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"Renewing Islam by Service: A Christian View of Fethullah Gulen and the Hizmet Movement" offers a theological account of the contemporary Turkish faith-based service movement started by Fethullah Gülen, and placed against the backdrop of changes in modern Turkish society. The life and works of Gülen are analyzed against the background of developments in Turkish society, and of spiritual Islamic tendencies in the transition from the Ottoman empire to the secular republic. Pim Valkenberg includes stories of his personal experiences with supporters of this movement, in a number of different countries, and analyzes the spiritual practices and the faith-based service of this movement that is also compared to some important Christian religious movements.
Pim (Wilhelmus G.B.M.) Valkenberg is a professor of religion and culture at the Catholic University of America. He previously worked for the Diocese of Breda as a specialist on adult education, and for the Netherlands School of Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion as research fellow. He was an assistant and associate professor of dogmatic theology and the theology of religions at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (1987-2007), where he studied Arabic and Islam as well. He contributed to the establishment of a new Department of Religious Studies in 1991 with a focus on interreligious dialogue, and as associate dean of education between 1999 and 2004 he was responsible for the development of new programs of intercultural theology and pastoral studies. Between 2006 and 2011 he was a visiting professor and an associate professor of theology at Loyola University Maryland with a focus on Christian-Muslim relations.
Paul L. Heck is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in Georgetown University's Department of Theology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is founding director of The Study of Religions across Civilizations (SORAC). His scholarly interests focus on the history of skepticism in Islam, mysticism and the role of spirituality in Muslim society, views on martyrdom in the three monotheist traditions, the phenomenon of theo-humanism, the emergent field of comparative scripture, and issues in political theology. Some of these themes were treated in Common Ground: Islam, Christianity and Religious Pluralism (2009). His most recent monograph is Skepticism in Classical Islam: Moments of Confusion (2013). His work overall, looking at three faith traditions through a single if refracted lens, seeks to bring sharper insight to our knowledge of the phenomenon of beliefs and their role in scholarly circles and society in general.


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This word literally means oral intake of medicated oils or ghee preparations. This is done as a therapeutic procedure and as a preparatory procedure during the body purification therapy. Medicated ghee or oils are given internally, in proportionally increasing quantities, for a period of 8 to 12 days.
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Medicated ghee, eaten in empty stomach, for its first hand therapeutic value, is called Snehapanam.The treatment involves the removal of hard-core toxins and wastes from the body. Snehapanam is one of the excellent preparatory methods before Panchakarma.
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|"And Raghava, that malevolent Tataka is always destroying the inhabitations at Malada and Karusha.
|b, a "She lives about one and half Yojana distance from here, and by which reason this became the forest of Tataka, owing to her gruesome activities, for that reason only a headway is to be made, to eradicate her and her activities.
|b, a "Indeed, none is able to enter this sort of province, Rama, destroyed by the hazardous and invincible unearthly being who turned into a Rakshasi, namely Tataka, hence you have to make the provinces habitable.
|"As to how that ghoulish Tataka destroyed this entire forest, rendering it as a devastated place, without refraining from it even today, all that is narrated.
|"Gladdening at his ascesis, Rama, then the Forefather Brahma gave him a gemlike daughter who is renowned by the name of Tataka.
|"Then after sometime that yakshii Tataka delivered an indomitable son named Maricha, who by curse became a Rakshasa.
|"But when Sunda is eliminated by sage Agastya s curse, she that Tataka wished to retaliate that eminent sage along with her son Maricha.
|a "Highly infuriated sage Agastya even cursed Tataka saying, forthwith divested of this form of a beautiful female, oh, great yakshii, you shall become a man eater with your form distorted, face contorted, and shape monstrous.
|"Frenzied by the curse and convulsed in fury she that Tataka is thus vandalising this auspicious province, in which sage Agastya once sauntered.
|Thus said sage Vishvamitra to Rama regarding Tataka s elimination.
|On hearing the words of that unfaltering sage about Rakshasi Tataka, Raghava, best man s son who is firm in his vows, reverently adjoining his palms replied the sage.
|"Such as I am, I will undertake the primary duty of eliminating Tataka, according as the follower of father s words, and according to the instruction of a Brahma scholar, such as your are, without a doubt.
|By that sound the inhabitants of Tataka forest are startled, and even Tataka is stupefied by that sound, and she is intolerably infuriated at it.
|While Rama is still speaking that way, convulsed in anger Tataka roaringly rushed towards Rama alone, swinging her arms.
|Flinging up dreadful dust on those two Raghava s, Tataka baffled them for a while with a massive cloud of dust.
|b, a That best sage is satisfied with Rama and gladdened for the eradication of Tataka kissed the forehead of and then said this sentence.
|On listening sage Vishvamitra s words, Dasharatha s son Rama, comfortably stayed that night there in that forest of Tataka.
|On that very day alone that forest of Tataka too is released from the curse, and it shone forth like the luxurious heavenly garden of Kubera, namely Chiatraratha.
|b, c Rama while being eulogised by the Suras and Siddhas for complete elimination of Yaksha s daughter, namely Tataka, stayed there along with the sage only to be awakened by the next days sunrise.
|Then, on staying that night there in Tataka forest, on the next day morning the greatly renowned sage Vishvamitra, smilingly and wording sweetly spoke to Rama.
|"What is this cloudlike picturesque thicket shining forth not very far away on this side of mountain, with animals spreading over it, and embellished with numerous kinds of Birds that have pleasant callings it is highly soul delighting, thus, my inquisitiveness is growing very much to know it, what is this, really! "By the nature of happy environs at this place, oh, eminent sage, I understand that we have come out of the extremely alarming forest of Tataka, but oh, god, whose hermitage s threshold is this, kindly tell me all.
|"Oh, valiant Rama of Dasharatha, your valour is bruited as a sensational valour, and sensational is your smashing of Shiva s bow, also thus I have thoroughly heard about your others deeds like elimination of Tataka et cetera.
|On going to the hermitage of Maricha which is at a distant place Maricha the son of Tataka received Ravana and venerated that king of Rakshasas with sweetmeats and savouries that are unavailable to humans.
|Maricha s heart sank with scare as he is aware of Rama s valour when he was in the great forest of Tataka, thus suppliantly making palm fold he started telling about factuality of Rama to Ravana, which is beneficial both to Ravana and to himself, as well, if only Ravana is heedful of it.
|Tataka s son Maricha said "All right" to Ravana, and then both Ravana and Maricha mounted the chariot as they would emplane an Aircraft and swiftly journeyed from the surroundings of Maricha s hermitage.


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It's time for another small business update on the PPP and how these latest developments will affect your small business.
Is Your Eight Weeks Up?
Believe it or not, this Friday marks eight weeks since the first PPP loan applications went live. And, as you probably are aware, eight weeks is the magic number to have the PPP loan "forgiven."
Super quick reminder about forgiveness in the original guidelines:
- You had 8 weeks from the day you received the funds
- You had to spend at least 75% on payroll costs
- You had to bring your employee level up to pre-pandemic levels
- You could use up to 25% on rent and utilities
Then, the Treasury made a couple of adjustments:
- You could instead start counting the 8 weeks at your first payroll period after you received the funds rather than the day you received the funds
- If you offered a job back to an employee and they refused, they wouldn't have to count on your employee levels
- You still had to spend the 75% on payroll costs
Potential PPP Legislative Fixes
While Treasury Secretary Mnuchin appears to have had the power to expand the eight-week forgiveness requirement, he has refused to do so without Congressional authority. Fortunately, there is bipartisan support for making some adjustments to the forgiveness provisions.
House Bill: Provide up to 24 weeks to spend the PPP funds and eliminate the 75% payroll requirement
Senate Bill: Provide up to 16 weeks to spend the PPP funds and allow businesses to use some of the funds for safety adaptions and PPE for employees
Legislation may be passed as early as this week—keep your fingers crossed! If it passes, you may have longer to reach the PPP goals for forgiveness.
What to spend money on now
In this Covid-19 environment, managing money is even more critical now for your small business survival. So how should you spend your money now?
- Staying in front of your current customers. You should regularly be sending out email newsletters, posting and boosting on social media, making calls. Offer discounts, weekly specials, sell gift cards, provide delivery. Do what it takes to get them to open their wallets.
- Marketing to prospects. Inevitably, you're going to lose customers in this environment, so you need new ones too. History has shown that companies who increase their marketing in economic downturns actually increase market share.
- Safety and cleanliness. If you have a place of business, whether a retail store, a restaurant, a factory, an office: cleanliness is job one. Spend money on having employees continually disinfect and provide hand sanitizer and face masks. Require masks on customers for in-person interactions.
- Pivoting. You are almost certainly going to have to make some changes in your business to meet the new realities. Social distancing and some isolation will last for many months, if not years. Spend money necessary to change your business practices to meet the needs of this new world.
I will discuss all this further during my Facebook Live session—Tuesday, June 2nd at 1pm EDT/10am PDT. Go here to join or to watch later. Learn more in future newsletter updates as well. Sign up here if you are not already on my mailing list.
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No matter the circumstances, on some level we blame ourselves when a relationship ends. We take it as a personal failure. The sorrow of heartbreak is not just about loss, but about self doubt. When rejection is involved in the breakup, it triggers primal rage which we turn against ourselves, beating ourselves up. This intense self inflicted onslaught is part and parcel of the emotional crisis of abandonment and can leave lasting scars in our self esteem.
Insecurity is one of the issues people attack themselves for. Some feel their insecurity is what drove their partner away. They feel shame. They suddenly focus on all of their personal defects, believing that it was their lacking, inadequacies, faults, deficits, and negative behaviors that made them unworthy of someone's love. They feel as if they've been condemned to eternal aloneness as a punishment for these shortcomings.
People succumb to feeling unworthy, believing that the breakup is proof that they are not 'attachment worthy.' They must be lacking the personal power to hold someone's love. They must be inherently unlovable, lacking in some essential ingredient of personal value. Otherwise, why would someone have thrown them away?
Many blame the breakup on their neediness, shaming themselves for it. Now that that they are going through the phases of abandonment grief, feelings of neediness become overwhelming. The truth is that we all become emotionally needy during heartbreak. We are needy at other times, too - neediness is part of being human - but it becomes pronounced under certain conditions, such as when we are attempting a new relationship with someone we're not sure of, when the person we are attached to is pulling away, or when we are left alone.
When we experience unrequited love -- a lack of emotional reciprocity from the other person - it is natural to feel insecure and needy. It can cause us to aim our emotional suction cups toward our partner which only succeeds at creating greater distance. Even the most independent among us can exhibit reactive behaviors that are extreme and can make the other person run for cover.
Regardless of your circumstances of unrequited love, stop blaming and shaming yourself:
1. The first step is to accept your humanness -- neediness and insecurity are part of the human condition - and part of heartbreak.
2. To reverse the self damage, actively engage in radical self acceptance -- accept yourself unconditionally, warts and all.
3. Don't expect to be perfect. Perfectionism sets you up for self-disappointment -- an insidious form of self abandonment.
4. Stop looking to other people, including your ex, to validate your worth. You must do that yourself, especially at this painful time of heartbreak when the person you seek validation from has disposed of you. No one is responsible to make you secure, but YOU.
5. Accept that now is the time to institute self love. Don't expect this to happen buy osmosis. Vow to stop laying your needs for love and acceptance at your lover's feet, and take 100 percent responsibility to give yourself the love and esteem that you need (that's why they're called self love and self esteem).
6. Take advantage of this time of heightened insecurity to learn how to give yourself security. Realize that it's nobody else's job - especially now that your lover has abdicated this role in your life. Only you can do this.
7. To promote emotional self-reliance and comprehensive healing, implement the tools of abandonment recovery. They will help you take self loving actions that build toward an empowering new relationship with yourself.
8. Use the program tools to aim your emotional suction cups toward your own core needs to create a deep internal connection. This heightened attunement promotes profound personal change.
9. As you learn how to give yourself security and love, feel the satisfaction of finding your own two feet. Stand tall on them. Stretch. Validate your own separate functioning. You can survive on your own.
10. Write your ex a thank you note for motivating you to develop self assurance and unconditional self love.
11. Congratulate yourself for becoming emotionally self-reliant.
12. Do you have an 'Outer Child' that interferes I your relationships? Use the breakup as a chance to Tame Your Outer Child and rise to your higher self.


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What a cheerful symbol this has been for 2020. Summer has created a tea towel from her popular rainbow print. A positive and cheerful addition to any kitchen.
This item is despatched directly from the manufacturer. If purchased with other items, you may receive your order in multiple shipments. Please allow 2-3 weeks for its arrival.
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Man Sought In Brazen San Francisco Jewelry Smash & Grab Robbery
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- A thief brazenly smashed the window of a San Francisco jewelry store in broad daylight, scooping up nearly $100,000 in merchandise before fleeing the crime scene, authorities said.
The theft last week was captured on surveillance video and San Francisco police released photos of the suspect Friday in the hopes that he will be recognized.
The crime took place at 3:05 p.m. on March 24th. The suspect walked up to the window of the store located in the 100 block of Waverly Place in Chinatown.
He smashed the window, quickly scooped up the jewelry and dumped it into a black over the shoulder bag. He then jogged down Waverly toward Sacramento Street.
The suspect is described as a black or Hispanic male in his twenties, wearing jeans, a dark jacket, and a red and green top.
The San Francisco Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in helping to identify this burglary suspect. Anyone with information on this case can contact the San Francisco Police anonymously at (415) 575-4444 or text-a-tip to TIP411 and begin the text message with SFPD.
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It was a cold and rainy day…the kind of day meant for indoors pursuits. I had purchased a big, fresh Korean radish (Mu 무) recently, along with scallions, and the time felt right to create something tasty from these ingredients. Having recently met someone who mentioned that she enjoyed kimchi but didn't make it herself, I decided that some of this batch of Kkakdugi (깍두기) would be gifted.
It's funny how you meet people sometimes, isn't it? It can happen when you're not expecting it – like a conversation while waiting in line or on an elevator, finding some common ground with strangers. This was no different – I wasn't expecting to meet someone who had more in common with me than most people I'd met in the past several years. I was surprised by this individual, someone whom I wouldn't really have expected to be where she was.
When you move around frequently, you tend to have fewer friends than when you lived in the same neighborhood with the kids with whom you went to school. When you move for jobs, in particular, few people with whom you may have been "work friends" keep in touch – they're busy, you're busy, there's the distance, and perhaps the job really was what you had in common with them. It happens and it's understandable.
I enjoy interacting with people – I'm curious about them, looking for context to better understand their frames of reference. Unless I can tell that they don't want to chat, I often start conversations and – if they initiate – actively engage. Conversations with people I don't know can be quite interesting, and I respect that some people want to connect with others, rather than just conducting their lives via technology. Interacting with a live person is much more stimulating – and demanding – than interacting via text or social media, where you can carefully curate what's posted; in real life, you have to be quick on your feet and constantly gathering verbal and non-verbal information.
This particular encounter began as mundane small talk, just filling empty space instead of being politely busy with other matters. As we talked, though, the conversation led to the realization that we had things in common and, surprisingly, we were able to have a fairly extended conversation. I left the place we had chatted feeling energized, and it was then that I resolved that I would take my new friend, H., some homemade kimchi.
Making kkakdugi is a simple process: cut up the Korean radish, salt and sugar it, leave it for about a half hour, drain off the liquid, add the gochugaru, fish sauce, garlic, ginger, most of the reserved radish liquid, and scallions, and mix it all together. Pack into jars and let it work its probiotic magic for several days (or eat it immediately because it's delicious).
I had a clean pint jar reserved for H's kimchi, and I packed it full, placed a piece of wrap on top, and then closed the lid. To prevent the possibility of leakage, I also put the whole jar into a quart-sized zipper bag – if kimchi juice leaks in your car, you may as well send it to the junkyard because that smell will never come out. (just kidding, but it would not be a good thing to have happen to your car)
I was already planning to stop by H's place this morning, so I brought the kkakdugi with me. I make mine very spicy, but I had reason to believe that she would also like it that way. I also know how awkward it can be to receive an unsolicited gift of food from someone you don't know well, but I think she was pleased and I hope she enjoys it. I know we'll enjoy the jars that are currently fermenting atop the "ferments fridge". (yep, they outgrew the kitchen fridge)
Are you giving (or potentially receiving) ferments for the holidays? May the lucky recipients and/or you enjoy them in good health!


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[07_22_09 Lefty Leibowitz] CHERNOBYL JOURNAL
Check out Time Suess's incredible photos of the Chernobyl zone of exclusion. Amazing stuff. Click here.
[01_25_06 L.B. Deyo] TOP 50
Popular Mechanics has posted its list of the Top 50 Inventions of the Past 50 Years. One of them is the TV remote control. Check it out.
[10_13_05 L.B. Deyo] THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD
In these troubled times, it's nice to know progress remains alive. Never doubt that your friends at Jinx Worldwide Headquarters have the situation in hand and your best interests at heart. We've been saying it for almost ten years now: Jinx is watching you.
So it gives me very great pleaure to announce our latest breakthrough. Jinx multimedia has a new website for a new era. A complete facelift, of course, and plenty of new portfolio items for your perusal. Take a look and let me know what you think, if you please. Jinxmd.com.
[10_06_05 L.B. Deyo] WE ARE DOOMED. DOOMED.
In the second year of his first term, Bill Clinton declared "The era of big government is over." For a moment it seemed that we might have a national consensus on our hands. The Republicans had always talked up smaller government, and now the leader of the Democrats was signing on.
More than a decade later, we stand in the ruins of that hope. President Bush's $200 Hurricane Katrina Relief package is only the latest burst in a seemingly inexhaustible frenzy of spending, Federal expansion, and centralization.
The Hurricane itself, of course, has been taken as a repudiation of small-government thinking. The reliably irritating Gerhard Schroeder chimed in recently to this effect, as have countless editorials in the United States and around the world. A great many loud persons, eager to blame the present administration, blamed the president's war budget and tax cuts for squeezing out domestic spending and leaving no money for the levies of New Orleans.
What vain, childish ignorance! And if only it were true. If only the domestic budget had been squeezed, choked and strangled!
In fact, under Bush, the budget of the United States government, excluding Iraq spending, has increased by 35.7 percent, the highest rate in 40 years. The discretionary budget of the United States, again excluding the war's $200 billion expenditures, has never been remotely so huge as it is now.
And it is huge. Monstrously, impossibly, hideously huge. Far bigger than the human mind can grasp (how can we conceive of numbers in the trillions?). The great physicist Richard Feynman once remarked that the term "astronomical" should be replaced with "governmental," since very large numbers turned up more in government spending than in astronomy. Our government is the most expensive thing in history, by far. Much of it is borrowed, most of it is wasted. One can scarecely conceive of a more voracious destroyer of wealth and resources. The deficit has been shrinking over the past couple years, but our national debt is $7.8 trillion dollars; we spend almost two percent of our Gross Domestic Product on interest payments towards this debt, while the debt itself continues to grow apace. Meanwhile, Democrats excoriate every timid suggestion Republicans offer to cut programs, and Republicans themselves keep thinking of new ways to spend.
The old arrangement, where the stingy Republicans tried to cut spending and the generous Democrats tried to give money away to everyone in sight, was far from perfect, but it created a kind of balance, an average between two extremes. No longer. This is the era of "big government conservatism." Both sides are running as hard as ever, but now they're all running in the same direction: away, with our money.
[08_25_05 L.B. Deyo] NINJALICIOUS, RIP
Our friend Jeff, better known in the urban exploration world as Ninjalicious, passed away last night. The cancer got him.
Jeff was about as close to a leader as urban exploration ever had; in a community notorious for infighting, backbiting, envy and scorn, Jeff was one of the few things everyone agreed on. Everybody liked him, everybody admired him, everybody loved his magazine, Infiltration. Jeff put out Infiltration with his wonderful wife, Liz, and it is the undisputed bible of urban explorers literally throughout the world. No matter how popular and influential the Infiltration web site got, Jeff never stopped putting out the print version of his magazine. Each issue was thoughfully planned, beautifully designed, and elegantly written. And Jeff never, ever neglected to send me a free copy.
That's what Jeff was like. A lot of people, including me, saw him as a kind of leader, but he wasn't the kind of leader who gives orders or struts around. He was the kind of leader who, through humble, serious work makes himself an example.
The essence of Jeff's personality, as it appeared to me, was this: He lived. We all tell ourselves again and again that life is short, that every moment is precious, that life is meant to be experienced fully, as an adventure. But Jeff actually lived that way. Most of us, basically, live at home. Jeff lived out there: He spent his free time exploring. Usually he was just exploring the city where he lived, the city of Toronto, but he went out with as much passion and determination for discovery that he would have brought to a hunt for El Dorado.
And not content merely to enjoy life, to live it fully, he made it his mission to share this enjoyment with others. He wasn't just having fun; he was teaching us how to have fun. That's what Infiltration was all about. A lot of urban explorers consider themselves part of an underground elite. They jealously conceal their activities, and look at newcomers with grim suspicion. Not Jeff. His message to would-be explorers was, join us. We're having fun, and we want you to have fun to.
Fun. That's the word Jeff used. In Invisible Frontier and Jinx magazine, Lefty and I have spent a lot of time trying to explain why we do this urban adventure stuff. We wrote about the primal urge to explore, the grand tradition of discovery, our emulation of heroes we could never hope to resemble but always strived to live up to. Jeff never struggled with these explanations. He said urban exploration was fun, and that was why he did it. That was why he thought you should do it too. Well, he was right. And I'm going to celebrate his memory, first chance I get, by getting out there and exploring. Just for the fun of it.
[08_07_05 Lefty Leibowitz] New Urban Exploration DVD
I just got a great new urban exploration DVD in the mail entitled "Echoes of Forgotten Places". If you like beautiful photographs and video footage of urban decay and industrial ruins, I'd recommend checking it out. Click here to visit the site.
[07_12_05 L.B. Deyo] QUOTE OF THE DAY
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
[07_07_05 L.B. Deyo] CAN WE WIN?
This morning's atrocities in London raise an uncomfortable question, a question asked less and less these past few years. What, if anything, can we do to defeat Al Qaeda and its sister groups?
We unpack this question to find other questions nested within.
[05_16_05 L.B. Deyo] BASE CLOSINGS
As always, the recommendation that certain military bases be closed has raised a cry from the affected communities. The familiar complaint is that local economies will suffer without the business generated by the presence of military bases. Yesterday I heard a man on NPR warning that he may have to relocate his store if the base in his town is closed. Predictably, the Congressional representatives of affected communities are already gearing up to oppose the base closings.
An old political saw says, "Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury and bankrupt the nation." The interested opposition of communities to base closings is a perfect example of this principle. No one wants to see his local economy suffer, but consider the argument against base closings, in plain English: The United States military, at a cost of billions of dollars per year, should maintain bases it doesn't need in order to protect local businesses from having to relocate. The implication, bizarre though it sounds, is that the military is not a warfighting body but a social welfare program. In essence, this is the assertion that taxpayers throughout the country should subsidize local businesses via the Pentagon budget. Nothing could be more absurd.
[05_16_05 L.B. Deyo] BRIDE OF THE MONSTER
[05_16_05 L.B. Deyo] ORWELL ON STYLE
From George Orwell's essay Politics and the English Language. Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to. This time it must of its nature be an imaginary one. I am going to translate a passage of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes:
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.Here it is in modern English:
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.
[02_13_05 L.B. Deyo] THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE
Please don't tell me you've never read Citizen Chris. Please. For pity's sake, please don't tell me that.
[02_10_05 L.B. Deyo] AND DO NOT SAY 'TIS SUPERSTITION
My view of nature is this: The universe is physical. Nothing non-physical exists. There is no magic, no spirituality, no divinity, no witchcraft, ESP, fortune-telling. Nothing is supernatural. Only what is real exists.
I'm frequently asked to justify this position. Many people describe it as close-minded, cynical, etc.; they urge me to admit that there's more to the world than meets the eye. Here's my response.
To be skeptical is not to be close-minded. On the contrary, healthy skepticism requires an ability to consider new evidence and modify one's views when that evidence conflicts with them. If I were to see any scientific evidence for anything supernatural, I would modify my views immediately. My mind is open to new evidence.
But my mind is not open to unsubstantiated claims, declarations of faith, appeals to emotion, folk tales, mythology, ancient authorities, unsupported anecdotes, or any other unscientific method of persuasion. As Carl Sagan wrote, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." If a person tells me he rides in UFOs or reads minds, he has to give me some serious evidence; his story, if true, would fundamentally alter our whole scientific view of the worldit would be an epochal discovery akin to the discovery of fire. It's unreasonable for him to ask me just to take his word for it.
Why do I feel the need to be so stringent? This is the heart of the matter, and the reason I'm writing this.
I believe human beings evolved accidentally and without design. I believe our brains, while sophisticated, evolved to perform tasks of survival and community. Our brains are very good at emotional communication, pattern recognition, and a host of other tasks. What they are not so good at, what they did not need to be good at for us to survive, is understanding the world.
We are credulous beings. We are very poor at evaluating evidence. We are easily persuaded by authority, by personal experience, by vivid examples, and a whole catalog of fallacious reasoning.
For this reason, it was necessary, after thousands of years of civilization, for man to invent logic. And it took another two millennia for man to invent science as we now know it. These tools for the evaluation of evidence are so precious because they are so contrary to our normal styles of thinking. When we practice science and logic, we struggle with our own natural intellectual tendencies. Look at a list of logical fallacies: What you'll see is a description of human rationality. Being intelligent and rational is useless without the discipline to overcome our native weaknesses.
We have only a few decades to perceive and learn about the universe. After that, we revert to non-existence, and our opportunity has passed. During our lives, then, we have a compelling interest to learn as much about the world as we can, and to understand it as clearly as possible. Shall we abandon our best methods for this, and let our vision be obscured by fantasy? Shall we advance into reality, in all its austere and frightening majesty, or retreat into the childlike safety of pleasant dreams?
To miss our chance to see the world as it really is would be a terrible waste.
[01_24_05 L.B. Deyo] HAMILTON & JEFFERSON
You can't really apply modern political labels to the founding fathers; the current left-right dichotomy didn't really exist in those days. But it's interesting to examine the founders' views and see how they line up with modern political ideology, particularly since modern politicians of all parties claim the founders their authorities.
One of the central clashes among the founders was the rivalry of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. These two men were notable for their radically different visions for the United States. Today liberals are more likely to claim Thomas Jefferson and conservatives Alexander Hamilton, neither claim is universal or uncontroversial.
First, though Jefferson was liberal in his republican vision of broad popular sovereignty, he was an outspoken advocate of limited government. Jefferson offered a kind of proto-socialist vision of an agrarian rural society untainted by banking and commerce, but his vision was dependent on slavery for its realization. Jefferson himself could never have lived his idyllic yeoman farmer's existence without the support of his hundreds of slaves. Yet today he's the symbol of the libertarian Cato Institute (perhaps because of his belief that the government that governs best governs least).
Hamilton had a conservative plan for the country's economy, one based on trade, banking, and bustling cities. But he was no free-marketer; he rejected Adam Smith's laissez-faire model for David Hume's government-regulated economy. And though Hamilton was a staunch lifelong abolitionist, he was not a libertarian: He favored a strong, centralized government with broad powers over the states and the people.
Another difference was one of temperment. Jefferson, who sat out the Revolutionary war and had enjoyed a sheltered childhood, was fascinated by populist violence; he supported the French Revolution long after it devolved into a meat grinder, and famously claimed the tree of liberty should be watered periodically with the blood of patriots. Hamilton, who grew up in the hellish violence of the slave-holding West Indies and fought in the bloodiest actions of the Revolutionary War, despised mob violence and favored peaceful transfers of power by philosophical aristocrats.
[01_16_05 L.B. Deyo] THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS?
I've learned a new end-of-the-world scenario.
According to Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, Yellowstone National Park is actually the mouth of an underground volcano. That's why all the geysers-there are more geysers there than in the entire rest of the planet combined. In fact, it's the world's largest active volcano, by far: It's eight thousand feet deep and its mouth is the whole park (2.2 million acres). If it erupted, it would spew out enough ash to cover New York State to a depth of twenty-seven feet. That's also enough to blot out the sun for about seven years, which would suffice to kill all the plants and most of the animals, and freeze or starve just about every human being on earth.
Here's the best part: The volcano has been active for 36 million years, and in that time it's erupted an average of once every 600,000 years. The last time it blew up was 630,000 years ago. That means it's due right now. And if it erupted, there would probably be no warning at all.
[12_27_04 L.B. Deyo] DISASTER
The earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean and its consequent tidal waves comprise one of the worst natural disasters in human history. Estimates of the dead are now running as high as fifty thousand. Watching in horror from thousands of miles away, we feel powerless to help. But we're not: We can provide desperately needed support to the relief organizations on the ground right now by donating our spare dollars. Please consider giving to the International Red Cross/Red Crescent here.
[09_07_04 L.B. Deyo] THE MASSACRE
Editor's note: The following is adapted from a message from Jinx Enforcer Brain Evanchik.
The massacre of children, parents, and teachers in Beslan, Russia was a worse atrocity than the the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
My wife and I have made a donation to help the victims and survivors through moscowhelp.org, an organisation that is linked to from the Russian embassy's website, russianembassy.org.
We urge you to pass on the word of this organisation to everyone you know, and to donate yourselves.
Those who are on the right side in the war against the terrorists are not asked to assist, they are obligated to do so.
[08_04_04 L.B. Deyo] FASCISTS!
One of the great weasel words in politics is "fascism." George Orwell famously argued that by the late 1940s "fascism" had ceased to have any specific meaning beyond "something undesirable." The latest redefinition comes from Robert Kennedy, Jr., who wrote, "communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business."
Does this definition of fascism hold up under the most casual scrutiny? Strictly speaking, there have only been two fascist governments: Franco's Spain and Mussolini's Italy. Mr. Kennedy also chooses to include Nazi Germany, so we will too. Now ask yourself–were these countries' governments controlled by corporations? Were Franco and Mussolini merely puppets of their major department store chains, coal companies, and garment manufacturers? Can you imagine Adolf Hitler cowering before a group of automobile corporation C.E.O.s and saying, "Yes, sirs! You want us to invade Poland so you can sell more cars? Whatever you say!"
As absurd as this idea is, it really differs only slightly from the most popular conception of fascism, which imagines it to be a kind of extreme capitalist philosophy. Actually, fascism was an anti-capitalist ideology; it was intended by Mussolini (who invented it) to be an alternative to socialism but equally pro-worker and anti-business. His economic theory was, as the great Michael Malice pointed out in a recent debate, a syndicalist system under which labor unions and trade federations used strikes and direct action to control corporations. This is about as far from "control of government by corporations" as you can get. Mr. Kennnedy won't let a few facts stand in the way of his arguments, of course. But now and then it's refreshing to go back and look at the facts anyway.
[07_12_04 L.B. Deyo] HAMILTON
Jinx officer Michael Malice has a thing or two to say about Alexander Hamilton, not to mention the New York Post. Be advised.
[07_12_04 L.B. Deyo] DIONYSIUM 2
Archives of the first and second Dionysium meetings are online at Dionysium.com.
[07_04_04 L.B. Deyo] THE 4th
"We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." Happy Independence Day.
[06_07_04 L.B. Deyo] THE LEGACY
"In 1983, I was confined to an eight-by-ten-foot prison cell on the border of Siberia. My Soviet jailers gave me the privilege of reading the latest copy of Pravda. Splashed across the front page was a condemnation of President Ronald Reagan for having the temerity to call the Soviet Union an "evil empire." Tapping on walls and talking through toilets, word of Reagan's "provocation" quickly spread throughout the prison. We dissidents were ecstatic. Finally, the leader of the free world had spoken the truth--a truth that burned inside the heart of each and every one of us." –Soviet Dissident Natan Sharansky (Via Best of the Web)
[06_06_04 L.B. Deyo] ADIEU
Ronald Reagan, R.I.P.
[05_27_04 L.B. Deyo] DIONYSIUM LAUNCH
The Dionysium, Austin, Texas' answer to the Athenaeum, will hold its first monthly meeting Wednesday, June 2, 9:00pm at Room 710. The program includes a lecture by L.B. Deyo, a declamation by Buzz Moran, a debate ("Resolved: Philosophy is Dead"), and the musical stylings of Maestro Graham Reynolds. Don't miss it.
[04_12_04 Lefty Leibowitz] WALKING AROUND
Our amigo Silk Friedman has just put together this online guide to New York's ethnic neighborhoods: walkingaround.com. Ignore at your own peril.
[03_01_04 L.B. Deyo] THE SEARCHABLE FRONTIER
Amazon dot com now offers a searchable Invisible Frontier. Check out how many times the name"Lefty" is used. Who is this "Lefty?"
[02_29_04 L.B. Deyo] SATURDAY NIGHT TELEVISION
If you're in the New York area the evening of Saturday, February 28 and near a television set, consider watching "Jane's New York" at seven pm on WNBC Channel 4. It's about the New York underground, and Lefty and I will appear.
Update: If you missed the broadcast, you can catch it Monday, March 1st at noon Eastern Time on the WNBC website.
Update: Okay, the *&@#%! web cast doesn't work too well. Or at all. If anybody's able to make it work, please .
[02_29_04 L.B. Deyo] THE WORD IS OUT
The Dionysium is coming to Texas.
[02_19_04 L.B. Deyo] ACHINGLY FUNNY
My man Buzz recommended the comic Achewood to me recently, and I read every strip in one day. May I recommend it to you?
[02_10_04 L.B. Deyo] BY THE WAY
I'm in Texas.
[02_ 04_04 L.B. Deyo] GOOD GRIEF!
Is Charlie Brown an existentialist?
[01_ 27_03 L.B. Deyo] HOLY COW
I'm moving to Texas.
[12_ 18_03 Lefty Leibowitz] GOOD NEWS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY, BAD NEWS FOR URBAN EXPLORERS
From this week's New York Times Magazine cover story, The Year in Ideas: Homeland Security Neighborhood Watch.
[12_ 12_03 L.B. Deyo] FROM THE AGE OF DOUBLETHINK–GREETINGS!
Lots of activity on ThoughtCrime lately.
[12_ 12_03 L.B. Deyo] THEY KILL FOR MONEY
Ten years ago a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem and no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-team.
[12_ 08_03 L.B. Deyo] MORE JINX RADIO
Another Jinx story on WNYC radio. Listen here, now.
[12_ 01_03 L.B. Deyo] CHUCK PALAHNIUK AMOCK
Some urban explorers have told me they enjoyed Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. His recent adventures in the Portland underground may interest them.
[11_ 19_03 L.B. Deyo] CONTEST RESULTS
The winners of the Jinx Urban Exploration Challenge 2003 will be announced Wednesday, January 7 at the Jinx Athenaeum Society.
[11_ 19_03 L.B. Deyo] GOTHAM GIRLS
Lefty's roller derby league is blowing up in the pages of New York magazine. It's all about "roller skates, violence, and women." But isn't everything?
[11_ 18_03 L.B. Deyo] AN IDEA PUSHED TO ITS LOGICAL CONCLUSION
Some say the "extreme sports" phenomenon has gone too far. Others are proving the opposite: That the full potential of the concept is only now being realized. Case in point: Extreme ironing. [Thanks to Steve Duncan for the link.]
[11_ 11_03 L.B. Deyo] WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHAMPION
Many are called, but few are chosen. [Via k10k.]
[11_ 10_03 L.B. Deyo] JINX MUSIC
Lefty and I will perform tonight (Monday, 10 November) at Pete's Candy Store with Kyle Wills and The Teenage Prayers. Show starts at 9pm. I'm singing, Lefty's playing his pedal steel guitar. Technically we haven't rehearsed.
Update: The verdict on the show is in. "Very Impressive by karaoke standards." – Todd Seavey.
[11_ 06_03 L.B. Deyo] ABANDONED ASYLUMS OF NEW ENGLAND
This is a great day for lovers of urban exploration photography. John Gray and Mark Gerrity have released their book Abandoned Asylums of New England. It's a haunting collection of photos shot in the ruined corridors of Danvers, Foxboro, Grafton, Metropolitan, Norwich, Rutland Heights, Taunton, and Worcester hospitals. Layered over the astonishing architectural decay is a veneer of broken glass, rust, peeled paint and indoor snow drifts. Equally striking are the artifacts of the buildings' former uses: sinks and basins; heaps of smashed television sets; church pews; sick beds and gurneys; bathtubs and barber chairs; blood vials; mortuary cabinets; operating theaters with light fixtures and hydraulic beds; and an upright piano. Highly recommended.
[11_03_03 L.B.Deyo] WORST EVER?
Check these album covers out and decide for yourself.
[11_03_03 L.B.Deyo] DISCOVERY
"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
[10_28_03 L.B.Deyo] LIMBO
There ought to be a word for the limbo we occupy when we wait for people to return our calls. For weeks–months–I've been on hold, impotently sweating out the time until my latest message is returned. These are not trivial matters, but potentially life-changing decisions in the hands of persons whom I dread to harass further. Every day, every hour I fight off the urge to call or write and say, "Well? What's it going to be? Are we going to make something happen here, or am I up the creek?" I feel like the teenage girl of legend, waiting beside her silent telephone, knowing everything depends on the call that may never come. Curse you, Alexander Graham Bell!
[10_23_03 Lefty Leibowitz] PIT BULL IDITAROD
You will all be glad to know that, along with the new winter's chill, comes the arrival of another season of pit bull sled dog racing. Anyone who wants to meet me in Prospect Park with a dog, a harness, and a skateboard/sled will learn the bitter taste of defeat after racing against the mighty Champ.
[10_23_03 L.B. Deyo] WAVE HILL
The Wave Hill reading was a great success. It was our very first public reading for Invisible Frontier, and the reception couldn't have been kinder. We offer our thanks to attendees Todd Seavey & family, Pollyn, Anna, Emily, and David Sergenian, as well as Susan Pliner and the Wave Hill staff and visitors. I highly recommend a visit to this beautiful facility, and to the next Hearthside Reading.
[10_21_03 L.B. Deyo] THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED
Five minutes ago I walk out of the bodega. I've just bought a bottle of Snapple. I'm wearing my Mets jersey.
A bum sitting on the sidewalk says, "Make sure you go for the Yankees, not the Mets."
Distracted, I hit my wrist against the rear view mirror of a parked car. My Snapple bottle smashes to the ground.
The bum says, "That's what happened to the Mets."
[10_16_03 L.B. Deyo] TIME TO RETIRE?
Our Wave Hill reading is listed in the New Yorker. Now what?
[10_16_03 L.B. Deyo] BAD BOY 4 LIFE
My dog is as insane as I am. If I come home late and disturb his sleep, he marks me as an intruder. Peeling back his lip, he braces into a roaring crouch. "Presto, quiet!" I command him, but in vain. Even as I stare into his bleary eyes, he barks and snaps like a hound possessed. He doesn't know his master from Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy.
"It's me!" I insist.
"Woof! Woof! Ohhhh, woof!" comes the reply.
[10_14_03 L.B. Deyo] WHAT KIND OF NUTBAG AM I?
I honestly have no idea why anyone would call me a "Right Wing nutbag." Perhaps because I have a dislike of Marxism, a dislike expressed in my harsh words for Adbusters, Edward Said, International A.N.S.W.E.R., etc. If disliking Marxism makes you a Right Wing nutbag, then we know what to call Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Jr, Scoop Jackson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Theodore Roosevelt, Valclev Havel, Lech Walesa, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Lieberman, Winston Churchill, Daniel Patrick Moynahan, and the Dalai Lama.
[10_14_03 L.B. Deyo] IN DEFENSE OF CONTROVERSY
Just received a reaction to yesterday's reader email:
I was disheartened to see the posted email which referred to you as a "right wing nutbag." Whatever happened to the idea of a loyal opposition? To the idea that thoughtful, reflective individuals may see the world differently, yet still hold dear the same underlying values? Instead anyone adhering to a world view not commensurate with that of of one's peers is to be held beneath contempt and ridiculed.
[10_14_03 L.B. Deyo] FULL MOON OVER THE HILL COUNTRY
In some cities, history seems alive and present. Walk through Boston, or Montreal, and you see the past side-by-side with the present. In other places, you'd never know the past had ever happened.
Texas has a strong respect for history, but I lived in Austin for five years and literally never heard anyone mention the Comanche Indians. Remarkable, because the Comanches ruled the Hill Country, where Austin now stands, until well into the late 19th Century. Nor were they to be trifled with. They were, as Robert A. Caro writes in his Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power,
...masters of human torture for its own sake; many Hill Country families saw with their own eyes–and the rest heard about–the results of Comanche raids: women impaled on fenceposts and burned; men staked out to die under the blazing sun with eyelids removed, or with burning coals heaped on their genitals. Many women captured by the Comanches were raped, and afterward they might be scalped but left alive-so the Comanches could hold red-hot tomahawks against their naked skulls. For the Hill Country, the full moon-"The Comanche Moon"-meant terror.The terror didn't end there. The Texas Rangers repaid the ferocity with interest. The Rangers betrayed their charge as lawmen and became killers. Instead of pursuing justice, they exterminated the Comanche without mercy or reprieve, slaughtering women and children in their beds. Today few remember the crimes of the Texas Rangers, and no one fears the Comanche Moon.
[10_13_03 L.B. Deyo] THANKS A LOT
Here's an email from a reader:
Dear "Officer" L.B.,
[10_13_03 L.B. Deyo] SPORTS
"I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense." –H.L. Mencken.
[10_13_03 L.B. Deyo] GOTHAM
Jinx sidebar.
[10_13_03 L.B. Deyo] STUBBORN WORDS
In The Elements of Style, Oliver Strunk cautions against the use of slang. "Prefer the standard to the offbeat," he advises, for the offbeat dates itself. Slang terms disappear as quickly as they appear. Or as he puts it, "By the time this paragraph sees print, psyched, nerd, ripoff, dude, geek, and funky will be the words of yesteryear..." The paragraph first saw print in 1935.
[10_12_03 L.B. Deyo] THE LIFE OF THE MIND
Mental disorders are in certain respects preferable to physical disorders; they are never contagious and not usually life-threatening. Yet diseases of the mind offer cruel little twists of their own.
First, they are very difficult to understand, and therefore to treat. No other system in all the known universe is remotely so complex as the human brain; some neuroscientists have predicted man will never understand the brain, that we literally lack the brain-power for the job. As it stands, most psychological illness is treated by a scattershot approach of highly disparate therapies, including counseling regimens and drugs whose effects are dimly understood and almost ungrounded in theoretical basis. A great many severe conditions have never been cured or satisfactorily treated.
Second, mental illness frequently renders the patient unable to grasp his own condition and unwilling to seek treatment. Aggravating this fact is the inherent evil of the psychological disorder: it manifests itself as behavior. Psychology is properly the study of human behavior (as opposed to the study of the mind or the spirit) because it is through behavior that the mind is expressed. One cannot be insane merely by having insane thoughts; an insane person is insane through his actions. Such actions are alienating and anti-social. They isolate the affected person from the support of others, a support enjoyed by most persons who are physically ill. One may feel compassion for a schizophrenic, an autistic, or a severe depressive, but it is very difficult to love him, and harder to desire his company.
Every person must be held responsible, and hold himself responsible, for his actions; this is the standard applied by the law, and by all just systems of ethics and morality. Yet for each of us there are moments when our actions seem divorced from our will. As simple a thing as yielding to a temptation can make us uncomfortably aware of the limits of self-control. Did I want to eat that piece of cake? I told myself not to eat it, yet ate it anyway. Which was my true desire? I was of two minds. For the mental patient, such moments must be horribly common. Like a man waking up from sleep-walking, the mental patient feels alarmed by actions he never intended, yet which he himself has committed. If he wants any hope of clinging to his humanity, he must own up to his worst misdeeds as forthrightly as if he had done them in sound mind.
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Cointelegraph spoke to Valery Vavilov, BitFury CEO, about mining, government Blockchain implementation, the first SegWit block mined and future plans of his company.
Bitfury is one of the leading Blockchain technology companies and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the Blockchain ecosystem. It develops software and hardware solutions for businesses, governments, organizations and individuals to move assets across the Blockchain. The company believes the Blockchain can open new doors for global economic opportunity and prosperity and advance the peer-to-peer economy and the Economy of Things.
Cointelegraph: Which criteria do you use when you choose which currencies you are mining?
Valery Vavilov: Our foremost focus is on security which Blockchain and cryptocurrency is the most secure, reliable and efficient. At the moment, we think Bitcoin is the most secure, reliable and efficient cryptocurrency with enormous potential to transform our world for the better.
CT: Don't you think it is too late to begin mining business for all the individuals and businesses now? If not, which steps shall people take to begin?
VV: It is not too late for an individual, business or even country to begin mining. The industry is still growing as more and more people use Bitcoin. And the future looks as promising as the present, as miners will move away from block rewards and into transaction fees, which will encourage even more to begin Bitcoin mining. We offer our cutting edge 16-nanometer chip and our enterprise-grade BlockBox, which allows you to almost immediately plug into the Bitcoin Blockchain and begin mining.
CT: What is ROI in mining?
VV: We do not disclose our financial figures but one of the best return on investment benefits from mining the Bitcoin Blockchain is knowing you are helping secure a new technology that is being increasingly used for more than just currency.
CT: Where do you recommend to place (geo-wise) farms for mining? Where do you place yours?
VV: Our mining data centers are located in the Republic of Georgia and Iceland.
CT: Bitfury has recently signed a deal with the Ukrainian government. Whose idea was that? How do you see the future of Ukraine with Blockchain introduction?
VV: Our discussions with Ukraine started in late 2016. Given the success we have found with land titling and now broader e-governance in our partnership with the Republic of Georgia, we are happy to expand to another government serving more than 45 mln people. Our goal is to bring the entire country's e-governance system to Blockchain, including existing e-services and government services that still need to be digitized.
The project will begin by introducing Blockchain into Ukraine's existing e-governance platform. By e-governance, we mean government services provided online – which can benefit significantly from the security and efficiency of Blockchain technology. Ukraine already has online "e-services" for many government agencies like business registrations, public procurement, construction licensing and more. The goal of our project is to bring Blockchain to the existing e-government services (like those I mentioned) and bring other services online using Blockchain to improve government efficiency and transparency.
CT: Tell us more about your partnership with the Republic of Georgia.
VV: The Bitfury Group and the National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR) successfully implemented a custom-designed Blockchain system that is now integrated into the digital records system of NAPR. This private, permissioned Blockchain is anchored to the Bitcoin Blockchain through a distributed digital timestamping service. Distributed digital timestamping allows NAPR to verify and sign a document containing a citizen's essential information and proof of ownership of property.
This important timestamping service also allows citizens to ensure their documents are legitimate without exposing confidential information. This is possible by providing citizens with unique documentation known as a "hash." This document hash is published to the Bitcoin Blockchain and can be verified whenever a request is made, benefiting from the Bitcoin Blockchain's unmatched security.
This groundbreaking project is expected to continue to include smart-contract capabilities to streamline business operations for NAPR, including the sale of property, transfer of ownership and more.
CT: What are the benefits to implementing Blockchain in government registration and transactions?
VV: Blockchain technology first provides an unmatched level of security. A property registry built on the Blockchain can secure billions of dollars in assets and make a significant social and economic impact globally by addressing the rapidly growing demand for transparency and accountability. A Blockchain-based registry also allows governments and individuals the ability to audit quickly. Finally, a Blockchain-based registry allows for substantial reductions in the cost and time required to register and transfer property.
CT: Are government organizations your major clients? Do you also cooperate with investment/trading related companies, such as FX brokers and investment banks?
VV: Our company focuses on advancing any industry, sector, institution or government through the use of Blockchain technology. From EY to the Republic of Georgia, to the government of Ukraine, we are building all different kinds of partnerships around the globe as our industry rapidly evolves.
CT: In March Bitfury mined its first SegWit block with Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 148. Why did you decide to go with SegWit?
VV: Bitfury extensively researches and tests Blockchain/Bitcoin software, and has issued white papers on many topics including block size, incentive mechanisms, Proof of Work and Proof of Stake consensus and the Lightning Network.
Since 2014, the position of the Bitfury Group Bitcoin Blockchain remains the same regarding the block size – we believe the network should increase the block size gradually over time. This is why Bitfury currently supports Segregated Witness, hereinafter SegWit, which is a well-tested and efficient solution.
The main goal of all block-size discussions is how to increase Bitcoin's scalability and increase the amount of transactions that can be processed on the Blockchain. SegWit is one such solution. It provides better on-chain scalability, increases the effective capacity of the block and will allow the network to process more transactions. It also fixes some minor code issues and will make Bitcoin extensions like Lightning Network for instant payments and MAST for smart contracts on Bitcoin possible.
SegWit has been fully tested and supported by companies and it is ready and can be activated any moment. Other block size solutions would require at least six to nine months to be designed, fully tested and adopted by businesses.
CT: Does Bitfury have any recent investment news to share?
VV: We recently announced a joint venture with Credit China, which included a $30 mln investment in Bitfury.
CT: What are the plans Bitfury has for the upcoming future? Any exciting projects?
VV: Besides our partnership with the government of Ukraine, we are excited to continue our partnership with the Blockchain Trust Accelerator to source and support Blockchain pilot projects for global good. The accelerator just announced its latest pilot with TechSoup at the US tech conference SxSW.
We also launched the Global Blockchain Business Council in January 2017, and so far, this year we have launched chapters in Washington D.C. and China, with more to come this year.
Finally, in July 2017, we will be hosting our Annual Blockchain Summit on Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island. This unique gathering welcomes key global influencers in technology, civil society, and innovation to join a riveting discussion about the world-changing potential applications of the Blockchain including, but not limited to, cybersecurity, the sharing economy, voting and land titling.


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Crate Training
A crate is a portable "kennel" that is used to train a young puppy or safely transport your dog in a plane or car. It can also be used as a "home" for your dog when you travel, making your dog a welcome visitor in a friend's home or motel.
A crate can be plastic or metal. The plastic crate is used a lot for air travel and is enclosed except for the door and a small grate on each side. The metal crates are more open, and some are made to fold down which makes them very easy to transport.
Dogs are den animals who seek small, cavelike enclosures to crawl into. Most puppies will look for a place to go to sleep that is a tight fit, like under the coffee table. With the crate, you are supplying a perfectly safe environment for your puppy. It is a safe haven away from underfoot and small children, and it is a private bedroom, which it will not soil if it can help it. Using a crate can alleviate numerous problems, can stop other problems from starting, and can housebreak a puppy with ease.
The crate should be in a "people" area, the kitchen or family room. The crate should be within easy reach during the day, so that when things get busy and you can't watch the puppy, the crate is handy, not in the basement or on another floor. If you need two crates in different parts of the house, get two. Dogs are social animals and if you lock a puppy away where they can't see what's going on, you will have a harder time getting the puppy to adjust to a crate.
Set up a routine that works for you and the puppy. First thing in the morning let the puppy out to potty. If you want them to eliminate in a certain area, take them there and praise them when they go. Also, a catch phrase like "go now" or "hurry up," if said every time, will help your puppy learn faster. The puppy should take all naps in the crate it will make nighttimes easier as the puppy adjusts to being confined. When the puppy is loose in the house it should be confined to the room you are in with a baby gate. If you can't be with the puppy, use the crate. If the crate is properly introduced, the dog will grow to think of the crate as its den. Most dogs that are crate trained will use the open crate as a resting place.
The major use of the crate is to prevent the dog from doing something wrong. House manners are just as important as house breaking. It is useless to correct a dog for something that it did 5 minutes ago; you must catch them in the act. If the dog is out of the crate unsupervised, it may do something wrong and not be corrected, or worse, corrected after the fact. If the dog is not corrected, it may develop problem behaviour as a habit or learn that it can get "away with it" when it is not supervised.
The dog will not associate a correction with behaviour unless given at the time of the misbehaviour. Corrections after the fact will only confuse the dog and lead to a lack of trust from your dog. If you find evidence of a misdeed after the fact, understand it is your fault, not the dogs. If you use your crate as you would a child's playpen, to keep the puppy safe when you cannot watch it closely, the results will be amazing.
The crate is a tool; it should be used for at least a year with a puppy. A very young dog should be placed in its crate whenever it cannot be supervised. As the dog gets older, more freedom can be allowed, but not hours at a time. If you leave the house, the dog should be in its crate (also when you are sleeping). Most people make the mistake of allowing the dog too much freedom too soon. This only leads to destructive behaviour in the teenage dog. When they are trustworthy while you are home but not within sight, then you can start leaving them alone for very short periods, while you run to the corner store or post office. If all is fine at home when you return, greet the dog normally. Some dogs have separation anxiety when left; coming and going should be no big deal, no big scenes, which will leave the dog confused. After the dog has proven himself to be trustworthy, leave the dog for longer periods of time. But the crate should be left for times you need the dog out of the way, or for the dog to go to when they want to rest.
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Okay folks. There's this thing called society. The internet is not protected against it. It also doesn't let you impede someone else's free speech. But I'm jumping the gun, here. Let's go back.
I've been studying for a new job while working from home. The new job involves working from home, too, but with a lot more education needed. To facilitate my education (and drum up some extra work while I study), I've been working in several online groups. Job boards, community boards, and discussion groups on Facebook, email, and forums. It's been pretty cool. Until yesterday. When I logged into one of my pages, I found that I had been banned!
As always, I assumed both the best and the worst. The best was that I was removed accidentally, because I hadn't broken any rules. The worst was that someone on the board had found my blog and decided to take some sort of passive-aggressive stand against my craziness. Operating on the best assumptions possible, I reached out to the moderator, Loretta.
After a short exchange of emails, I find out that I had been banned from her group for being part of another group, because she thought the other group was too full of drama. I had to sit back and let that sink in. The most junior-high bullshit conversation I'd ever had was happening on a board where I connected with contractors. Now, this is a job board. Not a discussion board, nor even a board where conversation was allowed. It's literally just a place to put up an ad. "Experienced schmuck looking for xoxoxo work, 3 years experience." That kind of stuff.
Now, this "other" board was a community site. Just a place for people to ask questions about software, and learn the thousands of minutia of our program. Sometimes, people would start discussions that I wasn't interested in having. Whatever. This board, in no way had anything to do with the job board Loretta had banned me from. She just took exception to the entire community over there as being "too dramatic."
When I told her I used that other board with my mentor, and that I wouldn't be leaving it, Loretta told me I was making a "big mistake" by leaving her group. I was like, "Whatever." I deactivated the account I had created just to use her board, and called it a night.
Shortly thereafter, Loretta hit Jenny up. No shit. She vented what she was feeling, and said that I had blocked her. Jenny told her, "No, Rory deactivated his account, since he can't use it anymore." Loretta kept this up for an hour, or so, before Jenny just went to bed. She re-iterated that all I had to do was close my membership with an unrelated group, and she'd let me back on her super-limited job board.
Um, no. Screw this noise. I hate when the drama comes from the person claiming someone else is being dramatic. Mostly 'cause all the drama comes from the drama llama in the first place, and that stuff's toxic. Good riddance.


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Gliding down snow-covered slopes, breathing fresh mountain air and enjoying the feeling of freedom. Moments of bliss skiers and snowboarders are longing for. Hochkössen ski resort even offers you its unique winter countryside in addition to that. Winter fun at Unterberg in Kaiserwinkl – it is hard to describe, you have to see it for yourself!
Situated in the heart of the Tirolean Alps the dynamic Hochkössen ski resort boasts 22 kilometres of piste stretched over an area of 51 hectares. Beginners and experienced skiers are all welcome.
Skiers and snowboarders of all ages find perfectly groomed slopes and a wide terrain for carving, racing and boarding.
For those who are looking for relaxation: Feel the calm atmosphere along groomed x-country trails. On snowboard or on skis – everybody will have so much fun at Hochkössen ski resort!
The ski resort in Kaiserwinkl enchants the old and the young alike: there are two slopes that are perfect for children and beginners.
The resort also offers a modern kids' area, special ski lessons for kids and lift facilities. More experienced skiers and snowboarders will check out the more challenging slopes of the ski resort.
Family Holidays at Hochkössen means fun for everyone
You want to race down the slopes like a champion or you make your first attempts on skis or board? Come to our ski school!
Group lessons or one-to-one courses: Kössen ski school teaches kids and adults in a playful way how to ski properly. No matter how old you are.
With the help of our top-qualified instructors you will learn to ski in no time. They also have some tricks and tips in store for you!
Skiing at unbeatable rates – only 4.00 Euro per day! Children under ten years (born 2010 or later) pay only four Euros for a day skiing. Yes, that's right! The snowman ticket makes it possible!
When purchasing two adult lift tickets, the parents get the snowman ticket for just four Euros. So, it's no problem if the little ones feel too tired to go on skiing after lunch. Skiing at affordable rates at Hochkössen ski resort!
Useful info: Snowman Ticket is valid at all skisport.com ski resort, except Schnalstal Glacier and will be issued at the ticket office.
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The ban on electronic devices carried onboard flights to the U.S. and U.K. from select African and Middle Eastern countries has been anything but uncontroversial. While the response at the level of companies and organizations has been mostly muted, travelers on such sites as FlyerTalk and InsideFlyer have expressed considerable skepticism as to both the ban's underlying motives and its efficacy.
In the past week, flyers' voices were joined by those of the leaders of two established air-travel organizations, the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
In a news release issued on March 24, APEX argues that the ban is both unnecessary and ineffective. There are, according to the statement, systems already in place for screening carry-on devices: "Chemical detection machines utilized worldwide can detect illicit items in electronics. Turning on electronics checks functionality and non-functioning electronics could be banned from flights. The expense of hand-searching every carry-on for the personal electronics ban could instead be directed to a long-term solution that serves airline passengers and safety."
And, as has been pointed out elsewhere, APEX reiterated that would-be terrorists can easily circumvent the ban by flying to the U.S. or U.K. via connecting flights, rather than the non-stops targeted by the ban.
IATA's statement on the ban, published yesterday, makes some of the same points, and criticizes the ban as "not acceptable":
With the measures now in place, our passengers and member airlines are asking valid questions. Why don't the US and the UK have a common list of airports? How can laptops be secure in the cabin on some flights and not others, including flights departing from the same airport? And surely there must be a way to screen electronic equipment effectively?
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For third year Kerala Tourism organize Kerala Blog Express – an unique marketing project which promotes Kerala as travel destination. After voting they choose among more than 1000 candidates from all the world 30 travel bloggers from 25 countries. I am thankful that I was one of them and had the chance to travel 2 weeks in the God's own country. It was really a trip of a lifetime for me.
Photo credit: Jinson Abraham
Kerala for me is the place where you fill alive. Everything here, especially the people, reminds me that to be happy you need just to smile, to open your heart and love, to be close to the nature, to eat healthy and tasty food, to feel with all senses, to connect and be responsible to each other. Just to be happy with what you have and that you are here, to live today.
For me Kerala is the heart of India, which can welcome everyone and makes him fall in love with the country, the nature, the beaches, culture, traditions, food and spices, the people, the hospitability, music, dances, ayurveda massages, crafts, adventure activities.
Kerala is like a big heart, where everyone will find a place and peace for himself. Here I felt like a child, free, happy and I enjoyed every single day. For sure I will come back and will share this fairytale with all my friends, because the land of the coconut will always be part of my life.
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If you are looking for a place to bring back the balance in your life, just visit this beautiful place and disconnect from the busy daily life for few weeks. You will find inspiration, you will recharge with positive energy and you will want to stay. Life is a journey and after this trip I understood why the locals say: Happy journey!
Happy journey and see you in Kerala!