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What keyword in macro command is used to configure a root bridge and automatically adjust STP timers?
A. root primary
B. diameter
C. reflector
D. STP bridge root
Answer: B
Question about interoperability between MST and RSTP.
A. disable RSTP and uses bpdu type 4
B. enable RSTP and uses bpdu type 4
C. disable RSTP and uses bpdu type 2
D. enable RSTP and uses bpdu type 2
Answer: D
802.1w BPDU (Version 2). MST interoperates with Rapid PVST+ with no need for user configuration.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5000/sw/configuration/guide/cli_rel_4_0_1a/CLIConfigurationGuide/MST.html#40909 Bridge Protocol Data Unit fields[edit]
IEEE 802.1D and IEEE 802.1aq BPDUs have the following format:
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2. Version ID: 1 byte (0x00 Config & TCN / 0x02 RST / 0x03 MSTP / 0x04 SPT BPDU)
3. BPDU Type: 1 byte (0x00 Config BPDU, 0x80 TCN BPDU, 0x02 RST BPDU)
4. Flags: 1 byte
Your manager asked you to make every port on your switch bypass the normal spanning-tree timers which includes your uplink to other switches.
What two commands can you apply on the interfaces? (Choose two.)
A. spanning-tree portfast
B. spanning-tree portfast default
C. spanning-tree portfast access
D. spanning-tree portfast trunk
Answer: AD
Which IOS configuration command is required to configure a VLAN as a private VLAN?
A. switch(config-vlan)# private-vlan common
B. switch(config-vlan)# private-vlan private
C. switch(config-vlan)# private-vlan primary
D. switch(config-vlan)# private-vlan transparent
Answer: C
Regarding high availability, with the MAC address 0000.0c07.ac03, what does the "03" represent?
A. The GLBP group number
B. The type of encapsulation
C. The HSRP router number
D. The VRRP group number
E. The HSRP group number
F. The active router number
Answer: E
The last two-digit hex value in the MAC address presents the HSRP group number.
HSRP has been configured between two Company devices. Which of the following describe reasons for deploying HSRP? (Choose three)
A. HSRP provides redundancy and fault tolerance
B. HSRP allows one router to automatically assume the function of the second router if the second router fails
C. HSRP allows one router to automatically assume the function of the second router if the second router starts
D. HSRP provides redundancy and load balancing
Answer: ABD
Answer A and B are correct because they are the functions of HSRP. I just want to mention about answer D. In fact answer D is not totally correct, in SWITCH only GLBP has the load-balancing feature. HSRP can only load-sharing by configuring some different HSRP groups. But answer D is the only choice left in this question so we have to choose it.
Refer to the exhibit. Which configuration on the HSRP neighboring device ensures that it becomes the active HSRP device in the event that port fa1/1 on Switch_A goes down?
A. Switch_B(config-if)#ip address 10.10.10.2 255.255.255.0
Switch_B(config-if)#standby 1 priority 200
Switch_B(config-if)#standby 1 preempt
Switch_B(config-if)#standby 1 ip 10.10.10.10
Switch_B(config-if)#standby 1 track interface fa 1/1
B. Switch_B(config-if)#ip address 10.10.10.2 255.255.255.0
Switch_B(config-if)#standby 1 priority 200
Switch_B(config-if)#standby 1 ip 10.10.10.10
C. Switch_B(config-if)#ip address 10.10.10.2 255.255.255.0
Switch_B(config-if)#standby 1 priority 195
Switch_B(config-if)#standby 1 preempt
Switch_B(config-if)#standby 1 ip 10.10.10.10
D. Switch_B(config-if)#ip address 10.10.10.2 255.255.255.0
Switch_B(config-if)#standby 1 priority 190
Switch_B(config-if)#standby 1 ip 10.10.10.10
Switch_B(config-if)#standby 1 track interface fa 1/1
Answer: C
Switch_A is not configured standby track priority value so it will use the default track priority of 10 -> When Switch_A goes down, its priority is 200 ¬ 10 = 190 so Switch_B must be configured with a priority higher than 190. Also Switch_B must have the "preempt" command configured to take over the active state -> C is correct.
Note: Answer A is not correct because Switch_B has the same priority value of Switch_A, but the Switch_B's ip address on the HSRP interface is higher (10.10.10.2 is higher than 10.10.10.1) so Switch_B will take over the active state of Switch_A even when Switch_A is still operational.
What are three possible router states of HSRP routers on a LAN? (Choose three)
A. Standby
B. Established
C. Active
D. Idle
E. Backup
F. Init
Answer: ACF
First we should review all the HSRP States:
Now let's take an example of a router passing through these states. Suppose there are 2 routers A and B in the network; router A is turned on first. It enters the initial state. Then it moves to listen state in which it tries to hear if there are already active or standby routers for this group. After learning no one take the active or standby state, it determines to take part in the election by moving to speak state. Now it starts sending hello messages containing its priority.
These messages are sent to the multicast address 18.104.22.168 (which can be heard by all members in that group). When it does not hear a hello message with a higher priority it assumes the role of active router and moves to active state. In this state, it continues sending out periodic hello messages.
Now router B is turned on. It also goes through initial and listen state. In listen state, it learns that router A has been already the active router and no other router is taking standby role so it enters speak state to compete for the standby router -> it promotes itself as standby router.
Now to our main question! We want router B to become active router so we set a higher priority number than the priority of A and ask router B to take over the role of active router (with the preempt command). Now router A will fall back to the speak state to compete for active or standby state -> it becomes standby router because its priority is now lower than that of router A. (Therefore answer B is correct).
Note: Suppose router A is in active state while router B is in standby state. If router B does not hear hello messages from router A within the holdtime, router B goes into speak state to announce its priority to all HSRP members and compete for the active state. But if at some time it receives a message from the active router that has a lower priority than its priority (because the administrator change the priority in either router), it can take over the active role by sending out a hello packet with parameters indicating it wants to take over the active router. This is called a coup hello message.
Reference: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094a91.shtml
Refer to the exhibit. Three switches are configured for HSRP. Switch1 remains in the HSRP listen state. What is the most likely cause of this status?
A. this is normal operation
B. standby group number does not match VLAN number
C. IP addressing is incorrect
D. incorrect priority commands
E. incorrect standby timers
Answer: A
Only Switch 1 is not configured with the priority so it will have the default priority of 100, which is smaller than that of Switch2 (110) and Switch3 (150).
Moreover, both Switch2 and Switch3 have the "preempt" command so surely Switch3 becomes active router while Switch2 becomes standby router -> Switch1 will be in listen state (Please read the explanation of to understand more about this state).
HSRP was implemented and configured on two switches while scheduled network maintenance was performed.
After the two switches have finished rebooting, you notice via show commands that Switch2 is the HSRP active router. Which two items are most likely the cause of Switch1 not becoming the active router? (Choose two)
A. booting delays
B. standby group number does not match VLAN number
C. IP addressing is incorrect
D. premption is disabled
E. incorrect standby timers
F. IP redirect is disabled
Answer: AD
When two routers are turned on at the same time, the router completes booting process first will take the active role. Without the "preempt" configured, even a new router with a higher priority cannot take over the active role.In the configuration of Switch1 we don't see the "preempt" command configured.
Which three statements are true of a default HSRP configuration? (Choose three)
A. The Standby hello time is 2 seconds
B. Two HSRP groups are configured
C. The Standby track interface priority decrement is 10.
D. The Standby hold time is 10 seconds
E. The Standby priority is 100
F. The Standby delay is 3 seconds
Answer: CDE
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1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army and laid siege to it. 2 And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year, the city wall was broken through. 3 Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came and took seats in the Middle Gate: Nergal-Sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-Sarsekim a chief officer, Nergal-Sharezer a high official and all the other officials of the king of Babylon. 4 When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled; they left the city at night by way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls, and headed toward the Arabah.
5 But the Babylonian army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They captured him and took him to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced sentence on him. 6 There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes and also killed all the nobles of Judah. 7 Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.
8 The Babylonians set fire to the royal palace and the houses of the people and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. 9 Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard carried into exile to Babylon the people who remained in the city, along with those who had gone over to him, and the rest of the people. 10 But Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people, who owned nothing; and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.
11 Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had given these orders about Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard: 12 "Take him and look after him; don't harm him but do for him whatever he asks." 13 So Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard, Nebushazban a chief officer, Nergal-Sharezer a high official and all the other officers of the king of Babylon 14 sent and had Jeremiah taken out of the courtyard of the guard. They turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him back to his home. So he remained among his own people.
15 While Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the Lord came to him: 16 "Go and tell Ebed-Melek the Cushite, 'This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill my words against this city—words concerning disaster, not prosperity. At that time they will be fulfilled before your eyes. 17 But I will rescue you on that day, declares the Lord; you will not be given into the hands of those you fear. 18 I will save you; you will not fall by the sword but will escape with your life, because you trust in me, declares the Lord.' "
Jeremiah 39
Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973 1978 1984 2011 by Biblica, Inc. TM Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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This is part two (past due...see part one) of a series of posts about the Popol Vuh, which is an oral transmittal of an ancient Mayan codex given by Quiché noblemen in the 16th century. In this post, I am using a readily available translation online for copying and pasting, and to which I will add my own notes. It is similar enough to the translation I was making from the summarized version I obtained in Guatemala and saves me from having to translate from Spanish to English. I will still use the topical dividers (via the blog post title) of my Guatemalan version as a convenience in pointing out similarities between Biblical Old World and Indigenous New World accounts of creation.
For this reason another attempt had to be made to create and make men by the Creator, the Maker, and the Forefathers. "Let us try again! Already dawn draws near:3 Let us make him who shall nourish and sustain us! What shall we do to be invoked, in order to be remembered on earth? We have already tried with our first creations, our first creatures; but we could not make them praise and venerate us. 4 So, then, let us try to make obedient, respectful beings who will nourish and sustain us." Thus they spoke.This "starting over" can be paralleled with dispensations of the Gospel. When men were wicked, they were destroyed and God started over. It is interesting that this concept is found in the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Popol Vuh, along with other pre-Columbian American texts.
Then was the creation and the formation. Of earth, of mud, they made [man's] flesh. But they saw that it was not good. It melted away, it was soft, did not move, had no strength, it fell down, it was limp, it could not move its head, its face fell to one side, its sight was blurred, 5 it could not look behind. At first it spoke, but had no mind. Quickly it soaked in the water and could not stand.Jacob 5 in the Book of Mormon is reminiscent of the maker noted above in that the Lord of the vineyard makes several trials at having a successful crop and harvest. The allegorical devices are very similar to each other.
And the Creator and the Maker said: 6 "Let us try again because our creatures will not be able to walk nor multiply. Let us consider this," they said.
Then they broke up and destroyed their work and their creation. And they said: "What shall we do to perfect it, in order that our worshipers, our invokers, will be successful?"
Thus they spoke when they conferred again: "Let us say again to Xpiyacoc, Xmucané, Hunahpú-Vuch, Hunahpú-Utiú: 'Cast your lot again. Try to create again.'" In this manner the Creator and the Maker spoke to Xpiyacoc and Xmucané. Then they spoke to those soothsayers, the Grandmother of the day, the Grandmother of the Dawn, 7 as they were called by the Creator and the Maker, and whose names were Xpiyacoc and Xmucané.This mention of a "council" hearkens back to the council in heaven mentioned by Abraham in the Book of Abraham, which Joseph Smith translated from Egyptian papyri.
And said Huracán, Tepeu, and Gucumatz when they spoke to the soothsayer, to the Maker, who are the diviners: "You must work together and find the means so that man, whom we shall make, man, whom we are going to make, will nourish and sustain us, invoke and remember us.
"Enter, then, into council, grandmother, grandfather, our grandmother, our grandfather, Xpiyacoc, Xmucané, make light, make dawn. have us invoked, have us adored, have us remembered by created man, by made man, by mortal man. 8 Thus be it done.
Before you read the next few paragraphs, read Doctrine & Covenants 121:32, Job 38: 7, Alma 13: 3, Abraham 3: 22, Abraham 4: 26, Abraham 5: 2.
"Let your nature be known, Hunahpú-Vuch, Hunahpú-Utiú, twice-mother, twice-father, 9 Nim-Ac, 10 Nima-Tziís, 11 the master of emeralds, the worker in jewels, the sculptor, the carver, the maker of beautiful plates, the maker of green gourds, the master of resin, the master Toltecat, 12 grandmother of the sun, grandmother of dawn, as you will be called by our works and our creatures.Now we read about how the Mayan gods became displeased with the outcome of their work. Compare the passages below with Genesis 6 and Genesis 7, and with Moses 8: 18, 26.
"Cast the lot with your grains of corn and tzité. 13 Do it thus 14 and we shall know if we are to make, or carve his mouth and eyes out of wood." Thus the diviners were told.
They went down at once to make their divination, and cast their lots with the corn and the tzité. "Fate! Creature!" 15 said an old woman and an old man. And this old man was the one who cast the lots with Tzité, the one called Xpiyacoc. 16 And the old woman was the diviner, the maker, called Chiracán Xmucané. 17
Beginning the divination, they said: "Get together, grasp each other! Speak, that we may hear." They said, "Say if it is well that the wood be got together and that it be carved by the Creator and the Maker, and if this [man of wood] is he who must nourish and sustain us when there is light when it is day!
"Thou, corn; thou, tzité; thou, fate; thou, creature; get together, take each other," they said to the corn, to the tzité, to fate, to the creature. "Come to sacrifice here, Heart of Heaven; do not punish Tepeu and Gucumatz!" 18 Then they talked and spoke the truth: "Your figures of wood shall come out well; they shall speak and talk on earth."
"So may it be," they answered when they spoke.
And instantly the figures were made of wood. They looked like men, talked like men, and populated the surface of the earth.
They existed and multiplied; they had daughters, they had sons, these wooden figures; but they did not have souls, nor minds, they did not remember their Creator, their Maker; they walked on all fours, aimlessly.Just as in the Genesis chapters of the Bible, we find that the gods mentioned by the Maya were similarly displeased with the disastrous outcome of their creations.
They no longer remembered the Heart of Heaven and therefore they fell out of favor. It was merely a trial, an attempt at man. At first they spoke, but their face was without expression; their feet and hands had no strength; they had no blood, nor substance, 19 nor moisture, nor flesh; their cheeks were dry, their feet and hands were dry, and their flesh was yellow.
Therefore, they no longer thought of their Creator nor their Maker, nor of those who made them and cared for them. 20
These were the first men who existed in great numbers on the face of the earth.
Immediately the wooden figures were annihilated, destroyed, broken up, and killed.
A flood was brought about by the Heart of Heaven; a great flood was formed which fell on the heads of the wooden creatures.
Of tzité the flesh of man was made, but when woman was fashioned by the Creator and the Maker, her flesh was made of rushes. 1 These were the materials the Creator and the Maker wanted to use in making them.
But those that they had made, that they had created, did not think, did not speak with their Creator, their Maker. And for this reason they were killed, they were deluged. A heavy resin fell from the sky. The one called Xecotcovach came and gouged out their eyes; Camalotz came and cut off their heads; Cotzbalam came and devoured their flesh. Tucumbalam 2 came, too, and broke and mangled their bones and their nerves, and ground and crumbled their bones. 3
This was to punish them because they had not thought of their mother, nor their father, the Heart of Heaven, called Huracán. And for this reason the face of the earth was darkened and a black rain began to fall, by day and by night.
Then came the small animals and the large animals, and sticks and stones struck their faces. And all began to speak: their earthen jars, 4 their griddles, 5 their plates, their pots, their grinding stones, 6 all rose up and struck their faces.
"You have done us much harm; you ate us, and now we shall kill you," said their dogs and birds of the barnyard. 7
And the grinding stones said: "We were tormented by you; every day, every day, at night, at dawn, all the time our faces went holi, holi, huqui, huqui, because of you. 8 This was the tribute we paid you. But now that you are no longer men, you shall feel our strength. We shall grind and tear your flesh to pieces," said their grinding stones.
And then their dogs spoke and said: "Why did you give us nothing to eat? You scarcely looked at us, but you chased us and threw us out. You always had a stick 9 ready to strike us while you were eating.
"Thus it was that you treated us. You did not speak to us. Perhaps we shall not kill you now; but why did you not look ahead, why did you not think about yourselves? Now we shall destroy you, now you shall feel the teeth of our mouths; we shall devour you," said the dogs, and then, they destroyed their faces. 10
And at the same time, their griddles and pots spoke: "Pain and suffering you have caused us. Our mouths and our faces were blackened with soot; we were always put on the fire and you burned us as though we felt no pain. Now you shall feel it, we shall burn you," said their pots, and they all destroyed their [the wooden men's] faces. The stones of the hearth, 11 which were heaped together, hurled themselves straight from the fire against their heads causing them pain. 12
The desperate ones [the men of wood] ran as quickly as they could; they wanted to climb to the tops of the houses. And the houses fell down and threw them to the ground; they wanted to climb to the treetops, and the trees cast them far away; they wanted to enter the caverns, and the caverns repelled them. 13
So was the ruin of the men who had been created and formed, the men made to be destroyed and annihilated; the mouths and faces of all of them were mangled.
And it is said that their descendants are the monkeys which now live in the forests; 14 these are all that remain of them because their flesh was made only of wood by the Creator and the Maker.
And therefore the monkey looks like man, and is an example of a generation of men which were created and made but were only wooden figures.
The tradition of a great flood is found in nearly every ancient culture. A Babylonian account, that of Gilgamesh, closely resembles the record in the Bible, but the biblical account differs from all others, including the Popol Vuh, in its religious value and the purpose of it. The scriptural account teaches that the flood was sent to cleanse the earth because of the wickedness of the people. Noah and his family were saved because they were righteous.
That a great deal of the Popol Vuh parallels quite closely with the scriptural version of the Great Flood is either a bizarre coincidence, or it shows that the people of the Americas who preceded the Spanish Conquest had in their possession, at some point, a knowledge of the Genesis account and made an effort to retell it. In retelling it, and through hundreds, even thousands of years of political and religious upheavals, they likely altered it in certain ways, yet had somehow managed to keep the general theme of that oral tradition intact.


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Are narcissists afraid of anything?
There are 7 things that terrify them to their core.
Abandonment and rejection
Narcissists can't stand being rejected or abandoned.
That's why they fly into rages and punish and threaten you if you threaten to leave them, and love bomb you if you do manage to get away.
To reject a narcissist means you are rejecting the false self they have so carefully constructed to impress you.
To reject that false self negates their entire reason for existing, since whatever true self they may have left is completely inaccessible to them and the false self cannot survive on its own; it's completely dependent on the approval and attention of others, who it feeds from like a vampire.
When you reject a narcissist they are forced to confront their own emptiness and nothing scares them more than that. They will fight tooth and nail to avoid it, even if it means they have to destroy you in the process.
Being made fun of
Narcissists have no sense of humor.
They may laugh cruelly at you when you fall and break your arm, and they may chuckle at the discomfort of someone else (since they have almost no empathy), especially if the discomfort was caused by them (because remember, to them you are not a real person but an object), but they are completely incapable of ever laughing at themselves.
A few years ago on a forum I posted on, there was a man who became enraged when someone wrote "LOL" at a joke someone else made at his expense (the joke wasn't very offensive), and from then on he gave both of them the silent treatment.
They take themselves very, very seriously and are very, very sensitive.
But that sensitivity doesn't extend toward anyone but themselves.
The reason they are so bothered by jokes at their expense and can't laugh at themselves is because the self they present to the world is a false one that must be propped up and supported at all times by everyone else.
To poke fun at a narcissist is to poke fun at a self that's as empty inside as a puppet.
It has no substance.
It will fall to pieces and then the narcissist is forced to confront that terrifying emptiness that constantly haunts them.
Being disrespected
No one likes to be treated with disdain or disrespect, but the narcissist is downright phobic about it.
He or she worries about it all the time and imagines slights and personal attacks even where they don't exist.
Again, it boils down to the false self which he or she must constantly keep propped up.
It's your job to puff it up and inflate it constantly lest it collapse into a limp pile of flimsy rubber.
Disrespecting a narcissist is like popping a hole in their balloon-self and they feel like they are going to die.
To avoid this, a narcissist uses every defense mechanism they have in their arsenal–gaslighting, rages, silent treatment, lying, projection, denial, fabricating, and false affection–to keep you inflating their balloon-self so they don't have to acknowledge the horror of recognizing they have lost their real one.
Being ignored
This is a no-brainer.
Ignoring a narcissist means giving them no supply at all, and without narcissistic supply, the narcissist dies a slow death. Or believes they will. That's why some narcissists would even rather be hated than be ignored. Negative attention is still attention, and at least it provides acknowledgement that they still exist. When you ignore a narcissist, it's as frightening to them as being killed. They're no longer confident they exist without your attention.
If you call out a narcissist on their abusive behavior, they will usually become very angry.
Their anger might be expressed in rage or in more covert means such as the silent treatment or gaslighting you.
They don't like to be held accountable for the things they do to others, because that means they have to admit they are less than perfect.
It also means they have to acknowledge the humanity of someone else, which they aren't capable of doing.
Narcissists are all too aware of their imperfections, but only at the subconscious level, and the way they handle this is to project their own imperfections onto you.
So a narcissist might tell you that YOU are the narcissistic one, or that YOU are the abuser.
They're also good at getting others to side against you, and those people become their flying monkeys.
They will accuse you of doing things that they themselves have done and everyone believes them and not you.
You start to feel like you're living in a hellish world of smoke and mirrors, where you're no longer sure what's real and what isn't.
The narcissist has, unconsciously or consciously, set up this elaborate lie as a massive defense mechanism against being exposed as
imperfect and flawed just like everyone else, because being forced to acknowledge their shortcomings is to expose their vulnerabilities,
and being vulnerable is incredibly terrifying to them.
They blame so they don't have to feel shame.
Loss of the trappings of youth and success
As narcissists age, they often grow even more abusive (a very few may improve–but they probably weren't high spectrum to begin with).
That's because aging means a loss of looks, career, health, possibly even a spouse (who provides a narcissist with supply), and in some cases even financial solvency. All these things are proof to a narcissist that they still have value and are still admired and respected.
Somatic narcissists, who are most concerned with their health or physical appearance, have never developed other aspects of themselves that could be fallen back on when those things begin to go; that's because the false self is a flimsy one-dimensional construct and is incapable of love, true attachment, friendship, and other things that the rest of us can fall back on when we're old and not in such great physical shape or health anymore. If someone has spent their entire lives only concerned with their appearance, once that goes, what's left?
Cerebral narcissists, who are concerned with their intellectual ability or business acumen, may be able to hang onto those assets a bit longer, but eventually, their minds may begin to become less sharp or they may be forced to retire or reduce their hours working.
Having to retire is a huge blow to a narcissist whose entire identity is tied up in his or her career and earning ability.
What is left? In both cases, a narcissist experiences an almost total loss of supply and to avoid the ensuing depression, they lash out and attack others like angry dogs.
That's why old narcissists are so often cranky and mean.
They're also terrified of death, the last thing on the list that terrifies them.
Every narcissist I've ever known lives in mortal terror of death.
That's because death is the ultimate loss of narcissistic supply. Death means complete annihilation of the ego and there's nothing more horrifying to a narcissist than that because their ego is all they are.
Personally, I think some also fear hell. They know on some deep level how badly they've treated and exploited others and think they might be held accountable for it in the afterlife.
I've seen a lot of narcissists who suddenly become extremely religious in their old age.
I think that's because they think by being religious, they may be able to ward off any accountability after they die.


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A couple of posts ago I did my 2009 Titelist Pro V1x review. I mentioned that I got a surprising amount of spin for the ball more touted for distance.
Yesterday I played my first full round with the new Pro V1 (not the x). I call this one Pro V1 regular flavor.
I was quite blown away by the distance I had with this rendition of the V1. I found myself on the par-4 1st hole closer to the green than I'd ever been off the tee. I was 66 yards to a back pin and the hole is 393. If a back pin is +10 yards that makes it about a 340 yard drive.
So my first impression of the new Pro V1 regular flavor, is that it is plenty long. Possibly even longer for me than the X. Is that right? I get more spin from the X and more distance from the regular flavor? WTF? Did Titleist accidentally label the two models backwards? Perhaps the regular flavor is a bit softer than the X, and allows me to compress it more.


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Thursday, October 11, 2012
9 comments:
- Lalis said...
Oh Princess... you didn't need a caption, your disapproving face said it all!
Tell RG to hop on by Moshi's blog:
I have left something for all of you there :) - October 11, 2012 at 9:42 PM
- Unknown said...
Princess, my girl, I just watched the whole season of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo last night and I gotta wait for my brain to recharge itself before I can vote, operate heavy machinery, make a new will, and voice political opinions. In fact, I may not be allowed to ever do any of those things again. But as an avowed Libertarian (phew, almost spelt librarian) my vote and my opinion was never worth a turd in a goldmine in Oklahoma nohow.
You sure look disapproving in that picture, darlin'. Still beautiful as ever, though. - October 12, 2012 at 5:20 AM
- Unknown said...
*tin* turd in a goldmine....that is....see, gotta recharge the ole grey matter...
- October 12, 2012 at 5:21 AM
- Little Miss Titch said...
Just remember our fav means of transport...hehehehe
- October 12, 2012 at 7:11 AM
- Glenna said...
We think that Princess is both smarter and prettier than either of the candidates. Or those two other guys, whatshisname and whatshisname. We need more fluffiness in this campaign.
- October 12, 2012 at 7:15 AM
- Auntie Jane (It is official!) said...
Ah, yes, RG, but as you know the human plans, but the bunn commands. I wouldn't worry about repercussions a great deal. The secret in Secret Service is that there is no service. Lovely as The Princess is, they haven't the good taste to look her way for bunnies. Nipping ankles is the privilege of bunn royalty, and while I may daydream, as a bean, I must go vote.
- October 12, 2012 at 8:04 AM
- bunnits said...
- October 12, 2012 at 12:27 PM
- Auntie Jane (It is official!) said...
Oh, she said she was "just" a Rabbit. That is so sweet, so cute. Now, Commandante, if you will please give us our marching orders for this final phase of Operation Bunny Over Lords.
- October 12, 2012 at 7:50 PM
- Karen M said...
Princess is such a smart girl....
- October 13, 2012 at 5:37 AM


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Ying Xiong Wei Lei
John Woo
Hong Kong, 1986
Review by Leo Goldsmith
Posted on 23 July 2012
Source bootleg DVD
Categories John Woo's Hong Kong
John Woo is frequently credited with reinventing Hong Kong cinema thanks to his distinctive, bombastic take on the action genre, but the roots of his career lie firmly within the traditions of the HK studio industry. Before the enormous breakout success of his 1986 film A Better Tomorrow, Woo worked his way up from production assistant at Cathay Studios and Shaw Brothers to assistant director under master kung-fu director Chang Cheh before he turned to directing. His first film, the independently produced martial-arts film Young Dragons, soon gave way to a contract with the legendary Golden Harvest Productions, where he directed over a dozen films: some martial-arts films and Cantonese operas, but mainly comedies. Still, the only film from this early period that Woo lays claim to - indeed, the one he identifies as his "first real film" - is Heroes Shed No Tears, which broke a string of mild, low-budget farces and gave him the confidence in the action genre that he needed. While it's by no means as assured a film as those that immediately followed it, it nonetheless exhibits Woo's exultant approach to richly choreographed violence and honor among men.
The film's plot is a threadbare contrivance, but it gets the job done. Somewhere in the jungles of the Golden Triangle, which straddles the borders of Thailand, Laos, Burma, and Vietnam, a corrupt, drug-running general lurks, plying his evil trade with an army of expendable guards. Somewhere nearby, a small group of mercenaries led by bad-ass family man Chan Chung (played by the steely-eyed Eddie Ko) prepares to attack. Hired to infiltrate the drugrunners' camp and bring their nefarious leader back to Hong Kong alive to face justice, the mercenaries suit up with an array of machine guns, bombs, mines, and flamethrowers, which Woo's camera ogles with the lascivious eyes of a twelve-year-old gun-freak. Soon, after a wealth of voluptuous, slow-motion detonations and blithe pile-up of a couple of dozen corpses, the mercenaries are underway, having kidnapped the big boss with Chinese finger traps and a gun to the head, and fleeing headlong into the jungle, with the bad guys in hot pursuit. As if this weren't enough, our tearless heroes soon happen upon a cadre of vicious, communist Vietnamese border guards, from whom they must save a French journalist before she's raped and killed (not necessarily in that order).
As in many of Woo's films - and in spite of its dudeish title - Heroes Shed No Tears is driven by a kind of unspoken sentimental heroism, realized in the chivalrous intervention on behalf of the journalist, but mainly personified two characters: Julie, the sister of Chan Chung's dead wife, and his little son, Kenny. The precise reason for their presence in the film is a little mystifying - it seems they live nearby? - and while they help to round out the story, they invariably get in the way. Kenny, in particular, poses various problems: he frequently sheds tears and occasionally endangers skin-of-the-teeth getaways by needing to pee. (Later, he comes through, proving himself a pretty nifty stuntboy, a passable triage nurse, and a quick study when it comes to explosives.) Their primary role in the film is to engender sympathy for Chan, who wants nothing more than to protect them and use his mercenary spoils to spirit them off to a better life in America, far from drugs and guns and mindless brutality. His spirit of self-sacrifice, a crucial trait for any Woo hero, is never more boldly on display than when he is saving Kenny from any number of abductions or not-so-certain deaths.
Their increasingly implausible survival amid all of the film's increasingly elaborate carnage forms the structure upon Woo hangs his set-pieces: bloody, slo-mo punches to the face, instances of brutal misogyny, assorted amputations, and many, many explosions, all choreographed to a quasi-Baroque score. There is an unbelievable amount of shooting, much of it from an unpleasantly short range: several times to the head, once to the butt. The run-in with the border guards culminates in the kind of ornately violent gesture we would expect from Woo's heyday: in a point-of-view shot through the crosshairs of a rifle about to gun some innocent down, Chan Chung unexpectedly appears and fires off a round—through the rifle sight and into the eye of the shooter.
This is the vengeful, now one-eyed colonel who remains on the trail of the mercenaries for the rest of the film, subsisting on in-the-field injections of morphine, coaxing the headhunting savages with painted faces to hunt down his prey, and doing devilish things like kidnapping Kenny, trapping him in a ring of fire, and then driving away laughing assuming the boy is done for. He isn't—in a trick lifted from Lone Wolf and Cub, the boy digs under the earth to protect himself. While much of this strains credibility, little is as unlikely as the scene in which the group chances upon Chan's old army pal Louis, an American he knew in some war who's now chillin' in a hut with lots of girls, some weed, and several grenades strapped to his chest. Here, the mercenaries take refuge before the final confrontation, in which the rapidly dwindling parties of drug-runners, mercenaries, and even a tribe of headhunting savages engage in an explosive confrontation with more bullets - if it can be believed - than the ending of The Killer.
More bullets, but perhaps a slightly less assured command of spatial logic. Indeed, while Heroes Shed No Tears successfully paves Woo's entry in the modern action genre, it still lacks many of the distinctive traits of his best work. Some anomalies - like the terrible grass-hut bubble-bath sex scene which the studio added very much to the chagrin of the devoutly Christian Woo - are more interesting for this reason, but the film remains enthralled to a certain, very American kind of war film. Woo had not yet found his foothold nor the slick, urban style that would make him stand out from his contemporaries. Probably for this reason, the film - shot in 1983 - didn't even see the light of day until after the success of A Better Tomorrow's release.
What the film does have is guts, an almost reckless desire to blow the audience away that makes it nonetheless an intensely enjoyable experience, especially in contrast to Woo's more recent, utterly safe output. What it lacks in nuance it more than makes up for in, well, explosions. Woo shot the film in Thailand with a ragtag crew who were, it seems, largely mercenaries themselves, and according to the director, the special-effects technicians, such as they were, helped cut costs and save value production time by using live ammunition instead of squibs. In this instance, he claims, no one was hurt, but there are so many fiery explosions set off in the film that there must have been more than a few singed eyebrows.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Marvin Friedman: "You had to do what you had to do to get the work."
Circumstances seem to have changed dramatically as the 1950s drew to a close.
Below, a piece done around 1960 by Marvin Friedman. It was his first assignment from Cosmopolitan magazine. During most of the 1950s Cosmo typically ran five or six illustrations per issue, always assigning them to the best artists of that era. When Marvin began illustrating for Cosmo, things had changed. "Cosmopolitan was literally going down the tubes," he told me. "They were hanging on by their fingernails."
Marvin loved working for Cosmopolitan's AD, Anthony La Sala. "He was like a father to me," Marvin told me. "He used to take me out to dinner, he bought me clothes... Tony always found the money to pay me $2,500 for an illustration." With his art budget severely constrained, La Sala would approach museums and galleries and buy one-time limited reproduction right to famous paintings for $100 a piece - a sort of early-day version of what would now be considered a "stock art" purchase. La Sal would use these gallery images to illustrate most of his fiction stories, saving the bulk of his budget so he could commission one good illustration for one remaining story each month.
The 1960's would prove to be a challenging decade for Marvin and virtually every other illustrator trying to pursue a career in magazine illustration. As television stole away advertising revenue, page counts went down and magazine editors increasingly turned to photography in place of illustration. Only the truly determined artist could hope to snap up some of the fewer and fewer assignments. "I had to brown-nose," says Marvin, "I had to send liquor out at Christmastime - it was like any other business - you had to do what you had to do to get the work."
As a young boy Marvin Friedman dreamed of being like Norman Rockwell. Ironically, he has the dubious distinction of appearing in the last three issues of The Saturday Evening Post. "Frank Kilker was the art director then and he didn't say a word to me. He just gave me three or four stories to illustrate. He never told me they were about to fold."
"I mean I used to send out cake [to the art directors] with a note that said, 'Children starving, being evicted - please send work.'
Marvin had a lucky break with Boys' Life magazine - "My longest and biggest client," he says.
The assistant art director lived in the same town as Marvin, they had a chance meeting and took a liking to each other. "He gave me little spots at the back and the work just grew and grew and grew. They would send me all over the goddamn world, pay me $1,500, $2,000 a spread... it was like a 'wish thing' - a dream job."
For the purpose of our look at the economics of the illustration industry during the mid-20th century, the numbers Marvin quotes may be anecdotal and based on his personal circumstances, but are nonetheless telling.
They suggest that rates stopped rising during the 1950s and remained essentially flat from that point onward. When inflation is taken into account, rates were actually beginning to decline during this period, although the cost of living and the average annual income of a middle class family was relatively so low that it might not have been that readily apparent.
More obvious to the majority of illustrators would be a sudden decline in work from two of what had been consistent, lucrative markets: magazines and advertising.
Tomorrow: more anecdotal evidence of changing times.
* On October 26, from 7 to 9 pm, I'll be in Toronto at The Nook giving a talk about Marvin Friedman and many other mid-century illustrators whom I've written about over the last six years. I'll share stories and anecdotes - some from my research but also many from personal interviews I've conducted with many Canadian and American illustrators of the mid-20th century. I'll be looking at changing styles and technology and how both have impacted the business of illustration over the last half century. Perhaps we can learn something from the lessons of the past... or perhaps we are doomed to repeat it.
Also, there will be treats.
If you think you might like to attend, the details are at The Nook Collective website
This week, a preview of some of my discussion subjects.
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Yeah, unfortunately, that's sort of where all this is leading - but thanks for the confirmation, Anonymous. Yes, it really is pretty sad. Yet the urge to illustrate seems greater than ever. There are more talented and engaged artists creating wonderful illustrative art than ever -- despite the horrendous financial situation. Some are finding alternative outlets, but I think very few - only a tiny percentage - can ever hope to make the kind of living from their art that was once (relatively) common.
ReplyDeleteAmazing post, so much to think about. And worry about. I've been lucky enough to talk to some artists I grew up loving and have been astonished at what a hard time they are having. Sometimes it seems that there's a seismic shift away from illustration, but I don't think that's the case. I think the people buying art from us simply want to pay less. I'm about six years into my career and have worked with a number of publishers big and small and it's still a struggle. I'm still not quite making a living.
ReplyDeleteLeif, this thoughtful, independent sociological research that you perform is one of the most valuable aspects of TI, in my view. People have long discussed this great fall off in anecdotal terms but the original analysis you perform, made up of interviews and hard statistical evidence and contemporary reference material, really advances the field. This is important work, thanks for all you do.
I think the story you posted years ago about Andy Virgil's struggle to make a living during this era was especially heartbreaking. And Stanley Meltzoff's story from this same era is poignant too (although it had a happy ending as he re-invented himself).
I've always enjoyed that Friedman illustration of the dancer in the pink bikini. With all of the wild activity going on in that picture, that frenzy of black marks on the ceiling and along the wall, the stark, high contrast colors, etc. etc., it still comes together shrewdly composed so that your attention is unmistakably led back to that rear end. It isn't easy to stay in control of a picture that robust, but you can see how he accomplishes it: those men Friedman placed at the bar in compositional stepping stones; the thrust of her body into the center of the picture, Friedman's use of the highest contrasts to steer your eyes-- all very effective.
Or is it just me?Here's a note Bill Peckmann emailed to me, which is C&P'ed with his permission:
A big shout out "Hubba Hubba" to you and Mr. Friedman! I want to see more of his stuff, he's always kinda snuck by me, I didn't buy or see the magazines he appeared in, what a terrific artist!
The money angle is not easy readin', is it. My educated guess would be that in the age before TV, all the advertising bucks went to print and now the big bucks go to TV. Years ago (B.TV) the mags had a pretty nice viscous circle going, the more mags they sold with the help of great art, the more adv. revenue they got, the more revenue they got, the more they could pay for even better art which then sold more magazines.... Seems like everyone should have been a happy camper in those days, advertisers, artists, editors and especially the readers. (I know they all weren't, because of human nature being squabbly human nature, but on the whole if you look back on what was turned out and the livings that were made then, I'd say it was all working pretty good.)
And now in the age of TV, the even bigger adv.bucks are still there but they go to over paid entertainers, lavish productions, sport stars, etc. etc.....


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April 30, 2012
Advancement in rank: Faculty earn promotions, tenure
Submitted by Communications and Marketing
Seventy Kansas State University faculty members are receiving promotions in rank, while 47 faculty members are earning tenure.
The promotions include 22 faculty members to the rank of full professor, one faculty member to the rank of clinical professor, 46 faculty members to the rank of associate professor, and one faculty member to the rank of clinical associate professor. The promotions and tenure go into effect at the start of the university's 2013 fiscal year on July 1.
Faculty members who have earned promotion to full professor are: Laura Brannon, psychology; Delores Chambers, human nutrition; Rollie Clem, biology; Anita Dille, agronomy; Gary Gadbury, statistics; Keith Gido, biology; Troy Harding, engineering technology, K-State Salina; Jun Li, chemistry; Steven Keeley, horticulture, forestry and recreation resources; Tod Kerstetter, music; Kimberly Kirkpatrick, psychology; Yoonseong Park, entomology; Donna Potts, English; K C Olson, animal sciences and industry; Walter Renberg, clinical sciences; Brett Sandercock, biology; Eric Shappee, aviation, K-State Salina; Jimmy Splichal, aviation, K-State Salina; Daniel Thomson, clinical sciences; Weiqun "George" Wang, human nutrition; Melinda Wilkerson, diagnostic medicine and pathobiology; and Kimberly With, biology. Laurie Beard, clinical sciences, has earned promotion to clinical professor.
Earning tenure and promotion to associate professor are: Christine Aikens, chemistry; Eduard Akhunov, plant pathology; Raylene Alexander, aviation, K-State Salina; Jennifer Anthony, chemical engineering; Chardie Baird, sociology, anthropology and social work; Joyce Baptist, family studies and human services; Regina Beard, faculty and graduate services, K-State Libraries; Jason Bergtold, agricultural economics; Ethan Bernick, political science; Vikas Berry, chemical engineering; Humberto Blanco, agronomy, Agricultural Research Center in Hays; Jamene Brooks-Kieffer, content development and acquisitions, K-State Libraries; Bradley Burenheide, curriculum and instruction; Aaron Carlstrom, special education, counseling and student affairs; Jianhan Chen, biochemistry; Doina Caragea, computing and information sciences; Xuanjuan "Jane" Chen, finance; Tara Coleman, Web services, K-State Libraries; Royce Ann Collins, educational leadership; Satoris Culbertson, psychology; Saugata Datta, geology; Maria DePaoli, modern languages; Hulya Dogan, grain science and industry; Peying Fong, anatomy and physiology; Ganga Hettiarachchi, agronomy; Derek Hoff, history; Johnathon Holman, agronomy, Southwest Research-Extension Center in Garden City; Ronette Gehring, clinical sciences; John Jaeger, animal sciences and industry, Agricultural Research Center in Hays; Justin Kastner, diagnostic medicine and pathobiology; Michael Krysko, history; Deon van der Merwe, diagnostic medicine and pathobiology; Theodore "Ted" Morgan, biology; Sam Mwangi, journalism and mass communications; Thu Annelise Nguyen, diagnostic medicine and pathobiology; Chihyung Ok, hospitality management and dietetics; Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao, entomology; Xinming "Simon" Ou, computing and information sciences; Sunghun Park, horticulture, forestry and recreation resources; Jason Scuilla, art; Weixing Song, statistics; Tesfaye Tesso, agronomy; Glynn Tonsor, agricultural economics; Victor Turchin, mathematics; Praveen Vadlani, grain science and industry; and Han Yu, English.
Emily Klocke, clinical sciences, has earned promotion to clinical associate professor. Matthew Totten, associate professor of geology, has earned tenure.


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2月3日 公然斷絕關係
February 3 Becoming the "Filth of the
We have been made as the filth of the
world . . . —1 Corinthians 4:13
These words are not an exaggeration. The only reason they may not be
true of us who call ourselves ministers of the gospel is not that Paul forgot
or misunderstood the exact truth of them, but that we are too cautious and
concerned about our own desires to allow ourselves to become the refuse or
"filth of the world." "Fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions
of Christ . . ." (Colossians 1:24) is not the result of the holiness of
sanctification, but the evidence of consecration-being "separated to the gospel
of God . . ." (Romans 1:1).
"Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to
try you . . ." (1 Peter 4:12). If we do think the things we encounter are
strange, it is because we are fearful and cowardly. We pay such close attention
to our own interests and desires that we stay out of the mire and say, "I won't
submit; I won't bow or bend." And you don't have to— you can be saved by the
"skin of your teeth" if you like. You can refuse to let God count you as one
who is "separated to the gospel . . . ." Or you can say, "I don't care if I am
treated like 'the filth of the world' as long as the gospel is proclaimed." A
true servant of Jesus Christ is one who is willing to experience martyrdom for
the reality of the gospel of God. When a moral person is confronted with contempt,
immorality, disloyalty, or dishonesty, he is so repulsed by the offense that he
turns away and in despair closes his heart to the offender. But the miracle of
the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can
never exhaust the depths of His love. Paul did not say that God separated him
to show what a wonderful man He could make of him, but "to reveal His Son in
me. . ." (Galatians 1:16).


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FDA requires lower doses for sleep medications (Update)
(HealthDay)—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it is asking manufacturers of sleep medications containing zolpidem—including Ambien—to lower the recommended doses and to provide more safety information to patients.
These sleep medications include Ambien, Ambien CR, Edluar and Zolpimist, as well as generic versions of Ambien and Ambien CR.
Officials are concerned that blood levels of zolpidem are high enough the morning after taking the drugs to continue to impair one's ability to perform certain activities.
"The purpose of the lowering is to help decrease the risk of next-morning impairment of activities that require alertness," said Dr. Ellis Unger, director of the Office of Drug Evaluation I at the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "We're particularly concerned about driving. A large fraction of the population drives and driving is an inherently dangerous activity."
Lowering the nighttime dose means there will be less residual drug in the blood by the time the person wakes up. Extended-release forms of the drugs tend to stay in the body longer.
The FDA has told manufacturers that recommended doses for women should be cut in half, from 10 milligrams to 5 milligrams for immediate-release products (Ambien, Edluar and Zolpimist) and from 12.5 mg to 6.25 mg for extended-release products (Ambien CR).
For men, the agency has asked manufacturers to change the labeling to recommend that doctors and other health-care professionals consider prescribing lower doses, meaning 5 mg for immediate-release products and 6.25 mg for extended-release products.
In explaining the different recommendations for men and women, Unger said at a midday news conference that "women appear to be more susceptible to risk for next-morning impairment because they eliminate zolpidem from their bodies more slowly."
It's not clear why women eliminate the substance from their bodies more slowly than men.
Although there have been reports of adverse events, including motor vehicle accidents possibly related to zolpidem, the link has not and probably cannot be definitely established, Unger said.
The changes were spurred by new driving-simulation studies showing that currently prescribed levels of drugs containing zolpidem may be high enough to impair alertness the next day, he explained.
The FDA will be requiring driving-simulation studies for new sleep medications, and it is assessing other insomnia medications on the market. Eventually, Unger said, "we want driving data on all sleep medications."
Unger emphasized that next-day impairment is not limited to medications containing zolpidem but to all sleep medications.
"For all sleep medications, doctors should prescribe and patients should take the lowest dose," he said.
People taking any kind of sleep medication should not change their dose without first talking to their health-care professional, he stressed.
More information: Visit the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for more about next-morning impairment.
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