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Sunday, August 31, 2014
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Ticks of a tock,
The hour-glass turning the land,
Sunsets, joyful in their exits,
To enter again!
Life and death,
In Duality!
Multiply 443 X 6 trillion, to get the miles.
Parents seized after taking son with cancer from ward - CNN.com
from SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson
"I am an old man,' Nels Gudmundsson, continued. 'Why do I say this,' moving nearer to the jurors now. 'I say this because as an older man I am prone to ponder matters of death in a way that you don't. I am like a traveler descended from Mars who looks down in astonishment at what goes on here. What I see is the same human frailty passed from generation to generation. What I see is again and again is the same sad human frailty. We hate one another, as the victims of this irrational fear. And there is nothing in human history to suggest this is going to change!"
Herein lies the great challenge of humanity! To change, to grow, to evolve to a higher state of grace.
How to, what to do, how to change, to grow, to evolve to a better nature?
As one person we can only try, and that begins by getting control of our ego. This requires consciousness! How to get that? If only I knew, I could save humanity from itself! But, again, it starts with becoming aware, and getting control of our egos!
Better natures, puts others before him/her, fearlessly.
Feds want nuclear waste train, but nowhere to go - Houston Chronicle
The War for Our Digital Future: Virtual Reality vs. Integral Reality | Innovation Insights | WIRED
Summer of 1964: They heard the call of freedom, a summons that still haunts - Metro - The Boston Globe
I watched the Isha video...
Well, I watched the Isha video. But, I'm suspicious of anyone who dresses up like an Indian guru (long beard) -- has a website, and all of that (to make money).
What he spoke of in English words, has to do with objective versus subjective reality. But, it made little sense to me.
Albert Einstein wrote that imagination is more important than knowledge.
I 'believe' we create our 'wor(l)ds' from this imagination. To me, saying I'm going to New York, creates the possibility. Of course, in Duality, we have to act. But, the idea to act comes from our imagination (the mind).
And the question posed, WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE?, has to be divided into two categories: What is the purpose of life to an elephant? To live, procreate, and to die (continue the species). What is the purpose of human life (ego consciousness)? To know there is something else greater than us -- I do not name this, as different for everyone.
Thus, to me there is no objective reality.
P.S. Another of these Indian gurus, Osho, popular around the world. I used to go to one of his facilities, outside of Kathmandu, Nepal.
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Edward Snowden: The Untold Story | Threat Level | WIRED
Maritza Morales Casanova: Saving Mexico's Environment Through Children
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U.S. officials fear radicalized citizens will carry out lone-wolf terror plots | The Rundown | PBS NewsHour
Friday, August 29, 2014
Bitcoin (CURRENCY:BTC) News Analysis: South America Could Be Next Big Bitcoin Market
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Do I remember walking on the beach (at One Tree Point), guest of two young men from South American, that Alvaro had found (via warmshowers.org). They enjoyed speaking Spanish together, while all of us sipped Yerba Mate tea, the S.A. way, from the same container, using the same 'straw.' The two S.A. engineers working at N.Z.-N. Island oil refinery (at Marsden Point).
We went to a N.Z.-friend's house on a golf course, where we played one hole miserably (first time swinging a golf club in years)!
All of this on Alvaro's and my cycling from Auckland to the very tip of the N. Island, via Waipu, Ruakaka, Whangarel (all of these Mauri names) -- points north.
But walking the beach at One Tree Point, why would I remember this? Maybe because I've been communicating with Prof. Worzel in Waipu. Note, he's the first in all of N.Z. that now has THE OPEN-SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO! Go, Worzel! Go Kim Dotcom!
Oh, so many cycling (the world) adventures -- odd scenes come to you 'out of the blue!' In the case, out of 'The long white cloud' of N.Z.
N.Z. two large islands, with many more surrounding. A water person's heaven, from fishing, scuba-diving, surfing, wind-surfing, sailing, boating, cycling, hiking, untainted seafood, oceanography, volcanoes, earthquakes, Mauris, Rugby, Old English-Scottish (Dunedin) history, mountain climbing, sky-diving, and of course world-class bungie jumping off bridges, etc. I'm sure I forgot some…? Snowboarding, on and on…
It still is an eco-paradise, compared to the rest of the world.
But, living there… Way, way, way, out of the way from the rest of the world… maybe this is good! But for me, too humid (rain, etc.). I doubt many 'Kiwis,' could live in the Atacama Desert/Chile like me. Note, the driest place in the world!
P.S. Best Sauvignon Blanc in all the world! Best health food restaurant, in Dunedin, but tough cycling in and out of… Whoa!
Thursday, August 28, 2014
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Youth gets excited over getting a fishing pole or a hunting rifle, not really conscious that these are weapons to kill with.
It's this innocence, this unconsciousness, this feeling that needs to be addressed.
I went on catching-eating fish, animals, that some day will be killing-eating me!
The human race (homo sapiens) so incredibly arrogant! And, oh woe be unto us for such!
Be humble in the face of all life -- and, everything is alive!
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Zebra-suited urbanists of Bolivia undeterred by hit-and-run death | Cities | theguardian.com
Police out of control!
Does Venezuela's Smiling Tourism Cartoon 'Cheverito' Ignore the Country's Grim Realities? · Global Voices
The Other Neanderthal - The Atlantic
Get them out of the gene pool!
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Oh, an ill wind blew from the north yesterday afternoon! I could barely crank up Av. Los Robles (heading directly in it). Earlier the bad energy made me 'enfermo' (very uncomfortable) as well: my back, a headache, weak! I took a pain pill.
Home, in the patio, it almost blew me away, the gusts so strong, plastic bags, like birds, being tossed and turned. I had to retreat indoors.
This must be the beginning of Spring, maybe a little early, but probably GLOBAL WARMING, as Spring only officially begins in one month, September 21st.
It must have been so strong as to disrupt my electricity here in the house, but it was back on the next morning. A bit strange, as the neighbors not affected.
I must say, for a Third World country, the electricity is pretty much 'on!' In the two years I've been here, only 2 outages, and only for a short time.
They can also operate airlines, and mostly on time.
Finally, about the 'ill wind,' it did bring better air from the north, where there are only villages, forests, the jungle.
Cochabamba, being in a valley, polluted from too many motor vehicles.
Evo, bring back the railroads!
The wind blowing the trees, the sunlight sprinkled on my face, sun and shadow.
What is our life all about, do you know?
Or, do we just 'strut and fret our hour upon the stage?'
Isn't it about something, not just the day to day?
Monday, August 25, 2014
Historic Milestone: Pluto Mission Reaches Neptune's Orbit : Discovery News
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Malala Yousafzai: exclusive Q&A with teen readers | Children's books | theguardian.com
The wind blowing the trees, the sunlight sprinkled on my face, sun and shadow.
What is our life all about, do you know?
Or, do we just 'strut and fret our hour upon the stage?'
Isn't it about something, not just the day to day?
In Brown's death, parents and sons revisit the black male code | MSNBC
28 Mistakes Startups Make When Pitching To Investors
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Just one little mistake, and WWIII!
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Origin of languages: Tower of Babel, proto-languages, and the brothers Grimm
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This is good, positive as much needed!
Friday, August 22, 2014
Lessons from Denmark: how district heating could improve energy security | The big energy debate | theguardian.com
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We need new Myths (stories we live by).
The old ones: That immortality comes from begetting more male children (extending the family name, etc.) don't serve humanity anymore!
We're over-populated; need to slow the birth rate down!
But, the growth people, enslaved to profit, want more and more. As without growth, less profit!
But, we ask… What will we do when we can't grow anymore?
From THE TROJAN WAR by Bernard Evslin
pp. 13:
"In those days (Ancient Greece) it was customary to bribe judges, which shows how far we have come since!'
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Did I mention Bergman?
Anyone out there remember the Thalia movie theater, on the upper westside of Manhattan, N.Y.C.? I think way up in the 90s, as I remember. It was very cool! That's what we've lost in the U.S., 'cool!' It's now just a blatant 'crash, flash, and trash' culture!
I'm so happy I got to experience the Sixties when I was in my twenties, so 'cool' it was ('Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll!)! We used to smoke dope in the restaurants in Sausalito, California, tres chic at the time. The Sixties when you could sleep on the street and not fear for your life. When it was 'make love, not war!' Now it's 'make war not love!'
But, getting back to Bergman, the Swedish filmmaker/artist. The Thalia was famous for offbeat European films, like Fellini's JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. How many people have seen it? How 'bout 'Harold and Maude?' (U.S.)
Anyway, Bergman… I saw my first two of his at the Thalia, this with my wife at the time who was hip to Bergman (I'd never heard of him.). But, by the time both films were over I felt like committing suicide: dark, dreary, winter, trouble, depression, my God, I thought… This is Sweden, 'Scandoland?'
50-years later I lived in Dalsland, Sweden, and during the winter. I wanted to experience such (little sunlight), and cycling in the snow.
Sweden, full of young beautiful women, but a 'frosty' atmosphere in the winter. I remember going into a bicycle shop in Håverud, and the gruff, old owner, wouldn't even speak to me. Ah, well, only a customer.
The family I lived with in Rannelanda, right out of Bergman! Divorced, fighting over the undisciplined children. I was happy to 'steal away,' cycling south to The Netherlands…
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(Cochabamba morning…)
First Light,
What a 'knight!,
Slept six horas,
Sometimes whoras!
Dreamt I was a butterfly,
Or, a woman,
Can't remember which,
Something about Ms. MacBook...
I'm ever rested, tested
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Thursday, August 21, 2014
The U.S. police out of control!
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(Cochabamba morning…)
First Light,
What a 'knight!,
Slept six horas,
Sometimes whoras!
Dreamt I was a butterfly,
Or, a woman,
Can't remember which,
But, something about Ms. MacBook...
I'm ever rested, tested
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We can't have WAR anymore without clocks/watches, etc. So, let's throw them all away!
'Butt' then we can't have computers and smart teles., either!
What to do?
This is modern warfare, modern life!
Money is a powerful thing, but shouldn't be our God!
It should 'knot bee' our Master either,
'Butt' our servant!
It facilitates exchange,
The idea of virtual currencies,
Less control,
But trust a must!
What a day!
Besides having it confirmed, once and for all that what we now call '9/11' was an 'inside job', the following:
I learned there's a bird that lives up around Potosi (Bolivia) that mistakes pieces of gold for corn and swallowing it. Then the locals hunt the birds to get the gold! There's a 'metawhor' in there somewhere… But, killing for gold, bad karma!
Secondly, at Anna/Carlos' place of business, their company-store, I meet a Bolivian man who, with a partner, just purchased THE TAVERN ON THE GREEN (tourist restaurant) in Central Park in New York City. He's at Anna's buying handicrafts to sell in their store/restaurant.
As I remember, living in New York City for 12 years, I ate at THE TAVERN ON THE GREEN, at least three times.
My life… too interesting, discovering whatever around the world, me and Rucha trying to help (the Loving-Kindness Group Fund).
P.S. But, Rucha and I... getting older with more body problems to deal with. 'Why is youth wasted on the young?'
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There are people who actually believe in a 'Universe' as constructed by scientists. Wow! This is a lack of consciousness, as it ain't that way at all!
If fact, we can't k'no'w exactly. Wasn't it Carl Sagan who said, 'The Universe is beyond our imagination!' But, actually Carl is wrong about this… It's our imagination that has 'created it' as per scientists (astronomers). At least the human version.
Ultimately, it might be different don't you think, as probably a 'star,' doesn't know it's a 'star!'
This is consciousness (an open mind).
P.S. Life is a word game!
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Bolivia's Death Road, the terrifying route tourists love to cycle | Mail Online
Teen Contraception, Birth Rate Falls by 57% saving Billions: CDC | Capital OTC
UFO watchers spot mysterious bone-like object on Mars - Houston Chronicle
E-Bike Sales Are Surging in Europe - NYTimes.com
How the U.S. and Europe Failed James Foley - The Atlantic
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Ex-CIA Pilot Gives Sworn Testimony That No Planes Hit The Twin Towers - World Observer Online
The last thing a 3-year-old Syrian said before he died: "I'm gonna tell God everything" - World Observer Online
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
US education: How we got where we are today - CSMonitor.com
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There are people who actually believe in a 'Universe' as constructed by scientists. Wow! This is a lack of consciousness, as it ain't that way at all!
If fact, we can't k'no'w exactly. Wasn't it Carl Sagan who said, 'The Universe is beyond our imagination!' But, actually Carl is wrong about this… It's our imagination that has 'created it' as per scientists (astronomers). At least the human version.
Ultimately, it might be different don't you think, as probably a 'star,' doesn't know it's a 'star!'
This is consciousness (an open mind).
P.S. Life is a word game!
Monday, August 18, 2014
A Startlingly Simple Theory About the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet | Autopia | WIRED
The U.S. has become a 'Police State!' Reminds me of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Ferguson police department: The economic incentives that make cops harass black residents.
Go Ecuador! If it happens, I'll visit Quito!
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The risks (for the 01 percent), that the baby will develop greater consciousness! The real risk is alcohol!
New Minecraft Mod Teaches You Code as You Play | Enterprise | WIRED
50 million people $ poor in the U.S. This a Great Nation? I don't think so!
Who Has a Right to Pain Relief? - The Atlantic Note, there's all kind of 'pain,' physical, mental and emotion. It's emotional pain that's the hardest to bear!
Outlander: False Feminism? - The Atlantic
Larry Harvey has got it right, SHARING is where it's going to be at!
Should be its 'junk-food' thinking, profit only at the expense of its customers!
U.S. Astronaut Leroy Chiao: America Should Embrace China For Mars Missions I AGREE!
How 'Violiwood' sells movies, all 'Ka ka!' Sex and violence, that young girls can ID with... But, not healthy!
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For South Americans...This is an importante article to read, as the basis for what needs to be changed, and metanoia (""The biblical word for conversion, metanoia , means not just a shift in one's views or opinions but a fundamental change in direction.").
Bolivia: Beyond (neo)extractivism? | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Plant-based 'plantibodies' drugs grab global attention for Low Cost | Wall Street OTC
Average cost of raising a child hits $245,000 - Aug. 18, 2014
A Hundred Years Old Today, the Panama Canal Is About to Get a Lot Bigger
Elvis Presley's fiancée Ginger Alden details the King's bad temper, secluded Graceland life, and luxurious gifts in new memoir - NY Daily News
Sucking Mother Earth dry, and we with her! She will survive, we won't.
Typical spat over property/money, so infantile! Whatever happened to LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF?
BBC News - Julian Assange speaks of 'leaving' Ecuador embassy
Sunday, August 17, 2014
I wonder how David Robert Steele would comment on this...?
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Scientists calculate a Huge Asteroid to possibly hit & destroy Earth in 2880 | The Westside Story
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Saturday, August 16, 2014
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Stores looted, including one where slain teen Michael Brown allegedly stole cigars | Mail Online
Violent Men: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Violence by Hans Toch
Policing the Police
Training, retraining, and yet more training are not the way to stop police brutality.
In just the last two months, Michael Brown, 18, was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri; Ezell Ford, 25, was killed by a police officer in Los Angeles; Frank Alvarado, 39, was killed by a Salinas police officer; Eric Garner, 43, was killed by a New York police officer; and Marlene Pinnock, 51, was brutally beaten by a California Highway Patrol officer. All of these victims were of color, and all were unarmed.
Since these latest incidents, there has been much talk about the need for retraining officers; and there have been repeated calls from an outraged public for investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI. But training and federal investigations are ineffective responses to allegations of police misconduct. We know how to solve this epidemic; we just need to find the political will to do it.
Before they even don their uniforms, police officers receive hours and hours of training about the appropriate use of force. At the nation's police academies, they learn how to evaluate situations where force could be an option and when it's illegal. By the time officers are patrol-ready, they know how to use their firearms, batons, and stun guns. Yet, in response to the chokehold killing of Erin Garner, New York Police Commissioner William Bratton has called for the "retraining" of his officers. Training is, of course, essential to law enforcement. But it would be a serious and dangerous error to shrug off these deaths and beatings by cops and simply attribute them to inadequate training.
Retraining is useless when officers view people of color as "f--king animals"—the words shouted by a police officer at a crowd in Ferguson protesting the killing of Michael Brown. All of the training and retraining in the world are of no moment if officers see the people they are charged to protect and serve as subhuman and dangerous.
And while some investigations by the FBI and the Justice Department have resulted in major and positive changes to police departments, these kinds of costly inquiries frequently take years to complete. Case in point: the fatal shooting of Brown in Ferguson. The FBI has opened a civil rights inquiry in response to the public outcry, but a week after the shooting, critical information such as the name of the officer, and the number of times and where on his body Brown was shot, has not been released. This is not a training problem. It's a transparency problem.
So, if more training and federal investigations are not the answer, what is? First, police departments must broaden the definition of reasonable use of force. In 1989 the U.S. Supreme Court in Graham v. Connor defined the reasonable use of force as force "judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, and its calculus must embody an allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second decisions about the amount of force necessary in a particular situation." That definition has been interpreted narrowly by law enforcement agencies across the country to mean that the reasonableness of the force is limited to an examination of only the amount of force used in the moment. The conduct of officers right before the use of force is never examined. Under this definition, officers who provoke individuals and officers who escalate situations get a pass.
The definition of what constitutes the reasonable use of force must be expanded to include the circumstances leading up to the use of force, so that the inquiry into the misconduct sweeps in whatever the officer did prior to the decision to use force, along with the conduct of the victim. There is precedent for this. This year, both the Seattle Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department expanded their definitions of reasonable use of force. Now, in Seattle, officers cannot use physical force "against individuals who only verbally confront them unless the vocalization impedes a legitimate law enforcement function or contains specific threats to harm the officers or others." And in Los Angeles, the use of deadly force must include "consideration of not only the use of deadly force itself, but also an officer's tactical conduct and decisions leading up to the use of force when determining its reasonableness."
A filmmaker peers into the dark past of China's Great Famine - CSMonitor.com
The problem is, when police get these 'jazzy' weapons, they want to use them! And they do! But, do we need such? No!
Top 20 things to do in South America | Stuff.co.nz
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Friday, August 15, 2014
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Overcast skies weigh me down! If I don't have the sun 'flat out,' and burning a blue sky, I get depressed.
I'm a 'sun sign,' Sagittarius,' the Centaur (half man, half horse). I've got to have a bright sun 80% of the time!
I don't know how I survived 7 years in Portland, Oregon (younger), but wasn't happy there. I remember when the sun finally came out in the Spring, the entire populous ran to the nearest park and shed their clothing. Schools were let out!
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More on consciousness for Bob:
'Conocimientos' in Spanish
'Bevuszine' in German
One of the best ways to understand 'consciousness' is a description by Dick H. This, of what it is not to have it: "It's when you don't know that you don't know!' The German definition is, 'A state of knowing.' So, does this mean that 'having it,' is when 'you know that you know?'
Personally, I don't 'no!'
These are all English words open to interpretation and thus…
'Consciousness' is what you make of it!
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Do you realize that the 3 largest countries in South America:
Brazil, and
Are all run by women?
The U.S. is being destroyed by while men in suits! Isn't it time to change this?
Time for a woman, although Hillary not that different!
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Nature's Joke explained
From DISAPPEARING MOON CAFE by Sky Lee
pp. 186:
"Have you ever stopped to think that (romantic) love is actually impossible? Maybe it's just something which people have invented to torture themselves with! Love is elusive and doesn't translate well into reality. When you have two people in so-called love, what do you really have but two people busily trying to enslave each other. The more in love they are, the more compulsively they strip each other of dignity, self-respect, identity, until there is nothing left!"
pp. 188:
"Think of (romantic) love as something free of remorse and restraints. No ulterior motives. Imagine, nothing to explain, no need to justify! Genitalia coming together because it feels good. How could something that quintessential have gotten so screwed up in people's minds?"
Answer: Religion, culture, money, modern life!
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I just observed a carpenter ant (have an entire colony in my grass patio) carry a piece of grass 2X as long as s/he, struggle through the 'jungle!' Amazing strength and perseverance! In the distance, the ant with the piece of grass nearing home!
Say I love you with a selfie, begs Paris | Video | Reuters.com
Stop the Pentagon program that militarizes U.S. police forces | The Great Debate
Tall boulder rolls down martian hill, lands upright | Astronomy.com
Thursday, August 14, 2014
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
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From DISAPPEARING MOON CAFE by Sky Lee
pp. 31:
"From her husband's side Mui Lan would certainly claim a share of that eternal life which came with each new generation of babies. What could be more natural, more ecologically pure?"
This is the Myth that must be changed or humanity will die out having been too successful at this 'eternal life!' The definition of irony.
We must shift from this kind of antiquated non-thinking to, 'Less is more!' We must slow down the birth rate or go extinct! Mars and other planets will come too late!
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From DISAPPEARING MOON CAFE by Sky Lee
pp. 27:
"… 'Back home in the village,' she suddenly heard herself lash out at more than one tired ear, 'There was an established way of life, and one hardly ever heard of a girl getting pregnant, or a boy who didn't at least know his duty (if he did get her pregnant)! But here, in this 'wilderness' (modern life), even the good people lose all sense of right and wrong!"
This, because we worship the wrong god, money!
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Life is so much better when you think of others first. When you give, not take.
Our greatest 'enemy' is our own egos, the named 'I.'
Think we!
E. Pluribus Unum: 'Out of many, one!'
We in the U.S.A., don't even live by our own mottos!
For shame!
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Embracing flag, Snowden says he hopes to return to U.S.
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Capitalism is the germ, humanity the 'disease!' And we're killing everything, ourselves included! We have gone not-sane, all of us!
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from DISAPPEARING MOON CAFE by Sky Lee
"Little did she realize that people's most fervent hope can turn into their worst nightmare!"
This happened to me, F.A.. So, what does it tell us…? Be careful of what you wish for, you're liable to get it! Stay in the middle of extremes, wish for nothing! Is this possible? Maybe… We think we control our destinies! We only collaborate.
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When I was young, I was a hunter, killing birds and other animals! This is what you could call lack of consciousness! Later, I stopped doing such, and now not at all (except for flies and mosquitoes). This can be called more consciousness, as valuing all life now, not just my own.
But, remember… These are only English 'wor(l)ds!'
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014
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Robin William's apparent 'suicide' causes me to pause to explain the nature of the creative mind…
Suicide is fairly common amongst creative people (Hemingway to Williams). Why?
Many of these are miscalculated overdoses, Lenny Bruce for example. And what happened to Janice Joplin and Marilyn Monroe?
Celebrity life, is life on the edge! You get constantly 'stroked,' how great you are, inflating the Ego to a dangerous degree. I worked with Howard Cosell, knew him personally, and a great example of someone over-compensating (had to be the center of attention all the time).
They like all the great innovators, from de Vinci, to Newton, to Einstein, they experiment with mind altering substances (with Cosell it was alcohol). They want to soar: they reach for the stars -- most don't! And sometimes like Icarus, 'they fly too close to the sun with wax wings'… These are highly motivated, intelligent, developed, sometimes tortured souls, seeking… I think of Vincent Van Gogh!
In Duality, what you call 'reality,' no destruction, no creation.
Creative people are extra, extra, extra sensitive. They feel things (like pain) more acutely. Most have such a great need to express (their egos), they're fearless in pursuing an outlet!
They say people who seek great heights, didn't get 'picked up' as infants (in their cribs). Later in lives they over-compensate, by demanding attention (via their exploits)! But, who can say that 'over-compensation,' isn't valuable to humanity. Look at de Vinci and Newton. de Vinci is even credited with designing the first bicycle!
What about J.S. Bach, who wrote a cantata, almost every day of his life. One, JESU, OF OUR MAN'S DESIRING, we think the greatest musical composition ever!
The problem, the solution is the Ego! A life of ego pursuits is ultimately worthless!
Some of the more evolved, Samuel Clements, and Kurt Vonnegut knew, and wrote about such at the end of their lives . They realized the futility of such, the emptiness at the end!
It's called consciousness or 'to perceive!'
Suicide… It should be de-stigmatized, even encouraged (OHMYGOD, what are we suggesting…?) Let's support THE HEMLOCK SOCIETY, start 'growing it!
Robin Williams? He made us laugh! That's enough!
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If you can write like Sky Lee (DISAPPEARING MOON CAFE), you're a novelist!
"Yet they found many ways to flow together, like wind brushing against leaves! Like lake and lakeshore, a slow meandering dance of lovers!"
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from DISAPPEARING MOON CAFE by Sky Lee
"…He saw the loneliness in his brothers, toiling, poor -- left behind (in Canada) because the Canadian Pacific Railroad had reneged on its contract to pay the Chinese railway workers' passage home (to China)."
And yet another example of the white man's shit-dog, dishonest behavior!
What is it about the while male that makes him such an asshole?
You should read of the atrocities the Spanish inflicted on the Indians in South America! In Potosi, Bolivia alone, they systematically worked 3 million of the Indian workers to death -- and for money no less! Yep, 3 MILLION!
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(at Villa Nayjama in Cochabamba, Bolivia)
Drinking hard liquor (vodka) at VILLA NAYJAMA, the smell-taste, takes me back to my Sigma Chin Fraternity days (Circa. late 1950s early 1960s). This, is called 'Sense Memory' in Method Acting.
We drenched ourselves in alcohol at things like 'Boondockers,' where kegs of beer would be buried in a dry wash bed (sand), later to be pumped dry in the dark (sometimes hard to find as no lights allowed). We groped the girls on blankets, having to stifle their giggling. We had scouts looking out for the police, as in those days they enforced the drinking age (21).
Then there were parties on Fraternity property, near the University. One was called 'The South Sea Islander,' where our adjacent yard was turned into a beach, and we all constructed harem tents for privacy (we encouraged the girls to wear bathing suits). The fruit punch was distributed from surgical tubes fed from barrels on the second floor (where pledges worked to concoct and keep filled). Any signs of police or outsiders and they were quickly pulled up. 'What alcohol, officer?'
I learned two things in five years at the University of Arizona. How to drink alcohol and chase girls. This lead to 'post graduate degrees' in other delights, like street drugs!
Today, at 74, I sip Roberto's Tumba-vodka cocktail, sitting in the sun. partaking of the best food in all of Bolivia.
Thanks, Roberto/Villa Nayjama!
P.S. There's even a golf course nearby.
It takes a life-time to overcome our 'births!' Most don't, living on the surface, never plumbing the depths to discover who they really are, and their true mission.
Trapped, enslaved by small screens, they are but consuming robots, 'strutting and fretting their hours on the stage.' We 'sea' them everywhere!
Que hacer? What to do?
We can thank 'the Owners' for enslaving us for their profit! Humanity 'stampeding over a cliff' and maybe a good thing! We're not convinced we deserve to survive!
Monday, August 11, 2014
Origins of Hierarchy: How Egyptian Pharaohs Rose to Power
American Pathology!
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Speaking of da biz, let's not forget, as you got me thinking (something I rarely do) the following!
But, before, more about Stanley's, #5 on my list, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
European films for me ultimately, 'the best' (as they invented the mediem).
Luis Bunuel's THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE, proving my 'Nature Joke' on us! And currently from Espana (where we'll be cycling next May, 2015):
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero, a Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and former actor.
Born: September 25, 1949 (age 64), Calzada de Calatrava, Spain
Awards: Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film,
Books: 'Patty Diphusa and other writings,'
Parents: Antonio Almodovar, Francisca Caballero
Siblings: Agustín Almodóvar
'Tie me up, tie me down!' (1989)
'The Skin I Live In' (2011)
'All About My Mother' (1999)
'Volver' (2006)
'I'm So Excited' (2013)
What about the French…?
Truffant, Godard, Claude LeLuche, Luc Bresson, Alain Resnais, Clause Chabol, and Luis Malle's A MURMUR OF THE HEART, about incest (mother and son), Saw 'incest,' Dick, in the N.W. revival house. Ah, Portland, Oregon, many epiphanies!
Most recently from the French (Jean-Pierre Jeunet), AMELIA, a movie I fell in love with for its cleverness!
'Hollywood,' so direct and 'in your face,' nothing left to the imagination. 'Hollywood' audiences 'dumbed down' in the process (can't 'imagine,' when Albert said this the most important thing!)
Anyway, you got me started on the motion picture, which has had great influence on my life beginning with John Ford's-John Wayne's westerns (Fox Theater, Tucson, Arizona, circa, 1947).
I could write a book…
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Middle-class rules deaden too many arts venues. Let's fill them with life and noise | Mark Cousins | Comment is free | The Observer
American Pathology!
Friday, August 08, 2014
I have a request.
I have an idea for the San Paulo Games, Brazil, 2016. It's called HANDS AROUND SOUTH AMERICA, something that might be incorporated in the Opening Ceremonies -- maybe still enough time.
Would you know the name/email address to/for the person in charge? I would send them an email message explaining, or it could go through you. I assume this person understands English?
I'm living in Bolivia, at the moment.
A Dylan Insider's Back Pages - NYTimes.com
How the 2014 Edinburgh festival is exploring new levels of intimacy | Stage | theguardian.com
Beyond Torture: The CIA's Shameful Kidnapping of a 12-Year-Old Girl - The Atlantic
American Pathology!
Public trust in government keeps falling | MSNBC
NYPD drags grandmother, naked, into apartment hallway, pepper-sprays toddler - Boing Boing BBS
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Capitalism distracts our attention away from what's important! And, of course, for money!
We've become 'slaves' to little screens!
Now, even more estranged from Nature!
Oh, woe be unto us!
P.S. I'm still debating in my own mind if humanity deserves to survive…?
I'm sure you remember all those automobile trips when we were children. I just 'flashed' on waking up from a nap, lulled to sleep by the whoosh of air, the movement, sailing over ribbons of asphalt -- that feeling of being safe, yet the adventure of the road.
Since, I've always been able to doze off in both, especially trains. Note, I took many train trips in China, as their system good and extensive. I think there's a 'bullet' train now between Beijing and Shanghai.
This summer cycling around Europa, then the Trans-Siberian RR across Russia -- Russia moving through time and space.
And again, the invitation to join Rotraut Boyens in an automobile (she doesn't cycle at 77 years of age).
I know… You're mired with an ailing husband. Bring him along too… What a way to 'shed the body,' while still living…
I can almost guarantee you, I won't die in a hospital, the memories of mother still strong!
F. to you
A. to Rucha,
H. to Isgard (Rotraut's only and grown daughter).
Thursday, August 07, 2014
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Nationalism, borders and flags, is the problem, and everywhere in the world!
It's so evident in South America, where countries have a history of war and distrust (Note: Colombia had something like 49 civil wars during the 19th C.)! This loss of trust creates corruption, mismanagement, and lawlessness! Brazil versus Argentina, Uruguay in the middle. Chile and Bolivia war over the Oceano Pacifico.
Nationalism is how 'the owners' attempt to control its citizens. Stupidly, unevolved, we are duped into dying for them!
It's us that are stupid! But what's the solution?
Education, growth, evolution, ultimately consciousness in the long run, if possible…
In the short term, the illusion of freedom, reality grinding us, 'the grist for their mills' (Capitalism)!
Actually, borders and flags, are manipulated by the ultimate power now, corporations ('the new owners'). The corpos. our 'masters' the people robotic consumers (the 'slaves' whose 'chains' are those little screens).
'Pogo,' a comic strip possum, created by John Kelly, wrote/said, WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US! How prophetic, because in one sentence (9 English words) Kelly 'hit the nail right on the head!' We're the problem, all of us!
'Ke Garne?'
'Que Hacer?'
What to do?
First, we have to admit such, rather than always projecting evil onto the other person, country, culture, etc. We have to stop blaming others.
Secondly, we have to accept responsibility for what humanity has wrought (a deteriorating situation in the world in 2014).
Thirdly, we must ultimately LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF, or go extinct!
Is this possible? Only time will tell, as it slips from the hourglass like so much sand!
HANDS AROUND SOUTH AMERICA (HASA) is one attempt! To show the world, via the Summer Olympic Games in Brasil (2016), that we have the will to overcome our old ways and preserve a better future for our children!
Note: During the 'Opening Ceremonies' of the Olympic Games, live on TV, hundreds of South Americans will join hands across every country border! This to demonstrate we're all together in South America. 'United we stand! Divided we fall!'*
Let us fulfill, some 200 years later, Simon Bolivar's dream of Unification!
Join us!
F.A. Hutchison,
Cochabamba, Bolivia
'Hache' in Latin America
* "The phrase has been attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller Aesop, both directly in his fable The Four Oxen and the Lion[1] and indirectly in The Bundle of Sticks."
Also, Dick about Sidney…
Sidney Kubrick is the not the director of my three, 'all time best,' motion pictures:
1. THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER, Werner Herzog (who I believe is the greatest filmmaker, ever, even surpassing Kurosawa, etc.)
2. SEVEN BEAUTIES, Lina Wertmueller
3. O LUCKY MAN, Lindsay Anderson (this to me, a work of art)
In the U.S. let us not forget Terry Malick, from Texas no less. His BADLANDS, was the best first mopic., in history.
The Cohen Brothers, some...
John Sayles, a New Jersey guy I once met? Truly an Indie filmmaker, having never moved to 'Hollywood.'
Spielberg, Lucas, all commercial 'Hollywood ka-ka'… 'Hacks' really.
P.S. 'Dr. Stangelove' #4 on my 'all-time' best movie list.
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Most people 'live' not quality, but quantity lives, counting everything (that isn't important)! This is what Capitalism does to us: living quantities, not qualities!
Look at the world in 2014! Happy with all this cheating, lying, robbing, lying, ebola-type diseases, violence, war, suffering? We're not, and we're trying to rebalance and out-of-balance ('Koyaanisqatsi') world!
Join us!
Wednesday, August 06, 2014
For you sailing aFISHcianadoes…
For you sailing aFISHcianadoes…
from Marquez's THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH (about Simon Bolivar)
pp. 244;
I loved this description of a sailing vessel:
"The channels through Cienaga Grande, the great swamp, were slow and hot, giving off fatal vapors. But, they survived, making it to the sea. There they took advantage of the first trade winds from the north.
A cabin was ready for Bolivar on the well-maintained, square-sailed brigantine, which was clean and comfortable, had a lighthearted way in water!
The high-spirited brigantine, almost flying over the water with silent sails, was quick and stable!"
Note: 'brigantines,' the favorite of pirates, thus the name.
Marking Hiroshima bombing anniversary
Get these people out of the 'gene pool!'
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
American Pathology!
Setting rivers free: As dams are torn down, nature is quickly recovering - CSMonitor.com
American Pathology!
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This, finally, looks like winter (invierno) in Cochabamba, Bolivia (in Augusto). Gray, the trees bereft of leaves, the flat, scented, morning light at:
17 degrees south latitude,
2800 mts.
9000ft. ASL.
Usually the sun turns winter into summer (verano) here in Cochabamba!
So strange this phenomenon… 'winter' here June, July and August, yet like 'summer,' making us 'northerners feel at home!
Ke hacer!
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Most people 'live' not quality, but quantity lives, counting everything (that isn't important)! This is what Capitalism does to us: living quantities, not qualities!
Look at the world in 2014! Happy with all this cheating, lying, robbing, lying, ebola-type diseases, violence, war, suffering? We're not, and we're trying to rebalance and out-of-balance ('Koyaanisqatsi') world!
Join us!
On what the last sequence in '2001,' symbolizes…
On what the last sequence in '2001,' symbolizes…
Dick, my 'take' on such (On what the last sequence in '2001,' symbolizes…) is simple: It symbolizes SINGULARITY, having traveled through time to another plane/dimension.
What do yo suppose the Universe 'thinks' about itself? Do you suppose it knows it came about with something called 'the BIG BANG?' That it's expanding at an ever-increasing rate? We wonder if it's worried about this?
Our sun, a star… Do you suppose it knows about 'sun spots,' or that 'fact' it's a 'fusion factory,' but that it will 'die out,' in another 4.5 billion years? No doubt it laments about its 'short' life!
A tree in the forest… Does it call itself a 'tree?' Does it know about the 'forest?' Does it know its age, from its rings? When this tree finally dies, falls over onto mother earth, do the other trees mourn? Was there a 'sound,' when it hit the ground?
Great questions are of more value than great answers!
Of course, we're making a point with all this, these questions.
It is we human beings that have created this, what we call a 'Universe!' and with just English 'wor(l)ds!' By naming things, we create them! Read Owen Barfield's SAVING THE APPEARANCES!
A bird doesn't know it exists in any language. It just lives (still in 'The Garden of Eden')!
Birds, animals (dolphins, whales, wolves, etc.), they all have their ways of communicating with each other. Do 'they' exist without us as observers? We think not! There is no objective reality, no universal truths (in our 'wor(l)d')!
And if there isn't we're (the human race) in a 'heap of trouble,' as we're thinking the wrong things, creating death and destruction. If fact, we're self-destructing! We're thinking ourselves right out of existence! But, maybe this is good as part of THE PLAN? No doubt the animals will rejoice (they don't need us)! Remember, NATURE 'BATS' LAST!
If the Human Race is responsible for its own demise, maybe this is part of THE CREATOR'S PLAN? Wow, what a thought! It would mean that all this human fomented violence and destruction going on currently in the world (2014), serves a great purpose: reducing over population, and ultimately returning nature to Nature! Maybe the next 'generation' of humanoids, will have more consciousness, and foment creation, rather than destruction. In Duality, you can't have 'won' without the other! Ask, Lord Shiva!
Our solution at 'Tantric Taoism,' is to get beyond Duality and transit to Singularity, while we still have a body (ego consciousness)! We believe this is the challenge for Humanity!
Join us!
Read Marquez's description of Simon Bolivar
Read Marquez's description of Simon Bolivar in his book, THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH:
pp. 76:
"She would always remember him (Bolivar) as a bony, pale man who seemed much older than his thirty-two years, who had coarse sideburns and a mustache of a mulatto; hair that hung down to his shoulders. Like all young men of the native aristocracy, he was dressed in English style: a white cravat, a jacket too heavy for the climate, and a romantic's gardenia in his lapel. Dressed in this fashion on a libertine night in 1810 (something like 204 years ago if my math is correct?) he was mistaken by a whore in a London brother for a Greek pederast!"
Monday, August 04, 2014
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from THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH by Marquez
pp. 58:
"There is great power in the irresistible force of love!"
Note, but the chosen word, 'love' is really 'desire' and ultimately Nature's Joke on us all! Designed, of course, to proliferate the species. But, 'She's' been too successful! Now, the challenge is too many of us!
Why do you think we're so 'hell bent' on Mars?
An interesting description of Simon Bolivar
from THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Boliva wore the helmet of a Russian Dragoon, a mule driver's espadrilles, a blue tunic with red-gold buttons, and he carried the black banner of a privateer, hoisted on a plain man's lance. At the top the picture of the skull and crossed bones in blood. It read LIBERTY OR DEATH!"
These kinds of people, the ones that try to change the world are generally eccentrics.
02 August 2014 Stephanie,
02 August 2014
What is your idea about living in the U.S.? You're the 'lowai' there, foreigners (Note, as I was the 'lowai' in China).
All the stuff you get from me is of a native citizen, one whose family (Leftwich) goes back to settling the State of Virginia in the 17th Century. So, we probably look at the situation differently, not only for that reason, but for the difference in our ages. You somewhere around 30, and me approaching 75!
The idea of the United States of America, was a good one, with a Constitution by and for the people (everybody, not just the 01%)!
I knew freedom and trust when growing up!
It all began to change with Ronald Reagan in 1980. (Note: Read THE REAGAN PARADIGM, By David J. Carter and F.A. Hutchison, Polebridge Press, circa. 1986). It's been 'downhill' ever since, and then catapulting after 9/11.
We've managed somehow, because of our lust of money, managed mind you, to enslave ourselves! This, truly amazing to me! How? Why? You probably don't even know about such (coming from China).
It seems Capitalism brings out the worst in us, not the best! How, why did this happen?
We're undeveloped as a species! We seem to enjoy inflicting pain on each other, neglecting, killing children! I'm beginning to think we don't deserve to survive as a species, if we don't change!
Right now we're destroying ourselves, polluting ourselves out of existence! Why do you think we're 'hell bent' on the planet Mars?
We're cutting down the trees in the Amazon River Basin for toilet paper… The trees contributing much to the oxygen we breathe… STOP USING TOILET PAPER!
There are teenage girls in Bolivia that don't know the English alphabet! How can you make them understand (in Spanish) to MAKE LOVE NOT BABIES! Note: I saw this on a t-shirt in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Is there time enough for the majority of us to evolve before we 'off' ourselves? Quien sabe?
I'm personally not sanguine about humanity, as 'I' know human history! I also know that Nature 'bats last!'
Finally, the great philosophical question, I've asked many times before… WHEN THE LAST HOMO SAPIEN EXPIRES, WILL WE HAVE BEEN HERE AT ALL?
P.S. WE BETTER CHANGE OUR WAYS AND FAST, OR THAT 'SLIPPERY SLOPE' into oblivi…
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'fore' the 'Virtual Blue Bucket Society' -- group of intellectuales…
A 'test' question… And this might be easier to answer if you're over 50 years of age and into the movies… But, if haven't seen Kubrick's '2001,' rent and do watch, as a classic; one of the greats along with his 'Dr. Strangelove.' The question having to do with '2001:' What does the last sequence, after time traveling (animation), symbolize?
as in Ernesto!
P.S. I'll bet only Dick and Marty have a clue…?


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Albert Einstein, conservative party, definitions, DUP, Good Friday Agreement, human practices, James Brokenshire, Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Luidwig Wittgenstein, Michael Oakeshott, Northern Ireland Select Committee, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Peter Hain, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, The Concept of Law, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Theresa May, Victims, Victims and Surviovors Order 2006
Was political failure to compensate deserving victims of the troubles inevitable given the incoherent thinking in the 2006 Victims and Survivors Order?
There is a clear consensus abroad in Northern Ireland that the 2006 Victims and Survivors Order No. 2953 (N.I.17) permits the terrorist who takes the life of an innocent member of the public to be deemed as much a "victim" as the unwitting individual he or she kills. The conflation of the innocent and those who terrorised them is achieved through the definition of the term "victim" in section three of the Order. The Order's approach to the meaning of "victim" is such that it can apply equally to the innocent citizen who finds herself in the vicinity of a bomb, and to the terrorist who planted it.
This brief essay argues that the meaning of the term "victim" cannot consist in a definition. Moreover, the Order's definition is entirely at odds with the meaning of "victim." The case is made that the project to include those who murdered innocent men, women and children in the category "victim," stands reasoning its head. In order for terrorists to be construed as victims, the Order must effect a reappraisal of the very meaning of the word "victim."
Since the Order's definition of "victim" is entirely at odds with the meaning of that term (see below), can it be any wonder that the basic issue of addressing the needs of victims remains unresolved years after the Good Friday Agreement?
The central argument of this essay draws on the ideas of one of the greatest 20th century philosophers, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein demonstrates that the meaning of a word cannot consist in any verbal or written formulation. Rather, to investigate the meaning of any word, one must look at how it is used in everyday practice. For Wittgenstein, "the meaning of a word is its use in language." The difficulty with section three of the 2006 Order is that it gives the appearance of establishing (through definition) the meaning of "victim" in the Northern Ireland context. But the meaning of the word "victim" cannot be established via re-definition because meaning resides in human practices and not in definitions.
To illustrate Wittgenstein's reasoning, consider the meaning of the concept "force" in physics. Force is defined as the time derivative of momentum. But the community of scientists do not treat someone who merely has access to the definition of force, as having grasped its meaning. Rather, only those who can use the concept of force to solve a wide range of problems, of increasing complexity, over an extended period of time, are deemed to have grasped the concept. Michael Oakeshott argues, with Wittgenstein, that the practice is the essential thing, the definition being little more than an "abridgement" of that all-important practice. Meaning can never consist in a definition. Meanings reside in practices and the physics undergraduate, for example, gets access to meaning through being enculturated into the practice of physics. (This move from definition to use is vital to the analysis presented here, for people rarely use the term "victim" in respect of terrorists.)
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn writes: "If, for example, the student of Newtonian dynamics ever discovers the meaning of terms like 'force,' 'mass,' 'space,' and 'time,' he does so less from the incomplete though sometimes helpful definitions in his text than by observing and participating in the application of these concepts to problem-solution. … That process of learning … by doing continues throughout the process of professional initiation. As the student proceeds from his freshman course to and through his doctoral dissertation, the problems assigned to him become more complex and less completely precedented." We would never countenance reducing Einstein's grasp of general relativity to his ability to complete the sentence: "General Relativity is __________________ ."
This all-important relation between meaning and use goes beyond physics; it is completely generalizable. For example, the definition of the tort of battery in Black's Law Dictionary (9th edition) is: "an intentional and offensive touching of another without lawful justification." The novice law student will quickly realise that legal reasoning does not involve the straightforward application of such textbook definitions or rules to particular cases. Once again, to learn the meaning of the tort of battery one must learn to use "battery" as it is used by experienced legal experts; the practice of law is the repository of meaning.
The great American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes argued that the life of the law is not to be found in definitions; only "experience" gives access to legal meaning. Definitions get their life through the role they play in the practice of the law; divorced from the practice, a definition can determine no course of action. Through experience the novice learns to use the legal term "battery" as more experienced colleagues do. Only through experience can a student learn that legal rules have an intrinsic vagueness or "open texture" (Hart's The Concept of Law). The meaning of a legal term does not consist in a precisely formulated definition; rather, meaning depends on the way terms are used over time.
In his Introduction to Legal Reasoning, Edward H. Levi writes: "It is important that the mechanism of legal reasoning should not be concealed by its pretence. The pretence is that the law is a system of known rules applied by a judge; the pretence has long been under attack. In an important sense, legal rules are never clear, and, if a rule had to be clear before it could be imposed, society would be impossible." If meaning resided in definitions and rules rather than in the practice of the law (where the emphasis is on use), the pivotal relationship between precedent and all legal deliberation would dissolve away.
In summary then, the central issue in this essay is Wittgenstein's teaching that "the meaning of a word is its use in the language." The definition published in section three of the Victims and Survivors Order, which seeks to blur the distinction between terrorist and innocent victim, is at odds with the meaning of "victim" because that word is only used in everyday conversation to refer to the innocent. The Order gives the impression that it is forced to define victim in such all-embracing language in order to take account of Northern Ireland's troubled past. However, Wittgenstein writes as follows on page 183 of his Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics:
"To know [the meaning of a word] is to use it in the same way as other people do. 'In the right way' means nothing."
Because the Order does not use the term "victim" as other people do, the definition of victim in the Order, in effect, contradicts its meaning.

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Ageing is an inevitable part of life. For some it is easy to accept, for some it is a little hard to wrap their heads around the fact that they don't have the same agility, skin and metabolism any more. Not to mention, the range of age-related conditions that also come with full force. There is nothing that you can do about ageing, but with a healthy lifestyle and diet you may delay signs of it. Pollution dietary habits are making one age faster than usual. Lifestyle habits like smoking and excessive alcohol is often linked to premature ageing too. Here are some common signs of ageing.
1. Sagging skin, lines and wrinkles: As you age, the tautness of the skin reduces.Skin is one of the most apparent marker of ageing. Lines and wrinkles are also said to appear soon if you smoke a lot.
2. Memory: Alzheimer's and dementia are two of the most common conditions faced by senior citizens. Alzheimer's is a progressive mental deterioration that can occur in middle or old age, due to generalized degeneration of the brain. As you grow old your memory retention weakens and it also takes longer than usual to grapple some of the basic instructions.
3. Joint Pain: As you age the bone strength and density begins to give way too. Conditions like arthritis and osteoporosis are also a common form of ailment in the old age. Arthritis is inflammation of one or more joints, causing pain and stiffness that can worsen with age.
While nothing can substitute the place of proper medical care and medication, there is a lot that you can do on domestic front too, to manage ageing better. Turmeric's a spice that can help you with most of ageing woes.
How Can Turmeric Help
1. Relief from Arthritic Pain: Turmeric's anti-inflammatory properties have been instrumental in treating osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. The antioxidant also destroys the free radicals in the body that damage the cells. A glass of Haldi doodh daily could help manage mild joint pains and inflammation.
2. Immunity Booster: One of the biggest challenges of ageing is the weakened immunity system. Lipopolysaccharide - a substance in turmeric with anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal agents helps stimulate the human immune system. Take a teaspoon of Haldi in a glass of warm milk daily. A glass of Haldi doodh could reduces your chances of catching a cold or flu, due to its high anti-inflmmatory properties.
3. Skin benefits: It also helps with fighting skin infections, disorders and allergies. Having milk at night is anyway beneficial for health and it induces good sleep. When teamed with turmeric, it also acts as an anti-ageing tonic. The antioxidants found in turmeric help protect your skin against free-radical damage and reduce signs of aging. .
4. Boosts Memory: Curcumin In Turmeric May Boost Memory and Uplift Mood too, claimed a recent study. The study, published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, examined 40 adults between the ages of 50 and 90 years who had mild memory complaints.For the study, they were randomly assigned to receive either a placebo or 90 milligrammes of curcumin twice daily for 18 months. People taking curcumin improved by 28 per cent over the 18 months in their memory tests. There were mild improvements in mood for people taking curcumin. According to the researchers, taking this relatively safe form of curcumin could provide meaningful cognitive benefits over the years.
One of the bets way to include Haldi in your diet is through Haldi doodh. According to Ayurveda expert Ashutosh Gautam, "It is because curcumin has the ability to get absorbed in the fat and tissues of our body and that is how it benefits the body. Milk becomes a smooth medium through which curcumin travels better and speedier to those fats and tissues facilitating its better absorption".


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Pediatric Neurologists
- Recruiter
- IWK Health Centre
- Location
- Nova Scotia (CA)
- Posted
- 03 Dec 2018
- Closes
- 28 Feb 2019
- Sector
- Neurology, Paediatrics, International
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Pediatric Neurologists
(Two Positions, 1.0 FTE each)
Dalhousie University & IWK Health Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Division of Neurology, in the Department of Pediatrics at Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre, invite applications for two full-time academic Pediatric Neurologists at the Assistant, Associate or Full Professor level. These individuals will join a team of 4 neurologists. The academic physicians will primarily provide clinical service across the full spectrum of pediatric neurology.
The successful candidates will also be expected to participate in research and/or teaching activities in an academic environment; a developed interest in either would be considered an asset. The successful candidates will be expected to participate in the on-call coverage for general pediatric neurology.
The applicants must have an MD or equivalent, and be board certified in Pediatric Neurology (Canadian FRCPC or eligibility), and be eligible for licensure in the Province of Nova Scotia. For one position, expertise in pediatric neuromuscular diseases with certification (or willingness to acquire certification) in EMG and NCS is a requirement.
Interested candidates should submit a current CV as well as send a statement outlining their academic and research interests. A complete application also includes a completed Self-Identification Questionnaire, which is available at www.dal.ca/becounted/selfid. Candidates should also arrange to have three letters of reference sent under separate cover to the Chair of the Search Committee. At least two of these references must come from academic referees.
Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre are located in Halifax, a cosmopolitan port city and the capital of Nova Scotia. Halifax is alive with culture and heritage and embraced by the Atlantic Ocean.
Applications for both positions will be accepted until February 28, 2019
To apply, please submit your application to:
Dr. Ellen Wood, Chair of Search Committee
IWK Health Centre, 5850 University Ave., PO Box 9700
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3K 6R8, Canada
Phone: (902)470-8476
Email: by clicking the apply button.
Dalhousie University is committed to fostering a collegial culture grounded in diversity and inclusiveness. The university encourages applications from Aboriginal people, persons with a disability, racially visible persons, women, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and all candidates who would contribute to the diversity of our community.


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The two adorable outfits I made for the sewing pattern (SSP-043) are now up for grabs in my Etsy shop. I've put links below, just above the photos.
Both outfits are very similar, so I recommend having a good look at each one before buying, just to make sure which one you want. Both outfits are tailored to fit the 43cm Mei Mei body perfectly.
Outfit 1 is this one, Mostly pink with some spots. £52.00:
Outfit 2 is this one, Mostly spots with some pink. £52.00:
My first ever two Kaye Wiggs outfits! They're both so cute on my Gracie, and I'm already working on the next couple of outfits and patterns.
That's it for today. I hope everyone has a Happy New Year. :)


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We have the Professional version of TeamCity at work which allows 3 build agents / machines and 20 users. It's big enough for our efforts. We just put an old build machine to bed and a new one is coming online. However I could not find how to remove agent from the TeamCity interface. First I uninstalled the agent on the old build machine, but the profile was still on the server. I ended up going into the Oracle TeamCity database and deleting the profile from the AGENTS table. After that I was able to add the new build agent in the TeamCity server console.


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About Me: (Long Version)
My name is Skyler Irvine, and I am a serial entrepreneur, investor, and active CEO of RenzlerMedia, the premiere social media agency and content production studio in Phoenix, Arizona. We help clients create awesome social media content, produce and distribute podcasts, and build memorable brands online.
I have been building businesses since I was 24 years old and was fired from my only corporate job. As a business owner, I have always been obsessed with efficiency and maximizing the value of every dollar I spend. To me, content marketing for your personal brand or business is a no-brainer. I do not believe in this strategy because I own a social media agency; I started my social media agency because of how much I believe this.
My first business was buying foreclosed homes and turning them into occupied rentals for my own portfolio. Shortly after, banks stopped lending to me, so I pivoted to private hard money lending with shorter investment periods. As the market recovered, I shifted from my real estate investing business into retail real estate by helping others buy and sell homes.
I realized that there was a value in marketing with Facebook. So I used the free tools without changing my marketing budgets. In 2015, I published my first book on this very topic: How To Leverage Your Real Estate Business With Facebook.
In 2016, I left the real estate business and spent one full year making videos on Youtube. I wanted to everything I could about video production and how to maximize video content for social media marketing. In 2017 I launched my podcast simply because I could not get anyone else to start one. I knew there was value in podcasting, but unfortunately, there was no data to back this up. I was unsuccessfully pitching to prospective clients that they should create a podcast for their business. So I decided to create my own podcast and learn everything there is to know about them.
I am now the host of Arizona's #1 business and marketing podcast, The SKYLER IRVINE Show, where I interview the top executives, athletes, influencers, entrepreneurs, and more. I also host #AskSkylerLive, where I answer three audience submitted questions on a wide range of subjects live on Facebook.
In 2017, I launched RenzlerMedia with the mission to do for other businesses what I have been doing for mine over the years: dominate in the areas that competitors were overlooking, rather than try and outspend them in the areas they have already dominated.
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My name is Skyler Irvine, founder and CEO of RenzlerMedia, a modern digital media agency specializing in video production, podcasts, and social media content. I have been building businesses since I was 24, starting with a real estate investing business, and I found myself to always be obsessed with efficiency and maximizing the value of every dollar I spend. I realized the value utilizing Facebook for marketing and wrote my first book in 2015 titled: How To Leverage Your Real Estate Business With Facebook.
In January of 2017, I launched RenzlerMedia and shortly after started my podcast channel. I am now the host of Arizona's #1 business and marketing podcast, The SKYLER IRVINE show, where I interview the top executives, athletes, influences, entrepreneurs and more. I also host #AskSkylerLive, where I answer audience submitted questions on a wide range of subjects live on Facebook.
About The SKYLER IRVINE Show:
On The SKYLER IRVINE Show, Skyler interviews the top entrepreneurs, business owners, executives, athletes, creatives, and more about various different topics related to growing a business and building a brand. Each episode features success stories, as well as tips and tricks to further one's professional career no matter what it may be! Skyler aims to teach his audience something new in each episode.
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Remember how Hillary Clinton said that she'd only support repealing Section 3 of the DOMA at the HRC/Logo Presidential Forum last week and we got into a big discussion of whether Section 2 was necessary or not to satisfy those who want the Federal Marriage Amendment? Well, gay former Clinton adviser David Mixner is calling her out on her convenient retelling of history to support the idea that DOMA was needed to prevent FMA:
I understand any candidate's desire to spin the past to cover up mistakes, but our community cannot create a better future by forgetting its past.
First, Clinton's claim that DOMA was passed so it could help defeat the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) eight years later is absolutely false. As we all know, the FMA wasn't really a threat until 2002, and the two pieces of legislation had distinctly separate origins. While having DOMA on the books might have been a factor in the FMA's defeat, it was passed for political reasons in an election year. In fact, after proclaiming to the community how painful it was for him to sign it, President Clinton's reelection campaign had ads up in the South touting the legislation within two weeks!


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The Importance of Choosing the Niche Market before Getting Started as an Affiliate
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A world away from the heavy brain buckets of old, the K2 Diversion Audio Helmet uses hybrid construction to provide lightweight protection so you can focus on your line. This top-of-the-line helmet meets industry standards and certifications to help protect your noggin during a sudden crash or cartwheel session. Equipped with dual active matrix venting technology, the Diversion lets you regulate airflow with the touch of your finger while the goggle vents remain open to keep fogging at bay.
Its 360 K2dialed fit system features an ergonomically inspired three-point adjustable interface to maximize fit and customization with the twist of a dial for superb on-the-fly convenience. And you're going to dig its removable, washable full-wrap liner system that wicks moisture away and supplies breathable comfort when you flip and spin in the pipe. Don't worry about a gap between your goggles and helmet, since the Diversion's universal brim design works seamlessly with K2 goggles and most industry goggles.
The baseline audio level 3 sound system brings your tunes to your ears and connectivity to your phone when you shred or chill on the lift. Its integrated headphones and on-cord mini-mic connect to your cell phone or your MP3 player for easy connection when you tackle gnarly terrain or spin yourself dizzy in the park.
- K2's full-featured helmet for skiers and riders
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July 30, 2019
very happy with helmet
This is my second Diversion helmet. After 5 years of trashing my original (and a couple spills) it was time for a new helmet. The updated styling looks sharp and this model feels lighter than the original. old schooler her that still uses a wired music device, so the audio jack is nice. like all audio helmets-not as l loud as i like, so i have a cheap "bass booster" that does the trick. my only minor complaint is the volume wheel on the cord. not very glove friendly, but easy enough to adjust when on the lift. venting is very good as well.
Rose O.
November 24, 2018
Awesome helmet
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I've always wore k2 helmets and they have never let me down. Nice snug fit, comfortable, venting is awesome and audio is decent. Seems like they have improved the boa tightening system over the years 👍👍
Justin H.
January 26, 2018
Great fit. Very light. Great ventilation
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Great fitting helmet with the dial adjustment. Much better than other helmets I've used. Extremely light. Extremely well ventilated. Much better than my previous helmet(Anon). The great fit keeps my goggles in place. I wear my snapback hat on the last two or three snaps and the Large size K2 fits me perfectly.
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April 8, 2017
Decidedly Average - Fit/form review only
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I haven't actually used this helmet, so take my review with a grain of salt. I bought a size medium for my 57 cm head, and it does not fit. Apparently my head is more oval than round, and this is certainly a rounder helmet as it had side-to-side room, but fore-to-aft it squished and gave me a headache in a matter of minutes. It appears well made, though not of the highest quality (outer plastic seems cheaper than the high-end helmets from other mfgs, though I wouldn't call it "cheap" outright. My biggest issue with this helmet is the vents - they are adjustable, but they open up very little, and I am hard-pressed to believe that the added ventilation will be very functional (though I did not test). I am shopping for a well-ventilated helmet, and with the round shape and low-throughput vents, this just isn't right for someone who overheats as much as I do. It otherwise appears nice. I would say it's a middle-of-the-road helmet - average in about every way. I do like the color.


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Street magic, street performers and buskers are now a commonplace sight in the centre of many European cities.
Most often it's the scenario of a musician playing drums/ keyboard / guitar / violin / or whatever instrument, with a hat or the musical instrument's case out the front for the passing public to throw some coins into as a mark of their appreciation.
The quality of the music produced usually ranges from one end of the musical scale to the other, with some musicians able to stop you in your tracks and bewitch you with their talent, they amaze you with music or voice that is better deserving of a world stage rather than any ordinary street corner, but on the other extreme I've also seen some small children slowly scratch out musical scales or a simple piece and it sounded like a slow motion musical murder.
Small children I applaud and donate, no matter how bad because I deeply admire their courage to stand up and preform in public, especially when adults walk past ignoring them, that takes a special kind of fortitude.
I have however seen a disappointing trend where some adults, in a particularly wretched state of dress and disposition stand and hum, or make a few incoherent notes that in no way resembles "music" and then shake a hat under your nose and expect payment.
These "buskers" always look particularly dishevelled and desperate and I'm under no illusions that any cash gained ends up fuelling an addiction of one sort or another.
There has also been a rise in performers who coat themselves in gold or silver (grey?) face paint, don a matching gold or silver (grey?) outfit and pretend to be statues by standing as still as possible.
Sudden moves on occasion scares one member of the public and entertains others and thus the coins roll into the hat. And then there are the "illusionists"… they never, never ever let the public see them set up their gig, there is always a large screen of cloth handy to hide the "tools of the trade" and once the drapery is removed the "illusion" is revealed.
This one involves one man seated on the ground upon a "magic carpet" which usually has a metal "base" hidden below it. The man seated on the ground is the "counterweight" for the gent sitting above him.
There is a hidden metal pole that runs along the seated man's arm, then the gent at the top sits on a hidden seat, hidden of course under his conveniently baggy clothes.
Our kids, unaware of course of the simple trickery, are suitably impressed and looking at their innocent faces you can almost see their brains ticking over trying to work out how on earth what they are seeing is possible.
Since taking a photograph more or less necessitates making a donation, I give a kids a coin each to put into the small bucket close by.
Long afterwards when sorting the photographs the thought struck me that without an additional accomplice at hand, in theory anyone could steal the bucket and run off with it because the seated gentleman can't get up quickly to give chase without toppling the friend above , and the gent above can't get out of his contraption of hidden metal and long robes very quickly to spring off and give chase.
Luckily Family Kiwidutch are honest souls and would never contemplate stealing from anyone.
I have no idea roughly how much these street illusionists might earn, I suppose it depends on the season, which street corner they are on, the time of day, the weather and many other variables.
They give the illusion of being real magic and for some folks like my children, that's the most magical thing of all.


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Click n Go - Trade Plate display tools
LATEST NEWS.....DVLA have revised trade plate display advice - applicable from January 2017. ...see our download page for details.
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TPH-2 Trade Pro fit to a standard number plate
520 x 111mm
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TPH-2 Trade Pro fit to a non standard number plate exceeding 113mm high
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TPH-2 Trade Pro - Trade Plate Holder Kit
Kit includes 2 x Trade Plate Holders + 2 x adaptor plates
Our 'abuse tolerant' TPH-2 attaches Trade Plates to number plates ranging in height between 111mm to 215mm.
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£55 + vat car set including Royal Mail 1st class signed delivery
TPH-1 Trade Pro - Trade Plate Fixture Tool
Our original design featuring laser cut aluminium frames, with stainless fittings with 'anti scratch' rubber detailing.
Affixes Trade Plates to number plates in the 110-205mm height range and number plates to number plates.
Affixes to flat, curve, screw or taped adhered number plates
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This replacement part enables fitting TPH-2 to those number plate exceeding 111mm high including those featuring lower edge 'branding strips' which are generally120-125mm high.
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Designer & Director BTR Preparations Ltd
A motorsport engineer with near four decades of experience during which Tim developed 'works' race and rally cars for Opel, Hyundai and Lada.
The BTR Preparations team operated successful Dealer Teams for Opel Teams Sweden, Belgium and Turkey winning FIA World and European Championship winner titles. In recent years BTR was well known for developing Mitsubishi Evoloution rally car and the redevelopment of Lancia Stratos and Datsun 260z Classic Rally cars.
Tim is a consultant and member of the organising team for the East Africa Safari Classic Rally
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As a vehicle inspector I use TPH-2 holders every day finding them fast to fit and secure with a 'fit success rate' of over 98%. I'm very impressed
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I assisted developing both TPH Trade Pro designs and use my TPH-2's daily...how I wish they had existed 30 years ago.
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My background is motorsport engineering. I'm also a long time Trade Plate holder/user and 'in the Trade' since the early 1970's. The limitations of the various common types of Trade plate fixtures have long been a frustration. 'Dunlop' holders suited most requirements in the 1970's but vehicle styling and body materials changes now limit their usefulness. The 'strap on to number plate' type fixtures are both untidy and slow to attach and in most instances they won't attach to tape adhered' number plates. Magnetic holders rely on having a steel panel to attach to and they attract magnetic residues which creates a paint scratch risk. The 'vacuum sucker on number plate' type holders have an integrated safety strap and spare parts are sold to support their use....all of which rather advertises their particular design issue.
I focused my motorsport acquired product design and development skills on Trade Plate fixtures setting myself a design target to make a 'universal' Trade plate Holder to fit the vast majority of available number plate shapes and sizes, irrespective of how they affix to the vehicle. The process has yielded two designs. The first is the 'TPH-1 Trade Pro' holder, a laser cut aluminium sheet based holder which has been tested on a daily basis on a wide range of vehicles and the design refined in response to feedback.
TPH-1 Trade Pro Trade Plate Holder kit affixes Trade Plates to number plates between 110 and 205 mm high and kits are available via our web shop at btrprep.com and EBay. The TPH-1 kit has one advantage over TPH-2 in that it can affix standard or 140mm high number plates onto vehicle number plates. This feature could be particularly useful for the caravan, camping trailer and commercial trailer rental markets. While TPH-1 Trade Pro satisfies a majority of user requirements, production costs are such that it isn't commercially viable for volume production.
The TPH-2 Trade Pro Trade Plate Holder has been developed using the TPH-1 project identified user requirements and priorities with a view to volume production. TPH-2 is a 100% injection moulded product using 'virgin' nylon and polypropylene for durability as from experience I know Trade Plate Holders don't have an easy life. Trade Plate Holders must be abuse tolerant. The time and cost investment to set up TPH-2 production has been substantial, with more than a year of design and development time and £15k invested in 1250kgs of production tooling.
TPH-2 Trade Pro Trade Plate Holders are fast, secure and easy to fit; customers will appreciate the professional Trade Plate presentation.
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W. Scott Howard, Jennifer Denrow, Jesse Morse
July 21, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Friday, July 21, we're excited to welcome three poets from Colorado home to Portland–well, at least two are coming home. Join us for readings, wine, and cheese.
W. Scott Howard teaches poetics and poetry in the Department of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. Scott worked at Powell's Books (1990-93) where he co-managed (with Vanessa Renwick) the Small Press & Journals section, the dewclaw reading series, the prism interdisciplinary discussion series, and also managed the Critical Theory section. He is the founding editor of Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture. His collections of poetry include the e-book, Ropes (with images by Ginger Knowlton) published by Delete Press in 2014; and Spinnaers (The Lune, 2016). Scott lives in Englewood, CO and commutes year-round by bicycle.
Jennifer Denrow wrote California (Four Way, 2011). She has a PhD from the University of Denver and teaches online a lot. She goes to the ocean.
Jesse Morse holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. He currently teaches teenagers Language Arts at DePaul Treatment Center in Portland, Oregon. Recent poems appeared in Page Boy and Colorado Review. A recent review appeared in Denver Quarterly. He plays guitar and sings in The Whirlies. His greatest accomplishment was marrying the poet Jennifer Denrow and creating a human named Wren, who just told him "Mom has a secret for you. It's a lion and a strawberry on your head."


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Shark Overfishing Could Lead to Future Arizona Seafood Shortages
PHOENIX - Arizonans face possible long-term shortages and higher prices for seafood because of shark overfishing, according to the non-profit Pew Environment Group. The director of global shark conservation for Pew, Matt Rand, says studies show that, when endangered predators at the top of the food chain disappear, it upsets the balance of nature.
"You know sharks, just like the Mexican gray wolf there in Arizona, play a very important role in the ecosystem. For instance, in one study there was a direct correlation between tiger sharks and tuna population. When tiger sharks were removed, the tuna populations declined."
Rand says that's because the sharks ward off other predators and cull the sick and weak fish.
He says shark fins are highly sought after for use in the Asian delicacy, shark fin soup. Among other things, he says the bill being considered by the U.S. Senate would increase enforcement of the law against a fishing practice known as "finning."
"Fishermen will catch a shark, cut its fins off and dump the body back overboard in this extremely wasteful practice."
Rand says when shark populations are severely reduced, it takes a long time for them to recover.
"Some of these shark species take 20 years to reach sexual maturity, and when they do, they only have a few pups. And if we continue to remove 70 million sharks from the world's oceans on an annual basis, we will lose shark populations around the world."
Shark attack survivors from seven states are meeting today in Washington to support increasing protection for endangered shark species.
The Shark Conservation Act of 2009 has already sailed through the U.S. House, where Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva was a co-sponsor.


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Apps have become viral in the young generation. For everything, they want an app. There are apps for diet plans, weight loss, miles walked, sleeping hours and much more.
Soon there will be apps for which apps to download or update.
If you have an idea for an application, that's where we come in to help you achieve it. There are many factors to consider before making an app for mobile and it is a complex work considering that mobile phones are varied in shape, size, have slow processors, use network internet and work with different software.
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After an app is developed, we are still not finished yet. We test the application within the development environment via emulator and then the app is exposed it to conditions where it will be exposed after the launch.
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Radical Intel Navy Black Bowling Ball
Radical Intel Bowling Ball
The Radical Intel bowling ball can make any bowler look smart. This ball combines a low differential symmetric core with the Ai 25 coverstock. This ball plays smart on tough patterns by being strong enough to open up the lanes but still smooth enough down lane so that it can be used on typical house shots as well as on the burn for tournament bowlers. This ball offers predictable ball motion and awesome usability from several angles on oily lane conditions.
Color: Navy/Black
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- Recommended Lane Condition: Medium to Oily
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A man has been arrested for the murder of his wife in Alabama.
After a weeks-long investigation, William 'Jeff' West, 44, was charged by authorities for the blunt-force slaying of his wife, Kat West, the mother of their preteen daughter, Fox News reports.
Police Chief Sean Lemley said he couldn't release some details about the murder of wife Kat, 42, on January 13th. Lemley added: "We know exactly what happened that night. And we do have evidence to support that."
Kat West reportedly led a double life as a 'skimpily clad online exhibitionist'.
According to social media she was a stay-at-home mom, but reports say she also had a subscription-only website where she went under the name Kitty Kat West.
Her Twitter and Instagram accounts also appeared under the same name, and featured numerous revealing photos of West. These accounts also directed people to a paid adult website of nude selfies.
Her husband Jeff was a former military man, who now worked as an unsworn police officer at Birmingham Southern College in the campus police department. He's been on leave since his wife's murder, and reports suggest he's in the process of being fired.
According to the Daily Mail, West says his wife died as a result of a 'boozy accident.'
Kat, was discovered dead lying face down across the street from her home by a neighbour leaving for work.
Reports suggest she was partially clothed, and her cellphone was placed beside her body, alongside an empty bottle of absinthe, which was balanced on top of it.
The couple were spotted on CCTV laughing at a liquor store eight hours before her body was discovered. Jeff West reportedly slapped his wife's backside on the way out.
Chief Lemley said the couple seemed happy in the video, adding: "unfortunately domestic [cases] turn bad very quickly. Anything can trigger them. You get into an argument, it can turn bad quickly."
Police haven't said what might have caused the fight between the Wests.
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Cattle Health
By Heather Smith Thomas
We are what we eat, as the old saying goes. The same is true for cattle.
For healthy animals, diet must contain adequate amounts of protein, energy, vitamins, and certain minerals, such as sodium, calcium, and phosphorus.
Sodium chloride — salt — should always be provided because cattle need more salt than what occurs naturally in forages. Bone growth and milk production depend on calcium and phosphorus.
These minerals are called macro-minerals because they are required in fairly large amounts. And because these minerals are usually present in high levels in many feeds, deficiency is generally not a problem.
Cattle need other minerals to stay healthy, but these are needed in only trace amounts, and so are called micro-minerals. These micro-minerals may be required only in small amounts, but they carry large responsibility; reproduction, skeletal development in young animals, optimum health, and strong immunity all depend on these important trace minerals.
Some soils and plants are short on certain trace minerals, leaving feeds deficient. In these situations, cattle may suffer various ailments. So, even if your cattle are grazing on lush fields or getting quality forage, it's important to provide them with these micro-minerals:
Selenium, along with vitamin E, is very important for producing an enzyme that protects muscle cells from damage, and is essential for muscle function. Selenium deficiency causes white muscle disease in young animals, retained placenta and infertility in cows, abortions, and premature or weak newborn calves.
Selenium deficiency can lead to increased susceptibility to disease and impaired heart function in young animals. White muscle disease can occur unless the dam was supplemented or the calf is given an injection of selenium at birth. Calves with white muscle disease may die suddenly because the heart muscle is impaired.
Selenium has a narrow margin of safety, however, because too much can be toxic, causing loss of tail hair and unhealthy feet or even loss of hooves.
Cattle are unhealthy if they don't have enough, and unhealthy if they have too much. In most geographic areas of the United States, soils are deficient in selenium, so supplementation is necessary.
Copper plays a role in blood health, bones, pigment production, hoof, horn, and hair formation, and growth. It also is crucial to a healthy, strong immune system.
Low copper levels can result in reduced weight gains, impaired immune system, broken bones, or lower reproduction rates. One of the most visible signs of copper deficiency is change in hair color. Black animals develop a red tint and red animals become bleached and light colored. The coat becomes dull and is slow to shed in the spring.
In young animals, copper deficiency can result in diarrhea, higher incidence of diseases, lameness, and poor response to vaccination. Bones may be weak and brittle. Heifers may be late reaching puberty and fertility may be impaired. Cows may be slow to cycle after calving.
Zinc is important in carbohydrate metabolism, hoof structure and soundness, and male fertility.
Zinc-deficient calves may have swollen feet, scaly skin with open lesions, wounds that take longer to heal, loss of hair, excessive salivation, reduced appetite, reduced feed efficiency and growth rates, and impaired immune systems.
Moderate deficiencies are subtle, such as decreased growth rate and impaired immunity and fertility. Calves born to zinc-deficient dams have lower levels of immunity even when fed adequate amounts of zinc.
Manganese is highly important for proper bone and cartilage formation — which directly affects bone growth in young animals. It is also crucial for optimum fertility in cows.
Deficiencies may result in impaired reproduction. Signs of deficiency in calves include low birth weight, skeletal deformities and contracted tendons in newborns, swollen joints, and stiffness.
Iodine influences metabolism and the birth process. Iodine-deficient cows may have weak, hairless, or stillborn calves. Many areas of the United States are iodine-deficient so this trace mineral is often added to protein supplements and salt.
Your cattle can get the right amount of micro-minerals by feeding them protein supplements or salt/mineral mixes provided free choice as blocks or granulated products.
Because free-choice consumption is varied, with some animals eating too much — which can be toxic — while others eat too little or none, some cattle owners make sure their cattle receive the necessary minerals through dosing by drench, bolus, or injection.
Getting the necessary minerals is particularly important during the cow's pregnancy, because copper, manganese, and zinc are stored in the liver of the developing calf fetus.
A deficiency cannot be "caught up" by supplementing the cow after she calves, since they are not passed through milk, except colostrum, and until the calf starts consuming a mineral supplement on his own, he will be deficient.
Make sure your cattle get the right macro- and micro-minerals, and you'll enjoy a healthy herd.


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must stay focused.
July 21, 2012 Leave a comment
I've lost a bit of focus/steam. This is something I cannot afford to do. If I'm being honest with myself, this is perhaps a bit of the reason why I struggled mightily in my undergraduate academics. When it comes to intellectual capacity and creativity, I don't doubt that I have what it takes to compete with the elite students of our generation. I may not be a math whiz or a rocket scientist… but I am logical, curious, organized, and hard-working. But am I focused?
I admit I struggle with focus. I'm sure we've all laid claims to being a victim of ADHD before. It's almost impossible to go even a few hours without a barrage of distractions, smartphone notifications, social network shouts or check-ins, text messages, event planning, etc. This is where time management comes into play. Business school will absolutely test my limits and I know I will not be able to survive or harness the MBA experience without wise time management and prioritization. And these aren't skills just relative to application cycles or business school; they are skills that are applicable to everyday life 'till the day we're pushing daisies.
My summer class has picked up a bit of steam. I effectively got very little done in terms of essay progression this week. However, that may be due to the fact that I was spending a good portion of my time on a career goals and aspirations exercise that should help solidify my direction and post-MBA goals.
However, I have attended 2 business school-related networking events in the past couple weeks. One was an informal opportunity to catch up with an old friend from college who had just graduated from NYU Stern, and to meet several of his classmates and fellow Stern alumni at a bar. The other was a Yale SOM Summer Social event that went surprisingly well. Both were quite informative although I received somewhat conflicting advice from both parties in that I should avoid the optional essay regarding my low UGPA, as they stressed that I shouldn't lay too much focus on my weaknesses. However, after consulting other experts and listening to my own intuition, I've concluded that recent MBA graduates (who may not have had to deal with a low UGPA hurdle of their own) are probably not experts in deciding such admission matters.
That's all for now… I have a number of impressions and take-aways from both events but I'll keep them to myself for now. Couple weeks closer towards the end goal!