state/local tax is that high!). Scenario 2: Holding lots of long term stocks Answer 2: Sell them! You’re going to have the pay the long term capital gains someday anyway and might as well sell when you think they’re most profitable! Scenario 3: Have no brokerage accounts, but instead have lots of money in a 401k primarily invested in stocks Answer 3: You should be able to reallocate your money into bonds or fixed income assets. Bonds have higher returns but more risk than fixed income. Unfortunately most 401ks do not allow individual choosing of bonds, instead offer a choice of bond funds. Bond funds will fare differently dependant on the length these bonds are held for. Long term bonds will fare poorly if the Federal Reserve increases the prime interest rates since the bonds themselves are locked into a lower interest rate. Posted in protection and tagged , , . Leave a Reply	<urn:uuid:7b57f304-6944-47d4-83c7-e73af63cf927>	https://thehighestreturn.com/protection/how-to-get-out/	en	0.956604	0.039675	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
When we first purchase a computer, one of the most important things on our minds is protection. Typically, this comes in the form of an antivirus program, so we are guarded against hackers and malicious software. While this is certainly important, there is another type of protection and blocker that we may overlook: ad blockers. To better understand why you may need to install an ad blocker on your computer and how you can benefit from it, use the comprehensive guide below to learn more about the software and what it helps users accomplish. Benefits of an Ad Free Browser Having an ad free browser goes beyond simply getting rid of those pesky ads that you don’t want to look at. Take a look at some of the most notable benefits of using an ad blocker on your device below. Digital advertisements have the ability to significantly slow down the loading time of web pages. This is especially true if you visit sites that frequently deliver pop-up ads while you are trying to use them, or if they have walls of advertising space that take up a lot of the web page. When you use an adblocker to prevent these ads from coming through, you get rid of a lot of the information that the browser has to load in order to get you to the website, which helps you to load the website faster and get to the content that you are actually trying to reach. Although ads are often more annoying than they are dangerous, some of the ads that you see on a daily basis could be more harmful than you think. Known as malvertising, entities or companies who are looking to do damage pay for advertising space that they then fill with advertisements that contain malware. When you click on these advertisements, or simply visit the website that they are contained on, your computer and your data are put at risk. While ad blockers may not be able to get rid of all of these advertisements, they can get rid of most, providing you with a safer and more enjoyable web browsing experience. To wrap up the entire ad block user experience in one word, using an ad blocker on your computer makes the browsing experience easy. Without pop up ads and ads that fill up the sides of websites, you can navigate any site with ease and remove the risk of running into a potential problem as a result of the ads contained within the content. If you’re having difficulty loading or using web pages because of the ads contained within them, you may want to consider using an ad blocker to make the entire experience simple. No More Web Cookies From Ads Invading Your Privacy Despite what you may have heard, cookies are necessary bits of information that are stored in your browser as you surf the internet and are designed to help personalize your advertisement experience so that you receive more content that is suited for you. Cookies and internet use go hand in hand, and you can’t have one without the other. That being said, cookies can also be used the wrong way if they are sold as data to another company or if they contain private information such as your SSN or payment details. If you’re looking to avoid these potential issues, you can use an ad blocker to reduce the chances of these disasters from occurring so that you can maintain your peace of mind as you navigate the web. The Danger of Pop Up Ads It’s no secret that pop up ads often pose a security risk. These annoying advertisements slow down our computers and if we click on them, have the ability to do much worse. There are typically two types of dangerous software injected into the advertisements, both of which we will cover below. Here are some of the dangers that pop up ads often create for users. Spyware is a specific type of malware that infiltrates your computer and collects sensitive information. Once spyware has been installed onto your device, it can gather any type of information from browsing data to credit card numbers by tracking your internet activity and keeping tabs on all of the information that is input into different websites that you use. Once the person or entity who put this type of malware on your computer has access to your private information, it can be hard to reverse the damage that is done with that information. In addition, pop up ads that install malware often give the person or people who installed it the ability to add programs or change the current settings on your computer. The term malware is an abbreviation of the words malicious software and refers to any kind of software that has been installed with the intention to do damage to the system. As we stated above, spyware is a type of malware as it falls under the umbrella term and aims to harm the user’s system. When it comes to malware, there are plenty of different kinds that you may experience if you click on a pop up ad—and some pop up ads are malware themselves! If you’ve noticed any changes in your computer’s ability to function, such as a significant decrease in website loading speed, if your computer starts crashing, or if you have noticed an increase in web activity or device usage, you may be dealing with malware as a result of accidentally clicking on a pop-up or you may also be dealing with pop ups as a result of a malware known as adware. No matter which one came first, it is important to address these issues as soon as they arise. What’s the Best Ad Blocker? When people begin researching ad blockers for personal use, the first question they ask themselves is, what’s the best ad blocker? Although there are some popular ones out there that get the job done and tower above the others, you will also need to take your own personal needs into account and consider some of the pros and cons that come with using specific ad blocker software. For example, some ad blockers may be able to remove the ads that are causing you trouble, but they may also be a company that sells your data to third parties or could malfunction and block not only ads but also important website functions as well. While you need to think about these things and ask yourself what is most important when it comes to your ad block software, here is one of the most well-regarded ad blockers for your consideration. Ad Remover Ad Remover is a quiet, lightweight ad blocking software that gives you the ad free experience you need without having to use a complex application. Ad Remover boasts some impressive features including privacy protection so that companies won’t be able to track you online, lightning fast website speeds that result in a 44 percent improvement in overall speed, an easy to use interface that gives you the ability to block ads with only a couple of clicks, and the ability to access it within your browser. On top of all of those features, they are backed by Norton AntiVirus and they give you a 7-day free trial of their ad blocker, which will only cost you $10 per month once you pay for the service. Look Out for Fake Free Ad Blocking Software Unfortunately, not all ad blocking software is legitimate, even if you downloaded it from a trustworthy website. There are plenty of fake free ad blocking software applications out there that are malware themselves and will put your computer in a dangerous position if they are downloaded and executed. While you can’t always be positive that your version is legitimate, there are ways to protect yourself by doing things such as reviewing the developer of the application, taking a look at the description of the software, and looking over the reviews for it. If anything doesn’t feel right or match up with some of the other legitimate ad blocking software apps out there, stay away from that software to avoid falling prey to a potential scam so that you can ensure you receive an adfree download from a reliable source. Despite the extensive amount of information provided above, you still may have some questions about ad blocking software. To better target some of these worries, here are some of the most frequently asked questions in regard to these useful programs. Does Ad Blocking Software Get Rid of All of the Advertisements? Many users will download an ad blocking software only to find that there are still advertisements that are coming through and making their way onto their search engine or the websites that they are visiting. So, does ad blocking software get rid of all of the advertisements? No. On some, you won’t be able to stop internet ads. Here’s why: some of the bigger ad blocking software companies will receive payment from companies in order to push their advertisements through. No matter whether they are whitelisted on your program or not, you will continue to see these specific ads or related ads simply because the company that is advertising has already paid your ad blocker to receive continued exposure. For example, if you can’t stop Google ads, Google has most likely paid off the ad blocking company to keep them in. However, there are some out there who do get rid of all advertisements. Do your research and make sure that your chosen software does not have this kind of program in place for companies who still want to remain seen despite the ad blocking software being installed. My Ad Blocking Software Is Causing a Website to Malfunction … What Do I Do? Because an ad blocking software is a type of software, there is always the risk of it causing malfunctions in certain websites or programs. Some of the most common malfunctions are disappearing shopping carts or programs contained within websites that allow you to shop or sign up for certain things. Not only can this be a nuisance, but it can be especially problematic if you are pressed for time or if it caused you other major issues. Situations like these can typically be fixed if you whitelist the website in question, or if you temporarily turn off your ad block software so that you can follow through on the desired actions. If you’re experiencing anything outside of this problem or if you are having issues working on most or all websites, check with your ad block software support team to see if there is an issue with the software itself. Does Ad Blocking Software Help You to Maintain Your Privacy? For those who are a little bit more conscientious about how their data is being used, a common question that many ask is whether or not ad blocking software helps them to maintain their privacy and keep their data from being used or stolen. While ad block software does help to eliminate potentially dangerous ads, it isn’t always cut-and-dry as to whether or not it protects your privacy and your data. For example, while some ad blocking software works in your favor, others will actually track your activity and then sell the data that they have collected to third parties. It should be noted here, however, that not all of the ad blocking companies will do this, but it is important to do your research on any ad blocking software before you download and begin using it. Does Ad Blocking Software Protect Me From All Harmful Malware? As we stated above, ad blocking software protects you from advertisements that may contain malware and this is a very helpful tool to keep you, your data, and your computer protected in the long run. However, there are some users out there who will download this software and forget to add on other protective tools that help keep out hackers and viruses. While most ad block software is great at what it does, ad blocking is typically the only thing that it has to offer. This means that you are still open to attacks and viruses that do not come in the form of advertisements. While ad blocking software certainly aims to protect you from a majority of malware out there, it doesn’t do the job of anti-virus software and it is important that you cover all of the bases by downloading each of the protective programs that will work together to ensure full protection. Should I Purchase Ad Removal Software or Use a Free Option? It truly depends on your individual situation and needs when it comes to the type of software that you choose to use. Most free ad blocking software applications out there will function as needed and will provide you with the tools you need to keep ads out of your browsing experience. If you’re looking for basic coverage, a free ad blocker will do the trick. That being said, a paid experience will often give you additional coverage and tools that will help to enhance the overall experience. If you are looking for something beyond the basic coverage, go with a paid option. The idea of ad blocking software is relatively straightforward, but there is a lot that goes into its use that users need to be aware of. If you have been looking into an ad blocker for personal use but are not quite sure what it entails or whether or not it is right for you, the information above will better educate you on the subject and allow you to make a choice that works best for your individual needs.	<urn:uuid:760440de-ec3d-4f38-b4e3-ab11f2c25e5e>	https://www.adremover.org/blog/2019/01/03/should-you-use-an-ad-blocker.html	en	0.950158	0.02563	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
The Adventure Creators are delighted to announce the launch of their Adventure Champions programme Why such a programme? Here at The Adventure Creators we’re on a mission to raise the profile of the Pyrenees, a wild and relatively undiscovered mountain range that forms the natural border between France and Spain. Those of you who’ve visited	<urn:uuid:1dfefb63-3b09-4058-8c9f-1e80ed03b90b>	https://www.adventurecreators.com/category/brand-ambassadors/	en	0.904962	0.563708	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Jordi Savall and company spark joy with Iberian program "Viol doyen Jordi Savall finds consistency in variety. His oldest project, the storied period-instrument band Hespèrion XXI, has been touring concerts and churning out recordings of medieval through Baroque period music for almost half a century. Whatever the niche, if it’s from between the 10th and early 18th centuries, Savall probably has a Hespèrion program for it, and if he doesn’t have it already, he could create one with little trouble. Add in his other two ventures, vocal ensemble La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Baroque orchestra Le Concert des Nations, or simply watch him play; a keen, insatiable drive to unearth and enliven the world’s ancient melodies is the thing that gets him up in the morning." Zoë Madonna, Boston Globe At Disney Hall, early music legend Jordi Savall shows how his Catalan roots may be ours "That Savall is a master of an instrument long out of currency (the viol being an ancestor to the modern string family) may suggest a musician confined to a limited realm, but no one in early music has ventured as far as he has during the last half century.... In fact, Savall is most famed as an inveterate cultural campaigner." Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times Jordi Savall and Friends Find Bold Contrasts "It was music director Jordi Savall himself who most embodied the interplay of light and dark in the program. His exceptional performances on the viol were radiant with virtuosity — breathtaking rapidity and range (notes octaves higher than one could imagine on the treble viol) and sparkling freedom (several wonderful pieces were improvisations with Savall in the lead and the rest of the ensemble intently supporting his inventions). And at the same time, in all of Savall’s playing we heard the dark, cantabile tone inherent to the viol as an instrument, made all the richer by his particular intensity of phrasing." Nicholas Jones, San Francisco Classical Voice The White Light Festival Opens With a Journey to the East "The evening’s first half was a master-class display of everything that makes Mr. Savall and his retinue of players so indispensable." Seth Colter Walls, New York Times Savall Holds Sanders in Thrall "All the mornings of the world may fade away, but Jordi Savall endures. The septuagenarian viola da gamba master once more enthralled, as a fully packed Sanders Theater last Sunday, February 24th witnessed him revisit the French Baroque repertoire he so popularized in the 1991 Alain Corneau film Tous les matins du monde." CJ Ru, Boston Musical Intelligencer The Critics' Choice 2018: our favourite recordings of the year "For sheer opulence, generosity and breadth of repertoire, Jordi Savall’s ‘Venezia Millenaria’ blows the competition away this year. This journey through 1000 years of Venetian history takes in everything from popular songs and ancient chants to dances and sacred polyphony – a world in magnificent musical microcosm." Alexandra Coghlan, Gramophone The Routes of Slavery “We may not know what the words mean but we feel what they mean as sound so it’s always sound first and meaning second. And the forms in which the music arrived were varied — often strophic — and had the indestructible structure of a pop song where communication is always the goal. Chants from Iberian sacred music happily co-existed and shadowed African music and vice versa.The meanings went back and forth across the stage. Operatic splendor and heartfelt intimacy co-existed.... This was an extraordinary program which brought your writer to tears which doesn’t happen all that often, but happened here big time.” Michael McDonough, CultureVulture "A magical musician..." Anne Midgette, Washington Post The genius of violist Jordi Savall, the king of early music "The accepted belief is that Jordi Savall’s genius is in the range of the musical pilgrimages he takes audiences on. Wasn’t it 1,000 years’ worth of Venice just a concert season or so ago? Now it’s to dance-crazy Celtic areas of Scotland, Brittany and the Basque country in northern Spain for the Celtic Universe concert at Toronto’s Koerner Hall on Thursday. No sweat. To span the 400 years in some two hours chock-a-block with jigs, airs and stuff that sounds suspiciously like early rock ‘n’ roll comes as naturally to the 76-year-old Spanish viol master as hitting warp drive does to a Star Trek fleet commander." Peter Goddard, Toronto Globe and Mail Jordi Savall (and Bagpiper) Explore the Celtic World "If there were no Jordi Savall, we’d all live on a musically smaller planet." Steven Winn, San Francisco Classical Voice The high art of transporting the past to the present "Recreating with 'authenticity' music from before the recording era is fraught with peril. The older the music the greater the danger of misinterpreting notated intentions and of reverentially setting in stone what was as fluid as water. Spaniard Jordi Savall's reputation as a pre-eminent performer of early music rests on his profound understanding that the art of recreating the past is to place it in the present. "This concert, Folias Antiguas & Criollas (subtitled From the Ancient World to the New World), explored the interrelationship between the folia dance form in baroque Spain and its more folkloric guises in the New World. It continued a decade-old collaboration between Savall's Hesperion XXI (here a quintet) and the Mexican sextet Tembembe Ensamble Continuo. It also turned a musicology lesson into often sublime entertainment." John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald Jordi Savall and his band of merry musicians elevate the past "To have spent the evening with Jordi Savall is to have touched the past and been elevated by its riches. "Savall, along with his band Hesperion XXI and the Mexican-South American Tembembe Ensamble Continuo, had the concert hall audience spellbound for more than two hours with their time-travelling repertoire." Melanie Coram, West Australian The year's best classical recordings "In a year when everything seemed to become political, Jordi Savall's penetrating view of the music of 'The Routes of Slavery' (Alia Vox), an offshoot of UNESCO's 2015 Year of the Slave, drew determined attention to one of the lasting plagues of mankind. It's an early-music 'Graceland,' and every bit as solemn, involving and uplifting." Tim Pfaff, Bay Area Reporter Jordi Savall: Routes of Slavery "Spanish viol master and conductor Savall has spent the better part of five decades imagining and reimagining the past through music. With over 230 albums to his credit, he is one of the most creative and imaginative musical visionaries on the global scene today. And this performance provided ample evidence of his audacious reach. "It is remarkable indeed that such difficult subject matter could be turned into such an inventive, moving, dare I say, uplifting evening of words and music. But that is Savall’s genius. As he said in conclusion, without senses there is no memory; without memory there is no spirit; without spirit there is no justice; and without justice there is no human civilization." The Routes of Slavery "In contrast to the somber narrations, this was an exuberant program, splendidly performed, mixing griot (troubadour) songs from Mali, modern versions of Brazilian traditional tunes, lively dances from Mexico, and a Catholic prayer in the indigenous Mochica language of Peru. One potent pairing juxtaposed the dance 'Saí da casa,' its wave-like rhythms beautifully captured by the magnetic Brazilian soprano Maria Juliana Linhares, with a Hesperion XXI favorite, the Christmas villancico 'Antonya, Flaciquia, Gasipà,' by a 17th-century Portuguese composer/monk.'" Heidi Waleson, Wall Street Journal Delight Rising from the Ashes of Terror "Just when you thought Jordi Savall had exhausted centuries, continents, religious, peoples, and music, he presented, for the final night of White Lights Festival, a typically ecumenical, gorgeously costumed, new discovery." Harry Rolnick, Hespèrion XXI at the Wigmore Hall "And we shouldn’t forget Savall’s honeyed viol, sometimes serving as background drone, other times the bearer of his soul. "The place was packed, the audience transfixed, the encores generous, the warmth enormous. Superb concerts such as this, at the Wigmore, prove that world music isn’t just for specialists and those who wear sandals in winter; it’s music for everyone in a harsh, fractured world seeking refreshment, high artistry and balm." Geoff Brown, The Times (London) A Musical Handshake Spanning Centuries: Venice in New York "It was, in classic Savall style, a grab bag of tiny, exquisite pieces: aching John Dowland, stately and swirling Gioseffo Guami. And the climax, in classic Savall style, was a playful, gently swaying improvisation on a Renaissance 'canario' dance melody, building into flurries of notes frizzling off Mr. Savall’s tiny treble viol." Zachary Woolfe, New York Times Herspèrion XXI and Jordi Savall revel in centuries of dance music "A packed, expectant audience greeted the world’s preeminent viola de gamba player for a highly-anticipated performance at Grace and Holy Trinity on Friday. Jordi Savall, with his extraordinary ensemble of early music specialists in Hespèrion XXI, gave an exciting, relevant concert of Renaissance and Baroque dance music ..." Libby Hanssen, Kansas City Star Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI take imaginative Venetian journey at Sanders "As always with Savall’s ensembles, the conversation at Sanders was gracious and imaginative, and also rhythmically infectious." Jeffrey Gantz, Boston Globe Savall Takes Hespèrion XXI Venetian "Jordi Savall returned to Boston at the helm of a seven-member version of his ensemble, Hespèrion XXI, delivering assorted Renaissance and Baroque dance music stretching over two centuries with a characteristic mix of meticulous research and exemplary execution." James C.S. Liu, Boston Musical Intelligencer Jordi Savall’s fresh take on ancient, rich sounds of a ‘Serene’ Italian city-state "The thrill of a Savall concert is always a sense of discovery, and over the course of two-dozen short pieces, Savall and his three magnificent ensembles and his guest artists created a transportive narrative out of unfamiliar music. The performances, deeply informed by scholarship but always fresh, had all of Savall’s hallmarks: richness of color, rhythmic proportion and a joyous sense of spontaneity." Simon Chin, Washington Post Fanfares for a Month of Venice "But when Mr. Savall brings together ensembles from the world of the Mediterranean, East and West, ancient and (near) modern, as he did last night, the result is overwhelming. Both in ideas and in music." Harry Rolnick, Musical Connections: Ancient Spain & Modern Mexico "When the audience at the end seemed to refuse to let the performers go, they returned to the stage for one more lengthy, brilliant, rousing fandango to send everyone home in high spirits." Steven Ledbetter, Boston Musical Intelligencer Stirring a Musical Melting Pot "On Friday of this sixth week of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Hespèrion XXI, led by the esteemed Jordi Savall, and the Mexican-based Tembembe Ensamble Continuo delivered exhilarating music inspired by the European discovery of the New World.... I was struck immediately by the mastery and presence of the ensemble, which consistently produced music that felt truly alive, and never static—one could almost feel the music itself breathe." Teri Kowiak, Boston Musical Intelligencer Jordi Savall Bends Time "Only rarely does a classical musician cross the line into general celebrity these days. The situation is even less common for a performer of early music, a niche within a niche. Jordi Savall is perhaps the only example, known as a humanitarian and cultural icon as well as for his work as a conductor of early music ensembles. For a rare solo recital at the Phillips Collection on Sunday afternoon, he came only with his Barak Norman viola da gamba, built in London in 1697. With a program of outrageously obscure, mostly Baroque music, he commanded the stage with magnetic charisma." Charles T. Downey, Ionarts Gambist and Early Music Scholar Jordi Savall in recital, presented by CAMA Masterseries "There is something unmistakably priestly about Jordi Savall, as was evidenced at this recital Tuesday night.... From the start, the performance was rhythmic delight, not only the ostensible pace of reels and hornpipes, but the laments and ballads that moved in surreal time flows, punctuated with lightning-strike ornaments." Joseph Miller, Santa Barbara Independent Jordi Savall wakes an early-music instrument from a long sleep "There is a quality of monkish purity to Savall’s approach, yet none of the exaggerated reverence one sometimes finds in contemplation of ancient masterworks. He talked about the instrument the same way he played it: with a directness born of years of knowledge, offering one tidbit after another." Anne Midgette, Washington Post Jordi Savall’s Magisterial Viola da Gamba Recital at the Phillips Collection "Early music pioneer Jordi Savall, who has spent his life and career reviving forgotten repertory and neglected instruments, offered a magisterial solo recital devoted to music for the viola da gamba at the Phillips Collection on Sunday afternoon. Performing on a seven-stringed bass viol made by Barak Norman in London in 1697, Savall brought to life an instrument whose expressive range is unequaled in the modern string family." Simon Chin, Chin Up Da Gamba in Celtic Lands "Some of the pieces by Hume brought out the vintage Saval—spontaneous and soulful." Victor Khatutsky, Boston Musical Intelligencer Total: 43 (Viewing: 1–30)	<urn:uuid:48a945ae-8e35-41b8-9c2e-17ee4d102cf0>	https://www.allianceartistmanagement.com/artist.php?id=jsavall&aview=acclaim	en	0.918805	0.018218	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Showing posts with label Analysed Research Paper. Show all posts Showing posts with label Analysed Research Paper. Show all posts Monday, 16 November 2015 Tips on Writing an Evidence Based and Critically Analysed Research Paper The students need to make sure that they write evidence based and critically analyzed research paper because this is what their teachers want to see when they assign them an assignment. No matter for which topic, subject or level the students are asked to write a paper, it has to be based on evidence and analyzed critically the right way to provide teachers an insight to their intelligence and hard work. It is true that writing evidence based and critically analysed research paper is not easy and the students will have to concentrate on the task at hand and give their best efforts but it will be worth it and the good results that they will get will put all their hard work to good use with dissertation writing services. This article brings some great tips for students that can help them actually understand what evidence based writing actually it and how they can critically analyse their research papers and work the right way to produce a great academic text. The first thing to do in this regard is to read their research paper questions really carefully and understand what their teachers expect from them. Once the students know what they are expected to do, they might find it easy to work on looking for the evidence and analyze it the right way to begin writing their paper. The students must understand that they cannot start looking for evidence unless they understand what evidence is required for their task and how they should look for it. The students need to make sure if the questions are the simple ones or do they have any underlying meanings. At college and university level, there are certain things that seem easy while submitting a dissertation but these are not and they also contain some underlying questions or some references and it is up to the students to understand these questions and address them. One to start collecting the evidences is to make a list of all the key points and start working on them. It becomes very hard to work on all the things at once so they should take one section at a time, find evidence for it, analyze it critically and then move on to the other section so that they are able to work out in a logical and meaningful manner. The students should research extensively and look for the best arguments and points as well as examples to make up the best evidence that impresses their teachers and readers. Unless they have the right evidence, they cannot come up with a good paper and they cannot analyze it. Having everything done the right way is important for final result. The students need to check out the correctness of the claims that they are making in their paper after successful learning experience because the teachers will cross check their arguments and claims and if they are not right, they will reject them. In the same way, if the students have wrongly analyzed their claims, they will not be able to get good marks for their efforts. Thus, working the right way to ensure the correctness of their evidence and their analysis is very important for success. Featured post How to Prepare Exams to Get Higher Marks	<urn:uuid:04208158-e84d-47c7-bed2-32b79076cf7f>	https://www.educationblogger.co.uk/search/label/Analysed%20Research%20Paper	en	0.971144	0.033981	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
How to Do an In & Out Dribble Learn how to do an in-and-out dribble from former top-ranking college basketball player Jason Curry in this Howcast video. Right now we'll talk about how to do an in and out dribble. An in and out dribble is utilized to get the defender off balance, making the defender think you're going in one direction, when in reality you're staying in the same direction that you already have the basketball. Right now, for simplicity purposes, I'll stand right here and I'll show you stationary how it should look. So as we have the basketball in our hand, as we do this move, the first thing we want to do is make sure we step with the opposite leg of the ball we're dribbling the basketball with. So if I'm dribbling the ball with my right hand, I want to step across with my left hand because if there's a defender in front of me, I want the defender to think I'm going to my left. So, as I'm dribbling the basketball, I'm going to step to my left, but really come back to my right. So, it will look like this. I have it here, I'm stepping, and I'm coming back. The last thing is to make sure, we want to stay low, but then the other thing that sells this move is our eyes. So as we do this drill, we don't want our head to look like this because if we were really going left, our head would be in that direction which is how we're going to sell this move. So as I do this drill, I'm here, I'm stepping across and I'm looking. And then now if I'm going the opposite direction, it will look like this. Step, and then accelerate. One more time. I'm here with the ball, I step across, and then I accelerate. So right now we'll have George and Jerry go to the baseline and they'll show you how it will look full speed. So as we go down the court, they'll do it with their right hand and then coming back, they'll do it with their left. So we'll watch George first. He'll step, accelerate, push it out, accelerate, push it out, accelerate, push it out. Now, as he comes back with his left, we'll watch Jerry go with his right. Here we go. Let's come back. Accelerate, push it out, really accelerate, push it out, and we want to make sure we stay low on this dribble. Stay low, accelerate, stay low, accelerate and stay low. Remember, staying low is very important when we do this drill. We want to stay low on this move because the lower we are, the more power we have to push off on our legs, and then the more we can accelerate off of this move. That's how you do an in and out dribble. Popular Categories	<urn:uuid:92700b65-6097-49d2-bca4-d64df7ba2de9>	https://www.howcast.com/videos/513954-how-to-do-an-in-out-dribble-basketball-moves	en	0.979118	0.121018	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Children are refreshingly teachable and have a way of making everything more exciting. Every day is filled with learning opportunities, and we have the privilege to be a part of it. The challenge of getting a young child to focus on something for more than five minutes is a real one. Even when something interests and excites your child to no end, a strange noise or bird flying by the window suddenly brings that learning opportunity to a quick halt. Let’s face it, not every kid is a protege or a child genius. Does that mean we should give up on introducing structured music lessons until our children memorize their time’s tables? No! Take a minute to read through these quick and easy tips to help children really FOCUS and succeed at the piano. 1. Minimize distractions. To the best of your abilities, minimize distractions. Close the blinds if practicing near a window, turn off the TV and computer, move bright/colorful pictures out of sight, etc. Kids can’t help it if something different catches their attention. So run interference! 😉 2. Schedule short practice sessions. Reduce practice time to no more than 10-15 minutes. Take into consideration the capabilities of your individual child. (Keep in mind that siblings won’t always be able to do the same amount.) Studies have shown that more frequent, short practice sessions are much more productive, and they will end their practice time with less frustration. 3. Set a timer. Young children are very concrete thinkers. If you tell them they need to sit and practice long enough to “get it” they will feel like there is no finish line, and may refuse to even start. Try setting a timer for 10 minutes, maybe even allow them to choose the sound that will go off when their time is up, and they will feel much more in control of their practice time. 4. Set goals. Talk to your child about setting short-term goals for themselves. Your child’s teacher should be providing an assignment sheet every week with a specific challenge that they can reach. Make it a point to focus on that challenge at least one practice session each week, and then let them take control and decide what they want to accomplish. Even very young ones can do this, and it will make them more invested in their personal learning process. 5. Use a stool. It may sound strange, but try putting a footstool under their feet while sitting on the piano bench. Ever notice how wiggly a child who can’t reach the floor gets? A piano is a very large instrument, and allowing them to ground their feet helps them to feel like they fit better, making them more comfortable. And bonus: this will help encourage proper form from the start! -Hannah Stewart (Bravo Employee)	<urn:uuid:9e6ebea7-5032-4c3d-85eb-05a6f225d006>	https://www.utahbravo.com/5-ways-to-help-your-child-focus-during-piano-practice/	en	0.9396	0.079589	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Listen to This Orca Repeat Human Words (With Some Raspberries Thrown In) Come for the polite “hellos,” stay for the fart noises. January 31, 2018, 4:53pm Orcas, also known as killer whales, are powerful predators, so it might seem a little intimidating to strike up a conversation with one. But research published Wednesday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B demonstrates that a captive orca named Wikie is actually capable of mimicking some basic human words, like ”hello” and “bye bye,” through her blowhole. You can listen for yourself here but be warned—there will be fart noises, and they will be funny. These “repeat after me” experiments between Wikie and her trainers were partially inspired by substantial evidence that wild orcas—and other cetaceans—speak in local dialects, suggesting that they learn their own marine language through imitation. As a performer orca at Marineland Aquarium in Antibes, France, Wikie was an ideal research subject because she is already trained to understand gestures from her handlers signaling that she copy their actions. A team of scientists led by Jose Abramson of the Complutense University of Madrid recorded Wikie’s attempted pronunciations of human speech, and were delighted by how well she was able to emulate certain words. "When we tried 'hello' and she did the sound, some emotional responses came from the trainers,” Abramson recalled in a statement. “For us (the scientists) it was very difficult not to say anything." Read More: SeaWorld Ends Orca Breeding But Its ‘Last Generation’ Will Live Another 50 Years Of course, Wikie also decided to use her blowhole to vocalize some truly exquisite “raspberries,” aka “Bronx cheers,” which are thoses flatulent sound humans make while sticking out our tongues. She may not be the most polite conversationalist, but her efforts to ape human words has shed new light on the mysterious linguistic capabilities of orcas. Get six of our favorite Motherboard stories every day by signing up for our newsletter.	<urn:uuid:7e772906-9526-4b8c-aa0e-0ff2b6dae85c>	https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3n544/listen-to-this-orca-repeat-human-words-with-some-raspberries-thrown-in	en	0.959495	0.024329	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
By 18 March 2011 \| Categories: interviews THQ Homefront Boxshot In anticipation of THQ's upcoming US invading first person shooter Homefront, TechSmart had the opportunity to ask the big-wigs at developers Kaos Studios and publishers THQ a few questions surrounding the game. David Votypka, general manager at Kaos Studios and Frank DeLise, executive producer at THQ, gave us a brief introduction to the war-torn, post invasion battlefield of Homefront. TechSmart: Trying to stand out in the first person shooter realm is like trying to stand out in a school of sardines. Which qualities of Homefront do you think will help it stick out from the rest? Homefront: In single player, it's our setting and story, and the resulting emotional punch that Homefront delivers that we think really sets it apart - but there are differences from a gameplay perspective too. Typically, the current glut of modern shooters cast you as a highly trained bad-ass with all the best kit, and a wave of military hardware to support you. In Homefront, the enemy has that military superiority. So in a lot of the single player campaign, you are the one being hunted or chased through the level. Rather than have someone bark "Take objective A" in your ear, you are the guy on objective A and it's about to be taken from you. And when you fall back to "B", they'll come and take that too. You'll be constantly outnumbered and outgunned, so guerrilla tactics, hit and run strategies are a necessity. In multiplayer we've introduced a lot of new and innovative features to the Kaos brand of large scale warfare that we think will be refreshing to both Call of Duty and Battlefield veterans alike TS: We've heard a lot of how Homefront on the PC will be a unique experience and not just a console port, are there any particular PC-only features that you're excited about? HF: We've added a ton of features to the PC version, from gameplay enhancements like advanced flight controls for aircraft and first person cockpit views, to tools for the online community like a match recorder. I guess the most exciting is the dedicated server executable we'll be shipping post launch to allow PC gamers to set up and host their own Homefront servers. TS: In particular we've heard that 3D support will be heading to the PC. Is this true, and will it also be extended to the PS3 and Xbox 360? HF: Homefront supports 3D on PC only, thanks to NVidia's 3D Vision technology, which you've no doubt seen in action on other titles. We don't support 3D on Xbox 360 or PS3. TS: Among the many features it was said that PC players will have access to more in-depth vehicle controls. What exactly will be the difference between driving or flying on PC and on Xbox for example? HF: On console, and on the default "Rookie" setting on PC, helicopters are designed to be easy to pick up and play with. We've added two additional settings for PC players - Veteran and Ace - each setting involves a more realistic and complex flight model, meaning the aircraft are more difficult to control, but reward the player who masters them with enhanced manoeuvrability. TS: What different types of vehicles can players look forward to controlling in Homefront? HF: We've included five basic types in multiplayer: the Humvee for fast point capture; a Light Armoured Vehicle with anti-air capabilities; the Tank that's great for anti-infantry and anti-armour; and two helicopters including the Apache which is our deadliest vehicle (in the right hands!) TS: We've heard that Homefront won't necessarily have to be a frantic gun battle from start to finish, and that players will be able to explore their environment and interact with characters in it to a greater extent. What interactions can we expect to see in Homefront when the bullets stop flying? HF: We deliberately add what we call "why we fight" moments to break up the action, change the pace of the game and allow the player to discover more about the world of Homefront. The Resistance camp you encounter early on is a great example of this - you'll be able to explore the environment, and see how the resistance live off the grid under the shadow of Occupation. TS: So the year is 2027, what kind of futuristic toys can gamers expect to play with in Homefront? HF: Our future history is a dystopian one, with financial, economic and environmental crises affecting the whole world, so you'll find very little hi-tech or futuristic kit. We wanted the game to feel real, and avoid going too "sci-fi." That said, we do feature a number of unmanned military hardware such as the Goliath drone! TS: As far as the actual fighting is concerned, is there anything that will distinguish Homefront from other FPS titles? HF: As I mentioned earlier, we wanted to give the player the experience of being part of a resistance unit - outmanned and outgunned by a superior military force. You constantly feel hunted and on the run as the enemy pursue you through the ruins of America suburbia. It encourages a more tactical play style as a run-and-gun approach seldom works against superior odds. TS: Will the game include destructible environments a-la Battlefield: Bad Company 2? HF: In pre-production we experimented with dynamic destruction, but found that this actually detracted from the experience. We use what we call "environmental narrative" throughout our level design to tell the story of occupied USA, and allowing this environment to be destroyed takes away a lot of what we achieve with this. In multiplayer, because of our focus on lots of vehicles with heavy firepower on the map at all times, destruction would remove a lot of the structures we placed there to support the infantry game and help balance that infantry versus vehicle mechanic. For example, in our map "Farm" there's a wooden church with a belfry that's perfect for sniping. If we allowed this to be destroyed early in the game, it would remove that tactical option from the map for the rest of the match. TS: Can you reveal anything around the game's multiplayer options yet? What gametypes will be available or what players can expect from the online component for example? HF: We support two main game-types - Team Deathmatch, and our take on the objective capture game mode called Ground Control. On top of these modes we've added a brand new innovative system called Battle Commander. With this system enable, each team is lead by a Battle Commander - this is an AI General, watching over the entire match and directing his forces to victory. When the Battle Commander spots a soldier, or groups of soldiers performing well - for example, a sniper on a kill streak, or a vehicle team causing havoc - he assigns a One-Star Battle Commander mission to that player or group of players. For example, the sniper will be challenged to get another three kills. If successful, the Battle Commander will assign a Two Star mission and so on, up to five stars Players who complete Battle Commander missions will receive benefits such as increased speed, a flak jacket, a personal UAV sweep each time they rank up, making them even more effective on the field. The opposing Battle Commander will identify enemies on a mission as priority threats, and assign a seek and destroy mission to a player on his own team. The higher the star-level of the enemy player's missions, the more team mates are assigned to take him down. If you're assigned a Battle Commander mission, the ultimate goal is to reach the Five Star level - at which point the entire enemy team will be instructed to take you out! The beauty of Battle Commander is that it makes large scale warfare personal. It rewards players for pursing vendettas - how many times in an FPS have you set yourself that personal challenge of taking out the one enemy who seems to be decimating you and your team? Battle Commander supports this basic revenge instinct with escalating rewards to create some amazing emergent scenarios in the match. Battle Commander is a great mechanics for both highly skilled and more casual players - for those hardcore FPS players, getting that Five Star missions become a huge bragging right and earns you instant notoriety in the match. If you're assigned a seek and destroy mission, you have your own shot at glory to take out that Five Star opponent, and if successful you'll be rewarded with a huge stock of Battle Points allowing you to deploy drones or a killer vehicle and maybe earn a Battle Commander mission for yourself. TS: Does the team play other developer's games such as COD, Mass Effect, and Medal of Honor? And do the elements featured in these games have impact or influence when developing a game such as Homefront? HF: We love our FPS games at Kaos and we all play and enjoy the best of the competition! Having said that, we also look to other genres for inspiration - for example, one of our lead designers has a background in RTS games, and you can see this influence in some of our new innovations like Battle Points. TS: Homefront is looking like it's going to be a huge success; can we expect a new FPS franchise? HF: We've created a huge world to support Homefront, and although right now we're 100% focused on getting this first game out the door, there are plenty more stories to tell in the Homefront world. We feel we've barely scratched the surface to date! Start reading now > Download latest issue Have Your Say What new tech or developments are you most anticipating this year? New smartphone announcements (5 votes) Technological breakthroughs (8 votes) Launch of new consoles, or notebooks (7 votes) Innovative Artificial Intelligence solutions (3 votes) Biotechnology or medical advancements (7 votes) Better business applications (1 votes)	<urn:uuid:024817f1-3129-4d8e-8da6-f919a37ac0f5>	http://techsmart.co.za/features/interviews/Homefront_-_The_Interview.html	en	0.948158	0.059339	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
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On Programming Hi all, – it’s back to school and college time again now. It doesn’t be long coming around 🙂 The weather of course regularly settles at this time of the year. Everyone’s attention turns to education of some form or other whether it be back to school, college or night classes. Woolly jumpers, hearty stews, battles with colds and flues are all ahead of us now 🙂 Programming sometimes strikes fear into hearts of the most hardy of us. I often wonder why this is? I think it is that we have to learn to think differently, in that we have to “think like a programmer”. This doesn’t come naturally to all of us but by taking a step by step approach it can be learned. The key to solving any problem is to break it down into smaller more manageable pieces. I’m reminded of the old adage “How do you eat an elephant?” – bit by bit. Think of any real world action that you take say for example making coffee. This task can be broken down into a set of steps. A true test of these steps is whether they can be followed by a complete stranger accurately. When we program we give the computer a set of instructions to follow. Our logic has to be correct. Usually when learning to program “pseudocode” is used. This is English that is very compact, clear and very concise. It isn’t a coding language. Pseudocode helps us to break down larger problems into smaller steps. It can get us on the road to “thinking like a programmer”. From pseudocode then we move to the basics of the language, say, Java. The convention is for the first program written to be a “Hello World!” program. (This is a program that simply prints the message “Hello World!” to the screen. It is usually used to test that the programming environment we are working in is functioning correctly.) The programming environment is the application you are using to run your code e.g. BlueJ, Processing or Eclipse to name but a few. It is vitally important then that you program regularly and become competent with solving problems that may arise as you write your code. The key to programming is to try things out, make mistakes and learn from them. The mistakes we make can be looked upon as “discoveries”!! Keep up with what is going on in the lectures and put the theory into practise then in the practical classes. Don’t be afraid to ask questions – if you are not sure of something neither are others. So, whether you are embarking on learning a programming language yourself or learning it in school or college try to approach it with a sense of enthusiasm and willingness to learn. You may even surprise yourself!! Best of luck to you all.	<urn:uuid:b8b41ec0-eeb4-4556-85e7-5c52d635a10c>	http://www.brendaoneill.com/?p=418	en	0.938486	0.030498	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
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SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online vol.20 suppl.1"El orangután le dijo a la orangutana"Coevolución en redes sociales índice de autoresíndice de materiabúsqueda de artículos Home Pagelista alfabética de revistas Servicios Personalizados Links relacionados • No hay artículos similaresSimilares en SciELO Educación química versión impresa ISSN 0187-893X LEON TRUEBA, Ana Isabel. Scientific disciplines: only source of scientific content for basic education in Mexico?. Educ. quím [online]. 2009, vol.20, suppl.1, pp.263-271. ISSN 0187-893X. For over 40 years criteria to select science contents for basic education in Mexico focus on structure, fundamental ideas and methodology of scientific disciplines. The science curriculum declares that science education should be useful to students to prepare them as citizens who could use scientific knowledge and process to solve problems of their everyday living. These ideas were justified with the argument that citizens who knew science would be able to understand their social and natural environments and therefore they could act on it. The objective of this article is to promote the debate about the disadvantages of designing the science curriculum from this perspective. Author's work in rural and indigenous communities shows that educational needs of the students are not in agreement with the science contents in the curriculum: a) The knowledge that students need for understanding a specific problem of their everyday living and make decisions to solve it bears no relation to the science content in the curriculum. b) The levels of generality and abstraction of the science content do not correspond with those that students require to understand their reality. c) The organization and distribution of the science contents in the different educational levels do not correspond with student's needs or wishes to know them at specific moments of their lives. d) Science curriculum is not useful for satisfying the educational necessities of the rural and indigenous communities. They need scientific and technological knowledge but schools are unable to offer it to them properly. Palabras llave : Science education; curriculum; cultural diversity; primary and secondary education. · texto en Español · Español ( pdf )	<urn:uuid:d870da96-412e-48d5-b67c-1ab6026f8bce>	http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0187-893X2009000500009&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en	en	0.734244	0.024904	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
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В советской России, Деньги Тратят Вас! For those of you undoubtedly wondering, the title of this post is “In Soviet Russia, Money Spend you!” onward, then, to BLOGPOST V Foist things Foist, let me state what I think Amartya Sen is saying in her his(?) blurb. The Danger she seems to indicate is in inconsistency. “Seeing poverty” as income-related, and THEN investing in things that don’t help income directly, is a bad idea. its a good way to lose money and not achieve anything meaningful. Health care and education are good “Development” goals, but terrible, terrible investments if you hope to operate in the green. But those comics seemed to indicate something else, and Dr. H saying that the comic books were s’posed to help us figure out what Sen Says, i’ve got this lurking feeling that i’m barking up the wrong tree with my interpretation. I feel like the INTENDED interpretation was something along the lines of “Poverty =/= income only”. As the comic books indicated, it had alot to do with “FREEDOM” to be “capable” of doing things. in other words, building mini-america’s all over the place. Besides the inherent problems i believe exist with attempting to reform governments (its kind of like a passive-aggressive invasion, no?), there are practical problems with trying to enact SOCIETAL reforms from the comfortable padded chairs of the Econ House conference room. But lets assume we DO want to attempt societal reform. Honduras Constitution <= i bid thee feast your eyes upon this! especially Part 3. it looks as if they've got social equality (for the most part–i wont go so far as to say its perfect) down. (EDIT: I also don’t want to indicate that its this solid in practice. i honestly don’t know, so i dont want to speak to that.) So politically, Honduras is solid. Philosophically speaking. I know they have this little problem with Manuel Zelaya and Coup de'tats (or however you spell that). What about the Economy??? <= yep, their economy isn't doing so well, hence the issue with poverty. So after a bunch of authoritarian military regimes, some statist economic policies, and a fair amount of socialism, the Honduran Economy is in bad shape. that all stands to reason. To reiterate: the problem with Poverty in honduras stems from the economy. Enter: La Ceiba, MFI. El dinero Gringo (hat-tip to google translate). Our weapon of choice: Money. Our Specialty: Personal loans. Money can be used on the Economy. Thats good to know. Economy can be measured by GDP. GDP is a function of private consumption, gross investment, government spending and their trade balance. Because poverty is clearly a problem, Private Consumption is down. Problem No. 1. Gross investment, in this model, is a function of income. Domestic investment in domestic things. People buying a house, companies buying tools. it could by simplifying it by saying its “Corporate consumption”. Problem No. 2. Government Spending–i read somewhere that Honduras has budget problems. Also that whole thing about statist/socialist economic policy. Government is probably spending a-LOT and earning very little. especially because of the low tax revenue which, surprise surprise, is a function of income (partially). Trade balance? USA gives them alot of money, and their economy is 20% agriculture. I don’t think they have MUCH of a problem here, but its probably not helping that much. Anyway, the point of all that is to show two things: GDP is dependent on 2 things that La Ceiba could help with. Personal Consumption and “Corporate Consumption”. If our personal loans were tailored so as to help increase income by personal or business investment, and it was sustainable, then La Ceiba would be permitted to grow. In growing, more people would be permitted to be serviced. In servicing more people, we would grow some more. The cycle would rinse and repeat until– wait for it– –Personal Consumption rises. Gross Investment rises. and if those rise– –the GDP grows. and if the GDP Grows– –the Economy is improving. and if the economy is improving– –that is a sign that POVERTY is becoming less of an issue. and if poverty is less of an issue, then by golly we’ve accomplished something. but (to tie it all together), it ALL COMES BACK TO INCOME 5 Responses to “В советской России, Деньги Тратят Вас! • Being an economics major that thoroughly enjoyed macro, I appreciate your analysis. I would say however that: (a) it does not relate to what we do as an organization, and (b) you are missing a few steps in your “model.” La Ceiba is a Micro economic organization, dealing with the smoothing of consumption currently, and hopefully the creations of firms one day. Your analysis that this influx of income can one day increase gdp is, not only inapplicable to the problems we face in the organization, but also not quite accurate. Assuming, as your model does, that income comes out of no where, using the income inefficiently can result in consequences contrary to what you have advocated. Take for example a community we may potentially deal with in the future. We drop a couple personal loans to some of the women and maybe some men. This community however has a huge drug addiction problem and the income is put into an illegal market. This illegal market is not taxed by the government, which is one of the panaceas of income according to yourself, and the government is unable to provide better infrastructure for constituents. This is not to say that La Ceiba should provide a rehab center for drug addicts, but rather that there are variables outside of income that affect standard of living. An example slightly more relevant to our own clients is the ability to read. Many of our clients are illiterate. They may be able to vocalize a business plan, but unfortunately few banks will accept this for a loan. So, where our capacity ends, so to does their capacity to expand and grow. They may become wealthy comparatively to those around them, but will never achieve a level of wealth consistent with changing gdp. Again, this is not to say that La Ceiba should build a school, merely that unless the attitude toward education changes for young children, a higher level of income will not be reached. • russellscott 10 years ago I’ll concede some of the finer details of the Economics–that is your major, not mine. However, you say that the more relevant problem to clients (more relevant than income, even) is the ability to read. I know i asked you this in a comment on your blog post, but how do micro-loans teach anyone to read? more specifically: how do micro-loans, the spending of which we have no say or influence in, drive anyone to want to read? How do micro-loans change the attitudes of children? I’ll reiterate the question i posted in your blog post–would you say that our money would be better spent, then, as a charity? Using donor funds to directly execute the changes you are discussing, rather than indirectly through microloans? • I do not think Sen is saying that we need to make little Americas around the world or that we need to reform countries. Sen is just stating that impoverished people are lacking the freedoms we enjoy. These freedoms must be in place in order to lower the transaction costs of an exchange and to lower the uncertainty of a market. Sen gave the example of India. In India, there is freedom of the press and a free market, and therefore, India has not had a famine since 1947. On the flip side, India failed when it came to illiteracy and health care, and therefore, still has poverty throughout. Due to the lack of freedoms, people in India are still impoverished. There is no need to create democracies throughout the world. In fact it would not be possible. People in different cultures set up different institutions and organizations that work for their particular culture. All Sen is saying, is that the institutions in place need to facilitate freedoms to enhance the lives of the people and not deprive them. You are oversimplifying everything. I agree that the economy in Honduras may have caused a lot of problems, but what you are forgetting to consider is that something caused the economy to develop in a “bad” way. These are the institutions and informal constraints (moral order and cultural norms) that have allowed an inefficient market and economy to develop and be sustained. By simply increasing incomes, people may have more money to buy things, but corruption and the problems of the society as a whole will still exist. If the women we are giving loans to now have more money to spend, but aren’t allowed to attend school or vote, what good have we really done? Sen points to change from the inside out. It has to start with the people through cultural change. Institutional change will facilitate a “good” state to emerge allowing for increased prosperity and thus increased incomes in the end. Income is a good indicator of change, but it is not the goal we should be aiming at. • russellscott 10 years ago just point of nitpickery, did you read the Honduran Constitution, particularly part 3? I provided those links for you, to point out that 1- they ARE a democracy, and 2- their freedoms ARE assured, at least nominally, within their constitution. And i’ll reiterate my point, with necessary modifications: how does microfinance help anyone have the right to vote or permit them to attend school? Could La Ceiba accomplish this more effectively as a charity? How do you propose La Ceiba use micro-loans to change honduras from within? • The fact that these “freedoms” are enshrined in the constitution effectively means nothing, for several reasons. First, formal institutions mean nothing without informal ones (such as cultural norms) that support them. There are plenty of countries that nominally have free democracies, but in practice do not, and this is not simply a product of corrupt governance or some other scapegoat but rather of the culture. Also, we cannot assume that the constitution emerged naturally or was in any way indigenous. The close presence of the US, as well as the military history of Honduras (which I don’t presume to be in any way an expert in) means that we can’t assume that our own pattern of constitutional development occurred. Unlike in our models for understanding the emergence of formal institutions, potential states do not exist in a vacuum, and we must consider the imposition of a constitutional democracy (no matter how well-intentioned) as a possibility and an explanation for its failure. I think this whole discussion of how La Ceiba is going to change attitudes from within sort of misses the point: we can’t. We just have to be aware that our loans are not going to fix everything, because they only deal with income. Leave a Reply	<urn:uuid:5a2511d6-d948-42d4-b256-08f5cfc35a9e>	https://laceibamfi.org/uncategorized/%D0%B2-%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9-%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8-%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B8-%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8F%D1%82-%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81/	en	0.962074	0.077363	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
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Why the US Shouldn’t Execute the Boston Bomber By Joe Young Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of Rolling Stone. Via wikimedia. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of Rolling Stone. Via wikimedia. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by his own admission is guilty of the Boston Bombings that took the lives of three people and injured hundreds more. These facts are not in doubt. On May 15th, a jury concurred and sentenced him to death by lethal injection. Tsarnaev is a murderer and should never be allowed back into society. Whether he is executed or not, this will be true. But Tsarnaev is a criminal not a martyr. If USG executes him, they (we?) run the risk of making him the latter. The benefit of calling him a criminal is to demean his actions as selfish and worthless. No one holds vigils for or makes martyr posters of Al Capone or any lesser thug. Is life in prison getting off easy? The Supermax facility in Florence, Colorado has a cell waiting for Tsarnaev. Residents include the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, the Shoe Bomber, Richard Reid, and the first World Trade Center Bomber, Ramzi Yousef to name a few. None will leave the facility alive. The inmates spend all but one hour a day in a concrete cell by themselves. The former warden, Robert Hood, claims a sentence in the supermax is “much worse than death.” This discussion highlights how America is exceptional in a lot of ways, including our use of the death penalty. My claim here is not about this. I wouldn’t be writing a similar piece if this were Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy or other psycho killers. To be clear, I am not suggesting a general opposition to this form of punishment. Aside from one’s support or opposition to capital punishment, it is the wrong policy in this case. After 9/11, Americans rightly or wrongly saw terrorism as an existential threat. Research suggests that the threat of terrorism might be overblown, as it might be ineffective especially to developed democracies like ours. Terrorism, like crime, has been a part of humanity since we created complex societies (probably before), and it will continue. Let’s not treat the people who perpetrate these acts as more than they are—criminals. 1. Isn’t there a slight inconsistency of logic with the argument? In the US capital punishment is part of the criminal code. As the author notes, criminals are often executed by the state. The author does not make an argument against the death penalty as such. Instead, he argues that the death penalty is OK for criminals but not for terrorists –because terrorists should be simply treated as criminals. And this is where the logic collapses. If terrorists are simple criminals they should be subjected to the same treatment as any other criminal –including capital punishment. If the latter is problematic for political reasons (and I agree that this is likely the case), then we are judging them by a different standard that no longer makes them simple criminals. The author cannot have it both ways. It is one or the other. For this argument to stand the author has two avenues: either make a principled argument against capital punishment in all cases (including ‘simple’ criminals) in which case terrorists and criminals will be subjected to the same legal standard, or create a separate legal category for terrorists acknowledging the political nature of their crime and the political implications of their punishment. The author mixes these two options and ends up with an inconsistent outcome that is difficult to defend. 1. Thanks for reading and for engaging. Your title is apt. I don’t see it as inconsistent to say that different punishments are relevant to different kinds of criminals. Life in prison is a death sentence in a way. We are just haggling over the timing. 2. I admire the logic behind not making him a martyr but I consider more the many immigrants who brave the odds, the indignity to emigrate to the United States in search of the American dream. Many die, many sell all they own, some parents give all they have so one son or daughter can go to America. Tsarnaev got it all on a platter of gold and then turned against America. He is wasted space. He should die. 3. I agree with The Contrarian. Your point is logically inconsistent. Tsarnaev is being treated as a criminal. On the risk of creating a martyr I agree that is a valid concern. However, isn’t it also a valid concern that by keeping him alive you run the risk of incentivizing terrorists to kidnap and threaten Americans in order to obtain his release, something that has happened in the past? It is also one distinct way in which terrorism is different from your standard domestic criminal behavior. Leave a Reply You May Also Like	<urn:uuid:b79efb9c-530e-4a9f-a45a-31d218020ac7>	https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/05/25/why-the-us-shouldnt-execute-the-boston-bomber/	en	0.963317	0.076828	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
en English 5 Crucial Mothers’ Mistake Why Girls Are Needy in a Relationship Sharing is caring • 27 Last updated on June 28th, 2020 at 11:45 am Mothers are also reasons why some girls are needy in a relationship. Knowing this can help curb neediness relationships. This article will help with that. alt="an image of a mother and the daughter. Illustration of controlling girls being needy in a relationship" Photo credit: Pexels / Lucas Souza Girls are very emotional, so the relationship of a mother with them goes a long way on they manage their emotions. Whether it has got to do with their early or later stage, emotion is an emotion to them, and what they grow with is what they carry. Clingy and emotionally needy daughters or those you perceive to be one are simply damsels in distress. Acting in ways that are negative to them will not just hurt their feelings, it also has a tendency to influence their self-esteem. The truth is that you can hardly tell when you’re clingy or needy in a relationship unless you’re been told by someone, probably someone close to you. However, if you managed to figure it out yourself – applauds. It shows that you’re quite in control of your emotions. But you can always tell you’re clingy when you don’t seem to be satisfied emotionally, no matter how hard the person in question tries. let’s start by knowing the effects of neediness. Its effects on others To justify, it’s not okay to be clingy when considering the person on the receiving end of the behavior. Behaving that way intentionally may not be clear to you that it hurts the intended person. Being clingy unintentionally is normal, but when it becomes the other way round, it’s not. However, whether it’s done intentionally or not, those on the receiving end of it will be hurt, and it could affect your relationship with them. Facts about girls being needy in a relationship Right from the moment a baby is born, it’s very important that the baby is shown enough love, care, and attention. You can’t deny the fact that females are very emotional. The best thing to do is to make sure their emotion is not hurt. So, it’s best to abstain from things that will hurt them in one way or the other. Unfortunately, most mothers don’t know that the relationship with their daughters also plays a role in how her daughter manages her emotions. That’s the reason why mothers should be caring and loving to their daughters. But It shouldn’t start and end anytime soon. It should be a continual process. In other words, a mother shouldn’t stop showing their daughters love because they have reached a certain age. But when their daughters reach the maturity age, then they can withdraw a bit. Being clingy and needy in relationship After a girl experiences a bad relationship with her mother, it’s likely for her to become needy in a relationship. But she can always control the act with little effort. What do you notice in your relationship? Start with that. After figuring out what you noticed, find out what caused it, then you will have the solution. Often, you can tell if a girl is clingy when she’s never satisfied with the emotional care she gets. That means it just won’t be enough, no matter the effort you put in to satisfy them emotionally. With that, we can say that a clingy behavior means acting in a manner that clearly frustrates the efforts of a person innocent of his or her intentions. Unlike the case of girls, a clingy boyfriend is more often as a result of the habit he developed. However, In order not to cause problems, the right way to tell him will go a long way, especially when dealing with a toxic relationship. You can do that by telling him in an indirect way when he’s in a good mood or when you both are having a good time together. How to stop being clingy and jealous The best way to stop being clingy or needy in a relationship is to have a great relationship with your mother. Although this would have been taken care of at the initial stage, it’s still never too late to strengthen the bond with your mother. Later in this article, we shall be looking at those mistakes mothers make that causes girls to be needy in a relationship. Going forward, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with attaching yourself to someone, but there’s a difference between that and being clingy or needy of emotions. The neediness here is the fact that the person possessing it can’t feel satisfied emotionally in a relationship. That means the person is never satisfied with the amount of love given to them. It’s also important to know that children, especially the daughters should be satisfied emotionally by the parents, and most importantly, by the mothers. It’s a sort of mother and daughter relationship. Even though daughters tend to be closer to their fathers sometimes, the mothers should never limit their relationship with their daughters. Because when daughters lack that bond with their mother, it results in clingy traits and emotional neediness. So, to answer the big question, why do girls end up being clingy or needy in a relationship? Mothers’ mistakes why girls are needy in a relationship Having known what being needy is and its effects, let’s find out the solutions by knowing how mothers cause it. Below the mothers’ mistakes why girls are clingy and emotionally needy in relationships. 1. Being dismissive There are certain times girls will go to their mother for advice or just to have a good chat. Sometimes, she may go to her mother for support or in any other way the mother could assist with her problems. Dismissing daughters at crucial times like this will make them feel rejected, and they will end up being needy in a relationship. It will also make them lack experience at certain things in life, especially as a girl. If such happens, the more curious ones who didn’t get what they expected will be forced to portray the trait of emotional neediness, even at an early stage. At that point in time, that’s when they just feel they could get that which you deprived them of learning by getting hooked up with anyone. Apart from the fact that they seek full attention from anybody, they’re fighting something within. Because they’re emotionally hurt as a result of the poor relationship with their mother, they’re combating something more serious. Now, when you think you’re trying to show them emotional care, it just won’t be enough. The main factor is missing. That’s what is needed to feel the gap of all the emotional neediness. Instead of being dismissive and making a daughter turn away, it should be used as a medium to create a stronger bond. Mothers should be welcoming to their daughters. It will set the right pace in the relationship with their daughters. It’s also their duty to know when their daughters need assistance, even when they don’t ask. 2. Being controlling Mothers shouldn’t put a policy of restrictions on daughter, rather they should apply the rule of diplomacy when the situation calls for such. In most cases, you will realize that daughters get scared of a controlling person. That means it will be very important for mothers not to be controlling when dealing with their daughters. The mistake most mothers make is causing their daughters to fear them, either by being controlling or any other harsh approach. Whether it’s done consciously or unconsciously, it’s very important not to get daughters scared. Well, mothers may be that way as a means of parenting. That could be okay to some extent. However, they may do so as a means of upbringing when daughters are very little, but when she begins to mature, it’s vital for mothers to stop controlling them. That means mothers should try as much as possible to avoid such acts. There’s a safer way mothers can go about it if they want to set up a good upbringing, but not in a manipulative manner. 3. Being unavailable Nothing hurts a daughter emotionally like unavailable parents, especially from the mother. Most times, daughters will need that care and love from their mother. The best they expected at that time is for the mother to be there for them. Unfortunately, mothers cannot really tell when their daughters crave for that love and care they deserve. That’s why being available for daughters as a mother is very important. How do you do this? You Prioritize their attention over ungencies. The better a mother can convey this to her daughter, the better she frees her from emotional stress. If the mother travels a lot, then it’s vital she communicate more often with her daughter. If it’s possible the daughter can travel along with the mother, let her do so. There are certain connections daughters get when they do fun things together with their mother. The connection she has with her mother will eventually pay off when she grows up and begins to stay away from home. Besides, daughters barely forget the great times they had in the past, especially when it involves their mother. Memories like travel experience she had with the mother will keep her going when she feels down. There are many little things mothers do with their daughters thinking it doesn’t make any difference, but most times, such things mean a lot to their daughters. 4. Being emerged Daughters also hate it when their mother is not consistent with being with them. Because of that, a mother should plan a schedule to suit the daughter. At least she doesn’t want to get her daughter thinking, “mum could be here for me, but she chose not to and all of a sudden, she’s back again.” This is very important to avoid, especially when daughters begin to feel very close to the mother for the attention she’s already giving. Sadly, the mistake some mothers make is that they tend to be away for long, and when next they come back could be when the daughter is trying to move on. That means if the mother chooses to be there for her daughter at all times, then it’s very important she maintains it. The strong reason for this is so that the daughter doesn’t get to feel something different from what the mother expects, such as having the thought of the mother not taking her emotions seriously. When this is not controlled, daughters will end up seeking for better attention or excess of it somewhere else. Because the memory of kids develops at a rapid pace with what happens around them. Therefore, their brain should also be properly stimulated before they reach maturity age. If their brain is not well stimulated when they’re little, it will lead to a not-so-good behavior when they grow up. 5. Being combative Girls also don’t like their mother being mean to them. They are very emotional beings, and according to studies, they’re 70% more likely to miss-quote your mean personality than males. If it ever gets to them and they wait to see if there will be a change and nothing happens, questions may begin to come out. In most cases, they may end up feeling like you don’t love and care for them, feeling hated, or something discouraging to their emotions. When such lingers for a long time, it could affect their emotions negatively. Just like it was earlier mentioned about their brains and memory development, they can be very good with memories, so being combative should be avoided. That means a mother should also note that children’s tender age is very important concerning how they’re treated. In that case, mothers should consider it when they happen to do anything with their daughter. Daughters may grow into maturity age and understand people and their mother for being mean, but not when they’re little. So, that means by mothers avoiding being mean with their daughters, they also protect their daughters from being needy in a relationship. Wrap up It’s important to understand and accept how emotional girls can be. This will really go a long way in how they manage their emotions. To make sure that a girl maintains a healthy emotional state free of emotional neediness, it also requires a solid relationship with her mother. Most relationships with on-going emotional neediness from the girl were as a result of this poor mother-daughter relationship. However, developing a great relationship between the mother and her daughter should be able to help in resolving this. While developing the relationship as a mother, it’s also important she takes note of those actions that could trigger the neediness so that she can avoid them. Let's connect Sharing is caring • 27 error: Content is protected !!	<urn:uuid:c04f760a-399b-4353-a1e4-3b6fc7c50be1>	https://www.ejiblog.com/needy-in-a-relationship/	en	0.957756	0.036226	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
(Please enter words below) Please enter your details Please enter the name +91 Please enter the mobile number Please select the product (Please enter words below) Live Chat May I help you? Begin Chat Insurance Article February 09 2015 So you wanna buy a bike. Pre-owned, you say. It's gonna save you some money. Cool. You start checking online and magazine ads to find a few interesting options. Great. What next? You set out to buy one. Neat! Not quite. Here are tips; checklist, if you please, to help you buy a good deal. 1. Do some research. Keep your "sixth-sense," gut-feeling" and "intuition" locked away while you prepare to buy a pre-owned bike. Do some fact finding about the model you wish to buy. What kind of reputation did the model have, what were the major design flaws in it, if any, and any other facts about it that you should know before you check out the bike at the owner's. 2. Check the bike out. Thoroughly. Make two checks. An overall cosmetic check should be done to look for inconsistencies in paint, scratches, identifying crash signs and cracks in the plastic. Then make a thorough examination of the bike. It's always better to get a bike-savvy friend along. And a flashlight. Look for leaking fluid, rust, especially in the fuel tank, continuity of the cables, condition of the chain and sprocket and cracks in the wiring. Put the bike on centre-stand and look at it from the centre. Look for symmetry. This gives an indication of whether the bike was involved in a crash. Also check tire wear. 3. Get it started. It's always advisable to cold start a bike. This gives you a very good idea of the condition of the bike. Check for any unusual noise during idling and acceleration. Check all levers for the amount of play. Check lights, indicators and horn. Look at how much smoke comes out of the exhaust and check for odd smells. See how the throttle responds and feel if there are any heavy vibrations. 4. Match the VINs. The Vehicle Identification Numbers on the frame and the engine should match. And while you are doing your bike inspection, let your friend call the manufacturer, the insurance company and the state authorities. This will tell you if the bike has been involved in a crash or any recall information and also if it has been reported stolen. 5. Check the maintenance records. Ask the owner to share with you the maintenance records of the bike. If there are none, ask the owner how frequently the bike had been serviced and from whom. 6. Take a test ride. Finally, get on the bike and drive it for yourself. Ease into first gear and apply the brakes. They should respond nicely. Release them. Release the clutch. Again put the bike in first gear. Increase the throttle slowly. Swerve the bike to the right and left gently to see how it responds and how easily it can be controlled. Listen for odd noises like creaking and rattling. Put all these in your head and ask the owner for clarification once you have finished your test ride. 7. Negotiate. For every problem you find in the bike, you can bring down the asking rate. So do not hesitate to negotiate. Since you also have a friend who knows a little more about bikes, this should not be difficult. Once you are satisfied that you have a good deal, sign the paperwork. And off you go on your bike! Write a review	<urn:uuid:acca5fb3-7251-49ed-b828-9c788d6f2d49>	https://www.icicilombard.com/insurance-information/two-wheeler-insurance-info/article/7-things-to-know-about-a-secondhand-bike-before-buying-it	en	0.944758	0.020979	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Bamberg Codex The Bamberg Codex (Bamberg State Library, Msc.Lit.115) is a manuscript containing two treatises on music theory and a large body of 13th-century French polyphony. The first part of the Bamberg Codex contains 100 double motets, which are three-voice pieces with two contrapuntal lines above a cantus firmus. Forty-four of the motets have Latin texts, 47 have French texts, and 9 are macaronic. This is followed by a conductus and 7 settings of hockets. The musical notation is similar to that used in the Montpellier Codex, although some advances in notational clarity are evident, for instance in multi-column layouts, each voice observes line breaks at the same place in the piece. These motets were likely composed between 1260 and 1290, and are generally in the style associated with Franco of Cologne. The second part of the Codex contains two theoretical treatises, one by Amerus and one anonymous, as well as two motets added later. The Codex is likely Parisian in provenance. The Bamberg Codex is bound in ivory pigskin with embroidered gold lettering. The codex is written on parchment and consists of eighty pages classified into ten groups and arabic numerals appear in pencil in the top right-hand corner of each page. The codex is mostly associated with Franconian notation, although it does include motets. This points to how popular secular music was becoming towards the end of the 13th century and also how music was becoming more accessible to the common folk, many of whom never learned to speak Latin other than reciting it in church services. This is consistent with the Montpellier Codex containing many secular songs in its collection as well, showing the extent of this phenomenon, not constraining it to just one musical school in the period. In fact, different aspects of the manuscript such as the trimming and coloring of the pages, the format of the text, and the amount of wear and tear points to the notion that the codex was actually compiled in a manner that would allow people to perform the songs without any prior rehearsal. Most of these motets are three-voice motets, meaning they have three different voices in the written music. There are more than 100 of these motets contained in the codex. Forty-four of these have Latin texts, forty-seven have French texts, and nine have macaronic texts. Macaronic texts are written in a hybrid between two languages, in this case Latin and the vernacular French. There is only one motet in the Codex with four voice parts, the rest have three parts. All of the motets in the Codex of Bamberg are polyphonic and polytextual. The codex also contains two treatises, one by an anonymous writer, and the other by Amerus. This treatise, Practica artis musice, was intended to explain notation systems while also discussing polyphony. Amerus’ work is believed to be among the first treatises from Italy using rhythmic notation. The techniques used for most of the composition of the motets and songs included basic practices used in the era of medieval motets during the 13th century. This included the use of rhythmic modes and an early developed form of the staff. This provided a basis for exact pitch along with a form of our modern staff. After the main section of the previously mentioned motets, a conductus and 7 hockets follow. A conductus is a type of sacred, but non-liturgical vocal composition for one or more voices. A hocket is a rhythmic linear technique that utilizes the differentiation of certain rhythmic and scale elements. In the medieval practice of a hocket, a single melody is usually shared between two voices so one voice sounds while the other rests and this act alternates between the voices. List of Pieces from the Codex # Je ne chant pas / Talens m'est pris de chanter / Aptatur / Omnes (4 voices) # Ave, Virgo regia / Ave, plena gracie / Fiat (2 voices, fiddle, harp) # In seculum breve (2 fiddles, dulcimer, harp) # Entre Adan et Henequel / Chief bien seans /Aptatur (3 voices) # Ave, plena gracie / Salve, Virgo regia / Aptatur (2 voices, recorder, fiddle, harp, lute) # Neuma (recorder, horn, fiddle, harp) # Ave, in styrpe spinosa / Ave, gloriosa / Manere (3 voices) # El mois de mai / De se debent / Kyrie (3 voices) # In seculum viellatoris (3 fiddles) # Mout me fu griès / In omni frate tuo / In seculum(3 voices) # Entre Copin / Je me cuidoie / Bele Ysabelot (3 voices) # Virgo (2 fiddles, dulcimer, harp) # Pouvre secours / Gaude chorus / Angelus (3 voices) # Chorus Innocencium / In Bethleem / In Bethleem (2 voices, fiddle, percussion) # In seculum d'Amiens breve (recorder, 2 fiddles, lute) # O Maria, Virgo davitica / O Maria, maris stella /Misit Dominus (2 voices, recorder, 2 fiddles) # Miranda / Salve, mater / Kyrie (7 voices) # In seculum longum (recorder, 2 fiddles) # Agmina milicie / Agmina milicie / Agmina (3 voices) # Quant flourist / Non orphanum / Et gaudebit (4 voices) # In seculum d'Amiens longum (recorder, fiddle, harp) # me tu griès II / Robins m'aime / Portare (3 voices) # Or voi je bien / Eximium / Virgo (2 voices, fiddle, harp) # Ave, Virgo regia / Ave, gloriosa / Domino (3 voices) # Mors que stimulo / Mors morsu / Mors (6 voices) Further reading • Willi Apel. The Notation of Polyphonic Music, 900-1600. Rev. 4th Ed. Cambridge, 1953. • "Sources, MS, V, 2: Early motet", in Grove Music Online (Accessed October 9, 2006), [ (subscription access)] • Anderson, Gordon A. ed. "Compositions of the Bamberg manuscript : Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Lit. 115 (olim Ed. IV.6.)" Series: Corpus mensurabilis musicae, 75. [Rome] : American Institute of Musicology, 1977 External links • [ Msc.Lit.115], Staatsbibliothek Bamberg The Bamberg Codex is an important collection of thirteenth-century motets; it provides source material of significant historical and musicological significance. As such, it offers a compact and concise database for the music of the time. Not only does this show the advancement of music both in complexity and the notation but also the spread of secular music through the writings of Amerus. Today the Bamberg Codex and its perception about the origin and provenance of the manuscript continues to be contested, with some pointing to more French motets than Latin motets in the codex, as proof that the codex belongs to French repertory. • Bamberg, Codex. , 2003. • Norwood, Patricia P. “Evidence Concerning the Provenance of the Bamberg Codex.” The Journal of Musicology, vol. 8, no. 4, 1990, pp. 491–504. JSTOR, Category:Medieval music manuscript sources Category:Medieval music	<urn:uuid:13f369fa-6dc9-4f95-86e0-b076efdccb41>	https://www.wikiamp.com/wiki/Bamberg_Codex	en	0.900813	0.047615	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Sp. Pl. 2: 1043. 175. Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 467. 1754. 1754 Common names: Hackberry sugarberry bois inconnu Etymology: Classical Latin, Pliny's name for Celtis australis Linnaeus, the "lotus" of the ancient world Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3. Trees or rarely shrubs, to 30 m; crowns spreading. Bark usually gray, smooth or often fissured and conspicuously warty. Branches without or with thorns, slender, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves: stipules falling early. Leaf blade deltate to ovate to oblong-lanceolate, base oblique or cuneate to rounded, margins entire or serrate-dentate; venation 3(-5)-pinnate. Inflorescences: staminate inflorescences cymes or fascicles; pistillate solitary or few-flowered clusters. Flowers usually unisexual, staminate and pistillate on same plants, along with a few bisexual flowers, pedicellate on branches of current year, appearing in mid or late spring. Staminate flowers: filaments incurved in bud, exserted after anthesis; gynoecium minute, rudimentary. Pistillate flowers: calyx slightly to deeply 4(-5)-lobed; stamens 4-5, inserted on pilose receptacle, included, often nonfunctional filaments usually shorter than in staminate flowers, rarely absent; anthers ovate, face to face in bud, extrorse; ovaries sessile, ovoid, 1-locular; styles short, sessile, divided into 2 divergent, elongate, reflexed lobes, lobes entire or 2-cleft. Fruits fleshy drupes, ovoid or globose; outer mesocarp thick, firm, inner mesocarp thin, fleshy; stones thick walled, ripening in autumn, persisting after leaves fall. x = 10. Tropical and temperate regions, worldwide. Species ca. 60 (6 in the flora). The hackberries provide important wildlife habitat, forming thickets that give shelter and fleshy drupes that ripen in autumn, persist after leaves fall, and supply winter food for birds and mammals. The treatment presented here is a simplified circumscription of species with no elaboration of infraspecific variation or interspecific hybridization. The group is taxonomically complex and in need of revision. 1 Branches with thorns; leaf blade usually less than 2 cm wide. Celtis pallida 1 Branches without thorns; leaf blade usually much more than 2 cm wide. > 2 2 Leaf blade typically elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, apex sharply acute to acuminate, margins mostly entire. Celtis laevigata 2 Leaf blade typically broadly to narrowly ovate to oblong-lanceolate, apex blunt or obtuse to abruptly long-acuminate, acute, or short-acuminate, margins variable. > 3 3 Leaf blade abaxially white tomentose; fruits usually light brown; near San Antonio, Texas. Celtis lindheimeri 3 Leaf blade abaxially essentially glabrous or with coarse pubescence mainly on veins; fruits mostly reddish orange to purple; widespread. > 4 4 Leaf blade typically 4.5 cm or less, margins entire or somewhat serrate above middle. Celtis reticulata 4 Leaf blade mostly 5 cm or more, margins coarsely serrate for at least part of length. > 5 5 Shrubs or small trees; leaf blade serrate and sparingly toothed toward apex, entire proximally; fruits orange to brown to cherry red. Celtis tenuifolia 5 Trees; leaf blade conspicuously serrate to well below middle; fruits dark orange to purple- or blue-black. Celtis occidentalis ... more about "Celtis" Linnaeus + Hackberry +, sugarberry + and bois inconnu + Tropical and temperate regions + and worldwide. + correll1970a + Ulmaceae +	<urn:uuid:0e6284e9-c34c-4938-9194-eadad93334a0>	http://beta.floranorthamerica.org/Celtis	en	0.788249	0.207947	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Tuesday, 10 December 2013 NILIF - Nothing In Life Is Free Nothing In Life Is Free, or NILIF is a phrase that according to Karen Overall was originally coined by veterinary behaviourist Victoria Voith, although Bill Campbell had a similar concept at around the same time. Since then various trainers and behaviourists have developed variations on the NILIF concept, which is still in broad use. Why it is still in use after all this time is because it is a valuable protocol, but perhaps is sometimes misunderstood as it seems harsh and regimental. This article describes NILIF and what it does. The Protocol The idea of NILIF is that whenever your dog wants something, they must perform a particular behaviour before you give it to them. Usually a sit or down is used because it is a stationary behaviour that is incompatible with things like jumping up, so you are setting your dog up to do a lot of polite sits. If your dog wants to go out, they should sit first. If they are to get food, their leash on for a walk, or their leash off at the dog park, sit first. If they want affection or attention, sit first. Before they get to do anything they enjoy or want to do they should sit. It does sound regimental, but think of it as the dog asking nicely, the way we teach our children to say 'please'. If the dog doesn't sit, you don't have to make them. Assume they don't want what is on offer after all and walk away. Try again in 10 seconds or so. If they still won't do it, walk away again and leave it at that. They will quickly learn to just do it the first time, and then they will start doing it before you even ask them to. The degree to which you implement NILIF is up to you. Most people believe that some things in life should be free, like water, and shelter. Others believe things like affection and going out to toilet should also be free. Really it depends on the dog. If you have a dog that is very opportunistic and pushy, you may want to use stricter NILIF than if you have a dog that is laid back and mellow. If you have a dog that rarely seeks your attention you may want to give them attention for free to encourage them to seek it more often. This protocol is quite flexible. It can be Some Things In Life Are Free or Many Things In Life Are Free or Occasional Things In Life Are Free. Read through the next section on why it works to decide the level you want to use. How NILIF Helps NILIF can help with a broad range of problems, as it offers a dog several things. 1) Predictability - The dog knows when good things will happen and that they will be able to get them. This is particularly helpful for a nervous or soft dog, as predictability = security. It takes pressure off them as they don't have to guess what you want of them. For these dogs you may want to adjust how much is for free depending on how nervous they are. Very nervous dogs will probably really appreciate a strict structure because it takes all the guesswork out of their lives, but you may want to let them have things for free that they are cautious about seeking. 2) Control - NILIF also gives dogs a sense of control while simultaneously giving actual control to the humans. This is good for dogs because control makes dogs feel secure and confident. It is good for humans because the dog will not try to take what they want. Instead they will sit quietly to 'ask' for it, which means they will be reinforced for good, calm, controlled behaviour and will not get the opportunity to do things you don't want them to do, like snatching or jumping up. This benefits all dogs, but is particularly important for those whirlwind youngsters that can do six dismaying things in the time it takes you to think what to do about the first one. 3) Deference - NILIF teaches dogs to get into the habit of checking with you and giving you priority access to resources. In other words, they are content to let you decide who gets what when. This means they will be less likely to become aggressive if they don't get what they want, or if you try to make them do something. This helps dogs that tend to be controlling to relax and let the people take care of things. 4) Trust and Reliability - NILIF teaches dogs that they probably want to do what you ask them to do. Rather than thinking about whether they really want to come to you and sit right now, they tend to assume if you asked them it will probably turn out well for them if they do it. Great for dogs that are independent or stubborn. 5) Impulse Control - You can use NILIF to teach your dog to control their impulses once your dog knows the game well enough that they don't need to be told to sit anymore. All you do is wait for your dog to 'ask' for something by sitting. When you have something they want, wait quietly for them to think for themselves how to get it. A sit often works for them if you have used NILIF, so sooner or later they should decide to give it a go. This is excellent because if they were being impulsive they would jump around like a lunatic or try to snatch. Instead, they can think through the problem and control their urges to bounce and grab and instead do something calm and controlled. Baby Erik performs a down at the river to 'ask' for a treat. So that's NILIF in a nutshell. It's good practice for all dogs to ask nicely for some things, like their dinner and waiting to go out a door because it helps them stay calm at times when they may normally be very excitable. But a more extensive use of NILIF gives dogs structure and puts them in your control, and that can help with all kinds of problems. As a general rule of thumb, the more extreme a dog's behaviour regardless of what it is, the more they may benefit from NILIF. Just remember not to push the matter, as it may put you in direct confrontation with your dog, and that is exactly what NILIF is supposed to help you avoid. You're not making them listen to you, you are gently showing them how it benefits them to listen to you. No comments: Post a comment	<urn:uuid:b0760916-a09f-40d2-81f8-1627e2cbe6d7>	http://blog.creatureteacher.com.au/2013/12/nilif-nothing-in-life-is-free.html	en	0.976369	0.195725	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Energy sector innovation overview By 2020 the European Union expects to have reduced its energy needs by a massive 315 TWh (terawatt hour) per year, thanks to a series of new measures to combat unnecessary energy use. One terawatt equals a million million watts, by the way, and 315 of them is more than Italy uses each year. First, any European companies using electric motors will have to use 'variable speed drives', so that they operate according to the engine's needs rather than at full capacity all the time. Then, all heating systems will have to have 'intelligent' circulation technology, capable of saving 25 TWh per year by 2020. A third new law will mean televisions and refrigerators must conform to the highest environmental standards, saving a further 30 TWh per year. "This will save impressive amounts of electricity, CO2 emissions and electricity costs, while creating jobs and boosting the deployment of highly innovative technologies," according to EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs. As many as 2.8 million people will be employed in the renewable energy sector by 2020, the EU forecasts. It will generate more than one percent of the EU's GDP and will capitalise on innovative technology currently being developed in biomass, wind and hydro energy production, along with photovoltaic, solar thermal energy and second-generation biofuels. Already, the EU has pioneered electricity generation labelling, to alert consumers to the environmental credentials of its source. The CLEAN-E network for Europe set out minimum ecological standards for renewable technologies in hydropower and biomass. The project has registered significant interest from a number of countries around Europe. In France, a green power labelling scheme has been introduced, while in Spain, Italy, Austria and Sweden, companies, non-governmental organisations, electricity industry representatives and public bodies have all endorsed the scheme. Best practice for adopting green energy procurement has been widely shared. Some initiatives emphasise local, small scale action rather than trying to operate across whole countries or regions. The Distributed Generation (DG) Grid stresses the benefits of generating energy from many small sources, reducing the distance that electricity (for example) needs to be transported. The EU has deliberately set out to remove regulations that obstruct renewable energy sources (RES) and to promote combined heat and power (CPH). Part of this initiative involved finding new and innovative ways to combine the two areas, to develop economically viable models and to create a grid through which this energy can be distributed. Each EU country must submit a 'National Renewable Energy Action Plan' (NREAP) to the European Commission by the end of June 2010. This move has two main objectives: it aims to create certainty for investors in renewable energy technologies - if they know what each country will consume, then they can invest in the technology and operations to deliver it - and to allow each country to be scrutinised in comparison with all the others. This will place an increasing burden on national governments to improve their environmental performance, so that they are not viewed as the 'dirty country of Europe', producing more than their share of harmful emissions. It will also mean that their citizens can more easily hold their politicians to account, since renewable energy is likely to become increasingly affordable, thereby becoming more attractive to consumers. If countries still produce energy using old, inefficient and polluting technologies, it will be simpler to identify this in future. A series of further measures for monitoring the production, distribution and use of energy have been introduced by the EU. These include the European Tracking System for Electricity, the Least Cost Grid Integration project, creating renewable energy marketplaces for investors and regions, and improving the interaction of renewable electricity with conventional power generation sources. A team of private sector executives and European Commission officials work together on Intelligent Energy Europe, helping public authorities to improve their energy efficiency and use of renewable energy resources, in line with EU policy. They also coordinate a series of other initiatives, including Energy Ambassadors, to improve sustainable energy in housing, E-Track, to reduce transaction costs and support international trade in energy, RegCEP, to create a new policy tool for sustainable energy, and INTENSE, to optimise energy planning for housing across Europe. The EU has made determined steps to become a low-energy economy, using taxation, subsidies and CO2 trading schemes to encourage better energy practices. In addition, it has decided to reduce energy consumption by around 15 per cent by 2020, as part of a drop in energy imports of 26 per cent by that year. By 2050, renewable energies should have completely replaced carbon-producing energy generation. Each of these initiatives seeks to put renewable energy generation higher up the European political agenda, harnessing the power of technological innovation and the willingness of European states to embrace environmentally sustainable practices.	<urn:uuid:59aa2839-1c11-44ad-9077-be23478bac42>	http://freelancejournalist.co.uk/energy_sector	en	0.938175	0.02926	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
• Join over 1.2 million students every month • Accelerate your learning by 29% • Unlimited access from just £6.99 per month Given the known risks from smoking, what action should governments and individuals take to protect health? Extracts from this document... Caroline Ayanru Access to Social Work Training English Module essay Topic: Given the known risks from smoking, what action should governments and individuals take to protect health? The emphasis of health promotion rather than disease prevention is recognised as we move into the 21st Century. It is against this background that the actions of governments and behaviours of individuals will be presented with regards to health risks that exist from smoking. In order to understand these actions, tobacco advertising, which plays a key role in defining behaviour, will also be examined. Health and illness are difficult concepts to define. It is estimated that about 50% of premature deaths in Western countries can be attributed to life style (Hamburg et al., 1982). Smokers contribute significantly to this amount as they on average reduce their life expectancy by five years. To put this into perspective, each time a person smokes a cigarette, they take an average of five minutes off their life; the time that it takes roughly to smoke the cigarette. The most commonly quoted definition of health is provide in the constitution of the World Health Organisation (WHO, 1946). ...read more. The pollutants from cigarette smoke can turn a non-smoker into a passive smoker, putting the individual at the same risk if not greater. Consequently, laws have been passed banning smoking on buses and trains due to the risk of fire that smoking can also cause. Most work places now have a no-smoking policy. Restaurants and other public places provide a smoking area for smokers. Smoking is a habit. You can break any habit if you want to enough. But you must bring that habit back under the control of your will. Nobody can do this for you. The decision has to come from inside yourself. Behaviours, which are positively directed at the goal of 'becoming healthy', requires reinforcement. The benefits of stopping smoking include immediate reduction in the risks of smoking, lower insurance premiums and easier admission to social activities and places that ban smoking. Individuals can get help to stop smoking from a variety of methods such as books and pamphlets and there are also support groups that can help an individual to stop smoking. ...read more. Government concerns are about the social and economic impact of preventable illnesses attributable to smoking and play a major role in regulating smoking. There are huge annual costs of treating diseases associated with smoking including cancer of the larynx, oral cavity, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas. Smoking is also known to increase the risk of dying from chronic bronchitis and emphysema. In America recently, a large tobacco group agreed to pay damages to five state. Of course what should be of most concern is that these disease can devastate lives. The tobacco industry has received criticism for its role in encouraging smoking, particularly in young people. The research organisations should continue to provide evidence that will aid in this regard. It is very difficult to stop smoking, mostly because smokers crave the effect of the nicotine in the smoke, known for its ability to induce dependence. Stopping smoking also causes various reactions like overeating. Ultimately the decision to stop smoking rests with the individual and there should always be resources and support available. In conclusion, all the above factors need to be carefully balanced and the evidence is that governments and individuals need to always do more to protect health from the risks of smoking. ...read more. The above preview is unformatted text Found what you're looking for? • Start learning 29% faster today • 150,000+ documents available • Just £6.99 a month Not the one? Search for your essay title... • Join over 1.2 million students every month • Accelerate your learning by 29% • Unlimited access from just £6.99 per month See related essaysSee related essays Related University Degree Healthcare essays 1. The main purpose of this is to know the attitude of West Negros University ... 2. Free essay In the last 5 years, there have been an increasing number of informations published in some journals. However most of them are in vitro study that can be bias or not relevant when applied to clinical conditions. Few case and incidents reports make it difficult to infer the causality. 1. 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5 Feb 2018, 9:45am Passenger rail Transit: Comments Off on The difference between commuter rail and light rail (redux) The difference between commuter rail and light rail (redux) I wrote about this back in 2010, but I feel it needs a revival after seeing yet another story in the local media referring to the once-proposed rail project between San Antonio and Austin as “light rail”. This is incorrect– that project, known as Lone Star Rail or “L-Star”, was to be a commuter rail line, not light rail. It’s not just semantics– there is a big difference in the two. Unfortunately, “light rail” continues to be a buzzword that people around here use without fully understanding what it actually means. Commuter rail typically uses large, Amtrak-style trains running at fairly high speeds on completely dedicated right-of-way with limited, widely-spaced stops and schedules more oriented to twice-a-day commuters, meaning midday and weekend service is infrequent or even non-existent. This was the type of service planned between San Antonio and Austin. The TRE train between Dallas and Ft. Worth is an example of such service here in Texas. TRE commuter rail Light rail (LRT), on the other hand, uses smaller, lighter trains (thus the term “light” rail) that more closely resemble large streetcars than they do “regular” trains, run at somewhat slower speeds, often run in dedicated rights-of-way but sometimes run on streets, have rather closely-spaced stations or stops, and have fairly frequent schedules and short headways (time between trains) all day long. This is likely the type of rail service that would be built by VIA in San Antonio if they build a rail line someday although there has been some discussion of building a commuter rail route using the rail line between downtown and the RIM. DART in Dallas and Metro in Houston are examples of LRT in Texas. DART light rail Some other differentiations: Commuter rail trains are much longer than LRT trains and connect the central city to the suburbs while LRT trains typically run mostly within the main urban area (in San Antonio, that would be within Loop 1604.) Also, commuter rail trains are frequently diesel-powered, while LRT trains are almost always electric-powered. Of course, just to confuse things, there are exceptions, including one just 70 miles up the road (or track as it were): Austin’s MetroRail commuter rail service uses diesel-powered LRT-style trains for what is actually a commuter rail service. Hopefully this will put an end to the frequent misuse of “light rail” around here to refer to the possible rail service between SA and Austin, although I doubt it. If you want to learn about the different types of rail systems, Wikipedia has a nice overview here. Denver’s RTD also has a nice write-up. And see “How does commuter rail differ from light rail and heavy rail?” Recent Posts	<urn:uuid:8a9d4b2b-b1d7-4391-8ab8-74ab13cec340>	http://www.onthemoveblog.com/the-difference-between-commuter-rail-and-light-rail-redux/	en	0.960948	0.206146	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Saturday, December 1, 2012 Robert Shea fanzine address in Illuminatus! Yesterday, I asked whether it's true that there are any references in Illuminatus! to "No Governor," Robert Shea's "zine of Illuminated anarchism." Arthur Hlavaty wrote to point me to this passage in the work (page 622 of the omnibus): On Feb. 2 Robert Putney Drake received a book in the mail. The return address, he noted, was Gold and Appel Transfers on Canal Street, one of the corporations owned by that intriguing Celine fellow who had kept appearing at the best parties for the last year or so. It was titled Never Whistle While You're Pissing, the and flyleaf had a bold scrawl saying, "Best regards from the author," followed by a gigantic C like a crescent moon. The publisher was Green and Pleasant Publications, P.O. Box 359, Glencoe, Illinois, 60022. If you look at the colophon for the early issues of "No Governor," you will see that it's credited to "Green and Pleasant Press," of the exact same address as the novel. The last issue of the zine has a slightly different address -- the P.O. Box is 319 rather than 359. While Wilson and Shea could have come up with this joke on their own, I'll point out that they both loved Robert Heinlein's work and that Heinlein put his own address, to similar humorous effect, in his short story, "--And He Built a Crooked House--," a favorite of mine when I was in high school. ("Own address" is a slight simplification. Here is the sentence from the Wikipedia article: "In the story, it says that Quintus Teal lived at 8775 Lookout Mountain Avenue in Hollywood, across the street from 'the Hermit, the original Hermit of Hollywood.' That address is actually across the street from Heinlein's own house at the time the story was written.") Thanks, Arthur! Anonymous said... This comment has been removed by a blog administrator. michael said... Supposedly Shea wrote an actual article to Teenset magazine in 1969, under the name "Sandra Glass." If true, part of it is in Illuminatus!, pp.40-41, and note that "Sandra" is getting her info from "Simon," who would be RAW. This Memo was dug up by "Pat" the researcher, who's throwing Saul a lot of curves, knucklers...Something ain't right about this gal. nakchtra devi said... This comment has been removed by the author.	<urn:uuid:a270e5b7-38e6-443c-9840-08e46d69105b>	http://www.rawillumination.net/2012/12/shea-fanzine-in-illuminatus.html	en	0.974098	0.035555	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Monthly Archives: September 2018 German Murli Notes August 23 2018-08-23 Murlinotizen kor German Murli Notes – August 4 2018 German 2018-09-04 Murli Notes September 3, 2018. Arabic September 3rd Arabic Murli Notes, September 4, 2018 Murli Notes, September 4, 2018, Sister Denise Baba is talking about the balance of the fire of yoga which destroys the sins and the arrows of knowledge which shoot down negative ideas that are also the origin of many of the sins. There are two types of sins one is the kind that you are quite aware about. It is sin to harm other people. There is a second type of sin. It is also a sin to propagate incorrect ideas which cause people to apply flawed moral logic that results in assuming a wrong action to be right. This applies particularly to descriptions and definitions of God, souls and karma. This also explains why, no matter how moral people may be, due to insufficient knowledge, they are unable to become free from sin. Baba connects the balance of the fire of yoga and clear knowledge, with the creation of a high status and that too for many births in your future. Baba takes us back to the basic essentials. The original dharma of the soul. Note that dharma does not always mean religion, but what you actually are. A soul begins as still, silent, at peace, and then receives physical organs, the instrument of the body, through which to perform karma. Thus, the body is secondary and the soul is primary. Baba clarifies how we souls take the support of the body so that we can understand better how Shiv Baba, the bodiless Supreme Soul, takes the support of the body of Brahma Baba in order to speak to us. Baba explains that we forget Baba is because we do not have sufficient practice. It is necessary to spend a lot of time sitting practicing to detach from the body, practicing to connect with Shiv Baba in order for it to remain stable, steady and permanent, whilst you are doing other activities. In each Murli, Baba gives us the basics and reminds us: “I have told you who I am, I told you who you are, and I have told you the beginning the middle and the end of the world.” This is a completely different way of understanding what humanity is and how the world proceeds, in comparison with what we receive from the scriptures or from regular education. You will see in the Murli the word ‘infinite’ which is the translation of the word béant. However, I would not use the word ‘infinite’, I would say a better translation is ‘indefinable.’ This is because the English expression for this tends to be that God is indefinable. They say further that if you try to define God, no matter what definition you give, it will be wrong because God is indefinable. Baba says this is not true. Maybe you cannot define Me, but I can define Myself, and then explain Myself to you. The English translation also says that the creation is ‘infinite’; infinite in the sense that it is never ending. The Hindi word béant, means that it does not have an end in time or space. Also, because of the cyclical nature of creation, it doesn’t cease to exist. When a person defines something physical, they delimit it. It is difficult for people of linear thinking to define something which is non-linear. Baba clarifies that, because people think God is indefinable, consequently He must be everywhere. However, that is faulty logic. Baba points that out, which becomes an additional proof that He is not omnipresent. The foundation of the concept of omnipresence is faulty logic. Baba takes up the praise of God: Ek Onkar Satnam Karta Purush, which comes from the Guru Granth Sahib the religious scripture of the Sikh religion. You will find many quotes from the Guru Granth Sahib. The community of Sindhis that Brahma Baba and the original Bks came from would be familiar with quotes from both the Gita and from the Sikh scripture. Brahma Baba belonged to the Valabhacharee sect, that was a combination of Sikhism and Hinduism, where they believe in Vishnu, Krishna, and Lakshmi and Narayan as well as the Gita and the Guru Granth Sahib. The expression “washes the dirty clothes” also comes from the Sikh scripture. Baba takes up the expression ugly and beautiful: Shyam Sundar, which refers more accurately to the brightness of the soul when there is no eclipse of body consciousness, and the darkness or shadow of the vices that dims the brightness of the soul. It is not so much a question of beauty and ugliness but of brightness and darkness or dimness. Shiv Baba specifies the time of His coming. it is only possible for Him to come when the path of devotion is at maximum, has reached its completion, and has finished everything that it had to do. The time of Baba’s coming cannot be in the middle of the cycle, as many of the Hindu concepts present. Rather, it can only be at the convergence of the end and the beginning. Both the creation and the destruction occur at the time when God comes. He can only come at the time when it is possible for there to be destruction and creation. This can only take place at the end of one cycle and the beginning of another. If He is here, it means we are at that time of destruction and new creation. Baba describes the path of Bhakti as a maze. You can neither find your way out of it, nor untangle it. Shiv Baba is the only one who can show you the way to come out, and give you a perspective that is distant enough for you to see the whole thing, and go beyond it. Baba prepares the Brahmin community for Brahma Baba becoming avyakt. Now the avyakt role is completed. It is no longer happening and so we have the complete role of Sakar Baba and now the complete role of Avyakt Babdada. He defines the avyakt form as that of a deity so the soul of Brahma Baba has temporarily come out of the cycle, he did not reincarnate. He is the only soul who has that specialty so he has become equal to God and he has now effectively been functioning as a deity for nearly 50 years. We have experienced that very extraordinary phenomenon. Baba gives importance to the study and ability to communicate the information to others. Your status is also based on your ability to work with the knowledge. The symbolism of the double crown of the deities means that one is the crown of light referring to purity, and the other is the crown of jewels, referring to the absorption of the jewels of knowledge. Purity combined with the wisdom makes you fit to claim the status of a king. Baba takes up the concept of dreams. Anything that has gone into the past is experienced the way you experience a dream. It is also said in gyan that your dreams are created by events of the past that come in to your mind during sleep. Since that is the case, it must also be possible to have dreams of the future. Due to the nature of the cycle of time, the future is the same as the distant past. Baba specifies that calling him omnipresent is defamation. How is it defamation? Because the concept of omnipresence causes people to be unfocused, it prevents people from connecting with God, it causes people to become materialistic and to lose the power of discernment or discrimination. That implies that it destroys your intelligence, therefore Baba presents it as an extremely negative concept. Baba also warns that Maya will trouble us, but we should not be concerned, and just get on with our practice. Baba connects the practice of spinning the cycle, rotating the cycle of the 84 births, and going through all the stages of sato rajo tamo, as the instrument to escape death. Therefore it is important to consider the cycle as the key to achieving the awareness of immortality. This is the key that enables you to leave the body without being taken by the claws of death. Baba talks about the Third Eye as a form of intelligence by which one is able to comprehend matters that are so deep and so subtle that only God knows about them. Only God can communicate such concepts to a human being, and that human being also has to be pure in order to absorb that information. There is the deep secret of the Third Eye. We have been given the Third Eye and we take care of it by maintaining our purity. Baba says that people find it difficult to deal with the point of information that the flames of destruction emerge from this sacrificial fire of the knowledge of Rudra. The destruction is ignited by the sacrificial fire of knowledge and yoga, because the yoga provokes absolute polarization of purity and impurity. There is clarity about truth when there is perfect yoga and this causes everything negative to erupt, to burst and ultimately the effect is global causing generalized destruction. When everything negative has reached its extreme, and the process of purification reaches its extreme, then there is generalized eruption. Baba calls the destruction a task, something which is achieved through the power of purity, so the pure fire of yoga of the yagya of Rudra spits out everything that is negative which is an explosive process, akin to a chemical reaction. On a smaller scale when anything extremely negative takes place in Baba’s yagya, Madhuban, a time comes when that gets spat out. Baba has predicted that a time will come when Madhuban and the Brahmin world as a whole goes through intense purification. Anything that is not pure or anyone there who is not practicing purity will not be able to stay there. They will be spat out by that fire, like water spits when it hits a hot griddle. In the blessing, Baba speaks about charity which is Punya not really charity as such, but the extremely pure karma that also finishes off negativity. The highest pilgrimage place is Abu, the place where God had come, and where Brahma Baba had done tapasya. Abu is the place of purest atmosphere, and when you come there, that atmosphere makes everything that pulls you down evaporate, and you swing in the swing of happiness and peace. Coming to this land is also great fortune. In the slogan, to enjoy the reality of what Baba is giving, you need to be knowledgeable and experienced. Do not worry about anything that you think might be bad or negative. It is there simply to make us strong and experienced. Being just a theoretical Bk is insufficient. Om shanti	<urn:uuid:794a40b7-8851-4617-8280-107104f4e5c0>	https://bkdclasses.net/2018/09/	en	0.946605	0.097105	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
This list was generated on Fri Jul 3 19:13:36 2020 UTC. Browse by Contributors Up a level Export as [feed] RSS Number of items: 28. Blanchard, Thomas and Borins, Daniel and Collyer, Robin and Davila, Patricio and Dick, Terence and Marchessault, Janine and Marman, Jennifer and Prokopow, Michael and Steele, Lisa and Tomczak, Kim. The Leona Drive Project. Toronto, Ont.: Public Access, 2011. DOSSIER: 390 - PUBLIC ACCESS (Toronto, Ont.) Tomczak, Kim and Steele, Lisa. CFAT Visiting Artists : Kim Tomczak and Lisa Steele. Halifax, NS: Centre for Art Tapes, 2005. 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DOSSIER: 351 - POWER PLANT, The (Toronto) Kivisild, Emma and Robertson, Clive and Diamond, Sara and Bearchell, Chris and Miller, Jim and Philip, Marlene Nourbese and Steele, Lisa and House, Jeff and Bannerji, Himani and Condy-Berggold, Craig and Greyson, John and Kibbins, Gary and Wilson, Pat and Alexander, Don and Baert, Renee and Campbell, Colin and Frenkel, Vera and Tomczak, Kim and Rosler, Martha and Kivisild, Emma. Fuse 9: [5]. Feb/March. (1986). Seaman, Patti and Harry, Isobel and Wilson, Paul and Wilson, Pat and Barber, Bruce and Diamond, Sara and Kibbins, Gary and Philip, Marlene Nourbese and Robertson, Clive and DeLeon, Voltaire R. and Constable, Mike and Alexander, Don and Tomczak, Kim and Kibbins, Gary and Kerr, Kandace and Giglio, Philip A. and Jacobs, Alex. Fuse 9: 6. May/June. (1986). Robertson, Clive and House, Jeff and Bienvenue, Marcella and Wilson, Pat and Tomczak, Kim and Diamond, Sara and Philip, Marlene Nourbese and Nelson, Joyce and Blake, Milton and Campbell, Colin and Lee, Andrew. Fuse 10: 4. Winter. (1986). Mason, Joyce and House, Jeff and Kibbins, Gary and Brand, Dionne and Bhaggiyadatta, Krisantha Sri and Cameron, Shirley and Miller, Roland and Mc Aulay, Tony and Barber, Bruce and Vigier, Rachel and Philip, Marlene and Schroeder, Elizabeth and Stephenson, Helga and Oughton, Libby and Leeming, Frances and Wright, David and Diamond, Sara and Johnston, Jude and O'Connor, Alan and Garfield, Louise. Fuse 8: 6. Spring. (1985). Mason, Joyce and Philip, Marlene and Barber, Bruce and Sand, Cy-Thea and Diamond, Sara and Kwinter, Kerri and Reynaud, Berenice and Pevere, Geoff and McTair, Roger and Miller, Joan and Poole, Nancy and Pratt, Shauna and Bishop, Ruth and Bociurkiw, Marusia and Converse, William and Johnston, Jude. Fuse 9: 1 & 2. Summer. (1985). Brand, Dionne and Bhaggiyadatta, Krisantha Sri and Burstyn, Varda and Greyson, John and Kinsman, Gary and Greyson, Peter and Steele, Lisa and Tomczak, Kim and Kwinter, Kerri and Fernie, Lynne and Frenkel, Vera and MacDowall, Cyndra. Issues of Censorship. Toronto, Ont.: A Space, 1985. DOSSIER: 351 - A SPACE (Toronto) Mason, Joyce and Steele, Lisa and Robertson, Clive and Cash, Martin and Dubovey, Joseph and Harry, Isobel and Onodera, Midi and Richmond, Norman Otis and Diamond, Sara and Pirie, Marion Hayden and Joseph, Clifton and Braithwaite, Edward and Freedman, Lisa and Fleming, Martha and Davidson, Howard and Buyers, Jane and Chase, Gillian and Ingrata, Brenda and Hutchinson, Gail and Hayman, Sasha and Cole, Susan G.. Fuse 7: 4. November/December. (1983). Farrell-Ward, Lorna and Shadbolt, Jack and Rogatnick, Abraham and Pakasaar, Helga and Watson, Scott and Balma, Donna and Shadbolt, Douglas and Lowndes, Joan and Neil, Al and Silcox, David P. and Razutis, Al and Pinney, Marguerite and Balkind, Alvin and Danzker, Jo-Anne Birnie and Beck, Claudia and Reif, Tony and Wong, Paul and Duffek, Karen and Gruft, Andrew. Vancouver : Art and Artists, 1931-1983. Vancouver, BC: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1983. Anderson, John and Guest, Tim and Conde, Carole and Coutts-Smith, Kenneth and Bull, Hank and Gruben, Patricia and Frenkel, Vera and Harrison, A.s.a. and Robertson, Clive and McCaffery, Steve and Osborne, Stephen and Steele, Lisa and Sherman, Tom and Tenhaaf, Nell and Tomczak, Kim and Vanderzaag, Elizabeth and Patton, Andy and Roualdés, Alain and Pinkel, Sheila and Coleman, Victor and Beveridge, Karl and The Strike Collective. Centerfold 3: 3. February/March. (1979). Bradley, Jessica and Miller, Alan and Coutts-Smith, Kenneth and Danzker, Jo-Anne Birnie and Robertson, Clive and Sherman, Tom and Bertocci, Carlo and Nannucci, Maurizio and Bull, Hank and Morris, Paul and Rothberg, David and Harry, Isobel and Beveridge, Karl and Szwajewska, Monika and Greyson, John and Steele, Lisa and Holden-Lawrence, Monica and Guest, Tim and Coleman, Victor and General Idea. Centerfold 3: 5. July. (1979). Sherman, Tom and Beveridge, Karl and Beuys, Joseph and Bull, Hank and Adrian, Robert and Wright, Joe and Campbell, Colin and Harry, Isobel and Gruben, Patricia and Beveridge, Karl and Greyson, John and Todd, Kim and Milne, Anne and Fleming, Martha and Steele, Lisa and Sporadek, Diane and Paterson, Andy and Robertson, Clive and Ferguson, Mary and Wong, Paul and Guest, Tim. Centerfold 3: 6. September. (1979). Tomczak, Kim. Kim Tomczak : 17 Photographs. Vancouver, BC: Pumps Books, 1979. Balkind, Alvin and Barber, Bruce and Danzker, Jo-Anne Birnie and Blouin, René and Roth, Moira. Living Art Vancouver. Vancouver, BC: Western Front; s.l.: Pumps; s.l.: Video Inn, 1979. Rosenberg, Tanya and Beveridge, Karl and Sauchuk, J. and Bierk, David and Monk, Philip and Sherman, Tom and Moore, Sheila and Gronau, Anna and Craig, Kate and Tomczak, Kim and Wong, Paul and Chitty, Elizabeth and Bartlett, Bill and Doyle, Judith and Garnet, Eldon and Goldberg, Michael. Places des Artistes : 3e Rétrospective Parallèlogramme = Spaces by Artists : Parallelogramme Retrospective 3. Toronto, Ont.: ANNPAC/RACA, 1979. Selby, Roger L. and Arnold, Mary and Boogaerts, Pierre and Haslam, Michael and Hayden, Michael and Kolisnyk, Peter and Kuramoto, Ken and Lebredt, Gordon and Rimmer, David and Taylor, John and Tomczak, Kim and Tousignant, Serge and Vazan, Bill. The Winnipeg Perspective, 1978. Winnipeg, Man.: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1978. Public : Being on Time.: 24. 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Family says loving father was trying to get away from fight when he was gunned down outside Overland Park bar Data pix. OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- A 24-year-old Olathe man was gunned down outside of a Johnson County bar early Wednesday morning. And as Overland Park Police continue to search for clues in the murder of Jurl Carter, his family is speaking out about the family man and aspiring rapper. Police say Carter was shot as he was trying to get away from an argument which started in the bar and spilled out onto the sidewalk. On Wednesday Jim Kilroy, who is the owner of the Roxy Bar, located near 75th Street and Metcalf, says Carter was arguing with some guys outside the bar and may have even been hit and knocked to the ground. Carter with his young family Credit: Facebook Carter with his young family Credit: Facebook Eventually, Carter got into his parked car and backed up to get away, but hit a pole and was gunned down. He was later found lying outside of his car. It is an account that is hard for his family to accept. "He was always there, you know, sorry this is hard," said Teresa Carter, the victim’s youngest sister. Teresa Carter had a hard time choking back the tears as she described her brother, who was like a father to her daughter. She said Carter even showed up for her child's first day of school. "He made sure that he was there the first day of her getting on the bus, he made sure that Uncle Jurl was there and he was always there for her when she needed him. He always come around dancing, doing the quan and the nae nae and all of that stuff and his personality was so amazing," she said. The family of Carter is trying to come to grips with the fact they will never see him again. "He's a good guy, he don't deserve this and now he has kids that are going to grow up without their father and they don't deserve this,” said Teresa. Described as a passionate family man, Carter has a four-year-old daughter, two-year-old son and another boy due in December. Family and friends say his other passion was rap. "He told me once when he was 10 years old that he was going to make it and he was going to take care of his mama and help her for the sacrifices that she made for him and I really believe that he meant that,” said Carter’s aunt, Carolyn Burnett. A popular local rapper, “Bo Boogie” as Carter was known, often rapping about his family. "Just because you say he is a rapper, he is automatically got to be something bad. That's not true. You can carry your positive message and don't have to be bad,” said Burnett. His cousin and musical collaboration partner, Duncan Burnett, says Carter had a tough life growing up, moving from house to house, living with family members when Carter's mother fell on hard times. "Music and rap was his escape, that's how he handled and dealt with the pressure,” he said about his cousin. Credit: Facebook Jurl Carter, Credit: Facebook Wednesday morning police said Carter was dealing with the pressure of a fight by getting away from it when he was gunned down. "It doesn't mean that you are not a man, it doesn't mean that you are a punk, just walk away. And this time he, he did that and this time it didn't matter,” said Burnett. Teresa says all the family wants right now is for the killer to be caught. "I just wish you never did that to my brother. And now like we are all hurting over something petty that could have been solved a different way,” said Teresa. Police and the family say Carter does not have a criminal history, and other than an argument, they have no idea why he was gunned down. If you have any information in this case, please call the TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-TIPS. Tracking Coronavirus More Tracking Coronavirus More News	<urn:uuid:c601fcfc-3e07-4c0d-99b6-91e48ae7829e>	https://fox4kc.com/news/family-says-loving-father-was-trying-to-get-away-from-fight-when-he-was-gunned-down-outside-overland-park-bar/	en	0.9915	0.029136	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
June 21: Curses I hope I make it to church today because I need a good spiritual cleansing. This morning, as I often do, I was saying the rosary while driving. It’s usually very calming and keeps me from listening to talk radio shows that give me heartburn. Sometimes, though, I forget that I’m supposed to be in a state of holiness because, well, some people are really bad drivers. In the middle of my first decade, right when I should be focusing on prayer and meditation, a car — no two cars — pulled out from a side street and proceeded to drive slowly across four lanes of traffic to land in front of my car. Here’s the thing: If you are going to pull out of a side street and get in front of me, do it fast. I have major respect for drivers who nearly cut someone off but immediately drive 40 miles an hour to avoid any issues. If you pull in front of me and you’re driving 15 miles an hour, though, you incur my wrath. Which is why as soon as the second car pulled out and proceeded to drive at a snail’s pace in front of me, I lost all sense of grace. “You JACK ASS,” I yelled to no one except myself. Then I laid on the horn because that’s as far as my road rage escalates. As soon as the words left my mouth, I wanted to chop them into little pieces and throw them in the nearest trash can. Like, in the middle of a Hail Mary, I’m yelling “jack ass.” Who’s not feeling the spirit this morning? That would be me. Bumper-to-bumper traffic is not my thing. In these instances, I really think (hope) that God has a sense of humor. I mean, it’s a pretty clever piece of irony that I’m supposed to be focusing on prayer and I’m instead swearing at drivers. That’s funny, right? Right, God? This is when your personal interpretation of the supreme being becomes particularly helpful. Who wants to think of a god that would be miffed because you chewed out a driver while praying? Maybe Jesus would have been annoyed in a similar way, although, let’s be honest, probably not. He would, of course forgive me, and that’s a good thing. So two important musings on this sunny Friday: 1. It’s okay to get mad at someone’s bad driving and forgive yourself for doing so. 2. Maybe saying the rosary behind the wheel has its drawbacks. Thursday, April 18: Crazy We’re about halfway through the Latin Mass on Holy Thursday when it dawns on me: Jesus did some pretty out-there stuff. On Palm Sunday, he tells his disciples to go fetch him a donkey, then he rides it into town. This is to fulfill a prophesy, sure, but was anyone expecting it at that moment? A few days later, during their Passover meal, Jesus just starts washing his disciples’ feet. Peter is rather appalled. Why in the world is the Lord washing my feet? Then, he does something even more cray-cray: He breaks the bread and calls it his body; he lifts the chalice of wine and calls it his blood. At this point, the disciples are in a little too deep to just walk away. I wonder if any of them thought of it, though. “You know, Jesus over here is exhibiting some strange tendencies. I may have to cut out of this dinner early.” Everyone stays, though, including that scoundrel Judas, who’s about to turn in Jesus for some silver. The point is, the disciples have followed Jesus all this time, and they’ve witnessed some unusual activity. Turning a loaf of bread and two fish into enough food to feed thousands of people, for example. By the end of the Passover with Jesus, they must think they’ve seen it all. That is until days later, after he’s crucified, when he leaves the tomb and walks among them. Hold onto your hats, disciples!	<urn:uuid:190d0266-6c7c-4f02-87bc-e55597354003>	https://holymoly.blog/tag/prayer/	en	0.974158	0.024815	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
No Box For Me You go where you are free. Our society likes us all to be conformist in how we live, what we do, ;and what we think. Even as a child I wasn’t able to do this, I couldn’t even fake it. My soul would just rebel at things like hypocrisy and injustice. Society in every country makes demands upon its citizens that they be uniform in actions and thinking. I am not talking about good behavior versus criminal behavior. It is as Ghandi said when he was encouraging Indian citizens to use passive resistance to obtain their freedom from the English. My hackles go up when someone is telling a person what to think or say. I will not be put into a box all neat and orderly. This has been true since I was a child and often I paid dearly for having my own thoughts. Human beings don’t all think alike or act alike, for which I am grateful. How boring it would be if we were all the same in our actions and thinking. It is true that sometimes people just know how to push our buttons, but you are in control of how you are going to react. Women, for instance, are treated as inferior or as second class citizens. As I have mentioned before, we still are the only American citizens who are not legally equal. Minorities continue to suffer discrimination. It is a sad fact that often a person has a bad experience, and forms a distrust of all people of that race, culture or religion. Living in a world of terror is frightening. However, I remember the Cold War and the drills at school where we would be told to get under our desks when the siren went off. I asked, one day, how the desks would protect us. The teacher was not pleased at all with me because the other kids heard and wanted an answer too. She didn’t have an answer. I have Muslim friends. They are not jihadists yet every day people look at them with distrust. I was with one of my friends and we went to dinner. When the server came to our table, she was visibly uncomfortable. I started to talk to the server and to relieve the tension. It ended up fine but my friend was uncomfortable. It was shortly after 9-11 and we both understood but my heart hurt that this situation happened. Sometimes, you can see both sides, but you must choose the ethical and morally right behaviorAs a society, we need to remember that the Divine is within all of us and to try to correct what is hypocritical and unjust. Yes, there are evil people in the world. But they often come from severely dysfunctional families. Sometimes they are so damaged they cannot heal or are not given the opportunity. My rule for measuring this life is hypocrisy and injustice. I cannot tolerate either in my life. So there are times I have walked away from people because they were an offense to my soul. WWII and the holocaust are examples of people who ignored their inner guidance and some even assisted the Nazis. One person whose name you are probably familiar with is Coco Chanel. She began the designer line of the House of Chanel. She collaborated with the Germans when they took Paris. People died because of her actions. But she took care of herself and her Chanel line thrives to this day. I encourage everyone to be true to who you are and what is true in your life. If you do not betray your own soul and heart, then you will be able to trust your inner guidance to lead you to your higher good. If you are being your true self, you will then be the person that the Divine, The One, Adonai intended you to be in this lifetime.	<urn:uuid:1297ff86-1493-4118-96d4-9b933b7fdf22>	https://idealisticrebel.com/2013/07/11/	en	0.981176	0.102127	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
We're not just a city divided over the Dallas Cowboys vs. New Orleans Saints match up Sunday... in a lot of cases, houses are even divided! After all, this is a tough one. The Saints are Louisiana's team, but Dallas is closer and QB Dak Prescott is from HERE! With that in mind, there's going to be a lot of trash-talking over the next several days before the teams take to the field Sunday night at 7:20 pm on NBC from the Mercedes Benz Superdome in NOLA. We thought we'd help take your trash talk to a new level with some of our favorite Saints and Cowboys jokes! Jokes about the Dallas Cowboys from Jokes4Us.com: Q: What do the Dallas Cowboys and a Chick-Fil-A manager have in common? A: Neither one shows up for work on Sunday. Q: What can the Dallas Cowboys and their cheerleaders do together but not apart? A: Score. Q: What do they call a drug ring in Dallas? A: The huddle. Q: What do you say to a Dallas Cowboy in a suit? A: Will the defendant please rise. Q: How do you keep the Dallas Cowboys out of your yard? A: Put up goal posts. Jokes about the New Orleans Saints from Jokes4Us.com: Q: If you have a car containing a Saints wide receiver, a Saints linebacker, and a Saints defensive back, who is driving the car? A: The cop. Q: What do you call a New Orleans Saint in the Super Bowl? A: A referee. Q: Did you hear that New Orleans's football team doesn't have a website? A: They can't string three "Ws" together. Q: Where do you go in New Orleans in case of a tornado? A: The Superdome - they never get a touchdown there! Did you hear that Mercedes-Benz Superdome had to be resodded? That's really sad when you can't even get your own grass to root for you!	<urn:uuid:6c66327d-8fe5-43f1-a8e0-51ec27567996>	https://mykisscountry937.com/trash-talk-friday-dallas-cowboys-vs-new-orleans-saints/	en	0.950974	0.299594	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Morrocan Cupping Vessel 1. Items> 2. Bleeding> 3. Cupping> 4. Current Item A brass cupping vessel used in North Africa for wet cupping Wet and dry cupping (the former for bleeding) has been used worldwide for thousands of years. The North African Moors commonly shave both their heads as well as their groins. Having scarified the area with cuts using fleams and scarificators, barber surgeons would then apply cups like these to remove blood. The vacuum created by sucking on the side pipe is sealed with chewed grass or gum. The bleeding instruments and and the environment are not sterile and tend to be unhygienic which provides potenital vector for the spread of disease, but the practice remains as commonplace today as it was in the 18th century. Because the devices have changed little it can be difficult to date them but this one is probably 19th century	<urn:uuid:db2c2227-2ede-4a71-aa89-75d5c5a4d1ec>	https://phisick.com/item/morrocan-cupping-vessel/	en	0.960063	0.272484	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
TIFU: by eating mysterious chocolates from the fridge. tifu Original treemeister- 21470 G 2020-06-28 05:40:32 This morning, I uncharacteristically slept in, and woke up at 8am to my fiancé and the two roommates hanging out over coffee, preparing for the day. On this rare occasion, everyone was scheduled to leave the house all at the same time except for myself. Everyone leaves and I start cleaning house, buzzing around, listening to music, and generally enjoying the time alone. I decide at one point to detail my car. It’s around 1pm, I’m supposed to be meeting my fiancé in just few hours, and have just enough time to thoroughly pamper my car. I run inside to grab a refreshing beverage, and spot a tasty chocolate snack in the fridge, commence fu. I decide eating one of the two somewhat wonky looking chocolates that was nestled into the butter compartment in the fridge couldn’t cause too much harm. I left one of them, plus, they look like maybe they were just a lost and sad chocolate forgotten in a pocket on a hot day. No one would miss them too much. I continue cleaning my car, and start getting ready to run to town and meet up with fiancé in just a little over an hour. I start noticing how lovely everything is and slowed my roll with detailing my car. Look out into the woods and start noticing that it seems like the trees are breathing. Colors are more vibrant than typical, and I just feel like laying down and enjoying my cozy bed for a minute. It’s about then that I start questioning the mystery chocolate. I run upstairs to lay down for a quick minute. I pull my phone out to text fiancé about the chocolate, and notice that the the letters of my keyboard are wiggling and wandering around on the screen. Text the fiancé to find out what they were: “Hey babe, what are these chocolates in the fridge?” “Did I just dose myself with something?!” “Oh no, did you eat both of them?! You just ate an 1/8 of shrooms, get comfortable...” Luckily, they weren’t as strong as I expected, but still spent the greater portion of a day wandering around the house admiring various different aspects of life and reality. TLDR; left alone at home on rare occasion, ate mysterious chocolate from the fridge and ended up dosing myself with mushroom chocolates. Edit: to clarify, my fiancé and I have a private fridge and share food. He doesn’t normally load it with laced edibles, especially without warning me. It was an honest mistake on both parts. Edit2: they really didn’t have any shroom flavor to them. There was a slight spicy taste, which is what I suspect masked the flavor. “Oh no, did you eat both of them?!” “Oh yeah! You just ate an 1/8 of shrooms, get comfortable...” UnfortunateRedditor 8058 1h49m There was a split second when I was reading the title where I thought you were going to a bag of turds from the fridge. Why would I think that you may ask? I don't fully know myself. corbynislife 1424 3h11m I thought the same thing. Here comes a (second hand) story. In secondary school our teachers used to take turns do an assembly presentation. They’d talk about anything that interested them, or tell stories about their past. One (my) science teacher got up one day to tell us about her work experience as a young teen. She said she worked in a home for the elderly and helped care for a few people for a few weeks. It was her last day. A particular lady, who our teacher says seemed very lovely and was one of the more “able” people in the home, waited until our teacher had come into the room to do some of her tasks. The nice old lady remarked about it being our teacher’s last day on the job and told her she had a present for her. She pulls out a box of chocolates. My teacher was thrilled to receive the box of chocolates - what a kind thing to do in recognition of her work. Turns out, over time, lovely old lady had been taking turd pieces from the bowl, and was filling the tray compartments with “chocolate”. Now, every time someone mentions “mysterious chocolate” I get instant turd-piece flashbacks. tinatarantino 577 7h25m I can believe this. One of my jobs is in a dementia home and you don't eat chocolates. I've been handed shits, had them thrown at me, I've stepped in them, had it wiped on me... the list is ongoing as old folk can be pretty imaginative! TheGreatZarquon 355 7h31m My fiancée works in a memory care ward, and the number of times she has come home with various bodily fluids/solids on her scrubs is staggering. I don't know how she does the job, I can barely change a diaper without wanting to throw up everything I've eaten for the last week. tinatarantino 211 12h22m There have been times where I've had to manually assist residents with passing stool. I can't watch an old man crying with pain because he's so backed up, gets me right in the soul. I see it as, yeah it can be pretty gross but I want to help them. That's someone's mum or dad or aunt or uncle, they desperately need help and can't care for themselves. My instant reaction is less 'urgh' and more 'awww'. It's terribly sad, and I want to take care of them. I've got a strong stomach, and I make light of it. No sense in trying to shame someone. I remember walking into a room where there was poo EVERYWHERE, seeing a little old lady standing there smiling, and me saying 'Oh hello X, I think you've made a bit of a mess, shall I give you a nice, warm shower?' mother_of_mittens 58 12h48m I want to hug you. You are amazing. Knives530 38 13h4m People like you are a blessing here Giatoxiclok 2 13h55m Hello bröther WhoooDoggy 5 14h39m Hey Tina, I am on the THRONE, but having some problems, could use your coaching, you available for a FaceTime? tinatarantino 3 15h26m Have you tried suppositories? Or a 'poo step' to put your feet on? Helps open your bowels. WhoooDoggy 3 16h30m I appreciate the tip Tina, still here working it, sweating profusely, legs have fallen asleep, can’t move. I am calling the Fire Department👩‍🚒 tinatarantino 2 1d2h3m Never mind the fire department, call a plumber! AzraelTB 4 13h20m That was my mom on her death bed. Thank you. kittykatmax 3 13h27m Thank you. YOU are a true hero. oldlittlegirl 3 13h29m Yep, good attitude. I do the same, why make someone feel bad. It doesn’t take long to clean up. And then move on to the next problem of the moment. tinatarantino 5 13h42m If anything, I'm impressed most of the time. Like, I'd be proud to lay some of the logs old folk do. I've also been known to do sympathy farts just to show that there's nothing to be embarrassed about. It's natural! Also, most old folk find farts hilarious. Everyone does them! Some of the residents (that I know find them particularly funny), I'll give them a mark out of 10. Old people are fucking awesome, they'll surprise ya! belgianidiot 2 14h52m You sound like such a good person. Thank you for doing your job with so much kindness and care! The residents must love you :) reduxde 2 18h8m We have had to do this repeatedly with our daughter (~1.5 years old), sometimes her poop comes out like... I don’t even know how to describe it, like a snowball made of clay and sawdust. She screams and cries and bleeds and vomits, and it gets partway out and stuck, and i dig away at the middle of it with a popsicle stick and a teaspoon to hollow it out and it collapses and passes. Pediatrician said “eat more pears” and charged us $350 (it didn’t help). The joys of parenthood... tinatarantino 2 1d2h2m That's awful! Has she tried Movicol or Lactulose? My daughter was backed when she was tiny and we were prescribed that. They also said to give her plenty of fruit and veg, water, and keep her active, as all of those things can help x couchpertater 31 11h44m Maybe it’s a biological thing? There are lots of videos and stories of guys gagging and fetching changing their own child’s diaper but I’ve only heard a couple of stories where women had trouble changing diapers. Even then it wasn’t their own baby. My uncle had so much trouble changing a dirty diaper that if he was home alone with his baby daughter he had to carry her up the street to her grandmothers house and have her grandma change it. I’m pretty sure he couldn’t even stand to watch her change a dirty diaper, he had to go in another room or at least turn his back. GunnaGiveYouUp1969 42 13h5m I doubt it's biology. I work with plenty of guys in the hospital and we've all had our share of poopoo parties to attend. My experience is most people have a fair ability to suck it up and push through something gross, and my guess is mothers do that and dads more often feel like they've got the ability to tap out and have someone else do it. Wanna hear a shitty story from work? So I've got this patient. 60-something years old, woman. Shits the bed. Sucks, but it's part of the job. I grab a coworker to help and go to work. The mattresses are coated in rubber, so all I've got to do is roll her up to one side, clean everything I can reach, strip the dirty sheets from that side, stuff them as far under her as I can, and then put fresh sheets on that side and tuck them under her. Then we'll roll her, my coworker will wipe the other side, pull the dirty sheets out from under her, pull the clean sheets through, and we're done! Straightforward, right? So we've got her up on her side, I've got the dirty linens tucked, and I'm going to town with some baby wipes to get the shit off of her ass. I'm most of the way done, when she starts shitting again. This happens. It sucks, but it happens. What's different about this time, and why you're hearing this story, is that it's liquid shit, and coming out with enough velocity to have a ballistic trajectory. It makes it about 6" from her asshole before finally arcing down to meet the bed. I'm watching this thing happen like it's a water show at Disneyland, and my soul is crumbling as she refills the shit lake I'd just finished emptying. So that was the time I watched shit take flight, and my soul died a little more that day. ChefChopNSlice 19 13h18m My very first day observing radiology in the hospital, very first patient, was 80+ year old man with Parkinson’s. He was getting a barium enema for a colon study. TL:DR at the end of the exam they got him up on his knees, with his ass pointing up. They pulled that tip out of his rectum and a literal fountain of white liquid barium came erupting out, straight up, barely missing the ceiling before splattering all over the table and floor. GunnaGiveYouUp1969 3 13h35m So I notice your username isn't DrChopNSlice. Decide that was enough rectal water features for your life? ChefChopNSlice 8 13h46m Actually, I went pretty far into the program and a year into clinicals. I saw shit fountains, flashlights up asses, monopoly pieces inside intestines, buckshot all over this one dude, and lost police taser prongs in people. It wasn’t the freaky shit that made me hate it. It was the pressure to crank out exams instead of being able to focus on patient care and learning. I fucked up a simulated practical exam because of not being able to practice a particular X-ray in the field, because it wasn’t part of the hospitals traditional protocol. I was kicked from the program and had to reapply the next year to continue, despite having over a 3.0 gpa at the time. I hated hospital work anyway, and was so upset from the fallout that I did a 180 to “follow a childhood dream” and took out loans for culinary school (proudly paid off). GunnaGiveYouUp1969 3 14h6m Shit, I hear that. Working in a hospital can be pretty brutal. Rad techs at my hospital have it relatively cush, but that's probably the exception. iWannaSeeStars 2 18h26m At least the guy was asleep for it. He was, wasn't he? I mean, they usually are for. A colonoscopy and similar procedures. ChefChopNSlice 3 1d6h10m For a Colonoscopy you’re put into “twilight” with sedation. Enema you’re fully awake. iWannaSeeStars 2 2d7h17m I cant even imagine how awkward that would have been! iWannaSeeStars 2 2d7h17m Thanks for clarification, BTW. gwaydms 26 12h20m I did most of the diaper duty at home since I was a SAHM and my husband worked. That was fine; it's what I signed up for (nobody made me stay home). But my husband definitely changed diapers and gave our children baths. dzumdang 21 12h53m I'm an older brother, and had to change a lot of baby diapers when on babysitting duty for two younger siblings. I have a very acute sense of smell, and it was difficult, but the need for children to be comfortable eclipses the reaction to the stench. For other men, I'm wondering what would biologically cause them to not be able to handle the smell? There's nothing like a content, freshly-changed child as a reward. Helophora 10 12h35m About a year ago I changed my last dirty diaper. It was a great day. If either of my sons try to offload any future diaper changing duties on me I’ll laugh in their faces. I’m done! csoup1414 9 12h29m I've had trouble changing my own kids diapers before, and I'm female. It was right when they started eating baby food though and had some solids in their diet. ACakeCalledDenial 2 13h50m yeah, breast/formula fed poop is somewhat bearable, but those solid poops....ugh I do have a really strong stomach tho and not once have I even gagged changing my kid. My ex did tell me one time that his gf was changing her and she threw up because it was so bad. I definitely think it has something to do with it being your own kid. kittykatmax 2 13h33m Don't think so. Used to gross me out massively (I'm female), and it took years of babysitting, and then having pets, to get over it. I'm STILL pretty grossed out by vomit, I just deal better - with three cats, it's not like I have a choice! lol I suspect it's more of a matter that (1) many, if not most, guys don't babysit growing up the way girls do - or at least did; I grew up in the '80s. So, when guys have a child of their own, it's more likely that it's their first exposure to the "bonuses" of babies. I also think guys that don't deal with it well are more likely to be given a bit of a "pass," thanks to out-dated gender roles, whereas women are just expected to suck it up, BECAUSE we're women. CaptainSlacker1 114 9h12m Fun stuff! I worked in a memory care unit for seven years. For seven years I had to pull a little old lady out of bed around 2am 3-4 times a week and shower her, change the bed linens, and clean shit off of everything within her reach because she masturbated with her feces then proceeded to wipe it everywhere. Box of tissues...covered in shit, hand rails...covered in shit, water pitcher and straw...covered in shit, call button...covered in shit...pretty flowers that her family brought her...yep, you guessed it. I despised that woman sometimes PootsOn69_4U 107 9h46m What amazes me is that she didn't die of a horrible infection caused by masturbating with her own feces 121PB4Y2 76 10h26m That would have been a shitty way to die. CaptainSlacker1 3 12h56m I really thought that an infection would do her in...not gonna say I was hoping for it but...she definitely had her moments Karjo2000 2 15h54m Given that you can get an infection just by wiping back-to-front as opposed to front-to-back after urinating, it’s honestly a miracle she didn’t get a horrible infection the first time she did it, especially with an elderly immune system. Then again, the elderly can often surprise us with their resilience. yythrow 31 11h42m Man at a certain point you just gotta let some people go, it sounds like there was barely anything left in there. sageflower1855 14 12h3m Yeaaahh, I won’t lie I had this same thought. CaptainSlacker1 11 12h57m It was terrible and her husband came to visit her every day. He was the sweetest little old man alymaysay 27 12h35m I worked in a psych facility. There was this guy that was defffffinitely in the right place. They told me, in orientation actually, about "Fred". "Fred likes to save his feces. He never flushes it. So never take any tissues from Fred" noted. One day I decided to help out (I was working as an RN) and work as an aide. My section had to do laundry. I opened the dryer and one of the other aides handed me the gloves. Why do you need gloves with clean laundry? Oh because Fred saves his turds in his pockets. The amount of dried hard turds that came out of that songle load of laundry blew my fucking mind. We also had another guy...not so into shit. Honestly ive partially blocked it. Well I had until I started to write this anyway. One day I got called down to "Tom"s room. Now one thing to know about people on psych meds long term...they take the most insanely huge shits. Like...'holy shit have you not what in months and it's all coming out now?' Kinda shits. I walk in and I can smell the shit hath already hit the fan. I look in and 3 aides are trying to wrestle a giant turd out of "Tom's" hands. But he wont give it up. Why? Because "I'm hungry and this is m-m-my candy b-b-b-bar" as he takes a huge bite. Ugh....im gonna go vomit and try to re-repress. Thank you for this lovely trip down memory lane reddit. CaptainSlacker1 6 12h59m I would’ve absolutely lost it. Showering a shitty old lady was bad enough. I probably would’ve walked out if she ate it! I’m getting queasy just thinking about it I would’ve absolutely lost it. Showing a shitty old lady was bad enough. I probably would’ve walked out if she ate it! I’m getting queasy just thinking about it alymaysay 3 13h53m Honestly, there are two types of nurses, LPN or RN. There's the type that get a job and the instant a call light comes on or an aide needs a hand they say "find another aide. I'm a nurse...shit rolls downhill...i went to school to not have to do that kinda work anymore". Then there the type, like myself, who will always help no matter what the situation. Well I thought this second one was me. It is with great shame, and displeasure with myself that I admit that was the first time I was thankful for being able to use that excuse. I just couldnot bring myself to take one more step into that room. I was not about to fight someone for their turd candy. Ughhhh tinatarantino 4 13h57m Oh, I've had to make my finger into a fish hook to get poo out of mouths before. Again, the 'awww' overpowers the 'urgh', I just feel so sad and want to help. Paraperire 11 11h49m It sounds like a difficult and frankly awful job. I’m sure it’s hard to maintain your empathy. Nonetheless, the way you describe a woman that clearly has no idea what she’s doing as if she’s some perverted cretin out to ruin your day (well night) makes me wonder if you were able to remain kind and gentle with an elderly invalid who had lost her mind and was no doubt confused and scared. Underpaid and angry carers are the reason I would rather kill myself painfully than end up being abused or neglected for years in a ‘memory care unit’. kimlo274 8 13h24m This comment is pretty judgmental. As a nurse I have seen things that are terrifying and disgusting, sometimes simultaneously. Having normal human emotions (disgust) about being in an awful situation (having to spend at least half an hour cleaning poop from everything, when you usually have enough time to either finish all of your work OR get a lunch break) doesn't make you a bad person, it makes you human. And telling people about how frustrating it was after the fact is a way to communicate those negative feelings healthily. Usually in the moment a caregiver is able to dissociate from their feelings and speak calmly to the patient to get them cleaned up safely, but caregivers aren't saintly angels who don't feel negative emotions sometimes, we still sometimes get grossed out. AcerbicWit 7 12h23m See, Ive never worked with the elderly. Luckily, I'm not enough of a gibbering moron to presume to lecture people who deal with more difficult things on a daily basis than I ever will in my life on the method in which they do so or how they cope with it, you disgusting pretentious sanctimonious shit. CaptainSlacker1 4 13h1m Oh...I absolutely adored her during the day! She was an absolute sweetheart with some very twisted nighttime habits. I’d like to believe that dementia had taken its toll and that’s not who she really was at night BorderlineWire 81 9h1m Several years ago, I worked in care and I had that bleached white blonde thing going on. Trying to clean up an individual who a)rather liked touching my hair and b)had just had a full room poop party. They took the opportunity to add some stylish new colour to my do as soon as I got close enough. One of the clients I will never forget. BiffBiff1234 7 11h57m A d0-d0-do- a da-da-da is all i have to say to you....;) AsafKleinman 4 11h46m So you had some, uh, do-do added to your do? BorderlineWire 2 14h42m I did indeed get a doo doo added to my do. She decided I’d look better with a chunky lowlight. deadcomefebruary 69 8h42m Huh, funny enough, I work as a kitchen bitch in one of these places and have yet to have a problem in this area. Then again, i dont hang out in our lockdown ward. whitneyfayth 24 9h46m I admire what you do. You are an angel. AdmiralAckbong 14 10h20m A glow, beautiful, shit covered angel tinatarantino 8 12h32m I have halo of flies buzzing round my head. Buzz buzz, motherfucker. tinatarantino 3 12h31m Aww shucks, no need for that but thank you. I prefer working with advanced dementia, challenging behaviour etc. I really love finding ways to communicate with them when they're non verbal, and just spending time with them. The only part of the job I dislike is that quite a few colleagues of mine clearly haven't entered care because they want to, or because they actually care. I've had so many rows because I DGAF what they think about me, and I call them out if they're not putting the individuals first. You get some amazing carers, but also a lot of gossiping, backstabbing and 'minimum effort' staff, too. DaddysCyborg 19 11h57m My mom used to tell me a story about a somewhat aggressive old man who lived at the nursing home she worked at. She said one day he was walking through the halls, and little turds were falling out of his shorts. When he came by the desk, she asked him "ummm... Hey Mr.R, what's going on today?" He said back "I have no idea but there's SHIT EVERYWHERE" tinatarantino 3 13h51m Ohhh I've had that, I've cleaned up poo tracks. I took one lady into the garden for a walk and she fished out a big ol' poo and tried to throw it at me. It broke into two- one half got smeared over my arm, the other fell on the floor and got trodden on and walked around. She was my absolute favourite resident. No sarcasm. I love feisty old ladies, and you never quite knew what she was going to do next. Apart from the fact that it usually involved poo. I was devastated when she passed away, I bloody loved her. Verus_Sum 14 11h7m You lose your memory and suddenly start putting shit everywhere? Is that really a thing? xxxBuzz 10 12h40m It's not that you remember you wanted to put shit everywhere one day. It's that you forget why you ever stopped. Adliad 4 13h29m Hmm so just like the babies couchpertater 8 11h28m I worked for a short time in an Alzheimer’s unit and found poop in the bathroom trash can. Actually, a resident came up to me with an angry face and said I needed to go take a look at what was in that paper basket. I went into her room and looked in the trash can and there was a turd. I told the woman in charge and she immediately knew who had done it. One woman had a habit of pooping in odd places. Like her nightstand drawer. They had to record every time they had a bowel movement so they recorded it as hers. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t even her room. I don’t know why she didn’t use the toilet that was three feet away from the trash can. KlayTech94 189 5h31m What ??? Did she offer him chocolates but it was actually her poo? corbynislife 245 5h36m Science teacher is a woman, but yes, she put turd pieces in the trays you get inside boxes of chocolates, and put the tray back in the box. So my teacher just thought it was a real box of chocolates until opening them later and discovering the truth. shut_your_up 145 6h59m It sounds like she didn't eat any, which is honestly very comforting to me Vegginator 110 6h36m But why tho HZCH 151 7h1m Why not? A nurse colleague of my GF used to work in the state hospital for the elderly. She sometimes had to help the sides cleaning a bedroom of poop smeared all over the heating radiators. That might be a mix of dementia, and maybe also consequences of old abuses kicking back... That's something I've been told while visiting care homes years ago. And that is sad indeed. crazyabe111 19 8h50m I think some of them also just get a kick out of it, since they KNOW their family doesn’t care, and the care they get is abysmal, or they are simply reverting to more childish forms of humour. ifindthishumerus 2 11h35m Umm no on all counts. squeezeonein 6 11h50m well abe has a point. remember high school toilets, how filthy they would be? it's not that surprising. ifindthishumerus 5 12h3m What does high school toilets have to do with nursing home residents thinking their family doesn’t care about them? Sti8man7 20 7h58m the truth on sight or taste? corbynislife 5 9h35m On sight, well at least that’s what she told us... Leap_Year_Creepier 4 11h6m I imagine that story got a rollicking response from the students. I wish my teachers gave presentations like that. callmejessicalange 3 12h21m I imagine smell... Dancingwhizzbang 64 7h40m Haha omg my nanna has a similar story about an old lady from a care home she used to work in. Apparently everyone who started work there was warned never to accept "maltesers" from her. checker280 45 8h58m Sister was studying to be a nurse. One assignment had you bring in a feces smear from home to study in class. Being the socially awkward friendless but eager to please boob she is, she brought in a packed mayonnaise jar just in case someone forgot theirs. Don’t even ask how she packed it all in there. Beardog20 14 11h22m Hmm. Did she make friends. I might have to use that one Domaining1 8 12h17m That's a crock of sh1t! CatharticBS 6 12h15m Packed mayonnaise jar? Did she poo in the mayo jar??? Usedupallmygiveadamn 4 9h4m Wait a sec- a second, secondhand secondary school story? NeatCockroach 105 5h54m Because TIFU stories usually involve shit. HackerFinn 33 7h30m Or sex. Or drugs. selectash 63 7h34m But rarely Rock’n’Roll sadly. Thiswasacouch 23 8h2m Coconuts can roll, so we’re actually halfway there Le_Chop 6 8h19m That's the real FU Tomlovesfii 58 8h1m I ate a bar of laxative chocolate when I was younger. I thought that’s where this was going tbh. SugarSnatch1 13 9h11m Same. I was positive it was exlax.. almost didn't finish reading it. I'm glad I did though.. WhiteHairDontCare 48 7h32m Reminds me of the time my friend threw a mysterious Tootsie Roll he found on the carpet at me. Max’s little poop nugget collided with my face in a thud of stink, never to be lived down. RIP Max you little turd factory :( Fish_823543 21 7h55m I thought the same. Mainly because sometimes that’s where the dogs’ stool samples go when they have vet appointments. csarcie 3 10h39m Or people's stool samples when they need to collect a specimen for medical tests over the weekend wright96d 12 8h15m I went straight to drugs. I'm not sure where your brain is at. redfoxvapes 8 9h13m An episode of The League comes to mind - the time Jenny has to freeze her poop for medical testing and Kevin uses one as an ice pack without realizing what it is pistashaaanut 4 8h59m You want a story of turds and chocolate? Imma give you one. This is a story from my mom back when she was in highschool (that was around the 70s). She told me that after school, her group would go to one of their friend's house that's a block away from the campus. There was this one time, on the way to meet up in the friend's house, they were eating Hershey's Kisses. This one friend of hers saw goat's poop on the road. She opened one Kisses carefully, ate the chocolate, picked up a goat poop, and wrapped it with the Kisses foil. When they arrived at the friend's house, she gave it to the friend. Did she eat the goat poop disguised as a Kisses? Yes she did. Kalooeh 2 7h58m I figured poop for vet reasons stangkonia 2 8h6m I know a guy that collects and freezes deer shit to give his dog as a treat! etcrane 2 8h59m “I don’t fully know myself.” One of life’s most profound revelations ... and it all started with a bag of turds. Deep. ABrandNewNameAppears 2 12h54m Oh my first thought was, “Wonder if they’re going to be weed edibles or mushroom chocolates?” Why would I think that you may ask? I think we both know the answer to that question. LewisRyan 2 13h11m I was expecting weed chocolate, shrooms was a nice change of pace LyberianInx 1 8h2m Clearly because you watched American Wedding. seviay 1 8h5m You're definitely not alone, u/UnfortunateRedditor. I was thinking the same thing, and then wondering, "what sort of twisted fuck puts doo-doo in the fridge?" Jannasssbanana 1 8h8m I thought the same thing. little-frizz 1 8h20m I thought OP ate dog treats...tbh, I had an uncle that did exactly that once, so... sanguinesecretary 1 8h35m I thought that was coming the entire time lol FrodoMoji 1 8h41m Saving samples to take to the vet to ck for parasites in fecal sample? I was also thinking maybe they were exlax or worming pills. hahaha. thot maybe also someone was trying to prank the food thief NiViecoco 1 8h42m I thought that too. Lol. Hollybanger45 1 8h45m I knew right away. It’s like hearing a story in a bar. You just assume it involved alcohol. szarroug3 1 9h5m Because you read tifu lmao danger_floofs 1 9h8m I thought they were going to be laxative chocolates zero0c00l 1 9h18m I have dogs and cats sometimes they need fecal samples over the weekends as two of them are old....so turd in fridge doesn’t sound that far fetched to me. Luckily no FU yet for anyone. neopod9000 1 9h22m "is it chocolate or poop? Is it chocolate or poop!?" Licks hand "It's chocolate!" whatevenisthisshow 1 9h34m Wait a minute...this ain't fudge! Eightyseven8787 1 9h50m CCtenor 1 10h14m At first I went “special chocolate”. Then, she said it was in the butter compartment and I went “spoiled food.” then she started feeling weird and I said “food poisoning”. Finally, she said wiggly words and I’m like “special chocolate.” It was kind of a roller coaster for me. deadinside923 1 10h16m Dude same. thequeensfit 1497 1m Do you normally do drugs or was it a completely new experience espeoniic 1208 1h12m I'd like to think op is at least semi familiar with the sensation. I feel like somebody who has never done drugs would have more of a reaction to the situation. Amiracle217 415 1h56m And the trip prolly would’ve been more intense Buzzdanume 365 6h37m Also OP's name is fucking treemeister lol NotReallyAHorse 48 9h8m They count on him. No_Fairweathers 21 10h24m I took OP to be a female. emptyhead416 11 10h49m It's a reference to this video gaynazifurry4bernie 7 11h30m Still one of my favorite videos on the internet. One of my friends gave me a hand towel with a lighthouse and a coffee cup with a seahorse for my birthday. DylanBob1991 2 10h50m Yeah, right. Like those things. Warthogrider74 53 6h37m Where were these things for me yesterday kallakukku2 37 7h16m Hello bröther, good to see you around these parts. Have the greatest day, bröther. Smasher4291 25 7h36m You too bröther Frosty_312 15 8h24m I'll eat all of you Smasher4291 14 8h30m There's too many of us. We'll overpower you Swainix 5 11h5m Yours is really cool Smasher4291 2 1d5h34m Shamelessly stolen from r/rgbroachgang FullKnight51 4 9h34m You will never defeat the brothas RRocks01 1 9h31m You can try, but we will always survive DasMotorsheep 6 8h59m What is this bröther thing I'm seeing popping up all over reddit lately? Warthogrider74 5 9h9m Visit r/rgbroachgang to find out mishdabish 2 12h41m How do you even change your profile pic??? (I know my page says I've been on reddit for 3+ years but really I used it for 2 months, 3 years ago, then just recently redownload it.) i_always_give_karma 3 7h52m Why have I been seeing people say bröther so much lately. Is it referencing that cat meme from way back? Smasher4291 18 8h5m Not specifically. If you have an RGB cockroach gif as your pfp then you become part of our brotherhood and as such we will greet each other as brothers. i_always_give_karma 3 8h6m Ahhh I never would’ve figured that out. Thanks! I might have to join the brötherhood Smasher4291 6 8h14m Join us at r/rgbroachgang kallakukku2 16 7h53m We are a brötherhood. All are welcome. KeepItInYerPantsZeus 3 9h27m Greetings, bröthers! Smasher4291 2 1d5h35m I hope your day is fantastic bröther gastroph 1 8h3m Good luck and godspeed, bròthêr. TempleOfCyclops 1 7h54m 3.5 grams of mushrooms you didn’t know you took would not be “less powerful than you imagined” unless you’ve taken mushrooms at least a few times. Ingesting that much shrooms, even in chocolate, almost always guarantees extreme stomach discomfort for at least 15-20 minutes while they kick in. 3.5 grams is the “hero’s dose” - the recommended amount for experienced shroom users to take for a trip that changes your mindset and induces full-on hallucinations. I wouldn’t say that is a particularly dangerous amount even casually but if you haven’t used shrooms it will definitely blow your fucking mind in potentially profound ways. So yeah, speaking from extensive experience, I have some skepticism for aspects of OP’s story. Amiracle217 2 7h58m Ya I think if this was a first trip he likely would’ve made a bigger deal of it though, sucks that he never really clearly says if he’s experienced or not unhampered_by_pants 1 8h11m Eh, the shrooms could have been older and/or not stored properly and lost some potency. And a "hero's dose" is 5g or more; an eighth is a pretty typical dose to take RobSwift127 1 8h26m An eighth is pretty standard. Hero is 5g and up. TempleOfCyclops 1 8h40m Huh, I’ve always heard 1/8 referred to as “hero dose” but I guess the terminology is less important than the amount still being more than enough for a first timer to trip their balls off. Definitely_A_Man99 1 8h57m No, Shrooms tolerance is pretty much entirely gone within 3 weeks and 1/8th is not a lot at all. Angsty_Potatos 19 8h23m I had surprise lsd once. Was fairly sure I was having a stroke/dying. espeoniic 18 10h5m Oh no! The come up for lsd is so strange too, I can definitely see why somebody would suddenly think something is happening with their body. How did the trip end up being for you? Angsty_Potatos 29 10h32m Terrible. I literally had no idea if been given it. I honestly thought I was having a stroke or a psychotic break or something. I also have some severe anxiety and that combination was not fun. Dosing people without consent is preeeeeety fucked up. slusho55 19 11h32m I’ve never been dosed, but I can empathize with how traumatic that must’ve been. Like 4 years ago, I consensually did 5 tabs and 1/8th of some shrooms, and about 6 hours in, I was not having a good time. I decided to take some Xanax to stop the trip. The problem is, I guess there’s a point where benzos can’t stop trips, and all three drugs fuck with your memory. So, I kept taking Xanax since I forget I’d already taken it, until I took 20 mg, and realized I must’ve taken it if the bottle was empty. So, at this point, I have no memory of the last 8 hours and I’m still tripping balls. I actually thought I had a psychotic break because I couldn’t remember taking drugs at all. If it weren’t for my roommate reminding me I did drugs (I kept asking her, “Did we do drug?”) I would’ve called 911. It’s horrific to unknowingly be on a psychedelic. Angsty_Potatos 9 12h19m Omg that's like worst case scenario! I'm glad you ended up ok after that and you had someone with you. Holy crap JozyAltidore 3 13h9m Lol that wucks but the problem with tripping is there is no stopping it. Like with heroin narcan stops it which alcohol and ingested drugs charcoal can slow it. But mushroom and acid once digested just have to run their course. Which can cause 8 to 12 hours of hell if you dont expect it. Or 8 to 12 hours of pure unadulterated joy. slusho55 2 13h13m You can stop them, I have before. Benzos usually dull the dopamine signaling enough for it to be in the background (which is why there probably is that point of no return). Antipsychotics block 5-HT2a and D2 receptors where LSD acts (shrooms being exclusive to 5-HT2a). Cyclobenzeprine, a muscle relaxer, is thought to be a 5-HT2a antagonist, and anecdotally, I’ve taken it for muscle tension a few hours in, and my trip only lasted 6 hours that time. So, there are ways to undo it, it’s just not as easy and cut and dry as other drugs since the mechanisms are so poorly understood, comparatively. JozyAltidore 2 13h55m Learn something new everyday. ladystaggers 9 10h56m I dosed myself with three hits thinking they were temporary tattoos. That was not a fun first time experience with acid. Do you normally eat your fucking tattoos? ladystaggers 10 12h9m No but I put them on my tongue to make them wet enough to stick. rachelizabeth46 5 12h57m Acid tabs look nothing like temp tattoos espeoniic 3 11h35m Yikes! I remember hearing about the sticker/patch/tattoos circulating the festival scene years ago and was so concerned for people getting dosed like that! espeoniic 2 11h35m Dosing people without consent is verrrry fucked yo. I’m sorry you had to go through that. Out of curiosity did you ever decide to go back and try it on your own? Angsty_Potatos 3 12h17m No. My husband has done shrooms and acid but even if my first experience wasn't a surprise, I don't think psychodelics are my thing. With my anxiety I think it's a bad mix for me personally. TGrady902 7 8h48m Oh absolutely. If you accidentally ate an eight of mushrooms and had never tripped before, I’d imagine there would be some level of freaking out happening. royale_withcheez 241 6h4m Seems like someone with chocolate shrooms in their fridge, has probably dabbled with a drug or two before Nibroc99 -11 8h3m Yeah... If my fiancé had shrooms in the fridge, they would no longer be my fiancé, lol. (I don't do drugs and I don't like being around people that do, just personal preference. I don't hate everyone that does them or anything stupid like that, just don't want my future wife to be into that sort of thing since I'm not comfortable with it.) Edit: Jesus, you guys are judgemental. My uncle lost his life due to drug abuse, and because of that I've just never been interested in trying recreational drugs. Y'all are making me feel really shitty right now, man. horseband 7 9h8m I don’t have any issue with you not doing drugs or not dating anyone who does drugs (normally I can’t imagine anyone would have issue with that), but the way you wrote out your opinion on the matter is a bit preachy and ironically judgmental. “I’ll kick my future wife to the curb if I find shrooms, and I won’t be friends with anyone that does drugs on any level” is the gist of your statement. It’s just a bit silly to claim people are being judgmental for disliking your judgmental statement. No ones judging you for not liking drugs, they are just taken aback that you would kick your future wife to the curb for possibly considering taking shrooms or dropping friends if they have tried weed. Nibroc99 0 9h13m That's a fair point, I think people are seeing it as way more extreme than it really is. I don't like being around people when they smoke weed, I just don't like the smell tbh, but I'm not gonna stop being friends with someone if they smoke weed sometimes. Same with drinking; I have plenty of friends who drink alcohol, but I don't really enjoy the taste of experience myself. I don't want to marry someone who does drugs because I'm not comfortable with it, I don't want my house or my lover to smell like weed, and I don't want to be around someone who does other types of drugs regularly in general. I'm not telling people to stop doing drugs, I'm just saying that I don't like being around that kind of stuff. I can see how my comment could be misconstrued though for sure - it was a pretty general statement with no disclaimers or specifics. But I didn't want to write out a paragraph explaining all of the different contingencies, that's just way too much to read haha. I should have just not said anything, I guess. AlternActive 4 8h34m Shrooms are probably the thing you should try atleast once in your life. Makes you notice the little things that make this journey so great. ...writing this, i should get some. It's been 5 or so years and would probably do me so good in this crazy world, right now. Dust2Boss 3 8h49m 100%. Treat with caution, and nobody should be forced to do anything they're not comfortable with. But everyone should try a psych at least once, the experience kinda stays with you for a long while. Even months or years later, I still find nature that little bit more beautiful, and I appreciate music and the arts that little bit more. Nibroc99 0 9h1m I feel like I already notice little things that make life worth living. I'm a graphic designer and a photographer and my whole job is to make life worth living for the rest of us through art and making the world around us a little more beautiful through photography. I just feel like I wouldn't benefit from a shrooms trip. I don't even like drinking. Being under the influence of anything just makes me feel like I'm more restricted in my actions... Like I wanna be able to just go drive if I want to, or make delicate cuts with an X-Acto blade, etc. without hurting myself or others because I wasn't fully in control of my actions. I just have a better time when I'm sober, in my experience, is all. AlternActive 2 9h10m Totally understand your point mate, not judging :) Nibroc99 1 9h15m Much appreciated, just feeling attacked by so many replies in quick succession telling me that I'm wrong for not liking or being comfortable around drugs haha. This seems crazy to me, I should've just kept my trap shut. TheCatofLovecrafts 3 8h29m wow you sound fun Nibroc99 3 8h39m I just don't like to do drugs, sorry. You sound judgemental, another type of person who is "fun." My uncle lost his life because he dropped too much acid, and I will never be comfortable with doing any kind of drugs. I'm fine without them, having a pretty good time to be frank. CariniFluff 5 8h56m Not trying to pile on here but pretty much nobody except people with schizophrenia "drop acid and lose their life". I've taken LSD at least 100 times, mushrooms probably 50 and dozens of other psychedelics. Unless he committed suicide or had a psychotic break I don't really see how serotonergic hallucinogens would kill him. And I won't minimize the mental health aspects; I've had two different friends during our college years develop schizophrenia and more or less "lose their lives" however both had family histories. Nibroc99 1 9h4m There must have been more to it then, but the way that my family explained it to me (it happened a couple of years ago, so I was an adult at the time, and they explained it to me without sugar-coating) was that the cause of death was cardiac arrest due to an LSD overdose. He didn't have schizophrenia or anything like that, but he was always a drunk and a massive pothead especially at parties, so my guess is that he was crossfaded as well as hitting heavy acid and something went wrong causing his heart to fail. GKeppler99 3 9h10m You know no one in history has ever overdosed on LSD or mushrooms, not saying your family is lying, they're just confused. The LD50 for both are so insanely high compared to normal or even crazy high tripping doses it's impossible to OD on these things. Nibroc99 1 9h18m That's weird as hell, then. I have a feeling it had something to do with underlying conditions. He was 55, not in the best shape (320 pounds), diabetic, constantly drunk, and honestly I think something happened that his heart just couldn't take it anymore. Makes me wonder if there may have been a clotted artery or something else that they didn't find in the autopsy, who knows. Thanks for the info though, now I'm gonna talk to my parents to see if they have any further info on what the heck went wrong haha! coffee_bbq_data 2 9h13m ...you can’t induce cardiac arrest from an LSD “overdose”. The LD50 for LSD is ~110mg/lb of body weight. This comes out to ~8.25 grams of pure LSD for a 150 pound person to overdose. That about 82,500 hits of acid. So your uncle didn’t overdose on acid. That’s bogus. CariniFluff 1 9h26m Actually with heart conditions the vasoconstriction can cause cardiac arrest. That is extremely rare especially in young and healthy people but someone in their 50s in poor health could be at risk. there are no documented cases of people dying from LSD however that's not to say it's impossible. You wouldn't overdose so much as you would simply have cardiac arrest. I actually had a blood clot that broke loose while on a ton of LSD and I essentially had a mini heart attack. this was well in excess of my hundredth trip so this wasn't just something in my head. When you have something like this happen, you absolutely know something is wrong, it's not just you tripping out. I went to the ER the very first thing the next morning, that's how serious it was (had I not been solo I would have definitely gone to the hospital on the spot, no way a friend would've let me "sleep it off"). Again rare, and unexpected but possible. Nibroc99 1 9h31m I had mentioned in another comment (probably after you posted this so you probably didn't see the other comment in question) that he was diabetic, weighed like 340lbs, and has other underlying issues - I think those were probably more of a cause than the LSD from what I'm hearing. I didn't read any autopsy or police reports myself, only went by what my parents have said. And to clarify about my parents, my dad has done shrooms before and even asked me if I wanted to try them on my 21st birthday, so my parents aren't against doing recreational drugs safely like shrooms or cannabis, it's just my personal experience that led me to not be comfortable around drugs I guess. That aside, thank you for the numbers to back up your claim - I'm definitely gonna have to ask my parents more specifics about what actually happened with my uncle that caused his cardiac arrest. I have a feeling he was either doing some other type of drugs that my parents thought was LSD, or he was doing LSD and something went wrong in his body that caused his heart to fail (he was 55 when he died), or something like that. I have no clue whatsoever, but his weight, alcoholism and diabetes definitely weren't helping him, lol. TheCatofLovecrafts 1 8h46m Just the way you wrote your comment. Like the idea you would divorce your wife if you found mushrooms in the fridge is funny. Nibroc99 -2 8h49m She's not my wife if she's my fiancé. There's no need to have shrooms in our fridge, she'd have to have a really good reason for me not to be bothered by it haha! Edit: also, what's wrong with ending a relationship that I'm not comfortable with being in? Better to do it while I'm engaged than ten years down the road when I've got kids and shit. I don't see how that's unreasonable. AnimatorOfSouls 3 8h57m Wow, making a sensible decision to cut off a relationship that makes you uncomfortable? No fun! /s Nibroc99 2 9h5m Finally, somebody who isn't judging me for living in a comfortable and enjoyable way, for fuck's sake! 😂🤙 LordTitan91 1 8h25m Found Mr No-Fun Nibroc99 3 8h48m Name calling is just childish and mean. I'm not interested in doing drugs, what's so wrong with that? I'm perfectly happy now without them. I see no benefit to losing control of my body, I feel like I'd just freak out. They're not for everybody, dude. There's no need to be so judgemental and closed-minded. I'm not judging people that do drugs, I'm just not interested in trying them myself due to past experiences (my uncle lost his life due to drug abuse and I just don't feel comfortable trying anything because of that, the thought alone stresses me out) and I'm not comfortable with marrying somebody who does drugs as they wouldn't make me feel comfortable when they're using. pedromatt 0 8h43m do you do alchool? cause if you do you're a hypocrite Nibroc99 1 8h54m I've tried drinking before, but I don't enjoy that either. I drank a lot at once a couple of times trying to get drunk with some friends, but it didn't put me in a "drunk" mindset, like it just felt normal and I didn't get woozy or have any more fun than if I were sober. So no, I don't "do" alcohol (who tf says it like that?). I decided that I don't like drinking alcohol, so I don't. I'll drink soda and be the designated driver. Alcohol is different than shrooms though, dude. Drinking a normal alcoholic beverage is not nearly as fucking crazy as doing shrooms and having hallucinations etc. People are really pushing doing drugs on me here and I'm just not comfortable with doing drugs... I don't see why that's such a fucking problem. It's not for everybody! pedromatt 1 9h21m people are not pushing anything to you. It's perfectly fine to not engage in "drugs". The problem with people was the way you talked. "if my fiance had shrooms she would no longer be my fiance" you talk about people being judgemental but you're being judgemental yourself. I said "do alchool" as a way to mock how you said you don't "do drugs" as if all drugs were the same. That's why I challenged you with alchool. I bet you wouldn't leave your fiance if she had a bottle of wine in the fridge and yet there is much more violence because of alcohol in comparison with shrooms. AmuletOfNight -4 8h29m Found the person that's clearly never done shrooms. Nibroc99 2 8h44m I've never been interested in recreational drugs. Is it so wrong to be clean? I've been plenty happy in life without them. Doing drugs recreationally doesn't have any benefit for me. Especially something like shrooms where it makes you feel less in control of your body and makes you hallucinate... I think that I'd freak the fuck out. Dust2Boss 2 8h52m You shouldn't be forced to do anything you don't want to do of course. But if you drink alcohol, then you should definitely at least consider doing shrooms. It doesn't make you feel any less in control of your body than being drunk imo. As for the hallucinations, generally you don't hallucinate things that aren't there. It's more morphing of stuff that actually exist. Saying that, with higher doses, there is the possibility of actually hallucinating - but for a starter trip, you should never really venture past low-average dose. Nibroc99 2 8h58m Well that settles it, I don't like being drunk and therefore don't drink alcohol (I don't have a good time, I don't feel drunk like typical people would, like I don't get giggly or have a different experience aside from being tipsy physically), so I decided that I don't need to drink alcohol to have a good time. I have a ton of fun with my friends when I'm not drinking, and I love driving anyway so I'm always the designated driver when I'm with friends who want to drink and I honestly really enjoy my time. Thank you for giving me a reasonable reply and not just being full-on "YOU ARE A LAME MOTHERFUCKER" like everybody else seems to be doing, lol. Dust2Boss 1 9h12m My ex was similar to that, she didn't really like getting drunk, let alone any of the other recreational stuff I've done - so I do completely understand why that would be a deal breaker for you. To be honest, I'd probably not date someone if they didn't wanna try a psychedelic with me at some point. It's a bonding experience that I do value. Nibroc99 1 9h25m That's also perfectly reasonable, I see nothing wrong with your side of the argument either! It just isn't for me is all, nothing wrong with people who do enjoy it, it's just not my cup of tea and I wouldn't want to marry and live with someone who was into that because it doesn't make me comfortable. I'm friends with some people who smoke weed and have done shrooms in the past, but they know that I don't really like it, so they just don't do it around me and they're totally okay with it and we're still really good friends. Anyway, sorry for all the long replies, I'm just a tad overwhelmed with so many responses and I'm typing up a storm here haha. Cheers man, I really do hope you have fun and stay safe in your endeavors haha! Long as you're being safe and not driving or doing anything stupid while you're high or tripping or however you're supposed to say it when doing shrooms, I've got no problem with it whatsoever. 😊🤙 AmuletOfNight 1 9h11m Yeah, you're right - what I said was incredibly insensitive and I am sorry. Genuinely. Recreational drugs are definitely not everybody's cup of tea, and I should respect that. Good for you on staying 100% clean :) Nibroc99 1 9h21m It's hard to tell if you're being sarcastic, but assuming you're not, thanks, man. It's just not for me is all, I'm not judging people who do stuff like that as long as they're safe about it - just never interested me. I'm friends with a couple of guys who've done shrooms and I'm fine with being around them if they're not tripping, but I would not want to marry someone who does recreational drugs like weed or shrooms, is all. Just doesn't make me comfortable and doesn't fit with my lifestyle, like I wouldn't want to live with someone who does any of that but I don't give two shits about people doing it aside from that haha. Cheers mate. 😊🤙 Rewben2 153 6h10m An eighth not being as "strong as he expected" implies he's done it before, you'd have no frame of reference if it was a new experience. Plus that is not a light dose. I'm also surprised the first thing he noticed was visuals. On the comeup I get more forgetful and the overall feeling isn't nice, it feels like I am super anxious. Spry_Fly 42 6h37m An eighth is kind of a typical dose for shrooms. Some go more or less, but it's a benchmark. Shrooms hitting is like happiness can't escape and is just inside you, plus everything soft breathes. kallakukku2 41 7h18m Shrooms hitting is like happiness can't escape and is just inside you Try to convince my brain of that next time I'm about to die on shrooms again Spry_Fly 11 7h23m Oh yeah, context matters. Shrooms is harder to control than acid imo, and can take a turn. Typically if it's just hitting then I am still in a recreational frame of mind. kallakukku2 9 7h45m I enjoy L far more. 210ug fine. 1g shrooms? Fuck that CariniFluff 7 9h8m Yeah mushrooms have always been way more....unpredictable? of an experience than acid for me. I'm not saying I lose my mind on two grams but when I get to 3.5g+ things can get weird. I've actually completely lost consciousness/blacked out four times (15 seconds or so) on mushrooms doses ranging from 3.5g to 14 g. Meanwhile I can take four or five hits of acid and everything is normal (hilarious and colorful but normal). Taken up to ~1200 mics, which was very overwhelming but still stayed on the "predictable path" that acid provides me. Set and setting definitely matter. I think it's the DMT part of psilocin's 4-HO-DMT that makes it a more unpredictable. It's essentially an orally active version of DMT. Meanwhile LSD is hitting serotonin and dopamine the same time so it amps you up for a little bit and keeps you with it. Just my guess... We're still learning a ton about LSDs receptor-binding and downstream effects. Fun fact, LSD is completely undetectable in someone's blood after 2 hours, typically an hour. And yet the experience last 12 hours...hmm. Sergetove 2 13h21m Does your family have a history of epilepsy? It's fairly common and if you're predisposed to seizures certain psychedelics can trigger them. I've had seizures and no one on the room even noticed, with the only indicator being lost time in my part. CariniFluff 2 13h34m No family history of epilepsy and they weren't seizures. My sister has had the same effect where she's just completely blanked out on mushrooms for 30 seconds too. Might be allergic to something in them.. It's odd. I could tell off 5 page story for each of those times I dropped like a sack of rocks while peaking but that'd be for another thread. The best/worst was like 2000 Phish at Alpine, centre pavilion like 20 rows from the pit... I was in high school so I hopped the fence into the pavilion and was standing in an empty seat. The music was getting super slow and drawn out and everything just stopped. next thing I knew someone was splashing water on my face and a crowd was pulling me up and freaking out thinking that I just died. lol I had to move to the other side of the pavilion so everyone wouldn't be worried about me and didn't want to ruin anyone else trip. Edited: never had that effect from any other phenylethylamine or tryptamine, and I've tried probably 15-20 different ones. DMT is too short to do it but something about psilocin/psilocybin for me can be off. Even 4-HO-MIPT was perfectly fine. Sergetove 3 13h44m No worries. I have epilepsy and I like to bring it up because I've seen people tripping in similar situations that had no idea what just happened to them. Just because you aren't spasming/biting your tongue/drooling/ etc doesn't mean it wasn't a seizure. Sometimes its just lost time. I've had my fair share of seizures where I've come to on the couch exactly where I was before with people asking me if I'm okay/listening to them. It is a little curious that both you and your sibling both experienced it and people only experiencing seizures on psychedelics isn't unheard of. Of course on the other hand mushrooms are weird and I've certainly had my fair share of weirdness back when used to trip. Sometimes I really miss it, but the increased risk from my condition makes it hard to justify. GiftOfHemroids 2 16h26m You've eaten a half ounce of shrooms before? The fuck Binsky89 2 23h47m LSD was wonderful. Shrooms was one of the worst 8 hours of my life. Jacob_4815162342 3 8h3m Shrooms can be more of mindfuck in my experience. Only done it 4 times because of that. Lucy on the other hand... that shit is smooth like an electric pony ride in the sky, which is why I had to stop doing it after sophomore year of college. Too much of a good thing. BorgNotSoBorg 7 9h42m Have died while on shrooms before. It was the calmest feeling I've ever played with. This wasn't a shroom side effect, however, but I think the shrooms might have saved me from possible panic and definitely kept me from worrying. My friends, on the other hand......when I "woke up" from laying on the ground and turning blue, they seemed to be freaking out. Couldn't figure out why. I just remember thinking I "needed a break", and then, in the process of collapsing, everything went black, and then, bright white. It felt like I was in the most incredibly chill room ever. If there was a thought process, it was "don't worry. You're just rebooting. Everything will be fine, soon". Time was relative. Nothing mattered anymore. It was just......free. kallakukku2 2 10h3m I can relate somewhat to that, i didn't turn blue but had a pseudo seizure. Which I experienced as my death. Just blackness. I was terrified my whole trip, I could feel death, I knew it was death - impending doom. I "knew" that letting go would be death and I held on as long as I could shaking and sweating, actually completely soaked my shirt in sweat. At some point it was just instant blackness (about 1 hour in), holding on couldn't save me anymore. Woke up slowly, to someone saying my name, far far away, and I knew that I had to wake up, that I was dead and had to come back. The voice became louder and louder until I snapped my head up and was back. Wasn't sure where I even was for the first 30-60 seconds, but I felt like I should know and that I was supposed to be there, I knew I was tripping hard and slowly regained my consciousness and was able to think again. The following 3-4 hours was the same terror and now fear of returning to the nothingness. The sense of impending doom lasted a while, I was afraid to sleep when it was time to sleep (barely tripping at that point), I thought I would go back. My friend sat next to me through the whole thing, tripping himself, with his arm around me, like 5 hours. I remember a sense of pride from my thoughts in the tougher moments, "my girlfriend, I can't die, I can't leave her". I was glad that she was on my mind for the last moments of my life. whisky_biscuit 2 2d1h53m Are you sure that wasn't a khole? (Ketamine induced blindness) Many ppl think they are taking one drug when actually it is another. I've had wavy shroom trips with ups and downs, but they've never been to the point of a dissociative break. Lsd for me is much more variable. I get a nice warm buzz from shroomies, while lsd can be overwhelming very fast imho. colonelchaos92 2 3d22h32m I had a combo of an epileptic seizure that moved into a panic attack then back into another epileptic seizure while on shrooms. It was weird... like everything kicked in all at once and my brain went NO NO NO. It didn’t help that I hadn’t slept in like 24 hours and had been drinking which is probably why I had a seizure in the first place. The next time I did shrooms was a little better but I felt super nauseous the whole time. But the effects were pretty neish 5 12h50m Bruh, mindfulness techniques help a BUNCH for anxiety, panic attacks, and bad trips. Even while super stoned, if you can take a step back in your head just long enough to think "lol existential dread, silly mushrooms" and it break the tension from the sense of dread and gets you back in control. kallakukku2 3 13h15m I have learned to "let go" on heavy edible trips, which I would compare to lsd headspace if you already have experience with psychedelics. You can't really stop a panic attack mid way, or maybe you can when sober. But on mushrooms? Very very hard. I had a seizure from intense psychological distress. Not diagnosed by doctor though, but it's the only thing that makes sense. neish 3 13h37m That's understandable, best to practice what feels safe for you! I only suggest it as it's what got me through PTSD and I have incorporated it in my anxiety and ADHD regiment to avoid panic attacks. It's worked for me out of my mind on TCH edibles. However I won't pretend it just 'works' magically, you would actually need to practice it while sober to be able to learn how to be present in the moment. It's like changing the camera view in your thoughts from 3rd person to 1st. The more you do it day to day, the easier it is to interrupt the rumination that leads to anxiety spirals. kallakukku2 2 13h48m This is exactly what I practice too, and I enjoy the challenge when it arrives on cannabis edibles. But I don't think shrooms are for me. 0.5g gave me that good ol' sense of impending doom after 15 minutes, and lasted for like an hour. If I can't control it on half a gram, it might not be my cup of tea. But I am willing to give it a try again, when I feel more emotionally mature. whisky_biscuit 2 2d2h10m This is a great tip, do you have any good sources to read? I suffer from GAD in regular everyday life and I think such techniques would be really helpful. I'm not much into edibles / trips anymore due to having a bad experience, so I stick to low dose thc tinctures or mints. I have had good shroom / lucy trips but also really bad ones. Now that I'm older I experience anxiety much greater on much less substance. I think learning to meditate or use mindfulness techniques would really help. My sister recently booked an ayahuasca retreat and invited me along. I said "uhhh maybe try it first and report back?" The thing is she hits stuff hard and really has this "high-tolerance / invincibility" type A personality. I'm really interested to see how she experiences one of the more extreme hallucinogenic experiences, as I've seen and read it can be very emotionally and mentally intense. Androidsunrise 2 7h53m True that. I did a half 8th my first time. But they must’ve been crazy strong because I’ve never had that intense of a trip since. kevin_the_dolphoodle 1 9h33m It 100% depends on the mushrooms. I’ve had mushrooms where 2.5 grams was a very very strong trip Rosenblattca 40 6h43m For me, I usually feel a super brief feeling of fear and excitement (I describe it as going up the first hill on a rollercoaster), and then I see visuals soon after. But, maybe if you take the anticipation out of it (by not knowing what it is you consumed), you don’t feel that fear at all? Rewben2 27 6h51m Feeling excited/anxious because you've taken a drug is definitely a thing. Like if you've smoked DMT before and go to do it again your heart will be racing before you've even hit it. However, I get the exact same feeling on the comeup each time and it's unique to shrooms Dildo_Gagginss 16 9h16m The struggle of being too scared to do DMT vs really wanting to do DMT. chaken193 2 23h38m Definitely do it! stewykins43 1 9h32m Don't mothers and babies experience a natural DMT trip during birth? Dildo_Gagginss 1 9h38m I've heard all kinds of theories about naturally occurring DMT trips but to be honest, haven't done enough research to know if they're real or not. I recall reading somewhere that contrary to popular belief, we do not have DMT in our brains. Even if this is the case though, DMT is found in TONS of other forms of life (see ayuhuasca). That being said, I can only imagine the process of having a child is an incredibly intense spiritual experience, and the process of being born has to be one of the biggest mindfucks a human can experience. So in that sense, I could see how having a child and being born could be akin to a DMT trip. loonygal 18 6h51m That’s what happened to me the one time I did it. We were camping and once the exhilaration plateaued I got scared and proceeded to cry for three hours next to a campfire. Rosenblattca 8 6h56m Oh no, I’m so sorry that happened to you!! loonygal 11 7h20m Haha it’s okay I had fun for a solid three hours before the panicking started. I called my bf and made him talk to me for three hours to calm me down while I waited for it to wear off CariniFluff 4 9h1m On LSD I can generally feel the increased blood pressure from the vasoconstriction in my chest and throat. Literally I can feel the acid soaking in and activating the 5-HT receptors as it travels through my body in the first ~15 minutes, and then things start from there. Mushrooms have to digest and absorb through the stomach so usually the first hints are a bit of anxiety and again increased blood pressure. But I can see if you were doing an activity like detailing your car you might not notice until suddenly your feet feel light and everything's shimmering. hivebroodling 2 7h39m You do realize a frame of reference could be created from all the movies, songs, and TV shows that hint at tripping when you take shrooms right? This person could have had an idea what shrooms were and possibly how they effect a human, but still have never done them. And when they did them they realize it wasn't nearly as visual as they assumed, therefore the trip wasn't as strong as expected. You assume way too much with your comments. The first time I did shrooms they didn't hit hard and I also figured they weren't as strong as expected. Shrooms lose potency in heat very quickly. C0m3b4cK1d 5 8h33m Movies don't really capture hallucinogenic experiences well, at all. Except Enter the Void hivebroodling 2 10h33m Yep. But I personally find LSD to be much more visual than shrooms which mostly hit me as a strong body high CariniFluff 2 17h14m Oddly enough for me the only visuals I tend to get from tryptamines (LSD, mushrooms) are breathing walls and "flowing Persian carpet". Phenethylamines give crazy vivid colorful visuals. Super geometric and angled vs tryptamines more smooth flowing visuals. If that makes sense. DMT is a different story though.. hivebroodling 2 17h22m Yeah I mean mostly tracer type visuals. Breathing, distortion, the "void", etc. I've never had created hallucinations (brand new beings or creatures) on acid with eyes open. Eyes closed is different story. Never done DMT. Done massive research but haven't got in the right place and time yet. CariniFluff 2 17h34m Yeah generally you won't see full on hallucinations unless you're on a deliriant like an acetylcholine blocker (datura, nightshade, atropine, scopolamine Dramamine, Benadryl, etc), an nmda-antagonist (ketamine, PCP, MXE) or a super kappa opioid agonist like salvia. Other than the nmda's those are NOT fun drugs... Phenethylamines are very nice if you don't want as "deep" of a trip but still want lots of eye candy. whisky_biscuit 2 2d2h12m And Beyond the Black Rainbow! TempleOfCyclops 1 7h56m Yep. The come up from eating a full hero’s dose of mushrooms is awful, mentally and physically. You’d have a hard time accidentally sliding into that trip if you weren’t well experienced. 3.5 grams is enough to turn you into a cartoon, especially if you’re new to tripping. Jakeneb 74 5h7m Would bet money this wasn’t a first time for drugs treemeister- 35 10h37m I’ve certainly dabbled. But I steer clear of shrooms as they tend to send me over the edge and I panic. These ones were lovely though, and in the moment that I realized my mistake, I laughed my ass off, and took my partner’s advice, relaxed and enjoyed the ride. WideMistake 10 11h8m Lots recommend an 1/8th and if you only had one bar then you had 1/16th. Maybe micro dosing is your thing. LLCoolDave5 3 14h5m Trips are also easy to manipulate. OP said she steers clear of shrooms because they worry her. If you worry about a bad trip, you will more than likely have one. Eating them unknowingly and going about her day as usual made it much more likely that she'd have a pleasant experience. thoughtfull_noodle 2 14h46m 1.7 g is still no where near a microdose, an actual shroom microdose would be like .1 - .3 g thequeensfit 2 10h55m skittlez370 12 6h32m If she hasn't and the boyfriend is keeping them in the fridge disguised as chocolate that's hilarious Edit: fiance* Cavitatedfart 9 8h10m I would imagine that if there are shroom chocolates in his fridge, that drugs have been done in that household in some form or fashion. Don’t ask me how I know. Or look in my fridge. CarpeCol 7 6h55m OP is called Treemeister, prolly a clue. CCTider 4 7h0m His girl has mushroom chocolates in the fridge. He's not a prude. I don't know who puts 3.5 grand into a single chocolate. I thought i read her only ate one. So 1.75 is a good dose. I usually give first timers .5-.8 grams, but it depends slightly on quality. And Do they normally steal other people's things from the fridge? thequeensfit 1 7h47m Good question SumoGerbil 2 9h54m His GF had mushroom truffles in the fridge... my guess is “yes” elaina__rose 2 11h42m I once accidentally ate a weed cookie and it was NOT pleasant. I thought I was dying/having the most intense panic attack. espeoniic 1312 1h2m Oh, man! I wish the people who made the shroom chocolates I ate back in the day knew how to mask the mushroom flavor the way your chocolatiers apparently do. I remember that taste all to well, bleh! Amiracle217 640 1h57m I personally like to put my shrooms in a McDonald’s McDouble, completely gets rid of the taste imo rachelizabeth46 363 2h58m Oh my god 😂 unholy Amiracle217 176 2h59m I worked there for two years in high school and got addicted to the taste 😂 rachelizabeth46 105 3h0m I think I would feel way too guilty to eat McDonald’s while on shrooms, but I guess if you do it before.... Amiracle217 80 3h1m Oh ya I can’t eat anything actually on shrooms aside from a pudding one time lmao but I like to eat decent prior since ik im about to not eat for awhile rachelizabeth46 64 3h5m Psychedelics always make me feel guilty for drinking/smoking or other harmful things (fast food lol), less of an appetite thing for me. Though the come up is definitely brutal on the tummy 😭 Amiracle217 39 3h7m Never was a nic person so that didn’t hit me like ik it has for a lot of ppl, and drinking I avoid on shrooms bc the one time I did I couldn’t feel the burn of tequila and drank WAAYYYYYY too much and became a toddler on a thought loop lmao rachelizabeth46 22 3h9m 😂😂😂😂 I always pound so much water, it tastes so good Amiracle217 23 3h10m I drink a lot of water just bc I feel my body dehydrating on shrooms lmao I also like sugary drinks on shrooms PanConPiiiiinga 6 8h26m When I trip in acid, the only thing that doesn't gross me out is a fruit salad. Jimi-Thang 2 14h7m There’s nothing better than fresh fruit while on acid WideMistake 6 11h10m I never done caps, they fuck with your stomach that bad? I've only had isolated psilocybin powder. Fluffie14 3 11h30m Every time I've done them I completely puke everything in my stomach up about 1.5 hours after I eat them. I'm not sick at all after but I can't even think about eating for a good 12 hours AnCircle 3 9h42m It's all about fruit when I'm tripping. Really anything that isn't processed Modest_McGee 4 12h36m Oh man, psychedelics give me the strangest appetite. Last time I took shrooms and L together I grilled enough food to feed an army, and me and two friends are every last bite. Then topped it off with fresh berries in ice cream. And like a whole jar of PB lol rachelizabeth46 2 12h51m I snack like mad on acid lmao Redkachowski 3 7h46m Try fruit or sour patch kids aregularthrowaway16 2 8h5m I always hear people talk about how your appetite changes on psychedelics, but I've never experienced that. I've had pizza, scrambled eggs, a subway sandwich, chicken, as well as lighter foods like salads and fruits while tripping. Btw, as long as you're confident you won't burn your house down while cooking, watching eggs cook in a pan while tripping is amazing Amiracle217 1 8h10m For me it’s that the texture keeps changing as I’m eating and it’s very disorienting. Maybe that’s bc I haven’t really tried eating since my first trip though and during that first trip I had very very intense constant changes in texture in regards to everything I saw and touched, shit was insane and the way faces looked it felt like I was being pulled into the fourth dimension, very very strange first trip (it was 5 grams and I had never done any other psychs prior). Gwayzzzee 2 8h27m um, that wasnt pudding... Amiracle217 3 8h28m Oh shit 😖 Fluffie14 2 11h28m I always puke up anything in my stomach about 1.5 hours after I eat mushrooms. It's been a while since I did them but I've learned to make sure I eat very lightly before doing them and that it's something that isn't too terrible coming back up slack-one 21 4h37m Same here. I was eating there so much when I worked there at 17yo that I found myself craving it all the time even when my mom was making amazing dinners. People are not kidding when they say there are fast food addictions. aliencatgrrr 18 6h54m A weird fact (I learned this in the book Fast Food Nation) is that fast food restaurants make up 90% of perfume sales. Fast food is literally doused in addictive chemicals that appeal to our olfactory senses and thus our taste buds (most of what we taste is based in smell) constantly want more. It’s like manufactured pheromones but food. SavSuav 2 8h34m Any legitimate source? xNotThatAverage 7 8h49m His ass SavSuav 2 8h49m Pulled it out from deep within aliencatgrrr 4 9h59m Yeah, I mean, I learned it from reading that book—this is a whole different thing and unrelated to that documentary some dude about hamburgers or something—and it was well-cited with academic articles. You can probably find them if you go searching, but I found the sourcing in the book acceptable. The author had clearly done his research. So no, not my ass. Amiracle217 8 4h40m My go to lunch was a 20 piece and 2 bacon McDoubles and then ice cream on a cookie, and if I brought food home it’d be a double quarter pounder with bacon and another 20 piece. One time I made my double quarter pounder with buttermilk chicken instead of bread jefferlewpew 2 8h25m Woah, did you eat that every shift? gastroph 8 8h35m Their username comes from the fact they survived eating that so much. Amiracle217 2 8h25m Pretty much lmao Basquests 1 8h34m 20 piece what? Mcnuggets? Chicken bites? Amiracle217 1 8h35m McNuggets lol TripAndFly 28 7h19m I like to fast for 12+hours before I trip. Makes it was more intense and enjoyable. I can't imagine eating McDonald's with shrooms... I get so sensetive to anything that isn't natural when I'm shrooming that I would be completely aware of exactly where that burger was in my digestive tract the whole trip lol. I like to make my boomers into a tea or grind them up into a powder and pack them into gel caps or mix the powder into a smoothie. haven't tried the chocolate method. I actually don't mind the taste it's more of a texture thing, especially if they aren't dry enough. Nothing worse than just chomping down whole stems and caps if the boomers are still hydrated and leathery lol But as soon as they kick in I'm usually down to peel a few oranges and watch that magical citrus mist explode from the surface of the peel lol Amiracle217 9 7h23m I really need to try fruit next time I’ve heard it’s amazing on psychs TripAndFly 11 7h35m Yea, citrus especially for me. The way the mist shoots out of the peel and the weird pockets in the slices. We got a pomegranate once and that was so weird lol I think we ended up just playing with it more than eating it. Romanesco is crazy to just have around and look at. pineapples are amazing. It's good to have a bowl of blueberries or something out too. I like to dose and then put my headphones on, close my eyes and listen to an Ott album or some other psychedelic music during the come up then as soon as the lights behind my eyelids start dancing and this specific piece of art that I have starts doing swirly melty shit I know it's time to eat an orange lol. The art is a piece from Sarah Goodyear "she rage" and for some reason it's always the first piece of art that starts doing trippy stuff for me... Good gauge of when it's kicking in lol. I also start a timer in a browser when I dose so I can take notes. It's usually 50 minutes in that I start getting effects unless I do the gel caps method, then it takes about an hour and 15 kanad3 2 12h32m Raspberries are a great snack imo :) Adv_Boobs 1 10h20m next time try to light the mist that comes out, makes a fun spark yodadamanadamwan 13 5h42m Eating a bunch right before you trip is generally a bad idea. The effects will take much longer and it'll be more spread out. Plus, mushrooms cause bloating as they're digested so probably wouldn't be comfortable. Eating a bunch right before you trip is generally a bad idea. First, the effects will take much longer and it'll be more spread out. Plus, mushrooms cause bloating as they're digested so probably wouldn't be comfortable. Amiracle217 7 5h47m Tbh the only time I had any stomach issues after the initial come up was during my first trip where I ate nothing for about 8 hours prior, and I don’t eat a ton just one or 2 burgers depending on how much I’m having, when I take even larger doses in the future I plan to make a tea yodadamanadamwan 24 6h52m 2 burgers is a ton of food dude not sure why you don't think that Beta8292 22 6h59m Haha, I laughed out loud at that too. "I don't eat much.. two burgers". Qui-Gon_Winn 4 8h58m McDoubles aren’t a lot of food. Amiracle217 6 6h59m I’ve been on 5k diets before, 2 McDoubles is less than half a meal for me especially with my current intermittent fastingesque diet yodadamanadamwan 5 7h3m 5k calories? That's over double the recommended calorie intake Amiracle217 8 7h11m Ya I was trying to put on a lot of weight fast while doing 2-3 heavy lifting workouts a day plus an hour walk home. It worked until my first summer working at McDonald’s in high school where I was just eating there way too much and out too much fat on, I cut it back down a bit the next year though TripAndFly 2 7h25m Some people have crazy metabolism. I have to eat like 4k calories a day just to maintain 155lbs at 8-10% body fat. If I only eat 2k a day I end up around 135 and 4% Heimerdahl 2 8h25m Are they different in the US than here in Europe? I'm skinny af and that would barely be enough for a small meal. Edit: Just checked and it's 390kcal a piece. That's pretty respectable, but it really doesn't feel that way and 800kcal a meal is just barely enough to get your 2500 a day unless you're snacking nuts or something. yodadamanadamwan 1 9h40m As I said, you don't want to eat a full meal with a bunch of mushrooms, it's just counterproductive MadDogA245 2 9h6m It's 2 mcdoubles. Basically just 4 sliders, or 2/3 of a regular burger. OldPotatoMan 7 6h7m Dude McDoubles are bitchin. I get them with no mustard, ketchup, and onion, and oh baby, that shit is nice RollerBallMouse 5 6h43m Just cheese, bread, meat and pickle? OldPotatoMan 1 6h49m Yup, I work there, and my manager is confused at why I don’t just put in ‘ONLY PICKLE’ on the screen, but I just don’t Amiracle217 4 6h8m I like ketchup but I definitely agree on the no mustard and onions just keep that shit simple so I can garf it down real fast OldPotatoMan 3 6h11m I’m a picky eater, so I don’t usually like Ketchup, but it’s better than mustard, also sometimes I get bacon on them, which makes it a lot better. Amiracle217 3 6h14m They haven’t had bacon bc of covid for some reason and it’s made me sad af bc for whatever reason their bacon just hits OldPotatoMan 1 6h48m We have it at our restaurant, not sure why you dont Amiracle217 3 6h58m They have it on the breakfast menu just not the lunch menu and it’s been like that for months so weird OldPotatoMan 1 7h6m That’s probably more weird than not having bacon at all MaroonTrucker28 6 6h59m Amiracle217 3 7h1m Can we start a magic mushroom McDonald’s campaign where the MC now means mushroom city? toadfreak 1 9h50m Invertiguy 3 7h2m I make tea with mine. It gets rid of the awful taste and texture, you come up a lot faster and don't have to deal with the stomach weirdness that you get from dried shrooms. epigenie_986 2 7h57m I still get stomach weirdness on fresh shroom tea, but meh, it goes away. murfmurf123 3 7h19m but have you slow steeped them into a tea before ? 😳 Amiracle217 1 7h20m No that’s the plan next time I do a heavy trip though! murfmurf123 2 7h43m use light heat (dont boil them) and add sugar with your favorite tea blend 😳 funkymonkeybunker 2 4h56m Slice of pizza dawg. The grease helps get em down. And you can fit an 8th on a slice easy... Amiracle217 4 4h56m For some reason doing it on pizza makes the come up more nauseating for me funkymonkeybunker 6 4h58m To be fair i hinestly dont mind the taste. Last time i had em i just ate out of the bag like a snack. LoL EnoughMoneyForAHouse 2 6h6m I did it a few months ago for the first time and took quite a bit,. I thought it would be cool to dump all of them into my mouth at once to get it over with. It was not cool. Very not cool. When I was done coughing and trying to keep everything in, I just spat half of it out on a plate, threw that in some fruit juice and I had a good trip afterwards Amiracle217 2 6h22m Ya I had to do it piece by piece, my uncles gf told me a trick recently that she does though where she just cuts it up into pull size pieces and takes it with a drink like regular pills and apparently it works just as well for her, I might try it next time bc that seems very quick and easy Ebone710 2 7h5m This is smart. I hate chewing them because of the taste and they get stuck in my teeth. Going to try this method. Nutsack_Buttsack 3 7h23m You can grind them up and stuff the powder into gel caps Kind of tedious, but worth it if boomers make you gag, like me That did not sound right...but I’m leaving it Amiracle217 1 5h1m Sometimes I eat it like that too but if I’m eating a large amount it gets tiring sleezewad 1 6h10m I feel like this totally would work for some people but its definitely not great advice for a first timer. sasquatchington 2 9h54m Fuck that. Sometimes the shrooms hit your guts and make their presence known, add that to a mcdouble.... no thanks I'd rather not paint the bowl while I feel like I'm fuckin Picasso. Greengod215 2 12h43m The "McMindfuck" Sceevious_Otter 1 6h19m I did this the first time I did mushrooms, and you're right, it was the most palatable time I took them Spry_Fly 1 6h39m Burger kings onion ring sauce, wrap in a fruit roll-up, and brewing in mint tea work. toadfreak 1 9h51m Onion ring sauce is called Ranch bro. Spry_Fly 1 9h52m Burger King has a pretty zesty sauce for their onion rings, covers the taste well. YourDrunkMom 1 7h12m I tried putting them in mac and cheese once... It just spread the taste out to a full bowl of pasta that too longer to choke down. Memorably terrible, don't do it. Just cover them with peanut butter and chase with OJ like a normal person. Amiracle217 1 7h13m Nah peanut butter would make them even harder to chew through imo I’d rather just eat them dry and chase them down with a drink at that point andwhenwefall 1 7h30m Chop them up and mix them into ground beef for tacos. 👌 rockytopbilly 1 7h36m Even better if you put them in a McGangBang©️ Amiracle217 2 7h44m Nah mushrooms and chicken really ain’t my thing 4kidsinatrenchcoat 1 7h48m Holy shit my mind is thoroughly blown. I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter please. SavSuav 1 8h32m Ew bro Jahidinginvt 1 9h36m I had a friend that did that with the Double Quarter Pounder with cheese before a Phish concert. She said she couldn’t taste it at all. espeoniic 1 9h54m I found gridding them up and putting them in a smoothie was the best way to mask the flavor. Plus the extra vitamin c made them hit harder TheFestivals 1 10h8m The McDouble is sacred In my life too. Except usually it’s accompanied by a McFlurry not a trip 😂 TheW83 24 5h59m Do people hate the taste of the mushrooms? I'd just chew them up and keep under my tongue for 10 minutes or so. itchy_cat 15 6h50m Same here. They don’t taste like much, it’s kinda like chewing styrofoam. SentientSlimeColony 2 10h31m I personally always felt they tasted like cardboard, but same difference. I have friends, though, who insist they taste disgusting, and will go through this whole routine of psyching themselves up and then immediately following with some strong tasting drink or whatever. I've heard that as you do more, your brain begins to recognize them as toxic (which, technically, is correct) and you get conditioned against the test. Makes sense, but it hasn't been my experience. toadusHumongous 14 7h24m You don't need to keep them in your mouth, might as well keep them up your butt. Let your stomach do the digesting ThisIsJoeBlack 4 8h10m People are getting shrooms that weren't dried properly most likely Basquests 2 8h36m Mushrooms are like marmite. Some love, some hate. Reacher-Said-Nothing 2 9h25m Yeah the taste doesn't really bother me at all. It's a bit stronger of a taste than like a food type mushroom, earthy, but it's not like mold or garbage or anything. espeoniic 2 10h2m To me they tasted like dry, dirt covered pistachios. The flavor isn’t good and wasn’t something I enjoyed in chocolate form. But I think the bigger issue was always the texture. They’re hard yet still kind of chewy and they’d be in your mouth for so long (if you’re eating them straight) that it’s easy to go from “dirty pistachios” to “wtf am I chewing on” if you’re thinking about it. But they definitely don’t need to chill in your mouth chewing tobacco style lol. Joetato 7 5h55m I've only done shrooms once, but I remember them tasting like wheat germ, bizarrely enough. When I was a kid, my father would make me eat bowls of wheat germ with milk on it, like cereal. So the taste actually ahd this weird nostalgic feeling to it. Arcygenical 6 1h50m Dirty sock chocolate. Mmm. ConscienceTraveler 6 6h42m I make shroom chocolates sometimes. Getting melting chocolate wafers and using some concentrate flavorings, you dont taste a thing. That and making sure the shrooms are powdered up. TheFattestMatt 5 4h41m Right? Tasted like straight poison no matter what. cleverfool11 5 6h4m A trick and old friend taught me was to eat them with microwave popcorn. It totally masks the taste and texture of the mushrooms sailor_bat_90 5 6h19m It's so hard get shrooms nowadays, I never complain about the taste anymore whenever I manage to get my hands on a few. MissTerriMoniker 11 6h47m They're relatively easy to grow yourself. sailor_bat_90 2 7h45m Really? Well hot damn fam, is there a reliable link you can send me? cravingcinnamon 3 8h28m /r/shrooms has a few links sailor_bat_90 1 8h31m Thank you. 🙂 Aedalas 2 14h17m /r/MushroomGrowers is a bit more specialized. PootsOn69_4U 1 9h53m What if your house isn't air conditioned? Is this something where you need to be able to control the ambient temp and the humidity? NBAccount 3 7h2m sailor_bat_90 1 7h44m Thank you. 🙂 chimeragrey 2 9h13m Just gonna butt in and say I love your neon cat picture! sailor_bat_90 2 22h56m Haha thanks! You can download it off my profile pic and use it too. chimeragrey 2 1d11h30m Thank you! I did :) dinosaur_khaleesi 4 6h18m Grind it into a powder and mix it with Nutella peteywheatstraw1 4 6h39m I was thinking this too, like chocolate shrooms? It's been fkn YEARS since I've done shrooms but my god, in no way shape or form did anything I ate ever taste like mushrooms, ever. SHIT. Straight up cowshit. Which is also where I thought this post was heading, that he ate a laxative! -merrymoose- 4 6h58m I like the taste. Could just be the way they were cultivated and dehydrated. louloublueyes20 3 5h49m Orange juice in shot glass! espeoniic 1 9h57m I see you. We used to drink the OJ about 30-45 minutes after eating them if we hadn’t gone the “shrooms in a smoothie” route for the extra kick of vitamin c Snottrockett 3 7h29m It's easier to mask the taste if you fully blend the shrooms into a powder, we used to put them in our vitamix which turned them to dust. Then you can use a measuring spoon and scoop the same exact amount into the silicone ice cube tray to ensure an even dose! Arcane_fistpump 1 7h13m Break them up and sAndwhich them like a calzone with greasy pepperoni pizza. You won’t taste them but it’s like 70/30 youre going to puke at some point down the line. I had these shrooms that wernt totes dry and they had been made into a honey lemon tea. I thought sure that’s fine. No matter how many times I brushed or rinsed I couldn’t get that taste out of my mouth for days! HeiressOfGondor 1 7h13m The shrooms I’ve had have never tasted that bad, I just eat them straight 😅 AdrianW7 1 8h34m Chocolate milk works well sharkKnight 1 8h52m Lemon tech, the lemon juice is acidic enough to break the psilocybin down into psilocin, which is what your body would metabolize it into over time. So, you can then take the lemon juice that is full of psilocin and add it into your lemonade or tea. Best part is that it is in your system quicker and is also out of your system quicker. It tends to be more intense but last less time as you don’t have to metabolize merryjooana 1 9h0m You just need to strain the mushroom pieces out before allowing the chocolate to solidify. Nobody will know...until they know Dildo_Gagginss 1 9h20m I seem to be the only one who genuinely doesn't mind the taste. I just get a jar of peanut butter and dip them into that. Also have never gotten nauseated from them before, whereas most of my friends usually throw up on the come up. espeoniic 1 10h8m I agree peanut butter does work well! And I’m with you on the nausea haha I used to have a friend who would ALWAYS throw up about 30-45 minutes after eating. I always cringed thinking she wasted them freshtothestars 1 9h25m Same! 😂 I remember choking down the damn chocolate hahaha - but the rest of her experience sounds about right DelphiIsPluggedIn 1 9h26m Yeah I don't think this is real. Solely because he couldn't taste it. Or they really were weak as shit DaleCo0per 1 9h41m The trick is to use really minty chocolate. Melt some of that, add very finely ground shrooms of choice, then separate into your desired doses and freeze for a couple hours. Cant notice the mushrooms at all really. mchomps 1 9h42m I would put it on top of pizza. wibble_spaj 869 4h43m I like the way that you consider 8am to be late waking up. I'm currently in bed and its 11:30 Baarkszz 258 6h7m Yea wtf is up with that I just woke up and it’s 12:47 wibble_spaj 66 6h8m I didn't use to get up for school (when that was a thing) till 830 and I still made it in for 845 heckin-good-shit 28 7h46m my school started at 7:30 rip first bell for my highschool was 7:13. but that was like doors opening for the day. first class was at 7:20. 14 year old me really disliked getting up at 6:30 to catch my bus at 6:45 bghockey6 4 10h2m My bus was at 6:30 for school just started at 7:30, I sometimes got to school 30-40 mins early yeah if you were out of zone or just lived far away it got pretty bad. i almost went to a school for their math and science program. the school was about 45 mins away from where i lived. now that i look back on it im glad i didnt get in. i couldnt have done it. waking up at 530 to catch a bus to get to school aroung 630 and wait for first bell at 7. also no getting home untill 430 wouldve been terrible. ZacharyShade 2 12h48m I had a 7 minute walk in middle school so the night before I'd pack my bag, get dressed, put a CD in my Walkman (yeah im old), and set my alarm for 8:23. Roll out of bed and walk out the door, get there for first bell. Baarkszz 1 6h9m We must be twins separated at birth Mysterious-Database 2 7h58m Wtf 12:47 AM or PM? TheRumpelForeskin 40 7h46m Lmao I'm just getting up and it's 2:30pm right now benjizp4 10 7h56m same lol and same time for me rn aswell jacls0608 13 8h33m I got up today at 6:45 and that's sleeping in. Never have kids. senbetsu 3 8h54m Or teach them to go to bed late so you can sleep late. jacls0608 4 9h13m Oh man I wish. My 8 yo has his internal clock set for 5am. Goes to be at 10? Up at 5. 8? Up at 5. This morning he came in our bedroom and started listing facts about sharks when we were both still sleeping (at 530). While I love shark facts, it's not my preferred method of waking up! senbetsu 2 10h42m Hahahahaha mine are the same, but wake ip at 6am. I have a few friends whose kids go to bed at like midnight and then sleep in. Not saying it's the best, but they don't have sleep deprivation. Ebone710 12 7h10m Right 8 am is like a normal time to get up. Then again I'm a a night owl 🦉 Troooooomp 12 9h44m 11 is normal for me. Like legit - that's actually my natural wake-up time. Eruskakkell 7 8h56m My friend gets up at fucking 5pm, we just graduated but what the fuck... Imconfusedithink 3 11h26m Whys that so weird? I go to sleep around noon and wake up at 8 pm. It's summer vacation for me. I'm getting the same amount of sleep as other people but I'll get judged for sleeping at a different time. I do the exact same thing I would have done had I slept like most people do. wibble_spaj 1 9h8m I used to be able to wake up at 4, now I sleep till 10 without an alarm and the alarm is only their to get someone to come shake me awake. mdm5382 3 10h13m It's almost noon and I'm laying in bed looking at reddit tankpuss 2 12h13m ITYM you're lying in bed looking at reddit. Mysterious-Database 1 7h58m Omg 11:30? I thought my 9:30 AM was bad 00100101011010 376 6m My roommates used to have parties and they would eat all my shit and let their friends have whatever they wanted too. I had a bottle of real absinthe on top of the fridge and these motherfuckers drank half of it... after that I’d had enough and knew they were getting back together the next weekend. I left weed chocolates in the fridge, filled the Brita with toilet water and replaced the absinthe with spearmint mouthwash. I told my roommates the next day and none of their friends ever came over again. Southernbelle1990s 108 5h3m I wouldn't have told them. Let 'em figure it out on their own. Mufaasah 39 3h35m Amazing username callam461 37 4h39m I put it in a translator. Is it just the letter Z? Fl4shbang 37 5h0m It's either Z with a tab behind it or the number 2394. I don't get it Loother1237 58 7h47m It’s a time travel code from futurama, bender stores it and repeats it to travel when it’s found in a tattoo on frys ass twiggz612 10 8h38m A man of culture I see! Loother1237 3 11h41m InsanelyHungry -7 6h4m Probably some binary Loother1237 11 7h47m It’s the time travel code from futurama that bender stores and repeats Mr-Safety 5 8h51m Tampering with foods is a criminal offense. Toilet water may contain bacteria which pose a serious risk to immune compromised individuals, and you have no idea of the medical history of others. papakanuzh 10 9h31m But does it count as tampering when it's your own food that isn't meant to be consumed by anyone else? Mr-Safety 6 9h45m Yes, it does. It would be considered booby trapping your property which is illegal. Someone reaching for a drink would have a reasonable expectation it was safe. tosser_0 2 9h57m Yeah, it's all just gross, and dangerous. They're rude assholes, but you don't fuck with food. ANGLVD3TH 5 11h33m So the rule is generally, would you consume it if prompted, and do you know if they are likely to be adversely affected, ie allergies etc. For plausible deniability, very spicy food is decent, better if you're known to like your food hot. Those crazy gummy bears that make you shit out your intestines are a good move too. The toilet water is the really big issue here, mouthwash too. Pot chocolate is easily claimed to be for personal use so not really a problem, for booby trapping at least, could be an issue for other reasons depending on where they are. peteywheatstraw1 1 6h48m ProRevenge right here. Calypte_A 232 5h14m This is why you don't eat other people's stuff without their permission. Loverfli 128 6h26m Also just because it’s rude. Calypte_A 42 6h30m I wanted to say that but I felt like I would get downvoted to Oblivion. treemeister- 70 8h54m My fiancé and I share our own fridge. And we eat each other’s stuff all the time. He doesn’t normally put mysterious treats i. The fridge that I shouldn’t eat without telling me. Honest mistake. PiersPlays 4 9h48m So you knew it belonged to your fiancée and not your housemates? treemeister- 23 9h56m Yep. They have their fridge, and we have ours. PiersPlays 19 9h59m That wasn't quite clear before. I think many people assumed it was a fridge shared with the whole house so it could have been the housemates's chocolates. pm_me_WAIT_NO_DONT 22 8h23m Seriously. They live with their fiancé and two roommates, see there are two chocolates in the fridge that they knew nothing about, and just ate one of them? If there were four maybe I could understand a thought process that there was one for everyone, but why in this scenario would OP think they have the right to eat one? findaway5627 13 7h54m That's why you always leave a note. bossofthisjim 9 7h38m Can't believe I had to scroll this far to see this. johannesdaaa 4 6h56m Depends whose it is. If it's my SOs nothing in this world is going to stop me. If it's someone I don't know well enough I ain't touching shit cuz that's rude af. Calypte_A 23 7h0m I don't know about that. When I lived with my ex he always got himself treats like rice pudding. But I was raised to respect other's people food. I just hate the feeling of being excited about getting to eat dessert after a long day and finding out someone ate it. So, that's a boundary we set. lil-sleepy 7 7h39m As long as there's some left we are good to eat each others food. I know exactly what you mean about being excited for something. Like if I get some cookies, my husband can have lots, just leave one for me - or else!!! Youhavemyaxeee 6 7h41m If it's your SO's, you should still ask. I promise that if you don't you're going to get dumped one day. You're going to think it's over a bag of crisps. It won't be. It will be about you constantly taking another person's food, tearing the house apart when they hide their snacks after asking you to stop eating them a hundred times over, and generally trampling all over boundaries. Ask first johannesdaaa 6 8h40m K, I think I know my SO better than you. TakeMyJillPill 10 9h13m Why are you getting downvotes? Some people simply have different boundaries and different rules in their relationship. If it's cool to eat each other's stuff then I don't see why people are getting so mad about it. Clearly their fiance wasn't upset about it. Golisten2LennyWhite 4 11h16m Sounds like someone stole your snacks once. masterflashterbation 2 9h31m You don't know how their household works or agreement on food goes. I've had roommates and had more than one fridge where one was free game for anyone (usually just loads of beverages). Now with my gf and I living together everything is free game unless we specifically tell each other hands off. haileyyyy9 154 4h24m I’ll be very disappointed if there isn’t a mirror post in Psychelics by someone who’s fiancé accidentally ate her shrooms and accidentally tripped for the next 5 hours Rick-D-99 16 10h27m She beat me to tifu... haileyyyy9 3 10h44m Could u share the post please? Didn’t find it in r/lsd Edit: I’m an idiot smh forgot post said shrooms and not acid Knorkebroetsche 136 6h27m This man talking bout sleeping in and waking up at 8 am 😂 DJWunderBread 2 12h20m I took on a new job a year that changed my schedule to 5am everyday. Sleeping in until 8am sounds sooo nice. Never thought I’d so badly crave a 9-5 shift! ezraclimbs 60 3h26m I swear someone told me this story today! This is the weirdest coincidence but do you have a friend who works at RRG? WatchesPensCars 22 6h43m Dullgouge30 55 5h57m Your fuck up, sounds like a nice afternoon to me. sikki_nixx 16 6h3m Same here "TISG" today I struck gold PinkGelato 2 9h42m This is almost barely a fuck up lol youfailedthiscity 3 10h34m Yeah, I mean he didn't steal, he didn't freak out,his fiancee wasn't mad, and he didn't have to go anywhere so he was able to lay around being high all day. It must be fucking nice! sliz_315 53 6h57m I never understand these stories. You guys ever eat food laced with drugs? Shit tastes horrible. There’s no way OP ate chocolate with 1/8 of shrooms in it and thought “yes, this chocolate tastes totally delicious and normal”. Youhavemyaxeee 26 7h43m OP is a food thief. It's not about the, taste of the food, it's about power and depriving another person. youfailedthiscity 6 10h44m They said in another comment that it was a fridge that he shares with only his fiance and they share food completely. dceev 26 7h53m Nah I have had grounded dry shrooms in chocolate and you don't taste the mushroom at all. Best way I have ate shrooms schizopotato 2 11h5m That's just not true, unless you put in a very small amount OrangeCompanion 13 7h31m Right??? OP must have no sense of taste or smell. MrWreckThatOhh 3 9h7m Maybe they got the 'rona. Reacher-Said-Nothing 2 9h26m Yeah and the description of the trip is something you might get at 1-1.5g, not 3.5g like he said. 3.5g is a "don't make any fucking plans" trip. 3.5g is where you forget your own name. CosmicJ 2 10h11m They didn’t describe the trip, they described the come up when things started to get fucky. And the strength of the trip at a certain dose is entirely dependent on the potency of the mushrooms. PiersPlays 1 9h51m People often don't actually focus very well on how their food really tastes versus what their brain is telling them it tastes like based on experience. rm212 45 6h37m The most worrying part of this story for me is that you consider waking at 8am to be “uncharacteristically sleeping in” thehauntedpianosong 44 7h4m Who doesn’t tell their fiancée they’re putting laced chocolates in the fridge? armednblonde 11 10h52m imaginary people youfailedthiscity 8 10h35m nagellak 3 9h1m Who eats random stuff that belongs to other people? He got what he deserved lol therukus 8 10h28m Marriage invalidates that rule 😂. Everything’s fair game. WinterPiratefhjng 3 10h50m Yes! And everything that is not what the label says is itself labeled, or all adults notified. Kaboobie 37 7h39m This is a prime example of why people need to follow the golden rule of the refrigerator. "If you don't know what it is, it's not yours, so don't fucking eat it." FiddlingNinja 7 9h39m For real though, a few years ago some of my family would just eat or drink things left out on the counter without knowing what it is or where it came from. Of course they ended up eating some pretty gross stuff and learned from it FauxGw2 31 6h48m Why eat something out of the fridge even tho it's your house when it just appeared before talking to the others in the house. They might have been saving it or was special to them. PuttingInTheEffort 8 8h48m Could have been high dose laxatives, could have been dog treats, or could have been some other inedible thing that looked like chocolate like a candle or soap. LHandrel 2 10h8m ... In the fridge? PuttingInTheEffort 2 12h0m Idk how you make soap or candles but I would guess you could put it in fridge for a moment to solidify ? gaynazifurry4bernie 3 11h51m They share a fridge with their fiancee and not with the other housemates. rachelizabeth46 25 2h59m I’d be mad as hell if those were mine 😂 thequeensfit 24 1m Bruh that's pretty funny thanks to sharing Aqeel01 22 6h21m Staying at home alone is nice but don't do eating stuff you shouldn't be it's tempting but someone will miss them or something might happen. Just_no_please_ 19 2h51m I thought the chocholates were going to be coal (no reason, i definitively don't have coal inside my fridge and i definitively have never bit one beliving it was chocolate) RemiRetain 15 7h16m 8 am is sleeping in?! Klattermusen 13 5h36m The real FU is only sleeping until 8 am when you have time to sleep in! Eloda9 13 8h5m After reading that waking up at 8am is considered sleeping in, the shrooms weren't that much of a shocker in comparison Shade_of_Barbarossa 8 6h58m Love this part: "spent the greater portion of a day wandering around the house admiring various different aspects of life and reality." Rick-D-99 8 9h0m They were in the butter drawer! You know that's where I put things you're not supposed to eat! saviowns 7 7h33m Thought this was gonna be a laxative story lol CadeMan011 7 9h36m Y'all really need to sit down and have a conversation about labeling drugs in the communal fridge. mvdxx 6 5h22m Semi unrelated question....but this seems like the right and safe environment to ask lol How do shrooms compare to dropping acid? What [OP] described totally fit my experience but for some reason shrooms seem more intimidating? Asking for a friend haha Semi unrelated question....but this seems like the right and safe environment to ask lol How do shrooms compare to dropping acid? What you described totally fit my experience but for some reason shrooms seem more intimidating? Asking for a friend haha yodadamanadamwan 8 5h37m They're similar. Acid is much more intense and long lasting and imo less introspective. oaschbeidl 7 6h2m That's very dose dependent. I had way stronger, reality shattering trips on shrooms than on acid. To me it's like I'm in for a ride with both, but on acid I can steer the boat into the direction I wanna go most of the time. On shrooms, I'm just along for the ride and wherever the boat goes, I go. Although I've had my first couple psychedelic experiences on shrooms and was already a seasoned psychonaut when I first did acid, so I'm sure that plays a big role too. yodadamanadamwan 6 6h51m Mushrooms are far easier to dose compared to acid Definitely_A_Man99 3 8h59m surely this is backwards yodadamanadamwan 1 9h38m Acid is taken on a micrograms level and usually absorbed into paper. Rarely do people get a vial and dose things out themselves. Moreover, different acid can have vastly different effects oaschbeidl 2 9h42m And mushrooms can have a huge variance in strength even across one batch. So unless you got pure psilocybin, it's going to be a very rough estimate in terms of dosage while with an evenly laid sheet of acid, the dosage will be very consistent across different tabs. yodadamanadamwan 1 9h50m There's a huge difference between the effective dosages of either, though. Even micropipetters have a decent margin of error depending on the size. You're also capable of self titrating a liquid containing psilocybin whereas that's not possible because of the minute size of the dosage with acid. ajasan 5 6h12m I would also say mushrooms have an almost cleaner, lighter feel. I would always kind of clench my jaw with acid, and the trip is heavier. Mushrooms also make you laugh more. Things are funnier and a little happier. yodadamanadamwan 4 6h57m Mushrooms actually have an associated body high so that's definitely different dceev 5 7h56m With acid you are in control. With shrooms you are the passenger. Also the headspace on acid is much more clear. Shrooms are like a mini therapy session going on in your head. MrAlbertHofmann 3 8h50m Keep in mind that all the answers you are getting are from subjective experiences in all kinds of different situations and different doses. Two trips with the same substance already differ. LSD lasts longer than psilocybin mushrooms but other than that, no definite major differences. mvdxx 2 13h24m I couldn’t agree more with the first part of your response. Not to mention preferences as well. Thanks for taking the time to humor me! pimpmayor 0 6h37m Acid is more intense, and more interesting Shrooms are mild with less intense hallucination. Acid is dosage dependant though, so you could emulate shrooms with a smaller dose, or essentially just feel good for a bit. I was told (not sure on the accuracy) that shrooms don’t build up a tolerance as quick as acid. Shrooms always made me feel sort of sick, which I guess would make more sense. The taste is pretty horrible too. It’s been like a decade since I’ve done anything, but acid was always better for me. Nekron90 1 7h41m I think its interesting how many of the above statements I agree or disagree with but Im not willing to say any are wrong as psychedelic’s can be different for everyone. Acid always seemed like a predictable graph to me up, plateau, down where as shrooms would be waves. That would ebb and flow with moments of lightness and then back to intensify again. Dosing I found easy with acid. Very measured whereas shrooms could vary wildly in strength and concentration. Intensity strongest trips ever on shrooms. Had fully formed auditory hallucinations on shrooms with recognizable voices of friends and family talking to me. Visually very similar but the emotionally mushrooms were the introspective one for me. Totally agree on being along for the ride with fun Gus. I definitely felt less drained the next day on mushrooms. Be safe and always choose your environment and company carefully. Kushagra_Sharma_2609 6 7h3m It's weird to read 8am and slept in in the same sentence DarkStar0129 5 6h45m I knew they were edibles when I read the title bit holy shit 10/10 didn't expect shrooms. megatronchote 5 7h5m I’m just happy that someone on reddit got to be home alone for a while and didn’t immediately began to fap. Reddit has really messed with my head man ZombieAttack637 5 7h34m At first I thought he ate a bar of chocolate laxatives SkidNutz 5 8h33m That's a good thing. Next time take a walk through the park and commune with nature. Good times. Spaceman248 5 12h6m I’m so glad it was shrooms and not a middle-school level description of a weed high the_itellectual_cato 4 5h29m This man really just sped run tripping. magearon 4 6h2m Lol I know someone who also mistook shrooms for chocolate. Now I can say they're not the only person who has had this experience. daniesza 4 6h5m Seems like actually you didn’t FU at all. Misssadventure 4 8h17m I’ve had mushroom chocolates a few times, they used to come in a heart shape and be wrapped in purple foil. A quarter of a heart would get me giggly stoned. A half a heart and I was ready to go “ON AN ADVENTURE” (to the convenience store across the street). A whole heart and I was flying through a cotton candy universe on the back of a Pegasus for 11 hours (probably only five hours in real time). They’ve always given me a better and more reliable trip than just eating mushrooms plain. Subject37 3 1h21m Immediately knew what the chocolates were. Sounds like a good time! You weren't driving or in harm, so no real fu here. oaschbeidl 5 5h59m I was thinking weed edible, but I gotta say some mushroom chocolate sounds lovely! yodadamanadamwan 3 5h36m Make lemonade, it's the best way to enjoy them. It's also much easier to do the exact amount you want with a liquid, especially if it's marked on the container. I make mine in a 2qt container that has 8 ounce demarkations Haist 3 7h27m Moral of the story here is: mushrooms are awesome. MegaMenehune 3 7h29m This is why you're not allowed at home alone. IntoTheRails 3 7h32m That is about the best outcome from a fu one could hope for. No one got hurt. You didn't freak out, and possibly gained some insight to your reality. It sounded like a good day I must say. Angsty_Potatos 3 8h15m I don't generally partake in the consumption of the devil's lettuce. It makes me a bit paranoid instead of chilling me out. My husband partakes however so I've learned to be wary of all mysterious brownies and gummies in the fridge because I did this exact thing once and melted myself into the couch after eating a few jazzy gummy bears lol Anikinsgamer -2 8h19m Shrooms are different than weed though Angsty_Potatos 2 8h20m No shit. I'm saying that I've also fallen victim to eating mysterious snacks in the fridge. CapitalParallax 3 8h49m I call shenanigans. An eighth of mushrooms would be a significant sized chocolate, not some little piece. Otherwise, you would have tasted it and definitely known. howzit- 3 9h13m Imo not a real tifu more like today I was pleasantly surprised. A Tipp. sk0107 3 9h17m 8 am is sleeping in for you? I wish I was that productive but nice job I guess. no_power_n_the_verse 3 9h22m Not where I thought this was going. I figured OP had gotten a nice dose of laxatives. PettyCrocker_ 3 9h24m That's what you get for eating food that doesn't belong to you. Bodod_Begag 3 10h7m Did you say you slept in til 8 am just to flex. Because no human calls waking up at 8 "sleeping in" treemeister- 1 10h11m Haha. I for some reason consider that late. Would be a weird flex ;) rudekoffenris 3 10h45m All i can think of was that 70's show where Fez looks down and says "Yay M&Ms", picks it up puts it in his mouth and says "eww, not M&Ms" Haze360x 3 11h5m Is it really a fuck up? Cuz from what I read you seemed to enjoy it lol maxxmadison 3 11h48m I did almost the exact same thing a few years ago. While at a friends house I was offered chocolates at a party. We are not kids. I have adult children. My point is, this wasn’t some crazy, wild party where I would have been more “alert”. Apparently I was told that the chocolates where shroom chocolates (even my wife said she heard the qualifier) but I never heard that part. I just thought it was the worst tasting chocolate ever so thankfully I only ate the one piece. It was an interesting evening after that for sure. unrealmemes 3 12h26m I have a strangely similar story. When I was around 16 I was at home and going for some ice from the freezer. I noticed the ice had a strange blue tint to it so I investigated the ice maker. Upon reaching around I found 5-6 of what I thought were blue foil wrapped Hershey kisses. My family is one to hide their candy stashes so I didn’t think anything other than free candy. So I take one and I eat it, tasted fine, no issues. Go back to my room and start feeling sick so I go spend some time in the bathroom. The colors on the tiles start changing and I’m so confused but eventually it does pass and I’m a little less nauseous so I go lay down. A week or so passes and my step-dad asks if I found any chocolate in the freezer and ate it. I say sure, and he tells me it was laced with mushrooms. He had put it in there to keep it high and away from my little sisters but obviously didn’t think about a better spot than the ice maker... treemeister- 2 12h29m jewbacca1400 2 2m F’s in the chat g jenhigalo 2 1h29m this is hilarious, im glad to hear you felt okay during the trip despite it being unexpected. taking a mental note to leave unknown chocolates alone RainbowtheDragonCat 2 2h43m I thought the chocolates were gonna be insects or something it-needs-pickles 2 7h56m That would have been more interesting! honeysweet99 2 4h7m Something similar happened to me when I was 16. I ate a cookie I found in my own house having NO IDEA WHATSOEVER that it was laced with weed. It did not go well. Remi-Chan 1 7h31m Tell the story!! arntzeka 2 6h26m OMG, the same thing happened to me when I was in college. I was cleaning the house I and ate a chocolate coin wrapped in foil, which I though was old Halloween candy, but turned out to be a shroom chocolate belonging to a roommate. I realized what was happening when I began seeing trails on my cat’s wagging tail. I had tried psychedelics before, so I understood what was happening, but it turned out to be a pretty bad trio under the circumstances. It’s nice to hear someone else has gone through a similarly bizarre snafu. here4aGoodlaugh 2 6h50m A good friend of mine from high-school, his father did this exact thing with my friends chocolate shrooms. Half eighth in each. I cant recall how many he ate but at least 2. His father was not the type to use drugs recreationally. My friend came home to find his father in his underwear laying on living room floor. They took him to ER. Friend didn't get in any trouble and father was ok. Just really shaken up when they came upon him. Crazy shit. carndoesntexist 2 6h52m the title reminds me of a scat fetish porno MelodicMelodies 2 6h57m Haha, I knew exactly what this was going to be. A few months ago when my family was helping me move, I almost had the same experience with my father. Luckily my creative lying saved the day and he moved on from them relatively quickly lol. Glad you had an all right experience!!! trejoquality 2 6h58m You should post your story to r/shrooms. I think they’d get a kick out of it. But how was your trip otherwise and would you do it again? HolyVeggie 2 7h4m What person leaves hard drugs somewhere without telling their fiancé lol mothmansparty 3 9h15m Mushrooms are the safest drug there is homie. Certainly not “hard”, as that usually implies that they would be addictive HolyVeggie 2 9h39m Pardon my ignorance and thank you mothmansparty 3 9h41m No worries at all! There’s a lot of misinformation about those kind of things out there. Have a great day! HolyVeggie 2 9h46m Thanks you too! MrAlbertHofmann 2 8h54m The hard/soft separation is pretty arbitrary, but under any reasonable definition psilocybin mushrooms aren't hard drugs. If you're going by harm potential, psilocybin mushrooms are maybe the softest drug. HolyVeggie 2 9h38m Thanks I didn’t know that 3211THREELAKES 1 10h2m Yeah mushrooms are an extremely safe drug wise if you have no psychiatric conditions or are taking prescriptions that interract with them. The amount youd have to eat to overdose is so extreme i dont think anyone could reasonably do it. MsT1075 2 7h10m I thought it was a laxative. I don’t know which is worse, though. Having the runs or having an unwanted high. 👀 owtwestadam 2 7h21m That's not a fuck up. That's a reward. GuyanaFlavorAid 2 7h25m This is actually pretty wholesome and chill. :) P4UL3 2 7h39m Slept it at 8 am? Enjoying yourself while cleaning the house? Now I know why I feel guilty 90% of the time useyourturnsignal 2 7h54m Your fiancé is a very understanding dude! pansy_ohaira 2 8h4m Hey could’ve been worse! I’m relieved. I read the title and flashed back to my friend taking a big spoonful of my jar of grease drippings in the freezer thinking it was chocolate ice cream. Smuggykitten 2 8h8m How did you not notice the mushroom taste as you were eating the chocolate? Despite how smooth and easy they go down, you can only cover up the mushroom taste with the chocolate so much... brownroomshit 2 8h48m That’s ok my first time trying edibles 20mg I was high for 24. 2:00 Sunday to about 2:00 pm Monday. So Monday rolls around and I have to call out of work because I’m still high. I literally thought I was going to die by Monday. It wasn’t a normal high anymore it was more like I was freaking out Shaken. So I call my husband and he asked if he should come home and I said yes. I couldn’t even put pieces together for what happened on Sunday. We had gone to the zoo with my kids and daughter’s then boyfriend. I was fine then just high. octoberelectrocute 2 8h58m Shrooms taste disgusting even disguised in chocolate. I don't buy that you didn't at least notice a weird flavor in the chocolate. Shrooms taste disgusting even disguised in chocolate. Don't buy that you didn't at least notice a weird flavor in the chocolate. JiffyDoodleHop 2 9h1m How was this a fuck up? Nothing bad happened and you simply had a good trip and a productive day. chewbecca444 2 9h1m At least you were in a good head space when you ate them and had a chill, albeit unexpected, trip. lol Miss_Cringe 2 9h6m This reminds me of a time when one of my family members did the same thing. They were visiting their son went to the fridge opened the freezer grabbed what she thought were chocolates. She called her son an hour later crumbling with anxiety asking what she had ate. He flipped out was so pissed because he ate his shrooms. She wasnt allowed over for awhile. Another time this reminds me of is a great aunt who has never done drugs ate a very strong edible muffin my cousin made. She already has extreme anxiety. She called her daughter asking what she ate. I always ask my family when visiting what I'm eating before I take a bite. bowlbettertalk 2 9h12m At least they weren't chocolate laxatives. UnjustifiedSass 2 9h19m Welp. A good lesson here is to not eat what you know isn't yours. WattebauschXC 2 9h26m sounds like a delightful day t0mRiddl3 2 9h28m Don't eat other people's food without asking dude Squarmptin 2 9h32m Sound's like you had an unexpectedly had a good day, lmao! Drugs are wierd (I am not talking from experience) TheHayleStorm204 2 9h50m I was guessing from the beginning that they were homemade pot edibles. I was pleasantly surprised. justgettingby99 2 10h17m Dang I thought these were going to be those laxative chocolates and you were going to poop your brains out OleFogeyMtn 2 10h28m You can actually make something delicious out of shrooms? mooncricket18 2 10h39m I miss drugs arxaion 2 10h42m "Slept in" "Woke up at 8am" Toombah 2 10h49m Was this your first time trying shrooms? Leon-Saint-James 2 10h52m Hahaha this is so wholesome. I hope you enjoyed your day Sh0rtR0und 2 10h54m Whoa they make mushroom chocolates? redditsmeeh 2 11h6m That my friend is not a fuck up. That sounds like a lovely surprise. Shrooms are the best drug JustBelaxing 2 11h12m Dude, this isnt a fuck up, its a fuck YEAH! Peaceful-mammoth 2 11h22m Task failed successfully. Sounds like you had a great day. Ri_v_en 2 11h23m And here I thought it was gonna be rat shit Klausvendetta 2 11h40m Reminds me of what happened to a friend of mine: she had got herself a rather strong chocolate cannabis edible, put it in her fridge and forgot about it. The next day her mum (who has never done drugs) was babysitting for her and decided to look in the fridge for a snack, found the edible and ate the whole thing and then went on a trip to freakout town. Tevo569 2 11h44m Just goes to show that anyone, man or woman, is worthless without the better half of the relationship swagsauce3 2 11h46m This is a win. Not a fuck up milbea 2 11h49m NTA- I probably would’ve ate both chocolates not just one as the saying goes if you leave it in the fridge it’s up for grabs! So I’ll say I think you have great restraint archavex 2 11h59m Damn I read this whole thing, and there was no mention of sex. Am I on the right sub? /s caress_me_down13 2 12h44m As soon as I read the title, I thought “laced chocolate” shaverray 2 12h54m I did pretty much the same thing about a year ago, except it was the night I moved into a new and totally unfurnished apartment in New York and they were left in the freezer by the previous tenant. My girlfriend had also just dumped me and I didn’t know a single soul in the city. Terrible night, great story. moist_blanket69 2 13h17m I feel like we need to focus on the “I slept in, and woke up at 8am” part more agum-marti 2 13h55m OP really said that they “slept in” and “woke up at 8” BoatBait2 2 20h15m Reminds me of one day I was talking to my mom on the phone and she suddenly said "I gotta go" and hung up on me. I find out later she before they had called me, she had found a pill on the floor and thought it was one of my dad's heart pills and asked him about it. He just grabbed it and popped it into his mouth and swallowed it assuming he had dropped his pill. So they were on the phone talking to me and my dad started acting weird, and basically passed out sitting up, letting the phone drop to the floor. My mom had hung up to grab him and prevent him from falling to the floor. She figured out it had not been his heart med but an Ambien sleeping pill lol What's completely shocking in this whole scenario is that my dad was a retired doctor and my mom a retired nurse lol You'd think he should have known better than to pop a random pill in his mouth off the floor without checking out what it was first. He had a nice long nap that day lol HauntedCoffeeCup 1 1h48m ZombiWoof 1 3h25m I need better roommates. theodorefetus 1 5h55m Wtf is everyone baking these cakes because I never heard of suxh a thing in my part of the world panic_bread 1 9h20m It wasn’t a cake. Just some chocolate. hennka 1 6h6m Forgotten in a pocket one a hot day _ThisGirlJ_ 1 6h7m We used to use starlight peppermints to tolerate the taste. It worked fine. 666eye 1 6h27m I wish I could get such chocolates where I live.!! Dammit.!! cherrypieandcoffee 2 7h12m The dark web is your friend. Barrett1002 1 6h30m Did you make poopy? VenusOlly 1 6h39m You’re so calm! My anxiety would have been off the charts. kucingmbelink 1 6h46m Not FU at all to me. Seems fun nordicplatypus 1 7h15m I always love that no one thinks it's a great idea to label those things :-) Rogue_Pillow 2 7h25m Label the illegal phsycadellic drugs!? What if the poe-poe looks in the fridge!?? :p Whyzocker 1 7h19m Eh. Not really a fuck up imo :P you had a nice experience. SyrenSongstress 1 7h19m I thought it was going to be laxatives Forgottenbirthdays 1 7h21m Better this than chocolate exlax SuccessfulAudience9 1 7h22m I totally would have put my finger down my throat you coulda God knows much many grams. I saw someone on 15 games once it didn't go well. stare_at_the_sun 1 7h31m Lucky it was not too strong. The last time I had shroom chocolates, less than half was enough to take you on a solid trip. Maybe I am just a light weight, but still. Glad you enjoyed it :) OneWayOfLife 1 7h33m I would have thought your boyfriend would have labelled them, or at least let you know! Why would be leave psychedelic drugs in the fridge without telling you?! HWKramerVO 1 7h43m Turns out he was a really FUN-GI I'll see myself out. unrequited_spite 1 7h43m Mmmm mushroom chocy :3 heckin-good-shit 1 7h45m i thought it was gonna be laxatives omg darby-dev 1 7h46m Keep that Carpano Antica in the fridge. NickDixon37 1 7h47m What was the FU? It sounds like you had a pretty decent day. RedWowPower 1 7h47m I feel like this could be an AITA post as well. You just ate someone’s expensive, homemade treat without asking and ruined their plans for the weekend! sobasicali 1 7h48m The most jarring aspect of this was someone getting up at 8am and saying they “slept in” thequeensfit 1 7h50m u/treemiester I was one of your first comments you know the first time one thank you for getting me uovites have a follow alphamsh 1 7h50m Always label edibles and put them in a separate container with a warning. ALWAYS. skeletorlaugh 1 7h50m glad you had a nice trip :) ChevroletSparkSS 1 7h51m This is kind of a mild fu. At least it came with a happy ending. catashtrophy80 1 7h52m This is why I tell my kids never to eat gummies at grandpa's house without asking. SeeminglyForgetful 1 7h54m what a great TIFU! johnslane12 1 7h55m On the point where you are admiring life after tripping out, what did you see? gmattStevens 1 7h56m This is not a fu, welcome to the other side ...u needed this losschabossdragon 1 7h57m If that would had happened to me it would have been a Desaster. Good luck that I live alone. jessa07 1 7h57m Had you done shrooms before this? If not... neat eh? Fres_Weadley 1 7h58m That’s the best outcome of eating mysterious chocolate. cam31954 1 7h59m I expected x lax. Daiguren_Hyorinmaru_ 1 8h0m Lmao as soon as we got to the chocolates part, I immediately thought that its either drugged or its some kind of poop. artifex78 1 8h1m What monster put chocolate into the fridge? This is the real tifu! Next you tell us you store Nutella in the fridge, too! ggorf 0 8h5m you generally have to keep shrooms cool so they don’t lose affect. i sure hope that’s the only reason it was in there though. cold chocolate is a big no-no. SCEngels 1 8h18m Away with you both to the moon. ggorf 1 8h19m sounds like someone’s salty they don’t know how to store foods SCEngels 1 8h24m Sounds to me like someone is trying to pass their boring food opinion off as fact. ggorf 1 8h32m hey, come on man, it’s my birthday, i’m the birthday boy, let me eat my warm birthday chocolate man NightStu 1 8h2m I have never eaten shrooms when they weren't an overwhelmingly strong taste. Mix them with anything and they still just reek. You didn't notice that? shcTed 1 8h5m This is not a fuck up, you won. SeeminglyForgetful 1 8h6m what a great TIFU! Yellowcat25 1 8h8m This was a fun read! Lol SwittersTheAngel 1 8h9m Either you've got magic taste buds or someone made some heavenly chocolates, I'm not sure I could ever eat those nasty tasting fun caps without noticing. Glad you didn't ruin your day or life by accident, cheers to hopefully having a nice time igottapoopbad 1 8h13m Shroom chocolates are notorious for being absent of foul taste. ArmyOfMemes 1 8h11m Damn I totally thought this was going to be a “I ate my roommate’s laxatives” story. mrcpu 1 8h11m DDLexxan 1 8h13m Never eat anything unprompted in a house with people that consume psychedelics, especially one that stores it in their fridge.. BigQfan 1 8h15m Please find out recipe. I’ve never eaten any kind of shrooms that after eating one I would want to go back and grab another miha_daeny 1 8h18m So, you ate nice chocolate AND got high? Did you write this post just to make us jealous? 😏 VBgamez 1 8h20m This is why I label everything in the fridge. H16HP01N7 1 8h20m Could have sworn this was going to be a laxative story... was pleasantly surprised XD Lucky_Knight1 1 8h21m TIL mushrooms look and taste like chocolate. 😒 lukeish 2 8h54m no you can get truffles that have mushrooms in them, or some people will incorporate their shrooms into a chocolate mixture bc the taste is typically kinda nasty on their own Gwayzzzee 1 8h24m does NOT sound like a fuck up ;-) slablect 1 8h25m I feel bad for the person who was looking forward to eating them. AroundInTimeAndSpace 1 8h28m Happy accident. Things didn't go wrong so I'm happy you had a good experience barring you were expecting it. invertedparadoxxx 1 8h29m I thought it was gonna be shit but I knew right then and there this dude's getting psychedelically high o_mcp 1 8h30m That happened to me one time, except I knew exactly what they were. WubbaSnuggs 1 8h32m Sounds great and not like a fuck up at all! InformedCanadian 1 8h36m At least you kept a good mind about it Chubaw 1 8h40m Years ago my room mates left a half a shroom chocolate on a table and my dog got it while they weren't looking. I was at work all day and didn't notice anything wrong, but I bet you and him had a similar experience. TheCrackKid 1 8h43m Exactly what I expected. thedudeman144 1 8h47m I guessed you ate shroomy chocolate from the title because I make it myself but I was lake “nahhhh what are the chances” Ravaner1337 1 8h47m "Your Courage has increased!" Maniel 1 8h48m Lol, your wife sounds like a cool lady. VeryLazyRedditor 1 8h51m Imagining the story with only the title, I thought you ate some laxatives in chocolate form and you blew up in the bathroom. Albitt 1 8h56m Oh I knew these were mushrooms before I even clicked on it. I've done something similar. Elandrarose42 1 8h58m This... Doesn't sound like much of a fuck up... This sounds like a fun day! b_h_w 1 9h1m sounds like you did exactly what you needed to that day. chr0nicpirate 1 9h4m Honestly this is more of a win than a fu imo. You seem to have enjoyed yourself, and didn't mention missing any important meeting or a job interview or anything like that. Unless the fu is he being that stupid ass hole roommate who eats stuff in the fridge that isn't theirs without permission..... Foxglove777 1 9h7m I thought 50% chance strong laxative, 50% chance psychedelic. I’m glad it was the latter. Aren’t shrooms awesome? Hope you get to do them willingly next time! 😂 RunningJay 1 9h8m This doesn't sounds like a TIFU but more a TI had a great day tripping! ElephantEarwax 1 9h9m I was expecting ex lax Petwing 1 9h11m Did you live this experience? I love tripping balls Greeleyy 1 9h12m Sounds like a good day to me :) panic_bread 1 9h19m I knew where this was headed from the title. Sounds like a fun treat of a day. I hope you enjoyed. ODB2 1 9h31m Dirt Nasty- Swerve roboanubhab 1 9h33m I see this as an absolute win, not a TIFU at all FusRoDontEven 1 9h34m How is this a fuck up? cooliofroolio 1 9h36m I honestly thought you ate that chocolate that is supposed to make you poop (forgot what they're called) scorcher214 1 9h44m Shit, sounds like a pretty good day to me. Mothalicka420 1 9h44m Sounds like a TISucceded to me treemeister- 1 9h44m You’ve never not warned me!!! TheUnsteadyDonut 1 9h45m Fucked up = eating mushrooms and having a good time. Fair enough throwaway17032001 1 9h56m I don't see any fuck-up here. You just had a trip on shrooms. Stormwolf1O1 1 10h0m Doesn't sound like a FU to me, sounds like an unexpected enjoyable time! :) m3ll0wp33p 1 10h1m That sounds like a really good day in my opinion. I'm glad your fiance was cool about it and you didn't freak out and have a bad trip while alone. kyyecwb 1 10h1m ah, the great wonders of shrooms Stormwolf1O1 1 10h1m Imagine if it had turned out to be a really bad trip, where your car suddenly had a face and yelled OIL MEEE treemeister- 1 10h12m Haha. I kinda wish it would’ve been stronger. Uncoolx2 1 10h1m Once in high school I came home and opened the fridge and saw a delicious looking pan of brownies. Oh boy! Brownies! I got all excited, got a small plate, and cut a square to eat. I picked up my brownie, and noticed it was really cold, and way more moist than any brownie I had ever eaten. Whatever, maybe mom tried a new recipe. I took a big bite, and tasted gelatinous iron... what the FUCK? I spit it out and threw that shit away. Well, it turns out my grandpa had made some boudin noir, and gave my dad a tray of it - good Frenchmen, I suppose. Boudin noir is sausage made from pork and pig's blood. And I took a big ass bite of the raw product. Don't trust mystery brownies. theladyblakhart 1 10h3m Sounds like a happy accident to me Tothedude 1 10h3m Great story Deltronx 1 10h3m fuck yeah hahahaha overlyliteredditor 1 10h4m Coulda been Ex-lax. RWaggs81 1 10h6m Sounds pretty nice for a f*** up. redditbrock 1 10h8m You said you ate one of the two, then in the text you said you ate both of them? actually reading it again, you made it seem like she sent the last two messages, asking if you are both of them then told you you had an 1/8th of shrooms. Not sure if I believe this Also, do you even know how much an 1/8th of shrooms are? I find it hard to believe you could fit an eighth in a small piece of chocolate without noticing it. I've never messed with that stuff but I googled it to see how much it is and it's a lot ClimbRunOm 1 10h19m Eh, if it was an 1/8th for both chocolate, it would be a 1/16th per, and most mushrooms are prettu low volume once powdered... Culinary mushrooms of course. redditbrock 1 10h24m Oh yeah, culinary mushrooms! You're right, but originally he said he only had one chocolate and then his girlfriend said he had an 1/8th so that seems like a lot for one piece of chocolate. Unless he forgot to add a message after she asked if he ate both and he said "no, only one" and then she said "oh yeah, you just had an 1/8th, get comfortable" But it seems like the same person (fiancé) is asking "did you eat both" and then the next message is her answering "oh yeah! you just had an 1/8th" vertig0_2411 1 10h12m u/mintsillywolf chocolate laxatives KrabKush 1 10h14m I don't care what it's covered in, how did not know you were eating shrooms? I will never forget that weird ass taste. RitzTube 1 10h14m I for some reason knew exactly where this was going... keno888 1 10h25m Glad this ended with a solemn trip! Crisis avoided! Fawbut 1 10h26m Hold on, you’re going on a ride co_cor3000 1 10h27m The best kind of F.U. Chasetopher1138 1 10h27m Oh man, mushroom chocolates are fantastic. Sounds like you had a magical afternoon! charis_yvette 1 10h28m I was thinking laxatives but honestly I think your tifu is less severe - hope you had fun! The_Commie_Waffle 0 4h41m I thought it was going to be bum nuggets. HK47_Raiden 0 6h27m So somehow I misread the title before reading the rest, and instead of Mysterious it became mushroom, then I read the post and yeah, glad you didn't have a bad trip though. detsnam 0 6h42m Did exactly this a couple months ago with chocolates from my brother and his friend. They didn't look weird, but they tasted a little strange and they were also in the butter compartment. I strangely didn't notice any signs of a trip (compared to previous experiences with shrooms). Just a slightly better than average Wednesday evening. JoCoMoBo -1 5h2m If you ever take mushrooms by accident again, remember that drinking orange juice will counteract the effects. Valium also works. Oops. OJ only counteracts LSD... mvdxx 5 5h25m Really? I thought people took them WITH oj to enhance or catalyze the effect yodadamanadamwan 4 5h38m I'm like 90% sure oj does nothing to either shrooms or lsd, pretty sure that's a stoner placebo MachineGoat 2 8h39m The acids help convert the psilocybin into a biological available form (or some pathway like that). A 30-second google gets you there if you bother to look. ShadyDae 3 5h16m I think you're thinking LSD. Orange juice will strengthen the effects of mushrooms Kevdog1979 5 5h30m Orange juice doesn't stop you from tripping on acid either. We use to drink it to try and enhance the visuals. crumpledlinensuit 1 5h58m Never taken psychedelics myself, but Valium is an anxiolytic, so it massively tones down your fear response. IME of taking it for back pain, it tones down most emotions and makes memory a bit fuzzy. It makes you rather "matter of fact" about everything, so if you have taken acid/shrooms by accident it might be a good idea to prevent a freakout, but if you're doing them on purpose it's more like an emotional escape route than a "stop tripping" button or anything. I would imagine that it would reduce the feeling of "awe and wonder" associated with psychedelics, but that's just a guess. Anyone with experience want to chime in here? JoCoMoBo 2 6h4m In my experience Valium helps. But then it was one time only as I found the experience not very pleasant. Aeon1508 -1 6h19m So what was the FU? jobadiahh -3 6h43m Woke up reading this whilst still high from weed brownies. Last night. HoneyNJ2000 -6 8h27m How in the hell does someone mistake mushrooms for chocolate? This story is so phony it's not even funny. Actually, it wasn't funny at all, it was just stupid. 2ByteTheDecker 7 8h31m It's shroom infused chocolate you fucking nunce. cavalloacquatico -11 5h14m I hope it's not what i think- I hear Covid testing is now more precise thru stool testing. Testing totally free thru US Mail, but it requires pre-cooling the samples so they can withstand mailing rigors.	<urn:uuid:cf08f2ac-ddf5-4af6-bf27-5df54bc42108>	https://rareddit.com/r/tifu/comments/hh96c4/tifu_by_eating_mysterious_chocolates_from_the/	en	0.972109	0.298133	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
what is ribbons of red? Technically, it's a song my grandmother wrote and used to sing around the house when I was little. When she passed away 12 years ago, I created this one-woman design studio, and I've been pushing pixels for photographers ever since! Pricing & Info Design Work Meet Renee Coming Soon ! South African photography Rensche Mari was in need of a logo to reflect her culture—one that would actually last! Rensche Mari Photography Coming Soon ! Amanda was spending her days creating beautiful art for everyone but herself. (Hey, sound familiar?) Amanda K Photo Art Belle Lumière is a magazine and educational community that I designed and helped name from scratch. Belle Lumière Magazine Betsy was growing tired of designing everything on her own, so I designed the brand of her dreams. Betsy Blue Photography This husband and wife team embody what I love about the south—slow, intentional living and meaningful art. J&A Photography This process was such a thrill, and truly my hats are off to you for crafting it in such a way as to not be overwhelming but to really make me delve into the depths of what my brand is. You are my actual hero right now. I had no idea that you wrote copy! Wow—I don’t think I realized you do ALLLL the things. Thank you for being an integral component to the success of my business! Thank you, thank you, thank you for constantly going above and beyond with what you create. It's like you can magically see into our futures and who we are as creatives or something. 😂 Because no, your photography doesn't speak for itself. logos, websites, & copywriting Design Mantra my core Take a deep breath, look around, and remember where you're at. Because this about to be one of those the student-becomes-the-teacher moments. Let's whip that brand of yours into serious shape! You're in! Want to Talk Shop? Am I Your Design Soulmate?	<urn:uuid:b3de8a05-c166-4f46-8543-0ba957927f70>	https://ribbonsofred.com/design-work	en	0.961686	0.049892	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Posts Tagged With: technology Is there an app for that? So, we’ve been saving since September to buy an ipad. Yes, I know I wrote a previous post about too much technology, and yes, I am still struggling with that. However, an ipad that has 4G connectivity seems to be the best way for us to access the internet wherever in the world we may be. We finally got it (a “Mother’s Day present” for me), and I have been up late every night trying to figure it all out and find the best apps – mostly the best apps for travel and the best apps for home-schooling and education. What I have discovered to this point is that I need an app to organize myself and my life (and my apps). So, is there an app for that?? It seems there are millions of apps, and I want to know which are the best one to actually buy (and yes, I have read all the online articles entitled “Top Ten Apps”etc, and I’m still confused). I have downloaded quite a few free ones so far, but they just take up space unless they are actually useful. And I don’t know if they are or not. So, is there an app that can accommodate several potential travel itineraries side by side so I can compare and see what seems like the best option? Is there an app to replace the scribbler in which we house all our notes on selling the house, building the new house and travelling? Is there an app that tells me how to teach the weird new-age math strategies to my 8 year old so that she doesn’t come back to grade 3 all old-fashioned and behind? Is there an app that will ensure my 13 year old will still know how to play the clarinet when we return so she can be in the grade nine band? Is there an app that tells me if the website that says “only one seat left on this flight” or “last day at this price” “or book now to save $500” is actually for real? Is there an app that will measure my blood pressure as I try to get my head around all the apps? Is there a yoga app to calm me down if I inadvertently slip into panic mode and end up with high blood pressure? Too Much Technology? One of the things we have been trying to figure out is what technology we need to take with us as we travel? We need a device on which we can access the internet the majority of the time we are away, so we figured an ipad with 3G would be best; we’ve been looking at those. We got our daughters netbooks for Christmas, but are now wondering if we could have managed with just one – we thought one each so that when we are doing “school work” they could all work together, but now that one daughter got an ipod touch for Christmas it seems everything you could ever need is right there on that! So, what do we keep and what do we ditch?? I’ve been trying to plan our travels online for the past six months or so, but I just bought a Lonely Planet’s Europe on a shoe string travel guide, and it has given me the first semblance of a plan (which six months on the internet did not manage to do!). Maybe we are feeling like we need to rely too heavily on technology. Perhaps the classic guide book and some paper and pens would be enough? All that remains is to find out which technological items we can return to the stores! Blog at %d bloggers like this:	<urn:uuid:335c671c-37e4-4cb1-80c7-5af4c368dda4>	https://roadschoolingclaytons.com/tag/technology/	en	0.964637	0.132308	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
OZORO killings seems to be unchanged over the years as the town is known for all sort of violence and silent killings which has not change till today. Some blame it on the name which means “fear dey or there is fear” which is the name of the wife of the founder, Opute while some argue to rename the town after the founder Opute instead since the OZORO name seems to be trouble for her children. The above young man is by the name Lucky Ojoga a.k.a Ajago a labour worker and an indigene who is reportedly shot dead in OZORO town where he was said to have attended a wake keeping ceremony and on his way back a bullet from nowhere by unknown shooter hit him down. Lucky Ojoga a.k.a Ajago So sad!! May his gentle soul rest in peace.	<urn:uuid:18d4db30-7215-45cb-9b4d-0a0fcb7c36f0>	https://timelessaproko.com/tag/metro/	en	0.945192	0.039954	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Virginia’s 10.6% food insecurity rate means that over 893,000 people may not know where their next meal will come from on any given day. With the average cost of a meal in Virginia being $3.07, Feeding America®s “Map the Meal Gap” concluded that an additional $468,094,000 would be needed to meet the state’s food needs. In the most recent Hunger in America 2014 study by Feeding America, Virginia’s food banks served: 30% children (8.7% are children 0 – 5 years old), 15% senior population 60 years and older, and 56% households with at least one adult employed in the last 12 months. Even more staggering is the report that 69% of those we serve live below the official federal poverty line. Additionally, an estimated 21% of households across the Commonwealth report that someone in their household has served or is currently serving in the US Armed Forces or as a member of the military Reserve or National Guard. Every day, families join the ranks of the working poor; these are individuals who can’t make ends meet or who find themselves forced to make difficult choices after suffering devastating personal or financial crises beyond their control.	<urn:uuid:a8b59700-5e69-47b7-9dd0-3d1bba776ccd>	https://vafoodbanks.org/about-hunger/	en	0.956588	0.183604	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
One of the essential phrases necessary to understand AI in 2019 has to be “ethics washing.” Put simply, ethics washing — also called “ethics theater” — is the practice of fabricating or exaggerating a company’s interest in equitable AI systems that work for everyone. A textbook example for tech giants is when a company promotes “AI for good” initiatives with one hand while selling surveillance capitalism tech to governments and corporate customers with the other. Accusations of ethics washing have been lobbed at the biggest AI companies in the world, as well as startups. The most high-profile example this year may have been Google’s external AI ethics panel, which devolved into a PR nightmare and was disbanded after about a week. Ethics washing is a problem not just because it’s inauthentic or sends the world a mixed message. It also distracts from whether or not actual steps are being taken toward building a world where professional standards demand AI that works just as good for women, people of color, or young people as it is does for the white men who make up the majority of people making AI systems. These trends raise the question: Where does ethics washing come from? This phenomenon does not appear to always be rooted in disingenuous PR practices, but spawns from a series of missteps or lack of willingness to tackle ethical challenges. Cloudera general manager of machine learning Hilary Mason’s Fast Forward Labs has followed the ethical implications of AI deployment in its applied machine learning operation for years now. Onstage at VentureBeat’s Transform conference, Mason talked about what she believes leads a business to practice ethics washing. “That instinct to ethics-wash comes from where people are just trying to handle the risk in as minimal a way as possible, and also because doing this right is hard, and it requires embracing a grey zone where you might make mistakes, and owning those mistakes can be expensive, but it is probably the right way to go,” she said. Most people in the AI community actually want to build great products, Mason said, “but because of a lot of the backlash, and attention that’s been on the lack of ethical behavior for many tech companies who are also the leaders in this field, a lot of companies are waking up and saying ‘Wow, there’s actually reputational risk here as well as an actual product risk. How do I get rid of the risk?’ And they don’t think it through fully, and think ‘OK, I want to handle the reputational risk’ instead of ‘I want to build great products that actually make people’s lives better.'” Mason wasn’t the only person at VentureBeat’s two-day Transform conference to bring up ethics washing or share how their company is trying to responsibly design and deploy AI systems. Ethical AI leaders at Accenture, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce shared their thoughts on how to deploy AI systems that work for everyone and avoid ethics washing. Welcome ‘constructive dissent’ and uncomfortable conversations Accenture responsible AI lead Rumman Chowdhury said that if businesses want their employees to raise doubts or concerns with AI systems their company makes, then businesses must allow for what she refers to as “constructive dissent.” “Successful governance of AI systems need to allow ‘constructive dissent’ — that is, a culture where individuals, from the bottom up, are empowered to speak and protected if they do so. It is self-defeating to create rules of ethical use without the institutional incentives and protections for workers engaged in these projects to speak up,” Chowdhury said. Wise enterprises will welcome conversations that confront problems and do not shy away from or ignore issues simply to avoid certain conversations. “It’s not just been building the technical products, it’s actually been [about] how do you govern this technology. And often when you think about creating something that’s more inclusive, that welcomes diversity — that actually comes from having a culture that welcomes these conversations,” she said. The need to be open to uncomfortable conversations was also prescribed by Opportunity Hub CEO Rodney Sampson, who moderated a talk with Chowdhury. AI community stakeholders cannot, for example, address a lack of women, Latinx, and African American people in the industry without naming the problem. To help businesses get started, Accenture created an AI governance guidebook that shares how to build a company culture that sets a tone from the top and, for example, welcomes reports from employees that may turn out to be false alarms. Start an inclusion initiative inside your company Lade Obamehinti currently acts as Facebook’s AR/VR business lead and also heads up the company’s Inclusive AI initiative. She found herself in that role about a year ago, after discovering that Facebook’s Smart Camera AI on Portal devices was able to frame and compose video calls much better on her white colleagues than it did on her. It’s a story she told onstage at Facebook’s F8 developer conference earlier this year. To begin an initiative, Obamehinti suggests beginning by defining the problem, because “you can’t fix what you don’t understand.” She also advises against trying to solve every problem at once. In the case of Inclusive AI, operations were limited in its first year of work to computer vision use cases only. Natural language is next. Finally, her advice is to keep trying. “You can have roundtable after roundtable about this topic without touching the product at all, so don’t get stuck on trying to have this perfect solution or framework from the get-go,” she said. “It’s really a matter of having concepts, iterating, and trial and error, and that’s what it’s going to take to build lasting frameworks.” Include affected parties Make sure the affected parties are in the room when designing AI systems. A diversity of opinions in the room is no fail-safe, but if people from diverse backgrounds feel empowered to add their unique perspective about risks and opportunities, it can improve products or help ensure better decision-making than a homogeneous group. A clear recent example of this, of course, is Obamehinti’s experience sounding the alarm about Facebook’s camera working best on people with light skin tones. “If you weren’t in that room, they would have never known they had a problem,” Chowdhury told Obamehinti. In a separate panel with Microsoft and Salesforce employees, Google senior research scientist Margaret Mitchell said the need for a diverse range of perspectives should shape hiring practices. “I think this is really where the diversity and inclusion starts to come in, when you’re thinking about human-centric design and figuring out your values,” Mitchell said. “What really matters there is what the diverse perspectives are at the table from day one, making the decision not to use this data set because ‘I don’t see people who look like me,’ you know, these kinds of things there. So this is really where I think diversity and inclusion really strongly intersects with the ethics space, because that’s the different perspective.” Don’t ask for permission to get started At the start of a panel conversation about how to responsibly deploy AI, Microsoft general manager of AI programs Tim O’Brien described how his interest in fairness, accountability, and transparency (FAT) research grew in recent years and how he left an influential role to dive deeper into ethical AI. O’Brien suggests anyone with a genuine interest in this space should just get started. “If you have a passion for this and you think you can contribute, don’t ask for permission to engage and don’t wait for someone to invite you. Just do it, regardless of what your role is and where you are in the company,” he said. “Ethics is one of these weird domains in which being a pest, banging on doors, and being an irritant is acceptable.” Encourage leadership from the top The need for leadership is often posited as a prerequisite for businesses to begin their first AI projects. That’s why Microsoft and made training courses earlier this year especially for business executives. A number of Transform speakers called top-down leadership or buy-in from company executives as an essential element for success, including O’Brien, who talked about Satya Nadella’s concept of collective responsibility. As Mason previously mentioned, deploying AI responsibly can be hard work. Moving beyond participating in ethics simply to manage reputational risk and toward pursuing genuine progress may benefit from top-down support. Ultimately, senior leadership will be vital, O’Brien said, because businesses trying to make ethical systems still have to adhere to corporate governance that places power in the hands of senior leadership, shareholders, and the CEO. O’Brien noted that shareholders and investors would likely deem it unacceptable to hear a CEO say an ethics board made the final decision about when to deploy an AI system. Share your shortcomings Mitchell wants more companies that use AI to share how things went wrong. “One call to action would be to share with the world more of the risks that you’ve taken, and work with this communication. So transparency is one of the big issues here, and no one wants to go first. So the more open we can be about the kinds of things that we’re seeing, that we’re concerned about, and that we’ve mitigated, the better we can all resolve this ethical AI space together,” Mitchell said. Salesforce architect of ethical AI practice Kathy Baxter agreed with Mitchell, and added that companies should consider working with like-minded organizations. “High tide raises all boats, and so coming together, sharing with each other … what’s working, what’s not working, and supporting each other,” she said. “It’s easy to be critical of each other, to be very divisive, and accuse one another of virtue signaling or ethics washing, but if we support each other and come together, I think we’ll all be much stronger, and society will benefit as a result of that, and we can all move in that direction.” Look at things from a developer’s point of view O’Brien thinks the ethics in AI cause can be helped by doing more to understand the perspective of developers who are tasked with deploying AI. A 2018 StackOverflow survey of 100,000 developers found that opinions about who exactly is responsible for unethical code found that a majority believe management should bear the blunt of the blame, while about 22% say the creator should, and 19% put the onus on the developer. “A lot of the technical people in our industry have never been asked to think about this — not at university, not in their careers — so I think we just need to be respectful of where they’re starting from and meet them where they are,” he said. O’Brien endorsed checklists as a way to help developers ensure ethical AI deployment. “Checklists, for example, get a bad rap, or they get kicked around on Twitter all the time, but I’m actually in favor of them,” he said. In March, Microsoft VP Harry Shum said the company plans to add an ethics review for each of its products, alongside things like privacy and security; however, he provided no launch date. Be prepared for gray area decision-making Ethics don’t tell you whether a decision is right or wrong, Mitchell said. Rather, it gives you the tools to understand different values. An ethical framework can provide guard rails, but it comes down to how a company wants to be defined. “Once you start to actually dig into ethics, you realize that it’s more about understanding different ways of thinking about and looking at the problems and weighing your priorities. So you can have a theological perspective, you can have a virtue perspective, you can have a utilitarian perspective; these are also schools of thought of what is worth prioritizing,” Mitchell said. Avoid creating new things wherever possible Baxter said her company surveyed some members of the AI ethics field and found one easy tip: Avoid the creation of programs from scratch wherever possible. Instead, use things that are already there and build on them. “In the case of Salesforce, we already had a machine learning for PMs class, and so [I] reached out to the instructor and said, ‘Hey, can I add in ethics into that course?’ And so now that process [is] caught up every single month,” Baxter said. Understand that ethics has few clear metrics An embrace of AI ethics means making AI models in the best way possible, but it also means embracing an impact that’s not always directly measurable in the same ways as, say, a business’ bottom line or return on investment. “Companies certainly have the support of IT systems, and you are figuring out how well you’ve done based on quarters. But with something like ethics, you know you’ve succeeded when there’s not a headline,” Mitchell said, noting that success requires “support high up in management that understands the difficulty in measurements, and the long-term investment in technology and IP [required].” Correction July 19, 2019 at 11:05 a.m.: The initial version of this article stated that Kathy Baxter said it can be a challenge to track numeric metrics for ethics when in fact this statement was made by Margaret Mitchell. We regret any inconvenience caused by this mistake.	<urn:uuid:78acf8e8-5367-40fa-b0ad-76e7757bed09>	https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/17/how-ai-companies-can-avoid-ethics-washing/	en	0.956481	0.095293	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Addressing Misconceptions about PR All publicity is good publicity. Nobody wants to hear about everything uneventful that happens, nor do they want press releases every day. PR is an overwhelmingly noise filled industry, especially with the prevalence of media and marketing nowadays. That makes it even more important for pitches to be meaningful and nuanced. Quality trumps quantity—not everything should be released or publicized. In particular, one incident of bad press can taint a company’s reputation, and we don’t want that to happen. PR is a deceptive industry. Many people are under the impression that PR professionals come up with lies and package eve-rything in a positive light in order to sell brands. The truth is that PR pros are spokespersons for their clients, and should always be honest when relating information to clients and media. PR is based off of relationships more than anything and therefore, honesty. That means speaking up about things that aren’t necessarily positive, including addressing crises during a crisis situation. All PR pros do is party. Even for a stereotype, that seems like a gross generalization and a result of the portrayal of the PR industry on television. Most of the time PR pros are doing pitches, social media, press kits, building and maintaining relationships with clients and media, among other duties. Whenever parties or events do occur, those in PR are the ones who are hosting them and who have done the fundamental work in making them happen, including inviting everyone and making it fun. PR pros get to meet celebrities and live glamorously. Again, this misconception is inforced by the false image of PR in entertainment. It would be a mistake to attempt to work in PR if your goal is to meet famous people, when in fact, most of the people that PR pros come into contact with are journalists, bloggers, and media representatives. PR pros are hardly famous themselves. Professional PR stays behind the scenes and puts its cli-ents in the spotlight. PR is just an administrative job. Companies who want to get free publicity think that all they need is to hire a marketing specialist, or that their own marketing team can handle it. Don’t underestimate the powers and qualifica-tions of a PR firm. PR firms serve to amplify the voice of companies and improve, uphold, and protect their image, including managing crises and tapping into media outlets to channel positive press into good stories.	<urn:uuid:989abf7f-5904-4c18-9893-c45f53d89866>	https://voltagehk.com/blog/post/addressing-misconceptions-about-pr	en	0.961805	0.053854	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Depleted Uranium in the Strait of Georgia US Navy test fires munitions in Canadian waters. These munitions contain depleted uranium (DU) which releases radiation into atmosphere, and can cause serious medical effects and disease. by G. Turnbull Saturday morning, April 15, 2006, I was listening to a favourite radio station, Malaspina College radio CHLY-FM, from Nanaimo. They were interviewing Leuren Moret, a geophysicist from Berkeley CA, who had worked at US nuclear labs. She went on for 40 minutes about the horrors of depleted uranium (DU) in munitions, which releases radiation into the atmosphere and its medical effects on, for instance, the first Gulf War veterans, where it was first used in quantity. Over 500,000 out of 700,000 vets are now on disability for something called “Gulf War Syndrome,” a ‘disease’ with many symptoms identical to radiation sickness. Or the test range off Vieques, Puerto Rica, where theresidents are suing the US Navy for all the cancer, etc. That test range was finally moved to Rockhampton, Australia, where birth defects are starting to show up. Part way through the interview, she said, “The US navy used to test fire these munitions in Puget Sound until the local residents complained. They then moved north across the border to Nanoose Bay and now test in Canadian waters!” Nanoose Bay means the Whiskey Gulf test range which is only 30 miles southeast of where I was sitting. I had just been told I was 30 miles downwind of a nuclear test zone! I went into a bit of an anxiety attack with all the attendant brain chemicals associated with “fight or flight,” where the risk is usually assessed fairly quickly. But the risk assessment of when and how much DU was only partially answered 11 days later, (and for that period some friends thought I was a bit off.) I was certainly running on adrenalin. I started on the internet where googling ‘du Nanoose Bay’ brought up 16 sites but nothing conclusive. (There are now more than ten times the sites!) Googling ‘du’ confirmed the horrors of its use, the quantities used in the first Gulf War, the Bosnian carpet bombing (where Rumanian and Bulgarian atmospheric testing detected dirty radioactive isotopes found only in spent nuclear fuel rods, what’s called RU), the Afghanistan and Tora Bora bombings, and the second Gulf War, where the US admits to using 2.5 million kg. And its definition: when uranium is ‘enriched,’ what is left of the original uranium is ‘depleted’ to 70% of its original radioactivity. There is a lot more of the depleted stuff than the enriched stuff, and its storage had always been a problem. It was first used by the Germans in l943 when their tungsten supply was blockaded, according to A. Speer. Tungsten is used in armour piercing munitions. Replacing it with DU was more effective, DU being more dense, and had the added ‘benefit’ of being a gas weapon! Yes, it is an excellent armour piercing weapon, but what is rarely mentioned is DU’s pyrophoric qualities. As a metal, it ignites and burns like magnesium at an intense 2-to-3000OC. Water does not put it out. It ignites at only 170OC, meaning it’s on fire as it comes out of the barrel of the gun, or, if used as a bomb, it ignites on impact, burning, vapourizing almost entirely, and condensing to tiny, hollow spheres with a density less than water that then float on the wind and water, and are just the right size to lodge in lungs. Essentially that 70% radiation is released to the atmosphere just as an atomic bomb releases its radiation to the atmosphere but in smaller doses. DU tips, coats, and is solid in munitions from handgun caliber to 5000 pound bombs. Considering the quantities used (conservatively 3 million kg.), those small doses apparently add up to the radiation released by 400,000 Nagasaki A-bombs (500,000 by another source). I don’t know how to judge those numbers. There are 67 million kg. DU munitions ‘prepositioned’ in South Korea on three US bases! The DU storage problem was solved and in fact DU is given free to the munitions manufacturers. All this information wasn’t helping my anxiety and I still had nothing solid about Whiskey Gulf. I phoned a UBC professor who has been working on nuclear issues, asking whether he knew anything about DU testing in Whiskey Gulf. For 20 minutes we had the strangest conversation where, in a loud voice, he would say that the range is only used for torpedo testing, loudly that DU is safe, while in between, in a quiet voice, he would say that DU is ‘highly chemically and biologically reactive’ and that the Navy were using an anti-cruise missile gun, the Phalanx, that shot bursts of 60-120 rounds of 20 mm cannonfire at a time, up to 2000 per minute – an enormous quantity of DU vapourizing into the atmosphere. At the end he was saying, in the loud voice, that he believed that the 15 hijackers took out the World Trade Centre with nobody else aware. Loudly I agreed. Quietly he told me if I came on information to contact him by mail, not to phone, not to e-mail. The implication that I was talking on a monitored phone, and his anxiety, did not help me with my anxiety. I started noticing clicking on my line. I still didn’t know my risk from exposure and it seemed the only definitive way would be to scientifically measure the radiation in the environment around me. Not knowing how best to test for this I called the Provincial Public Health Officer on the morning of April 25. She was not interested, couldn’t help me and put me on to the Ministry of the Environment where a bureaucrat was interested, suggesting looking at disease statistics, but couldn’t help me on how to measure radiation. He put me on to the Ministry of Health Radiation Protection Branch, adding, “though they might have shut it down.” (Slight rise in anxiety: “they?”) Other phone calls to government offices, ending up at the Ministry of Health Radiation Protection Branch, were less informative or dramatic. Wednesday April 26th, I was talking to an unnamed source who used to be in the Canadian military and who was on board a Canadian naval ship when not only was the US navy test firing DU munitions in Whiskey Gulf but so was the Canadian navy and at least three other NATO navies, not only the Phalanx but every gun! This was in the late l980s, early l990, prior to their use in the l99l Gulf War. This source could face military justice for divulging this and therefore insists on anonymity. This information has since been confirmed by another ex-military person. Finally, some sense of time and quantity though I don’t know about prior to this period (the Phalanx was being installed at this time). From then to now is also vague though the Phalanx has to be test fired twice a month to maintain correct calibration, 400-700 rounds each time. Presumably Canadian and US warships in these waters with this gun are test firing them still. There is a concerned group in the Puget Sound that tries to keep track of this activity. There is no Canadian counterpart. In other test ranges it has taken years to get them to stop or move. The Brits tested in the Scottish Firth of Forth and it was the same procedure of secrecy, deny, deny and move finally. Here we have testing that has been secret for close to 20 years in which at least five countries are complicit. Given this information my local MP did nothing more than open a file. I am not a political animal and, feeling against a wall, I came back to my original concern about my health and started researching uranium detoxification. DU in the body acts as a toxin like other heavy metals such as mercury and lead, plus it is radioactive, doing DNA damage wherever it is. DU stays in the body much longer than other forms of uranium, according to H.D.Sharma. Detox research consistently referred to the Japanese experience after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The people that were irradiated but lived had a particular diet – miso, shitake and kombu [kelp]. The miso and shitake boosted health while the kelp detoxed. After Chernobyl, the Russians did a lot of research using this knowledge to test various algae and seaweeds, finally fixing on the brown kelp laminaria japonica and making a 40:1 extract that is sold in the US under the trade name Modifilan and in Canada as brown seaweed extract. I’ve been through the six month detox and feel much better. After following the news of the CFB Gagetown NB Agent Orange class action suit and noting the similarities to Whiskey Gulf, I contacted the law firm about a possible suit here. After some correspondence, the prinicpal of the firm, Tony Merchant, agreed to pursue the action, stating that he thinks the case “ought to move forward.” He will need more input than just mine. I lost a father and a number of then-young friends to diseases associated with uranium exposure (thyroid, brain, stomach cancers, etc.) in the early l990s, only over three years after DU was tested heavily in Whiskey Gulf. Does that sound familiar to anyone living in the area of Texada, Lasqueti, Hornby, Denman, Comox, Quadra and Cortes Islands, or have you witnessed this activity? If so you could write your concerns to: Re: File Number 402540, Merchant Law Group #100-2401 Saskatchewan Drive Regina SA Canada S4P 4H8 My interest in a litigious, rather than a political approach, is first to publicize this criminal activity and then possibly to seek justice. Feeling relatively fit for 60, I probably do not qualify for compensation, but some of you may. G. Turnbull is an ordinary Canadian citizen concerned about some particular activities of his government. [From WS January/February 2008] 5 Issues/yr — $25 print; $15 digital	<urn:uuid:dcd0115f-c550-44bc-833d-32152335f9c7>	https://watershedsentinel.ca/articles/depleted-uranium-in-the-strait-of-georgia/	en	0.965234	0.030886	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Lets talk about Verified by Visa for a minute. Ever heard of it? I hope not – because if you have, you’ve likely had the same lousy experience that I have had in dealing with it. Verified by Visa is a system meant to “help protect you against online fraud”. Basically it adds a password that you need to enter when making a purchase with your Visa credit card. They may think its a good idea to give us this “unique service”, but really, its not. Why? Well for one, it seems to me that its not for you, its for them. In the unlikely event that someone steals your credit card information, Visa already protects you from unauthorized transactions! They will pay you back if this ever happens, and already have a slew of security measures to prevent and fix stuff like this. So, you are already protected. It seems that to reduce the odds that they will have to reimburse you, they are asking you to remember a new password and enter it every time you make a purchase “at participating online stores”. “Unique service” indeed. Additionally, since the Verified by Visa program is in effect for only a fraction of the transactions you’ll make, the odds that you’ll use it very often area quite low. I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars in online transactions over the past few years and have only used it twice – both of which have been within the past few months. If I take their recommendation create a unique password for my Verified by Visa account, and don’t write it down, its unlikely I’m going to remember the password when I want to make a purchase. Then I’ll need to go through the pain of resetting my password. And believe me, its a pain. I’ve had to go through it once already. And the cherry on top: in my experience, the Verified by Visa user experience is so poor, that it makes me feel like my information is being stolen while I’m signing up for it! The user experience seems to be managed by the vendor, so the experience can be awful. Allow me to share my own experience: First, I went to a website with the intention of purchasing airline tickets for my wife and I. I ran my search, selected my flight, and proceeded to the checkout process. Second, I entered my contact info, which takes extra time since I must be extra careful to get things correct – – – due to the exorbitant fees charged by airlines when you need to correct a mistake on an airline ticket. Third, I entered my CC info and clicked “submit” Then, unexpectedly (because usually step 3 is the final step), I’m redirected to a new screen that tells me that I’m required to enroll in Verified by Visa in order to complete the transaction. Woah, wait, what!? What is Verified by Visa? and why didn’t they tell me this before I started the process? I called my bank long ago and told them I’d be living overseas, and I’ve made many international transactions up to this point, so I don’t understand the point for this new security feature. Verified by Visa - signup page Verified by Visa Signup page process Verified by Visa - signup finished If I click “Back”, all of my information will likely be lost and I’ll have to start over again. Seems like I either have to exit the page and go to another site, or continue on. And also, I’ve already hit “submit”, so I wonder if my credit card has already been charged. But I sure don’t want to enroll is some weird thing. Why do I have to enroll in this? I’ve made hundreds of secure transactions without needing this…and the URL is “secure2.arcot.com”…ummm, who are they? I wasn’t on their website to begin with. They are saying they want this to be secure and they are trying to help me…but this seems like a very sketchy way to do it. I feel like I’m being led down a dark alley by a man with a pearly white grin and a black coat who wants to sell me a life insurance policy. It sounds good…but I get the feeling that something fishy is going on… Then I realize something else: they are asking for ALL of my credit card information: name on card, signature panel code, expiration date, PLUS my zip code, the last 4 digits of my social security number, and my email address! Are you kidding me? Sounds like just the type of information someone would need in order to rip me off. Awesome, so I’m been redirected from a site that I barely know, to a completely new, sketchy-looking URL, and being asked to give a bunch of personal information to enroll in a program I don’t want. Not to mention the webpage has the look and feel of a webpage that some hacker would whip up in 40 minutes. Nice. I don’t know what’s worse, thinking I don’t need extra protection from online purchase fraud, or actually signing up for extra protection through a website that looks like its sole purpose is to steal my identity. Visa, Wells Fargo – – – please explain yourselves. And self, please explain yourself. Why did you go ahead and enroll in this again? The mere fact of writing this post has made me question why I actually went through with it.	<urn:uuid:3832128c-1159-4494-869f-17714da855f9>	https://www.bradymower.com/verified-by-visa-lameness/	en	0.955803	0.038028	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
What to do and not to do abroad - Nepal By Fanny — Posted in Depaysemoi on Depaysemoi Tips Behavior abroad Nepal You've dreamed of this trip for a long time, and that's it, you're there! The landscapes are splendid, the weather perfect, the food delicious, the locals are nice and smiling ... Well were nice and smiling! You don’t know why, but suddenly they seem insulted or even angry, it's true that you don’t speak the language, but who cares ? You are experts in mime ! Maybe the problem comes from that ? In some countries, gestures that are familiar, friendly, even sympathetic to us, may mean something else in a foreign country! To avoid hurting and shocking the local populations of the countries you visit, it is better to always learn before leaving on the customs and habits of the country, but also the laws, in order to know the behavior to adopt once there. Even if it is only through clumsiness, it is better to avoid finding yourself in an embarrassing situation that could turn against you for lack of information. The status of a foreigner does not necessarily confer a pass, so it is better to pay attention to a successful trip ! How to behave in Nepal ? Do : Take off your shoes before entering a temple or other sacred places. Before taking a picture, ask if you can. Show them after, it's always nice. Give food to children who beg rather than money. Walking around temples or stupas in a clockwise direction. Wear a proper dress especially in remote areas and sacred places. Pay attention to your plastic consumption. It is more common to refill empty water bottles (or its water bottles and others) rather than buying new ones. Plastic bags are almost non-existent too. Read also : Travel Guide - Nepal. Don't : Entering a temple without permission (unless it can be visited obviously), often someone will invite you inside seeing your curiosity. Use your left hand to eat, especially with your fingers. He must always eat with your right hand the other being considered impure. Avoid eating beef, Hinduism being very present in the country, the cow is considered a sacred animal. You will see them roam everywhere freely even in the city. Share the same bottle of water or food. It is something that is not done at all in Nepal. Avoid gestures of affection in public for couples. Deal and consume drugs. Normally, even cannabis is not allowed. The reality is that there are little shenanigans for the police to look away from certain establishments like restaurants/bars. However, it is not something that screams openly or is done on the street. Participate in demonstrations or other political groupings. This is something to apply in every foreign country. It can go wrong very quickly. We were there during the elections, and there were small homemade bombs in Pokhara launched by little nervous people. Blog Comments powered by Disqus.	<urn:uuid:77aa8336-5a25-4314-b46b-ac09bba711ed>	https://www.depaysemoi.com/en/destination/nepal/que-faire-et-ne-pas-faire-a-letranger-nepal	en	0.964746	0.021356	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Digital Pins Of Arduino Digital Pins The pins on the Arduino can be configured as either inputs or outputs. This document explains the functioning of the pins in those modes. While the title of this document refers to digital pins, it is important to note that vast majority of Arduino (Atmega) analog pins, may be configured, and used, in exactly the same manner as digital pins. Properties of Pins Configured as INPUT Arduino (Atmega) pins default to inputs, so they don't need to be explicitly declared as inputs with pinMode(). Pins configured as inputs are said to be in a high-impedance state. One way of explaining this is that input pins make extremely small demands on the circuit that they are sampling, say equivalent to a series resistor of 100 megohm in front of the pin. This means that it takes very little current to move the input pin from one state to another, and can make the pins useful for such tasks as implementing a capacitive touch sensor, reading an LED as a photodiode, or reading an analog sensor with a scheme such as RCTime. This also means however, that input pins with nothing connected to them, or with wires connected to them that are not connected to other circuits, will report seemingly random changes in pin state, picking up electrical noise from the environment, or capacitively coupling the state of a nearby pin. Pullup Resistors Often it is useful to steer an input pin to a known state if no input is present. This can be done by adding a pullup resistor (to +5V), or a pulldown resistor (resistor to ground) on the input, with 10K being a common value. There are also convenient 20K pullup resistors built into the Atmega chip that can be accessed from software. These built-in pullup resistors are accessed in the following manner. Note that the pullup resistors provide enough current to dimly light an LED connected to a pin that has been configured as an input. If LED's in a project seem to be working, but very dimly, this is likely what is going on, and the programmer has forgotten to use pinMode() to set the pins to outputs. Note also that the pullup resistors are controlled by the same registers (internal chip memory locations) that control whether a pin is HIGH or LOW. Consequently a pin that is configured to have pullup resistors turned on when the pin is an INPUT, will have the pin configured as HIGH if the pin is then swtiched to an OUTPUT with pinMode(). This works in the other direction as well, and an output pin that is left in a HIGH state will have the pullup resistors set if switched to an input with pinMode(). NOTE: Digital pin 13 is harder to use as a digital input than the other digital pins because it has an LED and resistor attached to it that's soldered to the board on most boards. If you enable its internal 20k pull-up resistor, it will hang at around 1.7 V instead of the expected 5V because the onboard LED and series resistor pull the voltage level down, meaning it always returns LOW. If you must use pin 13 as a digital input, use an external pull down resistor. Properties of Pins Configured as OUTPUT Pins configured as OUTPUT with pinMode() are said to be in a low-impedance state. This means that they can provide a substantial amount of current to other circuits. Atmega pins can source (provide positive current) or sink (provide negative current) up to 40 mA (milliamps) of current to other devices/circuits. This is enough current to brightly light up an LED (don't forget the series resistor), or run many sensors, for example, but not enough current to run most relays, solenoids, or motors. Short circuits on Arduino pins, or attempting to run high current devices from them, can damage or destroy the output transistors in the pin, or damage the entire Atmega chip. Often this will result in a "dead" pin in the microcontroller but the remaining chip will still function adequately. For this reason it is a good idea to connect OUTPUT pins to other devices with 470Ω or 1k resistors, unless maximum current draw from the pins is required for a particular application.	<urn:uuid:c36d7b10-bea4-40ce-a360-b35fe3e905ca>	https://www.divilabs.com/2013/03/digital-pins-of-arduino.html	en	0.931638	0.295351	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Tennessee’s implied consent law requires drivers to consent to a blood test to determine alcoholic content of the blood if requested to do so by a police officer who has reasonable grounds to believe the person was driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Unless the person’s driver’s license is already revoked for a DUI conviction or other enumerated driving conviction, refusal to comply is a non-criminal, civil violation. The determination of whether this civil violation occurred is to be made by a judge, rather than a jury, and determined at the same time as any criminal charge (such as a DUI) relating to the same arrest incident. In the recent case of State v. Mackinnon, E2012-00594-CCA-R3-CD (Tenn.Crim.App. 5-29-2013), the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals found it is also permissible for a judge to make that determination on a remand from the Court of Criminal Appeals, if instructed to do so. In the Mackinnon case, the Defendant was charged with DUI and violation of the implied consent law. In a jury trial, the jury acquitted the Defendant of DUI but found that he did violate the implied consent law. On direct appeal of that determination, the Court of Criminal Appeals remanded based upon their conclusion that it was improper for the jury to make the implied consent violation determination, and that the trial court should make that determination independently. Thereafter, Defendant’s counsel motioned the trial court for dismissal of the violation charge, making the argument that the law required the matter to be determined at the same time as the DUI charge, which was now impossible to do, as the Defendant had already been acquitted of that charge. The trial court denied that motion and made its own ruling that the Defendant did commit a violation. On appeal of that ruling, the Court of Criminal Appeals found that as the trial court was acting pursuant to the remand instructions of the Court of Criminal Appeals, it was proper for the trial court to determine the implied consent violation even though the DUI trial had already occurred and would not occur again. For more information on Tennessee’s implied consent law, contact Hindman & Associates.	<urn:uuid:0b930a4e-d430-4834-87bd-530daf27f493>	https://www.hindmanlaw.com/blog/2013/06/determination-of-implied-consent-violation-permissible-on-remand/	en	0.966361	0.114935	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
\| 17°C Dublin Policing is about people rather than buildings THE new policing model being proposed makes a lot of sense. The emotional reaction in rural areas to the threat of station closures is understandable. Successive governments have been accused of focusing too much on the needs of the large urban communities to the detriment of people who choose to live in the country. They have seen the disappearance of the network of local post offices, centralisation of bank branches, the closures of corner shops due to competition from supermarket chains and pubs shut down by changed drinking habits. Inevitably, the threatened loss of another village institution sparks off immediate opposition. But the reality is that many of the existing stations are either unmanned or open only for a couple of hours a week. And a speaker at a conference of the top 50 officers in the force summed up what their job should be when he addressed his colleagues at the Garda College in Templemore. He said their aim was to produce a policing service that was all about people and how they served the community, rather than about buildings. For the past few months, the Irish Independent has made it clear that it supported the concept of shutting down some stations -- provided the Government made money available to purchase more patrol cars. The fleet had been facing a crisis and losing cars at the rate of one a day as the vehicles reached the safety limit of 300,000km. Justice Minister Alan Shatter has now made enough additional funding available to purchase 170 new vehicles and the garda authorities have pledged to utilise them to increase the policing service to the rural areas that will be left without a station. Last year, we had a total of 702 garda stations. It's a number that far exceeds that which exists in European jurisdictions. Irish Independent	<urn:uuid:bd0bf791-d494-4c48-bbb8-a1d5fd3abd1a>	https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/policing-is-about-people-rather-than-buildings-28823654.html	en	0.97203	0.019492	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Exercise May Not Actually Help You Lose Weight, Overwhelming Number of Studies Find We all know the connection between exercise and weight loss — the more you work out, the more calories you burn, ergo, those 10 pounds you gained over the holidays will magically melt off as soon as you hit the gym again, right? Well, actually, that might not be the case after all, and even thinking that there's a correlation between exercise and weight loss could be a big mistake. Vox health writer Julia Belluz waded through more than 60 studies related to exercise and weight loss and spoke to nine exercise, nutrition and obesity experts for a feature in Vox's "Show Me the Evidence" series. And her research led her to the startling realization that, not only is exercise not helpful for losing weight, all the "fitness gurus, celebrities," even first lady Michelle Obama are "leading us astray in our fight against obesity" by reinforcing the message that exercise is good because it helps us lose weight. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images That's not to say that exercise isn't good for us: as Belluz writes, "exercise is hugely important for overall health," it just doesn't seem to have much to do with weight loss, "how much and what you eat has a much bigger impact on your waistline." Belluz referenced multiple studies that demonstrated that "physical activity alone" led to "only modest" weight loss, despite the many other health benefits of exercise. When it came to weight loss, Belluz found, nutrition is what really mattered. "We've long thought of weight loss in simple 'calories in, calories out' terms," Belluz wrote, but this is "overly simple." Bodies aren't machines, they're complicated organisms, and in some ways, exercise can even have a counterintuitive effect on weight loss by making us extra hungry or by telling our body to "conserve energy." "Every reliable expert I've ever spoken to on weight loss says the most important thing a person can do is to limit calories in a way they like and can sustain, and focus on eating more healthfully," Belluz wrote. Of course, losing weight doesn't necessarily equal being healthy: A 2012 study on "fitness and fatness" found that some people who are overweight or obese are "metabolically healthy," and aren't at any greater risk for chronic disease like "cardiovascular problems and cancer" that can sometimes be linked to obesity. It's clear that weight loss isn't always a goal for people who want to be healthier, and exercise has undeniable benefits to your body, something Belluz's investigation only reaffirms. So just because it may not lead to weight loss doesn't mean it's time to cancel your gym membership just yet. h/t Vox	<urn:uuid:15a1445e-ff89-408c-9dbb-3d575bbdc022>	https://www.mic.com/articles/142253/exercise-may-not-actually-help-you-lose-weight-overwhelming-number-of-studies-find	en	0.971713	0.036478	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
People in Physics Fundamentally, physics is not about big machines or mathematics or advanced technology—it is about people trying to find out how the world works. We introduce you to some of these people, telling you what kind of physics they do while also giving you a more complete picture of how they live their lives. Interview with Astronaut Don Pettit Kelly Chipps James Roche Jelena Maricic Ben Van Dusen	<urn:uuid:d29efdbc-4bde-49ec-b0ce-9724478e12bc>	https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/people/index.cfm	en	0.929061	0.140628	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Neptune’s Moons Are Acting Weird Their names are Naiad and Thalassa, and they’re being accused by NASA of acting weird. Who are they? Why they are Neptune’s moons and appear to race around their planet in what NASA researchers are calling a “dance of avoidance”. According to researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “there are many different types of dances that planets, moons, and asteroids can follow, but this one has never been seen before.” Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/neptune-s-moons-are-caught-in-one-of-the-weirdest-orbits-ever-seen	<urn:uuid:5071acf0-9893-405c-9d41-ac29bc12b469>	https://www.wlsam.com/2019/11/18/neptunes-moons-are-acting-weird/	en	0.928601	0.146151	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Home » FAQs » How Do Courts Determine Parenting Time/Visitation In The State Of Ohio? How Do courts Determine Parenting Time/Visitation In The State Of Ohio? When parents separate and divorce in the State of Ohio, or if they have not been married to each other but share a minor child, the court may get involved in determining custody and visitation if the parties cannot independently come to an agreement. In determining visitation and parenting time, the court will take several factors into account. First and foremost, the court will consider the child’s best interests. Depending on the child’s age, his or her wishes may also be taken into account, but the child’s wishes are not determinative. Other factors include, but are not limited to, where each parent lives and how far these residences are from one another; the child’s age; the child’s adjustment to his or her community; and any prior instance of child abuse or neglect in the past of either parent. When developing a schedule for visitation and parenting time, most counties in Ohio have a model schedule that is used as the baseline. While parents are able to tailor this to their own needs provided they are able to agree, in the absence of an agreement, adherence to the model schedule may be court-ordered. If a parent wants to modify an existing visitation or parenting schedule, he or she must petition absent an agreement. If a parent is not in compliance with the current court ordered visitation, he or she may be found in contempt of court and ordered to pay a fine. How Can We Help You?	<urn:uuid:02267572-923f-4902-a383-696ce641f108>	https://www.wolinetzlaw.com/faqs/how-do-courts-determine-parenting-time-visitation-in-the-state-of-ohio/	en	0.92866	0.025174	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Friday, August 19, 2005 The use of the term "brocard" in English is not really wrong, but it is very rare. Its use is far more common in French or Italian law. English would use the term "maxim" to mean just about the same thing. Even more precisely, "legal maxim" would distinguish these sayings from maxims which can arise in many other areas of knowledge. Maxims have no formal legal weight, but can be influential as representative of a society's accumulated wisdom. Eclecticology, Friday, July 12, 2002 Here we are again :-)) Another difference, then, on "Maxim". Or, better, a case of false friends: the corresponding word is in our system mainly related to the principle that a judge expresses in its interpretation of the law inside the sentence, while a brocard is a referring expression, a sort of motto or proverb mainly used by students (and teachers) to better learn and keep in mind some concepts. Our maxims do have a legal relevance (at least for the sentence which they are contained into), even if a following sentence can freely contain opposite concepts, thus reverting the previous principles. Do you think we need some redirecting? It seems that we are getting closer to the moment we'll have to list a few differences among legal systems... :-) Gianfranco If these questions about law were easy, the lawyers would be starving. I even had to pause over your use of the word "sentence" to make sure that you weren't talking about the prison term or fine that a judge levies after an accused has bee found guilty. It's the rarity of the word in English that makes the redirection advisable. Perhaps we can find a way of resolving the subtleties there. An article explaining the differences between the two main legal traditions is a great idea, but very difficult to write. We should only (!) identify the elements and the concepts which are different, the false friends, and whatever might deserve to be noted. ;-) No, it won't be easy... but I believe we can make it, little by little. Ah, our "sentence" is only the latin sententia, the response of the judge. It is a different concept from the latin poena, that I believe you call penalty, which is contained into the sentence, is a part of it (even if obviously it is its most evident concrete effect). Gianfranco Your table looks beautiful, and it's an excellent proposal. I'll give some thought into what the article title should be. As to "sentence". The "sententia" usage is another one that's almost unknown here. When the "poena" interpretation didn't make sense I settled on the most commen english usage, the grammatical one, for which you would use "frase".	<urn:uuid:fa777ad4-3d3f-43a7-b937-7fc2307eecad>	http://abobora-oca.blogspot.com/2005/08/	en	0.97283	0.612853	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Monday, August 06, 2007 No, I'm not talking about the Matrix. Many people have asked about my favorite writing tool, so I thought I'd finally get around to blogging about it. It's a lifesaver for me. Without it, my last two books wouldn't have been written nearly as quickly as they were. It's how I squeeze writing into the daily chaos that is family life. It's also how I can sit beside my husband in the evening as he's watching TV without abandoning him for the computer (but still get some writing in). What is it? It's my AlphaSmart NEO. Begun as a way to teach grade school students how to type without the enormous cost of lots of computers, the AlphaSmart quickly found a cult following among writers, and for good reason. At its most basic, an AlphaSmart is a portable word processor. It's got a sturdy shell, a small screen that holds 4 lines or so of text (depending on your model and the font size), and a full-size keyboard. It uses so little battery power that my rechargeable battery gets charged maybe three times a year. There's no saving involved. Once you type something in, it's there until you delete it. And there's no boot-up time, either. You push a button, and it turns on. You push it again, and it turns off (or just wait a few minutes; if you don't type for a while, it'll turn off to conserve power). The earlier versions (the AlphaSmart 2000 and 3000, no longer available) had slightly clunkier keyboards and design than the NEO, which is sleeker and requires a much lighter touch to type with. As a result, I can type much faster on the NEO than I could on the 3000. The NEO also has a word count feature, which I really missed on the AlphaSmart 3000 I owned before. It has 8 files you can write in, and each one can hold something like 32 single-spaced pages worth of material. I've never yet filled a file, but I like being able to have several things going at once. New with the NEO is the ability to remove (but save) a file from being active and use that spot for another work, essentially giving you several times more than 8 files to work with. I've never needed to use this function, because I always transfer my work to my computer pretty quickly after writing on the NEO. The DANA version has a few bells and whistles, but also a few drawbacks, like how you have to save, and I know of DANAs that have had problems like fatal errors, things I've never heard of with a NEO. If you're looking for a high-powered laptop, this isn't it. But if you're looking for something light-weight, easy to transport, easy to turn on, that won't lose power after hours and hours and HOURS of writing, that keeps your work without any effort on your part, something that costs a fraction of a decent laptop, this is your toy. I mean tool. Mine has been dropped and stepped on (this happens with four children running around), and it's taken the abuse. I use it all the time. We inherited a 2000 recently, and I passed it on to the kids so they'd stop trying to use my NEO. They love writing their own stories, and with 8 files, they each get to "own" two of them. It's perfect. When it's time to transfer my work to the computer, I just launch the "get" utility program and push the "send" button on my NEO. The infared does the rest. I can also transfer from the computer to the NEO, but since the NEO is best for drafting rather than revising (at least for me; that little screen is tough to revise on), I rarely send anything the other direction. My NEO has let me draft on car trips, in hotel rooms, in the lobby of the dance studio, in the doctor's office, on the deck swing as the kids play outside, poolside while the kids are in swimming lessons, on a bench at the park. Without it, I wouldn't get nearly as much done. For more information, here's their website. Shanna Blythe said... I also really like that there aren't any distractions on it. Laptops are computers so they have everything--internet connection, games . . . you get the picture. With the NEO you are just going to be writing. I LOVE that!! An Ordinary Mom said... I might have to look into this, especially with Christmas and my birthday coming up in a few months :) !! I spend a lot of time in the car and other places waiting and waiting. It would be nice to be able to better utilize this time. I have a laptop, but it just isn't conducive to hauling around. Thanks for the info! Luisa Perkins said... THAT is cool! Unknown said... Annette, thanks for blogging about the Neo. I've been trying to decide where I should get one or not. The main drawback for me was the small screen. I'd like to be able to see probably 10 lines at a time instead of 4. But what you say makes sense. Maybe I could get more writing done if I hauled one of those with me everywhere. Food for thought. Stephanie Humphreys said... Thanks for the information about the NEO. Shanna is right, laptops have too many distractions, and the NEO sounds great for hauling around. I love the fact that the batteries last so long. Annette Lyon said... Shanna, You're right; no distractions is another great point with the NEO! Ordinary Mom--I got my 3000 for my birthday. Absolutely invest in one! (Sounds like we're both Christmas babies.) Candace, The Neo has a bigger screen than the 3000, and it's set at the default of 4 lines, but you can increase it I think to about 6 lines or so. I prefer to keep it at 4 lines so the text is bigger and easier to read. For drafting, the small screen doesn't bother me. In fact, it's nice to not be distracted by how many pages you have written or when the next page break is or to constantly be rereading what you just wrote. It's great for just sitting down and PRODUCING. Josi said... Amen--I love my Alphasmart. I have had it for over two years and written three books on it, two christmas letters, countless rants and a few articles. Love it, Love it, Love it. Unknown said... This is so tempting. Sounds like a good investment. Thanks for posting, Annette. I looked into it a while ago, but did nothing more about it then. Maybe now's the time. Deals & Links ~ January 2020	<urn:uuid:b4bb482e-0d26-42d0-afd6-6e2a067d291f>	http://blog.annettelyon.com/2007/08/whats-neo.html	en	0.975605	0.087834	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
15. dvi .ps .tgz .shar .me .ps What are all these file formats? How can I view them? Are they convertable? Where is the editor, or do I create them from scripts? 15.1 compression 15.2 Packaging 15.3 print ready documents 15.4 on-line files 15.5 Graphics files 15.6 Program source 15.7 Program objects and library files .gz - gzip compressed This is the standard gnu gzip format, which is open and efficient. .Z - old compressed This is the traditional Unix compression. Many people prefer gzip, which makes files about 25% smaller than compress can manage. This is the standard unix tar file (tape-archive). Most people use this to package up a subdirectory of files into one file. tar archives are useful, because they retain the original file modification date, rather than making everything have todays date (cpio does the same). This is the same as .tar.gz, ie a compressed tar archive. The easiest way to view a .tgz file is to use mc (mc-3.1), and press Return over the filename.tgz file. Then browse inside the file. Eg with the prep.ai.mit.edu = GNU = CDROM-disk3, browse to /cdrom/gnu/gnuplot.tgz, then browse inside to find ./gnuplot/docs/latextut/tutorial.tex. View this file with F3, then copy it to /tmp using the F5 key. You will use it later to see how tex works. Unlike tar, there is no standard name.ext for cpio archives. cpio is an SVR3 / SVR4 sort of utility, but gnu supports it with a cpio utility. Some people like it because it can recover from broken tapes, but I never got much luck when this happened to me. cpio is very good at holding /dev/nodes and symbolic links. I use cpio to duplicate directories on the disk, eg cd $FROM \|\| exit $? find . -print \| cpio -pvdm $DEST .shar - shell archive A .shar file is a shell script that expands into several files. Beware of running these blindly, as you will be giving a trojan a free ride. Fortunately, being source, trojans get spotted quickly, and kicked off reputable systems. .zip - DOS style archives These are much like .tgz files, except they have more of a DOS history. Netscape uses a .zip file to hold it's java extensions. Probably because the authors have all the .zip tools they need to make good sense of this format, even if the content varies between systems. .rpm - redhat package module This is a file format that RedHat have licenced to the world, to package source and binary packages, and install them. The format is not immediately readable by simple utilities, but I did manage to install an .rpm package, by copying the /rpm/ directory from the CD, and running it on one of its own files. For the latest version of RPM look on http://www.redhat.com. You can then install .rpm packages on a slackware (or other) system. If not, raise a bug. ,rpm packages are ususally pre-compiled, and pre-configured to make sense in a RedHat Linux environment. Ie they are the original package plus a few diffs to make it install smoothly. Mixing slackware and RedHat system files may cause problems that neither side will help you with. Most of the files are "effectively the same" (eg Slackware "ls" vs RedHat "ls"), but there are different approaches to sytem configuration, especially that part which is meant to be done by the user. EG /etc/rc.d, and network configuration files. However, if you keep to categories of application, you should be ok. EG installing scilab.rpm on a slackware system might work. If you aren't the first to attempt it. ,srpm packages are the source, used to build .rpm's print ready documents These have been pre-formatted by a word processor into formats that are ready to be printed by a postscript printer, or are in a portable format that gets the correct font selections. .ps - postscript postscript can be viewed in X11 using ghostview or gs. It can also be converted to other formats (eg epson-dot-matrix) using gs. Postscript is a full blown language, capable of calling programs and reading files. Always use the -dSAFER option, to prevent trojan's taking control of your system. just because you viewed a .ps file. .dvi - device independent dvi files come from TeX. They are like postscript files but smaller. Use the xdvi command to view them, and dvips to convert them to postscript. on-line files OK .ps and .dvi are online. .1 .1.gz .me .ms - man pages These are man pages for the (1) directory. When installed use the man or xman command to find and view them. They get formatted by groff using the -man macros. groff -T ascii -man FILE.1 ,me files are formatted using a command like nroff and the '.me' macros nroff -T ascii -me filename.me \| less nroff -T ascii -mandoc filename.man \| less Except of course read.me! .txt - plain text files These are either totally plain, or mostly plain files, that need no formatting to view or edit. .ez - AUIS files The ez word processor creates .ez files for text and sheets. Use the ez word processor to view them, though they are almost plain text. The AUIS system can be fount in /cdrom/slackwar/contrib and others. Graphics files There are plenty of graphics file formats, and I am well confused by them all. Some come from other machines, and may be less used. Some swiss-army-knife utilities handle several different formats, and can convert between them. Try xpaint, xloadimage, xv, netscape, ... pbm - portable bit map These are X11 bitmaps, with N colours. You can view them with xpaint or xloadimage. There are several types of bitmap, depending on how many colours there are, how they are selected and palletted. Whose system you are working on! All I know is that FAX files get reduced in resolution x4, when they get converted from .g3 to .pgm. The same happens when a .pbm gets converted to .pgm. This conversion is 'lossy', and ugly (possibly due to a library bug). gif - graphics interchange format These are compressed graphics files, with a proprietry algorithm. Now that Unisys is charging for use of the Licence, alternatives are appearing. .tex - TeX or LaTeX source files These are editable text files, with embedded TeX commands. You run the TeX processor on them to produce .dvi files. Then you either run xdvi or dvips and ghostscript/ghostview. If TeX finds an error in the text (not uncommon), it usually stops to give you a chance to correct the errors. Either press CTRL-D or quit, and it will go into batch mode. You might have to run TeX twice, to get the indexing and x-referencing correct. Here is a worked example: mkdir /tmp/temp cd /tmp/temp cp /usr/doc/TeX/Gentle.tex . tex Gentle.tex # takes 20 seconds tex Gentle.tex # takes 20 seconds # repeat for index dvips Gentle.dvi # takes 15 seconds ghostview Gengle.ps & # takes 10 seconds xdvi Gentle.dvi & # takes 3 minutes + 10 seconds xdvi Gentle.dvi & # takes 10 seconds Actually this is doing things twice, you don't have to both every time. This is so that you can see the difference between ghostview and xdvi. IE they both take the same time, but xdvi may have to create some fonts. If they were already on the disk it's just as fast. Also xdvi looks a lot easier to read than ghostview - but this may be due to the fonts. (( is there a way to configure ghostscript to use the fonts that xdvi uses? )) Personally, I think there is a bug in ghostscript, but it's probably only visible at 75 dpi, not at 300 dpi (or even 600 dpi if you have such a printer). At every step run ls, to see what files get created, and how big they are. The xdvi command took ages, because it had to create all the fonts in the right format. The second time, the fonts already existed, so it took a few seconds. The ghostview took about the same time as xdvi - but only when both have the fonts already prepared. Both xdvi and ghostview allow you to select which page to view. They both give you a magnifier (click or hold a mouse button over the text, try another button), so you can see the any hard to read bits. There is another 'gv' ghostview viewer available on the net somewhere, but I haven't tried it yet. It might have other command options, but will probably have the same display quality (unless ...). What do you think? .html - hot metal WWW files These are viewable using lynx, arena, mosaic, netscape, chimera or your favourite web browser. They contain X-REF's to other pages "URLS", which may be on the same machine or on different remote machines. The Hyper Text Marup Language HTML standard keeps changing, as the heavy-weights try to jostle it out of popularity. The next thing is style-sheets, where you select header fonts in a site-wide config file. Just a sniff of creeping functionality, with a strange SGML base format. sgml - Source Document Markup Language These look like html, but may get compiled to TeX or compiled into documents. The tag names are completely different from HTML, and could define any set of name tags. These are not usually on-line browsable. Program source These are files that get interpreted or compiled to be programs, or structured data. .c .h filename.c is a 'C' program source, that gcc can compile into filename.o Other names are .cc or .cpp for 'C++' source which you can compile with g++. If the source follows all the standards, the program should be portable to many machines and environments. filename.h is a 'C' program header file (or other language header file). It ususlly contains constant declarations, type declarations and function declarations (that later get defined in .c files). Other languages use other filename extensions for their sources, such as .pas (pascal) .bas (basic) .m4 (m4 macro text) .cpp .hpp (the list goes on). Some languages might have interpreters, 'C has a compiler. Program objects and library files When you compile a .c file, it usually becomes a .o (object) file. .o Object This is machine code (binary executable for the specific architecture of the CPU and system), along with a symbol table so that the linker can find all the pieces by name. You can't run, since it doesn't have a program header. .a .so You can pre-link a group of .o files into one libname.a file or a shared libname.so (shared object) which can be linked into a running program, either statically or dynamically. Shared object libraries are usually left as-is to be linked at run time. When a program that uses shared libraries is started, it loads the header index of each shared library it uses. You can get a list of .so's that a program uses with: # fogrotten Some programs load the libraries later, (as required), but most print a list of absent ones and die.	<urn:uuid:3efb53e6-3522-4a7f-981f-9844e8a41445>	http://ftp.nl.vim.org/pub/ftp/ftp/ibiblio/docs/Raven/EyeView/SSR04/SSR04-15.htm	en	0.881346	0.34964	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
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Monthly Archives: July 2018 Ekaterinburg 2018: A Pilgrim’s Notes Having flown in from Moscow, as we leave Ekaterinburg airport for the city, we see billboards with the words: ‘The Urals greet His Holiness Patriarch Kyrill’, with a picture of the Patriarch. Many other billboards show the Imperial Family with quotations from their writings (‘It is not evil that will triumph, but love’) and invitations to discover more about them from a website. We are in Eurasia, 12 miles from the (invented) line that divides Europe from Asia. Little wonder that the signs at the airport were all in Russian, Chinese and English. The Imperial Family, whose emblem of unity was the double-headed eagle, looking east and west, were martyred here 100 years ago on the confines of Europe and Asia. We visit the Church on the Blood, built on the ruins of the place of the martyrdom of the Family, the Ipatiev House, demolished by Yeltsin in 1977, as it was becoming an ever more popular site of pilgrimage. It is very beautiful. A side-altar had been built to replicate the very small basement in which the Imperial Family were finished off. There are people crying, others singing an akathist. I see my friend, Fr Maxim, who serves there. Nearby is the Tsar’s Museum, with its excellent exhibition on the Imperial Martyrs, and also the room where the Holy Synod held its meeting on 13 July. In the corners of the room stand the 15 flags of the countries represented by the participants, including the Ukraine, Japan and China. We head for Ganina Yama (‘Gabriels pit’), the abandoned mineshaft, where they attempted to dispose of the bodies of the seven royal martyrs and their four servants. Here they have enclosed the pit, planting hundreds of lilies over it, and built seven churches. Here too people kneel in tears and others sing. We visit other convents: in Ekaterinburg the old Novotikhvinsky, which is being restored and has 100 nuns, and, a few miles away, the new Central Urals Convent, with 170 nuns, but 450 residents in all, as it cares for single mothers and their children, orphans, and has a cancer ward for the terminally ill. There are many, mainly female, visitors. There also seem to be a number of cossacks here. The spiritual father is the controversial but clearly dynamic Fr Sergiy (Romanov). There are four churches, with a huge bell-tower to contain forty tons of bells, under construction. It is here that on Monday 16 July I concelebrate with ten priests with the former Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg, Vikenty, now of Tashkent and Uzbekistan. One of the priests, a pilgrim originally from Novosibirsk, looks Chinese. He is in fact a Yakut, Russian is his second language. We meet, one from the East, one from the West, brought together by the Imperial Martyrs. However, the highlight of our pilgrimage is the liturgy of 17 July, beginning at midnight, shortly after which, exactly 100 years before, the Imperial Martyrs were slaughtered by their mainly Non-Russian executioners and disposed of. The Patriarch presides, with some 15 bishops and 100 priests. Tens of thousands take communion at 2.00 am. Then at 2.30 am, we head for Ganina Yama, fourteen miles away. The pace is very, very brisk, almost at a run. 100,000 faithful, many carrying church banners, Tsar’s flags, strong men carrying huge icons, many pilgrims have paper icons hanging around their necks, cossacks, policemen, old, young, cripples on crutches, babies and small children in pushchairs, 50-100 abreast, stretching back miles, at our head the Patriarch, who covers the distance like us. We sing the Jesus Prayer for miles on end, then, as we draw nearer, the hundreds of priests, monks and nuns and the tens of thousands of laypeople, pray singing: ‘Holy Royal Martyrs, pray to God for us!’ They are called on by name, together with St Seraphim of Sarov (‘the Tsar who glorifies me, I will glorify’), St John of Kronstadt and his successor the Martyr Gregory (Rasputin). Holy Rus is on the move in an irresistible tide, the clergy carried by the piety of the people, the people carried by the piety of the clergy. The intellectuals and liberals have no answer to this piety. Love will indeed triumph over evil. Questions and Answers – July 2018 Q: What in your view is the greatest problem for the Orthodox Church in the UK today? A: Without doubt it is the pastoral crisis, the chronic shortage of priests and lack of our own churches. Why? Well, who wants to be a priest when you are not paid and you have to find your own churches? Among Catholics, Anglicans and Protestants all the infrastructure, churches, houses and salaries, is already provided. What an easy life they have! My ‘parish’ covers five counties and 7,500 square miles (20,000 square kilometres). I only have two permanent churches here, which I have had to obtain and fit out, and two assistant priests, neither of whom is available on weekdays. Here there is the failure of bishops to provide priests (lack of a seminary, as opposed to a centre for ivory tower intellectuals who do not understand real Church life) and to provide for their priests. And, frankly, this is the case over most of the world. How can we have a Church that gives no pastoral care? This is why children are not being baptized, couples are not being married and people are not being buried by priests. There are no local priests. This is indeed a DIY church. We shall perhaps look back on this period as the most decadent in Church history. Q: When did the contemporary Church begin to venerate the local saints of the West? A: The turning-point came in 1952 when St John of Shanghai submitted a list of local saints for veneration to the Synod of Russian Bishops Outside Russia. All his ROCOR disciples followed him, from Archbishop Nathanael of Vienna to Archbishop Antony of Geneva, from Fr Seraphim Rose to my sinful self. This movement was followed and imitated by other jurisdictions a generation or two later, without repentance for their earlier rejections. I can remember in 1975 when I submitted a list of these saints, how mocked I was at the time by the Sourozh Jurisdiction, the Thyateira Jurisdiction and the Paris Jurisdiction. The attitude was racist. How times change! Q: Why does the West reject ascetic life? The Catholics made their Church into a State and none of them has any concept of fasting or even standing for services. A: The great problem for the Church has always been how to deal with the world. The Orthodox view is to do our best to sanctify the world, suffering persecution and even martyrdom if necessary, submitting to martyrdom. The Western view has been to conquer and control the world: the result of this is the secularization of the Western ‘Church’ – their ‘Church’ has become the world. This rejection of ascetic effort goes back to the filioque. This says that the Holy Spirit (all truth and authority in Church life) proceeds from the Son and therefore from all those who represent the Son on earth. In 800 this was interpreted to mean Charlemagne, who called himself the Vicar of Christ and began massacring the Saxons in the Name of God (= Caesaropapism). In the later 11th century, however, it was the Bishop of Rome who changed his official title from Vicar of St Peter (in reality the title of the Patriarchs of Antioch) to Vicar of Christ and his ‘Church’ became more powerful than any State (Papocaearism). So began Papal-sponsored massacres in 1066 in England and then in ‘crusades’. So began clericalism. In the 16th century everyone became vicars of Christ, and so was born Protestantism. Anyone had the right to go off and start their own ‘church’, regardless of repentance and ascetic practice. So was born anti-ascetic humanism. So was born sitting down, sing-song hymns and clapping your hands – in effect an early form of karaoke, ‘fun-religion’. Q: Why are liberals so hostile and aggressive to the Russian Church when only about 5% of the Russian population actually practises the Orthodox Faith? A: The trouble for the liberals, who also represent only about 5% of the Russian population, is that the culture of the Russian Federation and of countries like the Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova is still largely Orthodox in practical domains, that is outside attendance at Church services, regardless of the narrow Protestant understanding of ‘practice’ as ‘going to church’. (The Orthodox understanding of ‘practice’ is how we live our life, which is totally different from ‘God-slot’ Protestantism, based on guilt, or obligatory attendance Catholicism). Liberals are angry at their failure to root out Christian cultural values from everyday life of the 90% in these Orthodox countries, which is what they have achieved in the West over the last fifty years. Our way of life which persists disturbs them, delaying and thwarting their plans for totalitarian domination of every aspect of life. Q: According to the West, Russia is Asiatic. Is this so in your view? A: First of all, this is racist and ethnocentric: the word ‘Asiatic’ is used to mean ‘barbaric’, ‘savage’ and cruel’. So everyone in Asia, with its fine and delicate culture, is so? Secondly, it is incredibly hypocritical: it was the West that invented the Crusades and the Inquisition, the Maxim gun and modern artillery, chemical weapons and the bomber, Communism and Fascism, the concentration camp and the Atomic bomb, the cluster bomb and the drone. Are these not cruel and barbaric? Thirdly, it is geographically incorrect, since 90% of Russians live in Europe and all the Slav peoples originate north of the Carpathians – in Europe. Fourthly, it can be argued that in any case there is no such thing as ‘Europe’. There is only one Continent – Eurasia, Europe is an artificial invention at the western tip of a single Continent. All the other continents, Africa, Australia and the Americas are clearly different continents because they are separated from one another by the sea. Not so little Europe, which has been artificially separated from the mass of Asia by the relatively low hills called the Urals. In the south of Asia, India and China are both considered Asian, and yet they are separated by the giant mountains of the Himalayas, not the hills of the Urals! The charge of ‘Asiatic’ is always made to justify Western barbarianism. The next time that the West commits some war-crime, we should say: ‘What do you expect of Europe? It is so European’. Q: What makes a good candidate for the priesthood? A: A kind-hearted man, who knows the services and is understanding with others, patient and a good listener, who is not stupid and not intolerant, not money-minded and not a careerist. Q: Why is the West so fond of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, yet ignores or even condemns her sister, the Tsarina Alexandra? A: Both were ex-Protestants who joined the Orthodox Church and both were martyrs, and so whatever their sins and mistakes, they were washed away by their blood. However I think the West is fond of the errors of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, for example her naïve dabbling in politics, condemnation of Gregory Rasputin, whom she had never even seen, let alone met, and her purely Protestant desire for deaconesses, which was naturally rejected by the Church. In some respects she did not fully become Orthodox until the last year of her life, unlike her younger sister Alexandra who joined the Orthodox Church out of love and never tried to change anything, integrating the Faith very quickly, as it says in the Akathist to the Royal Martyrs, she was ‘an example’ of one who turned from Protestantism to Orthodoxy. That irritates the demon of the West, which can only understand Orthodoxy through the deforming prism of its errors. This is why it absurdly accuses St Alexandra of being fanatical, neurotic and hysterical. St Alexandra is a convert who became fully Orthodox and she should be the patron-saint of all who convert to the Orthodox Faith. Q: Since you like the old calendar, why don’t you join the old calendarists? A: There is a great difference between being faithful to the old (= Church) calendar and being an old calendarist. Isms are always fatal. The question that I ask old calendarists is: Why do you claim to be Orthodox (and indeed ‘super-Orthodox’), when you are not even in communion with the 215 million members and 900 bishops of the Orthodox Church? Q: What are the chances that Gregory Rasputin will be canonized, do you think? A: At the present moment they are near zero. Only two or three bishops are in favour, although there are many priests and people in favour in a few dioceses, like Ekaterinburg, in which diocese Gregory was born and grew up. So a local canonization could happen there in a few years time. The situation is very similar to that of the chances of the canonization of St Seraphim of Sarov in the 1880s (when it had been considered, but was opposed by most of the Synod of bishops), the Royal Martyrs in the Church Outside Russia in the 1960s and 1970s (when, as I remember, it was opposed by many, despite the long-held view of the future St John of Shanghai) or inside Russia in the 1980s (when it was opposed by large numbers of bishops, clergy and people). In other words, for canonization to take place you need a certain spiritual maturity, you have to be spiritually ready, spiritually awake, and that leads to unity. In a Church of converts, which is what the Russian Church today is, we do not find that. There is still not sufficient consensus on the understanding of the past, neither of the Soviet period, nor of the pre-Revolutionary period. Many supposedly Orthodox academics and also bishops are opposed to the canonization of Gregory, just as their forebears were opposed to the canonization of St Seraphim of Sarov and the Royal Martyrs in the past. We must wait until such people come round to reality and wake up to the new research done in the Russian State archives, which has completely overturned the old prejudices and ignorance of the anti-Orthodox past, both of the Soviet and similar pre-Revolutionary periods. Similarly, such intellectuals, even ‘theologians’, detest the veneration for Gregory among the devout masses who in turn detest the Church bureaucracy. At present, this canonization is supported only by the most committed and well-educated Orthodox. We must be patient and wait for the ignorance of others to dissipate. We do not divide the Church. Q: What forms do the ‘the right side’ and ‘the left side’ take, in the spiritual sense of these terms? A: The enemy wields a double-edged sword. The right side is Establishment Religion: Phariseeism / Talmudism / Monophysitism / Nationalism / Ritualism / Fascism / Old Calendarism. The left side is Sectarian Religion: Saduceeism / Hellenism / Arianism / Scholasticism / Rationalism / Liberalism / New Calendarism. Q: How can we protect the English language against its bastardization today? A: We should use and revive the terms of disappearing English. We should use expressions like: my sainted aunt / until the cows come home / till Kingdom come / how far afield? / by George , and use such words as, mild, meek, noble, which the younger generation hardly knows. I am sure that you can expand on such a list. Fr Nicholas Gibbes: The First English Disciple of Tsar Nicholas II and the First English Priest of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia A Talk given at Barton Manor near Osborne House on the Isle of Wight on 7 July 2018. In this centenary year of the martyrdom of Tsar Nicholas II, his August Family, their servants and the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, it would be well to recall their first English disciple and the first ever English Russian Orthodox priest, Fr Nicholas Gibbes. Charles Sydney Gibbes, for short Sydney Gibbes, was born 142 years ago, on 19 January 1876. In the 19th century this was for all Orthodox the feast day of St John the Baptist, the voice that cried in the wilderness. His parents were called John and Mary – more English than that you cannot find. His father was a bank manager in Rotherham, just outside Sheffield, in Yorkshire. Amusingly, this would later be recorded by a Russian civil servant on Sydney’s residence papers in Russia as ‘Rotterdam’. With no fewer than ten siblings, Sydney grew into a stereotypical, Victorian, Protestant young man of the educated classes. He received his education at Cambridge, where he changed the spelling of his surname to Gibbes, from Gibbs, as the adopted form is the older, historical one. This change was typical of his love of historical detail and accuracy. Sydney is described as: severe, stiff, self-restrained, imperturbable, quiet, gentlemanly, cultured, pleasant, practical, simple, brave, loyal, lucid, witty, crisp, vigorous, honourable, reliable, impeccably clean, with high character, of good sense and with agreeable manners. He seems the perfect Victorian English Yorkshire gentleman – not a man with such an unusual destiny. However, as we know from history, underneath Victorian gentlemen lurked other sides – repressed, but still present. For example, we know that Sydney could be stubborn, that he used corporal punishment freely, that he could be very awkward with others, and he is recorded as having quite a temper, though these traits mellowed greatly with the years. My good friend from Oxford days long ago, Dmitri Kornhardt, recalled how in later life tears would stream down Fr Nicholas’ face when celebrating services in memory of the Imperial Martyrs, but how also he would very rapidly recover himself after such unEnglish betrayals of emotion. Underneath the Victorian reserve there was indeed a hidden man, one with spiritual sensitivity, who was interested in theatre and theatricals, spiritualism, fortune-telling and palmistry, and one who was much prone to recording his dreams. Perhaps this is why, when after University he had been thinking of the Anglican priesthood as a career, he found it ‘stuffy’ and abandoned that path. Talking to those who knew him and reading his biographies, and there are three of them, we cannot help feeling that as a young man Sydney was searching for something – but he knew not what. The real man would eventually come out from beneath his Victorian conditioning. Perhaps this is why in 1901, aged 25, he found himself teaching English in Russia – a country with which he had no connection. Here he was to spend over 17 years. The key moment came in autumn 1908 when he went to the Imperial Palace in Tsarskoe Selo and became the English tutor of the Imperial children. In particular, he became close to the Tsarevich Alexis, with whom he identified very closely. Why? We can only speculate that there was a sympathy or else complementarity of characters; together with Sydney’s bachelordom, this may have been enough for the friendship to develop. In any case, he became almost a member of the Imperial Family and a profound and lifelong admirer of what he called, as an eyewitness, their exemplary Christian Faith, close family life and kindness. His meeting with this Family changed his life forever and he only ever spoke of them with profound admiration. In August 1917 Sydney found himself following the Family to Tobolsk. Utterly loyal to the Family, in July 1918 he found himself in Ekaterinburg, the city in the Urals between Asia and Europe, East and West, after their unspeakable murder in the Ipatiev House. He helped identify objects, returning again and again to the House, picking up mementoes, which he was to cling on to until the end, and still reluctant to believe that the crime had taken place. Coming almost half way through his life when he was aged 42, this was without doubt the crucial event in that life, the turning point, the spark that made him seek out his destiny in all seriousness. With the murder of the Family, the bottom had fallen out of his life, his raison d’etre had gone. Where could he go from here? He did not, like most, return to England. We know that he, like Tsar Nicholas, had been particularly shocked by what he saw as the British betrayal of the Imperial Family. Indeed, we know that it was George Buchanan, the British ambassador to St Petersburg, who had in part been behind the February 1917 deposition of the Tsar by treacherous aristocrats, politicians and generals. This coup d’etat was greeted by Lloyd George in the House of Commons as the ‘achievement of one of our war aims’. (We now also know from the book by Andrew Cook that it was British spies who had assassinated Gregory Rasputin and also that the Tsar’s own cousin, George V, had refused to help the Tsar and His Family escape). In fact, disaffected by Britain’s politics, from Ekaterinburg Sydney went not west, but east – to Siberian Omsk and then further east, to Beijing and then Harbin in Manchuria. Off and on he would spend another 17 years here, in Russian China. In about 1922 he suffered a serious illness. His religiosity seems to have grown further and after this he would go to study for the Anglican priesthood at St Stephen’s House in Oxford. However, for someone with the world-changing experience that he had had, that was not his way; perhaps he still found Anglicanism ‘stuffy’, I think he would have found almost anything stuffy after what he had been through – seeing his adopted Family wiped out. Finally, in 1934, in Harbin, Sydney joined the Far Eastern Metropolia of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. There is no doubt that he did this as a direct result of the example of the Imperial Family, for he took the Orthodox name of Alexis – the name of the Tsarevich, whom he naturally saw as a martyr. He was to describe this act as ‘getting home after a long journey’, words which perhaps describe the reception into the Orthodox Church of any Western person. Thus, from England, to Russia and then to China, he had found his way. In December 1934, aged almost 59, he became successively monk, deacon and priest. He was now to be known as Fr Nicholas – a name deliberately taken in honour of the martyred Tsar Nicholas. In 1935 he was made Abbot by Metr Antony of Kiev, the head of our multinational Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and later received the title of Archimandrite. Wishing to establish some ‘Anglo-Orthodox organisation’, in 1937 Fr Nicholas Gibbes came back to live in England permanently. He was aged 61. Of this move he wrote: ‘It is my earnest hope that the Anglican Church should put itself right with the Holy Orthodox Church’. He went to live in London in the hope of setting up an English-language parish within the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. In this he did not succeed and in 1940 he moved to Oxford. In this last part of his life in Oxford he became the founder of the first Russian Orthodox church in Oxford at 4, Marston Street, where he lived in humble and modest circumstances. In recalling the address of that first church, dedicated to St Nicholas, we cannot help recalling that today’s Russian Orthodox St Nicholas church in Oxford is not very far away from it. Not an organiser, sometimes rather erratic, even eccentric, Fr Nicholas was not perhaps an ideal parish priest, but he was sincere and well-respected. In Oxford he cherished his mementoes of the Imperial Family to the end. Before he departed this life, on 24 March 1963, an icon given to him by the Imperial Family, was miraculously renewed and began to shine. One who knew him at the time confirmed this and after Fr Nicholas’ death, commented that now at last Fr Nicholas was seeing the Imperial Family again – for he had been waiting for this moment for 45 years. He was going to meet once more those who had shaped his destiny in this world. In the 1980s in an old people’s home outside Paris I met a parishioner of our Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, Count Nikolai Komstadius. He had met Fr Nicholas in 1954, in connection with the false Anastasia, but perhaps had seen him before, since his father had been in charge of the Tsarskoe Selo estate and he himself had been a childhood friend of the Tsarevich. I remember in the 1980s visiting him. In the corner of his room in front of an icon of the martyred Tsarevich there burned an icon-lamp. He turned to me and said: ‘That is such a good likeness, it is just like him and yet also it is an icon’. Not many of us lives to see a childhood playfriend become a saint and have his icon painted. Yet as a young man in his thirties Fr Nicholas had known a whole family, whom he considered to be saints. Indeed, he had been converted by their example. There are those who have life-changing experiences. They are fortunate, because they stop living superficially, stop drifting through life and stop wasting God-sent opportunities and so find their destiny. Such life-changing experiences can become a blessing if we allow them to become so. Fr Nicholas was one such person, only his life-changing experience was also one that had changed the history of the whole world. For a provincial Victorian Yorkshire bank manager’s son, who had grown up with his parents John and Mary, he had come very far. And yet surely the seeds had been there from the beginning. To be converted we first of all need spiritual sensitivity, a seeking spirit, but secondly we also need an example. Fr Nicholas had had both, the example being the Imperial Martyrs. As that late and wonderful gentlewoman Princess Koutaissova, whom many of us knew, said of his priesthood: ‘He was following his faithfulness to the Imperial Family’. In this brief talk I have not mentioned many aspects of Fr Nicholas’ life, such as his possible engagement, his adopted son, his hopes in Oxford. This is because they do not interest me much here. I have tried to focus on the essentials, on the spiritual meaning of his life, his destiny. Those essentials are, I believe, to be found in his haunted and haunting gaze. Looking at his so expressive face, we see a man staring into the distance, focusing on some vision, both of the past and of the future. This vision was surely of the past life he had shared with the martyred Imperial Family and also of the future – his long hoped-for meeting with them once more, his ‘sense of completion’. 1,000 Words on the Four Generations of ROCOR Introduction: The Past 1918 The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) was effectively formed after the martyrdom of the Imperial Family, even if it was only on 20 November 1920 that the besieged and persecuted Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow and his Synod in Moscow issued Decree № 362. This instructed all Russian Orthodox bishops outside Soviet territory, unable to keep in contact with a free Moscow, to organize themselves as an independent Synod. With personal experience and knowledge of both the bright moments and the dark moments in the life of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) over the past almost fifty years, here is a brief sketch of the near-centennial history of ROCOR. This is a history which is varied, filled with diabolical temptations and insidious attacks from internal and external enemies, and yet one in which faithfulness has always in the end prevailed. The Old ROCOR: 1918-1943 In exile, ROCOR, with over 30 bishops, organized its monastic and parish life worldwide. It included many of the best theologians from the Church before the 1917 Revolution and bravely stood up both to the compromises of senior Church representatives captive in the Soviet Union and to the modernist heresies of the schismatic Paris Jurisdiction. Thus, patriotically, most members of the Church rejoiced in the successful defence of the Russian Lands following the racist Nazi invasion of 1941. However, there were also more worldly émigrés, dangerous sectarian elements, who were more politicians than Churchmen, and threatened the future of the Church. Especially after the repose of Metr Antony of Kiev in 1936, the first Primate of ROCOR, these elements slowly began to threaten the integrity of the Church leadership. Indeed, just before and during the Second World War such secular political elements even tried to compromise the ROCOR episcopate with Fascism. The Threat: 1943-1968 After the Second World War these elements, now resettled in the USA, started to try and compromise the Church with the CIA and other dependent spy services. From the 1960s on, indeed, these elements tried to isolate the Church, putting the future St John of Shanghai on trial and linking ROCOR with fanatical old calendarists, making out that all the Local Churches had mysteriously ‘lost grace’, which they alone had conserved. According to such phariseeism, on account of the political compromises of a few hostage-bishops in Eastern Europe, 100 million Orthodox were condemned, ‘deprived of grace’! Such was the theological nonsense of these extremists. However, these Donatists were opposed by the mass of the Church, who remained faithful to the old ROCOR, remembering the history of the Church before the Revolution and the whole bimillennial Church. The Time of Troubles: 1968-1993 The situation worsened at the end of the 1960s, though gallant bishops, like the ever-memorable Bishop Sava of Edmonton (+ 1973), Bishop Nectary of Seattle (+ 1983), Archbishop Antony of Geneva (+ 1993) and many faithful priests and laypeople, all disciples of the spirit of St John of Shanghai, resisted. They held faith with the missionary heritage of the Church and genuine monastic life, with the Orthodox Tradition. Meanwhile, on the political wing, one senior archimandrite debauched nuns and sold and stole property in Jerusalem for $6 million, money which he pocketed, though at last he was defrocked for this and his other crimes. However, his father tried to ally ROCOR with old calendarism and later opened communities which were not on the canonical territory of ROCOR. Some very dark events took place then. The Rebirth of ROCOR: 1993-2018 In 1993, 75 years after the slaughter of the Royal Martyrs, came the long-awaited canonization of St John of Shanghai, who had so long awaited the canonization of the Royal Martyrs. This was a turning-point, for it meant that the Johannite wing of the Church, the spirit of St John, was winning, whereas the political wing, with its spiritual and moral hypocrisy, love of ritual, pomp and show, was being defeated. Meanwhile, in Moscow in 2000 the compromised of the Church inside Russia repented, at last canonizing the first of the New Martyrs and Confessors, nineteen years after ROCOR, and rejecting political and spiritual compromises. The final victory came in 2007 when ROCOR accepted the repentance of those in Moscow who had compromised themselves during the Soviet period. However, some in ROCOR itself had also had to repent for the errors which had compromised it with the nonsense of politicized individuals and their naïve followers. In effect, both the old ‘Moscow Patriarchate’ (MP) and the anti-historical sectarian trend in ROCOR in the 1960s-1990s were finished. Even the term ‘MP’ is now used only by polemicists, who cling to the unpleasant past in order to justify their sectarian present. Since 2007, there has only been the Russian Orthodox Church: the 98% inside the Russian Lands and the 2% outside them. We are united by our common saints, the Royal Martyrs, all the tens of thousands of New Martyrs and Confessors who followed them, and the confessor-saints of ROCOR: St Jonah of Hankou (+ 1925), St Seraphim of Sofia (+ 1950) and St John of Shanghai (+ 1966). Conclusion: The Future 2018 Approaching the third decade of the 21st century and its centenary, today’s ROCOR must stand steadfast in its uncompromising faith. It must stand against geriatric ecumenism, political or academic compromises, which make theology and so Church life into an ideological or intellectual game. It must oppose those who value property and money over human souls, always siding with the saints. ROCOR must be the Local Church, on whatever continent we exist. Throughout Western Europe, the Americas and Australasia, ROCOR must stand for the local people, whatever their native language and origins. It must stand for already Orthodox people, as well as for people who seek to live according to the Orthodox Tradition. We must stand against ideology, bureaucracy, centralization, politics, what is done for mere show and prestige, for the Orthodox Tradition without either compromise or sectarian foolishness. Lady Godiva – A Righteous Englishwoman According to a well-known tradition, Lady Godiva was a noblewoman who rode naked through the streets of Coventry, covering her modesty with her long hair. This was in order to free the townspeople from the taxation that her husband had imposed on them. Although postmodernists have doubted this story, we see no reason to doubt the backbone of the tradition, which does date from at least the twelfth century. Of course, modern misunderstandings should be avoided – for example, Coventry was then a settlement of only a few hundred people and not a major city. Godiva, in Old English Godgifu, was a popular name, meaning ‘gift of God’. Lady Godiva was probably a widow when she married Leofric, Earl of Mercia. They had one known son, Aelfgar. Both were generous benefactors to monasteries. In 1043 Leofric founded and endowed a monastery in Coventry on the site of a convent destroyed by the Danes in 1016, Godiva being the moving force behind this act. In the 1050s her name was coupled with that of her husband on a grant of land to the monastery of St Mary in Worcester and also on the endowment of the minster at Stow Mary in Lincolnshire. She and her husband are also commemorated as benefactors of other monasteries in Leominster, Chester, Much Wenlock and Evesham. Lady Godiva also gave Coventry a number of works in precious metal by the famous goldsmith Mannig and bequeathed a necklace valued at 100 marks of silver. Another necklace went to Evesham, to be hung around the figure of the Virgin accompanying the life-size gold and silver rood she and her husband gave, and St Paul’s Cathedral received a gold-fringed chasuble. She and her husband were among the most generous Old English donors in the last decades before the Norman Conquest. The manor of Woolhope in Herefordshire, along with four others, was given to the Cathedral in Hereford before the Norman Conquest by Wulviva and Godiva – usually held to be Godiva and her sister. Her signature appears on a charter purportedly given by Thorold of Bucknall to the monastery of Spalding. It is possible that this Thorold, the sheriff of Lincolnshire, was her brother. Leofric died in 1057, but Lady Godiva lived on, dying some time between 1066 and 1086. She is mentioned in the Domesday survey as the only Englishwoman to remain a major landholder shortly after the Norman Occupation. There seems little reason to doubt that she was buried with her husband in Coventry.	<urn:uuid:656545eb-b3ae-47cb-be41-e59aac230bc3>	http://www.events.orthodoxengland.org.uk/2018/07/	en	0.976601	0.020771	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
November 1864 Election Day 1864 On November 8, 1864, Abraham Lincoln was chosen by voters in the loyal states for a second term as president. Many historians find the election’s most notable feature to be that it was held at all. Some observers in 1864 blanched at the idea of risking a change of national leadership and policy in the midst of a civil war. Others, including Lincoln, felt differently. The president himself said (after having been safely reelected), “We cannot have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forgo or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.” The campaign would of course revolve around issues connected to the war, including competence, the balance between security and civil liberties, and the future of people of color in the nation and in Illinois specifically. National and Illinois Republican leaders worked in 1864 to keep the support of Democrats who shared the determination to defeat treason and save the Union. They rebranded their organization as the Union Party, allowing Democrats to support the war effort without having to take the name of their old rivals. There was good reason for this. Many voters who were determined to defeat the Confederacy disagreed strongly with the Lincoln administration on other issues. They felt the administration had overreached in the closing of and banning from the U.S. mail of newspapers deemed disloyal, the periodic suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, and arrests of men for voicing opposition to the government’s policies. Especially concerning to many pro-Union Illinoisans was the Lincoln administration’s continuing determination to end slavery and the policy allowing enlistment of black men into the armed forces, along with the implications of those acts for future social and political status of African Americans. President Lincoln also faced problems with his base voters. Several leading Illinois Republicans, including Governor Richard Yates and Senator Lyman Trumbull, considered the president’s progress on emancipation to have been timid at best and his leadership of the war effort to have often been lackluster. Lincoln’s Democratic opponent was not officially chosen until August 1864.Gen. George B. McClellan faced intra-party problems of his own. The party apparatus was dominated in many states by men who were quite willing to allow the seceded states their independence and denounced all efforts to force them back into the Union. The platform adopted by the convention declared the war to be a failure and called for an immediate end to hostilities. McClellan accepted the nomination but ignored the platform, defending the war as the only way to maintain the Union and the reestablishment of the Union as the only condition for peace. The Illinoisans qualified to vote on November 8, 1864, were defined in the 1848 state constitution as “every white male citizen, above the age of twenty one years, having resided in the state one year” preceding election day. Such a citizen was entitled to vote only where “he shall actually reside” on the date of voting. That constitutional stipulation was interpreted to mean that soldiers in service outside the borders of Illinois—who had as large a stake as anyone in the election’s result—could not cast a ballot. For all the sound and fury of the campaign, Election Day and those following passed peacefully in Illinois. Lincoln won his home state handily, receiving 54% of the popular vote to 45% for McClellan. Percentages of support for the two candidates varied greatly across the state. Lincoln won 80% or more of votes cast in the counties of Boone, Carroll, DeKalb, and Winnebago. McClellan’s broke 75% in Hamilton County. Some historians have questioned the level of enthusiasm felt by voters who cast ballots for Lincoln. Many saw him as a weak vessel, but understood that he shared their commitment to the causes of union and freedom. It also has been argued that many potential McClellan voters in the end could not support him—in spite of his strong support of the war—because of disgust with the Democratic platform and the strong antiwar position of much of the party leadership. Votes cast for governor of Illinois largely reflected the presidential balloting. Gen. Richard J. Oglesby, severely wounded at the Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, and the full slate of Union candidates for statewide offices won easy victories. In races for the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate many seats filled by Democrats elected in the anti-emancipation backlash of 1862 were lost, creating Union majorities in both chambers. Membership of the new state Senate would be 14 Union men to 11 Democrats, and the House of Representatives would contain 50 Union members and 35 Democrats. Illinois would be represented in the new Congress by 12 Union men and 2 Democrats, a striking change from the 9 Democrats and 5 Republicans elected in 1862. The relative peace that followed the tumultuous campaign was noted by Richard J. Oglesby in his January 16, 1865, inaugural address as governor: “While the recent canvass in our National and State elections was marked by some bitterness . . . it is with much satisfaction I admit it, and very creditable to our opponents, that the expression of the people, by which they have again chosen their servants . . . seems to be accepted with a becoming and respectful acquiescence.” The era of solidarity brought about by opposition to the Confederacy would soon be challenged. A revolution was clearly on the way. Congress was about to send to the states for ratification a Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery and many Illinois Union party men called loudly for an end to the state’s discriminatory Black Laws. Unionists would also elect now-former governor Richard Yates, considered by most a radical on issues of black freedom, to a seat in the United States Senate. Interested in learning more? There is a large literature looking at the campaign and election of 1864 at the national level. For more on Illinois see “E.L.E.C.T.I.O.N.: The 1864 Election in Illinois,” Illinois History Teacher 8:2 (2001), which can be found online at http://	<urn:uuid:5fbcf708-621d-4dd1-b98c-aae536c5dbaf>	http://www.illinoiscivilwar150.org/november-1864.html	en	0.976321	0.020771	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Saturday, December 31, 2005 The Incredible Bush Double-Standard on Classified Leaks Here's the scenario: our over-zealous, corrupt president flicks the switch some three-dozen times since 2001, authorizing the National Security Agency to use illegal wiretaps and other surveillance tactics on American citizens to supposedly intercept terrorist chatter and protect the nation from acts of terrorism. And when news of this flagrant violation of Congressional law finds its way to the front pages, as it did Dec. 16 in the NY Times, Bush's ire is raised and a special prosecutor is soon named to investigate the leak. Why? Because as we all know, Bush hates leaks and the leakers who leak them. Except of course when they're card-carrying Busheviks, in which case leaks are just fine. The hypocrisy is mind-blowing. As reported in the Times Saturday, the Justice Department announced Friday that it had opened a criminal investigation into the leak about Bush's secret eavesdropping scheme. Incredulously, the DOJ finds it more appropriate to legally pursue the whistle-blowers than those who may have committed the original crime. And further, where is Bush's outrage over his administration's reprehensible leaking of classified information in the form of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity back in 2003? How is it that Karl Rove is still allowed to stink up the halls of the White House given his boss's disdain for leakers? Like everything else in this administration, it's "do as I say, not as I do." The hypocrisy is not only incredible, it's downright disgusting, especially when it involves breaching the safety of covert agents and the rights and civil liberties of American citizens everywhere. Friday, December 30, 2005 As Rhinebeck N.Y. Goes, So Goes The Nation? Something astonishing happened in last month's local government election in the sleepy little upstate New York town of Rhinebeck. Voters, by a solid 15% margin, elected the first Democrat Town Supervisor since 1904. That's 101 years, folks, of Republican rule in this largely blue-collar and lower-middle class community of 2725 whose median household income falls just shy of $30,000. Steven Block, who'll be paid $14,175 annually to preside over Rhinebeck's political system, may be just a small town legislator, but he symbolizes what could be a sweeping victory for Democrats in next year's Congressional mid-term elections fueled by a hugely frustrated and disenfranchised national electorate. Democrats swept Rhinebeck's races, with party candidates winning town supervisor, town council and highway superintendent seats. Block had defeated two-term incumbent supervisor Dennis McGuire. After his victory, Block said, "Never before have the Democrats enjoyed this much responsibility" in town government. And it is precisely these types of small town elections across America that could be a tell-tale sign of major trouble for the Republican party. The GOP has been rocked by scandal and failed policy, and has lost the trust and faith of Americans nationwide. Poll after poll has shown for a year now that voters want change, and want to see the Democrats take control of Congress next year. Combine that with Bush's abysmal approval ratings and you have a political perfect storm on the horizon. A storm that conservative pundit John Podhoretz wisely acknowledged in his column this week, but shot down in true delusional partisan form. While the pundits may be spinning the party's talking points, Republican leaders, especially those up for re-election, are plenty worried. That's why staunch conservatives like Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (TN) have been distancing themselves from the Bushies. It's called survival. The SS Bush is sinking, and Republicans on the hill are hellbent not to go down with it. They know how America feels, are shifting gears in order to stay alive, but it may just be a little too late. So while Steven Block enjoys his success in Rhinebeck and few attach any national significance to it, this writer's radar is blinking wildly from the foreboding sense of doom facing Republicans next year. Wednesday, December 28, 2005 Unbelievable: Bush's Illegal Spying Could Free the Very Terror Suspects It's Jailed and Hopes to Convict As reported in the NY Times Wednesday, several captured terror suspects with ties to Al Qaeda are planning to challenge their cases and sue the government claiming the Bush administration used illegal wiretapping in criminal prosecutions that resulted in conviction. The challenges are being mounted in Ohio, Virginia, Florida and Oregon, and including cases involving Iyman Faris, who plotted to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge. At issue is the Busheviks' skirting of the courts and Congress in its post-911 power-grab under the guise of protecting America from the terrorist threat. Since 911, Bush, through the National Security Agency, has authorized some three dozen instances of illegal surveillance of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of U.S. and foreign citizens, both abroad and here at home. In order to have pursued his extreme terrorism and espionage spying, Bush was and is required by law to obtain warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which was established by Congress in 1978 to uphold and protect civil liberties. But Bush has defiantly thumbed his nose at FISC, declaring that his aggressive spying tactics are "fully consistent with my constitutional responsibilities and authorities." "The activities I have authorized make it more likely that killers like these 9/11 hijackers will be identified and located in time," Bush said. "And the activities conducted under this authorization have helped detect and prevent possible terrorist attacks in the United States and abroad." But here's the rub: the very terrorists that sit in U.S. jails right now could be freed if their legal challenges are successful in claiming they've been denied due process and have been victims of illegal wiretapping. Incredulously, the Bushies' flagrant circumvention of the law could result in people like Faris back on the street to plot another NYC catastrophe. All because Bush refused to seek the warrants every legal scholar in America agrees he could've easily, and quickly, obtained. So what we have is an administration run amok. There have been more requests for FISC warrants under Bush than in the last four presidential administrations before him. And most of them have been either amended or denied. So what do the Bushies do as a result? They say, 'screw you, courts, we'll just do whatever we want without you.' One has to seriously question the ultimate motivations and intent of Bush, who willfully circumvented the legal process which he knew would not support his imperialistic pursuits. This is a very serious matter if the president intentionally broke the laws designed to protect U.S. citizens from undue search and seizure, invasion of privacy, and illegal government intrusion. We live in a society based on the rule of law; of checks and balances. In their quest to achieve supreme, unlimited power and create the first totalitarian regime in American history, the Busheviks blatantly disregard these sacred governing principles, and in the process, have actually made our nation less safe and secure, not more. Thursday, December 22, 2005 Bush Spews More Irresponsible Rhetoric as Senate Extends Patriot Act for Six Months For weeks, President Bush declared he would not accept a short-term extension of the Patriot Act. Then in a bi-partisan manner last week, prompted by the startling front-page news that Bush repeatedly authorized illegal NSA spying on Americans domestically, the Senate filibustered to prevent the legislation from being renewed. The Senate pushed for an extension, allowing lawmakers time to negotiate stricter civil liberties protections, but the Bushies rejected, and instead went on the PR warpath against Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (NV), Sen. Hillary Clinton (NY) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA). But Wednesday Bush backpedaled, as he's had to do so many times lately (Harriet Miers, McCain/torture, war mistakes). He blasted the Democratic leadership, choosing to deceive Americans yet again by ignoring the fact that this was a bi-partisan action. "I appreciate the Senate for working to keep the existing Patriot Act in law through next July, despite boasts last week by the Democratic leader that he had blocked the Act," Bush said in a statement. "No one should be allowed to block the Patriot Act to score political points, and I am grateful the Senate rejected that approach." But what's most appalling here is the fact that Bush has politicized this issue more than anyone, as evidenced by the above statement. The filibuster, and now the extension, is not about politics, at least to the Democrats. It's about stripping this president of the unlimited, unchecked power that the Busheviks so crave, and worse, have abused. It's about protecting Americans and foreigners from the political tyranny of this White House, which has co-opted the 9-11 tragedy to further its power/war-mongering self-interests. Even as the Senate voted to literally save his ass on this issue, Bush hammered home the scare tactics and propaganda: "The senators obstructing the Patriot Act need to understand that the expiration of this vital law will endanger America and will leave us in a weaker position in the fight against brutal killers." The last time Bush peddled this extremist rhetoric we invaded a sovereign nation and killed tens of thousands of people, including 2100+ U.S. soldiers. And the killing continues. Wednesday, December 21, 2005 It's Time to Impeach Bush for These Blatant Violations of the Law Back in December of 1998, a highly partisan U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton, making him just the second U.S. president in history to be impeached since Andrew Johnson in 1868 following the Civil War. Clinton's offense? Lying under oath about his unimpressive high-school-quality sexual dalliances with intern Monica Lewinsky. Pretty tame stuff, and not quite a threat to anyone or anything except a flimsy red dress and a Rhodes Scholar's dignity. But what about President George W. Bush? Surely, as compared to Clinton, not only should he face a similar political fate for his war crimes and law violations here at home, but he should be thrown in an 8 x 10 jail cell and be forced to listen to an endless loop of Howard Dean's 2004 campaign speeches. Bush surely is deserving of impeachment. Here's a partial list of what should be ample ammunition for the House and Senate to serve justice on one of the most corrupt, tyrannical and treasonous presidents in history: 1. Falsifying intelligence and providing false information to Congress to unjustly and illegally invade Iraq, a sovereign nation. 2. Lying about Niger/Iraq uranium connection in 2003 State of the Union speech. 3. Diverting money appropriated by Congress for Afghanistan to planning the Iraq war. 4. Authorizing the use of taxpayer funds to pay for war-propaganda campaign in Iraq. 5. Authorizing of torture and Geneva Convention violations at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. 6. Inhumane, illegal treatment of detainees in the "War on Terror" 7. Leaking a covert CIA agent's identity as retaliation against a political enemy. 8. Illegally spying on Americans within the United States. 9. Illegal use of taxpayer funds to pay for Armstrong Anderson/No Child Left behind propaganda. Let's hope the Democrats win back the House next November, which would enable them to commence impeachment hearings. Until then, perhaps some Rove-like covert liberal operative should just arrange to have a hooker sent into the Oval Office so we can catch the prez with his proverbial pants down. Maybe that'll motivate this Republican leadership to go after Bush, since the current laundry list of impeachable offenses doesn't seem to be enough for them. Tuesday, December 20, 2005 Bush's "I Screwed Up Tour" Continues its Mission of Duping America Never one to let the Democrats out-maneuver him, President Bush has decided that he can criticize the Iraq war better than his detractors. And thus we have the brand-new Rovian strategy: eating crow with a humble-pie chaser. For the fifth time in three weeks, Bush went before the cameras to sell his bungled war to the masses. But this time it should be called "The I screwed Up Tour." Doing a political 180, Bush has finally admitted that the pre-war intelligence was all wrong and that he as president must take responsibility for sending the troops to war. No WMD, no AL Qaeda connections, so no threat to America, right? Guess again. Just when you'd think the president would make that very logical conclusion and admit the war was a mistake, he utters the same infuriating rhetoric we've heard ad nauseum since 2002: "My decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the right decision," the newly humbled one said this week. "Saddam was a threat and the American people, and the world is better off because he is no longer in power." How can this be? How could the intelligence--the same intel used to justify the war--be wrong and yet the war still justified? Why offer a mea culpa if you completely negate it's impact by staying on message about this non-existent threat? I'll tell you why. Because Americans, at best temporarily, believe this crap. A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll shows that 48% of the country believes the war was a mistake, as opposed to 54 percent of those polled last month. And, Bush's approval rating is 42 percent, up 4 percent from November. But like all the other Bush bounces, this one will be short-lived, especially as the violence in Iraq continues to escalate and the fragile Democracy faces severe challenges, as many experts fear. The Bushies' new strategy is to put some humility into their usually cocky, infallible president. To show that he is able to admit mistakes. Able to admit things are not going as planned. Able to admit the war has killed tens of thousands. But in true Bush fashion, none of this detracts from his rhetoric that the war is still a success and there's progress everywhere. But what these masterful political operatives arrogantly keep failing to realize is that they'll eventually pay the price of lying and deceiving Americans. They already are. They're currently embroiled in a veritable litany of controversy, scandal and criminal charges. And it's only going to get worse. Sunday, December 18, 2005 Democrats Can Win in '06 on an Anti-Corruption Message. Here's Our top 15 GOP Scandals to Remind Voters No matter how bad it gets for Republicans; no matter how blatantly corrupt they've become; no matter how miserably they seem to fail at almost every turn, their main rallying cry is that the Democrats are no better because they don't have a solid, unified platform. Well, I think the Democrats have a sure-fire winner in playing the morality card. Let's drill it home to America that the Busheviks are the most unethical, corrupt administration in modern history. In an effort to win back the House in 2006, let's remind Americans of the Bushies' 2000 campaign promise "to restore honesty and integrity" to Washington, and of all the moral and ethical transgressions and criminal behavior that followed instead. We can relentlessly remind voters of the various scandals that have rocked and socked the GOP, including: 1-The indictment of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay 2-The SEC investigation of Senate Majority Bill Frist 3-The obstruction/perjury/false statements indictment of Cheney Chief Scooter Libby 4-The wire fraud/conspiracy indictment of top GOP lobbyist and crony Jack Abramson 5-The conspiracy indictment of Abramoff partner and DeLay aide Michael Scanlon 6-The bribery indictment of California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham 7-The criminal indictment of Ohio Gov. Bob Taft 8-The ongoing Federal investigation (and hopefully soon-to-be indictment) of Bush guru Karl Rove in the CIA leak case 9-Bush's disastrous appointment of crony Michael "Brownie" Brown to head FEMA 10-Halliburton's no-bid contracts windfall, and VP Cheney's profiting from it 11-The Armstrong Williams paid propaganda campaign for No Child Left Behind 12-The Pentagon pay-for-positive-Iraq news propaganda scheme 13-The Geneva Convention violations at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo 14-The willful misuse and manipulation of pre-war intelligence to justify the war 15-Bush's authorization of illegal NSA spying on American citizens And keep in mind, this is just the short list. Kind of makes Bill Clinton's lapses in Oval Office morality seem quite benign by comparison, no? Wednesday, December 14, 2005 Bush Still Regurgitating His 2002 Nonsense Over the Need to Invade Iraq "We removed Saddam Hussein from power because he was a threat to our security. He had pursued and used weapons of mass destruction. He sponsored terrorists. He ordered his military to shoot at American and British pilots patrolling the "no-fly" zones. He invaded his neighbors. He fought a war against the United States and a broad coalition. He had declared that the United States of America was his enemy." If you're thinking this is 2003-era Bush arguing his case for war, think again. This was the president on Wednesday in his address from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. As Yogi Berra used to say, "it's Deja Vu all over again." How can this president stand before the American people with any shred of integrity and self-respect and hold firm on his 2002/03 war justifications, all of which have been proven either unfounded or outdated. The coalition forces (I'm being kind here) found no WMD. There's been not one iota of evidence linking Saddam and Iraq to Al Qaeda or any other terrorist organization. He invaded Kuwait 16 years ago. He used chemical weapons against the Kurds in 1988. He was essentially neutered by the U.S. and the U.N. in the 90's and posed no direct credible threat to America's security. Mere facts, you say? Never stopped the Bushies before, and probably never will. The political posse that promised "to restore honesty and integrity to the White House" continues to operate instead as the most deceptive and corrupt in modern history. But the Bush lies and deception hasn't worked in some time. In fact, Americans are not only wise to the misrepresentations, they're quite fed up. This week's CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll shows that 58% of Americans "said they do not believe President Bush has a plan that will achieve victory in Iraq." And only 42% approve of the president's overall performance. Furthermore, a recent ABC/Washington Post poll found 58% believe the Bushies intentionally misled the American public in order to justify the war. So, all the spinning just makes the Busheviks appear even more underhanded. Let's hope Americans take out their frustration and mistrust next November. Tuesday, December 13, 2005 The Bushies' Lie About the Islamic 'Caliphate' Threat To most scholars of Western civilization, the re-establishment of an 'Islamic caliphate' would have calamitous consequences, essentially ushering in a return of seventh-century type radical fundamentalist Islamic domination over the Muslim world. The sort of rule associated with the Wahabist movement and sought by such violent regimes as the Afghanistan Taliban and terror organizations such as Al Qaeda. It reigned for over 500 years and spanned the Middle East, spread to Southwest Asia, North Africa and Spain. Needless to say, as a potential political weapon, throwing the term 'caliphate' around is akin to making unfounded threats about WMD and mushroom clouds. Which is exactly what the Bush administration is now doing in its desperate attempts to once again justify its colossal military blunder in Iraq. As the NY Times reported this week, the caliphate bomb has been dropped repeatedly in speeches by various members of the Bush war cabal including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; Eric S. Edelman, the under secretary of defense for policy; Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser; Gen. John P. Abizaid, the top American commander in the Middle East; and VP Dick Cheney. And while Bush himself has not actually used the term caliphate, he's essentially described it last week when declaring that the terrorists are seeking to establish "a totalitarian Islamic empire that reaches from Indonesia to Spain." Also consider the following hyperbole and deception: Cheney on Al Qaeda: "They talk about wanting to re-establish what you could refer to as the seventh-century caliphate...governed by Sharia law, the most rigid interpretation of the Koran." Gen. Abizaid: "They will try to re-establish a caliphate throughout the entire Muslim world." He's also told the House Armed Services Committee in September that the caliphate's goals include the destruction of Israel. "Just as we had the opportunity to learn what the Nazis were going to do, from Hitler's world in 'Mein Kampf,' we need to learn what these people intend to do from their own words." This sort of gloom and doom spinning is both irresponsible and reprehensible, and as usual, is right out of the Rovian playbook. But the Bushies' number-one Weapon of Mass Deception has always been truth-stretching and exaggerated threats. While re-establishing a caliphate is certainly a priority of Islamic radicals, there's virtually no chance of it ever happening, according to scholars and government foreign policy experts. There is a difference, they say, between the attacks that small bands of terrorists commit around the world and achieving large-scale global domination. "It is certainly correct to say that these people have a global design, but the administration ought to frame it realistically," said John L. Esposito, an Islamic studies professor at Georgetown University and founding director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. "Otherwise they can actually be playing into the hands of the Osama bin Ladens of the world because they raise this to a threat that is exponentially beyond anything that Osama bin Laden can deliver." And Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat professor for peace and development at the University of Maryland, scoffed at the notion of an Al Qaeda-based worldwide Muslim domination. "There's no chance in the world that they'll succeed. It's a silly threat." He cited a recent Zogby poll of 3,900 people in six Arab countries which found just 6% supported Al Qaeda's goal of creating an Islamic state. Reality and facts. You can bet neither will preclude the Bushies from further sounding the caliphate alarm. Monday, December 12, 2005 Lieberman's Dangerous Gamble on Bush's Fraying Coattails Sen. Joe "Zell" Lieberman, the delusional Democratic hawk from Connecticut, has confidently walked up to the political roulette wheel and placed all his chips on the ever-fraying coattails of our historically unpopular president. In emphatically supporting the Bushies' dreadful Iraq military policy, he must be thinking this will either curry him favor with this bankrupt administration and/or with hardline voters next November. To the contrary, as the NY Times reported over the weekend, members of his own party are growing increasingly frustrated and angry with Lieberman. The backlash from his home-state constituents could soon follow. To begin with, let's look at the likelihood of Lieberman amassing any real political capital from the White House as payback for his inexplicable support of what almost everyone else in D.C., as well as a majority of Americans, deems a colossal military failure. As they did with Zell Miller, they'll showcase his self-loathing Democratic tirades in the near-term until they don't need him anymore, or until he implodes, whichever comes first. Case in point: where are Miller's GOP friends today? After a near psychotic meltdown at the Republican convention this Summer, Miller became the butt of late-night TV jokedom, and a political pariah. With his impassioned support of the unpopular war and his risky embracing of the Bushies, Lieberman could soon face a similar fate. But for now, the love affair is a two-way street. The Bushies have welcomed Lieberman into their dangerous cult with open arms. The president, vp Cheney, and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld have publicly praised him in recent speeches. "He is entirely correct," Cheney said. "On this, both Republicans and Democrats should be able to agree. The only way the terrorists can win is if we lose our nerve and abandon our mission." However, this unyielding public support of the Iraq war coupled with his Bush-like morphing of Al Qaeda, terrorism and the Iraqi insurgency, has aroused the ire of key Democrats such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA) and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (NV). He's quickly becoming an outcast in his own party over these radical views. As for whether or not he's alienating himself from the voters back home in Connecticut, it's probably unwise for any Democrat to think that an endorsement from Bush, Cheney and Rummy, especially when it comes to the war, will score them any points at the polls. Why Lieberman fails to recognize this shows just how out of touch he is with reality. He's at the Roulette wheel, alright. The Russian kind. Friday, December 09, 2005 Another Week of Lies and Spin in the Bush Oligarchy Tuesday, December 06, 2005 DeLay's Poll Numbers Sink to Lowest Levels Coming off his Monday night fundraiser with VP Dick Cheney, and just a day after a Texas judge upheld two of the three charges against him, embattled former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's poll numbers have dropped to their lowest levels yet. In a brand new poll of DeLay's District 22 constituents, USA Today/Gallup asked voters: In the 2006 midterm election, are you more likely to vote to re-elect DeLay or vote for the Democratic Party's candidate for Congress? Tom DeLay -- 36% The Democrat -- 49% It is worthy to note that DeLay was re-elected to Congress last year by a 55%-41% margin. As for DeLay's new approval numbers: Favorable -- 37% Unfavorable -- 52% Voters were also asked about the DeLay indictments, and whether they believe the charges are true: Definitely or Probably True -- 55% Definitely or Probably False -- 34% Needless to say, DeLay continues to be in big trouble, facing mounting pressure and challenges from the House Ethics Committee and the judicial system. And now in his hometown, voters are increasingly voicing their disapproval of him as well. He is extremely vulnerable, giving Democratic challenger Nick Lampson a real opportunity to pull out a victory next year. Friday, December 02, 2005 DeLay Refuses to Return Dirty "Duke" Money Former Majority Leader Tom DeLay has refused to state that he'll return over $30,000 in campaign contributions from several of Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham's (R-CA) co-conspirators. Cunningham, who resigned on Monday after admitting guilt in a $2.4 million conspiracy and tax evasion scandal involving defense contractors who lined his pockets in return for special treatment in D.C, named four co-conspirators, a few of whom have been large DeLay donors. Speaking on behalf of DeLay, Jim Ellis, the indicted head of DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority PAC (ARMPAC), when asked by The Hill newspaper, refused to say that DeLay would return the dirty money. DeLay's Democratic challenger in his Texas District 22, Nick Lampson, said "It seems like every week someone connected to Tom DeLay is indicted or pleads guilty to corruption or bribery. Southeast Texans are getting tired of the same old tune from Tom DeLay and his cronies. We need someone who can spend their time making decisions on how this country can work to cut our record deficits and trade gap and keep our borders secure rather than spending time deciding whether or not to return funds from criminals and cronies." DeLay himself has recently been indicted on conspiracy and for illegal campaign finance schemes. He has a 51% disapproval rating, and 42% of Texas voters think he should resign from Congress. "It's just amazing," said Lampson. "You have the indicted head of Tom DeLay's PAC refusing on behalf of indicted Tom DeLay to return tens of thousands of dollars in tainted money from people named as co-conspirators in a bribery plea agreement. You couldn't make this stuff up if you wanted to. It sends a terrible message to Southeast Texans and shows once again that whoever Tom Delay is working for, it isn't them." Others lawmakers facing similar scrutiny for funds donated by scandal-plagued lawmakers and lobbyists have given back money. These include Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo), who returned contributions received from indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff; and Rep. Jeb Bradley (R-NH), Rep. Kenny Hulshof (R-Mo), Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) and Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-OH), all of whom returned money given by DeLay after he was indicted in September. More Bush War "Progress:" Explosive Kills 10 U.S. Marines in Iraq The Pentagon has just reported that a massive roadside booby-trap explosion yesterday outside Fallujah has killed 10 U.S Marines and wounded 11. The death count continues to climb, the insurgency appears to be consistently gaining strength, and the Bush administration continues to falsely cite tremendous progress. Any more progress like this and we soon won't have a military. It's time Congress and the American people demand that Bush issue an honest and realistic assessment of the war and a timetable for a troop withdrawal. As Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) continues to stress, the war is a losing proposition and keeping our troops there to face death is the most dishonorable thing we can do. Thursday, December 01, 2005 Ron Reagan Jr. Blasts Bush's Propaganda Campaign as a Threat to Iraqi Democracy and to U.S. Troops Just when you thought the Bush administration couldn't possibly appear any more corrupt, another scandal surfaces that further demonstrates the unethical and possibly criminal lengths this unsavory bunch will go to to promote and protect its selfish interests. The latest controversy involves the Pentagon's $100 million classified contract awarded to Washington, D.C. public relations firm The Lincoln Group to write pro-war propaganda articles, translate them into Arabic and have them published in Iraqi newspapers, appearing to be written by legitimate reporters of the mainstream Iraqi press. Appearing on MSNBC's Hardball Thursday, correspondent Ron Reagan Jr., a truly solid citizen, called this campaign of deception "a disaster," saying it undermines the entire mission in Iraq at this point to create a legitimate Democracy and a free and independent press. "We're supposed to be setting an example for these people. They've lived under a dictator for years who tortured people; for whom the news was whatever he said it was. These people are looking to us for something better, and what do we give them? We give them Abu Ghraib and this kind of nonsense." Late Thursday Sen. John Warner (R-VA), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said an inquiry will begin Friday into the Pentagon's campaign to covertly plant stories and pay reporters for the bogus news. Warner issued a statement that said "A free and independent press is critical to the functioning of a Democracy." Exactly. Up to now we have the president, who's sent 160,000 troops into battle under the new justification of spreading Democracy (2100 of them to die), secretly undercutting his own mission by manufacturing and buying his own press coverage, and in the process severely undermining the goal of creating a legitimate, credible mainstream press in Iraq. In his speech Wednesday at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, Bush said: "We will help the Iraqi people lay the foundations of a strong Democracy that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself." Apparently, Bush's idea of a strong Democracy is one where its citizens have little trust in the garbage they read in the so-called free press because its crammed with American propaganda. What this administration is doing here is reprehensible, and adversarial to what we say we're doing in Iraq. And as Reagan Jr. pointed out, it's further inciting the insurgents, which ultimately places our troops in greater danger. "If you were part of the insurgency right now you couldn't have asked for a better story to undercut what the president was saying Wednesday, and you couldn't have asked for a better story to say to your constituency, 'I told you so.' Additionally, editors of Iraqi newspapers that have published the Pentagon propaganda have been receiving death threats for appearing to be too close to, and controlled by, America. This will also hamper Iraq's ability to build a free and independent press. If editors are not safe, or if they cannot be trusted, and if the Iraqi people have little faith in the integrity and independence of its media, there's little hope for a legitimate press thriving in that country. So far, senior Pentagon officials are saying little and denying involvement in the propaganda scandal. But it's hard to imagine that a $100 million classified contract's been doled out and the higher-ups don't know about it. Further, anything war-related that's released to the media must first be cleared by the Pentagon's Office of Public Affairs. This is not the sort of project that could've squeaked by unnoticed at the top. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday attributed the positive news to Iraq's burgeoning legitimate press, citing its 100+ newspapers, 72 radio stations and 44 television stations. "The country has a free media; it's a relief valve. They're debating things and talking and arguing and discussing." Sure. And Armstrong Williams was simply speaking his own mind too. Liars, liars, liars! Man, will it ever stop? Regarding the alleged progress we're making in Iraq, the most salient point comes again from Reagan Jr.: "If there's so much good news coming out of Iraq, why do we have to pay Iraqi journalists to report it? They should be doing it on their own. Maybe there just isn't a lot of good news over there to report." As for the Bush culture of corruption and cronyism, the head of The Lincoln Group, 30-year-old Christian Bailey, is a former hedgefund operator who's previously run four companies and is a director and NYC co-chair of Lead 21, an organization of young, affluent Republicans. Apparently his GOP connections helped bag him a nice fat $100 million contract. The stench of corruption emanating from the White House is enough to make you sick.	<urn:uuid:171340e8-2a3d-4467-8261-421f33475f9c>	http://www.ostroyreport.com/2005/12/	en	0.962202	0.056201	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Sunday, October 22, 2017 The famous Milgram Experiments carried out at Yale in the early 1960’s and verified many times since then show that under the right conditions and given the overt or covert approval of authority figures, normally sane and rational people can carry out or allow others to engage in horrifying acts of aggression and cruelty towards their fellow human beings. One need look no further than current events in Myanmar involving the Rohingya minority, recent Sunni-Shiite atrocities in Syria and Iraq, Serbian attacks on Muslims in Bosnia or the Hutu massacres of the Tutsi minority in Rwanda in the 1990’s to demonstrate the terrible destruction the right combination of conditions and leadership can provoke. Donald Trump at a rally, May 5, 2016, Charleston, West Virginia. The question “Can it happen here?” is one which every American, regardless of party affiliation, political ideology or economic standing should be asking at this critical point in our national history. The alternative is to blindly assume that America is somehow exempt or immune from tides of history which have swept over so many other nations before us. We have, for perhaps the first time, a Chief Executive whose authoritarian tendencies, ability to incite violent passions in significant portions of the population, lack of empathy towards minorities and vindictiveness toward those who stand against him significantly increase the possibility that, under the right conditions, this country as well could act out in a similarly destructive manner both at home and abroad. The President has frequently demonstrated a willingness and even compulsion to assert his dominance by publicly humiliating and attacking members of his own Party and Administration—as well as gratuitously mocking and demeaning both his predecessors and political opponents. His seemingly boundless capacity for distorting and denying factual evidence while stirring up resentment toward vaguely-defined ‘others’, leaves little hope that he will observe any of the normally accepted rules of personal, social or political discourse or behavior. By continually attacking the Press (“fake news”) for doing its job he has indicated either profound ignorance of or a deliberate effort to override Constitutional protections regarding freedom of speech and publication. In fact, even when his more cautious advisers have counseled restraint, he has acted as though restrictions on executive power were inconveniences to be ignored or disregarded rather than guidelines carefully designed to preserve the balance of powers necessary for democratic government. Rather than seeking to understand and heal national or international divisions, President Trump revels in every opportunity to stir controversy and provoke passionate reactions, tweeting relentlessly about alleged ‘wars on Christmas,’ ‘wars on coal,’ ‘disrespect toward the flag;’ or demeaning a foreign leader as ‘Rocket Man’ while heightening tensions with Iran over a nuclear deal hammered-out by the US and multiple powers. It is not difficult to imagine conditions under which a Trump-led administration would find it nearly irresistible to identify those with differing political interests, ideological beliefs and religious practices, as well as ethnic characteristics, not merely as legitimate opponents but as ‘enemies of the state,’ a term he has already dredged from what the New York Times has called a “Venomous Past.” A serious economic crisis such as that in 2007-2008; the outbreak of war in Asia; a damaging terrorist act on our homeland could provide the necessary excuse. Each of these scenarios would heighten public polarization and facilitate a default to strong administrative action. Legal restraints would inevitably yield to aggressive policing behavior and the suppression of dissent. In such a moment of crisis, Congressional reaction would likely follow the President’s lead. For the most part, the American political system has succeeded by containing differences--with the Civil War being the great exception—due ultimately to the recognition by those in power that dissent need not be perceived as disloyalty and that compromise is ultimately more powerful than winning at all cost. Periods of enormous tension such as those during the “Red Scares” following World Wars I and II and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960’s and ‘70’s tested the system to, and at times, beyond its limits. But it is this current test, occurring during a period of relative peace and prosperity but enormous cultural, technological and economic upheaval that may well provide its greatest challenge yet. Never before has so much of our future fallen into the hands of a leader who seems unwilling, and perhaps psychologically unable to abide by either the formal or informal rules and standards of democratic governance. Checks and balances are fine on paper, but, like paper, they can far-too-easily be blown away by tumultuous winds stirred by the unstable combination of crisis, unfettered passion and the authoritarian proclivities of a populist leader. Les Adler If you liked this post, please sign up to follow or receive email notices from Wednesday, October 18, 2017 You've probably read or heard about the latest breakthrough in gravitational-wave astronomy--the first detection to two neutron stars merging, with the added bonus of the first follow-on observations of the event across the entire electromagnetic spectrum from gamma rays to radio waves. Artist's conception of neutron stars merging Credit: NASA With three gravitational-wave observatories online (see LIGO and VIRGO), observers were able to accurately triangulate the most recent burst of gravitational waves that rumbled past Earth on August 17. With a much smaller part of the sky to scan, astronomers were able to pin down the source of the event--the merger of two neutron stars in a distant galaxy producing a kilonova--and track its evolution through observations in gamma-rays, x-rays, visible light, infrared and radio waves. This unprecedented series of observations let astronomers compare the neutron-star merger to theoretical predictions in great detail, including proving that most of the elements heavier than iron--including gold, platinum and uranium-are forged in these collisions. They also provided new information about the accelerating expansion of the universe. In addition, it demonstates that astronomers now have a huge new window into the universe that promises a stream of surprises and new discoveries. For great pictures, animations and a more in-depth description of this breakthrough and its implications, click here. Saturday, October 14, 2017 I live in Santa Rosa, California. As you know, Santa Rosa, along with many other parts of California, is still reeling from the impact of raging wildfires. A barn goes up in flames in Glen Ellen, California Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images My wife and I are lucky--our house happens to be located a mile or two from where the firestorm stopped. We've spent several sleepless nights, bags packed and in our car, monitoring whether or not we would need to flee. But other than that, we have not been directly impacted by the fires. Many people were not so lucky. This morning's paper lists 50,000 residents of our county--that's one out of every ten--under evacuation orders, 35 confirmed deaths, 235 people still missing, 5700 homes and businesses destroyed, and more than $1.2 billion in economic damage in Santa Rosa alone. Many of our friends and people we know have lost their homes, businesses or jobs. We're all-too-used to reading about or seeing images of catastrophes somewhere else--floods in Bangladesh, drought in Australia, hurricanes battering Puerto Rico, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Perhaps we've been moved to a moment's empathy or pity, perhaps we make a donation to some aid agency, or perhaps we just shake our heads and move on. It's different when it's here rather than there, in our home town rather than someone else's, harming our family or friends rather than strangers. Our natural disaster, our catastrophe has brought several realizations home to me: --It can happen here. None of us is immune. Here in Santa Rosa, it wasn't just the Journey's End mobile home park that was destroyed, it was also the middle-class Coffey Park neighborhood and the idyllic Fountaingrove neighborhood, home to many doctors, lawyers and other well-off citizens. Like the residents of Journey's End and Coffey Park, the residents of Fountaingrove had to desert their homes with little or no warning in the middle of the night as the unexpected firestorm blasted through, driven by 70 miles-per-hour winds. Some, many of them elderly or disabled, simply could not get out in time. --It's real, and it hurts. It's one thing to see struggling people on TV. It's very different when it's you spending hours hosing down your house and yard while hot embers fall from the sky, when it's you trying to decide what necessities to throw into the car, looking around your house wondering if you'll see it again, or you helping a desperate friend rescue a few precious things before the fire strikes again. It's different when the store you shopped in yesterday is gone today and the neighborhood you've visited a hundred times is a blackened wasteland. --Ordinary, daily life is precious. It's trite to repeat that "you don't really know what you've got 'till it's gone," but it's also a profound truth. We may all strive to do or experience something extraordinary, have a peak experience, change the world, but in the end what's truly valuable is the everyday life of everyday people. When that's disrupted or lost, you suddenly realizes how precious it was. We've experienced just one corner of one natural disaster. The dozens who have died, the thousands who've been displaced, represent just a tiny fraction of the estimated 65 million displaced persons and refugees in the world today. But even that enormous number pales in comparison to the number of people--people just like you and me--who are at risk from two existential threats--climate disruption and nuclear war. I'm not going to argue the reality of either threat. I'll only point out that common sense should tell us that the number and intensity of the extreme climatic events that we're experiencing is far from normal, and that further destabilization of the climate could threaten any or all of us. And a moment's thought should be more than enough to remind us that even a "limited nuclear exchange" could result in misery or death for hundreds of millions of people. The limited, local disaster I'm living through has brought home to me the preciousness--and fragility--of each of our lives. Multiplying the losses experienced here by millions is no longer unthinkable, but it is unacceptable. I've been extremely impressed by the local leaders who have come to the fore in this disaster--the local and state fire officials, the sheriff and police officers, mayors and other elected officials. They have all been clear, direct, factual, and focused on responding to and resolving the crisis, step by step. Their efforts to protect lives, contain the fires, begin to bring them under control and now, line up the resources needed to rebuild, seem to be well coordinated and, as more resources have been marshaled, increasingly effective. I've been similarly impressed by how ordinary people have responded--rescuing and helping others, giving time, goods and money to help people who've had to evacuate or who have lost their homes, and showing great dignity and resilience in the face of disaster. Unfortunately, the contrast with how our national leaders are dealing with the existential threats of climate disruption and nuclear war could not be greater. In both cases, actions by President Trump, his advisers and appointees, and Congress are making things worse rather than better. Pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement is just the most blatant of the many steps Trump has taken to reverse global progress on the climate. And undermining the nuclear accord with Iran, and the belly-thumping battle between Trump and Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un are dramatically increasing the risk of a nuclear war. The point of this commentary is to remind everyone that when it comes to the global risks from climate disruption or nuclear war, there is actually here, and they are actually us. People here in Santa Rosa took action as the flames approached, and most were able to save their lives and those of their loved ones. Government officials and agencies took coordinated action to limit the scope of the disaster. People at all levels did what what needed. We need our nation's leaders to act equally well. We all need to take action now with respect to the threats of runaway climate change and nuclear war. Now, with every tool at our disposal, because when those fires come roaring out of the skies, it will simply be too late. If you enjoyed this post, please sign up to receive email alerts or to follow	<urn:uuid:40843ec0-8a93-47af-b559-984722739342>	http://zerospinzone.blogspot.com/2017/10/	en	0.951279	0.047009	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Commodity Traps and Super-Cycles For nations that heavily produce and export commodities such as food, oil and other minerals, those rents it receives are important source of national income. More importantly, if invested wisely, commodity rents can be a basis for future growth and prosperity. Economic rent “is an excess payment made to or for a factor of production over the amount required by the property owner to proceed with the deal (Investopedia; N.D.)”. However, over dependence on the commodity sector and miss-use of commodity rents can lead to worse economic outcomes – this is known as the paradox of plenty. This is because production capacity (capital, labour) is diverted into the industry leading the growth cycle, while its associated rents are not reinvested in a way that strengthens the economy more broadly (Natural Resource Charter, ND). Paradox of plenty “refers to the idea that resource-rich counties often have less economic growth compare with countries which have fewer natural resources (Natural Resource Charter, ND). Collier (2007) even finds that commodity rents are also “particularly unsuited” to democratic situations with autocracies out performing their democratic counter parts. This is for several reasons including, that: 1. democratic governments are pressured by election cycles leading to short sighted investments; 2. democratic governments use rents as ‘slush funds’ to influence election outcomes; and 3. tax payers appear to be less concerned with the way revenues are spent because they have not been ‘earned.’ That is, governments and tax payers treat the revenues more like the winnings from a night at the casino! More specifically, Giugale (2014) notes that there are five main problems associated with commodity growth cycles and include: 1. Dutch Disease – where non-commodity exports become less competitive as the all the majority of economic production becomes focused on the resource sector due to high income and revenue associated with the sector. As this happens, the resource sector sucks in workers and production capacity from other sectors driving up prices; 2. price volatility – complicating investments decisions often leading to short-term outcomes; 3. over borrowing – lenders are more likely to provide greater debt access to governments that are expect to raise large amounts of revenue; 4. sustainability – the amount of natural wealth to preserve for future generations; and 5. corruption – the larger the rent, the ‘greedier’ a government and business can become leading to immoral and poor decisions. While Collier (2007) adds that in developing nations two other problems include: 1. a reduction in the implementation of democratic institutions – as government want to hold on to their power and wealth; and 2. an increase in the likelihood of conflict – as a combination of the other problems destabilises growth, the government and society more generally. The paradox of plenty is relevant to both developed and developing nations. Academics (Collier, 2007; Giugale, 2014) agree that resource rich societies must have good policies, institutions and governance to ensure strong economic outcomes. These include those that protect budgetary checks and balances, transparency of spending, and accountability mechanisms to ensure impacts that enhance citizen welfare (World Bank, 2016). An example is Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, the world’s largest equity fund, set up to provide an autonomous investment mechanism to reinvest the surplus wealth produced by petroleum sector to provide alternative revenue streams that can be reinvested diversify the economy (McCarthy, 2017). While there must be the right mechanisms, it is also imperative that there is greater awareness of the traps and mindfulness regarding the need to reinvest rents in long term initiatives that build capability and future growth potential. Otherwise, the alternative is that commodity rents can actually lead to a reduction in growth and development. Until recently, the concept of commodity super-cycles had been widely discussed but never proven. In 2012 the UN (2012) claimed to have found evidence of commodity super-cycles which has now lead to wider agreement on their existence (Guigale, 2014). Commodity super-cycles are defined as “periods of about forty years when commodity prices steadily climb for a decade or two, only to fall slowly back to where they were” (Guigale, 2014). Super-cycles differ from business-cycles which are typically short-run and typically have micro-economic impacts. Super-cycles differ due to two main features, being: 1. the presence of a “long wave” of growth of at least 10-35 years and the whole cycle taking 20-70 years; and 2. the impact can be observed in a number of commodities across the economy (UN; 2012). The key driver of a super-cycle is the “sudden rise in demand, often caused by technological innovation” and can lead to periods of increases in urbanisation and population. Increased demand associated with these factors drives long periods of growth in both prices and output before tapering and returning to pre-growth levels. Super-cycles also suffer from “acute capacity constraints” despite increased in production output and technology development (Guigale, 2014; (DeRooij, 2014). Whilst, tapering off within a cycle is driven from a number of factors including diminishing returns from technology, or, urbanisation and population growth steadying and the economy readjusting as a result. Evidence suggests that in the last 150 years the world economy has experience at least three super-cycles, each over a period of four decades, each driving up commodity prices “20 and 40 percent” before returning to previous levels. Examples include Britain’s industrial revolution where prices for coal, cotton, sugar and tea increase as well as production (DeRooij, 2014). From a government’s perspective, recognition of super-cycles is of “critical importance” to ensure the right decisions are made in regards to inflation, currency, balance of payments, and re-investment of rents. Businesses also need to identify super-cycles to ensure capital investments are used to fund long term production expansion and not be distracted by short-term price fluctuations (DeRooij, 2014). We can now see that we are in a super-cycle or perhaps, we have just hit tipping point. This cycle was largely driven by China and India’s appetite for commodities. However, there may still be opportunities, as many people in South East Asia and other developing nations are still to transition to a more urbanised economy (DeRooij, 2014). Thus, the question therefore is, are we to sit back and ride the wave out? Or do we ensure we maximise our future growth potential and extend the ride before through high impact re-investment? Collier, P. (2007) The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About. Oxford University Press: New York. Giugale, M. (2014) Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know. 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Simulation based Science @ UvA To deepen our understanding of the complex systems that we study, we need to formulate quantitative and qualitative models and explore those models via computer simulation. At the IAS, we bring together researchers who work on such simulation based approaches. Photo: Clint Adair, Unsplash Historically, simulation based science started at the end of the second world war in the physical, chemical, and engineering sciences. Pushed forward by powerful numerical algorithms and ever increasing computational speed, it slowly penetrated other scientific domains, e.g. climate modelling, weather prediction, and the life sciences. In the last two decades, driven forward by the abundance of available data, simulation based science has found its place in literally all realms of science, including medicine, social sciences and the humanities. Simulation based science is all about formulating computational models of phenomena that we observe and performing computer simulations in order to deepen our understanding of the systems that underpin these phenomena. The aim is to predict their future behaviour or to find adaptations that would change their behaviour in some desired way. Simulation based science is sometimes called “the third pillar of science” and complements theory and experiments. Together they underpin the scientific method and strongly interact. Theory provides the necessary framework for computational models, experiments provide the data against which the computational models need to be validated, and numerical simulations may lead to new insights and theory or new hypotheses that are tested experimentally. Simulation based Science community @UvA We have identified a substantial number of researchers that use various computational modelling and simulation methods, spread across all UvA faculties. By organising broad thematic meetings (4-5 per academic year) and hosting weekly club gatherings, we aim to stimulate the exchange of knowledge and development of new skills and methods. Scientific Lead prof. dr. ir. A.G. (Alfons) Hoekstra UvA faculty representatives prof. dr. C.G.H. (Cees) Diks prof. dr. A.P. (Arjen) Versloot prof. dr. H.L.J. (Han) van der Maas prof. dr. G.J.M.G. van der Heijden	<urn:uuid:df3d3fad-42e8-46d7-a4d9-e78dff5c57e7>	https://ias.uva.nl/research/foundations-and-methods/simulation-based-science/simulation-based-science.html	en	0.901112	0.026571	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Light Seer (Upright): generosity, emotional balance, creativity, the unconscious, someone friendly and wise, diplomacy Shadow Seer (Reversed): controlling or suppressing emotions, feeling insecure, a need to listen more, irrationality, emotional immaturity, forgetting the heart in favor of the mind, moodiness The King of Cups sits calmly, closing his eyes and reaching for his singing bowl. When something unexpected comes into his awareness (something that would normally shake another person’s composure and send them into a state of stress or anger) this King is able to regulate his emotions through his peaceful, meditative state. He knows that his emotions are the key to his intuition and to his successful leadership, and he asks you to find this regulation and balanced peace in your life. Find a balance between your mind and your heart, and practice outward displays of kindness, compassion and love as a way to regulate your own inner peace. If you are in a situation where you need to navigate tumultuous energies, draw on his example and find a grounded flow of serenity and stability. Do what you need to do in order to find this peace: meditate, get to yoga class, spend some time amongst the trees… even weekly downtime with your wolf pack can help to bring that consistent flow of laughter and peace into your world. Practice and re-practice so that it becomes your natural state. Choose to nurture posit ive emotions in your life. This mature emotional energy is deliberate, conscious and loving, as well as creative and intuitive. Maybe you are being asked to step into your role as a leader, a coach, a mentor… or to seek that same type of guidance in your life. The King of Cups offers warm and devoted guidance, and suggests that loyalty and consistent compassion are needed from you. This energy is both controlled and balanced, and its emotions are fully felt and expressed as opposed to hidden or tempered. Take a chance on your creativity and your ability to express your heart. This card is a reminder that love is always available to you, even in times when it seems to be missing. Seek to nurture it from within. In shadow, this king suggests that you may be feeling withdrawn, moody or temperamental right now, or that you may be losing touch with how others are feeling. Stay clear of situations that feel emotionally manipulative, and re-think relationships that are not filling your cup with joy. If there are old wounds resurfacing to be healed, be gentle with yourself and take all the time you need. Seek to understand how others are feeling through empathy, diplomacy and compassion. Know that the things you cannot change may simply not be for you at this time, because the cosmos have something even more heart-filling in store for you. Listen to the gentle nudges of your magnificent heart, for it will lead you where you need to go. • What messages have you received from Spirit lately? How do they make you feel? • Who has brought this King’s wisdom, compassion, loving kindness and unconditional, nurturing leadership to your life? Are you able to be your own King of Cups? You cannot copy content of this page	<urn:uuid:20aea0ed-40f6-41f3-843f-79b17264664a>	https://lightseerstarot.com/light-seers-tarot-meanings-king-of-cups/	en	0.942432	0.111645	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
All Posts tagged as "encryption" What happens when you hit using HTTPS While making a simple request to to see that simple search page, there are a lot of things going on behind the scenes to keep you secure. Understanding this flow will give you a lot of confidence in various topics like Digital Certificates and Signatures, Symmetric/Asymmetric key encryptions, Certificate Authorities and how they all work together to help you have secure communication.	<urn:uuid:28daf3bd-9440-4352-a8c6-47af4eb4fca8>	https://merictaze.com/tags/encryption/	en	0.905227	0.742182	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
The Maturing Mobile Market: Learning the art of Games as Service by Lauri Lukka This two-part series explores the modern practices in mobile game development by interviewing 9 mobile game studios. The work is based on a Aalto University master’s thesis Conquering the Mobile wherein you can find detailed references to cases and articles. Gaming Studio Review part 1: How maturity changes a company's outlook on game development Interviewing Studios from Finland Let’s frame the discussion with a brief overview of the mobile game industry. In the 10 years since the release of iPhone, smartphones have established themselves as the largest gaming platform both in terms of the number of users and revenue. This has led to fierce competition reflected in the huge number of games released. To date, efforts to understand and compare how mobile game development companies operate hasn’t been established. Managers and professionals in nine small and medium-sized Finnish game studios agreed to participate in the interview study. The studio and their release history was explored to unpick what worked and what didn’t. This resulted in 120 pages of text and notes that was thematically analyzed. It was agreed that the quotes would be anonymized for this article. The geographical areas, state of development (development, soft launch or live) and genres all varied greatly. 8 out of 9 companies deployed the free to play (F2P) business model. Experience varied considerably, with some working on their very first game and others having had a large number of successful or killed projects. The game comes first Experience in the industry was one of the most considerable factors that affected how the studio framed and approached production. The younger companies focused on the art form of game development: creating the game itself. This meant, evaluating the scope of the project took longer and difficulties occurred later in development. These experiences made those companies choose more manageable projects: “Making our first game taught us the process of making games from zero to hundred, from beginning to the end, the whole process of designing, developing, and publishing.” This product-oriented approach, while narrowly focusing on game development, led the studio to pay less attention to factors outside their immediate sprint plans. This is reflected in the origin of ideas too. The projects were often inspired by the emotional drives and gaming preferences of the team. The companies paid less attention to evaluating the competitive landscape and the target audience. One studio found this approach led to challenges in user acquisition: “Only a few people enjoy this genre and I couldn’t define them. We should have asked someone with more experience whether making this game made any sense.” Product-oriented approaches don’t view the game as a service. This led to challenges keeping the players engaged over time, difficulties in creating mechanics that would bring the players back to the game: “Our game was pretty much a standalone offline game. There are leaderboards and social maps, you can see where your friends are. But it clearly wasn’t enough of a service for a free to play game” If the studio was successful with their initial launch, they were likely to continue and put their faith in the game itself rather than targeting a chosen market or audience. These companies sought to create ‘a great game’: “We have made this game for anyone between 12-65 or 12-80 – well, whoever wants to play it. Perhaps the youngest might be out, but the game’s so simple to play that perhaps even the elderly might play it. We haven’t focused on this topic too much. When you make a good game it will sell.” When the production-oriented approach led to challenges, the studio began to pay attention to the problems. Often, this meant considering the game as a service and paying attention to factors outside of the game itself such as, user acquisition, marketing channels and partnerships: “We think of these things more from a product management perspective: which markets you should go into and which are not worth it, how to reasonably acquire users, and how to design monetization.” Young and small companies focus on game development, it is the very core of their competencies. Younger companies were also considerably smaller than the more established ones. This required everyone to be hands-on in the development leaving less time to consider long-term strategy or industry changes. Possibly small companies found a competitive advantage in their ability to rapidly adapt and pivot. To avoid oversight the company should, however, pay sufficient attention to broader business context to validate their design with the target audience. Game Studio Review: How maturity changes a Studio Service-driven approach emerges As companies gained experience, their thinking expanded from development to considering the business as a whole: they began to emphasize pre-production and product strategy. From the very first steps, the companies sought to design an on-going service to meet higher business goals: “Before we ever start making a game we strive to think about the market. Only then do we consider the game concept. You can also challenge this and go development first, and then build towards product management and monetization. However, I claim, that you should first think about the business and then development.” Experience led companies tend to expand their focus from the game to user acquisition, monetization and retention. The companies also appreciated they not only need to attract players but also keep them engaged with the game over time: “There has to be something going on in the game to keep the players engaged: the games evolve in the market after the release.” Monetization was often among the most difficult of the three, and companies took various approaches to tackle it. One studio optimized their monetization in excel, another sought to design monetization at all stages through prototyping: “Really good monetization design is at the core nucleus of your game. You have to figure out what you are selling and how you make the player feel it has value. – – We were able to establish the hook for monetization right from day one: this is the game and this is the thing we sell.” The company thinking also opened to pay more attention to the players, designing for a specific target market: “The psychology of the player you are aiming at is very important. If you are making a competitive shooting game, you do not want super casual stuff in it that would appeal to 40-year-old soccer mom. Doing that will dilute your message and the game.” Overall, there was no one-size-fits-all model to development which reflects the divergent practices of the young industry. The companies all worked with their own somewhat tailored development principles. One of the companies explained: “We split our mobile games into three parts: The core gameplay, meaning the actions I take with my fingers. The metagame that includes the goals of the game through weeks and years. Then social or live layer: when the player can find friends, tournaments, something that is happening right now.” This company viewed core gameplay as the most challenging aspect. Creating the metagame and social features contributed most towards the longevity of the game but they were more routine to develop. However, the companies shared a growth trajectory as they gained experience and grew: they turned from a product focus to a business focus. The companies began to more and more carefully formulate business cases gathering information and analyzing the competitive games, genres, and markets. One studio focused on underserved audiences hoping this would facilitate user acquisition. Another aimed at creating new genres in order to avoid competition, and a third created strategic partnerships to facilitate marketing. This rationalization is similar to what occurred in the classic video game industry in the 90s. Learning to think holistically If the studio were a mind-map, the experience increased the number of nodes and the associations between them. This growth allows anticipation of future needs in production rather than reacting to challenges. This proactive stance may help the studio prevent some problems from ever occurring. A novice has to pay close attention to their performance. As their skill increases, the basic tasks become increasingly automated. This reduces cognitive load and frees attention to consider the broader picture. The growing expertise allows flexible performance in novel situations and complex environments of which mobile game development is distinctly a part of. For an individual, learning is related to increasing skill and expertise. For a studio, it is a shared competency that is more than the sum of individual performances. The company competency is related to its ability to coordinate their efforts and harmonize the skills and resources at their disposal. Prahalad and Hamel describe that over time companies may develop core competencies lead to a competitive advantage: • Experience allow companies flexibility to create not one game, but a variety of games specified to an audience, market or underserved segment. • Experience guides the companies to constantly pay attention to the user satisfaction helping avoid designs that do not fit their audience. • Experience is difficult to imitate as it is embedded in the complex systems within the organization, culture, and its people. How can your game studio mature? All studios gain experience by making mistakes. Great studios learn from their mistakes and build them into the core competencies that differentiate them as a business. Learning that the game itself is only half of the battle in building a successful product, the best companies look out at their competitors, market and what the audience is playing. When thinking about your next project, be humble and consider it in terms of the broader business environment. Reflect and learn from the past projects and seek feedback early and often. It is better to make the mistakes in the planning phase, not on the app store. Can you identify your mistakes? Lauri Lukka is a Helsinki-based game designer and psychologist focusing on strategic, user-centered design.	<urn:uuid:2077e29f-bfff-4ab6-a5a8-cc811c98da9e>	https://mobilefreetoplay.com/game-studio-review-how-maturity-changes-a-studio/	en	0.956274	0.035883	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Skip to content Have you ever…. I see this all the time….. Especially when I look in the mirror…. 😉 wheel turning but hampster dead What are some other sayings you have heard? Here are a few I like to use: • Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. • Elevator doesn’t go to the top floor. • The light’s on but no one’s home. • A few screws short of a hardware store. • About as sharp as a marble. Come on, folks. There are some better ones out there…. 1. Courtesy of Foghorn Leghorn: Boy’s as sharp as a bowling ball. That boy’s so dumb, he thinks a Mexican border pays rent. That boys as strong as an ox, and just about as smart. This boys more mixed up than a feather in a whirlwind. That dog, I say that dogs strictly GI, gibberin idiot that is. Nice mannered kid, just a little on the dumb side. That kids about as sharp as a pound of wet liver. Smart boy, got a mind like a steel trap, full of mice. Pay attention, boy, Im cuttin but you aint bleedin! Leave a Reply to silentlyheardonce Cancel reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s %d bloggers like this:	<urn:uuid:26407b11-8c8f-47a7-afbb-f1ed4ab6e206>	https://motleynews.net/2013/02/22/have-you-ever/?replytocom=26639	en	0.877139	0.030497	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
How does Wireshark calculate the TCP stream index number? I'm used to seeing the first TCP packet in a trace file have a TCP stream index of 0. However, I have a trace file in which the first TCP packet has a TCP stream index of 6. There are 10,000 packets in the file, 5,619 of which are TCP. The TCP stream index numbers run from 6 to 196, with many gaps in the sequence. According to Statistic > Conversations, there are 37 TCP conversations in this file. If I apply “tcp” as a display filter, save only the displayed packets, and then load this new trace file, the TCP stream index numbers range sequentially from 0 to 36 with no gaps. Is there some reason why the presence of other non-TCP traffic in the trace file should cause the TCP stream index number to have gaps in the sequence? If this is not expected behavior, I'll file a bug report at asked 15 Jul '11, 12:48 Jim%20Aragon's gravatar image Jim Aragon accept rate: 24% how does conversation or stream index incerement . is it the same as a new SOCKEt call in in linux ? (27 Feb '14, 16:58) kuvineet Every new SYN will create a new stream index. The index will be increased by one, starting from zero. (27 Feb '14, 23:12) Kurt Knochner ♦ It is something that bothered me too, but Sake (who implemented the stream index) gave me a perfect explanation for this: the stream index is shown only for TCP flows, but it is incremented with each conversation, even if it is a UDP conversation. If you take a closer look you'll see that the gaps between each TCP stream number have UDP conversations that "use" the hidden numbers (usually DNS request/answer pairs). I don't remember the full details of why it is done this way but as far as I remember Sake had performance reasons, because otherwise he'd have to keep track of new TCP sessions starting while there already is a conversation counter that he could use for this. permanent link answered 15 Jul '11, 13:01 Jasper's gravatar image Jasper ♦♦ accept rate: 18% The concept makes sense, but I still can't figure out the numbering. The first TCP packet is #355, with stream index 6, so there should be 6 conversations that start ahead of it in the trace file: 0-5. I selected the first UDP packet, clicked "Follow UDP stream," marked the displayed packets, and moved on to the next unmarked UDP packet. So far, I've marked 12 UDP conversations that start before the first TCP conversation and I'm only up to conversations starting with packet 41. (15 Jul '11, 13:43) Jim Aragon I plead guilty :-) Yes, it was me who did this. And as Jasper said, I did not want to introduce other variables while there is a perfectly usable conversation index available. Since there are quite a few questions being asked about the numbering, I'm not sure I made the right decision. The fact is that not all UDP protocols keep track of state with the conversation system. So the numbering of the TCP sessions all depend on the other protocols present in the file. And the numbering can differ between versions of Wireshark when protocol dissectors start using conversations in newer versions. (15 Jul '11, 14:06) SYN-bit ♦♦ Would it be (much) better to have the TCP stream indexes start from 0 and increase by one, no matter what? It will add a little to the memory footprint of Wireshark (and will probably also cost a bit of extra CPU cycles)? (15 Jul '11, 14:08) SYN-bit ♦♦ Would it be better? Yes. Much better? Don't know if I'd go that far. Sometimes, after selecting "Follow TCP stream," I've moved to the next TCP stream by leaving the display filter in place, overwriting the number, and clicking "Apply." Sometimes it works; sometimes I find out that there is no such TCP stream. I don't know if too many people would use that functionality. (15 Jul '11, 14:31) Jim Aragon In my example, with 37 streams in the file, I think it could be useful to know that stream 36, for example, is the last one, rather than seeing stream number 131 (out of 37 streams) and wondering where I am. (15 Jul '11, 14:33) Jim Aragon OK, I changed it in SVN 38056, there is now a separate index for tcp streams, which means it will monotonously increase by 1 for each new TCP session. As this is new behavior, it will be included in 1.8.x and not in 1.6.x. If you want you can use an automated build or the next 1.7.x release. (15 Jul '11, 16:44) SYN-bit ♦♦ Thanks, Sake. I tried 38056. Looks good. (15 Jul '11, 19:59) Jim Aragon The change in 38056 unfortunately broke "Follow TCP Stream" functionality. This got fixed in SVN 38065. (17 Jul '11, 04:14) SYN-bit ♦♦ showing 5 of 8 show 3 more comments Hi Jim, I was wondering if you could help me with interpreting some captures I did... I am very new to Wireshark and I got a doozy of a network issue on my hands. Thanks so much, Michael permanent link answered 29 Mar '16, 09:19 Michael-YYZ's gravatar image accept rate: 0% I appreciate this is your first visit to the site, but this is not a forum it's a Q&A site and your "answer" is not an answer to this question, or even suitable as a separate question. If you have a particular capture that you would like help with, then please posts a new question, along with a link to the capture, describing the issue as fully as possible. 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Skip to main content Iraq: The Transatlantic Debate Executive Summary Most Americans see the regime of Saddam Hussein as a major threat to regional and international security that must be thwarted, even if that means threatening or even using military force. If Saddam were to acquire nuclear weapons, they fear, he would seek to use them to dominate the Middle East, possibly invading his neighbors as he has in the past and perhaps deterring the United States from stopping him. His nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, moreover, might end up in the hands of Islamic terrorists who would show no compunction about using them against the United States, or Saddam himself might do so out of a thirst for vengeance. Whereas the failure to act in Iraq would make a mockery of the United Nations Security Council and International law, a decisive action to topple Saddam would liberate the Iraqi people, allow the U.S. to lift sanctions on Iraq and withdraw its forces from Saudi Arabia, and perhaps make progress toward a freer and more democratic Middle East. Europeans do not deny that the Iraqi regime is a threat, but they question whether that threat is so pressing that the international community should run the risk of invading an Arab country in the heart of the Middle East. They fear that a war in Iraq could be extremely bloody—both for the invading forces and Iraqi civilians—especially if it leads to urban combat or Iraqi use of weapons of mass destruction. Even if the initial invasion goes well militarily, they doubt that the international community will be able to impose stability and democracy in place of Saddam and worry instead about internal conflicts over resources and power, possibly leading to civil war. Europeans also fear that an attack on Iraq would distract from and possibly undermine the war on terrorism, and that it would set a dangerous precedent for the unilateral use of preventive force. It will not be easy to overcome these different perspectives—which result from a range of deeply rooted historical, cultural, strategic and domestic political factors. But it should not be impossible either. The United States has an interest in reaching agreement with Europe on Iraq because of the legitimacy and potential political and financial benefits that European support would bring. Europeans have an interest in agreement because a U.S. decision to invade Iraq unilaterally would undermine the UN Security Council, severely damage transatlantic relations, expose the weakness of Europe’s common foreign policy, and exclude European countries from influence in Iraq afterwards. By going to the United Nations on September 12, 2002 to demand fulfillment of UN Security Council resolutions, President Bush implicitly recognized the importance the United States attaches to winning allied support. And while Europeans may be skeptical that Bush will ever agree to anything short of regime change, they should know that their own policy decisions will strongly influence the Washington debate: the more they can convince Americans that they are serious about demanding an end to Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs, the more likely the United States will be to accept an outcome short of war. This paper proposes a common U.S.-European strategy: joining together to demand, under the threat of an invasion that would change the Baghdad regime, Iraq’s full compliance with UN Security Council resolutions calling for an end to its weapons of mass destruction programs. If Iraq fails to comply with a new UNSC resolution reiterating these demands and setting forth a new verification regime, the United States and Europe would together overthrow Saddam Hussein and undertake a major reconstruction and peacekeeping effort in Iraq. If, on the other hand, Saddam did give up his weapons of mass destruction under the credible threat of military force, the United States would forego plans for invading Iraq so long as Baghdad complied with existing and new UNSC resolutions. Neither Americans who are determined to change the Iraqi regime nor Europeans resolutely opposed to war will be entirely satisfied with such an approach—the former because it might mean deferring regime change and the latter because it implies a readiness to go to war. But it is a far better course than either of the main alternatives: a potentially very costly U.S. invasion of Iraq (even more costly if the United States has to bear responsibility for it alone) or having to live with a nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein. View Full Article (PDF—123kb). Get Adobe Acrobat Reader Philip H. Gordon Former Brookings Expert Get daily updates from Brookings	<urn:uuid:f26d9194-3a30-47a7-9824-c2d88cc1a0fb>	https://www.brookings.edu/articles/iraq-the-transatlantic-debate/?shared=email&msg=fail	en	0.945597	0.055768	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Watch CBSN Live Secret to "best fitted" men's button-down shirt? It doesn't button A new twist on the button-down A fashion outsider is reinventing the men's button-down shirt -- by giving it a zipper. Bryan Davis was driving a friend's car in Bangkok, Thailand, when he was pulled over and ticketed by a police officer whose close-fitting uniform top Davis noticed fit the man extremely well. He paid the ticket -- and the cop led him to the tailor who'd made his uniform, where he discovered that a zipper, hidden behind a faux placket of buttons, was responsible for the tailored yet comfortable design. That initial fine is now paying dividends as Davis brings the design -- for which he has two patents -- to the masses via his direct-to-consumer clothing company, Teddy Stratford. Davis doesn't claim to have come up with the idea -- police uniforms around the world have used zippers for decades -- but his innovation is in the application of the technique to button down shirts for non-cops. "It was a revelation for me. I had never seen this before," Davis said. "I met with a shirtmaker, pitched him my idea, and we made a prototype and low and behold it worked." Davis' approach is different than that of other shirt makers. He starts with an archetypal male body type and contours the shirt to its shape. Teddy Stratford founder Bryan Davis and a Thai policeman demonstrate how a zipper enables a close-fitting shirt Teddy Stratford "We kind of reverse engineered the way that we approach the shirt. Most shirts take a person of average proportions and they fit the shirt to that average guy and what happens is it results in a shirt that is averagely proportioned so it fits a wider swath of men," he said. "We studied the idealized proportions for a male torso and built our shirt around that idealized form." Athletes love it, because it fits them in the chest and back and is still tapered at the waist. So, too, do non-athletes who find that it can help make them look athletic -- even when they don't frequent the gym. "The interesting thing about our shirt is if you put it on a guy that doesn't have an athletic shape body, it makes them look more athletic. So if a slim guy wears our shirt, he looks a little more athletic than he would in a shirt with average proportions, and the same thing happens with a guy who needs to lose 10 pounds. It gives them a 'V-shape' and allows guys who aren't in great shape to wear the shirt, too," Davis said. Teddy Stratford also appeals to the celebrity set -- actor Chris Pratt recently wore a shirt during his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. His advice for entrepreneurs aspiring to start fashion companies? "Don't," he says only half-jokingly. That's because Davis is acutely aware of the challenges of launching a fashion brand, despite his fledgling company's success. "It's extremely difficult and only makes sense to do if you have a real point of differentiation that makes it different from the rest of the products on the market," he said. The sole differentiator can't be the price, either. "If that's all you are bringing to the table," Davis warned, "then a company like H&M will come along and eat your lunch." View CBS News In CBS News App Open Chrome Safari Continue	<urn:uuid:896ec053-913a-4b51-8f9f-a7ac10256269>	https://www.cbsnews.com/news/secret-to-slim-fit-mens-button-down-shirt-is-that-it-doesnt-button/	en	0.974966	0.099402	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
How can you escape from a maze – and what does that teach us about city planning? “Sorry, we live here now”. Image: Getty. Mazes are in vogue at the moment, from HBO’s Westworld, to the return of the British cult gameshow, The Crystal Maze. But mazes have been around for millennia and one of the most famous mazes, the Labyrinth home of the Minotaur, plays a starring role in Greek mythology. Which begs the question: what is the difference between a maze and a labyrinth? Although considered synonymous by some, it is generally accepted that a labyrinth contains only one path, often spiralling around and folding back on itself, in ever-decreasing loops, whereas a maze contains branching paths, presenting the explorer with choices and the potential for getting very, very lost. While designing a maze can be a rewarding human task, computer scientists and mathematicians have a love of maze-generating algorithms. The algorithms tend to fall into two principal types: ones which start with a single, bounded space and then sub-divide it with walls (and doors) to produce ever smaller sub-spaces; and others which start with with a world full of disconnected rooms and then demolish walls to create paths/routes between them. The great escape There are techniques for escaping from mazes, but first you need to be sure what kind of maze it is. Most methods work for “simple” mazes, that is, ones with no sneaky short-cuts via bridges or “passage loops” – circular paths that lead back to where they started. So, assuming it is a simple maze, the method that many people know is “wall-following”. Essentially, you place one hand on a wall of the maze (it doesn’t matter which hand as long as you are consistent) and then keep walking, maintaining contact between your hand and the wall. Eventually, you will get out. This is because if you imagine picking up the wall of a maze and stretching its perimeter to remove any corners, you will eventually form something circle-like, part of which must form part of the maze’s outer boundary. This method of escape may not work, however, if the start or finish locations are in the maze’s centre. But some mazes are deliberately designed to frustrate, such as the Escot Gardens’ beech hedge maze in Devon, which contains no fewer than five bridges, and so far from “simple”. Another method of maze escape, known as Trémaux’s algorithm, works in all cases. Imagine that, like Hansel and Gretel in the fairy story, you are able to leave a trail of “breadcrumbs” behind you as you navigate your way through the maze and then remember these rules: if you arrive at a junction you have not previously encountered (there will be no crumbs already on the trail ahead), then randomly select a way to go. If that leads you to a junction where one path is new to you but the other is not, then select the unexplored path. And if choosing between a once or twice-used path, choose the path used once, then leave a new, second trail behind you. The cardinal rule is never, ever select a path already containing two trails. This method is guaranteed, eventually, to get you out of any maze. Everyday mazes So how is any of this maze stuff useful? Well, from the perspective of architecture and urban design, we want to avoid accidentally creating mazes. Mazes are fun, but are not necessarily something we want in our everyday lives – or in our way when we just want to get to work. In the 1980s, the architectural theorist, Bill Hillier, observed that many of the most socially problematic housing estates were those that appeared to be somewhat “maze-like” in their layout. This begged the theoretical question: how do we actually measure the “maze-iness” of a place? Barnsbury, in London: extremely unmaze-like. Image: Google Maps. To answer this, Hillier developed the measure of “intelligibility”, which is the relationship between what is immediately visible from a single location in a maze/housing estate/neighbourhood and how accessible that same place is from other locations in the area. The measure ranges from 0 to 1: environments that score highly (greater than 0.5) tend to be quite intelligible, easy to understand and navigate, and frequently desirable – for example Barnsbury, in London. Conversely, places with a low intelligibility score tend to be confusing, hard to navigate and, ultimately, maze-like – London’s Barbican Estate, although architecturally lauded, is so confusing that visitors need to follow the yellow lines in order to find their way around. It was this measure of intelligibility that we used to design the game levels in the recent SeaHeroQuest game, a game designed to measure people’s navigational skills in order to further dementia research. We “reverse-engineered” intelligibility in order to produce game levels that were more, or less, maze-like, to ensure a range of challenges for the players. So the mathematics of maze design is just as applicable in modern, dementia-battling apps as it was in distant Greek mythology.The Conversation Ruth Dalton is professor of building usability and visualisation, and Nick Dalton a lecturer in computing and communications, at Northumbria University, Newcastle. 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What day of the week is this date? Saturday August 31, 1991 August 31, 1991: Day of the Week August 31, 1991 was the 243rd day of the year 1991 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 122 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday. Here’s the August 1991 calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly 1991 calendar. August 1991 My Birthday Ninja Curious to discover some fun August 31, 1991 birthday facts? Know some interesting info about your day of birth including famous birthdays and the meaning of your birth. Listen to the number-one song on the day you were born. (Sponsored link) Zodiac & Birthstone MyFirstName.Rocks What no one tells you about your first name’s personality. Are there magical powers hidden in your given name? Every moniker has an undeniable character and personality. Check out Eva’s personality and get smarter today. (Sponsored links) August 31, 1991 Historical Event(s) • 1991 Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.	<urn:uuid:136de823-28c0-4995-8020-b2e9fbc407bf>	https://www.dayoftheweek.org/?m=August&d=31&y=1991&go=Go	en	0.938803	0.023801	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Will the Officer Really have Me Recite the Alphabet Backwards? (Please welcome guest blogger, Jon Ibanez!) During conversations about field sobriety tests, I can’t even tell you how many times someone has said, “I can’t even recite the alphabet backwards while sober!” My response is that they’re right, which is why officers don’t usually ask a person to perform this task as a field sobriety test during a California DUI stop. But they can. If the alphabet is used at all as a field sobriety test, the officer may ask a DUI suspect to recite the alphabet forward without singing. Or they may be asked to recite the alphabet forward with their eyes closed. The officer will then look for the presence of impairment indicators. These indicators include the following: Whether the DUI suspect improperly states the alphabet, whether the DUI suspect sways, opens their eyes, or needs to use his or her arms for balance. Like other field sobriety tests, the alphabet is a divided attention test. This means that the test requires a DUI suspect to divide their attention between a mental task and a physical task. The alphabet test is not often used because it is not endorsed by the National Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). This means that it is not supported by research and does not meet requirements for standardization. In other words, the alphabet test is so unreliable that the NHTSA refuses to endorse it. Since the alphabet test is not endorsed by the NHTSA, there are no set guidelines for which an officer can administer it. Some officers may have a DUI suspect begin reciting the alphabet beginning on an arbitrary letter such as “J.” Other officers may have the DUI suspect stop at an arbitrary letter. And some may have the DUI suspect say the alphabet backwards! Forget trying to say the alphabet backwards, the NHTSA has determined that the alphabet (forward) test fails to differentiate between drunk drivers and sober drivers. Amongst other criticisms, the alphabet test does not account for people whose first language may not be English, people who may not have had to recite the alphabet since they were in grade school, or those who are illiterate. « California Assemblyman Proposes Marijuana Zero-Tolerance DUI Standard When Are the Peak Periods for DUI Arrests? »	<urn:uuid:cc516a4f-4142-4ccb-aa0e-f80c365c8a0a>	https://www.duiblog.com/2014/04/09/will-the-officer-really-have-me-recite-the-alphabet-backwards/	en	0.955358	0.064165	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
• Attracta Roach A few years ago, we were lucky enough to have a holiday in Thailand. As we were staying in a more secluded spot, away from the hustle and bustle of the touristy attractions, we got to see how many of the Thai people live in regional areas. Once of the things we noticed was trees lining the roadside and taking over vast areas of land that had taps inserted in them (yes, taps made from bamboo) and a white substance pouring out. We soon learned that this substance was latex rubber. For a long time, I thought rubber could only be made by synthetic means, but I now realise that there two forms: Natural Rubber which is made from a runny, milky white liquid called latex that is found in certain plants, when you cut into them. Over 200 plants in the world can produce this latex, but the most productive plants are the Pará rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis), a member of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. Synthetic Rubber is made using petrochemicals and has to go through a chemical process to form the rubber. The most common synthetic rubbers that can be found are polyacrylics, and polyvinyl acetate (PVA), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), styrene butadiene (SBR), polychloroprene (better known as neoprene) and various types of polyurethane. Where can you find Rubber It is amazing the amount of items that Rubber goes into. As the material super-stretchy it is ideal for items like elastic bands and rubber stamps, but it is also strong and waterproof, which allows it makes it very useful for items like tyres, wetsuits, swimming caps, waterproof clothing, yoga & exercise equipment, cabling, adhesives and much more. What is vulcanized rubber? Natural rubber is often vulcanized, which means it is heated to about 140°C (280°F) and sulphur, peroxide or bisphenol are then added to enhance its resistance and elasticity, and to stabilise the final material or product. We can thank Charles Goodyear who in 1839 developed this method to strengthened the rubber for vehicle tyres. Some people are allergic to Latex I hate to say it, I am one of these people. It didn’t help when I worked in the laboratory to be allergic to natural latex gloves. It is important to know that some people have a serious latex allergy to natural latex rubber products and they need to be aware of this when using such products. To avoid such allergic reactions, it is best to use products that are made from non-Hevea sources, such as Guayule, another source for rubber. Why choose Natural Rubber? Natural rubber, also called Para rubber, India rubber or caoutchouc, with Malaysia being one of the leading producers of rubber. Currently, natural rubber is harvested mainly in the form of the latex (the sticky, milky colloid liquid) by tapping into the tree and bringing the latex, often coagulated to a plant for processing. The latex is then strained, diluted with water, treated with acid, before rolling into sheets, drying and then shipped to make the various products. Natural rubber or tree-derived rubber is eco-friendly. Harvesting and using the product itself has less impact on the environment. The Rubber tree is a sustainable crop and helps maintain the global carbon balance in the atmosphere. As you can see, the collection and processing of natural rubber is a manual process, which sadly means we can't produce enough natural rubber to meet the consumer demand. So much of our rubber products are produced by chemical (synthetic) means. Not so good for the environment. Another to be aware about and something I am not happy about, is that some countries are clearing native vegetation to make way for Para rubber trees. Often the people producing the latex are poor farmers from developing areas. They clear the land not realising that it is affecting the natural habitat and ecosystem for many animals, insects and plants in these countries. Natural rubber can be recycled. Normally most rubbers would go to landfill, creating waste and pollution, but natural rubber can be recycled into another product, like tyres. What is even better is when recycled rubber products come to the end of their life, they can be recycled again into another product. Why is Natural rubber is the ideal for kids? 1. As the word says it is Natural. Contains no toxic chemicals or petroleum components. 2. Soft and flexible material, which makes it safe for children to use and play with. 3. Sustainable material. When a rubber tree reaches the end of its latex production life (approximately 12 years), it is replaced by a new sapling; 4. Natural rubber is environmentally friendly as natural rubber products have a minimal impact on the environment during harvesting, manufacturing and recycling. 5. No artificial colouring or chemical softners. 6. Easy to wash and care for. This is why we sell the natural rubber soothers and teethers by makeUwell®. Stylishly designed and ideal for both bottle-fed babies and for bubs who are being breastfed. Check them out in earthly passion for kids. Hope this helps you when shopping for items made from rubber. In some cases, it may be difficult to avoid synthetic rubber, but where there is an option always go for the natural rubber. Also, consider if the product is reusable or recyclable. Be earthly passionate, Attracta & the earthly passion team. #NaturalRubber #latex #nontoxic #flexible #environmentallyfriendly	<urn:uuid:f184a67c-de0b-4e16-9cf5-55a743e6c3c4>	https://www.earthlypassion.com/post/2016/10/19/your-using-rubber-but-that-is-not-environmentally-friendly-or-is-it	en	0.952302	0.114447	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
290km (180 miles) S of Paris; 31km (19 miles) S of Châteauroux George Sand was the pen name of Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin, baronne Dudevant, the French novelist born in 1804. Her memory is forever connected to Nohant, the little Berry hamlet near the Indre Valley. In her early life, she wrote bucolic tales of peasants, but she also penned romantic novels in which she maintained that women were entitled to as much freedom as men. Among her 80 novels, some of the best known were François le Champi and La Mare au Diable. She was also known for her love affairs; her two most notorious were with the poet Alfred de Musset and the composer Frédéric Chopin. By the time of her death in Nohant in 1876, George Sand had become a legend.	<urn:uuid:3d86425e-6359-4f5f-8050-a0beabdb48ec>	https://www.frommers.com/destinations/nohant-la-chatre	en	0.986873	0.083624	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
By Condoleezza Rice and Robert M. Gates One can hear the disbelief in capitals from Washington to London to Berlin to Ankara and beyond. How can Vladimir Putin, with a sinking economy and a second-rate military, continually dictate the course of geopolitical events? Whether it's in Ukraine or Syria, the Russian president seems always to have the upper hand. The fact is that Putin is playing a weak hand extraordinarily well because he knows exactly what he wants to do. He is not stabilizing the situation according to our definition of stability. He is defending Russia's interests by keeping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power. This is not about the Islamic State. Any insurgent group that opposes Russian interests is a terrorist organization to Moscow. We saw this behavior in Ukraine, and now we're seeing it even more aggressively - with bombing runs and cruise missile strikes - in Syria. Putin is not a sentimental man, and if Assad becomes a liability, Putin will gladly move on to a substitute acceptable to Moscow. But for now, the Russians believe that they (and the Iranians) can save Assad. President Obama and Secretary of State John F. Kerry say that there is no military solution to the Syrian crisis. That is true, but Moscow understands that diplomacy follows the facts on the ground, not the other way around. Russia and Iran are creating favorable facts. Once this military intervention has run its course, expect a peace proposal from Moscow that reflects its interests, including securing the Russian military base at Tartus. We should not forget that Moscow's definition of success is not the same as ours. The Russians have shown a willingness to accept and even encourage the creation of so-called failed states and frozen conflicts from Georgia to Moldova to Ukraine. Why should Syria be any different? If Moscow's "people" can govern only a part of the state but make it impossible for anyone else to govern the rest of it - so be it. And the well-being of the population is not the issue either. The Russian definition of success contains no element of concern for the dismal situation of the Syrian people. Refugees - that's Europe's problem. Greater sectarianism - well, it's the Middle East! Populations attacked with barrel bombs and Assad's chemicals, supposedly banned in the deal that Moscow itself negotiated - too bad! Putin's move into Syria is old-fashioned great-power politics. (Yes, people do that in the 21st century.) There is a domestic benefit to him, but he is not externalizing his problems at home. Russian domestic and international policies have always been inextricably linked. Russia feels strong at home when it is strong abroad - this is Putin's plea to his propagandized population - and the Russian people buy it, at least for now. Russia is a great power and derives its self-worth from that. What else is there? When is the last time you bought a Russian product that wasn't petroleum? Moscow matters again in international politics, and Russian armed forces are on the move. Let us also realize that hectoring Putin about the bad choice he has made sounds weak. The last time the Russians regretted a foreign adventure was Afghanistan. But that didn't happen until Ronald Reagan armed the Afghan mujahideen with Stinger missiles that started blowing Russian warplanes and helicopters out of the sky. Only then did an exhausted Soviet Union led by Mikhail Gorbachev, anxious to make accommodation with the West, decide that the Afghan adventure wasn't worth it. So what can we do? First, we must reject the argument that Putin is simply reacting to world disorder. Putin, this argument would suggest, is just trying to hold together the Middle East state system in response to the chaos engendered by U.S. overreach in Iraq, Libya, and beyond. Putin is indeed reacting to circumstances in the Middle East. He sees a vacuum created by our hesitancy to fully engage in places such as Libya and to stay the course in Iraq. But Putin as the defender of international stability? Don't go there. Second, we have to create our own facts on the ground. No-fly zones and safe harbors for populations are not "half-baked" ideas. They worked before (protecting the Kurds for 12 years under Saddam Hussein's reign of terror) and warrant serious consideration. We will continue to have refugees until people are safe. Moreover, providing robust support for Kurdish forces, Sunni tribes, and what's left of the Iraqi special forces is not "mumbo jumbo." It might just salvage our current, failing strategy. A serious commitment to these steps would also solidify our relationship with Turkey, which is reeling from the implications of Moscow's intervention. In short, we must create a better military balance of power on the ground if we are to seek a political solution acceptable to us and to our allies. Third, we must "de-conflict" our military activities with those of the Russians. This is distasteful, and we should never have gotten to a place where the Russians are warning us to stay out of their way. But we must do all that we can to prevent an incident between us. Presumably, even Putin shares this concern. Finally, we need to see Putin for who he is. Stop saying that we want to better understand Russian motives. The Russians know their objective very well: Secure their interests in the Middle East by any means necessary. What's not clear about that? Condoleezza Rice was secretary of state from 2005 to 2009. Robert M. Gates was defense secretary from 2006 to 2011. 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The Ultimate Exit Strategy: 4 Reasons To Execute Your Will Today September 04, 2017 In the weeks immediately following the death of Robin Williams, his family seemed unified in grief. That illusion was shattered recently when court documents revealed the infighting over his wealth, memorabilia, and even clothing, had resulted in Mrs. Williams banning her husband’s grown children from her home. Mr. Williams’s estate planning documents did not provide enough clarity to determine what his wife and children were entitled to receive. Tempers flared and the situation quickly devolved into a contentious court case. With methodical planning, honest conversations, and appropriate legal documents in place, this situation might have been avoided. But many Americans don’t take the time to do estate planning, much less get specific about how affairs should be handled once someone has passed away. Why? Perceived cost, procrastination, and uncertainty “Many people reject estate planning because they don’t like to think about death. I mean, who does? In addition, most people assume they can’t afford it anyway and I don’t blame them. Most lawyers charge sky high hourly rates,” says Jeff Bell, CEO of LegalShield, a network of dedicated law firms that members can call for help. A $20 monthly plan membership grants clients access to lawyers for answers to legal questions including assistance with deciphering contracts or executing a will. “Everyone deserves access to the knowledge a lawyer can offer without worrying about their ability to pay. In modern terms, we ‘crowd-share’ law firms in 49 states and 4 Canadian provinces, providing affordable legal access to 3.7 million people and counting. A standard will is a benefit of our plan.” Mr. Bell believes the uncertainty most people feel about estate planning causes them to delay taking action. Procrastination, though, is conquered by the step-by-step guidance experienced lawyers can provide. Clients should rest easy knowing their best interests will be represented, he says, and they “need not feel pressured to become estate planning experts themselves.” Wills versus trusts Most middle income Americans benefit from a good standard will. Trusts are reserved for unique cases like families who wish to make provisions for a special needs child or for instances when the decedent’s assets include a business, extensive real estate or big ticket property items, or detailed instructions for trustees. The more complex the assets or numerous the heirs, the more likely a trust will better serve needs. A qualified lawyer can guide this decision appropriately. It’s important to make a choice as soon as possible to keep the forward momentum going. Some people fail to follow through by signing the documents and getting witness signatures while others neglect to transfer assets (title) into their trust. Both lapses result in invalid will or trust documents, rendering them worthless under the law. No will or trust? You just abdicated your wishes to the state If you die without a will or trust in place, the state will step in to make decisions on your behalf. The common asset dispensation involves awarding assets to your surviving spouse or directly to your children if you are unmarried. If you have no spouse or children, the state will usually identify blood relatives and award them your assets eventually. The “leave it to the state” arrangement features four inherent flaws. Ask yourself: 1. Am I open to temporary foster care for my minor children? If parents fail to designate who should raise their children, the state will step in to make custody decisions. If no potential guardian is immediately apparent to the judge the children could be remanded to state custody (foster care) while the court investigates. A will or trust allows parents to transfer guardianship of minors to trusted friends or loved ones. 2. Am I fine with the state disregarding my oral or written instructions? People who designate which heirs they intend to leave specific items from their estates should know that those documents are meaningless if written outside of the context of a formal will or trust. “I had a client who meticulously labeled her items of personal property by taping pieces of paper to them and writing, ‘This goes to Mary, my hairdresser…’ or ‘This is for my husband’s long-time friend, George.’ She had 60 or 70 of these tags. Some of them just said, for example, “Rachael.” I appreciate what she was trying to do, but it doesn’t stand up in court. Her will had a specific way to handle her personal property, and none of these people were named. The right way to accomplish this is to use a “devise of tangible personal property” (or, in some states it would be called “a memorandum of personal belongings”) to bequeath non-cash personal property. This way she would have a legally binding detailed list of items and who should receive each one. If she were to get upset with Mary she could simply strike her name from that document without having to go to her attorney to formally change the will. And that is even easier than trying to unpeel the sweet but meritless sticky note,” says Charlie Davis, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Davis Miles McGuire Gardner, PLLC, a LegalShield Provider. 3. Do I feel keen to pay an extra premium? It can get expensive to relinquish decision-making to the state. While wills go through probate court, estates without a will generally take longer to administer. The costs associated with extra time spent in probate court will be deducted from assets, leaving less to dispense to heirs. 4. Does open-ended probate time sound good? Clearing the estate from probate could take a long time, dragging out dispensation to heirs for years in some cases. It is cheaper and more expedient to draw up a will that expedites the probate process. Estates protected by wills and trusts typically fly through the probate process so long as no one challenges them. Don’t be duped: online will and trust document services “Some people do their own wills through document preparation services trying to save money. The people assembling these documents deliver them without offering advice, discussing probate issues, and asking important follow-on questions. That can lead to unintended and sometimes disastrous consequences. One of our lawyers has a practice almost solely devoted to handling problems where wills and trusts are poorly drafted, ambiguous, or ill conceived. And he is very busy. Experienced will and trust lawyers ask the right questions and discuss the implications of your desires and decisions,” says Mr. Davis. LegalShield’s Jeff Bell agrees that no one should waste time “economizing” with document preparation services. He stresses that LegalShield is a part of the sharing economy and that opportunities abound for plan members whether they are looking to write their wills or get help collecting unpaid bills for their small businesses. “In this country, a lot of people worry that the color of justice and access to legal help is green. LegalShield is disrupting all of that. Legal access is no longer determined by a person’s wealth level. Every North American deserves the opportunity to leave a legacy for their families. The first step is protecting those families with a well thought-out last will and testament,” says Mr. Bell. LegalShield members get consultation on unlimited personal legal matters with lawyers experienced in estate planning as well as many other topics. LegalShield currently affords 1.4 million families equal access to justice through the legal service plans it has offered for 40 years. LegalShield lawyers stand ready to provide legal advice and draw up wills without additional charge to members.	<urn:uuid:3e3d6ea5-a373-48ac-8ca9-6fed5dcab978>	https://www.legalshield.com/blog/ultimate-exit-strategy-4-reasons-execute-your-will-today	en	0.957169	0.0456	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Need help breaking free from addiction? Call 24/7 for treatment options. Who Answers? Does Violent Speech Cause Violence? Daniel Jay Sonkin, Ph.D. is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in an independent practice in Sausalito, California. Since 1981, his work has focused ...Read More As politicians, media, commenters and experts begin the ear-deafening process of analyzing the tragic events in Tucson, we will no doubt hear many attributions as what contributed to Mr. Loughner’s horrific actions. Already filling the airwaves and blogosphere are discussions of how much violent language contributes to this behavior; whether or not gun control laws are strict enough; and should there be greater security at lawmaker public events. At the forefront of these discussions is the question about what role the upswing in violent speech and imagery made by politicians recently actually caused these shootings? Phrases like, second amendment remedies, reloading not retreating, and the pictures of gun crosshairs over U.S. Representative Gabrielle Gifford’s district, all beg the question, can words and pictures actually incite violence. I think former President Clinton did make a good point recently, when he suggested that we all have a responsibility to measure the impact our words have on both those who understand nuance or their symbolism, and those whose inner demons will be reinforced or even activated by our language. However, what leads a person to violence is actually a very complicated process that rarely is driven by one thing, such as political speech. Rather than thinking of any one thing having a direct effect on someone’s behavior, it is better to think of it in terms of risk factors; that there will be a variety of contributing forces or characteristics that come together to create the perfect storm (or worse-case scenario), that may eventually lead to violence. Although social scientists have studied dangerousness for many decades, one thing they can agree on is that it is almost impossible to predict who will and will not be violent. However, there are things that may influence a person towards violence, but still there are no guarantees that violence will eventually occur. Therefore we must caution lawmakers about being too enthusiastic about drafting legislation that will impinge on many people’s freedoms for the sake of a few who might ultimately act out. So what are these factors that contribute to violence? The most common are history of child abuse, current substance abuse problems and psychiatric disorders (particularly when medication is indicated and not being taken by the individual). Although the vast majority of people, who were abused as children, or who have substance abuse problems or other psychological problems don’t act violent, let alone murder people, when we look at the small number of people who do perpetrate these horrific acts, these themes do come up, over and over again. However, there other reasons why people become violent. It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to realize that the easier it becomes to access firearms the more likely they can be used in a fit of rage or impulse. In countries with strict control laws, the murder rate is much lower. Some killings are done with lots of thought and premeditation, but many are done impulsively. When guns are easily available at Kmart down the street or in the garage, the impulsive person is more likely to act out their desire to hurt others. Obviously, when there is lots of planning and organizing a violent act, accessibility is less of an issue. Peer pressure can also be a factor in someone committing an act of extreme violence. One doesn’t have to look far back to our history of lynching in this country. People who might not have a history of violence could get caught up in the emotion of the moment and either become directly violent towards others, or by participating in the violence indirectly by watching and cheering on others. We have also seen illustrations of this in the media. Take for example the murderers in Truman Capote’s book, In Cold Blood. Individually, neither person might have committed the gruesome crime, but together their interpersonal dynamic created a deadly force. The contagious distorted desires and emotions between two individuals or within a crowd could lead some people to act in ways they might otherwise not have done alone. Stress that builds over time is another factor that may push someone over the brink of desperation. It may be one extreme stressor, such as a death, but it could also be the result of several less-extreme, but significant, stressors; such as unemployment, homelessness, or an unexpected personal rejection. As details become available, it looks like Loughner had multiple stressors, expulsion from school, rejection by the army, alienation from friends retreating, and maybe too much addiction to Internet sites. Researchers in the field of dangerousness, pretty much agree, that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Therefore, if a person has an already established pattern of violence, they are more likely to perpetrate violence in the future. Can the exact date and time be predicted? No. But one can say with reasonable certainty, that if there is no interventions that reduce the possibility of its occurrence (such as therapy or medication), it is more likely to occur at some point in the future. When I conduct social histories on individuals facing the death penalty, I have found that many of these factors, and more, are individual threads that help to fill in the picture of how someone can go from an innocent child to a gruesome murderer. There are events or situations that push someone either towards or away from violence. The evidence suggests, that once violence and aggression becomes a part of someone’s personality, it is one of the most stable personality characteristics, which means it is not easy to change. However, change is possible. Therapy is the best way we know how to address violence and aggressive. It doesn’t always work, but it is definitely better than doing nothing. It is ironic at the same time we are talking about the causes of violence; congress is contemplating repealing healthcare reform. One might ask the same question that I pose at the start of this article; “Would repealing healthcare reduce accessibility to services, which in turn contribute to another senseless killing? The answer to that question will depend on whether someone is trying to score political points or have a serious discussion about the contributing factors and prevention of violence. Although we can’t say with a certainty that this killing would have been prevented if he had been forced into therapy or gone on his own accord, but it would have given another person the opportunity to intervene and possibly change the outcome. Like the causes of violence, social issues, such as gun control, accessibility to mental health services and other insurance reforms, are all part of the interwoven fabric of life. The social context that we live in does have a profound affect on us. Therefore, we can draw connections simply because each thread (e.g., economic, psychological or social) contributes to the whole and therefore relationships do exist. But we need to carefully look at the strength of those relationships, otherwise we will fall into the “causal” trap in our attempt to find answers or make sense out of senseless acts of violence. By appreciating and holding the true complexity of human behavior, we can generate creative solutions that may not only help us heal from the trauma of violence, but possibly prevent senseless killings in the future. Keep Reading By Author Daniel Sonkin, Ph.D. Read In Order Of Posting Call the Helpline Toll-FREE To Get Treatment Options Now. Get Help For You or a Loved One Here... Click Here for More Info. 100% Confidential Get Treatment Options From Your Phone... 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5 Types of RC Cars All you Need to Know automotive and vehicle According to the International Energy Agency fuel financial system improved 0.7% in 2017, however an annual improvement of 3.7% is required to fulfill the Global Fuel Economy Initiative 2030 target. Many cities in Europe, have banned older fossil gas cars and all fossil gasoline vehicles will be banned in Amsterdam from 2030. Many Chinese cities restrict licensing of fossil fuel vehicles, and lots of nations plan to cease promoting them between 2025 and 2050. Several overseas corporations have their investments in Indian automobile trade. India is the major three-wheeler market and two-wheeler manufacturer on the earth. There are plenty of employment opportunities for the qualified candidates and they a profession in automobile trade leads to shiny future. India is a number to many Indian and international automobile corporations. Many of these negative impacts fall disproportionately on those social groups who’re additionally least prone to own and drive automobiles. The sustainable transport movement focuses on options to these issues. The car industry can also be going through growing competitors from the public transport sector, as some individuals re-consider their personal vehicle usage. ] vehicles are about 75 % recyclable,[citation needed] and utilizing recycled steel helps cut back power use and air pollution. Cars and rolling inventory often have hand brakes that, whereas designed to safe an already parked vehicle, can present restricted braking should the primary brakes fail. A secondary process called ahead-slip is typically used to sluggish airplanes by flying at an angle, causing extra drag. They are solely effective in a vacuum, which limits their use to spaceborne vehicles. Ion thrusters run primarily off electricity, but in addition they want a propellant such as caesium, or more just lately xenon. Mass manufacturing Although this job nonetheless requires most of the abilities as an automotive technician, it additionally provides a administration factor, making the grasp mechanic responsible for the work of all other workers. In the workplace, mechanics assist reply phones when essential and talk to clients about the nature of the automobile problem. Often, this necessitates taking the client into the garage to indicate precisely what’s wrong with the car.	<urn:uuid:c4edde13-1583-4336-b092-cf6f6078bcfa>	https://www.mlcsmith.com/5-types-of-rc-cars-all-you-need-to-know-2.html	en	0.944579	0.019936	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
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Fifty years since the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia: Part two The Prague Spring By Clara Weiss 29 August 2018 This is the second part of a four-part series. Part one was posted on August 28. The next stage in the crisis of Stalinism erupted in the context of the deep economic and political crisis of imperialism that marked the 1960s. Throughout the 1960s and until about 1975, the major imperialist countries were rocked by major strikes, culminating in the general strike of French workers in May 1968, the biggest such strike in Europe since the end of the war and the most significant revolutionary situation in decades. The US, the center of world imperialism, was the scene of mass struggles against social inequality and for equal rights for the African-American population and a growing movement against the criminal war of aggression in Vietnam. In the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the nationalist program of the Stalinist bureaucracy increasingly produced economic crises, food shortages and discontent within the working class. National and economic tensions in Eastern Europe had been rising throughout the 1960s, providing the basis for splits and cracks within the national bureaucracies and growing infighting between the different Warsaw Pact states, virtually all of which had unresolved ethnic and border disputes, and the USSR. The response of the Stalinist bureaucracy to its growing crisis was a combination of repression (such as the brutal crushing of workers in Novocherkassk in 1962), limited concessions to demands for freedom of speech, the conscious promotion of nationalism and racism, and steps toward the reintroduction of capitalist relations in the economy. The latter included “economic experiments” proposed by Liberman under Nikita Khrushchev’s “thaw” in the Soviet Union, and reforms proposed by Ota Šik in Czechoslovakia, which provided for a decentralization of the economy, greater autonomy for enterprises, a recalculation of the pricing and wage systems, and the introduction of commodity money relations. It is under these conditions that the “Prague Spring,” which shared many of the dynamics of “perestroika” in the Soviet Union some 17 years later, was initiated by the KSČ in 1968. This was an attempt to appease growing discontent within both the intelligentsia and working class, and simultaneously control this development and subordinate it to the interests of the bureaucracy. The “Prague Spring” did not come out of the blue. Already in 1962-1963, travel restrictions had been considerably softened, allowing tens of thousands of people from Czechoslovakia to visit capitalist states in Western Europe, often through academic exchange programs, while thousands of tourists from the West flocked to Czechoslovakia. In 1964, Ota Šik was named the head of a government commission for economic reforms. The first signs of the seething social and political discontent emerged, as is often the case, within the intelligentsia. Much like the temporary flourishing of Soviet cinema under the “thaw,” the “Czechoslovak New Wave” in cinema made use of the new political liberties (and funding from the West) to advance social, cultural and political criticisms of the status quo. In 1963, the major German-Czech writer Franz Kafka was officially rehabilitated (his writings had earlier been banned), and in June 1967, the Fourth Congress of the Writers’ Union openly attacked the party and demanded far-reaching reforms. While sections of the intelligentsia were advancing left-wing criticism of the bureaucracy, there were also strong nationalist tendencies, both among Czech and Slovak intellectuals, which could relatively easily be exploited by the bureaucracy. The champion of sections of the bureaucracy most aggressively pushing for “reforms” in anticipation of working class struggles was Alexander Dubček. He replaced Antonín Novotný, who had headed the KSČ since 1953, in January 1968. Dubček had joined the KSČ during the war and steadily rose in its ranks as the old leadership and thousands of workers were purged during the late 1940s and early 1950s. In the 1960s, Dubček played a prominent role in the growing inner-bureaucratic struggles. As head of the Slovak party, he was the main advocate of political and economic reforms in Slovakia, which were combined with far-reaching concessions to Slovak nationalism. His appointment as party secretary was part of an attempt in both Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union to appease the growing demands for more Slovak autonomy within a federalized state. Throughout the first months of 1968, Dubček’s push for reforms remained relatively moderate. However, on April 1, 1968, the Czechoslovak Politburo under Dubček approved the so-called “Action Program.” The Action Program made significant concessions to demands for political liberties: It promised freedom of speech and movement, including the right to travel to Western countries, freedom of debate and association, and an end to arbitrary arrests. It encouraged a virtual explosion of political, charity and religious associations and groups that immediately sprang up all over the country. On an economic level, the Action Program envisioned reforms along the lines of those proposed by Ota Šik, with greater autonomy granted to individual enterprises and a decentralization of the economy as a whole. The Action Program, furthermore, argued for equal economic relations with the Soviet Union and demanded the withdrawal of Soviet economic advisors. In an important concession to rising Slovak nationalist sentiment, the Action Program also proposed the federalization of Czechoslovakia, with equal rights and representation for Slovakia and the Czech lands. Finally, the program called for the recognition of the State of Israel and a cut in arms deliveries to Egypt and Nigeria. The Action Program thus combined the promise of greater political liberty with economic and foreign policy proposals that signified steps toward the restoration of capitalism and better relations with imperialism. The ideology of “socialism with a human face,” advanced by Dubček and theoreticians of Czechoslovak Stalinism such as Radovan Richta, was a fraud. From the standpoint of the Czechoslovak bureaucracy, it was a variation of “socialism in one country.” It dressed up as “humanist” a program that essentially pushed for pro-capitalist reforms and greater independence from the Soviet bureaucracy under the control of the Czechoslovak Stalinist bureaucracy. At the same time, albeit in a distorted and fraudulent way, the formulation of “socialism with a human face” was designed to appeal to the striving of the working class and significant sections of the intelligentsia for genuine socialism, which they correctly felt did not exist in either the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic or the Soviet Union. In particular, it gave expression to the revulsion that millions of workers and intellectuals felt about the bloody terror that had descended upon them over the previous decades of Stalinist rule. Anti-capitalist sentiments were overwhelming, with millions of workers and intellectuals remembering all too well the horrors of fascism, the war and the corrupt and right-wing role of the Czechoslovak bourgeoisie. Whatever the drive of the bureaucracy to solve its crisis by capitulating to imperialism, there was no support within the working class for a restoration of capitalism, as virtually all observers noted at the time. Rather, there was overwhelming hostility to Stalinism from the left. It is this aspect of “socialism with a human face,” a notion that would later be picked up by Mikhail Gorbachev in his propaganda for perestroika and capitalist restoration in the USSR, that provoked the most anxiety and anger within the bureaucracies throughout Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. It was perceived as dangerous in as much as it could encourage tendencies toward a genuinely socialist challenge to Stalinism. In May, Soviet party leader Leonid Brezhnev angrily said to Dubček, “What’s with this human face? What kind of faces do you think we have in Moscow?” A particularly vile role in advocating for a violent crackdown was played by Władysław Gomułka, the head of the Polish party, who was at the time overseeing a filthy anti-Semitic campaign against the student protesters of March 1968. He was seconded by Petr Shelest, the head of the Communist Party in Ukraine, who accused the Czechoslovak party leadership of seeking to annex the long-contested region of Carpatho-Ukraine. In some respects, Gomułka, Ulbricht, the party leader in East Germany, and the head of the Bulgarian party, Todor Zhivkov, were even more militant in their insistence on a crackdown on the Prague Spring than the leadership in Moscow. Already in March, at a Dresden gathering of Eastern European leaders, Gomułka, whose government had just been challenged by mass student protests, insisted on a “forceful counter-offensive” in Czechoslovakia, comparing the situation to Hungary 1956. Hungarian party secretary János Kádár , who had taken over the rudder after the crushing of the 1956 revolution, also insisted on resolute measures in this “critical” situation. Historians have noted that the move toward military intervention was prompted above all by the release of the “Manifesto of 2000 Words” on June 27, 1968. It was drafted by a leading Czechoslovak intellectual and called for a break with the party. However, the fact that this manifesto was perceived as such a threat by the bureaucracy was due to the growing movement within the working class. The biggest fear of the bureaucracy was that the concessions of the KSČ to demands for political liberties would create the basis for a powerful intervention of the working class. If the industrial working class had remained relatively silent during the first months of 1968, the situation changed quite dramatically starting in the spring, coinciding with the mass movement of French workers against De Gaulle’s government. During these months, the Dubček leadership was forced, as a contemporary think tank analyst observed, to make far more concessions and move far more rapidly than it had wanted. One historian notes: Many [workers] were unmoved by the notion of political democratization espoused by a reshuffled set of party leaders and a few radical intellectuals—’we’ve seen it all before.’ For most blue-collar workers, the prime issues were higher living standards and wages and reduced state price controls. ... However, by spring and summer there were signs of movement. The central trade union leadership was revamped and its mission of defending members’ interests was restated; there was much discussion about the formation of Yugoslav-style ‘workers’ or ‘enterprise councils’ and the possibility of worker ‘self-management’ in the factories; several short strikes were held; and even a few workers’ committees to defend press freedom were spontaneously created. [1] It was at this point that discussions among the Stalinist leaders became ever more heated and frantic. There was a series of meetings, especially between June and August, in which the Soviet, the Polish and the Yugoslav leaderships urged Dubček and the Czech Politburo to get the situation back under control, reestablish full control over the media and crack down on the working class. In May, the Soviet Politburo established a nine-member commission to follow developments in Czechoslovakia on a daily basis. They were also receiving regular reports from the Soviet embassy in Prague. In June and July, the Warsaw Pact states conducted large-scale military maneuvers on Czech soil in an unmistakable threat to the Dubček leadership and the Czechoslovak working class. In another series of talks from July 29 to August 1, the Dubček leadership was pressured into making a series of oral promises to crack down. Finally, on August 13, Brezhnev and Dubček had a phone conversation that was described by one historian as follows: An exasperated Brezhnev accused a defensive Dubček of ‘deceiving us’ by his prevarication and lame excuses for delaying the overdue crackdown in Prague, to which Dubček abjectly responded: ‘if you believe we are deceiving you, then take the measures you regard as appropriate...by all means go ahead.’ He even offered his resignation as first secretary, but ended with the words: ‘I promise you, Cde. Brezhnev, that I’ll do everything necessary to fulfill our agreement.’ [2] On August 17, the Soviet Politburo, the highest executive organ of the party, resolved to send the military into Czechoslovakia. Historians today believe that the United States had already, a month before, signaled that it would not intervene in the situation, essentially giving the green light for a military solution. On the night of August 20-21, 1968, some 165,000 soldiers and 4,600 tanks from four Warsaw Pact states—the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria—accompanied by military advisors from East Germany invaded. Within a week, the number of troops occupying the country had risen to half a million. At least 137 Czechoslovak civilians were killed in the first days. Hundreds were wounded, and the total death toll from the occupation is estimated at about 500. In an indication of the lack of political support for the invasion within the Soviet Union itself, many of the Red Army soldiers had been drafted from Central Asian countries and had not been informed where they were stationed. Many thought that World War III had begun and they were in West Germany. The offices of the Czechoslovak Communist Party were raided, and Dubček’s leadership was arrested. He himself and several of his allies were flown to Moscow and interrogated. They were released, flown back and reinstated only after they had signed the secret “Moscow Protocol.” This provided for the stationing of foreign troops in Czechoslovakia until “the threat to socialism” had passed, key personnel changes, the reinstatement of party control of the media, the banning of “anti-socialist” organizations, and the reversal of key elements of the Action Program. According to historians, it was the working class that emerged as the main social force in the opposition to the occupation. It responded to the invasion with a series of general strikes on August 21, 22 and 23. Workers’ councils were formed at hundreds of enterprises. The resistance to the occupation encompassed virtually all other social layers, including sections of the bureaucracy. There were instances of non-armed resistance by elements of the army, police and departments of the Ministry of the Interior. Students also protested the occupation with many demonstrations and sit-ins.The streets were plastered with graffiti calling upon the Red Army to go home. One graffiti read: “Lenin! Wake up! Brezhnev’s gone mad!” Hundreds of thousands of Czechoslovaks left the country, fleeing for the West. On January 19, 1969, the 21-year-old student Jan Palach set himself on fire and died. His funeral turned into a mass demonstration of hundreds of thousands against the occupation. As late as March 1969, half a million people demonstrated in 69 towns and cities, attacking offices of the Soviet airline, Aeroflot, and nine Soviet garrisons. Taking the latest mass demonstrations as a pretext, Dubček was removed from his post in April 1969 in a vote by largely the same Politburo that had voted him in office in January 1968. He was replaced by Gustáv Husák. The mass opposition, bereft of a clear political program and leadership, eventually petered out, and the so called “normalization” set in. Significantly, the only aspect of the Action Program that the bureaucracy continued to pursue, with encouragement from Moscow, was the federalization of Czechoslovakia. On October 27, 1968, a constitutional law was adopted turning the previously unitary state into a federation. Over the following two decades, the promotion of nationalism, and the pitting of the Czech and Slovak Communist parties, and, above all, of Czech and Slovak workers, against each other was to form a critical component of the bureaucracy’s suppression of the working class and drive toward capitalist restoration. A similar process took place in all of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In Poland, Gomułka responded to protests by students and workers with an anti-Semitic campaign in 1968-1969 in which he worked closely with the nationalist interior minister, Mieczysław Moczar, and Bolesław Piasecki, who had been a member of the fascist Falange in the 1930s. In the Soviet Union, the Brezhnev leadership responded to 1968 by directly promoting leading nationalist figures into high-ranking cultural and political positions. So-called “thick journals” of the nationalist intelligentsia, which promoted anti-Semitism and vile Russian nationalism, received state funding and could thus be circulated with monthly copies numbering in the hundreds of thousands, sometimes even millions. In many respects, the response of the Stalinist bureaucracies to the movement of the working class in 1968 lay the ground for the final breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union as part of the full reestablishment of capitalism in the region in 1989-1991. That the bureaucracy could pursue this course was, in large measures, the result of the conscious intervention of Pabloism, which enabled the bureaucracy to solve its crisis at the expense of the working class. To be continued End notes [1] Kevin McDermott, Communist Czechoslovakia, 1945-89. 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Samskaras: What does it mean to breakthrough? I woke up yesterday morning feeling as though I woke up from a bad dream of my past. Â Suddenly the person I was being was no longer the person I am today. Â I saw how caught up I had been in the melodramas of life and how I wasn’t really being real to myself and my path. Â I was caught up in a social and psychological soap opera that was ruling the decisions I made and were not necessarily in alignment with my truth. Â I was not clear on why I was working at the job I was or living in this city. I was always telling myself to just get through until something better in the future comes along. In this moment it was like I was facing this whole other person that was very lost. I didn’t know or understand how this mess had taken over me. This continuous chain of unconscious acts was the key ingredient for why my life was stuck. This seemed so familiar to what my yoga teachers had spoken of in so many ways “give up your old way of being” “let go of the past” and especially “burn through your samskaras”. Samskaras are the impressions of the subconscious; beyond that they are the ideas, actions, and behaviors that make up our conditioned way of being. This conditioning shows up everywhere- on the yoga mat, in traffic, at work- because it is our comfort zone. Each time we repeat the pattern it gets deeper ingrained into us and starts to look more and more like ”who you are” or your personality. Samskaras are not necessarily bad or good they are just the ingredients creating the meal of your reality. For example a person that moves to a new city in hopes of discovering a new life but instead finds their self in similar situations just with different faces and names. The famous quote I believe by Buckaroo Banzai “where ever you go there you are” points out how we recreate the same reality because we are stuck in our samskaras, or ways of being. Perhaps there are certain samskaras that are no longer serving you such as the mental patterning of low self-esteem or behaviors that are self-destructive- those are the ones we can “cleanse” or “burn” away. Others you may feel continue to build a positive Karma and create happiness in your life. Cleanse or burn away samskaras: How? There is no foolproof recipe to follow, but I can share the process that unfolded for me. It starts with a mixing bowl made of trust! Trust that you are safe to see the darker areas of yourself and still be loved, accepted and honored. To make a shift at a deep level of yourself is an act of courage and a leap of faith. There must be trust in the process of revelation to even begin to tread a new path and follow your hearts cry for something bigger, more fulfilling and inspiring. Trust that you are ok to look at the patterns, thoughts and behaviors that are unsupportive in your life and further more trust that you can shift them. Once you see the samskara or patterns not working for you, you can start with your main ingredient- an intention! For your new creation of the reactions and responses you have now you will need an intention. An intention is “a determination to act in a certain way” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Whenever I set an intention I make it as simple as possible; I break it down to one word (love, truth, inspiration, balance, clarity, abundance, joy). I pick the one word that feels in alignment with what I want to create, generally it’s what is missing from the current creation of my life. Now you will need 2 cups of commitment and patience. Give yourself space to see when you are coming from old patterning and when you are coming from your new intention. This is a moment to moment practice. Our samskaras are impulsive at times and happen in the bat of an eyelash. Although you are dedicated to your intention it is important to take yourself lightly and strengthen your muscle of patience. We are all human and this is a practice. Let yourself rise up with some space- Especially when you are faced with a heated situation. Your samskaras will want to creep in and take over so it is important to pause. If you feel reactivity bubbling up pause, take a deep breath, and speak from your one word intention. Sprinkle a dash of fearlessness into the mix! Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway is the title of a book written by Susan Jeffers- the truth is fear is something that happens in our lives especially when it comes to becoming our greatest self. For a lot of us there seems to be this deep seeded fear of failure or of finding out that we really aren’t “good enough” or we really “can’t do it”. Look that fear right in the face and decide that today I will do it anyway! Enjoy the process! This is a life long process of creation and evolution of self. That means in every moment you have the opportunity to enjoy exactly where you are at in the process. This right now- reading this article- is your life! Enjoy where you are at now! What a delicious new meal we can make! I can now look at things from a different vantage point and for the first time I see the past as just that- the past; I see my past behaviors as old and outdated and see how they truly no longer serve me. Â I see how being caught up in my samskaras can take the joy of living out my life! Be Sociable, Share! Related posts: Love this post? Buy us a coffee to celebrate! 3. Awesome publish which has got me considering about the potential of this concept. 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Reviving Radio (part one) posted in: Uncategorized \| 0 It’s clear radio is in trouble. There’s never been more non-radio choices for listeners. The 18-24’s, of which I’m a member of, are giving up on the medium. It was pretty clear to me something changed between my freshman year and my post-Mission college. In 2003 my roommate would wake up to 94.9 ZHT every morning. I had a little pirate FM station which my fellow apartment complexers would tune in to. I remember recording a sweeper for Q95.9‘s “A-to-Z Weekend,” only to have someone approach me on Sunday and jokingly recite it back to me. It all changed when I set the station back up in 2006. I couldn’t find anyone who owned a radio, besides the one in their car. And pirate stations don’t carry far at 45 miles per hour. It’s clear to me that my fellow millennials have given up on the medium. Sure. The iPod has changed everything! But radio hasn’t been playing a full game either in the last few years. Less and less of the content is live, and it appears local content is the next to do. It makes me wonder who radio’s greatest enemy is, new technology or itself? Let’s look at what strengths radio traditionally had: 1. Introduce new music. 2. Provide immediate local news/weather/traffic information. 3. Encourage community service activity. 4. Community connector. 5. Companionship. Let’s see. Radio is still doing a good job at #1 (introducing new music), albeit not so good at showing local music. Given, local music can sometimes really smell. Only one station in the entire state does a good job at #2 (local news). That’s down from 2 or 3 about ten years ago. Most stations don’t have enough talent to do local news. A number of stations still do #3 (community service), but with less local air talent, it sometimes seems impersonal, and the response rate can’t be very high. If Jimmy Chunga tells his listeners to donate to the homeless shelter, it’s probably going to be more successful than if the national voice-over talent guy tells them to in an over-played sweeper. Almost nobody does #4 (community connector) anymore. You can only take local calls if you have a live and local talent. That means you can throw out all of Clear Channel’s stations, most of Simmons and a few Citadel stations. The country and hip-hop stations are the only ones who regularly take live callers, outside of talk. And most talk stations, besides KSL, are almost completely national shows. And for #5, I’d say the list is almost as pitiful as #4. Radio’s greatest strength of all is being able to communicate the mood and vibe of the moment to the listener in real time. So far no technology has the power to “go live.” Radio owners are squandering this asset in the name of cost cutting. On most stations few voices, if any, are live. Owners see live talent as an “expense” that needs reigning in. Which of these can radio still own? The internet will take away #1. The internet is also taking over #2, albeit not in the car. Behind the wheel, radio will own traffic and news for decades to come. Internet message board can take over #4, but not with voices in real time. That leaves #3 and #5 up to radio. I think the medium can do it. But they are going to have to start hiring talent back again. And that is going to cost money. Tomorrow … how radio will pay for it.	<urn:uuid:3500e265-919f-4675-b750-d4facb3bd47e>	http://radiocitrus.com/reviving-radio-part-one/	en	0.948474	0.022386	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Adam Czyzewski Random forecast Not a day goes by without me being asked about future oil prices. And all discussions that follow end with the inescapable conclusion that oil prices cannot be predicted. This is a complete reversal in the way of thinking about the future from 8–10 years back, when most business decisions in the energy sector hinged on the assumption that oil prices were very much predictable. Which is it then? Can we look into the future or not? As an economist I tend to answer: it depends on how we think about the future and, consequently, what we want to predict. I was compelled to write this commentary by a publication of Roland Berger, a renowned consulting firm, comparing the accuracy of oil price predictions assumed in the budgets of states which are the largest oil exporters, as well as by international institutions publishing oil price projections (the International Energy Agency, the US Energy Information Administration and NYMEX). Roland Berger have made such comparisons since 2007. An analysis of the accuracy of annual price projections shows that in the forecast for 2015 (made in 2014) none of the forecasters was able to predict such a pronounced decline in the average annual prices as the one that actually materialised. Let me remind you that in 2015 the average price of WTI (the US benchmark, equivalent to Brent) dipped to USD 49 per barrel down from USD 93 per barrel in 2014. In the case of oil-exporting countries, the average from forecasts of the three countries with the best record of accurate predictions so far amounted to USD 95 per barrel. According to the same countries, in 2016 one barrel of WTI will cost an average of USD 53. International institutions on the other hand, which have shown better accuracy than oil exporting countries in the last couple of years, put the price at USD 46 per barrel. Let me start by saying that, on a global scale, a whole army of people is tasked with predicting the prices of oil. The trajectories of future oil prices are a part of financial plans and strategies of oil companies, the budgets of oil exporting and importing countries, projections of international institutions, projections of central and commercial banks and futures contracts for oil on commodity exchanges. How do we justify the existence of this army given that even the best of its soldiers seem unable to hit the mark? Some may find the answer rather surprising. Forecasting is not about being right on target, though it is nice to actually be accurate. Why? Because when we formulate the price of crude oil for the next year, the forecasted value does not yet exist and thus cannot be guessed. Before I justify this approach to forecasting, which prevails among experts, let us take a look at it from an entirely different viewpoint. Let us assume that the future is determined, it exists in unchanged form regardless of what we do. Given this assumption, which is an expression of a certain world-view, attempts to guess such specifics from the future as oil prices or the PLN/USD exchange rate make perfect sense. Unfortunately, this cannot be achieved through scientific methods, so the only thing I can say on that score is that there are competitions for the most accurate forecasts you can sign up for. There is nothing to be afraid of − all you have to do is give the numbers and no one will ask how you have arrived at them. By contrast, the scientific approach to forecasting, especially long-term forecasting, starts with the assumption that future is undetermined, random and is in part influenced by human actions. Going by our example, the specific numerical value of WTI prices at the end of 2016 will largely depend on consumer and producer behaviour. The collective outcome of individual decisions will be manifested through supply and demand changes over the year and beyond, and the distribution of effects over time will depend on the inertness of supply and demand, which can be empirically measured (estimated). As far as the supply of oil goes, we know that the effects of production decisions taken by US shale field operators today will be visible in a couple of months, whereas similar decisions in respect of conventional reserves will materialise in a couple of years. In the horizon until the end 2016, we may expect completely random factors to emerge, such as the forest fire in the vicinity of Canada’s producing oil sands, which, by altering supply, will affect end-of-year WTI prices. All we know of such factors is that they will happen, but until they actually come, we are unable to predict their date or effect on prices. These random factors also randomise oil price predictions, and random predictions are never expressed as specific numbers. They are always a range, whose span depends on our reluctance to make a mistake, i.e. on how badly we want to have the actual future number lie within the forecast range, and overall uncertainty. The more we want it, the broader the range will be. For example, we can say today with near 100% certainty that on December 31st 2016 the WTI price will be in a range between USD 10 and USD 80 per barrel. If we narrow the range down to USD 30-50 per barrel, the odds of capturing the actual figure within the range we bet on will be significantly lower. As to prevailing uncertainty on the market, it is markedly higher now than it was 3-4 years ago, when it was widely believed that OPEC would not allow prices to change to any significant extent. Accordingly, if we wish to maintain equally high odds of being on target with the next year’s oil price predictions as a couple of years ago, we would have to bet on a markedly wider range. Future values are easier to capture than to hit. We should bear in mind that a forecast is a range, especially when using ‘scenarios’ that differ only in respect of the positioning of oil price trajectories. It is very likely that our high and low price trajectories are alternative visualisations of one and the same random forecast. Author : Leave a Reply	<urn:uuid:a8bdc0cb-6ea1-403a-94e4-4e73fe9afa58>	https://adamczyzewski.blogactiv.eu/2016/05/30/random-forecast/	en	0.952634	0.057141	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
History of the Eiffel Tower The Eiffel Tower isn’t just a beautiful backdrop for romantic photos and second honeymoons. It has certainly become that over the years, but it started out as the entrance to the World’s Fair in 1889 and was supposed to be torn down shortly after, yet it remains standing tall as one of the most iconic structures in the world. How did this happen? And where did it come from? To know the whole story, you have to start back in 1884 when ideas and sketches started to be shared among a number of architects and designers who wanted the prestige of having designed the centerpiece for the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris. The event was an opportunity to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. Engineers working at Compagnie des Établissements Eiffel came up with the original design and added the necessary embellishments after that and ultimately received their boss’s support on the plans. The site for the Eiffel Tower was decided upon in January 1887 and when the contract was signed, the company received 1.5 million francs for construction. As the plans and ideas began to grow in Paris, a number of artists in the area began to protest the entire project. This group publicly and emphatically stated that the Eiffel Tower would be, in essence, an eyesore in the beautiful city of Paris. They believed that all the work that the local artists were doing would be eroded under the shadow of something so “useless” and “monstrous”. It is worth noting that many (but not all) of these artists changed their mind once the Eiffel Tower was built and they could witness the structure in all of its glory. Shortly after the site was decided upon in January of 1887, construction began and the ironwork was begun in July of that year. Construction continued and was ultimately completed in March of 1889 with the exception of lifts that could carry people to the top. Those would not be finished and ready for service until near the end of May. The Eiffel Tower during construction in July 1888 The Eiffel Tower during construction in July 1888 The World’s Fair opened up on May 6, 1889. The tower was opened to the public nine days later and since the lifts were not complete, interested sightseers wanted to see the view from the top and made the trip up on foot which was over 1,700 steps. The Eiffel Tower was originally intended to be a temporary structure and in the early 1900s, discussions ensued regarding how to tear down the tower and what to do with all the materials. Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, who owned the firm that was responsible for the construction, personally put up 80 percent of the funds required to build the Tower because the 1.5 million francs would not cover the costs associated with the project. Because of this, the tower was kept in tact for 20 years so that he could get his investment back through tourist and sightseer revenue. When this 20-year period ended, the Tower became the property of the Parisian government which was planning to deconstruct the structure and scrap the materials. However, Eiffel wanted it to remain where it stood and in an attempt to make the Tower more utilitarian and therefore more useful to the city of Paris, Eiffel had an antennae erected at the top. Because of this benefit to the French military, the initial 20-year period was extended and that use of the Eiffel Tower continues today. The Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world until the Chrysler Building was completed in 1930 in New York City. When it first came into existence, its purpose was to welcome visitors to the 1889 World’s Fair as an engineering and structural feat that rivaled all other structures that had come before it. Made of 7,000 metric tons of puddling iron and not steel like many people believe, the Eiffel Tower stands over 1,000 feet and has undergone a number of functions. In addition to being a radio tower, it has also served as the world’s largest billboard by advertising at night for a French automobile company called Citroën. It has been painted yellow and reddish brown in the past and it was vehemently opposed when it was first being constructed by local artists. Even though the Eiffel Tower was conceived as a temporary structure and came very close to being torn down, it stands today as a symbol of love and romance in the most romantic city in the world. Add a Comment Skip to toolbar	<urn:uuid:27ee606c-8165-4ff6-9ee4-a10ecf64bcf5>	https://factualfacts.com/history-eiffel-tower/	en	0.983665	0.037506	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
What IKEA Can Teach Us About Online Branding I love IKEA. No, I'm not a big fan of the Swedish meatballs, and I don't particularly care for putting furniture together. But the store is way cool. I wish there was one closer to where I live, but getting there is a day trip. When I lived in Los Angeles, we'd go to the Burbank location and spend a Sunday afternoon there. It's like a giant furniture theme park. Aside from furniture shopping, IKEA can also teach us a thing or two about online branding … IKEA started out in a small village in Sweden in 1943, when a 17-year-old entrepreneur began selling flower seeds, Christmas tree decorations and pencils to the locals. It was not until 1953 that the first showroom opened in Almhult, Sweden; but by 1956 IKEA was designing its own self-assembly furniture for which it is now famous. Today, IKEA has over 300 stores in 37 countries. But what's that got to do with online branding? Here are a few lessons we can learn from the furniture retailer: 1. Create an experience Going to IKEA is not like going to Sears or Walmart. A trip to IKEA is more like an event. It just feels different. It's an experience. Starbucks does the same with coffee, Apple does it with their retail stores and just about everything they produce. How can you make your products or services more of an experience for your customers? What can you do to be more memorable and unique? 2. Arrange the environment IKEA also does a great job creating an environment conducive to buying. The stores are set up so that you pretty much follow a designated route. There's an intentional path you're expected to take. Only casinos have a more "strategic" layout than IKEA. Are you making it easy for your customers to buy from you? Is there a "path" for your clients to follow? 3. Imagine the possibilities Share a vision of what can be. IKEA's showrooms are arranged so that you can envision how great their furniture would look in your home. Of course, if you buy a couch, you'll want to add those cool lamps they've got in the same display. How do you show your customers the possibilities? Are you selling features or benefits? (Focus on benefits!) 4. Demonstrate the outcome Along the same lines, IKEA's "rooms" are set up and displayed as a vision of the end result. The products are shown in the context of a vision of what could be: "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if our living room looked like this?" Is what most customers are thinking as they meander through the elaborate displays. I guess that's why it's called a showroom! Take a cue from IKEA and consider how you can enhance your "brand experience" in your business. And next time you visit the giant furniture retailer, take note of how they integrate their unique branding in everything they do. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Reply	<urn:uuid:608571a7-2aa1-452d-a5a3-33f5e4c901fe>	https://lumoskitchen.com/what-ikea-can-teach-us-about-online-branding/	en	0.969657	0.29136	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Mayo is the county nationally that had the most call-outs to deal with swarms of wasps so far this year. Pest control provider Rentokil is warning the general public to be vigilant of the dangers posed by wasps during the summer period. The company believes that as lockdown restrictions are lifted and people begin to spend more time outside, there is a greater need for awareness and caution around the stinging insects. The top five counties which accounted for wasp callouts so far this year were Mayo (25% of total callouts), Galway (22%), Sligo (18%). The warm summer months are when the wasp population is at its highest, as the favourable conditions enable the insects to thrive and multiply. Rentokil expects that as temperatures continue to rise as a result of climate change, wasp and other pest insect populations will continue to grow in the future. The Common wasp and German wasp are the two most commonly found wasp species in Ireland. Wasps are distinct from hornets and bees, and identifying them is important for homes or businesses that experience an infestation from a nearby nest. Members of the public can properly identify wasps, hornets, or bees by visiting the Rentokil website. Latest News	<urn:uuid:7d04bdcf-c41d-44b1-881b-6a4afbd39ea7>	https://midwestradio.ie/index.php/news/39478-mayo-is-the-county-nationally-that-had-the-most-call-outs-to-deal-with-swarms-of-wasps-so-far-this-year	en	0.956345	0.041035	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Tag Archives: Meno Experience This In the reading we were assigned for Monday, John Dewey put a lot of emphasis on the importance of experience in education. His connection between personal experience and education remind me of my first blog post, “To Practice or To Preach?” Continue reading Being Good Is a Choice In Meno, Socrates gives several examples of fathers who worked their hardest to try and teach their sons how to be good. However, the teachings do not work. (Meno, 94a-e) Then, Socrates says that teaching cannot be taught. Well, I disagree. As children are growing up, they pick up habits from their parents and family, who are the principal people that teach them. Whatever children are being taught to do is what they will do unless they choose not to. You see, in my opinion, being good boils down to a choice- whether or not you will follow the habits and teachings of the people closest to you or not. There are four types of outcomes that people can choose based on the habits of their parents: good habits from parents = good habits from children, bad habits from parents = bad habits from children, good habits from parents = bad habits from children, and finally, bad habits from parents = good habits from children. Parents can teach their children habits that are either good or bad, and children can learn from those habits and decide which habits they want to continue doing for the rest of their life. In society today, there are two different types of stories that are frequently heard. The first is the story about the parents that give their children a fabulous upbringing and are nurturing and caring, and their child(ren) end up making a mess of their life by practicing bad habits. The second is the story about a child who had a rough start in life (like the deadbeat parent, the “always drunk” parent, the abusive parent, or the uncaring/unsupportive parent) and made it a goal to become successful and, by practicing good habits, achieved that goal. Everything about a person’s character, which determines if they are good or not, depends on the choices that he or she makes. It is not a matter of you not being receptive to good things that causes you to be a bad person, but a matter of if you decide to be receptive to the things that you were taught, whether they be good or bad. Is “Meno’s Paradox” Really a Paradox? I do not believe that “Meno’s Paradox” is truly a paradox. When he says that you cannot find out about something that you know about because you already know it, he is completely wrong. One reason why this is wrong is because we are human beings, and we will never know everything about one thing. Many times, the subjects that we want to know about are too broad. For example, we can want to know everything about math, or everything about a person, but that can never happen because the information is simply too much for our brains to handle. Another reason why we will never know everything is because knowledge is relative. One person can think that knowing everything about Obama does not include knowing how many pieces of hair he has on his head, while another person thinks that knowing everything about Obama does include knowing that. Finally, we will never know everything about a specific subject or topic because knowledge is not static; it is dynamic. What is thought to be true and knowledgeable now can change in the future. New discoveries on different subjects are made everyday, some of which are proven true or false. Let’s say a person really did know everything about math. If they are on their deathbed, and five seconds before they die a new mathematical discovery is approved as being true and knowledgeable, then that person died not knowing everything about math. Another example is if you want to focus only on knowing what Bill eats for lunch every Wednesday. If Bill has eaten a chicken salad sandwich every Wednesday for the past ten years, then you will think that you know what Bill eats for lunch every Wednesday. But what if Bill decides that he wants to try the tuna salad sandwich one Wednesday and decides that since he likes it so much, he will eat that sandwich from then on instead of the chicken sandwich? Then your knowledge of what Bill likes to eat for lunch every Wednesday will have to change. Meno also believes that you can’t find out about something that you do not know about because you do not even know what it is you are trying to find out about, and he is wrong in this case as well. For one thing, this statement is bogus, because if you are trying to find out about something, then you already know what you want to find out about. Also, you can find out about something that you previously knew nothing about. What people have to do is look at how they obtained information about something that they knew nothing about in the past. You could have asked someone who you thought was knowledgeable on the subject, or you could have gone to the library and gotten a book on what you want to know about. You would do the same when you are trying to learn about new things- either ask a person or read a book or look for answers on the internet. Of course, there are always questions that people ask that not a single person has any knowledge on. This is when I refer to my saying that knowledge is dynamic. You could do research- whether it is looking at different books on topics that relate to that subject or getting opinions from people that know some things on that subject- and come up with an answer on your own. This is what people did in the past, and it is what people will continue to do in the future. Of course, people that come behind you will test your discovery that supposedly adds new knowledge, and it will either become approved or rejected by the masses. To Practice or to Preach? Would you be able to learn how to ride a bicycle from being told? Or by practice alone? Being taught to ride isn’t the same as practicing riding, but the two supplement each other and are necessary to help the student eventually acquire the real sense and skills to actually maneuver the machine. Continue reading The Perplexity in Learning or Knowing Write about the role of “perplexity” in learning or knowing (80a-d, 84a-c). To summarize the two selected sections of Plato’s Meno, Meno begins by saying that Socrates has “baffled” him about what being good really means, and that he has “got no idea how to answer the question. And yet, damn it, [he’s] talked about ‘being a good man’ thousands of times” (80b). Then, in the next section, Socrates explains to Meno that baffling his slave by proposing a difficult geometry question was not intended to mistreat or mislead him, but rather guide him to the true answer. The combination of these two passages leads to the “perplexity” in learning or knowing. In the geometry question, Meno’s slave thought he knew the answer, but with a few simple questions posed by Socrates, he was thrown into confusion and doubted what he previously thought he had known. So by baffling the slave, Socrates helped him realize, what he did not know, thus what he needed to learn. This is also echoed in Meno’s Paradox, “that it’s impossible to try to find out about anything – either what you know or what you don’t know” (80e). Exemplifying the first part of the paradox, the slave thought he knew the answer so there was no point in trying to find out anything more about the problem at hand. And for the second part of the paradox, before Socrates’ perplexed him with probing questions, he had no idea that there was anything wrong with his answer or there was a different method of obtaining the correct answer. Through perplexity he was able to dismiss what he thought he knew and get out of the paradox to learn the true answer. I find that most students have a similar experience with the confusion of knowing and learning in science classes, specifically chemistry. In every chemistry class I have taken, the professor teaches students some property or rule that the students are expected to master. Then students fall under the assumption that they know the property and are content with the explanation given of why that property is true. But as students move on to later semesters and more advanced material, they get confused very quickly. I have had professors directly tell the class that a rule we have learned is actually untrue, or that the explanation is not as simple as we thought. This is often perplexing and, more recently, I thought I knew everything there was to know about significant figures, which are essentially rounding rules for numbers. But on my first day of analytical chemistry class, the professor told me the rules I had known from previous classes were false and I was confused so I had to learn how to arrive at the correct answer. In conclusion, chemistry students are constantly thrown into the perplexity of believing they know something, then entering a state of confusion in order to reveal what they do not know, so they learn something new, like Meno’s slave and Socrates. Works Cited Plato, Protagoras and Meno, Penguin, 2006. Trans. Beresford. Into the Void Throughout the dialogue, Meno and Socrates talk about a certain problem: how can you look for virtue when you don’t know what it is? This paradox is later broadly expanded so it asks, “How can you try to find about something if you don’t know what it is, and if you did happen to come across it, how would you know that it’s the thing you’re looking for if you didn’t know what it was in the beginning?” Continue reading	<urn:uuid:474769d9-bfbe-4447-8194-0d248fb66ee7>	https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/basicproblems002/tag/meno/	en	0.977853	0.312723	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Like A Virginal Johannes Vermeer, A Lady Standing At The Virginal (c. 1672) A piano is a large piece of furniture, found in many American homes, that is used to display doilies and knickknacks. It is technically a musical instrument, but in most homes the piano has not been tuned since the mid-1950s, so it tends to have the tonal quality of four hubcaps falling off a car simultaneously. Another reason that living room pianos are rarely used is that hardly anyone knows how to play anything besides “Chopsticks” and the first few bars of “The Blue Danube Waltz”. After plunking through that repertoire (and repeated encores of it), the pianist is not rewarded with applause, but with the sound of doors slamming throughout the house. There are hundreds of thousands of pianos in existence — perhaps millions, even — but there are only 731 good piano players in the United States. None of those can be found in a Methodist church. The first piano was made around 1700 in Italy. The name piano is a shortened form of its original name, pianoforte. A rough translation of that Italian term would be “soft and loud”. As we know, the instrument can generate soft and loud sounds, depending on how firmly the keys are struck. Bartolomeo Cristofori’s invention was a breakthrough: he figured out how to have little leather-covered hammers strike the strings. Prior keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord, plucked the strings. That made a pleasing sound, but the volume remained the same, whether played with fingertips or elbows. As mentioned, the harpsichord was an antecedent of the piano. It was very popular with Baroque composers, but it was only one of several keyboard instruments of that era. What we might call the “home model” of it was known as the virginal, a more compact and simple version of the harpsichord. The strings ran roughly parallel to the keyboard and usually had 45 notes (as opposed to 88 on a modern piano). When they first appeared in the 1400s, virginals were made without legs so that they could be placed on a tabletop to be played. There are various theories about how the instrument got its name, including the doubtful claim that it’s because the virginal was mostly played by women. Another possibility has to do with the tonal quality it produced. In a document called Tractatus de musica that dates back to 1460, a Czech writer offers this explanation: “It is called a virginal because, like a virgin, it sounds with a gentle and undisturbed voice.” Obviously the writer of that statement had never been in a shopping mall with fourteen-year-olds shrieking at each other, “Omigod, Kimberly, shut UP!!!” Naming an instrument for the sensory associations it evokes is a nice idea, though. Maybe that’s why the trombone was originally called the sackbut. Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s	<urn:uuid:05cea56e-5980-4a2b-bf75-641fd59aaaf0>	https://tomreeder.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/like-a-virginal/	en	0.952867	0.204514	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Bombing Iran BOMBING IRAN….The Washington Post front pages a story today about the possible effects of a U.S. attack on Iran, and unsurprisingly, spoon feeds us the usual doom-and-gloom narrative favored by the effete liberals in the mainstream media: The small amount of excess oil production capacity worldwide would provide an insufficient cushion if armed conflict disrupted supplies, oil experts say, and petroleum prices would skyrocket….”If war breaks out, anticipate that all hell will break loose in the oil markets,” said Robin West, chairman of PFC Energy, a District oil consulting firm. Apparently the Post failed to contact the Heritage Foundation about this story. Typical MSM. But if they had, they would have discovered that the Heritage boffins completed a detailed study three months ago demonstrating that a strike against Iran would actually be good for the U.S. — as long as we carefully follow their policy prescriptions when we do it, that is. Lower taxes, reduced energy industry regulation, drilling in ANWR, and the end of tariffs on ethanol figure prominently. Too bad the liberal media doesn’t want you to know about this. Why is the Post trying to hide the truth? Support the Washington Monthly and get a FREE subscription	<urn:uuid:59c02b8b-0704-4d3d-8aad-a0e48cace099>	https://washingtonmonthly.com/2007/10/26/bombing-iran/	en	0.952754	0.021815	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet