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The nature of beauty. Beauty is omnipresent, and has enormous effects on how people are perceived- and also treated. However, so far it is unclear how beauty in faces is perceived or evaluated (see Leder et al., 2017). In this master thesis project we investigate this topic by employing brand new portable EEG for the first time in combination with brand new NIRS; two state-of-the-art neurophysiological methods. If you are interested (and for further information), please contact email@example.com
Beauty as a shortcut. If people decide what they prefer, decision making theories assume that values on various dimensions are combined to find an optimal criterion, and make "good decision". Here we test the hypothesis that there are shortcuts towards good decisions, such as beauty based evaluations. If you are interested (and for further information), please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com
Size Matters. In art as in life, size may play an important role in our judgements and emotional experience. However, as we know from visual illusions such as the Ebbinghaus illusion our perception of size is not absolute but rather influenced by the context. Here we test the hypothesis that size influences our aesthetic experience as well as investigate the role of context. If you are interested (and for further information), please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com
Style or content? The expressive quality of art can be achieved in many ways, for example by a choice of content (e.g. a happy couple in love) but also by choices on how to portray that content or "style" (e.g. use of color). Content and style can both express similar messages but also seemingly contradict each other creating more ambiguous art. In this project we want to investigate how these two interact and how this influences our aesthetic judgements. If you are interested (and for further information), please contact email@example.com or email@example.com
Looking for beauty. What makes aesthetic evaluations special? This Master thesis topic should provide some insight into the question whether an aesthetic mode of processing is in any way different from other modes of processing. In an eye-tracking study we want to test whether eye-movement patterns differ between looking for beauty vs. looking for other dimensions in the image. If you are interested (and for further information), please contact firstname.lastname@example.com
Time course and structure of symmetry preference. It has been hypothesized that while symmetry is often considered to be beautiful, it can also be seen as somewhat rigid or sterile. However, empirical studies showed that abstract symmetric patterns are preferred over asymmetric and also over slightly asymmetric patterns. The goal of this master topic will be to investigate if this preference for symmetry is stable for different dimensions of aesthetic judgments (e.g., liking vs. interest) and presentation times (e.g, short vs. long). If you are interested (and for further information), please contact firstname.lastname@example.com
Feeling of Art It can be argued that one of the prime motives and functions of art is to communicate emotions. But how come is this the case, and how is this achieved? Is there anything special about art, compared to other, more "normal" settings and stimuli? Do the intended emotions actually reach the perceiver of the artworks? And which (neuro)physiological components and brain regions underlie these processes? We offer Master theses exploring these questions, using Electroencephalography (EEG) and functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) in classical lab settings as well as in ecologically valid field studies, i.e. museum settings. If you are interested (and for further information,) please contact firstname.lastname@example.com
Empathic connections between brains and bodies of viewers/artists, using NIRS hyperscanning: Humans appear naturally inclined to broadcasting and receiving each other's emotional experiences. Studies routinely document our ability respond to others' affective states, often via faces or bodies. However, while well-studied in interpersonal settings, the question of whether, and how, this can occur in the absence of another human is a major question. Specifically, in visual art, a longstanding argument involves the potential for these media to act as a "proxy" for the artist body, providing an interface whereby one can "feel in" to share or make an emotional connection with another. We will do this in a project (including Master theses) whereby we work with artists when making, and views when perceiving the same artworks. This will be coupled with a new paradigm—NIRS hyperscanning—which can look for synchronicity or connections between the brains of individuals. If interested, contact firstname.lastname@example.com


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- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 06:56:19 -0400 (EDT)
At this point I'm not asking for anything that fancy. My primary request is a way to create a cell style that automatically inserts the automatic numbering option. And a secondary request is to include automatically some boiler-plate within the cell when it is created. This is not to deny the utility of a hook into a database of examples or exercises, or whatever. On 8/4/2010 5:50 AM, David Park wrote: > What is really needed is a method, perhaps in Workbench, for users to design > their own paclet data structures. Then you could build a data file of > exercises, a data file of citations you might use, and other personally > useful data files. > > Then you could, for example, draw randomly from an exercise file, number > them, format them differently if you wish and maybe do some processing such > as selecting random values and computing the answers on the side. > > > David Park > djmpark at comcast.net > http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ > > > From: Murray Eisenberg [mailto:murray at math.umass.edu] > > I have a cell style, Exercise, in a style sheet that's just a variant of > Text style. Its definition includes option CounterIncrements->"Exercise". > > That style sheet is applied to a notebook where I'm going to use that > style. Three questions: > > (1) Is there some way of automatically having the number appear at the > beginning of any such cell when I create it -- without using menu item > Insert> Automatic Numbering. > > (2) Is there some way of automatically having such a cell begin with the > text "Exercise"? > > (3) Is there some way of automatically having such a cell begin with > "Exercise n. " where n is an actual automatic numbering counter value? > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305

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This breakthrough will allow tidal energy to become the primary renewable energy contributor by 2025.
Renewable Devices Marine has revolutionised the generation of clean offshore energy with the development of the Capricorn Marine Turbine. This unique tidal stream turbine has allowed Renewable Devices Marine to make available - for the first time, anywhere in the world - a technology which offers reliable tidal electricity generation at a cost lower than offshore wind. The technology can generate electricity from average tidal areas found all around the UK and worldwide, rather than in a select few hard to access, environmentally sensitive, high flow sites. This breakthrough will allow tidal energy to become the primary renewable energy contributor by 2025.
The rush for 'high tech solutions in the marine energy industry however has led to the development of very expensive and complicated devices. In addition to this, almost all developers have to date sought to extract energy from the highest flow sites available - such as the Pentland Firth. These two factors have led to the development of over-engineered and expensive devices being deployed in the most hazardous and demanding marine environments. All a little unnecessary when the machines themselves can be designed and manufactured with a great deal less inherent complexity and deployed in sites which have lower speed flows and so lower forces on the turbines. This is the cornerstone of the design philosophy for the Capricorn Marine Turbine range - 50 kW and 1.25 MW, twin rotor devices optimised for simple deployment and efficient energy extraction across a range of tidal flows.
The UKs Energy Technology Institute show the existing cost of energy from tidal generation to be approximately £300/MWh. By comparison, offshore wind currently costs approximately £133/MWh, The innovative design of the Capricorn Marine Turbine means that a cost of under £128/MWh is achievable. This is due to the turbines ability to operate invisibly in easily accessible low flow areas that are not environmentally sensitive and are close to the populations that need the energy.
The Capricorn Marine Turbine can generate clean and reliable tidal energy at half the cost of current tidal generation and less expensive than electricity from offshore wind turbines.
The Founders of Renewable Devices Marine Ltd, Dr David Anderson and Dr Charlie Silverton, are ethical industrialists who have dedicated their careers to the local manufacture of innovative renewable energy products. With thousands of their UK-manufactured wind turbines having been exported worldwide, and sustainable hospital units donated to Africa, Renewable Devices has proven that modern day industrialism can provide employment, sustainable development and help the economy, whilst remaining true to firm environmental values.


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Consumer advocate and designated setter-upper of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Elizabeth Warren made $90,000 doing legal work in a class-action suit against large U.S. banks including Citigroup, J. P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America, Bloomberg reports. She did the work while she was head of the Congressional Oversight Panel
This is highly questionable, ethics-wise, according to law professor Richard Painter, who worked in George W. Bush's administration as chief ethics lawyer. "It's highly inappropriate in a position that has this much power," he told Bloomberg.
Warren takes a different view. She says that the reports she wrote as part of her consulting gig didn't contain anything she hadn't said in public, and that she cleared the work with an ethics commission before joining the oversight panel.
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2016 National Optometry Hall of Fame inductees announced
The inductees will be honored at a ceremony on June 30 during Optometry's Meeting® in Boston, Massachusetts.
The AOA and Optometry Cares®—The AOA Foundation congratulate three doctors of optometry who have been selected for the prestigious National Optometry Hall of Fame. Since 1998, the National Optometry Hall of Fame has recognized and honored optometrists who have made significant and long-lasting contributions to the optometric profession.
The 2016 inductees are:
Joseph Babcock Sr., O.D., of Ohio. The late Dr. Babcock understood the need for optometry's representation within the military. He worked to gain parity within the armed services, and was successful in securing draft deferments for optometric students. He was instrumental in the formation of an optometry section in the Medical Service Corps within each branch of the armed services. Additionally, he helped win doctors of optometry the status of Commissioned Officer. During and following World War II, the AOA appointed him as Director of National Affairs, and he was selected by President Franklin Roosevelt as advisor to the Healing Arts Educational Advisory Committee. READ MORE.
Richmond Lewis Scott, O.D., of Indiana. The late Dr. Scott worked to advance the profession's scope of practice to improve patient care. He was a strong proponent of mandatory continuing education for health care providers and was the key proponent of legislation in Indiana to require continuing education for optometrists. In the early 1970s, he promoted the expansion of the scope of care across Indiana, speaking at all 12 optometric societies to expand the use of pharmaceutical agents that served optometry until the passage of a new therapeutic law. Dr. Scott testified in many states at legislative hearings on therapeutic drug laws. READ MORE.
Louis Catania, O.D., of Florida. Dr. Catania was a pioneer in post-graduate residency education, and the expansion of the scope of optometry to not only diagnose, but also treat eye disease. Over a 14-year period, he provided his expertise in primary care optometry to 49 states and 32 countries in the areas of legislative, statutory, education and clinical care. Not only has he given generously of his time to his profession, he also has actively volunteered for a number of community organizations, including Special Olympics, the Association for the Blind of Monroe County, Upper Dublin Committee on Teenage Alcohol and Substance Abuse, and Orbis International, participating in humanitarian missions in eye care to third-world countries. READ MORE.
The inductees will be honored at a ceremony during Optometry's Meeting® in Boston, Massachusetts, Thursday, June 30, from 7-8 p.m. Click here to learn more and register.
The National Optometry Hall of Fame is administered by Optometry Cares—The AOA Foundation. For more information, click here.


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I will not be online and unable to raid from today to the 21st. Jackie is coming in town and WoW will be put on hold. I know we have a few other hunters that have been stepping up and raiding so i dont think i will be missed too much. I will be back and ready to raid on the 22nd. Good luck and happy macro spamming.
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Get ready for Season 5 of Alone on History! This year features returning cast from the first four seasons of the show, who are tasked with surviving as long as they can, while filming themselves, with ten survival items to aid them. Last one standing gets $500,000! This being a knife blog, let's find out what knives the cast are bringing with them.
Whereas Season 4 sent the contestants out in teams of two, Season 5 returns to the original format of solo survival. That means that the "10 Item" gear list videos posted by History will again reveal the blades the contestants have brought. (Their knives didn't count against their ten items in Season 4 and were therefore not featured in the videos). The new season also brings a new location, so no one has an advantage over anyone else. This time, Mongolia will play host to their adventures.
I have combed through the cast and gear videos to identify the blades that the members have brought to help them survive the rugged terrain.
Three cast members' gear videos are strangely absent from the site, so I have pieced together what I can. (Updated 6/1/2018 – All of the gear videos have now been posted. Sections have been updated)
BRITT AHART / Becker BK7, Leatherman Wave
Age: 42
Mantua, OH
Season 3's Britt Ahart has gone with the tried and true Becker BK7 that got him through 35 days of survival in his last outing.
The knife itself looks fairly stock and unmodified, but the leather sheath is a nice upgrade.
Britt has also brought along a multitool. He shows off a Leatherman Wave in his video. This is a trend we'll see repeated a lot with this cast. Credit perhaps their insight from having done all of this before, as multitools have typically been rarer in seasons past.
More: Britt's returning for Season 5 of Alone, and more determined than ever before. After his experience of 35 days in Patagonia for Season 3, he realized the experience was like nothing he had ever experienced. He emerged at the end a completely changed person and was more in touch with himself physically, mentally and spiritually than ever before. Baptized by fire, he had successes and failures that pushed him to learn, practice and expand his skills and knowledge. In Patagonia, Britt feels that he fought with nature. This season, he plans to co-exist with it. He's a new man coming to Mongolia, and he plans to reach the finish line.
NICOLE APELIAN / Ron Macy Kukri, Leatherman Charge TTi
Age: 48
Raymond, WA
Wilderness Living Skills Instructor
Nicole Apelian is bringing a custom 5160-steel kukri-esque blade made by Ron Macy, and sheathed in leather from Diomedes Industries. Here is what Nicole had to say about the knife, which she also carried in Season 2.
The knife is very forward heavy and great for batoning wood. Its shape also allows me to use it as a draw knife and it has a pointed end for just-in-case needed protection and for gutting. Squared-off spine for the ferro rod strike and toward the handle it is edged for finer work. I had to ask a lot from one knife and this one delivered. I also really like the sheath design – I can quickly draw the knife out and it doesn't bounce on my leg with the side-draw design.
Look for a production version of this knife to be coming out at some point in the future. Nicole has confirmed to us that they will be made by Bark River Knives.
Nicole is also bringing a modified Leatherman Charge TTi. The flathead screwdriver has been turned into a chisel and the can opener has been turned into a spoon gouge.
More: Nicole's passions range from living and teaching wilderness living skills (fire, water, shelter, trapping, foraging, etc.) to prepping/emergency preparedness to her deep knowledge of medicinal plants and herbal medicine. Nicole grew up in Massachusetts and connected with nature at an early age. Her first exposure to true wilderness living however, began while working as a field biologist in Botswana in the mid 90s. Following a job as a game warden with the US Peace Corps, she began tracking and researching lions in Southern Africa and immediately fell in love with the African landscapes and the San Bushmen's way of life. Already having a Master's degree in biology, she later completed her doctorate while working with the San Bushmen. After developing strong relationships within the tribe, Nicole learned many of the primitive skills and ways she practices and teaches today.
At home in the Pacific Northwest, she makes her own herbal medicines from local plants as part of her healthy living strategy after being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2000. This diagnosis changed her lifestyle and eating habits, but didn't deter her from becoming one of the founders and primary guides of her own tracking and wildlife safari company, as well as being an adjunct professor at Prescott College. There, she brings her passion for nature connection, indigenous knowledge, ethnobotany and research to her graduate students.
Nicole also thrives as a personal wellness and life coach helping people develop personalized holistic life plans, especially as related to autoimmune issues, and has her own herbal medicinal apothecary line. She teaches workshops on her land in Oregon and Washington, and also travels to teach skills across the globe. She will miss her home, but will gain strength from thinking about her two sons back in the Pacific NW.
After spending 57 days on Vancouver Island during Season 2, Nicole is excited to test her skills living off the land in this challenging foreign environment. She is grateful for all her mentors and supporters and is sure to channel them when facing the many challenges that await her in the wilds of Mongolia.
JESSE BOSDELL / ESEE Junglas-II?
Age: 32
Skowhegan, ME
Retired Green Beret
Jesse never takes his knife out of the sheath in his gear video, so I am just best-guessing here, but his knife looks like it could be an ESEE Junglas-II. Read our review of that knife here.
If anyone has any better ideas, please chime in below.
More: Since last season Jesse's been attending college for bio-medical engineering at the University of Maine, while settling down and building a life around his organic garden and livestock farm.
He's worked as a wood working finisher during the summer, while also performing in leading roles at the Lakewood Theatre in his hometown of Skowhegan.
Keeping active by hiking and camping in national parks across New England, he's also been hunting and survival camping on family and friend's property throughout Maine. He's become a sponge for new survival tricks and hopes to showcase his new talents on the upcoming season in Mongolia.
A fan of taking on new challenges, Jesse, along with his younger brother, has taken up bee keeping with hopes of making mead. Jesse builds his own bee hives by hand and has grown the hives from 12,000 bees to 30,000 bees. He's excited to try this grand adventure again, but this time on his own. Jesse's fully confident he can do better than last season now that he's solely relying on himself.
RANDY CHAMPAGNE / Sacha Puukko
Age: 31
Boulder, UT
Wilderness Skills Instructor
Randy has brought a handmade puukko knife made by a friend, Jeremy Thomas of Sacha Knives. The blade is short, likely
5160 steel, (It is O1 – see below.) and has a sharpened spine – ought to make a nimble and versatile carver. Quite the opposite of the knife he carried in his Season 2 outing, the Condor Primitive Bush Knife with an 8″ blade.
More: Randy Champagne hails from Boulder Utah in the summer and Flagstaff, Arizona in the winter. He has been instructing at the Boulder Outdoor Survival School for 9 years. He teaches wilderness living skills, primitive skills, and modern survival but really enjoys teaching and learning how to live with the land with only stone age tools. He specializes in hunting and trapping with primitive methods and believes his time spent learning these principles and how to connect with the land will help him to be successful on season 5 in Mongolia.
After spending 21 days in living off the land on Vancouver Island, his greatest challenge was lack of food and companionship. He knows moving forward into season 5 he will have to persevere through all hardships whether that is lack of food, lack of companionship, or extreme weather conditions in order to stay in the field for an extended period of time.
Update: Randy dropped us an email with a clarification on the steel and a request –
Hey man/woman was just reading your article about the alone knives. Good work a lot of folks are super curious about the knives we bring on the show. I just wanted to give you a heads up though the knife i brought with me on alone is not a 5160 steel is a 01 tool steel. Also I don't know if it would be possible to just link up jeremy website on my section of the article. It's https://sachaknives.com/.Thanks so much,Randy Champagne
CARLEIGH FAIRCHILD / L.T. Wright Genesis
Age: 30
Anchorage, Alaska
Season 3 runner up Carleigh Fairchild's was pulled from competition after a medical check found her to have lost too much weight. It is good to see her get a second shot.
She is also giving her knife a second shot, using the same L.T. Wright Genesis, flat ground with A2 steel, that nearly carried her to victory. That knife formed the basis of a signature model knife with LTWK.
More: Carleigh Fairchild is an adventurer at heart. She has studied survival skills since she was a teenager, as well as NIASZIIH Healing over the last few years. She was thrilled to test her skills and survive as long as she possibly could on Season 3, where she displayed a strong repertoire of skills and knowledge in shelter building, fire making, edible plants, and establishing a connection with the land. Those skills helped her survive for 86 days in the wilds of Patagonia.
She struggled with catching fish and keeping up her weight which ultimately led to her extraction. Leaving Patagonia, Carleigh felt so thankful for everything and everyone in her life, and there was a realness in living that she had never felt before. She's thankful for a second chance, and hopes to hunt and gather enough food so that she can sustain herself for the long haul.
SAM LARSON / Leatherman Super Tool
Age: 25
Lincoln, NE
Wilderness Skills Instructor
Season 1 runner up Sam Larson has actually forgone a fixed blade knife. Despite bringing a Green River Hunter with him in the first season, this time around his edged tools consist only of a Hults-Bruk axe, a collapsible bucksaw and a Leatherman Super Tool. Although the video shows a Surge, Sam has informed us that his Surge bent before the show started, necessitating the swap.
More: Sam Larson is an author and outdoor educator from Lincoln, Nebraska. As an educator, Sam teaches wilderness living classes on everything from animal processing to canoeing. Since his 55 days on season one of Alone, Sam has added two new members to his family. His son, born shortly after his return from Vancouver Island, is now a 2 year-old that enjoys exploring the woods just as much as his dad. His daughter was born just days before he left for Mongolia. In his free time Sam enjoys writing and spending time with his family. His goal is to learn the ways of this Mongolian wilderness with an open mind, pursuing whatever it may teach him.
DAVE NESSIA / Morakniv Companion
Season 3's Dave Nessia, like Carleigh Fairchild above, was pulled out involuntarily due to his BMI dropping below critical levels. Like Carleigh as well, his choice in knives has not changed. His video features a Morakniv Companion, and if it is the same one he carried in Season 3, it is made from 12C27 stainless steel.
More: Dave's 73-day experience on Season 3 of Alone in Patagonia opened him to some life enhancing truths—if you have the courage, life does not have to continue in the direction you are going, and life has much more spice when you open yourself to living. With this in mind, Dave quit his job of six years as a bushcraft instructor, moved into his truck, and searched for new ways to learn and experience the world. This involved consulting for the television and fly fishing. Dave's hope in Mongolia is to build a strong spiritual connection with the land and to learn what it takes to co-exist in this ecosystem.
BRAD RICHARDSON / Full Tang Puukko
Age: 24
Fox Lake, IL
In Season 4, Brad Richardson competed alongside his brother. For Season 5, he has brought a knife his brother forged for him, so in a way, he is still there by his side. He has it in a leather neck sheath, and I would be very surprised if it were anything other than a simpler carbon steel.
More: Since season 4, Brad has remained an avid outdoorsman, spending most of his free time practicing primitive skills throughout the Midwest and lower sections of the boreal forest. Learning the ways of his forefathers, Brad's grown very comfortable in a wilderness setting. Along with his love for the outdoors he is also a blacksmith. Through the company he runs with his siblings, Brad hand-forges knives and tools. When he's not busy forging and camping, he creates educational bushcraft and blacksmithing videos.
LARRY ROBERTS / L.T. Wright Gen 6
Age: 47
Rush City, MN
Season 2 Runner up Larry Roberts also has a signature model Genesis from L.T. Wright Knives. His model, the Gen 6, has a 6-inch A2 blade with a scandi grind. The impetus for the longer blade was based on his experiences in Season 2, where he found himself wishing for more length to aid in batoning, especially in the cramped quarters of his shelter.
More: Larry Roberts was a participant on Season 2, filmed on Vancouver Island. He was the runner up on his season, lasting 64 days. After his adventure, he returned to his wife of 28 years and his two grown children. Larry continues to work as an electrician in the Minneapolis area. In his spare, time he teaches at a well-known survival school, as well as teaching classes on his own. Larry also continues to increase his knowledge base by attending skills gatherings and taking as many other classes as possible.
He feels his time on Alone made him a stronger person, tested his limits, and made him appreciate the small things in life. Larry also feels he is very blessed to have met, and made close friends, with many of the participants of all the seasons of Alone. He's been overwhelmed and very appreciative of the support of so many who watched his journey on Vancouver Island. Larry is hoping to again push the limits of his survival knowledge, his endurance and his mental toughness on this season. He is also prepared to push past his former breaking point that made him tap on season 2.
BROOKE WHIPPLE / Leatherman Rebar
Age: 46
Fox, AK / Reed City, MI
Outdoor Educator
Like others this season, Brook Whipple from Season 4 has brought along a multitool; a Leatherman Rebar in this case. Like Sam Larson, she has also forgone a fixed blade knife. If her Rebar has been modded at all, it is not apparent from the gear videos.
More: Spending her winters in Reed City, Michigan and her summers in Fox, Alaska, Brooke Whipple is a light-hearted, adventurer and explorer. She has spent a lifetime chasing wilderness endeavors and is passionate about sharing her enthusiasm for the outdoors. She holds a bachelor's degree in Outdoor/Adventure Recreation Management and has taught thousands of youth and adults the joy of outdoor exploration.
She is the mother of two awesome children, Belle, 14, and Mickey, 12. Brooke has been married to her husband, Dave, for 19 years and it was with him that she endured 49 days on Vancouver Island on Alone Season 4.
Brooke is looking forward to this new challenge in Mongolia and hopes to surpass her previous stay on Vancouver Island.


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Listener 1: Last time we had talked about freedom. I had said that I find it easy to say, "No", but I don't know what to say, "Yes" to. It is difficult. You had advised me to do Neti-Neti and proceed. This need to immerse fully was coming from my present job, where the feedback I get is that I am not immersing myself fully. And I relate it to my conditioning, in the past, the bitterness that I hold, due to which I am saying no to a lot of things now. But you had said something later on, "The need to immerse fully is just a commandment of this industrial age, please remain doubtful." Now when you say this, what emerges is that this in itself comes in the way of immersion, perhaps. That means I have not understood it fully.
Acharya Prashant: You see, immersion is not a cultivated thing. Of course, we all know immersion. It is something so simple, so ordinary; like holding a baby in your arms without any tension, there need not be any separation between you and the kid. That is immersion. The child may even be naked, even physically there is no separation, you too might be a mother, not wearing anything, and you are holding the baby to your chest; it is so simple, extremely obvious.
The mother is not even thinking of the baby. Mothers, and even fathers know that. The mother might actually be thinking of something else, but the baby is so close to the heart that even if the child skips one heartbeat, the mother comes to know. The mother might be thinking of miscellaneous matters. Like Kabir might be thinking of weaving, or the cloth, or the market, but not of Ram. When something is so near, why do you need to think of it? The mother might be thinking of the kitchen, the whistle of the pressure cooker. That is what she is thinking of and the baby is in her arms. It doesn't make a difference. That is what immersion is.
Immersion does not come because you have been told to be immersed in your job. People who have been told to be immersed in their job, please see that they appear immersed because they have been told to. Now there is a motive for immersion. What is the motive? "I have been told to be immersed so I am immersed." The one who is telling you is important, is probably an authority. Had he not told, would you still be immersed? Had you not been educated that 'Work is life' would you still say, "My claim to fame is that I am a committed worker"? And don't you see how conditional all of this is? Working conditions change, your immersion changes. The commandment to 'be immersed' changes, then your immersion changes.
Further, what you call as 'immersion', even that is an image supplied by those who want you to be immersed. How do you know that a man is immersed?
L2: He enjoys it?
AP: How do you know that he is enjoying it? Enjoyment is a thing of the Heart.
There is a workplace, people are sitting on their workstations. How do you tell who is immersed?
L3: Probably they are more engaged and enjoying their work.
AP: I said, the baby could be closed to the mother's heart and the mother might be thinking of the pressure cooker
L3: Management has devised indices for that.
AP: So those are productivity indices right? All the indices that the management has to measure your immersion, are actually just measurements of your productivity. Now, immersion will surely lead to an enhancement of productivity, at least most of the times, but can productivity itself be an indicator of engagement?
L: Absolutely not.
AP: It is. But what is the quality of that engagement? For example: You can measure speed. Speed can be taken as a matrix of your energy. And you are running very very hard. A camera has been zoomed in, the camera is just looking at you, and seeing in it, one would say, "That guy is really a hard runner, a very honest worker, see how hard he is running!" The camera is zoomed out a little and what we find is that you are being chased by a dog.
Now being chased by a dog, you are indeed very productive, running very fast. But what is the quality of your engagement? Would you say that this guy is a very engaged worker? Actually, technically he is quite engaged – engaged with the dog. But what is the quality of that engagement?
I want to ask you – Is immersion something partial? Is immersion something that comes to you only in a particular place? Is it something that is subject to the vagaries of seasons, moods, and times? A fellow who is not immersed otherwise in life, how can he be immersed in his work?
But you find great examples where the fellow has no relationship with his environment, with animals, with the roads, with the woman, with the kids, or with what is going on in the world, but he has great engagement with his job. A job to which he is linked only through an acceptance letter, and a job with which his relationship can be severed through a resignation letter.
With this job, he claims great engagement. With his own body, from which he can never resign, he has no engagement. With his heart, he has no engagement. I want to ask, what is the quality of engagement this fellow has with his work?
You are not engaged even to your kid. I am not even talking about some kid in Canada or Africa, I am talking of your own personal kid. You are not engaged even to him, and you are saying that you are a committed worker? What kind of lie is this? Of course, you appear engaged. Of course, you are productive, but all of that is just fear and greed. That's all. Cultivated behavior, not something of the Heart.
Now, of course, your corporate masters want nothing of your heart. They want your behavior. They want your energy. They want your work. They will say, "Keep your heart where you want it to." Or, "Don't bring your heart here at all. We are not paying you for your heart. We want your mind, your intellect, your arms, your legs. That's what we want. So show us your productivity. The deeper you display your productivity, the more we will call you as engaged and immersed."
This is nonsense.
This is just like being engaged with the dog who is chasing you. There is a relationship surely; at that moment you are thinking of nothing but the dog. Just like the man sitting on his workstation may say, "Oh, you know, I think of nothing but my work." Yes, he is right. That man chased by the dog thinks of nothing but the dog. That only shows how afraid you are, how greedy you are. And your corporate masters know how to fill your mind with fear, so as to derive productivity from you.
Engagement, immersion, is a totally different thing. Talking about 'The observer and the observed' we had said, "You are really close when you are free of fear."
Without a deep internal motive, if you still continue to work as you are working, then you must know that there is immersion. Even when you know that you will not be paid a single paisa, still you continue to work with immersion, then you know that you are not tempted.
Not being instructed about 'how to work' and 'how to display immersion', if you are still immersed, then it is immersion.
Work comes later, the worker comes first.
The worker comes later, the Heart comes first.
So let work come from your Heart.
That is engagement.
And then don't bother about how it is looking. Remember that mother. The mother might appear to be looking at the pressure cooker, but her heart is with the child.
You don't need to pretend that you are very busy with your work. If your Heart is at the right place, right work will naturally flow from it. You won't then do to display it to somebody. It would not then be a means of earning something. Now work is an expression of your Heart. And you do not bother about how it appears to others. You know what you are doing. You are not doing it for anybody else. You are doing it for yourself. It is your own personal thing. And personal in the right sense of the word. Not in the divided sense.
Now you are not doing it to please your boss. Now it is your own work, you have ownership. You don't even have to really report. Because you are your own authority now. You cannot sleep properly if you know that you haven't done the due. Why do you even need to go and tell somebody else? Somebody else might be easily deceived. And that's what you do when you report to somebody else. It is very easy to deceive him, because you are the one who is reporting, you can misrepresent.
But when you are doing it from your Heart, then your Heart is the authority.
And it cannot be deceived.
That is real work.
That is real immersion.
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Just over two years after the death of his father, James, John Bruce and Elizabeth Low announced their intention to be married. The proclamation is dated 23 August 1821 and reads (expanding the abbreviations) "John Bruce, Manufacturer, & Elizabeth, daughter of the late John Low, Shipmaster, both in this parish." The two occupations mentioned show the Bruces and Lows were rising through the ranks of Dundee society.
Elizabeth was actually some seven years older than John, for she was baptised on 3 May 1787 to John Low and his wife, Janet Duncan. When her parents married, on 8 February 1785, her father was described simply as a sailor, but he must have risen through the commercial ranks to have been described as a "shipmaster". Another sign of increasing wealth is that when his wife died in March 1813, John Low could afford to buy a stone for her grave that can still be seen today in Dundee's Howff cemetery. However, it may be that John could only just afford it, for the stone is quite thin and suffering badly from splitting due to the weather.
John Bruce has also managed to rise a step up in the business world – whereas his father is described as a weaver, John is a "manufacturer". However, this term has shifted in meaning over the years and needs explanation. Manufacturers were responsible for producing linen cloth from the raw flax supplied by a merchant. Often they did not directly employ weavers, at least not in these early years. Instead, they would supply the yarn needed to weave a length of linen to a domestic weaver, and agree a price for the weaving of the length. In 1812, the going rate for the completed 115 / 120 yards of linen was £1, and this would typically take from 10 to 12 days to complete.
Thus, much of the commercial risk lay with the merchants, for they would have to obtain the yarn, perhaps paying people to process raw flax and spin the fibres up to make the yarn. Even the woven cloth might not be immediately saleable for some would need bleaching. The cloth to be bleached would be treated, originally with simple chemicals like pigeon droppings and lime, and then simply laid out in the fields where the sun would gradually whiten the cloth. (On the old Ordnance Survey maps, names can be seen that hark back to this – Panmure Bleachfields, for instance, lie between Broughty Ferry and Monifieth, upstream of a flax spinning mill.)
Assuming that he didn't lose too many lengths of cloth from the bleaching fields, the merchants then had to get his products to market and sell them. While the spinners, weavers and finishers could concentrate on a single, simple job, the merchant had to find a customer and sell the cloth – his income could therefore be much more volatile, so that while he aimed to make a profit, if he hit the wrong market at the wrong time, with spinners, weavers and finishers already paid, he would make a loss. Worse still, with capital tied up in cloth, for up to three months in the bleach fields, the merchant was often dependent on loans – if one person defaulted on a payment, the next could not pay off their own loan, and so the cascade went on.


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Jen DeSantis' Choice: 2
Title: Panic
"It's all in my head."
Oh, really?
"It has to be."
I look down at the string in my hand. Limp, it lays there. It is real. My hand is real. But somewhere up around the middle, something went wrong with the string. It moves. It undulates. And it isn't the wind.
The air around me is still like I'm stuck in the center of a glass cage. In a vacuum. But the string … it moves.
Sure it does, Frankie.
And who the fuck keeps talking to me?
I won't look up. I can't. I can hear the thing at the end of the string reaching and moving in the stagnant air. Its slimy tentacles slap wetly against each other, safely above my head.
Or is it safe?
"Shut up."
My voice shakes and I hate myself a little for that. This is all in my head. All of it.
"It's all in my head."
My voice is steady again, but the thing moves sickly above me and I feel the air ripple over me.
Maybe. The voice, I finally recognize, is my own. That doesn't make it any safer. And you know that, dontcha Frankie?
I whimper as I feel the thing's longest tentacle brush my hair. I feel the familiar panic grip my chest as I fight to break out of that glass cage, that vacuum of insanity. I reach out my hand, but no one is there. And the panic, it closes in again.
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The room was littered with the shrapnel of an exploded finch.
Sharp claws teased every last morsel of integrity.
Why is the base of the bed the foot of the altar?
And where are the missing parts?
I know birds have heads.
The room was littered with the shrapnel of an exploded finch.
Sharp claws teased every last morsel of integrity.
Why is the base of the bed the foot of the altar?
And where are the missing parts?
I know birds have heads.
The girl behind the counter just yelled energetically. "I've got a yummy, yummy mango smoothie."
A couple days ago, I read Found Poem — Tribute to Pete Seeger, composed of his songs and lyrics by Shawn Bird. The poem was moving, and enlightening.
I was moved to leave a comment, and enlighten my ignorance.
Not sure on the exact meaning of a found poem, I looked it up.
Makes me wonder. Is yummy, yummy mango smoothie an example of poetry found?
Perhaps when sung to the woman who paid.
Lately, at home in the evenings, usually. I think about my writing and where am I going.
Fog clouds my next couple-three steps.
In the story of me writing a book, I am just a little stuck. I can't decide. Do I not understand what next I need to do? Or am I having some trouble with the idea I am striving to communicate?
This is how it feels right now. It's not a loss of confidence at all. It's just a feeling of befuddlement.
Recently I wrote an absurd thought in my journal.
Just write. Just get ideas down.
And yet, right now, it is so hard to do.
Yeah! I got the writing table at my favorite coffee shop. So called, because many write. Here, over all the other tables.
I should be writing my timeline. I had discussed it with the guy who evaluated my functional capacity. Today he reminded me. My timeline will help fill out his evaluation.
My timeline from my journals. I have five years. In them I discuss all my experiences. Once I realized.
Their value.
Journaling keeps me sane. I have found. It works best if I pour my soul. Lavishly, on the page.
And, that's what I did. Starting before it ever occurred to me. Maybe I should discuss what I notice with my doctor? The notion was vague, that the state of ship was amiss.
They cover everything from my thoughts on life and death, to the detail of each day playing out. The ones worth remembering.
When I started using my cane. How I thought. Still. That it wouldn't get too bad.
Too soon. It got worse. And I discussed everything, from why I plopped onto the couch and fell asleep, right after work, to the pain that woke me in the middle of the night. What else to do when I can't sleep, but write?
And these journals also describe the sick days I took. They agree with my former employer's records. How I never took many sick days until the last two years. And how they grew in frequency. And why.
I also have to write a cover letter for the evaluation report. To the bureaucrats of the insurancy. I want to make myself perfectly clear.
Don't contest this any further. You will lose. You have no valid arguments regarding my case.
That's essentially what it is. Right? Will my case stand up in a court of law? That's gotta be how they evaluate each one. If we drop him, with the evidence we have seen so far, will the lawyers win?
In a suit?
So, my cover-letter needs to detail all of the evidence I have. Just to be perfectly clear. They will not!
It was the insight that allowed me to stop worrying about the situation. My weakness is the strength of my case.
I need to spell it out, in my own unique way. Because I am not merely providing the insurancy my evidence. I am telling them how to see it. Without ever stating my intentions directly.
I want the power of language. Spoken. Honestly to paint. A picture in their minds.
I want them to see it. From my position, they lose.
In a court of law, they have no case. They will see it.
When I crush their collective will.
My growth as a writer comes from realizing new things. For instance, I notice when people write well.
Each time I encounter something new, that I like in others, I have to ask myself. Is that something only to be envied? Or can I be more like that?
When I notice these things, I have to try them out. To see if they work for me. And, then.
I have to ask myself. Yes. It works. But, is this me?
It's me, when it comes on its own. It's me, when it slips in, beyond the notice of my internal editor.
Still later, I'll read it again, with my editor's hat on my head. That's when I decide whether I keep it.
And, sometimes I leave that hat on for too long. I have ruined decent pieces by dwelling to much on every last detail. If I believe the piece originally had merit, I'll set it aside, and work with it when I can see with new eyes.
But, maybe, sometimes. Overworking a piece is the only way to discover it lacked something all along. This is the point of journaling. And it's also why I still don't post every day. I'm working up to that level of consistency.
I believe some writers have gifts. But, good writers grow. And, it matters less where I start my journey than where it ends. But, I can only make progress by trying new things.
It is difficult to determine.
Anymore. Whether.
The things I think are true.
It probably has something.
To do with age, I see my grandmother.
In me. Right now. She walks, unsteadily.
With a cane, the folds of skin.
That once contained a plump woman.
Shaking. With each step.
Around the arm. Holding her stick.
It also might have something to do with my muscular dystrophy.
I have read that this form messes with the executive.
Function. Of the mind.
That seems to be my experience.
Oh, Word Location, you bedevil me.
But, it definitely seems.
Due to the many times.
In life, I have had to shift my thinking.
To which, of the many minds I have been?
Does this line belong?
I know I once believed this.
But, was that an illusion?
A couple weeks ago I mentioned my problems with an insurance company. This is the latest on the story.
I previously posted twice about the matter. Here is the first. And the second.
I rely on my disability policy from my last place of work. I won't name the insurance company, yet. But, I will if it gets ugly.
They sent me a letter, two days before Christmas, telling me to go back to work.
You lazy bum! I kept thinking the letter contained those exact words, as I read it again and again.
Yes. I took it personal. At first. But, then, as I researched, I began to see.
Disability fraud is rampant.
For example. In a couple counties bordering Kentucky and West Virginia, as much as 15% of the population receives some form of disability. One lawyer handles most of the cases. At 25%, this guy must be very rich, even after paying off a judge and some doctors.
My insurance company needed to know that I am not one of 'them'. So, as they paid my short-term disability claim, they also demanded a physical evaluation by my doctor.
But, my neurologist wouldn't help me. As a policy, he doesn't provide help with disability claims. His secretary was adamant.
I have heard hospitals and clinics commonly refuse to help with claims. They must think it is outside the realm of medicine. So I had to take my records back to my primary-care physician.
She had not seen me in almost two years. I remember her smile as she asked, "What's new?"
"Well, I have muscular dystrophy. Here are my records from Mayo Clinic. Will you help me?"
I saw her at least three times over the summer, as my insurance company kept hounding us. They wanted more evidence. Phone calls and letters. Follow-up exams and forms. I can see why some medical institutions won't waste their time.
Evidently, they were never satisfied. They were just biding their time until they could drop me.
We don't believe you. Go back to work.
I consulted with an attorney. He was friendly and sympathetic. Then we discussed fees. He wanted 25% of the lifetime settlement!
I kept thinking, This is all I have left to survive on. Why do you get 25%? It's a straightforward case.
I asked him how he thought his fee was moral. He never answered directly. Instead, he told me what other lawyers charge.
But, after some conversations with the insurance company, I learned what they wanted.
So, this past Monday I paid to have a functional capacity evaluation.
A functional capacity evaluation is typically performed by a physical trainer with special certifications. A subject is put through a battery of physical examinations, as well as tests designed to simulate the type of work performed. The evaluator summarizes his findings in an objective, legal-medical dialect of English.
In my case, there was an interview, and a review of medical records. Followed by strength and agility exercises. He pushed me to the point of failure, so he could to accurately describe what he was seeing. He also took lots of photos. As he escorted me out, afterwards, he told me what he saw, in the dialect spoken by insurance bureaucrats.
I try to see insurance professionals as people. But, I had no sympathy for them on Monday. By the end of the exam, I was weak and shaking.
About six hours after it began, I left for home. Muscle spasms left me too tired to do anything. I just tried to keep myself awake until bedtime.
Tuesday, I was still in too much pain. But, yesterday, I started writing. Today, I have enough energy for editing, but not much else.
I don't, yet, know the final cost. I will get the bill before I receive the report. It will be somewhere between $1200 and $1600 for everything.
And, when I heard that, I thought, sure. If that's the cost for a report that will hold up in a court of law, I will pay.
It's also more palatable than what a lawyer would leave me to let me live on, in exchange for his services.
So I gladly antied-up for Monday's torture. I can afford the cost, both financial and physical. And, after a week I can forget about it.
I made the decision a couple days after my second post on this matter. And I spent the remaining time, until Monday, blissfully writing. It was definitely worth it.
I enjoyed each productive day. Essentially, I feel like I bought myself a two-week writing vacation.
A worry-free mind is priceless. Especially when it is affordable.
I'm hoping this will be enough. Common sense tells me it will be.


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Develop your own Xbox gamesBy Derek Sooman
Microsoft wants to encourage more Xbox gamers to try their hand at game development, and as such have plans to release a new set of developer tools that will let just about anyone create their own Xbox games. Known as XNA Game Studio Express, the tools will be available in beta form by the end of the month, with a finished product available by the end of the year.
Scott Henson, director for platform strategy for Microsoft's game developer group, claims that XNA Game Studio Express will make it much easier to develop games than it is today. The company is due to demonstrate the new software at Gamefest later this week.
Microsoft already has a professional version of XNA Game Studio available, but with this free version, the company is hoping to encourage a whole new generation of games programmers to flourish.
In the first incarnation, games developed using the free tools will be available only to like-minded hobbyists, not the Xbox community as a whole. Those who want to develop games will have to pay a $99 fee to be part of a "Creators' Club," a name that is likely to change. Games developed using XNA Game Studio Express will be playable only by others who are part of the club.
In the future, Microsoft will hopefully release a broader set of tools that will allow games programmers to create titles that can be sold online, via Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade. The company will, of course, retain control as to which games actually can be sold and which can't.


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Mt. Pulag is likely one of the most stunning and sought after mountain trekking spots within the Philippines. Tommen publicizes that Cersei and Loras Tyrell will stand trial before seven Septons and that trial by fight is forbidden within the Seven Kingdoms, thereby nullifying Cersei's plans on having The Mountain battle as her champion again. Mountain entry like this started nearly one hundred years in the past in the French, Italian, and Swiss Alps.
In abstract using a mountain bike to keep yourself match what ever your type of riding is a good way to keep fit, and training will also keep you one step ahead of your recreation. And, it's been bothering me. It has been bothering me primarily as a result of there was a time in my life a very long time in the past where religion did save me and my household.
After my first full year off street, I progressed to the better downhill runs at Blue Mountain and Horseshoe Resort. Even though the Tail of the Dragon is the preferred and famous riders shouldn't move up using on areas like the Cherohala Skyway which is rising in recognition and the Blue Ridge Parkway offering over 300 miles of undeveloped mountain roads.
My instructor Earl was also mountain biker and he skillfully taught me to use the techniques, body mechanics and sensations of mountain biking to skiing and it worked. We sit up for seeing her once more annually however we are totally aware that one yr she is not going to return and we will truly mourn her when that time comes.
Each time I drive into the North Cascades Nationwide Park I learn a park signal that says The North Cascades-The Alps of America." This has all the time struck a spiteful chord in my dark side and I have dreamt of vandalizing this signal to learn The Cascades of America".


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Friday, December 11, 2015
1MZ-FE V6 Swap: 1994 Toyota Celica
The sixth generation Toyota Celica (1993-1999) followed the recipe of previous Celicae -- an affordable 4-cylinder powered 2-door coupe with a set of small rear seats. The Celica was Toyota's entry into the pony car market, but done in typical Toyota fashion...which means a bit on the dry side. Thankfully, this one has had some heat added to the recipe with an engine borrowed from a Camry...
Gone is the original 2.2 liter 5S-FE inline-4, and it is now powered by a 3.0 liter 1MZ-FE V6 that should be good for something in the 190 horsepower and 190 ft-lbs of torque range. Now...I know what you're thinking....that ain't a heckovalotta horsepower for an engine swap, and the 1MZ isn't exactly a powerhouse...but it is a reliable engine that puts out decent torque and, critically, the swapper kept a 5-speed manual gearbox in place.
The Celica features a low driving position and a driver-oriented cockpit style setup -- it isn't a bad place for a drive.
See another V6 swapped sports coupe for cheap? email@example.com
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This would be fun to own as is.but one could strap two Chinese turbos and a intercooler setup with bigger injectors to match would make this a bit of a missile.ReplyDelete
Looks decently done, the open-element air filter aside, but I'm sure it'd be painful to try to smog it in California.ReplyDelete
The obvious swap for all these FWD Celicas is the JDM 3S-GE BEAMS 'redtop' four and if you shop carefully it shows up with a helical limited-slip diff too, but that won't necessarily smog in California either.
At some point I guess you just give up and buy an ST185 Alltrac. This guy's had this one for sale for quite a while:
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It's Race Week and I spend the days at Flemington Racecourse station cooking sausages for all the staff there. And there are many there, station staff, security men, racing club hosts, drivers, signalers and maintenance guys, who sometimes have nothing to do all day but tighten the screws on the BBQ and hold themselves in readiness in case a train breaks down or a protester purposely parks on the railway tracks and throws away the car keys the way they did last year. Racing is Australia's third biggest industry, the Melbourne Spring Carnival its biggest race week and consequently it's also Metro's biggest week. A screw up on a race day can seriously dent your credibility as Connex discovered to its cost one year when a train fried itself to the overhead wires and thousands of people had to walk home.
I was bought up by ex-Methodists and consequently I knew little of Race Week until I came to work for the railways. My parents looked askance at drinking and gambling and saw no need for the ostentatious spending of money on fabulous bags, shoes, clothes, make-up, hair and race tickets.
But though I'd never spend that amount of money on self-adornment, I really appreciate that others do it. All those lovely people on the morning train in hats and dresses and suits. They look so important even though they're probably not. The really important people are probably driven.
I have to admit that I also kind of appreciate the aftermath in a shamefully smug ex-Methodist way.
This Derby Day, I'd cooked 400 pieces of meat and I stank of sausage grease. No need to moisturize that night. I took the train back to the Junction with people laughing, staggering and shouting.
On the platform two young men in beautiful suits and ties were doing the drunken waltz – The less drunk one trying to hold up a more drunk companion who is heading for the ground. Round and round and down and down they went until finally gravity won and the more drunk man had a little lie down on the platform while his mate went off to find – who knows what?
As I plodded up to the station office, I passed another beautifully dress couple in their 40's doing a similar waltz, he holding up her. She was barefoot and hatless. The air was loud with people yelling "Here I'm over here," "There are no Taxis, call an Uber" and some of them just yelling. God knows what it was like at Flinders Street and Southern Cross stations where most of the race-goers change trains.
"Someone's passed out on Platform 4" I told the Station Officer who sighed, and called up the para-medic. Out the back the other para-medic (two are rostered at the Junction every race day. Also three extra cleaners) was out there taking care of a young woman throwing up in a bag.
I stayed in the warm office helping the Station officer deal with the stream of lost hats, wallets, bags and shoes and deal with drunks complaining about trains and asking for cabs and trying not to get too close to anyone so that they wouldn't be overwhelmed by my eau de sausage.
By the time my train home came, the spare paramedic was down on platform 4 wheel chair at the ready, helping the young man haul his mate to his feet and watching tensely as they staggered round and round the platform until a train came in and took them safely away.