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An architect almost erases the line between dwelling and nature with a sleek, modern kit house.
By Meadow Rue Merrill Photographed by Jamie Salomon
When Boston architect Jim Higgins bought a wedge of waterfront turf on quiet Spinney Creek in South Eliot, he planned to design and build a traditional New England-style house and sell it. But he and his partner came to enjoy the quaint neighborhood of classic colonials and Capes so much that they decided to build the house for themselves.


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The Message at my Grandma's Funeral – Part 1
I flew back to Singapore not expecting to be giving a message at my own grandmother's funeral. But this was exactly what I did this week. I'd like to log my messages, tributes and eulogy.
(post edit: if you want to first read a prequel to this post. Almost as if prophesy… I did a dedication post for her EXACTLY one year ago here!)
1. Funeral Service Massage
Hi, for those who don't know me, my name is Mervin. I'm Wong Poh Kwai's eldest grandson. She's my mah mah. Tonight, I'd like to begin by sharing with you how mah mah became a Christian.
I remember when I was very young. Must have been my early teens. I can't remember the exact age. All I remembered was when I knew about heaven as a Christian, I was fixated on wanting my mah mah to be there with me in heaven. Because I knew that if she didn't know this Jesus person, whom I'll be talking about, I won't see her in heaven. I can't remember how I shared with her about Jesus, but I'm sure I fumbled along in Cantonese and she most likely couldn't understand my half translated version of the gospel.
Then one day, by God's grace, and I thank God for his grace that day, she fell and couldn't get up. She said that something was weighing her down and that she couldn't get up. She called for me (Call in Cantonese) and I came up from downstairs. She said she couldn't move and asked me to pray to my God for help. And in my innocence, I did. I said, "in the name of Jesus for her to get up and walk." I can't be sure if a miracle happened that day with regards to her walking. But I know another miracle happened that day. She placed her faith in Jesus. She accepted Christ. Tonight, I would like to share with you my Grandma's Christian faith and explain to you a little what the bible says about this faith she and I share.
Let's begin with Her life after conversion. Mah mah started to follow us to Church. Slowly but surely, she started to learn to read the bible for herself. She started to serve at church by doing visitations and loving others. She went for bible study. She prayed. She attended prayer meetings. She read more of the bible and she attended more church. Then she studied the bible more. And she read more of the bible. I know, because I can see how much she loved the bible simply by looking at it. See! (Hold her bible up). I hope my bible looks like that in the future. Mine still looks pretty new compared to hers.
In summary, she is a stock-standard Christian. She lived a life acceptable and pleasing to God. We believe that as early as Saturday night, she would have stood before God and he might have asked her a simple question at the gates to heaven. 'Why should I allow you into my joyful presence to spend eternity with me?' Guess what she has to say? Do you think she will repeat all the good things she mentioned before? Do you think mah mah would say, "God, I read the bible, I prayed, I visited others, I attended Church regularly, I attended bible study and faithfully attended district group meetings, please let me in."
No! She would say none of the good things! The only thing she will say is this, 'It is by the blood of my saviour Jesus Christ that I will enter.' Let me say that again: She'll say, 'It is by the blood of my saviour Jesus Christ that I will enter.'
This is what Christian faith means. Mah mah's faith. It is not dependent on what she has done or how good a person she was. The Christian faith is all about where the faith is placed. For us, it's in Jesus Christ. It's not about how much or little faith we have. It's about WHO we place our faith IN. That is Jesus Christ. But why do we need to put our faith in this Jesus? Can't we simply just live a good life. Don't do anything wrong. Don't break the law. Don't harm others. Be kind. Can oledi what right? Let me share with you why Jesus is so central to us and our faith. If you have a bible, please turn with me to Ephesians 2:1-10. I will use this portion of the bible to share with you why Jesus is so important to us as Christians.
So you see, we believe that God created this world. He created all the things we see in this world. He also created us. And he created us to rule the world under his authority as our king. But as you can see – look around. The world is not a great place. It is not perfect, in fact it is broken, we screwed it up. We have terrorists, angry people, high COE, ERP and lousy gamen. Right?
What about ourselves? We know that we're never inherently good. A little white lie here, a little piracy there, cutting some corners here and there. All this is not meant to make you feel bad. At the end of the day, what it means is that we told God to get lost. We asked him to move aside and let us be our own king of our own little kingdom of our own lives. Because of this, the writer says we are all dead because of our trespasses. All of us! This choice of us living our own lives and ignoring him is fatal. Because ignoring God leads to death.
This is where the story turns. Jesus Christ.
The writer says it was God's plan of redemption. He loved us so much, he sent his only son Jesus to become a man to die on the cross for us nearly 2000 years ago. He was the one perfect man who was sacrificed for all man. You and I. The bible says it is rare for anyone to die for a righteous man, maybe for a good man someone would die. Here Jesus died for all of us while we were sinners.
Why? To redeem us from death. As a result of Jesus's death on the cross our sins are wiped clean. This is why mah mah can say at the gates, "because of Jesus' blood, I can come in". All of her sin was wiped cleaned because of this one act of sacrifice by Jesus. There was one more step. The final step in this plan was for Jesus to resurrect. To rise up and become the ruler of this world. To restore order rule over us who put our faith in him as king. So in summary, Jesus can wipe our sins clean. Through Jesus, we can enter into heaven to meet God and he expects us to follow him as Lord. All it takes is faith in him.
So this is the Christian faith. The faith mah mah and I share. This is why I am so certain I will see her again in a paradise. A paradise we call heaven.
I will end with a quote from a great Christian writer. His name is J.I. Packer. He is only a year older than my mah mah and had recently lost his eyesight. Let me read you his response in a recent interview when asked about what the bible had to say about his condition.
Here is what he said: "It tells me now what it told me 40 years ago, namely, that we wear out, physically we come apart. You get old, and getting old means the loss of faculties and powers you had when you were younger. And that is the way God prepares us to leave this world to which he is taking us. The message of Ecclesiastes 12 (from the bible) says "Get right with God as early in life as you can. Don't leave it until some time in the future when you're not likely to be able to handle it well at all."
I praise God and truly thank him for allowing me to fumble through sharing the gospel with my mah mah in my younger days. I am so glad that he allowed her conversion then, and not on her deathbed when she wasn't able to make this decision anymore. She got right with God through this man Jesus. And now I can see her in heaven again.
Let me conclude with three encouragements.
First, to the friends and family who are fellow Christians let me encourage you with this. If you are worn out today, feeling you don't have enough faith to be saved. Perhaps you feel you are not praying enough, not visiting enough, not attending church enough, not reading the bible enough… Take heart. Jesus says, if you have faith in me, I will do the rest. You are secure in me. I love you and I have already done what is required for your salvation.
Second, for those of us we have this assured faith in Jesus. Let us reflect and rejoice today as we celebrate because mah mah is now closer to God and Jesus than we are. And one day, we will be reunited with her in glory together with God. Today, for us, is not a day or mourning, but a day of rejoicing because she is in a better and more perfect place than this. A place with no cancer, pain or sadness. She'll have a perfect body and she'll look young. I joked with her when I was talking to her last week that I might not be able to recognise her beautiful and young body when I see her in heaven.
And finally, to the friends here today who don't yet know this Jesus and are not Christians. I encourage you to consider the wise words of J.I. Packer.
Get right with God while you still can!
Knowing him and knowing that we belong to a kingdom and family of believers like us.
It is far far more precious than anything on this earth. Knowing that we can see each other again in heaven and spend eternity with each other in the presence of God changes our world view on things on this earth. Suddenly, all this rat race and worries and pain seems small and no longer significant in the grander timeline of eternity. You can rest. You can have joy. You can have peace to know that your salvation is secured through Jesus. If that is you today and you are curious about this faith we have, speak to me or one of the members of our Church after this and we can follow up with you.
Let us pray
2. Eulogy and Tribute (from Facebook)
This is my mah mah (grandma). She looked after me until I finished Secondary (high) School. She taught me Cantonese. She fueled my passion for cooking and food. She has an infectious smile. She has a sense of humor. She is the reason I have the courage to be an evangelist. She is the reason I remember what servant-hood means. She is the reason I understand what toil with love means.
Today, we said "see you later" to her. She is now with the Lord. Enjoying herself in glory. "Mah Mah, I can't wait to see you again. I can't wait to see you in your younger, perfect and beautiful self. I wish we can meet again very soon, but there is still so much to do here for the Lord." Jesus, please say 'hi' to her for me. Give her a hug for me. Lord, thank you for the chance for me to say goodbye before she left to join you.


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In Auralux: Constellations, you and your opponents each have planets that generate stardust. You can use this stardust to colonize other planets and when you do, they also generate stardust. You can then send your stardust your opponent's planets to take over their planets. The goal of the game is to take over the entire galaxy. Each game can last for a long time and requires careful planning to succeed.
The game works well on Android TV. The thumbstick on your gamepad acts as the cursor to select and move particular stardust. Using the shoulder buttons you can zoom in and out of the map. The trigger buttons allow you to resize the cursor depending on how precise you want your actions to be. The X and Y buttons allow you to repeat an action or send all your stardust to a single point respectively.
You can see me go through the tutorial level below.


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Thursday, October 29, 2009We're pleased to announce a new feature that will allow Google Checkout merchants based in the U.S. to create and to run their own Checkout promotions at any time.
Starting today, you can sign in to your Checkout merchant account, go to the 'Tools' tab, and click the 'Promotions' link to create a Checkout promotion in less than a minute. You'll be able to specify the date and time you'd like the promotion to run, as well as choose from a variety of dollar-off discounts to offer your buyers.
Whenever you run a Google Checkout promotion, the standard Checkout button on your website will be automatically updated to display the discount amount and cart minimum. Additionally, for AdWords advertisers, we'll change the standard Checkout badge appearing on your AdWords ads to a Checkout badge that includes the discount amount as shown below. These promotional badges have been introduced to enable shoppers who search on Google.com to easily identify and take advantage of promotional offers.
Checkout promotions are a great way to attract new buyers, and we're excited to make this functionality more widely available. Please visit our Help Center for detailed instructions on setting up your own Checkout promotion. Thanks for using Google Checkout!
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Famed guitarist and songwriter Eliades Ochoa will recreate the songs he performed 40 years ago with the Cuarteto Patria in a new album currently being recorded in Santiago de Cuba.
Even though the CD new album began to take shape in Havana, Ochoa will complete it at Siboney Studios in the Cuban eastern province of Santiago de Cuba.
The album will include songs such as ¨El Paralítico¨ and ¨Besos Discretos¨ by Miguel Matamoros; ¨Estoy hecho tierra¨ by Ñico Saquito; ¨La Esperanza¨ by José Pepe Sánchez; and ¨Pregón Santiaguero¨ by Lino Reginfo, a local performer.
Ochoa especially highlighted the song ¨Si estas Dormida¨that used to bring to tears the late Francisco Repilado (Compay Segundo).
Eliades Ochoa won the Latin Grammy last year with the album "Un bolero para ti". He is the composer of well-known songs such as ¨Pintate los labios Maria¨ and ¨Un bolero para ti.¨ He recently performed at the Pepe Sanchez International Trova Festival in Santiago de Cuba, the cradle of this musical genre in Cuba.
Author: World Music Central News Department
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text: Stream: Surahn- "Watching the World" Some tight, groovin', and danceable pop from Surahn on "Watching the World," which is set to be on this dude's forthcoming EP on DFA Records. While the label has always been a supporter of various forms of alternative dance music, this track sidesteps weird eccentricities in favor of some disco chic. Aside from a modern recording, there's not much that sounds new about this track, but the tune itself is certainly catchy and admirable. Give "Watching the World" a listen via the link above.


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Laurie Halse Anderson made a great but controversial book about abused teens in high school. What makes Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson book controversial is that it contains too much sensitive description of how Melinda was abused. Many parents do agree that it is not a book for teens but rather for adults. The ban was even issued to some schools to not use Laurie Halse Anderson Speak as a literary book. However, despite of the bans and other controversies – the book Speak has continued to capture and strengthen the hearts of the readers who can relate of the story.
So whether this controversial book is banned in some schools, there is no reason for you not to read this great literary work. The Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson can be downloaded in pdf, epub, and or mobi and is available exclusive at www.allebookdownloads.com
Reader's Review of The Speak
This book is definitely one of my favorites. It's so different from anything I have ever read, the style, the tone, and the way it was written. It was a compelling read from the beginning to the end.
The story is not written as your average outcast "popular people are stupid" cliche. It's an original. The tone is like Melinda is just relaying her thoughts and what she sees to the reader, rather than her feelings and rage and anger against the people that hurt her. Her character gets stronger as you read on, as she begins to stand up for herself.
I liked how the author didn't just tell you what had happened to Melinda in order for her to stay so silent – instead, bits of the incident unfolds as you read along.
I was caught up in Melinda's world, and even though I'm glad to say that I haven't been there and done that, it was easy to just recognize the pain, fear and confusion she went through just because the author doesn't say it right out.
Overall, an excellent read and I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to feel the triumph of "Speak".
All Teens should read this book. Peer pressure does a lot of bad things, one of those things is convincing victims to feel like they have done something wrong.
Speak is a fast-paced read that involves the reader emotionally from the very start. Speak is an accurate portrayal of the very common existence of high school cruelty and peer pressure. Every reader should identify with most of what happens in this novel, no matter what their age.
You will get mad at the good characters as well as the bad. I found myself talking out loud to the characters, which is why I know the book involves you.
Speak passes my Young Adult novel test. The book allows you to read without wanting to put it down, and it flows straight to ending. Laurie Halse Anderson has written a book that will be around for a very long time.
– Jarrod Thompson
As a black male in my late 20's, I didn't think I would get as interested as I did in the novel. I'm a Librarian and I always see the book being checked-out or returned to the branch so I picked it up…WHOA!!!
From the beginning I was intrigued by the main character, Melinda. She has a voice that is forgotten in the literary world. It reminded me of "Catcher in the Rye". The settings and characters take you back to a time when High School was all that mattered.
I recommend the novel strongly. It's a quick/easy read and by the end of the novel, your cheering for Melinda.
PS. I gave the book for my wife to read and she got the "secret" right away…is this a woman's intuition???
– Sule M. Holder
Snippet : Speak
It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.
The school bus wheezes to my corner. The door opens and I step up. I am the first pickup of the day. The driver pulls away from the curb while I stand in the aisle. Where to sit? I've never been a backseat wasteease. If I sit in the middle, a stranger could sit next to me. If I sit in the front, it will make me look like a little kid, but I figure it's the best chance I have to make eye contact with one of my friends, if any of them have decided to talk to me yet.
The bus picks up students in groups of four or five. As they walk down the aisle, people who were my middle-school lab
partners or gym buddies glare at me. I close my eyes. This is what I've been dreading. As we leave the last stop, I am the only person sitting alone.
The driver downshifts to drag us over the hills. The engine clanks, which makes the guys in the back holler something
obscene. Someone is wearing too much cologne. I try to open my window, but the little latches won't move. A guy behind
me unwraps his breakfast and shoots the wrapper at the back of my head. It bounces into my lap—a Ho-Ho.
We pass janitors painting over the sign in front of the high school. The school board has decided that "Merryweather High—Home of the Trojans" didn't send a strong abstinence message, so they have transformed us into the Blue Devils.
Better the Devil you know than the Trojan you don't, I guess. School colors will stay purple and gray. The board didn't want to spring for new uniforms.
Older students are allowed to roam until the bell, but ninthgraders are herded into the auditorium. We fall into clans: Jocks, Country Clubbers, Idiot Savants, Cheerleaders, Human Waste, Eurotrash, Future Fascists of America, Big Hair Chix, the Marthas, Suffering Artists, Thespians, Goths, Shredders. I am clanless. I wasted the last weeks of August watching bad cartoons. I didn't go to the mall, the lake, or the pool, or answer the phone. I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.
I am Outcast.
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While We Are Social Creatures, It's Often Best Not To Admit It
New York City, my new home, teaches you, that while we are social creatures, it's often best not to admit it.
As you weave among the obstacles on the sidewalks of Manhattan, it's easy to get distracted from your thoughts and pay attention to the people you're encountering. It's okay to do that if you're at a stop, but if you're in motion, if your eyes engage with another, that signals that you would like to negotiate.
Not good. A sign of weakness. Whether the oncoming traffic is aware or not, he or she will take advantage of this weakness and charge right into your path, all the while not making eye contact. There is no appeal. All you can do is shift out of their path, but even this won't avoid a collision because your adversary will unconsciously shift closer to you. Your weakness is attractive. Your space is up for grabs. At this point you have no choice but to collide, and in the etiquette of New York street walking you're responsible.
That's why the people who check their smartphones for text messages or emails while walking so totally command the sidewalks. They are heat-seeking missiles, and it's your heat they seek.
I don't think this is just New York, it's a feature of the human species. We seek companionship.
For a while in 2005 I lived on the beach in northeast Florida outside St Augustine. The beach is so long and relatively empty, they let you drive on the beach to find the perfect spot to bathe, and if you're willing to drive a bit you can be alone. So I would drive to a secluded spot, park my car and go out into the surf. When I came back, more often than not, there was a car parked right next to mine. They could have parked anywhere in a mile in either direction and had it all to themselves.
Add that to your cognitive toolkit!
Neuroscientist, UCLA Brain Mapping Center; Author, Mirroring People
Entanglement is "spooky action at a distance", as Einstein liked to say (he actually did not like it at all, but at some point he had to admit that it exists.) In quantum physics, two particles are entangled when a change in one particle is immediately associated with a change in the other particle. Here comes the spooky part: we can separate our "entangled buddies" as far as we can, they will still remain entangled. A change in one of them is instantly reflected in the other one, even though they are physically far apart (and I mean different countries!)
Entanglement feels like magic. It is really difficult to wrap our heads around it. And yet, entanglement is a real phenomenon, measurable and reproducible in the lab. And there is more. While for many years entanglement was thought to be a very delicate phenomenon, only observable in the infinitesimally small world of quantum physics ("oh good, our world is immune from that weird stuff") and quite volatile, recent evidence suggests that entanglement may be much more robust and even much more widespread than we initially thought. Photosynthesis may happen through entanglement, and recent brain data suggest that entanglement may play a role in coherent electrical activity of distant groups of neurons in the brain.
Entanglement is a good cognitive chunk because it challenges our cognitive intuitions. Our minds seem built to prefer relatively mechanic cause-and-effect stories as explanations of natural phenomena. And when we can't come up with one of those stories, then we tend to resort to irrational thinking, the kind of magic we feel when we think about entanglement. Entangled particles teach us that our beliefs of how the world works can seriously interfere with our understanding of it. But they also teach us that if we stick with the principles of good scientific practice, of observing, measuring, and then reproducing phenomena that we can frame in a theory (or that are predicted by a scientific theory), we can make sense of things. Even very weird things like entanglement.
Entanglement is also a good cognitive chunk because with its existence it implicitly whispers to us that seemingly self-evident cause-and-effect phenomena may not be cause-and-effect at all. The timetable of modern vaccination, probably the biggest accomplishment in modern medicine, coincides with the onset of symptoms of autism in children. This temporal correspondence may mislead us to think that the vaccination may have produced the symptoms, hence the condition of autism. At the same time, that temporal correspondence should make us suspicious of straightforward cause-and-effect associations, inviting us to have a second look, and to make controlled experiments to find out whether or not there is really a link between vaccines and autism. We now know there is no such link. Unfortunately though, this belief is very hard to eradicate and is producing in some parents the potentially disastrous decision of not vaccinating their children.
The story of entanglement is a great example of the capacity of the human mind of reaching out almost beyond itself. The key word here is "almost." Because we "got there", it is self-evident that we could "get there." But it didn't feel like it, did it? Until we managed to observe, measure, and reproduce that phenomenon predicted by quantum theory, it just felt a little "spooky." (It still feels a bit spooky, doesn't it?) Humans are naturally inclined to reject facts that do not fit their beliefs, and indeed when confronted with those facts, they tend to automatically reinforce their beliefs and brush those facts under the carpet. The beautiful story of entanglement reminds us that we can go "beyond ourselves," that we don't have to desperately cling to our beliefs, and that we can make sense of things. Even spooky ones.
Contributing Editor, Wired; Author, How We Decide
Control Your Spotlight
In the late 1960s, the psychologist Walter Mischel began a simple experiment with four-year old children. He invited the kids into a tiny room, containing a desk and a chair, and asked them to pick a treat from a tray of marshmallows, cookies, and pretzel sticks. Mischel then made the four-year olds an offer: they could either eat one treat right away or, if they were willing to wait while he stepped out for a few minutes, they could have two treats when he returned. Not surprisingly, nearly every kid chose to wait.
At the time, psychologists assumed that the ability to delay gratification — to get that second marshmallow or cookie — depended on willpower. Some people simply had more willpower than others, which allowed them to resist tempting sweets and save money for retirement.
However, after watching hundreds of kids participate in the marshmallow experiment, Mischel concluded that this standard model was wrong. He came to realize that willpower was inherently weak, and that children that tried to outlast the treat — gritting their teeth in the face of temptation — soon lost the battle, often within thirty seconds.
Instead, Mischel discovered something interesting when he studied the tiny percentage of kids who could successfully wait for the second treat. Without exception, these "high delayers" all relied on the same mental strategy: they found a way to keep themselves from thinking about the treat, directing their gaze away from the yummy marshmallow. Some covered their eyes or played hide-and-seek underneath the desk. Others sang songs from "Sesame Street," or repeatedly tied their shoelaces, or pretended to take a nap. Their desire wasn't defeated — it was merely forgotten.
Mischel refers to this skill as the "strategic allocation of attention," and he argues that it's the skill underlying self-control. Too often, we assume that willpower is about having strong moral fiber. But that's wrong — willpower is really about properly directing the spotlight of attention, learning how to control that short list of thoughts in working memory. It's about realizing that if we're thinking about the marshmallow we're going to eat it, which is why we need to look away.
What's interesting is that this cognitive skill isn't just a useful skill for dieters. Instead, it seems to be a core part of success in the real world. For instance, when Mischel followed up with the initial subjects 13 years later — they were now high school seniors — he realized that performance on the marshmallow task was highly predictive on a vast range of metrics. Those kids who struggled to wait at the age of four were also more likely to have behavioral problems, both in school and at home. They struggled in stressful situations, often had trouble paying attention, and found it difficult to maintain friendships. Most impressive, perhaps, were the academic numbers: The little kid who could wait fifteen minutes for their marshmallow had an S.A.T. score that was, on average, two hundred and ten points higher than that of the kid who could wait only thirty seconds.
These correlations demonstrate the importance of learning to strategically allocate our attention. When we properly control the spotlight, we can resist negative thoughts and dangerous temptations. We can walk away from fights and improve our odds against addiction. Our decisions are driven by the facts and feelings bouncing around the brain — the allocation of attention allows us to direct this haphazard process, as we consciously select the thoughts we want to think about.
Furthermore, this mental skill is only getting more valuable. We live, after all, in the age of information, which makes the ability to focus on the important information incredibly important. (Herbert Simon said it best: "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.") The brain is a bounded machine and the world is a confusing place, full of data and distractions — intelligence is the ability to parse the data so that it makes just a little bit more sense. Like willpower, this ability requires the strategic allocation of attention.
One final thought: In recent decades, psychology and neuroscience have severely eroded classical notions of free will. The unconscious mind, it turns out, is most of the mind. And yet, we can still control the spotlight of attention, focusing on those ideas that will help us succeed. In the end, this may be the only thing we can control. We don't have to look at the marshmallow.
Archaeologist, University of Bradford; Author, The Artificial Ape
Technology Came Before Humanity And, Evolutionarily, Paved The Way For It
The very idea of a "cognitive toolkit" is one of the most important items in our cognitive toolkit. It is far more than just a metaphor, for the relationship between actual physical tools and the way we think is profound and of immense antiquity.
Ideas such as evolution and a deep prehistory for humanity are as factually well-established as the idea of a round earth, or gravity as a force pulling apples from trees. Only bigots and the misled can doubt them. But the idea that the first chipped stone tool pre-dates, by at least half a million years, the expansion of mind that is so characteristic of humans, should also be knowable by all.
The idea that technology came before humanity and, evolutionarily, paved the way for it, is the scientific concept that I believe should be part of everybody's cognitive toolkit. We could then see that thinking through things and with things, and manipulating virtual things in our minds, is an essential part of critical self-consciousness. The ability to internalize our own creations, by abstracting them, and converting "out-there" tools into mental mechanisms, is what allows the entire scientific project.
Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University; Author, What Are Journalists For?; PressThink.org
Wicked Problems
There is a problem that anyone who has lived in New York City must wonder about: you can't get a cab from 4 to 5 pm. The reason for this is not a mystery: at a moment of peak demand, taxi drivers tend to change shifts. Too many cabs are headed to garages in Queens because when a taxi is operated by two drivers 24 hours a day, a fair division of shifts is to switch over at 5 pm. Now this is a problem for the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission, it may even be a hard one to solve, but it is not a wicked problem. For one thing, it's easy to describe, as I just showed you. That right there boots it from the category.
Among some social scientists, there is this term of art: wicked problems. We would be vastly better off if we understood what wicked problems are, and learned to distinguish between them and regular (or "tame") problems.
Wicked problems have these features: It is hard to say what the problem is, to define it clearly or to tell where it stops and starts. There is no "right" way to view the problem, no definitive formulation. The way it's framed will change what the solution appears to be. Someone can always say that the problem is just a symptom of another problem and that someone will not be wrong. There are many stakeholders, all with their own frames, which they tend to see as exclusively correct. Ask what the problem is and you will get a different answer from each. The problem is inter-connected to a lot of other problems; pulling them apart is almost impossible.
It gets worse. Every wicked problem is unique, so in a sense there is no prior art and solving one won't help you with the others. No one has "the right to be wrong," meaning enough legitimacy and stakeholder support to try stuff that will almost certainly fail, at first. Instead failure is savaged, and the trier is deemed unsuitable for another try. The problem keeps changing on us. It is never definitely resolved. Instead, we just run out of patience, or time, or money. It's not possible to understand the problem first, then solve it. Rather, attempts to solve it reveal further dimensions of the problem. (Which is the secret of success for people who are "good" at wicked problems.)
Know any problems like that? Sure you do. Probably the best example in our time is climate change. What could be more inter-connected than it? Someone can always say that climate change is just a symptom of another problem--our entire way of life, perhaps — and he or she would not be wrong. We've certainly never solved anything like it before. Stakeholders: everyone on the planet, every nation, every company.
When General Motors was about go bankrupt and throw tends of thousands of people out of work that was a big, honking problem, which rightly landed on the president's desk, but it was not a wicked one. Barack Obama's advisors could present him with a limited range of options; if he decided to take the political risk and save General Motors from collapse he could be reasonably certain that the recommended actions would work. If they didn't, he could try more drastic measures.
But health care reform wasn't like that at all. In the United States, rising health care costs are a classic case of a wicked problem. No "right" way to view it. Every solution comes with its own contestable frame. Multiple stakeholders who don't define the problem the same way. If the uninsured go down but costs go up, is that progress? We don't even know.
Still, we would be better off if we knew when we were dealing with a wicked problem, as opposed to the regular kind. If we could designate some problems as wicked we might realize that "normal" approaches to problem-solving don't work. We can't define the problem, evaluate possible solutions, pick the best one, hire the experts and implement. No matter how much we may want to follow a routine like that, it won't succeed. Institutions may require it, habit may favor it, the boss may order it, but wicked problems don't care.
Presidential debates that divided wicked from tame problems would be very different debates. Better, I think. Journalists who covered wicked problems differently than they covered normal problems would be smarter journalists. Institutions that knew when how to distinguish wicked problems from the other kind would eventually learn the limits of command and control.
Wicked problems demand people who are creative, pragmatic, flexible and collaborative. They never invest too much in their ideas because they know they are going to have to alter them. They know there's no right place to start so they simply start somewhere and see what happens. They accept the fact that they're more likely to understand the problem after its "solved" than before. They don't expect to get a good solution; they keep working until they've found something that's good enough. They're never convinced that they know enough to solve the problem, so they are constantly testing their ideas on different stakeholders.
Know any people like that? Maybe we can get them interested in health care...
Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University
Time Span of Discretion
Half a century ago, while advising a UK Metals company, Elliott Jaques had a deep and controversial insight. He noticed that workers at different levels of the company had very different time horizons. Line workers focused on tasks that could be completed in a single shift, while managers devoted their energies to tasks requiring six months or more to complete. Meanwhile, their CEO was pursuing goals realizable only over the span of several years.
After several decades of empirical study, Jaques concluded that just as humans differ in intelligence, we differ in our ability to handle time-dependent complexity. We all have a natural time horizon we are comfortable with, what Jaques called "Time span of discretion," or the length of the longest task an individual can successfully undertake. Jaques observed that organizations implicitly recognize this fact in everything from titles to salary: line workers are paid hourly, managers annually, and senior executives compensated with longer-term incentives such as stock options.
Jaques also noted that effective organizations were comprised of workers of differing time spans of discretion, each working at a level of natural comfort. If a worker's job was beyond their natural time span of discretion, they would fail. If it was less, they would be insufficiently challenged, and thus unhappy.
Time span of discretion is about achieving intents that have explicit time frames. And in Jaques model, one can rank discretionary capacity in a tiered system. Level 1 encompasses jobs such as sales associates or line workers handling routine tasks with a time horizon of up to three months. Levels 2 to 4 encompass various managerial positions with time horizons between one to five years. Level 5 crosses over to five to 10 years and is the domain of small company CEOs and large company executive vice presidents. Beyond Level 5, one enters the realm of statesmen and legendary business leaders comfortable with innate time horizons of 20 years (Level 6), 50 years (Level 7) or beyond. Level 8 is the realm of 100 year thinkers like Henry Ford, while Level 9 is the domain of the Einsteins, Gandhis, and Galileos, individuals capable of setting grand tasks into motion that continue centuries into the future.
Jaques' ideas enjoyed currency into the 1970s and then fell into eclipse, assailed as unfair stereotyping or worse, a totalitarian stratification evocative of Huxley's Brave New World. It is now time to reexamine Jaques theories and revive time span of discretion as a tool for understanding our social structures and matching them to the overwhelming challenges facing global society. Perhaps problems like climate change are intractable because we have a political system that elects Level 2 thinkers to Congress when we really need Level 5s in office. As such, Jaques ideas might help us realize that the old saying, "he who thinks longest wins" is only half the story, and that the society in which everyone explicitly thinks about tasks in the context of time will be the most effective.
Cognitive Psychologist, UC, Berkeley
On its face, defeasibility is a modest concept with roots in logic and epistemology. An inference is defeasible if it can potentially be "defeated" in light of additional information. Unlike deductively sound conclusions, the products of defeasible reasoning remain subject to revision, held tentatively no matter how firmly.
All scientific claims — whether textbook pronouncements or haphazard speculations — are held defeasibly. It is a hallmark of the scientific process that claims are forever vulnerable to refinement and rejection, hostage to what the future could bring. Far from being a weakness, this is a source of science's greatness. Because scientific inferences are defeasible, they remain responsive to a world that can reveal itself gradually, change over time, and deviate from our dearest assumptions.
The concept of defeasibilility has proven valuable in characterizing artificial and natural intelligence. Everyday inferences, no less than scientific inferences, are vetted by the harsh judge of novel data: additional information that can potentially defeat current beliefs. On further inspection, the antique may turn out to be a fake and the alleged culprit an innocent victim. Dealing with an uncertain world forces cognitive systems to abandon the comforts of deduction and engage in defeasible reasoning.
Defeasibility is a powerful concept when we recognize it not as a modest term of art, but as the proper attitude towards all belief. Between blind faith and radical skepticism is a vast but sparsely populated space where defeasibility finds its home. Irreversible commitments would be foolish; boundless doubt paralyzing. Defeasible beliefs provide the provisional certainty necessary to navigate an uncertain world.
Recognizing the potential revisability of our beliefs is a prerequisite to rational discourse and progress, be it in science, politics, religion, or the mundane negotiations of daily life. Consider the world we could live in if all of our local and global leaders, if all of our personal and professional friends and foes, recognized the defeasibility of their beliefs and acted accordingly. That sure sounds like progress to me. But of course, I could be wrong.
Neuroscientist, Chairman, Human Science Center and Department of Medical Psychology, Munich University; Author, Mindworks
A Cognitive Toolkit Full Of Garbage
To get rid of garbage is essential, also of mental garbage. Cognitive toolkits are filled with such garbage, simply because we are victims of ourselves. We should regularly empty this garbage can, or in case we enjoy to sit in garbage, we better check how "shorthand abstractions" (SHA's) limit our creativity (certainly an SHA). Why is the cognitive toolkit filled with garbage?
Let us look back in history (SHA): Modern science (SHA) can be said to have started in 1620 with "Novum Organum" ("New Instrument") by Francis Bacon. It should impress us today that his analysis (SHA) begins with a description (SHA) of four mistakes we run into when we do science. Unfortunately, we usually forget these warnings. Francis Bacon argued that we are — first — victims of evolution (SHA), i.e. that our genes (SHA), define constraints that necessarily limit insight (SHA). Second — we suffer from the constraints of imprinting (SHA); the culture (SHA) we live in provides a frame for epigenetic programs (SHA) that ultimately define the structure (SHA) of neuronal processing (SHA). Third — we are corrupted by language (SHA) as thoughts (SHA) cannot be easily transformed into verbal expressions . Fourth — we are guided or even controlled by theories (SHA), may they be explicit or implicit.
What are the implications for a cognitive toolkit? We are caught for instance in a language trap. On the basis of our evolutionary heritage we have the power of abstraction (SHA), but this has inspite of some advantages we brag about (to make us superior to other creatures) a disastrous consequence: Abstractions are usually represented in words; apparently we cannot do otherwise; we have to "ontologize"; we invent nouns to extract knowledge (SHA) from processes (SHA). ( I do not refer to the powerful pictorial shorthand abstractions). Abstraction is obviously complexity reduction (SHA). We make it simple. Why do we do this? Evolutionary heritage dictates to be fast. However, speed may give an advantage for a "survival toolkit", but not for a "cognitive toolkit". It is a categorical error (SHA) to confuse speed in action with speed in thinking. The selection pressure for speed invites to neglect the richness of facts. This pressure allows the invention (SHA) of a simple, clear, easy to understand, easy to refer to, easy to communicate shorthand abstraction. Thus, because we are a victim of our biological past and as a consequence a victim of ourselves we end up with shabby SHA's having left behind reality. If there is one disease all humans share, it is "monocausalitis", i.e. the motivation (SHA) to explain everything on the basis of just one cause. This may be a nice intellectual exercise but it is simply misleading.
Of course we depend on communication (SHA), and this requires verbal references usually tagged with language. But if we do not understand within the communicative frame or reference system (SHA) that we are a victim of ourselves by "ontologizing" and continuously creating "practical" SHA's, we simply use a cognitive toolkit of mental garbage. Is there a pragmatic way out other than to radically get rid of mental garbage? Yes, perhaps: Simply not using the the key SHA's explicitly in one's toolkit. Working on "consciousness", don't use (at least for one year) the SHA consciousness; if you work on the "self", never refer explicitly to self. Going through the own garbage one discovers many misleading SHA's, like just a few in my focus of attention (SHA): the brain as a net, localization of function, representation, inhibition, threshold, decision, the present, .... An easy way out is of course to refer to some of these SHA's as metaphors (SHA), but this again is evaiding the problem (SHA). I am aware of the fact (SHA) that I am also a victim of evolution, and to suggest "garbage" as a SHA also suffers from the same problem; even the concept of garbage required a discovery (SHA). But we cannot do otherwise than simply being aware of this challenge (SHA) that the content of the cognitive toolkit is characterized by self–referentiality (SHA), i.e. by the fact that the SHA's define themselves by their unreflected use.
Author, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
The Pessimistic Meta-Induction from the History of Science
Okay, okay: it's a terrible phrase. (In my defense, I didn't coin it. Philosophers of science have been kicking it around for a while.) But if "The Pessimistic Meta-Induction from the History of Science" is cumbersome to say and difficult to remember, it is also a great idea. In fact, as the "meta" part suggests, it's the kind of idea that puts all other ideas into perspective.
Here's the gist: because so many scientific theories from bygone eras have turned out to be wrong, we must assume that most of today's theories will eventually prove incorrect as well. And what goes for science goes in general. Politics, economics, technology, law, religion, medicine, child-rearing, education: no matter the domain of life, one generation's verities so often become the next generation's falsehoods that we might as well have a Pessimistic Meta-Induction from the History of Everything.
Good scientists understand this. They recognize that they are part of a long process of approximation. They know that they are constructing models rather than revealing reality. They are comfortable working under conditions of uncertainty — not just the local uncertainty of "Will this data bear out my hypothesis?", but the sweeping uncertainty of simultaneously pursuing and being cut off from absolute truth.
The rest of us, by contrast, often engage in a kind of tacit chronological exceptionalism. Unlike all those suckers who fell for the flat earth or the geocentric universe or cold fusion or the cosmological constant, we ourselves have the great good luck to be alive during the very apex of accurate human thought. The literary critic Harry Levin put this nicely: "The habit of equating one's age with the apogee of civilization, one's town with the hub of the universe, one's horizons with the limits of human awareness, is paradoxically widespread." At best, we nurture the fantasy that knowledge is always cumulative, and therefore concede that future eras will know more than we do. But we ignore or resist the fact that knowledge collapses as often as it accretes, that our own most cherished beliefs might appear patently false to posterity.
That fact is the essence of the meta-induction — and yet, despite its name, this idea is not pessimistic. Or rather, it is only pessimistic if you hate being wrong. If, by contrast, you think that uncovering your mistakes is one of the best ways to revise and improve your understanding of the world, then this is actually a highly optimistic insight.
The idea behind the meta-induction is that all of our theories are fundamentally provisional and quite possibly wrong. If we can add that idea to our cognitive toolkit, we will be better able to listen with curiosity and empathy to those whose theories contradict our own. We will be better able to pay attention to counterevidencethose anomalous bits of data that make our picture of the world a little weirder, more mysterious, less clean, less done. And we will be able to hold our own beliefs a bit more humbly, in the happy knowledge that better ideas are almost certainly on the way.
Evolutionary Biologist, University of Reading; External Professor, The Santa Fe Institute; Author, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Evolution
The Oracle of Delphi famously pronounced Socrates to be "the most intelligent man in the world because he knew that he knew nothing". Over 2000 years later the physicist-turned-historian Jacob Bronowski would emphasize — in the last episode of his landmark 1970s television series the "Ascent of Man" — the danger of our all-too-human conceit of thinking we know something. What Socrates knew and what Bronowski had come to appreciate is that knowledge — true knowledge — is difficult, maybe even impossible, to come buy, it is prone to misunderstanding and counterfactuals, and most importantly it can never be acquired with exact precision, there will always be some element of doubt about anything we come to "know"' from our observations of the world.
What is it that adds doubt to our knowledge? It is not just the complexity of life: uncertainty is built in to anything we measure. No matter how well you can measure something, you might be wrong by up to ½ of the smallest unit you can discern.
If you tell me I am 6 feet tall, and you can measure to the nearest inch, I might actually be 5' 11 and ½" or 6' and ½" and you (and I) won't know the difference. If something is really small you won't even be able to measure it, and if it is really really small a light microscope (and thus your eye, both of which can only see objects larger than the shortest wavelength of visible light) won't even know it is there. What if you measure something repeatedly?
This helps, but consider the plight of those charged with international standards of weights and measures. There is a lump of metal stored under a glass case in Sèvres, France. It is, by the decree of Le Système International d'Unités, the definition a kilogram. How much does it weigh? Well, by definition whatever it weighs is a kilogram. But the fascinating thing is that it has never weighed exactly the same twice. On those days it weighs less than a kilogram you are not getting such a good deal at the grocery store. On other days you are.
The often blithe way in which scientific "findings" are reported by the popular press can mask just how difficult it is to acquire reliable knowledge. Height and weight are — as far as we know — single dimensions. Consider then how much more difficult it is to measure something like intelligence, the risk of getting cancer from eating too much meat, whether cannibas should be legalized, whether the climate is warming and why, what a "shorthand abstraction" or even "science" is, the risk of developing psychosis from drug abuse, the best way to lose weight, whether it is better to force people receiving state benefits to work, whether prisons work, how to quit smoking, whether a glass of wine every day is good for you, whether it will hurt your children's eyes to use 3D glasses, or even just the best way to brush your teeth. In each case, what was actually measured, or who was measured, who were they compared to, for how long, are they like you and me, were there other factors that could explain the outcome?
The elusive nature of knowledge should remind us to be humble when interpreting it and acting on it, and this should grant us both a tolerance and skepticism towards others and their interpretations: knowledge should always be treated as a hypothesis.
It has only just recently emerged that Bronowski himself was involved in the Second World War project to design nuclear weapons — vicious projectiles of death that don't discriminate between good guys and bad guys. Maybe Bronowski's later humility was borne of this realization — that our views can be wrong and they can have consequences for others' lives.
Eager detractors of science as a way of understanding the world will jump on these ideas with glee, waving them about as proof that "nothing is real" and that science and its outputs are as much a human construct as art or religion. This is facile, ignorant and naïve.
Measurement and the "science" or theories it spawns must be treated with humility precisely because they are powerful ways of understanding and manipulating the world. Their observations can be replicated — even if imperfectly — and others can agree on how to make the measurements on which they depend, be they of intelligence, the mass of the Higgs boson, poverty, the speed at which proteins can fold into their three dimensional structures, or how big gorillas are.
No other system for acquiring knowledge even comes close to science, but this is precisely why we must treat its conclusions with humility. Einstein knew this when he said "all our science measured against reality is primitive and childlike" and yet he added "it is the most precious thing we have".
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Kawi language
|ꦧꦱꦗꦮ (Bhāṣa Kawi, Old Javanese)
|Native to
|Java, Bali, Madura, Lombok, Indonesia; Philippines
|Indonesia, Philippines
|literary language, archaic by 14th century
|Language codes
Linguist list
Kawi (from Sanskrit: kavi, "poet") is a literary and prose language on the islands of Java, Bali, and Lombok, based on Old Javanese, a language with a sizable vocabulary of Sanskrit loanwords. Kawi is the ancestor language of modern Javanese. The name "kawi" is derived from the root ku, which in Sanskrit means "poet", and, in derived forms, a "wise, educated man". The syllabic meter of Kawi poetry is sekar kawi, which means "flowers of the language", sekar itself deriving from the Sanskrit "sekhara" ("garland"). All Javanese languages are hierarchical and stratified, with strict social conventions for appropriate language subsets to be used for one's superiors or social and cultural functions. Kawi is commonly considered the pinnacle language.
Writing system
Kawi uses a unique script for writing commonly called hanacaraka; the more correct term is "Dentawiyanjana". It is a syllabic alphabet consisting of 20 letters and ten numbers and a number of vowel and consonant modifiers. The script of the island of Bali, heavily influenced by neighboring Java, has a unique sub-form called Tulisan Bali. Prince Aji Caka (an Indian migrant) is credited with establishing the first known kingdom of Java, called Java Dvipa (Swarna Dvipa) and also introducing the Kawi language was and the twenty letters of the syllabic hanacaraka script.[2] The Javanese also credit the language to Aji Saka, a legendary hero of Medang Kamulan Kingdom. The earliest known inscription of Kawi is found at Gunung Wukir Temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.
Kawi is not truly extinct as a spoken language. It is commonly used in wayang golek, wayang wong and wayang kulit, in addition to high activities such as a Javanese wedding, especially for the stylised meeting ritual of bride's parents with groom's parents in the ceremonies of Peningsetan and Panggih. Archaically or for certain nobles very strongly attached to tradition, it is used for the Midodareni, Siraman and Sungkeman ceremonies of the Javanese wedding.
The island of Lombok has adopted Kawi as its regional language, reflecting the very strong influence of neighbouring East Java. Today it is taught in primary school education as part of the compulsory secondary language unit of National curriculum. Traditionally, Kawi is written on lontar prepared palm leaves.
Kawi remains in occasional use as an archaic prose and literary language, in a similar fashion to Shakespeare-era English, which has such aesthetically and arguably more cultivated words as thy, thee, hast and so forth.
There are many important literary works written in Kawi, most notably Empu Tantular's epic poem, "Kakawin Sutasoma" (E.M. Uhlenbeck, 1964: "A Critical Survey of Studies on the Languages of Java and Madura", The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff), from which is taken the National motto of Indonesia: "Bhinneka Tunggal Ika". Although often glibly translated as "Unity in Diversity", it is more correctly rendered as "[although] scattered, remaining [as] one"— referring to the scattered islands of the archipelago nation, not as an expression of multicultural solidarity as may be perceived in modern times.
A more modern work is the poem "Susila Budhi Dharma", by Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo, the founder of Subud. In this work, he provides a framework for understanding the experience of the latihan kejiwaan.
Famous poems, epics and other literature include:
- Kakawin Tertua Jawa, 856
- Kakawin Ramayana ~ 870
- Kakawin Arjunawiwaha, mpu Kanwa, ~ 1030
- Kakawin Kresnayana
- Kakawin Sumanasantaka
- Kakawin Smaradhana
- Kakawin Bhomakawya
- Kakawin Bharatayuddha, mpu Sedah dan mpu Panuluh, 1157
- Kakawin Hariwangsa
- Kakawin Gatotkacasraya
- Kakawin Wrettasañcaya
- Kakawin Wrettayana
- Kakawin Brahmandapurana
- Kakawin Kunjarakarna, mpu "Dusun"
- Kakawin Nagarakretagama, mpu Prapanca, 1365
- Kakawin Arjunawijaya, mpu Tantular
- Kakawin Sutasoma, mpu Tantular
- Kakawin Siwaratrikalpa, Kakawin Lubdhaka
- Kakawin Parthayajna
- Kakawin Nitisastra
- Kakawin Nirarthaprakreta
- Kakawin Dharmasunya
- Kakawin Harisraya
- Kakawin Banawa Sekar Tanakung
Prominent authors
The following are notable authors of Kawi:
- Candakarana
- Sang Hyang Kamahayanikan
- Kunjarakarna
The first scholar to address Kawi in a serious academic manner was Humboldt, who considered it the father of all Malay-Polynesian languages. Furthermore, he deprecated misconceptions about Kawi being wholly influenced by Sanskrit, finding that Kawi did not use verb inflexion, thus differing from Sanskrit's highly developed inflectional system. In Kawi language, the meaning of a sentence must be grasped through word order and context. Humboldt further noted that Kawi utilizes tense distinctions, with past, present, and future, and differentiated moods via the imperative and subjunctive.
Numerous scholars have studied the language, including the Dutch expatriate Indonesian Prof. Dr. Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder S.J., who contributed an enormous quantity of original texts and serious scholarly study to the language, and his pupil and associate, Father Dr. Ignatius Kuntara Wiryamartana. Other eminent Indonesian scholars of the language include Poedjawijatna, Sumarti Suprayitna, Poerbatjaraka and Tardjan Hadiwidjaja.
See also
- Bhinneka Tunggal Ika for an example of this language
- Old Javanese language
- Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern
- Old Malay
- Laguna Copperplate Inscription – A 10th-century document from the Philippines written in Kawi.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kawi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ http://www.apu.ac.jp/~gunarto/lang/mileston.html
- De Casparis, J. G., Indonesian Palaeography : A History of Writing in Indonesia from the beginnings to c. AD 1500, Leiden/Koln, 1975
- Florida, Nancy K., Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts: Introduction and Manuscripts of the Karaton Surakarta, Cornell Univ Southeast Asia, 1993 ISBN 0-87727-603-X
- Wilhelm von Humboldt's "Über die Kawi-Sprache (On the Kawi Language)": 1836 Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3
- Poerbatjaraka dan Tardjan Hadiwidjaja, 1952, Kepustakaan Djawa'. Djakarta/Amsterdam: Djambatan.
- Avenir Stepanovich Teselkin,Old Javanese (Kawi) Ithaca, N.Y., Modern Indonesia Project, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1972
- E.M. Uhlenbeck, 1964, di dalam bukunya : "A Critical Survey of Studies on the Languages of Java and Madura", The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff
- Mary S. Zurbuchen, Introduction to Old Javanese Language and Literature: A Kawi Prose Anthology The University of Michigan, 1976
- P.J. Zoetmulder, S.O. Robson, Darusuprapta, 1995, Kamus Jawa Kuna–Indonesia, Jakarta: Gramedia dan Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV). Bekerja sama dengan S.O. Robson. Penerjemah: Darusuprapta dan Sumarti Suprayitna. ISBN 979-605-347-0
- 1992–1993, Bahasa parwa : tatabahasa Jawa Kuna: Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press. Bekerja sama dengan I.J. Poedjawijatna. Cetakan ulang dari edisi tahun 1954
External links
- About lontar (palmleaves manuscripts).
- http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-javanese-huruf.html
- http://www.joglosemar.co.id/hanacaraka/hanacaraka.html


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Stop Trying So Hard And You Will Play Better Golf
Many of my golf clients spend a lot of time and money developing solid swing mechanics. As a result, they work hard on their swings and constantly focus on trying to make it better and better. The problem so many of these golfers have is that they take this, "try hard" attitude out on the golf course and it causes real problems. Without realizing it they are coming in direct conflict with one of the most common paradoxes in golf (and in life for that matter). The paradox is:
While many people understand this paradox from an intellectual perspective they often "violate" the paradox by doing just the opposite; they do more to get more. Have you ever tried to really "crush" a shot? What happened? Tom, a 7 handicap tells me, "I'm a pretty good golfer and there are times I really want to get more out of a shot and when I try to do that I rarely get what I want. In fact, I wind up hitting a pretty ineffective golf shot."
Has that ever happened to you? This is a perfect example of what I call "The Try Factor". We are taught to "try, try and try some more" to get what we want in life. For many, this turns into OVER-trying which creates more problems. The reason is because we don't trust our own abilities and we lose confidence. (I deal with this in my audio progam, "The 7 Keys to Unshakable Confidence").
It doesn't matter what level player you are; this conflict is not good for your game!
Think about it this way. Do you try to drive your car? Do you try to eat your meals? Do you try to ride a bike? Can you see how awkward and inefficient it would be to try and do these things? Trying to hit the golf ball interferes with a smooth golf swing and you will lose rhythm, power and flow.
Stop trying so hard and start trusting your swing…you might like what you see!
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Oats can be used in both sweet and savoury recipes. For sweet recipes, add a pinch of brown sugar and top with your favourite fruit (e.g. bananas, frozen blueberries). For a quick savoury dish, mix with spinach, butternut squash, corn, carrots, peas, etc.
There are different kinds of oats, too. These include: steel cut oats vs. rolled oats vs. quick/instant oats. These names refer to different cuts of the oatmeal, and each have different cooking times (read packages carefully!). Steel cut cook the slowest, and quick/instant oats cook the fastest. Adjust cooking time based on the oats used.
Savoury Oatmeal with Spinach
Serves: ~2
- 1/4 cup steel-cut oats
- 1/4 cup tomato/marinara sauce
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup frozen spinach
- Optional: 1/3 cup ground beef
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Pot and pan
- Boil water and stir in oats. Reduce heat to medium.
- Optional: Brown (cook) beef in a separate pan (if using).
- Cook oats for about 5 minutes, then taste-test. They should be about halfway done (not fully tender and not fully thickened).
- Stir in spinach and continue to simmer on medium heat for about 5 minutes, or until spinach is thawed and oats are preferred chewiness.
- Stir in marinara, finished beef, salt, and pepper. Cook another 1-2 minutes to evenly heat.
Savoury Oatmeal with Bacon, Egg, and Cheese
Serves: ~1 (but you can always increase ingredients to make more!)
- 1/3 cup rolled oats
- 1 tbsp oil
- 2/3 cup water
- 2 slices bacon, diced
- 1/2 small onion, diced
- 2oz cheddar cheese, diced
- 1 fried egg (however you like it!)
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Pot and pan
- Heat oil in small saucepan over medium heat.
- Add bacon and cook until crisp, about 2-3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Transfer bacon to small bowl and set aside. (Tip: line the bowl with some paper towel to help absorb excess oil)
- Add onion to oil and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened and just starting to turn brown (about 3 minutes).
- Stir in oats, water, salt, and pepper.
- Bring to a boil, then turn heat to low and simmer until oats are tender (about 5 minutes).
- Turn off heat and stir in bacon and cheese.
- Transfer to a large bowl and top with a fried egg and more black pepper, if desired.


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Ceramic Cereal Bowl, Black and White Cat
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Don't know about you, but my cat says this each time he sees me. I've created a just for fun "Feed Me" small bowl hand thrown from red earthenware clay pottery and majolica glazed with a black and white tuxedo cat face, meowing "Feed Me" (of course, translated into English) Kitty has golden yellow eyes and the head rests on a background of turquoise blue accented with peacock blue dashes. Outside, three black mice scamper on a background of turquoise blue with hints of denim blue coming through. Based on my own tuxedo cat , Pisces aka. Fat Cat.
SIZE: 4.25 " x 2.25″ (11.5 cm x 5.6 cm) A wee bit of a bowl that could be used for your cat or a fun gift for your cat loving friend, who has a problem with a very loud, and demanding cat.
Glazed with a non-toxic majolica glaze, my bowl is food safe, can be put in the microwave for short warm ups and placed on the top rack of the dishwasher.
Each of my pieces are individually created with my original artistic designs and is as unique as the person holding it.
All pottery from Clay Lick Creek Pottery is handmade by me in Makanda, IL, using an electric wheel or a slab roller. I use a traditional red earthenware clay (unless noted) for my pottery. Bottoms are trimmed to create a foot ring and are signed and dated. After trimming and drying, I fire in the kiln to cone 04 to bisque it. Afterwards, I dip the pottery into homemade majolica glaze, which is the opaque white background glaze, then I use a brush to paint ceramic colorants onto the raw glaze surface. Then back into the kiln again to cone 05 to seal the glaze surface. Pieces can be used in the microwave for quick warm ups (unless noted) and top rack of the dishwasher (unless noted). All orders ship USPS Priority (2-3 business days) or Parcel Post (2-9 business days) — and I usually ship same day or next business day.
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Karen Fiorino lives in Southern Illinois, USA, where there are wonderful forested areas. She named her business, Clay Lick Creek Pottery, after a creek that flows through her property. Her colorful majolica bowl designs are inspired by nature: fruits and flowers, bumble bees, wild animals and the cats, dogs and chickens who live with her. Karen's work is functional, intended to brighten life in the home and to bring a smile, especially from the delightful animals that inhabit her forest of clay. The snot nosed yarn bowls will certainly inspire a guffaw or two, a definite ice breaker at your next knitting meet-up! Visit her shop on Etsy for all of her work: Shop on Etsy
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Do you send an annual Christmas card? How about a family newsletter? Perhaps you do both … or neither. It seems everyone has a different approach (and a different opinion) when it comes to sending holiday greetings.
My personal choice, which has been true for as long as I've been a parent, has been to send some kind of year-end summary to our friends and family members along with a more traditional card. I'm not much of a letter-writer and oftentimes, this is the only time many of these people hear much from us during the year.
Some years this has been a fairly straightforward letter, but being the scrapbooking/creative-type, most of the time this letter becomes a much more elaborate endeavor. (Of course, part of the need for creativity stems from the fact that I also tend to be the wordy type, so it's a challenge to fit everything on one page!!)
During my time as a newspaper reporter, our family letter took the form of, you guessed it, the front page of a newspaper. Another year I wrote the entire letter through the eyes of one of my kids.
In 2007, our letter was fairly traditional looking. I think I must have been a bit time-crunched that season…
The next year, I was in full scrapbooking mode. Can you tell?
And then last year it looked like this…
I haven't decided yet how I want to do our letter this year, so I spent a little time poking around the galleries to see if anyone else had shared their Christmas letters.
I love that scrapbookers can extend their hobby beyond their albums, like this gal did with her family's letter…
And I found our very own Calendar Girl Rebecca's Kuchenbecker's approach very clever as well. She did her holiday card/letter like this…
But then she made a second version to go in her scrapbook album…
I love that idea! What better way to capture a year's worth of memories than saving and/or re-purposing our family newsletters?
How about you? What's your approach to holiday greetings? Just for fun, click on the button below that best describes what you do … and then if you'd like, I'd love for you to share a few thoughts or a link to a favorite card or letter through the comment section below!!
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An average accountant goes partying and afterwards learns that someone has slipped him some poison. Having only one week to live, he decides to pursue those who are responsible.
Starring Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, and Luther Adler
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Enjoy the weather, but be careful of the big swells and seas.
Hot spot this week, plenty of Flathead out on the sand off Tathra and Merimbula.
Beaches and headlands are still producing Salmon and Drummer this week. Frozen worms, Blue bait & pilchards, local frozen bait is great bait for beach fishing and available at Tackleworld.
GAME FISHING: Nothing to report
TURA BEACH: Northern end producing some Salmon and a few Tailor mixed in there as well.
MAIN BEACH: Tailor and Salmon with whiting, look for the gutters, try using Red Devil Worms.
BEGA RIVER: Good size Flathead near the bridge at Mogareeka. Estuary perch in the upper reaches, with a few Bream. Soft plastics, prawns & worms
BROGO DAM: Great catches of good size Bass on cicada imitations.
PAMBULA RIVER/LAKE: Has been a bit quiet due to heavy rain, still a few flathead around 48cm on vibes and plastics.
MERIMBULA LAKE: Bream on vibes and bait, Trevally, and some Flathead also Whiting on the flats with surface lures, lots of Trevally on small plastics and metal jigs. Plenty Tailor on diving hardbody lures.
Try using the Fuze range of soft plastics and especially on the Flathead, Strata Black Heart for Tailor. For the whiting, Sugapens and Fish Candy lures are also working well. Maybe fish the run in tide to combat the fresh water.
MERIMBULA WHARF: A few larger Salmon being caught on Strada Divers and also some squid on Yamashita 2.5g jigs, Kingfish have been in and out, so be ready for them, with some big poppers and stickbaits lures.
TATHRA WHARF: Salmon, Tailor and Squid still being reported.
REEFS: Snapper on Keitech plastics and micro jigs – plenty of Morwong, plenty of good Flathead, Nannagai and Gummies out on the sand.
LOCAL HEADLANDS: Check conditions before fishing, Salmon and some big Kingfish still good catches of squid too.
Call Merimbula Tackle World on 6495 1681 if you have any questions. The staff are passionate about fishing, and are ready to pass on their knowledge to you. Merimbula Tackle World has the largest range of lures on the Far South Coast, and supply NSW fishing licenses.
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Tel: 02 6495 1681
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How to Sous Vide without an Expensive Sous Vide Machine
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Sous Vide - we're constantly being told of the virtues of using sous vide cooking for a whole host of different ingredients and the image of someone removing fish, veg or meat inside a bag from a bath of water is getting as common as seeing bread pop out of the toaster.
Sous vide equipment is getting cheaper and there are many people making machines aimed directly at the home user but the stuff is still expensive and we're a while off the sous vide replacing the microwave on the kitchen counter.
Does that mean you can only watch the pros doing it on Masterchef while you only wonder about the juicy goodness possible if only you had your own? No, no our friends, it doesn't. That's because Sous Vide can be replicated at home - ok, it's not going to be as accurate as the pros and you're going to have to monitor the temp to make sure it doesn't cool down too much but the process can be achieved with some very basic equipment and a keen eye on the thermometer.
The team at ChefSteps have created two different videos showing you how to achieve some Sous Vide goodness at home. The first requires a regular cool box and the second a pot on top of a stove - it really is as simple as it sounds.
For those scratching their heads at why anyone would spend lots of money on equipment we're telling you to replicate with a cool box - it's because Sous Vide machines hold a truly accurate temperature which is very important when looking to obtain consistent results. The tempo of these home versions will fluctuate a lot so probably best not to try cooking 63 eggs, however this technique should work just fine for veg, meat and fish where a temp change of a few degrees won't ruin the end result.
Watch the videos below - we've also included one of ChefSteps recipes for Sous Vide salmon and if you really want to get to understand this style of cooking, we suggest you enroll in their Cooking Sous Video class.
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Has this happened to you? You're headed to a meeting with your boss, and when you reach his office, you find the corporate attorney and/or HR director with him. The next thing you know, the tag team is telling you, "We no longer need your services," and they're ushering you out the door.
The first time it happens, it can come as a complete shock. But chances are there were early warning signs that indicated your job was in serious danger—warning signs you missed.
"I've seen a lot of people get blindsided," says Dan Coffey, a consultant with Spherion who helps executives who've recently lost their jobs find their next one. He estimates that 50 percent of people fired are caught completely off guard when they should have been aware of the evidence against them.
To help you decipher the signals, we've compiled a comprehensive list of red flags. Learn them, and you may be able to take measures to get yourself out of a precarious position—before the only exit route is through the front door while carrying a cardboard box.
1. Your company is sold. "If your company is sold or your division is sold, you have to realize your job could be affected no matter what level you're at," says Coffey.
Job-saving tip: "Always have your slide deck ready that shows the value you are providing to the firm so that when your company is taken over or you get a new CEO or CFO, you're Johnny-on-the-spot ready to explain your value," says Karen Rubenstrunk, a recruiter with Korn Ferry International. The mistake many professionals make, she says, is waiting for their scheduled meeting with the new management to make their case. "They don't recognize how important it is to make that first impression," she adds. Fail to have your self-promotional sales pitch polished, and you're at the whim of others' perceptions of you.
2. Your company is not making money. If your company is unprofitable, it's ripe for some kind of change whether it is job cuts, reorganization or the pursuit of a new business strategy, says Coffey. Either way, you have to realize your job may be in jeopardy.
Job-saving tip: Coffey advises professionals to pay particular attention to the way their department is viewed inside their companies for further clues. If their function is viewed as a commodity, the board may decide to outsource the entire department or replace the department head with someone cheaper to cut costs. Either way, start looking for a new job.
3. Your company pursues a strategy you didn't support. If your company decides to centralize or decentralize, grow through acquisition or divest businesses, and you didn't recommend the move the management team is making, you're going to be perceived as not being on the proverbial bus, or worse, not having the skills necessary to take the company in its new direction.
Job-saving tip: Start making a list of companies that could benefit from your experience, and work on arranging interviews with them.
4. Your span of control has been reduced. "Any reorganization in which you no longer have the full span of control [that you had prior to the restructuring] is a sign that you're getting moved out," says Korn Ferry's Rubenstrunk. "If part of your organization was taken away, there's a reason. And it's probably because people didn't feel you were up to the task, regardless of what your superiors tell you," she says. If your boss tells you he's reassigning some of your responsibilities to another executive to lighten your heavy load, don't believe it. It's just a diplomatic way for the boss to say he no longer believes you can do the job.
Job-saving tip: Do the best you can in your reduced capacity and start looking for new work.
5. You're left out of key meetings and decisions. "If you are a respected technology person, you're asked for your opinion," says Rubenstrunk. So when you're suddenly no longer asked to weigh in on budget changes, staffing decisions or process-improvement initiatives, it can signify many things: that your company doesn't view IT as strategic, your peers don't see you as strategic, your C-level colleagues have lost confidence in you, or you've become an impediment to getting things done and they'd sooner move ahead without you.
Job-saving tip: Start returning recruiters' phone calls and rebuilding your network.
6. You're not getting buy-in. Not being able to get approval for your strategy, individual projects or budget can indicate that your fellow execs no longer support you. It can also indicate that your proposals are not aligned with the business. Either way, it shows you're not in tune with your colleagues or your company's needs. You can't be effective or successful without buy-in.
Job-saving tip: Allan Sommer, CIO of Kraton Polymers, advises executives to talk with the individuals who are not giving them the support they need. He recommends saying something like, "I'm sensing an issue around buy-in. On the last three projects, I got support from HR and finance but not from you. Can you talk to me about that? Do you think we're making investments in the right areas?" In so doing, he says, "You show you know what's going on and that you care about their opinion, but you have to be ready for a confrontational discussion."
7. You have to fight tooth and nail to get anything done. "If you're always arguing with colleagues in meetings and they either don't listen to or rebuff your ideas, it tells me your objectives are not the corporation's objectives," says Dennis Connor, a retired CIO who's now chairman of the Dallas-Fort Worth area chapter of the Technology Executives Networking Group ( TENG).
Job-saving tip: Purchase that premium subscription to TheLadders.com that you've been putting off.
8. You have a new boss. Any new CXO on staff should automatically serve as a warning that personnel changes may be afoot, says Rubenstrunk. Why? Because they like to assemble their own teams, says TENG's Connor. Charles Schiappa, the former CIO of HP's medical products business who's currently in transition, says IT professionals must realize that a new boss is going to judge their performance along new criteria—that is, the new boss's metrics, and not your old boss's. And if that new exec starts talking about a wonderful friend with whom he used to work and who held your position, that's a surefire sign he has designs on your job, adds Spherion's Coffey.
Job-saving tip: Coffey advises employees to treat getting a new boss like taking a new job. He says a lot of professionals make the mistake of continuing to work as they did before the new boss arrived and thinking that it's the new boss who has to get acclimated to the culture, not them. "That's how they get blindsided when they get let go," he says. "The new boss has a mandate, and you have to make sure you're aligned with that mandate. If you're not, you're toast."
9. Your top priorities don't match up with your boss's. This is a clear indication that you and your boss are drifting apart, says Connor, and unless you get back in alignment with him, he may decide to let you go. Similarly, if you find your lines of communication with your boss are drying up—or worse, he assigns you to report to someone else—it means you're no longer a priority in his mind. If you were, he'd devote a portion of his precious time to you.
Job-saving tip: Check in with your boss regularly to make sure you're on the same page.


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You can find pretty much anything on the internet. A rare collectible, the text of an old speech, an obscure fact, and even the personal injury clients whom you really want to represent. Of course, while you might search for the things you want to know or purchase, the trick about finding personal injury clients online is to get the personal injury clients to come to you and to like what they see on your website.
Two Things You Need to Do to Get Personal Injury Clients via Internet Marketing
Many personal injury lawyers have a website, yet they don't see the results that they had hoped to see from that website. They often wonder if they are doing the right thing and how to get personal injury clients to find them. Generally, there are two things that a website must do in order to attract personal injury clients and have them contact your firm.
First, personal injury law firm website content must be written so that users can find it via search engines. Think about what someone who has been hurt in an accident might search for, take advantage of tools such as Google Analytics, and consider working with an experienced legal marketing consultant to make sure that your content will be found by search engines and thus by the people searching for personal injury attorneys in your area.
Second, and equally as important as the point described above, the website content must be written in a way that interests the reader and encourages the reader to contact the law firm. It is not enough that a potential client has found you. The client must also be drawn in by the content and take the next step of contacting your law firm.
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