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The story goes in Hasidic Judaism that in the beginning, or in the time before the beginning, before history, before there was anything other than God, God decided to create the world. Why is a mystery; perhaps he was bored, perhaps she was lonely; maybe he had read a self-help book about expressing her inner artist. No one knows.
But there was nothing but God, the tale says, and that so in order for the world to come into being, God had to make room within himself; she had to create space, a place of emptiness into which the world could become.
And the space he created, was in the part of herself that is known as the shekinah. This is a word used often in the Hebrew Bible and usually refers – the translation is difficult- to the presence of God, the sense of God's holiness. It is a feminine word – Hebrew has genders, so it is perhaps the feminine aspect of God's presence. As the world was created into the empty space of God, bits of the shekinah were embedded, so that everything that exists has a bit, a spark of the sacred, a piece of the holy in it.
Our task as humans, it is thus believed, is to see the sacred in everything and so release it [how that happens is a mystery] until ultimately God will be one again.
I have always loved this view of the world – that each thing in the world has a bit of the sacred and that our task is to recognize that. That God made room for the world – the image is striking and not too far off from what in fact happened in the big bang that started it all.
It is that sense of emptiness, of creating space. Space into which life might flow, the emptiness of sound into which melodies might flow. Being empty, being silent. In this over-crowded and noisy world, we need that emptiness from time to time.
This is my last Sunday in the pulpit until Fall. I earn a month of vacation leave and a month for study and preparation for the coming year. Many of you scale back now – kids are out of school perhaps; you are planning a vacation.
Vacation – from vacate – to leave empty. Creating space. How many of you would like to create space in your lives? How many feel your life is sometime too full?
One the lessons of the religions of the world is that emptiness is a blessing, that we have to empty ourselves from time to time, so that we might then be filled. You know what I mean. You create space in your life for what is new. The lesson of the religious life is that emptiness is essential for our spiritual well being. You may meditate – you empty your mind. You do yoga – you empty the spaces your body inhabits so it can move into those spaces more freely and gracefully. In our courtyard the new labyrinth will be an empty path until you enter and walk to the center and then out.
Emptiness. It is essential. It is at the heart of Buddhist thought. In the Heart Sutra, often considered the most important Buddhist scriptural text, the Buddha says: form is emptiness and emptiness is form; emptiness does not differ from form, form does not differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form, the same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses and consciousness. [Think about that one for a while!]
It is central in Taoism – wu wei, non-action is at the center of the thinking in the Tao Te Ching. A central symbol of Buddhist and Taoist thought is the wheel – the rim, and the spokes, but what is essential for the wheel to operate is the emptiness in the middle – the hub, the hole into which an axle can turn.
Vacate, vacation, emptying. This is the inner journey I am talking about – the spiritual journey – the vacation from everyday life, the emptying of the demands of the world, the setting off on a journey into our own interior – creating space like God did. As we take this inner journey, what do we take with us on this spiritual road? What things do you need to let go of as you travel – what do you take with you and what do you let go of? Asking what you take with you means you make a decision about what you leave behind. Letting go and holding on. It's an age-old question.
James Carse teaches Philosophy and Religion at New York University and has spent much of his academic career investigating mysticism. For most religious traditions, mysticism is characterized by images of a journey to a deeper level of awareness or consciousness or knowledge. The goal is to finally have a mystical experience – the kind of experience where you feel 'one with.' One with – well – with God, with the divine, with the universe, with something greater than what seems to be. It's known as an oceanic experience. The experience of being emptied and then filled.
Carse tells about stopping to see a friend on his way to begin the great pilgrimage route in Europe – the route in northern Spain ending at Santiago de Compostela. His friend had walked the route years before and Carse went both to say good-bye and talk about the trip. His friend was dying from cancer. [This is from his wonderful book 'Breakfast at the Victory.']
This route has become a popular one and apparently now is crowded in the summer where once it was a lonely walk through mountainous and somewhat deserted countryside. In 1999, 154,000 people walked the 300-500 mile route, and there are now tourist stands offering t-shirts, bottled water and key chains along the way. Our daughter Claire walked it. What was once a difficult walk is now mostly a long walk, with a variety of lodging and eating opportunities along the way. Shirley MacLaine has walked it and written a book about her experience. The route dates back to the middle ages and it ends in Santiago de Compostela, where the Apostle James, St. James, is believed to be buried.
Carse, like most pilgrims, hoped to discover something about himself and his faith on the walk. When he visited his friend he was asked what his spiritual goals for the pilgrimage were, and replied that he hoped to discover them on the route. His friend was not satisfied with his answer and Carse tried to make the same point in a more complicated way but to no avail.
His friend had gone to Europe after he graduated college and walked all over, trying, as he said 'to find the meaning of it all.'' At one point on his pilgrimage, his boots gave out so he put them on a stone wall by the road and limped on in his bare feet.
He didn't find what he was looking for so came back to the US, got married, had children, was a carpenter, and he learned, as he had with his boots on the trip, that the spiritual life is every bit as much about sore feet as it is about grand hopes and oceanic experiences. It is, he learned, about letting go of things – a kind of emptying.
So Carse went off to walk the route himself. About four weeks into the trip, trudging down a farm road ankle deep in mud and cow dung after days of snow and rain; Carse could feel blisters forming on his feet as he slogged through the muck when he noticed something partially buried. He carefully pulled from the mire an old boot – the sole was long gone but it was still obviously a boot – he put it on a nearby stone wall and took some pictures. He mailed them to his friend.
His friend's wife framed the picture and hung it above his hospital bed, and he loved to regale people with stories about the boots and the folly of his youthful quest, that he would, on this pilgrimage, finally find it all, rather than seeing his life as a pilgrimage, with moments of clarity and insight along the way.
So what should we let go of? I guess we need first to let go of our egos. This is what the Buddhists say, and I think it means to let go of the notion that we exist alone or that we exist at the center of the universe. It means to empty our selves, make of ourselves a vessel so that we can receive the world. For the spiritual journey, it is to let go of mastery and the fantasy that we can control the sacred. We empty ourselves so that we can be filled.
On the wall in front of me, in the room at home where I write these sermons, I have three photographs from the exhibit Ashes and Snow by Gregory Colbert. Some of you may have seen the installation – in 2005 in Santa Monica. The picture in the middle is of a young Burmese Buddhist monk, just a boy, in lotus position, leaning over into a circle of light, his eyes closed. In front of him is a chambered nautilus. The background is dark. The photo is primarily in sepia tones. The picture to the left is of an elephant, just the head and the trunk in the picture, it's trunk resting on the top of a bowl, and three young Buddhist monks, in a line, receding into the back round. It is also sepia and the focus on both photos is soft. The photo to the right is of the photographer – Colbert, suspended in the ocean with three smallish finback whales.
The sense of the photos – this was true of the whole exhibit – is of eternity, and as I have looked at these photos for these years, the experience of emptiness has come through more and more. The photos are like vessels, empty vessels, into which images have been placed, and so the emptiness is a fullness, not a void.
Is this making any sense? We so often think of emptiness as a negative, and it can be to be sure. But in the spiritual sense emptiness is more often a positive; it is paradoxically a fullness, something to attain rather than something to avoid. And it is out of that emptiness that meaning or connection or the sense of oneness, belonging – all those religious ideals – can arise.
Let me end with a string of metaphors, or images: you can imagine your own.
I love coming here Sunday mornings usually by 7:30 or 8:00 and sitting for a bit, or standing here in this room when it is empty. I come on weekdays, too, but I love standing here early before anyone else comes. I love it because I know you will soon come and fill it up, and what was empty will be full.
When I was little we went every summer to my Uncle Harry's farm in western Minnesota, out on the plains. He would take walks with me, or take me out on his tractor, past the wind breaks to where to horizon was as far away as it could be. It was like being on the middle of the earth, with nothing but emptiness around us. And then I would pick up the smells of wheat or corn, the dust in the air, perhaps of animals, and here the gentle sounds of the plains, and the emptiness would be a fullness.
A bowl is a beautiful object, wooden salad bowls, porcelain bowls, clay bowls, the bowl of my hands, this singing bowl, empty but filled with a fullness of sound. The sun of my heart in the morning light, and the dawn of the soul, the dew of the rose and the woven whole, the grace of courage and the peace that lasts, the face of the stranger and the wings of joy, the deep that calls us and the steep way, my daily bread and my spirit lifted, the streams flowing to the sea, and all of our days, and the deathless dream – they are all in here.
And our chalice, a bowl holding us, like this congregation is a bowl holding us – empty yet full, formless yet strong.
I love you all. Amen
On observing the beauty of the natural world John Muir said, "Going out I found that I was really going in," because the beauty found in nature was like a mirror to his soul.
In Emptiness, there are no complications, just simplicity. In Emptiness, there is no confusion, just clarity.
In Emptiness, there are no costs, just freedom.
In Emptiness, there is no selfishness, just selflessness. In Emptiness, there is no waste, just efficiency.
In Emptiness, there is no pollution, just purity.
In Emptiness, there are no distractions, just mindfulness.
In Emptiness, there is beauty.
…Empty a space, and make it beautiful today.
Readings: From "Artic Dreams' by Barry Lopez "Fishing in the Keep of Silence' by Linda Gregg
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Shareholders in flavours and ingredients maker Frutarom FRUT.TA have approved its $7.1 billion (£5.5 billion) acquisition by International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF.N), the Israeli company said on Tuesday.
Frutarom said 94.6 percent of the shareholders who participated in the special meeting, representing 74.7 percent of the voting rights in the company, approved the deal.
IFF said in May it would buy Frutarom in a cash and stock deal as it vies for the industry's top spot with market leader Givaudan (GIVN.S).
Frutarom shareholders, however, rejected granting CEO Ori Yehudai a special one-time bonus of $20 million.
The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to close in the fourth quarter, Frutarom said.
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5 Unexpected Emotions Long-Distance Caregivers Experience
Living far away from your loved ones already generates many emotions, yet you may have had no idea how much it would hit you when you became a caregiver. While many caregivers manage challenging emotions, it may seem as though they intensify when there are many miles between you and your aging loved one. In fact, you may even be caught by surprise by the wide range of feelings you experience. As a long-distance caregiver, knowing these emotions are normal and how to manage them can help you continue providing high-quality care to your loved one.
1. Guilt
When you moved to where you are now, you had reasons. For instance, you might have chosen to move for your career. Alternatively, it may have been your parents who moved away years ago when they were still healthy. The point is that it is nobody's fault that you cannot always be there. Instead of ruminating in guilt, focus on developing effective strategies for meeting your loved one's needs from a distance, such as scheduling regular video chats.
If your elderly loved one needs help maintaining a high quality of life while aging in place, reach out to Home Care Assistance, a trusted provider of Cincinnati home care. Services our caregivers provide include transportation to and from medical appointments and social events, nutritious meal preparation, assistance with daily exercise, and help with everyday tasks like bathing, grooming, and light housekeeping.
2. Frustration
It can be frustrating when you have to work around the miles to get things accomplished. However, effective communication with your loved one and his or her care team can help you stay on top of everything. When you feel frustrated with trying to find solutions for meeting your loved one's needs, check with his or her caregiver to find services that might be available for helping, such as medication management.
3. Resentment
Having to dedicate so much time of your own to help someone else can naturally generate resentment. This can be especially challenging if you have not always had the best relationship with your parent over the years. To manage resentment, it is best to take several approaches. Consider joining a support group or reaching out to a counselor so you can vent. Then, identify if there are responsibilities you can delegate to free up some time for your needs, such as having a companion spend more time with your loved one.
For families living in Cincinnati, Ohio, respite care can be a wonderful solution when their aging loved ones need companionship and socialization a few hours a week or just need minor assistance with daily household tasks. At Home Care Assistance, we thrive on helping seniors maintain their independence while living in the comfort of home.
4. Doubt
As someone who has never been a long-distance caregiver before, you may find yourself experiencing moments of doubt. After all, you want your loved one to have the best life possible. Reduce doubt by learning as much as you can about your loved one's condition, then make sure he or she has professional assistance as well so you can trust the caregiver to notice if something is wrong that you might overlook from a distance.
5. Joy
Caregiving from a long distance is not all drudgery. In fact, you may catch yourself smiling as your loved one describes meeting some new friends on an outing with his or her new caregiver. You will also love getting to know your loved one in a new way. When these moments of happiness arise, make sure to allow yourself to fully experience them since this is what keeps caregivers going when times get rough.
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Phillip Long (it was nice to meet him in person at the most recent midwest regional) continues his series on Hebrews:
Leaving Elementary Teachings Behind - Hebrews 6:1–3
Hebrews 6 and Eternal Security
Is It Really Impossible? - Hebrews 6
The Christ, the Unblemished Sacrifice - Hebrews 9:11–22
Running the Race - Hebrews 12:1–3
Ken Schenck muses about Hebrews and Works and the possible impact that the "new perspective" might have on the study of Hebrews.
Christian Brady announces that he has received the digital offprint of his article, "What Shall We Remember, the Deeds or the Faith of Our Ancestors? A Comparison of 1 Maccabees 2 and Hebrews11," which will appear in the forthcoming volume, Earliest Christianity within the Boundaries of Judaism:
Essays in Honor of Bruce Chilton, published with Brill.
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ST. LOUIS - Twenty-five years ago, this November, voters in Missouri decided to make sure our state lawmakers weren't career politicians. An overwhelming vote put limits on how long our elected officials could serve in Jefferson City. But after a quarter of a century, some of the key players in that effort are now questioning if it was the right course.
"In a perfect world, I say they should go away", says John Hancock, a former legislator and candidate for Secretary of State in that 1992 election. "I don't think they've been helpful to the process of governing and I don't think they've been useful to the legislature." Hancock says he was in full support of term limits at that point because there were many lawmakers who he felt had been there too long and needed to be moved out. "I think it's good for an institution to have fresh blood coming in," he says. "But I think what you don't want, is a third or a fourth of the institution to be first time lawmakers."
Hancock says there is a great deal of value in having people who know how state politics work so things can get done. He points out that many good people are now being kept from serving simply because they served too long, which is something you would never see in the private sector.
Another man who helped push the vote for term limits is Greg Upchurch. He's an attorney and headed the group Missourians for Limited Terms. He says the law is having the exact impact he had hoped for when he began campaigning for it a quarter-century ago. "We've gone from basic political corruption to as system that has been much cleaner," he says. "if you look at the 25 years since it passed, we've gone the entire period without a single speaker of the Missouri House being indicted or convicted. In the 25 years before, 2 out of 4 speakers were both indicted and convicted."
He also feels the argument that lobbyists are now more powerful than lawmaker's due to term limits is an old argument that was being used prior to the law. "I see some legislators are conscientious in what they do and they get things done, and others just kind of blow it off. That was true before term limits and it's still true."
Some predictions from that election did come to pass. While others have not. First up, the number of minorities in the legislature has remained pretty consistent. But women have clearly seen their numbers increase due to term limits. The number of women in office has nearly doubled over that 25 years span.
One thing that we do know for sure is that the law in Missouri is not likely to change anytime soon. It passed with 75% of the vote in 1992 and polls show strong support for term limits across the nation to this day.


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I think I might have been Italian in a former life.
While I do adore all things French (today I'm really into these cupcake liners from Meri Meri), I'll totally shove a plate of pasta in my face any day. And let's not forget gnocchi. Cause it is definitely not off limits.
Remember that Basil Gnocchi that I made a while ago? Well, I've been meaning to make another batch of gnocchi since then. When I saw Closet Cooking's recipe for Pumpkin Gnocchi, I knew that I needed to make this. And of course I needed to modify the recipe slightly. Instead of pumpkin, I decided I would use butternut squash. You know, cause I have a slight obsession with butternut squash.
I had been thinking of making the Brown Butter and Sage sauce that was on the Closet Cooking website, but that very same week I received the latest Food Network magazine. And it was all about Italian food. How perfect, right? I flipped through the pages as I usually do when i first get the latest issue. And one of my flips landed me on a page displaying a variety of pasta sauces. The one that caught my eye was the Sage Walnut Butter sauce. And I knew I needed it in my life right now.
Butternut Squash Gnocchi
adapted from Closet Cooking's Pumpkin Gnocchi
- 2 cups butternut squash puree (see below)
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 1/2 - 2 3/4 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 pinch nutmeg
Make the puree:
- 1 medium butternut squash
1) Cut the butternut squash in half.
2) Remove the seeds and pulp from the butternut squash halves.
3) Roast the squash in the oven at 400 degrees F for 35-40 minutes or until softened. (I don't think it matters whether or not you roast the squash cut side up or cut side down. I roasted mine cut side down and it was fine.)
4) Once the squash is cool, scoop out the squash meat and mash into a pulp with a fork.
Note: You can make the puree a day ahead if you want to save some time.
Make the gnocchi:
makes 8 servings
- 2 cups butternut squash puree (recipe above)
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 1/2 - 2 3/4 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 pinch nutmeg
1) If your puree is really wet, simmer it in a sauce pan to dry it out a bit and then let it cool down.
2) Add the egg yolk to the butternut squash puree and mix gently.
3) Add the salt and nutmeg to the flour and stir to incorporate.
4) Add enough of the flour into the pumpkin puree to form a soft dough that is not too sticky to work with.
5) Knead the dough for a minute and then roll it out into long thin rolls, which are about 1/2 inch thick.
6) Cut the rolls into 1/2 inch pieces, then roll the pieces in flour, lightly shaking off any excess.
7) You can give the pieces ridges by rolling them over a fork (or gnocchi board, if you're fancy). This step is optional, so I skipped it.
8) Cook the gnocchi in salted, boiling water in small batches until they float to the surface, about 2-3 minutes.
9) Remove and set aside to drain.
10) Toss with Sage Walnut Butter (recipe below).
Sage Walnut Butter
slightly adapted from Food Network Magazine
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 1 bay leaf
- pinch crushed red pepper
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/3 cup fresh sage leaves
- 1 cup walnuts, roughly chopped
- 1 cup water (preferably the starchy water in which the gnocchi was boiled, but regular water works fine as well)
1) Combine the vinegar, honey, bay leaf, and crushed red pepper in a small pot and boil over medium-high heat until syrupy, 4 to 5 minutes. Set this sauce aside. Cover to keep warm.
2) Melt the butter in a large pan over medium heat.
3) Add the sage and walnuts and saute until the nuts are toasted, about 3 minutes.
4) Turn the heat to high and ladle in 1 cup of water.
5) Cook until the sauce is reduced by about half, 3 to 4 minutes.
6) Toss with gnocchi to incorporate.
7) Drizzle the balsamic syrup over the gnocchi.
I love gnocchi, but I will admit that I didn't absolutely love this dish. However, I believe this is mostly due to user error.
Yeah, it was probably me.
The gnocchi was more of a "firm pillow" instead of "light as a feather", but I think it might have had something to do with me kneading the heck out of it instead of using a gentler touch. I mean, I came up with pillows of fluffy Basil Gnocchi before, so I guess this just means I need more practice. Which also means it's going to be time to make more gnocchi in the future.
But. This doesn't mean that the gnocchi didn't have a great flavor. Cause it did. The butternut squash was present in each bite and the sage walnut butter provided a warm, nutty coating for it all. The balsamic drizzle at the end finished the dish off with a nice tang.
So I definitely need to perfect my technique here. But since I spent all day playing with dough, I think I'll need a little rest period before I go at it again!


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Generating Persistence Mappings
Once you have enabled JPA or Hibernate support and created persistence units or session factories, you can define mapping between the Java objects and data sources.
To map Java objects to a data source
- In the Persistence tool window, expand the desired module node.
- Right-click the desired persistence unit or session factory to generate mappings for, and choose on the context menu.
- On the submenu, select the desired schema. You can opt to generate persistence mapping by:
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Westminster Police Chief Kevin Baker has been on a medical leave since Oct. 14, which councilwoman Margie Rice characterized as an "administrative stress leave" at a City Council meeting in December.
City Manager Eddie Manfro later clarified that Baker is on a "work-related medical leave," and is being paid full salary through worker's compensation regulations, although he could not comment on Baker's condition.
It is unclear when Baker, who was appointed chief in 2012, will return to work, Manfro said. He's openly contemplated retirement in recent months.
Deputy Chief Dan Schoonmaker has served as Acting Police Chief in Baker's absence.
At a Dec. 9 council meeting, Rice questioned whether Baker's name should be listed on the agenda if he is not personally presenting items. Rice later declined to comment on Baker's absence.
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John Metcalfe was CityLab's Bay Area bureau chief, covering climate change and the science of cities.
Is there anything caffeine can't do?
Researchers at the City College of New York think they've found a way to use coffee to neutralize the unpleasant odor of sewers. Specifically, they're interested in coffee grounds, which they cook to around 800 degrees Celsius until the itself-smelly material is black and carbonized.
Utilities and industrial plants today use a carbon mixture to cleanse the air of hydrogen sulfide, the gas that gives fetid waste its signature bouquet. But making the carbon fit for this duty requires treating it with chemicals like melamine or ammonia. Coffee is a cheaper and widely available alternative, lead researcher Teresa Bandosz writes in the (subscription-only) Journal of Hazardous Materials study, "Spent coffee-based activated carbon: Specific surface features and their importance for H2S separation process." (Sorry if you needed a cup of coffee to get all the way through that title.)
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So there it is: Start hoarding your coffee grounds now, because the futures for this stuff could be going up real soon.
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Will you be my Valentine?
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Now that I'm back at school, I won't have as much time to bake/cook/do crafts etc., but I intend to keep posting on here as often as I can. I have a ton of pictures of stuff I've made in the past that I'll be posting now, plus (hopefully) many new things too! My friend Prianca and I made these cupcakes to give away last Valentine's Day–some are red velvet and some are strawberry (to keep with the pink and red theme). Enjoy!
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Back in college my lit teacher asked us to write a poem about Sunday. I never wrote one so I thought I would give it a shot. I found that I have a knack for it. Having A.D.D. they were short and can get creative with the words. So here was 2 poems I wrote.
Phantom Mistake
Yes I have the time
To waste it in this line
Waiting for Episode 1
The Phantom Menace
I am one of those
Die hard fans
Obsessive to the bone
No doubt about it
Sometimes I give people the creeps
They can't believe I camped out here for weeks
They think I should pack it up
But I'm not giving up
Am I just a crazed fan?
Or am I just nuts?
I went to my seat
To see it on the screen
Then Jar-Jar Binks came out
And that was dumb
Then came Anakin
I was petrified like a mannequin
The movie I was wait for
is a piece of shit
Sometimes I think Lucas is a creep
I think I should get up off my seat
It all keeps adding up
This movie really sucks
Am I just a crazed fan?
Or am I just nuts?
Gasping at this tripe
So I believed the hype
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
I can't believe I can I camped out here for week
I think you should pack it up
It's not worth you 8 bucks.
Am I just a crazy fan?
Or am I nuts?
I am a Radical Geek
Do you know who I am?….I am a radical geek!
You think being a radical makes me a long haired hippy freak?
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Think I am a fan of Star Trek or some sci fi creatures?
I am not some fan that stays on the bleachers!
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The chirally rotated Schrodinger functional with Wilson fermions and automatic O(a) improvement
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A modified formulation of the Schrodinger functional (SF) is proposed. In the continuum it is related to the standard SF by a non-singlet chiral field rotation and therefore referred to as the chirally rotated SF (?SF). On the lattice with Wilson fermions the relation is not exact, suggesting some interesting tests of universality. The main advantage of the ?SF consists in its compatibility with the mechanism of automatic O(a) improvement. In this paper the basic set-up is introduced and discussed. Chirally rotated SF boundary conditions are implemented on the lattice using an orbifold construction. The lattice symmetries imply a list of counterterms, which determine how the action and the basic fermionic two-point functions are renormalised and O(a) improved. As with the standard SF, a logarithmically divergent boundary counterterm leads to a multiplicative renormalisation of the quark boundary fields. In addition, a finite dimension 3 boundary counterterm must be tuned in order to preserve the chirally rotated boundary conditions in the interacting theory. Once this is achieved, O(a) effects originating from the bulk action or from insertions of composite operators in the bulk can be avoided by the mechanism of automatic O(a) improvement. The remaining O(a) effects arise from the boundaries and can be cancelled by tuning a couple of O(a) boundary counterterms. The general results are illustrated in the free theory where the Sheikholeslami-Wohlert term is shown to affect correlation functions only at O(a2), irrespective of its coefficient.
Author's Homepage:http://people.tcd.ie/sints
Author: SINT, STEFAN
Type of material:Journal Article
Series/Report no:Nuclear Physics B
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Keywords:Mathematics, Schrodinger functional


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The suspect in a fatal cop shooting in North Carolina has been arrested in Rhode Island.
Irving Lucien Fenner Jr. was arrested on Tiogue Avenue in Coventry overnight Tuesday.
He was hospitalized with a gunshot injury he originally sustained from the encounter with Officer Tim Brackeen over the weekend in Shelby, North Carolina.
Police say Brackeen was looking for Fenner, who apparently missed a court date related to a weapons charge, according to necn affiliate WJAR.
Brackeen died from his wounds on Monday.
Earlier, state police raided a home in Providence after getting a tip, but Fenner was not home.
Police say two women are also in custody on charges related to Brackeen's murder.


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– Maiden Hair — Photo by Steve Dawes,2014
Today, December 21st, is the first day of Winter.
Winter Solstice.
The shortest day of the year with respect to the amount of daylight.
From here on each day will be 1 1/2 minutes longer. Thus, on January 21st a day will be 45 minutes longer.
March 20th is the first day of Spring. I think it's the Vernal Equinox, that is a 24 hour day is 12 hours of light and 12 hours dark.
Maiden Hair a Winter Flower.


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InfoComm, the largest audiovisual event in the Western Hemisphere took place in Orlando, Florida on June 14 to 16. In our second year attending the event, it's clear that Condeco, and its interactive booth, were a sought-after destination for InfoComm attendees.
There are many good reasons why, and here is a quick recap:
- As Condeco's portfolio of time and cost-saving workspace solutions continues to grow, so does the interest in how our innovative software and hardware products could be applied to help AV resellers and end-users alike.
- We saw record numbers of industry insiders and potential customers – both large and small – visit our booth to experience at least one, perhaps several, and in many cases, all of our onsite demos of Condeco Enterprise, Condeco Connect, Condeco Sense and Condeco Video Meetings – a new and improved offering that we launched at InfoComm.
- Condeco Video Meetings drew lots of attention from the AV crowd as it simplifies the scheduling of video conferences and eliminates the need to worry about what technology should be used. With one-click integration, it's easy to collaborate with colleagues around the world using Video Meeting's breadth of interoperability.
The Condeco excitement did not end there however, as we also captured New Bay Media's AV Technologies' "Best of Show" Award for Condeco Desk Screens; with its "touch in, touch out" simplicity that makes the flexible management of workspaces such as desks, offices, breakout rooms and other meeting spaces easier than ever. By loading our desk screens with Wi-Fi readers, Bluetooth and Beacon-enabled technologies, customers are not only ready to start realizing savings today, but are also "future-proofed" to integrate with tomorrow's innovations.
Our products set us apart, but so do our people
Condeco booth visitors saw more than just demos. They had the opportunity to talk with our company's most senior executives, including Martin Brooker, CEO of Condeco-Americas, and Condeco Group CEO & founder, Paul Statham. Learning the value of Condeco directly from the individuals responsible for delivering that value from sales to implementation to training and ongoing customer support is testimony to how happy and proud our senior leadership is to discuss our company and its unmatched progress in the industry.
InfoComm 2017 was a big success for Condeco, but more importantly, we hope our products and people will help bring greater success for the AV resellers, consultants and ultimately customers who use them.
InfoComm 2018 will be upon us soon, mark your calendars as there are more exciting workspace innovations to come from Condeco; and be sure to follow us on Twitter for more up-to-the-minute details on upcoming events.
Related video links
Take a look at this video content for more on our time at InfoComm, talking all things product-related, workspace management, hardware, software, and desk booking applications:
- http://www.ravepubs.com/rave-video/infocomm-2017-condeco-launches-condeco-connect-room-screen-panel-for-meeting-room-touch-screens/
- http://www.ravepubs.com/rave-video/infocomm-2017-condeco-reveals-desk-booking-application-v2-0/
- http://www.ravepubs.com/rave-video/infocomm-2017-condeco-presents-enterprise-software-application/
- http://www.ravepubs.com/rave-video/infocomm-2017-condeco-talks-office-and-workspace-management-solutions-for-hardware-and-software/
- http://www.ravepubs.com/rave-video/infocomm-2017-condeco-launches-condeco-sense-for-workspace-occupancy-sensing/


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October Drawing
October 3,2006 11:54 -
Tickets have been assigned!
Once again, we'll be giving away 2 $75 Amazon gift certificates. I'll do the drawing later today and post up the numbers.
Good luck!
And the numbers are in!
As usual, you need to contact me directly to claim your prize! Best of luck to everyone!
Ticket 4664 CLAIMED! Congrats Balgair!
Ticket 620 CLAIMED! Congrats jtmorgan61!
Balgair says:
October 3,2006 at 11:58
Yay, time to see how many mles away I am this month ;)
Btw it still says "August Drawing" over the numbers on my character page ;)
Narlash says:
October 3,2006 at 13:43
Woohoo this rocks! :)
Best of luck to everyone!
Rollie says:
October 3,2006 at 21:49
Numbers are in!
Hybuir says:
October 3,2006 at 23:11
I have 4630 and 639 :(
Sianni says:
October 4,2006 at 9:29
Good luck everyone!
Narlash says:
October 4,2006 at 9:49
32 tickets and closest I got was 4718 and 735 :)
Better luck next month, grats to the winner!!
Balgair says:
October 4,2006 at 10:26
Wow I won with ticket 4664 :O That red text is certainly visible, but only to people who have the front page as the page they open the site at, I start at my characters so didn't know till I looked down the numbers ;)
NiennaMiriel says:
October 4,2006 at 10:34
[quote:a7da399f0e="Balgair"]Wow I won with ticket 4664 :O That red text is certainly visible, but only to people who have the front page as the page they open the site at, I start at my characters so didn't know till I looked down the numbers ;)[/quote:a7da399f0e]
Yeah. I have the main page as my bookmark, but I keep my characters open most of the time.
Just so happens, I was at work when I found out, so I had to use the bookmark.
GRATS!!! And you get to look at that text for the rest of the month (at least when you actually load the main page. :))
oiseaux says:
October 4,2006 at 11:48
Congrats Balgair. I am glad that you won with all the work you do here!
Ceto says:
October 4,2006 at 14:40
Grats Balgair!
BWDemor says:
October 4,2006 at 15:57
Congratz Balgair, so out of how many submissions was that with? Since you and I were in a race there at the end to be top dog for the month.
Balgair says:
October 4,2006 at 16:4
Thanks everyone :) I had 227 tickets in the end, so I assume 227k submissions, although last time I saw it before it reset to this month it was only about 190k... however I did have some very large ones at the end of the month (broke 20k in one submission for the first time on the 30th ;)) so I can see how it could've jumped that much.
You'll probably win this month though, I'm going away for at least a week towards the end of the month, probably more like 10 days, so I won't get such a high overall total I think! Aiming to get a bit nearer those folk at the top of the overall list before I leave though :)
xpolockx says:
October 4,2006 at 20:47
Grats Balgair! It's about time you finally won :P Good luck to whoever else wins this month, because it's not me ;)
Skyfire says:
October 4,2006 at 23:2
He spelled Balgair wrong!!!
DM. says:
October 5,2006 at 0:55
Rollie says:
October 5,2006 at 9:22
[quote:f1b8a4a75c="Skyfire"]He spelled Balgair wrong!!!
There is no spoon...
captbananas says:
October 5,2006 at 12:35
No win for me again. But then again, I hardly do as many submissions as the rest of you around here, only had 6 tickets this month. I play on Medivh, and despite how many times I run CensusPlus when I play, I never seem to submit very high numbers.
I guess everyone else is beating me to it! :D
Sianni says:
October 6,2006 at 22:41
Grats Balgair!!!!
BWDemor says:
October 15,2006 at 17:27
Have we heard if there was a second winner yet?
Rollie says:
October 15,2006 at 18:14
Ah, yeah, need to update the main post, my bad =)
BWDemor says:
October 16,2006 at 14:34
Congratz to JT
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Admittedly, there's a myriad of ways to recruit great employees. But no recruitment option surpasses a well-executed, strategic employee-referral program.
If you pay a headhunter for management talent, it will cost your company thousands of dollars. If you're hiring workers from temporary help firms, the firms' "liquidation fees" will cost you several hundred dollars.
In paying referral fees, you'd be much better off paying your valued employees who are also brand advocates.
Employees whom are referred by your current talented workers make for great hires at comparatively little expense and will enhance your culture.
A good employee-referral program provides five advantages:
1. Referred candidates are, in a sense, pre-screened. To stay profitable, your company must have a stellar culture with all stars.
Many companies have learned that referrals are great sources for recruiting the best qualified employees to fit in their culture.
Your employees who refer their friends and relatives have already been vetted. They're proven great complements to your staff.
If they're confident in sticking their necks out to make recommendations for the right applicants, you can be confident, too.
That's because your current employees pre-orient their referrals about your organization. Undoubtedly, they make certain their referred candidates have a pragmatic view – the pros and cons about working at your company.
2. Birds of a feather flock together. Your talented employees refer people similar to them. As an added bonus, the referred candidates will work hard to make sure they don't embarrass the people who referred them.
3. Referred candidates give you a competitive edge in recruiting. Just as in sales, word-of-mouth advertising is a tremendous asset in recruiting.
If talented persons aren't job-hunting, they hidden untapped talent. If your competitors don't know about these persons, you've got a built-in competitive edge.
But they'll consider you as an employer if they're encouraged to do so by your employees whom they respect and like.
4. Referred employees enhance your retention efforts. They're more likely to be loyal and stay with you. This is important because you save on recruiting and hiring expenses. They'll help you to be more profitable.
5. They'll be assets for their culture. Morale and teamwork are enhanced. A new employee who has been recruited via word-of-mouth by a friend, will get accustomed to your workplace environment more easily.
People like to work with people they like. They're more likely to socialize with each other after work.
This increases your odds for a fun, relaxed workplace environment. Concurrently, your communication with employees who refer candidates improves even further as they become brand advocates.
Prerequisites for success
Establishing a successful referral program means you have to take certain precautions:
1. Your job descriptions must be well-thought our and specific. Not only is a poorly worded job description a waste for your company, it'll be a negative in the minds of your brand advocates and referred candidates.
2. To consider referred candidates, your brand advocates must be talented high performers who work at your company. There are exceptions to the rule, but there's little sense in hiring someone who has quit.
3. Establish a new-hire tenure qualification. Before rewarding your brand advocates for recommending candidates, the referred candidates must work for you for a period of at least six months.
4. Communicate all job openings and your referral program with your team. In this way, your brand advocates will be on the lookout for talented candidates.
Make certain your referral program completely transparent.
Another benefit to such communication, you might notice that one of your current workers is promotable to the position.
5. Give careful thought to what you pay in a referral fee. While it's true higher referral fees will encourage your brand advocates to work at referring candidates. But be careful, especially concerning management candidates.
Don't run the risk of encouraging employees to refer just any run-of-the-mill candidates merely to collect some extra money.
It's highly unlikely that it'll productive to pay referral fees to workers for recommending candidates to fill management roles. Again, birds of a feather flock together.
6. Make it convenient for brand advocates and their referred candidates. Simplify the referral process and make your branding easy to see for the candidates.
Your online application process should be simple, and anticipate and provide answers to questions to which candidates are likely to ask.
7. Be especially diligent about communicating with referred people. Certainly you don't want to indiscriminately favor referred candidates.
But you whether you hire them or not, you should be very careful to be prompt, respectful and polite in dealing with them.
Keep your employee in the loop, as well, by informing them about their referrals getting consideration and interviews.
If you don't hire the referred candidates, merely explain to your brand advocate the situation didn't work out without divulging too much personal information.
In other words, be cognizant of the impressions you create on the candidate and your brand advocate.
Finally, an important caveat:
To be sure of success, you must guard against the dangers of cliques or nepotism. Unless you have a uniquely talented employee who makes referrals, don't hire applicants from that same person to fill all your staffing needs.
From the Coach's Corner, related HR strategies:
For Best Performance, Inspire Employees with Non-Financial Rewards — Money talks, of course, and is a way to motivate employees. But money is not always the chief motivator. Here's why with some ideas.
Write Better Job Descriptions to Attract Best Talent – 16 Tips — To inspire the best candidates to apply for your opening, there are at least 16 strategies to incorporate in your job description.
HR Trends in Talent Management Using Technology — Despite all the talk about the use of technology in talent management, the majority of human resources departments are behind the curve. Why? A study shows 72 percent of HR departments reveal they're not using such tools.
Hiring? 4 Pointers on Negotiating Wages with Job Applicants — Some employers have had difficulty in successfully extending job offers to applicants, especially Millennial professionals. It's not uncommon to interview applicants who aren't shy in negotiations with their inflated egos and salary expectations. Of course, that wasn't the case in the Great Recession.
"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface."
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In Modern History, my year eleven students and I have been talking a lot about the factors that shape representations of particular historical events (see, for example, my previous posts here, here and here).
With the end of term fast approaching, I had to make some harsh decisions about what to show my students. This resource, The 9/11 Report: a Graphic Adaptation, is one of those things I unfortunately will not get to show my students. It is really interesting as it seeks to mediate the dense language of a report written about 9/11 by translating that report into a graphic novel. On the one hand, this makes the report accessible, but it also seems (at times) a tad irreverent.


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The battle lines are becoming clear for this election. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the establishment party politicians don't want to scare the cows amongst the farming lobby. Yet new research shows that if we do it right, the cost of cleaner fresh water won't be as great as many think in terms of reduced farm profit. So what are they afraid of?
If you want real action on fresh water, in a rational fashion, then The Opportunities Party is your only bet. Let's start with a brief look at other parties' fresh water policy.
Political Parties
We know where National stands on fresh water; they will only stand in fresh water, and even then only with gumboots on. Their swimmable river policy is an oxymoron, an exercise in fiddling the numbers. Under their definition rivers can be swimmable when they have no water or are clogged with algae. National's plan is to take small steps forward on issues like fencing out stock when our environmental is going backwards – and fast.
Labour got themselves into a tangle trying to gild the lily on water charging in order to not scare the cows at a Fed Farmers convention. As a result they had to issue a clarification on water charging which wasn't very… clear. The upshot? They want to use regulation to fix water quality, and will definitely charge water bottlers. They are still keen on a wider water charge, maybe, but aren't pushing that point at the moment.
The Greens haven't released their fresh water policy yet, but we know they aren't keen on using market mechanisms. In other words, they will regulate instead of providing incentives. This has two drawbacks – it doesn't allow farmers to have flexibility in how they meet targets, and doesn't raise any money to spend on good stuff.
Finally, NZ First showed their cards at the Fed Farmers convention last week and as is typical for that party they just grovel for the vote rather than doing anything that improves the environment or actually is even in farmers' long term interest. They have no intention to charge irrigators or polluters for the water they use nor the damage they do. In fact they don't seem to want to regulate farming at all, which means a vote for Winston is a vote for even worse water quality than we have now. Yet another giant step backwards from NZ First for our regions, which rely on the environment for their survival. As the most regressive conservative party on offer, NZF offers to lead us down a hole on almost all fronts.
TOP's Clear Water Action Plan will be released on tonight at 6pm. It will build on our Environmental Policy and will set out a plan for improving our fresh water, making polluters pay and ensuring water available for commercial use goes to where the economic benefits are greatest. It is just rational, best practice, evidence-based policy at work.
This won't be a cowpocalypse
The current regressive stance on freshwater care and allocation has no economic basis and certainly is no good for farming long term. There is increasing evidence that the recent rash of putting more and more cows on the land hasn't increased profit by that much. Indeed there are plenty of examples now where less intensive farming, with better farm practices is far more economically efficient, environmentally sustainable and profitable for farmers. The key is moving all farmers to best practice. The challenge is using market mechanisms to provide incentives for that to happen.
New research by Anderson & Ridler puts the discussion about a cow apocalypse into perspective. Using data from a Waikato farm they model how farm profit changes as more cows are added to the farm at different milk prices. As more cows are added the farm faces higher costs - more feed, more staff and more machinery. This in turn increases debt and makes the farm a riskier proposition.
This modeling shows that only above a milk price of $7 does a very heavily stocked farm become a more profitable business (the current price is $6.50 which is relatively high for recent times). Below that a heavily stocked farm (System 4 and 5 in dairy farming terms) will actually do similar or worse than a more lightly stocked farm. And it takes a milk price of $10 and above to justify some of the most heavily stocked farms (System 5). Incredibly, the use of feed has been growing the fastest on these heavily stocked System 5 farms.
The billion dollar question remains, if farmers haven't really been increasing cow numbers for profit, why have they done it? There are three reasons:
1. As we have discussed previously farmers are chasing tax-free capital gain rather than profit. That lends itself to overinvesting on the farm so per hectare earnings are maximised.
2. The lack of costs faced for environmental degradation; and
3. Pressure from the likes of Fonterra to increase production volume flowing through all their factories.
Mollycoddling farmers is no answer. Policies like National's and New Zealand First's will only cause greater contamination of our fresh water resource and over-allocation of water use. Even more debacles like what has happened in Canterbury are guaranteed under such an approach, leading to an even greater public backlash than currently prevails. Such an outcome would usher in Labour and the Greens using blunt regulations in an over-reaction to the problem.
Meanwhile the world is demanding produce that is environmentally friendly. That's the opportunity, the rational policy response is to ensure that market signal is delivered loud and clear to producers. Internalising the cost of their pollution is one such mechanism.
In many of our industries our economy would benefit from more policy smarts being applied so we see a shift away from volume towards adding value. Why should we try to compete on volume with massive economies like the US and China, when instead we can produce high-quality, environmentally sustainable products. This is as much the story with dairy as it with tourism. It's income we want to maximize, not volume or tons of product produced.
At the moment only TOP is charting that course.


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Contrary to popular belief, the military doesn't just point at a target and fire. There is a complex process involved into doing a strike. Missle guidance, type of munition, and quickly putting together the right type of ammo needed for a certain mission is crucial. Without a doubt, you do not want to waste a missile on a target if it's not going to eliminate it.
Communication on the ground is important as well. If a group of soldiers have enemies in a building all this information is transferred to the Air Force and determinations are made at that time. It's very interesting to see how the process plays itself out and how quickly it can all happen to help our soldiers on the ground who need that very important air strike.


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Florida City school teacher faces DUI charges
A Miami-Dade school teacher is in hot water following her arrest in the Keys on DUI charges.
Samia Fernandez, 48, was jailed following a traffic stop at mile marker 79 around 1:46 a.m. Dec. 30.
Fernandez, who teaches at Florida City Elementary School, was booked on one misdemeanor count of drunk driving and one misdemeanor count of refusing to sign a DUI citation. She was later released from the Plantation Key Detention Center at 4 p.m Dec. 30.
According to a Monroe County Sheriff's Office arrest report, a witness at mile marker 83 said Fernandez was going southbound on U.S. 1 in her red, 1995 Toyota Camry and almost hit about five cars. He added that Fernandez was "going to kill somebody."
Deputy Garrett Test then began tracking Fernandez at mile marker 81, as she began to weave in and out of the center lane. He later stopped her at mile marker 79, as Fernandez stated she was trying to go to her home address in Miami.
After asking for her license, Fernandez struggled to give Test her registration, instead giving him the first piece of paper she found.
"Fernandez gave me the same piece of paper three times, each time being explained it was not the registration," Test wrote.
After a series of sobriety exercises, Fernandez was arrested and taken to jail, where she had her breath tested for alcohol. She also had a dog in her Toyota, which animal control had to take.
Two blood alcohol level samples came back as 0.221 percent and 0.219 percent, more than double the Florida legal limit of .08.
According to the arrest report, "Fernandez reportedly stated she was sorry and added she was a teacher and could lose her job for this."
Miami-Dade County Public Schools spokesman John Schuster confirmed to the Keynoter that Fernandez has been a district employee for about 15 years. He said that their Office of Professional Standards "will review the record."
Arraignment information for Fernandez wasn't immediately available.