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|#0: 08-15-2016 @ 09:15:30 am
Link to this Post: http://www.machvergil.com/gamenight/messages.php?go=13289#13289
So as you all probably know, one of the things Total Biscuit is known for is actually being a commentator (Shoutcaster) for Starcraft and Starcraft II. This was something he stopped doing after he helped start a professional Starcraft team, the now defunct Axiom eSports. When it became clear his cancer was getting worse he shut down the Starcraft team and for awhile moved away from the community. This year he declared he wanted to do what he could to try and support the game due to its waning popularity in the face of MOBAs and also its age.
So this year he is hosting a monthly contest called SHOUTCraft Kings. It's a King of the Hill style competition where winner stays in until he is dethroned. Last month's matches already happened (and can be watched here). On the 27th the August match set will occur. Here's a pretty fun hype video to get your attention.
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|#1: 08-27-2016 @ 07:02:19 am
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August's Shoutcraft Kings is live!
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|#2: 09-16-2016 @ 07:36:17 am
Link to this Post: http://www.machvergil.com/gamenight/messages.php?go=13483#13483
September's SHOUTCraft Kings is tomorrow. Here's the hype video. You can watch live on Saturday morning on the Twitch feed below. You can also find VoDs of last month's games on TB's Starcraft Channel.
EDIT: I linked the wrong TB video before. Here's a Top5 plays video by someone else instead though.
This post was edited by machvergil on September 16, 2016, 2:26 pm
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|#3: 09-16-2016 @ 01:10:04 pm
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So. The attached video. Patience (P) v Bly (Z). this is the goofiest game of Starcraft II I think I've ever watched. Starts @ about 19minutes 30 seconds.
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|#4: 09-18-2016 @ 03:18:01 pm
Link to this Post: http://www.machvergil.com/gamenight/messages.php?go=13491#13491
The VoDs are starting to appear for September Shoutcraft Kings. I missed some of the beginning but if you want to watch one Terran player win a bunch of rounds and then a Zerg player win a bunch of rounds, you might want to check it out.
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|#5: 10-14-2016 @ 08:19:37 am
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Shoutcraft Kings October is this weekend! Prepare for another gauntlet of best-of-1 Starcraft 2 matches! This time TB is promoting the tournament with this "Starcraft tournament news" piece to provide some context and news.
Check out the tournament tomorrow, Oct 15th, starting at 8 AM eastern time.
This post was edited by machvergil on October 14, 2016, 11:21 am
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|#6: 11-02-2016 @ 05:10:57 pm
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The next Shoutcraft Kings will be held AT BLIZZCON!
Details in attached video.
On a slightly more "the feels" note, this is TB's tweet about this happening.
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|#7: 11-08-2016 @ 08:43:54 am
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VoD from November's ShoutCraft Kings held at BlizzCon 2016
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|#8: 12-09-2016 @ 07:14:16 pm
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Shoutcraft Kings December is tomorrow, the 10th. Here's TB's talking head show about tomorrow's competition. You can watch it live on Twitch, which I'll attach below (VoD later).
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|#9: 12-12-2016 @ 09:39:09 am
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For those of you who missed ShoutCraft Kings over the weekend (I know I did because I was watching LoL All-Stars 2016), the VoDs are starting to show up on YouTube. Here's the first 10 games.
This post was edited by machvergil on December 12, 2016, 5:07 pm
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The real story of the night was the Netherlands' second amazing win over the
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Yosbany for President
The real story of the night was the Netherlands' second amazing win over the
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- Anonymous said...
can't wait for the next Cuban ballplayer to round the bases and keep running....to freedom.
- March 11, 2009 at 11:50 AM
- leftside said...
Anon, I encourage you and others to read what Cuban White Sox star Alexei Ramirez has to say about this idea of freedom.
"There are a lot of misperceptions. There is no pressure to play [in Cuba]; there are no guns pointed at you. There is just pure love of wanting to play the game by Cuban baseball players.
"The difference between Cuban ballplayers and players from the United States [is] players here play because that's their job. Cuban ballplayers play because of the encouragement from the province they're from, the town they're from, the region they're from. There is a sincere pride and passion for playing for your province. But no pressure."
Viva Yosbany!!! Wow, what a shot. What a managerial move to pinch hit him in that spot. And wow, what happened to Cuban baseball being about sound fundamentals. Fidel must have nearly had a heart attack with all the pick-offs, balks, errors, hit batsman, etc. We'll be rooting on Cuba in San Diego and hopefully LA.
- March 11, 2009 at 1:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
don't get our hopes up by talking about Castro and a heart attack...
- March 11, 2009 at 2:23 PM
- Anonymous said...
left side your post is well put....for some reaspon the anti-cuban from miami have nothing to spew but hatred for their fellow brothers.
- March 11, 2009 at 3:06 PM
- jose said...
go cuba
- March 11, 2009 at 3:06 PM
- leftside said...
FYI - The Cuban press seems to call him Yosvani Peraza. But the official roster says Yosbany. Whatever the name, he is a hero writ large in Cuba today.
- March 11, 2009 at 4:02 PM
- Anonymous said...
yeah, knocking off that world power Australia....
- March 11, 2009 at 4:55 PM
- leftside said...
Actually Anon, Australia kicked Mexico's (mostly MLB caliber) teeth in 17-7 and were in the Gold Medal game of the Olympics in 2004. But yes, everyone knows the relatively easy part is over for Cuba.
- March 11, 2009 at 5:06 PM
- Anonymous said...
Here in Australia baseball is a minor sport. Most of the population would not be aware of the World Baseball Classic. They would be following how their cricket team is doing in South Africa (by the way they have wont the last two Test/games; retaining their number one position in the world). However, we produce world class baseball teams that often reach the semi-finals, if not the finals, at this type of events. So from a Cuban/Australian I can only hope that they make it all the way to the top, and chant in support: Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi.
- March 11, 2009 at 7:02 PM
- Anonymous said...
"Fidel must have nearly had a heart attack with all the pick-offs, balks, errors, hit batsman, etc."
Oh God if only your wishes could come true!
I would be the first time I would thank you for your wishes. And maybe one heart attack also for Raul to complete the disappearence of the dynamic maniac duo screwing the lives of ordinary Cubans once and for all. 50 years of tyranny is more than enough from those two communist rectal orifices in power.
- March 12, 2009 at 9:33 AM

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My husband is attending a conference and I invited myself and my two children along. As I sit and watch the gentle waves on the beach I start to think about the few times that I have been to Hawaii in my life. Each time I have visited this state, it is right before my life takes a major turn.
The first time I was here I was just seven years old and we were moving back to Chicago from Australia. We spent two and a half years living in Perth and Melbourne. I loved our life abroad and did not want to return to the states. I even had an Australian accent. I remember the long flight from Sydney to Honolulu and my sadness as we left our home behind.
Even so, I quickly adjusted to the change as I marveled at the clear water and palm trees on the way to the hotel. After we settled in, I swam on Waikiki beach with my sister and brother. I was seven years old. Now, I am here with my seven year old daughter swimming on Waikiki beach and marveling at the natural beauty all over again.
I am enjoying this trip immensely and wondering if there is a change in store for me when I return home. I already feel different. I want more independence from my children and I want more for myself. Maybe I am growing up a bit just as they are. I want to be more than just a "mom." I want more of my old self; the person who has an identity outside of my family. I suddenly remember who she is.
Maybe it took coming all the way back to this island in the Pacific to remember all of the things that I wanted from my life. Now hopefully, I can continue to pursue my dreams and be more of the person I used to be.


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Today marks the last day before the Roman Catholic period of Lent, a holiday celebrated in some form in virtually every continent across the globe.
In Brazil, it is celebrated as Carnival, a raucous party that takes over the whole city of Rio de Janeiro.
In the U.S. it is Mardi Gras, or literally Fat Tuesday, where revelers wear masks and sometimes embarrass themselves for cheap plastic beads (which is probably why they wear masks).
My favorite celebration of the day, however, has got to be the one which occurs in the Northern Italian city of Ivrea. The Carnival of Ivrea is best known for its Battle of the Oranges, which every year turns the small town into a mass of fruit-flinging madness.
Said to be one of the most ancient carnivals in the world, the celebration retells an ancient story: somewhere around the year 1000, a count named Arduino tried to exercise his right to sleep with a newly-wedded girl on her wedding night. The young wife, however, wanted nothing to do with him and killed the libidinous tyrant. Now, every year the citizens commemorate their liberation from the concupiscent count by throwing oranges at each other…. hard.
What better day, then, to unveil my newest tea cocktail? I call it the Bloody Punch, and while the name sounds a bit graphic, it is far better than an orange hurled at your face.
Bloody Punch
2 oz. vodka (recommended TRU Vodka)
1/4 oz. triple sec
1/4 oz. Crimson Punch syrup (get recipe here)
2 1/2 oz. fresh squeezed blood orange juice
Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well and serve in a martini glass.


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Sabarna Anand Biography and Wiki: Sabarna Anand was a popular actress, who is best known for her role of Suguna. She hails from Udumalaipettai in Tiruppur district and her family has settled in Chennai. She is the Daughter of Anandkumar and Pushpalatha. She was living alone in her flat. She appeared in TV soaps, mostly in negative roles. She has TV shows like Pasamalar on Sun TV to her credited and hosted quite a few TV programmes. Sabarna Anand was also seen in movies like Poojai, Kudiarasu and Kalai.
According to our sources, she claimed suicide on November 11, and also left a suicide note, in which she has detailed her personal problems. She also revealed about her professional struggles and opened up on her failed relationship in the letter. Her body has been sent to the Kilpauk Government Medical College and Hospital for post-mortem.
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- Name: Sabarna Anand
- Occupation: Actress
- From: Udumalaipettai, Tiruppur district
- Nationality: Indian
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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration is gearing up for a tough fight over her plan to raise Baltimore's bottle tax to pay for repairs to dilapidated city schools.
A bill to increase the 2-cent tax to 5 cents – and devote all bottle-tax revenue to school renovation and repairs – could be introduced as early as the City Council's first meeting of the year Jan. 9, officials said. While education advocates support the measure, it is strongly opposed by retailers and the beverage industry.
"The mayor is going to put herself out there and be the target of those attacks to increase the city's contribution to school construction," said mayoral spokesman Ryan O'Doherty.
A coalition of bottlers, distributors and store owners launched a barrage of advertising when Rawlings-Blake pushed for the 2-cent tariff in 2010.
Raising the tax is a key element of the mayor's plan to raise money to fix city schools, which require an estimated $2.8 billion in repairs.
The proceeds from the tax, which officials estimate would bring in $10 million a year, would be combined with revenue from slots and other savings to create a $23 million stream of revenue. The school system could use that money to float as much as $300 million in bonds, which education advocates say is an important first step toward fixing the schools.
A beverage industry representative declined to say how her group planned to fight the measure this time. "It's a long time between now and Jan. 9," said Ellen Valentino, executive vice president of the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Beverage Association. "Before I see the proposals, I don't want to speculate."
Opponents of the tariff say Baltimoreans are already saddled with exorbitant tax rates and can't handle another increase. The city's property tax rate is more than twice that of the surrounding counties, and Rawlings-Blake has raised more than 60 taxes and fees during her nearly two years in office.
"It's just one more thing that makes doing business in the city more expensive than doing business across an imaginary line," said Councilman Bill Henry, whose Northeast Baltimore district brushes the Baltimore County line.
Henry, who opposed the tax in 2010, said he had promised Rawlings-Blake he would keep an open mind about the increase. He said he supports fixing the schools but is not convinced that the bottle tax is the best way to do it.
"They're going to have to make a very compelling case, because I don't like it," Henry said. "I think it's a bad tax."
He questioned why Rawlings-Blake had not decided to devote a greater portion of revenue from a planned slots casino to school construction. She has pledged to spend 10 percent of that money on schools and use the remaining 90 percent to help lower property taxes by 9 cents on the dollar over nine years.
The battle over the bottle tax will likely take on a markedly different tone this time, since the proceeds are slated to go to school construction, regarded by many as one of the city's most pressing needs.
"The difference between this bill and the 2 cents is that this money is going to education," said Council Vice President Edward Reisinger.
Many of Baltimore's schools lack functioning heating and cooling systems, and they have broken doors and windows and other serious problems, according to a 2010 report from the American Civil Liberties Union.
A coalition led by the ACLU, Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development and other activist groups will lobby council members to support the tax increase, said Bebe Verdery, the civil rights group's education director.
The measure will likely face its toughest challenge in the council's Taxation and Finance Committee, of which Henry and Reisinger are members. Only two of five committee members — Reisinger and Councilman William H. Cole IV — have signaled their support for the tax increase.
Under conventional council protocol, the committee would need to approve the bill before it could go to the full body for a vote.
Councilman Carl Stokes, who chairs the committee, says he wants to hold off voting on the bill until March, when finance officials release the city's preliminary budget.
"It's going to be a few months until we bring this bill to a hearing," said Stokes. "I'm not going to do anything in a vacuum."
Stokes, an outspoken opponent of tax breaks for big development projects, said he wants to look at all revenue measures at the same time. The councilman, who helped found an East Baltimore charter school, grudgingly voted for the 2-cent measure in 2010.
But Reisinger, who as the mayor's floor leader champions her agenda, wants the measure to be brought to the full council quickly. "I feel strongly the eight votes are there" to pass the measure, he said.
Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young could push Stokes to move the bill more quickly, but it is unclear whether Young will act — or whether he will weigh in on the bill at all.
Young abstained from voting on the tax in 2010, citing a conflict of interest because a cousin worked for a beverage distributor and had lobbied against the bill.
The city ethics board later determined that Young was free to vote on the tax — although not obligated to — because a cousin is not considered a close enough relation to present a conflict of interest, said Geremy Bass, a spokesman for the council president.
Young has not decided whether or how he would vote on the tax, Bass said.
Education advocates say Rawlings-Blake's plan is a key first step in funding school repairs, but they note that much more money is needed. "This is a significant dent in a much greater need," Verdery said. "It would be key to us that we don't stop there."
Verdery said Rawlings-Blake expressed interest in a funding strategy used by Greenville, S.C., officials to pay for a major school construction program there. Under that model, the city and school system would need to partner with or form a nonprofit that could float a much larger amount of bonds.
The coalition is also seeking Rawlings-Blake's guarantee that the bottle tax proceeds would be dedicated to school construction in perpetuity, Verdery said.
O'Doherty, the mayor's spokesman, confirmed that the administration is studying the South Carolina model, but said the first step is approving the tax increase.
"We need to get the funds in place now, so that when the revenues start coming in, we'll have the best plan to leverage them," he said.
Rawlings-Blake readies for battle over proposal to raise bottle tax
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration is gearing up for a tough fight over her plan to raise Baltimore's bottle tax to pay for repairs to dilapidated city schools.


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Quick Connectrode Update
Deep Plaid Games' latest game, Connectrode, has had considerable success to date; I thought I'd post a compilation of some quick data and links:
- We launched on July 2nd (not the best timing as many games were either launching, on sale, or releasing in-game specials over July 4th weekend).
- We were reviewed by the Austin Chronicle on their blog, on July 13th.
- We were reviewed by TouchArcade on July 18th.
- We were featured by Apple (in "New & Notable" on the App Store) on July 21st.
- Joystiq featured us in their "Portalbliss" column on July 27th.
- Several other major app/game sites have done reviews, all of them positive.
- Flixel creator Adam "Atomic" Saltsman tweeted about the game and mentioned it during a recent appearance on the TouchArcade podcast.
- The game has hovered around the #10 position in both the Puzzle Games and Strategy Games categories on the App Store since being featured by Apple.
- The game's peaks (to date) in the All Games category at ranking #70, and at #125 in all apps overall.
- All of this is for the U.S. App Store. We've seen comparable success in the Australian, Canadian, and U.K. app stores, though with different timings.
The game is doing well financially as well, and the enthusiasm in most of the reviews and on Twitter is both humbling and exciting.
We're still planning an update with volume control support, and GameCenter support for leaderboards. There's also many requests for a harder difficulty mode, which is something I'm thinking a lot about and which may make it into the 1st or 2nd update we do, we'll see...!
Fun times!
Connectrode on App Store!
Just a quick note here that the puzzle game I've been working on for the past ~8 months (entirely in my spare time, with some very talented game developers here in Austin) will finally be released on the App Store on July 2nd. Exciting times!
Find out more on the Connectrode website; you can download the game here.
UPDATE: The game is now live! On day 1, so far we've managed to hit #132 in the "Strategy Games" category and #182 in the "Puzzle Games" category, and we have eight 5-star reviews, three of them with rave written reviews. Seems like a strong start... again, exciting times! Thanks to everyone who's been helping create buzz so far, it's been greatly appreciated!
C.O.O.P. – My Global Game Jam 2011 game
I (and a team of 8 others) made a new Flixel game: it's called C.O.O.P. It's a Flash game, but to play it properly you need two players at the mouse/keyboard!
Play it Here!
Keyboard Player:
Move up/left/right/down: W, A, S, D
Shoot up/left/right/down: Arrow keys
Mouse Player:
Place object on game field: Click there.
Choose object to place: Click on buttons at bottom of screen, OR use the mouse-wheel.
How we made it: I led a team of 9 people in creating this game in 48 hours; it's built using the Flixel engine. It was intense, and some things about the final product are a little rough, but I'm very proud of what we accomplished!
Gameplay: One player is playing the game as a top-down shooter, using the keyboard. The other is playing something more like a tower defense game, placing items on the game field using the mouse. Both of them are cooperating to keep the "keyboard player" alive. This was the high concept I came into the jam with; the team agreed to run with the idea (our second choice was a game about getting pandas to mate - the theme of the jam was "extinction"); and run with it we did.
We're planning to clean it up, add a single-player mode, and try to sell it to a Flash portal - we'll see how that goes.
I'll write up a more detailed "postmortem" of the development process within the next few days, watch for that here. If you have any feedback, I'd love to hear it; just leave it in the comments below!


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Nirodhah in Yoga Meditation
Yogash chitta vritti nirodhah = this is the second sutra of the Yogasutras, in which yoga is defined. Yoga is the nirodhah of all the movements (vrittis) of the mind-field (chitta). You could say that nirodhah is the verb that makes yoga happen. There is no direct English translation for nirodhah. It contains the process of regulating the movements in the apparent field of consciousness, channeling these movements, gaining mastery over them, integrating and coordinating them, so that eventually they become still and quiet, so that they can be temporary set aside.
Nirodhah = Vyasa mentioned in his commentary of the yogasutra 1.1 that there are five states of mind; nirodhah is the fifth state of mind. It is a state in which the mind is mastered.
Five states of mind: (in order from not desired to desired state) kshipta, mudha, vikshipta, ekagra, and nirodhah
GO BACK TO THE LIST: "What is….?"
In which state of mind are you right now… in the state of nirodhah?
It is very useful to learn to recognize the 5 states of mind; kshipta, mudha, vikshipta, ekagra, and nirodhah within oneself. Are you in the state of nirodhah right now? Probably not. Because if you are in this state all movements in the mind are mastered and there is the experience of the Seer resting in its true nature and you won't be able to read these words. So, in which of the four other states are you?
Choosing a state of ekagra
Along the path a student wants to gradually leave behind the states of kshipta, mudha, and vikshipta, evermore residing in the state of ekagra, so that is can direct all its one-pointed energy towards to goal; diving beyond all the states of mind into a state in which the mind is nirodhah.
Expand your understanding about nirodhah
Reading about nirodhah may make nirodhah appear as something very advanced. But it is good to know that nirodhah happens all the time, and learning to recognize it is of tremendous value. When the water from the bath drains through the plughole, it goes nirodhah. When the wind stills, it went nirodhah. When you are sitting somewhere and you see the people walk by, they come from one side and walk by and leave again, the process of going is a part of nirodhah. When there is a day in which everything flows nicely, where decisions were made spontaneously and where many things got accomplished while being able to be in contentment and peace, this too is a sense of nirodhah because there was coordination between different aspects of your being. When a disturbing emotion finally calmed down and is gone, this too could playfully called "it went nirodhah." Thus you can start to see the process of nirodhah in and around you so that you have direct experiences of nirodhah-like moments, this will help you to understand what is meant with nirodhah, and what is meant with yogash chitta vritti nirodhah: where all the vrittis have gone nirodhah.
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Eventually the concept of nirodhah will swim around in your awareness all the time, as it becomes a part of constant self-awareness. Also, becoming aware of nirodhah will have the effect that you will increase your use of this word in your daily vocabulary to express yourself and you will discover how nirodhah relates to other concepts, processes, or insights. For example, you may come to see that when you feel sattva, you may also think of nirodhah, or when you think of nirodhah you may also think of chitta. Eventually you will discover how all these concepts dance together and coming to know this dance will guide you towards that which is beyond all the concepts. This is because as you increase your self-awareness, you will discover that everything you can observe is not who you truly are, everything has to go nirodhah; you are the One that is able to witness all these concepts. Therefore practicing self-awareness is actually practicing not-self-awareness by which the True Self will eventually reveal itself.
Look at the self-assessment PDF (assessment-120918.pdf) and a PDF that includes daily internal dialogue and daily observation (sumseven-110410.pdf) on the website of www.abhyasaashram.org (when you are on this page scroll all the way down to find the downloadable PDFs) These PDFs can be used as tools to explore and expand your understanding on nirodhah.
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Nirodhah and the coordination of the four functions of mind
The mind-field has four functions: manas, chitta, ahamkara, and buddhi, together called antahkarana. When one learns to regulate each function of mind separately and then learns how to coordinate them, this coordination is an aspect of nirodhah. In the Upanishads the four functions of mind are likened to be a wheel with four spokes. The center of the hub never moves, which is the Self, on which the wheel of the mind seems to rotate, therefore the Self seems to operate in the apparent manifestation through the four functions of mind. When I was young, I once rode a bike where the spokes where not equally long, therefore the hub was not in the center. When you would ride it there was the experience as if you were riding over little hills, while the surface was flat. Which to me is a nice way to look at the way the four functions of mind need to work together, all are equally important, otherwise you experience the world as a bumpy road! And when they work together as a well-coordinated wheel it is easier to allow all the movement to come to stillness, to a state of nirodhah.
Nirodhah to all vrittis, including every aspect of antahkarana
Nirodhah needs to happen to all the movements in the chitta. It may at first not sound as if this applies the the four functions of mind, but these too are vrittis. The ability of the mind to take on identities (ahamkara) is a vritti too, as it moves within the mind-field, and therefore needs to go nirodhah at meditation time. The ability to import and export sensory impressions (manas) operates within the mind-field, so this instrument itself is a vritti too, and needs to go nirodhah at meditation time. Even the ability of the mind-field to discriminate, judge, know, and decide (buddhi) needs to go nirodhah at meditation time, as it too operates within chitta and is thus a vritti. The same applies to the senses, the vayus, the elements… everything needs to go nirodhah!
Nirodhah as a transition
In the yogasutras 9-16 of chapter 3, patanjali explains the phenomenon of transitions. There are three kinds of transitions, called parinamah.
1) Nirodhah-parinamah: is the transition into the moment where a thought is being mastered, when it transition into going nirodhah. (the transition of suspension)
2) Samadhi-parinamah: is the transition into the moment where a thought is going from all-pointedness into samadhi (one-pointedness), it is the transition into the moment where you get absorbed into one thought.
3) Ekagrata-parinamah: is the transition into the moment where a thought is going from a state of absorption (samadhi) to sustained absorption, where the same one-pointedness arises and subsides sequentially.
Very much simplified: Nirodhah-parinamah is the transition into the moment when a thought is going, then samadhi-parinamah is the transition into the moment when a new thought comes, and you get absorbed in it. And ekagrata-parinamah is the transition in the moment when the thoughts stays.
The vrittis or movements in the mind-field have their own behavior. The thoughts are always sequential, one comes then another, then another. We have no idea yet of how quick the thoughts come and go, many come per second. Because of avidya most of the active thoughts stay underneath a veil of ignorance (unconsciousness), so that we are only aware of a few thoughts. We gradually learn to invite more thoughts to come forward into our conscious mind-field, which can happen if we grow in vairagya (non-attachment). The more we are stable in non-attachment the more we can "handle" the amount of thoughts that move in our mind-field, without getting crazy. There is always just one thought at a time projected onto the screen of the mind. Therefore to be able to witness the process itself–of the coming, being, and going of the vrittis–and to also be able to master this process this coming, being, and going is an amazing skill. This is explained in these few sutras of chapter 3. It talks about the mastery over the behavior of the thoughts itself.
Swami Jnaneshvara beautifully talks about these transitions in his interpretive translation of the yogasutras, click here to read it
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1.2 Yoga is the control (nirodhah, regulation, channeling, mastery, integration, coordination, stilling, quieting, setting aside) of the modifications (gross and subtle thought patterns) of the mind field.
yogash chitta vritti nirodhah
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1.12 These thought patterns (vrittis) are mastered (nirodhah, regulated, coordinated, controlled, stilled, quieted) through practice (abhyasa) and non-attachment (vairagya).
abhyasa vairagyabhyam tat nirodhah
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1.51 When even these latent impressions from truth filled knowledge recede along with the other impressions, then there is objectless concentration.
tasya api nirodhe sarva nirodhat nirbijah samadhih
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3.9 That high level of mastery called nirodhah-parinamah occurs in the moment of transition when there is a convergence of the rising tendency of deep impressions, the subsiding tendency, and the attention of the mind field itself.
vyutthana nirodhah samskara abhibhava pradurbhavau nirodhah ksana chitta
anvayah nirodhah-parinamah
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3.10 The steady flow of this state (nirodhah-parinamah) continues by the creation of deep impressions (samskaras) from doing the practice.
tasya prashanta vahita samskarat
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"Patanjali has put all levels of the mind into five categories: kshipta, vikshipta, mudha, ekagra, and nirodhah. Kshipta is a completely distracted mind. Vikshipta applies to those who have no control over their mind. They do not have a concentrated mind, but if they make effort, they can learn. Sometimes they understand and sometimes they do not understand because of their lack of attention. Their minds are not yet properly trained, but they are capable of being trained and accepted. That mind which remains in a state of stupor is called mudha. Ekagra refers to those who have a concentrated mind and can concentrate well. Nirodhah described those whose is completely under their control. They have trained their mind perfectly and can use it as they wish."
~ Samadhi pg. 11
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The Mudha mind is barely beyond the Kshipta, disturbed mind, only in that the active disturbance has settled down, and the mind might be somewhat more easily trained from this place. Gradually the mind can be taught to be a little bit steady in a positive way, only occasionally distracted, which is the Vikshipta state. Then the mind can move on in training to the Ekagra and Nirrudah states.
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Witnessing Subtle Transitions in Yoga: You become witness not only to thoughts as we normally think of thoughts, but also to the transition process of how they are coming, being, and going. Nirodhah: You become witness to the process of transitioning into mastery over thought patterns (nirodhah-parinamah), since that transition is an object. Samadhi: You become witness to the process of transitioning into the higher state of meditation (samadhi-parinamah), since that transition is an object. Ekagra: You become witness to the process of transitioning into one-pointedness of mind (ekagra-parinamah), since that transition is an object.
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Panchadasi, Sri Vidyaranya Swami
Translated by Swami Swahananda and Published by Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai (Translation under Fair Use, and believed to be in the public domain.)
9.126. When meditation on the attributeless Brahman is mature it leads to Samadhi. This state of intense concentration at case leads on to the Nirodha state in which the distinction between subject and object is eliminated.


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The Gate II (1992)
Directed by: Tibor Takács
Written by: Michael Nankin
Released by: Triumph Releasing Corporation (Theatrical)
"There's only one thing more terrifying than the first visit. The second."
The creative duo who brought you the 1987 horror classic 'The Gate' are back for more in this little-known sequel from 1992... 'The Gate 2: Trespassers'.
'The Gate 2' picks up right where the original film left off. Glen and his family pack up and move away after discovering that their suburban dwelling lays atop the gates of hell. With Glen out of the picture, this leaves his best friend Terry (Louis Tripp) alone with his alcoholic father and depressing home life. Having not learned his lesson the first time around, Terry decides to sneak over to Glen's old abandoned house once again in an attempt of invoking the demonic minions into granting him wishes. It's Terry's hope that through his expertise in "Demonology" he can use the minions powers to help his father get back on his feet again. Of course the plan works initially, but anytime you're dealing with demons the end result is bound to turn out "shitty" (inside joke for anyone who has seen it).
Overall I liked 'The Gate 2: Trespassers' a lot. It's not quite as good as the first movie, but Michael Nankin does a good job at advancing the story without simply rehashing what was done previously. Like the original, part 2 also has a lot of great stop motion effects by Steven Archer, who was an assistant to Ray Harryhausen on the 1981 classic 'Clash of the Titans'. If you're a fan of 'The Gate' this is definitely a film you'll want to track down as it's a great companion piece to the first one.


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The U.S. economy grew substantially in the 1980s and '90s. Not surprisingly, employment on Wall Street surged in concert with this broad economic boom.
As a Presbyterian minister explained it in 1901, "Wall Street is one of the longest streets in the world. It does not begin at the foot of Trinity Church … and end at the East River, as many suppose. It reaches through all of our American cities and across the sea." All businesses are formed on the proverbial Main Streets of the world; to grow they require intrepid investment, so Wall Street only succeeds insofar as it brings investors and promising businesses together. Wall and Main are joined at the hip as it were.
Which brings us to a story that Clark Judge, a speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, once relayed to me. Sitting in Reagan's Situation Room, Judge listened intently as Secretary of State George Shultz discussed with Reagan the globalized nature of automobile manufacture. While certain cars were "Made in America," Shultz detailed the myriad foreign-made inputs without which American-made cars wouldn't operate.
Shultz's broad point from decades ago brings to mind a crucial admonition from Nobel Laureate economist Robert Mundell: the only closed economy is the world economy. Much as Wall Street's wealth is a function of the U.S. and the rest of the world's prosperity, so is the U.S. most prosperous when the rest of the world is thriving. As the division of labor expands to "hands" around the world, so does the ability of individual workers to specialize their work efforts on the way to exponentially greater productivity. Similar to Wall and Main streets, the U.S. and the world are joined at the hip.
The globalized nature of prosperity can't be minimized, and arguably requires discussion more than ever. While the Trump administration has expressed laudable goals about reducing the tax and regulatory burden placed on American workers and companies, it has at the same time revealed a nationalist economic agenda on the trade and currency front that, if actualized in terms of policy, would suffocate any of the good that would spring from tax cuts and deregulation.
Recently Steven Mnuchin, Trump's Treasury Secretary, observed that "as it relates to trade, having a weaker dollar is somewhat better for us." Mnuchin's comments were worrisome. They were a reminder that Mnuchin, along with the president he serves, is perhaps unfamiliar with Mundell's essential truth about the closed nature of the global economy.
Worse, currency traders pay close attention to the musings of Treasury heads simply because they're the mouthpiece for any administration's policies with regard to the dollar. Specifically, when they express a preference for a weak dollar, markets usually comply. That they do speaks to the importance of Mnuchin being coached more closely about his currency rhetoric. A weaker dollar will benefit no one, while inflicting great harm on the U.S. and global economy.
Seemingly missed by Mnuchin is what Shultz and Reagan knew instinctively: the U.S. economy is part of a global whole. While there are American-made goods, nothing is solely a product of American inputs. Whether it's Apple iPhones being manufactured in China, Nike shoes being produced in Vietnam, or the Boeing 787 Dreamliner being manufactured in six countries around the world, the most prominent companies in the U.S. are happily reliant on the world's labor and inputs.
In that case, a shrunken dollar would raise the cost of the goods and labor necessary to create American products and services such that there would be no trade gains to speak of if the U.S. devalues the dollar. Contrary to popular belief, devaluation renders producers within the devaluing country even less competitive for it raising the cost of imported inputs, labor and transport of products and services.
Also, support for devaluation ignores the dominant role of investment when it comes to enhancing company competitiveness. Stated simply, investment in productivity advances is always and everywhere the path to competitive prices. At the same time devaluation is a certain barrier to investment for it shrinking the income streams that investors are buying when they put money to work.
But the greatest truth missed by Mnuchin is that per Adam Smith, "the sole use of money is to circulate consumable goods." Money is not wealth as much as it facilitates the exchange of wealth. Along these lines, production is an expression of a desire to import, whether from across the street or from the other side of the world.
Considering the above through the prism of Mnuchin's expressed comfort with a devalued dollar, such a result would instantly injure American workers eager to receive goods and services in return for their work, thus weakening the economy. We must never forget that American workers are the U.S. economy, and American workers earn dollars.
Adding insult to what is plainly injurious, trade among individuals and without regard to country borders is what enables the specialization without which economies can't grow. Free trade isn't just great because it ensures global competition for our dollars, pounds, euros and yen. What makes free trade truly spectacular is that it maximizes the odds that we'll get to do the work that's most commensurate with our skills.
Simply put, when we're free to exchange our production for the production of others, and without regard to country or continent, we have the greatest chance to do the work most likely to elevate our unique talents. With trade it's products for products, and the act of trading is an expression of our desire to exchange the product of what we do best with others doing what they do best. Translated, American workers gain the most when the world's workers are similarly prospering.
Crucially, money is once again what facilitates the exchange without which workers can't prosper. Applied to Mnuchin's faulty view that there's something to be gained from currency devaluation, nothing could be further from the truth. Money is once again a measure that facilitates exchange and investment, so when the value of money is uncertain, so is wealth-boosting trade and investment rendered much less likely. That's why there are no winners when the integrity of money is compromised. Trade is the sole purpose of work, and devaluation makes it less likely.
That the desire to get informs our work efforts is something Treasury secretary Mnuchin will hopefully keep more in mind going forward. Not only does devaluation raise the cost of production, sap our competitiveness, and render us poorer, its cruelest byproduct is that it makes global trade less likely for it creating uncertainty about what we'll get to import in return for our exports.
Let's never forget that the act of importing is the wondrous reward for all of our hard work, and it's also what regularly enhances the product of our work as divisions of labor always do. Currency devaluation is a horrid barrier to importing and the globalization of labor that lifts all boats. As such, when monetary eminences like Mnuchin talk up the benefits of devaluation, they're actually promoting stagnation.


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Uncle Tom's Cabin
48 Havant Road, Cosham
Named after the famous novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this large early 1960s pub, set back from the roadside, replaced an older tavern of the same name (see gallery below). The replacement pub originally consisted of a public bar and a lounge, though in the late 1980s owner George Gale & Co gave the house a major facelift and reinvented the pub as an open plan, single-roomed bar and eaterie. Its clientele consisted of businessmen and shoppers during the daytime and attracted a younger crowd throughout the evenings, when local bands would sometimes play and quiz nights were held. Unfortunately, the pub began to attract a small number of undesirables on a regular basis and this probably contributed to the pub's eventual closure in the late 1990s. The building still stands and has now been absorbed into the adjacent Cosham Baptist Church.
A number of the photos below show the original Uncle Tom's Cabin, together with another pub, the East Cosham Tavern immediately to the east (see elsewhere for that pub's entry on this site). The colour photos on the bottom row depict the East Cosham Tavern undergoing demolition in the early 1960s, with the replacement Uncle Tom's Cabin stood immediately behind.
Inn sign photographs kindly supplied by Ray Scarfe (dates of images unknown).
Top left-hand photograph by Peter Keat. Bottom row colour photographs ©Peter Barlow.
The Unicorn
158 Fratton Road, Fratton
Located on Fratton Road, at the junction with Sheffield Road, the Unicorn was typical of post war pub architecture in Portsmouth, built cheaply and quickly in a similar design to the Salutation on New Road (see elsewhere on this website). The pub was the second on this site to bear the Unicorn name and a previous tavern called the Old Red House could once be found here. The Unicorn survived far longer than the Webmaster expected – presumably kept in business by a small but faithful band of regulars. The pub finally closed in early 2003 and was demolished late in the same year to make way for new apartments.
Photographs, left to right: 18th February 1990; November 1998 (by Ray Scarfe).
The Unicorn
1 Unicorn Road, Landport
Situated a stone's throw from the dockyard's Unicorn Gate, this hostelry would doubtless have been a popular haunt of sailors in bygone years. The house underwent alterations for owners PUB when that company acquired the premises from previous owners Isherwood & Williams. Prior to I&W's tenure, the Unicorn was part of the Lush Brewery estate. The tavern survived until around 1956, when this part of Landport was absorbed into the naval dockyard and most of the buildings were demolished.
The Union
366 Fratton Road, Buckland
Located at the northern extremity of Fratton Road, opposite the former Tramway Arms (see above), the Union was built in 1911 to a design by architect J J Cotton, replacing another pub of the same name. Standing mid-terrace on a narrow plot, it served its last customers in 1962, when the pub was closed for the final time. Following closure the premises was converted to a shop before later undergoing further alterations to residential accommodation.
Photographed 22nd July 2007.
The Union
25 Union Street, Portsea
Situated in a small road behind Queen Street, the Union traded since at least the late 18th century. Known variously as the Old Union, Union Tavern and Union Tap, the pub was part of the Pike Brewery in the mid 19th century and later became part of the Long's Brewery estate. The pub ceased trading in the 1950s.
The right-hand photograph depicts what is claimed to be an image of the pub, though looking very different from the image on the left. It is known that Long's had the premises either refronted or rebuilt in around 1911, so this could explain the visual difference, although the webmaster is not entirely convinced that these are indeed the same house. No evidence has been found to suggest that Brickwood's were ever owners of the Union Street pub – though this name can clearly be seen in the right-hand photo, which would therefore have to date from pre-1911. Any help in solving this mystery would be most welcome.
The Union Jack
2 Bonfire Corner, Portsea
This old Biden's Brewery pub stood on Bonfire Corner, at its junction with Daniel Street, in an area that was blanketed with public houses frequented by sailors. Indeed, this particular area was synonymous with drunkeness and prostitution – with the Union Jack likely to be one of the houses that saw much of both. For this reason the pub's licence renewel was twice objected to by the local constabulary in 1915 and 1924. It would appear that the second objection was successful, as the Union Jack appears to have ceased trading the same year.
The Union Tavern
65 Broad Street, Old Portsmouth
see The Spice Island Inn (Current Pubs section)
The United Britons
53 Charlotte Street, Landport
One of many taverns that could once be found along the length of Portsmouth's famous market street, the United Britons was originally a Biden's Brewery pub which later became part of the large Portsmouth United estate. The pub survived until 1956, after which much of Charlotte Street saw vast change.


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The Ruschmeyer's
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Shaken and strained over ice in a tall glass , garnished with a wedge of watermelon.
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Snap Dog comes to Sarasota
A piece of New York is coming to Sarasota in the form of hot dogs.
Snap Dog, a hot dog company "born on the streets of New York," introduced its all-beef hot dogs to the Florida market through Sarasota restaurant Koukla's Classic Delicatessen, 7606 Lockwood Ridge Road.
"Our mission is to bring some real New York flavor to Sarasota," Margaret Espinal, who owns Koukla's with her husband, Frankie, said in a release. "We miss the Snap Dogs that you can only find on street carts in New York City. We discovered them last year on a trip to New York, and couldn't wait to bring them here. No one in Florida has them but us."
The Espinals also have enlisted the help of an art class from Manatee School for the Arts to create a New York City mural on one of the delicatessen's walls.
Snap Dog hot dogs are smoked in a real smokehouse, according to the Snap Dog website, and the casing of the hot dogs is what differentiates them from others. Without using dyes or coloring, Snap Dog "brands" each hot dog with the company name and the word "beef."
Keith Dorman, the founder/CEO of Snap Dog, said in the release that for most people, the type of hot dog they're getting is a "big mystery."
"We're thrilled to bring Snap Dogs to Florida," Dorman said. "That way, people can enjoy the authentic taste of a real New York City hot dog, but know they are getting 100 percent premium beef. We're on a mission to elevate the hot dog experience."
Dorman previously worked as a hot dog cart vendor on 55th and Broadway in New York City, where he was inspired to create Snap Dog.
The Snap Dogs will be served at Koukla's Classic Delicatessen with various toppings, including the Snap Dog pushcart-style onion sauce, fresh onions and smoked paprika.
For more information, call Koukla's at 941-351-9251.
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Dining: Feeding the Craze
Low-Carb Diets Are Changing How Restaurants Cook
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Of course, one of the joys of the low-carb diet is that you can eat red meat. The New York sirloin comes off the grill nestled between a roasted red pepper puree and a dish that absolutely no one ate before low-carb diets, but looks as though it's going to become a staple. It's pureed cauliflower, which looks like and has the approximate mouth feel of mashed potatoes. All the more so in Sheraton's version, which mixes in white cheddar. The flavors just jump off the plate.
Photo Courtesy Sheraton
Finally, there's a cheesecake, with a mere 7 grams of carbs. These are net carbs, a kind of nutritional legerdemain that subtracts out fiber and what's called sugar alcohols, which taste sweet but don't do dramatic things to your blood sugar levels. Nobody really knows what happens if you eat lots of sugar alcohols; this is uncharted nutritional territory. But the cheesecake at least tastes great, crushed almond crust, no-sugar whipped cream, .75 ounce of berries and all.
I keep going back to the entrees. The Mediterranean chicken on braised artichokes is addictive, and I especially like the red pepper-cauliflower-steak combo. "Good, yes?" says Delbrel. "I am thinking of eliminating our regular steak and just offering this one instead." He then laughs at the irony: "I guess if someone wants to substitute mashed potatoes, we could let them. Why not? If they want the carbs, they can have them."
The low-carb entrees are catching on slowly, especially now that they've been printed on the hotel's regular menu, instead of presented as specials. Delbrel plans to roll out a low-carb banquet menu this month. "I like this food," he says. "It's not haute cuisine, it's casual dining, but it's food with character. It's a lot better than low-fat food ever was."


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Popular cricket players of South African cricket team: Lonwabo Tsotsobe
Lonwabo Tsotsobe, though a little known name in the world of cricket but for those people who follow the sport religiously would know that this South African has risen from the domestic circuit and cemented his position in the national squad of South African cricket team for 2011 Cricket World Cup.
Born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1984, Lonwabo Lopsy Tsotsobe, made his ODI debut against Australia in 2009. He sent out a clear message to the selectors from the very first go where by he took 4/50 which was impressive indeed by any measure. In his young career, Tsotsobe, the right handed fast-medium bowler has worked hard to justify his presence in the team and many would agree that he has done it pretty well. In the 61 ODIs that he has represented his country in, Tsotsobe has bagged 94 wickets at a brilliant average of less than 24.96,and best bowling figures of 4/22.But then again, many would question that these are still early days for the 26 year old and his average can't tell much about his talent. Striking bit of his career is that he took 4 wickets for 50 runs in nine overs in his ODI debut against Australia. It was his enthralling performance that helped South Africa to win the match by 39 runs along with ODI series by 4-1.
If Tsotsobe becomes part of the 2015 ICC World Cup squad for South Africa, Tsotsobe would be on display on a true world level stage for the first time and with the faith that his selector, captain and the team mates have in him, he is highly likely to deliver the goods.
After Ntini, he is the only black South African to have penetrated the national side and made a mark for himself though whether he would remain to be a part of this side for a long time depends on his performance during this world cup in the sub continent.


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Biking at Cornell
Ithaca's steep hills coupled with the fantastic gorge views can make a ride across campus a challenging—yet rewarding—experience...
Cornell supports cycling as a sustainable means of commuting to and from campus as well as an excellent means for transportation throughout the campus itself. The bikes for getting around campus has been increasing in recent years, and the University has responded accordingly by taking an active roll in ensuring a transportation system that is safe and accommodating for cyclists. This includes elements such as a system of marked bike lanes, pedestrian-shared paths, and dismount zones. There are several student biking organizations at Cornell including Big Red Bikes, the organization responsible for Cornell's biking share program, and The Cornell Cycling Team, for students interested in racing. In addition, the Cornell Outdoor Education Program offers biking courses for our students and Cornell's Bicycle and Pedestrian Traffic Safety Committee meets regularly to address issues related to improving the biking environment on our campus. Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) offers service to our campus as well as service covering the greater Ithaca area with buses that feature bike racks – a great resource for our students, faculty and staff.


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This tombstone was found at the bottom of a steam in a rural region of Salto, very close to where my granfather was born. It has inscriptions in three languages: Latin, Spanish and Guarani.11458
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My mtDNA is A2, and in my case, MyOrigins gives me 19% Native American, while most Gedmatch calculators give me almost the same (18%). Perhaps your Native American ancestors are far away...
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The Caliphate of Cordoba was a unified kingdom.The Taifas were small states that rivaled each other, sometimes allying with the Christian kingdoms of the north.
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Rumours are flying that veteran film director and naff commercial starlet Michael Winner may have to have a leg removed, and might even die, after picking up a mystery ailment in Barbados. Let's hope he had good insurance cover.
Winner, 71, is being treated at a private Harley Street hospital after what is thought to have been a reaction to medication taken while on holiday.
Some reports are suggesting that he may have already lost a lower limb, certainly an imaginative way to shed a bit of weight after the Christmas season. The corpulent Londoner is treating the situation with characteristic good humour, though, and seems to scotch any possibility of a missing appendage.
"I have been interested in recent newspaper reports suggesting I had lost, or was about to lose, one leg, two legs, an arm, a head - some people suggesting this went some time ago! - or even a fingernail. I am happy to tell you that, when I last looked, all of these items appeared solidly where they have been for many years."
For what it's worth, our money's on his left big-toe.
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This month's art assignment for Lilla's Make Art That Sells Bootcamp involved drawing a portrait of a Suffragette. I got Carrie Chapman Catt, who incidentally, I hadn't actually heard of! (I don't feel too bad as she was American and I am not.)
Luckily I've been taking the 'Art Recipes' class 'Drawing Faces' which helped me out with this challenge; in the past I've always shied away from portraiture and drawing faces because...eyes are hard and so are mouths and don't get me started on lips.
Here there was no-where to hide.
First off I started drawing lots of lady's faces before zoning in on Carrie. I love working in pencil (my default starting pencil being a 2H), and building up the depth of detail in shadow and shading.
Once I had reached a certain point with Carrie, there was no way I wanted to risk spoiling my drawing with colour, so instead I decided to add it into the border detail.
I chose lilac, green and off-white to represent the colours of women's suffrage and incorporated some art nouveau details too for femininity and framing.
As part of my research (and recommended as part of the class), I watched the film 'Suffragette' which stars one of my favourite actresses: Carey Mulligan. As the film ended I heard the words I would use in the background of my portrait:
"Never surrender; never give up the fight"
I think for me these words sum up the fight for equality and for women to have the vote, but also the current everyday struggles women face in all areas of life and across all facets of society.
They say 'keep going' when times are hard.
They galvanize the spirit in fine fighting talk.
I've not used a lot of my own lettering before, preferring the uniformity of choosing a font or typeface instead, but for this piece I felt hand-lettering would add to the 'rebel vibe' of the Suffragette movement.
I wanted to layer it behind the main portrait of Carrie and was so pleased with myself when I managed to create a clipping mask path in Adobe Illustrator - and it worked!
It always feels good to overcome both technical and art challenges in a project, and this piece definitely did both.
As I looked through all the other submissions from the rest of the group I knew there were so many that were much more accomplished than mine, but I'm not going to say the word 'better' because the more I work on assignments such as this, I realise I have my own style and take on things and there is no right or wrong way to do it.
I know I've created a strong portrait of a formidable female activist, leaving the chiaroscuro of my pencil lines exaggerating the almost masculine features of this celebrated Suffragette Carrie Chapman Catt.
I'm proud of my work and grateful to the Suffragettes for their tenacity, strength and determination #VotesforWomen!
See the full class gallery of Suffragettes.
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The Fight to Stay—Eviction Defense as a Right
This session will tell the story of the Right to Counsel Coalition, which successfully launched a 3-year campaign to make New York City the first city in the US to guarantee a right to an attorney to tenants facing eviction. Speakers will draw insights from their perspectives about how this right is key to fighting gentrification as well as how to implement a new law in a way that creates a right and builds tenant power. Speakers will represent the different perspectives of the coalition: lawyers, advocates and tenants. They will also share lessons learned from the coalition and the campaign, offering insights for other cities who are facing mass evictions and looking for effective tools. They will also discuss the right to defending your home and how it can be used as an organizing tool towards a vision of a right to housing.
Estefania Trujillo Preciado is a Colombian community organizer at Flatbush Tenant Coalition (FTC), building grassroots power in more than 65 associations with over 19,000 residents. By organizing groups and developing skilled and informed leaders, we can challenge the oppressive systems that...Read more
Marika Dias is a public interest attorney who has worked in civil legal services since 2001, in a range of legal service and community organizations in Melbourne, Australia and New York City. Marika's work has focused on providing legal services that support community organizing efforts and...Read more
Randy Dillard is a resident of the Bronx, a single father of 5 children. He has a been a CASA member for 6 years and a CASA leader for 4 of those years. Randy have been intricately involved in the city-wide Right to Counsel coalition since 2014. Randy was also appointed to a local community...Read more
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After watching Kelsey from Couples Therapy admit that she's never masturbated it's time to share the perks of self-pleasure. Here's why women should masturbate.
Kelsey from Couples Therapy shocked my vagina this week when she admitted that she has never masturbated. The 25-year-old "girlfriend" of Ghostface Killah even said, "Gross!" when Liz, the delicate flower (sense my sarcasm) that is Jon Goselin's fiancé, gifted her with her very first vibrator.
This got me to thinking about the wonders of masturbation and all that I have learned because I have fondled myself. I also wondered if Kelsey hasn't touched her neither regions because Ghost would think she's, like, a total stripper hoer!
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There are three cemeteries in the City of Morden – Chapel Cemetery, Hillside Cemetery and Southside Cemetery. The City of Morden owns and operates the Hillside Cemetery, which is located on the South side of Thornhill as you travel West on Highway #3 going out of Morden.(Click here to see the Visitor Map which will help you locate the cemeteries)
Hillside Cemetery
The following are the rules and regulations for the Hillside Cemetery.
- All cemetery plots shall be purchased at the Morden Civic Centre Office. Plots will be sold in a sequential fashion as determined by the Cemetery Committee.
- Cemetery plots purchased shall not be resold or transferred without the approval of the Cemetery Committee. Committee may approve refunds at the original purchase price.
- Grave covers and/or curbs made of concrete, fibreglass or other materials are not permitted. Headstones of natural rock may be used with a maximum size of 3′ x 3′ and 4′ high. Headstone must be placed on a concrete base with top of base at ground level.
- Maintenance and repairs of headstones is up to the family members of the deceased.
- Location of plots purchased shall be located and staked by the Cemetery Caretaker prior to excavation.
- The cost of digging and closing the grave must be borne by those in charge of arrangements for the deceased.
- Flowers and wreaths may be placed on a gravesite but no permanent shrubs, trees or plantings will be permitted.
- Grave "stacking" (2 regular interments in one plot) will not be allowed. One ash interment will be allowed in the same plot as a regular interment. There is an additional fee for this extra interment as stated in the fee schedule.
- Urns and containers from cremation may be interred in a regular plot, with up to 2 interments allowed. There is an additional fee for this extra interment as stated in the fee schedule.
- The responsibility of the Cemetery Caretaker shall be as follows:
- mow the grass as necessary
- stake lots prior to excavation
- clean up excess dirt from new plots
- maintain appearance of plots (top dressing, sow grass)
- maintenance of cemetery tools and equipment
- tree pruning and watering
- spring clean up
- staking plots for winter
- responsible to City of Morden – Director of Community Services
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Photographer's Note
Sroda Slaska, a small town about 30 km west of Wrocław. Seat of of one of the energy companies is situated in the restored office building, the building dates back to the end of the 19th century.
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mesutilgim (115194) 2014-05-02 22:41
Hello Ryszard,
On first instance I was thinking it's a railroad station.
Typical brick architecture of early 19th century taken with perfect pov.
TFS and have a nice weekend
jjcordier (79299) 2014-05-02 22:59
Une étonnante construction en briques rouges que tu as très bien mise en image.
emka (138724) 2014-05-02 23:00
cześć Ryszard,
Fajny budynek, wygląda troche jak stacja kolejowa. Ładnie odnowiony, dobrze sie prezeentuje w tym mocnym kolorku.
Pozdraiwam MAłgorzata
jemaflor (125295) 2014-05-02 23:20
Hi R,
Nice presentation, good pov on this red house, good colors contrast with the bleu sky, tfs.
timecapturer (49288) 2014-05-03 2:28
Hi Ryszard
that is an impressive restoration. The red bricks and its position make this such a distinctive and attractive property. Lots of character and captured superbly. Energy companies here seem to also occupy prize real estate too - wonder where our money goes eh?
Enjoy your weekend - B.
Silvio1953 (190571) 2014-05-03 4:15
Ciao Ryszard, lovely composition with beautiful house, splendid light, excellent perspective and wonderful colors, very well done, my friend, have a good week end, ciao Silvio
holmertz (82908) 2014-05-03 6:52
Hello Ryszard,
A nice and well kept building. This photo is mainly impressive for the superb colours and light. It's technically perfect.
Kind regards,
dta (95468) 2014-05-03 11:37
Hello Ryszard ,
What a beautiful red bricked houses ! Excellent framing and angle of view .
cornejo (61064) 2014-05-03 11:39
Witaj Ryszard, I like this great photograph of this beautiful red brick building, beautifully captured in this interesting image with good sharpness, depth, light, color and quality. Very good and interesting job well done, congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing this beautiful work.
Good night and good Sunday.
Warm greetings from southern Spain.
lousat (120617) 2014-05-03 15:25
Renovated but very well,the old style still remain and the architechture is truly nice,and example of the last century so well preserved and that you show us in the best and usual top quality,i like it! Have a nice Sunday and thanks,Luciano
Nicou (187880) 2014-05-03 20:23
Qeulle belle maison tout rénovée sueprbe vue et iamge quel cadrage dans l'agnel mervielleu ce rouge et le mur rouge sueprbe.
Bravo et amitié
npecanhuk (79319) 2014-05-16 1:18
Hello Ryszard!
Beautiful and charming place and building!
Truly attractive picture!
Sharpness, exposure, colors, horizontal format, chosen pov and composition are all excellent!
TFS - congrats,
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- Copyright: Ryszard Michalik (rychem) (67829)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2014-05-01
- Categories: Architecture
- Camera: Nikon D70
- Exposure: f/11, 1/400 seconds
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- Date Submitted: 2014-05-02 21:57


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Rock Wool Manufacturing Co. and C & C Personnel LLC in Houston, Texas are facing fines of $85,950 between them for seven serious and two repeat violations for exposing workers to a variety of workplace hazards, said officials at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Chief among the hazards are struck by and amputation hazards for failing to protect workers from dangerous machinery.
First Day on Job: Burns, Amputation
Exxon Fined for Refinery Blast
Chicken Processor Faces Big Safety Fines
Safety Fines for Fire Truck Maker
C & C Personnel ended up cited for four serious violations including failing to establish an energy control program to disable potentially hazardous machinery.
OSHA launched the March inspection after receiving a complaint. C & C Personnel LLC provided Rock Wood Manufacturing Co. with 53 temporary workers on a daily basis and Rock Wool supervised and assigned these workers their duties.
Rock Wood Manufacturing Co. ended up fined $64,350, and C & C. Personnel LLC received a $21,600 fine.
"Any time a worker is exposed to machinery without proper guarding is one more time that worker is in jeopardy of losing a limb or even a life. Failing to adhere to this commonsense safety requirement will not be tolerated," said Joann Figueroa, OSHA's area director in the Houston North office. "It is the employer's responsibility to find and fix hazards in the workplace."
Rock Wool Manufacturing, headquartered in Leeds, Alabama, has facilities in Leeds and Houston and C & C Personnel's headquarters is in Texas.


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So Sam is back in scrubs and throwing his weight around in a junior role! An interesting episode of Casualty which sees the team divided over Sam's self-appointed demotion. Plus there's Connie's reaction to it all, here are some highlights:
Love's young dream ~ Iain and Lily are still not seeing eye to eye – understatement of the episode! Is this really going to be as short lived as it seems? I'm waiting for Gem to come back so that she can make them see that they're made for each other – but I fear I'm wandering off into territory that is most definitely wishful thinking. The sniping, the sexual tension, it's all still there, brooding away!
Self-demotion ~ Sam's decision to step down as Medical Director and take the Registrar's post has been viewed as controversial to say the least! He's soon put to the test when he offers to take Elle's place and attend a scene where there's a potential life-changing injury hanging in the balance for a man who later turns out to be a bigamist. Naturally he's the hero of the hour, but he also runs the risk of losing his job if Connie sees fit to send a letter regarding his conduct.
Divided Opinion ~ Sam's self-demotion has set tongues wagging amongst the department and also divided opinion too. Jacob and Louise think he's showy and digging his own grave, Duffy thinks he's wonderful and can't praise him highly enough! How will he fit in, in the long-term?
Dylan ~ Losing his colleague, Cal, has taken its toll on Dylan and the pressure has been mounting for weeks. It finally breaks free in this episode and a panic attack sets in while he is dealing with a patient. He is unable to reach a decision about her condition and absconds to the toilets when the going gets tough, leaving David to handle a dicey situation and Elle to step in quickly. Was that the overall culmination of Dylan's demons or is there more to come?
Teamwork ~ I couldn't not comment on the teamwork demonstrated by Connie and Duffy, what a team! They delivered a baby in not so easy circumstances and it's one of the few times that we've seen the characters interact fully. I liked it!


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Sex-Harassment, Civil-Rights Cases on High Court's Docket
WASHINGTON--The U.S. Supreme Court opens a new term this week with only one school-related case on its docket, but educators will also be watching the outcome of cases dealing with sexual discrimination in the workplace and the scope of the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
The High Court was to open its term on Oct. 4, and arguments are scheduled for Oct. 6 in Florence County School District 4 v. Carter (Case No. 91-1523), which deals with private-school placement of children with disabilities. (See story, page 1).
In an important case dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace, the Court could further define what constitutes a hostile work environment.
In a case from Tennessee, Harris v. Forklift Systems Inc. (No. 92-1168), the Court will review a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that an employee who was exposed to vulgar comments from her boss could not win a sexual-harassment suit because she did not prove that the comments caused her psychological injury.
Two other federal courts of appeals have also required proof of psychological injury in sexual-harassment suits; three other appeals courts have applied a different standard, requiring only that a reasonable person find such comments offensive for a plaintiff to win a suit.
The Court will hear arguments in the case on Oct. 13.
On the same day, the Court will consider two cases that will determine whether the Civil Rights Act of 1991 applies to job-discrimination suits that were pending when it was enacted.
The Bush Administration had taken the position that the law should not be applied retroactively to pending cases. The Clinton Administration has taken the opposite position. The cases are Landgraf v. USI Film Products (No. 92-757) and Rivers v. Roadway Express Inc. (No. 92-938).
Cases Seeking Review
The High Court has pending before it a number of education-related appeals, and it was expected to grant or deny review of many of them this week.
Among the most closely watched of these is a challenge to a Pennsylvania school district's mandatory community-service program.
In Steirer v. Bethlehem Area School District (No. 92-1983), the parents of a high school girl challenged the district's requirement that all high school students perform 60 hours of service.
The family argued that the program violates the 13th Amendment's prohibition of involuntary servitude, and that, by deciding which activities are acceptable, the school district imposes moral beliefs on students in violation of the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech.
The mandatory-service program was upheld by a federal district court and by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
The High Court will also consider appeals in several cases dealing with religious freedom.
A Washington State school district is asking the Court to take another look at the 1984 Equal Access Act, which requires schools receiving federal funds to allow student religious clubs to operate on the same basis as other clubs.
The High Court upheld the law in 1991 in Board of Education of the Westside Community Schools v. Mergens.
The Renton, Wash., school district has asked the Court whether the federal law takes precedence over the state constitution, which has a strong provision barring entanglement between religion and public schools. That appeal is Renton School District v. Garnett (No. 92-1890).
Sometime this fall, the Court will decide whether to hear an appeal from a private school in Hawaii concerning a requirement that its teachers be Protestant.
Religious Rule Challenged
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Kamehameha Schools did not qualify for a religious exemption from the federal Title VII employment-discrimination law because it was not a primarily religious institution. The school has appealed in Kamehameha Schools v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (No. 93-171).
The High Court will also decide sometime this fall whether to review a New York State high-court ruling that invalidated the creation of a special school district for disabled children from the Hasidic Jewish enclave of Kiryas Joel.
The sect maintains its own schools, but cannot afford to run a school for disabled students. In 1989, state lawmakers created the special district, which was challenged by the state school-boards association. (See Education Week, Feb. 5, 1992.)
The Supreme Court this summer granted an emergency stay of the New York State high court's ruling, which kept the special school district from being dismantled before the start of the school year. The appeal is Board of Education of the Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet.
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