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FAN 123 (First Amendment News) When you think of free speech, think of "45" — New book by Stephen Solomon explains why
It is said that the dead live on the lips of the living. And so it was at the Floyd Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression at Yale Law School last Friday when it co-hosted the tenth First Amendment Salon.
The discussion centered around Professor Stephen D. Solomon's new book Revolutionary Dissent: How the Founding Generation Created the Freedom of Speech (2016).
Speaking before a full house at YLS, Professors Akhil Amar and Nadine Strossen joined in the exchange with Professor Solomon. The event was introduced by Floyd Abrams and was video-cast live to audiences at the offices of Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz in New York and Washington, D.C.
Much of the lively discussion focused on dissenting speech (including symbolic expression) in the revolutionary era. In the course of an animated, opinionated, and sophisticated dialogue, there were several references to the number "45" and its significance in the history of free speech. So why?
Here is where Professor Solomon's well-researched book came into play (as the excerpts below reveal):
— "[T]he number forty-five [was] symbolically linked to John Wilkes, a member of Parliament who gained renown for going to jail after criticizing the king in the forty-fifth issue of the newspaper [The North Briton] he published" in 1763.
–– "First in England and then in America, those who sympathized with Wilkes began engaging in an endless variety of symbolic protests with the number forty-five as the common theme."
— "On the evening of March 14, 1770, a prison guard opened the doors of Alexander McDougall's jail cell so that visitors could enter. There were forty-five visitors, to be exact, and all of them were women. . . . For publicity sake — and all of this was for publicity sake — the forty-five women had been described to the public as virgins. McDougall had been jailed for criticizing the royal governor and the New York general assembly, and his supporters aimed to to draw attention to him as a martyr for the cause of liberty."
— "In 1769, the Boston Gazette noted that forty-five ladies engaged in spinning linen and cotton, providing cloth to replace the British goods boycotted in the non-importation agreements. The Sons of Liberty in Boston made a procession of forty-five carriages, while . . . [at] an orchard outside Charleston, patriots decorated their Liberty Tree [see above] with forty-five lights and fired forty-five rockets."
There is more, to be sure, but you'll have to read Revolutionary Dissent to find out what you're missing.
→ One more notable point: The text of the First Amendment contains, yes, 45 words!
Amar & Strossen channel Madison
One of the high moment of the event came toward the end when Amar began to recite portions of James Madison's November 27, 1794 speech in Congress. As soon as he begun to mouth the opening words, Strossen joined in memorized unison and harmony: "If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people."
→ A video of this salon will be posted in an upcoming issue of FAN.
→ The next salon will be held in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, December 8th and will involve a dialogue between David Cole (the new National Legal Director for the ACLU) and Jess Bravin (the WSJ Supreme Court correspondent).
Headline: "Supreme Court won't block Senate subpoena for Backpage.com"
This from Josh Gerstein writing in Politico: "The Supreme Court has refused to block a Senate panel's subpoena seeking records from Backpage.com about the prevalence of ads for sexual services, including incidents of minors being sexually trafficked via the site. Chief Justice John Roberts stepped in last week, temporarily halting enforcement of the subpoena from the investigative subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee while the high court considered the stay application. However, in an order Tuesday, the court denied the stay sought by the online classified-ad website Backpage and its CEO Carl Ferrer. No justice publicly dissented from the court's action, although Justice Samuel Alito indicated he recused himself from the case. . . ."
MN high court to review law outlawing adult sex-texting to minors
This from Brandon Stahl writing in the Star Tribune: "The Minnesota Supreme Court will take up a case looking at whether a state law banning adults from sexting with minors is unconstitutional."
"In what became known across some internet forums as the 'Lunch Lady sexting case,' Dakota County prosecutors charged Krista Ann Muccio with two felonies in 2014 after she was accused of exchanging nude photos and lewd texts with a 15-year-old boy.
"Muccio, 43, met the boy when he was in 8th grade while she worked at the Inver Grove Heights middle school and high school cafeteria, according to court records. The two began texting in June 2014. That November the boy's father found nude photos sent by Muccio on his son's iPad. Police later found texts from Muccio writing that she wanted to have sex with the teen."
"Muccio sought to dismiss the first count, communication with a minor describing sexual conduct, arguing that one of the laws Dakota County accused her of breaking instead violated the First Amendment's protection of freedom of speech."
"Minnesota's law makes it illegal for anyone to engage "in communication with a child or someone the person reasonably believes is a child, relating to or describing sexual conduct.'
"Muccio's attorney argued that the law was so broad that it could capture constitutionally protected speech. . . ."
Campus Free Speech
- Alex Morely, Professors Standing Up for Freedom of Association at Harvard, FIRE, September 13, 2016
- Robert Shibley, New Video of Last Year's Yale Halloween Costume Confrontation Emerges, FIRE, September 13, 2016
- Zach Greenberg, Berkeley Protesters Attack College Republicans, Campus Police Let It Happen, FIRE, September 13, 2016
- Rick Ruggles, UNL chancellor's comments spark free-speech debate, Omaha World-Herald, Sepetember 12, 2016
- Daniel Jacobson, Freedom of Speech Under Assault on Campus , Cato Institute Policy Analysis (2016)
- Aleister, Study Confirms Free Speech is Under Assault on College Campuses, Legal Insurrection, September 10, 2016
Coming to Brown University: "Should Free Speech be Limited on College Campuses?"
The Political Theory Project at Brown University invites you to our annual Constitution Day Lecture on Thursday, September 15 at 5 pm in Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106 at Brown University.
This year, our featured speakers Stanley Fish, Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education will present their opposing viewpoints on the issue of free speech on college campuses.
This event is free and open to the public.
Upcoming Event: Signs and Speech One Year After Reed
Today the State & Local Legal Cenetr will host an event at 1:00 pm (ET) entitled "Signs and Speech One Year After Reed."
Last summer the Supreme Court declared part of the Town of Gilbert's sign code unconstitutional ruling that content-based regulations are subject to strict scrutiny. John M. Baker, Greene Espel, will discuss how local governments have been modifying their sign codes to come into compliance with Reed v. Town of Gilbert, Arizona and how courts have interpreted the Reed decision in and out of the sign context.
The webinar is FREE. Continuing legal education (CLE) credit is not offered.
→ Register here
Bill Maher to receive PEN First Amendment Award
Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Carolyn Kellogg reports that "[t]alk show host Bill Maher will be presented with PEN center USA's First Amendment Award at the organization's 26th Literary Awards this month. The award has previously been given to journalists Chris Hedges, Robert Scheer and Charles Bowden; Glenn Greenwald and documentarian Laura Poitras; Hugh Hefner; and former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who went to prison after leaking information about interrogation practices. . . ."
Forthcoming Book
- Milton Cantor, The First Amendment under Fire: America's Radicals, Congress, and the Courts (Transaction Publishers, January 31, 2017)
New & Forthcoming Scholarly Articles
- Andrew Gilden, Punishing Sexual Fantasy, William & Mary Law Review (forthcoming 2016-17)
- Timothy McGettigan, Survival of the Fittest Ideas: The Enduring Importance of Free Speech on Campus, SSRN (Sept. 4, 2016)
- Adam Dunbar, Charis Kubrin & Nicholas Scorch, The Threatening Nature of 'Rap' Music, Psychology, Public Policy and Law (2016)
- Daniel Jacobson, Freedom of Speech Under Assault on Campus , Cato Institute Policy Analysis (2016)
Volokh on proposed Consumer Review Fairness Act
→ Eugene Volokh, Congress to allow special restrictions on speech 'inappropriate with respect to race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or other intrinsic characteristic'?, The Volokh Conspiracy, September 13, 2016
"On Monday the House of Representatives passed the Consumer Review Fairness Act, which would invalidate most form contracts that limit consumer reviews of businesses. If a business purports to require consumers not to criticize the business (see the KlearGear controversy), that contract would be unenforceable, and the Federal Trade Commission and state enforcement agencies would be able to take action against such a business even if it didn't try to sue for breach of the contract. The Senate passed a similar bill last year. . . ."
"[W]hat struck me about the law is its exemption of certain kinds of contracts (see subsection (b)(3)): The law 'shall not apply to the extent that a provision of a form contract prohibits . . . submission of," among other things, material that "contains the personal information or likeness of another person, or is libelous, harassing, abusive, obscene, vulgar, sexually explicit, or is inappropriate with respect to race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or other intrinsic characteristic' (emphasis added)."
"So speech on all sorts of viewpoints would be protected by the proposed law, even against private contractual restrictions. A business couldn't require users to agree to a contract that forbids critical reviews. A fur store couldn't do the same as to anti-fur reviews; a restaurant couldn't do the same to reviews that faulted it for serving foie gras. A business whose owner was pro-Donald Trump, and who was afraid that clients would learn this and would then publicly excoriate him for it, couldn't do the same as to anti-Trump reviews. But contracts barring speech that "is inappropriate" (whatever that is) "with respect to race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or other intrinsic characteristic" would remain perfectly legal."
"That, I think, is a very bad idea, and indeed an unconstitutional idea. Should Congress be free to set up one set of contract law rules for contracts dealing with "unpatriotic speech" and another for contracts dealing with other viewpoints? A special set of contract law rules for contracts dealing with speech that 'is inappropriate with respect to veteran status,' differing from rules related to other speech? A special set of contract law rules for contracts dealing with speech that condemned a business's environmental practices? I don't think so — and Congress likewise shouldn't set up rules allowing special restrictions (not applicable to other speech) on "inappropriate" speech "with respect to race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or other intrinsic characteristic.' . . . ."
News, Editorials, Op-Eds & Blog Posts
- Noah Feldman, Shady Sex Ads May Have Some First Amendment Protection, Bloomberg View, September 13, 2016
- Awr Hawkins, Couric Anti-Gun Doc Director: Lawsuit Over Deceptive Edits An Attack on First Amendment, Breitbart, September 13, 2016
- Mike Bibb, Do school kids have First Amendment rights?, Eastern Arizona Courier, September 13, 2016
- DOJ To Researchers: First Amendment Does Not Protect Violating Websites' Terms Of Services, TechDirt, September 12, 2016
- Michael Cadigan, New rules for public comment has people fearing for their First Amendment Rights, Fox4, September 12, 2016
- Steven Aftergood, Terrorism and the First Amendment, & More from CRS, Federation of American Scientists, September 12, 2016
- Lisa Colangelo, Probe says speech in anti-Semitic CUNY incidents is covered by First Amendment, Daily News, September 10, 2016
- Jonathan Turley, Planned Parenthood Law Criticized As Major Rollback on Free Speech and Press Freedoms, Res Ipsa Loquitur, September 8, 2016
- Paul Bedard, FEC commissioner warns Dems are gunning for conservative media, Washington Examiner, September 7, 2016
- Sam Roberts, Richard Neville, 74, a Founder of '60s Counterculture Magazine Oz, Dies, New York Times, September 6, 2016
- Wake Forest's John Dinan says 2016 election could sway First Amendment rulings, John Locke Foundation, September 12, 2016
- Julian Assange, Obama & Hillary Clinton disregard first amendment, September 8, 2016
This Day in First Amendment History (from Today in Civil Liberties History)
The Court's 2016-2017 First Amendment Free Expression Docket
Pending Petitions*
- Pfeil v. St. Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession
- NCAA v. O'Bannon
- Mech v. School Board of Palm Beach County
- Bondi v. Dana's Railroad Supply
- Flytenow v. Federal Aviation Administration
- Armstrong v. Thompson
- Williams v. Coalition for Secular Government
- Wolfson v. Concannon
- Lee v. Tam
- Dart v. Backpage.com
- Pro-Football v. Blackhorse
- Packingham v. North Carolina
→ The Court's next Conference is on September 26, 2016.
* Though these lists are not comprehensive, I try to track as many cases as possible. If you know of a cert. petition that is not on these lists, kindly inform me and I will post it.
Last Scheduled FAN, #122: Alito's prophesy? Cert. petition in Gov. Speech case raises questions about future of doctrine
Next Scheduled FAN, #124: Wednesday, September 21, 2016


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Study could not evaluate drug's long-term effects on diabetes prevention, length of effects
The Insulin Resistance Intervention after Stroke trial (IRIS) recently found that the thiazolidinedione (TZD) drug pioglitazone reduced the risk of fatal and non-fatal stroke and myocardial infarction (heart attack) by 24 percent in people with cerebrovascular disease—a group of conditions that affects the flow of blood to the brain. This secondary analysis of the data collected in the IRIS trial examined pioglitazone's effect on diabetes prevention in a large group of non-diabetic stroke patients with insulin resistance, including many people who had prediabetes. The analysis found that pioglitazone reduced progression to diabetes by 52 percent.
"While previous studies have shown that TZD medications can reduce diabetes risk, this is the first to show they can do so in a group of patients with established cardiovascular disease. It's also the first time a glucose-lowering drug has been shown to both reduce diabetes and also reduce the risk of cardiovascular complications in the same study," said lead investigator Silvio E. Inzucchi, MD, Director of the Yale Diabetes Center.
Recently, the IRIS trial found that pioglitazone was associated with decreased risk for stroke or myocardial infarction by 24% compared to placebo in nondiabetic, insulin resistant patients with ischemic stroke or TIA. Results also showed that pioglitazone was linked to decreased blood pressure, decreased CRP, and increased HDL cholesterol.
The study included 3,876 participants (mean age 63.5 years, 65% male, mean baseline HbA1c 5.8, mean baseline HOMA-IR 5.4). Fifty-two percent of participants met diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome at baseline. Participants were at least 40 years old and had had an ischemic stroke or TIA in the past six months. They had evidence of insulin resistance as defined by HOMA-IR >3.0 on a screening blood test, but had not yet developed diabetes. Participants were randomized to placebo or pioglitazone starting at 15 mg daily and titrated as tolerated up to 45 mg daily. Diabetes onset was assessed with periodic interviews and annual FPG tests. An independent committee of diabetes experts blinded to treatment assignment determined diabetes diagnosis based on 2004 ADA guidelines, or other pre-specified indicators of hyperglycemia. The trial was conducted at 179 sites in Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, the UK, and the US.
Some of the key results at one year showed that:
- Pioglitazone: mean HOMA-IR decreased significantly by 24% from baseline, FPG also decreased significantly (both P<0.0001)
- Placebo: At one year, mean HOMA-IR increased significantly by 7% from baseline, FPG also increased significantly FPG (both P<0.0001)
- After a median follow-up of 4.8 years
- Pioglitazone: 73 (3.8%) developed diabetes
- Placebo: 149 (7.7%) developed diabetes
- Pioglitazone was linked to 52% lower risk of developing diabetes (hazard ratio, 0.48 [95% CI 0.33–0.69]; P<0.0001)
- A sensitivity analysis that accounted for updated 2010 ADA guidelines showed similar results
- The pioglitazone group had more weight gain, edema, and bone fractures than placebo. Heart failure incidence or hospitalization for heart failure did not increase with pioglitazone.
- No difference in cancer (including bladder cancer) existed between groups.
The authors highlighted that the preventive effect of pioglitazone was driven mainly by participants with increased risk of diabetes progression, such as those with metabolic syndrome, impaired FPG, increased HbA1c, and worse insulin resistance at baseline. However, they added, "The absence of a statistically significant interaction between baseline FPG or baseline HbA1c and treatment effect does suggest that pioglitazone may prevent not only the conversion of prediabetes to diabetes, but also the development of diabetes in normoglycemic individuals who have insulin resistance. The absolute risk reduction in the latter category is, however, small."
The results of the study could not evaluate whether pioglitazone has long-term effects on diabetes prevention or if its effects are temporary.
The authors concluded that, "Pioglitazone is the first pharmacological agent demonstrated in a single trial to both prevent diabetes and improve cardiovascular outcomes in patients at increased risk for these sequelae. More broadly, the results lend support to the notion that diabetes prevention through insulin sensitization could potentially be associated with important cardiovascular benefits."
Practice Pearls:
- Results from the Insulin Resistance after Stroke (IRIS) trial suggest that pioglitazone may be the first anti-diabetes agent to prevent diabetes progression and improve cardiovascular outcomes in patients with insulin resistance and recent stroke or TIA.
- Past results from IRIS suggest pioglitazone is associated with 24% decreased risk for stroke or myocardial infarction compared to placebo.
- Pioglitazone decreased the risk of diabetes progression by 52% compared to placebo.
- The preventive effect of pioglitazone was driven mainly by participants with increased risk of diabetes progression, such as those with metabolic syndrome, impaired FPG, increased HbA1c, and worse insulin resistance at baseline.
Inzucchi SE, et al. Pioglitazone prevents diabetes in insulin-resistant patients with cerebrovascular disease. Diabetes Care. 2016 Jul 27.
Kernan WN, et al; IRIS Trial Investigators. Pioglitazone after ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack. N Engl J Med. 2016;374:1321-1331.
Stroke (IRIS) trial published online in Diabetes Care.

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The New Yorker piece mentioned the various biker tribe in New York (I wonder where I fall on that typology?). But it omitted the most commonly seen biker in New York: the delivery men bringing you bike haters dinner. I guess the illegal immigrants just don't count. Except when they bike on the sidewalk. A shame. Because they're the ones most in danger, forced to bike against traffic on Manhattan's Avenues, and too poor to afford lights, helmets, bells, and all the other accoutrements of T.A.-like yuppie-bike-dom.
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While it probably would have been nice to take an Amtrak train to one of the national parks whose operations you were able to maintain, there is work to be done. You must find a way to mend the federal budget without placing an undue burden on a single demographic. Making us all hurt a little while accomplishing a lot will make you look like a hero. To do otherwise will make you as likable as snot. So please keep all your options available moving forward on this challenging issue while being sure not to dish out too much pain to anyone in particular. Be sure not to forget about Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid and the military when you're trying to cut costs. They accounted for 63 percent of all spending in 2010 while all other discretionary spending like national parks, the Environmental Protection Agency and other programs accounted for 19 percent.
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Combination measures along the lines of cut-a-little, tax-a-little offer the best approach to balancing the budget long term. Many of your colleagues would like to see the budget balanced strictly with cuts. They have said we don't have a revenue problem we have a spending problem. But our top federal tax rate (for the wealthiest Americans) has dropped from 70 percent from when one of my favorite presidents, Dwight Eisenhower was in office to 35 percent today. So a slight increase in the top rates would not be historically unprecedented.
Thank you for reading and for serving our state and district Mr. and Mrs. Congressman. I look forward to reading whichever form-letter your intern mails to me.


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In the year 2000 an emergency excavation was conducted to recover skeletal material from an unmarked graveyard in the Fontabelle section of Bridgetown, Barbados. Though poorly preserved, the osteological analyses supported the archaeological and socio-contextual evidence that these individuals were most likely members of the city's enslaved and freedmen populations from the mid-17th and 18th centuries.
While definitive, one further question remained. What was the macro-ethnic affiliation of these individuals, and would the results support these assessments? To help answer this question, a pilot study was performed that involved the extraction of mtDNA from several fragmented elements, including one cranial fragment, three femora, and two teeth. PCR amplification of hypervariable regions I and II of the mtDNA was successful from one femur and one tooth. Initial analysis of the mutations present in the amplified mtDNA indicates that both samples belonged to individual(s) from haplogroup L, thus suggesting an African origin of the human remains.


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Enlightenment as a One-Step Procedure
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
"To know the unlimited, be free of the limited." –Ray Grigg
Taking a step into enlightenment and thus freedom could be as simple as a one-step procedure:
Using the "I and the it" perspective on a conscious, persistent basis.
With that said, the rest of this article, may simply be considered a recap of the past two ("Ultimate Power …" and "I and it … Thought Experiment".
Some Definitions
Enlightenment: 'Enlightenment in a secular context often means the "full comprehension of a situation", but in spiritual terms the word alludes to a spiritual revelation or deep insight into the meaning and purpose of all things, communication with or understanding of the mind of God, profound spiritual understanding or a fundamentally changed consciousness whereby everything is perceived as a unity.' – Wikipedia
Higher Self: 'Higher self is a new age term associated with multiple belief systems, but its basic premise describes an eternal, omnipotent, conscious, and intelligent being, who is one's real self. Blavatsky formally defined the higher self as "Atma the inseparable ray of the Universal and ONE SELF. It is the God above, more than within, us".' -Wikipedia
Ego-Based Self: When I use this term, I refer to that aspect of a person which is motivated based on fear and survival, e.g. as illustrated by Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
The "it" Perspective
The it is the ego-based self. We usually identify with the it. Our self-image, our concept of who we truly are, is based on the it's perspective.
This is a well-entrenched "myth" that 99% of us, usually unconsciously, subscribe to and from which we derive fleeting happiness or pain from our interactions and external experiences.
The it identifies with the body, one's thoughts and feelings, roles (e.g. friend, husband, parent, boss, career, etc.) and other material possessions.
An example most of us are familiar with is dealing with loss (for example, grieving) and attachment.
Since nothing (that is, no material thing) really lasts forever and there is no such thing as certainty, taking things from the 'it' perspective, no one is spared from the pain and sorrow in this world.
The 'I' Perspective
The primary activity when taking 'the I and the it' perspective is to take the point of view of the I. Taking things from the angle of the I, the it is then observed. The environment and external experiences, including one's own thoughts and feelings are viewed, as from a movie screen, as happening to the it.
The responsibility of the I would be to extend love and compassion to the it.
The attitude of the I as it observes the it is one that is curious, open, nurturing, attentive and accepting.
Using the pronoun 'it' the I observes without judgment the going-about's of the it:
· it is getting up from bed
· it is brushing it's teeth
· it is feeling fidgety waiting in line at the bank
· it is feeling hungry
· it is thinking habitual thoughts
· it is thinking happy thoughts
Thoughts and feelings that are chosen, as mentioned in the article "The I and the it … A Thought Experiment", as acts of choice or free will, I attribute to the 'I', as I would for the experience of conscious awareness.
Stumbling Blocks in Practicing "the I and the it" Perspective
I have stumbled upon this potentially powerful practice of using 'the I and the it' perspective two decades ago, but was not quite able to assimilate it into my life as a habit. Here are some things I should probably have known 20 years ago:
1. One can only understand the lesson if one is ready for it
2. The practice needs to be observed for at least 21 days before it can develop into a habit
3. One needs to be consciously aware of one's thoughts and feelings as one goes about daily life
Lacking the last item, conscious awareness, had the most significance as far as hindering my practice of using the perspective in finally obtaining an enlightened perspective.
Conscious awareness as one goes about in daily life, as I learned through those decades, is not easy to come by in our day and age where the rule is to keep constantly busy with 'something'. In reality, our thoughts are spinning away, out of our conscious control, busy with the cares of everyday life. Wikipedia has an article on mindfulness ('sati').
A quiet mind is not only important to our well-being but also essential to peak performances.
Unity through the I and the it
I've started tossing seemingly conflicting ideas, philosophies and religions in mind and wonder whether the use of the I and the it perspective fosters a convergence of ideas on a deeper level?
The ego-based it, fear-based and struggling for survival, is the one that has a self-image that is flimsy and constantly needs to be defended.
Will the Christian I and the non-Christian I agree that it is their it that is in disagreement?
Will the theist I and the atheist I agree that it is their it that is in disagreement?
More Frontiers to Explore
Will there come a time when the it's perspective be in total harmony with the I's perspective?
Or as humans, will we always have a separation between our ego-based desires and those of our Higher Self?
While on the earthly plane, can the ego-based self completely merge into the Higher Self, so that all its desires originate from the will of the Higher Self? Is this the way of the mystic?
Or is this possible only once we have crossed over and decided to follow the Light to His Heavenly Kingdom?
Perhaps I should revisit the book "Embracing the Light", for additional insights.
"Those who are defensive do not understand; those who understand have nothing to defend. The sage, by emptying of convictions, moves in accord with the way of things." - Ray Grigg
For those who seek answers to the questions posted within this article, insights may be gained from: How to Know Higher Worlds.
"the Self that does not lay claims to being anything (e.g. Higher); the Self that simply is" - Awesomely put, in my opinion! : )
"view physical reality as just another layer of our existence" Yes, I can certainly agree with this statement as well.
I honestly think that many times, semantics/linguistics are often confusing, resulting in misunderstandings. Hence I keep telling people to work on their telepathic abilities. In my opinion, that would lessen the chances of one being misunderstood.
Fun discussion! All the best.
Greetings Mr. Quirinus,
the White Wolf has a few comments to make from his perspective. Overall, the article is quite good. The couple of things to be mentioned are mainly regarding linguistics.
The term "higher self" seems a little high on itself. Another word(s) could be the "complete self", or the self in "totality".
"One's real self" is also questionable. This three dimentional perspective is quite real, I would say. One can always walk into the bathroom, look in the mirror and slap themselves a couple of times in order to test this claim of mine. (lol)
I am of the opinion that there are many realities, many doors of perception and that none should be disregarded or referred to as an illusion. Again, this is just a matter of semantics and/or linguistics, therefore this comment is just for the sake of the conversation.
I enjoyed the read. Cheers!


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Comparison of Wells Fargo's stock performance
Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE:WFC) is currently the second-largest US bank based on its market capitalization. The bank was largely hit by the financial credit crisis back in 2008-2009, but managed to survive and the stock price performed nicely ever since it reached its lowest low of $8 in March 2009.
The stock price performance of WFC from 2009 until the beginning of 2016 was somewhat comparable with the stock performance of JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) as we can see from the chart below. Both these stocks outperformed their peers Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and Citigroup (NYSE:C).
Source: stockcharts.com
When we look at the chart from 01/01/2016 to today (23/02/2017), we get the following performance:
Source: stockcharts.com
From this chart, we can see the order of winners has not changed. JPM stays the strongest performer followed by WFC. BAC has realized a strong run-up in stock performance, the stock increased the strongest since Donald Trump was elected and the banking stocks started their strong uptrend. The main reason why BAC has been strongest performer can be explained by its interest rate sensitivity. An increase in interest rates will bring the greatest benefit to BAC compared with its peers. In 2016, the Federal Reserve increased interest rates and further rate hikes are expected in 2017.
For Wells Fargo, 2016 was not the best year in its history. On 8 September 2016, the account scandal came to light and caused stockholders to sell their positions in Wells Fargo. The stock price declined to 2.5-year lows as a consequence of this news during September and even resulted in CEO John Stumpf's resignation. As I wrote in my previous article on WFC, this scandal has surely had its impact on the reputation of Wells. While the reputation of Wells Fargo has taken a hit, we don't think this effect will be material enough to be a threat to its long-term profitability. In the paragraph below, we will take a closer look into the long-term fundamentals of WFC.
Long-term fundamentals of Wells Fargo
The fundamentals of Wells Fargo have been steadily increasing in the past years. Total revenue, operating income, EPS and dividends have all been increasing steadily. This stock has seen a solid performance in its fundamental values and we believe this will conti nue into the future. The interest rates are currently increasing in the U.S. and this will further strengthen the profitability of Wells Fargo.
Source: YCharts.com
When we compare the operating margin and the return on equity of Wells Fargo with its peers, we can see WFC has been the strongest performer for both measures.
Source: YCharts.com
When we look at the most recent quarter of WFC, we can see the following:
The net interest income increased in line with the prior quarters. This is the result of an increase in its loans and securities and higher interest income. The non-interest income took a hit in Q4 due to adverse movements on its interest rate hedges. This does not indicate a weakening of its income profile, just a one-off hit pulling down the EPS for this quarter. A growth in both loans and deposits. This is important and the growth WFC can realize here in the coming months will play a key role in determining whether the scandal of 2016 was a significant hit to it or not. For the moment, we don't see these numbers declining.
Source: Wells Fargo corporate website
Trade opportunity
Considering these points, we still see room for further stock price appreciation in WFC. In my previous article on WFC, I compared the profit profile of an investment in WFC common stock with an investment in call options on WFC.
For the second alternative, I advised purchasing $55 call options on Wells Fargo with an expiration date in January 2018. This call option contract gives the holder the right to purchase 100 shares of WFC at $55 on any time before 19 January 2018. At the time of writing that article, the premium of one call option contract was $540.
The table below demonstrates the price appreciation for each investment alternative, assuming the positions were initiated the moment I wrote the previous article:
As you can see, the call options have appreciated with 20% in value, while the common stock only appreciated 4.3%.
In the coming months, we expect Wells Fargo to continue its uptrending stock performance. Purchasing call options today is still a superior alternative to purchasing the common stock because of the following reasons:
The risk of this option investment is limited to the debit amount paid for the call option contract. This is much lower than a purchase of 100 Wells Fargo shares would cost currently. The implied volatility of WFC is currently below its actual volatility, which means the options are underpriced based on their volatility. The expiration date of these options is far dated, which gives the options plenty of time to appreciate in value. The return on investment in the WFC call options is leveraged compared to an investment in WFC common stock.
In conclusion, Wells Fargo has been a strong performer in the past decade. The stock price outperformed its peers but has decelerated in 2016 when the account scandal came to light. We don't believe this scandal will be a significant threat to the long-term performance of Wells Fargo. While it reputation took a hit, it seems like the market overreacted to this event.
At the current price level, we would prefer a long position in Wells Fargo call options for the reasons mentioned above.
Disclosure: I am/we are long WFC CALLS.
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does anyone know the difference between lucid dreaming and imagination? In a way you can say imagination is like day dreaming because you can have a picture of what you are thinking in your head. This happened to me like 3 weeks ago, i was talking to my friend and then i 'imagined' that i was touching raindrops and i could actually feel the coldness and wetness of it on my hands. After this i tried it a bit more and i could do it whenever i wanted to. It was just cool and a bit freaky.
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in a dream anything goes. many times in very vivid dreams i have eaten, been drinking touching people, but i was not lucid, as it was all without me saying: now i will drink or eat. etc. at least that is how i understand, being lucid
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#702 When there is "a picture within a picture"
Taking great pics is what we're all about, isn't it?
Well, not quite, 'cause in this world of digital photography, a picture isn't necessarily a great picture before it is taken to the cleaners. Meaning undergoing a sequence of post-processing….:-) So post-processing skills are part and parcel of what is required to deliver the great pics we crave.
But there is more than "just" processing pics. We need to "see" the potential of a picture. The easiest way to establish that is to go back in time to a shoot we did some time ago, and look at the pics we left unprocessed. The odds are, we will want to process some of these "discarded" shots, and, more often than not, we will find value in them. In my case, I seldom do this without increasing my yield of postable pictures by at least 10%. It feels like reprocessing waste from gold extraction, and getting yet more gold.
Is that it, then? Take the pic, process the A-list. Enjoy. Go back for a B-list. Process. Enjoy?
Nope, for there may be more gems in your pile IMHO. Cases when we have "a picture within a picture". I am not talking here of cropping. Sometimes it takes including extreme cropping to get the best possible result, and, with cameras offering a resolution above 40Mp, extreme cropping can be extreme indeed. But that is still a one-image-per-shot yield. At best, 2 different presentations of pretty much the same image.
I am not talking about choosing between 2 valid presentations of the same shot, one more comprehensive, and one less so. Such are the examples I have have shown so far. While both images are enjoyable and defensible IMHO, I don't really see 2 shots in any one of the twins.
What I have in mind is different: cases when one has a really good picture, but, lurking within it, there is another quite different picture, and also of value, as shown below.
Here is a case in point. A picture of a rosebud. Shot close to wide open. A dreamy quality (or lack of, depending on your taste). But here is what was inside. A very different picture altogether:
I call it "the kiss of the rose".
Another example, this time an early-morning city shot. The full-size picture is valuable (to me at least), but the story-telling of the next one is quite different, yet valuable also. In the upper image, the story is about the river, in the lower one, about the city…
In typical fashion, Pascal's comment to the cropped one was "it is the gull that makes the pic", suggesting that more cropping might yield yet another, third image…:-). Which is almost a 100% crop… Though it always rankles me to admit it, Pascal was right. Please note, the gull isn't really sharp because it was shot at 1/50s… sorry.
One more "twin". Twin, as in two planes, twin-prop and twin-jet…
And the "shot-within-the shot"…
The same sort of twofer, from the same shoot…
And now for a "threefer", in reverse order this time. Is there any reason for me to "let go" of one or two of the three just because it might not be the one-and-only-favorite? Nope, at least not in my book.
Liking more than one image from a given shot may be construed as a form of indecision. But I like to think not. Like Don Giovanni, in response to Leporello's lament over his boss' wooing of countless women, my answer is "e tutto amore!" I like them all.
And it is such an easy -and fun- way to get even more goodies out of our existing shoots…
All we need to do is refrain from thinking "next!" just because we have processed a shot to our liking. And ask ourselves "is that all, or might there be more?"


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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Lost Girls, Strong Girls and the Assembled Image - installed
Okay I have finally got around to uploading photos from the Lost Girls... show. The exhibition officially wrapped up on the 21st April and the bump-out coincided with my friend visiting from Japan and moving house. Now that I am settled into my new nest on Brisbane's south-side, I can crack on in the studio. The Lost Girls... exhibition and project received support from the GCCC and Arts Queensland through the RADF program. I will be piecing together the outcomes in a written report that will be submitted to the council. In the meantime, I can reflect on what aspects of the project were successful and also take stock of the elements that were more challenging. Soon I should have the images taken on opening night by local photographer Emily Nelson but for now I will post a few of the photos taken on my camera.
Stay tuned for new two-dimensional collage too!
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Ever since the introduction of the Lifetime Allowance (LTA) in April 2006 as a Treasury tool for raising more revenue from owners of high value pension schemes, successive Chancellors of the Exchequer have tinkered with the threshold beyond which a LTA tax charge applies. David Marsh, the Pensions Secretary of the Forces Pension Society, looks at the latest legislation, due to be implemented on 6th April 2016, and what individuals can do to protect themselves from an unwelcome tax charge on some, or all, of their pension value…
In his Budget Speech in March this year, reiterated again in his emergency Budget Speech later in July following the Conservative party's general election victory, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made clear his intention to reduce the threshold at which pension values would incur a LTA tax charge, from £1.25m to £1m from 6th April 2016.
The LTA threshold, when first introduced in April 2006, was set at £1.5m. This threshold progressively increased to £1.8m until 6th April 2012, when it was reduced back down to £1.5m. On 6th April 2014 it was reduced again from £1.5m to £1.25m and in April next year the threshold drops to its lowest ever level of £1m. Progressively therefore, what was initially billed as a tax on the very well off, initially catching members of the Armed Forces holding the ranks of very senior Major Generals, Rear Admirals and Air Vice Marshals and above is becoming increasingly more insidious and creeping downwards, embracing Brigadiers, Commodores and Air Commodores, and as at 6th April next year, senior Colonels, Royal Navy Captains and RAF Group Captains.
This group will find their pension values starting to exceed this new threshold, and thereby incurring a LTA tax charge – as may others who expect to add significantly to their pensions once they have left the Armed Forces.
The Chancellor has started fishing with ever smaller mesh in his nets to ensure that his catch increases and there are strong rumours (as yet unconfirmed) that the mesh will get smaller still catching those even further down the rank structure. This method of fishing has been called by some "a tax on promotion", for although it won't make you worse off if you are promoted, it will certainly increase your long term liabilities and may make you ponder your priorities. So it is very much one to watch.
But if you find yourself in this position (or expect to find yourself in this position in the future) there is something you can do to protect yourselves from this form of bottom trawling. There are two options open (although both are not available to all) – one of which is the more obviously sensible to most, and another that is a little more drastic. They are:
a. Fixed Protection
This allows every individual to "fix" their LTA threshold at £1.25m, regardless of how much the value of their pension is on 6th April 2016. However, this form of protection is like a puffer fish – it comes with a couple of nasty stings that can make your eyes water:
i. If you take Fixed Protection you are not permitted to accrue any further pension in any pension scheme from 6th April 2016 onwards (with the exception of the State Pension, which is not included in LTA tax calculations). This will not be too much of an issue whilst remaining in the Armed Forces, since you merely have to let Veterans UK in Glasgow know of your protection and request you are removed from any future accrual of the Armed Forces Pension Scheme from 6th April 2016. However, once outside in Civvy Street you may unknowingly find your new employer has enrolled you automatically into another pension scheme in accordance with new pension laws, and whilst you have the opportunity to opt out of these schemes, if you do not realise you have been enrolled, or do not act to remove yourself because you do not understand the implications, you could find yourself in conflict with the Treasury and risk losing your Fixed Protection – and earning a £300 fine to boot for not informing HMRC that you have breached the terms and conditions under which Fixed Protection was granted to you.
ii. If you take Fixed Protection whilst serving and leave the Armed Forces Pension scheme from 6th April 2016, on that same date you will lose your pension scheme's Death in Service cover and Ill Health pension award cover (you will still be eligible for potential awards from the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and Early Departure Payment schemes since they are not dependent on you being a member of an Armed Forces Pension Scheme). For a Lieutenant Colonel this would mean throwing away £300,000 of life cover that is costing you nothing, and a Sergeant would be ditching around £140,000 of free life cover.
If you intend to take out Fixed Protection you must apply before 6th April 2016, although at the time of writing this article the application form was not available on the HMRC website.
b. Individual Protection
Individual Protection is available only to those who have a pension value of £1m or more on 6th April 2016; if your pension value is less than £1m on 6th April 2016 you cannot take out this form of protection; even if you expect that at a later date your pension value will exceed the £1m threshold. The primary differences between Individual Protection and Fixed Protection are:
i. You can only protect the value of your pension as at 6th April 2016, and it has to be a figure of at least £1m on that date.
ii. You cannot protect any greater value than £1.25m on 6th April 2016, the current LTA threshold figure, even if your pension is worth more than that.
iii. You are allowed to continue accruing pension in any pension scheme after taking out Individual Protection, albeit in the knowledge that every £1 of additional value will incur a LTA tax charge.
iv. You retain your Death in Service cover and Ill Health cover.
v. You cannot apply for Individual Protection until after 5th April 2016 – HMRC quite rightly will not issue Individual Protection Certificates based on a forecast; only on a known entitlement. The application forms for Individual Protection are also not yet available on the HMRC website at the time of writing this article.
What of the future?
The Chancellor has promised that the LTA threshold will increase by the CPI rate of inflation from 6th April 2018 onwards.
However, spies have also reported the Chancellor's trawler men experimenting with an even smaller mesh – specialised 'drag' nets designed to catch only fish that feed in the waters of defined benefits pension schemes such as all public sector pension schemes. These nets are not going to reduce the size of the LTA threshold, but could increase the multiplication factor used to determine a defined pension scheme's annual pension value.
Currently the calculation used to determine such a pension's value is to multiply the annual pension award by 20 and add any automatic lump sum, but it seems these new nets will multiply the annual pension award by 29 and add any automatic lump sum. If the Chancellor deploys these nets he will begin to catch Lieutenant Colonels with more than 27 years' service. In other words, any fish with a pension value girth exceeding £31,250 will be 'dragged' into paying a LTA tax charge.
The big question is, will he do it or not? Bigger nets carry bigger risks (like catching submarines). So there is a political calculation to be made – is the benefit worth the risk of potential further damage to the confidence of those in the public sector?
Further Information
If you have questions about your Armed Forces Pension and you are a member of the Forces Pension Society, you can call the Society's dedicated help line on 020 7735 0110 or find answers on its web site. If you are not yet a member, the cost is modest and benefits (in addition to the best available expert advice) include discounts on a range of useful products and services and the assurance that a dedicated organisation, independent of the Government, is there to help you get the most from your Armed Forces pension.
For more information, go towww.ForcesPensionSociety.org


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This first investigation is a study in onomastics, taking as its subject the name of the skipper of the Pakistan team: Shahid Afridi (Urdu: شاہد آفریدی). To find out the connection between Afridi and free, "love", and Friday, read on!
Āfrīda itself can be derived as the past/perfect participial form of the Avestan root frī- "love" combined with the prefix ā- (theoretically contributing a sense of "near, towards", but sometimes resulting in idiosyncratic meanings). Avestan āfrīda would corresponds to Sanskrit āprīta, both meaning "gladdened, joyous" etc.
The semantic change from Avestan "gladdened, joyous" to Persian "created" is intriguing. The earlier meaning of "joy" still seems to be present in Persian (and Hindi/Urdu) āfrīn/āfirīn, which can be used to mean "bravo! well done!" (though it too can have the "create" sense, at least in the compound jahān-āfirīn "creator of the world").
The root underlying both Sanskrit āprīta and Avestan āfrīda is Proto-Indo-Iranian *prī-, which itself can be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European root *prī- whose most basic sense is "to love".
The PIE root *prī- (see Watkins[2]) is also the source of English free (from Old English frēo, derived from the verb frēon "to love, to set free"), friend (from Old English frēond "friend, lover"), and Friday (from Old English Frīgedæge "Frigg's day", where Frigg, the name of the Scandinavian goddess of love, Odin's wife, derives from Proto-Germanic *frijjō "beloved, wife"); as well as Old English frioðu "peace", which sadly has no direct reflexes in modern English.
In fact, PIE *prī- underlies not only the Persian tribal name Afridi, but also a variety of Germanic-derived names (see Watkins[2]), including:
- Siegfried, from Old High German Sigi-frith "victorious peace"
- Godfrey, from Old High German Goda-frid "peace of god"
- Frederick, from French Frédéric, itself a borrowing of Old High German Fridu-rīh "peaceful ruler"
- Geoffrey, from Old French Geoffroi from mediaeval Latin Gaufridus, itself a borrowing from Germanic *Gawja-frithu- "(having a) peaceful region"
So, this concludes the first LBW. I'm open to suggestions for other cricketers or cricket terminology to etymologise for future episodes.


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October 2011
Hello You Lot!
Ok, straight down to business!
Yer latest guitar lesson is here!
And yer latest ASK OLGA answers here! Unfortunately, with Olga being in the recording studio over this period, he wasn't able to do any video answers, but they will make a welcome return very soon.
The new album...
I can tell you that Olga is very happy the way things are going in the
studio recording the much awaited new Toy Dolls album!
No prizes for guessing that one!
Check out the OLGA TALKIN' section here for a full update of the recording, direct from the studio from the man himself!
Heres a couple of the latest pics from the studio.
Cheers again to all of you again for your continued support at the Olga Telecaster campaign MySpace page. I will point out that this page has been set up independently, and not by Olga or any Toy Doll related folk! So if you need any answers re anything, www.thetoydolls.com is the place to send em!
A huge thanks from the lads to everyone at the two festivals in Spain
recently, Madrid and Santiago, fantastic to get back out there again!
And a big thank you to The Specials for being such gentlemen, as well
as a great band!
So, whats next!?
As we mentioned before, The Toy Dolls management are now arranging the 2012 shows. As soon as we have confirmed gig news you will be the first to hear about it, but it looks like the shows will start late April early May time.
There's still another month of recording and mixing the new album but I will persuade Olga to put up a couple of tracks when its all done! That will definitely be worth waiting for!
Ok, first off, the prizes:
One of the wonderful new "People Design" T shirts, (please state your size and colour you would like) check them out here…
Also, Olga's very own signed back stage pass and artists booklet from the recent Spanish Envivo Getafe Festival!
If there's more then one correct answer, then your names will be put in a hat and pulled out randomly!
We reckon, with this being such a special prize, that the questions should be a little more difficult than previous competition questions!
So, here we go:
1. What are the real surnames of Olga, Tommy & Duncan?
The competition will close on November 20th, and you can send your answers .
Finally, Olga has set up an official Toy Dolls Facebook page! Welcome to the 21st century Olga!
Olga has asked me to ask you to give him a bit time to get his head around it all, and he will start adding stuff as the weeks go on!
Check it out and give him some support, he needs it! I know he is kinda old school and flapping about it it all!
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Dean Foods Company (NYSE:DF) down -0.94% to close at the price of $9.45. The stock has a market capitalization of $868.83 Million however its outstanding shares are 91.94 Million. The company's beta value stood at 0.55.
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This is a 2-in-1 request.
Have the ability to (1) Step and Repeat when (2) adding multiple resources to scene.
How it might work.
You have a 'Step and Repeat' window where you set the metrics and properties for the multiple resources you want to bring to the scene.
e.g. opacity for fade in/fade out, position, resource duration, step duration etc
Option: Include a mini timeline in the step and repeat window with a dummy resource on it where you can apply the settings. These settings are mirrored in the numeric fields of the step and repeat window.
Pic: Step and Repeat Timeline interface with dummy placeholder to help with settings
Once the 'Step and Repeat' settings are done you enable them by clicking an 'Enable Step and Repeat' button in the window. Now when you select multiple resources and drag them to the scene they step and repeat with the prescribed settings.
If you uncheck the 'Enable Step and Repeat' and drag multiple resources to the scene, they just stack with their default settings.


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Mischa Memories
May 16, 2000--November 17, 2000
"The new kid on the block is Mischa (born 16 May 2000). I got him as a toy for Spook, who enjoys him, but is also run ragged by him!"
Mischa was only with me for less than six months, but he became a very important member of the family in that time. I had never put as strong an involvement into acquiring an animal before.
My neighbor Risa's young cat Stella was having an unexpected litter. Once they were born I spent some time with them everyday 'til they were 7 weeks old, so they'd really know me. Then I chose one and brought him home to be a friend to me and a toy for Spook.
He got his name from the way he danced around the house: Mischa is the nickname of Mikhail Baryshnikov.
He fit in really well. He played with Spook from day one. You could hear him purring from across the room, even with music playing. He was smart, affectionate, sure of himself and a kitten without being a "delinquent!" Of course, OwlCat thought he was vermin, but she's like that.
He went to be neutered at six months of age and was one of those rare cats that had an instant bad reaction to the anaesthetic. His heart stopped and nothing would start it again.
Mischa was greatly loved for his short time with us.
Mischa at 8 weeks
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