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Hubble Movies "Star" Supersonic Jets
[/caption]Don't you know that you are a shooting star… Thanks to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of scientists led by astronomer Patrick Hartigan of Rice University in Houston, USA, has done something pretty incredible. Using photos and information gathered from the last 14 years of observations, they've sewn together an unprecedented look at young jets ejected from three stars. Be prepared to be "blown" away…
The time-lapse sequence of "moving pictures" offers us an opportunity to witness activity that takes place over several years in just a few seconds. Active jets can remain volatile for periods of up to 100,000 years and these movies reveal details never seen – like knots of gas brightening and dimming – and collisions between fast-moving and slow-moving material. These insights allow scientists to form a clearer picture of stellar birth.
"For the first time we can actually observe how these jets interact with their surroundings by watching these time-lapse movies," said Hartigan. "Those interactions tell us how young stars influence the environments out of which they form. With movies like these, we can now compare observations of jets with those produced by computer simulations and laboratory experiments to see which aspects of the interactions we understand and which we don't understand."
As a star forms in its collapsing cloud of cold gas, it gushes out streams of material in short bursts, pushing out from its poles at speeds of up to about 600,000 miles an hour. As the star ages, it spins material and its gravity attracts even more, creating a disc which may eventually become protoplanetary. The fast moving jets may be restricted by the neophyte star's magnetic fields and could cease when the material runs out. However, by looking at this supposition in action, new questions arise. It would appear that the dust and gas move at different speeds.
"The bulk motion of the jet is about 300 kilometers per second," Hartigan said. "That's really fast, but it's kind of like watching a stock car race; if all the cars are going the same speed, it's fairly boring. The interesting stuff happens when things are jumbling around, blowing past one another or slamming into slower moving parts and causing shockwaves."
But the "action" doesn't stop there. In viewing these sequential shockwaves, the team was at a loss to understand the dynamics behind the collisions. By enlisting the aid of colleagues familiar with the physics of nuclear explosions, they quickly discovered a recognizable pattern.
"The fluid dynamicists immediately picked up on an aspect of the physics that astronomers typically overlook, and that led to a different interpretation for some of the features we were seeing," Hartigan explained. "The scientists from each discipline bring their own unique perspectives to the project, and having that range of expertise has proved invaluable for learning about this critical phase of stellar evolution."
Hartigan began using Hubble to collect still frames of stellar jets in 1994 and his findings are so complex he has employed the aid of experts in fluid dynamics from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the UK Atomic Weapons Establishment, and General Atomics in San Diego, California, as well as computer specialists from the University of Rochester in New York. The Hubble sequence movies have been such a scientific success that Hartigan's team is now conducting laboratory experiments at the Omega Laser facility in New York to understand how supersonic jets interact with their environment.
"Our collaboration has exploited not just large laser facilities such as Omega, but also computer simulations that were developed for research into nuclear fusion," explains Paula Rosen of the UK Atomic Weapons Establishment, a co-author of the research. "Using these experimental methods has enabled us to identify aspects of the physics that the astronomers overlooked — it is exciting to know that what we do in the laboratory here on Earth can shed light on complex phenomena in stellar jets over a thousand light-years away. In future, even larger lasers, like the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, will be able explore the nuclear processes that take place within stars."
And all the world will love you just as long… as long as you are… a shooting star!
Original Story Source and Video Presentation: Hubble News. For further reading, Rice University News.
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Here are two relevant (high-resolution) papers on the above subject:
Fluid Dynamics of Stellar Jets in Real Time: Third Epoch HST Images of HH 1, HH 34, and HH 47 [PDF];
Laboratory Experiments, Numerical Simulations, and Astronomical Observations of Deflected Supersonic Jets: Application to HH 110 [PDF].
The mean solar wind speed is about 400 km/s, so a stellar jet speed of 300 km/s is quite reasonable. Although this is fast by terrestrial standards, I'm a little surprised the jet speed is this slow. It's like a simple stellar wind that can only escape from the stellar polar regions due to equatorial blocking by a circumstellar disk.
This is _way_ out of my comfort zone, but we looked a bit at star formation in an astrobiology course I took. At least during star formation, it could be X-winds from the X-region (inner ring permeated by magnetic field) rather than the protostar that launches jets and winds.
And physics of X-winds is complicated. (Well, duh, I guess.) That paper adds "winds driven magnetocentrifugally from the innermost disk regions" FWIW. And yes, disk-winds "reach a typical speed of a few hundred km/s".
Maybe the correspondence in speeds aren't all that surprising, since the mature star will use related mechanisms to launch (at least some) of its material?
This is _way_ out of my comfort zone, but we looked a bit at star formation in an astrobiology course I took. At least during star formation, it could be X-winds from the X-region (inner ring permeated by magnetic field) rather than the protostar that launches jets and winds.
And physics of X-winds is complicated. (Well, duh, I guess.) That paper adds "winds driven magnetocentrifugally from the innermost disk regions" FWIW. And yes, disk-winds "reach a typical speed of a few hundred km/s".
Maybe the correspondence in speeds aren't all that surprising, since the mature star will use related mechanisms to launch (at least some) of its material?
Actually, what I lurve here is the physics crossbreeding.
Maybe Feynman would be of a similar mind if he was sporting one of these tees.


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Over the weekend, Susan and I heard from a garden writer who worried that he was about to be attacked by the Conard-Pyle company for not naming the Knock Out rose line the way it prefers (all caps with a ®). Instead, the writer was using the single quotes most of us employ when speaking of specific hybrids. Knock Out, however, is not just a specific hybrid; it is a group of hybrids developed by William Radler and a registered trademark (owned by Star Roses/C-P). That's why you'll see the trademark symbol used on the many websites that sell these roses. Personally I have very little occasion to name these roses, because I don't grow any—I find them boring and unattractive. But that's another topic. It's also a very popular brand, and has been illegally propagated—that's another topic, too.
Our writer friend received a couple letters from C-P about his "misuse" of the name, but—as we just heard—the company subsequently apologized, saying the letters were written in error. Here's the thing, though. Writers are not legally required to use trademark symbols, registered or unregistered. Such symbols and other formalities may be required in corporate documentation, but the usage is not legally binding. I follow the Chicago Manual on these matters and routinely remove such additions when my writers mistakenly use them. Capitalization is all that is required.
Browsing the interwebs, I found a couple usages of Knock Out in national publications, including this, which uses the single quotes, and this, which is what I would do. As for all caps, that's just obnoxious. (One of the reasons I prefer Chicago is its restrained attitude toward capitalization.)
It bothers me when plant companies lean on writers about how the way their plant names are used. We are not their employees, or their PR firms. Gentle corrections are one thing, when there is truly a mistake; imposing unenforceable requirements is another. I'm glad that does not seem to have happened in this case.
While we're on this, many writers and photographers need to realize that their work is copyrighted to them as soon as they set it down in a fixed/tangible form. Registration and notice is not required, especially not in a byline or slapped all over a picture. Clearly, I have a pet peeve about unnecessary symbol litter!

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About ME
PhD in Finance from the University of Toulouse (2012), I am currently working at the Central Bank of Chile, as a researcher in the Financial Research Department.
I am teaching International Finance at the University of Chile.
Previously, I worked at Airbus France, Banco Santander in Argentina and Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE) in Argentina, among others. I was a visitor at the Central Banks of Argentina and Hungary.
International Finance
Financial Econometrics
"Sovereign Bond Spreads and Extra-Financial Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Emerging Markets"
"Spatial dependence in (origin-destination) air passenger flows"
"Correlated Bank Runs, Interbank Markets and Reserve Requirements"
Books and chapters
"Plan de Energía sustentable" (Sustainable Energy Plan)
with L. Lobaiza, S. Scheimberg, and V. Vallés
1º Edition, UADE Edition, 296 p., UADE, Buenos Aires, 2009.
"Estimation of productive efficiency based on non-parametric techniques"
with C. Romero
Chapter 5 of the book "Regulatory economics and quantitative methods: Evidence from Latin America" (The CRC Series on Competition, Regulation and Development) edited by Omar Chisary, 2006.
Working Papers
"Dispersed Information and Sovereign Risk Premia"
"The effectiveness of Antitrust Enforcement in Argentina, Chile and Peru during the 90's"
"Challenges of introducing competition law in developing countries: The developmental dimensions"
with D. Petrecolla
CEER, Caribbean Dialogue, a Journal of Contemporary Caribbean Policy Issues, 2004.
Work in PROGRESS
"Assessing Chilean households' short term consumer indebtedness"
with R. Cifuentes and T. Saavedra
"Measuring endogenous peer effects in the interbank market"
with R. Cifuentes and G. Carreño
"Sequential Bank Runs"
with E. Pasten
"Impacts of explanatory variables in the Spatial Durbin Flow Model"
with T. Laurent and C. Thomas Agnan
University of Toulouse I
2007 - 2012
PhD in Business Administration - Track Finance
Toulouse School of Economics
2006 - 2007
Master in Financial Markets and Intermediaries (Quantitative Master)
University Torcuato Di Tella
2002 - 2003
Master in Economics
University of Buenos Aires
1997 - 2001
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A longtime state legislator who admitted evading taxes and trying to influence a grand jury was sentenced Friday to nearly two years in prison. Former state Sen. Vincent Leibell pleaded guilty in December, resigning after 28 years in the state Legislature.
Federal guidelines suggest a sentence of 18 to 24 months, and prosecutors had asked for the upper limit. The judge decided on 21 months.
Leibell had suggested that instead of prison, he be assigned to an American "nation-building team" in the Middle East. The Department of Justice called that request absurd, and the judge didn't mention it at sentencing. Leibell is due to surrender on July 13.
Leibell, a Republican, had been elected Putnam County executive a month before his guilty plea. He gave up that post as well as the last month of his Senate term.
Leibell admitted he filed false tax returns for 2003 through 2006. He said he failed to report $43,000 in kickbacks from attorneys who did business with a not-for-profit organization he founded. Prosecutors said Leibell demanded half the money they made.
When Leibell learned that a grand jury was looking into the kickbacks, he told an attorney to deny giving him any cash, prosecutors said. The attorney was wearing a wire, and court documents quote Leibell as saying, "You and I say there was never any cash relationship. ... Since you and I are in agreement, it didn't happen."
Leibell told the attorney to explain large ATM withdrawals — which went to Leibell — by telling prosecutors he needed the cash to care for his elderly mother or to prepare for a terrorist attack, prosecutors said.
Leibell spent 12 years in the Assembly before his 16 years in the Senate. The felony convictions don't affect his public pension, estimated at about $70,000 a year. He has to pay about $20,000 in back taxes.


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arch music portrait retro collage scissors glue frame nostalgia urn melon soxy soxyfleming
Oh, Mistress of the Asymmetrical Marvels!
and deep and meaningfulness! he was nearly uncrowned by that melon…I'm having trouble with my characters, they wander around from page to page, try on different hats etc. At one stage this fellow had the birdcage as his head!
Somehow the melon is an inspired choice…I noticed it right awaynot because it is wrong…it is perfect! Oh, someone will analyze it, fersure.
these two are very nice together
this is cool. where is the pomegranate however? a melon instead??
oh dear the missing pomegranate…I'm afraid it only exists digitally and this is all scissors and glue, post me one if you find it in a magazinethanks heaps for looking!
I will keep my eyes peeled for you!
Congratulations Georgeana. Great image on the Home Page.
thank you….this is my "other" account…I am usually to be found atsoxyfleming.The original of this I sent to Mmargot in california
love this and CONGRATULATIONS on the homepage feature. Azzurra ♥
thank you, glad you like it…..probably time I did some more
CONGRATULATIONS!!Your art is fantastic!!
thanks…glad you like them, I love doing them
Congratulations on being featured on the COLLAGE-themed Red Bubble HOME PAGE. September 11th 2009.
thank you!
I love this, love the Melon… If this is cut and paste, you have done an excellent job and is true Art… :)
thank you for your appreciation…yes this is cut and paste and something I haven't done for a while. I think I might have run out of things to cut!
Well it is inspiring to see are like this made by hand…Run out and get somemore so you can share more beautiful Art like this :) :) :)
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Wait a minute!!! What am I doing here???
A week ago I was sending in my loan application for the house we were buying in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. I was on Pinterest creating boards for Southwest Landscaping, Southwest architecture, Southwest decor, Southwest outdoor living. I was on Houzz looking at remodeling ideas. I was looking at pontoon boats and dune buggies. Our business property here in Oregon was awaiting closing and I was really excited about the new adventure on the horizon.
So let's take care of some loose ends like eye exams, pap smears, mammograms while we wait for everything to line up for our move. The mammogram needed further views so back I go and by the way....let's just do a sonogram while we are at it. The radiologist came in after the test and explained there was a shadow on the film that needed further investigation and needle biopsy. So back I went on April 7th. Now we wait for the results.
On Thursday April 9th my sweetie calls me and I was a walking into Walmart at the time. He said...."are you sitting down?" Not thinking I would think it was about my test results. The moment blurred and he said......our house loan was denied. I started laughing uncontrollably.
At that perfect moment in time.....number one.....I knew my results would be positive and number two....I felt the perfect timing hand of God on my shoulder. On Friday April 10th, 2015 the radiologist called with my test results. Invasive ductal carcinoma of the right breast.
In one nano second.....everything I had been planning and hoping for took a backseat to what I was now facing. I instantly started searching on the internet for information about my cancer. Nothing sounded too great and couple that with my background of being in the medical field all sounded even less great. I literally walked around in circles for a bit letting the news sink in and dissolve in my mind.
On Sunday April 12, 2015, as I was leaving for church, I told my husband I needed to see a rainbow today.Don't Waste your Cancer" by John Piper and everything just fell into place in my mind.
On Thursday April 16 I saw Dr. David Cook at The Oregon Clinic at Providence St Vincent Medical Center. God could not have arranged a better physician for me. He was down to earth, honest, compassionate and thorough in his explanation of all the who-what-where and what ifs there were.
I asked if it would be okay to take the trip we were planning before the surgery and he laughed and said...."probably a good idea cause I'm going fishing in Mexico with my college buddies for the next week" Yes....go and enjoy yourself and we will tend to this the early part of May.
So....off we are going to Lake Havasu City for some fun in the sun. On May 13th 2015, I will have a lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy as an outpatient. Once this heals, I will have approximately 5 weeks of radiation therapy and depending on node involvement possibly chemotherapy. Dr Cook called this moment in my life "a bump in the road".
What do I call this moment in my life??? It's a time to share the light within me that shines brightly for my Jesus.
It's a time to come up with a Mantra.....and that is...."God is good ALL the time" and ALL the time God is good.
It's a time to look Cancer square in the face and say...."You are not the focus, you are a mere disease, you are not an idol and for too long you have caused fear in the hearts of man as some evil thing"....
Cancer.....you are NOT evil....SIN is evil and you are the result of SIN in this world and yes you bring death to our body but Jesus beat you and he brings LIFE in spirit and finally a new body on the new earth to all those who believe.
So it's time to remember Matthew 6:25-27
Do Not Worry
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your lifee ?
Forever your child......Stephanie (rosie)
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Friday, January 30, 2015
Loves :: The Social Climber's Bible Book Review (Plus, an Exclusive Interview with Jazz & Dirk!)
Can you be popular without being beautiful? Can you be happy without being popular?
According to Jazz Johnson (yes, heiress to THOSE Johnsons) and Dirk Wittenborn (her uncle, Emmy-nominated producer and screenwriter) there is truth to both of these questions. But you probably won't have as much fun, or as much money.
I was delighted to receive a copy of their new book, The Social Climber's Bible, which has easily topped my list of this year's favorites thus far. As you know, I'm a big reader (or bookworm or nerd, depending on your opinion); what I read either turns out to be better than expected, or not as good as I'd hoped. This one is definitely in the former category rather than the latter.
The Social Climber's Bible is a funny and fabulous reference best enjoyed in a bubble bath with a glass of cheap wine. For someone who collects legitimate self-help books, it was entertaining for me to experience one so tongue-in-cheek that I had to ask the authors if it was applicable advice.
Their quips were relatable to the point that I could've written some of their slogans, such as "the fact that you will never be able to love another person as much as yourself does not mean you are shallow, it means you are finally ready to have a mature relationship" and "I care enough about me not to believe anything they say about me is true if I don't want it to be." There's even a helpful guide to thank-you notes on page 123 which I should probably use for sending one to Dirk and Jazz. Or is that too predictable?
Other memorable tips and "empowering thoughts" include:
You are a special person who could be more special if you had more special friends.
We want you to appreciate your shortcomings as much as we do.
Never underestimate the value of kissing your hosts on all four of their cheeks.
If you prefer satirical, sarcastic humor and poking fun at yourself (and the world around you) as much as I do, then you'll love this book. It also makes a great gift for a friend moving to a big city who actually wants to become rich and famous, because the most laughable part about it all is that social climbing really does work. But, like anything else in life, you should never take it too seriously.
First off, I really appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedules to do this.
Dirk Wittenborn: No problem.
Jazz Johnson: It's good for us, it's good for you, so we're happy about it.
Who came up with the idea for the book?
JJ: We both kinda came up with it accidentally. From the start, we knew we wanted to do a book about society and manners. Social climbing is so prevalent nowadays and it's been so widely adopted by society that we couldn't talk about society without having a huge conversation about social climbing.
DW: It was based on things we observed. Both of us spent tons and tons of time together growing up, so we just observed people. And we reached the conclusion, when we were kids, that the worst thing you could do was become friends with someone because of what they do. We were appalled; when did ass-licking become networking? People don't mind being called an embezzler or things like that, so why does social climbing have this pernicious thing about it? But it's part of our culture.
JJ: It's almost hypocritical that people aren't okay with this term.
DW: All these books that you read that are cautionary tales are about being well-liked... cautionary tales became how-to manuals for success.
So, it started as an idea about the social climbing already happening in your society?
DW: Not just high society, but society in general, in popular culture.
JJ: But we also took a look around at our friends. Dirk and I see each other a lot in East Hampton, New York in the summer community, and the social life is a bit cut-throat, so we were kind of just observing this happening all around us. We started thinking, do our friends have more friends than us? Are they more successful? The self-help comes in because you realize that social climbers are so successful because they're so polished and calm. They've created their reality in a way that causes them to be the life of the party.
DW: And not feel bad about what they're doing, they're just accepting it as it is. We found a way to poke fun at self-improvement. I mean, what's wrong with who we are? People have this obsession with powerful people and what others think of them. It seemed so skewed and screwed up that it seemed great for satire.
JJ: You're going out there and you're saying, I'm going to force my way into this party or into this networking set or this business group, even if I'm not wanted. You say it enough and it becomes true. You believe that you're wanted there. What other people say isn't true if you don't want it to be. You can't get through life cowering from other peoples' judgement.
DW: We tried to pick things that were true -- slightly embarrassing, but true -- and people, while they're laughing at it, can think about what they do. But certainly, you're out there in Los Angeles, and the way people reinvent themselves is astounding.
Yes, LA has been an adventure. I grew up in a small town, and it wasn't like this. Out here, it's all about who you are and who you know and what you do and how much money you make.
DW: But even in a small town, it's the captain of the football team, or the owner of the Subaru dealership, or the leader of your church organization. They're popular, on a different level, but it's everywhere you go. It's part of America, social maneuvering. People came here to climb the ladder.
That's interesting. I guess I haven't noticed that it happens everywhere.
DW: Religious freaks and criminals came here in the beginning and reinvented themselves. It's part of our cultural DNA.
Had you ever worked on a project together before, and do you think you'll do it again?
DW: Maybe, yes. It was fun.
JJ: Depends on how much money's involved.
What was your favorite part about working as a team, and what was your greatest challenge?
JJ: We're kind of lighthearted people who enjoy humor and we're relatively sarcastic, so I think we had a lot of fun and had a lot of laughs. And that's really what kept us going throughout the writing of the book. It was a long project. There's a lot of material there.
DW: We spent months on this front porch on Long Island and we'd meet up and go through it again and again and again. "Is that funny?" "Does that suck?" "Have you been smoking crack this morning, how did you think that's funny?" People we know would occasionally walk by to get to this dock and we'd try out the jokes and the funny bits and it became a family affair. Jazz's brother would walk by and we'd run it by him to see if he'd laugh. He's always been an asshole.
So it sounds like you didn't have much trouble, it was just repetitive.
JJ: Dirk and I are very close with our immediate families, so we'd try to meet and he'd get a call or I'd get a call and that part was frustrating at times but it kind of added to the humor.
DW: Or child emergencies. We have children who are best friends.
You may have already answered this question, but how much of the book is based on your own personal experiences and how much was based on what you've observed from other people?
JJ: It's from what we've experienced and seen close at hand; primarily first-hand experience.
DW: But, we did go to a couple people who gave us tips that were shocking. There was a well-known, powerful person in the arts and movie business and they said, "If you go to a party, the clever social climber looks around for the partners who are bored. Pick that person. That's who you go after."
That's the Sleeper, right?
DW: That's the Sleeper. It's the gay man or straight woman, and you can become their friend and then you get invited on holidays and get a better job and you're in the perfect position to steal the Big Fish away. My jaw kind of dropped and then they pointed to a few people who had done that...
JJ: But a lot of people really didn't want to meet with us. It made them nervous to even talk about the subject.
DW: And sometimes they'd be the biggest social climbers we know.
Do you consider yourselves social climbers, or did you get to skip the process due to your upbringing? Was there ever a time when you had to climb anyway?
DW: Well, Jazz and I had very different childhoods. My sister is Jazz's mother. My father was a child professor. It wasn't something I grew up around.
JJ: People often make the assumption that because I'm a relatively wealthy person and I've grown up in family of great wealth, I think they assume that I've been handed this kind of lifestyle. But at the end of the day, you really have to do some social maneuvering and networking to get ahead and meet the kind of people you want to know to make your life more interesting. Or, get more fabulous! Everyone has been in the position of walking across the room with the intention to talk to someone who can add something to their life experience.
DW: The worst social climbers, the ones who spend the most time thinking about social climbing, are in fact really wealhy and really powerful people. Because they think they deserve the best. Everybody wants the one-of-a-kind, the ultimate view, the best friends. But just because you have an incredible beach house with 18 bedrooms, you have to fill those bedrooms up with people who will make you look good. I came to New York with nothing, became a writer, wrote movie scripts and stuff. But there are people who you meet, that you can bump into, who can change your life. And if you look at a show like Girls, where all the girls are already rich and famous...
JJ: Yeah, their parents are famous. They're rock stars.
DW: It's interesting how uncomfortable people are with how the world works. But it's always how it worked, and probably how it always will work.
What are your experiences with people who want to take advantage of you because of your status? Any crazy stories about people trying to sleep with you or something like that?
JJ: People think I lead a more fabulous life than I do...
DW: And then they see what Jazz looks like in the morning.
JJ: But yes, there are places I have access to that people want access to.
DW: People have gotten to know me because they want to get to be pals with an actor or actress. I'm just a screenwiter, but people want to know other people that I know. People have tried to get to know me because they want to know Jazz's mother and father, or just get invited to their parties. I don't entertain like that. But you feel like you've had a tick attached to you and they drop you really quickly when they realize you can't do anything for them.
JJ: And, dating guys in college... sure, the smart ones are thinking about the future potential of a marriage but then again at that age, they're so afraid of commitment that it doesn't even work out that way.
DW: And Jazz has good radar for that stuff.
JJ: People were kind of surprised that I wasn't marrying someone who also was part of a fabulously wealthy, connected family. And I think that happens a lot. That's one of the ways that the dynasties of this country extend their family legacy and long-term wealth, by making those strategic alliances. I've observed that people are very calculated about that strategy and they're well-publicized. Lauren Bush and Ralph Lauren's son, or Ivanka Trump marrying that Kushner boy.
DW: There's no mystery to it. The whole concept of "gold diggers" is funny. Again and again and again, you just happen to fall in love with people with yachts and private planes? They say it's serendipity but they're in the market for it. Have you ever dated a cab driver?
DW: See?
But do you guys want your readers to take this book seriously, or is it supposed to be tongue-in-cheek? It sounds like it's supposed to be funny, but they can probably find things that actually work.
JJ: On the one hand, it's absolutely absurd. One's happiness isn't based on climbing the status ladder. On the other hand, yes, there are things in this book that everyone has undeniably done to change their position in life.
DW: We wanted people to laugh and then hopefully, think about it a little. But the more successful or accomplished or beautiful you are, the more people are going to be attracted to you. But writing hand-written thank you notes helps. People really like it. Flattery WILL get you everywhere. Certainly, if you compliment people they're gonna like it. It works.
JJ: I think that at the end of the day, people shouldn't take themselves so seriously. As Dirk said before, you want the reader to start taking a closer look at that question -- why is it that we are bending over backwards to be someone more socially accepted, richer, more powerful -- why can't we just be who we are? So, that's kind of a serious subject.
DW: And what will people do to get ahead? Where do you draw the line?
I think that's a really good message. That what my blog's about.
DW: You have to love the game beyond the prize. And laughing at anything is the healthiest thing. You just have to laugh at it.
JJ: So, you switch your place cards. Is it kind of bogus? Sure, but don't deny it.
DW: The only thing wrong with it is getting caught.
JJ: Be honest with yourself.
DW: It's not bad to do drugs, it's bad to get caught doing drugs.
JJ: I don't know if I agree with that statement.
DW: You know what I mean.
After seeing your Jet Etiquette video, I can definitely imagine the book being adapted for a movie or a TV show or something like that. Have you guys thought about that?
DW: Yep, that's our hope. Working on that right now.
Would you actually be in it?
JJ: No. Definitely not.
DW: It'd be the reality TV version. It'd be too insane, though that would be pretty comical.
JJ: We're too old for that shit.
DW: Well, you're not. I'd have to get a body double. But who knows, you never know.
What else is next for the two of you? What are you working on now, or are you mainly promoting the book?
DW: Well, Jazz is a full-time farmer.
DW: Yeah, she has a farm. I'm working on a new novel and have a movie script that's in development.
JJ: I do a fair amount of competitive horseback riding and we have a shooing club and breed heritage turkeys and... the whole country life. I've got two little kids.
Sounds like the more glamorous country life.
JJ: I don't know if "glamorous" is the right word, but it's definitely exciting.
What are your words of wisdom for young Mountaineers and future Big Fish? Or entrepreneurs, or anyone trying to become successful?
JJ: Honesty is rarely the best policy. And, flattery will get you anywhere.
DW: Always be nice to everyone.
I like that.
JJ: Don't make any enemies.
This post was created in partnership with The Social Climber's Bible. I have been compensated and/or given product for this post. However, all thoughts and opinions are my own.
*First and last photos by Megan Burke on January 7, 2015 in Valencia, CA. Outfit details here. Additional materials from The Social Climber's Bible website.


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"The government has given me a number to simplify my birth, my life and death – but still my friends they think I'm awful important like the moon, the sea, the sun, the sky, and breath"- A new Avett Brothers song
So maybe you have been wondering what I am up to since I got home from my adventures, maybe you aren't, and maybe you are not even reading this. But I am sure mommy still checks on a daily basis.
I was in Hamburg NJ for a weekend, I went to Philly to see Corinner! Donovan! and the animals! I then went to Lambertville, and currently I am back in Philly where we are expecting some severe thunderstorms tonight.
I am back with friends and it feels good. I have missed these people over the last 6 months and to come home to them is wonderful and it makes me feel good. I am not going to lie to you, however, I miss Grace (although having space is nice and we have had minimal communication this week), I miss the road, and I have had some anxiety since I have been back.
I have not decided whether or not to continue the blog, whether to go on hiatus until another adventure, or to keep up on a semi-regular basis. This is what I have been up to…
1. The first day home I did not change out of my pajamas, I exchanged new music with Woodsy for hours, I drank a beer before a time of day when society says its acceptable, and I ate tacos for dinner! It was a good day.
2. I went to the Warwick, NY farmer's market where I instantly felt a twinge of sadness and jealousy. I wanted to be part of the market and not just a customer looking around. I got a free apple though.
3. I went to see Mike in Lambertville, NJ. We went on an awesome bike ride and shortly after I decided I wanted to relocate to Lambertville at the beginning of next year. More to come.
4. I am in back in Philly where I have been laying low. Today, I decided to go on a walk/run-mostly walk along the Schuylkill River Walk. It was hot as hell and I overestimated my ability to exercise in the middle of a heat advisory. It was only 5 miles yet I felt disoriented, my fingers were swollen and numb, and I couldn't breathe. Luckily I had tucked a dollar in my shorts and there was someone selling water for 1 dollar. Yikes. I made it home safely.
5. Tomorrow I head back to Jersey, Sunday is "The Gun Show," and Monday I start work again. Thats it. Way less interesting when I am not traveling the country and farming for no money, right?


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The job of a first line is deceptively simple: to make us want to read the second line.
Yet writing a great first line is extremely difficult. Here are first lines by some the 2005 Printers Row Book Fair authors.
The job of a first line is deceptively simple: to make us want to read the second line.
Yet writing a great first line is extremely difficult. Here are first lines by some the 2005 Printers Row Book Fair authors.
"I remember the day I was born."
--"The Bradbury Chronicles," by Sam Weller
"And what's your name?"
--"Mysterious Flame," by Umberto Eco
"I had been right to want to drive to the Midwest, taking only the back roads."
--"Year of Pleasures," by Elizabeth Berg
"Josephine Byron chased me all through college."
--"My Life in Heavy Metal," by Steve Almond
"I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don't want to be married to him anymore."
--"How to be Good," by Nick Hornby
"Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death."
--"Hotel Honolulu," by Paul Theroux
"On the night it happened -- July 5 -- the sun didn't set until 8:33."
--"The Bright Forever," by Lee Martin
"Daddy believed nothing in life compared to the pain of living on after losing a wife he had loved for nearly 50 years."
--"Cotton Field of Dreams," by Janis F. Kearney
"965 Sei Shonagon born."
--"Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life," by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
"Dusty Baker stabs his fork at the postgame salad as if the lettuce leaves and cucumbers are a threat to leap from the bowl."
--"Cubs Nation," by Gene Wojciechowski
"The soldiers were walking the streets, the fellas who had fought for democracy in Germany."
--"Hard Times," by Studs Terkel
"My grandparents came from the two largest cities in Hungary -- Budapest & Debretzen -- in 1903."
--"The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue," by Robert Klein
"During a year of chaos, right after I turned forty, I bought a nearly derelict house in the midst of a desolate meadow that was dense with thorns."
--"The Treehouse," by Naomi Wolf
"His face wet with sweat and with tears, the man runs for freedom, he runs for his life."
--"The Twelfth Card," by Jeffery Deaver
"Imagine you live in a town of twenty, or fifty, or one hundred thousand souls -- in Indiana, perhaps, or Illinois, or Missouri, or Tennessee -- with a colonnaded red-brick city hall at its center, a Main Street running its breadth, avenues rimmed with modest bungalows and named for trees and exotic heroes and local luminaries, interrupted at intervals by high-steepled churches."
--"Before the Storm," by Rick Perlstein
"Several years ago on a Sunday afternoon I wandered through the one-story cinder-block building at one of the most famous addresses in bird studies -- 159 Sapsucker Woods Road: Cornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology."
--"Birdsong," by Don Stap
"The Book was placed on a high shelf in the den, as though it were the only copy in the world and if the children didn't find it they would be forever unaware of the sexual lives of their parents, forever ignorant of the press of hot skin, the overlapping voices, the stir and scrape of the brass headboard as it lightly battered the plaster, creating twin filial-shaped depressions over the years in the wall of the bedroom in which the parents slept, or didn't sleep, depending on the night."
--"The Position," by Meg Wolitzer
"The banks of the Huangpu River running through Shanghai do not just bend."
--"China, Inc.," by Ted Fishman
"April used to be my sister."
--"Perfect," by Natasha Friend
"`Bella, I'm right handed.'"
--"Hard, Hard City," by Jim Fusilli
"Pop! A dart flashed in the sunlight and popped a red balloon."
--"Clabbernappers," by Len Bailey
"I have lived away from this small Kentucky town for ten years."
--"Blue Plate Special," by Frances Norris
"Graceful hills, valleys and rivers divide the most beautiful country of Pakistan into four major provinces."
--"Jasmine In Her Hair," by Huma Siddiqui
"My sister, who cleans houses, and I are tired of doing work that no one sees."
--"Atlas," by Katrina Vandenberg
Cissi Falligant is a Lake Bluff freelance editor who marvels that authors can write such lines.


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According to police, the arrest took place early Sunday morning. No charges have been filed, but witnesses to the shooting were brought in throughout the day Sunday to see if they could help identify the man in a police lineup.
"If it is true, it is very comforting to know there is one less killer on the street possibly," said family spokesperson Shatira Wilks.
Despite the news that two people are in custody, Wilks says her family is not getting their hopes up just yet.
"None of us will get our hopes up until, as stated, there are charges," she said.
The arrests come one day after Hadiya's funeral. A police spokesperson says the men were arrested early Sunday morning after being pulled over near Marquette and South Chicago Avenue, adding that Mayor Rahm Emanuel personally called Hadiya's parents to let them know.
"The mayor has been very comforting to our family," Wilks said.
A sophomore at king college prep, Hadiya was shot and killed in Hyde Park just days after performing at President Obama's inauguration.
Her story has attracted so much attention, first lady Michelle Obama was among those in attendance at Saturday's service. And Sunday, the White House announced the president will bring the gun violence debate to Chicago next Friday.
"We can't have too many conversations about it, you can't overdo it. I thinks it's great," said Wilks. "We didn't want her to die in vain. We want to keep her name out there to remind people."
There is no word on any forthcoming charges against the two men in custody, but Superintendent Gary McCarthy will have more information on the arrests at a Monday press conference.


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I originally wanted to interview the Self for this month's entry, but it didn't say anything. It spoke to me, yet it was wordless.
As a poor man's substitute, I decided to interview myself. It seems like a good change-of-pace. (First he writes his autobiography and then he interviews himself—what an egotistical maniac.) It's a little longer than usual, so feel free to quit reading whenever you feel too bored or tired to go on.
Q: Have you ever interviewed yourself before?
A: Last time was when I was in college, I did a self-interview for the school paper, which appeared as a 'guest-editorial' and was titled 'Turtle Soup.' Eudora Welty was the writer-in-residence at the time, and she told me it was one of the best things she'd ever read by a college student. She was very inspiring and encouraging to me.
Q: Is it true that you blasted the tradition of fraternities and sororities in that college interview?
A: Nah, it was organized independents that bothered me.
Q: So why do another self-interview now?
A: Why not? What else is there to write? Do you have any idea how much stuff is already in this blog, not to mention the lessons of the Course of Training that people get through email? It's challenging to come up with enough variety to make it fun for myself, and if it isn't fun for me, it definitely won't be fun for anyone else.
Q: Then on with the show. Could you say that you have your own path?
A: Perhaps the pathless path. Not really though. I have no desire to be identified with any particular path. If I have a path, it is the path of all-inclusiveness. No one is excluded; no one is ever left out. There are no outcasts on my path. Sometimes we are our own outcast, and think we are left out when no one is leaving us out, but that's an ego thing. Ultimately all are embraced. There is no 'them.' There is only 'us." If I were to create a path, I'd simply want everyone to see the highest and the best in everyone, and to stop thinking anything is ever going wrong. Yet a person has to do a lot of work on himself to actually be able to do this. One might think he can do it simply by deciding to, but he'll quickly discover that this isn't the case.
Q: Has anything surprised you since you started writing the new course?
A: Oh, many things actually. One thing that surprised me was that many people I thought would be excited about the new course had no interest in it whatsoever, while many that I presumed would have no interest whatsoever are participating with great enthusiasm. This reminded me to never assume anything regarding another or to think you really know someone. Of course, there are also those whom there was no doubt whatsoever about, people who will remain in my life and dear to me as long as I am in this body, and beyond. Kay and I refer to them as 'course people.'
Perhaps what has surprised me most has been the power of the lessons themselves. They seem much clearer and more powerful than anything I have written before, and I feel this intense power (Shakti) flowing through me as I write. By time I actually complete a lesson, my mind is totally blown all over again.
Q: Let's examine your writings on the Internet and in your course. What's the point? Why do it? What's behind it? And what keeps you going?
A: There is no point to it; it just is what it is. Why do it?—because writing has been the most joyful and fulfilling thing for me to do since I was a young teen. Most people don't know I published my first short story at age 20. I originally thought I might write novels, but Truth became stranger than fiction.
What's behind it?—the divinity inherent in the universe—the 'Force' is with me (as It is with all of us once we open to its omnipresent beneficence.) What keeps me going? Probably feedback from people who mysteriously enjoy and benefit from what I write. How do people enjoy and benefit from it? Beats me—ask the 'Force.'
Q: So you started your quest for Truth, and the practice of yoga and meditation, in the early 60's when you were a young teen. How did that happen?
A: You got me. I remember walking out of the Southern Baptist church when I was 13 when the preacher said we'd all burn in hell for eternity if we did not accept someone who supposedly lived at some point as our personal savior. I felt extremely smothered, and had never felt so uncomfortable in my life. I couldn't take it. I just got up and walked out, took a breath of fresh air, and never went back. I tried every church in Vicksburg, but obviously none of them quite did it for me. Of course this was Mississippi in the late 50's and early 60's. Hopefully things are presented more positively and joyfully now. There's nothing worse than a gruesome religion.
I think I originally discovered yoga and meditation in some books I found at an old book store. I read 'Autobiography of a Yogi.' At 15 I discovered a delightful book by Robert Collier titled 'The Secret of the Ages,' and it impacted me more than anything else had at that point. I signed up for a few correspondence courses and ended up dropping them all except for one that made total sense and spoke to my heart. That's when I first started feeling that I wanted to write a similar course someday.
Q: Objectively speaking, your writings have been well-received and consistently popular for many years. Any ideas on why that might be so?
A: It might be because I am honest and say what I feel and how I see things without sugarcoating anything or trying to live up to anyone's idea of 'PR' or how things should be properly presented. I was never much of a proper person, and I tend to do things incorrectly.
I've been told by many that they feel they can trust me regarding spiritual matters, because they know that, if nothing else, I'm at least honest about what I say, whether anyone actually likes what comes out or not. I spent enough time around the Guru to no longer cater to another's ego, and if they're serious about sadhana they appreciate that and recognize its value.
Also I've been told that my writings are very clear. I have some kind of innate ability to communicate principles of Truth in ways that others actually experience what I'm saying. It happens beyond mere intellectual give and take. Yogis might think of it as a siddhi. But all this is simply feedback I get from others. To me I just write what feels good and what I enjoy reading as I write.
Q: Do you honestly feel true transformation is possible through simply reading words, as in the lessons of your course? Isn't there some kind of inherent limitation in the written word?
A: Well of course there's a limitation to written words, but who says the course is limited to written words? They are only the apparent outward form. Any path, any practice, has an outer form, and then, behind the scenes and between the words, there is Essence, there is Being, there is Presence, and this is quite palpable. No one has to take anyone's word for anything. The written course is only the tip of the iceberg. Also, people gain a lot through our interactions, if they are open to putting themselves out there and not protecting the ego at any cost, especially in a public way. The sooner we realize there is nothing to hide, the freer we will be.
Q: You do have your detractors, though. I've read some stuff about you that borders on the obscene.
A: I can't believe all the stuff I've heard and read about myself, or whoever used to be me, over the years. I can't believe how many different people I am in the eyes of different people. My Guru once said, "I am as you see me," and more and more I understand exactly what he meant by that.
Apparently you can't be popular with some without simultaneously being attacked by others. I've been called everything from a sexual predator to a snake-oil salesman. I can see why people who are really famous have to totally give up caring whatever anyone else says or writes about them. It isn't worth it trying to correct all the untruths, and you finally have to simply let them be. Thankfully none of it affects anything that truly counts.
Q: What about the girl?
A: Yes, the girl. I experienced an indiscretion of sorts 16 or so years ago that had unexpected consequences. Warren Zevon, on writing his classic, 'Lawyers, Guns, and Money,' said that before he wrote the song he had experienced a day of "improbable and grotesque mischief." I thought that captured the story of my life quite nicely.
As far as 'the girl,' however, she contacted me a while back for the first time in many years to apologize for what she had written. Now she takes the course, reads this blog, is a friend on Facebook, and has an ongoing dialogue with Kay, so her story written all those years ago hasn't much merit or substance anymore, if it ever did. I certainly wouldn't recommend that anyone rush out to read it, and neither would she. It was just one person's perspective of something that once happened, a karmic hiccup along the way. We all do strange things when we're young. And look at me—I am stranger now than I was then.
Perhaps one day she'll write her own comments here as she readjusts to the course community and reassumes her rightful place in it. Who knows? This world is strange and unpredictable. I always knew she'd be back when she came back to her heart. She still is who she always was, only, like all of us, more mature and a bit wiser regarding what life is truly all about.
Also, genuine remorse must be honored. If it isn't, then what honor is in that? How can we live a life of respect and integrity if we refuse to forgive when sincere remorse appears? Forgiveness is the key to the experience of oneness and unity. As long as someone remains unforgiven, that's a part of us that we are holding separate from God and making less than God. We cannot truly experience God until everyone is finally forgiven for everything (including ourselves). Forgiveness is a great sadhana all in itself.
Q: You recently wrote on your Facebook page, 'In the process of dissipating the power of personal history, so to reclaim my true life in the present moment, I am tossing out all personal secrets.' What did you mean by that?
A: Our personal history has a certain power to it. Not in itself, per se, but in our identification with it. If I am still identified with my life of 20 years ago, then I am limited to who and what I was then. If someone else sees and relates to me as I was 20 years ago, then they are limiting me to who and what I was then. If I try to hide any of it, and hope no one ever discovers something about my past, then I am bound by that and it becomes more heavy baggage to lug around. I want to travel lightly, so I do whatever is necessary to break free from the bondage of personal history. To be free from the bondage of personal secrets, reveal them in appropriate ways, and you will be free. This applies only to your own secrets, though. It is adharmic (against dharma) to reveal another's secrets that you might be privy to.
Q: So you're tying all the 'loose ends' of your past, and, as you sometimes say, bringing everything into a 'coherent and harmonious whole?'
A: Really, what else is there to do at my age?
Q: Can we ask about Kanti, the mother of your 3 children? How is she?
A: Kanti is living in Manhattan and is doing absolutely great. She never ages, and pretty much looks the same as she always did. She's like Richard Alpert in 'Lost' in that way. We have remained great friends and have mutually determined to maintain a happy family environment for our 3 wonderful children, who are all doing so well in their own lives. She is still offering astrology readings and is excellent at helping people to understand the nature of their karma and to get some perspective on the focus of their own personal sadhana. Kay and I get readings from her every few months to maintain some perspective on what's happening in our own karmic play. If anyone wishes to contact Kanti for astrology, or for old time's sake, contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com. This also contains her Facebook name if you care to friend her there.
Q: The Internet seems to be a great place to contact people and groups that exist to promote spiritual evolution on the planet, yet there are also sites that basically post all the dirt that can be gathered regarding spiritual teachers and groups. You've made it clear before that you have a bit of disdain for such sites, comparing them to 'ticks, mosquitoes, and skunks.' Any further comments on that?
A: I can't believe they think they are providing a service. I guess they think they're helping people to not get duped by dubious teachers and groups, and there's some merit to that, but the problem is that they've lumped all the good guys in with the bad, and no one can really tell which is which anymore. My Guru once told me that there are so many false teachers around that it makes it very difficult for anyone to recognize or appreciate the genuine article when it comes along.
Still, if you're focused on digging up all the dirt and gossip you can gather about everyone, you end up throwing the baby out with the bath water. Even the greatest teachers end up with disgruntled former students whose egos couldn't take the fire, or who couldn't accept some aspect of the whole, and who are quick to publically turn against the very ones that most tried to help them.
More essentially, and relevant to all of us, my Teacher said that if more people like you and say good things about you, it won't help you, and if more people dislike you and say bad things about you, it won't hurt you. Like everything else he ever said, I have found this to be very true.
I have been the golden boy, loved and respected by so many I didn't really have time for any of them, and I have been the rejected and frowned-upon outcast who led the whole world in mistakes. I was surprised to learn that it didn't matter much either way. As far as my inner experience went, I remained the same under both extremes. This actually surprised me, but it was one of the greatest teachings I have had the grace to receive.
Q: Why bring up the past at all?
A: To help bring closure to anyone who's ever been affected by reading (or writing) such things. To resolve and harmonize all that has come before now. Besides, you're the one who brought up the past.
Q: So, getting back to the present, how would you currently describe your course, your writings in general, your philosophy, and what you have to offer others?
A: The lessons of the course offer people something to do with their minds instead of habitually following their usual mental routines. It gives a certain focus in an expansive direction. Simply reading and rereading the lessons expands the ways we think and see things. It causes the mind to work in different ways than it's used to, as well as offering it new avenues to explore instead of repeating the same old parrot-like patterns without ever once recognizing what we're doing or that our thoughts aren't even our own.
The lessons are a means of opening up within and discovering and consistently experiencing who we truly are, instead of the dream we've had about ourselves ever since we were programmed as children. It's a way of 'waking up,' as the scriptures put it. It's not for everyone, but for many it's the best way they've yet found.
My writings in general, including the course, the blog, and Facebook, present the Truth of the Present Moment as I have come to understand it after 50 years of seeking, studying, training, being whipped into shape by various teachers in various ways, having my ego obliterated over and again by the Guru until I couldn't be anyone other than who I am, and the experience gained as a teacher, writer, speaker, answerer of innumerable questions, and leader of many classes, workshops, and retreats over the 30 years I functioned in such a role.
The past is a memory; the future is a projection; neither exists now except in our mind. What is the Truth of the existing moment? Is it the pain in my back and hips? Is it the confusion in the mind? Is it the continuous emotional ups and downs? Probably it's not any of those, as they all come and go; relative truth is only temporary, or for this time only.
The Truth with a capital 'T' is the one Principle that never changes in a universe where everything else on every level of being constantly changes. The body changes, thoughts change, emotions change, the world around us changes, 'others' change, but the Truth of divine Awareness within never varies in the least. It is eternal, all-pervasive, and all-inclusive. Nothing exists outside it. It includes the entire cosmos of the waking world, the innumerable realms of the dream world, the vast world of deep sleep, and the Turiya state that simultaneously permeates the other three. It is the only Truth there ever is, ever has been, and ever will be. It is without beginning or end. It is an unmodified, undifferentiated, unconditioned, formless Awareness of Being.
Did you know that scientists are now discovering that perhaps there never was a 'big bang' that began the universe? Those on the 'cutting edge' are now discovering that, wonder of wonders, the universe had no beginning and has no end. Welcome to the Vedas, the Upanishads, and all the other scriptures that have existed for thousands of years saying the same thing.
As for my 'philosophy,' I'm not sure I really have one that could be put into words other than, in my own experience and observation, all of life, and all spiritual seeking, leads to eventually living in the Truth of the present moment. I don't have any mental speculations. The mind is only the 16th of 36 Tattvas (levels of creation); what does it know? I wouldn't put my trust in thoughts or concepts. The only thing concepts are good for are to be broken.
My philosophy is to be real, be sincere, be who you truly are, live according to your own heart and your own nature, feel good about yourself as God made you, even manifests as you, just as you are. Drop all pretension. Give up your fake veneer and your hypocrisy even when you think you're being genuine. Stop playing your phony games that you've been playing so long you don't even remember that they are phony games.
Give up the endless desires to impress anyone or to improve anyone. Please, please stop explaining yourself. There's nothing worse than someone insisting on explaining something to you and thinking that you'll understand something about them better after they complete their explanation. We all already get it. Get over yourself.
Rip off your mask of propriety and hurl it into the ethers. Forget everything you've ever been taught you should or shouldn't do. Free yourself from the shackles of conformity. Stop worrying about being good enough for anyone else. You already are all there is. All you lack is this understanding.
Whatever you do, at least don't feel guilty about it, because the guilt you feel is much worse than whatever you did to feel guilty about. In fact, the secret to truly enjoying a fulfilling life is simply to love every single thing you do during every single moment. Of course, you have to greatly value your own life in order to do this, but then that's the point, isn't it?
You are already divine; there's nothing to become. Don't do anything to seek the good opinion of others, to make others like you, or to attract others to you. Otherwise you will only lose yourself and fade into oblivion in the objective world of humanity, thinking you exist yet being only a floating reflection of how others see you. This greatly reduces you and in fact dissipates whatever Shakti, whatever inner power you might have gained, by caring how you are perceived by others. Love them, honor them for who and what they are, for whatever function or role they play in your life, and remain in harmony with whatever arises from one moment to the next.
No one needs to see you except yourself. Others need only to see their own Self. No one will ever understand you except yourself. Others have to understand their own Self. When we all do this, when we really get it that we're the only One here, and that everyone around us is an individualized aspect of the same One, we'll realize that deep within we share the same Self.
Spirituality is a matter of realization or recognition of the already existing Truth. Many have the delusion that it's about becoming something or attaining something we don't already have. My Teacher said the Self is already attained. The only reason we do sadhana (spiritual practices) is to purify the mind and ego. Once they are clear and no longer prone to projection, delusion, and false identification, the Truth reveals itself within us naturally and spontaneously.
What have I to offer others? In myself, there is nothing. I love and honor all, but there is nothing I can offer anyone except to share what I have learned from the universe in the forms of all my teachers. If I can do or say anything to help anyone recognize their own inner Self, their own inner value, then I am immensely fulfilled. I am fulfilled anyway, yet there is a great dharma in helping others to recognize their own Truth and to enjoy their own freedom, and it is very gratifying.
On Facebook, I offer lighthearted friendship, a humorous perspective, some words of wisdom, and even some good music. On the blog, I offer all that anyone can or will accept. However, due to the nature of the way things work, one is limited in how much he or she can or will open up to accepting and receiving until there is some degree of commitment to the process of uncovering and dismissing all that is false, and some contribution to the source of the possibility of new knowledge and an expanded sense of being.
My friend Baba Rampuri, an American who was the first Westerner to ever be initiated in the glorious tradition of the ancient Naga Babas in India, and who now functions as a guru himself—and whom I hope Western yogis will come to know better, for he has much to offer us—recently wrote that people have this delusion that knowledge should be free, yet knowledge is the most expensive thing there is, and it has to be highly valued before it can actually be received and used in meaningful and transformational ways.
(I recommend Rampuri's excellent book, "Autobiography of a Sadhu," and you might also enjoy his website: rampuri.com. Obviously I like him a lot, as you know I don't recommend people lightly. He has experienced over the past 40 years a life that most of us could hardly imagine. If I didn't have my own peculiar karma, I'd probably be a Naga Baba. Or perhaps it's just fond memories of another incarnation.)
In the lessons of the Course of Training via email, I offer all that the universe is willing to pour through me. Everyone starts out on the level of his or her own current understanding and perspective of things, and with each lesson, on the 1st and 15th of every month, we take another step in the process of breaking free from all that we're not and opening up to all that we truly are.
In one of the lessons there is a quote from Ramana Maharshi, the great Indian saint and sage. Let's end with his words for now, for to me they perfectly sum up everything:
"There is no greater mystery than this: Being Reality ourselves, we seek to gain Reality. We think that there is something hiding Reality and that it must be destroyed before the Truth is gained...A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now."
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The stats say Stanislas Wawrinka has no chance in his Australian Open quarter-final on Tuesday. He has lost to Novak Djokovic 14 times on the trot, after all. The stats, though, did not watch Wawrinka push Djokovic to his elastic limit here a year ago. On an electric night in Rod Laver Arena, these two men contested a five-set classic that the other players would later vote the finest match of the season.
It ended with a 20-shot rally, a pinpoint backhand winner, and a ripped shirt from Djokovic, who performed his patented Incredible Hulk impression as he bared his chest and roared at his supporters.
In a men's locker room with well-established hierarchies, Wawrinka – who is 28 – was the strongest mover of 2013, climbing from No17 to No8 and reaching the first grand slam semi-final of his career in New York four months ago. There, again, Djokovic halted his run in another juddering five-set encounter. Which bodes well for those with tickets to Tuesday's night session in Melbourne.
"Those kind of matches can define you as a character," Lawrence Frankopan, Wawrinka's manager, said yesterday. "Do you live off the fact that 'I had a chance against Novak on the centre court at the Australian Open'? Or do you turn it around in a positive way, which I think Stan did. The level of tennis was second to none.
"After that match, we felt it would break him or make him. The first set that he played that night, very few people in the world have challenged Novak like that. Stan certainly watched it back again quite a few times throughout the year. He really took the initiative over the rest of the season and he seems to be maturing like a fine wine."
Djokovic has not dropped a set in reaching the quarter-finals. It has been his smoothest first week at this event since he first won it as a 20-year-old in 2008, and his dominance against the No15 seed Fabio Fognini on Sunday was so great that the crowd were in danger of nodding off.
Wawrinka won the battle of the one-handed backhands on Sunday to beat Spain's Tommy Robredo 6-3, 7-6, 7-6 in 2hr 23min to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals for the second time.


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Standard Profits: Make2Pack and ISA88
David Chappell is chair of the Make2Pack/ISA88 Part 5 standards development effort, with Complete Manufacturing Automation Associates - LLC, and retired Proctor & Gamble section manager for batch technologies. Help ISA88 committee members increase dialog about, completion of, interest in, and use of Make2Pack. Join in with your comments or questions to help the standard along, on your way to gaining competitive advantage, reducing overall costs by half. David A. Chappell, Make2Pack chair, and other ISA88 Part 5 committee members provide intelligence and specific links for this effort, spanning OMAC, WBF, and ISA standards efforts.
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ISA88 Part 5 draft: Control recipe phase, equipment operation
Depending upon their backgrounds and training engineers can have different views of what should be separated into the procedural and basic categories. Draft ISA88 Part 5 language and diagrams follow. Comments are encouraged.
Possible language in ISA88 Part 5 draft standard, Figures 13-15, follow on control recipe phase, equipment operation, and other control concepts. Please provide comments to ensure the standard is understandable, appropriate, and useful across industries and areas of control, machine control, batch control, and continuous control, as well as flexible and scalable, across hybrid applications.
Depending upon their backgrounds and training engineers can have different views of what should be separated into the procedural and basic categories. When evaluating implementations by others sometimes the appropriateness of where a specific part of a functional strategy should exist can lead to a view that control has been blended with both procedural and basic control in and equipment phase, equipment module or control module.
With fewer modules less module to module interaction is required but it becomes more difficult to separate procedural and basic control as represented in Figure 13: Two module implementation with blended control.
The 12 module approach in Figure 14 requires more module interaction but provides possibilities for better isolation and flexibility of control as well are improved reusability.
Engineering determines how much procedural, coordination, and basic control may exist within a single module as indicated in Figure 13 and Figure 14: Twelve module implementation with more separation between control types.
When more than one FS exists within a module generally there is no clear indication of which FS is active as indicated in Figure 15: Module with multiple functional strategies.
Unrestricted access to a module can create performance issues leading to unintended actions by the functional strategy and is often constrained or not allowed.
The type of FS that focuses on equipment procedural control which is recipe aware is found in equipment phases which can be located in a unit or in an equipment module.
Equipment phases have command and control requirements and behave similarly independently of where they reside.
How are the diagrams? Do you understand the draft language? Is it useful across disciplines? Does anything confuse you or require additional explanations? Please comment below. Don't see the comment box? Click here and scroll down.
- David A. Chappell, Complete Manufacturing Automation associates - LLC
Also read:
ISA88 Part 5 draft: Command, control, status, and functional strategy
ISA88 Part 5 draft: Traditional automation designs for batch recipes
ISA88 Part 5 draft: Resource Manager implementation question, answer
Revised ISA88 Part 5 definitions


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(AP) Egypt opposition: Police torture activist to death
An Egyptian opposition party alleges that one of its activists has died of wounds sustained during police torture while in custody.
It's the latest case highlighting the brutality of the Egyptian police in cracking down on anti-government protesters, which has enflamed public anger over the past week. More than 60 people have died in protests across Egypt.
The Popular Current party said Monday its 28-year-old activist Mohammed el-Gindy died on Sunday morning after being "tortured to death."
Party spokeswoman Mona Amer says she saw el-Gindy's body and that it carried marks of torture.
She says he was electrocuted, had broken ribs and a "cord appeared to have been wrapped around his neck." A medical report cited brain hemorrhage as cause of death.
The Interior Ministry had no immediate comment.


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Quantitative analysis of intermolecular interactions in orthorhombic rubrene
Rubrene is one of the most studied organic semiconductors to date due to its high charge carrier mobility which makes it a potentially applicable compound in modern electronic devices. Previous electronic device characterizations and first principles theoretical calculations assigned the semiconducting properties of rubrene to the presence of a large overlap of the extended π-conjugated core between molecules. We present here the electron density distribution in rubrene at 20 K and at 100 K obtained using a combination of high-resolution X-ray and neutron diffraction data. The topology of the electron density and energies of intermolecular interactions are studied quantitatively. Specifically, the presence of C π...C πinteractions between neighbouring tetracene backbones of the rubrene molecules is experimentally confirmed from a topological analysis of the electron density, Non-Covalent Interaction (NCI) analysis and the calculated interaction energy of molecular dimers. A significant contribution to the lattice energy of the crystal is provided by H—H interactions. The electron density features of H—H bonding, and the interaction energy of molecular dimers connected by H—H interaction clearly demonstrate an importance of these weak interactions in the stabilization of the crystal structure. Finally, the quantitative nature of the intermolecular interactions is virtually unchanged between 20 K andmore »
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- Aarhus Univ. (Denmark). Center for Materials Crystallography, Dept. of Chemistry and iNANO
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Chemical and Engineering Materials Division
- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Inst., Hyogo (Japan)
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- Journal Volume: 2; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2052-2525
- Publisher:
- International Union of Crystallography
- Research Org:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; electron density; rubrene; organic semiconductor; interaction energy
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text: Retrofantasma Classic's latest double feature includes one of the best horror films of the 1950s and one of the ... well, it's not without its charm. The classic is 1957's The Incredible Shrinking Man, adapted from Richard Matheson's novel. Matheson, who wrote pretty much half the classic horror stories of TV and film (see: the original Night Stalker TV movie; Duel, Stephen Spielberg's first full film; many Twilight Zones, including the one with William Shatner and the gremlin on the wing of the plane; the original novel of I Am Legend; that Trilogy of Terror anthology with Karen Black stalked by a "Zuni Fetish Doll"; and about 500 others). Grant Williams plays a man who, due to a bunch of scientifically wonky stuff, begins gradually losing a few inches at a time, to the point where a house cat and a spider become a bit of a problem. Produced with groundbreaking effects for the time, which are still pretty entertaining, the film still maintains some of the darker themes of losing power and emasculation from Matheson's original novel, plus, you know, giant spiders. It's followed by the less earth-shattering special effects of another 1957 film, The Giant Claw, which involves an attack from a giant prehistoric bird from "17,000,000 B.C." and from outer space, no less. Using very cheap special effects and a ton of stock footage, the result was so inept that star Jeff Morrow actually snuck out of a hometown screening in embarrassment. Get some thrills and laughs for $8 at 7 p.m. —Zack Smith


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This book is the result of a three day workshop on qEvaluation in theory and practice in spatial planningq held in Ramsey Hall, University College London, in September 1996. Some 30 people from 8 different countries attended and 20 papers were presented. The majority of them now form the basis for this book. This occasion was the third on the topic, the two preceding having taken place in Umea in June 1992 and in Bari in 1994. Following these three meetings, we can now say that this small, industrious, international family really enjoy meeting up from time to time at each others places, in the presence of older members and new children, each one presenting his/her own recent experiences. It particularly enjoys exchanging views and arguing about the current state and the future of evaluation in spatial planning (all families have their vices ... ). It is also pleasing to see these experiences and discussions resulting in a book for those who could not attend and for the broader clan in the field. Not long time ago, but ages in the accelerated academic time scale, evaluation in planning established its own role and distinct features as an instrument for helping the decision-making process. Now this role and these features are exposed to major challenges. First, the evolution of planning theory has lead to the conception of new planning paradigms, based on theories of complexity and communicative rationality.Tribe, L.H., Schelling, C.S. and Voss, J. (eds) (1976) When Values Conflict: Essays on Environmental Analysis, ... An example would be to determine the appropriate amount of electricity to supply and the best mix for the year 2000 underanbsp;...
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By the fall of 2023, the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway, also known as a section of Interstate 90, will have gained the "Exit 36" accesses to the city of Marengo and Route 23. Construction work to add lanes, widen and strengthen the bridge spanning the tollway in order to accommodate heavier traffic is expected to be completed later this year.
An Aug. 22 open house, convened at the Marengo City Hall, touted the project's status and eventual finish using a projected virtual animation loop demonstrating the usage by vehicle traffic, and placard displays on easels. Members of the city administration, Mc Henry-based HR Green, the project's engineering firm, several local industry leaders were also mingling with the constant stream of interested residents to answer questions.
The by-product residual impact on city coffers is an economic boost adding to its tax base with light industrial companies, a truck stop fueling station, and a restaurant surrounding the new exit. The goal is also to keep the commercial growth at the access points, five miles south of Marengo proper, and maintain the "small hometown atmosphere," it now enjoys.
"We want to bring that type of commercial growth there, and things that would provide services to the people that work in the vicinity," said Marengo Mayor John Koziol. "There are buffers in place with aggregate mining and soil companies along the way, and no plans for residential developments. This will help keep the 'smalltown feel' of the town, something we don't want to disrupt.
"Maybe decades later, there may be some change but this is in synch with our comprehensive plan, which is to create jobs and economic growth while maintaining our historic downtown and its charm," he said. "The project has been considered for decades, and now, it's coming to fruition."
The project employs two access ramps to exit and enter the tollway, along with three roundabouts positioned at three major roads to keep traffic flow patterns moving freely. It followed a partial cloverleaf-partial diamond pattern, the last of four considered renderings of traffic regulators that included decisions on committing to stop signs, a signal array, and no designs inferences at all.
"It took three years from concept to the present; it was talked about and anticipated," said Jeff Pisha, the project manager. "My duties are to oversee the project and coordinate the activities. We will go for contract bid-letting to complete the ramp accesses in 2019. Overall, the cost is estimated at $36 million inclusive of the engineering, the right-of-way acquisitions, and the actual construction."
Tina Kropke and Heather Schweitzer, from Premier Commercial Realty in Marengo, also attended the event to represent parcel sellers, from 16 to 137 acres, near the construction site. "It's crop fields, and an exciting prospect with the interchange," said Kropke.
Starting in 2013, properties along Route 23 leading from the tollway site were methodically annexed into the Marengo boundaries to create a contiguous line. Once the project is completed, it will be the only tollway access point into Mc Henry County. It will also be in Marengo's jurisdiction.
"It's the bridge finishing this year, the easements and ramps in the fall 2023, with roundabouts," said Acting City Manager Josh Blakemore. "The city's revenues have been basically stagnant. The project is significant in being the only tollway access into the county, and as a gateway to developing jobs with the introduction of light industry in that sector."
Third Ward Alderman Matt Keenum noted, "There will not be a retail strip mall, or a big box store in that area. Only light industrial that will add tax dollars…and no residential developments would be there. Increasing the school populations would negate any gains in revenue. The commercial aspect would pose no disruption, as it's far enough away from town."
Koziol also agreed that the industrial components should remain by the tollway. "My take is don't change things…we keep the old downtown feel of things. There's a residential buffer, gravel pits between the tollway and the town. It's ripe for an economic boon and we should tap into it now. It can help Marengo, the county, the state, and the Midwest.
"We're not landlocked either, we can expand to the east and west," he said. "It's about job creation...let's make this happen."


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Bedales was founded to be different. Where other independent boarding schools imposed conformity, we have nurtured individuality, initiative and an enquiring mind.
We maintain discipline, but we believe it arises best from self-discipline and from caring about others. Although our students are naturally ambitious and competitive, the school places particular emphasis on collaboration.
Our students move on comfortably to university and beyond, because they are already used to organising their own time; studying in depth; and having spirited discussions with their teachers.
Our founder, J H Badley, wanted to educate the whole person – 'head, hand and heart'. Pursuing this ideal, Bedales has evolved constantly. Most recently, we have led the way in replacing some GCSEs with our own more interesting and more demanding courses. More on our approach to learning.
Personal relationships here evince remarkable trust and rapport. Mutual respect is earned, not exacted by rank. This is reflected through everyone being on first-name terms. The relaxed atmosphere allows students to concentrate on the complex business of learning, developing, and becoming their own person.
The students who will gain most from our community are those who will give most and join us wholeheartedly in this unique educational experience.
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Yarr, if it's gold you be seeking, to England you should go: a German artist has buried $16,000 worth of gold bullion in the sand of the Outer Harbour beach in Folkestone – and anyone is welcome to come search for it during the Folkestone Triennial. As part of an art project entitled Folkestone Digs, Michael Sailstorfer buried the 30 bars of gold under the sand of the beach as part of a participatory art project which he hopes will attract many people to the area at low tide on Thursday, Sept. 4 to search for it. "It's about people coming to the beach and digging and possibly finding hidden treasure," Triennial curator, Lewis Biggs told The Guardian. "Some people will get lucky, some people will not get lucky – and that's life."
The buried bars are all of different sizes made of standard gold bullion, with each being worth hundreds of dollars. And if you find one, you get to keep it. The concept behind the art, according to Biggs, is whether or not people decide to keep the gold or trade it in for cold hard cash. "An interesting part of the artwork is considering whether it is going to be worth more as an artwork. Do you take it to the pawnbrokers, or do you take it to Sotheby's? Or do you keep it on the mantelpiece because you think it is going to be worth later? Will its price increase as an artwork or as a piece of gold?"
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The piece is commissioned by Bristol-based arts producers, Situations – an organization that aims to change the perception of what public art can be. "So often, public art funding is spent on a static sculpture or a bauble on a roundabout and part of what we do is say, actually sometimes a temporary project can have as much impact in the collective memory as something that has been there a long time," Situations director, Clair Doherty told The Guardian. Either way, it could be well worth your time to show up on Thursday and get your dig on.
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