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I was called to the ministry back in 1971 and have been active in the preaching and teaching Gods message to man ever since. In 2005 I discovered Runboard while in search of a free message board site. After looking at the other options, I chose Runboard as the best option for my ministry because I could change everything to match my website. Later I added RBBT.Net as a 3rd party supporter for Runboard and the RunSearch engine.
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THERE are dozens of small ways by which we can make our minds both keener and more flexible---two qualities peculiarly necessary for those who intend to live successfully. We all succumb too easily to the temptation to find a routine which works out so that we get our day's tasks done with a minimum of effort and conscious attention; a fact which might have no unfortunate effects on us at all if we used the time we save by our routines to good purpose. But the cold truth is that we do nothing of the sort. We apply the routine-observing tendency to our whole lives, growing mentally and spiritually more flaccid, more timorous, less experimental with every day we spend supported by the rigidity of habit.
Habit takes care of most of our ordinary activities; we get through our work by using only that part of our intellect which has been trained to consider the work's specific problems (often trained painfully and protesting); when we meet a novel thought or situation, we fall back on an analogy and act according to the prejudice or emotion which that arouses in us. Even those of us who rather solemnly undertake programs of self-improvement seldom use more than one set of mental muscles, gathering a number of facts about this subject or that, and considering ourselves "improved" if we learn something about the religions of India, or the work of Charles Dickens, or the birds of Southern California.
This would be harmless enough if it were not for the complacency which attends it. Fact gathering is one activity of the intellect; and where a little training in independent judgment has accompanied or preceded it, so that correct conclusions concerning the facts are independently reached, it is a valuable one. But such programs alone do not exercise the mind to its fullest extent, to make an instantaneously useful tool of it, or give one the power to call on all its resources at will.
Even those who think of themselves as extraordinarily hard workers are not in the state of mental training, usually, which allows them to get the most from their lives. One great reason is pointed out over and over by Dr. Alexis Carrel in his book Man, the Unknown: the benefits of civilization are not unmixed blessings. We are no longer called on to meet the extremes of heat and cold, for instance, to go through alternate periods of plenty and scarcity of food; universal lighting turns night into day everywhere, and the newspapers and radio entertain us so that we seldom look to ourselves for our own resources. Healthy man has a great capacity for adaption, and, says Dr. Carrel, "the exercise of the adaptive functions appears to be indispensable to the optimum development of man." We have allowed ourselves to soften, to abandon our ingenuity, to escape responsibility whenever possible, till we grow to fear and abhor the very word "discipline."
Yet discipline is undergoing restraint in order to develop the qualities necessary for a full life. Mental discipline should connote the equivalent in the sphere of the mind which the athlete undertakes for perfecting his body. We should first take stock of our minds; and then set to work on them to strengthen them here, make them more flexible there, stretch them somewhat, teach them to be more exact---in short, put them through their paces so that we get the maximum use and advantage from them.
In order to do so, we must learn to be arbitrary with ourselves---by no means an easy matter for a generation which has not only been softened by material conveniences, but has been given the dubious benefit of being allowed to "psychologize" about itself day in and day out. Some of us dread and dislike restraint, even when self imposed for a sound purpose, to such an extent that we live our lives between habit and impulse under the impression that only so can we be wholly free. But "Freedom," says Aristotle, "is obedience to self-formulated rules," and the definition holds as good today as two thousand years ago.
We must work to get back tone and muscle into our lives until it is possible to stop one activity and turn to another, varying the approach, stroke, strength behind the effort, and so on, with as much agility and deftness as a skillful tennis player uses to meet the shifting play of a good opponent. If we could know each day just the necessities we should be called on to meet, we could prepare ourselves in advance, and flexibility and ingenuity would be uncalled for. Since that does not happen, we must get ourselves into training to meet the infinite calls on us, instead of, as we usually do, discharging easily only one or two matters which are natively congenial to us, and getting through the others awkwardly, blindly.
The disciplines suggested here are drawn from all over the world. Readers of philosophy and religion will find procedures they have met before, recommended by the wise men of many countries: there are disciplines from India and Spain, from Greece and China---and from any girl's finishing school! Some of
them are common to every country which teaches any kind of mental or spiritual discipline, such as that of observing set periods of silence. None of them is "arbitrary" in the sense of "pointless"; each develops or strengthens a faculty of the mind which should be kept in good condition if a life is to be led purposefully and under one's own control.
Not all of them will be equally valuable to all cases; but before rejecting any one of them examine yourself to discover if you are not possibly throwing it aside simply because it does ask you to put a little more restraint on yourself than you find pleasurable. Most of them will be difficult at some stage, attended by something in the mental realm like the stiffness and soreness which follow using a new muscle in athletic training. But you can exercise muscle only by submitting it to some sort of resistance; you must feel at least slightly uncomfortable to have the assurance that your exercise is doing the work you are asking of it. So, in following these mental exercises, unless there is some discomfort from observing each one fully, unless there is some protest arising from interrupted habits and novel ways of action, it may be that the discipline in question is not one that you really need. Replace it, in that case, with another which calls on you for some endurance and effort.
TWO [The Twelve Disciplines]
The first exercise is to spend an hour every day without saying anything except in answer to direct questions. This should be done in the midst of your usual group, and without giving anyone the impression that you are sulking or suffering from a bad headache. Present as ordinary an appearance as possible; simply do not speak. Answer questions just to their limit, aid no further; give a full and adequate answer, but do not continue with volunteered remarks which are suggested by the answer or question, and do not attempt in any way to draw another question from your interlocutor. Oddly enough, this is a difficult discipline for even a normally taciturn person. We are all so used to breaking into speech wherever we meet one another, merely in order to give evidence of our friendliness and accessibility, that we talk almost constantly whenever there is an opportunity.
This discipline is found in almost every country which is the home of a genuinely old religion. It is of immense value, and productive of many different results. Probably no two experimenters ever have identical reactions to this practice; they will vary according to temperaments. One thing which soon becomes apparent to many, for instance, is that we seldom say exactly what we mean at our first attempt. We rush into speech, see by the expression on another's face that we have not made ourselves entirely clear, or have misspoken in some way, and try again. This likewise may not make our intention understood; we try again. We pause a moment, think the matter over, issue a clearer statement. But in the meanwhile there are those three earlier attempts to express ourselves still remaining in our hearers' minds, beclouding the issue.
One man, reporting on this experiment, said that he seemed at first not to be there at all. Then there was a period when he felt that he, in his silence, filled the whole room and had the experience of seeing it all impersonally. As long as he talked, wherever he stood was, naturally, the center of his scene; silent, the group "composed" with a different emphasis. When his hour was over he saw himself sometimes in the center, sometimes on the circumference, occasionally entirely outside the interests around him.
Another man recorded that when his silence began to make itself felt the friends he was with acted most illuminatingly. Not quite aware what made the occasion unusual, two of them were definitely ill at ease. One thereupon became extremely ingratiating, a second truculent and then downright hostile, arriving at the point of charging his silent friend with feeling "superior" just as the hour was up and speech could be resumed. A third man, heretofore the quietest of the group of friends, turned extremely talkative, as though to retrieve a balance he felt endangered, relapsing into silence when the observer began to talk naturally again.
A woman reported, with much amusement, that she had never had such a personal success in her life as during the hour she sat silent and smiling at a party. Her silence seemed to act as a magnet and a challenge in a way her gaiety had never done.
All experimenters, however, agreed on one matter: while the silence lasted a sense of mastery grew in them. When they resumed speech it was with the sense of using speech definitely and purposefully, and
always with the knowledge that the resort of silence could be found at Meredith which she said she had never fully understood. One concluded her report with a sentence from before: "It is the silence of the god we fear, not his wrath; Silence is the unbearable repartee."
Learn to think for half-an-hour a day exclusively on one subject. Simple as this sounds, it is at first ludicrously hard to do. The novice should begin by thinking on his solitary subject for five minutes a day at first, increasing the period daily till the half hour has been attained. To begin with, a concrete object should be chosen: a flower, a bottle of ink, a scarf. Do not have it before you; build it up in your mind. With a flower, for instance, describe it to yourself as each of the senses would report it. When that is done, go on to how it grows and where; what it symbolizes, if anything; what uses are made of it. From this simple beginning, work up to considering a concrete problem, and, finally, to an abstraction. Start with subjects which really interest you, but when you have taught your mind not to wander even for a moment, begin choosing a subject by pointing your finger at random on a newspaper or the page of a book, and think on the first idea suggested by the lines you have touched.
You will find it very revealing to start this exercise with a pencil and pad, and to make a slight check on the paper whenever you find your attention slipping. If you are really quick to realize when your mind has begun to wander, you will find your paper very full for the first few days. Fortunately, improvement in this is fairly rapid. At the end of a week in some cases, at the end of a month even in refractory ones, the pad will be found nearly blank at the end of your half-hour. The value of this exercise must be obvious to anyone who hopes to engage in original work, or to introduce new procedures of any sort. At first it is wise to practice this when alone; but eventually you should be able to do it even in the midst of distractions, such as when traveling to and from work.
Note carefully that the recommendation is not to hold one's mind immobile on one object, as in some Indian disciplines or in the Christian process called "recollection." You are to think about one subject only; no more than that. The other practice induces a slightly hypnoidal state, and is not suitable to our purposes here.
This, of course, is simply the "application" and "concentration" which was preached to every one of us in our school days, it is very revealing, none the less, to see how imperfectly we learned that lesson then or at any subsequent time! Once it is learned, it is of immense benefit. Anyone who is capable of it, for instance, can pick up a foreign language in very short order. The accent may be barbarous, unless one has learned phonetics early, but books and newspapers can be easily read, and enough of a vocabulary to get around in the strange land can be acquired in less than a month.
Moreover, in any competitive performance, the one who has trained himself to think steadily, without deflection, will arrive at his conclusion first. But the advantages of this are too obvious to need emphasizing further.
2 Write a letter without once using the following words: I, me, my, mine. Make it smooth and keep it
interesting. If the recipient of the letter notices that there is something odd about it, the exercise has failed.
This practice, and others like it, again allows us to see ourselves in perspective. In order to write a good letter of the sort, it is necessary to turn the mind outward, to give up for a while the preoccupations and obsessions with our own affairs. We come back to our own lives refreshed.
Talk for fifteen minutes a day without using I, me, my, mine.
Write a letter in a "successful" or placid tone. No actual misstatements are allowed. No posing as successful, no lying. Simply look for aspects or activities which can be honestly reported in this way and confine you letter to them. Indicate by the letter's tone that you are, at the moment of writing, not
discouraged in any way.
There is a double purpose here. First, it is a simple way of turning from a negative and discouraging attitude towards a positive and healthy one. However unpromising the prospect for finding enough good items for a letter may appear at first, one soon discovers that a number of matters are going smoothly and well, but that they have been ignored while one centers on disappointment and frustration. Second, and more important, such a letter as this, sent to almost every correspondent you have, will remove one great stumbling-block to the successful conduct of your affairs.
Letter writing is a task we usually tuck into an odd corner of our day. When we have nothing to do and feel listless, bored, tired or depressed, we take pen in hand and write to our dear ones! We send low-spirited, unhappy notes about, and reap the natural consequences: consolatory or sympathetic letters come in answer. Sometimes they come when we are feeling fairly well, or in really high spirits; but it is a heroic character who can resist the chance to feel sorry for himself. We have the choice, reading these answers which we have invited, of slipping back into the mood of martyrdom and self-pity, or of feeling distinctly silly. It is far more dramatic to feel sad again than to feel silly; so we go on in our vicious circle, and send the latest bad news when we write again. A complete holiday from self-pity and depressions is necessary to success.
And this exercise comes directly from all the finishing schools for young ladies that ever existed: pause on the threshold of any crowded room you are to enter, and consider for a moment your relation to those who are in it Many a retiring and quiet woman can thank this small item of her school training for her ability to handle competently situations which seem, as though they would be embarrassing and exacting for anyone so sheltered. It was for years (and may be still, for all I know) the custom to teach young girls to stop just a moment at the door of the room they were entering until they had found their hostess, and then the guest of honor. (Failing such guest, the oldest person in the room was to be singled out.) Then the room was entered, the young guest going, as soon as her hostess was free, straight to her to be welcomed and to "make her manners." She then watched for the first opportunity to speak for a few minutes to the guest of honor; and not until she had discharged these obligations was she free to follow any other plans or inclinations of her own. The girl who thoroughly learned this lesson learned something which is invaluable to everyone: to size up a roomful of people at a glance, discover what it holds, first in the way of obligation and then in the way of companionship or one's own interests.
There is a kind of nonsensical notion abroad today that to take such conscious forethought about any occasion is to be a hypocrite or a snob, that there is some virtue in rushing pell-mell into any situation, snatching what offers itself without difficulty, and foregoing the rest. There is no danger that you will really be acting "artificially" if you give yourself a moment to foresee the various possibilities and relationships in the occasion you are about to live through. You will simply have taken care not to be stampeded into doing something uncongenial to you, of getting caught in a backwater of conversation which touches none of your real interests, or of running the risk of missing a chance to talk to a real friend, or someone whose conversation will bring you something of value. However consciously we plan our lives, there is still enough margin of the unforeseen and the unexpected to keep us from any danger of losing spontaneity, but the ideal is to have as much of our lives within our voluntary control as possible. Sometimes, with the best of intentions, we are not able to bring about what we want in that moment of anticipation; if we have taken the trouble to see all the possibilities before us, we can turn to a secondary interest easily, not missing every opportunity because we were disappointed in one.
When the above exercise is learned or recaptured, go on to an old piece of advice from seventeenth century France: keep a new acquaintance talking about himself or herself without allowing him to become conscious of what you are doing. Turn back, at first, any courteous reciprocal questions in such a way that your auditor does not feel rebuffed. You will find a genuine interest rising in you for your companion; soon, if you are at all kindly or imaginative, you will find yourself engrossed. The last, lingering trace of self-consciousness will drop from you. It may be that you will not be asked about yourself. That makes no difference; at the very least you have learned a little more about how the world looks to another, and have extended your horizon. If, on the other hand, you do talk of yourself in response to later questions, you will know just how much to say, what interests you have in common, whether you could ever find the friendship of that person desirable.
Perhaps it needs to be said plainly that acting consciously need not mean acting coldly. Not a grain of real
humanity is sacrificed by having the reins of action in one's own hands; rather the contrary. An outgoing effort is voluntarily undertaken and carried on; instead of being so totally engrossed in ourselves that we know nothing of the moods or interests of others except as they affect us, we escape by the pleasantest road from our restricting egotism. The other party to the experiment, far from being a victim of coldblooded planning, is for once assured of not being victimized by our blind selfishness.
The exact opposite of the above exercises, and infinitely harder to do with intention: Talk exclusively about yourself and your interests without complaining, boasting or (if possible) boring your companion. Make yourself and your activities as interesting as you can to the person to whom you are talking.
This is an excellent discipline for those who ordinarily talk too much about themselves. This reductio ad absurdum of their weakness brings them face to face with the ordeal which they are putting their friends through at every opportunity. When concentrated talking about one's own interests is undertaken consciously, every sign of indifference, of boredom, of restiveness or impatience, of desire to introduce another topic of conversation which may escape us while we are neurotically self absorbed, is only too plainly seen. Both the exercise and the weakness will be abandoned gratefully after one or two occasions.
However, there are other things to be gained from this. It soon becomes apparent that talking about the trivial, the commonplace, the recurring incidents of one's life leads to certain ennui in our hearers. If, on the other hand, we have had genuinely interesting experiences, have been more imaginative in a situation than usual, are undertaking something new, we are likely to hold our audience. The conclusion that in that case perhaps we might profit by extending our interests, undertaking new adventures, or bringing more imagination to our everyday lives can hardly be escaped. We soon learn to discard a report of our latest attack of illness, the most recent exploit of our offspring, the remarkable intelligence of our pets, today's example of our bad luck, as opening gambits in adult conversation. If you are with someone who is still a slave to that kind of word-wasting, consciously introduce a subject of more depth or wider interest when it is your turn to speak. If you discover that he or she stubbornly resists all such invitations to better talk, you have a decision to make.
There may be, in spite of all limitations, such warmth, sweetness, genuine feeling in even a limited friend that one can under no circumstances think of abandoning the relationship. On the other hand, we sometimes discover, to our surprised dismay, that we have attached someone to ourselves for no better reason than that in his presence we can babble on about the trivialities of our lives, though there is no deep bond between us. To withdraw from that association as soon as is consistent without hurting the other party, to refuse to continue to waste your own energy and time, or connive in the wasting of his, is a plain obligation. If you have been guilty (as most of us have) of forming such an association-in-weakness, the first effort at correction should be to see whether you can not transform it into a genuine friendship, stimulating and strengthening; only when you must give up all hope of that should the relationship be dropped.
The correction of the "I mean," the "As a matter of fact" habit, takes cooperation. If you realize that you have picked up a verbal mannerism, call on the friend to whom you talk most fluently and emotionally. It is fairly easy to control such a mannerism in the presence of someone we hardly know, but in the heat of discourse the offending phrase will crop up in every other sentence. Tell the friend that you are saying "and so on," for instance, to the point of absurdity. Ask him to watch for it, and to hold up his hand without interrupting the conversation whenever he hears you use it. The talk which follows will be choppy, and there is likely for a while to be more laughter than conversation, but you will begin to get the habit in hand. Two or three sessions will entirely eradicate the phrase---except when you actually want to use it.
Plan two hours of a day and live according to the plan.
If you are working by yourself as a free lance, any day will do. If not, choose a Sunday or holiday to
experiment on. Make the schedule partly according to your usual habit, partly unlike it. As for instance:
7:30-8 Breakfast and newspaper
8-8:20 Mail
8:20-9:25 Arrange books according to subject matter
9:25-9:30 Telephone (if on weekday) for some appointment you have been putting off. If Sunday or holiday,
go out for a walk.
The complexity or diversity of the items has very little to do with this practice. The point is to turn from one activity to the next, not at the approximate minute of your schedule, but on the exact moment. If you are only halfway through the newspaper, that's very sad. But down it must go, and you open your mail---hitherto disregarded. If this is a day without an incoming mail, the twenty minutes go to letter writing. If you have time to spare, send a card or two, or make notes for another letter on another day. Wherever you are at 8:20 with your correspondence, you stop and turn to the arranging of books. One of your planned activities, at least, should promise a fair amount of interest to you. If it is not arranging books, then clipping articles from a magazine can replace it, or even straightening a room thoroughly.
The twin purposes of this discipline are, first, to give ourselves the experience of being under orders again, and, second, to demonstrate how badly we lose our sense of the time necessary to accomplish any stipulated activity. Every printer that ever lived, probably, has grumbled at an editor or make up man who wants to crowd too many letters on a line, complaining that "he must think we've got rubber type." Well, most of us think our days have rubber hours. Even those suburbanites who have learned by long experience that it is just seventeen minutes to a second from the shower-bath to the railroad station will nonchalantly plan to cram the work of half a day into a couple of hours after lunch. We expect time to be infinitely accommodating, we refuse to admit that it cannot be. But it is possible to learn---by planning, first, two hours of a day, then three, then four, and so on till we have planned and lived an effective, eight hour day (at the least) --- to use time to the best advantage. Rigid scheduling of a whole day is not always possible or even desirable, but a few days lived by timetable now and again will refresh our sense of the value of time and teach us what we can expect of ourselves when we do not waste it.
For those who need really stern warning about this: one psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Bousfeld, holds that the sure sign of the incurable egotist is that he never allows for the actual amount of time any given activity will take. Firmly, though unconsciously, believing that the world revolves around him, certain of his magical power to arrest the progress of the sun and the moon, he goes through life astonished at the refractoriness of Time in not meeting him halfway. He is always late to appointments, behind in his obligations, constantly assuming more work or accepting more invitations than he could keep if he were twins. He either learns the error of his ways or comes to a bad end.
This is the most difficult of all. It will seem so arbitrary to many readers that they will not even try to apply it. It is arbitrary; that is its very essence. It is less necessary for those living in the midst of large families than for persons living alone, or those who are alone most of the time. Remembering the quotation given before from Dr. Cairel, arrange to put yourself into situations where you must act non-habitually, where you must adapt yourself. Members of the Army, the Navy, the priesthood, some societies, are constantly in a state of living under orders; and we recognize in them a resiliency that is absent from the characters of most men and women who live according to their own convenience. It is not easy to get this resiliency back into our lives, but it is a quality too valuable to be lost. If the following recommendation seems somewhat too dramatic, almost too ridiculous, be assured that the results will show the worth of the discipline.
On a number of slips of paper---twelve will do to start with---write instructions like these:
"Go twenty miles from home, using ordinary conveyance." (In other words, don't just get out a car or hire a taxi, if you can afford it, and drive somewhere. Take streetcars, buses, ferries, subways.)
"Go twelve hours without food."
"Go eat a meal in the unlikeliest place you can find." A restaurant in a totally foreign quarter of a city is good here. Asking for food at a farmhouse is better, if you are hardy enough to be so unconventional.
"Say nothing all day except in answer to questions."
"Stay up all night and work." And this, by the way, is the most valuable order of them all. You must plan to work steadily and quietly, resisting every temptation to lie down for a few moments, but relaxing very slightly against the chair-back every hour or so, bracing yourself to your work again the moment lassitude threatens to overcome you. Only those who have actually done this realize that there are depths to our minds which we seldom plumb, accustomed as we are to succumb to the first attack of fatigue, or staying awake only so long as we have outer stimulation.
Seal these slips of paper in twelve envelopes, shuffle them thoroughly and put them in a drawer. Whenever you think of it, shuffle them again. Every other week, or on a given day of each month, pick one of the envelopes, open it, and perform your own command. It may be raining pitchforks on the day you command yourself to travel twenty miles by common carrier; nevertheless, unless your state of health absolutely forbids it, you go. If you are doing an intensive piece of work, one monthly exercise of this sort is enough. If not, the oftener you can be arbitrary with yourself---without turning into a restless jumping jack, it goes without saying---the better for your character eventually.
There need not be twelve different orders on your slips. If you can think of activities which are genuinely difficult for you to do, which go against the grain but which you yet know would be valuable training for you, include them. One young man of my acquaintance who was abnormally shy insisted to himself that he should get into conversation with at least three strangers daily. Any activity you choose should be both corrective and unusual, cutting abruptly across your usual routine.
An alternative method is this: from time to time give yourself a day on which you say "Yes" to every request
made of you which is at all reasonable. The more you tend to retire from society in your leisure, the more
valuable this will be. You may find yourself invited to go sleigh riding in your twenty-four hours; you may be
invited to change your job. The sleigh-ride should certainly be accepted, however much you may hate straw,
thick blankets and cold weather. The job-changing, fortunately, can be submitted to examination, since it is
only "reasonable" activities which you are to undertake without second thought. Don't be afraid nothing will
occur on that day; it is astonishing how many small requests we can turn aside daily rather than interrupt our
even course. The consequences may be wide-reaching, often educative, sometimes extremely
3 advantageous. Nevertheless do not jump to the conclusion that because one day of the sort has brought so
many interesting possibilities to light, every day should be led in that manner. On the contrary; to deny
oneself an opportunity now and again is fully as illuminating, particularly for those who waste too much time
in party-going, theaters, and so on. Such persons should plan to refuse many invitations, and spend the time
in intensive self-cultivation.
On this system, work out other disciplines which are good for your individual case. There are two ways of making them. First, become aware of some weakness or inadequate performance on your part; then decide, perhaps after experiment, whether the way to correct it is to set yourself to doing the exact opposite, or whether---as in curing the habit of talking too much about one's own interests---acting a ludicrous and overemphasized parody of the failing will be more effective.
Once you get the idea, you will find these disciplines not only helpful but genuinely amusing. In many cases they replace the rather haphazard puzzle-solving activities which call on somewhat the same capacities. In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph. At last, when one is in training, one can call at will on any of the mental traits which have been strengthened or exercised in these ways and find that it performs exactly and quickly.
But, as you begin to take pleasure in these exercises, remind yourself that they are means, not ends. In getting control of your mind you are not yet using it officially, so to speak. You are still in your probationary period. Have you ever met one of those health-seekers who eat just so many ounces of food per day, walk just so many miles or play just so many games of handball, sit in the sun or under a sun lamp just so many minutes---and then lead the dullest of personal lives? He has made himself into a magnificently healthy creature---for no purpose whatsoever. You are training your mind in order to engage it in definite activity, so do not put off too long the matter of getting at your original plans.
Still considering what aids we can find to successful living, but now in the way of direct support for ourselves, there are various ways in which we can make the process smoother. One of the best is to follow the suggestion of Franklin, in his Autobiography, and to check daily on our progress by means of a small, specially prepared notebook. Franklin himself drew up a list of thirteen Virtues, and under each wrote a maxim embodying the sense of that virtue to his mind. For instance, under Temperance he wrote "Eat not to
dullness; drink not to elevation"; under Silence: "Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation"; and so went on, through Order, Resolution, Frugality and the rest. It is hardly possible to draw up a better set, but---and perhaps it is one more sign of the softening of the race---for most purposes the six matters which we find most troublesome will seem quite enough for our present.
Each will have his own set of faults to be corrected. But let us say, for instance, that you decide you could do more work if you would; that you are shy, that you take too long to make up your mind; that you talk too much (and timidity and talkativeness are by no means mutually exclusive vices); that you eat at odd hours or the wrong things; that you sleep too long (or not enough). Your notebook page should look like this:
Courag e
Decisio n
The checks represent your estimate of the number of times you successfully resisted the temptation to act in the unsatisfactory way. As you find yourself able to fill any of the squares of your notebook each day---in other words, when you have eradicated the troublemaking fault---you can retire that classification and replace it with another which you may have noticed. If you soon outgrow the need of the notebook, splendid. It can be kept in a convenient drawer, though, as a reminder.
Then there is the matter of getting into the day. Those who wake fully each morning would find it hard to believe how many of their fellows suffer from not being fully in command of their faculties in the morning. If you belong to the latter crew, don't hesitate to imitate the Katherine Mansfield hero who woke, opened his eyes, and saw the sign he had put up for himself: "Get out of bed at once."
What is more, if you know---as so many of us do---that at midnight you have a genuine inspiration which your morning's prosaic mood leads you to disregard, write yourself a note about it. Be pretty firm about the matter; put it sharply. Say to yourself, in writing, "You're an idiot if you don't at least see whether Macy's would like that idea. Make an appointment today!" Often nothing more is needed to make the prosy, unimaginative daylight mood break up and allow the intenser one to return.
One of the most famous men in America constantly sends himself post-cards, and occasionally notes. He explained the cardsending as being his way of relieving his memory of unnecessary details. In his pocket he carries a few postals addressed to his office. I was with him one threatening day when he looked out the restaurant window, drew a card from his pocket and wrote on it. Then he threw it across the table to me with a grin. It was addressed to himself at his office, and said "Put your raincoat with your hat." At the office he had other cards addressed to himself at home.
Rewarding oneself for successful work---even in addition to the success---is another way of promoting proper action. If you get yourself some small luxury when, and only when, your notebook shows a week of satisfactory marks, you may go to slightly more trouble to turn away from your faults.
Get into the habit of being both strict and friendly toward yourself: demand a certain standard of performance; approve of yourself, even reward yourself, if you attain it. Far too often we pursue just the wrong tactics. When we should be acting we indulge or excuse ourselves for inactivity we then upbraid and punish ourselves ruthlessly and futilely. The scolding is futile because we somehow feel that, if we have been severe and cutting to ourselves, we have in some way atoned for the fault of non performance. We have not, of course. We have not done what we planned, and we have discouraged and hurt ourselves into the bargain.
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Discipline #3
Looks easy, right? Scroll thru the "recent posts" until you find "Poem by a Client" That is discipline #3 completed correctly. Originally, there were a few "no no words" in the Poem but when totally immersed into the present, it became unbelievably easy NOT to use "I,ME,MY, or MINE. Try it!
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Last week, Microsoft announced the availability of the 1.0 version of its Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) product, part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) set of tools that the software giant makes available to its volume license customers. MED-V, along with associated tools like Virtual PC and App-V (Application Virtualization) is, I think, the future of Windows application compatibility, a theme we've discussed a few times here in the past. But now that MED-V has been finalized, what was once a theory can now be put to the test.
MED-V removes one of the biggest barriers to adopting a new version of Windows because it eliminates the need for application compatibility testing. Until now, migrating to a new Windows version entails a lengthy compatibility testing process and, usually, investigations into what it will take to move critical custom applications, LOB (line of business) applications, and other client software over to the new OS. This delays the rollout of the new OS, and prevents users from taking advantage of that system's enhanced security and functionality.
With MED-V, application compatibility is decoupled from the OS. Those applications that cannot run natively under the new Windows version can be deployed to desktops under a hidden Virtual PC-based virtual environment. To the end user, however, they're simply running the applications that they need, and they don't need to deal with separate virtual and physical desktops. Instead, MED-V allows virtualized applications to run side-by-side with native applications and interact properly with the underlying PC's file system and other capabilities. The effect is nearly seamless.
With MED-V, you can run virtualized legacy applications alongside more modern local applications.
Of course, in its current incarnation, MED-V requires you to participate in Microsoft's volume licensing program, which somewhat impacts its availability. Too, similar MDOP tools like App-V--which lets you essentially stream virtualized applications from a server to clients without requiring them to be installed locally--are similarly constrained from an availability perspective. But I have no doubt that Microsoft will make this technology more broadly available in the future, if only for the simple fact that it removes the need to saddle the core Windows OS with backwards-compatible APIs and components. Suddenly, the fetters are off.
Even Microsoft hints as much. On its MED-V web page, the software giant hints at future use-cases for MED-V beyond the 1.0 release: "In future releases, MED-V in conjunction with the new VECD \[Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop\] licensing, may be used to deliver a corporate virtual image to 'unmanaged' PCs, and reduce the tension between IT control and user flexibility. \[This will\] increase productivity for on-site contractors, offshore outsourcing and branch offices, enable employees to work from home or with personal laptops, \[and\] drive business continuity and recovery plans with virtual desktops anywhere."
I'm excited about what this technology portends. I think it's safe to say you can expect to see a lot more about this topic in the coming months. And if you're already licensing MDOP or can do so, be sure to check out MED-V. It may just forever alter how you view application compatibility on new versions of Windows.
This article originally appeared in the April 14, 2009 issue of Windows IT Pro UPDATE. --Paul


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Nokia shares popped higher Monday after the company bought Siemens out of their profitable joint venture in telecoms networks.
The Finnish company paid 1.7 billion euros ($2.2 billion) for Siemens (SI)' 50% stake in Nokia Siemens Networks, a move which broadens its range of strategic options and buys time as it attempts to revive its ailing handset business.
Nokia (NOK) has been searching for a way to return to profit after falling way behind rivals like Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (SSNLF).
Sales of its Lumia handset jumped 27% in the first quarter but group revenue plunged and it posted an operating loss of 150 million euros.
Nokia Siemens Networks, which competes with China's Huawei and ZTE Corp (ZTCOF), returned a healthy profit in the first quarter, helped by its focus on 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks.
"Nokia Siemens Networks has established a clear leadership position in LTE, which provides an attractive growth opportunity," Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop said in a statement.
Related: Nokia Lumia 928: Design is not enough
The Nokia Siemens Network price tag was lower than analysts were expecting and Nokia's Helsinki-listed shares jumped as much as 10% before trimming gains to stand around 7% higher at 3.05 euros.
"We also believe Nokia is acquiring this asset at a very attractive price, well below what an initial public offering or trade sale could bring in the future," Liberum Capital analysts said in a research note.
Nokia plans to announce a new name and brand for its networks equipment unit when the transaction closes during the third quarter of 2013.
Related: Blackberry shares nosedive
Nokia Siemens Networks' management team will be retained and it will continue to be based in Espoo, Finland, with a strong presence in Germany.
The joint venture was established in 2007, combining Nokia's networks business and Siemens' carrier-related operations for fixed and mobile networks.


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100 years ago there seemed to be a fine line between fine art painting and illustration. Some illustrators were better painters and some painters better illustrators. Many such examples are found throughout this blog. None straddled that narrow divide better than George Bellows.
George Bellows, self portait, lithograph, 1921
George Bellows was only 42 when he departed this life in 1925, a towering figure of the American art world. He personified the transition between the art of the Victorian era and that of the modern, for that time in history. For more, please click on this link.
Stag at Sharkey's (Cleveland Museum of Art), 1909 (Cleveland Museum of Art)
[Daughter] Lady Jean, 1924
A painting by George Bellows of his father, also named George, who was born circa 1829 in Sag Harbor on the eastern end of Long Island, New York.
Date of painting unknown.
Lucie, July 1915
I'm purporsely ending it here so that you can absorb this enchanting portrait of a beautiful young lady, as well as those just above. I'll add more spectacular examples of his genius very soon.
Emma in the Purple Dress, 1919
[Daughter] Anne in White, 1920
As a disclaimer and a personal note, I must add that my mentor Harold Irving Smith was a colleague and acquaintance of George Bellows, both having studied with Robert Henri and George Luks in the years before World War I. Harold never failed to sing the praises of Bellows and lament his tragic premature death in 1925 at the young age of 42. According to Harold it was common gossip among their artist friends that Bellows might have been saved by an appendectomy had not his strong-willed wife Emma intervened with alternative health care. I have searched without success for an account of this online.
However, there are many links available to learn more about George Bellows, one of the most accomplished of American painters.


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Terra Preta, a Solution Buried in the Dirt
With so many nutrients caught up in the life cycles of lush forest plants, most soil in the Amazon Basin is nutrient-poor clay. But throughout the region, pockets of fertile, dark soil ("terra preta" in Portuguese) can be found.
Terra preta is the product of slash-and-char agriculture practiced centuries ago by indigenous farmers who baked wood to charcoal and worked it into the soil. Centuries later, the soil they created remains the region's most fertile farmland: productivity is higher, far less fertilizer and fallow time are required, and soils support a larger variety of more nutritious crops.
But the real reason that terra preta is big news today is that these dark soils represent the possibility of natural, long-term carbon sequestration, a way to return some of the carbon once stored in fossil fuels back to the ground.
Carbon in charcoal does not reoxidize to become CO2, as does the carbon stored in plants when they decompose. Nearly half of the carbon content of biomass that is charred and returned to the soil can remain stable for hundreds and even thousands of years—keeping carbon out of the atmosphere far longer than other, more cyclical biological sinks like no-till farming or planting trees.
The challenge with agrichar (as modern bio-charcoal is called) is to avoid the negative side effects that plague many biofuels. Producing biomass for agrichar doesn't have to come at the cost of deforestation or increased industrial farming. Instead, the millions of tons of agricultural waste discarded every year—plus municipal and yard waste, manure, and even, potentially, sewage—can be used, much of their carbon sequestered for centuries rather than returning quickly to the atmosphere as CO2.
In addition to reducing the amount of carbon circulating into the atmosphere, agrichar also creates some handy byproducts: bio-oil and gases that can be used to generate heat and electricity.
|Brooke Jarvis wrote this article as part of Stop Global Warming Cold, the Spring 2008 issue of YES! Magazine. Brooke is a YES! editorial assistant.


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Literate programming/Vim
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Literate Programming with Vim
For highlighting of Literate Haskell files in vim, here's the latest (as of April 29th, 2009) version of lhaskell.vim for your reference:
" Vim syntax file
" Language: Haskell with literate comments, Bird style,
" TeX style and plain text surrounding
" \begin{code} \end{code} blocks
" Maintainer: Haskell Cafe mailinglist <email@example.com>
" Original Author: Arthur van Leeuwen <email@example.com>
" Last Change: 2009 Apr 29
" Version: 1.03
" Thanks to Ian Lynagh for thoughtful comments on initial versions and
" for the inspiration for writing this in the first place.
" This style guesses as to the type of markup used in a literate haskell
" file and will highlight (La)TeX markup if it finds any
" This behaviour can be overridden, both glabally and locally using
" the lhs_markup variable or b:lhs_markup variable respectively.
" lhs_markup must be set to either tex or none to indicate that
" you always want (La)TeX highlighting or no highlighting
" must not be set to let the highlighting be guessed
" b:lhs_markup must be set to eiterh tex or none to indicate that
" you want (La)TeX highlighting or no highlighting for
" this particular buffer
" must not be set to let the highlighting be guessed
" 2004 February 18: New version, based on Ian Lynagh's TeX guessing
" lhaskell.vim, cweb.vim, tex.vim, sh.vim and fortran.vim
" 2004 February 20: Cleaned up the guessing and overriding a bit
" 2004 February 23: Cleaned up syntax highlighting for \begin{code} and
" \end{code}, added some clarification to the attributions
" 2008 July 1: Removed % from guess list, as it totally breaks plain
" text markup guessing
" 2009 April 29: Fixed highlighting breakage in TeX mode,
" thanks to Kalman Noel
" For version 5.x: Clear all syntax items
" For version 6.x: Quit when a syntax file was already loaded
if version < 600
syntax clear
elseif exists("b:current_syntax")
" First off, see if we can inherit a user preference for lhs_markup
if !exists("b:lhs_markup")
if exists("lhs_markup")
if lhs_markup =~ '\<\%(tex\|none\)\>'
let b:lhs_markup = matchstr(lhs_markup,'\<\%(tex\|none\)\>')
echohl WarningMsg | echo "Unknown value of lhs_markup" | echohl None
let b:lhs_markup = "unknown"
let b:lhs_markup = "unknown"
if b:lhs_markup !~ '\<\%(tex\|none\)\>'
let b:lhs_markup = "unknown"
" Remember where the cursor is, and go to upperleft
let s:oldline=line(".")
let s:oldcolumn=col(".")
call cursor(1,1)
" If no user preference, scan buffer for our guess of the markup to
" highlight. We only differentiate between TeX and plain markup, where
" plain is not highlighted. The heuristic for finding TeX markup is if
" one of the following occurs anywhere in the file:
" - \documentclass
" - \begin{env} (for env != code)
" - \part, \chapter, \section, \subsection, \subsubsection, etc
if b:lhs_markup == "unknown"
if search('\\documentclass\|\\begin{\(code}\)\@!\|\\\(sub\)*section\|\\chapter|\\part','W') != 0
let b:lhs_markup = "tex"
let b:lhs_markup = "plain"
" If user wants us to highlight TeX syntax or guess thinks it's TeX, read it.
if b:lhs_markup == "tex"
if version < 600
source <sfile>:p:h/tex.vim
set isk+=_
runtime! syntax/tex.vim
unlet b:current_syntax
" Tex.vim removes "_" from 'iskeyword', but we need it for Haskell.
setlocal isk+=_
" Literate Haskell is Haskell in between text, so at least read Haskell
" highlighting
if version < 600
syntax include @haskellTop <sfile>:p:h/haskell.vim
syntax include @haskellTop syntax/haskell.vim
syntax cluster lhsTeXContainer contains=tex.*Zone,texAbstract
syntax region lhsHaskellBirdTrack start="^>" end="\%(^[^>]\)\@=" contains=@haskellTop,lhsBirdTrack containedin=@lhsTeXContainer
syntax region lhsHaskellBeginEndBlock start="^\\begin{code}\s*$" matchgroup=NONE end="\%(^\\end{code}.*$\)\@=" contains=@haskellTop,@beginCode containedin=@lhsTeXContainer
syntax match lhsBirdTrack "^>" contained
syntax match beginCodeBegin "^\\begin" nextgroup=beginCodeCode contained
syntax region beginCodeCode matchgroup=texDelimiter start="{" end="}"
syntax cluster beginCode contains=beginCodeBegin,beginCodeCode
" Define the default highlighting.
" For version 5.7 and earlier: only when not done already
" For version 5.8 and later: only when an item doesn't have highlighting yet
if version >= 508 || !exists("did_tex_syntax_inits")
if version < 508
let did_tex_syntax_inits = 1
command -nargs=+ HiLink hi link <args>
command -nargs=+ HiLink hi def link <args>
HiLink lhsBirdTrack Comment
HiLink beginCodeBegin texCmdName
HiLink beginCodeCode texSection
delcommand HiLink
" Restore cursor to original position, as it may have been disturbed
" by the searches in our guessing code
call cursor (s:oldline, s:oldcolumn)
unlet s:oldline
unlet s:oldcolumn
let b:current_syntax = "lhaskell"
" vim: ts=8
An alternate lhaskell.vim
Here's an alternate version. This doesn't try to highlight tex, it just marks literate comments as regular comments. It does make an extra effort to highlight "part" "section" and "chapter."
" Vim syntax file
" Language: Haskell with literate comments
" Original Author: John Williams <email@example.com>
" Maintainer: Christopher Lane Hinson <firstname.lastname@example.com>
" Changes: 1998 November 7 original
" 2008 February 10 support literate haskell in the latex style
" For version 5.x: Clear all syntax items
" For version 6.x: Quit when a syntax file was already loaded
if version < 600
syntax clear
elseif exists("b:current_syntax")
" Include standard Haskell highlighting
syntax include @haskellTop syntax/haskell.vim
" Everything is a comment unless preceeded by > or
" bracketed by \begin{code} and \end{code}
" We have to go back and explicitly label >, \begin{code}, and \end{code} as comments
syn region hsLiterateComment start="\%^" end="\%$" contains=hsBirdTrackLine,hsBeginEndZone,hsSectionHeaders
syn region hsBirdTrackLine start="^>" end="\_$" contained contains=@haskellTop,hsLiterateCommentMarkers
syn region hsBeginEndZone start="\\begin{code}" end="\\end{code}" keepend contained contains=@haskellTop,hsLiterateCommentMarkers
syn match hsLiterateCommentMarkers "^>\|\\begin{code}\|\\end{code}" contained
syn region hsSectionHeaders start="\\\(sub\)\?\(section\|paragraph\){\|\\part{\|\\chapter" end="}" contained
hi link hsLiterateCommentMarkers Comment
hi link hsSectionHeaders Title
let b:current_syntax = "lhs"


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To keep costs down, I'd like to rent my training space to another martial arts program (perhaps someone just starting out?) on off-days.
Please understand the space is not suitable for a commercial dojo as it is housed in a large workshop inside a storage facility. There is plenty of parking however and the actual space is a lot nicer than it sounds (see picture):
The space is lined with high quality wrestling mats. 6 people working out at once on the floor would be ideal, 8 is doable.
In a perfect world I'd like to rent to a grappling or Tai Chi instructor, but really as long as you're not teaching Bullshido and are trustworthy enough for me to feel comfortable leaving you alone to do your thing (at least one reference needed) I'll be happy.
Price depends on a) how many days you want to use it b) if you are just using the space or also our pads as well (wear and tear). Either way, I guarantee it will be much more affordable to rent than a commercial space.
If interested email me at: RaleighKenkojuku at gmail dot com
P.S. If you're actually in the market for a hard contact Karate class and not a practice space, see our school review here (with links to our webpage and facebook page with videos/pics/etc.):
Raleigh Kenkojuku - Modern Karate in Raleigh NC - No BS MMA and Martial Arts


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San Francisco, CA (Sports Network) - Jaime Garcia threw 7 1/3 innings of one- run ball and the St. Louis Cardinals downed the San Francisco Giants, 4-1, in the opener of a two-game series on Wednesday.
Garcia (3-2) scattered nine hits and struck out nine without issuing a walk to get the win. Fernando Salas and Marc Rzepczynski combined to finish the eighth and Jason Motte worked around a base hit in the ninth to secure his seventh save of the season.
David Freese finished 3-for-4 with a solo home run, Skip Schumaker had a pinch-hit, two-run double and Allen Craig contributed an RBI for the Cards, who have won two straight since dropping four in a row.
Madison Bumgarner (5-3) allowed four runs on seven hits while striking out three without walking a batter in 7 1/3 innings to absorb the loss.
Buster Posey had an RBI single among his three hits for the Giants, who have dropped their past two games.
With the game tied at one, Freese put the Cards ahead for good in the seventh when he barreled up a hanging curveball from Bumgarner and sent it over the wall in left for a 2-1 St. Louis lead.
Garcia helped his own cause with a single in the eighth and Furcal followed with a double into the right field corner to put runners on second and third. Schumaker then ripped a double down the left field line to score Garcia and Furcal for the 4-1 advantage.
Nate Schierholtz laced a single into right to start the San Francisco ninth, but Motte fanned Brandon Crawford and induced a fly out from Aubrey Huff before striking out Emmanuel Burriss to end the game.
Earlier, St. Louis opened the scoring with a run in its first at-bat. Furcal led off with a single up the middle and Tyler Greene followed with a double to put runners on second and third with no outs. After Matt Holliday lined out, Craig grounded into a fielder's choice, which allowed Furcal to score.
San Francisco produced a run in the sixth to tie the game. Gregor Blanco beat out a bunt single to start the inning and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Charlie Culberson. Angel Pagan then reached on an infield hit to put Giants on first and third with one down and Posey slapped a single back up the middle to plate Blanco.
Game Notes
Entering Wednesday, Bumgarner had won each of his last eight home starts...17 of the Giants' first 18 games at AT&T Park have been decided by three runs or fewer...San Francisco fell to 4-12 when scoring fewer than four runs in a game this season...Bumgarner fell to 2-1 in three career starts against the Cardinals...The Giants finished 2-for-11 with runners in scoring position and stranded eight...Cardinals outfielder Carlos Beltran missed his third straight game due to right knee discomfort.
For more on the Giants, head over to McCovey Chronicles.


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MARC 852 Location
MARC field 852 in the bibliographic and holdings formats contains the call numbers for the described item. (See Call numbers for information on formulating the call number portion of field 852.) It may also contain accession and copy-specific information, as well as private notes that contain the cataloger's initials, date of cataloging or revision, and other staff notes not suitable for public display. Private notes are hidden in the Details and Brief displays in Hamnet, but can be seen in the MARC view.
First indicator - Shelving scheme
0 - Library of Congress classification 8 - Other scheme
Second indicator - Shelving order
# - No information provided
ǂb - Sublocation or collection (R) ǂd - Former shelving location (R) ǂk - Call number prefix (R) ǂh - Classification part (NR) ‡i - Item part (R) ‡m - Call number suffix (R) ‡j - Shelving control number (NR) ǂx - Nonpublic note (R) ǂz - Public note (R) ‡3 - Materials specified (NR)
Policy and formulation
ǂb Sublocation or collection
Used in Folger cataloging to identify the physical location of the collection. Note that ǂb contains a code, not the display name, and some display names have drifted far from their coded equivalents. For example, "DeckB-Mod" displays as "Deck B - Open Stacks". Depending on the location code, an abbreviation may need to be added to the call number at the end of subfield ǂi.
|ǂb code
|Hamnet display
|add to end of ǂi
|add to spine label
|Use "DeckC-Arch" for Folger archives material that should not display in Hamnet
|Staff Office
|Acq. Dept.
|Acq. Dept.
|Staff Office
|Con. Lab
|Con. Lab
|Staff Office
|Art Cur.
|Art Cur.
|outdated - do not use
|Staff Office
|Book Cur.
|Book Cur.
|Staff Office
|Cat. Dept.
|Cat. Dept.
|Staff Office
|Mss. Cur.
|Mss. Cur.
|Staff Reference
|Deck A Ref.
|Deck A Ref.
|Deck B-Audio Visual
|Microfilm Collection
|Deck B-Open stacks
|Deck B-Periodical stacks
|Electronic resource
|In Process
|item is not yet circulating
|Reading Room balcony
|add "R.R." to t.p. verso and spine label only, not to holdings record
|Reading Room reference collection
|R.R. Ref
|Use white dot instead of "RR-Ref" on spine to indicate shelving location.
ǂd Former shelving location
As of 18 April 2014, old call numbers for reclassified material go here, including those preceded by a size designation. This subfield generates the Hamnet display label "Former call number." Use for any change, including call numbers that have been changed to add "copy 1."
ǂd Folio STC 9668 Bd.w. STC 9557 v.3
ǂk Call number prefix
This subfield is excluded from the left-anchored call number search. Folger cataloging (as of 18 April 2014) makes no general use of this subfield, though it is still found on many records. Move any size designations encountered in routine cataloging from ‡k to ‡m, following call number guidelines, but do not seek them out (this may be done systematically at some time in the future).
ǂh Classification part
The beginning of the call number.
- For local call numbers, the entire string except the size designation goes in this subfield.
- For LC call numbers, holds the part of the call number specifying the subject. If there is one cutter, everything preceding the cutter goes in the ǂh. If there are two cutters, everything preceding the first cutter goes in the ǂh. If there is a date and no cutter, everything preceding the date in the ǂh.
- Full call number: DA615.O3 1720 Cage. Encoded:
ǂh DA615
- Full call number: PR9619.3.K55 C66 2008. Encoded:
ǂh PR9619.3.K55
- Full call number: DA615.O3 1720 Cage. Encoded:
ǂi Item part
This subfield is used exclusively for LC call numbers.
- If there is one cutter, the cutter and everything following goes in the ǂi.
- If there are two cutters, the second cutter and everything following goes in the ǂi.
- If there is a date and no cutter, the date and everything following goes in the ǂi.
- Full call number: DA615.O3 1720 Cage. Encoded:
ǂi .O3 1720 Cage
- Full call number: PR9619.3.K55 C66 2008. Encoded:
ǂi C66 2008
- Full call number: DA615.O3 1720 Cage. Encoded:
ǂm Call number suffix
Used in Folger call numbers to record location information not apparent from the main part of the call number or the location code. As of September 2015, this subfield is the main area to record size designations. (Subfield ‡k was previously used for this purpose, and is still present in many records. Move any size designations encountered in routine cataloging from ‡k to ‡m, following call number guidelines, but do not seek them out - this may be done systematically at some time in the future.)
For art on paper, framed works, objects, etc., the suffix is subject to change, and so should not be written on the item. For printed books, the shelving types "(folio)" and "(flat)" are part of the call number, and so should be written on the item and on flags and labels. For example:
Art folder:
ǂm (size M)
Printed book:
ǂm (folio)
Framed painting on Deck C:
ǂm (aisle 102)
Object in art vault drawer:
ǂm (B2a)
ǂj Shelving control number
For records created prior to November 2016, this subfield contained the accession number. The accession number is now recorded in MARC 541 ǂe
ǂx Nonpublic note
Private note not suitable for public display. Used to record cataloger's initials and date of work before 2015, when we switched to MARC 583.
ǂx AJD 20120321 ǂx rev. SEH 20140307
ǂz Public note
Copy-specific information
- Imperfections
ǂz Imperfect: lacking half-title.
ǂz Imperfect: wanting all after page 22.
- If the item is so imperfect as to be only a fragment, include "fragment" in the call number, but still begin the note with "Imperfect".
ǂz Imperfect: fragment consisting of title leaf only.
- If the frontispiece is a plate, just call it a frontispiece.
ǂz Imperfect: missing frontispiece.
- If the frontispiece is integral, call it a frontispiece and give the signature, e.g.,
ǂz Imperfect: lacking frontispiece (leaf A1)or
ǂz Imperfect: wanting leaf A1 (frontispiece)
- If missing a blank leaf, note the fact but do not preface it with "Imperfect:"
ǂz Wanting final blank leaf.
- Note when trimming or any other damage results in loss of text, even if the loss is minor and the text is still readable.
ǂz Small hole on leaf F2, with slight loss of text.
ǂz Wormed in places; cropped at foot of leaves, with slight loss of text.
ǂz Trimmed closely at fore-edges, with occasional loss of text.
ǂz Most marginal notes shaved or cropped with slight loss.
- Inscriptions and annotations
0G6.2. Conjectural and indecipherable text
Indicate a conjectural interpolation by adding a question mark immediately after the interpolation, within the square brackets. Supply a question mark enclosed in square brackets for each indeterminable word or portion of word. Make a note to justify the interpolations, provide explanations, or offer tentative readings of indecipherable portions of text, if considered important.amico[?] (Comment: The symbol of contraction at the end of the word cannot be determined)El[speth?] [?] McWhorter (Comment: An autograph with some conjectured letters in the forename and an indecipherable middle initial, transcribed in a local note)
0G6.3. Lacunae in imperfect copies
If the description is based on an imperfect copy (see 0B2.2), use the mark of omission enclosed in square brackets ([...]) to show lacunae in the resource.En Barcelo[na] : Por Sebastian Mateu[...] Note: Description based on an imperfect copy; title page torn with partial loss of imprint
0G6.4. Blank spaces
If transcribing text containing a blank space intended to be completed in manuscript, as is common in forms and certain government documents, supply the word "blank" enclosed in square brackets. If the blank has been completed in the item being described, indicate this in a local note, if considered important.A catalogue of books, to be sold on [blank] the [blank] day of February, 1755 ... Optional local note: Library's copy has date of auction supplied in manuscript: [Wednesday] the [26th] day of February, 1755
- Binding and physical description
ǂz Temoin on leaf R6.
ǂz Misbound (folding error): leaf I6 bound before I5.
ǂz In early leather inboard binding (sheep?) with gold- and blind-tooling; gold spine title; edges speckled red. No paste-downs.
ǂz Bound in black cloth boards with leather spine label and gilt edges.
ǂz In contemporary laced-case vellum binding with manuscript spine title.
ǂz In modern half leather binding, with cloth boards.
ǂz Quarter cloth inboard binding with marbled paper boards, probably bound by Richardot, Paris; spine: Coriolanus, 1824.
ǂz Stitched within a recent plain paper wrapper.
ǂz Stitched through early marbled paper wrapper; original sewing thread.
ǂz Stitched through modern manila wrapper through original stab holes.
ǂz In modern reinforced paper case binding; stab holes visible.
ǂz Disbound; remnants of leather cover on spine; red-speckled edges.
ǂz Untrimmed.
- Provenance
ǂz Frontispiece signed in manuscript: "E. [Philbin or Phillips] [Powell?] fecit"; outer bottom edge torn away.
ǂz Halliwell-Phillips copy.
ǂz Bookplate: Shakespeare Library, Warwick Castle. Half leather binding with marbled paper boards and endpapers.
ǂz Stamp: Edward Dowden Library. Quarter buckram binding with marbled paper boards, signed: Richardot rel., Paris; spine: Coriolanus, 1808.
ǂz Armorial bookplate (motto: Prodesse quem conspici): John Somers, Lord Somers
ǂz Anonymous armorial bookplate (motto: Quod Deus vult fiet) of George Chetwynd; title-leaf with blind-stamp of Crendon Hall
ǂz Interleaved. Bibliographical notes by J.L. Gautier listing publications of Coriolanus, 'collated 1822'. Four playbills from 1817 productions at Covent-Garden bound in, dating: April 26; May 10; May 23; and June 23. Seal 'Johannes Ludovicus Gautier' stamped in gold on covers.
- Recording immediate source of acquisition
- Record if information is readily available
- Routinely check the scanned acquisition rare orders
- Use language "Acquired from..."
- Give catalog / sale / lot number
- If accession slip gives a quote date, enter it without inverting date
- Use full inverted date for the Folger's order date (2014-05-12)
- When purchased through an agent, record the name of the seller rather than the agent
ǂz Acquired from F. Edwards (quot. 8-17-1965), 1965-08-23
ǂz Acquired from Sotheran (list 918:271), 1957-06-17
ǂz Acquired from Lawson (cat. 211:74), 1982-06-30
ǂz Acquired from Pickering & Chatto, 1989-10-26


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Seattle Cityscapes
A quick collection of Cityscapes I pulled from the last few years of my portfolio. All shot inside Seattle city limits. In order of most recent first. I'll be adding to this gallery as I uncover more past shots and capture new ones. A few border on purely landscape and may be moved to a different landscape gallery (with few signs of humanity) once I create it. Landscapes that were heavy on architecture or art displays were not placed here and will also be found in other galleries.Read More


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Bio::Seq::RichSeq - Module implementing a sequence created from a rich sequence database entry
See Bio::Seq::RichSeqI and documentation of methods.
This module implements Bio::Seq::RichSeqI, an interface for sequences created from or created for entries from/of rich sequence databanks, like EMBL, GenBank, and SwissProt. Methods added to the Bio::SeqI interface therefore focus on databank-specific information. Note that not every rich databank format may use all of the properties provided.
For more information, please see the relevant
This class implementes the following interfaces.
Note that this includes implementing Bio::PrimarySeqI and Bio::SeqI, specifically via Bio::Seq and Bio::PrimarySeq. Please review the documentation for those modules on implementation details relevant to those interfaces, as well as the ones below.
User feedback is an integral part of the evolution of this and other Bioperl modules. Send your comments and suggestions preferably to one of the Bioperl mailing lists. Your participation is much appreciated.
email@example.com - General discussion
http://bioperl.org/wiki/Mailing_lists - About the mailing lists
Please direct usage questions or support issues to the mailing list:
rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and reponsive experts will be able look at the problem and quickly address it. Please include a thorough description of the problem with code and data examples if at all possible.
Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via the web:
Email email@example.com
The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _
Title : new
Usage : $seq = Bio::Seq::RichSeq->new( -seq => 'ATGGGGGTGGTGGTACCCT',
-id => 'human_id',
-accession_number => 'AL000012',
Function: Returns a new seq object from
basic constructors, being a string for the sequence
and strings for id and accession_number
Returns : a new Bio::Seq::RichSeq object
Title : division
Usage : $obj->division($newval)
Returns : value of division
Args : newvalue (optional)
Title : molecule
Usage : $obj->molecule($newval)
Returns : type of molecule (DNA, mRNA)
Args : newvalue (optional)
Title : add_date
Usage : $self->add_date($datestr)
Function: adds one or more dates
This implementation stores dates as keyed annotation, the
key being 'date_changed'. You can take advantage of this
fact when accessing the annotation collection directly.
Example :
Returns :
Args : a date string or an array of such strings
Title : get_dates
Usage : my @dates = $seq->get_dates;
Function: Get the dates of the sequence (usually, when it was created and
Returns : an array of date strings
Args :
Title : pid
Usage : my $pid = $seq->pid();
Function: Get (and set, depending on the implementation) the PID property
for the sequence.
Returns : a string
Args :
Title : accession
Usage : $obj->accession($newval)
Function: Whilst the underlying sequence object does not
have an accession, so we need one here.
In this implementation this is merely a synonym for
Example :
Returns : value of accession
Args : newvalue (optional)
Title : add_secondary_accession
Usage : $self->add_domment($ref)
Function: adds a secondary_accession
This implementation stores secondary accession numbers as
keyed annotation, the key being 'secondary_accession'. You
can take advantage of this fact when accessing the
annotation collection directly.
Example :
Returns :
Args : a string or an array of strings
Title : get_secondary_accessions
Usage : my @acc = $seq->get_secondary_accessions();
Function: Get the secondary accession numbers as strings.
Returns : An array of strings
Args : none
Title : seq_version
Usage : $obj->seq_version($newval)
Function: Get/set the sequence version
Returns : value of seq_version (a scalar)
Args : on set, new value (a scalar or undef, optional)
Note : this differs from Bio::PrimarySeq version() in that this explicitly
refers to the sequence record version one would find in a typical
sequence file.
Title : add_keyword
Usage : $obj->add_keyword($newval)
Function: Add a new keyword to the annotation of the sequence.
This implementation stores keywords as keyed annotation,
the key being 'keyword'. You can take advantage of this
fact when accessing the annotation collection directly.
Returns :
Args : value to be added (optional) (a string)
Title : get_keywords
Usage : $obj->get_keywords($newval)
Function: Get the keywords for this sequence as an array of strings.
Returns : an array of strings
Args :
Title : _add_annotation_value
Usage :
Function: Adds a value to the annotation collection under the specified
key. Note that this is not a public method.
Returns :
Args : key (a string), value(s) (one or more scalars)
Title : _get_annotation_values
Usage :
Function: Gets the values of a specific annotation as identified by the
key from the annotation collection. Note that this is not a
public method.
Example :
Returns : an array of strings
Args : the key (a string)
To install BioPerl, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm BioPerl
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell
install BioPerl
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.


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If you enjoy live music, you have three good options this weekend in Janesville.
Let's start with the Rotary Corn Roast and Mud Volleyball event from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Traxler Park. Sweet corn is free and so are laughs as volleyball teams slog through mud. Activities and games will entertain kids, and an 11 a.m. ceremony will recognize high-achieving students. Jazzguise hits the stage at noon, the Manberries at 2:30 p.m. and Boondoggle at 5 p.m.
On Saturday and Sunday, you can groove inside and outside Bazinga Classic Pub & Grille, 1110 Kellogg Ave. It's disappointing that the downtown music fest Rock Around the Block won't happen this year. Brian Hughes of Bazinga's is trying to help fill that void. Rock band Kind of a Big Deal will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday. Sunday, he's putting on the Southside Rocks festival with six live bands inside and in the parking lot, performing from 1 to 10:30 p.m. Also on tap are a fire department brat fry, a corn boil and raffles. Proceeds will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Finally, the Riverside Music Festival is Sunday at Riverside Park. It starts with a shuffleboard tournament at 11 a.m., a Janesville Noon Lions Club chicken barbecue at noon and a pickle ball tourney at 1 p.m. The Go Deans Docs Rock will perform at 2 p.m., the Turtle Creek Chamber Orchestra at 3 p.m. and the UW-Rock County Jazz Ensemble at 4:30 p.m. Admission is free, but donations will benefit the Friends of Riverside Park improvement plans and homeless students through Project 16:49.
Besides music, these weekend events have one more thing in common: Alcohol sales will offset costs and help raise money. We hope the events attract enough music lovers—and responsible drinkers—to keep them running in years ahead.
The Friends of Riverside Park would like to offer musical events modeled after Beloit's popular Friday night riverside concerts at Harry's Place pavilion. In recent years, the group has talked about building a band shell—an idea with history behind it. Orchestras once performed regularly, and a 1926 article reported about plans to build such a band shell in Riverside Park.
Absent a generous donor, a band shell or concert gazebo might be years away, and concerts cost thousands of dollars to stage. Sunday's event will mix drinkers and nondrinkers in a designated, roped area. That's by design to lower liability insurance, says Pam Van Brocklin, former friends group president.
Yet the Bazinga's party won't have parking lot fencing, and people freely roamed designated streets and from tavern to tavern during Rock Around the Block. City ordinance requires fenced drinking areas, but the alcohol licensing committee opted to require only wristbands for drinkers during the defunct downtown fest.
Organizer Jeff Adams says Harry's Place concerts have been ongoing for 16 years without a designated drinking area and without problems. Alcohol also is served at Concerts on the Square and at musical events in Madison parks without fencing.
Yes, too many Janesville residents drink to excess. Yet those who overindulge will always find a time and place. Remember the fears about letting people enjoy a beer or two at Janesville Jets hockey games? We've heard of no problems.
It makes little sense to stymie the growth potential of musical events and fundraising efforts with Prohibition-style limits. It's time for Janesville to reevaluate its ordinances.


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Original post created for the Alliance for a Clean Texas:
Over the past weekend, the Texas Medical Association (TMA) adopted the following resolution:
BE IT RESOLVED, That the Texas Medical Association (TMA) urges our state, local, and federal government leaders and legislators to act promptly and aggressively to reduce the health burden of pollution from vehicular, diesel, air toxics, and NAAQS criteria pollutant emissions.
TMA is to be applauded for adding its authoritative voice to the growing medical consensus that legislative action is necessary to protect the health of Texas citizens.
Right now, Texas medical organizations are joining together and calling for action. Last week, Health Professionals for Clean Air (a member of The Alliance for a Clean Texas) released its Consensus Statement on Reducing the Health Burden of Air Pollution in Texas. The following medical specialty societies have already endorsed the consensus statement:
- Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Texas Chapter of the American College of Cardiology
- Texas Chapter of the American College of Physicians
- Texas College of Emergency Physicians
- Texas College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
- Texas Pediatric Society
Additionally, five other leading societies are currently reviewing the consensus statement (including the Texas Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Society).
With four weeks left in the session, the Texas medical community has given the 81st Legislature a prescription: pass legislation that will reduce air toxics, vehicular emissions, mercury emissions, and improve overall air pollution "by basing air quality standards principally on human health." This week is crucial for clean air legislation: SB 16 – Senator Averitt's omnibus clean air bill – is still in House Environmental Regulation. (There's a committee meeting this afternoon upon adjourment.) Additionally, the school bus idling bill (HB 4298), the school siting bill (HB 1839), the enhanced air monitor technology bill (HB 4581) and the comprehensive emissions database bill (HB 3582) have all been reported out of committee and should be on the House calendar.


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Also, yet another reminder to bring your race number if you already have one. People have been very conscientious so we are waiving the $10 clerical fee for those racers who have needed replacement numbers. We have enough in stock to cover us through the end of the ASP season if you can help us out.
The Dillon Group Custom Homes has generously funded the series this year, including the race numbers, and the cash awards and engraved medals that will be awarded on December 15 in Rogers. If you get the chance, please thank them for their support of cyclocross, and give them a call for your construction or remodeling needs.
Today is Black Friday which means only one thing: Turkey Burn on Sunday! Get you some!
|Series prizes will be awarded on December 15 in Rogers following the State Championship race.
Engraved medals awarded 5 deep for Open and 3 deep for all other race classes.
In addition, cash prizes to top 5 Open and top 3 Women 1/2/3.
presented by The Dillon Group Custom Homes


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Over the last few weeks, Planned Parenthood locations across the country have been visited by becostumed actors pretending to be women desperate to know whether or not their baby is a girl so that they can abort it. The similarity of the incidents combined with the strange series of questions asked by the visitors suggests that this may be the work of Live Action, a group known for staging "stings" that attempt to make outrage-inducing videos of Planned Parenthood employees acting like how conservatives imagine Planned Parenthood employees act, all shifty-eyed and bloodless.
According to the Huffington Post's Laura Bassett, the mysterious visitors have made stops at Planned Parenthood locations in at least 11 states, and the similarities between visits have led executives to believe that they're part of a coordinated effort to create more misleadingly edited sting videos. And at the top of the lists of suspects is Live Action.
This time around, the "patient" visits a Planned Parenthood desperate to learn the sex of their fetus so they can abort if it's a girl. They press to learn at what point it's possible to determine prenatal sex, and emphasize the fact that they're desperate to de-girl themselves.
In early 2011, a similar sting involved actors dressed up like a pimp and a prostitute. In that situation, Planned Parenthood employees acted ethically and did the right thing, but the videos were deceptively edited to make it seem as though the organization was totally cool with sex trafficking. Even though they've been debunked as misleading, the videos are still cited by conservatives looking to bolster their anti-Planned Parenthood stances.
Going after Planned Parenthood for being sexist would fit well with current anti-choice lines of argument; the hip new thing among "pro-life" advocates seems to be arguing that abortion is racist and sexist and is immoral because they believe that racism and sexism is immoral, not because they believe that sparing sexually active women the punishment of unwanted pregnancy is immoral. Late last year, Arizona Rep. Trent Franks introduced a bill to the US House of Representatives called The Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, which sought to address the nonproblem of race- and sex-selective abortion in the US. As an organization, Planned Parenthood is against abortion based on the sex of the fetus, but they're also pro- minding their own damn business about why a woman is choosing to have an abortion.
At this point, Planned Parenthood must feel like they're babysitting an overimaginative and under-reverent child that insists on wearing a cape and being addressed as "Captain Fantastic."
Nice try, Live Action — but the gig's up. I'd recommend aborting the mission, but you're against that.


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Let's say there is some one who has crossed your path in one way or another (ex friend / ex acquaintance / ex boyfriend / ex whatever). You do not get on with this person, and you've bumped heads a few times, but you've chosen to end all ties and move on.
The person either has a blog, or posts on a website / bulletin board that you used to frequent, but you've realized that every time you read what they have written, it either angers you or hurts you. You could, I suppos, tackle them on the things they infer or imply (all of which are blatently untrue), but it really isn't worth it. They are just being a bitch, and you don't want to dignify their irrational outpourings with a response. In fact you are hoping they will just get over themselves and find another victim/topic/drama.
So, here is the thing - what would you do? Would you keep going back to read what they have written, or might write, or would you just simply not look? Not go back to the bulletin board / blog?
I try not to look. I try take the logical approach of: I know they are totally in the wrong, I know that they are being irrational and unfair, and nothing I can do is going to change their minds, so I might as well not upset myself by reading the drivel.
And yet, I don't always succeed. I go back. And I get upset all over again.
I've done it in one situation. I have managed to click that little X in the top right hand corner for good, but in another situation, I find myself still going there every once in a while.
I should not care. I should brush it off and chalk it up to the person's craziness, but it's hard not to let the barbs slip through.
BUT! As often happens when writing up a blog post, writing this all down has just been good therapy for me, and I am not going there anymore. It really isn't worth it, THEY really aren't worth it. Life is too short to suffer assholes gladly.
(ok, but I still want to know from you - would you go back to see what they have written, if only for a while, or are you strong enough to look away? Is it easy for you not to 'care', or are you like me, you care too much at times. Marko can totally not care. If someone is being an asshole / unfair etc, he just doesn't care. I wish I had more of that.)


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AcroYoga Regular Class – Thursday
May 16, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Event Navigation
The original and longest standing regular class with Brighton's most experienced teachers Neilon and Chetana.
No partner necessary and beginners welcome.
Classes will be held at the Ki Centre, a big fully padded space with high ceilings. Perfect for trying out big tricks and comfortable enough for exploring the therapeutic side of AcroYoga.
Suitable for acrobatic spins and pops, sequenced flows, cheeky experiments in the magical arts .. Of AcroYoga land… Join us beginners welcome * it's a taught class not a jam so invite all…


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Microsoft appears to be building a business app store. The company put online a test version of a service called AppSource that's designed to help businesses find software that augments the Microsoft products they already use, such as Power BI and Dynamics AX.
The AppSource site was available Tuesday night at appsource.microsoft.com), but is down now. A description on its homepage said that users would be able to use the site to find software-as-a-service offerings from Microsoft and selected partners that they could try for free before purchasing them.
All of this appears to have come to light after someone developing the site at Microsoft accidentally made a test version of it available on the public Internet, where it was discovered by a prolific Microsoft leaker who goes by Walking Cat on Twitter.
The service stayed up for about an hour after Walking Cat first posted about it on Twitter, which was enough time to find out the basics of what it means.
According to the documentation that Microsoft published, developers who want to list their app in AppSource will have to offer a free trial and allow their application to integrate with Azure Active Directory, Microsoft's cloud-based identity and authentication service.
Microsoft will then review the app prior to publishing it in AppSource. Unsurprisingly, it seems like Microsoft will be launching AppSource with a handful of partners, including Dynaway, XAPT, AvePoint and SBS Group. Each integrated app is supposed to work with a Microsoft product, such as Dynamics CRM, Dynamics AX, Azure or Power BI.
The placeholder integrations indicated that the site wasn't supposed to be live, but a dead giveaway was what happened when users clicked on the "How it Works" button. The site brought up a video of Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up," which isn't what Microsoft is likely to say in that place when the service actually launches.
It's unclear when that's going to actually happen, since Microsoft won't say anything about the launch. It seems likely that AppSource will be released or at least unveiled at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto in two weeks.
This isn't the first Microsoft initiative aimed at helping businesses buy applications online. The company is also pushing a Windows Store for Business in Windows 10, which should help business users to buy native apps for Windows 10.