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As many smart phone owners know, there was a game called Flappy Bird that was available to iPhone and Android users. It is no longer available, however, which may come as a shock to some. Most game developers would be amazed to hear that millions of players couldn't rip themselves away from a game. Dong Nguyen, the Vietnamese game developer, obviously didn't feel that way.
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Encapsulated Bodies
(full version of a talk for the symposium:
The Science of Stelarc
, at the School of Design and Art, Curtin University, Perth (Australia), 19 June 2013)
Dr. Andreas Broeckmann
Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
Four Scenarios for Extended and Encapsulated Bodies
1. Three Layers of the "Stelarc" Phenomenon
I would like to begin with the question about whom, or about what, we speak when we speak about "Stelarc". There is, of course, an artist by that name, with an oeuvre of artistic performances, technical contraptions and corporeal interventions, all executed on the body of the artist himself. And the artist speaks about the motivations and experiences that accompany the realisation of these works.
Who or what we speak about as "Stelarc", is a particularly awkward question to ask in the artist's presence – apologies for that –, but it is no less awkward than trying to find a way to speak about the artwork that Stelarc not only "does", but "is". – He reminds us of this split, or dispersal, whenever he seems to talk about his own experience, but what he says is "the Body", and that "the Body" does, feels, endures.
I have no solution for this problem, but I would like to propose that we should be careful to differentiate between at least three layers or instantiations of the Stelarc phenomenon, namely, (a.) the person who develops and performs the works, (b.) the subject of these performances, and (c.) the individual who reflects and speaks about the work. However arbitrary such an analytical distinction may seem, I believe that it helps to grasp the phenomenon in its full aesthetic complexity. Most urgently, I think it is necessary to understand Stelarc's own discourse not as a privileged discourse about the artistic work, but to take this discourse as part of the work, i.e. as an integral part of the processual artwork that we address with the name "Stelarc".
2. Stelarc's work in the context of Machine Art
My own interest in Stelarc's work goes back to the mid-1990s when I worked at the V2_Organisation in Rotterdam where some of Stelarc's performances were staged. Currently, I am working on a study about the relationship between art and technology in the 20th century, in which Stelarc's work will feature prominently in a chapter about the human body in Machine Art. One goal of the book project is to describe the artistic and historical context of more recent electronic art. Therefore, the chapter on the body will not only rehearse the established connections to the work of machine and performance artists like Chico MacMurtrie, Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories, Erik Hobijn, and Arthur Elsenaar, but will seek to describe relations to the body performance work of artists like Chris Burden and Marina Abramovic, and to historical conceptions like those of Oskar Schlemmer's "Triadic Ballet", or El Lissitzky's stage designs for the opera "Victory over the Sun".
An important question that drives my research is, how to describe the historical specificity of artistic practices, and in how far it makes sense to construct such broader historical genealogies. – I cannot go into these arguments here, but we will touch upon them through the examples that I will discuss in a moment.
Stelarc once remarked: "We have to design bodies to match our machines." While Stelarc's artistic work is a unique contribution to the relationship between humans, machines, and the environment, some of his conceptions are not without historical precedent. In this presentation, I will discuss three text samples by Vilém Flusser, Oswald Wiener and Kazimir Malevich, which prominently feature proposals for specific body/machine assemblages. Importantly, I do not want to propose the conceptions by Flusser, Wiener and Malevich as precursors, or alternatives, or complements to Stelarc's own work; rather, I hope to offer external reference or sounding points which may help to both contextualise and rethink the Stelarc Body.
My main reference material for this discussion are Stelarc's discursive reflexions put forward in his texts, in interviews and talks. However, in a next step it would be interesting to relate the various scenarios also to some of the performances and corporeal interventions. So, I'd like to encourage you to think about projects like the Stomach Sculpture, Ping Body, the Suspension pieces, or Movatar, as I go through the following examples.
3. Vilém Flusser's proposal for a "map of the body" (Leibkarte)
A text by the media theoretician Vilém Flusser may serve as a point of departure. In the text "Toward a map of the body", possibly written in the early 1980s, but published only posthumously in 2000, Flusser develops the idea of a model of the human body. The purpose of this cybernetic model is to describe aspects of the relation between the body, the world, and the self, and to raise a number of questions regarding, for example, sensory perception, inside and outside, the body as a medium, regarding the status of the Self, and death. This is how Flusser describes the basic features of the model of the "body map":
"Imagine a hollow sphere whose hollow space is tiny in comparison with its overall volume. This hollow sphere pulsates (whether it pulsates rhythmically or not, shall remain open for now). The very thick walls of the sphere are organised with a high degree of complexity, and this organisation of the walls is in question. The sphere exists in a context and finds itself in a feedback relationship with that context: the context partly flows into the sphere's wall, partly the sphere's wall expells secretions which coagulate as context. The context itself disperses towards the horizon, from which it is, however, set apart. This model can now be labeled: the hollow space in the sphere can be labeled as "myself" (or as "nothing"), the sphere's wall as "my body", the context as "my world", and the horizon as "my death" or as "nothing", or it can remain unlabeled. The purpose of the model is to serve as a coordinate system of my body experience." (1)
In his essay, Flusser then goes on to apply the model to different aspects of the human body and its interactions with the world. The deliberately reductive model makes it possible for Flusser to think about and, in his own formulation, to think through the body. I can here only point to five issues which emerge from Flusser's concept of the "body map" and which, I believe, can also be posed as questions about the Stelarc Body.
Firstly, there is a distinction in German between two notions of the body, i.e. between Körper and Leib. The title of the German version of the text takes the term "Leibkarte" for the English "map of the body". The term Leib refers to the living, conscious or soulful body, a body that is alive and, depending whether the term is used in theological or philosophical contexts, endowed with a soul, or with consciousness. This understanding of Leib differs from the notion of Körper which implies an understanding of the body that is more neutral and objectifying. In the earlier, English version of the text, Flusser used the word "body", so the fact that in the German version he chose the term Leib rather than the more neutral Körper indicates that he conceived of the body that was modelled in the map as a Leib, i.e. as a conscious and or soulful body. – When discussing the Stelarc Body, which of these two possibilities, the neutral Körper or the conscious Leib, would we use, and what would the consequences of such a choice be for understanding the Body's relationship to the world in general, and to technology in particular?
Secondly, Flusser's conception of the body as medium introduces media theoretical, epistemological and ontological considerations about the status of perception, and agency. This theme is closely connected, thirdly, to the distinction between the inside and the outside of the body, its relation to the world, and the porosity of the boundary between the body and its context, or environment. Further, you will remember that Flusser suggests that the small hollow space, the void at the centre of the model sphere can be labeled as "myself", or as "nothing". The question of the Self plays an important role in his interpretation of the model, and it is, I would suggest, also a very important question to ask of the Stelarc Body. Who, or what is it, that would say "I" with regard to the Stelarc Body? And is this Self continuous across the different performances, interventions and extensions? Finally, a theme that Flusser discusses and that is again somewhat embarrassing to bring up in Stelarc's presence, is the notion of Death, and how it is built into the model. – Maybe we can later discuss how these themes resonate with Stelarc's work.
Interestingly, Flusser does not relate the body map, the Leibkarte, to technological aspects, but uses the model only to discuss the human body in relation to the world in general. In a book about the development of technological images that was published in the mid-1980s, presumably soon after writing the text on the body map, Flusser speaks elaborately about the relation between the human body and media interfaces, especially those used in the creation of electronic images and texts. The following quotation presents a critical, rather dystopian vision of the way in which human bodies might evolve in relation to technical media:
"The scenario, the fable which I want to propose, is this: humans will sit, each to him- or herself, in cells, they will play on keyboards with their fingertips, stare at tiny screens and they will receive, modify and send images. Behind their backs, robots will be bringing things to maintain and propagate their atrophied bodies. The humans will be connected to each other through their fingertips and will thus form a dialogical network, a cosmic super-brain, whose function it will be to put improbable situations into images by means of calculation and computation, and to bring about information and catastrophies. Switched between the humans will be artificial intelligences which dialogue with the humans through cables or similar nerve cords. It will therefore be functionally meaningless to want to distinguish between "natural" and "artificial" intelligences (between "primate brains" and "second brains"). The whole thing will function as a cybernetically controlled, indecomposable system: a black box.
The mood there will be reminiscent of that which we experience in our most creative moments. The mood of excess, of adventure, of orgasm." (2)
The ambivalence of these descriptions, which are typical of Flusser's prose and which are deliberately non-moralistic, may remind us of the moral ambivalence that Stelarc conveys when he speaks about his performance scenarios and contraptions that oscillate between pleasure and pain, between scientific experiment, torture rack, and orgasmatron.
4. Oswald Wiener's "Bio-Adapter"
In the mid-1960s, the Austrian artist-philosopher Oswald Wiener developed the idea of the "Bio-Adapter": an imagined device that can fully contain a human body and that, over time, gradually takes over the body and mind of its human inhabitant.(3) At the time of conceiving this idea, Wiener was a leading member of the Vienna-based "Wiener Gruppe" of artists, while his day job was in data processing for the Italian computer company, Olivetti (1958-1966).
Wiener's 1966 text – presented as a fragment, or work in progress in its first publication of 1969 – describes different functional and theoretical aspects of the Bio-Adapter, how it constructs certain experiences and how it, for instance, deals with unavoidable temporary failures. The description singles out certain experiences as conducive to adaptation, namely ecstasies, and sexual ecstasies in particular, to whose induction Wiener devotes a specially long and detailed section. The Bio-Adapter is described as a "happiness suit" ("Glücks-Anzug"), and likened to an artificial "uterus".
The Bio-Adapter is there to counteract deficiencies both of the rapport between the human individual and its environment, and of the psychic make-up of the human subject itself.
"It is its purpose to supersede the world. That means it will take over the heretofore inadequate function of the 'existing environment' as transmitter and receiver of vital messages (nourishment and entertainment, metabolism and intellectual exchange), and will be more appropriate for its individualised task than was the socalled natural environment which was common to 'everybody' and which is now obsolete." (4)
The following description of the deficient human being sounds similar to descriptions that Stelarc has given to justify the technical improvements of the Body. Wiener writes:
"Outside of its adapter, the human being is an abandoned, nervously activated and miserably equipped lump of slime (in terms of language, logic, thinking power, sensory organs, tools), shaken by the fear of life and petrified by the fear of death. After putting on its bio-complement, the human becomes a sovereign entity which no longer needs to cope with the cosmos and its conquest because it now ranges distinctly higher than the cosmos in the hierarchy of possible valences." (5)
Thus, the Bio-Adapter is placed "between the insufficient cosmos and the unsatisfied human." (6)
The gradual adaptation of the human "bio-body" to the Bio-Adapter takes place in several stages. In a first phase, the Bio-Adapter simulates the living environment that the inhabitant is acquainted with through a variety of visual, auditory and tactile interfaces. Gradually, in the second phase, the old body functions are taken over by the Adapter and replaced by modules that can generate experiences much more suited to the wishes and desires of the inhabitant. "Mechanical aggregates become unnecessary and are dismantled by the adapter and converted, or transfered to the storage (where the cell tissues of the bio-body are also kept). (...) Gradual sucking up of the cell organisation by the electronic circuit complexes of the adapter." (7) In this second phase of the adaptation, the goal is not simplification, but improvement, complexity, and expansion of the consciousness of the human – who is alternatively also refered as the "patient", "inmate", or "bio-module".
Wiener's text is a phantasy about a fully cybernated human body – pushing to the limits, ideas of a complete replacement of the natural living environment by a highly individualised and simulated virtual world. "Consciousness," the text says, "becomes the self of the environment." (8) In the fiction of the "Bio-Adapter", the data-processing machine enables the expansion of human consciousness, (9) up to the point where it becomes self-contained.(10)
Since its inception in the 1960s, the concept of the Bio-Adapter has been used and modified for a number of science fiction narratives. But whereas these mostly presume an extreme form of exploitation of the human body by alien or enemy entities, Wiener's Bio-Adapter is conceived as a form of improvement of an otherwise deficient human body. – This of course reminds us of a theme that Stelarc frequently brings up in his discourse, i.e. the idea of the physiological and ecological deficiency of the human body, hence the necessity of its technical improvement – however preliminary and hypothetical the improvements may be that Stelarc himself implements on his own body.
Stelarc develops a comparable phantasy when he describes the vision of a "skin" that, similar to the Bio-Adapter system, completely evacuates and replaces the body:
"When I first looked at alternative anatomies for the body, I speculated about engineering a synthetic skin. It would be quite plausible to make a membrane permeable to oxygene so you could breathe through your skin. And if the skin also possessed some sophisticated photosynthetic capabilities, then it could produce nutrients for the body. So simply through a change of the skin, we could radically hollow out the human body. (...) And a hollow body would be a better host for all the technological components you could pack into it!"(11)
What is the "relation" between the different models that Flusser and Wiener propose, and how do they relate to Stelarc's artistic work? After all, unlike Flusser's fable of interconnected and artificially enhanced human cell inhabitants, and unlike Wiener's ficticious concept of the Bio-Adapter, Stelarc's contraptions are real, and they maintain a realistic conception of the human body platform. In order to discuss the differences between these different designs, it might be particularly interesting to compare the theoretical models put forward by Wiener and Flusser, to Stelarc's projects when these are yet in their nascent, conceptual phase, before realisation.
5. Kazimir Malevich and the new body of Man
A final model that I want to mention extends the historical range of our investigation. It conveys yet another phantasy about a body-machine assemblage, namely that put forward by the avantgarde artist Kazimir Malevich in a text written in 1920, entitled "God is Not Cast Down". Malevich is famous for the invention of Suprematism and for painting the icon of that exclusive art movement, the "Black Square", and he counts among the key figures of the Russian avantgarde of the 1910s and 20s. Unlike the Constructivists, like Tatlin, Rodchenko and Stepanova, with their political and social utilitarianism, Malevich held on to an autonomous and spiritual conception of art. This he explained in a number of writings, among which was the text under consideration here, "God is Not Cast Down". This text was published as a brochure in 1922 when Malevich was head of the art school in Vitebsk and when the publication formed part of a heated debate about the role of art in the new, post-revolutionary Soviet society.
In this 40-page essay, Malevich, in his typical meandering style, speaks about the role of art in a society that used to be dominated by religion, and that is now increasingly under the rule of industrialisation. The three key topics of his discourse are "art", "church", and "factory", and his main aim is a reconciliation of the concept of "God" with the experience of modernisation.
Of particular interest in our context are two sections towards the end, which deal with the transformation of the human body through technology. In section 30, Malevich lets "the factory" speak as follows: "I redesign the world and its body; I change the consciousness of Man (...)." (12) The factory assumes god's omniscience and eventually becomes the mouthpiece of god himself: "I will open Man's eyes and ears and will let his speech resound in many spaces, I will build up the technique of his body in a perfect model. (...) After all, the world is only a failed technical attempt by God, which I will now bring to perfect completion."(13)
Modern industrialisation was understood at the time to bring about a fundamental transformation of both the social and the physiological organisation of human life. The respective scientific studies, closely related to the Taylorist factory system, were done – amongst others – by Frank and Lilian Gilbreth in the United States, and by Alexei Gastev in the young Soviet Union. In their research, the adaptation of the human body to machines for the sake of production efficiency is not science fiction, but science.
Malevich connects these ideas about the industrial transformation of the human body to his argument about the emergence of a new conception of humans. Whereas the Christian church had sought to save the soul by separating it from the body, thus making the soul immortal, the factory – in Malevich's conception – reverses the body-soul relationship, ignoring the soul altogether and instead turning the human worker into the soul of the machine system:
"(The factory) prepares a new body for man as spiritual power and the result will resemble the man that the church divides into body and soul. An armoured weapon, an automobile, represents a small example of what I have been saying. If a man sitting in it is still separate from it, it is because his particular body that man has put on cannot fulfil all functions. The man himself, as a technical organ, can fulfil all the functions necessary for his soul, and therefore the soul lives within him and leaves him when the functions are no longer fulfilled. If an automobile could perfectly fulfil all man's needs he would never leave it. The features of the latter are found at a larger scale: for example, the hydroplane – air and water are united in it, and when everything has been (technically) provided for, man will leave his new body no more.
Thus the factory and industrial plant intend to lead man to a new mechanical empire, changing his body, as well as his soul in a new set of clothes or tools; in that empire man can be imagined to exist in the form that the soul is imagined to exist in the human body today."(14)
You can sense that these are very complex historical sources which would really require a close, analytical reading. Moreover, a direct comparison between the three text excerpts by Malevich, Wiener and Flusser can generate an interesting debate about the historicity of their respective conceptions, thus providing a rich epistemological matrix for our discussion of Stelarc's artistic practice.
My main point here – and with that I want to end – has been to provide examples of conceptions for body-machine assemblages from different moments and contexts in the 20th century. The four scenarios for extended and encapsulated bodies by Malevich, Wiener, Flusser, and Stelarc, share certain hypothetical assumptions about the insufficiency, if not obsolescence of the human body in the face of technological progress, and they each project models for a new type of fusion between the human body and its technological environment.
1. Translated from the German version of the text, "Von den Möglichkeiten einer Leibkarte" (published 2000, S. 116, Vilém Flusser Archive, Best. 1608 Nr. 2058), which differs from, and seems to have been written later than, the unpublished English version (Best. 1608 Nr. 2800).
2. Flusser 1985/1996, p. 175-176.
3. Wiener 1969; cf Zielinski 2011, p. 57-58.
4. "sein zweck ist es nämlich, die welt zu ersetzen, d.h. die bislang völlig ungenügende funktion der "vorgefundenen umwelt" als sender und empfänger lebenswichtiger nachrichten (nahrung und unterhaltung, stoff- und geistwechsel) in eigene regie zu übernehmen – und seiner individualisierten aufgabe besser zu entsprechen, als dies die "allen" gemeinsame, nunmehr veraltete sog. natürliche umwelt vermag." English translations are mine, though I have drawn on Todd C. Hanlin's translation of 2001; AB.
5. "der mensch, ausserhalb seines adapters ein preisgegebener, nervös aktivierter und miserabel ausgerüsteter (sprache, logik, denkkraft, sinnesorgane, werkzeug) schleimklumpen, geschüttelt von lebensangst und von todesfurcht versteinert, wird nach anlegen seines bio-komplements zu einer souveränen einheit, die des kosmos und dessen bewältigung nicht mehr bedarf, weil sie auf eklatante weise in der hierarchie denkbarer wertigkeiten über ihm rangiert."
6. "zwischen den ungenügenden kosmos und den unbefriedigten menschen"
7. "mechanische aggregate werden unnötig und vom adapter abmontiert und umgebaut, oder der reserve (wo sich auch die zellgewebe des bio-körpers befinden) zugeführt. (...) allmähliches aufsaugen der zellorganisation durch die elektronischen schaltkomplexe des adapters."
8. "wird nun das bewusstsein zum selbst der umwelt." – Oswald Wiener associates these ideas on cognition to media theoretical considerations: "die kontinuität des ich-bewusstseins, soweit sie überhaupt postuliert werden kann, ist nicht durch die physische konstanz der ganglien-zellen, sondern durch die konstanz der information gegeben."
9. "erweiterungen des daten-verarbeitenden materials führen zu einer sprengung der den menschen so einschnürenden enge des bewusstseins"
10. "das bewusstsein, dieses kuckucksei der natur, verdrängt also schliesslich die natur selbst. (...) so ruht nun das bewusstsein, unsterblich, in sich selber und schafft sich vorübergehende gegenstände aus seinen eigenen tiefen."
11. Stelarc in Smith 2005, p. 229.
12. "Ich gestalte die Welt und ihren Leib um; ich verändere das Bewußtsein des Menschen (...)." Malevich 1922/1968, section 30, p. 218 (translation modified according to the German version in Malevich 1922/2004, p. 100)
13. "Ich werde dem Menschen Augen und Ohren öffnen und seine Rede in vielen Räumen erklingen lassen, ich werde die Technik seines Leibes in einem vollkommenen Modell aufbauen. (...) Ist doch die Welt letztlich nur ein mißlungener technischer Versuch Gottes, den ich nun in Vollkommenheit errichten werde." Malevich 1922/1968, section 30, p. 218 (translation modified according to the German version in Malevich 1922/2004, p. 100)
14. Malevich 1922/1968, section 31, p. 220 (translation modified according to the German version in Malevich 1922/2004, p. 102-103)
Vilém Flusser: Toward a map of the body. Unpublished manuscript. Vilém Flusser Archive, Best. 1608, Nr. 2800.
Vilém Flusser: Von den Möglichkeiten einer Leibkarte. In: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln: Lab – Jahrbuch für Künste und Apparate. Köln: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2000, S. 115-124. (Vilém Flusser Archive, Best. 1608, Nr. 2058)
Vilém Flusser: Ins Universum der technischen Bilder. (1985) Göttingen: European Photography, 1996 (5th edition)
Aage A. Hansen-Löve: Die Kunst ist nicht gestürzt. Das suprematistische Jahrzehnt. In: Kasimir Malevic: Gott ist nicht gestürzt! Schriften zu Kunst, Kirche, Fabrik. Edited by Aage A. Hansen-Löve. München: Hanser, 2004, p. 253-452
Kazimir S. Malevich: God is not cast down. In: K. S. Malevich: Essays on Art, 1915-1928, Vol. I. Edited by Troels Andersen. Copenhagen: Borgen, 1968, p. 188-223.
Kasimir Malevic: Gott ist nicht gestürzt!. In: K. Malevic: Gott ist nicht gestürzt! Schriften zu Kunst, Kirche, Fabrik. Edited by Aage A. Hansen-Löve. München: Hanser, 2004, p. 64-106.
Marquard Smith: Stelarc – The Monograph. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2005.
Silvia Wagnermaier: Zuführung zum Text Vilém Flussers (Leibkarte). In: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln: Lab – Jahrbuch für Künste und Apparate. Köln: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2000, S. 113-114.
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Traveling this summer has been so great and we've done all of it (over 4000 miles) by car! We decided not to give our money to the airlines for our travel plans this year and what a good decision we made!
To prepare for our travels I decided to make a travel kitchen (well, that's what I call it anyway). The purpose of my travel kitchen was to enable us to bring healthy snacks, meals, and coffee for our long journey. This allowed us to save money and eat healthier.
I like to recycle, re-use, and re-purpose things, so I decided to transform a vintage Samsonite suitcase for this project.
I went right to work on the suitcase, ripping out the interior but saving the lining for taking measurements later. I have to admit, I didn't have the next step planned; I was just excited to start the project! After taking out the lining, I disinfected the interior of the travel bag. Digging thru my fabric stash, I found some cute brown and white checked fabric that worked with the pale teal suitcase.
Next, I cut the fabric, using that old lining as a pattern. I traced the shape of the old side pockets onto cardboard, used spray adhesive to put the new lining in: No sewing involved! To spray the adhesive in the suitcase, and not get it everywhere, I used paper towels to protect adjacent areas from getting sprayed. After covering the cardboard, I sprayed the adhesive on the sides. After placing the cardboard inside, I used a piece of molding and clamps to keep them in place until the adhesive set.
Vintage suitcases feature a divider that can be secured so that when you open the suitcase, the contents from one half of the suitcase don't spill out. As I racked my brain about recreating the divider without sewing – Voila! – a crocheted net made of pale teal yarn! When I attached the net, I used cup hooks so that mugs can hang from them. I also installed small hooks on the sides to further secure the net. I wove the existing bar into the bottom of the net and it catches onto hooks at the bottom.
Here is a contents list for the car kitchen:


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Inside the classroom
A day in the life
Inside the classroom
It seemed like a natural match for us to combine the two courses and make it a double course where we deal with the science and the economics of climate change.
ECON 2850: The Science and Economics of Climate Change
Maybe you can relate to a problem Ruth Forsdyke and Glen Lesins pose in their course on climate change. Say someone from Vancouver wants to study at Dalhousie, but worries about the environmental impact of traveling across Canada for four years.
How can he or she offset that cost? One answer might be to pay an extra $16 per flight. That's the how much one company charges to convert one ton of carbon emissions created by a transcontinental flight into newly planted trees.
Although Forsdyke does advise flyers to buy certified offsets to potentially neutralize their carbon footprints, this solution on its own is not sufficient to solve our problem. The offset price is pretty trivial, so it will not have much impact on peoples' decision to fly. Emissions sources also need to be rapidly reduced by raising the price of greenhouse gas intensive activities like flying, thereby decreasing their demand.
Economic solutions to environmental crises
Enivronmental economics, Dr. Forsdyke's specialty, is a complex mix of economic and scientific thought that challenges us to rethink the very roles we play in today's economy.
"I try to illustrate that it's a social problem as much as a physical problem," she says. "There's a role for individuals to make an effort and to see that we could all reduce our own footprint if we all took some responsibility for it."
The problem with good intentions is we need regulations and incentives to realize them on a grand scale, says Dr. Forsdyke. Enter economics: From British Columbia's carbon tax to the European cap and trade market, this course tests the green theories and policies growing out of climate change.
Combining economics with other sciences
This year, Dr. Lesins, associate professor of atmospheric science, and Dr. Forsdyke decided to merge their two courses into one course that could examine economics, biology, chemistry, psychology and atmospheric physics altogether.
"It seemed like a natural match for us to combine the two courses and make it a double course, in which we both deal with the science and the economics of climate change," he says.
Understanding the science is critical to understanding the depth of the problem, adds Dr. Forsdyke. "Glen teaches the physics of climate change and I do the economics. It's more salient for students to have both sides of it."
The interdisciplinary combination of students from many fields of science works well together, as students exchange expertise in class and in their group projects.
"It's been very successful," says Dr. Lesins. "Students now consider both sides when trying to figure out how to go forward in addressing these problems."


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Danny double does it!
Birmingham City 0
The midfielder delivered a dangerous inswinging free kick from the left flank on the half hour and, sailing over Adam Le Fondre's head and without anyone getting a touch, it nestled inside the right corner of Darren Randolph's goal for the lead.
Reading threatened more, with Pavel Pogrebnyak, Hal Robson-Kanu, Chris Baird and the lively Garath McCleary all going close before Guthrie made sure of the points - his 75th minute curling free kick was elegantly spun over the Birmingham wall and arced gracefully into the top left corner and beyond Randolph's flailing dive.
City had little in reply, the back four solid throughout and McCarthy only called upon to parry the occasional effort from range, and a professional performance saw Reading coast to three more points and their third consecutive win.
Subs: Doyle, Bartley, Lee, Shinnie.
Yellow: Spector, Zigic.
Reading began well. Twice incisive balls through the City back line went to waste, one as Pavel Pogrebnyak was penalised for a shove, the next when Le Fondre was flagged marginally offside. At the other end, Lingard arrowed an early volley high over Alex McCarthy's bar as each team sounded the other out.
The first real opening was a big one. Garath McCleary threaded a nice ball between defenders and into the feet of Pogrebnyak, who got it onto his left boot and struck a sweet effort at goal, only for Darren Randolph to pull off an excellent save, diving full stretch to his right.
Moments later, McCarthy had to be alert to parry a fierce Chris Burke effort, who collected the recycled ball again only to be denied by an Alex Pearce block on the second occasion.
But it was Reading who were setting the pace, Chris Gunter escaping down the right and crossing early for Randolph to palm it against Dan Burn and just over the crossbar for a corner.
And from the resultant Guthrie corner, Madejski Stadium debutant Chris Baird came a whisker away from powering a near post header home.
Midway through the half, superb work from Hal Robson-Kanu on the left flank saw him cross into the box and the ball found Pogrebnyak in the middle. The Russian was quickly crowded out and he teed up McCleary instead, who dragged a low effort harmlessly wide in the end.
An offside Pogrebnyak headed a McCleary cross goalwards but the flag meant Randolph's flying save was unnecessary - the big Russian was causing some problems for the City defence though.
And Le Fondre was found with another McCleary slide rule pass out to the right side of the box; Alfie squared it looking for Robson-Kanu and despite a mix-up between the floored Burn and a frantic Randolph, Hal couldn't scrap it over the line from close range before the Birmingham keeper gathered it.
Reading's dominance finally paid off after half an hour. Guthrie delivered a sumptuous inswinging free kick from out on the left, Le Fondre looked to glance it goalwards at the near post, but the ball sailed past everyone and beyond the rooted Randolph into the bottom right corner.
McCarthy saved well from an Adeyemi effort from distance, but the Royals went in at the break deserving of their lead and full of confidence.
Second half
The second half began much as the first had ended, with the hosts on top. But Chris Burke threatened to level when he arrowed an effort just over the bar from a cross that had reached him on the right side of the Royals' box.
The lively McCleary scuttled in from the left and let rip from 22 yards out, but his low right-footed strike fizzed just wide of the bottom left corner.
Then a half-cleared free kick fell to the feet of McCleary who smashed it first time back through a crowded box and heading for the bottom corner until Randolph somehow managed to claw it around his post.
Towering striker Nikola Zigic was introduced and he came close to making an instant impact, rising above the backpedalling Pearce to reach a cross from the left but the centre-half did enough to force the substitute to direct his header over the bar.
Burke tried his luck from 25 yards out but fired high over the bar, and with just one goal in it the visitors kept searching for a point that may still have been achievable.
But with a quarter of an hour remaining, Guthrie gave Reading a cushion with a sublime set piece. If his opener had benefited from a little fortune, his second was curled home with pinpoint accuracy. Hal Robson-Kanu won a free kick on the edge of the Birmingham box and Guthrie delicately lifted it over the City wall and arced it beautifully into the top left corner for 2-0.
McCarthy had to push a Wade Elliott 25-yard effort wide in the closing stages, but Nigel Adkins' men were comfortable and almost added a third in injury time when Stephen Kelly's pull back was hooked just over by Pograbnyak. The the three points were staying firmly in Berkshire.


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Mike Ashley, the billionaire bruiser who founded Sports Direct, is gradually taking his brand upmarket. His track record suggests we shouldn't dismiss his chances of reviving House of Fraser. Jane Lewis reports.
"My ambition is to transform House of Fraser into the Harrods of the high street," said Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley as he added the stricken department store to his retail empire last week. Tell that to the 169-year-old chain's conservative customers, says Melanie Reid in The Times.
"Given the ghastliness of Mike Ashley", it was a shock to see Jenners – the elegant grande dame of Edinburgh – "fall into the hands of the Sports Direct philistines". It's rather like seeing "a high-born old lady fall upon penury and face eviction".
Elevating the brand
The rushed rescue of the once prestigious store group certainly feels like "an inadequate way" to resolve its future, says Nils Pratley in The Guardian. "Into administration by breakfast time, into the tender embrace of Ashley by mid-morning." Nonetheless, while heavy job losses still look inevitable, at least prospects for the group seem brighter under the Sports Direct boss than under House of Fraser's former Chinese owner, Nanjing Cenbest.
Ashley, 53, is "obsessed with department stores". He has clung onto his 30% stake in troubled Debenhams and has been gunning to take full control of House of Fraser for years. He may now merge the two. What's more, he is "on a mission to rid himself of a reputation for being a one-trick retailer who can only run cheap 'n' cheerful shops".
His new "Harrods" line echoes his "Selfridges of sport" ambition for Sports Direct – the common theme is "elevation" of the brand. "Mike has secretly been trying to become respectable for years," an acquaintance told The Observer. Although he made his fortune selling discounted tracksuits and trainers from stores rammed with stock, he wants to shed his "Mr Tracksuits" reputation. Recent acquisitions of "more upmarket brands" include the designer fashion chain Flannels and lingerie brand Agent Provocateur.
Renowned for being "secretive and publicity-shy", Ashley has certainly come a long way since his early days as a squash coach, says The Times. Born in Walsall and raised in Buckinghamshire, he left school at 16 and got his first retail experience in the shop of a Maidenhead squash club.
He was still a teenager when, in 1982, he opened his first shop with a £10,000 loan from his parents. Ashley expanded quickly by acquisition, hard work and aggression, says The Daily Telegraph. "He was reputed to block suppliers' cars in the… car park until sales were agreed – on his terms."
A top British entrepreneur
The acquisition of brands such as Lonsdale and Slazenger helped secure Sports Direct's flotation in 2007, beginning a rocky relationship with the City. Ashley once dubbed his own shareholders "cry babies". And while the collapse of rivals such as JJB, following a sometimes dirty turf war, "further smoothed his path", he has never been far from controversy. The "Victorian" working conditions at Sports Direct's Shirebrook warehouse were the subject of a "scathing parliamentary inquiry".
"Not all Ashley's punts have paid off," says Management Today: his foray into football with Newcastle United has been "a costly distraction", but it would be unwise to write off his chances of success with House of Fraser. "Love him or hate him", Ashley, worth £2.4bn, is one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs for a reason. When it comes to the high street, "he rather knows what he is doing".


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Here is the rough cut of our performance shoot showing the different shots that we took throughout the shoot. It helped us to see how much footage we have and which shots work and which dont.
What went well:
- Shot in a variety of different locations
- Different angles and types of shots such as pans and different angles
- The mise en scene fits with the genre and theme of the song
What could be better:
- There is not enough lip syncing of certain sections of the song such as the second verse
- Needed more types of shots in certain locations
- Some shots are slightly out of focus.
Targets for the next shoot:
- Make sure to get enough close ups
- Repeat shots again in different angles/shot distances
- Make sure the focus is right before shooting a shot


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Disability Services at Pacific University are coordinated by the Learning Support Services for Student with Disabilities office (LSS)
LSS will be making a name change over the Summer (2019). Please stay tuned.
Learning Support Services for Students with Disabilities (LSS) is located on Pacific University's Forest Grove campus in Clark Hall, rooms 226 and 227A. LSS at Pacific University coordinates educational accommodations for students with a documented disability. Disabilities may be physical or learning related, and may be permanent or temporary.
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Academic standards require qualified documentation to receive accommodation. Students are responsible for furnishing this documentation to the university through LSS.
To help them succeed, Pacific University welcomes students to be forthcoming about their status and needs at any time. Visit our Getting Started page for more information.
Kim Garrett | LSS Director
Kim is a Rehabilitation Counselor with 25 years of experience in working with individuals with disabilities. She graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Psychology (1986) and her Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling (1990) from Arkansas State University. She has worked in Mental Health, Workers' Compensation and State Vocational Rehabilitation.
Gratia Minor | LSS Administrative Assistant
Gratia graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish (2001) from Whitworth University and her Masters of Arts in Education (2012) from Portland State University. She worked as a Learning Skills Specialist & Academic Advisor at Portland Community College for 13 years before coming to Pacific University in 2015.


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Travellers who set up a camp on a field next to a borough school have left.
However, St Thomas' CE Junior And Infant School in Golborne will remain closed on Tuesday as a clean-up operation gets under way.
Caravans arrived at the land on Church Street on Saturday morning.
Read more: Travellers move close to borough school
The school was forced to close today, as the travellers' vehicles were blocking the entrance on the field which is used by the emergency services and a fence was damaged.
Wigan Council has been working with the police and the school today in a bid to evict the travellers from the site.
An eviction notice was served by bailiffs this morning and around half of the travellers left, with the rest moving on Monday afternoon.
There are now plans for the school to reopen to pupils on Wednesday.
Paul Barton, director for environmental services at the council, said: "The unauthorised traveller encampment on the land next to St Thomas' school in Golborne has now left the area and our street scene team are currently on site to clean up, repair the fence and secure the site.
"The school will remain closed tomorrow until cleansing is complete but will reopen on Wednesday. We would like to thank local residents for their co-operation."


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Originally posted at http://www.internationale-rosa-luxemburg-gesellschaft.de/html/english.html.
Professor Narihiko Ito (1931 – 2017)
Founder and (honorable) Chairman of the International Rosa Luxemburg Society
On 29 November 2017 at the age of 86 Professor Narihiko Ito, the Japanese Rosa Luxemburg and peace researcher, passed away.
Narihiko Ito was born in 1931 in the old imperial capital of Kamakura which was his residence most of his life time. Till his retirement as Emeritus Professor in 2002, he taught as a distinguished professor in the faculty of Social Sciences at the Chuô University in Tokyo. In between he acted as Visiting Professor in places among which particularly notable is the University of Osnabrück (Germany). Since his young days his social, political and scientific engagement has been concentrated on peace and conflict research. Among his numerous international activities what needs to be stressed in this context is that in 2002-2004 he acted as the Co-Chairman of the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan (IC-TA) and in 2004-2005 of the International Criminal Tribunal for Iraq (ICTI).
Among the researchers he obtained international reputation particularly through his sustained activities over three and half decades as the chairman of the International Rosa Luxemburg Society, which was founded in Zürich in 1980 on his initiative. Since then the Society has held many scientific conferences with large international participation in different cities of the world (Beijing, Berlin [2x], Bochum [Germany], Chicago, Guangzhou [China], Hamburg, Moscow, Paris [2x], Seoul, Tampere [Finland], Tokyo [2x], Warsaw, Zürich [2x]) and has, besides, published a series of conference volumes. In the years of the "Cold War" his special concern was to see to it that Rosa Luxemburg researchers from the East and the West could meet and come to an understanding. Further, as a Member of the Advisory Body and as a representative of Japanese social scientists Narihiko Ito has, for many decades, collaborated with the International Conference of Labor and Social History – ITH — in its annual conferences held in Linz.
The list of his publications in Japanese, German and English is long. To name, for example : in Japanese : "Light towards overcoming of Darkness — For Relations between Japan and Korea in the 21st century" (2000); "A History of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution" (2001, Korean translation 2005, German translation 2006); "Peace and Justice in Palestine !" (2002); in German : 'Rosa Luxemburg "I embrace you, I so much long for you ". Letters from Prison 1915-1918' (Bonn 1980, 1984, 1996); "Japan and peaceful reunification of Korea" (Osnabrück, 2002); "The Peace Article of the Japanese Constitution — for a World without War and Militarism" (Münster 2006); with Annelies Laschitza & Ottokar Luban (eds.) "Rosa Luxemburg. Economic and historic-political aspects of her Work" (Berlin 2010); German/English: "Guide to the Thought of Rosa Luxemburg" (Tokyo 2007). In 2011 he was conferred the "Literati Network Award for Excellence 2011" for his essay "Is the national question an aporia for humanity? How to read Rosa Luxemburg's 'The national question and autonomy'", in: Research in Political Economy, 2011/vol. 26.
The major accomplishment of his life has been the struggle for the retention of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which forbids the right to wage war, the working of which the conservative Japanese regime has always tried to strike at. Among other activities he has been involved in intensive activities concerning an understanding with Korea after the end of Japanese colonial rule. On the occasion of the centenary of Japan's annexation of Korea Narihiko Ito organized a big Congress in Tokyo in 2010 in which more than 1000 persons participated. No such comparable event has taken place in the two Koreas. A decade long friendship tied him in 2009 with the deceased South Korean President Kim Dae-Jong, the initiator of "sunshine politics". As member of the Steering Committee of the Annual China-Japan Civil meet for Peace in Asia as well as a Rosa Luxemburg researcher since 1986 he has been tied up with the Chinese colleagues towards building up important contacts for reconciliation with China, which was once occupied by Japan.
The other meaningful achievement of his life has been his self-funded work on Rosa Luxemburg and the constant, intensive inspiration that he has provided to international Rosa Luxemburg research through the scholarly network, the International Rosa Luxemburg Society, which he has guided. Thus, he initiated even the last international Rosa Luxemburg conferences in Moscow (2011), Paris (2013) and Seoul (2015) and in 2014 brought out a volume in Japanese comprising the presentations made in these conferences. Despite his impaired health, particularly his eye sight, as its honored chairman his wide contacts with the International Rosa Luxemburg Society continue. Because of this inspiration a wide range of essays, monographs, editions, conference volumes over Rosa Luxemburg has appeared in different parts of the world over the last few years : in Argentina, Brazil, China, Japan, Germany, France, Great Britain, India, South Korea, USA (see: site "Weitere Ankündigungen").
Most importantly, supplementary volumes of the hitherto unknown works of Rosa Luxemburg are being published under the editorship of Annelies Laschitza and Eckhard Müller (2 volumes, each 900 pages) and Holger Politt is engaged in editing the translations of the Polish works as well. For international Rosa Luxemburg research what is of great importance is the English language project of "The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg" in which two volumes, under the chief editorship of Peter Hudis, have appeared (see: site "Weitere Ankündigungen") and there is also the Chinese project of bringing out an edition of the complete works. In France too, after publication of three volumes a complete edition of Luxemburg's works is being worked upon (see: site "Français).
Professor Narihiko Ito has contributed as a prominent motive builder that Rosa Luxemburg's ideas have not only stayed alive but the circulation of her ideas is being experienced internationally too very widely. His colleagues and friends all over the world will keep his legacy and continue his work.
Prepared by György Széll and Ottokar Luban – Translation into English: Sobhanlal Datta Gupta


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Solve problems in a Web shop Oscommerce based
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This project is to improve our current web shop and solve some bugs. The webshop is based on OScommerce 2.3.4 with Magnus theme (responsive) installed. Currently the following problems need to be solved
1. When placing an order, the products in the [login to view URL] file in the admin sided is displayed twice even so the order total is correct. This needs to be solved
2. There are 2 addons that you need to install and verify it is working (order edit and create order). The addons are available already so you just need to install and verify
3. There is an addon installed (stock update) but it is not functioning as it should
4. We will need to make some modifications to the [login to view URL] file (add some fields etc) and the stock update addon (to manage the stock) so you will take care of that
5. We will need to make some modifications in the database and the php files in order to create some reports from the data base to be displayed in the [login to view URL] file
6. The payment by credit card has an error, it converts the total amount to the default currency but still keep the currency that the customer chose, so if the order is for 209 € when the customer is taken to the payment window then the amount is 2231 € (in fact the 2231 is equal to the value of 209 € but in SEK which is the default currency in the shop). You need to solve this problem
7. There is i GeoIP addon installed but it is not functioning. The GeoIP is supposed to switch the language and the currency of the shop based on the visitor's IP address
8. You need to configure the website to display the prices based on certain tax (19%) when the visitor's IP address is from Germany while otherwise the website will display the prices with 25% tax
9. The work will be done based on copying the current files in the web shop to a development site where all work will be done and when it is fixed then it will be implement on the web shop because the web shop is currently alive (active)
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text: Collect memories, not things. As time goes on material things break, get lost, and lose their value. Memories however, will always be there, to remind you of the great things you've done. The experiences you've had. The people you care about, and the precious moments spent together. So spend more time collecting memories, and leave the things to collect dust.


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Kiana Caban, Communications Assistant
On May 21st, the FSTC team hit the road to Chicago, IL for the NRA Show 2016. Everyone on the team had different tasks they were trying to accomplish on this trip, from project meetings with manufacturers and attending various educational sessions to launching our Twitter account and our new online training program, Fe3 (!). It being my first time at the NRA Show, my goal was to build up our social media presence and attend several educational sessions.
On day one of the show we walked the floor to get the lay of the land. The first stop was the Frymaster booth where Frymaster received the Blue Flame Award for their Frymaster Integrated Oil Quality Sensor (OQS), a built-in system that monitors oil health and indicates when frying oil needs replacement.
The next stop was the Kitchens Innovations Award booths where the FSTC's David Zabrowski and Richard Young visited this year's winners such as Vulcan's Low Water Energy Steamers, Blodgett's "Hoodini" Ventless Mini Combi Oven, and Champion's Ventless Heat Recovery Dish Machine amongst many others.
We also stopped by the Rational booth with their impressive "pop-up" restaurant where Richard Young and I got to meet Chef Thomas Keller and ask him a few questions about sustainability.
Richard then participated in a story telling session, "Expert Advice Along the Path to Sustainability" alongside Chef/Owner/Author, Rick Bayless; Director of Sustainability and Public Outreach in the Americas of Asia Pulp and Paper, Ian Lifshitz; and President and CEO of LeanPath, Inc., Andrew Shakman.
They discussed the tried-and-true tips for beginning a journey toward sustainability. The following were the expert's four key takeaways:
Rick Bayless: "Invest in staff because running a restaurant consciously takes teamwork. Once everyone understands the greater importance of those efforts, they're much more willing to make the extra effort."
Ian Lifshitz: "Take a holistic view of sustainability: from lighting, packaging, and napkins to water consumption and transportation practices, among other factors, to enhance and strengthen your sustainability success."
Richard Young: "Energy (for cooking, refrigeration, cooling, etc.) is just another ingredient in your menu! Use it effectively and reap the cost savings! Start by swapping out a few old school energy-guzzling light bulbs for high-quality LEDS – it is easy to do and will save you money."
Andrew Shakman: "Changing behavior at scale is an uphill battle…that we can win. Perseverance is the key ingredient."
On day two, the FSTC's David Zabrowski participated in the panel discussion "The Future of Restaurant Design" with moderator Joe Carbonara, editor of FE&S Magazine, and panelists Karen Malody, owner and principal of Culinary Options, and Marc Jacobs, partner and executive VP of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises. The discussion explored how evolving customer expectations are changing the way restaurants are designed, outfitted, and operated. The one trend that each panelist expressed is that kitchens are becoming more and more flexible in smaller spaces.
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Boost Your Immune System With Vitamin A
You know the telltale signs, that scratchy throat, increase fatigue or congestion that tells you that a cold is coming; a week of general chumminess feels inevitable. But being who I am I always look for ways to beat the odds with healthy eating. You can take charge and circumvent, or at lease reduce the length and strength of that cold. The secret is to boost your immune system. Seriously boost it – quickly!
Immunity boosting benefits of Vitamin A: the medical field has known that Vitamin A is one of the best immune system boosters around. Vitamin A is so powerful that it has been credited with significantly protecting against some of the immune-suppressing effects of radiation and chemotherapy.
How does Vitamin A stimulate the immune system? Possibly by promoting the growth of the thymus gland, enhancing the function of the white blood cells, and having anti-viral activity. It also supports the function of the epithelial and mucosal tissues found in the lungs and GI tract – your immune systems first line of defense.
The best way to get your Vitamin A is through food sources. Beta-carotene turns into Vitamin A, so look for fruits and vegetables high in beta-carotene, like cantaloupe. A single cup of cantaloupe contains about 3000 mcg of it. Lightly cooking certain vegetables actually improves the availability of carotenoids. Canned tomatoes, and lightly steamed carrots and spinach are a good option. Also high in carotenoids are sweet potatoes, squash, and apricots. An easy way to get these foods in your diet when you feel a cold coming on is in soup. Don't forget dark leafy greens, especially spinach, kale and collard greens, which are high in beta- carotene.
Vitamin A is fat soluble, and zinc is also required in order to properly absorb and utilize Vitamin A. So make sure you have some healthy fats in your diet, and consider supplementing with zinc (also shown to shorten the length of a cold). Try eating a spinach salad with a lemon and olive oil salad dressing, or a smoothie made with coconut oil, to ensure you are getting the full benefits.
Cold season is hard to avoid, but by boosting your immune system you might avoid it, or at least reduce the impact on your overall health. You might be asking why this information now? I want you to be informed early so that you will stay healthy year round. So what healthy foods do you reach for when you feel a cold coming on?
Sources: US Department of Health and Human Services. A healthier you based on the dietary guidelines for Americans.
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Responsible for all sales activities, from lead generation through closing for Knight & Carver's Shipyard services and Knight & Carver Delivered. Develops and implements agreed upon Marketing Plan which will meet both personal and business goals of expanding customer base in the marketing area. Works within the sales and support teams for the achievement of customer satisfaction, revenue generation, and long-term account goals in line with company vision and values.
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On September 28th my post suggested a meditation on your being your own creator, your own Mahavairocana Buddha, and your self as the creation, the one who thirsts, who craves permanence and security, and therefore suffers, experiences dukka. I suggested that you meditate as the creator Buddha on your creation, that you hold it in your awareness, so that the self feels held and can relax into its insubstantiality, into its conditioned nature, and into its awakening.
"It is incorrect to think that Nirvana is the natural result of the extinction of craving. Nirvana is not the result of anything. If it would be a result, then it would be an effect produced by a cause. . . . Nirvana is neither cause nor effect. It is beyond cause and effect. Truth is not a result nor an effect. It is not produced like a mystic, spiritual, mental state, such as dhyana or samadhi. Truth is. Nirvana is. The only thing you can do is to see it, to realize it. There is a path leading to the realization of Nirvana. But Nirvana is not the result of this path. You may get to the mountain along a path, but the mountain is not the result, not an effect of the path. You may see a light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight."
He continues, "When wisdom is developed and cultivated . . . it sees the secret of life, the reality of things as they are. When the secret is discovered, when the Truth is seen, all the forces which feverishly produce the continuity of samsara in illusion become calm . . . because there is no more illusion, no more 'thirst' for continuity. . . . He who has realized the Truth, Nirvana, . . . lives fully in the present. . . . He gains nothing, accumulates nothing, not even anything spiritual, because he is free from the illusion of Self, and the 'thirst' for becoming."
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I know, it has been a long time again between posts. No excuse except nothing worth blogging about. Life is normal as normal gets.
Now onto my title. The Real Truth... You know before you get pregnant you listen to your friends talk about being tired, feeling yucky, having things stretch... You read books and they say the same things. Well lets be truthful.
*Tired is an understatement. You are a walking zombie. I never knew what tired meant. Yes I am not as tired but it still hits. When it hits there is nothing you can do but rest.
*The yucks SUCK! Nothing sounds good. Food is gross. It even seems like it will not stay down. Smells are gross. Nothing helps really. Also the yucks don't go away. They come and go. One day I eat and feel happy with food. The next day I can't make myself eat. Now headaches trigger the yucks.
*What do you think when you hear the word stretching? Yep I hear relief, comfort, stretch. When you are pregnant the word stretch really means hurt. It is crazy. Babies are growing and filling up a very small space. As they do it hurts. It hurts low. It hurts high. Even my girl hurts. Getting out of bed hurts. Rolling over hurts. It isn't bad but seriously, lets not use the word stretch but pain. Even today, I simply sneezed and yep I am not hurting all day.
I love being pregnant. I really do. I love watching my belly finally pop. I love lying on my belly and seeing where they have moved to once place. BUT lets be truthful. When I asked my mom about my girl hurting she told me "Yep, that is part of it but it is just something you shouldn't talk aobut." I disagree. You need to know there are muscles on your girl that stretch and truly hurt.
***We find out the genders in a month. OH MY it is becoming real.
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I know, it has been a long time again between posts. No excuse except nothing worth blogging about. Life is normal as normal gets.
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Every day I think about posting an update. There have even been times I actually open blogger. Here is the reason why... TIRED! I get up TIRED! I go to work TIRED! I come home EXHAUSTED! I quickly check email and facebook and then close up for the evening.
I don't think I have ever felt like this before in my life. You think when you go to bed you are in heaven. Bed is the best place ever. Of course I wake up a million times in the night but still get many hours of sleep. When I wake up I hope to feel that rested feeling. Nope, it is the feeling of never sleeping. So my lack of posting has nothing to do with anything but being so tired.
Today I am at 12 weeks. PRAISE GOD! I live for Wednesdays! My belly has popped just a little bit. I thought I would be much bigger but because food wasn't my friend I lost weight. The babies are beyond perfect. I have seen their little selves many times. I have more pictures than I know what to do with. I am not complaining. I love every one of them.
I daily pray for my little ones to LIVE LIVE LIVE! Over the weekend I had some bleeding and eventually passed a clot. I could not let my thoughts go to any place but LIFE! After 3 u/s they little ones are still perfect.
Thanks for the emails and sweet thoughts. Your prayers are also greatly appreciated. We live every day with awe and amazement. We are beyond blessed!
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This is the list of animal welfare organisations compiled from different websites. These havent been verified. If you find that a particular ngo has shifted or changed nos, please leave a comment. Please dont leave a comment asking to rescue any animal, as this is a blog and does not belong to any NGO helpline. Call the NGO numbers mentioned in the list and get help for the animal. You will also get help from Justdial about NGOs and vets in your area.
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Universal Compassion Movement
Ahimsa House, Library Road
MCCLEODGANJ 176 219, Himachal Pradesh
Tel: + 91 (1892) 21 525
Iqra Animal Care
P.O. Behrot, Distt.Rajouri
BEHROT, Jammu & Kashmir
Tel: + 91 (196) 225 7357
Fax: + 91 (196) 225 7084
Jammu & Kashmir SPCA
H.Q. Gadigarh, Opposite Karan Bagh
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Phone: (0191) 262028
Jammu SPCA
SPCA Branch Kashmir, 38 PVT Jawahar Nagar
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Kashmir SPCA
C/o Ramesh Kumar Giggo, Kaviraj Building, 1 Fl., Amira-kadal,
SRINAGAR 190 001, Jammu & Kashmir
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
59 A/B Gandhi Nagar
Jammu 180004
Phone: (0191) 547519, 452402
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- Samir said...
Great to see your effort.. It is these individual efforts that can bring change.My wife has been caring for stray animals in terms of providing food,homes for stray animals and getting stray dogs sterlized.We are in Jammu for last 1 year and realized the condition of strays are leading a pathetic life.In the last one year she has got about 20 strays adopted and about 8 she dogs sterlized. Last month she along with few more animal lovers have started a group Jammu Friends of animals primarily so that they have more teeth for Stray Animal's welfare.It is on FB also.regards.samir
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With a little over a 100 students and citizens in attendance, the Santa Monica College Earth Day Film Festival was an intriguing and motivating display of human beings working to improve our world.
The festival included 11 films that included fun short films, as well as some dramatic and moving documentaries.
The event was coordinated by SMC Professor Sheila Laffey who teaches a variety of cinema classes but shares a passion for her Cinema 5 course, which deals with social, political and environmental issues in feature films and documentaries.
"I mainly do this to inspire others," said Laffey who seemed extremely busy throughout the event, yet never failed to have a smile on her face. "I'm a filmmaker also, and I see the effect that the films I show in my Cinema 5 class have on my students, and I suppose I wanted to share them with a larger audience."
Much of the event had to do with spreading the knowledge of what is happening out in the world concerning our environment.
Many of the films dealt with major political and environmental issues such as the oil controversies, lumber companies and global warming.
These pieces contained footage that made many of the attendees in the auditorium groan from disgust and disappointment. They even clapped to congratulate the protestors in the film as though they were standing right in front of them.
The individuals who attended were trying to absorb the information like a sponge in order to spread the knowledge to others outside the Art Complex room 214.
One of most interesting films that was shown was, "Treewoman," directed by Venice filmmaker Ziri Rideaux, which dealt with the famous young woman, Julia Butterfly Hill, who lived in an ancient 200 feet tall Redwood tree in Stafford, Calif., to protest the Pacific Lumber Company.
Butterfly managed to create a residence on top of this massive piece of history for over two years, living there from December 10, 1997, to December 18, 1999.
Rideaux was able to capture enough footage of this woman to make a short documentary that evoked true and uninhibited emotion.
This movie included such moving scenes as California Police force using physical violence in pepper spray to invoke pain onto the protestors in Stafford.
The footage was released to the victims after the federal court declared the police brutality appropriate and necessary, showing the breathtaking enthusiasm that these individuals had to fight for their cause.
"This film actually did amazingly well. It was shown all over the world in hundreds of different countries, but not in the United States," said Rideaux. "I pace myself so as not to become discouraged by the great injury and sadness in the world. I usually will make a light hearted short then move on to a more serious topic for a documentary."
Attendees of the film festival seemed to enjoy the format of the event because they were able to talk with the filmmakers and discuss their exact purpose and motivation for each individual aspect of the film.
"I really enjoy it thus far," said Pat Beebe, a Santa Monica native.
"The filmmakers are here and it gives a new feel to the entire event. Although, I thought this place was going to be packed with people. I guess I was wrong," explained Bebee.
After the event ended on Saturday night around 10 p.m., the veggie van, which runs on pure vegetable oil, drove away while the group of students and citizens shook hands with one another and parted each going a different direction.
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