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On the 5th February, 70 representatives of projects funded by the Scottish Government attended the Malawi Scotland Partnership's 2019 Symposium in Lilongwe.
Hosted by our sister network, the day brought together the Malawi partners of Scottish Government projects, together with the Government of Malawi and other senior stakeholders, to share learning and build collaboration.
Claire Tynte Irvine (Dep. Director External Affairs) and Nicola Coggan (Malawi Development Officer) represented the Scottish Government at the event, as part of their first visit to Malawi, with Claire asserting the Scottish Government's commitment to the Scotland-Malawi relationship. The Scotland Malawi Partnership's Deputy Chief Executive Stuart Brown also attended and spoke at the event.
The meeting focussed on shared learning, understanding impact, government engagement and safeguarding. It also disseminated the outcomes from the recent Malawi and Scotland: Together for Sustainable Development Conference.
The Ministry of Gender's Joseph Kalelo-Phiri also gave a presentation on Safeguarding, with Claire-Tynte Irvine adding the importance of three Ps in relation to Safeguarding: Prevention – Policy (having one) – Procedure (knowing exactly what we would do in the eventuality of a safeguarding issue arising and that this should be as clear as a fire drill procedure).
The event was also a key chance for the Malawi partners of SG-funded projects to come together and meet with representatives of the Malawian and Scottish Governments, with the Government of Malawi praising the Scotland-Malawi relationship and called for greater communication.
Feedback from the day has been very positive, with a number of new links and learning between projects.
When we refreshed the partnership between Scotland and Malawi in 2004/05 we hoped for civic engagement in both countries. It is wonderful to see the levels it has reached today. Congratulations to all involved. @MalawiScotland @ScotlandMalawi https://t.co/aLcpe6rVQS— Jack McConnell (@LordMcConnell) February 5, 2019
A good representation from @ScotGovID funded projects in Malawi at our Annual Symposium in Lilongwe today. @ScotlandMalawi pic.twitter.com/HcZDMAG0ai— MaSP (@MalawiScotland) February 5, 2019
Dalitso of @MarysMeals Malawi speaking at the #MaSPsymposium on their remarkable school meals programme and on teaming up with @wateraidmalawi to provide WASH pic.twitter.com/vTAq1hJmEv— Scotland Malawi Partnership (@ScotlandMalawi) February 5, 2019
Claire Tynte-Irvine at the @MalawiScotland symposium in Lilongwe asserts the Scottish Government's commitment to the Scotland-Malawi relationship #partnership #scotlandmalawi pic.twitter.com/AbXh21uNGr— Scotland Malawi Partnership (@ScotlandMalawi) February 5, 2019
Chawezi Gondwe of @comenergymw spoke about the exciting collaboration in energy today between #ScotlandandMalawi. Chawezi will soon be meeting with @CES_Tweet and the @UniStrathclyde in Scotland! #MaSPSymposium pic.twitter.com/ojuCbeTMuK— Scotland Malawi Partnership (@ScotlandMalawi) February 5, 2019


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Metrics show that you care 10 times more about Muh Games than Xpub..
What is 55 Tabs of Stuff?
@cmos4040 yeah, was a bit like that for a while, only using https://www.uzbl.org to browse. I think the Stuff group is def FOMO triggered, but for the rest, I really enjoy the context switching and abusing tabs as temp bookmarks while working on something.
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With February being the month of love, more and more couples are looking for new ways to grow together. Research shows that foregoing the traditional candle-lit dinner for the gym can have some real, tangible benefits.
In a study undertaken by University College London, over 3000 couples and their habits were analysed. Those that went to the gym together were more likely to beat their unhealthy habits than those that didn't. Furthermore, the research pointed towards a phenomenon called the 'halo-effect', a powerful placebo effect which made couples feel warmer towards one another.
The reason is scientific. Exercise releases endorphins in your body, a happy-hormone that reduces stress and increases pleasure. The word is a shortening of "endogenous morphine", so it's no surprise exercise makes you feel so good. And this feel-good factor is amplified with your significant other at your side.


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THANK YOU! | Two award-giving bodies recognize The Filipino Scribe
The Filipino Scribe (TFS) earned recognition from two different award-giving organizations in a span of ten weeks. The recent accomplishments are the latest addition to the news blog's line-up of accolades since it was established in March 2011. An article in the website titled "On Liam


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First, I should explain the hiatus in this blog. It comes down to an onrush of work. I completed revisions on my upcoming book (which is now in the production process), wrote a handful of articles, am still helping with an edited volume, and mostly working rapidly on a book based on the Philip K. Dick posts I wrote back in the Spring. I have about half of that Dick book drafted out but am going to slow down for a while with hopes that I will have that done in a few months. I am still unemployed and not eager to return to academia but am finding new pleasure in writing, reading, and thinking, something that seemed to have died while I was in the classroom and the institutions of so-called "higher learning."
The proper thing about be to return to Home to Harlem, but as a reboot is necessary to get this started again, I will come back to those and pick up something familiar, a collection of Richard Henry Dana's major writing. I will start with his Two Years Before the Mast.
This famous work is Dana's attempt to tell the story of being a sailor from the perspective of the sailor by signing onto serve on the Pilgrim, on a Pacific voyage. While he is wrong that no voice from the forecastle existed at the time of his writing, his was one of the first popular works to do so. The immediate question we need to ask is could a Harvard student, from a somewhat privileged background, put himself into the life of a sailor simply by spending a few years as a common seamen. (We might be reminded by that book Nickled and Dimed, where a sociologist used a similar method to understand the life of the working poor.) Dana's methods were sincere. He worked hard to maintain his distance from the officers, who knew him for a Harvard student, and he participated in the daily work regimen, the culture of the sailors, and documented the frequent contests between sailors and officers from the perspective of the forecastle. Early in the voyage Dana even physically moved himself from the steerage to the forecastle to show his solidarity with the crew. That said, Two Years Before the Mast was a polemical text, and was part of the them active movement to reform the treatment of sailors in the American merchant fleet. It is also, however, a document on the emergence of the American empire in the Pacific.
As Dana shows us, the captain started the voyage by establishing his sovereignty over the crew. "Now, my men, we have begun a long voyage. If we get along well together, we shall have a comfortable time; if we don't, we shall have hell afloat. – All you've got to do it to obey your orders and do your duty like men, — then you'll fare well enough; — if you don't, you'll fare hard enough." (8) It seems to me that power is one of the most central themes in Two Years Before the Mast and from this we take a very important question for democratic societies. The people who served with Dana were volunteers. Dana himself was a volunteer. But that choice involved a surrendering of a great part of their liberty and ability to participate democratically in the decisions that mattered most of their life. In a way, this is no different from the choice of many people to accept a job, which commands their obedience for eight hours a day. We set aside our liberty in exchange for a paycheck. As Dana shows in the second chapter, the feeling of freedom he experienced looking at the sea or enjoying a maritime sun-rise was quickly replaced with the drudgery of work and the tyranny of the officers. The question Dana is seeming to ask us is, how democratic can a society if something as undemocratic as the merchant ship could exist, but more on this later. In the cast of this voyage, power is more odious than normal because of the clear incompetence of the second mate, Foster, who seems to have gotten the job due to the influence of his propertied father. Such injustices run through Dana's narrative and heavily inform his critique of the floating autocracy of the ship.
The central fact remained the ceaseless and brutal drudgery and boredom of the job. After spending ten pages describing the various duties on board Dana commented: "I have here gone out of my narrative course in order that any who read this may form as correct an idea of a sailor's life and duty as possible. I have done it in this place because, for some time, our life was nothing but the unvarying repetition of these duties." (19) In this way as well, the Pilgrim can work for us as a metaphor for the capitalist work place in a democratic society. While the dream of free markets, unrestrained capitalism resembled frontier exploration or the adventure of the sea, the reality is arbitrary power, boredom, and misery for the majority.
In this environment tensions were high and confrontations with the authority figures were common. We are reminded of Melville's warning in Moby Dick that the confrontation of two men, where one has authority over the other but is an inferior man in every way will almost always end in the brutal application of force. On the Pilgrim, small affairs like replacing molasses for plums or reducing a ration of bread could cause explosions of class conflict. In the case of the bread dispute, the conflict ended with another proclamation of power. "Away with you! Go forward every one of you! I'll haze you! I'll work you up! You don't have enough to do! If you a'n't careful I'll make a hell of the ship!" (51)
What is perhaps striking is that these simple proclamations of power worked so effectively in shutting down the crew's resistance. As Dana summed up a few chapters later, but in a different context, "There's nothing for Jack to do but to obey orders." (67) Perhaps such fatalism was designed in the structure of the ship (the geography of power) and its labor regimen.


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Suddha Dharma Mandalam
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Sanatana Dharma Sootras
Part 7
26. Ato brahmasvarupasya atmauaha tadvibhootesca vignanam vyavasayasadhanam paramamit giyate.
26. Therefore it is deemed that the knowledge of Brahma-swarupa as Atman and its powers is the highest means for the proper functioning by one in the world-process.
In this sootra, the Lord stresses the importance of Atmopasana, as it should be evident. Sadhakas and students should bear in mind the important significance herein, in that, this Atmopasana is exhorted, not as end in itself, but only as the means for a very effective discharge of one's own functioning in the world-process. And as such it follow that this realization of Atman has to be brought about, not by renouncing samsara, but by being in it only. This is because Atman has no separate existence except in association with Prakriti, the basis of samsara. And this samsara set afoot by Brahm has neither beginning nor end.
Sri Hamsa Yogi explains that it is given only to such of those Great Souls who have intellectually and otherwise grasped the significance of Brahmic-knowledge in its completeness, as given out in terms of Para, Karana, Avatara and Archa, that would be able to take to Atmopasana with the greatest felicity, as immanent, not only in one's own heart but in all the formful manifestations.
Such great-Souls only are said to be the highest in the class of yogis. For, in them, the root-enemy which is 'swartha-dosha' giving rise to the one Atman which is of the Brahmic form, runs the Atma-Yoga Gayatri in the Bhadraketu and Vamadeva Vidyas. Atman is not to be worshipped either as such or as Brahm itself. It should be worshipped as Brahmic Form, the Representative of Brahm. For, Brahm can never be a theme either for knowing or worship in view of its absolute state extolled as 'Neti Neti', being beyond conception. All Brahma-Vidyas speak of that Brahm which can be conceived, and this conceptual Form of Brahm is Atman. It is this, eulogized as Eternal. He is the Lord, He is the Ishwara, He is everything worthy of worship either as Saguna – attributeful or Nirguna – attributeless.
In its transcendent state as 'Suddha' which is its 'swabhava' – own nature, it is known as Suddhatman. And this Suddhatman takes all forms in the world-processes and so its realization is pointed out as the all-pervasive Atman eternally abiding in all. When this Suddhatman is in association with Prakriti, the other aspect of Brahm that is the medium for its manifestation in the world-process, it gets into the bondage of Prakriti thus loosing its pure nature and gets to be termed Asdudhatman – the Atman that is impure; which is the Jiva – the individual soul struggling in life as life.
This knowing of Atman is not a mere intellectual knowledge of it, though it is held as final in the expositions thereon, since it is held to be something beyond and as such unrealizable. This is not what the teachings of Suddha School say. While Brahm as such is unrealizable, Atman can be visioned and contacted. And it is to get at this visioning that the intellectually grasped knowledge about Atman has to be applied. Fir, if this knowledge is not backed up with direct visioning of Atman, it is likely to take undesirable turns.
So is it, the Lord Sri Narayana, at the time of setting up of Suddha Dharma Mandalam stressed the importance of visioning this Suddhatman. Says He – upasamana swatmanam tadantastamtatha param, yah pasyati visuddhamatme sa yati paramamgatim – worshipping one's own self, he, who visions the Suddhatman beyond it, reaches the supreme path. Herein, the worship of one's own self as a preliminary to the visioning of Suddhatman consists in the fact of recognizing firstly that man is a soul in the body and as such, the two are to be maintained with due regard to both.
This is effected through the generation of the eight-fold atmic qualities, and controlling the prakritic qualities of Satwa, Rajas and Tamas through the aid of the conjointed efforts of knowledge, desire and action in their higher and lower aspects, generating mental equipoise in external relationship that is disturbed by the turbulent prakritic qualities, pursuing a normal life known as treading the middle path by avoiding excesses, shunning vileness of any sort in thought, word and deed, engaging oneself in purposeful meditation of Brahmswaroopa on right lines with the aid of the japa of Yoga-Gayatri, which alone will make the meditative efforts fruitful – all these are deemed to be upasana or worship of one's own self. In other words, a proper use of the body and soul is its 'upasana'. The inner eye divvachakshash gets opened consequently and the Sudhatman is visioned in its pristine purity.
As a result of this visioning, the practicing yogi aspirant gets in course of time all those yogic beatitudes as fruition catalogued in the sutra as spiritual luster, brilliance, splendor, wisdom, strength, with capacity to assume any form at will. For he becomes an Adhikari thereby – an office bearer in the hierarchy of Suddha Dharma Mandalam either in the group of Vidhyadhikaris – Teachers of wisdom, or Lokadhikaris – Rulers of worlds to take and effective part in the furthering of the object of the divine plan in respect of this globe. The path becomes more and more clear in course of time to enable his functioning in the whole of this Solar System and thereafter other Solar Systems as well. This is what is termed as 'Paramam Gati' in the sutra.
Thus should be understood the importance of the all-pervasive Suddhatman and the correspondence fruition.
It is worth while to bear in mind in this connection that it is not as if a special qualification – adhikara – is necessary for the study of Brahm-Vidya, usually urged in th religious circles, to become an Adhikari. On the other hand, it is exactly the opposite. Study and Atmopasana lead one to become an Adhikari according to the teachings of Suddha Dharma Mandalam – Atmopanasaya suddhaam vindatae adhikaritam. Hence the term 'adhikari' should not be deemed as one duly qualified to study Brahma-Vidya and with corresponding-Atmopasana becomes an Adhikari in the Hierarchy of Suddha Dharma Mandalam.
27. Yavadeva vijanati swatmani sarvarupam sanatanam brahmaswarupam, tavadevayam purushas cojasvivarcasvi gnani bali kamarupi cadhikari bhavati.
27. When the aspirant-purusha comes to know that the Atman in himself is the eternal Brahmic Form abiding in all, he, then, gets endowed with (spiritual) lustre, brilliance, splendor, wisdom and strength, with ability to assume any form at will, having become an Adhikari.
The fruition that one gets as a result of Brahmic quest is narrated in this sootra. In this quest, it is not enough that one realizes the Atman in oneself alone. He must realize it as all pervasive, abiding the heart-cave of all, even as the Lord says in the Gita – sootrae manigana iva – like the thread passing through the beads. It must also be further realized that this Atman is Brahma-swarupa – Brahmic Form.
Brahmaswarupamatmanamekam 'dushta ahankara' and the like gets annihilated and having thus become free, which is achieving freedom in the true sense, they are able to discharge effectively what all they have to do in this world-process and also be sources of greatest help to all.
Thus when on as a result of Brahma-vignana, is able to reach the stage in which the Brahma-swarupa as Atman gets to be realized and worshipped as immanence in oneself and in all, he overcomes the heresy of separativity mentally and also those dual notions of high and low, virtue and vice, right and wrong, pain and pleasure that war against each other, and achieve the highest happiness in store for men in the samsara here and also thereafter. This kind of atmic worship is known as that of Suddhatman and one who is its votary is acclaimed as Suddha.
Thus is seen the great importance of Brahma-vignana, to be acquired, not ultimately, but in the first place, which automatically leads to Suddhatmopasana and the realization of happiness.
28. Evam vignani svanurupa savibhootika vyavasayasamaptaw vyavasaymtaram-kartum paramam padam prapnoti paramam padam prapnoti.
28. Thus the Wise one having completed his functioning with the aid of vibhooties or capacities generated, appropriately to himself, attains, being released at the termination of his functioning, the supreme state; attains the supreme state (in truth).
Herine the importance of completing one's functionings in the world, as a necessary preliminary act for attaining the supreme state is clearly brought about by the Lord. The question, however, is what is meant by completing one's functionings and how do we know that we have so completed them.
To get at a thorough understanfding of these questions, one must study the 'Bhakti-shatka' of Srimad Bhagavad Gita (S.D.M. Chapters 8t o 13) thoroughly. Whereas the 'Karma-shatka' thereof –chapter 14 to 19 teaches the technique of applied practice to bring about the contacting of the Atman and termed 'Abhyasa-yoga' otherwise, it is the 'Bhakti-shatka' that gives a complete understanding of human nature in general classified under two board divisions as 'daivic' and 'asuric', the mode and manner in which man engages himself in functioning in the world process as impelled by the qualitative forces of satwa, rajas and tamas, the nature of these qualitative forces and how to recognize their operation, how to bring about Mukti freedom from the clutches of these yjree prakritic forces casusing bondage, a knowledge of the higher and lower aspects of Para-Brahm, resulting in the generation of vibhooties brought about by a very high order of devotion.
These vibhooties are acquired by the Yogi who is the practicing aspirant quite in accordance with his own nature and with whose aid he is able to complete the functionings that had fallen to his lot in his present birth, whatever they are. It is this feature that is spoken of in the sootra 'swanurupa savibhutika'. It should be noted particularly in this connection that the development of such vibhooties as an utter necessity to the practicing aspirant is forcefully advocated by the Suddhacharyas of the Mandalam.
What is termed as 'Naishkarmya Siddhi' in the Gita may be termed as completion of functioning, though the term itself would mean the 'achievement of the state of worklessness'. The question would be how the state of worklessness could be deemed as completion of functioning. This is a world of action and no one can remain even for a fraction of a second without doing some work – nahi kaschit kshanamapi jatu tishtayakarmakrut.. Thought we are in a world of action and are impelled to do actions, the attainment of the state of worklessness – Naishaarmya Siddhu is strongly advocated by the Lord in the Gita.
This is because of Karma being associated with fruits to which man clings causing its repeated transmigratory existence, the state of worknesseness is advocated; which being devoid of fruits due to non doing, man does not get attached to it and thereby he overcomes the helpless births and deaths forced by Karma. It is this kind of Philosophy which the Vedandic School of thought advocated, that gave rise to the notion of giving up Karma by taking to the order of Samnyasa which meant giving up work and maintaining that Gnana is superior.
The Lord, however, taught the new way of overcoming the bondage of karmic forces even while engaged in work in this world, since in a world of action, Prakriti will force us to work even if we want not to – prakritistwan niyokshyasi, for all are bound by actioning by birth and nature – swabhavajena kounteya nibaddha swena karmana – and the refusal to do work because it causes bondage is not a spiritual trait but an ahamkaric act – yadahamkaramastritva na yotsva itimanyase etc.- causing greater bondage and affliction which cannot be got over through Samnyasahrama only. It is in this way that 'Naishkarmya Siddhi' or state of worklessness is extolled.
The Lord says also that this 'siddhi' is not got either by the refusal to do any kind of work or discarding any work that has fallen to our lot or undertaken, without completing it. – 'na karmanamanaramban naishkarmyam purushosmutae, nahi samnya sanadeva siddhim Samadhi gacchati' (Chap.XIX – 19). This kind of attitude to this 'siddhi' condemned herein is said to go by the name of 'Dushta Naishkarmaya lakshana' – a state of worklesseness hankered after by vicious and wicked people who are lazy, in the garb of samnyasin.
Therefore, when the Lord speaks of 'Naishkarmya', He speaks of that variety of worklesseness which has completion of work as its nature even while exercising all our faculties in work in the world. This is a very profound teaching of Gita alone and not at all in Vedanta and Gita is not Vedanta. The Lord's definition of 'Naiskarmya' is – asaktabuddhi sarvatra jitatma vigataspruhah maishkarmyasiddim paranam samnyasenadhi gacchati – with buddh (the faculty of discriminating intellect) unattached everywhere, mind under disciplined control, the grasping nature (of the senses) loosened, the aspirant through Samnyasa achieves 'Naishksrmya-siddhi'.
The profound significance of this teachings is that this 'siddhi' is got by samnyasa no doubt, but by a samnyasa which has achieved the capacity to exercise the three prime faculties of man namely Mahat, Manas and Indriya effectively through 'asaktabuddi, jitatma and vigataspruhah' – non-attachment, mental-control and non-possessive. For this kind od Samnyasa burns up the bondages of action, since it is said to be of the nature of Tàpas – austerity – smnyasa taporoopah and has such not brought about by isolating oneself giving up action, but doing exactly the opposite of it, by exercising the faculties in work – vishyan indriyihi charan. Because this king of Samnyasa loosens the bondage, it is said to be the first purifier of men – samnyasa pratam suddhih. For a work that is done free from attachment of any sort etc. is colorless and as such non-biding which means completion of work –somnyasa karnapoorti, which is in turn Naishkarmy-Siddhi with the freedom from a helpless birth and death impelled by the binding forces of Karma.
The most important point to be noted in this act of completion of work which is a necessity to one and all born in the world by the force of karmic bondage before achieving the ability to make further march towards the goal of Brahm-prapti is, that so long the idea of 'me' and 'mine, persists in man looking at everything and assessing all values on the basis of his own little personality, he is said to be swayed by the 'heresy of self-centeredness' spoken if in the Gita as 'karpenya-dosha' or 'swartha-dosha', which is the greatest and subtlest enemy of man most difficult to overcome. Its great inimical nature consists in its pulling down a man at the most important psychological time, even unknown to himself.
This is because it utterly destroys one's own essential divine nature – swaroopa nasa. That was the state to which Arjuna was reduced, when he made the appeal to the Lord. And hence so long one subject to this 'heresy'; so long his work will remain incomplete resulting in related transmigratory existence with its various trials and tribulations. So that when this 'swarth-dosha' is washed out by the purifying power of samnysa in a given birth through the aid of those purified faculties of 'asktabuddhi' etc., which ensure his acquisition of vibhooties-powers to overcome the final bondage of samsara and helpless births and deaths therein frequently.
This is spoken of as 'Mukti' – freedom from such samsaric life, which, in its wake, enables his taking up higher activities in the Divine Plan. An Aspirant Yogi who performs actions with this mental frame of samnyasa naturally dedicates them and their fruits to the Ishwara, the all-pervasive All-Cause. And it is this kind of surrender and dedicatory action which brings about the contacting of Suddhatman unseated in the heart-cave that goes by the name of 'Tyaga' the famous second great purifier - dwitiya tvaga ucchvate'. This yogic method of actioning involving completion is eulogized by the Lord as of a highly dextrose character – yogah karmasukousala*'
* Details knowledge os Samnyasa and ??yaga in the light of Suddha teachings can be had in the book "Four Essays on Suddha-Yoga"
29. Close in accordance with the knowledge-ideal of the Atman in one, Desire and action become the means for functioning (in the world-process).
This sootra is an expansion of what was taught by the Lord in the sootra No. 22. In that Sootra, the Gracious Lord said "So with all beings, who delight in investigating the mystery of the world-process, vignana (higher knowledge) alone forms the most effective means in carrying out the work most appropriate to him".
Having stated thus, the Lord explained what constitutes vyavasaya or functioning or work in the next sootra; which, He put down as Srishti, Stitiand Samahara – creation, preservation and synthesis. It is not as if the Trimurties alone are engaged in this work; every one of us from amoeba to narayana is engaged in one or the other of these three main functionings according to the congeniality of one's own nature to a particular work.
This can be very well seen in the world with a close observation of individual human actionings. Some do creative work; while others know only to destroy. Protective feature constitutes the activities of the third group which is a general feature in all. So it can be stated that, in the main, there are only three kinds of activities to which men find themselves drawn. It is the duty of the intelligent man to find out to which kind of activity he is particularly drawn to. Psychologists would do well to make a study of this fundamental fact of life.
Having defined what 'vyavasaya' is, the Lord in the following Sootras taught what constitutes higher knowledge – vignana and this, He put down as 'Brahmaswabhava-vishaya' – pertaining to Brahm in its natural state of being as it exists by itself – in terms of Saguna and Nirguna. Thereafter the order of Brahma-vignana was given stressing that of all the aspects of Brahma-vignana, that one pertaining to its Atmic aspect, as the most conducive to Sadhana and for achievement, being associated with beatitudes which help him in his functionings and how a given particular vyavasaya gets completed, opening up the way to the highest.
In this Sootra, the Lord teaches that, for purposes of vyavasaya, it is desire and action that constitute the means therefore, knowledge serving its purpose of acquiring a mental familiarity with the ideal. So here as elsewhere the order in respect of fruitful functioning is Gnanati – knows, Icchati - desires, Yatatae - strives, and prapnoti – attains. It is a most disastrously shortsighted teaching to say that Desire is to be given up, for the simple reason it can never be given up and those that say they have given up desires may be deemed as uttering a statement which is not true. For, the very nature of the eternal law of being, centers on Iccha – Desire as the motive power; which, when it assimilates the knowledge therefore, stimulates the corresponding action. Even as actionings can never be given up according to the Gita teachings, Desires also can never be aimed to be given up.
They require to be oriented and towards this 'Swatma - vignana helps. And when the required aid of Swatma-vignana is got, Desire and Action commence to operate, not distractedly, but as a means of achieving the aim, for which, funtionings are restored to in the world-process. So that. Gnana, Iccha and Kriya being made to be operated upon simultaneously, Yoga inevitably results and such a Yogic method of actioning is most dextrose – Yogha karmasu kouchalam; which, when propelled by the beatitudes got as a result of the idealizing Suddhatman within, may be stated as the very Divine Life itself.
Thus in this Sootra, the coordinated endeavor of Gnana, Iccha and Kriya, as conductive to the highest is taught.
30. Gnaecchakriyaasamaahaaraanam dwowhiyaatma
30. Of (the four) – Knowledge, Desire, Action and (their) Summation, two belong to the Atmic (Spiritual_ state and two to the Prakritic (material).
That Knowledge, Desire, Action and Summation are the means for Yoga, being the very characteristics of Brahm was given out in the Sootra 9 and all the teachings given so far in respect of their elucidation as such. Atma and Pratriki are the two fundamental rock-basis revealing Brahm as the whole, along with these four characteristics which constitute the Shakti aspect. Of these four, it is given out herein that two belong to Atman and two to Prakriti. What are they?
Before we find out which is which, let us try to understand what exactly is conveyed to mean by stating that of these four Shakti characteristics, two belong to Atman and two belong to Prakriti; though superficially this statement may appear obvious.
Atman and Prakriti are by themselves only static entities, though the former is sentient and the latter is not so. These two have their own respective qualities natural to them. Even as Satwa, Rajas characterize Prakriti qualities - satwam rajas tama iti gunaha prakriti sambhovaha, who nature is to effect the bandage of Atman in the Prakritic field -
Nibhadnandi mahabhaho dehae dehinam avyayam, Atman has also its innate qualities which act as its own capacity to release itself from the clutches of Prakriti and these qualities are given out in the Suddha literature as eight-fold, namely – Anasooya – jealouslessness, Daya – compassion, Kshanthi – quietness, Aspruha – non-grasping, Swocha – purity, Akarpanya – auspiciousness. Whereas Prakritic qualitites causing bondage are termed asuric even including Satwic nature – nibaddyaasuri mata, the atmic qualities are termed daivic because they lead to freedom from bondage.
The next question is how Gnana and Samahara are catalogued Atman nishta. By the term Gnana, it should not be construed as the knowledge that is got by the exercise of sense-objects. It has reference not only to the atmic principle, but also to that which is exercised by the Atman when it gets awakened. When the forces of desire and action are dominant, and the knowledge got by the sense-organs guide them, the state of Gnana cannot be deemed to have commenced its being.
However, when the working of the discriminating sense called Buddhi is brought about, it may be said that an opening in the direction of Gnana has commenced, for Buddhi is the Atman's shakti to operate in the objective sphere. But the generation of Buddhic faculty by study, comparison and so forth, that is brought about can be said to have its maximum achievement when it is able to discern the nature of bondage and freedom in its absolute state. It is only then that desire for the knowledge of Atman takes root.
Since Atman is Gnana-vigraha, by seeking for its knowledge with the aid of the discriminating sense, Buddhi is the cause and the Gnana that is got is the result. And this Gnana is said to be Atma-nishta. But this knowledge of Atma is only hlf knowledge. It is only after contacting the Atman within and when it commences to exercise the functionings of man, that full knowledge-Vignana is said to have been obtained since the functionings are brought about by Buddhi-Yoga which is Atman-Shakti par excellence.
This Yogic Buddhi synthesizes all the actionings of gnana, Iccha and Kriya into one whole in their performances, meaning as it does through the disctates of the Atman. Such a state is called Samahara or Yogic, which is also Atma-nishta in its deeper level. Thus we see how Iccha and Kriya belong to Prakriti, while Gnana and Samahara belong to Atman.
Daivee sampat vimokshahya and these daivic qualitites are catalogued as 26 in three slokas -2, 3 and 4 of chapter VIII. Gita S.D.M. edition – abhayamsatwasamsuddhi etc. which are the eight atmic qualitites stated above. The six asuric qualitites dambo darpo etc. of sloka 5 therein are the offsprings of Satwa, Rajas and Tarmas. There need to be no apprehension that Satwa is termed asuric, for, we have Gita's authority therefore that the satwic nature is also binding – sukha sangena badnadi gnana sangena dehinam – through attachment to enjoyment and knowledge – sukha and gnana, though it is higher than Rajas and Tamas. And there is also the tamasic nature masquerading as satwic. It is only when the trait of Suddha Satwa is generated, it has divine significance.
With this background when Atman and Prakriti with the four Shakties – Gnana, Iccha, Kriya and Samahara or Yoga, take birth as formful beings in this world of action, the highest of these being man, whose birth in this world is due to past Karmas in previous lives, this birth is marked by a sense of bondage which is present even in the child from its birth. Bondage from the adhyatmic point of view connotes that state of dependence on anything outside one's own self and being. When the child cries a it becomes hungry, this cry denotes not only the feeling of bondage, but also the desire to get free from it
. Thus to start with, it is the Iccha-Shakti that commences to operate and because this Iccha or desire gets to seeking objects, as though such seeking and getting would secure freedom when it is not, its nishta or state is catalogued Prakriti. So also Action or kriya which exercised by sense-organs, propelled by desire towards the actual getting at the objects; and thus its nishta is also prakritik. Hence it should be realizable that of the four, Iccha and Kriya – Desire and Action are Prakritic.


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Service providers encouraged to attend home care networking event
Herefordshire Council's help to live at home consultation is running until Sunday 28 August and service providers are encouraged to get involved to help shape the service re-design.
We all want to live healthy, happy and independent lives within our local communities for as long as possible, however for many people in Herefordshire they need some kind of help to achieve this.
The council is committed to ensuring that the services it arranges for those residents who need them are efficient, of a good quality and successfully help people to live independently at home. Over the last six months, we have been talking to residents who use our services and the providers themselves to find out what it is we need to provide and how we can do it even better to meet people's individual assessed needs.
We know the new help to live at home service will need to:
- Prevent, reduce or delay the need for formal care and support
- Provide flexible, personalised services that support independence and enhance wellbeing
- Enable people to remain in their own homes for as long as they wish
- Identify peoples strengths and the personal and community resources available to meet their needs
As part of the consultation, we are continuing to actively engage with current and potential domiciliary care providers and invite all interested providers to attend our home care networking event. The event is on Wednesday 13 July at Saxon Hall, Hoarwithy Road, Hereford from 10am to 12pm.
Is this something you'd like to be involved in? We'd love to hear from you and value your input.
To register your interest, please visit www.eventbrite.com and search Herefordshire homecare networking event.


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Posted by Graham Mc Cann
August 17, 2011
I am one of the members of the Bourbon Slush Stable.I am truly blessed to be a member of the Lindy Farm organization . The treatment of the horses during their learning stages is remarkable, the attention to detail that Frank gives is unbelievable.The understanding of the horses needs and the condition of the animals is second to none . I cound not be happier with this association.
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August 17, 2011
I am a member of BC class of 77 and also employed in the harness racing industry. Frank is a great representative of BC in harness racing.


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Málaga has long been a vacation spot for sun lovers in search of an affordable beach getaway. The metropolis of about 600,000 in southern Spain and the capital of the eponymous Andalusian province is part of the country's tourist-heavy Costa del Sol and full of beachside resorts offering all-inclusive packages at wallet-friendly prices.
Today, the growing number of cultural attractions here may be more of a reason to come than the soft golden- sand beaches and sparkling Mediterranean. In the last decade, more than 20 museums have opened in the port city showcasing everything from paintings by art world heavy-hitters to rare automobiles. Many are concentrated in the historical center, much of it entirely pedestrian and dating back to Phoenician times.
Two of the most prominent institutions arrived in March 2015: the Centre Pompidou Málaga, the first branch of the Paris museum outside of France, and the Collection of the Russian Museum St. Petersburg/Málaga, also a first venture outside of Russia for the State Russian Museum. Part of an ambitious plan driven by the local government to transform Málaga into a global center for the arts, the City Council spent about seven million euros (about $7,760,000) to finance the Pompidou, and another two million euros for the Russian Museum.
World-class museums like these opening in Málaga are a revolution for the city, said Virginia Irurita, the founder of the Madrid-based travel company Made for Spain and Portugal. "Málaga is where you went for a cheap beach holiday. People couldn't care less about the city itself, but it's become the place now where all the Spanish want to come and stay to see the museums," she said.
Málaga's tide started to turn with the 2003 opening of the Museo Picasso Málaga in a 16th-century palace in the historical center. Picasso was born in the city and lived there with his family for about a decade, and many of the museum's more than 200 works were donated by his daughter-in-law and grandson Christine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso.
Although there are other Picasso museums including one in Paris, Málaga's is unique because of the artist's connection to the city, said Cristina Savage, who works in the museum's education department. "Since so much of what is on display in this museum comes from Picasso's family, and he is from here, there is something very personal about the art," she said.
More museums over the next decade continued to follow Picasso's. The Automobile Museum of Málaga, for example, opened in 2010 in a former tobacco factory on the outskirts of the city. The sprawling building houses more than 90 rare vehicles from the 19th century to the present, such as a Mercedes 540K from 1937 that had its debut in a motor show in Paris in 1936; other brands on display include Bugatti, Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce and Jaguar. The cars are owned by João Magalhães, a businessman from Portugal whose father started the collection in the 1930s.
Also in the historical center and in a 16th-century building like the Museo Picasso's is the Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga, which opened in 2011, and is home to more than 200 works of Spanish art.
But the splashiest museums to fold into Málaga's already strong lineup are the two openings in the spring of 2015.
The Centre Pompidou Málaga, housed in a futuristic-looking glass cube with red, yellow, blue and green squares on the city's marina, makes a dramatic mark on the skyline. The visual appeal continues inside with works from marquee artists such as Frida Kahlo, Francis Bacon, Marc Chagall and John Currin.
Málaga's mayor, Francisco de la Torre, brought the endeavor to fruition by traveling to Paris and presenting a proposal from the city hall to Pompidou Center officials. "We already had the Picasso museum and came up with a strategy to build on that to make Málaga more cultural," he said in Spanish through a translator. The museum had about 220,000 visitors in its first year, a number that he anticipates only to increase, he said.
The mayor's deal for Málaga's branch of the Russian Museum St. Petersburg keeps the museum open for 10 years with the option to extend for another decade.
Situated in the same tobacco factory complex as the Automobile Museum, the light-filled space, spanning two floors and about 43,000 square feet, is a showcase for 18th-century to modern-day works by prolific artists who are Russian or who have worked in Russia, such as the 19th-century landscape painter Ivan Shishkin and the 20th-century painter Vladimir Gavrilov.
These museums undoubtedly have made Málaga culturally relevant. But the mayor said the transformation isn't over. "We have big plans for the city, and there's more coming to the work we've already done."


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European Galaxy User Group Meeting 2019
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Registration is now open to the 2019 Southern California Galaxy User Group Meeting. Tap into the power of the Galaxy user community with two days of user-led presentations, discussions and networking designed to give you the information and connections you need to increase revenue, increase attendance, improve the guest experience and improve the bottom line at your venue.
Hosted by Disneyland Resort
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March 6 | 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Session will be held at the Team Disney Anaheim office building in the Resort Conference Room
March 7 | 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sessions will be held at Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel in the Pacific Ballroom
March 7 | 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. | Splitsville, Downtown Disney
March 6 | 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
*Location: Team Disney Anaheim office building in the Resort Conference Room
Meals: Boxed lunch provided. If you have special dietary restrictions please bring your own lunch or you can purchase lunch from the cafeteria.
Agenda: Open discussion regarding Membership, Annual Pass and Season Pass
*Space for this meeting is limited to 50 spots
March 7 | 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.
*Location: Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel in the Pacific Ballroom
Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided
8:00 – Join us for a continental breakfast
9:00 – Welcome message from Disneyland Resort
9:10 – Introductions | Randy Josselyn, Gateway Ticketing Systems
10:10 – Disney – Around the World | Scott Lyons, Disneyland Resort
10:55 – Galaxy Connect update | Nell Smoyer, Gateway Ticketing Systems
11:10 – Groupon Sponsor presentation
11:20 – Kiosks | Chris Blackman, Empire State Building
11:40 – Food & Beverage | Grant Rozich, Palace Entertainment
1:10 – Managing Requests | Vanessa Lewis, Aquarium of the Pacific
1:30 – Comp Portal | Michael McSparran, San Diego Zoo
1:50 – Chase Sponsor presentation
2:00 – Power Apps | Luis Almonte, Discovery Cube
2:20 – Migration to Azure | Cheryl Bailey, USS Midway
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4:10 – What's New with Galaxy | Gateway Ticketing Systems
4:55 – Wrap-up and feedback
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North Pole Adventure at Shepherd of the Hills -- a Branson family fun time experience for Christmas! Families and folks of all ages can enjoy a leisurely walk-through in a holiday landscape adorned with thousands upon thousands of glittering lights. You'll encounter artisan craft vendors, hot chocolate stands, and several of Santa's Elves in the "Stardust Stables" and the "Wishlist Workshop." And, if you're ready for even more holly jolly holiday happiness, there's a "Tree Top Lot-A-Maze-ing Fun" that you're all sure to love! And what Christmas at the legendary Shepherd of the Hills would be complete without the big man himself? That's right, you'll discover Santa Claus when you take the "Ho Ho Ho 200 Feet Up We Go" trip up Inspiration Tower! Where else in the world will you find jolly Ol' Saint Nick nearly as high in the sky as his toy-filled sleigh can fly? Nowhere else but at Shepherd of the Hills' North Pole Adventure!
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Looking for a great new way to enjoy Branson at Christmas? Look no further than one of the area's most iconic attractions and you'll find the delightful North Pole Adventure at Shepherd of the Hills!


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A number of companies, universities, government agencies and think tanks took the chance at Avalon to announce teaming and partnering arrangements.
Leonardo and Northrop Grumman Australia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to partner on C-27J through life support services in NZ. Under the memorandum, Leonardo, manufacturer of the C-27J Spartan tactical airlifter, and Northrop Grumman Australia will jointly bid the incoming Future Air Mobility Capability (FAMC) Program of the Royal NZ Air Force (RNZAF). The parties will use their existing relationship to offer the C-27J to NZ as a replacement for the aging C-130H fleet.
Cobham Aviation Services Australia and Acacia Systems are exploring opportunities to export globally its advanced mission management systems (MMS) for surveillance aircraft. Cobham most recently collaborated with Acacia Systems on the delivery of four search-and-rescue Challenger-aircraft for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA). Acacia supplied state-of-the-art mission management systems software for the aircraft that Cobham modified, integrated and now operates on behalf of AMSA under a 12-year $640 million contract. Cobham will again work with Acacia as it prepares to retender of its current Australian Border Force aerial surveillance contract.
Building on the teaming arrangements announced at the previous Avalon Air Show, Team Reaper Australia has expanded its ranks too:
- Cobham Aviation Services Australia – Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO), logistics
- CAE Australia – RPA training devices, training services, support material and courseware
- Airspeed – Sovereign payload pods and in-country composite repairs
- Flight Data Systems – Aviation services and products, including environmental testing of line-replaceable units, flight data acquisition, monitoring and analysis
- Raytheon Australia – Electro-Optical/Infrared image systems and integration of payloads and weapons
- Collins Aerospace – Fast Attack (FasTAK) Network Joint Fires on Rosetta Data Link Processor Gateway for Digital Joint Fires
- Quickstep Technologies – Composite component manufacturing
- Sentient Vision Systems – Autonomous detection systems, including all environmental ViDAR Wide Area Motion Imagery
- TAE Aerospace – Honeywell TPE331 Engine MRO and other power plant-related component manufacturing
- Ultra Electronics Australia – Electronic Warfare (EW) payloads
PAL Aerospace and Air Affairs Australia have confirmed a strategic partnership between the two companies for the provision of special mission aircraft and support services within Australia and the South Pacific. The announcement follows an MoU signed by the two companies in 2018 to support the pursuit of special mission opportunities in maritime patrol and defence based activities in the region.
Wellington Shire Council has announced partnerships with RAAF Air Academy and Federation Training that will ensure West Sale Airport is a leader in aviation and the facility is ripe for further investment.
The Council's imminent completion of the $6 million runway extension and lighting upgrade will bring the facility up to the standard required for RAAF Air Academy to use the facilities as part of the new Pilot Training System.
The peak French Government scientific research organisation, CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) and Naval Group, have signed a Letter of Intent with Flinders University, the University of Adelaide, and the University of SA to develop a proposal to base what would be one of only five industry-linked CNRS international joint laboratories in the world, in Adelaide.
Lockheed Martin Australia has established a formal relationship with Clearbox Systems to assist the small, but highly innovative high-tech company, to successfully compete for future prime and subcontractor contracts in both local and global supply chains.
The Mentor-Protégé relationship, being overseen by Lockheed Martin Australia's Office of Australian Industrial Participation, is based on a highly successful US program where Lockheed Martin will act as a Mentor to Clearbox Systems to provide dedicated assistance and market advice to open opportunities for technology transfer, innovation and local skilled jobs.
Nova Systems will be supporting Leidos Australia to deliver the $500 million Joint Project 2096 Phase 1. Nova Systems has been selected as a key sub-contractor to provide a systems training solution and verification and validation services.


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With the arrival of cloud-based services, many organizations are moving to the cloud. SaaS-based services have changed and will continue to change the landscape of IT. For example, no longer do IT admins need to purchase hardware, software, and manage implementations on-premises. Rather, cloud-based services have allowed IT admins to leverage cloud services such as Authentication-as-a-Service. Sometimes referred to as Directory-as-a-Service® or Identity-as-a-Service, Auth-as-a-Service enables access to a variety of IT resources, including devices, applications, and networks.
Many Authentication-as-a-Service providers focus on a single approach to authentication. They likely only leverage multi-factor or use SAML, or they do it for a certain constituency. Yet, Authentication-as-a-Service should be a broad platform to enable authentication of virtually any user with any type of device, application, or network. That's a tall order, and one that requires a broad, flexible platform. By definition, an Auth-as-a-Service solution should be delivered from the cloud and used as needed, from anywhere.
The 4 Components of Authentication-as-a-Service
Authentication-as-a-Service components should include the following:
- LDAP authentication – Perhaps the most widely used directory services protocol, LDAP was created in the mid-1990s and is embedded in some of the leading directory services solutions. LDAP is leveraged for devices (most often Linux®) and technical applications.
- SSH authentication – Being able to control authentication via SSH to Linux-based servers is an important piece of the authentication puzzle. Due to AWS® and Google Compute Engine being utilized as an organization's infrastructure, control over user access to these critical devices is a core part of authentication services for any organization.
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Archie Andrews will sacrifice himself to save the life of a friend in issue #36 of Life With Archie. The issue will be released in July.
This event is meant to conclude the Life With Archie series, which follows the lives of Archie, Betty, Veronica, and all their Riverdale friends as they move through the motions of life after high school.
Publisher Jon Goldwater had this to say:
We've been building up to this moment since we launched Life With Archie five years ago and knew that any book that was telling the story of Archie's life as an adult had to also show his final moment. This story is going to inspire a wide range of reactions because we all feel so close to Archie. Fans will laugh, cry, jump off the edge of their seats and hopefully understand why this comic will go down as one of the most important moments in Archie's entire history. It's the biggest story we've ever done, and we're supremely proud of it.


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Several factors were examined with respect to their influence on the attraction of protozoa towards yeast extract and on the inhibitory effect of cadmium on chemoattraction. These included: density of protozoa (numbers per volume), age of cultures, axenic and bacterized cultures, and starvation period before testing. A marine species, Miamiensis avidus, and a strain of Tetrahymena isolated from a local river, were tested separately. Two-fold increases in density of Miamiensis resulted in a three-fold increase in numbers attracted, whereas Tetrahymena resulted in a two-fold decrease in numbers attracted. However, inhibition by cadmium was not altered by using different densities. At 250 and 500 protozoa/25 μL, Tetrahymena was inhibited 87.8 ± 5.2 (average of four replicates ± 1 SD) and 89.0 ± 2.6%, respectively; at 117 and < 1 protozoa/25 μL, Miamiensis was inhibited 76.0 ± 4.4 and 67.5 ± 10.0%, respectively. Age of culture had an effect on cadmium sensitivity of Miamiensis but not of Tetrahymena. Older cultures of Miamiensis were more inhibited by cadmium (77.0 ± 2.0%) than younger cultures (57.3 ± 8.4%). Protozoa from axenic and bacterized cultures of Tetrahymena were equally affected by cadmium. This aspect was not tested for Miamiensis, since we did not have axenic cultures of this species. For both species, the starvation period clearly affected the numbers of protozoa attracted to yeast extract. Longer starvation periods resulted in greater attraction, yet their sensitivity to the metal did not change. After 1 and 72 h of starvation Tetrahymena was inhibited 79.0 ± 7.4 and 80.7 ± 10.8%, respectively, and Miamiensis was inhibited 78.5 ± 10.0 and 78.5 ± 5.0%, respectively. These results should provide suggestions for better standardization of behavioral tests using protozoa.
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Berk, SG
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Mills, BA
University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
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Intel's Itanium chip is hanging by a thread, and after more than three years, the company is now shipping the next and possibly final version of the processor, which is code-named Kittson.
The chip is now shipping to test customers, and volume shipments will commence later this year, a company spokesman said.
Itanium chips have been used in mainframes and mission-critical servers. Hewlett Packard Enterprise will ship servers with Kittson later this year.
Itanium has been dying a slow and painful death, and Kittson will likely be the end of the line. Support for the chip has been dwindling, and software development has stalled.
Intel may be happy to see Itanium sink as it looks to drop irrelevant products in its pursuit of profitable markets. Intel has been openly lobbying customers to switch from Itanium to x86-based Xeon chips, which commands a server chip market share of more than 90 percent.
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"Poet of the Future: Celebrating the Bicentennial of the Birth of Walt Whitman"
SC/UA Gallery
Curators: Michael Joseph
On display: March 26, 2019 to July 19, 2019
"From Cooking Pot to Melting Pot: New Jersey's Diverse Foodways"
SC/UA Gallery
Curators: Fernanda Perrone
On display: October 12, 2018 to February 28, 2019
"New Jersey First: The Life and Legacy of Senator Frank R. Lautenberg"
SC/UA Gallery
Curator: Sheridan Sayles
March 2, 2018 through September 28, 2018
"@Rutgers_SCUA: Social Media and Archives"
Gallery '50
Curators: Tara Maharjan, Flora Boros, Stephanie Crawford
March 19, 2018 - October 8, 2018
"Milton to Milton: The Legacy of J. Milton French"
Gallery '50
Curator: Thomas C. Fulton
October 19, 2017 through February 28, 2018
"Opposition: 23rd Annual NJ Book Arts Exhibit"
SC/UA Gallery
Curator: Michael Joseph and Flora Boros
November 3, 2017 through February 2, 2018
"Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken!": New Jersey in the Great War
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Flora Boros
Spring-Fall 2017
Catalog (download PDF)
Rutgers University 250th
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curators: Erika Gorder and Thomas J. Frusciano
Fall-Spring 2016
Catalog in RUcore
The Art of Healing: Early Herbals from Rutgers University Libraries Collections
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Flora Boros
Spring 2015
Catalog in RUcore
Program Recording: "Old herbals, New Readers" by Karen Reeds
New Jersey Before the Revolution
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Fernanda Perrone
Fall 2014
Fairweather Occult Collection
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Erika Gorder and Silvana Notarmaso
Spring 2014
Catalog in RUcore
On the Banks of the Old Raritan: Music at Rutgers and New Brunswick
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
October 9, 2013 to January 31, 2014
Curators: Thomas Izbicki, Fernanda Perrone, Flora Boros, and Kathy Fleming
Catalog in RUcore
New Jersey and the Civil War
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Fernanda Perrone
September 19, 2012 to June 7, 2013
Catalog in RUcore
Program Recording: "Why the Civil War Still Matters Today" by Marianne Gaunt
Founding Families: Supermarkets in New Jersey
Gallery '50
Curators: Katie Carey and Ronald L. Becker
May 30 to August 31, 2012
Karen Guancione, New Jersey Book Artist
SC/UA Gallery
Curators: Michael Joseph and Karen Guancione
March 1 to August 31, 2012
All Aboard: Railroads and New Jersey, 1812-1930
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curators: David J. Fowler and Fernanda Perrone
October 27, 2011 to January 13, 2012
Catalog in RUcore
Reprise: John Milton and the Cultures of Print
Gallery '50
Curators: Michael Joseph, Thomas Fulton and Kevin Mulcahy
October 19, 2011 to January 6, 2012
Catalog in RUcore
John Milton and the Cultures of Print
SC/UA Gallery
Gallery '50: An Afterlife: The Literary and Cultural Influence of John Milton
Curators: Michael Joseph, Thomas Fulton and Kevin Mulcahy
Feburary 3, 2011 - July 1, 2011
Catalog in RUcore
Out of Retirement: The Later Wood Engravings of John DePol
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Michael S. Joseph
October 6, 2010 - February 2011
Benevolent Patriot: The Life and Times of Henry Rutgers
Curator: Erika Gorder
February 15, 2010 - October 2011
Catalog in RUcore
Bridging Generations: Women Artists and Organizations from Rutgers
Curator: Fernanda Perrone
October 5, 2009 - January 31, 2010
My Infant Head: The History of Children's Poetry
Curator: Michael Joseph
September 23, 2008 to January 9, 2009
Garden State Harvest: New Jersey's Agricultural Heritage
Curators: Ronald L. Becker and Bonita Grant
February 5, 2008 - July 2008
Everything from A to Z: The Edward J. Bloustein Dictionary Collection
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Fernanda Perrone
February 6, 2007 - June 2007
Suellen Glashausser and her Circles
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Michael Joseph
October 17, 2007 - January 11, 2008
Philosopher, Engineer, Tycoon: John A. Roebling and his Legacy
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Fernanda Perrone
September 26, 2006 - January 20, 2007
Catalog in RUcore
Margaret Bourke White in Print
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Gary Saretzky
January 24, 2006 - June 30, 2006
Early Roman Coinage of the Republic
SC/UA Gallery
Curators: Corey Brennan and Fernanda Perrone
September 27 - December 23, 2005
Catalog in RUcore
Witness to War: Voices from the Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II
Gallery '50
Curators: Sandra Stewart Holyoak and Shaun R. Illingworth
September 14 - December 23, 2005
Celebration of Recently Published Faculty Authors
Gallery '50
Curators: Harry Glazer and Fernanda Perrone
March 22, 2005 - July 31, 2005
Periodic Pleasures: Collecting Vintage Magazines
Gallery '50
Curator: Professor Todd Hunt
March 15, 2005 - July 31, 2005
The People of New Jersey: Their Enduring Journey
SC/UA Gallery
Curator: Charles Cummings
December 6, 2004 - June 30, 2005
Traveling exhibit from Newark Public Library
The Mask of Ceremony
SC/UA Gallery
Curator: Professor Karl Morrison
October 4, 2004 - November 19, 2004
Picturing the First Castaway: the Illustration of Robinson Crusoe, 1719-1950
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Professor Geoffrey Sill
Spring 2004
Soundtrack of Our Lives: Concerts at Rutgers
SC/UA Gallery
Curators: Erika Gorder and David Kuzma
September 15 - December 24, 2003
Voorhees Hall: Rutgers' First Modern Library
Gallery '50
Curator: Fernanda Perrone
September 2 - December 24, 2003
Lynd Ward's "Vertigo"
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Michael Joseph
Winter 2003
Digital Exhibit
Mikado's Empire: Rutgers and the Opening of Japan
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Ruth Simmons
Spring 2003
The Martin and Harriet Diamond Collection of American Art
This exhibition featured select holdings of this unique collection, and showcased materials relating to individual artists, such Georgia O'Keeffe, as well as artists' organizations, such as the American Abstract Artists. The exhibition also explored the social engagement and interrelationships of artists during the period.
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Sara Harrington
September 26, 2002 - December 24, 2002
The Changing Landscape of New Brunswick
Gallery '50
Curators: Briavel Holcomb and Michael Siegel
May - August 2002
Who Built New Brunswick? The History of the Hod-Carriers Union (Local 156)
SC/UA Gallery
Curator: John Clancy
April - August 2002
Shakespeare: In Print, On Stage, In Film, Online
SC/UA Gallery and Gallery '50
Curator: Kevin Mulcahy
January - March 2002
Archival Assemblages: Rutgers and the Avant-Garde, 1953-1963
SC/UA Gallery
Curator: Erika Gorder
September - December 2001
Catalog in RUcore
Taiwan Today
Gallery '50
Curator: Grace Lee, Taipei Cultural Center
September - November 2001
The United States & Latin America: Troubled Past, Complex Future
Curators: Fernanda Perrone and Lourdes Vazquez
April 3, 2001 - July 1, 2001
Books by John Ross / Books by Claire Romano
Highly graphic exhibition of artists' books and book illustration by printmakers John Ross and Claire Romano. The exhibition includes work undertaken collaboratively between 1950 and 2000, as well as the independent work of each artist.
Curators: Ruth Simmons, Michael Joseph
November 2000 - February 2001
The Dust Bin of History: Presidential Losers, 1798-1996
Co-Curators: Edward Skipworth and Ruth Simmons
September 5 - October 28, 2000
Celebrating the Tradition: 30 Year of Queer Activism at Rutgers
Co-Curators: Erika Gorder and Dr. Joseph Consoli
April 6 - July 31, 2000
Catalog in RUcore
Union in a Hurry: The 50th Anniversary of the IUE (International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine, and Furniture Workers, AFL-CIO
Curator: Dr. James P. Quigel, Jr.
December 13, 1999 - March 15, 2000
The Art of the Miniature Books: Selections from the Library of Alden Jacobs
Curators: Ann Montanaro, Maria Pisano, Ruth Simmons
September 13 - November 24, 1999
A State of Health: New Jersey's Medical Heritage
Curator: Dr. Karen Reeds
May 8 - August 15, 1999
Adventure and Art: The First One Hundred Years of Printing
Printed books and manuscripts from The Libraries and from the collection of Leonard Hansen, Class of '43 with remarks on the development of printing from movable type in the West. A catalog was created with the exhibition by Paul Needham and Michael Joseph, with an essay by Barbara A. Shailor.
Curators: Barbara A. Shailor and Leonard Hansen
November 17, 1998 - April 15, 1999
Two Double-Takes: Illustrated Poetry of the Twentieth Century
This exhibition intends a discussion of how published poetry appeared throughout the twentieth century, in terms of the often confrontational relationship between artefact and text. It is very much a work in progress, and visitors who agree or disagree strenuously with the concepts are urged to contact the curator (email@example.com) to influence or impede further analysis.
Gallery '50
Curator: Michael Joseph
November 13, 1997 - January 20, 1998
The Jeiteles Autograph Collection
The Jeiteles Autograph Collection Exhibit comprises 22 autograph letters including signatures of Voltaire, Beethoven, Mendelsohn, Herder and Heine, as well as related materials. It was donated to Special Collections by the late George Temmer, distinguished professor of physics at Rutgers University. The collection was assembled by his grandfather Max Jeiteles at the turn of the century and was smuggled out of Austria on the eve of the Second World War.
SC/UA Gallery
Curator: Dr. Margaret Sherry
November 13, 1997 - January 20, 1998
Rutgers College Goes Co-Ed: The 25th Anniversary
A survey of artefactual documentation of the historic transition of Rutgers University into a co-educational University.
Gallery '50
October, 1997 - November, 1997
New Jersey and You -- Learning Together: Texts for Teaching New Jersey Studies
Books and artifacts documenting the history of the text-book in New Jersey, and the history of teaching New Jersey.
Gallery '50
Curator: Dr. Maxine Lurie
April 1, 1997 - July 31, 1997
Mark Me Well: Bookmarks from the Lois Densky-Wolff Collection
Diverse collection of bookmarks depicting the range and ingenuity of popular material culture.
SC/UA Gallery
Curator: Lois Densky-Wolff
January 23, 1997 - April 7, 1997
W.E.B. Du Bois: America's Renaissance Man
Celebration of the life and achievements of an important American intellectual.
Gallery '50
February 1, 1997 - March 19, 1997
An Anarchist Experiment: The Modern School of Stelton, New Jersey
As well as illustrating the history of the Modern School and the anarchist movement through photographs, publications and documents, the exhibit displayed examples of the remarkable work produced by the Modern School children.
Gallery '50
Curator: Fernanda Perrone
September 27, 1996 - January 16, 1997
Transfigurations: Documents and Images from Contemporary Feminist Art
Documents the history of feminist art thorugh photographs, posters, catalogs, fliers and other objects from manuscript collections held by Special Collections and University Archives.
SC/UA Gallery
Curator: Fernanda Perrone
October 14, 1996 - January 16, 1997
The POP-UP World of Ann Montanaro
A sampling of pop-up books from the collection of Ann Montanaro, author of Pop-Up & Movable Books: A Bibliography,
Curator: Ann Montanaro
April 15 - June 31, 1996
Digital Exhibit
Musical Books and Music Manuscripts
From The Collections of Leonard Hansen, RC 1943, Professor Martin Picker and Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives
Curator: Professor Martin Picker
January 25 - April 1, 1996
The Blizzard of 1888, A March Surprise
Gallery '50
January 25 - April 1, 1996
Book Arts in New Jersey: Seven Contemporary Perspectives
Featuring the work of seven contemporary New Jersey artists, this exhibition surveys important individual and collaborative work in the field of book making and artists' books. Exhibitors include John DePol, Barbara Henry, Carol Joyce, Barbara Mauriello, Iris Nivins, Maria Paisano and Alexandra Soteriou.
SC/UA Gallery
Curator: Michael Joseph
October 19 - December 1995
Catalog in RUcore
Battlefields and Homefront: The Rutgers and New Jersey Experience During World War II
Gallery '50
Curator: Dr. Kurt Piehler
May 12 - September 2, 1995
Buyer Beware: Consumers' Research and The Consumer Movement, 1926-1980
The Consumers' Research, Inc. published the first consumer testing and rating magazines. This exhibition traces its rich history and influence, from its founding by Frederick J. Schlink in 1926, up through 1980. It also looks at a variety of testing processes, and documents its famous 1935 strike as well as the ideological wars it fought against the break-away Consumers Union. Featured are many of the packages, labels, catalogs and advertisements Consumers' Research collected between 1930 and 1980 as they tested such products as lawn-mowers, canned foods, automobiles, radios, and irons.
January 1995 - April 1995
For more information about the Consumer's Research records at Rutgers University, see A Guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc..


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AEV to Issue PhP30 Billion Fixed-rate Retail Bond
The board of directors of Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc. (PSE: AEV) approved the issuance of fixed-rate peso-denominated retail bonds in the aggregate amount of up to PhP30 billion, to be issued in one or more tranches depending on market conditions. The bonds will be registered under the shelf registration program of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is expected to be offered to the general public in 2019. AEV is also planning to list the bonds with the Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corporation.
The board delegated to management the final determination of the offer price, tenors, and other terms and conditions of the bonds. AEV will use the proceeds of the bonds to finance planned acquisitions, future investments, and other general corporate requirements.


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Talisman: Digital Edition
PSN Game
In Talisman Digital Edition, there are 58 characters a player can control, from the heroic Warrior to the powerful Sorceress. In this perilous adventure, players battle it out to journey across a dangerous land and be the first to claim the Crown of Command, a magical artefact with the power to destroy all rivals and make the bearer the true ruler of the kingdom. On your travels, you will need strength, courage and some good dice rolls to survive the dangers you face and beat your opponents to the center of the board.
Multiplayer modes for up to 6 players.
Play against AI opponents.
Includes the following official expansions - The Reaper, The Frostmarch, The Dungeon, The Highland, The Sacred Pool, The City and The Nether Realm.
Purchasing this content entitles you to both the PS4™ system and "PS Vita" system versions!
Remote Play requires PS Vita system and sufficiently robust Wi-Fi connection.
Use of PSN and SEN account are subject to the Terms of Service and User Agreement and applicable privacy policy (see terms at sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/terms-of-service & sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/privacy-policy).
Online features may be terminated at any time.
*Online multiplayer requires a PlayStation®Plus membership.
1-6 players
Network Players 2-6 - Full game requires PlayStation®Plus membership to access online multiplayer
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Software subject to license (us.playstation.com/softwarelicense). Online features require an account and are subject to terms of service and applicable privacy policy (playstationnetwork.com/terms-of-service & playstationnetwork.com/privacy-policy). One-time license fee for play on account's designated primary PS4™ system and other PS4™ systems when signed in with that account.
Talisman (c) Games Workshop Limited 1983, 1985, 1994, 2007. Talisman Digital Edition (c) Games Workshop Limited 2017. Games Workshop, Talisman, Talisman Digital Edition, the foregoing marks' respective logos and all associated marks, logos, characters, products and illustrations from the Talisman game are either (r) or TM, and/or (c) Games Workshop Limited 1983-2017, variably registered in the UK and other countries around the world. This edition published under license to Nomad Games Ltd. Nomad Games is the registered trademark of Nomad Games Limited. All Rights Reserved to their respective owners.


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Buying semi party dresses online
Buying semi party dresses online
Our wardrobe always contains a variety of clothes for different kinds of occasions. These may be highly formal dresses, semi formal dresses or even casual dresses. We wear clothes according to the demands and requirements of the functions. No one can deny the fact that semi formal dresses make an inevitable part of the wardrobe. These dresses are required for occasions like date nights, dinner parties, fundraisers, weddings, holiday parties, award ceremonies and so on. In other words, if you want to buy semi party dresses then you need to make sure that you are clear in your mind about what you want and expect of your semi formal dress. Semi party dress collection must be in compliance with the latest fashion trends. It can be very well ensured by working a little hard online.
How to choose a semi formal dress online?
Underlined are some of the points that need to be ensured when one is shopping online for a semi formal dress. * Dress code: First of all you need to know the dress code. Different levels of formality include white tie, business casual, and semi formal, which are seriously confusing for the people. No doubt, you will not want to be embarrassed by wearing your favorite t-shirt on a black tie party.
* Dress length: Length of the dress also matters a lot. Most of the times, semi formal dress length goes longer than knee length. Other way round the dress looks less formal and unnecessarily sexier in every sense and manner. In case, you want to wear a shorter dress then make sure that it falls lesser than an inch above the knee. At the same time floor, length is also not suitable. The most acceptable length is between the knee and the ankle.
* Fabric: Fabric of the clothes is also a thing that needs to be well kept in mind. When it is about a semi formal occasion then preferences are always thinner, lighter, and movable fabric. A heavy dress is not recommended at all. One can always choose from silk, taffeta, chiffon, satin, crepe, cashmere, velvet, etc. No doubt wearing a semi formal dress facilitates in bringing out the unique personality as well as taste. But these semi formal dresses need to be modest as well.
Online semi formal dresses:
We are living in a world where people make use of the online services to meet even their day to day requirements. Same goes true when they are looking for a semi formal dress for them. There are a large number of websites offering semi party dresses online. All one needs to do is to browse online and find the semi formal dress that meets all ones needs and requirements. These websites have size charts that may facilitate you in accessing just the right dress for you. It is in case you want to buy a ready to wear dress or you want them to stitch the dress for you. Some of these sites also offer UN stitched dresses as well.


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Top Nourishing oily hair masks for healthy and shiny hair
Nourishing oily hair masks
In this article, We want to offer you several recipes for hair masks for oily hair, and never worry about ingredients, because they are accessible to everyone, you'll find them in your kitchen, if you want, you can add some essential oils and rose water and other fresheners as desired.
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Yogurt mask
3 tablespoons yogurt
1 tablespoon of honey or Aloe Vera, or glycerine
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 egg yolk
You can add 5 drops of essential oil of bitter orange.
Method of application:
Mix the all ingredients, Apply on the hair and leave for 30 minutes then rinse well with shampoo.
Coconut mask
Coconut milk is an excellent moisturizer for hair, has proven to be effective in promoting hair growth, and can be used as follows:
Cup of coconut milk
1 tablespoon honey
How to prepare:
Mix the all ingredients and apply on the hair, leave it for an hour, then rinse your hair with shampoo.
Nourishing oily hair masks
Carbonate soda mask for oily hair
3 tablespoons of carbonate soda
The amount of water to form a paste
How to prepare:
Mix carbonate soda and water, apply the mixture on the scalp with massaging in circles motions for 5 minutes, then rinse hair with shampoo.


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I designed these beautiful dangling crochet earrings in celebration of Spring with its magnificent blooming cherry trees. Using this crochet pattern, in one evening you will be able to make amazing looking Cherry Blossom Crochet Earrings!
The Cherry flowers are made with Puff Stitch. The flowers are embellished with Czech glass beads on each side as well, and they look pretty from both sides.
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, which means if you make a purchase from one of these links I will get a commission.
You can see more of my crochet earrings designs HERE.
DIY Crochet Cherry Blossom Earrings – Crochet Earrings Pattern
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(See a list of crochet abbreviations used in patterns by yarn industry designers and publishers HERE)
Ch(s) – chain(s)
SC – single crochet
Sl st(s) – slip stitch(s)
St (s)– stitch(es)
Puff St – 5-HDC puff stitch
Crochet cotton thread size #10, colors – pink and light pink
Flat-nose pliers
4 clear Czech glass beads, size 6/0 or beads of your choice
2 jump rings
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Finished Size:
Cherry Blossom Crochet Earrings are about 3" (7.5 cm) long
Special stitches:
Puff St (5-HDC puff stitch) = Yarn over, insert hook in indicated stitch. Yarn over again and draw up loop. There will be three loops on the hook. Repeat four more times. Each time adds 2 more loops to the hook. There will be 11 loops on the hook. Yarn over and draw through all loops on hook. You have one loop on hook, Ch 1 to secure the Puff St.
Crochet Cherry Flower
With crochet cotton in pink color, Ch 5, join to form a ring. Make sure you leave beginning tail about 6-8" long to sew beads.
Round 1. Ch 1, 9 SC into ring, join with Sl St into first SC.
Round 2. *(Ch 3, 5-HDC Puff St, Ch 3) – into same St, skip next St, Sl St into next St*, repeat from * to * 4 more times, but last time don't skip St. You should have made 5 petals.
Ch 27, cut off pink color leaving 4-6" long tail.
Using light pink color, make a second Cherry Flower.
Using ending tail from Ch 27, attach Chain to the Flower, weave in the end.
Using the ends from the centers, sew beads on to both sides of the Flowers, fasten off and weave in the end.
With flat-nosed pliers, open jump ring and slip it under two strands of the 10th chain, counting from the light pink Flower. Add the earring wire, and close the jump ring with the pliers.
I hope you enjoy this Cherry Blossom Crochet Earrings pattern!
With Love,
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Beccles – Missing woman located
Police can confirm that a missing 36-year-old woman from Beccles has been found.
Lois Kennedy was located in the town yesterday afternoon (Thursday 15 August).
Officers would like to thank the public and media for their assistance with this appeal.
Previous release | 15 August 2019
Police are appealing for help to trace a missing 36-year-old woman from Beccles.
Lois Kennedy was last seen at her home address in the town yesterday, Wednesday 14 August, at around 6.10pm. She was reported missing to police at around 10pm.
She is described as white, 5ft 2ins tall, of a slim build and with short mousey hair. Lois was wearing a pink raincoat.
Officers are concerned for Lois's welfare and anyone who believes they have seen her, or who has any information regarding her whereabouts, should Suffolk police on 101.


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