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Sugar Mountain Festival 2017 Set Times AnnouncedWritten by Tom Williams on January 11, 2017
Melbourne's 2017 Sugar Mountain festival is now less than two weeks away, so organisers have unveiled the event's official set times, as well as the lucky judges who will get to participate in the festival's dog show.
Sugar Mountain's 2017 set times (below) feature a bunch of clashes, so ticket-holders will have to decide (for example) if they'd rather see The Avalanches or MY DISCO, Kučka or Methyl Ethel and The Belligerents or Moses Sumney. Gates will open at 11:30am, with the first acts kicking off at around 12pm.
Sugar Mountain's 2017 lineup took a hit last week, after Blood Orange pulled out of the event. Luckily, The Avalanches, Spank Rock, Young Tapz and HABITS were all swiftly added to the bill following Blood Orange's cancellation.
As for its spin-off doggo show, Sugar Mountain has announced that the show's judges will include musician and "dog lover" Kirin J Callinan, triple j's Dom Alessio, New York artist Kelsey Lu, Melbourne's Sui Zhen and Bangarra dancer Waangenga Blanco.
Catch the full Sugar Mountain lineup and list of set times, below.
Sugar Mountain 2017 Set Times (Click to enlarge)
Sugar Mountain 2017 Lineup
The Avalanches
Spank Rock
Young Tapz
Baba Stiltz (SWE)
Beppe Loda (ITA)
Big Scary
Black Cab
Blood Orange
Daydreams DJs
Dro Carey
Jack River
Jessy Lanza (CAN)
Kelsey Lu (USA)
Kornél Kovács (SWE)
Little Simz (UK)
Methyl Ethel
Mood II Swing (USA)
Moses Sumney (USA)
My Disco
Palms Trax (GER)
Pantha Du Prince (GER)
Rolling Blackouts C.F.
Slum Sociable
Sui Zhen
Suzanne Ciani (USA) x Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith (USA)
The Belligerents
Tornado Wallace
Weyes Blood (USA)
Sugar Mountain 2017 Boiler Room Lineup
Mood II Swing
Tornado Wallace
Baba Stiltz
Kornel Kovacs
Beppe Loda
Palms Trax
Caleb O'Shea
Elliott Routledge
Karan Singh (JPN / AUS)
March Studios
Miriam Bleau (CAN)
Robyn Moody (CAN) x Caroline Polachek (USA)
Supergroup London – Morag Myerscough x Luke Morgan (UK)
Sugar Mountain 2017
Saturday, 21st January 2017
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Tickets: Sugar Mountain


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This is the final Wednesday Poetry Prompt before the 2014 April PAD Challenge. By the way, have you seen the big (breaking) news about the April challenge? We're going to have a guest judge for each day of the challenge! Click here to read about it.
For today's prompt, write an excited poem. Of course, I'm a bit excited about the upcoming challenge–in a good way. But excited can manifest itself in plenty of other ways as well, including feeling sick, scared, or upset. One of my favorite "excitable" characters is Barney Fife from the Andy Griffith Show.
Here's my attempt at an Excited Poem:
"to want"
like lovers in a park
who have never made love
i can get overexcited
about what may happen
but hasn't happened yet
often i feel expectation
is a thin shield of leaves
covering a deep pit
without a clean way to escape
Workshop your poetry!
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer's Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World's Problems. A previous Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere, he's excited about the upcoming April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge.
Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
Find more poetic posts here:
- 2014 April PAD Challenge: Guest Judges.
- Linda Simoni-Wastila: Poet Interview.
- WD Poetic Form Challenge: Triversen.

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Monday, February 28, 2011
I have a blog?
So I was thinking about starting a blog to post some of my crochet patterns (because I only sell ones that were a complete pain to figure out), and also to occasionally ramble on about whatever to someone other than my cats. Turns out, I already tried that, and I only did it once. So here's hoping I'll start doing this more frequently than once every seven months, because, you know, I'm a pretty
insane interesting person, and I'm sure no one everyone is interested in hearing about my extremely dull interesting life. Or, at the very least, interested in my Pokemon crocheting (and occasionally a pattern, when I actually remember to keep track of what I did). So, uh, maybe I'll post again soon? I have a few patterns in the process of being written out, and there's a 51 percent chance I won't forget about this within the next hour. Anyway, I'll stop rambling now, but, yeah, a Pokemon pattern soon, and, uh, good night!
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This plate is 9in. across. This is a delicate thin whiteware plate. Has simple etching of a Whippoorwill and a Nightingale. This depicts a story by OVID, about two sisters. One sister was turned into a whippoorwill by the others husband to silence her from telling about his attack of her. The other sister was turned into a nightingale. The mark is fascinating. It was used before 1909 in English pottery. The day of the month made is 9th. The month is February and the year is 1877. It is in beautiful shape.
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Jan 16 (Reuters) - Australian playmaker Tomas Rogic will discuss personal terms with Scottish soccer club Celtic after the former European champions agreed a deal with the Central Coast Mariners for the 20-year-old's transfer.
A short statement on the Mariners website said Rogic would travel to Glasgow to finalise the deal after training with the Scottish champions in Spain on their mid-season break.
"It's a fantastic opportunity. Celtic's a massive club," Mariners football general manager Lawrie McKinna later told reporters. "Obviously he has to settle his personal terms with them but the clubs have agreed and it's a great move for him.
"They're playing in the Champions League this year - they'll be playing in the Champions League next year.
"Mark Viduka went there as a stepping stone and it was great for him and, with the style of play there, I think he'll go over and be a standout."
The Mariners did not reveal any details of the fee for Rogic, who has enjoyed a meteoric rise after only 12 months playing in the A-League.
McKinna said Celtic were not the only club interested in Rogic and the youngster had caught the eye of English Premier League teams too.
"It puts us on the map with another big club. He's had EPL teams like QPR and Fulham and Reading interested in him as well," he added. "It speaks volumes for what the boy has achieved in a year and a half."
Rogic has scored five goals in 24 matches for the Mariners and was rewarded for his fine form with a first cap for the Socceroos against South Korea in a November friendly.
However, he attracted headlines for the wrong reasons last month after being handed a three-match ban for a reckless tackle on Sydney midfielder Rhyan Grant. (Reporting by Patrick Johnston in Singapore and Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai; Editing by Peter Rutherford)


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Brand Republic reports that the websites of the 'qualities' suffered a slight drop in users over the Christmas period. Over a million left The Telegraph website. Nothing to do with its la-de-da readers being more likely to go away for Christmas to Barbados or skiing in Italy or France?
Just a thought. Should they be all that worried?


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Thanks for the reviews!
There have been two very nice reviews of Nicholas C. Rossis' short story collection, The Power of Six (Plus One), which includes one of my short stories.
So I thought I'd point them out and thank the respective authors for their time reading and reviewing this anthology. I hear from Nicholas that his book went to #1 (so what if it's in an "obscure subcategory", as he puts it… details, schmetails 😉 ), so congrats to him on that achievement!
T. J. Hapney
The first one was from T. J. Hapney, who summarises and reviews each of the seven short stories, saying that "each story is designed to make you think outside of the box regarding how we perceive things, which I really enjoy and found it to be a bargain for under $1". She concludes that "this was a fun read, especially for those who enjoy short stories", giving it 4 out of 5 stars.
Here's what she had to say about my contribution, Big Bang:
Big Bang by Amos M. Carpenter was an interesting story along the same line of those that Nicholas Rossis did in this collection. I really enjoyed reading Big Bang. It was definitely a different and witty way to look at how life in the universe may have begun. I found the story interesting and the writing style complemented Mr. Rossis' so that the story did not seem out-of-place.
Thanks for the kind words, TJ!
Daniel J. Dombrowski
Daniel's review is also very flattering, likewise summarising his thoughts on each separate short story. From someone who "grew up reading Asimov" and later "fell in love with the voluminous short fiction of Philip K. Dick", I consider his positive words to be very encouraging.
The Power of Six […] will appeal most to readers who have already read and enjoy short fiction from the masters of days gone by. […] This is a solid collection of stories worthy of your time and money (a scant $.99) regardless of your genre inclinations.
Thank you, Daniel, for the detailed review.
Back to it
And now… for (most of) the rest of this Saturday, I'm going back to working on my book. Yay! 🙂
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Big News: I Got Published!
To follow up from my post from last week, Big News: Getting Published, I am absolutely thrilled and delighted to announce that my short story Big Bang has been published in Nicholas C. Rossis' anthology, The Power of Six.
It's official, I'm a published author!
Nicholas was even kind enough to change the full title to "The Power of Six: Six (plus one) Science Fiction Short Stories" – with my puny single contribution being the "plus one".
Here's the updated cover:
You can buy the book on Amazon, or, if you've purchased the original version without my short story, you can update it on your Kindle device.
It's a great feeling to see "Amos M. Carpenter" listed as one of the authors on that Amazon link, so I am humbly grateful to Nicholas for including my story. (Thanks, mate!) I'm currently reading the other short stories by Nicholas (I'd already read two that were available on his blog) and am really enjoying them; they're very clever as well as having a great sense of humour, so I hope you get to read them. Nicholas is also the author of Pearseus, a fantasy series with a bit of a "sci-fi twist" whose first two books, Year 18: The Schism and Rise of the Prince have both reached #1 on Amazon, with Book 3, Mad Water, due out soon.
Now I just need to finish my debut novel and get that published, and then… well, one thing at a time. I think I'll just enjoy this milestone for now 🙂
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Big News: Getting Published!
Ok, so it's just a short story, not my (still unfinished) novel (… yet!), but nevertheless, I'm excited to announce that I'm going to be published! Yay! 🙂
I recently decided to "semi-publish" (ok, I might have made up that word) a short story I wrote some years ago by putting it in a password-protected blog post. Well, Nicholas C. Rossis, author of the epic fantasy series Pearseus (the first two books both went to #1 on Amazon and the third book is coming out next month), read my humble short story and deemed it worthy of being included in his collection of short stories titled The Power of Six. Of course I was honoured to accept.
I said in my previous post that I would be happy to give out the password to anyone sending me an email (just drop me a line at amosmcarpenter at gmail dot com) if they're interested in reading my short story, Big Bang, and I'll stick to that, although I'd of course love it if you went and bought Nicholas' great book directly (after it's been updated to include Big Bang). You'll get six of Nicholas' short stories, mine, and also a sneak peek (the first two chapters) at Ryan Schneider's The Beginning, Book One in The Demon Drivers trilogy.
Edit – this just in from Nicholas: if you buy The Power of Six now, you can still take advantage of the $0.99 price before it goes up to $1.99 (still a great price, if you ask me!) at the end of the week, when it will be updated to include the new content. You'll be able to update on the Kindle then to get my story as well, and can keep busy reading Nicholas' stories until then.
So I'm very grateful to Nicholas for this opportunity, and I hope everyone who reads those short stories thoroughly enjoys them!
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Semi-publishing my short story
A recent post from Nicholas C. Rossis where he published his short story, The Hand of God, on his blog reminded me of a short story I'd written quite a while ago. My dilemma was that I wanted to share it with the writers in my "blog circle", but I didn't want to just publish it publicly on my blog, just in case I ever decided to enter it into a competition or something. Not that I do that (I'm with Mark, the Aspirant Wordificer on that), but I don't want to burn bridges just because I'm not sure I'll ever use them.
So I'm semi-publishing (if that wasn't a word, it is now) my short story by password-protecting the post. That's the best solution I could come up with for now. That way, it's not really published, but anyone who reads my blog (there aren't that many anyway 😉 ) can contact me (you can find my email address on my about page) and I'll happily send them the password required to access the short story.
Here's the password-protected post containing my short story, Big Bang:
Feel free to send me feedback via comments or email if you do read it.
But please be nice, I'm kind of anxious – I've never shown any of my writing to anyone I didn't know personally! And this short story is from a few years ago… I've improved since then!
On second thoughts… be honest. Let me have it.
(No, wait… be nice… no, uhm… AARGH!)
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The Great Bummer of Russia and the Reign of False Dmitry the First
By Wojtek Góralczyk | Pajiba Storytellers | March 13, 2012 |
By Wojtek Góralczyk | Pajiba Storytellers | March 13, 2012 |
Storytellers is an ongoing attempt to tease out bits of history or literature that would make damned good films. Because if we throw enough ideas out there, Hollywood might accidentally make something good.
A short linguistic note: for some reason, Polish historians refer to this event by its antiquated Russian name -- Wielka Smuta -- which sounds hilarious in Polish and can essentially be translated as "The Great Bummer." I've no idea why it is so, but I sense petty bitchiness, and wholeheartedly applaud.
So without further ado: The Great Bummer of Russia!
Russia is bloody hardcore. I don't mean expletive bloody, I mean bits and chunks, rivers and sluices. The Russian state seems like a gruesome nesting doll/Alien hybrid, with the inner doll gradually growing in bulk, until it is so bloated that it bursts out of the outer shell in an explosion of guts and feces. There were three major nesting doll incidents in Russian history: in the 16th century, when the Muscovite Prince Ivan the Terrible united several Princedoms, becoming the first Tsar of All-Russia, and promptly reforming his new state. 150 years later, when Tsar Peter the Great reoriented his country towards the West and moved its capital to Saint Petersburg - a rather badass urban planning decision, since it was sort of foreign territory at the time. Once again, this shift was accompanied some reforms. Finally, in the 20th century, there was Stalin. And his reforms.
By now you've probably realized that "reforms" is code for wholesale slaughter of (mostly) Russians. Great Russian rulers firmly believed that you can't make an omelet without carpet-bombing Chicken Valhalla, so every significant reorganization of their state resulted in a genocide. For once, this not a hyperbole - in Stalin's case we're talking 60 million people (Solzhenitsyn's estimate), i.e. more than the total sum of civilian casualties of World War II. And percentage-wise, both Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great mowed down comparable portions of the Russian population.
But that's all pretty depressing, so instead we'll focus on a time when the Nesting Doll of Doom grew hideously turgid, but no brilliant psychopath was around to give it that final nudge. So it just sort of collapsed and laid there, rotting, with the neighbors chasing each other around the carcass Benny Hill style, while a third of all Russians died. You know: good times!
The abovementioned Ivan the Terrible died in 1584, and was succeeded by his son Fyodor - though the actual reins of power rested in the hands of Boris Godunov, the new Tsar's brother-in-law. Fyodor's reign is pretty uneventful, save for one... well... event. Seven years in, his 9-year-old brother Dmitry is found dead in the courtyard of the palace in Uglich. Godunov orders an investigation, which finds that the young Dmitry had an epileptic seizure and fell onto his dagger. The boy's mother, however, claims that he was murdered, and to this day historians have no idea what actually happened.
Sad as a child's death is, it doesn't seem that fateful, until Tsar Fyodor dies childless seven years later, leaving the throne vacant. For the first time in history, Russians have to elect a new monarch, and they don't really know how to go about it, so the boyars (Russian nobility) simply offer the crown to the widowed Tsarina Maria. In a display of uncanny prescience, Maria excuses herself for a moment, gathers her skirts, and launches into a breathless sprint towards the nearest convent. The boyar delegates are somewhat perplexed, though not nearly as much as they would be a moment later, when Boris Godunov, the Tsarina's brother and de facto ruler of the country, does the exact same thing.
The boyars try to find a suitable alternative, but unfortunately they have to do it American Idol style - Muscovites are getting restless, and stand in the Red Square day and night, so all potential candidates need to be run by the uncouth masses first. And the masses seem to want Godunov. Having run out of options, the boyars finally call a general assembly that unanimously elects Boris Godunov, who finally accepts the crown, swearing that there won't be a single pauper or orphan in his Tsardom, for he will share his last shirt with his people.
The Fates do a spit-take.
The first years of Godunov's reign are pretty quiet, but in 1601 there is a massive drought, followed by a drought in 1602. And then in 1603, a drought hits.
Things are horrible all over the board - general unrest, uprisings, and hunger so rampant that Moscow street vendors sell pierogis stuffed with human flesh (for real). Amidst all that mayhem, a certain story starts circulating. You see, the child that died in Uglich almost 20 years ago - that wasn't young Tsarevich Dmitry. It was just some random punk! Ivan the Terrible's youngest son was actually in hiding all this time, and he's come back to save us all! Now pass me that imaginary sausage!
Cut to Poland, where a young man arrives at the court of Voivode Mniszech, claiming to be Dmitry. He's smart, sort of educated, and actually fits the part, more or less (to this day no one knows who he actually was, in his Boris Godunov Pushkin went with the theory that it was a monk). He also seems to be taken with the magnate's daughter Marina. Mniszech thinks to himself: "You know who could really use an usurper right now? Russia!". He hosts him graciously, hoping to cash in on some further mayhem, like neighbors do. Dmitry is promptly converted to Catholicism, so he is more palatable to Polish decision-makers, and then shipped off to the capital for an audience with the King. King Sigismund grants his handlers the Royal Seal of Seriously Whatever, allowing them to pursue this pet project on their own time.
And so, they knock together a several-hundred-strong private army and enter Russia with Dmitry. The border provinces greet them with open arms - cities open their gates, fortresses surrender without a fight, women throw human-stuffed pierogis at their feet. The Pretender's host grows, until finally in 1605 the boyar Vasily Shuysky gathers an army and defeats him, forcing him to retreat south. Russia is spared further chaos, and Boris Godunov's throne is saved.
So he dies. Just like that.
The Tsar's death causes provincial governors to switch to Dmitry's side wholesale, until suddenly he is able to march on Moscow. Faced with this development, Vasily Shuysky does the logical thing, proclaiming: "...yeah! So, this guy's totally legit!" The angry, hunger-crazed mob agrees and storms the Kremlin, capturing Godunov's widow and daughters (they are murdered several days later), and making way for Dmitry. On 20th June the new Tsar triumphantly enters Moscow. History will remember him as False Dmitry the First - yes, the numerical is warranted, and yes, now would be a good time to strap in.
The boyars decide to go all out - they fetch Ivan the Terrible's widow, the old dowager Tsarina, from her nunnery (the customary Russian storage space for discarded royal females - unless they've been torn to pieces by an angry mob, that is), dust her off and organize a reunion with her "long-lost son". She's a crafty old broad, so naturally she plays along, happy to trade the cloister cell for a repeat stint as the Mother Royal. It's all very touching. They embrace, tears are shed. The show goes on.
And of course things quickly take a turn for the worse. When you ride onto a throne on a wave of national delirium, chances are your reign won't be a stable one. Dmitry doesn't have the support of the boyars (they mostly just wanted Godunov gone, the zombie monarch was a byproduct), and the common people quickly fall out of love with him on account of his huge foreign retinue and Polish customs. When in 1606 Voivode Mniszech arrives in Moscow, and Dmitry marries his daughter Marina (as per previous agreement), anti-Polish sentiments go through the roof. The boyars see it as their opportunity to get rid of Dmitry and call on Muscovites to rise up against the Poles, while they themselves go for the Tsar himself. Before the rampage is over, around 2000 foreigners lie dead - though Mniszech and his daughter are not among them. Wary of provoking a war with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the boyars protect them. The usurper, however is cornered by them in his chambers and jumps out of the window - only to be literally torn to pieces in the courtyard. The vacant throne is taken by Vasily Shuysky. The dowager Tsarina is trotted out again, but this time to say that never mind, her son actually did die all those years ago. Thus, the office of the press secretary is born.
Now, Boris Godunov was elected by the general assembly of boyars. False Dmitry was the long-gone "rightful" heir to the throne. Vasily Shuysky simply organized a coup - his situation was so precarious, that he really didn't need another usurper to make it worse. Which is why he got dozens.
Suddenly, Dmitrys start popping up all around the country - except now they can even pick their origin story: either they are the little Tsarevich from 20 years ago, or the Tsar, miraculously saved from the recent massacre in Moscow. Basically, anyone who wanted to stir up some shit, brandished a Dmitry and went to town. The competitive usurping event was won hands down by a band of Cossacks who found themselves a carpenter's apprentice who had once visited to Moscow, figured that was good enough, claimed he was Tsar Fyodor's* son Peter, all grown up, and went on a looting rampage. What's that? Fyodor never even had a son? I'm sorry, did you want me to re-rape your livestock?
The most notable of all the new Dmitrys surfaced in Lithuania and got immediately plucked by group of Commonwealth magnates. For the record: this one picked the "narrowly escaped death in Moscow" persona. In 1607, he entered Russia leading a force of Cossacks and deserters from the Polish army, set up camp in Tushino, just outside the capital, and started generating his own alternate reality. Tushino became Bizarro Moscow - a haven for tens of thousands of Polish soldiers, Russian peasants, Cossacks, etc. They had their own royal court, ruled by False Dmitry the Second (historians only count the major ones), an alternate diet, and even their own Orthodox Patriarch. Dmitry II's forces fanned out from Bizarro Moscow in raids, imposing his authority over the surrounding areas, and effectively cutting Proper Moscow off from the rest of the country.
Eventually, False Dmitry II gets a visit from Voivode Mniszech and his daughter, and Marina declares that he indeed is her supposedly late husband. Then she promptly gets pregnant with him, proving she's a method actress. For Vasily Shuysky, that's just too much dog shit on his croissant - in February of 1609, he finally cracks and obtains 15 000 Swedish troops to help him get rid of this pocket universe.
Quick geopolitical interlude: at that time, North-Eastern Europe was a game of three players: Orthodox Russia, Catholic Poland-Lithuania, and (mostly) Protestant Sweden, who spent their time slapping each other around in various configurations over a strip of the Baltic coast called Livonia. Then the Polish Diet elected the Swedish King as their own, but the Swedes were like nuh-uh and several years later their Diet dethroned him, and then things spiraled into yo momma territory... I don't have time to get into all that, so just know that in the early 1600s, by the time you finished saying "Sweden" into the bathroom mirror for the third time, Poland-Lithuania was already drop-kicking your chihuahua into your flatscreen.
The moment the Swedes intervene, Poland-Lithuania declares war on Russia and lays siege to Smolensk. At the same time, the Commonwealth command calls on the Polish deserters and Cossacks from Bizarro Moscow to join the advancing army. False Dmitry II's camp starts dissolving, so he moves south to Kaluga, and essentially ceases to be a factor (he is murdered towards the end of 1610).
The grand battle between Polish and Russian forces takes place on the 4th of July 1610 at Klushino. The Russian army is obliterated, Vasily Shuysky is dethroned, and the boyars agree to make the Polish Crown Prince Ladislaus the new Tsar, on the condition that he maintains Orthodoxy's supremacy in Russia. Poles enter Moscow...
...and handle things with all the finesse of a tire iron's slower cousin. The Polish King Sigismund actually wants Russia for himself, so he doesn't allow his son to convert to Orthodoxy. Plus he's still besieging Smolensk, and he wants it to capitulate before any decisions are made. Then there are the Swedes, who obviously don't like the idea of a Polish-controlled Russia, promptly switch from helpful auxiliaries to invading force, and start grabbing swathes of Russian land for themselves. The war wages on, but no one is sure why or who's fighting whom. At this point, any Russians who haven't already died of hunger, are rocking back and forth in the streets, sobbing uncontrollably and mashing the "CHANGE CHANNEL" button on their remote controls. Alas, to no avail, for it is the 17th century.
Then the Poles starve the Orthodox Patriarch to death. And then someone remembers that they haven't had a new Dmitry for at least 3 hours, so a bunch of people hail Marina Mniszech and her newborn child as the rightful heirs. For those of you who have lost count - Marina is the wife of the first False Dmitry, but she had a kid with the second False Dmitry, who she claimed the first one...
Yeah, Russia exploded too. Serf and boyar, Cossack and Tartar, everyone took up arms, and with a mighty roar ejected the foreigners from the Kremlin in October of 1612. A year later, they elected their new Tsar, Mikhail Romanov (though frankly, at this point they would have probably even gone with Billy the Turnip). This one they all but staple-gunned to the throne - the Romanov dynasty would go on to rule Russia until the abolishment of monarchy in 1917.
As for the war, it continued to drag on for several more years, but was mostly limited to various bands roaming around in a daze, trying to remember what this whole mess was about in the first place, and longing for a time when children had the good sense to stay dead.
Wojtek doesn't actually find the death of children funny. It's one of his many winning features.
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Baby foods that contain a high amount of fiber include peas, apricots, prunes, cooked dried beans, plums, pears and peaches, states WebMD. Ensuring the child eats enough fiber helps stool become bulky and soft. In addition to giving a child at least 1 cup of vegetables a day, a child who gets constipated easily shouldn't have foods that contain very little or no fiber. Examples of such foods include cheese, ice cream and processed foods.
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We are planning to implement Merge Replication between SQL Server 2008 "Not R2 Version" (Publisher) and SQL Server 2005 (Subscriber). Will this setup work, or there are some limitations ?
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Hi, i have a publisher with 3 publications with below SQL
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.4035.00 (Intel X86) Nov 24 2008 13:01:59 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2)
I want to add a subscriber to the server with below SQL
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (RTM) - 10.50.1600.1 (X64) Apr 2 2010 15:48:46 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Enterprise Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.0 <X64> (Build 6002: Service Pack 2) (VM)
Now when i am trying to add subscritpion to the 2008 R2 server on the publication server, i am getting below message
TITLE: New Subscription Wizard
For merge publications, the version of the Subscriber must not exceed the version of the Publisher.
Is merge replication not possible between the 2?? Please advice. I beliwve Microsoft's new releases should support its older versions...
Hi ,
I am using SQL Server 2005 enterprise edition, I Confirured the Merge Replication to my database). I have a replication of 21 database from various locations.
Problem is: When is trying to remove one subriction from the publisher and add a fresh subriciton to it. it is poping any error saying the Identity Range value exceed its Max Limit try to change from int to bigint. is there any solution for it not changing
from int to bigint.
Thank you.
I have a publication on SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition using merge replication. When I attempt to generate the initial snapshot, the snapshot agent appears to hang on the step "Setting up the publication for filtered articles." I
get a long (over 4 hour) series of messages: "The process is running and is waiting for a response from the server." I know something is happening server-side, as SQL Server and the snapshot agent use a lot of memory and max out one core's
processing capacity.
This has me confused as the publication is not doing any filtering.
Even more confusing: I backed up the database and restored it onto my development-test system. I created the snapshot there, and it took under 10 minutes every time.
Any suggestions for investigating and resolving this?
Currently running merge replication on SQL Server 2008 10.0.1600 and having issues with adding and modifying triggers on published articles. I've searched through the MSDN site and googled it but have not found any definitive information on correct
We have a replicated table that had 1 trigger on it when it was added to the publication. That trigger was replicated. We have since added a 2nd trigger to the table and it is not being replicated to our other server. I've checked the Article
Properties and Copy User Triggers is set to TRUE. The only difference is the new trigger has NOT FOR REPLICATION in it, but I thought that would only keep it from being executed if a row is effected by the MERGE process.
We have rerun the snapshot and are syncing continuosly and the trigger does not replicate. Do I have to drop the tablefrom the publication and then re-add it? Am I missing something?
Dear Sir,
I am using SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition for Creating & Testing Database.
I had created Merge Publication WITHOUT FILTERING ROWS and Created Push or Pull Subscription. Now if I Add or Drop column using ALTER TABLE (T-SQL) in Table OR modify stored procedure using ALTER PROCEDURE in
Published Database then while Synchronizing It replicate same in Subscriber Database and works very fine.
But when I had created Merge Publication WITH FILTERING ROWS (Parameterize or Static) and Created Push / Pull Subscription and I try to Add or Drop column
using ALTER TABLE (T-SQL) in Table OR modify stored procedure using ALTER PROCEDURE in Published Database then while Synchronizing It
DOESN'T REPLICATE in Table of Subscriber Database but
tries Replicate in Stored Procedure and display error.
After Adding Column in Table of Published Database, If I Checked Article in property of Publication then it Adds column but it doesn't
selects it. I also checked using sp_enumeratependingschemechenges it displays pending schema changes of stored procedure but
I have 2 clustered instances running on SQL Server 2008 SE-64 patch level 10.0.2531.0. These is one DB on these 2 instances (compatibility_level=80)under merge replication. now I need to change one trigger to add "NOT FOR REPLICATION". One publisher site
all is ok but on subscriber site it causes Error 102 Severity 15 State 1 Incorrect Syntax near 'dbo'.
After tracing the error in profiler, I captured the incorrect syntax as below:
exec('ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[trgBusinessEntityAllocationUpdate] on [dbo].[BusinessEntityAllocation]
obviously, there is an duplicated part of object name. but the script was generated by replication engine. How could it happened? can anyone help?
I am encountering a problem with replication of an indexed view.
My current flow works fine on SQL Server 2005 (enterp.) But is does not work anymore on SQL Server 2008 (enterp.)
On my server(server1), i receive 2 tables via replication from another server(server0). (lets name them tTest1 and tTest2)
I create an indexed view based on those 2 tables. (lets name it idxvTest)
This indexed view(idxvTest) is then replicated to another server(server2), and materialized as a table (tTestidxv).
Any changes made to the tables on server0, are replicated via server1 to server2.
The above situation worked fine in SQL 2005.
However in SQL 2008, i don't get any error messages in the replication, and everything seems to work fine..
But as it appears, changes entered at server0 are being replicated to server1, also the view idxvTest looks fine, but the data is not updated/inserted on the table at server2(tTestidxv)!!
Note: initial setup of the replication from server1 to server2 works correctly, and the snapshot is also delivered. Only the updates after the snapshot don't come through.
Hi All, this system is scheduled to go live in near to a day... but i have hit an issue when switching on SSL.ÃÂ Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Device Env:
Windows Mobile 5.0 + Messaging and Security Feature Pack
SQL Server Mobile 2005.
Merge replication works fine without SSL.ÃÂ After running the Configure Web Sync wizzard to setup SSL merge replication no longer works.ÃÂ Note i checked using pocket IE by browsing to https://mycompany.com/pub/sqlcesa30.dll?diag and all worked fine.ÃÂ There was no prompt saying the cert was bad etc.
The certificate is a:
Equifax secure global ebusiness CA-1 cert.
Signature algorithm md5RSA
public key RSA(1024 bits)
thumbprint algorithm sha1
Stacktrace given is:
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We have a customer with three publications, one distributor/publisher and on subscriber using merge replication.
looking at the history of the job replication agents checkup, every entry shows a message of:
Executed as user: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. The replication agent has not logged a progress message in 10 minutes. This might indicate an unresponsive agent or high system activity. Verify that records are being replicated to the destination and that connections
to the Subscriber, Publisher, and Distributor are still active. [SQLSTATE 01000] (Message 20554). The step succeeded.
Throughout the day this error still appears as this job runs every 10 minutes but replication works fine. The issue is at some point throughout the night the replication stops with that same message. Sometimes it stops at 6:00:00am, sometimes at 6:40:00am,
others at 6:50:00am. All we have to do to fix it is go into the replication monitor and stop synchronizing and then start synchronizing and replication will run all day until it stops next morning - again.
What is causing that error message? I have checked the other logs and there is nothing running at those times. in addition, no one has logged into the server that early (they don't start arriving until 7:15 or later).
What can i do to correct the issue so the message stops happening.
Domain One - abc.com (IP Address scheme - 185.192.X.X)
Domain Two - xyz.com (IP Address scheme - 10.200.X.X)
There is a Forest level trust between those 2 domains.
Can you please help me if there is there any way that I can replicate the datas in 22.214.171.124 Server to 10.200.18.15 Server (which has both Ms Sql Server 2005 on it) - which will have same database in both servers. There is a chance to link
those 2 servers in those 2 networks and store datas at the same time on each servers. So that if one goes down, staffs can log into another one without any down-time to access data from another server's database (which is the replica of the primary DB server).
Please let me know & also if there is any good resource about that the same.
I've searched far and wide, and so far have not been able to find any reference to this issue.
There is a merge replication setup on a SQL 2008 server, setup to replicate to SQL 2008 Express edition. We have similar setups in SQL 2005 AND SQL 2008 without issues. The setup is that the current merge replication snapshot file location is
\\<ServerName>\Repldata\UNC\<SERVER_PUBLICATION>\20101229112828 which represents the file location of the latest snapshot which was just generated due to an obsolete snapshot.
The issue comes in when attempting to replicate against the server. The replication says that the schema script could not be propogated to the subscriber. Under normal circumstances I would say it's due to security issues with being able to read to the above
folder, however this is not the case. The additional error that comes up is stating that it could not read the file along with an OS error 3 (The system cannot find the path specified).
What is unique about this, is that the subscriber is trying to download the snapshot from an old and now non-existent snapshot folder. Here is an copy of the error, noting the file location of "20091121130613" which no longer exists and is from an old snapshot.
We have a Visual Studio 2005 Windows Forms Application with SQL Server 2005 on the servers (Windows 2003) and SQL Express 2005 on the client PCs (Windows XP) using Merge Replication (Pull Subscriptions).
We are planning to upgrade user PCs to Windows 7 and are performing tests, we have installed SQL Server Express 2005 SP3. But when we try to synchornize, the error message we get is
"Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication, Version=220.127.116.11,Culture=neutral,' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made
to load a program with an incorrect format."
What would be the best approach to fix this problem ? We are not planning on upgrading the servers now.
Is there a way to change "Microsoft.SQLServer.Replication" DLL version that we referrence in the Visual Studio 2005 project so it can work with both XP and Windows 7 users without causing any problems ?
Your help would be highly appreciated.
Thank you,
We have two SQL Servers, we plan to use replication to sync data from SQL 2008 R2 (one way) to SQL 2005
publisher and distributer : SQL2008R2
subscriber: SQL2005
which type of replication to apply on our case?
Snapshot, Transactional, Merge or Peer-to-Peer.
i cant install sql server 2005 nor 2008 on my windows 7 os
i read about somthing like adding new account when installing sql 2008 to provision the server or so, but didnt know how,,,
can you plz help me??
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Why 42.2K is still the king of all distances.
This post is not empirical. It's purely opinion. Personal and passionate opinion based on experience and preference alone.
Recently, a number of people have spoken out against running the marathon. Deeming the legendary race as excessive, over-hyped and potentially even dangerous, some argue that running a marathon is no longer worthy of the praise and admiration it once was.
And I'll admit, they have a point!
The past decade has seen an unprecedented increase both in terms of the number of events offered — hundreds — as well as the number of finishers — millions — leading some to question whether simply completing a marathon is any longer an accomplishment worth bragging about. Indeed, it now seems that almost every runner you meet these days has no doubt dabbled in the marathon, with varying degrees of success.
The running of the marathon is said to have begun following the Legend of Pheidippides which arose from the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. More recently, it has been a regular part of the modern Olympics dating back to 1896 and since 1921 has adopted the standard distance of 42.195K (26 miles 385 yards).
As such it stands as a concrete and unchanging constant — a benchmark — by which to compare ourselves with all others, regardless of when or where we ran.
Given it's immense popularity, it's long since been established that completing a marathon can be done by almost anyone, anywhere, at any time. But what many fail to understand and accept, is that running a marathon well — to the best of our ability — it the true test of the distance, and what really makes it great.
Running and training for the marathon takes a tremendous amount of time and energy. It means running most days of the week — sometimes more than once — including long runs, hard workouts as well as countless easy runs to log essential time on our feet. It also requires significant sacrifice. Time that could be spent together with family and friends is now spent on the roads, tracks and trails, often in isolation, but always with a specific purpose. Needless to say, training for a marathon is not something to be taken casually.
There are no doubt people who sign up for a marathon with little idea as to what they're getting themselves into. Others are unable or unwilling to put in the time and energy needed to adequately prepare, which may lead to injury, frustration and a negative running experience. Many do just enough to do it once and never again. Some do them so often they lose track of how many they've run or the time it took to do so. Others move on to other distances, which may attract fewer competitors or require less time and energy.
People choose to run the marathon for many reasons. Whether for personal health and fitness, for charity and community or simply to say you did it, the act of participating and completing the distance is valuable in and of itself.
However, here I'll contest that running the marathon and aiming to do it well — the best you possibly can — is truly the best reason and motivation to run. To do it better than you have before and to push — and potentially exceed — your physical and mental limits. To strive to improve and be better than you were. To take on a task that is incredibly challenging and which requires great competence and skill. To risk almost certain failure and disappointment. To hope and dream to what may be.
The human body was not made to race 42.2K. Thirty maybe, even 35, but not 42.2. This is where many approach the dreaded wall, where the wheels fall off and seconds can begin to feel like an eternity. The last 10K is what really makes the marathon. Anything can happen in the final few kilometres. No one knows what is coming.
It's not about how you start the race. It's all about how you finish. And while finishing may be good enough for some, it is those who choose to push and test the limits of themselves over 42.2K — to enter the unknown and face the fear of failure — that truly know what makes the marathon the ultimate distance to race.
Personal note: To date I have completed (only) six marathons. My first in 2:49. My fastest in 2:34. My 'best' race was my second attempt, a 2:37 at the 2012 Goodlife Toronto Marathon. My goal is to one day run a sub 2:30 marathon. Far from elite, but better than average. I don't aim to the best. I aim to be MY best.
Personal note: To date I have completed (only) six marathons. My first in 2:49. My fastest in 2:34. My 'best' race was my second attempt, a 2:37 at the 2012 Goodlife Toronto Marathon. My goal is to one day run a sub 2:30 marathon. Far from elite, but better than average. I don't aim to the best. I aim to be MY best.


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text: MILES DAVIS came as a shock.When he and I were in our Midwestern high schools 50 years ago, jazz had the grin of Louis Armstrong, the tousled hair of Gene Krupa, and the zoot suits with the draped shapes and reet pleats of musicians who looked as if they were having fun. When I finally got inside a New York jazz club in the next decade, Miles was on the bandstand, dark suit tailored for Wall Street, not a hair out of place, certainly no grin, and no hint of trying to please the crowd that was hanging on his every parsimonious note. At least he was holding his trumpet straight ahead, not pointing it at the floor as he often did in later years, avoiding eye contact entirely. "It was as if Einstein had been asked to lecture on the quantum theory to a class of backward teenagers," to quote British critic Kenneth Tynan on another Miles moment at the microphone. But here he was more like someone with a job to do who knew he was doing it well and would let it speak for itself - as it did, causing a future jazz chronicler to call his trumpet style the most widely, if vainly, imitated one in history. Just the music, please. No sales talk. No amiable bopping around like Dizzy Gillespie, whom Miles succeeded in superstar Charlie Parker's band. No show biz. Or was it show biz in spite of itself? This cat was cool. Soon cool was the thing to be, and on some bandstands cool was hard to distinguish from ordinary contempt. If cool conduct, why not cool music? Hot jazz was for the mouldy figs. Soon came Miles's short-lived Nonet, a nine-piece band whose smooth unhackneyed sound included a French horn and a tuba playing with the saxes instead of doing oom-pahs. The Nonet's recordings were gathered as "The Birth of the Cool." Their legacy was a whole West Coast school of cool jazz. "They called it cool, but we were just trying to do some new things," said pianist and composer John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet when I asked him about his days with Miles and the Nonet. "We were all young and running around to Gil Evans's basement apartment." Evans was the innovative arranger who went on from the Nonet to such landmark Davis recordings as "Sketches of Spain" and "Porgy and Bess," virtually recomposing the source material from classical guitar music and George Gershwin's opera. Miles had called John Lewis back from a stay in Paris to join in the new musical explorations. Lewis recalled Miles as his oldest friend in New York. It was through Davis that Lewis got his first date playing with Charlie Parker. "Miles was a catalyst," said Lewis. "He made wonderful things come out of the people who worked with him." Among those people were saxophonists John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, drummer Philly Joe Jones, pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and the young virtuosos Miles had recruited by the next time I heard him live, now at a jazz club outside of Boston in the '60s. The sober suit had given way to more casual elegance, the existence of the audience was recognized, and the news was the title of a recording called "Miles Smiles a wry apology perhaps for the scowls and epithets and Prince of Darknes s image known around the world. The new team: Herbie Hancock, piano; Ron Carter, bass; Tony Williams, drums; Wayne Shorter, saxophone. Before long they all had their own bands, and it was time for Miles to make wonderful things come out of another crew. Not that everybody praised all of Miles's work It's mouse music, man," said Roy Eldridge, who played hot, high, and happy in the lineage of great trumpeters traced back from Davis to Gillespie to Eldridge to Armstrong to King Oliver to New Orleans's legendary Buddy Bolden whose horn could be heard across Lake Pontchartrain before there were microphones. A second trumpet line branches off from Bolden and Oliver and comes down through the Ellington trumpeters Bubber Miley and Rex Stewart in a family tree p repared by composer and musicologist Gunther Schuller - who happened to play French horn in Miles's Nonet. The other night I heard a bit of how Miles worked with people in tape made during a rehearsal. The sandpapery voice was quietly encouraging the drummer to do some little thing exactly right. I thought of all the stories about new musicians being summoned to a rehearsal or recording session and never quite being sure what they were supposed to do. Guitarist John McLaughlin recalled Miles's advice on "In a Silent Way": "Play it like you don't know how to play the guitar." Bassist Dave Holland recalled another nudge to creativity: "Don't play what's there. Play what's not there." Some said Miles conducted virtually by ESP (the title of one of his albums), letting people know by the merest musical hint or gesture which way to go. And he kept changing where he wanted to go, even as he spent some off hours at the boxing gym and some at the painter's easel. First it was reinterpreting the blues and familiar tunes in his eloquent middle register, often tightly muted into a shimmering filament of sound. Then it was constructing new pieces that began and ended where he felt like it, not necessarily after the standard 12 or 32 measures. Sometimes he reversed the jazz custom of setting a melodic pattern for the horns and letting the drums and bass improvise an accompaniment: Now he set a meticulous repeated pattern for the drums and bass and let the horns find t heir own melodies. THE next time I saw Miles was at a Boston Globe Jazz Festival, and he was beginning to go electric and free-form. Chick Corea was playing electric piano - another brilliant young musician who would soon be traveling the world with his own group. Instead of doing several - or even a few - tunes, Miles kept the musicians boiling in a single continuous improvisation of about 45 minutes. That's what he did a dozen years later, too, when he chose the Kix club in Boston to start a much-heralded return from a lengthy period of seclusion. But now an electric guitar and bass were adding to the post-jazz sound, which Miles had begun to create with an infusion of rock rhythms long before his temporary retirement. And now the Gentleman's Quarterly one-time "Fashion Personality for the Month of May" was wearing white coveralls; jabbing at a keyboard as well as playing an amplified trumpet in quick bursts and an occasional lingering and beautiful lament; clearing the room after a very short set; and leaving some of us feeling short-changed after all the anticipation of his return. If Count Basie was known as the Matisse of jazz, and Duke Ellington the Picasso, then on this occasion Miles was the Jackson Pollock. But he never stayed anything for too long. A while ago a musician friend told me how wonderful Miles was at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival playing a tune of Cyndi Lauper's. Cyndi Lauper's! And just last year Miles filled the stage with amplification equipment and rock-show lighting at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood summer home in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. Previous jazz acts had been muddily amplified. But Miles's sound was perfect - loud but perfect. And the music was precisely performed even if not as marvelously subtle, textured, and swinging as the old "Milestones" or "Kind of Blue" albums. The latter is celebrated as a tour de force of "modal" improvising. It is based on scales instead of the usual chords, but, like so much of Miles, it stays in touch with the roots of jazz in the call-and-response feeling of Southern field hollers and gospel preaching. London biographer Ian Carr called it "perhaps the most influential single album in jazz history." Earlier a French critic, Andre Hodeir, had found in Miles's playing "a completely new swing phenomenon." It is what Hodeir called the "dancing note," when Miles - known for playing without vibrato - gained a dynamic "off center" rhythmic effect by playing certain notes with a touch of vibrato. I didn't know the orchestrated din at Tanglewood would be the last time I would hear Miles, who passed on recently, in person. I wish I'd remembered to listen for the dancing notes.


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A cone emerging from the Tyrrhenian waters, Stromboli is a volcano in constant activity. Two villages crawl on its slopes, caught between the craters and the sea, exposed to the weather's caprice. According to the myth, god Aeolus moved his headquarters there in order to better combine and distribute the winds in the Mediterranean Sea. Not infrequently they're so strong that no boat can reach the port for days at a time.
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The spitfire mountain wrote chapters in the island's history. It forced most people to emigrate after the eruptions of 1919 and 1930. It gave some the possibility to come back, attracting tourism and new jobs in the 50's. In the place that inspired Verne and Rossellini you can meet fishermen who laugh about that time when they acted in a Dolce & Gabbana spot, but every morning at 5.30 am you still see them rolling the boat on heavy wooden sticks to get it to the water. It feels as if the fuss of the fame-driven world had occasionally passed over their heads, amusing them with its endearing banality, only to flow away with the tide shortly after.
They're the backbone of society, resisting the changes of the world around them. After electricity was installed on the island in the 70's and the fish population started decreasing because of the arrival of big fishing boats, most jobs converted to tourism. In the words of a local guide "God Money has taken many souls", and while rich foreigners keep buying houses, local families are increasingly fleeing to care for the future of the new generations, as children have to continue their studies elsewhere after middle school. Currently the island's population drops to a few hundreds in the winter, when the touristic season is over.
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A woman is employed as a steeplejack in Enfield, Greater London.
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Last pictures of Italian fleet before devastating British attack + shots of Mussolini and Hitler.
Dramatic pictures of battleship HMS Barham sunk by U-boat attack.
Glass toy maker Mr Dunlop is seen at work in Potters Bar.
Good footage of the arrival of the Royal Family on the tour of South Africa.
The Royal Family return to celebrations of the 10th Anniversary of the Coronations.


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The Cost of Stayin Alive!
The Cost of Stayin Alive!
Apr 17, 2010, 07:56 AM
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The Cost of Stayin Alive!
I once asked a professor of philosophy what is philosophy about? he responded philosophy is a radically critical self-consciousness. It took me thirty years to understand this statement.
I shall take a radically critical self-conscious look at the question of longevity in these troubled times.
My generation and my childrens generation have not prepared my grandchildrens generation for the mess that we are leaving to them. One easily understood aspect of this mess, though not the most important, is the massive debt past generations are leaving to future generations.
The tea partys clamor about public debt makes this matter obvious to us on a daily basis. Has the tea party taken a radically critical self-conscious look of this problem? I think not, but who would claim that these people are intellectually sophisticated?
Imagine that instead of a tea party we faced daily the much publicized clamor of reasoned judgment by an older generation of intellectually sophisticated citizens.
A person who has lived 75 years, such as me, might ask him or her self is every additional day of life for me worth $100 to my family?
I receive about $1,500 a month in social security or $50 a day. I am adding another $50 a day to cover other costs such as health care and the consumption of the earths natural resources. This $100 a day does not include other costs that my family will endure as a result of my dieing slowly over the remainder of my life.
I put this on a family values basis because we American citizens have learned to hide reality from our conscious considerations. If we put it on a national basis we will not comprehend the reality of the situation.
I can think of only one way that we old folks can pay our way sufficiently to justify living longer than 75 years. The way that old folks can pay their way is by preparing themselves to become intellectually sophisticated before they are old (just as we prepare financially for old age) so that they can provide to society a storehouse of networked understanding to help fellow citizens to make good judgments regarding matters of culture and government.
Apr 18, 2010, 04:51 AM
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I shall take a radically critical self-conscious look at the question of 'self' itself. Perhaps through that we may find another way of 'justifying' living longer or shorter.
I completely agree with your final statement {so that they can provide to society a storehouse of networked understanding to help fellow citizens to make good judgments regarding matters of culture and government....as well as all else}.
Returning to radically critical conscious look at the self - what do we really see? Personally, I see no individual or distinct person, apart from a conglomeration of thought, ideas, beliefs and memories which I equate into a 'person', 'a folk', an 'individual', a 'me' or an 'I' - known by a certain name.
If I am radically critical or my assumptions about the self - I will have to say that 'self' is not an entity but a concept. It is so convincing because it appears to be held within the container of the body - that is birthed and dies. Again, looking at it radically and critically - we can not say with complete certainty that the body actually contains the self - as an unchanging entity, that is separate and distinct from anything else.
I do not know much philosophy nor see any mess - we are leaving our children in. They way, as it appears to me, to deal with the mess - is to get out of the mess.
The first way we get out of the mess is in our own 'self'. It is the self that is conscious of the mess. What if there was no self to be conscious of the mess? What if within the consciousness the self, the mess, and non-mess were appearing and subsiding as any perception appears and disappears.
If and when consciousness can dis-identify itself from the self and what appears in, and to the self - then the consciousness has un-entangled itself from the appearances.
What do we do then?
Well, there is no one to do anything. There is no one to think about the cost of living or dying. The costs may still be there but there is no one (apart from occasionally arising and subsiding self) who sees it as problematic.
Self can not understand self while it is entrenched in its ideas and thoughts of itself. As long as we take ourselves to be character in the movie that we are watching we will suffer with the turmoils of the character. For self to be conscious of itself - it has to step out of itself - if it makes sense.
That is true objectivity.
And it is only a truly objective storehouse of understanding that we as old and young folks can leave for the culture, society and all - which will truly 'justify' our being on the earth - if there is such a thing as justifying anything!!!
Apr 18, 2010, 07:23 AM
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I think you might find the book Philosophy in the flesh to be interesting.
SGCS (Second Generation Cognitive Science) informs us that the utilitarian person, for whom rationality is economic rationalitythe maximization of utilitydoes not exist. Real human beings are not, for the most part, in conscious control ofor even consciously aware oftheir reasoning.
In the 1970s a new body of empirical research began to introduce findings that questioned the traditional Anglo-American cognitive paradigm of AI (Artificial Intelligence), i.e. symbol manipulation.
This research indicates that the neurological structures associated with sensorimotor activity are mapped directly to the higher cortical brain structures to form the foundation for subjective conceptualization in the human brain. In other words, our abstract ideas are constructed with copies of sensorimotor neurological structures as a foundation. It is the rule of thumb among cognitive scientists that unconscious thought is 95 percent of all thoughtand that may be a serious underestimate.
Categorization, the first level of abstraction from Reality is our first level of conceptualization and thus of knowing. Seeing is a process that includes categorization, we see something as an interaction between the seer and what is seen. Seeing typically involves categorization.
Our categories are what we consider to be real in the world: tree, rock, animal Our concepts are what we use to structure our reasoning about these categories. Concepts are neural structures that are the fundamental means by which we reason about categories.
Human categories, the stuff of experience, are reasoned about in many different ways. These differing ways of reasoning, these different conceptualizations, are called prototypes and represent the second level of conceptualization
Typical-case prototype conceptualization modes are used in drawing inferences about category members in the absence of any special contextual information. Ideal-case prototypes allow us to evaluate category members relative to some conceptual standard Social stereotypes are used to make snap judgments Salient exemplars (well-known examples) are used for making probability judgments Reasoning with prototypes is, indeed, so common that it is inconceivable that we could function for long without them.
When we conceptualize categories in this fashion we often envision them using spatial metaphors. Spatial relation metaphors form the heart of our ability to perceive, conceive, and to move about in space. We unconsciously form spatial relation contexts for entities: in, on, about, across from some other entity are common relationships that make it possible for us to function in our normal manner.
When we perceive a black cat and do not wish to cross its path our imagination conceives container shapes such that we do not penetrate the container space occupied by the cat at some time in its journey. We function in space and the container schema is a normal means we have for reasoning about action in space. Such imaginings are not conscious but most of our perception and conception is an automatic unconscious force for functioning in the world.
Our manner of using language to explain experience provides us with an insight into our cognitive structuring process. Perceptual cues are mapped onto cognitive spaces wherein a representation of the experience is structured onto our spatial-relation contour. There is no direct connection between perception and language.
The claim of cognitive science is that the very properties of concepts are created as a result of the way the brain and the body are structured and the way they function in interpersonal relations and in the physical world.
Quotes from Philosophy in the Flesh by Lakoff and Johnson
Apr 18, 2010, 09:31 AM
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Sure Coberst. I am impressed by your grasp on the state of development in the field of cognitive sciences. As all sciences evolve - in another 100 years we will know even more about how perceptions, reasonings and language and the world interact.
So what?
My point was simply this: Are you free?
You may find Adyashanti interesting. I am not allowed to post URL, but you can Google it if you are inclined to.
Apr 18, 2010, 02:59 PM
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Why does the challenge of becoming intellectually sophisticated frighten everyone so?
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