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Winners, losers and more: Eight is enough
Tom Brady throws six touchdowns – five in the first half – and the New England Patriots get overshadowed? By a kicker, to boot? It was that kind of afternoon in Houston.
In a game that featured Kerry Collins vs. Sage Rosenfels (instead of Vince Young and Matt Schaub), four fourth-quarter touchdown passes by Rosenfels and a 25-point deficit overcome by the Houston Texans, Tennessee Titans kicker Rob Bironas proved to be a "loss prevention" specialist.
The former Best Buy security guard opened the scoring with a 52-yard field goal, ended the contest with a 29-yarder and converted six others in between during a thrilling 38-36 victory. Bironas, a former Arena League performer (AF2, too) who participated in training camps for three NFL franchises before finally making the Titans in 2005, became the first kicker in NFL history to kick eight field goals in one contest.
In an action-packed day of football, here are some winners, losers and other observations from Week 7:
• Brady has taken the baton from LaDainian Tomlinson and is putting up some absolutely ridiculous numbers this season. We'll avoid projecting his pace and just focus on what he has accomplished: 27 touchdowns, two interceptions and 2,125 yards passing. He already has already surpassed his season totals for touchdowns from 2001, '03, '05 and '06.
• Not to be overlooked in the Titans' victory was Collins engineering the game-winning drive. Collins, who hadn't recorded a win as the starter since playing for the Oakland Raiders against the Titans on Oct. 30, 2005, connected with Roydell Williams for a 46-yard completion with 31 seconds left to set-up Bironas' final field goal.
• After a brutal last-second loss to the Dallas Cowboys prior to their bye week – which was their second home defeat on the final play of a game – the Buffalo Bills finished what they started against the baffling Baltimore Ravens.
• In the muddled AFC West, the Kansas City Chiefs have the lead heading into their bye week after beating division doormat Oakland. The Chiefs now have won nine straight against Oakland, which extended its league-record of 17 consecutive divisional losses. Also, Larry Johnson kept his personal dominance against the Raiders intact. Johnson has a touchdown in all seven career games (10 total TDs) against Oakland.
• Osi Umenyiora and Michael Strahan certainly have re-established themselves as the best defensive-end tandem in the league. Strahan registered 2½ sacks Sunday, while Umenyiora turned a sack into a forced fumble, recovery and touchdown during a win over the San Francisco 49ers, which was the New York Giants' fifth straight victory.
• Roddy White continues to rise well above an otherwise mediocre cast of wide receivers for the Atlanta Falcons. White led the Falcons with 110 receiving yards in Atlanta's loss to the New Orleans Saints, marking his second 100-yard game of the season.
• At least for a week, Kenny Watson (130 rushing yards, three TDs) and the Cincinnati Bengals don't have to hear questions about "what's wrong?" Instead, the New York Jets will hear more of the same after dropping their fourth straight game.
• Yet again, the Chicago Bears have overcome an excruciating loss to save their season, as Brian Griese's latest late-game scoring drive gave the Bears a win over the Philadelphia Eagles. The big question now: Can the Bears actually beat the Detroit Lions next weekend for their first back-to-back wins this season?
• What in the name of Edgar Allen Poe is going on with Brian Billick and the Ravens? Despite Willis McGahee doing a bulk of his damage (114 yards, one TD) in the second half against his former team, the Ravens strayed from conventional wisdom in the closing moments. In need of one yard to pick up a first down inside of two minutes left at Buffalo's 49-yard line, the Ravens opted to pass on second, third and fourth down. As you've probably guessed, the passes all fell incomplete. On a separate but even more disturbing note, the Ravens continued to clip their own wings, committing a season-high 11 penalties (for 91 yards).
• Jon Kitna's Lions were victorious, but when will offensive coordinator Mike Martz reflect on the battered Kurt Warner and Marc Bulger and realize his quarterbacks need better protection? Kitna continues to be a punching bag for opponents, going down three more times Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Kitna now has been sacked a league-high 28 times – especially scary considering he already was temporarily forced out of one game this season with a concussion.
• Chances are there was a healthy contingent of Patriots fans in Dolphin Stadium, but it still was weird to hear the chants of "Randy, Randy" after Moss' 50-yard touchdown reception in the second quarter. OK, the one-armed, between-two-defenders grab was sweet, but still …
• The much-celebrated return of teammates Bulger and Isaac Bruce did very little for the St. Louis Rams on the field and scoreboard Sunday. Bulger was intercepted three times and Bruce limited to two catches in the loss to the Seattle Seahawks as the Rams dropped to 0-7.
Billick-inspired play-calling? Brad Childress must have found the former Vikings offensive coordinator's playbook. With the ball on their own 1 early in the second quarter, the Minnesota Vikings passed on first down. OK, the strategy in that situation is feasible. But on second and third down, the Vikings run twice – with fullback Tony Richardson and tailback Chester Taylor? Maybe Adrian Peterson needed a whole series off after scoring a 20-yard touchdown on Minnesota's previous possession.
Red River return: College rivals and current teammates Peterson and Cedric Griffin got on the scoreboard in their return to Dallas, home of the annual Red River Shootout between Oklahoma and Texas. Griffin scored following a lateral and fumble recovery.
Something to prove: In four seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, defensive end Dewayne White registered 14 sacks. Against his former team Sunday, the Lions rusher took down Jeff Garcia three times.
Tapped out?: Speaking of sacks, Darryl Tapp nearly matched his previous career total (4½) in one afternoon against the Rams. The defensive end registered four of the Seahawks' seven sacks against Bulger.
Out of curiosity: How many times on Sunday did Patriots receiver Wes Welker and running back Sammy Morris look over at their winless former teammates and think, "Thank you, thank you?"
Red in the face: Clearly, the Falcons have a number of problems on offense. Perhaps most significant is their inability to cash in during trips to the red zone. On approximately 30 trips inside the opponents' 20-yard line this season, Atlanta has scored only five touchdowns.


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An Introduction to Application Development with Catalyst and Perl
Plugins and Application-Wide Settings
Besides pre-built component classes for drop-in functionality, many plugins are available to modify the behavior and extend the functionality of Catalyst itself. A few of the most common are the optional authentication, authorization and session plugins.
These plugins provide a consistent API for handling these tasks with a variety of available back ends. Like the core request/response object interfaces, they are available as application-wide features that are accessed and controlled through methods in the context object, which become available once these plugins have been loaded.
You can authenticate a user (within an action handling a login form post, for example) like this:
username => $c->request->params->{username},
password => $c->request->params->{password}
If this succeeds, the
$c->user object is available in subsequent requests
to control and direct application flow based on the authenticated user.
This is accomplished using sessions (usually cookie-based) that are
handled for you automatically. You also have access to
$c->session to
persist any additional per-session data across requests.
The API of this framework is agnostic to the back end, and many are available. You can handle authentication and user storage via databases (DBIC), system accounts, PAM and LDAP, to name a few. There also are multiple ways to handle session data to support different application needs, such as distributed server deployments and so on. (See the documentation for Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication, Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization and Catalyst::Plugin::Session for more information.)
Plugins and application-wide settings are configured within the main/core class (lib/KillerApp.pm). Within this file, you can specify global configuration parameters, load Plugins and even add your own code to override and extend core functionality.
The top-level "KillerApp" class actually is the application—it programmatically loads and integrates the other components and classes throughout the system. Like any derived class, its behaviors can be selectively altered from that of its parent class ("Catalyst"). Since it uses the powerful "Moose" object system, in addition to adding and replacing methods, you also can take advantage of additional powerful features like method modifiers and Roles (in fact, Plugins are essentially Moose Roles applied to this class).
Catalyst was written with customization and extensibility in mind. It's structured to allow its functions and behaviors to be modified easily in a fine-grained manner.
For example, you could configure every response to be set with "no-cache" across the whole application simply by adding a method modifier like this to lib/KillerApp.pm:
before 'finalize_headers' => sub {
my $c = shift;
$c->response->headers->header( 'Cache-control' => 'no-cache' );
Catalyst calls methods with meaningful names (such as 'finalize_headers') throughout the various stages of processing that you are free to hook into or override.
Deploying Your Application
Like most things in Catalyst, many options are available when you're ready to deploy your application to a real Web server—Apache/FastCGI is one of the best choices available. I briefly cover this below.
If you put your application in /var/www, for example, you can deploy with an Apache virtual host configuration like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAdmin email@example.com
Alias /static/ /var/www/KillerApp/root/static/
FastCgiServer /var/www/KillerApp/script/killerapp_fastcgi.pl \
-processes 5
Alias / /var/www/KillerApp/script/killerapp_fastcgi.pl/
ErrorLog /var/www/logs/error_log
CustomLog /var/www/logs/access_log combined
FastCGI is a proven, language-independent interface for running Web applications. It is essentially just plain CGI, but it keeps programs running in the background instead of firing them up for every request. This is the major limitation of CGI that FastCGI overcomes. FastCGI has been around for a long time. The use of this efficient protocol is another example of how Catalyst leverages existing solutions.
FastCGI allows you to specify the number of processes to run (five in the example above), making your application multithreaded. Incoming requests are distributed evenly among the processes, which are maintained in a pool.
The alias for <code>/static/</code> above tells Apache to serve the files directly in this directory (images, CSS, JavaScript files and so on). This is more efficient than serving these files through the application, which isn't necessary.
This article is meant to provide only a taste of Catalyst and its capabilities. As I hope you have seen, Catalyst is a viable platform for any Web development project. With a flexible design and many available mature features, you can use Catalyst to build robust applications quickly and conveniently.
Catalyst is actively developed and is getting better all the time, including its ever-increasing quality documentation. It also has a very active user community with top experts available via IRC.
When you're ready to start writing an application, you should be able to find the information and support you need to hit the ground running. See the Resources for this article for important links and where to get started.
Catalyst Home Page: http://www.catalystframework.org
Catalyst::Manual: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Catalyst::Manual
Template Toolkit Home Page: http://www.template-toolkit.org
DBIx::Class::Manual: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class::Manual
Catalyst IRC Channel: #catalyst on http://irc.perl.org
"Moose" by Henry Van Styn, LJ, September 2011: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/moose
The Definitive Guide to Catalyst (c) 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4302-2365-8 (print) and 978-1-4302-2366-5 (on-line).
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I like post a complete catalyst tutorial, i want to know if reference for it article, tks
Really nice article! Catalyst
Really nice article! Catalyst is great framework with great community behind it
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Good Job!
Nice work! I hope you'll continue with another MVC framework from Perl, a more lighter one, Perl Dancer.
With so many people still thinking of perl as "that legacy language that you run from the cgi-bin directory", it's good to see the modern stuff get some coverage. Nice one!
Good work, looking for more!
Only LinuxJournal could have come up with such article. Good work!
Try to post a complete catalyst tutorial, there's only one single tutorial available (CPAN's tutorial for catalyst, the best one).
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Quake Live is one year old. Officially, anyway, because it had a big old beta before then. And years and years of being a commercially released game before that. So it's really very old, but sporting a new haircut and trendy jeans. Anyway, Id are celebrating that anniversary with some kind of event, and with a new map. Still no Spider Crossings on the CTF roster though, which is the only birthday present I care about. I still play on here fairly regularly too, those red and blue flags are in my blood. Sigh.
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Nah, UT was always better.
/10-year-old holy war.
Couldn't get into Q3 Live, I'm too much of a Soldier of Fortune 2 fan! Even TF2 is left collecting dust due to me still playing it lol Just wish they would put it on Steam or GOGso there would be some new players
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
No, wait. I just threw up out of my mouth a lot.
No. NO. NO. NO. NO. You are wrong. WRONGEDY WRONG. Your brain is stupid and you can probably only think stupid thoughts. You're stupider than a box of dogs. You're stupider than a box of TEN dogs. Someone probably threw you in chemicals or hit you on the head and on the chest with an oar. You probably got brain damage from saying so many wrong things all the time or radiation. Your opinion is wildly divergent from reality and it makes me EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE TO BE READING YOUR ELECTRONIC WORDS. Someone should throw you off of a thing. Someone should insult your possessions and your visage. SOMEONE SHOULD SET FIRE TO YOUR SHOES.
"I do think it's quite telling that there have been 4 UT games and only one Quake THREE."
Quite telling… about your mental retardation.
The only thing UT had was the ridiculous nuclear missile launcher you would control after firing it directly and with enough skill could snipe anyone anywhere with it.
Oh and the teleporter, I guess. Other than that, it was Quake for those with ADHD.
Quake 1, Quake 2 also had multiplayer, but that doesn't matter. Quake 2 multiplayer still beats Quake 3 Arena.
All Quake 3 Arena really did, was try to turn the Quake franchise into a tournament-like game too.
Too bad UT already did a much better job at being exactly that.
I'm pretty sure that's why they have focused on SP in Quake 4 again for sure and let Raven Software do Quake Wars. Truth be told, that game pretty much fails in comparison to the excellent but critically received Unreal Tournament 3.
It's been a great year for QL, I imagine this next year will bring the masses private servers. Something I am eagerly awaiting.
And yes QL > UT
Jim care to share your QL nick?
Quake 3 and Team Arena all the way for me. I remember playing this on my Windows ME (ugh I just threw up in my mouth a little) machine, telephone extension cable stretched all the way up the stairs :)
Something about UT just never felt as pure to me, I remember getting so hyped up about the massive preview in PC Gamer my 13 year old self nearly crapped themselves! I've recently removed UT3 from my machine too. I want to like it, I really do but I think if Epic don't love their own game how am I meant to!
Still wtb new Quake game in the setting of the first one, maybe minus the faecal colour scheme and definately no Raven dev team…
I wish I could enjoy Quake Live.
Graphics and things aren't everything, but every time I tried to play, I was soooo put off by it's 1990 looking graphics.
I've always been a UT boy. Quake 3 kept to the tradition of me not liking any games in the Quake series (or indeed to Doom one). That said, while UT nailed DM best of the series, UT2004 made the game more fun (if adding uncesseary crap as well). Then UT3 was just well, not right, much like UT2003 was.
(see what I did there? :P)
Made yourself look stupahd!
Oh Quake vs. UT argument, how I love thee from the PC Gamer UK forums in the late 90's. Come to think of it, I can't remember my forum name from those days for the life of me…
Even though UT99 is a great game and had more features, I clocked more hours in and made more custom maps for Q3. QL is fun, I just don't have time to play it.
Bizarrely, unlike previous posts, you missed the "not" out of the title.
Going to have to agree with this, here.
Sie mein Herr sind ein Gewinner!
i was always the quake fan. no matter what part, i played them to perfection. or at least my definition of perfection. when the first ut came out it was fun and different to quake. but whats very important for me is the art style and the level design. and ut never had any of these better than what id software did with quake.
also i think quake3 has the best gameplay in a first person shooter till now. the movement, the speed, rocketjumps and whatnot.
I do like that this debate still rages.
Agreed, it's never going to be settled. One side prefers Q3 and the other side is clearly right.
Kieron, people still argue over operating systems (even within the Windows camp, between XP and 7, for crying out loud), games consoles, UNIX text editors, and which pretend sky-people supposedly actually exist.
Stupid arguments with a severe defecit of facts and little relation to genuine debate are a natural part of humanity. At least stupid computer ones involve participants too glued to their screens to do anything as physically demanding as migrate up to violence.
ST > Amiga
O no you didn't!!!1
UT99 was the only unreal i liked. And Q3 was the only quake I didn't like. Go figure.
right on brother.
Let me add:
UT CTF Instagib > all
Maps: CTF_2Fort, CTF_AndAction
I always liked the Valve port of Quake 1 Deathmatch to the Half-life engine. Deathmatch Classic.
Huh? Where? Haven't seen it and would love to.
Although it apparently costs £2 to buy, if you stick an old HL CD Key into steam, you should get it in a massive bundle of stuff (seeing as Valve used to provide it for free and all)
Sadly there were very few servers up last time I played…
Ah Unreal Tournament. How do I love thee, let me count the ways: Phobos, Face, Deck, "M-M-M-M-ULTIKILL!" Quake 3 is admittedly a brilliant and frantic experience that drills right into the adrenal glands and sets them up to 11 but it couldn't match the glorious tactical ballet of the Tournament.
Just try submitting anything for a computer games design course in Q3's engine, see how far that gets you. Much love for UT3 here, just for the editor and assets! Not that I actually, you know, play it all that much… though strangely I have begun playing it again lately.
Quake baby! Rocket jumping to the mooon!
(the original at least)
Unreal vs Quake vs Source Engine? Come on .. serious?
Well since Source is ultimately based on Quake 1 code I don't think there is a Vs in there, it would clearly be siding with Q3 against UT.
On that file everyone can see my poor drawing skills ;-D
How did you find this? Do you get a not every time someone links to that file? :shock:
I do some managerial work for the Elders Of The Internet.
link to eldersoftheinternet.com
Everytime people link that file, the red led on the box blink.
TDWTF style of comment:
I want the source code of the engine of that screenshot, to fix the particles. Man… a big sprite for the explosion, that clip on the ground. A trail made of "puffs" of smoke. And no, don't think this is cheap on your netbook graphic card, because this style of particles will ask too much fillrate of your card. /nerd-ism off
Also, my captcha is UT-SF
The title of this piece is bullshit.
Quake Live is also bullshit, as I was never able to run it.
Even my apostles agree.
Hey, I've been wondering: What would You do?
I always hated Q3, but always loved UT. Not the shitty sequels, but the original UT. Fantastic game.
I am glad to see such a loyal outpouring of vigilant believers in Liandri's finest high-impact sport to decry the foul pornography of lies being spread by this heathen "Jim" fellow.
Also, all the UT99 > UTlater sentiment. +5, correct. It's amazing how much flabbier they feel when played in comparison—and how much more like Q3's obsessively tuned, precision-engineered, über-hardcore deathmatch they make UT99 feel.
… is what the tattoo says above my butt.
Right about the Hello Kitty tattoo?
One more vote fot UT. I loved the atmosphere and furious gameplay of the original Unreal Tournament, heck, I even played it on a netbook recently (I won't post it here, but if you click on my name, you can find the appropriate post on my blog). For me it is an unparalleled experience that makes Quake III look and feel bland. There, I said it.
QL didn't do it for me. First it was long waiting in the queue, then it was boring-as-fuck tutorial, then it was trial shootout with annoying bot that changed from mellow pacifist into ruthless killer in last thirty seconds of match, effectively doubling my score and leaving me with my jaw on the floor, then it was MORE waiting, because levels had to load, then it was EVEN MORE waiting in the queue and then QL lost my cache / cookies / server-side data / whatever, because I had to redo the whole tutorial / first bot combo. I was seeing red at that time.
After all that it turned out to be an online port of ten year old game that for me was 'meh' back then and even more 'meh' in the current day. Tried a couple matches, played against friends and some online personas, quit it and never came back. I did have one or two UT deathmatches in the meantime and they were still fun, though.
Been a UT fan for a while, but tried Q3 recently and definitely appreciate its minimalist approach. The game just works.
Still, that these two games are still being debated over 10 years later shows how great both are, especially compared to today's shooters.
I guess my problem with Quake 3 was that I played enormous amounts of Quake 1 (didn't get into Quake 2), and Q3 was different enough from Q1 to feel … not quite right, but not as different as UT, which was its own wild and crazy game.
To me, UT distilled the see-man-aim-shoot dynamic to its purest essence with the Instagib mutator. I loved how insane that turned things, it turned the game into some kind of Zen experience, when you tried to shut down as much competing thoughts as possible. It felt like your eyes saw an enemy come into view and send the orders to shoot directly to your hand, bypassing your brain entirely.
Quake Live has an instagib mode, which is great. I don't know when that was added to Q3 — maybe it was there from the beginning; I don't remember it. But the levels aren't designed for that kind of gameplay as much as UT seemed to be.
Anyway:id, bring me Quakeworld Live!
I would so definitely play QWL.
Way to go, RPS. Ignite a comment war on a trivial post with just five symbols in the title, which don't have anything to do with the post itself. :]]
Oh, and as a true UT believer, I condemn RPS and from now on, shall never visit it again.
I think it's all in good humour, with said title designed to spark exactly this reaction.
I wrote a poem just for this thread:
Lo, noble UT
stands 'lone atop the food chain
Quake 3 is 4 newbz
Thank you, thank you, and thank you. *bows*


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Google says that by scanning and enabling digital access to millions of books from research library collections, it will give students, researchers, and others unprecedented power to search and discover within digital archives.
But now that a federal appeals court judge has rejected a proposed settlement that took years of haggling with authors and publishers to formulate, the company has some searching of its own to do. Google will have to discover a different way to secure the rights to grant access to out-of-print "orphan works" before it can start licensing them for public consumption through its controversial Google Books project, Judge Denny Chin said in a decision handed down Tuesday.
A number of higher ed interests had sent letters to Chin weighing in on the proposed settlement, which would have established an independent Book Rights Registry to disburse profits from Google's licensing of digital access to "orphan works" -- books for which there is no clear copyright holder. Orphans make up roughly a fifth of the 15 million books in Google's digital archive.
Many in higher education voiced support for the settlement, including the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Abilene Christian University, the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, the United States Distance Learning Association, and the United States Student Association. Most cheered the possibility of broader and easier access to hard-to-get books. "While inter-library loan reduces the inequalities among libraries, there is a financial cost as well as a delay for scholars requesting the work, with no guarantee that an individual book will even be useful to their research," Jeanine Varner, provost at Abilene Christian, wrote in a 2009 amicus brief. "Thus, the settlement is a significant change for the better by creating a means for us to offer immediate electronic access to crucial published resources."
But in a 48-page decision light on references to libraries, students, and research, Judge Chin, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, appeared to find most persuasive among the academic petitioners Pamela Samuelson, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, who wrote a brief in early 2010 on behalf of 80 professors in objection to the proposed settlement.
Samuelson had argued that it would be inappropriate for Google and the publishers to profit from the use of orphaned scholarly works -- which she believes comprise a disproportionately large number of the orphans -- when the academics who wrote them probably intended that they be as freely accessible as possible. "Many academic authors … would prefer that orphan books be treated on an 'open access' or 'free use' basis rather than one where they would be controlled by one private entity," Chin wrote in a footnote, citing Samuelson's friend of the court brief.
The judge also cited the Berkeley law professor in noting that when Google began scanning collections at large research libraries in 2004, it did not state any intent to sell access to those books later -- a purpose that would have set off copyright-infringement alarms if it had been made explicit. "The Google Book Search initiative envisioned in the [agreement] is not a library," the judge wrote in another footnote, quoting Samuelson directly. "It is instead a complex and large-scale commercial enterprise in which Google -- and Google alone -- will obtain a license to sell millions of books for decades to come."
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia and a notable Google gadfly, said the company overplayed its hand by essentially trying to rewrite the rules governing the copying and distribution of book content through a class-action settlement. "Google clearly flew too close to the sun on this one," he wrote in an e-mail. "…This is not what class-action suits and settlements are supposed to do."
Vaidhyanathan said that Google now faces the choice of either continuing to fight for its interpretation of copyright law in the courts or scaling back its plans for a digital bookstore. "If Google decides to take the modest way out, it can still ask Congress to make the needed changes to copyright law that would let Google and other companies and libraries compete to provide the best information to the most people," the media scholar says. "Congress should have been the place to start this in the first place."
According to a flow chart released last March by the Association of College and Research Libraries -- satirically dubbed "GBS March Madness" for its resemblance to a tournament bracket and coincidence with last year's NCAA basketball tournament -- the low road would be for Google to petition for a writ of certiorari and make its case to the Supreme Court.
If Google instead tries to rejigger the settlement agreement to Chin's liking, it will be in a substantially weaker bargaining position given Tuesday's ruling, said Joseph Esposito, a consultant who advises scholarly publishers. Whereas the current form of the settlement required authors and publishers to actively "opt out" or else relinquish their rights to Google, the judge said in his decision Tuesday that he would prefer a settlement that stipulates that copyright holders retain their rights by default. "One imagines that the publishers will be more aggressive in renewed settlement discussions," said Esposito.
Some in higher ed who had heralded the proposed settlement agreement said they were disappointed by Tuesday's decision, which could mean many more months of litigation.
"Ultimately the balance between the rights of copyright owners and users has to be balanced -- but in my opinion the proposed settlement achieved that balance," said Jonathan A. Brown, president of the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, who had written in support of the settlement in 2009, in an e-mail.
"I do feel disappointment with regard to the loss of access the [agreement] would have made possible," said John P. Wilkin, an associate university librarian at the University of Michigan, which has been one of Google's closest collaborators. "Here we should keep in mind the range of things [it] would have made possible, not only opening a vast collection to library users everywhere, but facilitating perhaps the broadest provision of services to users with print disabilities anyone ever conceived," Wilkin wrote in an e-mail. "These would have been game-changers not only for higher education but for constituencies that are largely neglected."
But Esposito said that academics and students constitute only a small portion of the potential stakeholders in the Google Books case, and those who were disappointed by Tuesday's decision would do well to be humble in their lamentations. "It is widely assumed that the digitization of so many books would have a significant positive benefit for higher education," Esposito said in an e-mail. "I think that is just plain wrong. There is a reason books went out of print in the past, a reason that orphans are orphans. These are books of marginal value to higher education, as the historical lack of demand demonstrates.
"The higher education community flatters itself to think that the Google mass digitization project and the proposed settlement was about them," he continued, "but the real object in this case from the beginning was the establishment of legal precedents for future disputes about copyright and the access to texts by machines, in part motivated by the prospect of the commercialization of data-mining techniques."
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Starting Oct. 11, Mr. Holiday's School of High Drama and Over Acting will present theater acting classes for youth.
Participants embark on a journey of self discovery, which will culminate in a performance on stage at the Lee County Alliance for the Arts in Fort Myers.
"It can be a challenge for youngsters today to find their own voice," Shawn Holiday, who has been directing children's plays and teaching since 1998, said. "By rehearsing a short play and interacting through improvisation games, participants learn a lot about themselves while pretending to be someone else."
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For ages 8-13, the School of High Drama is on Thursdays from 6:30-8 p.m.
Holiday will also be offering his Pint Size Performers class for ages 4-7 on Saturdays from 9-10 a.m. beginning Oct. 13.
Diction, poise, teamwork, communication, creativity, problem solving, making adjustments, personal expression and responsibility are some of the valuable skills emphasized in his programs.
All classes will held at the Alliance for the Arts and include a final performance in the Foulds Theatre.
The Lee County Alliance for the Arts is at 10091 McGregor Blvd. in Fort Myers.
For information, call (239) 939-2787 or visit: www.artinlee.org.


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"Scissor Sisters" are a glam-rock band with influences drawn from disco, pop and the gay-club scene of New York City, and was named after a lesbian sex position (see tribadism). (The group's initial full name was "Dead Lesbian and the Fibrillating Scissor Sisters".) The band was formed in 2001.
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The members of the band include:
* Lead vocalist Jake Shears (born Jason Sellards);
* Bassist/keyboardist Babydaddy (born Scott Hoffman);
* Vocalist/Mistress of Ceremonies Ana Matronic (born Ana Lynch);
* Guitarist Del Marquis (born Derek Gruen);
* Drummer Paddy Boom (born Patrick Secore).
Live shows and performances have included John "JJ" Garden, son of Graeme Garden of The Goodies, on keyboards/guitar.
The nucleus of the band formed in 2001 when Shears and Babydaddy connected via mutual friends, and began to play music together. The duo met Ana Matronic at a cabaret night, and the group soon began playing gigs. After becoming a quintet, the band was signed to independent record label "A Touch of Class", and recorded a single, "Electrobix", which had as its B-side a disco/glam cover of the Pink Floyd classic, "Comfortably Numb". http://www.washington...
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Is whistling at your kids okay to get their attention, or is this like calling your dog?
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Question: Is whistling at your child okay to get their attention?
Always okay... no problem
In crowded areas only or similar
Not okay
Total Votes: 35
Question: Is whistling at your child okay to get their attention?
Total Votes: 35
Do you consider whistling an okay method of getting your child's attention? My husband and I have differing views on this and I am wondering what other parents think. Thanks!
I should also mention that we have very active children (a 5 yr old and 3 yr old twins that love to run!) BTW... I am the one that cringes at the whistling...
I don't see why not. Sometimes you need something like a whistle to grab their attention. I wouldn't do it on a regular basis, though. It would stop working.
I say whatever works, besides screaming at them. If clapping ( what I do) or whistling grabs their attention and holds it enough so you can relay instructions to them ( we are staying away from the street, you've gone to far, we're going this way, etc) then go for it.
My Dad always snapped his fingers at us, and I do that to my kids now.
Growing up, I always preferred the snap to him calling my name and yelling at me in front of a crowd! One loud snap and all 3 of us would fall in line next to him, and then he'd quietly explain what whoever was doing wrong.
I think to some degree it is good to have a way to communicate with them that stands out from the noise of a crowd or breaks through something else that has them completely zombified!
Of course you still teach them how to be polite and such, but then they know when Mom whistles she's serious!
I have seen many other parents use different methods. Some whistle, some snap, some clap their hands or make a strange sound.


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US-trained Pak commandos to be deployed in FATAAugust 4th, 2008 - 10:12 am ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug.4 (ANI): Bowing to mounting pressure from the Bush Administration, the Pakistan Government has reportedly agreed to deploy a Pakistani Special Service Group (SSG) unit, trained by Americans, in the Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan.
The Daily Times quoted a senior Pakistani official as saying that the deployment would meet Washingtons longstanding demand for immediate action in the Tribal Areas, while at the same time ensure the sanctity of Pakistans sovereignty.
The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that the Pakistani commando division, trained by the United States, is an elite special operations force similar to the U.S. Armys Special Forces, or Green Berets.
The Americans are telling us that they need action now, the paper quoted a senior Pakistani official who attended meetings between Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Bush in Washington last week, as saying.
Islamabad has also proposed allowing the U.S. to deploy more sophisticated equipment in the FATA in a joint effort to track and kill insurgents.
The Pakistan Army has told the Pentagon that it is planning to move a major unit of its regular army into the Tribal Areas and senior Pakistani officials have proposed a plan in which the intelligence services of both countries would work to end the conflict between the spies and informants that each uses in the Tribal Areas and who have often been working against each other.
US officials have been accusing Pakistan of not doing enough to block the cross-border movement of militants, while Pakistan has criticised the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for cultivating assets that Islamabad believes is not in its interests.
Pakistans Ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, has confirmed that various proposals were discussed during last weeks meetings, but said he could not talk about them. (ANI)
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PHILADELPHIA - Cliff Lee threw eight dominant innings against the team he led to the World Series last year, Ryan Howard hit a solo homer and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Texas Rangers 2-0 Saturday night.
Lee (3-4) allowed five hits and struck out 10 to earn his first win since April 14. The lefty helped the Rangers capture the first AL pennant in franchise history after joining them last July. But he turned down more money from Texas and the New York Yankees to return to Philadelphia, signing a $120 million, five-year deal.
Rangers starter Colby Lewis (4-5) gave up two runs and seven hits in 62/3 innings. He didn't get any support from a struggling offense that's scored only 11 runs in the last five games. Texas is 1-4 in that span.
Howard snapped a career-worst 0 for 23 slump when he connected to give the NL East-leading Phillies a 1-0 lead in the second. He ripped a 1-1 fastball a few rows deep in right.
That's all Lee needed. Ryan Madson finished for his ninth save in as many tries.
Fans and everyone in Philadelphia's dugout had a scare in the third when Lewis led off with a liner off Lee's back. The ball caromed to shortstop Jimmy Rollins, who threw out Lewis. In his typically nonchalant style, Lee waved off the trainer when he ran out to the mound and didn't even take a warmup pitch.
� Blue Jays 7, Astros 5
TORONTO - Two defensive blunders by the Houston Astros gave Toronto an opening, and the Blue Jays' offense barged right through.
Jose Bautista hit two homers, increasing his major league-leading total to 18, Yunel Escobar added a tiebreaking drive and Blue Jays rallied from 4-0 down to beat the Astros.
After Astros shortstop Clint Barmes failed to come up with a potential double-play grounder in the sixth, Bautista made Houston pay by swatting a three-run homer.
In the seventh, outfielder Brian Bogusevic came up short on a fly ball from Toronto's Eric Thames. Jose Molina followed with a game-tying single, and Escobar followed with a go-ahead homer.
Bautista's three-run drive came off Brett Myers in the sixth. He added a solo shot to left against Jose Valdez in the eighth, his third multihomer game of the season and 14th of his career.
� White Sox 9, Dodgers 2
CHICAGO - Mark Buehrle threw seven strong innings to become the career victories leader in interleague play, Paul Konerko drove in three runs and the Chicago White Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Buehrle (4-3) allowed seven hits and two runs to win for the third time in four starts, giving him his 24th interleague victory - breaking his tie with Jamie Moyer atop the career list. He struck out one, and didn't walk anyone for the second time in three starts.
Alex Rios and Brent Lillibridge homered in Chicago's 16-hit attack, the fifth time this season the White Sox have had at least that many. They broke it open with a six-run fourth against former teammate Jon Garland (1-4).
� Cardinals 3, Royals 0
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Jake Westbrook pitched eight shutout innings and Matt Holliday broke a scoreless tie with a two-run homer in the eighth, lifting St. Louis to a win over Kansas City.
Westbrook, (4-3) whose longest start this year had been seven innings, gave up four hits, with three walks and three strikeouts while raising his career mark in Kauffman Stadium to 3-0. Kansas City's Nate Adcock went five scoreless innings in his first major league start.
Albert Pujols singled off Tim Collins (2-2) with one out in the eighth and then Holliday, who came in with an NL-leading .357 average, hit reliever Blake Wood's 2-1 pitch 433 feet over the left field fence.
� Indians 2, Reds 1
CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Indians have never considered their terrific start a surprise.
But with each dramatic victory, their fans begin to believe and even expect late-inning comebacks.
Travis Buck hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the seventh inning to give Josh Tomlin and the Indians a victory over the Cincinnati Reds. Buck connected with two outs against Homer Bailey (3-1), who took a one-hitter into the seventh.
� Orioles 8, Nationals 3
BALTIMORE - It had been seven weeks since Jeremy Guthrie won a game.
Not that he has been bad during that frustrating stretch. He just hasn't gotten any run support.
Guthrie pitched seven solid innings to win for the first time since opening day and the Baltimore Orioles backed him with eight runs and 14 hits in a win over the Washington Nationals.
� Marlins 5, Rays 3
MIAMI - Javier Vazquez's best start of the year began with a fast start.
For the first time this season, the Florida Marlins right-hander made it through the first inning without allowing a run. He went on to pitch seven shutout innings and Florida defeated cross-state rival Tampa Bay for the second day in a row.
Vazquez (3-4) had made only one quality start previously this season, but he limited the Rays to three hits and two walks.
� Giants 3, A's 0
SAN FRANCISCO - Tim Lincecum pitched a three-hitter, and the San Francisco Giants beat the cross-bay rival Oakland Athletics for their fourth straight victory.
The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner allowed Ryan Sweeney's two-out single in the first before retiring 21 straight batters, leading the Giants past the A's for the second day in a row.
Lincecum (4-4) struck out five and walked none for his eighth career complete game, handing Oakland its fourth straight loss.
� Yankees 7, Mets 3
NEW YORK - Mark Teixeira homered for the third straight game, Alex Rodriguez also connected and the New York Yankees went deep four times to back A.J. Burnett in a victory over the Mets.
Russell Martin and Curtis Granderson also homered as the Yankees evened the Subway Series at one apiece and snapped a six-game skid at home - their longest since 2003.
All four homers came off Chris Capuano (3-5), who allowed only 11 runs in his previous five starts. But he couldn't keep up the Mets' run of stingy pitching lately - they had given up just one run while winning their past three games.
� Pirates 6, Tigers 2
PITTSBURGH - Andrew McCutchen went 3 for 4 and scored twice, and Kevin Correia finally won at home as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Detroit Tigers.
Correia (6-4) entered the game winless in three starts at PNC Park this season but allowed two runs and seven hits over 62/3 innings, striking out four as the surging Pirates captured their season-high fourth straight win.
Joel Hanrahan helped Pittsburgh escape a two-on, no-out jam in the ninth to pick up his 13th save and hand the Tigers their fifth consecutive loss.
� Cubs 9, Red Sox 3
BOSTON - Reed Johnson hit a go-ahead two-run double in an error-filled, eight-run eighth inning and the Chicago Cubs, wearing replica uniforms of their last series in Fenway Park in 1918, beat the Boston Red Sox.
The Cubs' last visit to the 99-year-old stadium before Friday night's 15-5 loss was in the World Series 93 years ago. Chicago won the fifth game then, but Boston took the championship by winning Game 6.


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Sheffield: A61 Chesterfield Rd, Woodseats, A61 Halifax Rd, Grenoside, A61 Meadowhead, A6101 Rivelin Valley Rd, A6135 Chapeltown Rd, A621 Baslow Rd, Totley, A629 Burncross Rd, Chapeltown, A629 Halifax Rd, Wortley B6082 Carlisle St East, Burngreave, B6200 Handsworth Rd, B6200 Retford Rd, Harborough Ave, Normanton Hill, Twentywell Ln, Wheel Ln, Rotherham: A6023 Doncaster Rd, Mexborough, A6023 Low Rd, Conisbrough, A6123 Herringthorpe Valley Rd, A57 Worksop Rd, South Anston, A629 Wortley Rd, Kimberworth, A631 Bawtry Rd, Brecks, A631 Bawtry Rd, Brinsworth, A631 Bawtry Rd, Hellaby, A631 Bawtry Rd, Wickersley, A631 Rotherham Rd, Maltby, A630 Doncaster Rd, Thrybergh, Doncaster Rd, Wath, Middle Ln South, Rotherham, B6059 Wales Rd, Kiveton Park, Pontefract Rd, Brampton Vale Rd, Thrybergh, Worksop Rd, Aston.
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Shop Across Texas: Online tool highlights Midland stores
Published 10:06 am, Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Photo: James Durbin
What's your top shopping spot in Midland?
ShopAcrossTexas.com -- which highlights "Best Stores in Town" in 48 Texas cities -- features dozens of antique, home decor, lawn and garden and women's specialty businesses in the Tall City. The list is based on a six-week survey held each May.
"We have found some shockingly good retail in Midland, Texas. Who knew?" the website states about Midland stores.
Favorites include Alldredge Gardens and Susie's South Forty. Click here to view more Midland stores featured on ShopAcrossTexas.com.
What's your favorite?
http://t.co/m98AECqAjR @shopacrosstexas has shared their favorite spots in Midland,TX! #ShopMidland #MidlandTX #FeeltheEnergy
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Taj Gibson is on his way to Minnesota, giving Tom Thibodeau another trusted veteran to join Jimmy Butler and the new-look Timberwolves.
Gibson agreed to terms on a two-year, $28 million deal on Sunday, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal cannot be finalized until the NBA's moratorium ends Thursday.
Gibson has spent the bulk of his career in Chicago, including five seasons under Thibodeau. Gibson and Butler brought a grinding, hard-nosed, defensive-minded attitude to those Bulls that embodied exactly what Thibodeau wanted in a team.
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The Dia Art Foundation is positioned to re-claim the lease for the 10 acres of state land on which Robert Smithson's masterwork Spiral Jetty sits as early as this week, MAN has learned. Dia will meet with officials from the Utah Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands in Utah on Thursday, at which point DNR and Dia will hold what could be the final negotiation to determine terms for a new lease.
Spiral Jetty, located just off Rozel Point in the north of the Great Salt Lake, is one of the most influential artworks of the 20th century and is widely regarded as the world's greatest earthwork.
"The likely scenario is that the lease will be re-negotiated and awarded to Dia," DNR spokesperson Jason Curry confirmed on Tuesday afternoon. Curry said that no other negotiations or meetings are planned with the two other lease applicants. Curry said that the lease details, including but not limited to the term and cost, were still in draft form and that it would be premature to discuss them ahead of tomorrow's meeting. He emphasized that a lease with Dia is not complete, but that Dia is the "likely" winner. [Image: Spiral Jetty via Flickr user Bryce W. Garner.]
Dia had held the site lease since 1999, when the Smithson estate donated the artwork to Dia. However, the status of Dia's lease was thrown into doubt in June, when Dia and DNR became enmeshed in an administrative snafu as a result of which Dia may have failed to renew its lease after it expired earlier this year.
When the apparent availability of the lease became public in June, the DNR's Forestry, Fire and State Lands division accepted three lease applications for the Spiral Jetty site: from Dia, from a new non-profit called The Jetty Foundation and from 89-year-old Seattle collector and philanthropist Herbert Steiner. Scott R. Jenkins, Steiner's attorney, told me that it is his understanding that Steiner was not successful in bidding for the lease. Jetty Foundation founder Greg Allen declined to comment because the process is still ongoing, but he said that he had no plans to withdraw his application if and until the entire process is complete.
"It is happening and we're happy to be moving forward," Katie Sonnenborn, Dia's director of external affairs told me on Tuesday.
A source close to the situation told MAN that a key lease term is expected to be that Dia agree to partner with a local art organization, effectively an adaptation the proposal put forth by The Jetty Foundation — minus The Jetty Foundation's involvement. Sonnenborn said that Dia would have no comment on possible lease terms until after meeting with DNR on Thursday.
That requirement would ensure that the Spiral Jetty-site lease-holder is more involved in Great Salt Lake-related conservation and management issues, particularly when it comes to state and regional planning. The GSL is the focus of two ongoing state-level initiatives, the Great Salt Lake Advisory Council, which was created by the Utah legislature, and DNR's decennial review of GSL management. By requiring that New York-based Dia find a local partner engaged in Utah and GSL-related issues, DNR would seem to be indicating that it wants to include consideration of the future of Spiral Jetty when the state considers the future of the lake and its ecosystem. (Earlier this month Dia told MAN that it has not been involved with any of Utah's major GSL oversight or planning bodies since 2008.)
MAN has learned that Dia's likely partner is the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, which is based at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. It is not clear how long a Dia-UMFA relationship would take to work out, a process which could result in a delay before any formal announcement of a lease signing. According to UMFA director Gretchen Dietrich, the museum and Dia have not yet formalized a relationship or talked with DNR about a partnership. Still, Dietrich said that the UMFA has a pre-existing relationship with Dia and that it is ready to work with DNR and with Dia to ensure the future of Spiral Jetty. She expects to be engaged in conversations with both Dia and DNR on Thursday. [Image: UMFA, via Machado and Silvetti Associates.]
"I don't have more specific information about what the lease will or will not include," Dietrich told me on Tuesday. "We're committed to helping in any way we can, and if we are invited to work with DNR and with Dia, we'd be happy to do everything we can to ensure that the Jetty remains cared for and is protected going forward. However, it's safe to say that conversations about that lie in the future. We are very happy to play a role. But what that exactly works out to be determined by these three parties."
Dietrich said that she believed that the three parties would succeed in coming to an agreement about some form of shared stewardship or involvement with the Jetty site. She said that she wasn't sure how her organization would fund its new, potential involvement with Spiral Jetty, but that there is a growing sense in Utah that Spiral Jetty is important to the state and she hopes that the funding community will respond to that.
"I really believe Dia is the right entity to take the lead on Spiral Jetty and I think we will in short order know what's going on," Dietrich said, referring to Thursday's meeting between Dia and DNR officials. "I think it's appropriate that if there's a local organization to take the lead on [engaging with the Great Salt Lake Advisory Council or with the DNR planning process] that it be the MFA." [Image: Robert Smithson, Spiral of Sulphur, 1970. Collection of UMFA.]
Dia and UMFA have worked together before, most notably around the just-closed UMFA exhibition "The Smithson Effect," which explored Robert Smithson's impact on contemporary art. Dietrich said that Dia helped UMFA build out the show's web presence, especially the section on Spiral Jetty.


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An opera festival is supporting a canine charity.
Winslow Hall Opera's production of Donizetti's Scottish tragedy, Lucia di Lammermoor, has performances from Friday until Saturday, September 13, at Winslow Hall.
The show is staged in a covered marquee in the hall's grounds and parking is in the field opposite.
This year, a share from the proceeds will be donated to Great Horwood-based charity Medical Detection Dogs, co-founded by Winslow man Roger Jefcoate.
For dates and tickets, see www.winslowhallopera.co.uk


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Primordial Sound Meditation
A part of Dr Sahdev's 'Breathe and Heal' Therapy (DSBH Therapy)
AUM and Primordial Vibration
OM or AUM is the most important and significant Mantra. It is considered as the root mantra of all mantras. In fact, all mantras start with OM. OM is the most often chanted sound among all the sacred sounds on earth. The one mantra you start your yoga class with and end with, is the mantra OM or AUM. It is the most important mantra of Yoga. This mantra has been handed down to us by sages; Maharishi Vishwamitra discovered this sound during meditation.
It is believed traditionally that every 'thing' that we see or feel, comes from Primordial Vibration, which is symbolised by AUM. This sound is considered as the sound of the existence. It is believed that the whole universe, in its most fundamental form, is made up of vibrating, pulsating energy. Vibration produces sound and AUM is considered the humming sound of this cosmic energy. AUM is said to be the primordial creative sound from which the entire universe has manifested. It is also known as the 'Anahat Nada', the "Unstruck Sound", meaning, the sound that is not made by striking of two things together. If you observe the nature of sound you'll find that all ordinary audible sounds are produced by the striking of two objects. All sounds within our range of listening are produces by things visible or invisible, striking each other or vibrating together, resulting in pulsating waves of air molecules which we interpret as sound.
In contrast to this, AUM is the sound which is not the result of the striking of two objects. It rather emanates on its own. It is the primal sound of the universe that contains all sounds in itself. All material objects, all living beings, including each of us, all spiritual teachings, including Yoga, all languages, including Vedic language, all scriptures, including the Vedas, everything has emanated from this primordial vibration!
Human system is capable of producing only three fundamental sounds – A, U and M. All other sounds are produced by permutation and combination of these three sounds. AUM is the marriage of these three fundamental sounds – A, U and M. Let's do an experiment: Keep your tongue still – hold it with your hand. Then try producing different sounds. You'll be able to produce only three sounds – A, U and M. Tongue is that ingenious instrument, with the help of other parts of oral cavity, which helps you produce all different types of sounds. That is why these three are called the root sounds.
Let's do another experiment: sit down straight and chant A…, U…, and M… one by one. Do you feel any vibration anywhere when you chant them separately? A vibrates Manipura chakra (lower abdomen) to chest, U vibrates upper chest to throat, and M vibrates the whole head. This one sound AUM vibrates your whole body from inside! There are 72,000 nadis in the body and they meet 3/4th of an inch below naval. The sound of AUM produces vibration in this Manipura chakra. Each one of these sounds activates certain nadis and produces effect in certain dimension of your energy system. Vibration produces sound and sound produces creation…! Sound can create, maintain or annihilate.
Science tells us that all matter is formed of molecules, which are further made up of the smallest indivisible particles called atoms. Atoms are further made up of sub-atomic particles – electrons, neutrons, protons, pi-ons, mesons etc. Each one of these sub-atomic structures is particulate as well as wave in nature. Each sub-atomic particle is further divisible into quarks which are only wave in nature, a form of energy. So, all of us are, in the true essence, made up of energy. We are just condensed energy forms! Einstein formulated his famous equation that E = mc², where E stands for energy, m stands for mass, and c is a constant. So, this equation shows that energy is directly proportional to the mass, meaning that mass cannot be destroyed or created; it can just change from one form into another. OM or AUM symbolises that everything in any macrocosm or microcosm, is a state of energy originated from that primordial vibration.
But unlike all other mantra, there is no meaning of OM. It is actually not a word, it is a sound. As per Hindu tradition, OM is the purest name of God. It is the sound of the supreme consciousness. So when you repeat OM, you actually take the name of God. Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati was founder of the 'Arya Samaj'. He used to write ' Ao3m
' instead of 'Aom '. The '3 ' (Devanagari digit 3) between O and M is called 'ploot'. Swami Dayanand used 'ploot' to emphasize long pronunciation of 'O'. Only followers of Swami Dayanand Saraswati (members of 'Arya Samaj') write ' Ao3m
' instead of 'ॐ'. The syllable that is prior to a ploot is pronounced for a longer time/period (more than double). So ' Ao3m ' is to be pronounced as OOOm (o…m).
Om in Sanatan Dharma. Sanatan means old. Indian mystical and philosophical thinking is impregnated with Om, mentioned widely n the Upanishads, Tantras, Puranas, Samkhyas and Yoga Vashishta. It symbolises the essence of Sanatan Dharma (the Eternal Way), commonly known as Hinduism – the tolerant and profound conglomeration of spiritual thinking and practice from which Yoga has come. Om is widely known as the 'Mahat Mantra' – 'the great mantra'. Om is not directly mentioned in Rig Veda, probably because it was considered too sacred to utter or even write down. Om is first mentioned, albeit indirectly, in the Yajur Veda in verse 1:1 where it is known as the 'pranava' – 'the humming sound'- or 'udgitha' – 'the elevating chant'. Interestingly, no graphic representation of Om has yet been found in the extensive excavations of the so called Indus Valley civilization (circa 3000 BC, though probably much older). The reason may be either that Om was considered too sacred to be graphically represented, or that it had not yet been realised and brought into mainstream spiritual practice. The oldest direct references and descriptions of Om are to be found in the Upanishads which are considered to contain the essential teachings of the Vedas.
Om in the Mandukya Upanishad. The Mandukya Upanishad is the shortest of the Upanishads – the scriptures of Hindu Vedanta. It is in prose, consisting of twelve verses expounding the mystic syllable Aum, the three psychological states of waking, dreaming and sleeping, and the transcendent fourth state of illumination (Atyanta shunyata). This Upanishad has been greatly extolled. Muktikopanishad, says that the Mandukya Upanishad alone is enough for salvation. According to Dr Radhakrishnan, it contains the fundamental approach to reality.
The Mandukya Upanishad is exclusively dedicated to explaining the significance of Om. It says that Om symbolises everything manifest and yet it has its origin in the Unmanifest. In its analysis it writes Om as Aum with each of the three syllables having specific significance.
There are three mātrās ("letters", syllabic instants in prosody) in the word aum: 'a', 'u' and 'm'.
The 'a' stands for the state of wakefulness, where we experience externally through our mind and sense organs. The 'u' stands for the dream state, in which inward experiences are available. In the state of deep sleep, represented by the sound 'm', there is no desire and consciousness is gathered in upon itself.
But there is a fourth, transcendent state, that of one "who is neither inwardly nor outwardly aware, nor both inward and outward, nor with consciousness infolded on itself, who is unseen and ineffable, ungraspable, featureless, unthinkable and unnameable." The fourth state (turīya avasthā) corresponds to silence as the other three correspond to AUM. It is the substratum of the other three states. It is referred to as atyanta-shunyata (absolute emptiness).
Om in Indian Classical Music.
The phonemes of the Vedic hymns and the seven fundamental nodes – Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni of the Indian classical music have originated (distinctly recognized by the Rishis) from the vibrations of the sublime sound of Om in the Nature. The Vedic quote – 'Ekoham Bahusyami' implies that all the sounds, all the energies, all the motions and everything existing in the universe have originated from the vibrations of this single anahata nada. This is the source of the manifestation of the Shabda-Brahm and the Nada Brahm.
Om in the Bhagavad Gita. Om is widely mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita where the mantra Om is an essential part of its teachings and practice. Krishna tells Arjuna:
'O Arjuna, I am the taste of pure water, and the light of the moon and the sun.
I am the essential nature of the mantra Om mentioned in the holy scriptures,
the sound in ether, as well as the courage and virility of human beings.'
verse 7.8
Krishna, who symbolises underlying Intelligence or Consciousness, is the essence of Om. Om, as sound vibration, is an expression of this underlying Consciousness. Therefore, by practising Mantra or Gyana Yoga (or even Bhakti Yoga) we can trace Om back to its source. In this way, we are enabled to realise the nature of Consciousness.
Krishna talks of death and the importance of chanting Om at the time of death:
'The mantra Om symbolises Reality. At the time of death, repeat Om and you will go forth from the body and attain the Supreme Goal.'
verse 8.13
From the Yogic viewpoint, death is not just the time of disintegration of the physical body, but also a golden opportunity of directly realising our Immortal or Deathless Essence. Chanting Om at the point of death can be a valuable part of this process.
Krishna also says that all spiritual practices should be initiated with Om:
'Before starting sacrifices, holy practices and austerities (as prescribed by the scriptures), serious spiritual seekers should chant Om.'
verse 17.24
Indeed, this is what we often do before starting Yoga practice or Meditation – we chant Om a few time, either aloud or mentally, whether alone or in a group. Try it! It works wonders.
Symbolism of the Syllables of Aum. A, U and M, both as syllables and as sounds, as well as the silence after chanting Aum, symbolise a number of different things as follows:
Aum can be chanted by feeling the resonance of 'A' in the abdomen, then allowing the 'U' to resonate in the chest and finally, feeling the 'M' vibration in the head.
A = abdomen
U = chest/throat
M = head
After the sound of Aum there is silence; this symbolises that which is 'above' the head (i.e. beyond thinking), the ineffable: Spirit, or Consciousness.
According to the Mandukya Upanishad, the syllables of Aum represent the following realms of experience:
A = jagrat (waking state)
U = swapna (dreaming state)
M = sushupti (deep sleep state)
After chanting Aum there is silence; this symbolises the spiritually awakened state, which transcends the previous three states.
The three syllables of Aum symbolise the three levels of mind as follows:
A = conscious
U = subconscious
M = unconscious
After chanting Aum there is silence; this represents the Super-consciousness state which transcends the previous three states.
According to Yoga, Tantra, Samkhya and Vedanta, the whole of nature, including the human mind and body, is made up of the three gunas (Sanskrit, 'guna', qualities):
- sattwa (harmony, clarity and light);
- rajas (passion and dynamism); and
- tamas (ignorance, darkness and inertia).
The three syllables of Aum symbolise these three gunas as follows:
A = tamas
U = rajas
M = sattwa
After chanting Aum there is silence; this symbolises the state of trigunatita (Sanskrit, tri, three; atita, beyond) – that which transcends the three gunas, i.e. Pure Consciousness.
The three syllables of AUM symbolise the three principles of existence symbolised by Brahma, the creative; Vishnu, the sustaining; and Shiva, the destructive:
A = Brahma
U = Vishnu
M = Shiva
After chanting Aum there is silence; this symbolises underlying Reality which is the substratum behind, and beyond, creation (Brahma), sustenance (Vishnu) and destruction (Shiva).
The three syllables of AUM symbolise the three realms of time: past, present and future:
A = Present
U = Past
M = Future
After chanting Aum there is silence; this symbolises underlying Reality which underlies and yet is beyond past, present and future; the Timeless out of which time emerges.
Beyond Aum-the Transcendental. According to the Mandukya Upanishad, the Transcendental State is called turiya (Sanskrit, the fourth) – that which is beyond and yet encompasses the three states symbolised by A, U and M. Hence, in order to discourage us from putting a concept on something which is beyond concept, it is simply and succinctly called 'the fourth.'
Turiya can be symbolised as follows:
The circle symbolises Turiya, underlying Reality. It includes jagrat, the conscious waking state (A); it includes swapna, the dream, or subconscious state (U); and it includes and yet is beyond shushupti, the causal, unconscious state (M). Though not necessarily visible to eyes, the first three states exist in, and are part of, the manifest universe.
Turiya includes all of these three states or levels of manifest reality, and yet it is beyond them. It encompasses them and yet transcends them.
It is the unseen substratum which can only be realised when our mind dissolves into Consciousness – when, to use an expression attributed to the sage Ramakrishna, the 'salt doll dissolves in the ocean.'
Plunging through the Centre of Infinity. There is a well-known and ancient hermetic statement:
'Reality is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is no-where.'
There are many levels of interpretation, one of which was pointed out by Giordano Bruno. He said that whereas finite space, no matter how large it is, can have only one centre, infinite space has its centre everywhere. Mathematically, infinite space has an infinite number of centres.
One hundred years later, Leibnitz, the German mathematician, inspired by Bruno's thinking, tried to explain the same thing with his theory of the Monad ('monas' is ancient Greek for 'unit.'). Leibnitz described each centre of infinity as a 'monad.'
Each single monad contains the reflection of the entire universe – which is in agreement with modern Quantum theory as well as many mystical systems including Yoga and Tantra.
The Hua Yen (or Kegon) School of Chinese Buddhism has tried to explain this even further with the image of Indra's Jewel Net where there are an infinite number of jewels in each of which is reflected all the other jewels together. Also, each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel also reflects all the other jewels, so that there is an infinite reflecting process going on. This gives an idea of infinitely repeated interrelationship among everything in the universe.
In Yoga, each centre of infinity is called bindu. Each monad, each particle of existence, is impregnated with energy and Consciousness. Each bindu is in intimate contact with every other bindu. Each bindu shares with the Totality and the Totality shares with each bindu. The Primordial Vibration, symbolized by Om, resonates through each of these infinite number of centres. By chanting Om (or any other mantra), we move from a state of extroversion and dissipation to a more introspective, harmonious state.
Centring ourselves in Meditation, we are able to 'touch' the bindu (the Transcendental Point, symbolised by the dot in the top of the Om symbol Å). Plunging through this Bindu (which exists everywhere), we can realise the nature of Reality.
The Bindu of the Human Personality. Each and every embodied being is an expression of Shiva (Consciousness; underlying Reality) acting through the medium of Shakti (Energy; the Quantum Vacuum). As we have already said, each bindu (particle) of existence acts as a conduit for the flow of creative energy represented by the raif.
But the bindu of the human personality is known as the Anandamaya Kosha, the Blissful Sheath or Causal Body. This is the nucleus of our existence as an embodied being. In Meditation, we are in contact with this level of our being, and we can be catapulted into osmotic contact and realisation of underlying Consciousness. As Eckhart, the medieval German mystic, said:
"The eye with which I see God is the same as that with which He sees me."
That is, Reality 'sees' us (i.e. is in constant and intimate contact with us) through the bindu, but we can also reciprocate by 'tuning' into Reality through the bindu (by 'seeing' through the same 'eye'). The bindu, here the Anandamaya Kosha, allows us to realise Reality. Or, more correctly, we should say that the bindu is the point through which the Cosmic Consciousness realises itself through the individual consciousness.
When we chant Om we focus on the resonance which is the raif. Our being gets absorbed in this vibration and this has the power to lead us back, via the bindu, to realise the underlying nature or Consciousness which is beyond the bindu.
All this is indicated by the symbol of Å: it is a symbol of the process of manifestation or creation, the means by which we exist as embodied beings. But, at the same time, Aum also symbolises the process of return, where through practice (Sanskrit, sadhana) we can realise our essential Roots.
The Analogy of the Lotus. The lotus flower is an archetypal symbol of the evolutionary potential and development of each human being.
The lotus has three stages of growth and can be related to A-U-M as follows:
The roots that sink deep in the mud correspond to 'A'; the stem, as it grows through the water, corresponds to 'U'; and the bud and the flower above the water facing the Sun is 'M'. We are born in the womb, the matrix of matter (the roots in the mud); we grow up, developing the intellect, learning about our emotions and the ways of the world (the stem in the water of life); finally, we can blossom like the beautiful lotus flower when we realise our eternal connection with Spirit (our petals unfurl in the Sun).
Put in other terms, we can say that the lotus symbolises our growth in life as we pass through the three gunas: where we start in the mud of tamas (ignorance; identification with our physical form), pass through the waters of rajas (emotions, passion, ambition and furious activity) and finally, through refinement of our understanding (perhaps having practised Yoga or some related system), we arrive in the fresh air and clear sky of sattwa (harmony, joy and clarity). Then we are enabled to realise the Reality (the sun) which far transcends our individuality (symbolised by the lotus).
A-U-M and the lotus symbolise this whole process to supreme fulfilment of our lives.
From the Circle to the Point. During chanting, the sound of Om starts with a circle and ends with a point. During pronunciation, the lips are slightly apart with 'A', slowly starting to close with 'U' until they are completely closed with 'M'.
There is, at first, expansion outwards and then contraction inwards. Try it for yourself.
This indicates the path of Yoga: starting from a more or less (mentally and emotionally) dissipated state (represented by the circle), where we search for meaning externally, in the world at large, we start Yoga and progressively move to a more unified state where we are centred in Being (represented by the point). Every time we chant Om we are symbolising the path towards Unity.
Om in other Mantras. Om is an integral part of most other mantras used in Yoga (Om Namah Shivaya, Gayatri Mantra, Mrityunjaya Mantra etc.). Om precedes other mantras since it symbolises Consciousness and without Consciousness, nothing can exist. Without the presence of underlying Intelligence, the mantra has no value and no power to transform; indeed it cannot even exist! Om is the very core, the bed-rock, of all sounds and all other mantras. Without that which is symbolised by Om nothing can exist, including each of us.
Om takes us Home. Our essential nature, our original home, is Consciousness. H-O-M-E is composed of OM encompassed by HE; Therefore, OM is the essence of HE (Underlying Intelligence). Chanting Om helps us to realise the roots of our Being, and in the deepest sense takes us homeward.
Om Symbolises:
- The vibration of God.
- Truth, the Absolute.
- The 'hum' of the universe.
- Liberation and the means to it.
Om Symbolises and Encourages:
- The descent of Universality into the human heart.
- The descent of the Infinite into the finite.
- The expression of the Unconditioned into the conditioned.
- The descent of the Formless into form.
How to chant AUM
AUM can be chanted slowly or quickly. Each method is as good as the other and you must experiment yourself to find out your own preference.
Benefits of chanting AUM
- AUM, pronounced correctly, arouses and transforms every atom in the physical body, setting up new vibrations and conditions, and awakening the sleeping power of the body.
- The chanting of AUM drives away all worldly thoughts and removes distractions.
- If you are depressed, chant AUM for 10 minutes, you will be filled with new vigour and strength.
- Chanting of AUM gives energy.
- Continuous practice of AUM helps in improving the brain capacity and memory. Our capacity to grasp any knowledge increases. Our mind becomes more active and we are able to take decisions quickly. Chanting of AUM stimulates sleeping brain centres.
- Just 5 minutes of AUM chanting gives calmness and relaxation to our body and mind. Chanting of AUM improves confidence level and prepares us to face the adverse circumstances of life.
- AUM removes nervousness and fears from the mind.
- Chanting of AUM before bed gives sound sleep. The problems of Insomnia and scary dreams are addressed by AUM chanting.
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