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Want to accelerate your content marketing? Add subscribers to your blog? Gain stronger search traction for your website?
Guest blog everywhere you can.
A lot of content marketing strategies don’t even get this phase off of the ground. “Pish-posh! Humbug!” you say, stroking your luxurious scrivener’s beard. “I’m creating enough content for mine own blog! Why should I write for someone else’s blog? Who doth buy the ink for mine quills?”
It’s the twenty-first century, man. In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. Are you really going to argue with the Beatles?
You have an opportunity to reach a brand new audience. If you’re targeting the right blogs, chances are they have a larger audience, too. As long as your content is high-quality, the blogs are happy to help you promote your brand. They’ll repay you by linking back to your website, where you can capture leads or open up your content marketing to a wider audience.
A client of mine just began a guest-blogging tear. It’s been a huge help supplementing promotion of the CEO’s new book. By just sending simple emails, we have a 75 percent acceptance rate. Michael’s posts have been featured in SocialMouths, JeffBullas.com and Techipedia. We’re queued up for slots in major blogs like ProBlogger and Social Media Explorer. Each time a post goes live, the Duo Consulting homepage sees a traffic spike.
Have you given it a shot? You’d be surprised at how willing other bloggers are to accept posts. A few tips:
- Research the blog first. Understand the audience.
- Then, develop a post concept that you think they’d read.
- Pitch the blogger or other editorial contact with the post idea.
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I really couldn't help myself. I had to get put a nod to Loco Steve in there somewhere. I just didn't realize it would be so prominent.
I try to get Rage Select references in whenever I can. You guys should have seen some of the stuff that got cut from Hacking the System...
It's here! I'm exceptionally excited about this. And as someone who rarely gets excited about anything (except for new items on the Taco Bell menu), that's kind of a thing.
From the fine folks at Sinister Grin Press comes their anthology for new writers, FRESH MEAT. My short story HOMUNCULUS is there. It's weird and gross and maybe not what some of you would expect from me. Or maybe it's exactly what you would expect. I don't know. And that's something I kinda struggled with for a while. Most of you know me from Rage Select, being an obnoxious ass, or from Hacking the System, where I'm Brian's hapless assistant. None of those things really set the stage for writing horror. I love horror. Movies, comics, books, etc. It's my favorite. But would the rest of you enjoy it? We shall see.
Anyway, enough wringing of hands. Here's the link to the Kindle version: | <urn:uuid:227de845-c1df-4114-8901-29e8cd6d5400> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://www.jasonsmurphy.com/home/archives/09-2015 | 2019-09-18T18:33:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573323.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20190918172932-20190918194932-00146.warc.gz | en | 0.980845 | 272 |
The countdown to one of this summer’s biggest blockbusters, The Amazing Spider-Man, has begun and we could not be more excited about it. In the untold story of Peter Parker, we get to see the story of his parents and what happened to them and watch him fall in love with Gwen Stacy. Basically everyone is heading out to see this movie and you’re going to be super left out if you don’t, but in case you need some more convincing reasons, check out the list below:
1. Two words, Andrew Garfield. He is beautiful and we could stare at him forever, especially when he is running around in a tiny little suit.
2. Two more words, Emma Stone. Our favorite starlet has taken over the acting world and we are freaking OBSESSED with her. From Easy A to The Help and Crazy, Stupid, Love — it’s safe to say that we have a total girl crush on her.
3. Now that we think about it, The Amazing Spider-Man is the best date-night movie possible! There’s a love story, plus some armrest-gripping intense scenes to get you and your crush together.
4. It’s a totally different story than previous versions. The Amazing Spider-Man sticks more to the original comic book version of the story and Emma Stone’s character Gwen Stacy, is Peter Parker’s first love, long before he ever met Mary Jane Watson.
5. There are cool side-characters too! Check out our interview with Pair of Kings star Kelsey Chow who plays Sally Avril in the movie.
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Rescheduling & Cancellation
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“I applaud your bravery @gabrielledoug. I support you," Aly tweeted on Wednesday in response to Gabby's announcement.
Gabby and Aly are among over 140 women who have accused Nassar of assault, though before coming forward with her own story Gabby initially came under fire for her response to the situation. After Aly tweeted an essay about the importance of ending victim shaming in instances of abuse, Gabby responded by writing on Twitter that it is "our responsibility to dress modestly and be classy," because "dressing in a provocative/sexual way entices the wrong crowd."
The pair's teammates — including Simone Biles — jumped to Aly's defense. Less than 24 hours later Gabby issued an apology of her own, which implied that she, too, had been abused. "i didn’t correctly word my reply & i am deeply sorry for coming off like i don’t stand alongside my teammates," she tweeted. "regardless of what you wear, abuse under any circumstance is never acceptable. i am WITH you. #metoo."
On Tuesday, Gabby shared a longer apology on her Instagram and Twitter pages, in which she alleges that she is also a survivor of Nassar's abuse. "I didn't view my comments as victim shaming because I know that no matter what you wear, it NEVER gives anyone the right to harass or abuse you," Gabby wrote in a post on Instagram and Twitter. "It would be like saying that because of the leotards we wore, it was our fault that we were abused by Larry Nassar. I didn't publicly share my experiences as well as many other things because for years we were conditioned to stay silent and honestly some things were extremely painful. I wholeheartedly support my teammates for coming forward with what happened to them."
Aly and Gabby's fellow teammate responded with a show of support, writing, "You have our family's support @gabrielledoug. Don't feel alone. No victim should." USA Gymnastics also spoke out on Gabby's behalf, tweeting, "We admire the strength shown by Gabby and her teammates in speaking out publicly to hold a predator accountable," and noting that the organization will be taking "concrete steps to prevent further abuse."
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, you can seek help by calling the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 800-656-HOPE (4673). For more resources on sexual assault, visit RAINN, End Rape on Campus, Know Your IX, and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. | <urn:uuid:ee33d163-7fa6-4028-a438-9a64849de3b9> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://www.teenvogue.com/story/aly-raisman-support-gabby-douglas-larry-nassar-abuse | 2019-09-15T22:56:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514572436.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20190915215643-20190916001643-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.97241 | 530 |
Boondocking in an RV is popular among long-distance travelers. Living off the land is the goal, so there is no traditional access to electricity, freshwater or toilets. The recreational vehicle supplies everything you need and keeps you and your passengers comfortable. Learn the basics to get started in RV boondocking.
Water is Essential
You may think that stocking up on water bottles is good enough, but it's better to have water installed into the RV. Find the freshwater tank and fill it up using your own jugs or find local filling stations.
Food Planning Will Go the Extra Mile
On any long-distance trip, always find more food than you or your passengers can consume. Having too much food is better than having too little. Practice good safety tips when cooking, such as keeping the windows open to let out the smoke.
Have an efficient electrical system to cook, play electronics and drive the RV. When living out in the boondocks, you need a good battery and a few places to recharge at campsites or gas stations. The most advanced RVs have converters with some charging power, but it's temporary until you reach a station.
Can I Use My Sewer System?
Using the RV sewer system correctly helps to prevent backed up toilets and their odors. Fill it up regularly and with enough water to disintegrate the waste. To avoid having to empty it so often, use the RV toilet as few times as possible and consider using the ones at the campsites.
How to Camp Safely
Another major problem with boondocking is the lack of safety. Being out in the wilderness makes you vulnerable to wildlife predators, such as cougars and venomous snakes, natural disasters, human trespassing and other threats to your health and safety. Stay safe by camping in known safe areas. If you plan on stopping to learn about the wildlife in an area, be aware of the likelihood of being attacked by a wild animal. Bring a first aid kit to treat wounds along with a phone and flashlight. At campgrounds, treat the RV like your own home and keep the doors and windows locked.
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Let me start by saying the quantity and quality of sleep I get is very important to me. Doing a morning radio show means early to bed and early to rise. It sounds easy enough, but for me it was a daily challenge. I was always tossing and turning due to a back injury I suffered 20 years ago. I finally decided it was time for a new mattress.
My experience with Factory Mattress was taught me a few things. First of all that finding the perfect mattress was not as hard as I thought it would be. Their sleep consultants were insightful and asked me all the right questions, like what side and position I sleep in and if I had any health issues. When I told them about my back injury they suggested certain mattresses which would be the best for my condition. I tried about 10 different mattresses with varying degrees of firmness and found the Serta iComfort Insight mattress to be the perfect one for me. It molds to my body and supports my lower back too.
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Everyone is searching for something. Whether it be companionship, love, answers, a reason or a path, we are all looking for something. Something that we need.
I’ve found that my search is for balance. I’m constantly on the cusp of understanding just how to balance my life and everything in it for a peaceful existence. A balance between work and play. A balance between friends and family. And balance between everyone else and myself.
But, my search is on going. Balance is never reached and I find myself searching for new reasons why. Each time I learn something new, some fresh bit of information about myself or about my environment, I get one more step closer to achieving that personal balance I so desperately want.
And yet, as close as I get, I feel myself trip and fall with balance right out of reach. I’ve begun to wonder if I can ever have what I want. What I crave most in my life. That feeling of peace and everything being in its place in my world.
As far as I feel from my own person balance, I did learn something interesting this week about myself in regards to the relationships I have. For all the peace I desire in my own life, I allow myself to have relationships in which there is no balance.
So here I am, constantly seeking that which I so deeply feel will make me happy, a sense of peace in my world and yet I go into a relationship with another human being and don’t request that same desire. The desire of balance and compromise between two adults.
Instead, I walk into the relationship and take on the responsibility of all the heavy lifting. Of all the big questions. I completely take on the job of caring and maintaining the relationship of two people without requiring the participation of the other member.
When I do ask for more than what I assume they are willing to give, I ask in a small tone of voice with little more than just a simple request, if they aren’t too busy. And that gets me nowhere. So I trudge along, bearing the weight of two people, not expecting more than the very least of my partner.
Then the burden starts to take its toll. My shoulders slump, my heart gets heavy and start to lose pieces of myself along the way. I forget who I am and why I started this relationship in the first place. I begin to resent my partner because they can’t seem to pick up on the stresses I feel and step in to save me. To help out and do their part.
Kind of silly of me to take on the whole job and then expect them to dip in and save me when I can’t carry the emotional weight of the relationship any longer. Not only that but to read my mind and my heart. To just know when I need them without me asking.
Finding this out about myself shed some new light on my past relationships. It also gave me a new boundary to set up for myself and a new habit to begin. I need to allow the other person to carry their half of the weight. I need to balance the responsibilities of the relationship and voice my needs to my partner.
Though I may not have all the answers, having a little more light to lead me back to my path is comforting. It was a sigh of relief as I put my thoughts and feeling together and saw where the change was needed. It also gave me some insight into the failures of my past.
Balance, it’s just what I’m looking for. For both myself and for my future relationships. | <urn:uuid:3fa616db-38b3-40f5-9008-04b53a3332b3> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://kayleighforhope.wordpress.com/2010/08/ | 2019-02-17T06:12:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481624.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20190217051250-20190217073250-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.966121 | 739 |
The Book Theif X2
BY: Markus Zusak
This guy stole a book from the town library and was almost 100 years old. Her name is Liesel Meminger. Her brother was lying sideways and dead. when he ran out of the library the librarian took out a gun and threatend to shoot. | <urn:uuid:8ec9e7e9-3686-4a68-9b0b-d8f377aac10b> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://www.smore.com/0a81 | 2018-12-13T09:49:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376824601.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20181213080138-20181213101638-00293.warc.gz | en | 0.971758 | 66 |
This one of those projects when you wonder what took you so long to get around to it when it’s finally finished. I discovered this little side table (makes me think of a cigarette table) at the local habitat for humanity months and months ago. It was in fairly rough shape. The finish was worn and it had plenty of dings and bumps, but I just loved the skinny legs and overall shape of it. So then I purchased it and it sat by our front door in it’s original state as a catch all f.o.r.e.v.e.r. Then I moved things around (as I do frequently) and the little table found it’s way into my bedroom where it sat for awhile longer. Maybe looking at it every morning as I got out of bed finally motivated me to make a decision about what to do with this little sucker.
Pardon the so-so pictures, we have terrible indoor lighting in this house and it was nearly impossible to get a true representation of the new color on the table. In real life it has more green and is a nice rich teal color.
Due to the state of the finish and general condition of the table, it would have been close to impossible to get a “like new” appearance so I decided to go with a slightly distressed look. First, the bottom shelf and legs had to be repaired. The shelf had a split across the middle and a couple of the legs had started to separate as well. A good amount of wood glue and clamps corrected all those problems without too much effort. I let it sit overnight before moving onto the next step.
My plan was to paint it with some DIY chalk paint and I know supposedly no sanding is needed, but I can’t help it. A light sanding with my palm sander made everything all smooth and ready for paint. Next, I made some homemade chalk paint using a recipe I found here. She actually reviewed three different DIY mixtures and her favorite was actually a different mixture then the one I went with. The reason for this? I already had everything on hand and she didn’t hate this recipe, it just wasn’t her favorite. It’s super simple…
- 3 parts paint
- 1 part plaster of paris
- a little water
I had previously purchased a sample pot at HD in the color of choice and only used about half of it when creating the chalk paint. The paint went on smoothly and dried quickly. The only modification I would make for next time would be to add a bit more water to create a slightly thinner paint. After three thin coats it was completely covered. It was dry to the touch within an hour, but I let it dry a little bit longer before beginning the sanding/distressing process.
The paint sanded off super easy, but due to the thickness of my paint mixture I did put in a little extra elbow grease on the top to get it complete smooth to the touch.
Even in the daylight the paint still looks more bluish than it is real life. Oh well, try to picture a darker more tealy color (I’m all about using technical terms ). With sanding complete I wiped everything down and brought it inside to apply the wax. Before waxing down the table I did a little clean up job on the drawer pulls. They were super dirty, but after some scrubbing with the always stinky Brasso they looked super shiny. As shown in the before and after photo below..
Now that the little table was ready to wax I did a little more research on what would available both locally and within my budget. I’ve read great things about Annie Sloan’s wax, but it’s just a little outside my budget at the moment. So after a some research, I found that several others recommended watching this video tutorial here. She provides details on the different types of wax, availability and how to apply. With all that new knowledge fresh in my brain, I went with an easy to find paste wax. The simple style of table with all of it’s straight lines and flat surfaces wouldn’t require a softer wax.
I applied three really thin coats and let it sit for a couple of days before setting it down in it’s new home next to the bed. It replaced the tiny little table I’ve had been using for so long. Like I said it’s one those “Why didn’t I do this sooner?” projects. Overall, I loved working with both the DIY chalk paint and wax finish. My next project will most likely involve staining another thrift store find and I can’t wait to experiment using wax as the top coat | <urn:uuid:fd1f30f4-3ae2-493c-81ff-1fdea5982625> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://radcrafter.com/2013/03/side-table-makeover/ | 2015-08-03T00:24:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042989331.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002309-00091-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967992 | 982 |
After Rasmus Sandin and the Maple Leafs ended a summer-long stalemate by agreeing to a two-year, $2.8-million contract, Toronto fans are now wondering what to expect from Sandin this season.
- OK, stay with me. Stay with me. Finally, Rasmus Sandin has extended with the Leafs. Now, this hasn't been a long holdout, you know, definitely not as long as the other ones we've seen in the past. But the fact that it's finally done and over with, we don't have to focus on it anymore. It's solid. He's back. He's on the team.
Apparently, he's gained a lot of weight. I think he's like at about 194 right now. That's pretty solid considering the fact that, yes, Sandin is a skilled skating defenseman. But he is not afraid to throw the body a little bit, especially when it comes to those nice reverse checks that he's thrown. Blake Wheeler was an example of that last year. But I think the big question is, where can Rasmus Sandin go? Or where do the Leafs need Rasmus Sandin to go?
Playing time and playing opportunity was one of the things that was playing into Rasmus Sandin's decision to handle the negotiations the way that he did. And now that Muzzin is back, but you don't know how long that's gonna play out. Carl Dahlstrom and Jordie Benn have gotten some injuries there. They're going to be out of the lineup. Victor Mete is coming up, which is great. But I think at the very least, Sandin is going to be penciled in to play all, if not many, Leafs games this season.
But, I guess, where does it take him there? Is [INAUDIBLE] expecting him to continue to grow on the speed and the skill and the confidence? Is he going to remain on the quote-unquote bottom pair the entire time? Or is he going to end up being a top four defenseman for the Leafs? Is he going to play on the left or is he going to play on the right? Kyle Dubas said last year that they preferred Sandin on the left, but recently he's been practicing on the right side with Muzzin.
Now, if Sandine can actually get comfortable on the right-hand side and then have some success there, that works in the Leafs' favor, considering all the left-handed shots that they have and the fact that they don't have many right shots. The only player who shoots left but can play on the right is TJ Brodie. So it'll be a really strong season for Sandin this year to really step up and establish himself. And, again, with the contract that he has at 1.4, that could be a really favorable contract for the Leafs this season. | <urn:uuid:bf990ff6-c4db-4ae7-aaad-463148deaf93> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/rasmus-sandin-become-top-four-035818653.html | 2022-11-28T22:00:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710662.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20221128203656-20221128233656-00224.warc.gz | en | 0.982445 | 597 |
Vegeta is produced by Podravka, a company from Koprivnica, Croatia, as well as a subsidiary of Podravka in Poland and two Vegeta licensees from Austria and Hungary. There have been around 50 instances of other companies attempting to reproduce the product.
Vegeta was conceived in 1958 in Podravka's laboratories and professor Zlata Bartl was head of the team that invented it. The product was first sold in Yugoslavia in 1959 as "Vegeta 40", and has since become so popular that the production increased by several orders of magnitude. In 1967 Vegeta was first exported to Hungary and the USSR and is now sold in around 40 countries worldwide.
The ingredients of Vegeta include (according to the 2008 product packaging):
- salt max. 56%
- dehydrated vegetables 15.5% (carrot, parsnip, onions, celery, parsley leaves)
- flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate max. 15%, disodium inosinate)
- riboflavin (for yellow coloring)
|Energetic value||583 kJ (137 kcal)|
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Absolutely! While you are busy with the day-to-day running of your business, it can be easy to lose sight of your bigger goals and your original vision. We are confident that the Rise Action Club offers a safe and professional environment where you can thrive. It was designed specifically for business owners or managers who know they want more of out their business but don’t know how to achieve it.
Through guidance, support, strategies and encouragement, our lead coach Brian and other speakers guide you to get the best out of your business from sales and marketing to management, cashflow strategies and team building.
It is a great opportunity to regain that spark and passion that you first started with. It will inspire you and gently guide you to get out of working “IN” your business to working “ON” it. You can take control of how you want your business to operate.
Our advice…an open-mind for learning is the key, and perhaps most importantly… real action!
100%. Leadership is not found in a title. Anyone can start a business and become a business owner. The challenge comes when you decide to grow and lead a team. We have developed some amazing tools, principles and philosophies to help you lead your team to greater success and eventually towards a better workplace culture. It all starts with you stepping into that leadership role. From there, you become the change you want to see.
We currently have two levels of membership, Gold and Platinum. Connect with us for further details on 1300 651 493 or by email at email@example.com, and one of our amazing team members will be in touch to answer your questions.
We highly recommend that you discuss this investment cost with your accountant. From our experience, if you use the learnings and tools from this program to operate and grow your business then you will be able to claim this as a tax deduction.
Great question. We understand your time is valuable. The Rise Action Club is all about encouraging business owners and leaders to dedicate time to work “ON” their business as well as “IN” it. As with most things in life, the more you put in, the more you will get out of it. Consistency is the key! Whether it is 20 minutes a day or one day a week.
Also, to get the maximum value from our programs you need to commit to all of the member benefits on offer. This is something that we will work through with you so you can implement strategies and tools, and learn how to leverage your time, to make a huge difference in your business.
Our program is a fantastic opportunity for business owners and leaders to be part of a community and come together to share and learn new ideas. Yes, there are lots of other members, however this is an additional way to build new relationships, establish connections with other professionals that you may not have had the opportunity to meet.
As well as hearing from the speakers you will also benefit from the exchange of challenges and opportunities from the other members. They may have had a similar challenge or opportunity in their business or be a little bit ahead so any sharing could significantly impact your direction and business. You still gain individual insight and reach your own specific goals.
All live workshops are held at the William Inglis Hotel, Governor Macquarie Drive, Chipping Norton. The William Inglis is a newly established boutique equine themed 5-star hotel operated by the Sofitel offering state-of-the-art conference facilities and open space. Located in South-West Sydney, it is easily accessible by public transport and offers accommodation and free on-site parking.
Live workshops are held for our members of the Rise Action Club, however we do offer a FREE Business Growth Workshop open to the business community, which is a great way to learn more information about the Rise Action Club. Register for the next FREE Business Growth Workshop here
As a member of the Rise Action Club you are more than welcome to bring any of your team members to the live event. They don’t need to join exclusively. We have a special one-off investment rate for each live workshop. Connect with us to find out more information.
Absolutely! Networking is encouraged. Our live workshops, closed Facebook groups and other exclusive events are a great way to professionally connect with like-minded people. Many of our members have gone on to work together and form great referral relationships and opportunities.
All Rise Action Club members will have access to the online portal.
We also understand that it would be very challenging to implement all of the strategies and tools single-handedly, therefore you and your key team members will be able to access the amazing content via our myriseactionclub.com.au website.
This will allow the key members of your team to see and hear for themselves the learnings, strategies and actionable insights for immediate implementation into the business.
The best part is you can watch the training videos and workshop videos over and over again. Please note, these resources are not for your family or friends – they have been created and published solely for the use of Rise Action Club members and their business’s key team members.
Yes! Business partners and life partners are most welcome to be a part of this program. Connect with us today and find out how your partner can access a special rate for the Gold membership package. Connect with us on 1300 651 493 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.org, and one of our team members will be in touch to answer your questions
The calendar for the live workshops are created a whole year in advance so we highly recommend that you prioritise this into your schedule. However if you are unable to attend, the live workshops are recorded in a video and audio format and will be uploaded to the member website within 14 days post the event.
As a member of the Rise Action Club you can access the member portal or post your question on the closed Facebook group where you will have the direct support of the whole member community. Alternatively, if you are stuck or need extra support, simply email us and we will respond within 48 hours.
Platinum members can schedule a 1-2-1 coaching call through our member portal scheduling facility.
Absolutely! We can put you in touch with a current member. You may also like to watch and listen to our video testimonials our from current members.
Change takes time. Your first 12 months are crucial. It is the foundation to transform your business and life into what you truly desire. It takes time to learn and absorb the amazing strategies that become habit over time. You will need time to bring these tools and strategies back into your business to tailor and implement to suit your operations and see amazing results. If you do something incrementally for a period of at least 12 months, you are more likely to form long-lasting great habits.
Your membership will continue on a month-to-month basis. Most importantly, this is the time where you will see great improvements. You will be excited to take your business to the next level. Members in their second year and beyond are automatically eligible to opt into the Platinum membership program at a special rate and obtain immediate access to extra benefits and support.
Absolutely! We love good food and we love to feed our members. The live workshops and Boardroom event for our Platinum members are fully catered. However, if you have any special dietary requirements, there is an on-site café and restaurant that can cater to your unique needs.
If you’re travelling from interstate or overseas, the venue has a 5-star hotel operated by the Sofitel. They offer our members a special accommodation rate.
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Markets regulator Sebi on Friday doubled the overseas investment limit of alternative investment funds and venture capital funds to $1,500 million.
The decision has been taken in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in a circular.
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(24-Feb-23) UN, New York – The recent vote at the United Nations, where Somalia and 140 other countries voted with Ukraine to call for a “comprehensive, just and lasting peace” and demand that Russia withdraw its troops and stop fighting, is a step towards addressing the crisis. It is crucial that the international community recognizes the urgent need for action to address the humanitarian crisis in Somalia and other countries impacted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The UK embassy in Mogadishu’s tweet highlights their support for Ukraine and Somalia. The international community needs to work together to address the devastating effects of the Russian invasion and provide critical aid to those who are suffering. The situation in Somalia and other affected countries will continue to worsen without immediate action.
At the UN, Somalia 🇸🇴 the UK 🇬🇧 and 139 other countries voted with Ukraine.
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It is the sort of thing that doesn’t end up on a résumé, and no one would claim it as part of his legacy, but the Cleveland Browns, by one metric, have been winners in Pat Shurmur’s two seasons on the job.
I am referring to the pointspread, a system of measurement that beats just about anything in my book.
In 27 regular-season games under Shurmur, the Browns are 14-10-3 against the spread, a 58.3 percent cover rate. This season, they are 6-4-1 against the number — a 60 percent success rate vs. the spread.
By contrast, the Browns have won just seven of these 27 games outright, leaving the money-line-inclined losers more often than not.
So what’s the secret to the Browns’ spread success?
Here’s my theory: they are better than they are given credit for, but not nearly good enough to significantly alter their perception as one of the NFL’s weakest clubs.
Look no further than their mixed record as an underdog, the role they have played most in the past two seasons. While the Browns have managed to cover the spread in 12-of-20 games as an underdog in this span, they have won just four of those games outright.
In short, the Browns under Shurmur haven’t been giant-killers — they just have been pesky.
Nor have they had any sort of sustained success in the past two seasons, with just one two-game winning streak in Shurmur’s tenure. That came in the first three weeks of Shurmur’s first season on the job, when the Browns beat feeble Indianapolis and edged Miami.
The next week, the Browns were 1½-point favorites vs. Tennessee.
The Titans romped, 31-13.
It’s one of only six times the Browns have been favored in the past two seasons. All came in 2011, when Cleveland played a weak slate to begin the season. The Browns were just 2-3-1 vs. the number in those games.
It has been more than a year since the Browns were favored, but they could find themselves in this uncommon spot Sunday at Oakland, which has dropped four games in a row.
The Browns — as favorites? I’ll pass, thank you very much.
Now, as big underdogs? Then we’ll talk.
Anyway, and without further adieu, my Week 13 picks:
• I haven’t shied away from taking the Jets all season, and save for their utter no-show against San Francisco, I have emerged fairly unscathed. We’ll see how I feel after taking them to cover 4½ points against Arizona on Sunday. What’s more, with the Over-Under dipping below a key number (37), I’ll also take Over 36½. The Cardinals’ defense hasn’t played well in recent weeks, with opponents averaging 368.3 yards in the past three games. The Rams, who are hardly known for their strong offense, had four offensive plays of 37 yards or more in Sunday’s 31-17 win at Arizona. The Jets are wildly inconsistent, but here’s an opponent more their speed. The Cardinals are reeling, and the Jets have had 10 days to prepare. Call me a square if you must, but give me the favorite and the Over.
• On paper, Seahawks-Bears doesn’t look like a high-scoring affair, but the last six games between these clubs have cleared the consensus Over-Under of 37½, and both defenses and special-teams units have some scoring punch. That’s one reason I like the Over. Two more reasons: Seahawks rookie QB Russell Wilson has played well for a sustained stretch, and I have a perhaps irrational belief that Chicago’s offense is better than this. At this price, I can dream a little.
• Finally, I’ll take the points with Indianapolis (+5) at Detroit. Three of the Lions’ four wins have been by four points or less. Though Detroit looks to be the superior team on pure numbers, little has been easy for the Lions this season. I look for the Colts to keep this close, and an outright upset wouldn’t surprise me.
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|Vivian Laveda Flowers|
Arkansas State Representative
for District 17
|Assumed office |
|Preceded by||Hank Wilkins|
|Born|| September 4, 1969|
Place of birth missing
|Residence|| Pine Bluff, Jefferson County|
|Alma mater|| University of Arkansas|
at Little Rock
Clinton School of Public Service
|Occupation||Diversity officer at UAMS Medical Center in Little Rock|
|Religion||African Methodist Episcopal Church|
Vivian Laveda Flowers (born September 4, 1969) is a personnel specialist and politician, a Democratic state representative for District 17, which includes a portion of Jefferson County.
She works as a diversity officer at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center in the capital city of Little Rock. She resides in Pine Bluff in the south central section of her state.
Flowers holds a degree in Political Science and Technical Writing from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She received a master's degree from the Clinton School of Public Service, also in Little Rock. She is affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 2014, Flowers was nominated by the Democratic Party and elected without opposition in House District 17 to succeed her fellow African-American Democrat, Hank Wilkins, who was term limited. Flowers sits on committees for Revenue and Taxation; and Aging, Children, and Youth, Legislative and Military Affairs.
In February 2015, Flowers was among twenty legislators who opposed House Bill 1228, authored by Republican Bob Ballinger of Carroll County in northwestern Arkansas. The measure sought to prohibit government from imposing a burden on the free exercise of religion. Flowers's colleague, Representative Camille Bennett, a Democrat from Lonoke, called for a reworking of the legislation on the theory that the Ballinger bill would establish a "type of religious litmus test," which could impact nearly any law under consideration by the legislature. The legislation was subsequently passed by a large margin in the House and signed into law in revised form, SB 975, by Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson.
Flowers formerly resided in San Bernardino, California, and Takoma Park, Maryland, in suburban Washington, D.C., dates unavailable.
- ↑ Vivian Flowers. Mylife.com. Retrieved on January 25, 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Vivian Flowers. arkansashouse.org. Retrieved on April 15, 2015; no longer on-line.
- ↑ District 17. ballotpedia.org. Retrieved on January 25, 2021.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Opponents of Religious Freedom Bill Point Out Law Differences, Possible Unintended Consequences. Fox Channel 16 (April 1, 2015). Retrieved on April 14, 2015.
- ↑ HB 1228. Project Vote Smart. Retrieved on January 25, 2021.
- ↑ Indiana, Arkansas try to stem religious objections uproar. Atlantic Broadband (April 3, 2015). Retrieved on April 14, 2015; no longer accessible on-line.
- ↑ "Gov. Hutchinson signs revised religious freedom bill; HB 1228 recalled," KTHV-TV (Little Rock), April 2, 2015; no longer accessible on-line}}
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Dear God, for Ordinary Time’s chance to take a deep breath, we are grateful.
Ordinary days reveal their common graces,
and we thank you for the gift of the simple meals we so quickly forget,
for the place we come to rest at night,
and for the surrounding love of our friends.
For the fun of a text message, or a book to read,
for the stretch of a walk, or the ease of a nap, we are grateful.
And, we ask, could make these days even more ordinary?
No ICUs, no overstretched hospital aides and cleaning staff, no overwhelmed nurses and doctors.
No one grieving the deaths of distant loved ones, unseen for months.
No one hungry, or pained about the rent.
No one fearful of another’s presence.
The ordinary, God, holds your grace for us, and we praise you for it. Amen.
Mary Austin is the pastor of Gaithersburg Presbyterian Church, a multi-cultural church in the Washington, DC area.
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Virginia Water Radio’s latest episode, for the week of February 13, 2017, is “Abraham Lincoln’s Roots along Waters of the Shenandoah Valley.” The 3 min./58 sec. episode, available online at http://www.virginiawaterradio.org/2017/02/episode-355-2-13-17-abraham-lincolns.html, commemorates the 16th president’s birthday (February 12, 1809) by exploring the Lincoln family history on Linville Creek, a tributary of the North Fork Shenandoah River in Rockingham County, Va. The episode features “Valley” by the Harrisonburg, Va.-based band The Steel Wheels.
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“Have issue. You were so adamant that you wouldn’t go to Chelsea again. Discuss, please”.
This text came through the day I was at this year’s Flower Show and looked like a an essay question.
The best way to answer it is probably to compare Chelsea Flower Show with the Chaumont sur Loire International Garden Festival. This takes place in the grounds of the Chateau of Chaumont which sits in a well built and rather self satisfied away high above the languid reaches of the Loire.
A rather different affair to the hurried mayhem of Chelsea and other RHS spin-off regional shows in that it opens in April and runs for 7 months of the year. The process works like this: about 300 designers submit a design and from a shortlist, via technical drawings and interview, the number is whittled down to 30. This bunch then have a budget – now about 12K in euros awarded to them and get given a plot on the festival site.
After the grand opening, the individual gardens are maintained by the gardeners of the magical Domaine of Chaumont sur Loire. As for Domaine, it translates as Estate but is more than that as it gathers under its umbrella action, thought and influence. The Domaine raises the funds, promotes the festival, looks after the grounds.
Back to those gardeners, they keep the whole area of chateau gardens, parkland, sculpture park in a delicious state of good gardening – so that the visit we made in September found it well burnished but scintillating too. One day I would like to meet the formidable Chantal Collen-Dumond who has been the leading light behind making Chaumont a place of “nature and culture, artistic creation and landscape intervention”.
A tall order but the brief is fulfilled. Last year’s crop of designers included that irrepressible bunch of Domaine gardeners and included lighting designers, architects, sculptors, set designers and painters and horticulturalists. There was a duo who described themselves as “gardener and landscape designer and the second as landscape designer and gardener”
A leap over the fence into horticulture seems to happen very readily. Here’s the description of the career of one participant, Adrien Ohlmann who co-designed LES COULISSES DES ATTRACTION (pic above) “peppered with discoveries of a wealth of unique, out-of-the-ordinary and prestigious places, château grounds, private townhouses and Parisian terraces, including work at Château de Versailles and in two Zen gardens. Such experiences have served to confirm his vocation for the art of gardens”.
I like the way that gardening marries up with a commitment to the other arts. One garden took a poem from Rimbaud to bring alive a post-diluvial garden. Another, this time by Anna Rhodes, a landscape architect from Edinburgh, used her garden called TETE A TETE to bring these words of Matisse alive:
“There are flowers everywhere for those who bother to look.”
She engulfed us in her garden; we were invited to stretch up, lie down, get close and uncluttered in the mind, to scrutinise and observe. We lay on coloured mats and stared up at the petals of the echinacea. The various show gardens all beckon you in and invite you to take part, catching your own reflections in mirrors, parting a way through giant tresses of hair, distorting a view by walking backwards or getting very close to frogs that must have been imported as a job lot in LA PLANÈTE EN ÉBULLITION. (Second image above) From the point of view of pollinating insects, PUISSANTES IMMOBILES by a father and daughter team , Nicholas and Marlise Fillon, was a really good immersive experience.
And so this week I had a chat with Anna, who works for Harrison Stevens, to get the low down. Selected in February of last year, HS gave themselves 10 days to set up their garden of 250 square metres with 3000 plants (Budget stipulated 12 plants to the square metre). The staging had been designed for quick assemble on site. Piled into 2 vans, they drove like bats down to Chaumont and while setting up, were put up by the Domaine in the stable block of the chateau – 3 square meals a day provided to keep up flagging spirits. There were many materials on site that could be recycled from the previous year: soil, mulches and so on and the organisers scrutinised the submitted plant list and reported back that plenty were available from the Domaine The local nurseries supplied the rest.
Had she been able to keep within the budget provided by the Domaine? Pretty much so apart from the travel and accommodation on the way. The Festival was live from April through to November. The floriferous display on TETE A TETE’s stand was still pumping out colours when I visited in September. Anemone x hybrida Queen Charlotte, Sedum Matrona and Echinacea White Swan in full and jolly spate. Anna did say that a beady eye had been cast over the plant choice to ensure continuity of display.
And there I think we have it. The small budgets, the longevity of the display which make demands of horticultural possibility, the walking within the gardens, the recycling element. These and perhaps a subtle gallic variant on gardening status. It makes a huge difference that the plants on display really are growing as they should – by season and subject to the vagaries of correct planting and co-habitation with their fellow specimens. This does not happen at the English shows. The Chelsea show garden plant fantasy is something that I have never liked.
But the very great difference between Chaumont and Chelsea is underscored by a walk round the rest of the Domaine, from Land Art artfully placed in the best of site specific ways, (above is Christian Lapie: La constellation du fleuve 2015) a visit to contemporary art exhibitions housed in the stables, a wander through the courtyards and to the chateau. During this peregrination you will see the sort of gardening that is surly done and perfectly executed – from bedding exuberance round the castle and outbuildings to flower beds round the garden festival site. We examined it all, even the box topiary emerging from hoggin in the courtyards.
As you stroll you will not see one single banner for sponsorship, or gift shop with memorabilia of your trip, or concession selling garden equipment. The relationship that the Domaine has with obtaining its funding seems much calmer than the RHS approach. On discussing Chelsea Flower Show with my business globe trotter of a sister in law – her verdict: “ it’s a trade show isn’t it?”.
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A friend from childhood who's life is, of course, different in vocation than this hermit's, posted the 7 Cardinal Rules of Life that he found floating the internet. They are not specifically religious; but they do make good suggestions, rooted in Christian truths. Perhaps they could read, also, as follows:
- Stay in God's Order of the Present Moment.
- Be concerned with what God thinks of you, not what others think.
- Be patient in the face of trials and amidst daily life.
- Use God's gift of free will to be positive.
- Don't judge others; do unto them as you would wish them to do unto you.
- God holds all the answers; pray and ask Him for them, then listen.
- Be other-centered and compassionate.
Regarding Rule #2 (What other people think of you is none of your business), some close friends as well as some blog readers are each in agreement that their reading and sharing with the hermit what another blogger writes in confutation of and in rather demeaning reaction to the posts this nothing Catholic hermit writes, is not worth knowing. The two of us consecrated Catholic hermits (and our respective friends and blog readers) are on different wave lengths, obviously. The nothing Catholic hermit's Spiritual Father says: "Pay no attention to that other! Ridiculous! But keep writing!"
And truly, when the writing rises beyond that which is below and quests for what Pseudo-Dionysius expresses as the things of God and of God's Beautiful, this nothing Catholic hermit's mind, heart, and spirit rise in kind. (And it surely helps the body feel more buoyant in subtle ways, also!) There is freedom in seeking after the things of God, in yearning for His Beautiful--and of not succumbing onto infertile ground. | <urn:uuid:6daa6cfb-fee8-485e-b1af-c6e339f668ab> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://catholichermit.blogspot.com/2015/04/catholic-hermits-friend-shared-cardinal.html | 2018-04-21T09:46:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945111.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20180421090739-20180421110739-00388.warc.gz | en | 0.9499 | 386 |
Whew! I don't know about you but I am glad this week is over! I'm just glad I had all of you to share it with.
I made a couple of changes today within my trading account today. I guessed that a brief selloff would materialize around lunchtime and, luckily, I absolutely nailed it. I made a very quick and tidy little profit on some ES calls. I quickly rolled out of them and now I am in:
1) October gold call spreads 1700 vs 1800
2) December gold call spreads 1700 vs 1800
3) September silver call spreads 40 vs 45
Only the silver makes me nervous (time is short) and has me worried (didn't rally back today like everything else). Actually, it kind of pisses me off a little bit. The ES rallies 40 points. Gold rebounds $15. Crude bounces back $3. Silver...blechk. Oh well, I must be patient. Provided there are no overwhelmingly bad headlines over the weekend, we look to head into Monday with a general "risk ON" mindset. Maybe I'll catch a break.
Speaking of headlines, did you see this a few minutes ago?
If you were wondering why gold was so strong on the Globex, I guess you just got your answer! Personally, I still cannot believe that a U.S.-based ratings agency will be allowed to downgrade U.S. government debt. The implications for insurance companies, mutual funds and pension funds would be calamitous. I'll guess we'll see.
OK, onto the charts. First, let's take a look at gold. For all the craziness, the Dec gold contract finished UP another $34. Headline risk is everything at this point, however, gold looks certain to test the 1680-85 level again next week. After that, it's anyone's guess. IF it rallies another $40 next week and closes near or above $1700, all bets will come off. Gold will have the appearance of an accelerating uptrend as it would be breaking out and through its nearly three year uptrend. It's going to be a very exciting and consequential week.
Silver isn't nearly as exciting. You know I've been going on and on lately about lack of follow-through due to the meager 120,000 short interest. OI finally perked up this week as we headed toward 42+ and then, of course, came the smashdown. This weekly chart looks sickly and, frankly, gives me a feeling that 36 is in the cards before we ever go back and break through 42. In the very short-term, however, I can see an early-week rally next week that takes silver back up near $40 and maybe even $40.50. You can bet you arse I'll be dumping that spread when it gets there.
Lastly, I've received several requests for an opinion on crude. I had hoped that 88-90 would hold but, once that failed in the massive dump on Thursday, you had to figure that 84 was in the cards. You can see that on the chart below. That should do it. IF 84 fails, it looks like it could trade to 80. At 80, it would sure look to be one heckuva good buy. If anyone out there is trading crude, be sure to buy yourself plenty of time. It looks to go much higher but maybe not as soon as next week. Be patient and you'll be rewarded.
OK, that's all for now. I'm going to take a couple of days off so consider this your open thread for the weekend. I think we all found great value from this site this week. Go forth and convert as many new Turdites as possible.
p.s. It's 10:00 pm EDT Friday night and I felt I had to chime in. I must admit that I am absolutely stunned and flabbergasted that S&P has officially downgraded U.S. debt to AA+ with a negative outlook. This is truly an historic event and one that will have repercussions for weeks and months to come. At first glance, I can't see how the PMs don't experience a huge rally on Monday but, who knows? One thing I do know, however, is that gold and silver will be higher in a month. They'll be higher still in six months and even higher a year from now. The Great Keynesian Experiment is ending. Do not, under any circumstances, sell you precious metal. They are your only financial protection. | <urn:uuid:5abbc4b1-3992-4c7e-ac56-fd3e16d780b2> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://www.tfmetalsreport.com/blog/1928/three-weekly-charts?page=9%2C1 | 2019-03-22T18:47:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202688.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20190322180106-20190322202106-00554.warc.gz | en | 0.982413 | 933 |
We had a wonderful celebration here in Charlotte and I was so proud to give a speech at our festivities for over 60 people. Here are some highlights of my first part of the speech (the second part was of course in Finnish).
My name is Kata Hyvärinen and I have been living in Charlotte for almost 5,5 years now. Among you all, 5,5 yrs is still short time period, but for me it’s a lifetime, a completely different way of living.
Finland is, and will always be my home country, place for my soul to be in peace and place that I weekly but happily miss from our sweet Carolinas. I, and my family are 100% Finns, we speak Finnish and I still think and dream in Finnish. It was kinda hard for me to leave my home, family and career in this age, but I have managed pretty well to bring Finland here with me! Being a traditional Finnish bodyworker, although I’m also NC licensed massage therapist, is not only my job, it’s my way of living and my trademark. So, I brought this Finnishness with me and made it my brand. I’d say that it’s something to be extremely proud of. But even more than my work, I’m proud and touched about, is our language: Finnish.
Ok, let’s stop for a moment and emphasize that in Finland we have 2 national languages, Finnish and Swedish, and also Sami languages, Finnish and Swedish Finnish sign language, Romani and Karelian have their semi-official status in Finland. The third biggest languages at the moment is actually Russian, followed by Estonian, Somali, English and Arabic.
Finnish is one the oldest languages in the world and it’s estimated that Finnish was spoken already 5000 years ago. I am grateful and proud about the fact that we have been able to sustain our own, peculiar language in the middle of all the Scandinavian and Slavic languages surrounding Finland. I am thankful for those great men and women that struggled to collect and develop our tongue to one of the official languages of our country. The tongue that has it’s specific status, written form and that we can go to school from Kindergarten to doctoral level using our own language! That’s much more than for example sami people can say (although since 1992 sami has had an official status in northern Finland, meaning that sami people can speak their language in health care and social services, but that’s only in a few cities up north). And actually, several of our related languages (Votic, Livonian, Ingrian for example) are in danger of dying out, or has already died, since there is no common written language. To give you a perspective about this: they speak 3 different Sami language in Finland and those three are as different from each others than Finnish is from Hungarian. They do not understand each others and that could be our situation if were’t Elias Lönnrot, Mikael Agricola and even Aleksis Kivi. Without them I would’t be able to understand some of you even if we would speak Finnish, because the development of spoken forms eventually separates tongues. But today, we don’t have worry about eastern and western dialects of Finnish going farther away from each others, because we have one, common written language to keep us together.
At this point, you have probably figured out that for me Finnish is not just a language I speak, it’s a language of my thoughts, my feelings, it`s my passion and my profession. And I have been able to keep teaching my language even when I live here in NC: who would have thought that they need Finnish teacher here? | <urn:uuid:6002552d-4602-406a-ae3d-9aa84917f5ab> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | http://www.katasway.com/2017/12/finland-100yrs.html | 2023-02-02T22:17:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500041.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20230202200542-20230202230542-00129.warc.gz | en | 0.972283 | 787 |
WILKES-BARRE - Luzerne County filed federal court papers to remove the civil lawsuit over funding for the county public defender's office from county court to federal court.
The plaintiffs in the suit - former Luzerne County Chief Public Defender Al Flora Jr. and three criminal defendants seeking legal services from the county - filed the action in county court. The county filed for the removal of the suit to federal court Friday because the suit involves the Sixth Amendment right to legal counsel.
Mr. Flora sued the county and county Manager Robert Lawton in county court a year ago, claiming the public defender's office needed more county funding to meet its constitutional mandate to provide legal counsel to indigent defendants.
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The United Nations released a report Tuesday documenting a significant expansion of illicit drug manufacturing, trafficking and use in East and Southeast Asia.
The report from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime urges governments in the region to increase enforcement, prevention and treatment programs to contain the growing problem.
Gary Lewis, the U.N. Office of Drug and Crime regional representative for East Asia and the Pacific, said analysts are most concerned about the growing popularity of amphetamine-type stimulants, or ATS, drugs.
Drugs such as crystal meth and ecstasy are now among the top three drugs of use in the 15 east and southeast Asian countries they surveyed, said Lewis.
“We've seen a five fold increase in the number of ATS labs busted within the last four years or so, We've seen a four fold increase in the seized methamphetamine seizures over the past couple of years.”
The growth of the drugs varies across the region. Investigators say Australia, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines and South Korea have reported stable or declining usage. But there are increasing numbers of users in Cambodia, China, Laos, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam.
The report also documents a staggering increase in methamphetamine seizures in the region, from 32 million pills in 2008 to 136 million in 2010, which reflects the expanding production of these illicit drugs. And it says that in Indonesia, crystal methamphetamine has overtaken cannabis to become the primary illegal drug of use.
Lewis said a growing population of young people, unaware of the danger of these drugs, is increasing demand. Transnational criminal syndicates are meeting the growing demand with increased supply manufactured in areas where enforcement is lax, he adds.
Regional authorities need to go after the heads of these organizations and other professionals benefiting from the drug trade, Lewis said.
“Looking not only at arresting the dealers but looking at the bigger kingpin operations that are required, taking out the facilitators who are in many respects are lawyers and accountants, IT specialists, experts in trade who have supported the ancillary services of the drug trafficking groups.”
The report also says that, in 2010, there was a 19 percent increase in drug-use related arrests, compared to the previous year.
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I would like to draw your attention away from Namine for a moment, in order to encourage you to pray for Anna. She has cancerous tumors in her abdomen, and she may not have long to live.
As told by Anna’s CaringBridge page:
Anna was complaining about tummy aches for about 7-10 days. She was running a fever on and off. A CT scan discovered that she has a sizeable tumor in her abdomen along with a number of other smaller masses. She was airlifted to Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis on Saturday, March 21, 2009.
Anna had surgery to remove the largest tumors from her abdomen, but hundreds of tiny tumors remain. Many scans and tests led to a diagnosis of Stage 4 Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma, a highly-malignant, fast-growing cancer that usually strikes children. An aggressive 54 week plan that includes chemotherapy and radiation began on April 3. Anna must be admitted to the hospital for treatment approximately every other week for 4-5 days at a time. | <urn:uuid:488b0898-a3d9-4d99-9395-5176a14822e9> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://eichefam.net/2010/12/10/pray-for-anna-please/ | 2018-03-22T15:56:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647892.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20180322151300-20180322171300-00501.warc.gz | en | 0.98257 | 219 |
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There is no justice on the earth, they say.
But there is none in heaven, either.
Pushkin Mozart and Salieri
Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus (1979) is constructed as an inquiry into the nature of God and God’s relationship with Man. Milos Forman’s eponymous film (1984) deals with the same subject. It is a faithful adaptation of the play whose main theme is at a juncture of art, religion and philosophy.
Shaffer is not however the first writer who turned the rivalry of Antonio Salieri (1750 – 1825) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) into a story of cosmic dimensions. Alexander Pushkin wrote a short play Mozart and Salieri in 1830. He furnished the story of a “poisonous” relationship between the two composers with a theological argument of God’s injustice to ordinary men.
O heaven, where,
Where is the justice, when the holy gift,
Immortal genius, comes not as reward
For any burning love or self-denial,
Labor, diligence or prayer, but lights
Its radiance instead in heads of folly
In Pushkin’s play, Salieri is so incensed by God’s injustice that he assumes the role of the defender of all mediocre men and women, “us children of the dust”, who must be protected from God’s negligence and favouritism towards men of extraordinary qualities. The similarities between Pushkin’s Mozart and Salieri and Shaffer’s Amadeus are so striking that Shaffer’s claim he was not aware of Pushkin’s play at the time of writing Amadeus is rather surprising.
The film’s narrative frame is Salieri’s confession, made in a mental asylum at the end of his life, that he killed Mozart because he could not stand his own mediocrity and Mozart’s blessedness. Ama-Deus is apparently beloved by God. Salieri initially believes that he made a pact with God. In his youth, he promised to be entirely devoted to God in exchange for being endowed with musical talent. All events in his life suggest that God agrees to the bargain and keeps his side of it. A native of a provincial town in Lombardy, Salieri is transported to Vienna, a musical capital of Europe at that time. He becomes Hofkapellmeister achieving, apparently with God’s help, all that was possible to achieve on the musical scene of the continent in the second half of the eighteenth century.
And then Mozart arrives. Salieri realises that his rival’s music is infinitely better that his own. It is now clear to him that Mozart is an instrument in God’s hands. Mozart’s music is of such beauty that it could only be created under divine inspiration. Salieri’s music is mundane, Spirit-less, Mozart’s music is miraculous, spiritual, infused by the Holy Spirit (pneumatic). The former’s music is of this world, the latter’s is outworldly – “the very voice of God! […] an absolute, inimitable beauty.” (Amadeus’s script).
Salieri feels cheated by God. He thought he did everything to be rewarded but God chose Amadeus who did not deserve this honour. Infuriated by God’s injustice, he apparently poisons Mozart in order to take revenge on God. Salieri probes into the nature of divinity and comes to conclusion that God is not on the side of ordinary men whose talents are either non-existent or limited. Disgusted with God’s injustice and frivolity, he creates a new church for mediocrities and sees himself as a pope of the masses. The film ends with his benediction and absolution to all people of modest intellect and unremarkable talents.
In the film’s final scene, Salieri talks to the camera. He is addressing the audience which he assumes is composed of people like himself – talentless mediocrities abandoned by God. Their only salvation is to replace God as an object of (self) adoration. Salieri is oblivious to the fact that he moves through a crowd of patients in a mental asylum.
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint. On their behalf I deny Him, your God of no mercy. Your God who tortures men with longings they can never fulfil. He may forgive me: I shall never forgive Him.
Mediocrities everywhere, now and to come: I absolve you all! Amen! Amen! Amen!
Theologically speaking, Salieri is guilty of Pelagianism. Pelagius (circa AD 360 – 418) rejected the concept of grace, maintaining that salvation is attained primarily by good deeds. For Salieri, God is the “Old Bargainer” and, therefore, God is not free to bestow His favours on whoever He chooses. However, when Salieri meets Mozart, he realises that God’s sovereignty is limitless. Pushkin, Shaffer and Forman reaffirm the role of grace in salvation. Amadeus is the reaffirmation of God’s freedom.
As a historical personality, Mozart is well suited to illustrate epochal changes occurring at the end of the eighteenth century. At that time, Europe was being reshaped politically, socially and artistically. The French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic era can be seen as the apogee of the Enlightenment but also as the first phase of Romanticism. Mozart belongs to Classicism in the history of music but he can also be perceived as a proto-Romantic. He lived in a period of transition, between Haydn and Beethoven. James H. Donelan writes in Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic that
Just as Kant, above all others, was the origin of the move of metaphysics toward aesthetics, so Mozart was the origin of the movement of music toward an elevated status as the highest of the arts. […] For some critics, Mozart was the quintessential Enlightenment composer, eminently reasonable, demonstrating a cool, mathematical perfection in everything he wrote. For others, Mozart was the proto-Romantic genius, erratic, uncontrollable, and destined to an early, impoverished end.
In Amadeus, three forms of transformation are occurring, namely the transformation from Classicism to Romanticism in musical aesthetics, the transformation of the concept of God as watchmaker into a God as a free creator, and the transformation of the society through the process of secularisation in politics.
In Romanticism, aesthetics is being infused with metaphysics. Music acquires religious dimension. Salvation occurs through art. E. T. A. Hoffmann writes in “Beethovens Instrumentalmusik” that music leads us out of life and into the realm of the infinite.
Music discloses to man an uncharted realm: a world that has absolutely nothing in common with the external, empirical world, a world that comprehensively encircles its empirical counterpart, a world to which the latter abandons all distinct sensations for the sake of surrendering itself to an inexpressible yearning.
Music gives us access to Being in its totality, without the mediation of Logos. The experience of Being cannot be verbalised: the truth about the Absolute and the Infinite can only be sung. Hence the role of music as as the highest of the arts. Music shows us how things really are; it is a phenomenal representation of the noumenal. The truth about the world is non-verbal. Music expresses Harmonia mundi by mystically conveying to us the meaning of the universe.
Mozart is Die Zauberflote, the flute of God. At the performance of Le Nozze di Figaro, Salieri says “I heard the music of true forgiveness filling the theatre, conferring on all who sat there a perfect absolution. God was singing through this little man to all the world.”
The role of music changes in Romanticism because the concept of God is also changing. God is no longer a watchmaker who designed the universe as a giant mechanism, instituted the laws of Nature and then withdrew from the world. During the Enlightenment, God was essentially perceived as deified Necessity. Romanticism turned Him into an artist, if not a musician, who is free as a creator of the world. Feelings, not reason, permeate the world which is no longer a mechanism but a living organism. Salieri talks to God who does not answer. God uses arts in general and music in particular as a means of communion with His creation.
Amadeus is also about politics. It represents the political and social transformation which occurred during the French Revolution when subjects of a monarch, who was anointed with divine legitimacy, emancipated themselves and became free citizens. In feudalism, earthly political arrangements were the reflection of a heavenly order where God was not unlike a monarch in heaven. When feudalism crumbles, God also is being dethroned. Linda Woodhead writes in Christianity that
the modern world comes into being when power, rather than being seen as the possession of sovereigns and monarchs (earthly and heavenly) to whom individuals must submit their lives, comes to be seen as the possession of each individual subject. Since each one is sovereign in his or her own right, power is now thought to come from below, and to be bestowed by ‘the people’ on their rulers, rather than the other way round.
There are hints of things to come in Le Nozze in Figaro and Don Giovanni, where servants are no longer satisfied with their lot. Die Zauberflote is even more subversive. Mozart was a Catholic and a Mason which was not an unusual combination at that time. He used Die Zauberflote as a platform to express his belief in the coming brotherhood of men.
The desire of an individual to free himself from the constrains imposed by the society is arguably the main preoccupation of Forman in all his films. It is also the main subject of Shaffer’s plays.
However, the matter of social and political emancipation is more complicated. At the end of the film, Salieri heralds the advent of a world without God, without art, and without metaphysics. This will be the world of Salieris in which there will be no place for Mozarts. Strangely enough, Salieri makes his prediction in a mental asylum.
His world is meant to be a utopia but it turns out as a dystopia. Equality seems to be inherently connected with mediocrity. This connection has been examined by many thinkers including Dostoevsky (Legend of the Inquisitor in Brothers Karamazov), Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), de Tocqueville (Democracy in America) and Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt of the Masses).
Amadeus is a rare case of a successful film adaptation of a play which satisfied both the playwright and the film director. It seems that Shaffer and Forman had similar views about the world and both loved music as an art with metaphysical connotations.
The film itself is constructed as an opera. Music is not just an illustration added to a story but carries the plot and provides an interpretation of the events shown on the screen. Discontinuous editing is used by Forman to emphasise the structural role played by music. The role of fragments of Mozart’s operas is to signal different stages in Mozart’s life, from Die Entführung aus dem Serail (courtship), through Le nozze di Figaro (marriage) and Don Giovanni (Mozart’s relationship with his father), to Die Zauberflöte (Mozart’s message to the world). The film ends with the Requiem which serves as premonition of Mozart’s own death.
According to W. H. Auden, “No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” The same can be said about Amadeus. Its story is not very sensible. There is no evidence that Salieri poisoned Mozart, Salieri was not a mediocrity, and Mozart was not a mythical artist who composed without any effort, almost an idiot-savant. Like in operas, the plot in Amadeus is subservient to music.
Formally, Amadeus is as artificial as any opera. Its meaning though is deep intellectually and engaging emotionally. Opera is a drama through music not merely a drama with music, and so is Amadeus.
Opera is an Italian invention and therefore necessarily connected with Catholicism. One can go as far as claiming a link between religion and opera. Elaborate liturgy of the Catholic mass is not unlike the spectacle of an opera whose aim is to dazzle the spectator. Seen from this perspective, opera is a secularised mass. A Baroque church is not that different from an opera stage.
Forman turned Shaffer’s cerebral play into a dazzling spectacle. He used Baroque interiors in his native Czechoslovakia to emphasise the role of visual sensitivity in Catholic Europe. Amadeus is a highly successful marriage of psychological depth of Shaffer’s play with Forman’s visual imagination. Amadeus has not lost its power since it was first shown in cinemas in 1984. It often appears on the lists of best films ever made. | <urn:uuid:1e6fa6a8-7b2a-4a43-a037-910ba8cec00e> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://mirekkruk.wordpress.com/category/reason/ | 2018-12-13T17:38:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376825029.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20181213171808-20181213193308-00290.warc.gz | en | 0.956178 | 2,879 |
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United States District Court, E.D. North Carolina, Eastern Division
W. Flanagan United States District Judge
matter comes before the court upon defendants' motions to
dismiss pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6)
for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be
granted. (DE 38, 41, 44). Plaintiff has failed to respond to
these motions, and the time for doing so has elapsed. In this
posture, the issues raised are ripe for ruling. For the
following reasons, the court grants defendants' motions.
OF THE CASE
proceeding pro se, commenced this action on June 25, 2018,
asserting, as pertinent here, that defendants Branch Banking
and Trust Company (“BB&T”); Morgan Stanley
Mortgage Capital, Inc.; FV-1, Inc.; Morgan Stanley Mortgage
Capital Holdings, LLC; U.S. Bank Trust National Association;
and Igloo Series II Trust violated the Truth in Lending Act
(“TILA”), 15 U.S.C. § 1601, et seq,
in connection with a residential mortgage loan
transaction. For this violation, plaintiff seeks
monetary relief including compensatory and punitive damages
between $100, 000.00 and $2, 000, 000.00; pre and post
judgment interest; attorney's fees; and the refund of
wrongfully collected sums. Additionally, plaintiff seeks
rescission of the loan transaction.
3, 2018, defendant BB&T filed the instant motion to
dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be
granted. On June 6, 2018, defendants FV-1, Inc., Morgan
Stanley Mortgage Capital Holdings, LLC, and Morgan Stanley
Mortgage Capital, Inc. filed the instant motion to dismiss on
similar grounds also for failure to state a claim upon which
relief can be granted. Finally, on June 6, 2018, defendants
Igloo Series II Trust and U.S. Bank Trust National
Association filed the instant motion to dismiss also for
failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.
facts alleged in the complaint may be summarized as follows.
On July 7, 2005, plaintiff obtained a mortgage on her
property located at 544 Pine Ridge Road, Roanoke Rapids,
North Carolina (“the property”), by executing a
negotiable promissory note and deed of trust with BB&T
for $249, 000. (Compl. ¶¶ 36-38, 59). According to
the complaint, BB&T failed to disclose material
information during this transaction. (Id.
¶¶ 87, 92). Due to a series of allegedly unlawful
and fraudulent transfers, defendants FV-I, Inc.; Morgan
Stanley Mortgage Capital Holdings, LLC; U.S. Bank Trust
National Association; and Igloo Series II Trust became
holders of the negotiable promissory note and deed of trust.
(Id. ¶¶ 11-14, 43-44, 53). Despite allegedly
lacking a lawful ownership interest in the property,
defendants foreclosed on the property on June 20, 2018.
(Id. ¶ 121).
Standard of Review
survive a motion to dismiss” under Rule 12(b)(6),
“‘a complaint must contain sufficient factual
matter, accepted as true, to ‘state a claim to relief
that is plausible on its face.'” Ashcroft v.
Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 663 (2009) (quoting Bell Atl.
Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 570 (2007)).
“Factual allegations must be enough to raise a right to
relief above the speculative level.” Twombly,
550 U.S. at 555. In evaluating whether a claim is stated,
“[the] court accepts all well-pled facts as true and
construes these facts in the light most favorable to the
plaintiff, ” but does not consider “legal
conclusions, elements of a cause of action, . . . bare
assertions devoid of further factual enhancement[, ] . . .
unwarranted inferences, unreasonable conclusions, or
arguments.” Nemet Chevrolet, Ltd. v.
Consumeraffairs.com, Inc., 591 F.3d 250, 255 (4th Cir.
2009) (citations omitted).
argue the one-year statute of limitations under TILA bars
plaintiff's claim for monetary relief. Additionally,
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bars plaintiff's claim for rescission of the loan
Plaintiff's claim for monetary damages under TILA
requires creditors to disclose material information to
borrowers during the execution of a loan. 15 U.S.C. §
1638(a). If a creditor violates this disclosure requirement,
a borrower can seek monetary damages by filing suit
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Hello Familia y Amigos!
How is everyone? :)
This has been a super awesome and crazy week!
I was made Coordinating Sister (which they only have in the MTC, it's like the zone leader for the girls in the zone.) Our old coordinating sister is going to Spain soon!
I got to host again this week, and I hosted 4 sisters! 2 going to Thailand, one to Germany, and one to Brazil I think.
Alaena left the MTC for Spain this Wednesday! And GET THIS!!! She got to be part of our companionship for like 2 days straight! We had meals together and class together and gym and we taught a lesson together and went to the devotional together and it was such an amazing opportunity! I never thought I'd get to be in a tripanionship with Alaena... it was pretty cool. :) She's in Spain now tho and I hope she's having a great time!
So there are SOOO many people here now... especially sisters. On Wednesday we got 800 missionaries in and a third of them were sisters! So crazy. They are now doubling up on bunk beds in one of the sister's residence halls.
I'm pretty sure there are around 3000 missionaries here! Awesome craziness!
I think it's pretty amazing that I get to go to the temple here once a week! It's a huge blessing and really makes my week better. Especially when we walk up there at 6:30 in the morning, when it's all dark and cold and the mountains are towering over us...and then there's the temple, white and bright and glowing! And it's so warm in there :) And the food is so good!
I have about 2 weeks left here in the MTC! Probably like 2 and a half. But we will probably get our travel plans in the next week or two. I will keep you posted! We are allowed to call home while we are at the airport so I will have more details on that when the time gets closer! I can't wait to see Chile and I can't wait to teach real people! Cristian told me a lot of awesome stuff about Chile and I can't wait to hear more!
If anyone wants to send me pics of family or friends or anything you want to, please feel free to do so! I have no pictures here at all. If you still need my address, here it is!
Hermana Amy Schrader
MTC Mailbox #255
2005 N 900 E
Provo, UT 84604
Me and my companion, HErmana Whipple, also got to do a teaching demonstration type thing for the new missionaries on Wednesday night. It was really weird cuz we aren't used to teaching in English! A couple times I almost started speaking in Spanish but I didn't. lol. But now all the new missionaries know who we are...and they probably know all the mistakes we made too! But it was pretty fun.
I saw Brendan Casey! Right as he came out to get his luggage. It was good to see him.
Trina Kackstaetter left on Tuesday I think for Hawaii so lucky her!
Still loving my companion and Elders! We are district 11A, the Chile Gang! And we have a Chilean flag hung up in our room.
Umm let's see...how bout some Spanish?
Yo estoy muy agradecida que estoy aqui en el CCM y que tengo muchos amigos y maestros aqui. Yo se que esta iglesia es la iglesia de JesuCristo en la tierra. Y yo se con toda my corazon que Dios y Jesucristo me aman y que aman a cada persona en el mundo! No importa quien es, Ellos le aman.
I love this gospel so much and I am so grateful to be here at the MTC, learning and having the time of my life! I know that God and Jesus Christ love me and that they want the best for me.
I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!
If you want to send me candy, do it. :)
IF you sent me a letter or a dearelder, you'll get a letter back, I promise!
Everyone write me I'd love to hear from you!
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Farm Bureau is reconsidering its endorsement of Republican Rep. Todd Akin for U.S. Senate because of comments he made about women being able to thwart pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape," the organization said Friday.
The bureau's political action committee backed Akin over Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill by a 99 percent vote just three weeks ago, and the possibility it might drop support for a Republican candidate is unprecedented.
"After polling the Missouri Farm Bureau county leaders, a majority believe the endorsement of Todd Akin for U.S. Senate should be reconsidered," said Farm Bureau spokesman Estil Fretwell, an adviser to the group's political arm.
Fretwell said a new endorsement vote will come soon.
It is unlikely the group would endorse McCaskill if it drops Akin. The Missouri Farm Bureau has always backed the Republican candidate since it began making Senate endorsements in 1982.
Under the procedures discussed by political action committee chairmen, "if the endorsement is not made again (for Akin), then there would be no endorsement," Fretwell said.
Akin said he won't the let the Farm Bureau's reconsideration deter his campaign.
"I was happy to get an almost unanimous vote before. They have to do what they think is right, just like I have to do what I think is right," Akin told reporters while campaigning Friday in the rural northwestern Missouri town of Savannah.
The loss of Farm Bureau support could cost Akin money. But a neutral stance by the Farm Bureau, with branches covering all Missouri counties, could have an even greater effect among rural voters.
Akin has repeatedly apologized for his remarks while rebuffing calls to quit the race from top Republicans, including GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Akin already has lost the financial backing of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the conservative Crossroads group affiliated with Republican strategist Karl Rove. Both entities have dropped plans to air millions of dollars of ads in Missouri.
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Often our eating habits and attitudes to food are developed and ingrained in us as children. It’s much easier to nurture a positive, relaxed relationship with food from a young age than it is to shift those behaviours later on. Role modelling mindful eating for your children will improve your health and happiness as well as theirs.
What is mindful eating?
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It’s strange, really, when you think about it. Why would you eat a meal without paying attention to it? Think about the last meal you ate. Where were you and what were you doing? Were you sitting down, did you eat it fast or slow and do you recall what each mouthful tasted like and how it made you feel? Why did you eat the way you did and is this your typical pattern?
Because food is available in such abundance, many of us have lost touch with our natural hunger cues. Rather than eating to satisfy hunger and waiting until we are hungry again, we often eat purely out of habit and can snack mindlessly right throughout the day.
Over time, we can develop eating habits that don’t serve us. However, we tend to keep these habits up simply out of routine or because we’ve never tried a different way. For example, we might associate food with certain activities such as eating ice cream while watching TV, snacking on cheese and crackers while preparing dinner or eating chips on a long drive in the car. We might always finish our plate, regardless of how full we feel or routinely have seconds even when we are no longer hungry. We might eat lunch standing, talking, walking, working or doing several other things because we feel rushed and overloaded.
All these habits affect our digestion, our satiety cues and the total amount of calories we consume. It is surprisingly easy to adjust your habits if you choose to do so. All it takes is a mindful approach, which starts by being intentional about how you eat.
When you eat mindfully, you naturally:
- take your time and savour each mouthful.
- feel pleasure and satisfaction.
- have time to appreciate and be thankful for the food you have.
- eat in a relaxed manner that leads to improved digestion.
- slow down as your hunger is curbed.
- easily stop eating when you are satisfied as you are aware of how that feels.
All of these things set us up to feel better, to eat in line with our body’s needs and ultimately lead to total health. Not only does mindful eating improve your absorption of nutrients but it also ensures your brain sends the correct messages to your digestive system, reducing potential bloating and discomfort. You eat amounts in tune with what your body requires. You notice the quality of the food and how it makes you feel and you have time to experience gratitude, which is a key to well-being. Overall, you feel more satisfied physically and emotionally from the meal you have eaten.
Imagine every meal you eat tomorrow is eaten without rushing, without distraction. Picture how different it would be and how different you would feel. The best way to see that difference is to try it out yourself, and the best way to teach your children is by role modelling it in your own life.
How to eat mindfully
- Choose an appropriate place to eat. Sitting around a dinner table as a family has many benefits, including creating a positive association with coming together.
- Sit down to eat (always, always!).
- Aim for a relaxed atmosphere. (I know this is challenging with toddlers). Set the tone by being relaxed and positive yourself.
- Eat all meals and snacks off a plate and use cutlery – unless it’s inappropriate for the meal, in which case emphasise the fun of eating things like tacos or wraps with your hands.
- Switch off all devices (or turn them to silent mode and put them out of sight). This makes a huge difference and role models the behaviour you expect if/when your children have their own phones.
- Look at each forkful or spoonful of food before you eat it. Savour each mouthful thinking about the different flavours you can taste. Focus on the textures of your food. Is it crispy, juicy, tender, creamy, or crunchy? Ask your children what textures they notice. Play ‘games’ with your kids to guess what ingredients are in the meal. This is a fun start to food appreciation.
- Avoid starting the next mouthful until the previous one is finished.
- If you are talking, take extra care to savour each mouthful and don’t feel you have to rush in order to speak.
- Be aware of your breathing. Breathe deeply and slowly from your belly.
- Pause a few times during the meal and put your cutlery down, If you are typically in a rush, you may find this a challenge. I invite you to persevere. You can adopt a new habit! Encourage your children to rest their cutlery and breathe between mouthfuls.
- Aim for the whole experience to be relaxing and nourishing.
As a bonus, I also recommend your evening meal be a time to recap highlights. Take turns to ask each person what the best thing about their day was. Replaying this by verbalising it boosts the happiness factor and reinforces positive memories at the dinner table.
How do we talk about food?
It’s also important to be mindful of our language when we speak about food. Teach your children that certain foods are super nutritious and will help them become strong and healthy and this is why we mostly eat these foods. Instead of labelling foods as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, simply reinforce that we always make sure we eat enough nutritious food to fuel our body well.
Remind your kids that while treats are tasty, they won’t feel good after having too many of them. These balanced, positive messages will help your kids avoid seeing certain foods as bad, and therefore feeling that they themselves are bad for eating them, later in life.
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Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe says his company is considering the possibility of bringing its VR headset to future mobile devices.
The Oculus Rift is due to be released some time next year for PC, and many who've experienced the headset say it's the first such device to really get virtual reality right.
In an interview with Edge, Iribe talked about where he thought the company was headed, and suggested the most interesting possibility was mobile.
"I love consoles but internally we're a lot more excited about where mobile's going to go, and being able to plug it right into a next gen cellphone," said Iribe.
"It's the innovation, and how fast cellphones are now improving - where we'll be with the next Galaxy or the next iPhone compared to where consoles are. Those things are almost doubling every year, compared to a console that's just stuck it out for eight years - it just makes us very excited.”
While the idea that game consoles are “not a focus” for the VR company is certainly a surprise, Iribe's explanation does make some sense.
“There's a lot of improvements that can be made on the hardware side for VR that no-one's doing yet because it's a new thing,” he continued.
“The mobile rate of innovation is going to be able to make a lot of those improvements."
In other words, hardware will need to adapt when VR is a market reality, and the only tech adapting at that rate is in mobile.
Iribe welcomes the possibility of competition, arguing that it will boost the progress and adoption of VR.
“There’ll be other people that end up doing VR, it’s not like Oculus is going to be the only VR provider – and I think there is a lot of innovation still to come,” he said.
“This is one year in, right? Imagine where we go in the next eight to ten years. It’s going to accelerate so quickly, with the resolution, positional tracking, hand tracking – you should be able to be in there and see your hand without any latency in the future, and you should be able to look at other avatars in the game and see mouth tracking without any latency tied to voice.”
With this sort of potential, VR could mean more for games than just a better way to shoot digital zombies.
“I think a lot will come from the social and emotional side that nobody has even seen yet,” explained Iribe.
“Like, you’ll know where the player’s eyes are, and characters can now look at you and say ‘hey what’s up?’ and if you look away they’ll be like, ‘hey what’s going on?’. There’s a lot of emotion you can spark in [VR] that you just can’t on a TV.”
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Introducing the JP-2C™ Limited Edition Head from MESA Engineering® - The ultimate evolution of the legendary MARK IIC+™ circuit!
We're celebrating our 30 year relationship with luminary guitarist John Petrucci, by introducing the JP-2C™… John owns an extensive collection of MESA gear and has recorded & toured with the most iconic MESA products of the past three decades. If you were to look for a world's foremost authority on MESA gear, no doubt John Petrucci would be in the running for that title. So what would a player of his caliber and knowledge ask for in an amplifier, if he could have anything? The JP-2C is the answer to that question.
JP fans know that the legendary Mark IIC+ circuits have been favorites of his. So is this amp a IIC+? YES… it’s the next generation Re-Issue of the legendary amp so many players the world over covet and search to find.
The JP-2C strips down to bare essentials to get the job done effectively, in the simplest way. It’s a purpose-built, no compromise rendering that aims at one single goal; deliver the most aggressive, purest sounding IIC+ EVER in a versatile package that delivers the goods to meet John’s recording and stage needs. All Things Heavy! But more specifically; the highest headroom Clean sound possible, a Crunch rhythm that has Lead Channel gain available, but is tight, grinding and articulate, and the ultimate Boogie® Lead Channel with access to even more saturation and the ability to track any technique and speed while also reaching to the stratosphere for single note solos.
In that spirit, unlike other MESA amplifiers, the JP-2C foregoes the concept of multiple voicing Modes derived from other MESA circuits and instead dedicates each of the three Channels exclusively to circuit voicing’s of the MARK IIC+, including the new SHRED Mode, which further enhances the top end harmonic layering of the original IIC+ Lead Circuit.
We’ve modified the PULL SHIFT feature layout of the original IIC+ to both simplify and enhance Channels 2 and 3. All PULL SHIFTS that were possible in the original IIC+ LEAD Mode are internally set to their optimized settings based upon the historical polling of savvy MARK IIC+ aficionados, artists and the MESA Design Team. We've added two new PULL SHIFT options on the JP-2C. A PULL GAIN on the GAIN control and a PULL PRES (shift) on the PRESENCE control.
Channel 1 is dedicated to Clean sounds and is optimized for the maximum headroom possible in the preamp section. Power section clip may be employed to attain some degree of overdrive in Channel 1, albeit at very high volumes due to the 100/60-watt rating of the JP-2C power section. The more powerful our MID/BOOST control found on Channel 1 acts as a MID that has increased range to add more midrange frequencies and a “cleaner” gain-boost into the mix.
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In Channel 3, our first priority was to meet and even exceed the incredible explosive attack, blistering sustain and harmonic complexity of the very best of the MARK IIC+. Channel 3 boasts all the nuanced performance of the original IIC+ and delivers it with unbelievable authority due to the 100-watt Class A/B (versus 90-watt Simul-Class™) power section. Channel 3’s character is a little warmer, fatter and compressed and this plays well into its intended application for lead work of all styles and gain requirements.
The JP-2C incorporates a new voicing feature in the high gain Channels not present in the original MARK IIC+ LEAD Mode that further enhances the harmonic layering of the top end. It is especially beneficial for high gain Crunch Rhythm sounds as it lends aggression and three-dimensionality to the sound, adding a harmonic haze that rides atop the fat, grinding wall of gain. And with the ability to run SHRED active on one or both high gain Channels, combined with your no-compromise EQ choices, you can now craft the ultimate Crunch rhythm and Lead sounds in the same amp and switch instantly between them.
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New York Islanders at Pittsburgh Penguins
New York - 8-9-0 - 16 pts - Fourth in Atlantic
Pittsburgh - 5-8-5 - 15 pts - Last in Atlantic
Since the Pens last saw the Islanders almost two weeks ago, the Pens have staggered forwards, taking a few steps and then retreating a few steps. The Isles were embarrassed their next game by Ottawa, but since then have won two out of three (two of those games were on the road). Their power play has been clicking a bit, going 4-14, and their penalty kill has been sharp, allowing only one goal in 14 chances over the three game stretch.
As a road team, the Isles aren't very good so far this year (3-6). Let's hope they don't start a new trend tonight.
They recently (last game) put Aaron Asham on the top line with Yashin and Satan. That's kind of surprising, since he wasn't very impressive during the last game with the Pens. He made a few big errors, and by the end of the game was skating around looking for anyone to instigate.
The Islanders are top heavy, with Satan and Yashin right around a point per game average. You stop their big guns, and keep them off the power play, and you can beat them.
As much as I hate to say it, this is a game the Pens should win at home against a team that's usually pretty poor on the road. Tonight will be a good measuring stick for the level of the Penguins desire.
Hopefully we'll see Fleury in goal, though if I'm Edzo, and I really don't think that Saturday was Thibault's fault, I might start him again tonight just to show confidence in him.
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Part two of our guide in which Rugby World – and Josh Navidi – get you in top shape for the new season
Rugby Pre-Season Guide: Part Two
When it comes to the second block, you should have made real gains in the gym, laid a base for running and grown confidence in your own skill-set.
Things become more rugby-focused now. This is also where your style of play can really take root.
As Navidi explains: “If I’m watching my local amateur team, five forwards hit the ruck and then the forwards runners are no longer an option. They over-commit, and communication is another big thing.
“That team want to hit four phases with forwards and then play with the backs – you’d need to be the fittest team around. Two or three phases are ample, then load the back-line. Being an option is key.”
For the Blues stalwart, any games you play on a Tuesday and Thursday night need an element of game focus. For a start, begin adding in controlled contact – maybe with pads or tackle suits – or at least ‘scrag’ instead of just a ‘touch’.
Here is an example: if you’re thinking about working on ball placement, make sure an opponent has to stand over the ball. Or whenever someone is touched, defenders on either side take a knee.
Variations include the touched player doing a 360º roll or using squeeze ball.
Contact takes it out of you. So the first sessions may be a shock. You can go from contact drills into games. Then keep rotating from one to the other. Do that for three circuits, then go into slower-paced rugby scenarios (think team phase play) at the session’s end.
How much additional running you do is up to you. The nature of your contact drills is also up to you. Navidi has his view. “A basic one is to have one carrier, one tackler performing a traditional tackle scenario and then keep building.
“Bring in a jackler with no threat. Then add a sealer. You could have the sealer already on the ruck, or the jackler is there and you have to blast him.
“It works on timing. You can do it live, or not, with pads or full-on. It’s challenging at full pace.”
When you use technical contact work – which Navidi feels is necessary in amateur pre-season – week four of the six-week pre-season will sound hellish. As mentioned above, touch can become small-sided contact games, and the skill work and wrestling or running remains.
But as you hit week five of pre-season, you can taper down fitness, so running is not a key focus (though your Saturday session is still likely to be horrid). In weeks five and six, you need a distinctive style of play, which is clear when you try ‘chilled-out’ run-throughs with the team.
In week six, this is how Navidi sees a typical weeknight session: have some small-sided games but afterwards split for 20 minutes into forwards and backs. Then come together to work on group phase play, unopposed, at real pace.
You can use scenarios around the pitch, with the coach dictating your start point. For example, if you start with a lineout option in your 22, you can work on an exit strategy. If you have a scrum 15m out, use one of the backs’ strike moves.
In the gym, Navidi wants options, so continue with a basic programme but replace the core lifts. You need a chest option on upper-body day – instead of a bench press you could add in an incline bench press. For shoulders, replace a traditional press with an Arnie press.
It works for legs too: a squat becomes a leg press while a deadlift becomes a trap-bar deadlift. On all-body day, a clean can be a Bulgarian split squat and hammy curls reverts to a Romanian deadlift.
Finally, as you run on hard grounds, it helps to do extra prehab and stretching. The gym isn’t just for pushing tin.
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Liz and Ava also purchased some cozy and fun gifts for Hannah and also a few things for me to take to China to give away to the people we meet there. Thanks Liz and Ava!
This adorable bathing suit was sent by a special little friend. Isn't it cute?! Thanks friend!
Here are the wonderful friends who made today so very, very special and blessed Hannah and I with such an amazing gift!! Front row (l to r): K1, me, Karen. Back row (l to r): Rhonda, Cari, Liz and Michelle. Those there in spirit: Dolores, Doris and M3. Thank you so much for your emails friends! As much as I would have loved for each of you to be there I understand it wasn't possible and it was so neat to read your notes and kind words!
Thank you, thank you friends!! I am so very thankful for the friendships we have formed and that we continue to share. Love you!!
PS - The latest news on RQ (Sunday evening) is that there was possibly a 2nd agency (this one in the US) that received referrals Friday. If this is the case then I could truly be in labour!!! Don't know for sure and will try to get some sleep tonight but I'm afraid that the contractions (otherwise known as feversihly refreshing Rumor Queen) could mean very little sleep will be had. As always, I'll keep you posted as I learn more!!
Sweet dreams! Mine will be of a baby riding safe and snuggly in her beautiful new car seat!!
Monday Morning Update: I slept surprisingly well and only woke twice to
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UK department store Sainsbury’s features Judith Kerr’s famous book character, Mog the cat, in an advertisement for the Christmas season. These ads are also excellent examples of persuasive visual texts.
Sainsbury’s official Christmas advert 2015 – Mog’s Christmas calamity
Sainsbury’s official Christmas 2014 ad – 1914
And the current ad is:
Sainsbury’s official Christmas advert 2016 – The greatest gift
When I was testing the book out with our Stage 3 students, even the Stage 2 students were intrigued, although they only really discussed the red symbolism throughout, not the stronger themes about war/unrest in the Gaza Strip, but they came up with this digital slideshow:
Coinciding with today’s National Simultaneous Storytime 2014, here’s a box of elephants from the picture book, “Too many elephants in this house” by Ursula Dubosarsky and Andrew Joyner. It was created with masking tape, red acrylic paint with sponged shading, blue corrugated cardboard, black ink permanent marker and pink and silver waterbomb balloons. Trunks were cut from matching pink and silver plastic partyware bowls.
This back panel was left unpainted deliberately. Note the yellow plastic ladder emerging from the chimney hole.
One more elephant squeezes in!
Here’s a great book trailer for the picture book:
Too many elephants in this house by Ursula Dubosarsky
& Andrew Joyner
And an elephant story we once retold as a digital slideshow on PhotoPeach:
The elephant’s child
Just before 11.00 this morning, the school library at Penrith Public School was invaded by a herd of tiny elephants, to help celebrate National Simultaneous Storytime 2014:
This week, Class 2RB celebrated the end of our investigations into nursery rhymes by collecting white objects, from home and around school, taking photographs in the school library, and brainstorming some rhyming text to create a crazy slideshow on PhotoPeach!
Baa baa white sheep
Meanwhile, Class 2S worked on a different story about a lonely, brown sheep. The students took some inspiration from the picture book, Hunwick’s egg by Mem Fox & Pamela Lofts, and our current Chicks ‘R’ Us program. | <urn:uuid:d4cc6ef3-b539-46fb-a2ed-8b5515c17b92> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://ianmclean.edublogs.org/tag/digital-stories/ | 2019-02-16T14:01:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247480472.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216125709-20190216151709-00504.warc.gz | en | 0.916872 | 492 |
In contrast, Flint having the technology necessary for shrinking Kirk's starship is indeed extraneous - it doesn't naturally flow from his character history (he seems to be living with and out of mankind, without access to extraterrestrial wonders, until he purchases the planet), nor is it in any sort of balance with his other achievements and failures (his technologies can't even keep the Raynas safe from the prying eyes of his guests). But Flint being an experienced flim-flam man is consistent with the character and the technologies - and the trick he does with the starship is pretty much the same as "Ardra" making the E-D disappear.
Why is it a trick? We do not need to know what Flint has encountered (technologically speaking) to accept he has the power to reduce the actual vessel to tabletop model size--particularly since the man already proved his command of advance tech by creating androids so realistic, humans simply accept them as the genuine article.
Furthermore, we must consider his line, "you will know the future, Captain Kirk,"
which means exaclty that: he will place the landing party in the same state of suspended animation as those aboard the Enterprise
. Why lie and/or play a trick about such a power, when the risk of Kirk calling his bluff would be severe (considering how "selfish" & "brutal" humans are--in Flint's opinion).
(in Flint's position) play a trick of that nature, knowing what would happen if Kirk and company acted with violence?
Finally, for the audience's sake, we see what the landing party cannot
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Amazingly it’s the 21st anniversary of the release of Erasure’s The Innocents, with Phantom Bride re-released as an EP and a remastered album to celebrate.
It’s one of my favourite albums and a high watermark in synth pop – though its release was pretty much the last hurrah for the scene – and its anniversary coincides with a mini series on BBC4 on electronic music.
The Innocents is probably one of the first albums I ever bought and, in that way that early albums do, it really has the ability to take me back to where I was at the time. Like any new album bought in those days, it was listened to again and again.
It’s a class of music that’s always been easy to sneer at, but as is mentioned in the BBC4 documentary Synth Britannia, it’s basically soul music on electronic instruments.
It’s an album stripped of a lot of the outrageous campery, posturing and pretension in similar material in the early half of the decade.
Still, it takes some of the social aspects of Depeche Mode, the pop sensibilities of the Pet Shop Boys and the hot-cold duality of Clarke versus a romantic chanteuse – and in doing so creates something greater than the sum of those parts.
Vince Clarke’s driving beats, clever chord changes and impeccable pop hooks contrast with Andy Bell’s soaring, slightly gospel voice – itself juxtaposed with the bleakness of the lyrics.
It’s all bedsits, heartbreak and unrequited love, but there’s a funny symbiosis between the grim and uplifting in most of the songs.
Hallowed Ground, Ship of Fools and Phantom Bride are as downbeat as pop music ever gets; Witch in the Ditch is a strange off-beat carnivale effort’ but overlooked tunes like Yahoo and Weight of the World are well-crafted sweet little songs that match soulful melodies with synth production.
Chains of Love and A Little Respect mine rich gospel seams to stunning effect, but it’s hard to imagine such songs in the charts these days.
Later Erasure albums failed to recapture the same delicate mix between hope and despair, joy and melancholy, Clarke and Bell – and seemed unbalanced as a result.
Inevitably The Innocents was a product of its time, the album is coated in a grimy late 80s melancholy, but it’s aged extremely well and puts the recent synth revival firmly in its place.
That it’s still relevant and fresh is testament to the quality of a duo so often overlooked in British music. The Innocents isn’t just Erasure’s best, it’s one of the best in the entire genre.
For anyone unaware, Radiohead have released a new single called Harry Patch (In Memory Of). Patch, the last remaining British soldier from WWI, died recently at the age of 111.
Rather uniquely for a new single, and for Radio 4, the new song received its first public airing on the BBC radio station this week on the Today programme.
It’s a remarkable, melancholy, eerie and oddly redemptive listen, but the radio interview with Patch – Thom Yorke’s inspiration for the lyrics – are important to hear too.
Delivered in a wheezing whisper, Patch’s distaste for the Great War, and the concept of war itself, are evident.
Having survived Passchendaele, where so many of his friends died, for 80 years Patch did not talk about his experiences, nor did he watch war films.
Only when he realised that the number of Tommies was declining did he speak of his experiences, and he was withering of any notions of glory.
Like some sort of mage from the distant past, Patch’s hoarse prediction of the next war is chilling and affecting.
His is the voice of a man who has seen history play itself out twice before, and grimly, wearily, expects it to happen again.
“They never learn,” he whispers. “The Third World War will be chemical. I don’t want to see it.”
It’s easy to see why Yorke was so affected by the interview. He uses portions of the text from the 2005 segment with Patch verbatim in the music. And it’s easy to see why Yorke thought Patch’s passing worthy of note.
Harry Patch’s words on the utter futility and horror of war are a warning from the past, the like of which we will never hear again. The words of a man recalling one of the most monumental and devastating events in human history – from almost 100 years ago.
It seems impossible, and possibly wrong, to even try to critique the music in light of its subject matter, and wider significance. Fittingly it’s understated, soft and subtle. Patch’s words speak for themselves and Johnny Greenwood’s orchestral score elegiac.
I can’t really explain how affected I’ve been by the music, and by the interview with Patch. I only hope they make other people feel the same way, or I fear Patch’s words will be lost amid the ceremony and noise of a state funeral and accompanying bluster.
“People…the younger generation, can’t image what it’s like. You can’t describe it.”
• All proceeds from the Radiohead track go to the British Legion. It’s a quid well spent. Download here.
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The DCX (datacentre switch), announced today, is step two on Brocade's road to re-invent itself as far more than a SAN switch and director vendor.
It's been a smooth ride so far. Brocade has said that SAN directors and its file area networks (FANs) need consolidating and extending so that datacentres can handle the new era of hundreds of virtual servers and Ethernet everywhere.
In this the DCX is a hub in the middle of a datacentre using datacentre-class Ethernet as the carrier of multiple protocols. Of course it supports existing Fibre Channel and mainframe FICON but the future is Ethernet. The fabric extends across metropolitan and continental distances and supports virtualised file access as well as storage area network (SAN) block access.
Now DCX has arrived and it is bigger than we thought. The thing is that virtual servers have dramatically uprated the number of servers accessing services across a datacentre fabric. Where there might have been 75 physical servers before there could be 750 now and 7,500 in a couple of year's time.
The effect of a tenfold and then hundredfold increase in server numbers anting resource access through the fabric means its bandwidth has to be scaled up and its reliability increased. That is why the DCS has switching capability in the terabits/second area.
The 48000 went past five nines reliability and Brocade is hoping that the DCX might achieve six nines - 99.9999 percent uptime reliability - when real customer experiences can be measured.
Another aspect of this is electricity use. On a per port basis the DCX appears to be very much more power-efficient than any other director or datacentre-class switch.
We described Neptune as having 768 ports and 10GBit/s Fibre Channel (FC). Wrong! Too few ports, as it has 768 universal ports and 128 inter-chassis links (ICLs), and 8GBit/s FC instead of 10. That's a total of 896 8Gbit/s ports with a massive 12 terabits of bandwidth.
We also thought that the logic of DCF means that Brocade sees the DCX also acting as a hub for general network access to and from the datacentre. This logic still holds - although the three customer scenarios that Brocade pictures the DCX in, make no mention of it.
We also suggested it could be used for server clustering. That is not mentioned and the use of 8Gbit/s Ethernet doesn't support the idea. The multi-protocol support encompasses 1, 2, 4, 8, 10 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel and FICON, Gigabit Ethernet with FCIP and iSCSI, and 10GbE meaning DCE, FCoE, HPC, and iSCSI and FCIP again.
Brocade gives out three main use cases as examples of where the DCX can fit. One example is a datacentre with a large number of virtual servers hooking up to a DCX-fronted remote datacentre over a dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) link, and providing access to storage resources for the VMs. This is being tested by a North American bank which is going to add FICON mainframe connects to the DCX backbone and start encrypting data at rest.
The ICL capability gives more scalability as DCX can be linked to DCX.
A second scenario involves extending a European retailer's SANs with McDATA 6140 directors migrated to DCXs with two datacentres linked, again by DWDM, over a metropolitan area. There is bandwidth for expansion and a similar possibility for data encryption carried out by the fabric and not storage array controllers or servers.
The third use case is one of network consolidation over DCE (datacentre Ethernet) with servers, both physical and virtual, given access to FC SAN resources, backup and disaster recovery, and a high-performance computing cluster. The only physical interconnect needed by the accessing servers is Ethernet. Fibre Channel recedes back behind the DCX, as does the HPC node interconnect.
The point of storage management intelligence
The DCX continues Brocade's 48000 Director role as a locale for storage management intelligence. It supports migration Brocade's Data Migration Manager (DMM), virtualisation via EMC's Invista, and also Fujitsu ETERNUS, continuous replication with EMC's RecoverPoint, and encryption.
However there is little active support from EMC in one of the key aspects here as both IBM with its SVC product and Hitachi Data Systems with its UPS appear to have many more installations of storage management applications running on a fabric-attached box (IBM) or intelligent storage array controller (HDS) than a fabric director.
InVista is just not receiving the technology development and marketing drive that one might expect for a core technology from EMC. This malaise affects both Brocade and its main competitor in this space, Cisco.
With the DCX Brocade has provided a roadmap into the future for existing Silkworm 48000 and McDATA 6140 director customers. Where now they are seeing the possibility of SAN access congestion through the rise of virtual servers they can now see a large increase in bandwidth headroom as well as the means to extend FC SAN resources to iSCSI-using FCOE.
There is also the prospect of adding file access services through the DCX and of consolidating all main data centre traffic onto Ethernet with other protocols like FC and FICON reverting to relative niche protocols visible only to dependent fabric elements, such as mainframes and FC storage arrays, and not to anyone else.
With the DCX fulfilling more of a hub role, its use as a focal point for the execution of storage management services could be strengthened. Brocade, and Cisco, will need to preach against the active opposition of IBM and HDS and without much help from EMC to gain traction with this concept.
Lastly the DCX is an example of what can be done with bladed architectures. When, for example, 16GBit/s FC becomes available then new blades can likely be built and slotted in. The Fabric Application Engine blades that run apps such as encryption can readily be upgraded to support faster processors and more RAM.
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Spain offers huge potential for the keen hiker, from easy, relatively flat coastal walks to the peaks of the Sierra Nevada. It has arguably the most diverse range of landscapes in western Europe, as well as a rich culture, delicious food and wine, and a relaxed, hospitable approach to life that makes it an ideal holiday destination.
Our walks include the Camino de Santiago, one of the world’s most famous trails – we offer the classic French route as well as coastal and deluxe options. To the east, the Catalonian Pyrenees meet the Mediterranean Sea and our walk there takes us along good trails on the Costa Brava’s scenic coastline through wooded gorges, meadows and villages, with views of the distant high Pyrenees.
In the south, our Sierra Nevada walk passes through white-washed Moorish villages and orange groves in the Alpujarra and up into the Sierra Nevada National Park along well-maintained tracks; you can expect some steep climbs, but the views are stunning. In Granada Province you can combine easy walks with sampling the local wines! | <urn:uuid:16759f72-956c-4e3e-8724-d029b20edffc> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://www.walksworldwide.com/destinations/spain | 2018-11-21T01:29:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039746926.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20181121011923-20181121033923-00553.warc.gz | en | 0.935738 | 234 |
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We wanted to let you know that Microsoft has pushed out a new update in the last 24 hours. Usually updates are held off until "Patch Tuesday" but the severity of the vulnerability they are fixing requires immediate remediation.
The update fixes a serious security flaw found within how Windows products read certain types of fonts.
Basically all that needs to happen is an attacker sends you an office document or directs you to a specific web page with a specific font included.
The attack itself focuses on the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library and how it deals with OpenType fonts, at the end of the day it allows for remote code execution and full on infection if desired.
This is similar to all of the drive-by exploit attacks we warn folks about every week, this time it's just a different kind of vulnerability.
Anyway, the attack can result in infection of the victim system by malware, any type of malware, so it's imperative to quickly update your system TODAY. This vulnerability has been discovered in all modern versions of Windows so please update if you can.
If you happen to click the above link and don't see your version, Microsoft has this to say:
" Versions or editions that are not listed are either past their support life cycle or are not affected"So all of you running XP might be safe or are just not getting updated, I would go with the latter.
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Today we will explore some of the best games played by the legendary Paul Morphy, an American chess player who was considered to be one of the greatest chess players of his era. Morphy was an unofficial world champion from 1858 to 1862. Bobby Fischer wrote about Paul Morphy that he was “perhaps the most accurate player who ever lived”.
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Other words have been haunting me too. When I was 15, I attended my first writers conference outside of the Jack London writers camp for kids that I went to a few times. It's an intimidating thing to be 15 at a community college writers conference. One of my first sessions was with a man who talked about how creative writing out of all the arts is one that can never have child prodigies (which was such a relief after being surrounded by 12 year olds who wrote rather mature short stories that had been published already and often made me feel I actually didn't have it in me to write after all). I remember him saying "You need experience to be a writer. You need to know what it's like when someone dies, to spend time saying to yourself 'If only I'd spoken to them, if only I'd made love to them, if only I'd done things differently'". Being young myself, I laughed because some of it seemed absurd. "Ah, see. You don't believe me. That's the point." The writers conference is gone, that man passed away a few years ago, and now I do know about the crazy things you will think after someone dies and all the things that you could have done differently and the multiple universes you tell yourself about where it doesn't happen that way. I have not been the active writer I should be, I ask myself if I still wish to write, what for, and how. I find myself asking questions about experience, about the weird moment I live in where teaching English isn't only a job but a valued enough skill for people to sign up as volunteers to teach overseas. What will they say of this in the future, will they write about the time when lots of young people went abroad to teach and include some quote in a textbook? One of the weirdest things I ever read about travel writing was to stay away from the cliche of teaching in China for a year unless you had something new to bring to the table. I had to wonder when exactly it became a cliche, what drew so many to teaching in China for a year, and what could be made of that trend. The social scientist in me never really dies I guess.
Is China part of my personal ikigai? I don't know, I was certainly drawn to it because there was much that was ideal about coming here and exercising the skills I learned. I would read about it off and on in what seemed to be a side hobby for someone largely familiar with Western classics and romance languages but I wasn't sure I'd ever go as something other than a tourist. I think I should leave because it sounds like the responsible thing to do, but then I can't articulate what I'd do if I did. Perhaps it's because I'm in this place right now too that I can't help noticing how many books about China have been written by young adults. Peter Hessler was 27 when he went to work in Sichuan with the Peace Corps. Jen Lin-Liu had just been married and was trying to figure out what the future held when she planned her trip to look into the history of noodles. Michael Meyer not only used Manchuria to think about changes in China, he was thinking about his own state of limbo with family and career while he spent time in the Northeast. I know better than to romanticize or make too much of China in transition attracting young people who are themselves in transition, but I have no doubt someone could make a paper out of China memoirs related to that pattern. It is a good place for me I guess, because having spent so much time in school being on the other side of the classroom is a new experience but not so new that I feel completely out of my depth. I just fear that I'll find I've become a teacher less from thoughtful and engaged process and more out of complacency. I get enough free time to just chill out with my Crunchyroll account catching up on anime on a lot of days instead of looking at other work or grad schools like I probably should. There's a part of me that says this is a job and if I'm not unhappy, I should just keep going. And there's another part of me that says it really isn't a job and I can't fool myself about financial independence on 3000RMB/500 USD a month (though I never spend all my month's earnings anyway since I'm not a big shopper, food and travel tends to take it).
When I think about how I feel at this moment, I can't help thinking of Hunan's own writer, Shen Congwen during a particular passage of "Border Town" when he writes, "He may never come back or he may come back tomorrow!" I'm sure he knew his fair share of change, but it is a little scary how such a simple sentence could apply to me so well right now. | <urn:uuid:21da4b56-386e-4131-a93a-e22cf6df301d> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://azhuinzhuzhou.weebly.com/blog/archives/04-2016 | 2023-12-04T13:10:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100529.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204115419-20231204145419-00689.warc.gz | en | 0.988928 | 996 |
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Archive - Oct 29, 2010 - Sports Article
PAWTUCKET – A well-balanced Ponaganset offense put a scare into unbeaten Tolman on Friday night at Pariseau Field. The Chieftains never really took command of the game but they walked off the field with their heads held high following a 26-10 loss to the explosive Tigers.
“We just had too much speed and too many athletes for them,” Tolman coach Dave Caito said after his club stayed unbeaten in Division II-B at 6-0.
Caito understood his team had been tested in this game.
WARWICK – Don’t count the Shea Raiders out just yet.
In a game Shea simply had to have to keep its razor-thin playoff hopes afloat, the Raiders grounded host Warwick Vets Friday night, 13-0. Defense was the calling card for head coach Dino Campopiano’s crew as Shea racked up seven sacks and two turnovers. Offensively the Raiders did just enough, scoring on their first and last possessions of the Division II-B contest.
The win allows Shea (3-3, 5-3 overall) to remain mathematically alive heading into next Friday’s critical contest at Johnston. | <urn:uuid:9adafa51-3576-4c98-9f45-cf499dc97e07> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.pawtuckettimes.com/archive/sports/2010/10/29 | 2013-12-05T14:03:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163046049/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131726-00092-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962468 | 273 |
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We opened Overflow Taps in 2016, after Adam and Jesse met for a pint and darts to discuss the idea of a social good tap house. At Overflow, we think of craft beer from an impact first mindset: imaginging what impact you can have on the world and then connecting you with great tasting beers. We know that creating a business that gives to a greater cause is worth it. You are the hero in this story and we’re just happy to be a part of it.
The Overflow business plan was nearly complete before it even began. This is because Adam created a similar plan in college for a tap house. Whether it be brewing or enjoying an ice cold pint, he has always had a passion for craft beer. Adam run’s day-to-day operations, financial analytics, and helps us maximize our efficiency and impact.
In 2014, Jesse left his IT Executive career path in pursuit of entrepreneurship. While his new web design business was moving along as expected, he didn’t feel fulfilled by it. He felt called to give but just didn’t know where to start. After long conversations with his wife, family, friends, and co-founders Adam and Josh, Overflow Taps was born.
Over the Years
Opened Lynden Tap House
Opened on February 14th (Valentine’s Day) in Lynden, WA on a beatiful PNW Sunday.
On NYE we hosted a party and donated live to fully fund our first water project in Uganda, Africa.
Start-up Of The Year
In 2017 we were a finalist for the Whatcom County Start-Up Business Of The Year
Opened Bellingham Tap House
Launched in Summer of 2017, our Bellingham location is nestled in Barkley Village alongside many great businesses.
With the combined efforts of our Lynden and Bellingham locations, a second well was fully funded. This one is located in Ethiopia, Africa.
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An Airbus A400M airlifter has performed an air-bridge between Toulouse and Madrid in order to deliver critically-needed mask supplies to the Spanish health system.
The aircraft, known as MSN56 and operated by an Airbus crew, took off on 23rd March 2020 from Airbus’ headquarters in Toulouse at 18.07 local time (CET) landing at the Getafe Air Base (Madrid) at 19.05 to off-load and deliver the masks to the Spanish Ministry of Defence.
The cargo is part of the approximately 2 million masks transported over the weekend by a test Airbus A330-800 aircraft from Tianjin, China, to Europe.
This air-bridge will enable the delivery of a significant supply of masks to the Spanish public health network in support of current COVID-19 crisis efforts. This comes on top of donations by Airbus in recent days to provide thousands of masks to hospitals and public services around Europe. The Company will continue to support with additional flights planned to take place in the coming days in coordination with national authorities.
The Airbus A400M Atlas is a European, four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft. It was designed by Airbus Military (now Airbus Defence and Space) as a tactical airlifter with strategic capabilities to replace older transport aircraft, such as the Transall C-160 and the Lockheed C-130 Hercules.
The A400M is positioned, in terms of size, between the C-130 and the C-17; it can carry heavier loads than the C-130 and is able to use rough landing strips. Along with the transport role, the A400M can perform aerial refuelling and medical evacuation when fitted with appropriate equipment. | <urn:uuid:a872e84d-b06e-46cf-8be3-5bd42a0c27fa> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://militaryleak.com/2020/03/29/airbus-a400m-transports-masks-to-spain-in-support-of-covid-19-crisis-efforts/ | 2020-11-24T12:54:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141176256.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20201124111924-20201124141924-00169.warc.gz | en | 0.948224 | 352 |
I love pool noodles! They are so versatile and many things can be made with them.
I designed this DIY Pool Noodle Float Raft using cut sections of pool noodles. This raft is easy and cheap to make plus you can customize it to your own design and color tastes. Kids can help too and plan out their own rafts so everyone in the family can have their own personally styled noodle raft.
Using new noodles works best for this project. I bought mine at Walmart.
I Love Pool Noodles
Do you love pool noodles? Like I said, I do. I’ll tell you why, it’s because they don’t need to be blown up and they fit every sized individual. They are popular because kids use them and adults use them too. In our backyard pool, we use pool noodles all the time because we swim a lot as a family plus we have several pool parties in the summer so we have frequent visitors at our home (we love to host).
Pool noodles are more durable because they don’t get holes easily like other floaties do (unless someone bites them of course) so they tend to last longer for us than the air filled rafts and floaties. Tried and true, noodles tend to last the longest so I thought why not make a fun pool noodle raft with them.
The Supplies You Will Need to Make This DIY Pool Noodle Raft
To make this raft you will need about the following supplies:
- 6 Mega size pool noodles (don’t use the thin noodles, use thick-walled noodles)
- 100 pack 14 inch zip ties (you will have some leftover)
- 36 of 4 inch zip ties (or cable ties they are also called)
- nylon rope
- serrated knife
- tape measure
The First Step
The first step involves the cutting of the noodles into 4 inch segments. I also cut 12 one inch pieces of blue noodle and 12 one inch pieces of green noodle to add striped decorative ends to the raft. This step will take you about 20 minutes to complete. I cut enough 4 inch segments for 11 rows of noodles each six noodle sections wide (so 66). For the raft there are thirteen rows total, 11 rows of 4 inch noodle sections plus the decorative rows at each end made up of the one inch sections.
Simplified: 13 rows total=11 rows of 4 inch + 2 rows stacked 1 inch pieces
- cut 66 of the 4 inch segments, half green and half blue
- cut 12 one inch pieces of blue noodle
- cut 12 one inch pieces of green
You can make it as long or as short as desired. Make up your own design using the colors and patterns you choose. I did have some leftover cut noodle pieces which prompted my son to make some fun glasses using zip ties and two of the one inch noodle pieces (see photo below).
Stringing the Noodle Rows Together
The next step involves stringing the rows of six noodle sections across together by using 14 inch zip ties. Keep scrolling down for photos.
Thread the zip tie tip down into the first noodle hole keeping the smooth side of zip tie towards the left side and the grippy side towards the right. Slip the tip of the zip tie through the bottom of the next noodle section from the bottom going up towards the top. Bring the ends of the zip tie together and zip it. Make sure to tighten the zip tie snug. Cut off the excess zip tie and push the clasp down into the noodle hole so it doesn’t stick out. Continue to string rows of six noodle sections together until you have 11 rows. This step took me about 45 minutes.
Next Step: Make the Striped Decorative Raft Ends
The next step involves taking the one inch pieces of noodle to make six stacks of alternating colors for the two end rows of the raft. Stack them every other color and zip tie them together as shown in the picture below. Making the striped end decorative rows took me about 5 minutes.
Next String the Nylon Rope through the Raft
The next step involves stringing the nylon rope through the raft. The rope may not be absolutely necessary, but I feel it helps the noodle pieces stay together as a raft unit.
Keep the rope as one uncut piece. Lay out the rope along all sides of the raft to estimate the amount of rope required while leaving plenty of extra slack for tying a knot at the end. Be sure to leave extra rope slack sticking out where you started to thread it through so you can easily tie the rope in the end.
String the nylon rope down the first side of the raft starting at one corner.
Lift up the end noodle section of each row to help you thread it through as you go down the raft lengthwise threading rope through the noodle sections.
At the end of the raft, thread it through each of the 1 inch stacked noodle sections and then thread through the rows up the opposite side of the raft.
Thread each ends of the rope through the end row noodle segments to meet in the middle.
Threading the rope through took me about 20 minutes.
Tie the Knot
Once both ends of the rope are strung in and out of the sections on the end row to meet in the middle of the last row, tie a Fisherman’s knot in the rope. This involves crossing one end piece of rope over the other 7 times, threading it through at the top and then pushing knot down tightening it. Slip the knot into the noodle hole and then double knot it to secure it.
Cut the rope leaving about an inch or so of the rope sticking out. To prevent the rope ends from unraveling, burn ends for 5-6 seconds each with a flame from a lighter. Blow out the flame. Wait about 1 minute for it to cool and then shape the ends of burnt rope with your fingers to compress. This step took about 5 minutes.
Link Rows Together Using 4 Inch Zip Ties
Next link the rows together using small 4 inch zip ties (or cable ties).
Basically you will zip tie the zip ties together linking the rows. Said another way, thread the 4 inch zip ties through the 14 inch zip ties that you used to link the segments together when initially making the rows.
Adding these small zip ties in will make the raft more of a cohesive unit so it will stay together better and not be floppy. I linked each row to the next in three spots along the row. You will need 36 of the 4 inch zip ties (for 12 rows). Feel free to add more in as desired.
This step took me about 25 minutes.
I like this design because the scratchy clasp of the zip tie is nestled down in between the pool noodle sections so we find we don’t get scratched by them when we use the float.
All Photos by Julie Hoag.
Trouble Shooting Solution For A Problem You Might Encounter
If you end up with too much rope slack, simply tie a knot in the rope to use up the rope slack. This will tighten rows together.
Tighten zip ties if they slide, cut off extra, and tuck clasp into noodle hole.
The raft takes about 2-2 1/2 hours to complete so plan accordingly. This raft is about the length of a eight or nine year old child. Make yours as short or as long as you need; this craft is very versatile.
I hope you enjoy your raft! Customize it to your own colors and taste. Make patterns with colors or use different colored noodles to make the first letter for your child’s name.
Check out my other DIY pool noodle craft to make a DIY Pool Noodle Float Ring
Or try making this one……DIY Pool Noodle Fish Float With Headrest
Have fun swimming with your new raft!!
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When I first started taking writing classes, my friends would ask what they were like. I would explain in a lighthearted voice that the classes were centered around the discussion of someone’s work – the good, the bad, the indifferent. Despite my attempt to sound cheerful, I’d often get a wide-eyed look and a statement along the lines of “That sounds awful” or “You pay money to get criticized?” I’d nod solemnly and shrug.
But that is what we do as writers, don’t we? We constantly put ourselves out there (despite a good number of us being introverts) open for all sorts of who knows what. If we don’t learn how to handle being criticized (or critiqued, which sounds better somehow), our writing careers will be very short. We trust that people will be kind and respectful, and for the most part, they are. But there is always that one, isn’t there? My one was a professor, and he actually did me a favor.
I’ve always been predisposed to wanting to hear the negative about my writing. Don’t get me wrong, I like finding out what is working in a story, but if I’m in a class and I’m allotted thirty minutes of discussion, I want to maximize that time by learning what needs to be fixed since that’s what I’m paying for. I guess I’ve always been a bit thick-skinned about the whole process. But that professor I mentioned? He turned that thick skin into Kevlar.
His name was Harvey, and I signed up for his fiction workshop class somewhere in the middle of the classes I needed to graduate. I’d had workshops before. I knew what to expect. It was the second class and the first workshop session, and I was up first. Harvey was 40 minutes late to class and entered the room like an overheated radiator whose gasket was about to blow. He had gotten caught in rush-hour traffic. He dispensed with formalities and took out my short story. Then his gasket blew, sending hot steam everywhere. He took out his traffic frustration on that story, sprinkling a ‘fuck’ between each statement of the horribleness that was the drivel that I had written. It was so bad that every one of my classmates apologized for him during break and commented how unfair he was being. Needless to say, despite him having won best teacher of the year award on several occasions, he never became a favorite of mine. I ignored his comments and moved on, but I was unable to hear what he said about any of my stories for the rest of the semester. It was a wasted class and wasted tuition. The way in which he conducted himself made it hard for me to respect him let alone learn from him.
In retrospect, however, he did me a huge favor. Thanks to him, there never has been, nor ever will be a critique that was or will be worse. He provided the Kevlar I needed to sit through many more critiques. Not much penetrates enough to make me upset at this point. I can pretty much take any comments about my story objectively, not emotionally, which gives me the ability to put the written critiques away for a day or two, allowing for even more objectivity. If I had taken in what Harvey had told me that day in 2010 on an emotional level, I’m pretty sure I’d still be trying to scrape up enough confidence from where it had been smashed onto the highway to pick up a pen again. (It was THAT bad).
Oddly enough, critiquing is the one thing that I am holding on to from my year in the Novel Incubator. I’ve pushed so much aside in what I call my recovery period – working on my novel, reading fiction, taking classes – but I am willingly and happily critiquing friends’ novels. I’ve done one and have two more to do by the end of August. I’m not sure why this is the one avenue that keeps me connected to the things that matter to me – writing, the writing community, words. Maybe Harvey had something to do with that. He taught me how not to critique and how not to conduct myself in a workshop. Maybe I’m just doing what I can to prevent others going through what I went through. I’m not sure, but the one thing I know for certain is that if I have to get to class during rush hour, I’ll take the T. | <urn:uuid:83c2b951-8be3-4308-9a4e-5228ab3dfe49> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | http://deaddarlings.com/traffic-kevlar-critique/ | 2018-12-16T12:37:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376827727.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20181216121406-20181216143406-00032.warc.gz | en | 0.986528 | 962 |
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How often have you thought of peaches as an exotic fruit? That soft, fuzzy outer skin, bright with colors of red and yellow, begs you to touch it, to hold it in your hand. It is as if the fruit itself asks you to rub it gently, while aromas of sweetness waft through the air. Once you pierce the skin, the flesh gives way, dripping with juices, clear and sticky. You can barely resist the temptation to catch each drop on your tongue.
Genetic studies indicate that peaches had their origins in China, then moved westerly into Persia (present-day Iran), and were introduced into Greece during the reign of Alexander the Great. From there, they eventually moved throughout Europe and crossed the seas with explorers who were seeking trade routes that they hoped would bring them great wealth. It is through this long journey that we, in the United States, have peaches to use in everything from pie to Danish desserts, cheesecake, and even beer.
Craft brewers typically endeavor to create lighter styles in the warmer weather – beers that quench the thirst, but remain full of flavor. It is not uncommon to find beers that have had peaches added – particularly among lambic style or fruit beers. Other fruits – raspberries, cherries, plums, grapes, black currants or strawberries – may be added, as well, aging in the barrel or used as blends that result in champagne-like quality.
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Below is my reading of Spinoza’s Optical Letters (39 and 40) as best as I have been able to extract interpretations from them. They are letters that are in general ignored, or when brushed over, taken to be evidence for Spinoza’s incompetence in optical matters. It seems that few have thought to examine in detail Spinoza’s point, or the texts he likely had in mind when formulating his opinion and drawing his diagrams. It should be said right from the start that I am at a disadvantage in this, as I have no formal knowledge of optics, either in a contemporary sense, nor in terms of 17th century theory, other than my investigation into Spinoza lens-grinding and its influence upon his metaphysics. In this research, the reading of this letter has proved integral, for it is one of the very few sources of confirmed scientific description offered by Spinoza. That being said, ALL of my facts and inferences need to be checked and double checked, due to my formal lack of familiarity with the subject. It is my hope that the forays in this commentary reading, the citations of likely texts of influence and conceptual conclusions would be the beginning of a much closer look at the matter, very likely resulting in the improvements upon, if not outright disagreement with, what is offered here.
[The Below English selections and links to the Latin text: here ]
“I have looked at and read over what you noted regarding the Dioptica of Descartes.”
Spinoza is responding to a question we do not know, as we have lost Jelles’s letter. We can conclude from several points of correspondence that it is a section of Descartes’Dioptrics that Jelles’ question seems to have focused on, the Seventh Discourse titled “Of The Means of Perfecting Vision”. There, Descartes describes the interactions between light rays, lenses and the eye for purposes of magnification, preparing for the Eighth Discourse where he will present the importance of hyperbolic lenses for telescopes, and also onto the Ninth, “The Description of Telescopes”, where that hyperbola is put to use in a specific proposed construction.
“On the question as to why the images at the back of the eye become larger or smaller, he takes account of no other cause than the crossing of the rays proceeding from the different points of the object, according as they begin to cross one another nearer to or further from to eye…”
This is the beginning of Spinoza’s attack on Descartes’ rendition of how light refracts through lenses to form images of various sizes at the back of the eye. In the Seventh Discourse Descartes claims to have exhausted all factors that can influence the size of the image, which he numbers at three:
“As to the size of images, it is to be noted that this depends solely on three things, namely, on the distance between the object and the place where the rays that it sends from its different points towards the back of the eye intersect; next on the distance between this same place and the base of the eye; and finally, on the refraction of these rays (trans. Olscamp).”
His descriptions that follow are varied. Among his either trite or fanciful augmentations he considers moving the object closer to the eye, then the impossibility of lengthening the eye itself, and lastly musing that if the refraction of the crystaline humor would spread rays more outward, then so too should magnification be achieved. This seems to be the extent to which Descartes will treat the factor of refraction in this discourse (hence perhaps Spinoza’s claim of the repression of a very important factor); but what Spinoza has cast his critical eye upon, I believe, is Descartes characterization of the solution to questions of magnification achieved by fundamentally extending of the distance of the intersection of rays:
There remains but one other means for augmenting the size of images, namely, by causing the rays that come from diverse points of the object to intersect as far as possible from the back of the eye; but this is incomparably the most important and the most significant of all. For it is the only means which can be used for inaccessable objects as well as for accessable ones, and its effect has no limitations; thus we can, by making use of it, increase the size of images indefinitely.
It is good to note that in his description of the strategies of telescope magnification, Descartes is operating under an extended analogy, that the telescope can work like a prosthetic lengthening of the human eye, causing the refraction that would regularly occur at the eye’s surface to happen much farther out, as if the retina were being placed at the end of a very long eye. This is his mechanical concept.
Descartes distance-analysis of magnification (and an assertion of the significance of the hyperbola) is then carried forth in the Ninth Discourse, where again Descartes will treat magnification in terms of the proximity to the eye of the crossing of rays, which here he will call the “burning point” of the lens. The descriptions occur both in the context of solutions to far and near sightedness as well as in proposals to the proper construction of telescopes, and generally follow this idea that one is primarily lengthening the eye.
“…and so he does not consider the size of the angle which the rays make when they cross one another at the surface of the eye. Although this last cause would be principle (sit praecipua ) to be noted in telescopes…”
What Spinoza is pointing out is that when constructing telescopes, as he understands it, the aim is to increase the magnitude of the angle of rays upon the surface of the eye (the cornea), something not solely achievable merely through the adjustment of the distance of the “burning point” or the crossing of the rays of the lens from the eye. Attention to the angle of intersection is for Spinoza a more accurate discriminator probably because it leads to calculations of refraction which include the angle of incidence upon the lens, giving emphasis upon the varying refractive properties of different shapes and thicknesses of lenses in combination, some of which can increase magnification without lengthening the telescope. Descartes conceived of the objective and eyepiece lenses as mimicking the shape and powers of the eye’s lens(es), just further out in space. Though he states at several points that we do not know the exact shape of the human eye, under this homological view, he still sees a correspondence between his proposed hyperbolic-shaped lenses and those of the eye, likely drawing upon Kepler’s observation that the human crystalline humor was of a hyperbolic shape.
The fuller aspects of the factor of refraction – the third factor listed in Descartes three – are left out in such a distance calculation, Spinoza wants us to see. As mentioned, in the combination of lenses, depending upon their shape and powers, the required lengthening of the telescope can be shortened (Spinoza presents just this sort of argument to Hudde in Letter 36, arguing for the efficacy of convex-planolenses). One can also say that this same emphasis on the powers of refraction was also at play in Spinoza’s debate with Huygens over the kinds of objective lenses which were best for microscopes. Huygens finally had to privately admit in a letter written to his brother a year after these two letters, that Spinoza was right, smaller objective lenses with much greater powers of refraction and requiring much shorter tubes indeed made better microscopes (we do not know if Spinoza had in mind the smallest of lenses, the ground drop-lenses that Hudde, Vossius and van Leeuwenhoek used, but he may have). It should be said that Huygens’ admission goes a long way toward qualifying Spinoza’s optical competence, for Spinoza’s claim could not have simply been a blind assertion for Huygens to have taken it seriously. Descartes to his pardon is writing only three decades after the invention of the telescope, and Spinoza three decades after that. Be that as it may, Descartes’ measure is simply too imprecise a measure in Spinoza’s mind, certainly not a factor significant enough to be called “incomparably the most important and the most significant of all”.
Because Jelles’ question seems to have been about the length of telescopes that would be required to achieve magnification of details of the surface of the moon (the source of this discussed below), it is to some degree fitting for Spinoza to draw his attention away from the analysis of the distance of the “burning point”, toward the more pertinent factor of the angle of rays as they occur at the surface of the eye and calculations of refraction, but it is suspected that he wants to express something beyond Jelles’ question, for focal and telescope length indeed remained a dominant pursuit of most refractive telescope improvements. And Spinoza indeed comes to additional conclusions, aside from Descartes imprecision. Spinoza suspects that Descartes is obscuring an important factor of lens refraction by moving the point of analysis away from the angle of rays at the surface of the eye. This factors is, I believe, the question of the capacity to focus rays coming at angles oblique to the central axis of the lens, (that is, come from parts of an object off-center to the central line of gaze). Spinoza feels that Descartes is hiding a weakness in his much treasured hyperbola.
“…nonetheless, he seems deliberately to have passed over it in silence, because, I imagine, he knew of no other means of gathering rays proceeding in parallel from different points onto as many other points, and therefore he could not determine this angle mathematically.”
Descartes, in Spinoza’s view, wants to talk only of the crossing of rays closer to or farther from the surface of the eye, under a conception of physically lengthening the eye, and not the magnitude of the angle they make at the surface of the eye because he lacks the mathematical capacity to deal with calculations of refraction which involved rays coming obliquely to the lens. For simplicity’s sake, Descartes was only precise when dealing with rays coming parallel to the center axis of the lens, and so are cleanly refracted to a central point of focus, and it is this analysis that grants the hyperbola its essential value. In considering this reason Spinoza likely has in mind Descartes’ admission of the difficulty of calculation when describing the best shapes of lenses for clear vision. As well as the admitted problem of complexity, Descartes also addresses the merely approximate capacties of the hyperbola to focus oblique rays.
[regarding the focusing of rays that come off-center from the main axis]…and second, that through their means the rays which come from other points of the object, such as E, E, enter into the eye in approximately the same manner as F, F [E and F representing extreme ends of an object viewed under lenses which adjust for far and near sightedness]. And note that I say here only, “approximately” not “as much as possible.” For aside from the fact that it would be difficult to determine through Geometry, among an infinity of shapes which can be used for the same purpose, those which are exactly the most suitable, this would be utterly useless; for since the eye itself does not cause all the rays coming from diverse points to converge in exactly as many other diverse points, because of this the lenses would doubtless not be the best suited to render the vision quite distinct, and it is impossible in this matter to choose otherwise than approximately, because the precise shape of the eye cannot be known to us. – Seventh Discourse
This is an important passage for several reasons, but first because it comes the closest to the question of the focus of rays para-axial to the center. Again, one must keep in mind that Descartes is thinking about trying to make lenses of a shape that are exact to the shape (or powers) of the eye. Here he is thinking about ever more exotic geometrical shapes which may achieve this, and insists upon the fruitlessness of such a pursuit; it is significant that in contrast to this, Spinoza imagines rather a very simple solution to the question of aberration: the acceptance of spherical aberration and the embrace of the advantage of spherical omni-axial focus. The quoted passage directly precedes Descartes’ summation of the three factors in magnification, with which I began my citations. And I will return to the latter parts of this passage later when we investigate Spinoza’s critique of the hyperbola and the eye. (Note: Aside from this direct reference to Descartes on the issue of calculation, perhaps Spinoza considers also James Gregory, who had some difficulty calculating paraxial rays for his hyperbolae and parabolae in his Optica Promota, though writing an entire treatise devoted to their value.)
Nonetheless, Spinoza suspects that Descartes has shifted the analysis of magnification not simply because it is not amenable to calculation, but more so because, had Descartes engaged the proper investigation, he would have had to face an essential advantage of spherical lense, lessening to some degree his hyperbolic panacea to the problems of the telescope. Again, we will leave aside for the moment Descartes’ justification of this approximation on the basis of the human eye and Nature.
Soft Focus: Spherical Aberration
“Perhaps he was silent so as not to give any preference to the circle above other figures which he introduced; for there is not doubt that in this matter the circle surpasses all other figures that can be discovered.”
Spinoza goes on to expound for Jelles the virtues of the simple circle, as it expresses itself in spherical lenses. One has to keep in mind that since the publishing of Descartes’ Dioptrics (1637), there had been a near obsessional pursuit of the grinding of hyperbolic lenses, a lens of such necessary precision that no human hand was able to achieve it. The hyperbolic lens promised – falsely, but for reasons no one would understand until Newton’s discovery of the spectrum character of light in 1672 – a solution to the problem of spherical aberration. Spherical aberration is simply the soft focus of parallel rays that occurs when refracted by a spherical lens. Kepler in his Paralipomena provides a diagram which illustrates this property:
As one can see, rays that are incident to the edges of the lens (α, β) cross higher up from the point of focus, which lies upon the axis (ω). It was thought that this deviation was a severe limitation on the powers of magnification. With the clearing away of the bluish, obscuring ring that haloed all telescopic vision, the hope was for new, immensely powerful telescopes. And it was to this mad chase for the hyperbola that Spinoza was opposed, on several levels, one of which was the idea that spherical lense shapes actually had a theoretical advantage over hyperbolics: the capacity to focus rays along an infinity of axis:
diagram letter 39
“[referring to the above] For because a circle is everywhere the same, it has the same properties everywhere. If, for example, circle ABCD should have the property that all rays coming from direction A and parallel to axis AB are refracted at its surface in such a way that they thereafter all meet at point B; and also all rays coming from point C and parallel to axis CD are refracted at its surface so that they all meet together at point D…,”
This is a very important point in the letter, for I believe it has been misread by some. At the same time that Spinoza seems to be asserting something painfully obvious in terms of the geometry of a circle, he, at first blush, in bringing this geometry to real lenses appears to be making a serious blunder. And, as I hope to show later, beneath both of these facts there is a subtle and deeper phenomenal-epistemic philosophical point being made, one that echoes through to the roots of Cartesian, and perhaps even Western, metaphysics. Let me treat the first two in turns, and then the third in parts.
The first point is obvious. As we can see from the diagram Spinoza provides, each of the refractive relationships of rays parallel to one axis are symmetical to the same relationships of other parallel rays to another axis. The trick comes in Spinoza’s second sentence, where he seems to be asserting an optical property of actual spherical lenses. As one email correspondent to me concluded, (paraphrased) “Spinoza thinks that the focal point of such a lens lies on the diameter, and this only occurs in rare cases.” The index of refraction of glass simply is not 2 in most cases. Spinoza seems to be making an enormous optical blunder in leaving the refractive index of the glass out, opening himself to a modern objection that he simply does not know the significance of the all important Law of Refraction, put forth by Descartes. This is a similiar prima facie reading done by Alan Gabbey in his widely read essay “Spinoza’s natural science and methodology”, found in The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza,
One’s immediate suspicions of error is readily confirmed by a straight forward application of Descartes Law of refraction. For the circle to have to the dioptrical property Spinoza claims, the refractive index of the glass would have to be a function of the angle of incidence, a condition of which there is not the slightest hint in the letter…[he is] apparently unaware of the importance the “[other] figures”…that Descartes had constructed (154).
The problem with these readings, among many, is that Spinoza is not at all asserting that there exists such a lens which would have this refractive property (Gabbey’s concerns about Spinoza’s awareness of the Law of Refraction should be answered by looking his familiarity with Johannes Huddes “Specilla circularia”, in letter 36, which will be taken up later). I have corrected a weakness in the prominent English translation of the text which helps to bring out the distinction I am making. If one looks at the sentence closely, Spinoza is presenting an if-then assertion (he uses the subjective in the intitial clause). IF, and only if, a circular lens can be said to have the focusing property along axis AB, THEN it would have the same property along axis CD. To repeat, he is not asserting such a property in real glass and therefore he remits any refractive index reference because it is not germane to his point; he is only at this point emphasizing the property of an infinity of axes of focus, and he is using a hypothetical sphere for several reasons.
The first reason I suspect is that he is trying to draw out the remarkable resonance of spherical forms, making his diagram evocative of notions of completeness and internal consistency. This is of course not an optical concern, but we have to consider it as an influence. We have a similiar looking diagram presented by Spinoza in the Ethics, showing an argued relationship between Substance and the modes that express it. As Spinoza writes:
diagram from the Ethics 2, prop 8, scholia
“The nature of a circle is such that if any number of straight lines intersect within it, the rectangles formed by their segments will be equal to one another; thus, infinite equal rectangles are contained in a circle. Yet none of these rectangles can be said to exist, except in so far as the circle exists; nor can the idea of any of these rectangles be said to exist, except in so far as they are comprehended in the idea of the circle.” E2p8s
There is perhaps much speculation to be made as to Spinoza’s feelings about the the interweave of causes that express themselves in modes and the apparitions of focus generated by hypothetical spherical lenses (are modal expressions seen in some way like a confluence of rays?), but at this point I only want to point out Spinoza’s affinity for the sphere, and thus this one possible reason for using a full sphere to illustrate an optical property of spherical lenses. (Remember, this is just an informal letter written to a friend, and not meant as a treatise.)
The second reason is that Spinoza very likely is thinking of a real sphere, that is, the “aqueous globe” that Kepler used to investigate refraction in his Paralipomena, a work in which he was the first to articulate with mathematical precision the dynamics of spherical aberration (before there was a telescope, in 1604), and also was the first to suggest the hyperbola as the resolving figure for such aberration. Here is Kepler’s diagram of his sphere through which he gazed at various distances, illustrating his Proposition 14: “Problem: In an aqueous globe, to determine the places of intersection of any radiations parallel to an axis”.
Kepler's diagram from proposition 14
Thus, Spinoza’s use of a sphere in his diagram has at least two readings that have heretofore not been noticed. The first is that his description is operating at solely the hypothetical level, asserting the abstract properties of spherical symmetry, but secondly, he is referencing, or at least has in mind, a primary historical optical text, in all likelihood the text which spurred Descartes’ enthusiasm for the hyperbola in the first place (likely read by Descartes around 1620). It is precisely in this parallel fashion, between the geometrical and the manifest, that Spinoza seems to work his optical understanding.
The third reason that Spinoza is using a full sphere to illustrate his principle of omni-axial refraction is that Descartes’ treatise deals not only with lenses, but also with the human (and ox) eye. And this eye in diagrams is represented as a sphere. I will return to this point a little later, because as he encounters Descartes, he is making an argument, however loosely, against not only his optics, but his essential concepts of clear perception. By taking up a full sphere in his objection, he also poses a relation to Descartes schemas of the eye.
Aside from Descartes’ pseudo-spherical diagram of the eye, we have to consider as an additional influence Hooke’s spherical depiction of the eye with two pencils of rays focused along different axes, used to illustrate the reception of color (pictured below left). The reason why I mention this diagram is not only because it bears some resemblance to Spinoza’s, but also because Hooke’s extraordinary Micrographia might have been the source of Jelles’ question, as I will soon address, and so may have been a text Spinoza thought of in his answer, though we are not sure if he ever read it, or even looked at it, as it was in published in English. Christiaan Huygens owned a copy of it and it was the subject of a conversation between the two. If Spionoza indeed visited the Hofwijck several times, it is hard to believe that he would not have looked closely at this page of diagrams.
figure 5, Robert Hooke's Micrographia
“…this is something that could be affirmed of no other figure, although the hyperbola and the ellipse have infinite diameters.”
Spinoza here declares the exclusivity of a property that only spheres and their portions possess. It is hard to tell exactly at what level Spinoza is making his objection. Is it entirely at the theoretical level of optics that Spinoza believes hyperbolic lenses to be impaired, such that even if people could manufacture them with ease, they still wouldn’t be desired. If so, he would be guilty of a fairly fundamental blindness to potential advantages in telescope construction that such a lens would grant, rather universally understood. If indeed he was an accomplished builder of telescopes – and we have some evidence that he may have been – this would be a difficult thing to reconcile, forcing us to adopt an estimation of a much more craftsman level understanding of his trade. But it is possible that Spinoza is asserting a combine critique of hyperbolic lenses, one that takes into account the difficulty in making them. There are signs that spherical aberration after Descartes was taken to be a much greater problem than it calculably was, and Spinoza brings out a drawback to hyperbolic focus that adds one more demerit to an already impossible-to-make lens. Thus, as a pragmatic instrument maker he may not be assessing such lenses only in the abstract, but in reality. It may be that Spinoza sees the ideal of the hyperbolic lenses as simply unnecessary, given the serviceability of spheres, and the perceived advantage of oblique focus. This question needs to be answered at the level of optical soundness alone, but such an answer has to take in account the great variety of understandings in Spinoza’s day and age, even among those that supposedly “got it right”. For instance, such an elementary and widely accepted phenomena as “spherical aberration” was neither defined, nor labeled in the same way, by any two thinkers; nor were its empirical effects on lensed vision grasped. We often project our understanding backwards upon those that seem most proximate to our truths. Spinoza’s opinions on aberration seem to reside exactly in that fog of optical understandings that were just beginning to clear.
Man on the Moon
“So the case is as you describe; that is, if no account is taken of anything except the focal lenth of the eye or of the telescope, we should be obliged to manufacture very long telescopes before we could see objects on the moon as distinctly as those on earth.”
Here we possibly get a sense of Jelles’ question. It must have come from a reflection upon Descartes’ comments on crossing of rays at various distances from the eye, posed as a question to whether we might be able to view the Moon with such clarity as we see things here – remember, Descartes’ promised infinite powers of magnification. I mentioned already that Jelles’ question may have come in reference to Hooke’s work. We must first overcome the problem of language of course, for I do know that Jelles read English, though it is possible that he read a personal translation of a passage, as Huygens had translated a passage for Hudde. But given these barriers, I believe there is enough correspondence to make a hypothesis that is not too extravagant: Jelles had recently read a portion of Hooke’s Micrographia. The reason that I suspect this, is that the Micrographia published with extraordinarily vivid plates of magnified insects and materials, concludes with a speculative/visual account of what may be on the moon, seen through his 30-foot telescope (and a suggested 60 ft. telescope), coupled with a close up illustration of a moon’s “Vale” crater, he writes of an earthly lunar realm:
…for through these it appears a very spacious Vale, incompassed with a ridge of Hills, not very high in comparison of many other in the Moon, nor yet very steep…and from several appearances of it, seems to be some fruitful place, that is, to have its surface all covered over with some kinds of vegatable substances; for in all portions of the light on it, it seems to give a fainter reflection then the more barren tops of the incompassing Hills, and those a much fainter then divers other cragged, chalky, or rocky Mountains of the Moon. So that I am not unapt to think that the Vale may have Vegetables analogus to our Grass, Shrubs, and Trees; and most of these incompassing Hills may be covered with so thin a vegetable Coat, as we may observe the Hills with us to be, such as the Short Sheep pasture which covers the Hills of Salisbury Plains.
As one can see from this marvelous, evocative passage, the suggestion that the moon’s vales are pastorially covered with rich meadows, calling up even flocks of sheep before the mind, one can easily see that Jelles has something like this in mind when he asks what it would take to see objects on the moon, as we can see objects on the Earth. One might speculate that, having read such a passage, Jelles had a spiritual or theological concern in mind and excitment over the possibility of other people on the moon, but this would be perhaps only wistful supposition on our part. But it is too much to suppose that it was likely Hooke’s description of the moon Jelles was thinking of when he wrote his question to Spinoza, for not only are the details of an Earth-like moon present, but also Hooke’s urging of the reader to use a more power and much longer telescope than he used. Spinoza is responding directly to this aspect of telescope length.
(An alternate thought may be that Jelles had come upon Hevelius’s Selenographia, sive, Lunae descriptio 1647, filled with richly engraved plates of the moon’s surface. It did not have the same fanciful description of moon meadows, and was not circulated with the acclaim of Hooke’s Micrographia, but it did name features of the moon after Earth landmarks, giving it an Alps, a Caucasus and an Island of Sicily.)
If we allow this supposition of a posed question on Jelles’s part, we might be able to construct something of Spinoza’s thinking in his response. It would seem, in our mind’s-eye, that Jelles had read Hooke’s description of the moon and his urge for a longer telescope and set about checking Descartes’ Dioptrics if it were the case that we really would have to build an extraordinarily long telescope to see the details that Hooke invoked (indeed Huygens built a 123 ft. arial telescope; and Hevelius one of 150 ft., pictured below).
Hevelius' 150 ft. arial telescope
Following this evolution of the question, it would seem that Jelles came to Descartes’ treatment of magnification in the Seventh (and related) Discourses, one that defined the power of magnification by the all important distance of the crossing of rays from the surface of the eye, treating the telescope as an extended eye. If indeed Jelles was not familiar with optical theory he may have taken this increase of distance for an explanation why telescopes had to be so very long to see the moon with desired detail. It would seem natural for Jelles to pose this question to Spinoza, who not only was regarded as the expert on Descartes in the Collegiant group, but also was a grinder of lenses and a designer of telescopes.
If this hypothetical narrative of the question is correct, Spinoza responded in a slightly misdirected way, taking the opportunity to vent an objection to Descartes thinking which did not have acute bearing upon Jelles’s question. For Descartes’ description of a “burning point” distance and Spinoza’s emphasis on the angle of incidence of rays oblique to the center axis, makes no major difference in the conclusion that Jelles came to, that indeed it would take a very long telescope to do what Jelles imagined, and Spinoza admits as much, above. Yet, when Spinoza qualifies his answer “if no account is taken of anything except the focal lenth of the eye or of the telescope” he is pointing to, one imagines, factors of refraction, for instance in compound telescopes and lenses of different combinations, which do not obviate the contemporary need for very long telescopes, but may affect the length.
Aside from this admission, Spinoza has taken the opportunity to express his displeasure over a perceived Cartesian obscurance, one that has lead to an over-enthused pursuit of an impossible lens, and as we have seen, in this context Spinoza puts forward his own esteem for the spherical lens, and the sphere in general. But this is no triffling matter, for out of Spinoza’s close-cropped critique of Descartes’ Dioptrics run several working metaphors between vision and knowledge, and a history of thinking about the optics of the hyperbola that originates in Kepler (made manifest, I contend, in a full-blown metaphysics in Descartes). Though Spinoza’s objection is small, it touches a fracture in thinking about the Body and Perception, a deep-running crack which might not have direct factual bearing on optical theory, but does have bearing on its founding conceptions. As I have already suggested, we have to keep in mind here that though we are used to thinking of a field of science as a closed set of tested truths oriented to that discipline, at this point in history, just when the (metaphysically) mechanical conception of the world was taking hold, it is not easy, or even advisable, to separate out optical theories from much broader categories of thought, such as metaphysics and the rhetorics of philosophy. For example, how one imagined light to move (was it a firery corpuscula, or like waves in a pond?), refract and focus was in part an expression of one’s overall world picture of how causes and effects related, and of what bodies and motions were composed: and such theories ever involved concepts of perception.
“But as I have said, the chief consideration is the size of the angle made by the rays issuing from different points when they cross one another at the surface of the eye. And this angle also becomes greater or less as the foci of the glasses fitted in the telescope differ to a greater or lesser degree.”
Spinoza reiterates his point that it is the intersecting angles of incidence at the surface of the eye which determined the size of the image seen through a telescope. He finally connects the factor of the angle of incidence and intersection to the foci of lenses themselves. It is tempting to think that Spinoza in his mention of lenses is also thinking of compound forms such as the three-lens eyepiece invented by Rheita in 1645, or as he was already familiar through visits to Christiaan Huygens’s home in 1665, proposed resolutions of spherical aberration by a complex of spherical lenses. Such combinations would be based upon angle of incident calculations.
“If you wish to see the demonstration of this I am ready to send it to you whenever you wish.”
Spinoza will send this evidence in his next letter (pictured at bottom).
Letter 40 “…I now proceed to answer your other letter dated 9 March, in which you ask for a further explanation of what I wrote in my previous letter concerning the figure of a circle. This you will easily be able to understand if you will please note that all the rays that are supposed to fall in parallel on the anterior of the glass of the telescope are not really parallel because they all come from one and the same point.”
Jelles has apparently had some difficulty with understanding Spinoza’s explanation. It is interesting because this confusion on Jelles’ part has actually been taken as evidence that Spinoza not only is impaired in his understanding of optics (this may be the case, but Jelles’ confusion, I don’t believe, is worthy of being evidence of it), but that those close to Spinoza around this time became aware that Spinoza’s optical knowledge was superficial at best, something not to be questioned too deeply.
As Michael John Petry writes:
“There is evidence that after 1666 Spinoza’s ideas on theoretical optics were less sought after by his friends and acquaintences…Even JarigJelleswasquiteevidently dissatisfied with the way in which Spinoza explained the apparent anomaly in Descartes’ Dioptrics” (Spinoza’s Algebraic Calculation of the Rainbow & Calculation of Chances, 96)
Petry cites other evidence which needs to be addressed (primarily Huygens’ letters), but a close reading of the nature of Jelles implied question does not seem to support in any way the notion that Spinoza’s optical knowledge had been exposed as a fraud of some sort. Alan Gabbey as well, who maintains serious doubts about Spinoza’s optical proficiency, seems to focus on Spinoza’s need to explain himself to Jelles as a sign that he is somewhat confused:
In his next letter…to Jelles, who has asked for a clarification, Spinoza explained that light rays from a relatively distant object are in fact only approximately parallel, since they arrive as “cones of rays” from different points on the object. Yet he maintained the same property of the cirlce in the case of ray cones, apparently unaware of the importance of the “[other] figures” [the famous “Ovals of Descartes”] (154).
It seems quite clear that Spinoza was aware of the “importance” of these figures, at least he was aware of Hudde’s and Huygens’ attempt to minimize that importance. But Gabbey here seems to suggest that Spinoza is evading a point of confusion by simply changing descriptions, instead of parallel rays of light, Spinoza now uses “cones of rays”. For these reasons of suspicion it is better to go slow here.
The question that Jelles raised apparently has to do with the reading of Spinoza’s circular diagram and its focus of two pencils of light rays, for Spinoza imagines that if Jelles understands these pencils as cones of rays his confusion will be cleared up. To take the simplest tact, it may very well be that Jelles, upon seeing Spinoza’s diagram, turned back to Descartes’ text in order to apply it, and found there a diagram which was quite different. What Jelles may have seen was Descartes’ figure 14 from the Fifth Discourse (pictured below, left), or really any of his diagrams which depict the interaction of rays with the eye:
figure 14 from the Fifth Discourse of the Dioptrics
One can see how in this context Jelles may have been confused by Spinoza’s diagram of the focus of two pencils of rays, and even by the accusation that Descartes is being somehow imprecise, for the illustration seems to depict rays as something like cones of rays, not rays flowing parallel to an axis, as they are in Spinoza’s drawing. Aside from this plain confusion, Jelles’ question may have dealt with some other more detailed aspect, for instance, a question about the importance of a lens’s ability to focus rays oblique to its center. If so, Spinoza would require not only that Jelles understand that rays come in cones, but also have a fuller sense of how those rays refract upon the eye, perhaps provided by the diagram that will follow. In either case, rather than understand Spinoza’s change in descriptive terminology as an attempt to dodge his incomprehension, Spinoza simply appears to be guiding Jelles in the reconsilation of both kinds of diagrams, or preparing ground for a more complete explanation.
Note: Regarding the analytical descriptions of a pencil of parallel of rays or “cones of rays” there is no standing confusion between them. They exhibit two different ways of analyzing the refractive properties of light. But there is more than this, the use of the phrase “cones of rays” by Spinoza gives a clue to what texts he has in mind in his answer. The orgin of this phrase for Spinoza likely comes from Kepler’s Paralipomena (1604), in a very significant passage. As mentioned, Kepler has already provided a description of the phenomena of spherical aberration (shown in diagrams including the one I first cited here), and forwarded the hyperbola as a figure that would solve this difficulty. Further, he has claimed that the crystalline humor of the human eye has a hyperbolic shape. Here Kepler describes how light, having proceded from each point of an object in a cone of rays (truly radiating in a sphere), intersects the eye’s lens at varying degrees of clarity. The cone that radiates directly along the axis of the lens is the most accurately refracted:
All the lines of the direct cone [a cone whose axis is the same as the axis of the cornea and crystalline] are approximately perpendicular to the crystalline, none of those of the oblique cones are, The direct cone is cut equally by the anterior surface of the crystalline; the oblique cones are are cut very unequally, because where the anterior surface of the crystalline is more inclined [aspherical], it cuts the oblique cone more deeply. The direct cone cuts the hyberbolic surface of the crystalline, or the boss, circularly and equally; the oblique cone cuts its unequally. All the rays of the direct cone are gathered together at one point in the retina, which is the chief thing in the process; the lines of the oblique cones cannot quite be gathered together, because of the causes previously mentioned here, as a result, the picture is more confused. The direct cone aims the middle ray at center of the retina; the oblique cones aim the rays to the side…(Paralipomena 174)
This passage has multiple points of importance, in part because I suspect that it is the orgin passage of Descartes’ enthusiasm for the hyperbola, but also, as I will show later, for a naturalized justification for hyperbolic vision, something which will play to Spinoza’s optical critique. But at this point it is just sufficient to register the citation as a reference point for Spinoza’s phrase. We have already pointed out that Spinoza may have Kepler’s aquaeous globe in mind for his intial diagram, so there is something distinctly Keplerian in Spinoza’s approach.
Another reference point for Spinoza’s phrase is James Gregory’s 1663 Optical Promota, a treatise written without the aid of Descartes’ Dioptrics, but which all the same proposed parabolic and hyperbolic solutions to refraction aberrations and proposed reflective mirror telescopes to avoid the problem altogether. This text we know Spinoza had in his personal library, and he seems to be reasoning from it in part. Gregory regularly uses both “pencils of rays” and “cones of rays” as modes of analysis.
As a point of reference for us, he offers these defintions to begin his work:
6. Parallel rays are those which are always equally distant each to the other amonst themselves.
7. Diverging rays are those which concur in a point when produced in both directions: those rays produced in the opposite direction to the motion from the ray-bearing cone – the apex of the cone is the point of concurrence of the rays.
8. Converging rays are those rays are those which concur in a point in the direction of the motion when produced in both directions; these rays are called a pencil, and the point of concurrence the apex of the pencil…
10. An image before the eye [i.e. a real image], arises from the apices of the light bearing cones from single radiating points of matter brought together in a single surface.
Pencils of parallel rays feature in many of the diagrams, within the understanding that rays proceed as cones. So seems to me that Spinoza is operating with both Kepler and Gregory in mind as he answers Jelles’ question.
“But they are considered to be so because the object is so far from us that the aperture of the telescope, in comparison with its distance, can be considered as no more than a point.”
Spinoza follows Gregory’s Fourth Postulate: “The rays coming from remote visible objects are considered parallel.”
“Moreover, it is certain that, in order to see an entire object, we need not only rays coming from a single point but also all the other rays that come from all the other points.”
Spinoza may be still addressing the nature of Jelles’ request for clarification. He follows the reasoning of Gregory’s Tenth defintion (above). Whether the rays be treated as parallel pencils, or cones does not make a strict difference to Spinoza’s point, though understanding that they are coming to the lense as cones does something to express their spherical nature (one must recall that Kepler asserted that light radiates as a sphere as it can, and even that Hooke proposed that it moves in waves; Spinoza’s attachment to the sphere may be in regards to this). It is the lens’ capacity to gather together these rays come from diverse points of the object, and not just rays parallel to its central axis, that Spinoza emphasizes. In other words, though considered no more than a point, it is a point that must gather rays from a variety of angles.
“And therefore it is also necessary that, on passing through the glass, they should come together in as many other foci.”
It should be noted that Spinoza is talking about glass lenses here, and not the eye’s lens. Spinoza has taken his ideal model of a spherical refraction from the first letter, and has applied it to actual lenses (there is no requirement to the index of refraction of the glass). As Spinoza envisions it, because a glass has to focus rays coming obliquely, the foci along those alternate axes are significant factors in clarity.
Seeing More, or Seeing Narrowly
“And although the eye is not so exactly constructed that all the rays coming from different points of an object come together in just so many foci at the back of the eye, yet it is certain that the figures that can bring this about are to be preferred above all others.”
This is the big sentence, the one that opens up the place from which Spinoza is coming from. What does Spinoza mean “the eye is not so exactly constructed”? How odd. Descartes’ comments on optics indeed are often made in the service of correcting far- and near-sightedness, so there is context for a notion of the “inexactness” of the eye, and for his own uses Descartes picks up on the notion that the eye is limited or flawed: …”in as much as Nature has not given us the means…”, “I still have to warn you as to the faults of the eye”. But this is not what Spinoza has in mind. What I believe Spinoza is thinking about is the hidden heritage behind a naturalizing justification of hyperbolic vision itself. This is not strictly an optical point, as we have come to understand optical theory, but an analogical point. And this distinction organizes itself around the failure that a hyperbolic lens to handle rays oblique to its axis, with clarity, and whether this failure is something to be concerned with.
Kepler's drawing the hyperbolic crystalline humor, 167
Kepler begins the justification. The passage continues on from the conclusion of the one cited above, which ended with an explanation of why the image of the eye is blurred at its borders,
All the rays of the direct cone are gathered together at one point in the retina, which is the chief thing in the process; the lines of the oblique cones cannot quite be gathered together, because of the causes previously mentioned here, as a result, the picture is more confused. The direct cone aims the middle ray at center of the retina; the oblique cones aim the rays to the side…
…so the sides of the retina use their measure of sense not for its own sake, but whatever they can do they carry over to the perfection of the direct vision. That is we see an object perfectly when at last we perceive it with all the surroundings of the hemisphere. On this account, oblique vision is least satisfying to the soul, but only invites one to turn the eyes thither so that they may be seen directly (174).
This is a striking passage in that we know the history of the hyperbolic lens, and Descartes’ fascination with it. Due to the hyperbolically shaped crystalline humor (as Kepler reasons it), the image at the border, projected at the edges of the retina, is said to be more confused due to the inability of the lens to focus oblique rays. This is what Spinoza has in mind when he says that the eye is not so exactly constructed. But there is more to this passage. Not only is the image more confused, but Kepler goes so far was to qualify this confused quality as an explanation for why the soul is dissatisfied with oblique vision. At the margins of blurred vision, according to Kepler, the sides of the retina do not “sense” for their own sake, but for the sake of central axis perfection, in effect serving the center. Kepler has provided the hyperbola as the solution for spherical aberration, but has also couched that shape within a larger context of human perception and the nature of what experience satisfies the soul or not.
This theme of the hyperbola’s justifcation through Nature continues. I will leap forward to Gregory’s Optica Promota, a writer who, as I have said, had no access to Descartes’ treatise but did read Kepler closely. At the end of a thorough and brilliant work on the value of hyperbolic and parabolic forms for use in telescopes, Gregory as well evokes Kepler’s notion of the weakness of the hyperbola, along with its naturalization. This is how he ends his Optica :
But against hyperbolic lenses, it is only objected that nothing will be able to be most clearly seen, except a visible point arising on the axis of the instrument. But this weakness [ infirmitas ] (if it would be worthwhile to call it that) is sufficiently manifested in the eye itself, though not to be impuning Nature, for whom nothing is in vain, but how much all things most appropriately she carries out [ peragit]. Nevertheless, withconicallenses and mirrors not granted, it shall be rather with spherical portions used in place of spheriods and paraboloids in catoptrics; as with hyperboloids in dioptrics, in which portions of spheres are less appropriate.
With these we go to the stars – His itur ad astra
Just as Kepler justifies hyperbolic vision by appeal to the eye’s own weakness, redeemed by the roles of the retina and the satisfactions of the soul, so here too Nature herself is the justification of central axis priority. This is a curious naturalization, given that so much of optics addresses the failings or the limitations of Nature. Such a self-contradiction deserves attention, especially with a focus upon the foundations of valuations that make one adjustment to Nature desired, and another not. But here I would like to continue the line of justifications of the hyperbola through the construction of the eye that Spinoza likely has in mind.
Descartes, if you recall from a passage cited above, also justifies the shape of the hyperbolic lens through appeal to the shape of the human eye. After he admits that the foci of rays that come obliquely to the axis of the hyperbola can only approximate a point of focus,
…for since the eye itself does not cause all the rays coming from diverse points to converge in exactly as many other diverse points, because of this the lenses would doubtless not be the best suited to render the vision quite distinct, and it is impossible in this matter to choose otherwise than approximately, because the precise shape of the eye cannot be known to us…
Descartes has not strictly forwarded Kepler’s claim that the crystalline humor has a hyperbolic shape, perhaps because his own anatomical investigations caused him to doubt the accuracy of this, but he maintains Kepler’s reasoning to some degree. While Descartes has long let go of any notion that spherical lenses may be preferred due to their omni-axial focus, he shrugs off the necessity for anything more than approximate foci along these oblique axes. The reason he provides for this is unclear. Either it is proposed that because the eye does not focus oblique rays, the benefits of any lens that does so would simply be lost – yet, if this were the reason, it would not result in the conclusion that such shapes are not best for precise vision, for they would be no worse than his hyperbola; or, he means to say that hyperbolic lenses are simply preferred because their weaknesses are natural weaknesses of the eye, with Nature not to be improved upon. This is emphasized in conclusion of the passage:
…Moreover we will always have to take care, when we thus place some body before our eyes, that we imitate Nature as much as possible, in all things that we see she has observed in constructing them; and that we lose none of the advantages that she has given us, unless it be to gain another more important one. – Seventh Discourse
There is additional evidence for the naturalized justification of the hyperbolic “weakness” (notice the question of valuation in the phrase “important one”). Firstly, when he proposes his notion that the telescope is simply an extension of the eye, Descartes imagines that all the refraction would occur in one lens, thus, “…there will be no more refraction at the entrance of that eye” (120). In this analogical conception of the extended length of the eye Descartes imagines his hyperbola as supplimenting and even supplanting the eye’s refractions. Secondly, when Descartes addresses the possibility that seeing at the borders may be an improvement of vision, he denies this, by virtue of how Nature has endowed our sight. Seeing more is not seeing better.
There is only one other condition which is desirable on the part of the exterior organs, which is that they cause us to perceive as many objects as possible at the same time. And it is to be noted that this condition is not in any way requisite for the improvement for seeing better, but only for the convenience of seeing more; and it should be noted that it is impossible to see more than one object distinctly at the same time, so that this convenience, of seeing many others confusedly, at the same time, is principally useful only in order to ascertain toward what direction we must subsequently turn our eyes in order to look at the one among them which we will wish to consider better. And for this, Nature has so provided that it is impossible for art to add anything to it. – Seventh Discourse
What Kepler has stated as simply the role of the borders of the retina to serve the perfection of the center, Descartes has made an occasion to assert the virtue of the human Will (a cornerstone of his metaphysics, and a cornerstone which Spinoza rejects, which makes the two philosophers quite opposed in their philosophy of ideal perception). For Kepler the edges serve the center, as is shown in the satisfactions of the soul. For Descartes the width of blurred vision becomes only a field upon which the Will manifests itself in making judgements of good and bad. Not only is the hyperbola’s condensed vision naturalized, it is key to how the Individual Will functions. Nature herself has foreclosed the possibility of improving the capacity to see more in a better way. Spinoza’s philsophy of mind’s-eye perception is based on the principle that one sees clearly as one sees more – more at once. (It is interesting that immediately following this assertion Descartes uses the examples of sailors and hunters who are able to improve on Nature’s provisions, but only in the direction of further sharpening their eyes to a more narrow focus. Descartes valuation is both implicit and naturalized.)
It suffices to say that in this long digression what Spinoza means by “the eye is not so exactly constructed” is that the non-spherical shapes of the eye (and our tendencies of vision that come from it) provides a focus that is not optimal. Spinoza here likely conflates his metaphysics and his optics, as perhaps does Descartes. His critique, right down to the root of centralized conceptions of a naturalization of hyperbolic vision, opens to Post-modern and Post-structuralist critiques of marginalization and philosophies of Presence, locating his objection not in the glorification of the human eye, but in the understanding of its limitations. Descartes’ philosophy of “clear and distinct” and its parasitic conceptions of Human Will are cut at in a very essential way. But the question remains, is there an optical advantage to spherical lenses, as they exhibit the flexibility of omni-axial foci? The obvious objection to hyperbolics is that they proved impossible to grind, either by hand, or in the kinds of automated machines that Descartes proposed. As a practiced lens-grinder Spinoza better than most would surely know this. But aside from this serious detraction Spinoza finds one more, and it is one that Kepler, Descartes and Gregory all admit, as they justify it not in optical terms, but in terms of naturalized conceptions of the eye and perception. Perhaps we can assume that Spinoza, out of his love for the sphere, coupled with the Keplerian sense of the spherical radiation of light, the practical considerations of lens grinding, and a epistemological conception of Comprensive Vision, saw in the admitted weakness of the hyperbola (and the eye) something that outweighed the moderate weakness of spherical aberration. In a sense, Spinoza may have seen spherical aberration in terms of his acceptance that almost all of our ideas are Inadequate Ideas. [More of this line of thought written about here: A Diversity of Sight: Descartes vs. Spinoza ]
“Now since a definite segment of a circle can bring it about that all the rays coming from one point are (using the language of Mechanics) brought together at another point on its diameter, it will also bring together all the other rays which come from other points of the object, at so many other points.”
A modified version of the letter 39 diagram, showing what Spinoza believed to be the failings of the hyperbola
Spinoza repeats his insistence upon the virtues of spherical lenses. As the modified diagram here shows, the capacity to refract rays along an infinity of axes is in Spinoza’s mind an ideal which hyperbolic forms cannot achieve. He does not accept the notion that an assumed narrow focus of human vision, nor the supposed shape of the crystalline humor (Kepler) determines that “hyperbolic abberation” is negligable to what should be most esteemed. This insistance upon the importance of the sphere calls to mind James Gregory’s description of refraction on sphere of the “densest medium” presented in his first proposition of the Optica:
If truly, everything is examined carefully, then it will seem – on account of the aforementioned reasons -that all the rays, either parallel or non-parallel, which are incident on the circular surface of the densest medium for refraction, are concurrent in the centre of the circle. Now we ask: how does this come about? The answer is: – Well, however a line is drawn incident on the circle, (provided they are co-planar) an axis can be drawn parallel to it and without doubt the circle can be considered a kind of ellipse so that any diameter can be called the axis, from which it appears that the special line sought is the axis of a conic section. – Optica Promota
figures 1 and 2 from the Optima Promota
One feels that there seems something of this ideal conception of the densest medium floating behind Spinoza’s conception of the spherical lens. Material glass somehow manifests for Spinoza, in its particularities of modal expression, these geometric powers of unified focus, and peripheral focus is a part of what Spinoza conceives of as ideal clarity.
“the language of mechanics”
But there is another very important clue in this section of the letter: the phrase “using the language of Mechanics”); for now I believe we get direct reference to Johannes Hudde’s optical treatise “Specilla circularia” (1655), an essential text for understanding Spinoza’s approach to spherical aberration.
Rienk Vermij and Eisso Atzema provided a most valuable, but perhaps sometimes overlooked insight into the 17th century reaction to Descartes resolution to spherical aberration in their article “Specilla circularia: an Unknown Work by Johannes Hudde”. They present Hudde’s small tract (it is not quite nine typed journal pages) which offers a mathematical treatment of the problem of spherical aberration. Interestingly, as it was published anonymously, Hudde’s teacher at Leiden, Van Schooten, actually thought that the work belonged to his star student Christiaan Huygens. Presumably this was because of the closeness it bore to Huygens’ 1653 calculations of aberration, and he wrote him to say as much, and he likely sent him a copy of it as Christiaan requested. Hudde’s approach is a kind of applied mathematics to problems he considered to be pragmatic mechanical issues. In a sense he simply took spherical aberration to be a fact of life when using lenses, and thought it best to precisely measure the phenomena so as to work with it effectively. The hyperbolic quest was likely in his mind a kind of abstract unicorn chasing. He wanted a mechanical solution which he could treat mathematically, hence his ultimate distinction between a “mathematical point” of focus and a “mechanical point”. As Vermij and Atzema write describing this distinction and its use in analysis:
At the basis of Hudde’s solution to the problem is his distinction between mathematical exactness and mechanical exactness. Whereas the first is exactness according the laws of mathematics, the second is exactness as far as can be verified by practical means. After having made this distinction, Hudde claims that parallel incident rays that are refracted in a sphere unite into a mechanically exact point (“puntum mechanicum”). In order to substantiate his claim Huddethen proceeds to the explicit determination of the position of a number of rays after refraction.
Restricting his investigation to the plane, Huddeconsiderstherefraction of seven parallel rays by explicitly computingthepoint of intersection of these rays with the diameter of the circle parallel to the incident rays for given indices of refraction. The closer these rays get to the diameter, the closer these points get to one another until they finally merge into one point. Today, we would call this point the focal point of the circle; Hudde does not use this term.
Returning to spheres, Hudde erects a plane perpendicular to the diameter introduced above and considers the disc illuminated by the rays close to this diameter. He refers to this disc as the “focal plane”. On the basis of the same rays he used earlier, Hudde concludes that the radius of the focal plane is very small compared to the distance of the rays to the diameter. Therefore this disc could be considered as one, mechanically exact point. In other words, parallel rays refracted in a sphere unite into one point (111-112).
From this description one can immediately see a conceptual influence upon Spinoza’s initial diagram of spherical foci, and far from it being the case that Spinoza knew nothing about spherical aberration and the Law of refraction, instead, it would seem that he was working within Hudde’s understanding of a point of focus as “mechanical”. We know that Spinoza had read and reasoned with Hudde’s tract, as he writes to Hudde about its calculations, and proposes his own argument for the superiority of the convex-plano lens. And the reference to “the language of mechanics” seems surely derived straight from Hudde’s thinking. What these considerations suggest is that Spinoza’s objection to the hyperbola to some degree came from his agreement with Hudde that spherical aberration was not a profound problem. As it turns out, given the diameters of telescope apertures that were being used, this was in fact generally correct. Spinoza joined Hudde in thinking that the approximation of the point of focus was the working point of mechanical operations, and the aim of shrinking it down to a mathematical exactness was not worth pursuing (perhaps with some homology in thought to Descartes’ own dismissal of the approximations of focus of rays oblique to the axis of the hyperbola).
F. J. Dijksterhuis summarizes the import of Hudde’s tract, in the context of Descartes’ findings in this way:
The main goal of Specilla circularia was to demonstrate that there was no point in striving after the manufacture of Descartes’ asphericallenses. In practice one legitimately makes do with spherical lenses, because spherical aberrations are sufficiently small. (Lenses and Waves. Diss. 72)
Spinoza has a connection to the other main attempt to resolve the difficulty of aberration from focus using only spherical lenses, that which was conducted by Christiaan Huygens. Spinoza in the summer of 1665 seemed to have visited Huygens’ nearby estate several times, just as Huygens was working on developing a theory of spherical aberration and devising a strategy for counteracting it which did not include hyperbolas. In that summer as Spinoza got to know Huygens, he was busy calculating the the precise measure of the phenomena. In 1653 he had already made calculations on the effects in a convex-plano lens, an effort he now renewed under a new idea: that the combination of defects in glasses may cancel them out, as he wrote:
Until this day it is believed that spherical surfaces are…less apt for this use [of making telescopes]. Nobody has suspected that the defects of convex lenses can be corrected by means of concave lenses. (OC13-1, 318-319).
What followed was a mathematical finding which not only gave Huygens the least aberrant proportions of a convex-plano lens, but also the confirmation of its proper orientation. In addition he found the same for convex-convex lenses. In August of that summer Huygens wrote in celebration:
In the optimal lens the radius of the convex objective side is to the radius of the convex interior side as 1 to 6. EUPHKA. 6 Aug. 1665.
During this time the secretary of the Royal Society was writing Spinoza, trying to get updates on the much anticipated work of Spinoza’s illustrious neighbor (he was about to become the founding Secretary for the Académie Royale des Sciences for Louis XIV. Spinoza writes to Oldenburg:
When I asked Huygens about his Dioptricsandabout another treatise dealing with Parhelia he replied that he was still seeking the answer to a problem in Dioptrics, and that soon as he found the solution he would set that book to print together with his treatise on Parhelia. However for my part I believe he is more concerned withhisjourneytoto France (he is getting ready to to live in France as soon as his father has returned) than with anything else. The problem which he says he is trying to solve in the Dioptrics is as follows: It is possible to arrange the lenses in telescopes in such a way that the deficiency in the one will correct the deficiency of the other and thus bring it about that all parallel rays passing through the objective rays will reach the eye as if they converged on a mathematical point. As yet this seems to me impossible. Further, throughout his Dioptrics, as I have both seen and gathered from him (unless I am mistaken), he treats only spherical figures.
This letter is dated October 7, 1665, two months after Huygens had scribed his Eureka optimalization of the lens shape. Significantly, Huygen found that lenses of this optimal shape actually were not the best for his project of combining lens weaknesses (302-303), rather lenses with greater “weaknesses” were better combined. Several facts can be gleaned from Spinoza’s letter, and perhaps a few others guessed at. Spinoza had both looked at and discussed with Huygens his contemporary work. So the sometimes guarded Huygens was not shy about the details of his project with Spinoza. It may well have been Huygens’ treatment of the convex-plano lens here that caused Spinoza to write to Hudde less than a year later with his own calculations in argument for the superiority of the convex-plano lens, using Hudde’s own Specilla as a model. (Hudde seemed quite interested in Spinoza’s proofs of the unity of God, and the correspondence seems to have begun as early as late 1665.) What cannot be lost is that with a joint awareness of both Hudde’s and Huygens’ attempts to resolve spherical aberration, Spinoza was in a very tight loop of contemporary optical solutions to the problem. Not only is his scientific comprehension trusted by both Huygens and Oldenburg at this point, but perhaps also by Hudde.
What is striking though is Spinoza’s pessimism toward Huygens’ project. Given Spinoza’s optical embrace of spherical lenses (in the letters 39 and 40 we are studying), what would lead Spinoza to such a view he qualifies as “As yet this seems to me impossible.” Is this due to a familiarity with Huygens’ mathematics, and thus comes from his own notable objections? Has Huygens actually shared the frustrations of his experiments? Or is he doubtful because Spinoza has only a vague notion of what Huygens is doing? He seems to deny the very possibility of achieving a mathematical point of focus, though his mind remains tentatively open. His added on thought, Further, throughout his Dioptrics, as I have both seen and gathered from him (unless I am mistaken), he treats only spherical figures” , is also curious. He seems privy to the central idea that Huygens is using spherical lenses to achieve this – what other figure would it be? – but it is possible that Spinoza here qualifies his doubt as a general doubt about sphericals which he only believes Huygens is using in his calculations, showing only a cursory knowledge. Perhaps it is only an addendum of information for Oldenburg.
Huygens indeed would soon find such a solution to aberration writing,
“With concave and convex spherical lenses, to make telescopes that are better than the one made according to what we know now, and that emulate the perfection of those that are made withellipticor hyperbolic lenses” (OC13, 318-319).
I am unsure if he had come to this solution before he left for Paris in mid 1666, or if he would even have shared this discovery with Spinoza, but he also came to the same pessimistic conclusion as Spinoza held, at least for Keplerian telescopes, for his design only worked for those of the Gallelian designs which had fairly low powers of magnification. By combining convex lenses the aberration was only increased. This would be the case until February of 1669, when Huygens finally came up with right combinations of lenses.
“For from any point on an object a line can be drawn passing through the center of a circle, although for that purpose the aperture of the telescope must be made much smaller that it would otherwise be made if there were no need of more than one focus, as you may easily see.”
Again Spinoza returns to his initial point, now putting it in context of real telescopes. Such telescopes required the stopping down of the aperture, something that reduced the impact of spherical aberration; but restricting the aperture reduced the amount of light entering the tube, hence making the image less distinct. I am unsure what Spinoza refers to in “as you may easily see”, for neither of his diagrams seem to distinctly address this aspect. Perhaps Spinoza has in mind two diagrams of the eye that Descartes provides, contrasting the angles of rays entering the eye with a narrow and a wide pupil aperture. Was this a diagram which Jelles had mentioned in his response (below, left)?
Descartes' diagram 17 of the eye, Sixth Discourse
“What I here say of the circle cannot be said of the ellipse or the hyperbola, and far less of other more complex figures, since from one single point of the object only one line can be drawn passing through both the foci. This what I intended to say in my first letter regarding this matter.”
I am unsure what Spinoza means by “both the foci”, but it appears that he asserts again that because there is only one axis of either hyperbolics or ellipse available to any rays of light arriving for refraction, and that spherical lenses, again, have the advantage that rays come from any particular point of an object then can be focused to a single “mechanical point” along an available axis. Under Spinoza’s conception, this is an advantage that cannot be ignored.
Below I post Spinoza’s last diagram to which he refers with his final remarks. I place it beside Descartes diagram to which it most likely refers. This may be the most telling aspect of Spinoza’s letter, for we have to identify just what Spinoza is making clear as distinct from what Descartes was asserting.
Descartes’ diagram is a variation of as similar diagram which illustrated his prototype idea of forming a single lens made of an objective lens and a tube of water which was imagined to be placed directly upon the eye, making a long prosthetic lens, physically extending the eye. In this version he proposes that because such a watery tube is difficult to use, the tube may be filled with one large glass lens, with surfaces A and B acting as the anterior and posterior surfaces. And yet again acknowledging that the making of such a lens is unlikely, the same diagram is meant to serve as a model of an elementary telescope:
…because there would again be some inconvenience…we will be able to leave the whole inside of this tube empty, and merely place, at its two ends, two lenses which have the same effect as I have just said that the two surfaces GHI and KLMshouldcause. And on this alone is founded the entire invention of these telescopes composed of two lenses placed in the two ends of the tube, which gave me occasion to write this Treatise. – Eighth Discourse
- Spinoza’s diagram from Letter 40
Descartes diagram 30, Seventh Discourse
“From the attached diagram you will be able to see the proof that the angle formed at the surface of the eye by rays coming from different points becomes greater or less according to the difference of the foci is greater or less.”
There are several ways to look at Spinoza’s diagram, but it is best to take note of where it diverges from Descartes’ (for Jelles would have had the latter to compare it to). The virtual image of the arrow appearing to be much closer to the eye is eliminated, presumably because the appearance of magnification is not in Spinoza’s point. The refraction of the centerpoint of the arrow remains, and is put in relation to refractions of rays coming from the extreme ends of the arrow. The refractions within the eye have been completely collapsed into an odd, artfully drawn eye, (the touch of lid and lashes actually seem to speak to Colerus’ claim that Spinoza was quite a draftsman, drawing life-like portraits of himself and visitors). Behind this collapse of the eye perhaps we could conclude either a lack of effort to portray his version of refractions into the mechanisms of the eye, or even a failure of understanding, but since this is just a letter to a friend, it probably marks Spinoza’s urge just to get a single optical point of across, and he took more pleasure in drawing an eye than he did tracing out his lines of focus. An additional piece of curiousness, which may be a sign of a very casual approach is that the last arrow in the succession, which to my eye appears to be one supposed to be in the imagination of the mind, Spinoza fails to properly reverse again so that it faces the same direction as the “real” one, although perhaps this is an indication that Spinoza thought of the image as somehow arrived within the nervous system at a point, on its way to be inverted by the imagination (though in the Ethics he scoffs at Descartes’ pituitary concept of projective perception). There is of course the possiblity that I am misreading the diagram, and the the final arrow somehow represents the image as it lies on the retina at the back of the eye. At any rate, it is a confusing addition and one wonders if it is just a part of Spinoza’s musings.
As best I can read, below is an altered version of the diagram designed to emphasize the differences between Descartes’ drawing the Spinoza’s:
The first thing to be addressed, which is not labeled here, is what C is. There is the possibility that it is a crude approximation of the crystalline humor, acknowledged as a refractive surface. If so, the upper arc of the eye and the figure C would form some kind of compound refractive mechanism approximate to what Descartes shows in his eye, here compressed and only signified. But I strongly suspect that C is the pupil of the eye, as the aperture of the telescope has been recently has been referred to in terms of its effect on the requirements of refraction, and in Descartes text there is a definite relationship between the telescope aperture and the pupil of the eye (it has also been proposed to me that C is the eyepiece of the telescope).
The primary difference though is the additional emphasis on the cones of rays that come from either end of the object to be seen (here shaded light blue and magenta). This really seems the entire point of Spinoza’s assertion, that spherical lenses are needed for the non-aberrant focus of oblique cones for a object to be seen clearly. In addition to this, the angle that these rays make at the surface of the eye (indicated) points to Spinoza’s original objection to Descartes incomplete description of what is the most significant factor the construction of a telescope.
What remains is to fully assess this conception of refraction that Spinoza holds. While it is made in the context of historic discussions of the blurred nature of the borders of an image’s perception, it is also true that such an oblique focusing must occur, however slightly, at any point exactly off from the center axis of a hyperbolic lens. It may well be that Spinoza is balancing this aberration of focus in hyperbolic lenses with the found-to-be overstated aberration of spherical focus. Given his comprehensive conception of clear mental vision -seeing more is seeing better – and its attendant critique of the Cartesian Will, given his love for the sphere, perhaps aided by a spherical conception of the propagation light come from Kepler, with Spinoza being much sensitized to the absolute impracticality of ground hyperbolic glasses through his own experiences of glass grinding, it may have been quite natural for Spinoza to hold this optical opinion…though it is beyond my understanding to say definitively so.
“So, after sending you my cordial greetings, it remains only for me to say that I am, etc.”
This is a curious ending for such a wonderful letter. Perhaps we can assume that once again the editors of his Opera suppressed important personal details.
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Calls for boycott of P&O after ‘scandalous' sackings
Calls are being made for a boycott of P&O amid growing anger over the “scandalous” sacking of 800 workers.
Demonstrations were held at ports today and another is set to take place outside the Conservative Party’s spring conference in Blackpool tomorrow, with unions saying they are receiving massive support for the move to be reversed.
Demonstrations were held in Larne, Dover, Liverpool and Hull a day after the DP World-owned company fired the staff with no notice and replaced them with cheaper agency workers.
The protesters included sacked workers, seafarers from rival operators, trade union leaders, politicians and members of the public.
Shadow British rt secretary Louise Haigh, who joined the rally in Dover, described P&O’s actions as “nothing short of a national scandal”.
“This is a disgraceful way for a Dubai-based conglomerate to treat British workers in this country,” she told the PA news agency.
She added: “I will be taking action in Parliament next week to push the government to take sanctions against P&O now, to push leverage on them, to force them to change course and if it’s not illegal … then we need to make sure it is immediately made so.”
P&O plans to replace sacked staff with agency workers and has said it will resume its Larne-Cairnryan service some time over the next week.
Concerns were also voiced for the future of a small number of land-based staff at Larne Port, which is also owned by P&O. However, it is understood that assurances have been given port workers jobs are safe.
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The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said there should be a widespread public and commercial boycott of the ferry giant until the jobs are reinstated.
The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) and Fire Brigades Union (FBU) joined the criticism of P&O over the way it fired seafarers on Thursday.
The RMT called on the British government to demand P&O reverse its decision and hold negotiations with the unions so that jobs and services can be reinstated.
If this does not happen, the government should use powers to take over the P&O vessels, said the RMT, adding that ministers should remove any government support for the company’s owner, DP World, including future contracts.
New laws are also needed to protect the long-term future of workers in the UK maritime industry, said the RMT.
General secretary Mick Lynch said: “We have been overwhelmed by the widespread public and political support for our campaign to protect our members’ jobs and these vital services.
“We welcome the fact that the government’s own MPs are calling for radical action and yesterday’s events should also mark a sea change in how we treat workers in this country.
“The fact that the government knew the day before that a foreign-owned company planned to cause major disruption to UK ports but did nothing to prevent it is shocking.”
The TUC said the “scandalous” treatment of P&O workers should be a turning point for workers’ rights in the UK.
Ministers were urged to bring forward an Employment Bill to stop workers from “being treated like disposable labour”.
TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes said: “P&O are holding our country to ransom by halting vital ferry trade routes so they can illegally and immorally sack their staff.
“The Government should nationalise these vital ferry routes which allow people and goods to get to and from our country – P&O must be hit where it hurts.”
Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said: “These actions by the brutal employer are a sign of the disgraceful state of workers’ rights in the UK after decades of anti-union and anti-worker legislation which has created an endless race to the bottom and a bonanza for exploitative bosses.”
Shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh, who visited a protest in Dover, said: “This was a despicable assault on workers’ rights, but British seafarers do not need meaningless platitudes – they need action.
“That’s why the government must consider suspending licences and contracts held with DP World, claw back every penny of taxpayers’ money, and outlaw fire and rehire now.”
Nautilus International, which represents some of those fired, urged the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) to “make sure the ships are safe” as the new crews are “unfamiliar” with the vessels and routes.
P&O Ferries told passengers that sailings will be suspended “for the next few days”.
Before suspending sailings, the company operated four routes: Dover to Calais, Hull to Rotterdam, Liverpool to Dublin, and Cairnryan to Larne.
It advised those already at Dover and Calais to make their way to the check-in booths for Danish firm DFDS, but there were no such instructions for those at Hull, Rotterdam, Liverpool, Dublin, Cairnryan or Larne.
Announcing the decision yesterday, the ferry operator, bought by Dubai-based logistics giant DP World in 2019, insisted the decision to cut jobs was “very difficult but necessary” as it was “not a viable business” in its current state.
It said in a statement: “We have made a £100 million loss year on year, which has been covered by our parent, DP World. This is not sustainable.
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I have a scented candle which is called “Embracing the Chaos” (from the Relatable Candle Co) on my desk. I know. Tempting the fates. But chaos is a part of my own creative process and one with which I am comfortable. I have friends who would break out in hives at the thought of so much randomness. Don’t get me wrong, my pashminas are folded and sorted according to colour and my tax receipts were an accountant’s joy, filed according to month and year. But broadly speaking my life (and certainly aspects of my writing) is ruled by the powers of chaos. It is s fiery beast that burns and consumes and whips its tail through plans and expectations. So I’ve learned to let go and ride the dragon. Enough metaphors?
So how do you get anything done when nothing is nailed down? Ah ah. That is a trick question, because at the heart of every storm there is a quiet core (I know I promised no more metaphors, but hey … chaos). This is the core that you need to cultivate to keep your life, and anything that fits into your life, going. It’s very hard to remember that quiet source of strength when the winds are howling, but it’s a practice thing. Like going to the gym (I went to one once when lycra and head bands were a thing) or playing an instrument. The more times you return to the quiet centre, the more times you remember the pathway – just like muscle memory. Yeah, the chaos gets to me, especially on days when my time is squeezed tight by other people’s needs. But I have that haven, even if on some days just knowing it’s there is as close as I get.
Sometimes the best thing we can do is bunker down and let the storm howl. I don’t agree with Macbeth that life is an idiot’s tale “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. I may be an idiot and my life is oft times filled with sound and fury (some of it my own) but it does not signify nothing. Life is filled with the best you can do, for now, with what you have. You built a sandcastle and the tide washes it away (or some idiot keeps kicking it down until you hide a huge rock in it … ahem, a story for another time). But you did build the damn sandcastle. It was a thing that you did. You did the best you could with the resources to hand. Bravo. Well done.
That’s what I like about writers in general, they’re willingness to create supportive groups. Tolerating, and even striving to understand, each other’s differences and celebrating each other’s wins (we’re not going to talk about the twinges of envy - rise above it). A willingness to applaud the efforts of others and the harder task of learning to applaud ourselves. We all do the best we can, with what we’ve got. Bravo!
So chaos … from the fury is born art.
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I haven't mentioned 2020 despite it being a singularly needy sort of year. These are the sorts of times when you do reflect on life, whether you wish to or not.
Ironically I have managed to be published in an anthology with the theme of lighthouses. So all of the sentinel's metaphors of loneliness, sacrifice, endurance and introspection are entirely appropriate for the times. But my story is about love.
You could argue that there are weightier matters in the world to consider beside tales of whimsy or love, and you would be right. But we do not toil unslumbering through the rotations of our small planet, nor do we lie undreaming through its nights. Stories feed our minds and souls.
There have been a lot of anthologies this year, just in my small patch of world. A short story is the perfect thing to read. Long enough to unplug the world's noise, but short enough to justify a claim on our limited time. So, book, tea, reading. What could be more perfect in our imperfect world?
(Thank you Unslash phtotgrapher Garrick Sangil.)
I've been an editor for a long time and I'll be the first to tell you it can be a bit tough on everyone. But having someone edit my work is a joy to me. This week I'm starting the first round of my own edits on a sequel, re-working a finished book for re-release, tinkering with a manuscript that's done, done, done... and responding to edits on a short story I've written for an anthology. Yeah... pretty heavy editing week.
In some ways editing is a restful break from the pressure of creative writing. Whereas the creative mind needs that energy to make intuitive leaps, spark new directions, make marks on a trackless plain, editing requires a calm centre and deep focus.
My process always requires a first read before I edit. Not always an easy ask if you're on a timetable, but I try. Early this year I finished editing a 120,000 word science fiction manuscript which I'd seen at various stages over two years. Okay, it was a labour of love, but even so, the single most important tenet still held, did I connect with the author? As an editor I have to be constantly conscious of the author's voice. I must not change or alter the flavour or tone of that voice. Although there was major structural editing required in the science fiction manuscript, my job stopped where I saw the edge of the plot hole. It was up to the author to figure out how to bridge that gap. That's not to say we didn't have some interesting discussions about direction and what was working and what wasn't. The joys of being on the same wavelength.
So when choosing an editor for myself, that's the first thing I look for... are we a good 'fit'? I have high hopes for my short story. If the fit is good, then you don't despair when you see the field of yellow highlighting (or red pen, or margins of comment boxes), it means growth and opportunity. Embrace the change(s).
PS The 'funs' in title is a joke and 'fun'.
PPS I write Australian English hence 'flavour' and 'centre'.
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Been away from home for the last few weeks, only a short distance but far enough to note the change in visitors. I had a flock of hoodlum Sulphur-crested cockatoos shout their way across the blue sky on two days. I admit I preferred their noise to the small helicopter that passed through their flight path shortly after. Somehow their noisy flight didn’t feel like trespass.
Back home, last week briefly, when I was called outside by the screech of a pair of Rainbow Lorikeets. It was not their screech in particular that made me go out, but the loud song of a currawong and the bully caw of our crows. Sure enough the big predators were after a lorikeet sandwich. Well, it's a bird-eat-bird world out there, but not today boys. The big birds had boxed in the lorikeets in the foliage of the Tulip Tree, which had attracted the parrots with a few blossoming flowers in the upper canopy. My big human presence sent the ever cautious currawongs and crows off and the lorikeets kept right on screeching as they ripped the flowers apart while giving me the evil eye. Never let a bit of life threatening danger stop a good feed. I never said lorikeets were cute. Pretty yes; cute, no. They are an aggressive species and will out compete native birds in bushland. Anyway, that day they lived to screech another day.
I remember hand feeding lorikeets a honey and water solution from plates at Currumbin wildlife sanctuary down the Gold Coast—a big tourist draw. I assume they still do it. Lorikeets have a feathered tongue and are nectar feeders, so imagine the surprise of biologists when they observed them feeding on insects. Just goes to show, humans don’t know everything. Anyway last week's pair of lorikeets dodged being eaten for the time being. They'll be back to finish off the flowers before the honeyeaters get a chance. If they didn't make so much noise I'd probably not have even noticed them in their green feathers high among the leaves. Maybe the crows would have missed them too.
(Thanks to Pexels Victoria Mangano for the photo of the Rainbow Lorikeet)
Well, here we are, basking on a warm day in winter. Pleasant, but slightly alarming when contemplating the Summer to come. Yet there is no reason to despair. I was reading an article in Vox by Mary Annaïse Heglar. Her impassioned call is to not give up. Not be overwhelmed by the changes to our Earth, to our future.
Every action counts. But don't just stop there with your own actions. Keep demanding systematic change too.
Tomorrow is today's promise - we can choose hope.
We can choose hope today. So enjoy the sunshine, buy less plastic, sign petitions, have conversations. Do all those things you do.
Just don't give up.
[Thank you Pinakeen Bhatt and Unsplash for the photo]
This morning the sky is blue, cold and fresh. The world is crisp and rustling with a wind that robs the sunshine of its warmth. It is a new day and all things seem possible. The sky paints hope with white clouds and the branches of trees reach up to touch the message. We have to keep hope, for without hope we shall never find the courage or strength to face today, tomorrow and all our tomorrows.
A small dancing troupe of pink twirls up the orchid spike. Their pretty unscented frocks speckled in earthy browns. Cherub faced, chubby cheeked, they peek and play between the long green shadows, untroubled by grand visions, their small alien bodies smiling at the silver sunlight. Then one stops its happy bob. Snapped alert, it holds motionless, its awkward face stares at me. I have been noticed - the stranger in their garden. Now discovered, I cannot look away. We stare at each other - we have a silent conversation full of questions without answers. How grotesque your features, how short your life, how fragile - we both think. Then the breeze calls it back to play and the link is broken. I am forgotten - just another shadow, left behind to my noisy cast of sunshine and the well explained.
There were a few interviews and spots in the February launch of The Soldier's Woman. I shared them dutifully on social media but failed to add them on here, a fact I am trying to remedy. I find dealing with Facebook like dealing with a toddler, it has a short attention span, messes up your things when you aren't looking and you have to be careful not to put anything too hot or spicy within its reach. I'll put up things as I find and remember where I put them last. Trying to get back to book 2 in the Bladewood Legacy, but have been distracted by community theatre (not acting, faffing about with costumes even though I'm not a seamstress) and my 'day job' convening the biannual Sustainability Day charity event (a labour of love). Words are bouncing about in the old brain but not anything worth writing down yet.
With abandon the tree in our yard has dropped its round yellow leaves to paint the grass in Monet dapples. After rain and damp the wind has brought Autumn. The ground, still so smugly brown and soft, has loosed the dry life of seed and root. In chaotic joy all underfoot the green spears and jostles aside the yellow. Here, where we live long months under the heavy fist of Summer, the change is delightful. Brief, transient clear and perfect as the moment before the mirror pool ripples. The fallen leaves are already crisping brown. The Autumn light laughs between the mellow leaves, cool and light, warming itself in the bright sun. But the warm day has halted the tree’s leaf fall. Hesitant, it holds its half-shed canopy like a dressing gown on a startled bather. Is the season on the change or not?
I was interviewed in February by Teresa Smith for the new Sunday Spotlight author A&Q on the Australian Women Writers Challenge page. A site responding to the question "Are male authors more likely to have their books reviewed in influential newspapers, magazines and literary journals than female authors?". Well, yes. Hence the site. Visit their page at australianwomenwriters.com/about-2/background-to-challenge/ for more details on who they are and how to join.
There were a few challenging questions I can tell you, like
Q: How has being Australian AND a woman impacted on your writing and/or writing career? or
Q: Have you ever had to deal with a situation where someone feels they recognise traits of themselves in one of your characters? or
Q: If you could sit down for an afternoon with an iconic person from history, who would you choose to spend that time with?
For the full interview and my (well considered) answers visit australianwomenwriters.com/2017/02/sunday-spotlight/
Thank you Australian Women Writers Challenge for the opportunity and for being the first of your Sunday Spotlight authors.
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The terms “modularity” and “microservices architecture” pop up quite often these days in context of building scalable, reliable distributed systems. Java platform itself is known to be weak with regards to modularity (Java 9 is going to address that by delivering project Jigsaw), giving a chance to frameworks like OSGi and JBoss Modules to emerge.
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James O’Connor displayed the utmost arrogance in dumping the Western Force. How can a 20-year-old kid dictate terms to a rugby team? He can’t, so the Force did the right thing and ended negotiations.
O’Connor reckons he’s bigger than the game. That’s evident by his actions, and by his web presence and comments made to the media: that he wants to develop his brand.
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It would be nice to think other Australian clubs could teach the telanted upstart a lesson by not giving him contract, or give him one worth less than he had in WA. That’s unlikely, given teams’ win-at-all-costs attitude.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued new mortgage servicing rules designed to protect borrowers when it comes to mortgage loans. These rules will become effective on January 10, 2014. Keep reading to learn more about the CFPB rules and how they can help you.
The Dodd–Frank Act Imposes New Requirements on Servicers
A mortgage servicer is the company that collects monthly mortgage payments from borrowers on behalf of the owner of the loan, as well as tracks account balances, manages the escrow account, handles loss mitigation applications, and pursues foreclosure in the case of defaulted loans.
Why the Need for Rules Protecting Homeowners?
During the mortgage crisis of the late 2000s, the number of homeowners in financial distress increased exponentially and mortgage servicers simply couldn’t keep up with the increased demands for information and assistance. As a result, servicing errors were common and egregious.
Read more about abuses by the mortgage servicing industry.
The Dodd-Frank Act Cracks Down on Servicers
In response, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which imposed new requirements on servicers and gives the CFPB the authority to both implement the new requirements, as well as adopt new rules. The new rules are designed to protect consumers by:
- providing borrowers with better information about their mortgage loans
- providing borrowers with assistance if they are having difficulty making mortgage payments, and
- protecting borrowers from wrongful actions by mortgage servicers.
Servicers Must Provide Borrowers With Better Information
The new rules require mortgage servicers to provide borrowers with improved information about their mortgage so they are not caught off guard when an interest rate adjusts or they are charged certain fees. (To learn more about fees, see our article What Fees Can the Lender Charge If I'm Late on Mortgage Payments?)
The new rules require mortgage services to:
Send Periodic Billing Statements
The mortgage servicer must provide a written monthly mortgage statement to the borrower. The statement must show:
- the amount currently due (including how much will be applied to principal, interest, and escrow)
- the total of all payments received since the last statement
- how prior payments were applied
- transaction activity
- partial payment information
- fees or other charges to the account
- account information (such as the outstanding balance and interest rate)
- contact information for the servicer and housing counselors, and
- information regarding delinquencies (if you’re behind on payments).
(However, if you have a fixed-rate mortgage and your servicer sends you a book of coupons to send in with your payments, then a monthly statement is not required.)
Send Interest-Rate Adjustment Notices
If the mortgage loan has an adjustable interest rate, the servicer must provide the borrower with a notice containing the new rate and new payment (or an estimate):
- between 210 and 240 days (7-8 months) days prior to the first payment due after the rate first adjusts, and
- between 60 and 120 days (2-4 months) before payment at a new level is due when a rate adjustment causes a payment change.
Promptly Credit Mortgage Payments
Servicers must promptly credit the borrower for the full payment the day it is received. If the borrower only makes a partial payment, that amount may be held in a special account (called a suspense account), but the servicer must inform the borrower about this on the monthly statement. Once the suspense account has sufficient funds to make a full payment of principal, interest, and any escrow, the servicer must credit that payment to the account.
Respond Quickly to Payoff Requests
The servicer must provide an accurate payoff balance to a borrower no later than seven business days after receiving a written request asking how much it will cost to pay off the mortgage.
Provide Options to Avoid Force-Placed Insurance
Mortgages require homeowners to maintain adequate insurance on the property so that the lender’s interest is protected in case of fire or other casualty. If a borrower lets this hazard insurance coverage lapse, the loan servicer can obtain insurance coverage and add the cost to the loan payment. This is called force-placed insurance.
Under the new rules, the servicer:
- must send notice at least 45 days before it purchases a force-placed insurance policy (giving borrowers sufficient time to purchase their own policy)
- must send notice again at least 30 days later (and at least 15 days before charging the borrower for force-placed insurance coverage) if they have not received proof from the borrower that insurance has been purchased, and
- generally must continue the existing insurance policy if there is an escrow account from which the servicer pays the insurance bill, even if the servicer needs to advance funds to the borrower’s escrow account to do so.
If a borrower provides proof of hazard insurance coverage, the servicer must within 15 days:
- cancel any force-placed insurance policy and
- refund any premiums paid for overlapping periods in which the borrower’s coverage was in place.
Quickly Resolve Errors and Respond to Information Requests
A mortgage servicer must acknowledge receipt of a written information request or complaint of errors (such as misapplication of payments, improper fees, etc.) within five days and respond within 30 days. The 30-day period may be extended for an additional 15 days if the servicer notifies the borrower within the 30-day period of the extension and provides the reasons for delay in responding.
Servicers Must Provide Homeowners With Assistance
Mortgage servicers are supposed to work with borrowers who are having trouble making monthly payments.
The Servicer Must Contact the Borrower
If the borrower falls behind in payments, the servicer must attempt to make contact to discuss the situation no later than 36 days after the delinquency. No later than 45 days after missing a payment, the servicer must inform the borrower about mortgage workout options that may be available.
The mortgage servicer must also assign personnel to help the borrower after he or she falls 45 days delinquent and sometimes sooner. Personnel should be accessible to the borrower by phone and able to advise the borrower about the status of any loss mitigation application and applicable timelines.
If you are having trouble making your payments, call your mortgage servicer and let it know you are interested in a loan workout. The servicer will ask you to submit an application that includes certain information. Once submitted, under the new rules the servicer has five days to tell you whether it needs more information and, if so, what information it needs. Generally, the servicer is required to evaluate the application for all loss mitigation options within 30 days.
New Rules Restrict Dual Tracking
The new rules restrict “dual tracking” where a servicer is simultaneously evaluating a borrower for a loan modification or other alternatives while at the same time pursuing a foreclosure on the property.
Restrictions on Starting Foreclosure
Mortgage servicers cannot start a foreclosure until 120 days (4 months) after a borrower falls delinquent to provide time for the borrower to submit a loss mitigation application. If the borrower does not submit an application, the foreclosure can begin. (Mortgage servicers are allowed to send certain early delinquency notices required under state law that may provide information related to counseling, legal help or other resources during the first 120 days a borrower is delinquent.)
Even if a borrower is more than 120 days delinquent, if that borrower submits a complete loss mitigation application before the servicer has made the first notice or filing required to initiate a foreclosure process, a servicer may not start the foreclosure process unless:
- the servicer informs the borrower that the borrower is not eligible for any loss mitigation option (and any appeal has been exhausted)
- the borrower rejects all loss mitigation offers, or
- the borrower fails to comply with the terms of a loss mitigation option such as a trial modification.
To learn more about how foreclosure works in your state, visit our Summary of State Foreclosure Laws.
Restrictions on Continuing Foreclosure After the Borrower Requests Help
If a complete loss mitigation application is received more than 37 days before a foreclosure sale, the servicer may not move for a foreclosure judgment or order of sale, or conduct a foreclosure sale, until one of the three conditions mentioned above has been satisfied.
A borrower may appeal a loan modification denial so long as the complete loss mitigation application was received 90 or more days prior to a scheduled foreclosure sale.
Effective Date of the New Rules
The new mortgage servicing rules are effective as of January 10, 2014.
For More Information
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You can conveniently locate this accommodation within the Aspley/Carseldine area of North Brisbane. Aspley Carsel Motor Inn is 20 min from Brisbane Airport, 9 min from the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, 11 min from Eaton’s Hill Hotel and 12 min from Prince Charles and Holy Spirit Hospitals. This public travellers accommodation is 14K from Brisbane CBD.
Aspley Carsel Motor Inn is one of the hotels near Carseldine Train Station and bus stops that will take you to Westfield Chermside Shopping Centre and the RBWH and then into the city so you don’t have to negotiate traffic or pay for parking.
The Aspley Carsel Motor Inn that has been recently refurbished is a 3 and ½ star rated property. They offer 41 rooms with wide range of room types. All the air-conditioned rooms have a refrigerator and tea/coffee making facilities. Each has an en suite bathroom with a shower, a hairdryer and free toiletries. Guests can use the laundry facilities (for an extra fee) and the staff at the travel desk can assist in making your Tour bookings.
Their Standard Queen Room with one large double bed is in high demand. The Standard Twin Share Room has one Queen bed and one Single bed. The Standard Family Room includes a Queen bed and 2 Single beds, sofa bed (Queen or Single), and Trundle Bed. Other rooms available are Standard Family Room with Kitchenette, Deluxe King Room, Deluxe Queen Room, Standard Queen Room, Standard Queen Room with kitchen, Deluxe Twin Share Room, and the Deluxe King Spa Room. They also have a fully compliant Twin Share Room for Disabled, that delights the guests with special needs. Please visit the gallery page to view their room selection.
The swimming pool and BBQ are available to all guests. Function room that can seat up to 40 people for meetings and conferences is also available to use.
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Looks like you screwed with the wrong old man today, punk. I may look grey and infirm, but I'm packing a million volts of incapacitating, jaw-clenching self-defense. Or offense! This grandpa's crazy! The Zap Cane also has a flashlight. Beware!
In case you're actually in need of a cane for non-shock attack reasons, the Zap Cane is adjustable from 32 to 36 inches, and can support up to 250 pounds. The thought of a 250 pound person waving around a million volt stun gun is terrifying and incredible. Especially if the built-in LED flashlight is also turned on. [BUDK via Gadget Lab] | <urn:uuid:702dedc4-ac62-4caa-8b57-b42a432db51f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://gizmodo.com/5721225/this-cane-is-actually-a-million-volt-stun-baton/all | 2017-06-25T21:21:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320582.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625203122-20170625223122-00519.warc.gz | en | 0.950431 | 139 |
Startup Wallah Website
- Category Saas Product
- Client Portfolio
- Start Date 8 june 2023
- Handover 29 June 2023
Scope of work
The project involved Graphic designers, UX-UI designers, illustrators and developers who combined their efforts to deliver a robust digital product
Keeping the target audience in mind the UX design was made very simple using the KISS principle.
The colors and illustrations were designed to suit the business following a component-based design system.
Write Your Reviews is a powerful review management platform that enables businesses to manage and monitor their online reviews from one central platform. It offers advanced features such as review monitoring, sentiment analysis, and review response automation, which helps businesses improve their online reputation and attract new customers.
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Where Curiosity Meets Expertise! Our platform bridges the gap between eager young minds and seasoned specialists, fostering a harmonious space for shared learning. Our design echoes this ethos - think inviting round shapes, soothing pastels, and crisp fonts that exude tranquility. This isn't just about education; it's an experience. The result? A user-friendly haven that sparks productivity and amplifies learning potential. Dive into a realm where practicality meets aesthetics, crafting a clean and human-centered design that's as inspiring as the knowledge it holds.
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Allowing her to fly
As one follows media reportage of serious incidents of sexual assault and kidnapping of young women and girls, some barely out of toddlerhood, I cannot shy away from those real possibilities.art and culture Updated: Mar 10, 2014 15:57 IST
I’m old enough to do it on my own now.” She puts down her school bag and gives me an angry stare. “Tomorrow; we’ll discuss it tomorrow,” I say, trying to push away this negotiation. For a few weeks now, my 11-yearold daughter has been insisting that she can walk home from the bus-stop every afternoon on her own. The school bus drops her at the end of our busy two-way street filled with parked taxis, tempos, and with a steady rumble of traffic and people. There’s the danger of getting hit by a careless vehicle but there’s also the other fear of my daughter encountering sexual harassment in the street at such an early age.
As one follows media reportage of serious incidents of sexual assault and kidnapping of young women and girls, some barely out of toddlerhood, I cannot shy away from those real possibilities. When my daughter was younger, I thought I was being paranoid about not letting her use the unmanned elevator in our building alone. After she turned 9, I let her do so, initially keeping close watch on the elevator panel. But recently, I read about two separate incidents in Mumbai involving young girls being attacked in their apartment elevators by older men. Maybe my paranoia was not so misplaced.
It’s the unenviable job of parents today to be both protective and paranoid. Still, as a person who writes often on the question of women’s presence and absence in public space, I realise that even as I stumble around parenthood trying to teach my daughters the things that can keep them safe--and this ranges from conversations about the facts of life and issues of consent and choice to practical steps to keep yourself out of harm’s way (taking karate classes, understanding good touch-bad touch, being mindful of strangers but also trusting your instincts with people-known-to-us-but-who-make-us-uncomfortable, being attentive to surroundings when out in public)--I cannot let my fears limit my daughter’s access to the world out there. Often in my research, I have talked to young women who have recounted how harassment by boys at the nukkad meant taking a longer route to the tuition/dance/music class; how being stalked made them drop out of school/ college; how feeling threatened on the street/ bus compels their parents to detain them at home. Ambitions are abbreviated. Goals pruned. Dreams are sacrificed when girls are relentlessly threatened by real and potential violence. For our girls, it’s not just about facing the threat out there, it’s also about facing us, their families. When they step out, as they should, they need the assurance that when they report their fears to us, we will not rebuke them and hold them back. Instead we will make every attempt to protect their freedoms. These freedoms — to study, work, sit in a park, walk the street, make their own choices — have been long fought for. Our parental paranoia cannot be allowed to restrict our daughter’s dreams of independence. We all have to start somewhere. My 11-year-old has started by walking home on her own. Her mother has started by letting go, slowly.
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Sorry - I just couldn't resist.
I MADE IT!!! I'm in Texas!!! Ahahahahahaha!!
The flights were only delayed a little bit, and I'm actually here - and it was seventy and sunny here this afternoon. For comparison, it was eleven degrees on my back deck when I left this morning.
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Abstract: Among all invertebrates, the coleoid cephalopods—that group of molluscs which includes octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish—have by far the largest and most elaborate nervous systems. In addition, these animals have eyes that in many ways resemble those of vertebrates, albeit with some notable differences (e.g., one type of photoreceptor, no retinal ganglia). Moreover, the coleoid cephalopods—particularly the octopus—appear to be capable of both seeing moving objects such as predators and prey at reasonably great distances and executing a variety of adaptive behaviors in response to what they see. Such observations suggest: 1) the presence of relatively sophisticated visual processing, i.e., neural circuitry that can support dense visual input; 2) the possible specialization of sub-modal visual areas in the central brain, perhaps analogous to the vertebrate case; and 3) spatiotemporal properties of memory that would necessarily involve rapid integration of visual information into a dynamic 'scene.'
Here, I will argue that, on neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and behavioral grounds, the octopus in particular represents an excellent model for investigating the possibility of conscious states in an invertebrate. In making this argument, I will: 1) lay out a working definition for consciousness that may be extended beyond the vertebrate case; 2) describe structural and functional properties which may be the sine qua non of sensory consciousness; 3) suggest evolutionary trends (e.g., the emergence of complex vision) that may have set the stage for the advent of conscious states in a variety of phyla; and 4) discuss my ongoing work and offer a 'roadmap' for additional experiments that could lead to a robust methodology for the explicit investigation of sensory consciousness in these, and perhaps other, invertebrates
Identifying Hallmarks of Consciousness in Non-Mammalian Species
Criteria for consciousness in humans and other mammals
Animal consciousness: a synthetic approach
Gerald Edelman "Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness"
Hochner, Shomrat & Fiorito (2006) The Octopus: A Model for a Comparative Analysis of the Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms Biol. Bull. 210: 308–317
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|Jenna Lea Scott bids Baltimore good morning in Hairspray.|
By now you've probably heard the word, but just in case you haven't, the Wheelock Family Theatre's Hairspray (through Feb. 23) is a big, buoyant bouffant of a show that's one of the silliest, most effortless pleasures of the season. Wheelock has pulled together an all-star team for the leading roles (Robert Saoud, Aimee Doherty, Jenna Lea Scott, Peter Carey) matched them with talented up-and-comers in the supporting parts (Jennifer Beth Glick, Michael Notardonato, Jon Allen), then surrounded the whole soufflé with an effervescent dance ensemble that nearly high-kicks the roof off the building.
It adds up to over two hours of bubbly, primary-color-saturated fun. And if you're worried that the source material is a little - well, PG-13, shall we say - don't be. The bottom line of this musical is sweetly uplifting in Wheelock's patented, family-friendly way (it's all about being yourself whoever you are, and not letting any kind of prejudice stop you); and what little remains of John Waters' gross-out gestalt is breezed over with a wink and a smile. So the show actually reads as wholesome enough for kids, without being cloying for adults. (And fear not, occasional double entendres like "Miss Baltimore Crabs" sail over young heads anyway.)
|Robert Saoud struts his stuff as Edna.|
To be honest, the tone of this show isn't too hard to figure out - still, director Susan Kosoff nails it, and her design and dance team (particularly choreographer Laurel Conrad) nail the period, too. And Kosoff was wise to cast the beaming Jenna Lea Scott as sweet, round Tracy Turnblad (who only wants to dance on the Corny Collins Show, kiss her big crush, and oh, integrate all of Baltimore while she's at it); Scott anchors the show with just the right level of eager appeal. Meanwhile, all around her, Janie E. Howland's Dating-Game set is being chewed to tasty effect by old pros like Robert Saoud (as plus-size Mom Edna Turnblad, in the role that went to Divine in the original film) and Aimee Doherty, whose villainous Velma Von Tussle is almost as big a fan of apartheid as she is of her pouty daughter Amber (the talented Jane Bernhard). My eye was also caught by the very charming Jennifer Beth Glick as geeky best-friend Penny Pingleton, the dreamy Michael Notardonato as heart-throb Link Larkin, the loose-limbed Jon Allen as Seaweed J. Stubbs, and the luminous Tyla Collier as Little Inez. It was likewise good to catch up again with local stalwarts Peter A. Carey and Cheryl McMahon, who avidly nibble what's left of the scenery once Saoud and Doherty are through. And I have to give props to the dynamite turn by Maritza Bostic, Ciera-Dawn Washington, and Kerri Wilson-Ellenberger as the Supreme-ly glittering "Dynamites."
As if all that weren't enough, the dance crew prances on (and into the aisles) regularly to shake a tail feather to Marc Shaiman's bubbly score. I confess I do wish some of the music from the original movie had made it to Broadway; it was generally more authentic than Shaiman's slightly-more-syrupy pop concoctions. But Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan's book, and Scott Wittman and Shaiman's lyics, are all a big improvement over John Waters' script, I have to admit; I'm still chuckling over the joke about the Gabor sisters, in fact. All in all, I'd recommend Hairspray to anyone. Yes, you may find yourself sharing an armrest with a seven-year-old - but remember: you really shouldn't be prejudiced! | <urn:uuid:a4eaf62f-4cb5-439f-98a4-1a5d6f0b408c> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://hubreview.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-high-kicking-hairspray-at-wheelock.html | 2018-02-24T11:58:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891815560.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20180224112708-20180224132708-00464.warc.gz | en | 0.935558 | 875 |
Many people rely on 529 plans to save for college tuition, but they aren't always a one-stop solution.
I tell my clients it's best to start contributing to a 529 plan when children are very young in order to maximize the benefit of tax-free, compound growth. But by the time a child reaches his or her teens, 529 contributions make less of an impact. At that point it's usually wise to move to a more conservative asset allocation, which means slower growth. Also, there is less time for compound growth to be effective.
It is very possible that a client who puts away $10,000 a year starting when a child is born and earns 4% to 5% interest will have enough saved by the time the child turns 15 years old to pay for most or all of college.
But even if clients aren't sure they have saved enough by the time the child is 15, they should still stop contributing to the 529 plan because overfunding these plans can be costly. If the assets in the 529 plan aren't used up, the plan holder must pay a 10% penalty plus income tax on any earnings within the plan to gain access to the money.
At this point, I often advise clients to redirect 529 contributions to an investment savings account in their name. This account can be used to supplement a 529 plan, and any remaining funds can be used to supplement retirement income, penalty free.
Since not all of the money in the supplemental investment account is specifically set aside for college tuition, I can assume some of the assets have a longer time horizon to grow. That means I can set a more aggressive asset allocation and make up for any lost tax savings with higher returns.
In an ideal situation, a client would pay for his or her children's education using a combination of 529-plan savings, earned income and a supplemental investment savings account.
I believe it's also important that college students have some assets in their own name that they can use at their discretion for entertainment and other daily expenses not covered by tuition. Creating a Uniform Gift to Minors Account for children when they are young can be a great way to encourage them to start saving for themselves.
By the time they are ready to go to college, the account will transfer to their name. Even a few thousand dollars can really make a difference in the amount of financial independence they feel.
One final piece of advice: Advisers not working exclusively with high net-worth clients should always look into financial-aid and tax-credit opportunities that might lessen the burden of tuition for their clients.
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Welcome to Toon Drive 3D which is an amazing driving game. Drive your car to go on the designated road and cross the finish line as soon as possible.
This game is played by controlling the car to go on the designated road. Your target is to get to the finish line as soon as possible. On two sides of the road, you can see many traffic cones. If your car touches them, the game is over. Therefore, you need to be careful! Try not to crash into the traffic cones and cross the finish line safely. If you can do that, you will claim a lot of coins. Spend the coins you earn to buy various cars in the shop.
Why do you hesitate? Play this game now and show us your professional driving skills. If you are interested in this game, what about checking out 18 Wheeler Driving Sim, Parking Jam Out, and Geometry Dash which are exciting games on our website?
How to control
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People choose to decorate their homes for different reasons.Sometimes it happens prior to putting a house on the market; home-owners want their home to look its best and a fresh coat of paint is an easy and relatively cheap way of doing that.Sometimes re-decoration happens for personal reasons.People might feel like they have encountered a dramatic change in their personal lives and that their home no longer reflects who they are.
Perhaps a long-term relationship has ended and their partner has moved out and it becomes unbearable living in the same house without them – decorating, de-cluttering and moving things around is far cheaper and involves less upheaval than moving house altogether.Children may have grown up and left home, and parents need to move on with their lives and find that making the house feel more ‘grown up’ is a helpful in assisting them to readjust through this time.
Whatever your reason to decorate your home it is important that you spend a bit of time before you start buying your decorating tools to think about what you want to do, how much time and money you have to do it with and what you need.
Painting, as previously mentioned, is an easy way to change the look of a room completely. The best thing about it is that if you don’t like how the room looks afterwards you can always re-do it – time-consuming perhaps, but possible.
The only decorating tools you need for painting are paint brushes, paints, thinners, dust sheets and a ladder. When you are sure on the paint you want – and it is worth buying more expensive brands of paint colours and paint brushes for a better quality finish – move all of the furniture out of the room or into the centre of the room, clean down the walls and tape the edges with masking tape.Gather a friend or two, put some music on and get started! | <urn:uuid:fef173db-ae66-4099-9e8f-7f69a633c9f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.dirbook.com/arts/painting/how-painting-could-change-your-life/ | 2022-09-29T23:58:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335396.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220929225326-20220930015326-00215.warc.gz | en | 0.975769 | 388 |
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