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A year ago, Wade realized he had a hundred pounds to lose. Today he shares his journey. Read on to find out if he pulls it off.
And if you have your own Primal Blueprint success story and you'd like to share it with me and the community please contact me here [1]. Have a wonderful Friday, everyone, and thanks for reading!
Hi Mark,
After a life-long struggle with weight, I began my most recent weight-loss journey in January 2010. At 5'10", I tipped the scales at a whopping 325, had a BMI of 47, was on three medications for asthma, had severe acid reflux medicated with expensive prescription acid reducers, and suffered from obstructive sleep apnea which necessitated the use of a CPAP machine to breathe when I slept.
With the help of a professional physical therapist trainer and nutritionist, in January 2010, I committed myself feverishly to those things which conventional wisdom dictates: daily torturous battles with my body at the gym, and a low-fat, high-fiber, high-carbohydrate diet.
After two months, I was seeing some modest results, but I could tell that my body needed something different. I had an instinct that I didn't feel well eating all of these refined carbohydrates. I had a battle with my nutritionist/trainer who swore that my instincts were wrong and that I would be doomed to failure.
In March, I followed my gut and set out full-steam-ahead down my Primal path. I had had success with low-carb diets such as Atkins and South Beach before, but I was never able to maintain the short-term success they offered.
A friend recommended Primal Blueprint to me, and I immediately started changing my life to follow more Primal edicts.
Within a month of ceasing my refined flour and sugar consumption and adopting the Primal Blueprint, I began to see immediate and dramatic results. My lifelong symptoms of severe asthma immediately disappeared, my painful gastric reflux abated, I dropped 15 pounds that first month, and I was able to cease all prescription medication almost immediately.
I was able to reduce the intensity of my workouts and maintained 70 percent of my maximum heart rate comfortably. I follow a three-days-on, one-day off workout schedule. Each workout consists of 35-45 minutes of varied cardio at 70-percent heart rate, followed by varied weight-lifting regimen focusing on lower weights with higher reps. I will probably start "lifting heavy" toward the end of my journey to pack on a few pounds of muscle.
Now, 11 months after beginning my weight loss journey, and 8 months after going "Primal" I see dramatic results. My weight has dropped about 105 pounds to 220, with my average monthly weight loss being between 8 and 12 pounds consistently. My BMI is now teetering around 30, 17 points lower than a year ago. I haven't taken a single prescription medication in over six months, I have no symptoms of asthma, no gastric reflux, no painful sleep-deprivation headaches, no weakness from chronic workouts, no lethargy from insulin crashes, and I no longer require my CPAP to sleep. And if that weren't enough, my cholesterol is great at a mere 120.
My life has dramatically changed! I have gone from a 50″ pair of jeans to 34″, a size 54 suit coat to size 44. I am almost NEVER hungry, have no cravings — even when I skip a meal, which I often do!
I probably have another 20 pounds to my ultimate goal, but 100 pounds was my initial goal, and I'm going to relax and enjoy my success!
Wade B. — Portland, Oregon
Update: 07/11/11
I wanted to shoot you a quick update to my progress since you featured me last December.
I have lost a total of 137 pounds following Primal Blueprint. I'm doing great, lifting heavy, working hard with a trainer. My success even convinced my trainer at 24-Hour Fitness to start Primal Blueprint diet himself, and he now recommends it to his clients!
Thanks for everything.


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A Medic-Alert Bracelet Every Dude Should Own: 'Delete My Browser History'
This Medic-Alert bracelet engraved with the phrase 'Delete My Browser History' was intended as a one-time gag gift from a Reddit user to one of his bros, but we think this idea has great potential.
Did you know you can get pretty much anything engraved on a Medic-Alert bracelet. The possibilities are endless.
We think most dudes should wear the one picture up top, which begs the person who will fulfill your last dying wish to erase any trace of the terrible terrible things you see and do on the Internet. What would you have engraved on your Medic-Alert bracelet? We, of course, would opt for "Tell Mom I Love Her."

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Vegan beauty recipes easy as 1-2-3!
Special guest post by Joanna
When I made the transition to Go Green and use natural, organic makeup and vegan products, I was still shocked to find that "Natural" and "Organic" brands used it as a gimmick rather than make true Green and natural products. What's a girl to do? Turn to her kitchen cabinet. I decided to find my own beauty substitutes and to my knowledge, they actually ended up working better than any product I've ever purchased while saving me a ton of cash. Being a girl on the go, I thought I'd share some of my super quick and easy beauty secrets that don't require much (if any) mixing and can be found right in your very own kitchen.
Skin: I have combination skin which is dry cheeks and very oily T-zone which leads to the occasional pimple party on my face. What I did to cure this problem? Good ole fashion Baking Soda!! When I wash my face I sprinkle some baking soda with a few drops of water to make a creamy paste and this makes a gentle exfoliating scrub! Its non abrasive like most over the counter scrubs and works wonders drying out those little bad boys and smoothing out the skin–it's also great at clearing up bacne (eww gross, I know) in the summer. Sprinkle some baking soda on your washcloth in the shower and scrub the infected area. Since Baking soda can be a little drying especially for those with sensitive skin (use 2-3 times a week instead), this leads me to my favorite moisturizer…
Moisturizer: Flaxseed oil! Pure Flaxeed oil is a non-sticky fast absorbing oil, infused with healthy omegas, that the skin just loves to drink up. What I do is I buy a bottle of flaxseed oil from my local grocery store that has already been extracted (so I don't have to waste my time poking open pesky little pills) and instead, I keep the safety seal on and poke a hole in the safety seal (because this stuff can come out quick)! I use it all over my body Head-to-Toe. Even a little at the tips of my hair to repair split dry ends. I have to say it doesn't smell that great but it certainly works wonders. Everyone who I have suggested switching to flaxseed oil hasn't stopped raving to me how much their skin just glows even under their makeup!
Toner: I boil some green tea and mashed up cucumber juices because they are loaded with antioxidants. I strain it and let the mixture cool and refrigerate the concoction till I'm ready to use. It's great and refreshing in the summer and it hydrates my skin beautifully–just pour a little on a cotton ball and voila!
Body scrub: When I need a good pick me up, an all over body and lip scrub usually does the trick. I use Sweet Almond Oil and mix it with Sugar in the Raw. I like using Sugar in the Raw because it's all natural, non-processed sugar cane and makes a wonderful sturdy scrub. The mixture should be half sugar and half oil depending on how much you need (make fresh every time you use it). Mix it in a plastic tub that's easy to scoop out and apply.
Tip: For some bonus aroma therapy add a few drops of your favorite essential oils!
Nails: For weak and brittle nails I break open a capsule of Vitamin E and rub it on my nails and nail beds before I go to sleep. It is very greasy and a bit sticky which I why I do it right before bed. When I wake up my nails are very hard and moisturized and don't need to fuss with using stinky formaldehyde ridden chemicals.
Hair: When hair needs a VA-VA VOOM body boost I take a can of beer in the shower with me and do a beer rinse after I shampoo massaging the beer mostly at the scalp. Something about the brewers yeast makes hair so silky, super shiny and full of body. It doesn't effect color treated hair either and just adds a beautiful boost of volume and shine! To finish off add a small amount of condition to help get the comb through it and a final rinse with cold water!
SAFETY NOTE: DO NOT bring glass bottles in the shower with you! If you do not have canned beer pour the beer into a plastic cup prior to the shower. Glass + Shower = Disaster!
Thanks for checking out some of my favorite quick and easy beauty tips. I can go on forever with this and I have more fabulous recipes that require mixing and measuring and can share as many beauty recipes as you like. Just let me know! 🙂
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Thank you so much for sharing your Vegan secrets and for being Vegan ^_^. I love Animals.
thanks for taking the time out to post natural,animal friendly alternatives.beauty can be simple.natural products do exactly the same thing as todays expensive,chemical laden poisons, without the horrible practice of testing on animals,and without causing damage to the earth,
How exactly is beer vegan?? Lol
Well most beers are primarily made of four things brewers yeast, some sort of grain (which could range from wheat barley or even rice)which is used for the starch. Depending on the flavor of beer there is either a lot or very little hops in the mixture (hops are a very fragrant and flavorful flower added to beer for taste); Then of course you have water. There for most beers like IPA's, Pilsners, Ales are usually vegan. Most domestic beers are also vegan. There are a few beers that aren't vegan (such as guinness stout, harps, or leinenkugel's beers to name a few (the American Extra Stout in a bottle is vegan though)).
I'm definitely going to try washing my hair with beer! That sounds fun!
Cool tips!! I haven't tried any of these, I will give them a go.
Beer in the hair? Never heard of that but if it makes one's hair look nice, then that is marvelous.
Thanks for posting these 🙂


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Ye Old Amherst (unlined) Landfill
Looks like the top two weapons in the NIMBY arsenal for disrupting the deal to bring a solar farm to ye old Amherst landfill may be scuttled by the Massachusetts state legislature. The lawsuit citing an antiquated DEP deed restriction for keeping landfills free of any development except passive recreation could be swept aside by a new ordinance specifically freeing landfills from any such trivial outdated mandates.
And now the once all-powerful anti-development nuke known as Massachusetts Endangered Species Act may lose some of its Divine power to preserve, protect and coddle critters like the Grasshopper Sparrow who currently make their home on the grassy wide expanse covering the fermented, decayed garbage.
Apparently when it comes to renewable energy, our state legislators have seen the light.
At 4.75 mega watts, Amherst would be one of the state's largest


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Water Currents Around Cyclades Island Group, Aegean Sea – August 22nd, 200937.0N 25.5E
Sun glint off the waters of the Aegean Sea highlights the movement of currents around the Greek islands. Mainland Turkey is visible to the right, and upon opening the full image, mainland Greece and the city of Athens are visible to the left.
Most of the islands seen here are part of the Cyclades island group, south-east of the mainland of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The name refers to the islands around the sacred island of Delos.
The Cyclades comprise about 220 islands that are peaks of a submerged mountainous terrain, with the exception of two volcanic islands, Milos and Santorini (Thera). The climate is generally dry and mild, but with the exception of Naxos the soil is not very fertile.


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Ohio Church Records
|Ohio Wiki Topics
|Beginning Research
|Record Types
|Ohio Background
|Cultural Groups
|Local Research Resources
Online Records[edit | edit source]
- 1762-2008 - Ohio, Church Records, 1762-2008 - Index and images. Incomplete.
Introduction[edit | edit source]
By 1900 the prominent denominations in Ohio were Roman Catholic, Methodist, and Presbyterian. There were also groups of Baptists, Lutherans, and Society of Friends. There are handbooks may help you locate and use church records. [1][2]
While the majority of church records remain with the local churches, the Family History Library, Ohio Historical Society, and Western Reserve Historical Societyhave copies of local records from some churches. The Family History Library has film copies of the manuscript collection in the Western Reserve Historical Society. See A Guide to Manuscripts at the Ohio Historical Society, described in Ohio Archives and Libraries.
Many of the local church records available at the Family History Library have been microfilmed at various archives and libraries. Whenever possible, these are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog under:
While no listing of Family History Library films by repository is available, the FamilySearch Catalog identifies when and where each record was microfilmed. Example: Family History Library List of Ohio Churches
Denominational histories for groups such as the Church of the Brethren, Evangelical, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints(1830 to 1838), Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Moravian, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic are listed in the Locality Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:
- Lists of Incorporated churches before 1850 are included in Data Abstracted from the Laws of Ohio, 1803-1900. [3]
There are several more articles concerning Church records in Ohio, they are:
Locating Church Records
Local church records are listed in the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:
- OHIO, [COUNTY] - CHURCH RECORDS or OHIO, [COUNTY], [TOWN] - CHURCH RECORDS.
Statewide or regional records are listed under:
An example is: Shaker Membership Card Index. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974. FHL Film 934620-23.
Non-Denominational[edit | edit source]
Baptist[edit | edit source]
North American Baptist General Conference
7308 Madison Street
Forest Park, IL 60130
- You can learn more about Baptist records in The Records of American Baptists in Ohio, and Related Organizations.[5]
Jewish[edit | edit source]
Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland
996 Eastlawn Drive
Highland Heights, OH 44143-3126
Phone: (440) 449-2326
E-mail: email@example.com
Lutheran[edit | edit source]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
8765 West Higgins Road
Chicago, IL 60631-4198
Phone: 773-380-2818
Trinity Lutheran Church
Church Records from 1884 to 1978
Kent, OH
- If a church is still active, the church will be able to help locate the records. The records of churches in the United States that have been disbanded are located at the ELCA Archives in Chicago. The archives has records of many congregations, and those on microfilm may be borrowed for a small fee. A partial list of church records in its collection is listed in: ALC Archives[6]These are arranged by the state and city in which the congregation resides. Family History Library fiche 6330692 includes Ohio. The ALC (American Lutheran Church) Archives are now part of the ELCA Archives.
Methodist[edit | edit source]
Methodist Historical Commission
L.A. Beeghly Library
Ohio Wesleyan University
43 Rowland Avenue
Delaware, OH 43015
Phone: (740) 368-3285
Methodist General Commission on Archives & History
The United Methodist Church
36 Madison Avenue
Madison, NJ 07940
United Methodist Church
601 W. Riverview Avenue
Dayton, OH 45406-5543
North District Phone: (888) 227-9490
South District Phone: (937) 227-9475
- In Guide to the Manuscript Collection of Early Ohio Methodism: United Methodist Church of Ohio you will find additional help in locating Methodist records. FHL Book 977.1 K23h; fiche 6017063[7]
- Information on Methodist ministers in Ohio can be found in United Methodist Archives (Ohio). Methodist Ministers Card Index: All Ohio Conferences, 1797-1981". At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Film 1292563-66[8]
Moravian[edit | edit source]
The Moravian Archives
41 West Locust Street
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18018
United States of America
Phone: (610) 866-3255
Fax: (610) 866-9210
For information concerning missions to the American Indians visit Moravian Missions Among American Indians. For a map and list of missions visit Early Moravian Missions in Eastern Pennsylvania and Surrounding Areas 1740-1773.
Mission records are also available in the FHL Collection. The records are indexed in the FHL CollectionBook 970.1 F642i.
Presbyterian[edit | edit source]
Presbyterian Historical Society
425 Lombard Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516
Phone: (215) 627-1852
The Family History Library has numerous records of local churches in Ohio. They were microfilmed at the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [9]The collection includes papers of some Ohio Presbyterian churches and ministers.
- Inventory of the Church Archives of Ohio Presbyterian Churches has inventories of Presbyterian churches and their records [10]
- Inventories are arranged alphabetically by county. Volume one includes indexes by place names, church names, and date of organization. Information was collected about the records, history, buildings, and clergymen. There is another source that may contain information that is not included in the previous inventory. Records are listed alphabetically by counties.[11]
Roman Catholic[edit | edit source]
Archdiocese of Cincinnati
Chancery Office
100 E. Eighth Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone: (513) 421-3131
Fax: (513) 421-6225
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
The dioces includes the counties of: Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Darke, Greene, Hamilton, Highland, Logan, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Shelby, Warren.[12]
Diocese of Columbus
198 E. Gay St.
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: (614) 228-2457
The diocese includes the counties of: Coshocton, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Hardin, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Knox, Licking, Madison, Marion, Morrow, Perry, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Tuscarawas, Union, Vinton, Washington.[12]
The Diocese of Columbus created the Catholic Record Society, a group that has published a monthly journal since 1975 called The Barquilla. This journal contains articles as well as transcriptions of records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burial records). There is a subject index that allows users to identify which journal contains desired information, and anissues listing, which provides links to issues of the journal from 1975 on. Anything located in Volumes I-XXIV (1975-1999) can be accessed for free. Articles of interest in issues after 1999 can be ordered for $1 each. Further inquires can be sent to the Catholic Record Society by following these directions.
Diocese of Cleveland
1404 East 9th St.
Cleveland, OH 44114
Phone: (216) 696-6525
(800) 869-6525 (Ohio only)
Fax: (216) 621-7332
The diocese includes the counties of: Ashland, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Summit and Wayne.[12]
Diocese of Steubenville
422 Washington Street
P.O. Box 969
Steubenville, OH 43952
Phone: (740) 282-3631
Fax: (740) 282-3327
The diocese includes the counties of: Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Noble and Washington.[12]
Diocese of Toledo
Chancery Office
1933 Spielbusch Avenue
P.O. Box 985
Toledo, OH 43697-0985
Phone: (419) 244-6711
Fax: (419) 244-4791
The diocese includes the counties of: Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Huron, Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding, Putnam, Richland, Sandusky, Seneca, Van Wert, Williams, Wood and Wyandot.[12]
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:
Ohio, Diocese of Toledo, Catholic Parish Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
Diocese of Youngstown
Chancery Office
144 West Wood Street
Youngstown, OH 44503
Phone: (330) 744-8451
Fax: (330) 742-6448
E-mail: email@example.com
The diocese includes the counties of: Ashtabula, Columbiana, Mahoning, Portage, Stark and Trumbull.[12]
Shakers[edit | edit source]
- The Shakers of Ohio became virtually extinct by 1900 due mainly to the lack of converts. They moved to Shaker communities in other states.
- Shaker Membership Card Index. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974. (Family History Library films 934620-23.)
Society of Friends (Quakers) [edit | edit source]
Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends
Olney Friends School
61830 Sandy Ridge Road
Barnesville, OH 43713
Phone: (740) 425-3168
Evangelical Friends Church, Eastern Division
5350 Broadmoor Circle, N.W.
Canton, OH 44709
Phone: (330) 493-1660
Fax: (330) 493-0852
Wilmington College
S. Arthur Watson Library
Pyle Center Box 1227
251 Ludovic Street
Wilmington, Ohio 45177
Phone: (937) 382-6661, ext. 345 | 1 (800) 341-9318 | Fax: (937) 383-8571
- The Family History Library has microfilm copies of the Quaker records from Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio and from the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
Published abstracts:
- Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. 6 Vols. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Brothers, 1936-1950. Volumes IV and V covers Ohio Monthly Meetings. FHL Collection digital version at Ancestry ($). To locate copies nearest you, use WorldCat.
Websites for Quaker Genealogy Helps:
There are different websites that list churches in Ohio.
Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:
- Ohio Toledo Church Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
- Ohio Births and Christenings - FamilySearch Historical Records
- Ohio Deaths and Bruials - FamilySearch Historical Records
- Ohio Tax Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
Periodicals have published records of many Ohio churches. These are referenced in the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) described in the "Periodicals" page.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Charles Otis Gill and Gifford Pinchot, Six Thousand Country Churches (New York, New York: Macmillan, 1919). (Family History Library book 977.1 K2g; film 908228 item 2.)
- ↑ Ferne Reedy Lubbers and Margaret Dieringer, Advent of Religious Groups into Ohio (n.p., 1978). (Family History Library book 977.1 K2a; film 1033939 item 21.)
- ↑ "Data Abstracted from the Laws of Ohio, 1803-1900 Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1960. (Family History Library film 223918.)
- ↑ Ruth E. Browning, Name Index to the Christian Messenger at http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/resources/index/index.html
- ↑ Eltscher, Susan M., comp. The Records of American Baptists in Ohio, and Related Organizations. Rochester, New York: American Baptist Historical Society, 1981. (Family History Library book 977.1 A1 number 239; fiche 6088732.) Cover title: A Basic Guide to Regional Baptist Archives and Historical Resources for Ohio: Baptist Archives and Records Survey.
- ↑ ALC Archives. ALC Congregations on Microfilm. Dubuque, Iowa: The Archives, [197?]. (Family History Library fiche 6330690-93.)
- ↑ Harter, Frances D. Guide to the Manuscript Collection of Early Ohio Methodism: United Methodist Church of Ohio. Delaware, Ohio: United Methodist Archives Center, 1980. (Family History Library book 977.1 K23h; fiche 6017063.)
- ↑ United Methodist Archives (Ohio). Methodist Ministers Card Index: All Ohio Conferences, 1797-1981. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Historical Society, 1982. (Family History Library film 1292563-66.)
- ↑ Shane Manuscript Collection. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1966-1967. (On 36 Family History Library films beginning with 498614.)
- ↑ Historical Records Survey (Ohio). Inventory of the Church Archives of Ohio Presbyterian Churches. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972. Family History Library films 854488, 899320-22.
- ↑ Historical Records Survey (Ohio). Inventory of the Church Archives of Ohio Presbyterian Churches. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1967. (Family History Library films 506375-80.)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 Map of the Roman Catholic Dioceses in the United States of America, Office of Catholic Schools Diocese of Columbus, accessed 3 Nov 2010.


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Antiarrhythmic medicines act on the
electrical system of the heart. They block some of the
extra electrical activity in the cells of the heart. This makes the heart beat
Antiarrhythmic medicines are used to treat and prevent irregular
Antiarrhythmic medicines help control irregular heartbeats. They
do not treat the
congenital heart defect itself.
Antiarrhythmic medicine side effects are specific to each type of medicine. Your child's doctor will check your child closely for serious side effects such as an abnormal heart rate problem.
Ask your child's doctor or pharmacist about the side effects of your child's medicine. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with the medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if your child has:
Call your doctor if your child has:
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference
is not available in all systems.)
Do not stop giving antiarrhythmic medicine without the advice of
your child's doctor. It is dangerous to stop some of these medicines
Antiarrhythmic medicines might interact with many other medicines that your child might take. Tell your child's doctor all of the medicines that your child takes. Be sure to include nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and supplements.
Know how to give your child's medicine safely. For help, see the topic Congenital Heart Defects: Caring for Your Child.
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. If your child takes medicine as your doctor suggests, it will improve your child's health and may prevent future problems. If your child doesn't take the medicines properly, his or her health (and perhaps life) may be at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Follow-up care is a key part of your child's treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if your child is having problems. It's also a good idea to know your child's test results and keep a list of the medicines your child takes.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
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JON KRAWCZYNSKI, AP Sports Writer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One of the nation's longest-running rivalries hasn't been a real rivalry for quite a while.
Wisconsin has beaten Minnesota nine straight times, keeping Paul Bunyan's Axe in Madison for what seems like an eternity to Golden Gophers fans. The Badgers have dominated for nearly a decade, racking up 39.1 points per game during the streak to Minnesota's 15.2.
The Gophers last beat the Badgers in a 37-34 thriller in 2003, playing in a building they no longer inhabit. Minnesota has moved out of the drab Metrodome, but its struggles against Wisconsin followed to shiny new TCF Bank Stadium.
But there's a little different feeling surrounding the latest meeting. There's actually some hype. The Gophers have come alive, reeling off four straight Big Ten victories for the first time since 1973 to run their record to 8-2, the same as the Badgers, who are 5-1 in the conference.
For the first time in a long time, the Badgers might have a fight on their hands.
"From Day 1, coming in here, the seniors and the older guys let me know what the Axe meant," said Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon, who grew up in Kenosha. "It means everything. We've had it for nine years. No senior class wants to be the class to lose it. No one wants to lose it. That's how high we hold that axe."
Despite Minnesota's vast improvement over the last month, odds makers have still installed the Gophers as more than two touchdown underdogs. That's just fine for the long-suffering Gophers, who are still getting used to the compliments, pats on the back and excitement around campus that simply hasn't been there for a long time.
"It is pretty highly anticipated, especially the fact that we're both 8-2," Gophers quarterback Philip Nelson said. "But at the same time, we're still huge underdogs. That seems to never change and that's right where we want to be."
Here are five things to watch in the matchup:
GORDON GETS GOING: One half of the Badgers' explosive running back tandem went through a two-game mini-slump by his lofty standards. He rushed for 62 yards in a win over Iowa, averaging just 3.4 yards per carry, and followed that with 86 yards in a win over BYU two weeks ago. No worries, though. Gordon busted loose for 146 yards and a touchdown, averaging 11.2 yards per carry, in last week's win over Indiana.
OVERSHADOWED D: Wisconsin's powerful offense has grabbed all the headlines this season. Gordon and James White combine to give the Badgers the only pair of backs in the country to rush for 1,000 yards each, but the defense may be what makes them really special. Linebacker Chris Borland leads a unit that is fifth in the nation in scoring defense, yielding just 14 points a game.
ENGEL'S HEALTH: Derrick Engel, Minnesota's leading receiver, injured his knee during practice on Sunday, but Gophers coach Jerry Kill has played it coy with the severity. Engel was taken for an MRI this week, but the school did not announce the results of the exam and listed him as questionable for the game. There is a fear around the program that Engel could be out for the long term. Receiver is one of the thinnest positions on the Gophers roster. Engel is the only receiver on the team to have more than eight receptions.
LONG SHOT: If the Gophers can beat Wisconsin on Saturday and Northwestern beats Michigan State, it would open the door for an improbable Legends Division title for Minnesota. The Gophers finish the regular season at Michigan State next weekend. In that scenario, a win over the Spartans would put the Gophers on top. Considering they started the Big Ten season 0-2 with decisive losses to Iowa and Michigan, that they're even in the mix at this point is an accomplishment in itself.
ADMIRING FROM AFAR: Kill has known Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez through the years and is an admirer of the work he's done as a coach and an administrator for the Badgers. When Kill first took over at Minnesota, Alvarez offered him words of encouragement after a lopsided Badgers victory. The gesture resonated with Kill, a football historian who was well aware of the strong tradition the Badgers have forged in the last two decades. That made Kill's declaration this week about new coach Gary Andersen's Badgers all the more impressive. "They've gone to the Rose Bowl and done a lot of good things," Kill said. "But I'm not too sure this is not their best football team."
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15 One-Pan Recipes To Try
Taste the heartiness of chicken and the goodness of cheese in one creamy rice mix! This recipe is so delicious you wouldn't mind getting seconds or thirds.
Rethink the way you cook pasta and throw all the rich ingredients in one pot of boiling water, yes, including the uncooked pasta, tomatoes sans meat for a healthy vegan meal.
This perfect breakfast dish combines fresh tomato with egg for an easy yet filling first meal of the day. Click through for instructions.
Get the American taste of burgers with the textures of pasta and diced vegetables, for a fun, family meal. You can also make this recipe with fewer calories by swapping beef with chicken and turning to low-fat cheese.
If you're into something sweet, try this easy s'more dip recipe which basically layers chocolate and marshmallow in one pan.
Next time you have a friend that's feeling down, make them this sweet comfort food recipe for the win. Ingredients include a fresh apple, snickers and some caramel ice cream, yum!
If you want a nice creamy chicken pasta in the next 30 minutes, this recipe shows you how!
Grab a small frying pan, lots of cheese and tomato sauce for a small scale lasagne perfect for one sitting. This pin shows you a no-fail lasagna!
Put a twist to your pasta with shrimp bits and coconut milk for a fresh seafood and summer time meal.
Put left over sausage to good use by turning it into rice toppings. Begin by sautéing sausage and diced onions in a skillet, then adding rice and other veggies for a balanced meal.
Satisfy your sweet tooth with this delightfully easy brownie recipe that takes away fancy ingredients and replaces it with an all-time fave, Oreos!
Don't underestimate your oven, delicious things await it. This recipe shows you how to create a simple yet hearty dish with two main ingredients, potato and eggs.
If you're looking for a meal that brings a zing to your taste buds, use this recipe to cook a full meal using chopped chicken breasts and enchilada sauce for a spicy, Mexican dish.
Get the flavors of Italian cooking with this super easy pasta recipe that makes use of three simple ingredients you may already have stocked in your pantry, parmesan cheese, pepper, pasta and olive oil!
For times when you're in need of the goodness of moist, chocolate-y cake, you can just make one yourself instead of purchasing from a store, plus this easy recipe is perfect for surprising friends with on their birthdays!
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Cold Food
The most thrilling and delightful moment of any school day is opening up your baon during breaks. There is always so much excitement in unveiling your homemade meal and snacks housed inside matching heat-insulating containers. Because preparing packed meals is an age-old tradition of showing parental love, loved ones pour effort into curating a nutritious meal accompanied by a selection of side dishes, desserts, and beverages daily; it reminds us that we are being taken care of, even from far away.
Baon plays a significant role in a Filipino childhood. Almost every Filipino child comes to school with baon made especially for them by their parents or household helpers. Even Filipinos in the labor force continue to bring baon for varying reasons: to save money, recycle leftovers, cater to personal taste, or attend to special needs. Nonetheless, eating your baon is a heart-warming experience that allows Filipinos to bring a piece of home along with them wherever they go.
Even other cultures practice making packed lunch. In Japan, mothers create bento--Japanese meals in partitioned boxes. Because of the popularity of bento, trends have emerged, such as the Kyaraben, or character-themed bento. Naturally, Japanese parents and students began competing for who had the cutest and tastiest bento, and this is similar to what I have witnessed in my own childhood. I remember seeing my classmates sharing their snacks and lunches. They would compare and boast about their parents' or yayas' cooking. In my case, I never had the chance to join in the competition or indulge in homemade cooking. Up until this day, I have never brought any baon to school.
For a long time, I envied others. As trivial or petty as it may seem, not having baon became a problem for my grade school self. During that time, I had to sit in a separate cafeteria away from my friends because the kids who bought food were assigned to sit elsewhere. You could consider me spoiled, but I wanted to experience something most kids did. I had food at home, so what made it so hard to bring some with me to school?
Now that I am on my final year in high school I have come to realize the benefits of purchasing my own food. Since I spent on food everyday, I learned to budget my allowance at a young age. Over the years, I learned to practice self-control whenever I wanted to eat more greasy fries and drink sweetened beverages. I have tasted the strangest viands at the school cafeterias, and I have repeatedly satiated myself over my latest delicious discoveries. Despite the struggles, I am thankful that I have never had baon because of what I have learned. Not to mention, I never had to experience eating cold food.
Literally to begin with, I am writing with little shaky hands because this is the last time I went for a vacation like most of us must have and can't plan any for now. The coronavirus outbreak has compelled us to stay at home for our safety and others in the vicinity.
I remember how I penned down my year 2020 to be the most remarkable year of my life in the hope of doing everything I desired for a long time and overcoming few obstacles. Whilst planning things ahead, I forgot to truly value all of things in the present.
I remember being chipper and grateful for my last summer vacation but now I feel I should've valued each and every moment. Considering the current gnarly situation, I want each one us to motivate ourselves to look for a positive side and to make the most of our time no matter the situation.
Make a promise to yourself that you won't give up in these circumstances and reckon that there are a lot of good things for us in the store. We'll have the most amazing season of our life post pandemic. Let's accept for the change and become the change. Propagate love and only love.
Danielle Flestado @artdkf.ph | June 19, 2020
"While I was reading my devotional book yesterday, this part hit me: rejoicing together is more difficult to do than grieving with each other. And so, I thought of reminding myself that I should be happy for the success of others. After all, we are part of one family and every one of us is striving to accomplish our own goals in this world. Let us be happy for each other."
Choosing between dreams and practicality is never easy. My CETs season just ended with the release of the UPCAT results. Anxious as I logged on the website, I started to think about what would happen if I didn't pass UP. Ever since I was six years old, I fixated on the idea that I will become an iska, serving the country and studying at my dream school, which is UP. I strived and studied hard for the UPCAT, sacrificing a lot of things like hang-outs and gala weekends for reviews.
Throughout my CETs journey, I started seeing myself studying only in UP, and while there were no results yet, my friends and I already started planning our lives around the fact that we're gonna study in UP. It was a big deal for me, my friends and my family that I get the chance to study in UP since it's so far from my hometown which is Benguet, and better yet, it's a very well known university.
January 2020 came and universities started releasing CETs results. I was expecting my DCAT and ACET results that month. I passed DCAT but brushed it off because even though I liked the school, I never really saw myself studying there. Same thoughts with Ateneo, since it never really crossed my mind that I might study in ADMU. In fact, Ateneo was never really a choice for me, I only took it just to have another choice in case I failed the UPCAT. I also applied for financial aid not because I was really planning on studying there, but more of "para lang sure na may college ako". I know it's a bad thing but they were just my back-up schools because my main goal was really UP.
One Friday afternoon, ACET results came out. I passed, managed to get a scholarship, and in that moment, my plans just started to crumble.
Seeing that I got a 100% tuition and fees discount, free dorm fees, and an additional book allowance got me into considering studying to Ateneo. Suddenly, I got torn between UP, my dream school, and Ateneo, which offers so much more.
As the months passed, and after talking to my parents, my plans and decisions got more jumbled and messy. I still wanted to go to UP even if there were no results yet but Ateneo offering so much would mean a lesser burden to my parents in terms of finances.
Even though my parents told me that they'll support me no matter where I choose to go, the practicality that Ateneo offers in terms of finances was not an easy thing to waive. Sometimes I would laugh at the fact that I'd spend less on a private school than on a state university. Talking to my friends helped somehow, but they also have various opinions about the two universities. I managed to tell myself to hold off the problem until UPCAT results get released, and so I did.
UP released the UPCAT results and seeing that I passed made me scream and cry, literally. At that moment, all I was thinking was that I passed my dream school and I'm officially a QC college student.
My parents were so proud of me even though they got scared because I screamed, but ultimately, they were happy for me. The next day, I sat down, stared at my UPCAT and ACET results, and told myself that I needed to decide. This was the hardest part. I tried deciding using the pros and cons method but it didn't really work. Talking to my parents also didn't help because they'd support me either way, so their judgement was not a factor at all. I also had the same course in both schools so that wasn't a big help. I was 99% close to letting go of my dream university and decide to go to Ateneo.
I weighed options and Ateneo was the cheaper and more practical option. I also started to see myself studying as a blue eagle, roaming around the campus etc. And financially, I didn't need to worry much except for food. At that point, I started to really like the idea of going to Ateneo more than studying in UP. But then, as the weeks went by, the Ateneo Plan started to lose my interest.
I realized that studying in Ateneo would be a great opportunity, but not something that will really make me happy. The finances and all would be so much better but I wouldn't be happy and content, and I felt that Ateneo couldn't give me everything that I wanted and needed. Then a light bulb lit up.
As I was imagining myself at UP, I ultimately felt that happiness and content that I didn't feel with Ateneo. I realized that, if I didn't study in UP, I know later in my life, I would regret it. I would regret not choosing my dream university because I didn't choose what would make me happy.
In short, I chose my dream over practicality. I know that I would be successful in both tracks, but I simply chose my dream because it is where I'm happier and more content. Besides, we can make our dreams practical but not all the time can the practical choice equate to our dreams. So to those having a hard time choosing between dreams and practicality, weigh it out and always remember to put yourself and your happiness first. And of course, choose the choice that you know you'll not regret later on.


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Response to BBC Report 'Brigadier Ali Khan: Pakistan's dissenting army officer'
Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Thursday, June 23, 2011 | Followups 24-28 June 2011 | Last updated July 16, 2011
The BBC report of this morning, June 23, 2011, Brigadier Ali Khan: Pakistan's dissenting army officer, on first glance is very interesting. Finally a patriot military man in the Pakistani praetorian guard.
On second glance however, it isn't. Heart and mind are two different things. Both are needed. One without the other is either blind, or cruel. Here is why it isn't interesting on second glance.
The BBC report states, inter alia:
'Brigadier Ali Khan, the Pakistani officer detained for his alleged links with the banned extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, had been highly critical of the Pakistani army's high command over its relationship with the US, reports BBC Urdu's Asif Farooqi. …
[H]e had been exerting strong pressure on the top echelons of Pakistan's military to stop co-operating with American forces in the fight against Taliban and al-Qaeda insurgents, army officers who served with the brigadier during his 32-year career told the BBC.
"The army is a cult in itself, so it's intolerant towards any other cult within" — Maj Gen Athar Abbas, Quoted by BBC News 23 June 2011
Pakistan's military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said that there was compelling evidence against the brigadier owing to his contacts with the banned group. …
Successive promotion boards rejected Brig Ali while his colleagues and subordinates continued to rise up the promotion ladder, overtaking him. Indeed, to date, Brig Khan is the oldest brigadier in the Pakistani army.
His colleagues thought he would be unable to withstand a career going nowhere and would seek early retirement. But they were soon proved wrong. The brigadier told his colleagues he had more to accomplish in his job.
It soon became clear what he meant by that.
Brig Khan started writing letters to army generals, some of whom were his former colleagues, with suggestions on how to become "self reliant" and "to purge the army of the American influence".'
The aforementioned reminded me of "Re-Imagining Pakistan's Defenses – Open Letter to a Pakistani General" November 30, 2007 (PDF http://tinyurl.com/Reimagining-pakistan )
But the following is where it stopped reminding me any further:
'Brig Ali even wrote to the President Asif Ali Zardari suggesting ways to make Pakistan economically self-reliant by freeing the country of American aid.'
Asking Zardari sahib? ( PDF http://tinyurl.com/happy-happy-zardari )
And the following completely tells me that the excitement of patriotism/nationalism, and finally breaking the yoke of imperialism, on the part of any Pakistani reading this BBC report may be pre-mature:
'One officer present in the meeting said all had been going well until it was Brig Khan's turn to speak. In his opinion, the culprits who had hidden Bin Laden and allowed the Americans to get away with breaching Pakistan's sovereignty were to be found within the army.'
"Our modernity is a twisted devil. It comes wrapped in multifaceted Hegelian Dialectic."
This Brig. Khan can't tell one puppetshow from another.
While all this is admittedly only the BBC report, and like anything else appearing in any media, must be taken circumspectly, the article clearly re-asserts the existence of boogeyman Ali Baba.
Notice the play: even the most zealous and patriotic Pakistani Brigadier who even dissented with the upper echelon of the Pakistani military (at the risk of his own promotion to Major General) in its cooperation with the United States on the War on Terror, and wanted to limit its scope, also believed in the Osama Bin Laden, the Al Qaeeda, and other tales.
"Once caught in such a Hegelian Dialectic where both sides are orchestrated by the same powers, there is no escape from that matrix."
When a presumably patriotic Brigadier cannot see the difference between red-team/blue team operation, when a sitting Brigadier who by the account of this article should have been Maj. General by now (if not Lt. General), cannot see black-ops imperial projects to fabricate synthetic terror in order to create the hegelian dialectic of "evil doers" vs. the "good guys" in insurgency vs. counter-insurgency game of "imperial mobilization" ( http://tinyurl.com/insurgency-vs-counter ), it is not obvious to me what this fuss is all about.
Perhaps the Pakistani military command who are reading this blog (yeh!), might read 'The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity' (PDF http://tinyurl.com/guide-modernity-2011 ) and leave this poor but well-intentioned brigadier alone.
Brig. Ali Khan's heart evidently is in the right place when he speaks of "self reliant" and "to purge the army of the American influence", even if his analysis requires some rethinking.
And what exactly is the reality behind all this?
I won't take the BBC's word on it.
The only reason the BBC has published this article, in my view at least, is that the Mighty Wurlitzer is doing its job ( http://tinyurl.com/mightywurlitzer ).
That job is mass behavior control. Among other propaganda techniques to affect behavior, to spin narratives which on the surface are appealing to some, but still manage to echo empire's core axioms. This is the bread and butter of dissent in the West. When mainstream news tasked with engineering consent by their owners, occasionally echo that technique to demonstrate their "objectivity", there is essentially still no difference. In either case, the primary objective of the press is behavior control, especially for matters of immediate pertinence to current affairs and on-going "imperial mobilization" projects. It is not awareness creation of the diabolical techniques of "imperial mobilization" ( http://tinyurl.com/master-social-science ).
Ex post facto narratives are a different beast – many will truthfully narrate that which is already a fait accompli. It is called history!
This BBC report, whatever its veracity, prima facie still underscores the undeniable fact of the mater. And that is, that even when the intention of rebellion might be genuine, even when the thirst for independence from empire's mayhem might set an indigenous military patriot's throat on fire in Pakistan, our modernity is a twisted devil. It comes wrapped in multifaceted Hegelian Dialectic.
Without acutely comprehending this modernity, there simply cannot be any freedom for any nation and any people, no matter how fervently riled up they might get. That riling up is simply harvested on one or the other side of the Hegelian Dialectic. You are either a "militant" aiding and abetting "insurgency" if you don't like hegemony or have been "tickled" into it, or, are part of empire's Allies douching it with "counter-insurgency" if you don't like the insurgents or just love to play house negro to the white man. Once caught in such a Hegelian Dialectic where both sides are orchestrated by the same powers, there is no escape from that matrix.
Brigadier Ali Khan appears to be caught in that matrix!
'I won't take BBC's word on anything…but leaving the reason for the article aside, I see more facts here than the complete fabrications coming from GHQ/ISPR (he was arrested NOT because he has links with HT and it has NOTHING to do with Mehran Base attack, as the army is trying to portray). No?' — comment
Yes. I also think this is one of the key elements here:
'"Brig. Ali Khan's heart evidently is in the right place"
And that is the only point…'
But there is a second key element. And that is spelled out in this Followup which I have constructed from an extempore response I made to the above comment. The second key element, at least in my view, is this:
'This BBC report, whatever its veracity, prima facie still underscores the undeniable fact of the mater. … Once caught in such a Hegelian Dialectic where both sides are orchestrated by the same powers, there is no escape from that matrix.'
It is towards finding a path to that very escape that both you and I, and the handful of many others (nonsequitor "handful" and "many"?) have been working on these past several years.
And speaking for myself, since the very day of 9/11, on September 11, 2001. I started with ascertaining for myself that 9/11 was 'operation canned goods' by reading both, cover to cover, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer and "Mein Kampf" by Hitler. Once, having figured that out, the rest followed, beginning with informing my family, neighbors, friends, and not being satisfied with just talking, to moving on to protest marches and attending teach-ins by others in similar position. In the aftermath of the FBI knocking on my door in 2003, that activism moved to my first piece of public writing, and interview to mainstream media (already noted in "They Dared to Knock on My Door" and "My Little Jihad" essays). It escalated rapidly from there into more intense work which included all sorts of activism, all sorts of valuable wasted time. While I have only aged ten years chronically, physically I have aged a lot more than my friends who have remained happy-happy pursuing their 'American Dream'.
And now, in 2011, I have to concede that I admit defeat. There is simply, psychologically speaking, no escape from the matrix for those who are caught in it. If you didn't know it from day one, then lamentably so, it appears to me that one is either type-1, or type-2. That is Hitler's nomenclature from Mein Kampf and is explained in my report on "Master Social Science". In a nut-shell, these are people who, for one reason or another, are unable to reason about the times they live in, logically, rationally, un-emotionally, and therefore are susceptible to propaganda and indoctrination. Type-1 are those who constitute the mainstream public. Type-2, evidently, are those who "suddenly woke up" for one reason or another and are now the dissentstream. That is the macro, most overarching, most comprehensive natural Hegelian Dialectic. It is as old as hegemony, as old as mankind (to borrow my favorite expression of Zbigniew Brzezinski). Take your pick, type-1 or type-2, you are still in the matrix!
This is why, even when you dissent, unless you are type-3, those who can reason about the times they live in logically, rationally, un-emotionally, you behave like this unfortunate Brigadier Ali Khan. Clearly a type-2.
And that is a real problem. Indeed, the real heart of the matter. So, even while I will restate the first key point for the emphasis it deserves:
'"Brig. Ali Khan's heart evidently is in the right place"
And that is the only point…'
the second key point is on par: the mind also has to be in the right place. Otherwise, one remains caught in the matrix. There is no escape. No Exit!
This is so f*cking shocking a realization, and it appears to be both empirical and psychologically sound, that I am surprised that I even tried! A very good friend of mine who was teaching at LUMS in Lahore at the time, when I visited him in 2003 and gave him a copy of my maiden book Prisoners of the Cave on a CD, told me there and then, what it has taken for me to finally come to also believe so many years later.
"Know thy self in order to know the world, is more than just a cliché of the Sufis. It is a necessity for genuine learning in a modernity which subjects the public to immense forces of social engineering."
No one may inform another, no one can teach another. No one can make another type-3. At best, you move people from type-1 to type-2. At best, you give them data. While many can construct "information" out of it (the Information Age), a lot fewer can go a step further to extract "knowledge" out of it (thus staying the proverbial "likkha-parrha jahils"). And still fewer are able to extract wisdom. The limiting factor to dispelling ignorance appears to be exactly this typification alluded to by Hitler in Mein Kampf.
And this insight. which evidently is also as old as wisdom itself, as old as wise men, and as old as religion, is the foundation of what's stated in my pamphlet "How to Return to Palestine" from last year's Nakba anniversary, May 15, 2010. Here is a snippet. If only Brigadier Ali Khan would be able to read it in his prison cell:
'This article, From Genocide to ReGenesis in ZERO Compromise, penetrates deeper into the psychology, and the limitations, to The Way Forward. It is not that the aforementioned approach is a very profound discovery, or is classified top secret and I just accidentally stumbled upon it. It has been as open as any butcher's knife in front of sheep. Yet, the sheep have never been able to revolt against the habit of the butcher to provide mutton to its paying-patrons. It obviously is incapable of thought. But we are human beings. What prevents us? What ab initio creates sheeples among mankind so democratically, that perfectly reasonable people, quite capable of thought, equally fall prey to the limitations of their respective world-views, follow pied-pipers, instead of doing their own independent thinking? …
Commensurately, in order to benefit from this paper and The Way Forward, or even to challenge it with any value added, the reader too must do the same. Understand that one is naturally beholden to one's world-view, no matter how profound or virtuous, which, one will naturally defend no matter what exposition with what evidence is set before one. Unless one consciously endeavors to overcome these "psychological cataracts" which tend to induce severe myopia, self-righteousness, and pathetic ignorance in the garb of lofty education, prestige, wealth, degrees, and applause, nothing new which is contrary to one's world-view, can ever seep in. Incestuous self-reinforcement is a state of normalcy not just at the White House in its Zionist decision making! This is entirely self-evident, but most tend to apply it to only others, not to oneself. It is always that other fellow! Know thy self in order to know the world, is more than just a cliché of the Sufis. It is a necessity for genuine learning in a modernity which subjects the public to immense forces of social engineering. Not an easy task to accomplish, for it's an on-going process to unlearn what has been spent a lifetime being taught and which has calcified in one's world-view.
Nevertheless, it is an essential process for genuine seekers of truth, for the moral harbingers of real change, including the Palestinian rebels themselves, in order for one to not go through life as a gullible patsy of power, as a virtuous moron rehearsing mainly the incantations of power while calling it dissent, as a programmed robot celebrating the scholarship of others, or as a likkha-parrha jahil (pretentious ignoramus with advanced academic degrees from IVY Leagues) leading other morons. Having suffered is not an automatic qualification for knowing what to do next. It requires careful thought, like any engineering project. And the test of thought is daily, constant, like morality, and one can't claim that Oh, I had thought in the 1960s, or "I was born with that thought", and coast on that mileage! Saying that out loud sounds so bizarre, but it unfortunately captures the mindset of many a rebel today who prides himself on dissent – and follows the pied-pipers without analysis. The most thoughtful among this lot, in fact, have come up with a great excuse to not think: too much analysis leads to paralysis – "Just Do It"!'
Followup II
While not the case of Brigadier Ali Khan per se – he is evidently still acting in moral principle, but unfortunately with poor knowledge – there is a much greater problem of not acting at all. While the above discussion is about acquiring accurate knowledge in order to act propitiously, an even greater observable truism is that accurate knowledge by itself does not equate to human action for the vast majority of mankind! Evidently, what limits people to act courageously in moral causes is not their lack of knowledge about a matter. As empiricism amply suggests, a surfeit of knowledge by itself rarely tickles the public's conscience to act.
We see this sufficiently in our own times to know that it is a universal truth. Bringing knowledge to the masses in the hope of their reacting to it with wisdom and sagacity, therefore, is at best an interesting theory. At worst, a specious thesis upon which the edifice of the fourth pillar of democracy is Machiavellian constructed. An illusion of a workable system of governance has been created for the public in their name, but which, in reality, only replaced overt oligarchic rule in the name of gods of yesteryear, with a covert one in the name of democracy. This was elaborated in my Letter to Robert Jensen, September 15, 2009 – Re-titling can perhaps make the problem-space more apparent: Can journalism schools be relevant in a New World Order of one-world government? ( PDF http://tinyurl.com/journalism-self-limiting ) The motivational linkage between knowledge and act was also examined in my recent article: Islam and Knowledge vs. Socialization ( http://tinyurl.com/modern-idiots ).
Consequently, I imagine it is also fair to observe that Brigadier Ali Khan has overcome a much harder problem. That of apathy, indifference, and most pertinent, servitude as a house negro. By the evidence of this BBC report, the Brigadier is already taking a courageous stand for his nation which he had presumably sworn to defend against all enemies when he first joined the army. To move to the next phase therefore, of actually taking a wise and correct stand with sufficiently accurate knowledge of the matter, is the next biggest challenge. Perhaps someone might send Brigadier Ali Khan my short book identifying the enemy. It's written for motivated people inclined to do something about a matter rather than merely talk about it: The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity. As Sun Tzu stated 2500 years ago on The Art of War:
'If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.'
The fabricated charge of "terrorism" can fall upon anyone at any time. That was made obvious from day one, when, on Thursday, September 20, 2001, in his address to both Houses of U.S. Congress, amidst more than twenty standing ovations, President George W. Bush read off the scripted Hegelian ultimatum to all nations of the world: "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." (Applause.) As the BBC report indicates, clearly Brigadier Ali Khan was not afraid of such labels. A venerable man of heart. But he got the substance wrong.
I would like at least one sitting military officer in Pakistan, and in the United States – the two countries I call home – to get the substance right. To recognize the real enemy and to act courageously in their uniform while they still command their posts. Writing memoirs upon retirement hardly cleanses the blood. Take a leaf out of Bush's own speech – the words of the emperor are also one's best defense against any trumped up terrorism charge: "Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them." If I can prove who is the greater terrorist, the pirate or the emperor, so can anyone with half a brain! But this proof is obviously irrelevant in the emperor's court. Proving it before the emperor is not its purpose. St. Augustine demonstrated 1600 years ago in The City of God, that it was already a universal truism:
"When the King asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: 'the same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.'"
But when the pirate works for the emperor and is furthering the emperor's own agendas, that requires more than half a brain to see it. It is no longer a matter of simple truism like St. Augustine's. It can even be counter-intuitive. People with Ph.D. can succumb to its deception. Therefore, proving to oneself is the purpose. That takes a fully functioning rational mind.
A fully functioning rational mind and a fully functioning empathetic heart coming together in the same person, in a sitting general for instance, and we have a winning combination of one who will not fear the result of a hundred battles, each leading to victory. Again from Sun Tzu:
'Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple [before] the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose;
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory;'
Since no sitting general of such moral fiber with a fully functioning mind can ever exist in the emperor's or its allies' armies except in the service of the emperor, there is no practicable waging of real dissent against the emperor's "imperial mobilization". The emperor will always win by definition – unless the entire mid-ranking cadre refuse to obey immoral orders! A caveat which presumably exists in all nations' military rule books governing soldier conduct since World War II. But in order to exercise that caveat still requires the twain characteristic of mind and heart to be simultaneously functioning in the modern soldiery. I doubt that this is more than just a theoretical possibility today.
If you have the heart, you are often dumb enough to join the military under the false flag of patriotism against fabricated enemies where, once enlisted, all compassion and empathy is driven out of you early on. You are taught to obey orders and not to think for yourself. Your higher ranking officers always know better. And the highest ranking officer of every military is always a house negro. If you have a mind, you don't join the military except to rule others. People with both functioning heart and functioning mind are not to be found in modern professional standing armies – they become poets. I hope I am wrong here. That Brigadier Ali turns out to be a poet soldier – like the illustrious one of antiquity he is presumably named after! That sublime path to valiance is obviously open to all regardless of name. But it does require the heart and mind to both be fully functional simultaneously!
Followup III
'BTW, I was surprised you did not mention the fact that this BBC story is another propaganda piece to indirectly remind everyone/confirm the lie that "Obama bagged Osama last month":
"In his opinion, the culprits who had hidden Bin Laden and allowed the Americans to get away with breaching Pakistan's sovereignty were to be found within the army."'
Thank you for pointing it out. The Mighty Wurlitzer report ( http://tinyurl.com/mightywurlitzer ) already explains myth construction and incestuous reinforcement of this type. The connection of that Mighty Wurlitzer's statement in the BBC report to Brigadier Ali Khan's fate is arguably non tenuous.
Your comments are, as usual, very perceptive. There is more thoughtful content in this one little anon website ( http://fkpolitics.wordpress.com ) than there is in many a newspaper combined. I hope Pakistan Military is reading it. All I can suggest is that "ilm" is no one's exclusive purview. It can become anyone's blanket on a cold night (in theory). It is the most egalitarian acquisition and accessible to anyone and everyone. This is even provable – at least for Muslims. Qur'an even teaches a prayer in this respect:
"and say: My Lord! Increase me in knowledge." — (Holy Qur'an, Surah Ta-Ha, 20:114 , Arabic: وَقُلْ رَّبِّ زِدۡنِىۡ عِلۡمًا )
Yet, we find ourselves living in the age of Jahiliya! Especially among the "likkha-parrha jahils" ( http://tinyurl.com/modern-idiots ).
Never mind "ilm", even simple moral decency escapes us today! Just your two articles on 'Slaughter of Chechens in Quetta' is empirical proof enough of this despicable "vulture culture" zeitgeist.
"Pakistan military must come to understand Hegelian Dialectic, if they are to protect the nation."
So, never mind blaming the zionists and the imperialist storm troopers for enjoying their own killing fields among the "terrorists". When we stop doing it to our peoples, only then will others be compelled to stop doing it to us! No one will respect one more than oneself. If one has no self-respect, one ain't gonna get any from others! This is so damn pathetically obvious, a truism, that it is banal to even say it.
No – the Pakistan military must come to understand Hegelian Dialectic, if they are to protect the nation. Every military of every nation in the world must come to understand it. Without that understanding, all armies are participating in the heinously senseless but entirely manufactured War Racket (PDF http://tinyurl.com/warisracket ) in the service of the global oligarchy rather than in any rational self-defence against real enemies!
And you know what? I am 100% certain that it is news to them. From Westpoint to Sandhurst, and from Rand to whatever, they know, and teach, the art of war! Again Sun Tzu (PDF http://tinyurl.com/political-dialogs ):
"All warfare is based on deception;"
While the masters wage wars fully aware, as they themselves disclose in their military strategy documents (PDF http://tinyurl.com/pnac-americasdefenses ), that: "As long as wars and other military operations derive their logic from political purposes," the useful idiots are led to gullibly fight in those wars, killing and dying, believing them to derive their logic from military objectives!
As evidence for the veracity of this statement, just look how Pakistan is being decapitated systematically pursuing the military objective of fighting the perpetual "terrorist"! What is the political objective? I don't believe any Pakistani General can give a rational answer. Neither can any American General. The United States military was sent off to fight "terrorists" in a perpetual "World War IV" (James Woolsey, Ex-CIA director: U.S. faces 'World War IV', CNN April 3, 2003 ) to far away Baghdad, Afghanistan, and now Pakistan, under blaring trumpets.
When Pakistan's sitting general, Maj. General Athar Abbas, is quoted in the BBC report suggesting: "The army is a cult in itself, so it's intolerant towards any other cult within", I believe that to be a general statement of fact pertinent to the nature of all standing armies today. The military has to be cultish, and intolerant toward any outside thought, in order to function in their dysfunctional role as the imperial praetorian guard of the global oligarchy. And there is no more cultish military today in the world than the lone superpower's own military! They have to be so in order to bring us Jesus ( video http://tinyurl.com/Jesus-In-Afghanistan ). I have already demonstrated in my report on the "White Man's Burden" that all military look alike when they are the waterboys. It may be read in the 'Poor Man's Guide to Modernity'.
Complex political objectives, especially those which come wrapped in Hegelian Dialectic, are always foreign to military command who blindly perform their death dance, unfettered, upon civilian populations for their paymasters. Henry Kissinger is said to have referred pointedly, and rather accurately, to military men as '"dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.' (The Final Days, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, pg. 194)
Not a rocket science. But as noted in the Followup II above, it does require a functioning heart and functioning mind to see it when one is born into house negro.
Our biggest enemy for 200-300 years has been that systematic mental colonization. Here is Lord Macaulay in 1835 speaking before the English Parliament – was he perchance already thinking of the twenty-first century and beyond, to the global governance by the Anglo-Saxons:
"[34] In one point I fully agree with the gentlemen to whose general views I am opposed. I feel with them that it is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern, –a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect."
Worth a full read for its full context for those unfamiliar with the pernicious process of mental colonization ( PDF http://tinyurl.com/Macaulay1835 ).
So long as we have such perversion among us, we will continue to nurture fifth columnists. So long as we have fifth columnists among us, we will continue to open the gates to the barbarians at the door instead of standing up to them as a dignified peoples.
We are seeing the exploits of the East India Company reincarnated today at a global scale to finally create their global governance. As the Council on Foreign Relations author wrote in 1974 ( http://tinyurl.com/hardroad-worldorder ):
'In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion' to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.'
That is the exact modus operandi that was adopted by the East India Company to take over the indo sub-continent!
It is nothing more profound than that.
So what can be done ( http://tinyurl.com/What-can-be-done )?
Followup IV
The BBC playing up Brigadier Ali Khan's alleged opinion:
'One officer present in the meeting said all had been going well until it was Brig Khan's turn to speak. In his opinion, the culprits who had hidden Bin Laden and allowed the Americans to get away with breaching Pakistan's sovereignty were to be found within the army.',
is even more revealing of the Mind War being waged against Pakistan. There is no direct quote, no named source, the Brigadier is already in the brink so he can't clarify BBC's version of the "one officer's" interpretation of what he really might have said and not said. What's the point of this anonymous "officials say" style of journalism? Let me suggest from Mount Fuji:
'Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid
foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so
tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant
from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as
Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the
forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to
you.' — Miyamoto Musashi, quoted in Political Ponerology
That, such reportage also furthers the recipe for the self-destruction of the Pakistan military from within. World government cannot have large independent standing armies. And Pakistan's is the fifth largest (I am told). All sovereign armies must eventually be destroyed, disarmed, and turned into local policing militias as surrogates of the single global military force.
Clearly, for the "insurgency" in Pakistan to continue to be deadly and long-running, mercenary elements from within the Pakistan military and its intelligence apparatuses are themselves behind it, covertly aiding and abetting, and "tickling" the "insurgents" as necessary, but entirely as surrogate local handlers of American-Western financed black-ops of the red-team (the bad guys). The Pakistani jawans in uniform are subsequently encouraged to fight these "insurgents" very patriotically as the blue-team (the good guys), also paid for by uncle Sam but this time through official Congressional budget appropriations. Both sides of this Hegelian Dialectic are funded by the American-Western tax payer – one covertly, the other overtly. The latest estimates of the latter according to costofwar.org, as of June 2011, is $3.2 – 4 Trillion.
Official figures for covert operations are hard to come by, but these are reliably projected to run into hundreds of billions of dollars annually. A tiny percentage of both these riches trickles into the coffers of the Pakistan military. Just look at the luxury the man of ranking uniform lives in – Military Inc. owns Pakistan Inc. As already examined above, the modus operandi of "imperial mobilization" was deconstructed in my September 2009 report "The Decapitation of Pakistan by its own Military!" ( http://tinyurl.com/insurgency-vs-counter ). The topic was also fleshed out in the November 2009 followup "Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!" ( http://tinyurl.com/bring-zen-to-pakistan ).
The systematic demoralization of the world's fifth largest standing military can be the only end result of such well-funded internecine warfare. How much of a patriotic fighting spirit can any army muster after soiling their hands in the blood of their own? A demoralized military will surrender to any superior force without offering much resistance. The world already witnessed how the 90,000 jawans of West Pakistan's army under the command of its three star general trivially surrendered in East Pakistan after despoiling their consciences and pak ammunitions with the blood of the Bengalis. That is now being repeated in the blood of the Pushtoons, the Baluchis, and soon others.
In the modern art of war, full spectrum demoralization of the enemy is a calculated method of staging the so called fifth generation warfare without the traditional open declaration of war: get the enemy demoralized by hook or by crook and amenable to PSYOP such that they come around to your point of view without further "persuasion" or casualty on your side. Pick up any military doctrine manual and one sees the foundation of that thesis. How can any modern military be unaware of it? No – they are not unaware of it. When all that is impossible is eliminated, what remains is the truth.
My confrere and former writer/journalist, Abid Ullah Jan thanklessly warned Pakistani military in his many books and writings about these traps facing Pakistan's military to soften up the high value targets from within. I think he genuinely believed, as I once did, that there were generals in the Pakistan military not beholden to the massa.
That unfortunate fact however was the principal reason for the orchestrated rise of Pervez Musharraf from obscurity to run Pakistan during the most momentous epoch of our times: the initial launch of "imperial mobilization" to Afghanistan to commence "World War IV".
Without General Pervez Musharraf at the helm in "nuclear armed" Pakistan of that time, invasion of Muslim Afghanistan would not have been a game-theory backed viable military option for even the mightiest sole superpower on earth. Because of this, I have long come to the realization that if Pakistan did indeed ever possess any physical nuclear weapons of her own at any time, and my study has led me to seriously question that global truth, they were effectively neutralized by General Pervez Musharraf before the first American bombs ever fell on Afghanistan. The greatest traitor to Pakistan since the loss of East Pakistan to the tyranny of his predecessors occupying the chair, General Pervez Musharraf set the stage for all other traitors to follow in his boots as Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Today, under his successor duo General Kiyani – President Zardari tag team, Pakistan is as toothless a paper tiger wearing the pious robe of "democracy" armed with "nuclear weapons" as Saddam Hussein's Iraq was under the vile robe of "dictatorship" armed with "weapons of mass destruction". And as is already self-evident, the two nations are sharing in the same fate. Their peoples, first victimized by their own military, and then by the "shock and awe" of the barbarians who waited patiently for decades before unleashing their munificent payloads upon the pawns on the Grand Chessboard.
It is my great misfortune that within my own lifetime, I am seeing the systematic birth-pangs of a new Pakistan for a second time at the hands of her own patriots too greedy, and too dumb, to understand the modern world. For some of us who have lived long enough, this raising of the phoenix from the blood-soaked ashes of ritual pawn sacrifice is the third time.
We sadly tend to think that just because some of us have indeed lost our tail descending from the tree-tops (although Pakistani columnist Cowasjee once wrote that we have yet to lose even our tail), that we necessarily have also acquired an iota of higher cognitive intelligence.
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
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The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley ( http://tinyurl.com/zahir-patents ), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden 2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org. He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org. Verbatim reproduction license at http://humanbeingsfirst.org#Copyright.
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Sometimes when I'm working with a class (usually one that represents a database model), I'll have about 15 different properties on it, usually of different types. These are properties that need to be accessed by the users, as well, so each property will typically need some function like
T getPropertyName();
setPropertyName(T value);
But, it's also extremely valuable for me to be able to iterate through each property in a particular order (although, I suppose that "value" may stem from laziness of not having to type each one individually). Is there some logical way to set up this class, so that I could iterate through it in this order? Or am I helpless for organization, and I should just go back to the basics of having 15 private variables, and 15 "getters" and "setters"?
As an aside, currently I'm working with Android and Java, so answers pertaining specifically to that would be the most helpful, but seeing how I encounter this somewhat frequently in other languages, too, any solution would be ideal.
Edit: I've been thinking about using something similar to a Bundle with a list of keys, but I don't know how effective that would really be either.


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Phillies select two players in Rule 5 Draft
Outfielder Ender Inciarte was selected by the Phillies in the major league portion of baseball's annual Rule 5 Draft, Director of Professional Scouting Mike Ondo announced today.
Inciarte, 22, was the Phillies' lone selection in the 1st round (15th overall) of the major league portion from the Arizona Diamondbacks organization. The left-handed hitting center fielder split the 2012 season between single-A South Bend and single-A Visalia, where he combined to hit .307 with 28 doubles, 10 triples, 47 RBI, 82 runs scored and 46 stolen bases.
Originally signed as an amateur free agent by the Diamondbacks on May 25, 2008, Inciarte, a native of Maracaibo, Venezuela, has batted .283 with 81 doubles, 23 triples, 135 RBI, 260 runs scored and 111 stolen bases in 456 career games. He was named Midwest League Player of the Week on April 23, 2012, and was selected as a Midwest League midseason All-Star in 2011.
The Phillies also selected left-handed pitcher Brendan Lafferty of the Kansas City Royals organization in the minor league portion of the draft.
Lafferty, 26, went 1-1 with a 4.77 ERA in 43 relief appearances with double-A Northwest Arkansas in 2012. He struck out 71 batters in 60.1 innings while holding left-handed hitters to a .143 average.
Selected by the Royals in the 18th round of the 2009 draft out of UCLA, Lafferty has gone 14-8 with a 3.80 ERA in 122 career games with 248 strikeouts in 265.1 innings. The Riverside, Calif., native was originally selected by the Phillies in the 47th round of the 2004 draft, but did not sign.


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Compiling and Linking
Two steps are required to build Go programs: compiling and linking. (Since we are assuming the use of the gc compiler, readers using
gccgo will need to follow the compile and link process described in golang.org/doc/gccgo_install.html. Similarly, readers using other compilers will need to compile and link as per their compiler's instructions.) Both compiling and linking are handled by the
go tool, which can not only build local programs and packages, but can also fetch, build, and install third-party programs and packages.
For the
go tool to be able to build local programs and packages, there are three requirements. First, the Go bin directory (
$GOROOT/bin or
%GOROOT%\bin) must be in the path. Second, there must be a directory tree that has an
src directory and under which the source code for the local programs and packages resides. For example, the examples unpack to
goeg/src/bigdigits, and so on. Third, the directory above the
src directory must be in the
GOPATH environment variable. For example, to build the
hello example using the
go tool, we must do this:
$ export GOPATH=$HOME/goeg $ cd $GOPATH/src/hello $ go build
In both cases we assume that
PATH includes
$GOROOT/bin or
%GOROOT%\bin. Once the go tool has built the program, we can run it. By default the executable is given the same name as the directory it is in (e.g., hello on Unix-like systems and hello.exe on Windows). Once built, we can run the program in the usual way.
$ ./hello Hello World!
Note that we do not need to compile—or even explicitly link—any other packages (even though as we will see, hello.go uses three standard library packages). This is another reason why Go programs build so quickly.
If we have several Go programs, it would be convenient if all their executables could be in a single directory that we could add to our
PATH. Fortunately, the go tool supports this as follows:
$ export GOPATH=$HOME/goeg $ cd $GOPATH/src/hello $ go install
go install command does the same as
go build only it puts the executable in a standard location (
$GOPATH/bin or
%GOPATH%\bin). This means that by adding a single
$GOPATH/bin or
%GOPATH>%\bin) to our
PATH, all Go programs that we install will conveniently be in the
In addition to the examples given here, we are likely to want to develop our own Go programs and packages in our own directory. This can easily be accommodated by setting the
GOPATH environment variable to two (or more) colon-separated paths (semicolon-separated on Windows).
Although Go uses the go tool as its standard build tool, it is perfectly possible to use make or some of the modern build tools, or to use alternative Go-specific build tools, or add-ons for popular IDEs.
Hello Who?
Now that we have seen how to build the
hello program we will look at its source code. Here is the complete
hello program (in file
// hello.go package main import ( "fmt" "os" "strings" ) func main() { who := "World!" if len(os.Args) > 1 { /* os.Args[0] is "hello" or "hello.exe" */ who = strings.Join(os.Args[1:], " ") } fmt.Println("Hello", who) }
Go uses C++-style comments:
// for single-line comments that finish at the end of the line and
/* ... */ for comments that can span multiple lines. It is conventional in Go to mostly use single-line comments, with spanning comments often used for commenting out chunks of code during development.
Every piece of Go code exists inside a package, and every Go program must have a
main package with a
main() function that serves as the program's entry point, that is, the function that is executed first.) In fact, Go packages may also have
init() functions that are executed before
main().) Notice that there is no conflict between the name of the package and the name of the function.
Go operates in terms of packages rather than files. This means that we can split a package across as many files as we like, and from Go's point of view, if they all have the same package declaration, they are all part of the same package and no different than if all their contents were in a single file. Naturally, we can also break our applications' functionality into as many local packages as we like, to keep everything neatly modularized.
import statement imports three packages from the standard library. The
fmt package provides functions for formatting text and for reading formatted text, the
os package provides platform-independent operating-system variables and functions, and the
strings package provides functions for manipulating strings.
Go's fundamental types support the usual operators (for example, + for numeric addition and for string concatenation), and the Go standard library supplements these by providing packages of functions for working with the fundamental types, such as the
strings package imported here. It is also possible to create our own custom types based on the fundamental types and to provide our own methods—that is, custom type-specific functions—for them.
The reader may have noticed that the program has no semicolons, that the imports are not comma-separated, and that the
if statement's condition does not require parentheses. In Go, blocks, including function bodies and control structure bodies (so, for
if statements and
for loops), are delimited using braces. Indentation is used purely to improve human readability. Technically, Go statements are separated by semicolons, but these are inserted by the compiler, so we don't have to use them ourselves unless we want to put multiple statements on the same line. No semicolons and fewer commas and parentheses give Go programs a lighter look and require less typing.
Go functions and methods are defined using the
func keyword. The main package's
main() function always has the same signature—it takes no arguments and returns nothing. When
main.main() finishes the program will terminate and return 0 to the operating system. Naturally, we can exit whenever we like and return our own choice of value.
The first statement in the
main() function (using the := operator) is called a short variable declaration in Go terminology. Such a statement both declares and initializes a variable at the same time. Furthermore, we don't need to specify the variable's type because Go can deduce that from the initializing value. So in this case we have declared a variable called
who of type
string, and thanks to Go's strong typing we may only assign strings to
os.Args variable is a slice of strings. Go makes use of arrays, slices, and other collection data types but for these examples it is sufficient to know that a slice's length can be determined using the built-in
len() function and its elements can be accessed using the
[] index operator using a subset of the Python syntax. In particular,
slice[n] returns the slice's nth element (counting from zero), and
slice[n:] returns another slice which has the elements from the nth element to the last element. In the collections chapter we will see the full generality of Go's syntax in this area. In the case of
os.Args, the slice should always have at least one string (the program's name), at index position
0. (All Go indexing is zero-based.)
If the user has entered one or more command-line arguments the
if condition is satisfied and we set the
who string to contain all the arguments joined up as a single string. In this case, we use the assignment operator
(=), since if we used the short variable declaration operator
(:=) we would end up declaring and initializing a new
who variable whose scope was limited to the
if statement's block. The
strings.Join() function takes a slice of strings and a separator (which could be empty, that is,
""), and returns a single string consisting of all the slice's strings with the separator between each one. Here we have joined them using a single space between each.
Finally, in the last statement, we print
Hello, a space, the string held in the
who variable, and a newline. The
fmt package has many different print variants, some like
fmt.Println() which will neatly print whatever they are given, and others like
fmt.Printf() that use placeholders to provide very fine control over formatting.


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