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USDA Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon emphasized the results of an annual report released by USDA's Economic Research Service that demonstrate that federal nutrition assistance food programs are providing a valuable safety net to the most vulnerable Americans. The report "Food Security in the United States 2009" found that 17.4 million households in America had difficulty providing enough food due to a lack of resources, about the same as in 2008.
"This report highlights just how critical federal nutrition assistance programs are for American families in need and the Obama administration is working to provide greater access to this critical safety net during these difficult economic times," said Concannon. "These programs are designed to respond rapidly and automatically to emerging needs in times of economic change and will expand and contract with the economy. We anticipate that food security will improve as the economy improves but in the near-term, without these benefits, many families would face far more severe problems getting the nutritious food they need."
In more than a third of those households that reported difficulty in providing enough food, at least one member did not get enough to eat at some time during the year and normal eating patterns were disrupted due to limited resources. Food insecurity was more common in large cities and rural areas, and rates were substantially higher than the national average among households with incomes near or below the Federal poverty line, households with children headed by single parents, and African-American and Hispanic households.
While the continued high levels of food insecurity are cause for concern, the fact that the numbers did not increase, despite a significant increase in unemployment and poverty in the United States between 2008 and 2009, underscores the important role of federal nutrition assistance programs in helping to prevent food insecurity. Fifty-seven percent of food-insecure households in the survey reported that they had participated in one or more of the three largest federal nutrition assistance programs within the past month. These include the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called the Food Stamp Program), the National School Lunch Program, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). The full report is available at: www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err108.
Federal nutrition assistance programs have seen dramatic participation growth, with major programs at or near record levels of participation. Between 2008 and 2009:
Average monthly SNAP participation increased by about 5.3 million people (an 18.7 percent increase).
One million more low-income children received free or reduced price lunches on an average school day (a 5.4 percent increase).
Over 400,000 more low-income women, infants, and children participated in WIC in an average month (a 4.8 percent increase).
Food donations through The Emergency Food Assistance Program increased by $100 million as a result of the Recovery Act, providing additional USDA Foods to thousands of food pantries and other emergency feeding organizations across the country.
"The administration remains strongly committed to nutrition assistance as an essential support for low-income people," Concannon said. "Despite recent program growth, we recognize that some eligible people in need do not take full advantage of the benefits available to them.
USDA is working closely with states to adopt policy changes and administrative practices that improve access and expand participation for potential clients:
In SNAP, the department promotes the adoption of broad-based categorical eligibility to simplify the program and ease access to benefits for clients. Forty states have now adopted BBCE.
In the school meals programs, the department promotes direct certification for free meals for children enrolled in SNAP or TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), making use of these programs' eligibility procedures to simplify access to meals. The latest data show that over 80 percent of schools, enrolling over 95 percent of school children, use direct certification.
For the summer, the department encourages communities and localities to make use of the flexible authority to operate summer food programs in schools, and to use TANF funds to support summer feeding. Millions of children rely on school meals during the school year, but far fewer get such meals in the summer.
The department is also preparing to implement a series of demonstration pilots to test: enhancements to SFSP and alternative approaches to provide food benefits to children during the summer, and improvements in SNAP access and participation among low-income seniors participating in Medicare's Extra Help program.
Concannon also emphasized the importance of strong legislation to reauthorize the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs that recently stalled in Congress.
"These programs provide vital nutrition assistance to America's school-aged children and deserve our full support," he said. "And we are working closely with Congress to secure strong reforms in the Child Nutrition Program reauthorization process that will improve access to high quality meals for America's school-aged children."
USDA's Food and Nutrition Service oversees the administration of 15 nutrition assistance programs, including the child nutrition programs, that touch the lives of one in four Americans over the course of a year.
These programs work in concert to form a national safety net against hunger. Visit www.fns.usda.gov for information about FNS and nutrition assistance program.


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Logo required for a media business - we are a business unit in a large telecommunications/media company.
We define and deliver content and media solutions (sites, video services etc) that add value to telecommunication networks (eg. Fixed BroadBand, Wireless, Mobiles etc.). The solutions we define and implement see various types of content delivered to subscribers across a variety of channels. Eg. Video Streams to desktop computers, mobile phones and set top boxes, Large Scale Web Sites (eg. sporting content), Premium SMS Services.
Everything we do is about adding value to the network and delivering value added services to customers. In summary; we take feeds and content (news, entertainment - text, video, images) from various sources, aggregate these and add value to them, and then distribute to many (sometimes millions of) subscribers across a variety of networks and devices (mobiles, desktops, settop boxes etc).
The logo will be used in internal communications - documents, slide packs etc. That is, other people and business groups within the same large company that we are in.
Note, it should be quite modern and slick, yet elegant and not date easily.
We are in the media and entertainment industry. We need a logo with the full name of the business unit - Content and Media Solutions - and a simple illustration/icon that is attractive and simple and ideally relates to what we do. This logo will assist in having the name/brand of this business recognised internally.
The name of the business unit is quite long, and so I have a couple of ideas for how the words can be presented:
- it could be presented as a stamp-style logo (ie. in a circle)
- the words could be stacked on top of each other
- the logo could be a crest (eg. something like http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/wp-content/…l-logo.png ) Note: I'm not saying stylistically it should be like the federal reserve logo, this is a media/entertainment business.
In terms of using an illustration/image, here are a couple of ideas:
- the illustration could be an abstract metaphor reflecting the ingest (ie. inbound), management (unification, adding value) and distribution of content to more channels than there are inbound. that is; a stream coming into a point and multiple channels going out? it should however not look complicated, it should be simple and elegant
- what we do is add value to existing networks (eg. fixed broadband, wireless, mobile etc.) and so it could present a metaphor for adding value to a network... ie. adding something on top of a network
Original source artwork (eg. AI, PSD), vector and jpg/png images are to be supplied.
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When I am not wrestling, my daily routine is simple. My children wake me up in the morning, after which I usually get up or lay in bed with them for awhile. Their mother prepares them for school.
I either send them on their way with their mom and try to fall back asleep or I take a trip and drop them off at school. To be honest, I really don�t like dropping them off because after I give them a kiss goodbye, as I see them walk together down the hall, it makes me quiet sad. I truly do want the day to go by fast so I can see them again. It is funny; I can leave them to go off to all parts of the world to perform in front of wrestling fans each week, but when they leave me and I am four blocks away, the wait for them to come home seems like forever.
During days on which I drop them off, I then come home and start my rituals. I do my back exercises with an invention I found on Twitter (@lobaktrax) that has truly improved my quality of life. I have very little discomfort and on days when I wake up sore, I use it for about three minutes in the morning and I am set.
I drink a small whey protein shake that I get from www.prosource.net � again something I found on Twitter (@teamprosource). I then start my one hour of cardio on my elliptical machine. I usually watch MLB Network�s Quick Pitch and Sports Center, or as you Canadians like to call it, TSN. I catch up on my wrestling shows or, now that I am older, I watch many documentaries. I recently recorded a show from the MSG Network entitled Spring of �94, which revisited the magical seasons of 1994, during which the New York Rangers and Knicks both made it to their respective championship finals.
While watching that, what was supposed to be a normal day really changed dramatically during that routine sweat-filled cardio session. I found myself crying so much that I had to stop to compose myself. This led me to really want to write this column because I know so many people right now who have to deal with the same issues. It is, unfortunately, something we all have and will have to face: the loss of someone we love and how to cope with it.
I have written about this before. My father was a diehard Rangers season-ticket holder. He used to take me to games or we would watch them on TV together. That is until one fateful time when a Rangers game wasn�t broadcast on TV and the station instead showed what was then WWF wrestling, live from Madison Square Garden. I was instantly hooked.
The comfortable lifestyle I live is all because of wrestling. I had a lot of encouragement from my dad to pursue my dream of becoming a wrestler while watching the documentary of the Rangers� historic Stanley Cup victory (it was the team�s first since 1940). As I watched the replay of the final seconds of the game, I had a flashback of being at my then girlfriend�s house watching the game with my friends, celebrating. Following the win, I immediately told her I had to call my dad. I called my house and my mom answered like she always did. I said �MA!� She said �isn�t it wonderful, hang on, here is your dad.� I could hear the excitement in his voice. He said �I can�t believe it. Isn�t it great? I never thought it would happen, I can die a happy man.� I said �I know, it�s awesome, I will be home later.� He said �thanks for calling, I love you.� I said, �OK, love you, too.�
As I write this, I have had to stop because I have tears in my eyes � because it is such a great memory. My father would be diagnosed with Parkinson�s disease shortly thereafter. He would battle the disease for many years, but eventually died from it.
But in that memorable spring of �94, he was still my healthy, strong dad. He was six-foot-two, with same body type as mine, except I have a big butt, while he had a belly. He had a body like wrestler Dick Murdoch and had no signs of illness. This is how I want to remember him: strong, happy and full of life, not weak, sad and wanting to die like I last saw him.
Recently, a number of people I know have been having a tough time with this sense of loss. I guess the older I get, the more I am going to experience it. It sucks because we all go through it. I am a not firm believer that it gets easier as time passes. When you love someone, you love them forever. I don�t want to forget the past. I want remember everything. In my opinion, it is how we move forward that makes us the person we are.
I know how my dad wants me to live my life. He told me once before he passed. He said �I raised you, I am proud of you, you need to raise your family now and live your life. I have lived mine.�
My best advice to people who are going through this is this: unless you are moving forward, you are not living either. My only regret is that my children will not know who my dad was. He would have loved to have watched them grow up and to have been a grandfather, but he passed when they were about six months old.
So how do I move forward? I tell stories, I show pictures, I make sure my kids know who their grandfather was. That�s how you continue living their life. Their memories and stories and legacies can live forever.
Who knows what might trigger an emotion setback: a song, a smell, a memory, but just sit back, compose yourself and get back to doing what you were doing and live your life.
I hopped back on my elliptical and did the final 30 minutes of my workout with renewed energy. I wasn�t embarrassed by my emotions. I didn�t need alcohol or drugs to cope. I needed to catch my breath, reflect and keep pedalling.
When I finished my cardio, I completed my routine of showering, running errands and going to gym, until my day was made better when it came time � finally! � to pick up my kids from school.
That simple squeal of �Daddy!� as they sprinted and jumped into my arms turned my sad day into a happy one.
If you can find one thing, just one simple thing that can make you laugh, or get joy from, it means you can move forward. If it is caring for an animal, another person or yourself, it proves all is going to be OK. That�s what the loved one you lost would have wanted.
I opened this column recounting my routine, not to stack on Twitter plugs because the people I met on Twitter were, of course, trying to help sell a product, but they also try to help others. I met these people on Twitter and isn�t that what a social media is for? The social part.
Talk to people that you trust about your feelings. Follow what your friends are doing as they live their lives. It might just inspire you to live yours.
I say life is a lot like pro wrestling. It is scripted, but we can�t predict the outcome. In wrestling, you get knocked down a lot, but it is how you get up and keep on fighting that makes you the person you are. Everyone reading this column can relate, we are all our own social network. What you do after reading this article is your decision. Hopefully it has touched you and you can continue to move forward.
Thanks for reading.
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This brings me to my final point. For the past several years, bonds and stocks in the United States have rallied together. U.S. treasuries and domestic equities have been trending higher for more than three years as shown below. The S&P 500 is shown as the dotted line and the 30-year Treasury bond Price Index is the black solid line.
It is without question that both the S&P 500 Index and the 30-year Treasury bond have been trending higher for the past three years overall. Both underlying assets have produced strong gains during the same period of time. Now this brings me to my final question for readers to ponder. If both the S&P 500 Index and the 30-year Treasury bond can rally together, what happens if they selloff together?
The answer to that question is the real problem. Many sell-side analysts and economists ignore the bubble that the Federal Reserve has created in equity valuations. The bubble continues to be fueled by the monstrous liquidity injections that they have conducted beginning with the original quantitative easing. However, what is even less acknowledged by the sell-side is the massive artificial bullish valuations that have been created in the bond market.
Long-dated treasuries are being purchased by the Federal Reserve to artificially hold down interest rates. This ongoing practice is causing a separate bubble to form in fixed income investments. So now we have a bubble in equities and long-dated treasuries forming and the sell-side continues to trumpet that higher prices are likely. Ultimately the sell-side may be right in short to intermediate time frame, but the end game has a finality that few want to consider.
When these bubbles finally pop as all excessively valued assets do, the result is going to devastate financial markets. It may be in six months or it may be in 10 years, but history will not be thwarted. The central banks can try to outsmart history, but they will ultimately fail.


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herb wrote: I don't think you just dump anybody because they are 'overpaid' until you have a better option to fill in that role.
But that's the thing...you do dump an overpaid player because there's a one-time, no cap hit, opportunity to do so. It's not like you have 2/3rd buy out hit plus cap hit of the replacement player cost to consider. Also, there won't be a punitive salary coming back in a trade (let's keep in mind there likely salary coming back in any Luongo trade). So, if there's a cap crunch this coming offseason, and if there's some good, cheap UFA's this offseason, then Booth is the next logical guy after Ballard to go. And buyout is more of an option than people realize, after all he was practically given away on a 64M cap. Can Gillis give him away of the cap falls more?
Agree with most of everything else you wrote


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A few unlicensed series to consider:
Peter Pan no Bouken (four episodes so far)
Mama Is a Fourth-Grader (only four episides were ever fansubbed, which is a shame)
Ribon no Kishi (only one episode is available thus far, and there may be only four, but I hope someone picks up and completes the whole series)
Kaiketsu Zorori (only one episode was ever fansubbed, which is a dirty rotten shame)
and perhaps:
Keroro Gunsou
Mahou Shoujo Tai
Sugar Sugar Rune
And there's always Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
And some R1 DVDs:
Grrl Power
Probably most of Galaxy Angel
Jubei-Chan I
Someday's Dreamers
Magical Project S
Rozen Maiden isn't really suitable for children, even if most of the characters are dolls. If your niece does watch Traumend, expect her to be devastated by the tenth episode.
|2006-06-20, 19:13
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Yup, I'm sure she'd like Sugar Sugar Rune and Mahô Shôjo Tai. I'm not sure about Keroro or Ichigo Mashimaro though, or Kare Kano. The "rythm" of those isn't made for children I'd say...
Then of course, any Ghibli will be perfect ( except Mononoke, which can be scary...).
|2006-06-20, 21:26
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A couple of series that no one has suggested thus far:
Another series worth looking into is Gakuen Alice. However, of the 26 episodes in this series the last to be subbed was #15, and that was several months ago.
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Scrapped Princess. Nice mix of plot, comedy, adventure, family and (somewhat) moral themes, combat, and touching moments. I'm sure she'll be able to handle it. Its basically set in a post-apocalyptic medieval world, and features a 15+ year old girl wandering the countryside (with her brother and sister) as an unwanted princess, as a prophecy states that she will destroy the world when she turns 16. Interesting?
Its licensed, but I'm sure you can buy it.
|2006-06-21, 07:36
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I strongly second Twin Spica. Twin Spica is very good even for someone of my age and teaches a lot of values without getting preachy.
Akazukin Chacha is good, too. It's a magical girl show and an overall pleasant one.
Haibane Renmei would also be nice. Even if it gets a bit dark at times, everything goes well in the end.
I'd also like to recommend Alien Nine and Narutaru. Just kidding, you wouldn't want to traumatize your niece.
|2006-06-21, 07:58
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Some shoujo anime for young girls
Ashita no Nadja - adventure story of a young girl who traveled around Europe.
Daa!Daa!Daa! - cute story with adorable ufo baby and a big fat cat
Magic Knight Reyearth - one among clamp's classic and Mokona...
Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch/ Pure - magic girl series with singing
Pretty Cure Max Heart/ Splash Star - also a magic girl series
Tokyo Mew Mew - magic girl with environmental friendly theme
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I don't know why, but I stopped posting this thread. Bad idea on my part, but in conjunction with the blog makeover, I'm bringing it back.
I realize there are times you might have something to say that doesn't pertain to a recent post. You'll come here, look around, and if you don't see something you like, you'll move on.
I don't want you to do that. I want you to think of this as your blog, so I want you to post what you want.
If there's something on your mind, and it could be the NFL, the Knicks, the Rangers, or in Annie Savoy's case, horse racing, then go for it.
Re-designing the blog will take some time, especially for somebody as computer savvy as me. Again, if there are ideas of things, or features, or graphic presentations you'd like to see, please speak up.
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Subaru went to the 2011 Isle of Man TT race and returned home winners. No, the Japanese carmaker hasn't created a high-tech AWD motorbike but it did take a near-stock standard WRX STI and run a time of 19 minutes and 37 seconds on the famous 60km course. That was quick enough to achieve a new record for a car traveling the course. But to get things into perspective the outright lap record for any vehicle stands at 17 minutes and 12 seconds set in 2009 by John McGuinness on a Honda CBR1000RR 'Fireblade' motorcycle.
To break the existing record the WRX had an average speed of 185kph and got up to 255kph on some of the longer straights. Ex WRC driver Mark Higgins took the Subie through 200 corners and had a frightening incident getting loose at 200kph before bringing it straight again.
The record-setting WRX STI is powered by standard production turbocharged engine pumping out 227kW. Safety modifications included the addition of a roll cage, fire-suppression system, special brake pads and a louder open exhaust to best warn spectators of an unexpected approaching car. Subaru also took off the car's speed governor and tweaked the suspension with Tein dampers to handle the course's famous jumps.
Subaru is, of course, proud of this achievement and has just released a choice video showcasing the record lap, check it out below.


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Dear August,
You are a month that is so very bittersweet for me. It was on your 22nd day that I became a mom 13 years ago. Having gone into labor at 35 weeks, I was so very scared. But my firstborn, a beautiful daughter, arrived perfectly healthy, and we became a family of three. August, we shared some great times.
Two years ago, you brought me devastating news, August. Twice. After having heard so many heartbreaking words from the doctors. "She coded during surgery." "She has no brain activity." We said goodbye to our littlest girl. Three months and ten days just doesn't equate to the lifetime I envisioned for her.
Then 5 days later, as we tried our best to celebrate our firstborn's birthday in the midst of such sorrow, I received news of my mom's death the day before. Really, August? You nearly crushed me that year.
Last year, you brought us Max. He's the black and white fluff ball of a dog that you brought to us as we reached the first anniversary of Kristen's death. The girls adore him, and honestly, he's been good for all of us. He's brought some joy back into our lives, smiles to our faces. Despite the occasional accidents on the floor, the trips to the groomer every 6 weeks, the mess he makes when he eats (because he takes a mouthful of food and walks a foot away from his bowl to eat it, leaving crumbs everywhere), and the wet beard he uses to mop the kitchen floor after he takes a drink, he's been very good for each one of us.
When I've been missing Kristen so much and the tears start to fall, he's there. Even though there are times I look at him and think that if she were here, he wouldn't be. And I'm glad (that he is), but I'm not (that she isn't). And I don't want to even go there. He lays on my lap and seems to sense all that's on my heart.
August, you now bring to a close our first year with Max and our second year without Kristen. I guess that's just what you hold for me. Happy and sad. Joy and pain. You bring the "stuff" that builds character...and leads to hope.
...but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. --Romans 5:3-4


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Re: second stage spiritual
Reply #30 on:
Jun 26, 2009, 10:19 AM »
Hi Ari
Rajneesh aka "Osho", is the very embodiment of the worst of the 2nd Stage spiritual, so, yes, he is a perfect example of this.
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Jun 27, 2009, 08:34 AM »
Hi Everyone,
Interesting flash came to me when I looked at Rajneesh chart here: I remembered a picture of Rajneesh chart that I saw in a book almost two decades ago: the only thing I remembered was the fact that he according to that chart had a 12th house stellium in capricorn and saturn in the 1st house ruling those planets.... this intruged me so I checked 'astro data' and I can see the birth data stated here is correct according to that....however I also noted it states something like: "source: memory" ....so I wonder if it is correct?
Most of the times my memory flashes are correct so I wondered where the heck did I see that chart....
The only things I ever kept in my wondering around the world were my books:-)) ...so this morning I dug more into my memory and I was able to recall a bit more and more; long story short I realised it was in one of Alan Oken's books; I spent most of this morning trying to find the chart and eventually I did find it:-)
BUT unfortunately Oken doesn't give the birth info only the chart itself as one of the examples within his astro explanations ("Alan Oken's Complete Astrology" page 490)
Well to be honest digging it out was more about wanting to test my own memory than about Rajneesh:-))
But in the meantime I thought it is actually interesting for at the time I read that book I had no knowledge of EA (some 18 years ago when I was in the process of incorporating the english language) but even then this chart made sense to me relative to the events etc...
When I looked at it now again after some 18 years (so now with the 'EA osmosed' view) it made even MORE sense to me....
....so I would like to ask if anyone has some means to clarify what could be the correct birth data and the correct chart?
As Oken doesn't give the birth data let me list here the most important placements of this chart:
AC is 15 capr. 22, MC is 00 scorp. 45 (so IC and DC are the opposite signs of course)
Pluto retro: 21 cancer 43, 7th house just above the horizon
n.node 1 aries 23, falls in 3rd house (Oken used placidus system)
he didn't use the s.node but of course it is the polarity:
1 libra 23, 9th house
sun: 18 sag 17 close, 11th, (very close to 12th cusp which is 21 sag (again with prophyry. sun may or may not change to 12th)
moon: 10 capr. 25 12th
Merc: 06 capr. 21, 12th
venus: 11 capr. 44, 12th
mars: 00 capr. 46 12th
jupiter: retro, 22 leo 38, 8th
saturn: 21 capr. 26, 1st
(ruling all the 12th capr. planets of course while jup in the 8th rules 12th cusp: just makes SO much sense to me at least relative to the historical events, teachings etc; the soul is typically missing itself it's own soul with the 'truths' and pointing to itself instead god...1st saturn then ruling all the 12th planets: total illusion delusion which is self interest based; saturn of course is in almost EXACT opposition to pluto in 7th ONLY 17 second from the absolute full phase)
uranus: retro, 15 aries 32, 3rd house
(this house placement is for sure it is too far from the house cusp. It is in the same sign as n.node, but not conj. 14 degrees difference; n.node already went through uranus, so new phase)
neptune: retro, 7 virgo 59, 8th
Ok, I came back to this in the afternoon and now I made the hassle to do the easy maths and identify from the AC, MC points the porphyry house cusps. (they are the house placements between the fix AC-DC = 1st and 7th cusps, and MC-IC= 10th and 4th cusps which are the 'skeleton' of the chart)
So the porhhyry cusps would be:
2nd = 20 aq 22,
3rd = 25 pisces 22, (so indeed n.node is in 3rd)
5th = 25 taurus 22
6th = 20 gemini 22
8th = 20 leo 22
9th = 25 virgo 22
11th = 25 scorp. 22,
12th = 20 sag 22 (so sun is indeed in 11th making much sense- again at least to me)
If anyone has any idea where Oken could have got this chart data and if it can be correct or the astro data given birth date is correct I would really appreciate it; this would a be an interesting study I believe.
Thanks in advance if anyone is able to help.
Last Edit: Jun 27, 2009, 09:39 AM by Lia
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Re: second stage spiritual
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Jun 27, 2009, 09:04 AM »
Hi Lia,
I sure can't find anything (so far) to match this chart for Rajneesh, but I think the original fits him SOOO well, especially his preoccupation with sex, and all the orgies, given the 2nd/8th emphasis. Since I'm a visual learner, I'll have to make a chart showing the planets where you list them, but I'll have to do that later. Hopefully, someone else will come along who can shed some light on this. As you probably already know, Astrodatabank has the same data that Ari posted, except the town is Kutchwada, which doesn't come up in the SF atlas. hmm. (the coordinates are close, however).
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Jun 27, 2009, 09:51 AM »
Hi Deva, just wanted to say thank you for clarifying the question I posted...I so appreciate this . Heather
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Re: second stage spiritual
Reply #34 on:
Jun 27, 2009, 10:22 AM »
Hi Adina,
as for his preoccuption with sex and all the rest this chart places jupiter (retro) in the 8th and it rules his 12th...that has a LOT to do with all that.....along with neptune being in the 8th...so all his 'spiritual' teachings are about sex on the one hand, on the other his soul being identified with being the 'source' of truths (jup and neptune in the 8th) ...that 8th jup also rules of course his 11th sun according to this chart....his 'inventing' (11th) the new truths (sag) according to his OWN intentions (jup in 8th in leo)...8cusp is leo ruled by that 11th sun.....
Cancer pluto in 7th: having the evolutionary past to aquire all the knowledge he needed how to be likeable and attract so many people who at the end all serves his own egocentric (cancer) needs ruled by 12th moon; as it was the most important 'spiritual' (12 house) norm (capr.) that his followers ( 7th house pluto) of course supply all the material needs he had....the intentions (8th house) being justified by jup in leo...how he handles other people's resource (8th house) is defined by leo jup....he himself is the 'truth'....that's the major 'invention' (11th sun)...
7th pluto rules the 11th house, the house of traumas all originate back to pluto the soul itself, how he relates to others and for what motivations and agendas...opp. saturn in 1st...the SILENCE he has declared himself in and didn't even talk to his 'disciples' for many years ..yet in that silence the issues behind the scenes (12th house capr. planet mars wherein) the intention is all about the fact that venus conj. moon in capr. and mars conj. mercury...a lot of delusion of course....believing oneself to be the ultimate 'standard, norm' etc...and that 12th mars rules the n.node and uranus in the 3rd....the actual reality and the feedback from the immediate environment suppose to make him realise his s.node (9th house!) mistake and suppose to shock the soul out of that jupiterian belief/personal identification with the truths...9th house libra s.node: that's another aspect which makes so much sense to me at least...ruled by capr. venus in the 12th conj. moon...his own self image is totally merges with venus= in the past he has been able to many many times fool so many people (ruler of s.node venus conj. ruler of pluto in 7th! all goes back to the 7th house pluto how to make others 'see' what ever they want to see in him (the projection issue, riding on other people's needs for truth and abusing it for personal, egocentric interest; cancer, his own security is based on that; to manipulate others to like him and follow him)
....sun in 11th: the goal of life is actually to create a trauma (for others AND for himself so that he may liberate from the personal delusion symbolised by the 12th) and uranus in aries 3rd along with n.node: to realise his OWN individual self behind it all, his motivations, agendas etc. instead of hiding in the leonic feedback of others who have been manipulated and again (via many life times!) being attracted around the soul for the same reason....the issue here being the 1st saturn is trying to implement responsibility for ALL the 12th house planets (for the delusions) but there is incredible resistance of course, pluto opposition...the responsibility can be only enforced...it is all repressed and his own personal 'authority' aspect is the only thing he is getting from it.....natural ruler of first of course in the 12th....
The sag sun in 11th, ruled by leo jup in 8th: TYPICALLY point back to each other and nothing else replaces them in the chart...so they are the very nature the soul got 'stuck in' (8th house) one of the typical 'fall from grace' unconscious need is impritned in that...
At least to me this chart visualy embodies the issue of the 2nd spiritual: the soul does embraced spiritual powers, yet it got SO puffed up in it's own soul (leo 8th cusp. leo jup) that it can't see from it's own total delusions ....the personal planets basically all line up in the 12th....he is the alfa and omega (according to himself).....while neptune in 8th trying to teach humility but the message of course is totally distorted within his consciousness because ruler is mercury in 12th conj. mars: the personal agenda and will overcomes the message....how god is trying to speak to him is via the 3rd cusp (pisces) via all the events that happened in the environment and the feedback from people who are not his followers not under his 'magic' ....but he considers himself typically a 'victim' (that's the deluded pisces message of course) and doesn't get the simplicity of the message: just look around and ACCEPT (pisces) the reality that is unfolding in your most immediate environment in your own life....wake up and look; n.node in this way would point to the need of coming off of the pedestal of the 'guru' (9th house=teacher) and restart everything as being just one of the big brotherhood (3rd house) of life (pisces) and face your TRUE individuality (aries) with all the responsibiliies (saturn in 1st, ruler of mars, that is the ruler of the n.node and uranus of course) and accept (pisces) the truama (uranus) that is trying to help you to awake (uranus) and see the objective reality (uranus) about yourself (aries) as it actually IS (3rd house, observing the facts and making sense in simple ways just as is) ....to liberate from the delusion of believing yourself to the source of the 'truths'...
Satun in capr. in 1st: the responsibility is very very delayed and very much resisted by the soul: 7th pluto in cancer.
the 9th s.node seems to make so so much sense to me...while it's ruler is venus, it's natural ruler of course is that 8th house jup....ruling the sun in 11th:
As Wolf put it once "he was not god realised he was 'sexually realised' at the most"
Of course I have no idea if this is correct or the other chart is correct...would be interesting to know....
Last Edit: Jun 27, 2009, 03:22 PM by Steve
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Re: second stage spiritual
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Jun 27, 2009, 11:43 AM »
I see where you could sure read his life into that chart, Lia. I have looked and looked for another option, but I still couldn't find one that would match Oken's data. If we use the data he did, though, the 22 degree Cap ASC would result in a TIME of 8:48:43 AM. And I consistently come up with Kuchwara (or something close), India, as the place. Coordinates are 23N09; 078E21.
I found a Vedic astrologer who had analyzed Rajneesh's chart, and he used a different time than what Ari posted OR what Oken evidently used. Here's the URL and a blurb explaining why he used the data he did
Horary Astrology and Cuspal Interlinks
Example 9.5 Analysis of Acharya Rajneesh's chart:
Various learned astrologers have analysed the charts of saints and revolutionary thinkers and justified their achievements as per the strength of the rising Ascendant, and placement of planets in the chart. Their expositions, no doubt, match excellence and brilliance of highest quality. Their efforts beautifully demonstrate their knowledge in the field of Astrology. Often I wonder, if during the Ascendant a saint or great spiritual leader was born, when the planetary positions were so excellent then why only a particular saint or a thinker. The great revolutionary thinker of the twentieth century, Acharya Rajneesh, is reported to be born on 11.12.1931 in a Village Kuchwara, in District Raiscin in Madya Pradesh, India. These details have been obtained by great effort by my friend Mr. P.K. Jain, a senior Government officer. Fig 9.5 represents the natal chart of Acharya Rajneesh. I have made an attempt to analyse the chart through my theory of Sub-Sub lord and Cuspal Interlinks with a view to answer the question "Why only one Acharya Rajneesh ?" during the Ascendant which was rising at that time.
Check of Accuracy: It was difficult to know the time of Birth. Different authors have taken different time but all concentrated on the time period between 17.00 hours and 18.00 hours. Efforts were made to find out from persons close to Acharya Rajneesh so as to confirm this time period. The rectified chart is placed in fig 9.5 above.
Possibility of more persons of Acharya Rajneesh's calibre is limited to about one minute of the Astrological birth time of Acharya Rajneesh. This is so because the Sub-Sub arc of Mercury in Mercury Sub is of 16 minutes and 2 second longitude. The ideal rate of rising of Ascendant is fifteen minutes per one minute of time. During the span of 16 minutes and 2 second longitude itself, the cuspal positions vary to account for the individuality of a specific birth. The analysis is not limited to planetary positions but is based on cuspal interlinks of Sub-Sub arcs of different cuspal positions, which change even for a birth difference in seconds.
Maybe someone else will be able to find something more or different or both! Very Interesting!
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Jun 27, 2009, 02:31 PM »
Hi Everyone,
I didn't find any data, but a few interesting articles which may worth to qoute here:
Assessments by scholars of religion
Some scholars have suggested that Osho, like other charismatic leaders, may have had a narcissistic personality.[213][214][215] In his paper The Narcissistic Guru: A Profile of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Ronald O. Clarke, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Oregon State University, argued that Osho exhibited all the typical features of narcissistic personality disorder, such as a grandiose sense of self-importance and uniqueness; a preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success; a need for constant attention and admiration; a set of characteristic responses to threats to self-esteem; disturbances in interpersonal relationships; a preoccupation with grooming combined with frequent resorting to prevarication or outright lying; and a lack of empathy.[215] Drawing on Osho's reminiscences of his childhood in his book Glimpses of a Golden Childhood, he suggested that Osho suffered from a fundamental lack of parental discipline, due to his growing up in the care of overindulgent grandparents.[215] Osho's self-avowed Buddha status, he concluded, was part of a delusional system associated with his narcissistic personality disorder; a condition of ego-inflation rather than egolessness.[215]
In questioning how the total corpus of Osho's work might be summarised, Bob Mullan, a sociologist from the University of East Anglia, stated in 1983: "It certainly is eclectic, a borrowing of truths, half-truths and occasional misrepresentations from the great traditions. It is also often bland, inaccurate, spurious and extremely contradictory."[216] He also acknowledged that Osho's range and imagination were second to none,[216] and that many of his statements were quite insightful and moving, perhaps even profound at times,[217] but what remained was essentially "a potpourri of counter-culturalist and post-counter-culturalist ideas" focusing on love and freedom, the need to live for the moment, the importance of self, the feeling of "being okay", the mysteriousness of life, the fun ethic, the individual's responsibility for their own destiny, and the need to drop the ego, along with fear and guilt.[218]
Writing in 1996, Hugh B. Urban similarly found Osho's teaching neither original nor especially profound, noting that most of its content had been borrowed from various Eastern and Western philosophies.[154] What he found most original about Osho was his keen commercial instinct or "marketing strategy", by which he was able to adapt his teachings to meet the changing desires of his audience,[154] a theme also picked up on by Gita Mehta in her book Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East.[219] In 2005, Urban observed that Osho had undergone a "remarkable apotheosis" after his return to India, and especially in the years since his death, going on to describe him as a powerful illustration of what F. Max Müller, over a century ago, called "that world-wide circle through which, like an electric current, Oriental thought could run to the West and Western thought return to the East."[220] By negating the dichotomy between spiritual and material desires, and reflecting the preoccupation with the body and sexuality characteristic of late capitalist consumer culture, Osho had apparently been able to create a spiritual path that was remarkably in tune with the socio-economic conditions of his time.
Hugh B. Urban, Assistant Professor of Religion and Comparative Studies at Ohio State University, noted that Osho appeared to fit with Max Weber's classical image of the charismatic figure, being held to possess "an extraordinary supernatural power or 'grace', which was essentially irrational and affective".[212] Moreover, Osho corresponded to Weber's pure charismatic type in rejecting all rational laws and institutions and claiming to subvert all hierarchical authority, even though the promise of absolute freedom inherent in this eventually resulted in new and more powerful forms of bureaucratic organisation and institutional control within the sannyasin community.
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Jun 27, 2009, 03:38 PM »
Thanks so much Steve for putting up the chart!
You are a blessing to this community - in more than one way!
(sometimes I wonder how marvelously god/ess 'organises' things even via the most 'mundane' ways...what would we do without someone with computer knowledge?
Love and blessings,
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Jun 28, 2009, 05:59 AM »
Hi Everyone,
I was wanted to say thanks for this thread. It has really helped me to understand some of the nuances in the overall progression of the Soul through the Evolutionary Stages.
Quote from: Steve on Jun 23, 2009, 07:05 PM
Adina and I had a conversation earlier, and she is going to start a new post talking about her observations on evolutionary stages, how to spot them in people, and the types of questions and mistakes people new to this paradigm tend to make while learning about stages. Please all feel free to join in and ask questions, offer insights, etc.
I look forward to that posting, but most importantly, I hope that you are well Adina.
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Re: second stage spiritual
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Jun 28, 2009, 11:25 AM »
the 8th house neptune seems fitting. it feels like there ought to be some heavy 8th house happening. also mars in cap in the 12th makes a lot of sense- and the lack of strucutre in early life fits cap in the 12th.
in the astro data chart (btw from google map, jabalpur=kutchwada), venus moon and saturn both end up in cap in the 8th house- and that would really explain the financial and sexual stuff as well. Saturn opposing second house pluto for sure. however I feel that in his autobiography, there would have been more about poverty or hard times or something like that. rather in his book autobiography of a spiritually incorrect mystic he mostly spoke about being silent as a child and spending a lot of time alone in nature- being far from parental authority. that speaks strongly to the cap 12th house stuff.
maybe one of us will do some fun solar arc work.
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Jul 04, 2009, 09:20 AM »
Good morning to all!
I have a question about stages of spiritual growth...whether it's possible to move from one to another in a single lifetime? Our physical actions, and those promptings from within are observable to us, but the actuality as to 'where' we end up, stage-wise, is pre-ordained in our chart...right? Once made aware of these 'conditions', doesn't the 'knowing' provide impetus for additional growth/expansion, possibly even major leaps?
This begs the question: Do we have the power to create our reality…and if so, with what limitations? This question is asked in humbleness, with the hope to move closer to Source. Relativity of stages is unimportant. These are only words...and maybe this alone answers the question. Pluto conjunct NN in ninth, in Leo wants only to move as far forward as possible…
Having been led to your wonderful site by my friend, Linda, another spiritual dimension is opening for me. For example, the idea of an imperfect God/ess (Ess/God
) struck a chord and invites much pondering and many intriguing questions, but I'm not there yet. First, perspective must be obtained. I recognize, or should I say 'glimpse' from time to time, Oneness (tho can't conceptualize), so if a part of the whole (Source) is capable of creativity, aren't all parts? All That IS comes Thru us, then, not from us. We are vehicles from which LOVE can express in ITS myriad ways. Oneness.
Beginning in the early 80's, There was a major transformation within, spurred, and reinforced by outer discoveries...treasures, really. This path is laden with givers, which is the tell-tell sign of truth. That there are some who jump on this path strictly for material gain is of no consequence to me. I wish only to be single-minded in the quest...Truth finding its mark unerringly in the heart.
Anyway, this first transformation was away from the major belief systems of the world whose 'followers' believe in the traditional patriarchal God, separate and rationing out blessings and punishment based on our 'keeping the commandments'. The rich soil from which newness began to blossom is nurtured, primarily, by the ever-expanding acceptance of our inherent creativity…which is enacted thru every thought, word and action. There have been countless evidences that it is so. Jesus' only condition is that we have the faith of a mustard seed. Of couse, that seed appears to be the size of a mountain in out barely awakened state (speaking of self). Mabe I have answered my own question again?
As T-Pluto moves thru Capricorn, the key to understanding Jesus' words will become more and more apparent, it is hoped. Before consciously creating, responsibility must be assumed…the responsibility to love and nourish each creation…in the highest sense of the word.
So, to end this ramble, the main question for now is: What is the EA view of the Deepak Chopras and Wayne Dyers of the world…who teach to the max this concept that we create our own reality? And what is the difference between this, and EA's understanding?
I truly love reading your words here…all of you, and am looking forward with relish to your responses.
Love and magnificent obsessions,
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Jul 04, 2009, 09:50 AM »
Hi Chuck,
So, to end this ramble, the main question for now is: What is the EA view of the Deepak Chopras and Wayne Dyers of the world…who teach to the max this concept that we create our own reality? And what is the difference between this, and EA's understanding?
The main difference is that EA reflects natural laws, the natural laws of the Source or God. It is true that we can create our maximum potential in any given life relative to the limitations of what is possible in any given life. As Wolf so often said: 'If it's not possible, in this life, for a person to be the President of the USA, no matter how much that Soul may try to 'create' being a President, if it's not possible within the Soul's potential in that life, it just is not going to happen'.
So EA is all about realizing what is possible for any given Soul in any given life and to encourage each Soul to do just that. As the same time it is allows for an awareness of what IS NOT POSSIBLE IN ANY GIVEN LIFE. And thus can council others, or the person itself, to these facts as well.
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Jul 04, 2009, 11:40 AM »
Thank you for the easy to understand, common sense clarification, Rad!
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Jul 04, 2009, 11:48 AM »
Hi Chuck
Adding to Rad's "what is possible for any given Soul in any given life", is that relates to the program for a lifetime that the Soul creates prior to entering that lifetime. There are parameters or limits (the Soul correlates to Pluto, and Pluto correlates to limits) within which a life will play out.
When I encounter Chopra and Dyer types, I sometimes ask "Who is desiring to create these realities, the personality or the soul?". Too often I find people holding the "create your own reality" perspective don't make enough distinction between the two. The nature of reality is, in the end the Soul wins. If the personality longs for something that's not aligned with the Soul's intentions, in the end it won't be possible to create that reality.
Most of us are not conscious of our Soul's intentions, so striving for things we later realize we can not achieve is one way we become aware of the intentions/workings of our Soul. In other words, even if, in the end, we realize something we've worked very hard for just can not be, it's not been a waste of time. Because through that process we have learned more about the nature of our Soul, and the evolutionary intents/limits of this lifetime.
I have a question about stages of spiritual growth...whether it's possible to move from one to another in a single lifetime? Our physical actions, and those promptings from within are observable to us, but the actuality as to 'where' we end up, stage-wise, is pre-ordained in our chart...right? Once made aware of these 'conditions', doesn't the 'knowing' provide impetus for additional growth/expansion, possibly even major leaps?
First, you can not see within a natal chart the person's evolutionary stage. That also means you can't see the evolutionary stage they are intended to wind up in.
There are 3 major stages of evolution, and 3 sub-stages within each of those 3 stages. It can take hundreds of thousands of years to advance through those 9 archetypes. This is difficult to grasp, because our reference of time is what I call the 80 year horizon. To the human, the 80 year average life span seems like a really long time. Yet, relative to the evolutionary journey of a Soul, 80 years is perhaps ten seconds. So in general the evolutionary progress within a single life, from our 80 year lifespan perspective, doesn't seem like much. No one is coming in as 2nd stage consensus and leaving as 3rd stage individuated.
It takes a series of lives to go through a single sub-stage. Someone coming in at 3rd stage consensus could possibly advance to 1st stage individuated in a life, but in most cases they would have been near the end of 3rd stage consensus on entering the life. And they leave with two toes in the water of Indiv stage 1 - just barely begun. Wolf said a Soul can be stationed at the cusp between two stations, such as 1st stag indiv and 2nd stag indiv, for a series of lives, with a certain amount of back and forth behaviors.
Changing evolutionary stations is major. Most Souls can only integrate the necessary emotional changes at what seems like a slow pace. To the Soul undergoing those changes, they do not FEEL slow, they can feel like more than they can handle. From our 80 year lifespan perspective, the pace of evolution appears slow. Soul progress comes from developing an attitude of slow but
. "Steady" means developing inner determination and drive to keep moving forward no matter what, no matter how long it takes.
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Jul 04, 2009, 03:27 PM »
Thank you very much for explaining that it would be wise to just slow down...and why.
The point you make about personality vs soul is well taken, and helps me understand 'reality-creationers better. But they provide a valuable lesson along the path, don't you think? Where 'religion' conditions us to think we are separate and powerless, the Chopras, et all encourage us to take responsibility for our thoughts, words and actions. None of the 'real' R. C.'s claim glory for the personality. Instead they speak of Oneness...that Source blesses us with his/her gift of creativity. This
right to me, and has for many years (a split-second
). These are not pompous people. They speak of love, giving and humility. They offer
gratitude for this gift. I understand that is the same with dedicated 'preaches' of religion...but that does not FEEL right.
Maybe I'm all wet, but we are encouraged to 'trust ourselves'. What then does this mean if not to go with what, thru observation and experience, feels right? What other guidance is there? Does it mean I'm not 'far enough along' to recognize Truth and Love? That Chopra and Dyer are in it for material Gain? (to be honest, tho, there is a part of me that always peeks up to ask why those who know truth...would sell it?)
Well, now I'm getting confused again. Mostly, talking to myself, trying to express things to see what I know and don't know. I sincerely hope no one is offended by my questions, they are from a soul struggling to understand, to have it all fall into place...and I seem to be stuck. Hopefully better questions will come after this stuff tumbles around a bit.
Thank you again, Steve.
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Ambiguity in 9 September quiz requires score adjustment (1375)
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I agree with you on (a) but suggest you add an assumption that precludes something likeReplyDelete
where a "warning" actually prevents compilation/execution. I can't see it applies in this situation, but wouldn't be surprised if sometime it might affect an answer
"You never have to provide any declarations in a PL/SQL block."ReplyDelete
I (a non-native speaker) interpreted the above statement like below:
You have to === it is a must
You never have to === It is never a must === it is optional.
So "You never have to provide any declarations in a PL/SQL block." meant to me " It is optional to provide declaration section" so I gave Yes to this choice.
I'm befuddled over the "never have to provide declarations".ReplyDelete
You said in your scoring remarks that the declare is required for a package spec, but this is not so for me:
SQL> create package empty_pk as
2 end;
3 /
Package created.
I am a native speaker and I read it as "it is optional" as well. Maybe if he hadn't put the word "have" in italics. I took that as an emphasis that made the modifying word "never" stronger too and they became a single idea.ReplyDelete
Like the comment from "funny face" (number two comment), I also had problems with "You never /have/ to provide any declarations in a PL/SQL block."ReplyDelete
My reasoning (also as a non-native speaker):
Had the answer been "You /have/ to provide some declaritions in a PL/SQL block" - that would have been a wrong answer, since at least some types of PL/SQL block have optional declations.
Thus the opposite answer "You never /have/ to provide any declarations in a PL/SQL block" must be true, right? :-)
But now when I read your explanation, I understand that by "never" you meant "there is no type of PL/SQL block where you /have/ to provide declarations".
I guess I probably was misled by the emphasis "You never /have/..." rather than perhaps "You /never/ have..."
But it is purely linguistics. It is very very hard to write about programming clearly in natural language rather than code - look at how many terrible manuals exist out there in the world :-)
I couldn't do it better, Steven - you do a great job. It verges on the impossible to very short sentences that are absolutely clear and unambigous.
That said I applaud your goal of using more code - code-based questions/answers are much safer for all concerned :-)
(Personally I tend to write long detailed explanatory text in mails to my colleagues - I can hear their groans when they receive yet another novelsize mail from me :-) I do it to be certain my meaning is clear. But that is not an option to write 50 lines for each answer in a quiz - we will just have to accept that these things /will/ happen from time to time...)
Steven Sir, The below sentence of yours had bid me to post this comment:ReplyDelete
".....need to concentrate on offering quizzes that are driven by code and Not text."
I don't feel belittled to admit that I liked the 9th Sep Quiz most. Not because it was just basic; but besides being so, it shook the belief of many "Like Me" who say -
that's all? Now I know Pl sql coding."
The 9th Sep Quiz points rightly hit "My kind" of guys at the right places.
So I strongly recommend some (I should say Many MORE) similar pieces of enlightenment for these lesser Mortals.
Steven, you wrote:ReplyDelete
"This section (declaration) is not optional, however, for package and type specifications. Instead, at least one declaration is required, else the specification would be completely empty and the program unit would not compile."
I don't understand it, because it's possible to write:
create or replace package TEST is end;
There is no declaration section in it and it would compile.
- Anonymous10 September, 2010 09:50
I also thought this one was correct, I even tried it for a package specification (10.2.0.4):ReplyDelete
create package test
This compiles fine and I see no declarations in it. For types I was not sure (I gave it too little thought and am not too familiar with them). So I am a bit surprised it is said to be necessary for package specifications...but for Types I can imagine it is needed and if so that would make the answer indeed 'Incorrect'. "Never have to" means that it would be optional for all PL/SQL blocks and if there is one where it is not optional (Type specs) it is not optional for all anymore. But I do not agree with the requirement for Package Specs (or I am totally lost ;-), also possible).
The same for me (comment on September 10, 2010 3:29 AM). I as a non native speaker understood the choice as "declaration section is optional".ReplyDelete
In your description of the declaration you wrote: "This section is not optional, however, for package and type specifications. Instead, at least one declaration is required, else the specification would be completely empty and the program unit would not compile."ReplyDelete
This is not true. I have tested it with the following package:
PACKAGE InitializationTest AS
END InitializationTest;
PACKAGE BODY InitializationTest AS
DBMS_Output.Put_Line( 'Package initalization');
END InitializationTest;
You could compile the package, although it would make no sense (because you don't have any chance to execute the initialization section of the package body).
Yes, you are right, all of you are right...but here's my question: I just returned from being away for two weeks and WHY ARE YOU ALL BEING SO MEAN TO ME?ReplyDelete
Because I deserve it, that's why.
It's funny - I thought this quiz would be about as straightforward as could be, and a beginner quiz for sure.
It has turned into a total unadulterated mess.
My deepest apologies to all of you.
So: the bottom line is that the declaration section is always optional. So I will make all the necessary adjustments and then hopefully we can all move on?
Thanks again, Steven
Thanks for taking all the feedback and not reacting by skipping out for another vacation! I also questioned the "may not" phrase, but figured "it's just a quiz, not my whole world, so I'll take a stab and see what happens."
I suppose you could say that those empty specs do have a declare section, but it's just empty.ReplyDelete
The declare in a package begins immediately after the word "is"; therefore there's no way possible to create a package that has no declare section.
Steven, They are being mean to you because you DID just return from 2 weeks on a Carribean island, sort of a working vacation I guess, and we were all slogging away in our cubes for the last 2 weeks.ReplyDelete
Welcome back. Thanks for being patient with us as well.


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