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Chapter IV
70:1Mortal existence is an enigma. Every day is a mystery. The testimony of the corporeal senses 3cannot inform us what is real and what is delusive, but the revelations of Christian Science unlock the treasures The infinite one Spiritof Truth. Whatever is false or sinful can 6never enter the atmosphere of Spirit. There is but one Spirit. Man is never God, but spiritual man, made in God's likeness, reflects God. In this scientific 9reflection the Ego and the Father are inseparable. The supposition that corporeal beings are spirits, or that there are good and evil spirits, is a mistake.
12 The divine Mind maintains all identities, from a blade Real and unreal identityof grass to a star, as distinct and eternal. The questions are: What are God's identities? 15What is Soul? Does life or soul exist in the thing formed?71
71:1 Nothing is real and eternal, — nothing is Spirit, — but God and His idea. Evil has no reality. It is neither 3person, place, nor thing, but is simply a belief, an illusion of material sense.
The identity, or idea, of all reality continues forever; 6but Spirit, or the divine Principle of all, is not in Spirit's formations. Soul is synonymous with Spirit, God, the creative, governing, infinite Principle outside of finite form, 9which forms only reflect.
Close your eyes, and you may dream that you see a flower, — that you touch and smell it. Thus you learn 12Dream-lessonsthat the flower is a product of the so-called mind, a formation of thought rather than of matter. Close your eyes again, and you may see land‐15scapes, men, and women. Thus you learn that these also are images, which mortal mind holds and evolves and which simulate mind, life, and intelligence. From 18dreams also you learn that neither mortal mind nor matter is the image or likeness of God, and that im‐mortal Mind is not in matter.
21 When the Science of Mind is understood, spiritualism will be found mainly erroneous, having no scientific basis Found wantingnor origin, no proof nor power outside of 24human testimony. It is the offspring of the physical senses. There is no sensuality in Spirit. I never could believe in spiritualism.
27 The basis and structure of spiritualism are alike ma‐terial and physical. Its spirits are so many corporealities, limited and finite in character and quality. Spiritualism 30therefore presupposes Spirit, which is ever infinite, to be a corporeal being, a finite form, — a theory contrary to Christian Science.72
72:1 There is but one spiritual existence, — the Life of which corporeal sense can take no cognizance. The 3divine Principle of man speaks through immortal sense. If a material body — in other words, mortal, material sense — were permeated by Spirit, that body would 6disappear to mortal sense, would be deathless. A con‐dition precedent to communion with Spirit is the gain of spiritual life.
9 So-called spirits are but corporeal communicators. As light destroys darkness and in the place of darkness all Spirits obsoleteis light, so (in absolute Science) Soul, or God, 12is the only truth-giver to man. Truth de‐stroys mortality, and brings to light immortality. Mortal belief (the material sense of life) and immortal Truth 15(the spiritual sense) are the tares and the wheat, which are not united by progress, but separated.
Perfection is not expressed through imperfection. 18Spirit is not made manifest through matter, the anti‐pode of Spirit. Error is not a convenient sieve through which truth can be strained.
21 God, good, being ever present, it follows in divine logic that evil, the suppositional opposite of good, is never Scientific phenomenapresent. In Science, individual good derived 24from God, the infinite All-in-all, may flow from the departed to mortals; but evil is neither com‐municable nor scientific. A sinning, earthly mortal is 27not the reality of Life nor the medium through which truth passes to earth. The joy of intercourse becomes the jest of sin, when evil and suffering are communicable. 30Not personal intercommunion but divine law is the com‐municator of truth, health, and harmony to earth and humanity. As readily can you mingle fire and frost as 73 73:1Spirit and matter. In either case, one does not support the other.
3 Spiritualism calls one person, living in this world, ma‐terial, but another, who has died to-day a sinner and sup‐posedly will return to earth to-morrow, it terms a spirit. 6The fact is that neither the one nor the other is infinite Spirit, for Spirit is God, and man is His likeness.
The belief that one man, as spirit, can control an‐9other man, as matter, upsets both the individuality and One governmentthe Science of man, for man is image. God controls man, and God is the only Spirit. Any 12other control or attraction of so-called spirit is a mortal belief, which ought to be known by its fruit, — the repe‐tition of evil.
15 If Spirit, or God, communed with mortals or controlled them through electricity or any other form of matter, the divine order and the Science of omnipotent, omnipresent 18Spirit would be destroyed.
The belief that material bodies return to dust, hereafter to rise up as spiritual bodies with material sensations and 21Incorrect theoriesdesires, is incorrect. Equally incorrect is the belief that spirit is confined in a finite, ma‐terial body, from which it is freed by death, and that, when 24it is freed from the material body, spirit retains the sensa‐tions belonging to that body.
It is a grave mistake to suppose that matter is any part 27of the reality of intelligent existence, or that Spirit and No mediumshipmatter, intelligence and non-intelligence, can commune together. This error Science will 30destroy. The sensual cannot be made the mouthpiece of the spiritual, nor can the finite become the channel of the infinite. There is no communication between so-7474:1called material existence and spiritual life which is not subject to death.
3 To be on communicable terms with Spirit, persons must be free from organic bodies; and their return to a mate‐Opposing conditionsrial condition, after having once left it, would 6be as impossible as would be the restoration to its original condition of the acorn, already absorbed into a sprout which has risen above the soil. The seed 9which has germinated has a new form and state of exist‐ence. When here or hereafter the belief of life in matter is extinct, the error which has held the belief dissolves 12with the belief, and never returns to the old condition. No correspondence nor communion can exist between persons in such opposite dreams as the belief of having 15died and left a material body and the belief of still living in an organic, material body.
The caterpillar, transformed into a beautiful insect, 18is no longer a worm, nor does the insect return to Bridgeless divisionfraternize with or control the worm. Such a backward transformation is impossible in 21Science. Darkness and light, infancy and manhood, sickness and health, are opposites, — different beliefs, which never blend. Who will say that infancy can utter 24the ideas of manhood, that darkness can represent light, that we are in Europe when we are in the opposite hemi‐sphere? There is no bridge across the gulf which divides 27two such opposite conditions as the spiritual, or incor‐poreal, and the physical, or corporeal.
In Christian Science there is never a retrograde step, 30never a return to positions outgrown. The so-called dead and living cannot commune together, for they are in separate states of existence, or consciousness.75
75:1 This simple truth lays bare the mistaken assumption that man dies as matter but comes to life as spirit. The 3Unscientific investitureso-called dead, in order to reappear to those still in the existence cognized by the physical senses, would need to be tangible and material, — to have 6a material investiture, — or the material senses could take no cognizance of the so-called dead.
Spiritualism would transfer men from the spiritual sense 9of existence back into its material sense. This gross mate‐rialism is scientifically impossible, since to infinite Spirit there can be no matter.
12 Jesus said of Lazarus: "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep." Jesus Raising the deadrestored Lazarus by the understanding that 15Lazarus had never died, not by an admis‐sion that his body had died and then lived again. Had Jesus believed that Lazarus had lived or died in his 18body, the Master would have stood on the same plane of belief as those who buried the body, and he could not have resuscitated it.
21 When you can waken yourself or others out of the belief that all must die, you can then exercise Jesus' spiritual power to reproduce the presence of those who have thought 24they died, — but not otherwise.
There is one possible moment, when those living on the earth and those called dead, can commune together, and 27Vision of the dyingthat is the moment previous to the transition, — the moment when the link between their op‐posite beliefs is being sundered. In the vestibule through 30which we pass from one dream to another dream, or when we awake from earth's sleep to the grand verities of Life, the departing may hear the glad welcome of those 76 76:1who have gone before. The ones departing may whisper this vision, name the face that smiles on them and the 3hand which beckons them, as one at Niagara, with eyes open only to that wonder, forgets all else and breathes aloud his rapture.
6 When being is understood, Life will be recognized as neither material nor finite, but as infinite, — as God, Real Life is Goduniversal good; and the belief that life, or 9mind, was ever in a finite form, or good in evil, will be destroyed. Then it will be understood that Spirit never entered matter and was therefore never 12raised from matter. When advanced to spiritual being and the understanding of God, man can no longer com‐mune with matter; neither can he return to it, any more 15than a tree can return to its seed. Neither will man seem to be corporeal, but he will be an individual conscious‐ness, characterized by the divine Spirit as idea, not matter.
18 Suffering, sinning, dying beliefs are unreal. When divine Science is universally understood, they will have no power over man, for man is immortal and lives by 21divine authority.
The sinless joy, — the perfect harmony and immortality of Life, possessing unlimited divine beauty and goodness 24Immaterial pleasurewithout a single bodily pleasure or pain, — constitutes the only veritable, indestructible man, whose being is spiritual. This state of existence 27is scientific and intact, — a perfection discernible only by those who have the final understanding of Christ in divine Science. Death can never hasten this state of 30existence, for death must be overcome, not submitted to, before immortality appears.
The recognition of Spirit and of infinity comes not 77 77:1suddenly here or hereafter. The pious Polycarp said: "I cannot turn at once from good to evil." Neither do 3other mortals accomplish the change from error to truth at a single bound.
Existence continues to be a belief of corporeal sense 6until the Science of being is reached. Error brings its Second deathown self-destruction both here and hereafter, for mortal mind creates its own physical con‐9ditions. Death will occur on the next plane of existence as on this, until the spiritual understanding of Life is reached. Then, and not until then, will it be demon‐12strated that "the second death hath no power."
The period required for this dream of material life, embracing its so-called pleasures and pains, to vanish 15A dream vanishingfrom consciousness, "knoweth no man . . . neither the Son, but the Father." This period will be of longer or shorter duration according to the 18tenacity of error. Of what advantage, then, would it be to us, or to the departed, to prolong the material state and so prolong the illusion either of a soul inert or of a sinning, 21suffering sense, — a so-called mind fettered to matter.
Even if communications from spirits to mortal con‐sciousness were possible, such communications would 24Progress and purgatorygrow beautifully less with every advanced stage of existence. The departed would gradually rise above ignorance and materiality, and Spiritualists 27would outgrow their beliefs in material spiritualism. Spiritism consigns the so-called dead to a state resembling that of blighted buds, — to a wretched purgatory, where 30the chances of the departed for improvement narrow into nothing and they return to their old standpoints of matter.78
78:1 The decaying flower, the blighted bud, the gnarled oak, the ferocious beast, — like the discords of disease, sin, 3Unnatural deflectionsand death, — are unnatural. They are the fal‐sities of sense, the changing deflections of mor‐tal mind; they are not the eternal realities of Mind.
6 How unreasonable is the belief that we are wearing out life and hastening to death, and that at the same Absurd oraclestime we are communing with immortality! 9If the departed are in rapport with mor‐tality, or matter, they are not spiritual, but must still be mortal, sinning, suffering, and dying. Then why 12look to them — even were communication possible — for proofs of immortality, and accept them as oracles? Com‐munications gathered from ignorance are pernicious in 15tendency.
Spiritualism with its material accompaniments would destroy the supremacy of Spirit. If Spirit pervades all 18space, it needs no material method for the transmission of messages. Spirit needs no wires nor electricity in order to be omnipresent.
21 Spirit is not materially tangible. How then can it communicate with man through electric, material effects? Spirit intangibleHow can the majesty and omnipotence of 24Spirit be lost? God is not in the medley where matter cares for matter, where spiritism makes many gods, and hypnotism and electricity are claimed 27to be the agents of God's government.
Spirit blesses man, but man cannot "tell whence it cometh." By it the sick are healed, the sorrowing are 30comforted, and the sinning are reformed. These are the effects of one universal God, the invisible good dwelling in eternal Science.79
79:1 The act of describing disease — its symptoms, locality, and fatality — is not scientific. Warning people against 3Thought regarding deathdeath is an error that tends to frighten into death those who are ignorant of Life as God. Thousands of instances could be cited of health restored 6by changing the patient's thoughts regarding death.
A scientific mental method is more sanitary than the use of drugs, and such a mental method produces perma‐9Fallacious hypothesesnent health. Science must go over the whole ground, and dig up every seed of error's sow‐ing. Spiritualism relies upon human beliefs and hy‐12potheses. Christian Science removes these beliefs and hypotheses through the higher understanding of God, for Christian Science, resting on divine Principle, not on ma‐15terial personalities, in its revelation of immortality, intro‐duces the harmony of being.
Jesus cast out evil spirits, or false beliefs. The Apostle 18Paul bade men have the Mind that was in the Christ. Jesus did his own work by the one Spirit. He said: "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." He never de‐21scribed disease, so far as can be learned from the Gospels, but he healed disease.
The unscientific practitioner says: "You are ill. Your 24brain is overtaxed, and you must rest. Your body is Mistaken methodsweak, and it must be strengthened. You have nervous prostration, and must be treated for it." 27Science objects to all this, contending for the rights of in‐telligence and asserting that Mind controls body and brain.
Mind-science teaches that mortals need "not be weary 30Divine strengthin well doing." It dissipates fatigue in doing good. Giving does not impoverish us in the service of our Maker, neither does withholding enrich us. 80 80:1We have strength in proportion to our apprehension of the truth, and our strength is not lessened by giving 3utterance to truth. A cup of coffee or tea is not the equal of truth, whether for the inspiration of a sermon or for the support of bodily endurance.
6 A communication purporting to come from the late Theodore Parker reads as follows: "There never was, A denial of immortalityand there never will be, an immortal spirit." 9Yet the very periodical containing this sen‐tence repeats weekly the assertion that spirit-communica‐tions are our only proofs of immortality.
12 I entertain no doubt of the humanity and philanthropy of many Spiritualists, but I cannot coincide with their Mysticism unscientificviews. It is mysticism which gives spiritual‐15ism its force. Science dispels mystery and explains extraordinary phenomena; but Science never removes phenomena from the domain of reason into the 18realm of mysticism.
It should not seem mysterious that mind, without the aid of hands, can move a table, when we already know 21Physical falsitiesthat it is mind-power which moves both table and hand. Even planchette — the French toy which years ago pleased so many people — attested the con‐24trol of mortal mind over its substratum, called matter.
It is mortal mind which convulses its substratum, matter. These movements arise from the volition of human belief, 27but they are neither scientific nor rational. Mortal mind produces table-tipping as certainly as table-setting, and believes that this wonder emanates from spirits and elec‐30tricity. This belief rests on the common conviction that mind and matter cooperate both visibly and invisibly, hence that matter is intelligent.81
81:1 There is not so much evidence to prove intercommuni‐cation between the so-called dead and the living, as there 3Poor post-mortem evidenceis to show the sick that matter suffers and has sensation; yet this latter evidence is destroyed by Mind-science. If Spiritualists understood the 6Science of being, their belief in mediumship would vanish.
At the very best and on its own theories, spiritualism can only prove that certain individuals have a continued 9No proof of immortalityexistence after death and maintain their affili‐ation with mortal flesh; but this fact affords no certainty of everlasting life. A man's assertion that 12he is immortal no more proves him to be so, than the op‐posite assertion, that he is mortal, would prove immor‐tality a lie. Nor is the case improved when alleged spirits 15teach immortality. Life, Love, Truth, is the only proof of immortality.
Man in the likeness of God as revealed in Science can‐18not help being immortal. Though the grass seemeth to Mind's manifestations immortalwither and the flower to fade, they reappear. Erase the figures which express number, silence 21the tones of music, give to the worms the body called man, and yet the producing, governing, divine Principle lives on, — in the case of man as truly as in 24the case of numbers and of music, — despite the so-called laws of matter, which define man as mortal. Though the inharmony resulting from material sense hides the 27harmony of Science, inharmony cannot destroy the divine Principle of Science. In Science, man's immortality de‐pends upon that of God, good, and follows as a necessary 30consequence of the immortality of good.
That somebody, somewhere, must have known the deceased person, supposed to be the communicator, is 82 82:1evident, and it is as easy to read distant thoughts as near. We think of an absent friend as easily as we do of one 3Reading thoughtspresent. It is no more difficult to read the absent mind than it is to read the present. Chaucer wrote centuries ago, yet we still read his thought 6in his verse. What is classic study, but discernment of the minds of Homer and Virgil, of whose personal exist‐ence we may be in doubt?
9 If spiritual life has been won by the departed, they cannot return to material existence, because different Impossible intercommunionstates of consciousness are involved, and one 12person cannot exist in two different states of consciousness at the same time. In sleep we do not communicate with the dreamer by our side despite 15his physical proximity, because both of us are either un‐conscious or are wandering in our dreams through differ‐ent mazes of consciousness.
18 In like manner it would follow, even if our departed friends were near us and were in as conscious a state of existence as before the change we call death, that their 21state of consciousness must be different from ours. We are not in their state, nor are they in the mental realm in which we dwell. Communion between them and 24ourselves would be prevented by this difference. The mental states are so unlike, that intercommunion is as impossible as it would be between a mole and a human 27being. Different dreams and different awakenings be‐token a differing consciousness. When wandering in Australia, do we look for help to the Esquimaux in their 30snow huts?
In a world of sin and sensuality hastening to a greater development of power, it is wise earnestly to 83 83:1consider whether it is the human mind or the divine Mind which is influencing one. What the prophets of 3Jehovah did, the worshippers of Baal failed to do; yet artifice and delusion claimed that they could equal the work of wisdom.
6 Science only can explain the incredible good and evil elements now coming to the surface. Mortals must find refuge in Truth in order to escape the error of these latter 9days. Nothing is more antagonistic to Christian Science than a blind belief without understanding, for such a belief hides Truth and builds on error.
12 Miracles are impossible in Science, and here Science takes issue with popular religions. The scientific mani‐Natural wondersfestation of power is from the divine nature 15and is not supernatural, since Science is an explication of nature. The belief that the universe, in‐cluding man, is governed in general by material laws, but 18that occasionally Spirit sets aside these laws, — this be‐lief belittles omnipotent wisdom, and gives to matter the precedence over Spirit.
21 It is contrary to Christian Science to suppose that life is either material or organically spiritual. Between Conflicting standpointsChristian Science and all forms of superstition 24a great gulf is fixed, as impassable as that be‐tween Dives and Lazarus. There is mortal mind-reading and immortal Mind-reading. The latter is a revelation 27of divine purpose through spiritual understanding, by which man gains the divine Principle and explanation of all things. Mortal mind-reading and immortal Mind-30reading are distinctly opposite standpoints, from which cause and effect are interpreted. The act of reading mortal mind investigates and touches only human beliefs. 84 84:1Science is immortal and coordinate neither with the premises nor with the conclusions of mortal beliefs.
3 The ancient prophets gained their foresight from a spiritual, incorporeal standpoint, not by foreshadowing Scientific foreseeingevil and mistaking fact for fiction, — predict‐6ing the future from a groundwork of corpo‐reality and human belief. When sufficiently advanced in Science to be in harmony with the truth of being, men 9become seers and prophets involuntarily, controlled not by demons, spirits, or demigods, but by the one Spirit. It is the prerogative of the ever-present, divine Mind, and 12of thought which is in rapport with this Mind, to know the past, the present, and the future.
Acquaintance with the Science of being enables us to 15commune more largely with the divine Mind, to foresee and foretell events which concern the universal welfare, to be divinely inspired, — yea, to reach the range of fetter‐18less Mind.
To understand that Mind is infinite, not bounded by corporeality, not dependent upon the ear and eye for 21The Mind unboundedsound or sight nor upon muscles and bones for locomotion, is a step towards the Mind-science by which we discern man's nature and existence. 24This true conception of being destroys the belief of spirit‐ualism at its very inception, for without the concession of material personalities called spirits, spiritualism has no 27basis upon which to build.
All we correctly know of Spirit comes from God, divine Principle, and is learned through Christ and Christian 30Scientific foreknowingScience. If this Science has been thoroughly learned and properly digested, we can know the truth more accurately than the astronomer can read 85 85:1the stars or calculate an eclipse. This Mind-reading is the opposite of clairvoyance. It is the illumination of 3the spiritual understanding which demonstrates the ca‐pacity of Soul, not of material sense. This Soul-sense comes to the human mind when the latter yields to the 6divine Mind.
Such intuitions reveal whatever constitutes and per‐petuates harmony, enabling one to do good, but not 9Value of intuitionevil. You will reach the perfect Science of healing when you are able to read the human mind after this manner and discern the error you would 12destroy. The Samaritan woman said: "Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?"
15 It is recorded that Jesus, as he once journeyed with his students, "knew their thoughts," — read them scientifi‐cally. In like manner he discerned disease and healed 18the sick. After the same method, events of great mo‐ment were foretold by the Hebrew prophets. Our Master rebuked the lack of this power when he said: 21"O ye hypocrites! ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?"
Both Jew and Gentile may have had acute corporeal 24senses, but mortals need spiritual sense. Jesus knew the Hypocrisy condemnedgeneration to be wicked and adulterous, seek‐ing the material more than the spiritual. His 27thrusts at materialism were sharp, but needed. He never spared hypocrisy the sternest condemnation. He said: "These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other 30undone." The great Teacher knew both cause and effect, knew that truth communicates itself but never imparts error.86
86:1 Jesus once asked, "Who touched me?" Supposing this inquiry to be occasioned by physical contact alone, 3Mental contacthis disciples answered, "The multitude throng thee." Jesus knew, as others did not, that it was not matter, but mortal mind, whose touch called 6for aid. Repeating his inquiry, he was answered by the faith of a sick woman. His quick apprehension of this mental call illustrated his spirituality. The disciples' 9misconception of it uncovered their materiality. Jesus possessed more spiritual susceptibility than the disciples. Opposites come from contrary directions, and produce 12unlike results.
Mortals evolve images of thought. These may appear to the ignorant to be apparitions; but they are myste‐15Images of thoughtrious only because it is unusual to see thoughts, though we can always feel their influence. Haunted houses, ghostly voices, unusual 18noises, and apparitions brought out in dark seances either involve feats by tricksters, or they are images and sounds evolved involuntarily by mortal mind. Seeing 21is no less a quality of physical sense than feeling. Then why is it more difficult to see a thought than to feel one? Education alone determines the difference. In reality 24there is none.
Portraits, landscape-paintings, fac-similes of penman‐ship, peculiarities of expression, recollected sentences, 27Phenomena explainedcan all be taken from pictorial thought and memory as readily as from objects cognizable by the senses. Mortal mind sees what it believes as 30certainly as it believes what it sees. It feels, hears, and sees its own thoughts. Pictures are mentally formed before the artist can convey them to canvas. So is it 87 87:1with all material conceptions. Mind-readers perceive these pictures of thought. They copy or reproduce 3them, even when they are lost to the memory of the mind in which they are discoverable.
It is needless for the thought or for the person hold‐6ing the transferred picture to be individually and con‐Mental environmentsciously present. Though individuals have passed away, their mental environment re‐9mains to be discerned, described, and transmitted. Though bodies are leagues apart and their associations forgotten, their associations float in the general atmosphere of human 12mind.
The Scotch call such vision "second sight," when really it is first sight instead of second, for it presents 15Second sightprimal facts to mortal mind. Science enables one to read the human mind, but not as a clairvoyant. It enables one to heal through Mind, but 18not as a mesmerist.
The mine knows naught of the emeralds within its rocks; the sea is ignorant of the gems within its caverns, 21Buried secretsof the corals, of its sharp reefs, of the tall ships that float on its bosom, or of the bodies which lie buried in its sands: yet these are all there. Do not 24suppose that any mental concept is gone because you do not think of it. The true concept is never lost. The strong impressions produced on mortal mind by friend‐27ship or by any intense feeling are lasting, and mind-readers can perceive and reproduce these impressions.
Memory may reproduce voices long ago silent. We 30Recollected friendshave but to close the eyes, and forms rise before us, which are thousands of miles away or altogether gone from physical sight and sense, and 88 88:1this not in dreamy sleep. In our day-dreams we can recall that for which the poet Tennyson expressed the 3heart's desire, — the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still. 6The mind may even be cognizant of a present flavor and odor, when no viand touches the palate and no scent salutes the nostrils.
9 How are veritable ideas to be distinguished from il‐lusions? By learning the origin of each. Ideas are Illusions not ideasemanations from the divine Mind. Thoughts, 12proceeding from the brain or from matter, are offshoots of mortal mind; they are mortal material be‐liefs. Ideas are spiritual, harmonious, and eternal. Beliefs 15proceed from the so-called material senses, which at one time are supposed to be substance-matter and at another are called spirits.
18 To love one's neighbor as one's self, is a divine idea; but this idea can never be seen, felt, nor understood through the physical senses. Excite the organ of ven‐21eration or religious faith, and the individual manifests profound adoration. Excite the opposite development, and he blasphemes. These effects, however, do not pro‐24ceed from Christianity, nor are they spiritual phenomena, for both arise from mortal belief.
Eloquence re-echoes the strains of Truth and Love. 27It is due to inspiration rather than to erudition. It shows Trance speaking illusionthe possibilities derived from divine Mind, though it is said to be a gift whose endowment 30is obtained from books or received from the impulsion of departed spirits. When eloquence proceeds from the belief that a departed spirit is speaking, who 89 89:1can tell what the unaided medium is incapable of know‐ing or uttering? This phenomenon only shows that the 3beliefs of mortal mind are loosed. Forgetting her igno‐rance in the belief that another mind is speaking through her, the devotee may become unwontedly eloquent. Hav‐6ing more faith in others than in herself, and believing that somebody else possesses her tongue and mind, she talks freely.
9 Destroy her belief in outside aid, and her eloquence disappears. The former limits of her belief return. She says, "I am incapable of words that glow, for I am un‐12educated." This familiar instance reaffirms the Scrip‐tural word concerning a man, "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he." If one believes that he cannot be an orator with‐15out study or a superinduced condition, the body responds to this belief, and the tongue grows mute which before was eloquent.
18 Mind is not necessarily dependent upon educational processes. It possesses of itself all beauty and poetry, Scientific improvisationand the power of expressing them. Spirit, 21God, is heard when the senses are silent. We are all capable of more than we do. The influence or action of Soul confers a freedom, which explains the phe‐24nomena of improvisation and the fervor of untutored lips.
Matter is neither intelligent nor creative. The tree is not the author of itself. Sound is not the originator of 27Divine originationmusic, and man is not the father of man. Cain very naturally concluded that if life was in the body, and man gave it, man had the right to take it away. 30This incident shows that the belief of life in matter was "a murderer from the beginning."
If seed is necessary to produce wheat, and wheat to 90 90:1produce flour, or if one animal can originate another, how then can we account for their primal origin? How 3were the loaves and fishes multiplied on the shores of Galilee, — and that, too, without meal or monad from which loaf or fish could come?
6 The earth's orbit and the imaginary line called the equator are not substance. The earth's motion and Mind is substanceposition are sustained by Mind alone. Divest 9yourself of the thought that there can be sub‐stance in matter, and the movements and transitions now possible for mortal mind will be found to be equally 12possible for the body. Then being will be recognized as spiritual, and death will be obsolete, though now some insist that death is the necessary prelude to 15immortality.
In dreams we fly to Europe and meet a far-off friend. The looker-on sees the body in bed, but the supposed 18Mortal delusionsinhabitant of that body carries it through the air and over the ocean. This shows the possibilities of thought. Opium and hashish eaters men‐21tally travel far and work wonders, yet their bodies stay in one place. This shows what mortal mentality and knowledge are.
24 The admission to one's self that man is God's own like‐ness sets man free to master the infinite idea. This con‐Scientific finalitiesviction shuts the door on death, and opens it 27wide towards immortality. The understanding and recognition of Spirit must finally come, and we may as well improve our time in solving the mysteries of being 30through an apprehension of divine Principle. At present we know not what man is, but we certainly shall know this when man reflects God.91
91:1 The Revelator tells us of "a new heaven and a new earth." Have you ever pictured this heaven and 3earth, inhabited by beings under the control of supreme wisdom?
Let us rid ourselves of the belief that man is separated 6from God, and obey only the divine Principle, Life and Love. Here is the great point of departure for all true spiritual growth.
9 It is difficult for the sinner to accept divine Science, because Science exposes his nothingness; but the sooner Man's genuine beingerror is reduced to its native nothingness, the 12sooner man's great reality will appear and his genuine being will be understood. The destruction of error is by no means the destruction of Truth or Life, but 15is the acknowledgment of them.
Absorbed in material selfhood we discern and reflect but faintly the substance of Life or Mind. The denial of 18material selfhood aids the discernment of man's spirit‐ual and eternal individuality, and destroys the erroneous knowledge gained from matter or through what are termed 21the material senses.
Certain erroneous postulates should be here considered Erroneous postulatesin order that the spiritual facts may be better 24apprehended.
The first erroneous postulate of belief is, that substance, life, and intelligence are something apart from God.
27 The second erroneous postulate is, that man is both mental and material.
The third erroneous postulate is, that mind is both evil 30and good; whereas the real Mind cannot be evil nor the medium of evil, for Mind is God.
The fourth erroneous postulate is, that matter is in‐9292:1telligent, and that man has a material body which is part of himself.
3 The fifth erroneous postulate is, that matter holds in itself the issues of life and death, — that matter is not only capable of experiencing pleasure and pain, but also 6capable of imparting these sensations. From the illusion implied in this last postulate arises the decomposition of mortal bodies in what is termed death.
9 Mind is not an entity within the cranium with the power of sinning now and forever.
In old Scriptural pictures we see a serpent coiled around 12the tree of knowledge and speaking to Adam and Eve. Knowledge of good and evilThis represents the serpent in the act of commending to our first parents the knowl‐15edge of good and evil, a knowledge gained from matter, or evil, instead of from Spirit. The portrayal is still graphically accurate, for the common conception of mor‐18tal man — a burlesque of God's man — is an outgrowth of human knowledge or sensuality, a mere offshoot of material sense.
21 Uncover error, and it turns the lie upon you. Until the fact concerning error — namely, its nothingness — Opposing powerappears, the moral demand will not be met, 24and the ability to make nothing of error will be wanting. We should blush to call that real which is only a mistake. The foundation of evil is laid on a belief 27in something besides God. This belief tends to support two opposite powers, instead of urging the claims of Truth alone. The mistake of thinking that error can be real, 30when it is merely the absence of truth, leads to belief in the superiority of error.
Do you say the time has not yet come in which to 93 93:1recognize Soul as substantial and able to control the body? Remember Jesus, who nearly nineteen centuries 3The age's privilegeago demonstrated the power of Spirit and said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also," and who also said, "But the hour 6cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth." "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of sal‐9vation," said Paul.
Divine logic and revelation coincide. If we believe Logic and revelationotherwise, we may be sure that either our 12logic is at fault or that we have misinterpreted revelation. Good never causes evil, nor creates aught that can cause evil.
15 Good does not create a mind susceptible of causing evil, for evil is the opposing error and not the truth of creation. Destructive electricity is not the offspring of in‐18finite good. Whatever contradicts the real nature of the divine Esse, though human faith may clothe it with angelic vestments, is without foundation.
21 The belief that Spirit is finite as well as infinite has darkened all history. In Christian Science, Spirit, as a Derivatives of spiritproper noun, is the name of the Supreme Being. 24It means quantity and quality, and applies ex‐clusively to God. The modifying derivatives of the word spirit refer only to quality, not to God. Man is spiritual. 27He is not God, Spirit. If man were Spirit, then men would be spirits, gods. Finite spirit would be mortal, and this is the error embodied in the belief that the infi‐30nite can be contained in the finite. This belief tends to becloud our apprehension of the kingdom of heaven and of the reign of harmony in the Science of being.94
94:1 Jesus taught but one God, one Spirit, who makes man in the image and likeness of Himself, — of Spirit, not of 3Scientific manmatter. Man reflects infinite Truth, Life, and Love. The nature of man, thus understood, includes all that is implied by the terms "image" and 6"likeness" as used in Scripture. The truly Christian and scientific statement of personality and of the relation of man to God, with the demonstration which accompa‐9nied it, incensed the rabbis, and they said: "Crucify him, crucify him . . . by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
12 The eastern empires and nations owe their false gov‐ernment to the misconceptions of Deity there prevalent. Tyranny, intolerance, and bloodshed, wherever found, 15arise from the belief that the infinite is formed after the pattern of mortal personality, passion, and impulse.
The progress of truth confirms its claims, and our 18Master confirmed his words by his works. His healing-Ingratitude and denialpower evoked denial, ingratitude, and be‐trayal, arising from sensuality. Of the ten 21lepers whom Jesus healed, but one returned to give God thanks, — that is, to acknowledge the divine Principle which had healed him.
24 Our Master easily read the thoughts of mankind, and this insight better enabled him to direct those thoughts aright; but what would be said at this period of an in‐27fidel blasphemer who should hint that Jesus used his in‐cisive power injuriously? Our Master read mortal mind on a scientific basis, that of the omnipresence of Mind. 30An approximation of this discernment indicates spiritual growth and union with the infinite capacities of the one Mind. Jesus could injure no one by his Mind-reading. 95 95:1The effect of his Mind was always to heal and to save, and this is the only genuine Science of reading mortal 3Spiritual insightmind. His holy motives and aims were tra‐duced by the sinners of that period, as they would be to-day if Jesus were personally present. Paul 6said, "To be spiritually minded is life." We approach God, or Life, in proportion to our spirituality, our fidel‐ity to Truth and Love; and in that ratio we know all 9human need and are able to discern the thought of the sick and the sinning for the purpose of healing them. Error of any kind cannot hide from the law of God.
12 Whoever reaches this point of moral culture and good‐ness cannot injure others, and must do them good. The greater or lesser ability of a Christian Scientist to discern 15thought scientifically, depends upon his genuine spirit‐uality. This kind of mind-reading is not clairvoyance, but it is important to success in healing, and is one of the 18special characteristics thereof.
We welcome the increase of knowledge and the end of error, because even human invention must have its 21Christ's reappearanceday, and we want that day to be succeeded by Christian Science, by divine reality. Mid‐night foretells the dawn. Led by a solitary star amid 24the darkness, the Magi of old foretold the Messiahship of Truth. Is the wise man of to-day believed, when he beholds the light which heralds Christ's eternal dawn 27and describes its effulgence?
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. 30Spiritual awakeningMaterial sense does not unfold the facts of existence; but spiritual sense lifts human consciousness into eternal Truth. Humanity advances 96 96:1slowly out of sinning sense into spiritual understanding; unwillingness to learn all things rightly, binds Christen‐3dom with chains.
Love will finally mark the hour of harmony, and spir‐itualization will follow, for Love is Spirit. Before error 6The darkest hours of allis wholly destroyed, there will be interrup‐tions of the general material routine. Earth will become dreary and desolate, but summer and winter, 9seedtime and harvest (though in changed forms), will continue unto the end, — until the final spiritualization of all things. "The darkest hour precedes the dawn."
12 This material world is even now becoming the arena for conflicting forces. On one side there will be discord Arena of contestand dismay; on the other side there will be 15Science and peace. The breaking up of mate‐rial beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness, and death, which assume new 18phases until their nothingness appears. These disturb‐ances will continue until the end of error, when all discord will be swallowed up in spiritual Truth.
21 Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization. This mental fermentation has begun, and will continue until all errors of belief yield to understanding. Belief is 24changeable, but spiritual understanding is changeless.
As this consummation draws nearer, he who has shaped his course in accordance with divine Science 27Millennial glorywill endure to the end. As material knowl‐edge diminishes and spiritual understanding increases, real objects will be apprehended mentally 30instead of materially.
During this final conflict, wicked minds will endeavor to find means by which to accomplish more evil; but 97 97:1those who discern Christian Science will hold crime in check. They will aid in the ejection of error. They 3will maintain law and order, and cheerfully await the certainty of ultimate perfection.
In reality, the more closely error simulates truth and 6so-called matter resembles its essence, mortal mind, the Dangerous resemblancesmore impotent error becomes as a belief. Ac‐cording to human belief, the lightning is fierce 9and the electric current swift, yet in Christian Science the flight of one and the blow of the other will become harmless. The more destructive matter becomes, the 12more its nothingness will appear, until matter reaches its mortal zenith in illusion and forever disappears. The nearer a false belief approaches truth without passing 15the boundary where, having been destroyed by divine Love, it ceases to be even an illusion, the riper it becomes for destruction. The more material the belief, the more 18obvious its error, until divine Spirit, supreme in its do‐main, dominates all matter, and man is found in the like‐ness of Spirit, his original being.
21 The broadest facts array the most falsities against themselves, for they bring error from under cover. It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth 24 lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its in‐articulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion.
"He uttered His voice, the earth melted." This Scrip‐27ture indicates that all matter will disappear before the supremacy of Spirit.
Christianity is again demonstrating the Life that is 30Christianity still rejectedTruth, and the Truth that is Life, by the apos‐tolic work of casting out error and healing the sick. Earth has no repayment for the persecutions which 98 98:1attend a new step in Christianity; but the spiritual recom‐pense of the persecuted is assured in the elevation of ex‐3istence above mortal discord and in the gift of divine Love.
The prophet of to-day beholds in the mental horizon the signs of these times, the reappearance of the Chris‐6Spiritual foreshadowingstianity which heals the sick and destroys error, and no other sign shall be given. Body can‐not be saved except through Mind. The Science of Chris‐9tianity is misinterpreted by a material age, for it is the healing influence of Spirit (not spirits) which the material senses cannot comprehend, — which can only be spiritu‐12ally discerned. Creeds, doctrines, and human hypotheses do not express Christian Science; much less can they demonstrate it.
15 Beyond the frail premises of human beliefs, above the loosening grasp of creeds, the demonstration of Christian Revelation of ScienceMind-healing stands a revealed and practical 18Science. It is imperious throughout all ages as Christ's revelation of Truth, of Life, and of Love, which remains inviolate for every man to understand and to 21practise.
For centuries — yea, always — natural science has not been considered a part of any religion, Christianity not 24Science as foreign to all religionexcepted. Even now multitudes consider that which they call science has no proper con‐nection with faith and piety. Mystery does 27not enshroud Christ's teachings, and they are not theo‐retical and fragmentary, but practical and complete; and being practical and complete, they are not deprived of 30their essential vitality.
The way through which immortality and life are learned is not ecclesiastical but Christian, not human but divine, 99 99:1not physical but metaphysical, not material but scien‐tifically spiritual. Human philosophy, ethics, and super‐3Key to the kingdomstition afford no demonstrable divine Principle by which mortals can escape from sin; yet to escape from sin, is what the Bible demands. "Work 6out your own salvation with fear and trembling," says the apostle, and he straightway adds: "for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good 9pleasure" (Philippians ii. 12, 13). Truth has furnished the key to the kingdom, and with this key Christian Sci‐ence has opened the door of the human understanding. 12None may pick the lock nor enter by some other door. The ordinary teachings are material and not spiritual. Christian Science teaches only that which is spiritual and 15divine, and not human. Christian Science is unerring and Divine; the human sense of things errs because it is human.
18 Those individuals, who adopt theosophy, spiritualism, or hypnotism, may possess natures above some others who eschew their false beliefs. Therefore my contest is 21not with the individual, but with the false system. I love mankind, and shall continue to labor and to endure.
The calm, strong currents of true spirituality, the 24manifestations of which are health, purity, and self-immolation, must deepen human experience, until the beliefs of material existence are seen to be a bald imposi‐27tion, and sin, disease, and death give everlasting place to the scientific demonstration of divine Spirit and to God's spiritual, perfect man.


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It's rained a lot in the past week and chanterelle pickers are advised to get 'em quick. Patches that were in good shape a week ago are now maybe 50-50, with big soggy flowers becoming the majority. (Sounds like the U.S. Congress.) Check out this picture below. There are maybe four dozen prime curled-cap goldens in the frame, perfect for the table. If you're into giant water-logged blooms, be my guest. We left them all behind.
And here's a very cool fairy ring of white chanterelles that I found near the goldens. These were in perfect condition despite their large size and probably weighed a few pounds all by themselves.
Back home I had a geoduck on hand from my shellfish farmer friend John Adams at Sound Fresh Clams & Oysters, so I made a quick Kung Pao with snap peas. The shrooms I decided to cook separately as a side dish. You know how at Chinese restaurants you get mushrooms in a silky smooth sauce? It's no secret—just corn starch. I used porcini, hedgehogs, chanterelles, shiitake, and enoki mushrooms, the latter two varieties purchased at my handy Mekong Market down the street.
This recipe is based on one by Fuchsia Dunlop. My changes included the use of duck fat and soy sauce.
2 tbsp peanut oil
3 tbsp duck fat
1 heaping tbsp garlic, minced
1/3 cup chicken stock
1 tsp corn starch combined with
2 tsp soy sauce
salt, to taste
1. Heat peanut oil and duck fat wok over high flame until nearly smoking. Stir in garlic and cook until almost golden. Don't burn! Add mushrooms (if using enoki, put aside until later) and stir well. Cook a few minutes, then add enoki and cook another minute or so.
2. Add chicken stock. Bring to boil. Stir in mixture of corn starch and soy sauce. Continue to cook, stirring, until sauce thickens. Season to taste.
The final dish is a tender umami bomb—the ideal accompaniment to a spicy meat dish.

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|From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 23 11:05:22 EST 2010
>From our last discussion, I had the impression that launchpad would work, but it would require us to have a server that served as an intermediary for bug reports coming from drscheme. I'm also willing to help a little with this, but I don't have time to be in charge of it. Robby On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > Stick! > > On Feb 23, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > >> I've recently looked at some of the capabilities of bug reports on >> various hosted places. >> >> * One appealing feature is using github (since we'll have a mirror >> there), but it doesn't look like it allows generating reports from >> emails or some way to generate reports anonymously (perhaps using >> the api, but this complicates things). Also, it doesn't look like >> you can get email notifications, and no attachements. And another >> problem is that people need to create accounts there instead of >> managing it from a central place. >> >> * Most other similar places are similarly limited (launchpad does have >> attachements, but is limited in a similar way). >> >> * The most promising thing that I've seen is a pair of websites: >> tenderapp.com and lighthouse.com. IIUC, the intention of the former >> is as a front end for users to post "issues", and for the latter to >> be dealing with more concrete bug reports. The interfaces fr both >> are similarly polished, but there are some differences: the first >> can accept new reports from anyone (no login needed), and the second >> has more of the usual stuff you expect a bug report tool to have. >> In addition, the second one can be integrated with a repository: >> accepting keywords in emails that can do almost anything (close >> bugs, assign them, etc). >> >> For companies, I think that the intention is for some QA department >> to deal with the first and file bugs against the second (with a way >> to link the two). The main problem with using only lighthouse that >> I see is that bugs cannot be filed by unregistered users -- it is >> possible to send an email that is coming from a registered user >> (eg "bugs at plt-scheme.org") and have that create a report, but then >> the bug seems to come from that address and I don't see a way to CC >> the real bug reporter. >> >> In any case, I can't really allocate more time for this. I was hoping >> that Sam, being the most vocal about how gnats is ancient, would take >> it on, but he's not interested. >> >> So, in case someone wants to look further into these options, and >> either find a way to make one of them do what we need, or find another >> option that does that, or even play with gnats itself to make it do >> the extra things that these tools do: please contact me and I'll tell >> you what the basic requirements are, and I'll help in finding a way to >> migrate the current bug DB. Otherwise, it looks like sticking with >> the current setup is the most profitable. >> >> (This is not an attempt at starting a discussion about these things, >> I've spent enough time trying to figure them out...) >> >> -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: >> http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev >
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Being a Disney freak sometimes makes it hard to be objective about new product.
In Disney's adaptation of the J.M. Barrie books, Tinker Bell is a Pixie, not a Princess or a Fairy. Nothing in the Peter Pan film suggests that she has a royal lineage or a gaggle of Fairy friends (or a magic wand for that matter...).
To date, Disney has been pretty consistent in calling her a Pixie, and most Disney merchandise that refers to her in any manner does so as a Pixie. According
Another gem in a sea of boring forwarded emails...
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill BOTH ways
yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how
Yeah, so Walt Disney World has announced that they will be building an "American Idol" attraction in the old Monster Sound Show/Superstar Television theater row. I guess it fits in with the "Hollywood Studios" theme.
While it seems to go along with the "more interactive attractions" push, it just doesn't seem "Disney" to me. I guess they want to give the Studios park more of an
As expected, Disney announced their free dining plans this morning. The time period is much shorter than the free dining at Universal, but that's not entirely surprising (and, of course, Disney can always add more dates later, if necessary).
Details are below. Thanks to Sue Pisaturo of MousePlanet sponsor Small World Vacations for the info.
Disney Visa Cardholder Booking Dates:
Today through June 22
Magic Your Way Package FREE Dining Plan
Updated 04-08-2008 at 06:08 PM by Mark Goldhaber
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A few hours ago I read the news that Disney has decided to close the Virtual Magic Kingdom game, a FREE! (and that word will become important later) online multiplayer game created around the time of Disneyland's 50th Anniversary and "designed for 8-14 year olds."
Thinking this must be a late April Fool's joke, I quickly checked the VMK home page and yes, there it was, the official word right from Yavn's mouth. (Yavn is the screen name for one of the VMK producers, a nice guy I've
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Eastern Michigan women's basketball team traveling to Connecticut to help Sandy Hook tragedy victims
The Eastern Michigan women's basketball team will pack up for a road trip following its game with Ohio University at the Convocation Center on Saturday. The Eagles don't have a game for another week, but their goal for the weekend won't be about picking up a win.
Instead, the Eagles will be helping the people of Newtown, Conn. deal with loss.
After Saturday's game, the team will fly to Newtown - the home of Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 students and six adult staff members were shot and killed by Adam Lanza on December 14 - to host a basketball clinic and youth carnival for the grief stricken community.
Melanie Maxwell | AnnArbor.com file photo
First-year Eastern Michigan coach Tory Verdi came up with the idea shortly after the tragedy. Verdi was born and raised in Connecticut and started his coaching career as a high school coach in Southbury, Conn., less than 10 miles away from Newtown.
"I just remember first hearing about it and my immediate reaction was sadness and then thinking we're going to do something to help," Verdi said. "I used to coach right next door. Me and my wife, we do know families that were affected.
"I said we're going to do something. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to do more than just a clinic," Verdi said. "That's how the idea of the carnival atmosphere came about. Something that's fun, something that can give these families and these kids a smile on their face."
However good his intentions, the reality is that because of the timing of the tragedy, Verdi's efforts were made more difficult because Eastern's season was in full swing.
Verdi admitted making "Smiles & Basketball" happen wasn't easy, but it was something he was determined to do in the immediate.
"I wanted to do it now because as a coach I think it's important to help grow the students as people and I feel like we have an obligation as role models," Verdi said. "As a head coach of a college team, I'm in a position where I can help and I wanted to take advantage of that."
Eastern's administration has been supportive of the Verdi's efforts, covering the cost of the trip with general fund dollars, which Verdi estimated to be between $20,000 and $25,000. Eastern is soliciting donations to cover the cost of the trip.
"I'm so proud of our administration because it's a huge financial obligation," Verdi said. "They've been nothing but supportive and the donations are rolling in every day."
"One of the main expectations of our student-athletes, coaches and staff is involvement in the greater society and giving back, especially to the children," Eastern athletic director Derrick Gragg said in a release. "We are hoping that this will be an event that everyone will always remember and cherish."
"Eastern is known for community engagement, and for its students volunteering thousands of hours to help improve the lives of others. I am so proud of our women's basketball team for taking the time during the peak of their season to show their love for the children in Newtown by hosting them in a day of fun and basketball," said EMU president Susan Martin in a release.
Because the trip will be an official team activity there are some hoops the team will have to jump through during the trip. The trip will count toward the team's practice hours for the week and NCAA rules will apply.
"It will be considered a day of practice, so we can't be on the court for more than three hours at a time, things like that," Verdi said.
"Newtown Youth Basketball was thrilled to learn that Coach Verdi and the women's Eagles basketball team wanted to come to Newtown," said David Hamula, vice president of the Newtown Youth Basketball Association in a release. "Having the team take time from defending their MAC title to come to our town to spend time with the kids - sharing their time, running some skills drills and just being with the kids says a lot about Coach Verdi, the women and the school as a whole.
"We are excited for the event and look forward to seeing the kids interacting with the players!"
Pete Cunningham covers sports for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @petcunningham.
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Fri, Feb 8, 2013 : 6:06 a.m.
Not cancelled. Postponed. http://emueagles.com/news/2013/2/7/WBB_0207134429.aspx
Pete Cunningham
Fri, Feb 8, 2013 : 5:22 a.m.
I have received word from Eastern Michigan that this trip has been cancelled due to the expected blizzard. An update story will be posted shortly.
Fri, Feb 8, 2013 : 4:22 a.m.
EMU is a class act.
Fri, Feb 8, 2013 : 2:45 a.m.
That is so awesome! Travel safely!
Fri, Feb 8, 2013 : 2:26 a.m.
FYI, this was cancelled as a a result of the impending blizzard
Pete Cunningham
Fri, Feb 8, 2013 : 5:22 a.m.
Yes, we did receive word from Eastern Michigan that the trip has been cancelled due to the expected blizzard. An update story will be posted shortly.
Fri, Feb 8, 2013 : 2:47 a.m.
What a bummer, considering the effort that went into planning this; hopefully they will be able to reschedule for the near future!
Thu, Feb 7, 2013 : 10:34 p.m.
What a wonderful idea to help out with rebuilding lives in Sandy Hook. Way to go Coach Verdi and President Martin. Best wishes for a successful trip and for a good season to all who are a part of the EMU Women's Basketball Team!
Thu, Feb 7, 2013 : 9:52 p.m.
This shows what a class act Coach Verdi, his staff and the ladies are. We are proud of all of you. Thank you to the EMU Administration for making this happen. Go Green!
Thu, Feb 7, 2013 : 9:51 p.m.
Congrats to the EMU ladies Basketball team and this awesome gesture.


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PLANET LRP-1622CS, a brand-new Multi-channel Long Reach PoE Switch, features an extended Ethernet and PoE networking of up to 1 kilometer over the existing coaxial cables going to multiple PoE compliant devices. It provides IPv6/IPv4 dual stack management and built-in L2/L4 Gigabit Switching engine along with 16 BNC ports with Long Reach PoE Injector function, 2 Gigabit copper ports and 2 extra 100/1000BASE-X SFP fiber slots. Each of the 16 BNC ports provides 36 watts of power with a total power budget of up to 440 watts. As an advanced PoE switch, the LRP-1622CS features intelligent PoE functions to improve the availability of critical applications. It provides a quick, safe and cost-effective PoE network solution to upgrading the existing coaxial cable infrastructure from the analog system to the HD IP surveillance system.
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To support the enterprises in easily building a multi-channel and centrally-controlled Long Reach PoE system, the LRP-1622CS works with the Long Reach PoE Extenders, LRP-101CE, via its 16 BNC ports being the Long Reach PoE injectors for all connected LRP Extenders. Each of the BNC port features long range data and power transmission for distance up to 1,000m (3,280ft) over coaxial cable to the LRP Extender, and another 100m over Ethernet cable to remote PoE IP camera, PoE wireless AP or access control systems complied with 802.3af/at PoE.
|Centralized Power Management
With the centrally-managed 440-watt PoE budget, the LRP-1622CS eliminates the need for an additional remote site power while allowing a single power source to provide power to both LRP extenders and the PoE powered devices at long range. The Long Reach PoE capabilities provided help to reduce installation time and deployment costs for network devices as a result of freeing from restrictions of power outlet locations.
Daisy-chaining Multiple Nodes
PLANET Long Reach PoE solution can easily build a power system for centrally-controlled IP cameras in a high availability network infrastructure. It gives users the flexibility to expand small area network with BNC T-connector for sharing four nodes per port when needed, making the LRP-1622CS with 16 BNC Long Reach PoE Ports an ideal support for up to 64 IP cameras.
Built-in Unique PoE Functions for Powered Devices Management
As a managed PoE switch for surveillance, wireless and VoIP networks, the LRP-1622CS particularly features the following special PoE Management functions to accomplish a highly-efficient Long Reach network:
■ PD Alive Check
■ Scheduled Power Recycling
■ PoE Schedule
■ PoE Usage Monitoring
■ PoE Over-temperature Protection
|Intelligent Powered Device Alive Check
The LRP-1622CS can be configured to monitor connected PD (Powered Device) status in real time via ping action. Once the PD stops working and responding, the LRP-1622CS will resume the PoE port power and bring the PD back to work. It will greatly enhance the network reliability through the PoE port resetting the PD's power source and reducing administrator management burden.
|Scheduled Power Recycling
The LRP-1622CS allows each of the connected PoE IP cameras or PoE wireless access points via the LRP-101CE Long Reach PoE Extender to reboot at a specific time each week. Therefore, it will reduce the chance of IP camera or wireless AP crash resulting from buffer overflow.
|PoE Schedule for Energy Saving
Under the trend of energy saving worldwide and contributing to environmental protection, the LRP-1622CS can effectively control the power supply besides its capability of giving high watts power. The "PoE schedule" function helps you to enable or disable PoE power feeding for each PoE port during specified time intervals and it is a powerful function to help SMBs or enterprises save power and money. It also increases security by powering off PDs that should not be in use during non-business hours.
|PoE Usage Monitoring
Via the power usage chart in the web management interface, the LRP-1622CS enables the administrator to monitor the status of the power usage of the connected PDs in real time. Thus, it greatly enhances the management efficiency of the facilities.
PoE Over-temperature Protection System
The over-temperature protection of the LRP-1622CS offers a safe and stable PoE operation by limiting the output power in order to avoid destructive breakdown due to unexpected overheating.
Environment-friendly, Smart Fan Design for Silent Operation
The LRP-1622CS features a 19-inch metal housing, a low noise design and an effective ventilation system. It supports the smart fan technology to automatically control the speed of the built-in fan to reduce noise and maintain the appropriate temperature of the PoE switch for optimal power output capability. The LRP-1622CS is able to operate reliably, stably and quietly in any environment without affecting its performance.
|IPv6/IPv4 Dual Stack
Supporting both IPv6 and IPv4 protocols, the LRP-1622CS helps the SMBs to step in the IPv6 era with the lowest investment as its network facilities need not be replaced or overhauled if the IPv6 FTTx edge network is set up.
Robust Layer 2 Features
The LRP-1622CS can be programmed for advanced switch management functions such as dynamic port link aggregation, 802.1Q VLAN and Q-in-Q VLAN, Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP), Loop and BPDU Guard, IGMP Snooping, and MLD Snooping. Via the link aggregation, the LRP-1622CS allows the operation of a high-speed trunk to combine with multiple ports such as an 8Gbps fat pipe, and supports fail-over as well. Also, the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is the Layer 2 Protocol included to help discover basic information about neighboring devices on the local broadcast domain.
|Efficient Traffic Control
The LRP-1622CS is loaded with robust QoS features and powerful traffic management to enhance services to business-class data, voice, and video solutions. The functionality includes broadcast/multicast storm control, per port bandwidth control, IP DSCP QoS priority and remarking. It guarantees the best performance for VoIP and video stream transmission, and empowers the enterprises to take full advantage of the limited network resources.
Powerful Security
PLANET LRP-1622CS offers comprehensive IPv4/IPv6 Layer 2 to Layer 4 Access Control List (ACL) for enforcing security to the edge. It can be used to restrict network access by denying packets based on source and destination IP address, TCP/UDP ports or defined typical network applications. Its protection mechanism also comprises 802.1X port-based user and device authentication, which can be deployed with RADIUS to ensure the port level security and block illegal users. With the Protected Port function, communication between edge ports can be prevented to guarantee user privacy. Furthermore, Port Security function allows to limit the number of network devices on a given port.
Advanced Network Security
The LRP-1622CS also provides DHCP Snooping, IP Source Guard and Dynamic ARP Inspection functions to prevent IP snooping from attack and discard ARP packets with invalid MAC address. The network administrators can now build highly-secured corporate networks with considerably less time and effort than before.
|Friendly and Secure Management
For efficient management, the LRP-1622CS is equipped with console, Web, Telnet and SNMP management interfaces. With the built-in Web-based management interface, the LRP-1622CS offers an easy-to-use, platform-independent management and configuration facility. By supporting the standard Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), the switch can be managed via any standard management software. For text-based management, the switch can be accessed via Telnet and the console port. Moreover, the LRP-1622CS offers secure remote management by supporting SSH, SSL and SNMP v3 connections which encrypt the packet content at each session.
Flexibility and Long-distance Extension Solution
The LRP-1622CS provides two Gigabit TP interfaces supporting 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ45 copper to be connected with surveillance network devices such as NVR, Video Streaming Server or NAS to facilitate surveillance management. Or through another two dual-speed fiber SFP slots, it can connect with the 100BASE-FX/1000BASE-SX/LX SFP (Small Form-factor Pluggable) fiber transceiver to uplink to backbone switch and monitoring center in long distance. The distance can be extended from 550 meters to 2 kilometers (multi-mode fiber) and up to 10/20/30/40/50/70/120 kilometers (single-mode fiber or WDM fiber). The LRP-1622CS is well suited for applications within the enterprise data centers and distributions.
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The LRP-1622CS also supports SFP-DDM (Digital Diagnostic Monitor) function that can easily monitor real-time parameters of the SFP for network administrator, such as optical output power, optical input power, temperature, laser bias current and transceiver supply voltage.


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Qualys' Web Application Firewall (WAF) is delivered as a component of the QualysGuard Cloud Platform, which provides a simple, centrally-managed tool for administering security for both on-premise and cloud-based servers. The WAF beta is available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to be used with Amazon EC2 cloud services, and as a VMWare virtual image for use with on-premise virtual servers.
As information is passed from a PC to the Web server and back, there is ample opportunity for an attacker to inject him or herself into the equation and intercept the traffic or possibly compromise the server. A Web application firewall applies rules to the HTTP traffic to prevent attacks, but it can be costly and complex to configure and administer a Web application firewall. The rules applied have to be frequently updated to reflect changes in the applications and to guard against new threats. Small and medium businesses, in particular, seldom have the expertise or budget necessary to properly manage a Web application firewall.
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Historical Information
Nieuport Memorial
The Nieuport Memorial commemorates 566 Commonwealth officers and men who were killed in Allied operations on the Belgian coast during the First World War and have no known grave. Twenty of those commemorated served with the Royal Naval Division and were killed or mortally wounded during the siege of Antwerp in October 1914. Almost all of the remainder fell in heavy fighting in the region of Nieuport in the summer of 1917. The memorial is constructed of Euville limestone and stands eight metres high. It was designed by William Bryce Binnie, an Imperial War Graves Commission architect who served with the Royal Highland Regiment during the war and was twice decorated for bravery. The lions standing at each point of the triangular platform were designed by Charles Sergeant Jagger, a celebrated British sculptor and decorated veteran of the Western Front. The memorial was officially unveiled by Sir George Macdonogh in July 1928.
British Operations on the Belgian Coast
The armies of the German Empire invaded Belgium on 4 August 1914. Within three weeks the fortified cities of Liege and Namur were in German hands and the Belgian forces had retreated to Antwerp, which was well defended and ringed by a series of forts. To begin with, the German First Army under General von Kluck bypassed the city and moved south-west toward the Franco-Belgian border. Yet on September 28, after weeks of heavy fighting in northern France, German artillery batteries began to shell the outer forts from the south-east. The accuracy of the German long-range guns had a devastating effect on the defences of the outer forts, and by the beginning of October the German infantry was slowly closing in on the city.
Fearing that the fall of Antwerp would expose the channel ports and leave Britain vulnerable to attack, the British deployed the newly formed Royal Naval Division to assist their Belgian allies in defending the city. The first British reinforcements, a brigade of Royal Marines, arrived at Antwerp on 4 October and relieved the 21st Belgian Regiment. On the following day the German forces crossed the river Nethe at Lier, 20 kilometres south of Antwerp. Two more British naval brigades arrived at Antwerp early on 6 October, yet while their arrival lifted the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city, they could do little to alter the strategic position of the Belgian garrison, which was now critical. On the night of 6 October, the Belgian fortress troops under General Paris retired to the inner forts on the outskirts of the city, and over the course of the next day the German forces crossed the river Scheldt and began to shell the streets and houses of Antwerp. By 8 October, the Belgian Field Army had evacuated the city, which was now defended by mixed units of Belgian and British troops. The first German troops entered the city, following heavy shelling, on 9 October and the siege was at an end.
British units did not return to this sector of the Western Front until June 1917, when the 32nd Division relieved French troops stationed at Nieuport in preparation for planned Allied landings on German-held territory along the Belgian coast. German marines launched a pre-emptive attack against the British forces on the river Yser in July and the landings, codenamed 'Operation Hush', never took place. Over 260 men commemorated on the Nieuport Memorial were killed or mortally wounded during heavy fighting with units of the German Marine-Korps Flandern on July 10 1917.
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Gunfight at the Sikh temple: Lessons learned
What we can learn from the heroism and difficulties officers experienced at Oak Creek
During a recent webcast presented by Department of Homeland Security and Dupage College in Illinois, Brian Murphy and Sam Lenda — two officers who bravely engaged and ultimately defeated the highly trained neo-Nazi Wade Michael Page — told their story of the gunfight at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
At about 1028 hours on the morning of August 5, 2012, Lieutenant Brian Murphy of the Oak Creek Police Department was the first to arrive at a disturbance call at the Sikh temple. He drove down the long, blind driveway to discover the parking lot area quiet. Murphy radioed to instruct approaching backup — Officer Sam Lenda — to enter via the same driveway.
Unknown to Murphy, Page had already killed six — including the valiant Sikh priest who engaged the suspect while armed only with his Kirpan (a curved knife that is the religious symbol of his personal commitment to protect his nation).
A Holy Man and a Hero
The priest's death was not in vain, for it allowed several parish members to lock down 15 children in a pantry area, call the police, and then conceal themselves. Murphy's immediate arrival and approach saved these lives by diverting the killer from his evil mission.
As Murphy exited his squad and drew his weapon, he immediately located two obviously deceased victims lying next to some parked cars. Murphy scanned the lot and spotted the tattooed suspect, wearing a white T-shirt and black BDUs, as he burst out of the front doors of the temple.
Page had a gun in his right hand, and he brought it up to fire at Murphy.
As Murphy called in "man with gun" over his radio, he fired at the suspect. At the same moment the suspect fired at Murphy.
"I missed. He didn't," Murphy said.
The round — which struck his chin and throat— was "not as devastating as you might think," because after being struck by this round Murphy moved quickly to cover and quick-peeked out to acquire a sight picture on the suspect, who was now gone.
The military-trained Page changed directions and executed a flanking movement. As he emerged from behind Murphy, Page opened fire, blowing off part of Murphy's thumb, knocking the gun from his hand.
Murphy acknowledged, "Now that one hurt!"
Murphy now hunkered beneath the parked car, protecting his vitals, while weathering the rounds that rained down on him.
Lenda Arrives
Simultaneously, Sam Lenda drove into the temple parking lot as directed, but because of the lay of the land, what was transpiring in the lot was not visible from the street.
As Lenda pulled up on the scene he saw Page firing, but could not see his friend. Page turned immediately and fired toward Lenda. After he reloaded smoothly, he continued to fire alternately between Murphy and Lenda.
Murphy used the reload to make a dash for his squad, which contained another weapon. After hitting Murphy repeatedly, it must have shaken Page to have that same officer suddenly spring up and run toward his squad.
Page surely knew he had to contend with two officers.
A Lesson Learned Hard
Lenda chose to arm himself with the squad carbine, and in doing so he discovered a blind spot in his extensive training. Although he was a firearms instructor and SWAT sniper, he had never effectively practiced dismounting directly into an ambush.
Lenda had to use both hands to manipulate the double security release on the weapon mount. The mount had a "three second delay" — a long, long time when someone is shooting at you. Once the weapon was released, the sling became tangled in the Tracs (Traffic and criminal software). After finally freeing the sling, he attempted to exit the car, but was foiled by the seat belt.
Lenda released his seat belt and exited as a round smashed through the windshield and into his headrest. The exploding safety glass slapped Lenda hard, embedding glass fragments into the right side of his face.
Lenda ignored the pain and positioned himself in the "V" between the door and the frame of his squad.
He squeezed the trigger.
He quickly charged the weapon and fired a round at Page, who was now running laterally, while firing at Lenda "gangsta style," but Sam missed.
He consciously thought there would be time to be embarrassed about the miss later.
Sam concentrated on the sights, breathed, and squeezed.
Page went down instantaneously, but rolled into some shrubs. Moments later there was one more shot from the shrub. An autopsy would later reveal that Lenda's second shot, which hit Page, was not survivable.
Page, apparently realizing his killing spree was over, turned his gun on himself.
A Message From Sam Lenda
Sam Lenda said that the gunfight at the Sikh temple revealed a training flaw. During all his prior training, his long gun was always already out when he fired it. He had not trained sufficiently in what he now knew to be a critical skill needed by all officers — dismounting into an ambush.
In spite of this training scar, the longtime SWAT operator/sniper, street cop and firearms trainer — whose buddies affectionately call "Sambo Rambo" — improvised, adapted, and overcame in this, his second officer-involved shooting.
I think — and Police1 Editor in Chief Doug Wyllie agrees with me — that this dismounting drill suggested by Sam Lenda should be called the "The Lenda-Murphy Drill," to honor the indomitable courage of these warriors, as well as to give valuable context to the training.
A Message From Brian Murphy
Lieutenant Murphy, who was shot 17 times, survived his wounds. Murphy attributed his survival to deciding — while being shot! — that he was not going to die in that parking lot.
Nothing the neo-Nazi did could kill the lieutenant, who refused to give up.
Murphy's closing message was this: Regardless of how bad things appear to be, "Never give up!"


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HOUSTON -- Clinical staff spent significantly less time with intensive care unit patients at the end of rounds as compared with the beginning, preliminary results from a small clinical study showed.
The time decreased by about a minute per patient as clinical staff members made rounds in a 12-bed cardiothoracic intensive care unit (ICU). Comparison of the first four and last four patients seen on rounds produced a statistically significant difference in the time spent with physicians and other participants in rounds.
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- This study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
- This preliminary study found that clinical staff spent significantly less time with intensive care unit patients at the end of rounds as compared with the beginning.
- Point out that the implications of the declining face time, including the impact on patient outcomes, remain unclear.
The implications of the declining face time, including the impact on patient outcomes, remain unclear but will be examined in future phases of the ongoing study, Laura Jones, PhD, said here at the Society of Critical Care Medicine meeting.
"We've just begun to look at this issue," Jones, of Emory University in Atlanta, told MedPage Today. "Our findings were unexpected, because we hypothesized that the time spent with each patient wouldn't change significantly during rounds. At this point, we really don't know whether spending less time with patients has clinical significance."
Clinical rounds play a major role in establishing a patient's short- and long-term goals and communicating the goals to the patients and clinical staff. Discussions during rounds can range from formal and highly structured to free-form, a variation that has implications for distribution of valuable hospital resources, Jones noted in the introduction to her poster presentation.
Resource distribution during rounds could have a substantial impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of rounds and, potentially, quality of care, she continued.
Patient acuity has been shown to influence resource distribution in hospitals. The extent to which the order of patient presentations might influence time distribution during rounds has not previously been examined.
To study time distribution during clinical rounds, Jones and colleagues accompanied clinical staff on 20 nonconsecutive weekdays during rounds in a cardiothoracic ICU. All patients had undergone coronary bypass surgery.
On any given day, participants in rounds included one or more physicians, nurses, medical students, a pharmacist, a dietitian, and other healthcare providers. At the very least, an intensivist and one other physician participated in each session.
While following the clinical staff, Jones and colleagues used a tablet computer to document the time spent on various activities with each patient, such as treatment plans, "foraging" for information, teaching, speaking with family members, and responding to interruptions.
Rounds did not adhere to a particular format, schedule, or structure. The order of patient visits varied substantially during the 20 days of observation, following a certain bed order on some days (clockwise or counterclockwise) and reflecting staff or attending-physician preferences on others.
The number of patient visits during the study period averaged 6.4, and rounds duration averaged 117.9 minutes. Interruptions accounted for about 10 minutes per rounds session and social interruptions for another 11.5 minutes.
Overall, the time spent with each patient during rounds decreased by 54 seconds per patient. Using a nine-patient session as an example, Jones said the clinical staff spent about eight minutes less with the last patient seen compared with the first. The difference between the first four and last four patients seen was statistically significant (P<0.05).
The presentation attracted comments from several unidentified clinicians who stopped to view the poster and discuss the findings with Jones. Most of the visitors were not surprised by the time difference and speculated that the difference reflected variation in patient acuity, nearness to patient discharge from the ICU, case complexity, and the treating physician's interest in the case.
Future phases of the ongoing study will attempt to address some of the unknowns, said Jones. Researchers plan to make audio recordings of rounds and hope to gather more information about the patients and the decision-making processes involved in determining the order of patient visits during rounds.
Jones and colleagues had no relevant disclosures.
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Source Reference: Jones L, et al "Last patients finish last: end-of-round time compression during CT ICU clinical rounds" SCCM 2012; Abstract 638.