Dhow Cruises are very famous in Dubai and they are one of things to do do without which your Dubai trip can't be said completed.
In Dubai, there are 2 places that offers Dhow cruise experience: Creek and Dubai Marina. Generally, tourists have dont much time and they prefer to choose one. Also, Cruise at Dubai maria is not very famous and it is also expensive as compared to cruise at creek. But it is far far better and I advised tourists to go for cruise at Dubai Marina. I was in Dubai for long time and have tried both. I am saying this out of my experience that you prefer Dubai Marina cruise and if you want to see Dubai creek also, use the common boat which is almost free ( 1 dheerham ) and used by the local people to commute but reserved your evening cruise in Marina only. Local boats are not available in Dubai Marina.
The one thing 1 can say that you can try groupon that generally offers very cheap tickets for various site seeings like Desert safari, Burj khalifa fast access ticket and cruises.
Also, while most of the cruises that run in Dubai Marina are kind of luxurious and very expensive, there are very few Dhow cruises also. And those cruises offer very good entertainment and food as compared to cruises in Creek.
Dubai Marina is the world's largest man-made wharf or dock. It is an entire community of world class expensive hotels and sky scrapers beautifully built architecturally different shapes which is treat to eyes along an artificial canal carved along a 3 km stretch of Persian Gulf shoreline.
As we boarded our cruise, initially we were welcomed by juice and dates and then this famous Dance show was organized before dinner. You will see this Tanoura everywhere in Dubai in desert safari packages, hotel dinner packages everywhere and Everytime you will see it, you will be amazed only and left wanting for more. You will really appreciate the dance. Sharing the recording done by my wife in her phone, not any professional video but decent enough to give you idea.
Hope you have enjoyed the Dance.
This tour was organized by ALpha tours, one of famous operator but instead of booking directly, you can check their deals at groupon also.
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EBRD helps strengthen power grid in Uzbekistan
AKIPRESS.COM - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is facilitating a more reliable and sustainable electricity transmission network in Uzbekistan by providing fresh funds to state power transmission company National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan (NEGU).
The sovereign loan of up to US$ 47.1 million will help NEGU, an existing Bank client, to finance the construction of a new transmission line between the settlements of Sarimay and Djankeldy in the Khoresm and Bukhara region. The new line will link two wind farms – currently under development, with a total installed capacity of up to 1GW – with the national grid.
This network expansion will facilitate the further integration of renewables into Uzbekistan's grid. It will also help balance the load of existing transmission lines and address the issue of energy supply bottlenecks in the north and south-western parts of the country.
The project will improve the capacity of the electricity system and help reduce grid losses. This is particularly important for Uzbekistan's growing industrial base and rising population, which require an ever more sustainable power supply.
EBRD First Vice President Jürgen Rigterink said: "Uzbekistan is not only the most populous state in Central Asia, but is also the fastest-growing economy in the region, which needs sustainable infrastructure solutions. Our Bank stands ready to support this growth by financing such projects."
As part of the project, supported by the Early Transition Countries Fund and the Shareholder Special Fund, the Bank will help NEGU with its capacity building.
To date, the EBRD has invested more than €3.6 billion in 113 projects in Uzbekistan.
EBRD projects Uzbekistan's economy growth at 5.5% in 2022 and 6.5% in 2023
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Beshear files appeal to keep private, religious schools closed for in-person classes
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Published: Nov. 27, 2020 at 9:05 PM EST|Updated: Nov. 28, 2020 at 9:19 AM EST
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Attorneys for Governor Andy Beshear are fighting back after a judge ruled Wednesday that private religious schools could continue in-person classes amid the pandemic.
U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove made the ruling on a lawsuit initially filed by Attorney General Daniel Cameron and Danville Christian Academy on Nov. 20. The lawsuit asked for a temporary restraining order to be put in place against Beshear's order affecting religious and private schools.
Beshear previously announced new coronavirus restrictions that prohibited all schools -- public and private -- from holding in-person classes for three weeks starting Nov. 23. The governor argued on Monday his executive orders were not discriminatory and he was treating all schools the same.
Attorney Chris Wiest is representing the Highlands Latin School in Louisville in a lawsuit similar to Cameron's. His clients also argue that Beshear is infringing upon religious liberty and COVID-19 has not been widely spread in the schools.
"The schools are not a conduit for spread, it is going on elsewhere in the community but I don't think it's going on in the schools and where would you rather have the kids be, in a socially distanced classroom in masks or at home with grandma and grandpa possible getting them sick," he said.
Wiest filed an amicus brief Friday in support of Wednesday's ruling which he believes "got it right."
Beshear's office on Thursday appealed to the Sixth Circuit to block Judge Van Tatenhove's ruling. A spokesperson for Beshear said the case will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.
Wiest believes Cameron's case will prevail if the high court takes it up.
"I think that the governor is going to get slammed in the Supreme Court," he said. "If that's what he wants to do to create more binding federal case law on these issues I say let him have at it. If it takes the U.S. Supreme Court to tell him that he's wrong, that he's violating people's rights, I guess that's what it's going to be."
Cameron replied to Beshear's efforts late Thursday on Twitter.
"It's frightening that the Governor believes he can suspend religious liberty. The Governor is not above the law, and we urge him to drop this ill-conceived appeal and to halt his attacks on religious freedom," he said.
In a series of tweets, Cameron also referenced a Wednesday ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that blocked efforts by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to restrict gatherings at houses of worship.
Cameron argued that Beshear ignored the New York ruling and "doubled down" on his unconstitutional closure of religious schools by seeking emergency relief from an appellate court.
Attorneys for Cameron and Danville Christian Academy have a deadline of 10 a.m. Saturday to respond to Beshear's appeal.
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For me, 'yoga' means wholeness.
My understanding of yoga is extremely wide. At this extreme, it has to do with almost nothing. I do, however, love practicing modern yoga at the studios…
'lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu.' Peace. Om.
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'Going beyond' is not to be considered as any kind of transcendence in the traditional sense. The whole import of Dōgen's key term 'dropping off' is diametrically opposed to 'climbing over' (trans-cendere) and refreshingly obviates meta-physics, trans-metaphysics, meta-meta-meta-physics and the whole business of 'meta' of which it is fervently hoped we have truly had our philosophical fill.
–Joan Stambaugh, The Formless Self (1999)
For example, a personally based mode of inquiry reflecting his own mystical experiences and interest in psychoanalysis animates [Romain Rolland's] depiction of Yoga. Yoga, he correctly related, was derived from the same Sanskrit root as the English 'yoke,' which meant 'to join,' and implied union with the divine. However, the purpose of Yoga consisted in far more than the inducement of mystical feelings of unity. Yoga was a 'science of the soul,' a psychophysiological method that was experimentally and scientifically verifiable. Yoga adopted the introspective-empathic mode of observation with the aim of coming to 'know the laws that govern the passions, the feelings, the will of mankind.' Yogic techniques enabled the ego to gain access to and hence mastery of unconscious contents. Its goal, like that of psychoanalysis, was freedom. The characteristic of mystical introversion was not weakness and 'flight' – that is, the employment of any number of defense mechanisms against repressed contents, as many in the West had taken it to be, but strength and combat. 'The ancient Yogi's,' states Rolland, 'did not wait for Dr. Freud to teach them the best cure for the mind is to make it look its deeply hidden monsters straight in the face.' Strength and the will to arrive were essential to undertake the rigors of Yogic training. The practical results of this psychic surgery were insight, renunciation of instinct, freedom from the return of the repressed, and a strengthening of individuality. Yoga was also seen as conducive to the generation of creativity–great artists had 'instinctively' and 'subconsciously' practiced it.
– William B. Parsons, The Oceanic Feeling Revisited (1998)
The practice of respiration, the practice of diverse kinds of breathing certainly reduces the darkness or the shadows of Western consciousness. But above all it constitutes the mental in a different way. It grants more attention to the education of the body, of the senses. It reverses in a way the essential and the superfluous. We Westerners believe that the essential part of culture resides in words, in texts, or perhaps in works of art, and that physical exercise should help us to dedicate ourselves to this essential.
For the masters of the East, the body itself can become spirit through the cultivation of breathing. Without doubt, at the origin of our tradition—for Aristotle, for example, and still more for Empedocles—the soul still seems related to the breath, to air. But the link between the two was then forgotten, particularly in philosophy. The soul, or what takes its place, has become the effect of conceptualizations and of representations and not the result of a practice of breathing. The misunderstandings are so profound, proportional to historical forgetting and repressions, that bridges between the traditions are difficult to restore.
An Eastern culture often corresponds to becoming cultivated, to becoming spiritual through the practice of breathing. In this becoming the body is not separated off from the mental, nor is consciousness the domination of nature by a clever know-how. It is a progressive awakening for the entire being through the channeling of breath from centers of elemental vitality to more spiritual centers: of the heart, of speech, of thought. This requires time! Often an entire lifetime, a time that must remain in harmony with the rhythm of life in general, that of the universe and that of other living beings, which the candidate to the spiritual must respect, and even try to aid if such is their wish.
Spiritual progress is therefore not separated off from the body nor from desire, but these are gradually educated to renounce what harms them. To be sure, it is not a matter of renouncing for the sake of renouncing, but of renouncing what impedes access to bliss in this life. Asceticism is not therefore privative as it has too often been in the West. It is a limitation, accepted and willed, in order to progress toward happiness.
Such is the case with sexuality for example. Chastity is not presented as a good in itself, and the candidate for monasticism is often invited to first prove himself on the sexual plane. The gods of India, moreover, generally appear as a couple: man and woman creating the universe through their familiarity with certain elements, through their love as well, and they destroy it through their passion.
On this subject it is important to meditate on the fact that a spirituality or a religion centered on speech, without insistence on breathing and the silence that makes it possible, risks supporting a nonrespect for life.
In patriarchal traditions individual and collective life both wants to and believes it is able to organize itself outside of the surroundings of the natural world. The body—also called microcosm—is then cut off from the universe—which is called macrocosm. It is submitted to sociological rules, to rhythms foreign to its sensibility, to its living perceptions: day and night, seasons, vegetal growth . . . This means that acts of participation in light, sounds or music, odors, touch, or even in natural tastes are no longer cultivated as human qualities. The body is no longer educated to develop its perceptions spiritually, but to detach itself from the sensible for a more abstract, more speculative, more sociological culture. Yoga taught me to return to the cultivation of sensible perception. In fact, I have always loved it. Since my childhood, nature has helped me and has taught me how to live. But yoga brought me back to this taste with texts that lead me from the innocence of sensations to a spiritual elaboration that permits their development, and sometimes their communication or sharing.
According to me, to learn, in the best of cases, is to learn from someone's experience.To teach is to transmit an experience. What is taught is guaranteed by the life of the one who teaches, and by that of his or her own masters. In this way a concrete and spiritual knowledge is elaborated, a knowledge useful for a cultivation of life, for which the life of the teacher himself remains the support of truth, of ethics, and even of aesthetics. This practice of teaching constitutes a genealogy that is at the same time natural and cultural. In certain families knowledge is handed down from father to son, from mother to daughter, from father to daughter, from mother to son. In other cultural lineages the transmission occurs outside the natural family, from master to disciple. But, remaining linked to experience, it engenders a sort of milieu that is at once natural, sensible, and spiritual where knowledge of the past circulates and where that of the present and the future is elaborated. Indeed, a culture tied to experience cannot be reduced to the repetition of an already written corpus. Such a culture evolves, be it only according to the evolution of the universe, but also in the way of thinking the link between cosmic history and the history of living beings, particularly human beings, of this world.
But why could love not come about in the respect and cultivation of my/our bodies? It seems to me that this dimension of human development is indispensable. Through scorn or forgetting of the body, what remains of it in our traditions is often reduced to elementary needs or to a sexuality worse than animal. To restrict carnal love to a reproductive duty, preceded by elementary coitus, at best by some vague caresses—when the man is not too overwhelmed with work, when one has the time—seems to me, in fact, a degeneration worse than bestial. The majority of animals have erotic displays that we no longer even have. Humiliation— especially of the woman—violence, guilt . . . are the lot of most couples in our supposedly evolved civilizations. This is something to be ashamed of! Because this means that love, for us and between us, has become less than human, except for some generous yet rare and often limited exceptions.
– Luce Irigaray, Between East and West (1999) (Translated by Stephen Pluháček)
I am much more interested in a question on which the 'salvation of humanity' depends far more than on any theologians' curio: the question of nutrition.
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo (1888) (Translated by Walter Kaufmann)
What we do.– What we do is never understood but always only praised or censured.
– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Book Three (1887) (Translated by Walter Kaufmann)
*Note: You may have heard some hippies talking about "non-judgment."
On the contrary, the point is to realize that by virtue of what you always are, have been, and will be, there is no need whatsoever to defend yourself or prove yourself.
– Alan Watts, Introduction to The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects (Alexandra David-Neel) (1967)
We shall speak by and by of health as being the foundation of all real manly beauty. Perhaps, too, it has more to do than is generally supposed, with the capacity of being agreeable as a companion, a social visitor, always welcome—and with the divine joys of friendship. In these particulars (and they surely include a good part of the best blessings of existence), there is that subtle virtue in a sound body, with all its functions perfect, which nothing else can make up for, and which will itself make up for many other deficiencies, as of education, refinement, and the like. We have even sometimes fancied that there was a wonderful medicinal effect in the mere personal presence of a man who was perfectly well! While, on the other hand, what can be more debilitating than to be continually surrounded by sickly people, and to have to do with them only?
Do not be startled at the words, excellent reader. It is, in our view, indispensably necessary that a man should be a fine animal—sound and vigorous. This, to be candid with you, is the text and germ of most of our remarks—which arise out of it, and seek to promulge and explain how it can be fully accomplished.
We, at the same time, know with the rest that a man has a moral, affectional, and mental nature which must also be developed; but we say that, at present, the whole tendency of things is to over-develope those parts, while the physical is cramped and dwindled away. Yes, reader, we teach that man must be perfect in his body first— we start with that as our premises, our foundation. We would throw into something like regular form a few principal hints and suggestions. Now this is to be done.
With all this, we have an idea, amounting to profound conviction, that the highest and palmiest state of health, ministering to a long life, and accompanied throughout by all that makes a man physically the superior animal of the earth, and crowned at last with a painless and easy death—we have an idea, we say, that all this is only attainable, (except in rare natural instances,) by a cultivated mentality, by the intellectual, by the reasoning man. What else, indeed, is the whole system of training for physique, but intellect applied to the bettering of the form, the blood, the strength, the life, of man?
In other and shorter terms, true intellectual development, not overstrained and morbid, is highly favorable to long life, and a noble physique; and what falls short of these latter aims, (if attributable to anything in the mentality of the subject,) is, that the mentality of that subject was in a vitiated condition, or, (as in these latter days is often the case,) that there was not enough brute animal in the man. We repeat it, strange as it may seem, this is generally the case in these extra-mental and extra-philanthropic days of ours. That the half-way and unwholesomely developed mentality of modern times, as seen in large classes of people, literary persons, many in the professions, in sedentary employments, &c., acts injuriously upon the health, and militates against the noble form, the springy gait, the ruddy cheek and lip, and the muscular leg and arm of man, we know, full well. But, without wishing to be severe, what, critically considered, is the amount of modern mentality, except a feverish, superficial and shallow dealing with words and shams? How many of these swarms of "intellectual people," so-called, are anything but smatterers, needing yet to begin and educate themselves in nearly all real knowledge and wisdom?
Whatever is done, however, ought to be in the open air; don't be afraid of that—drink it in—it won't hurt you—there is a curious virtue in it, to be found in nothing else.
It is a singular fact that what might be supposed such a simple accomplishment as perfect and graceful walking, is very rare—is hardly ever seen in the streets of our cities. We have plenty of teachers of dancing—yet to walk well is more desirable than the finest dancing. Perhaps some of the teachers we allude to might take a hint from the foregoing paragraph. A great deal may be done by gymnastic exercises to increase the flexibility and muscular power of the legs. The ordinary exercise of bending forward and touching the toes with the tips of the fingers, keeping the knees straight meanwhile, is a very good one, and may be kept on with, in moderation at a time, for years and years.
The voice can be cultivated, strengthened and made melodious, with an ease and certainty, and to degrees of which very few people have any notion. We do not know a better exercise, either for young or middle-aged men, than practicing (at first with moderation), in loudly reciting and declaiming in the open air, or in some large room. This should be systematic and daily; it strengthens and develops all the large organs, opens the chest, and not only gives decision and vigor to the utterance, in common life, and for all practical purposes, but has a most salutary effect on the throat, with its curious and exquisite machinery, hardening it all, and making it less liable to disease. It helps, indeed, the bodily system in many ways—gives a large inspiration and respiration, provokes the habit of electricity through the frame, plays upon the action of the stomach, and gives a dash and style to the personality of a man.
The habit of rising early is not only of priceless value in itself, as a means toward, and concomitant of health, but is of equal importance from what the habit carries with it, apart from itself. In nature, there is no example of the bad practice of an animal, in full development of health and strength, in fine weather, lingering in its place of rest, nerveless and half dead, for hours and hours after the sun has risen.
One great point we would again impress on you, reader, (we have before reverted to it,) is the fact that your own individual case doubtless has points and circumstances which more or less modify all the general laws, and perhaps call for special ones, for yourself. This is an important consideration in all theories and statements of wealth [sic].
Not only the looks and movement, but the feelings, undergo a transformation. It may almost be said that sorrows and disappointments cease: there is no more borrowing trouble. With perfect health, (and regular agreeable occupation,) there are no low spirits, and cannot be. A man realizes the old myth of the poets; he is a god walking the earth. He not only feels new powers in himself—he sees new beauties everywhere. His faculties, his eyesight, his hearing, all acquire superior capacity to give him pleasure. Indeed, merely to move is a pleasure; the play of the limbs in motion is enough. To breathe, to eat and drink the simplest food, outvie the most costly of previous enjoyments. Many of those before hand [sic] gratifications, especially those of the palate, drink, spirits, fat grease [sic], coffee, strong spices, pepper, pastry, crust, mixtures, &c., are put aside voluntarily—become distasteful. The appetite is voracious enough, but it demands simple aliment. Those others were was vexations [sic] dreams—and now the awakening. How happily pass the days! A blithe carol bursts from the throat to greet the opening morn. The fresh air is inhaled—exercise spreads the chest—every sinew responds to the call upon it—the whole system seems to laugh with glee. The occupations of the forenoon pass swiftly and cheerfully along; the dinner is eaten with such zest as only perfect health can give—and the remaining hours still continue to furnish, as they arrive, new sources of filling themselves, and affording contentment. How sweet the evenings! The labors of the day over—whether on a farm, or in the factory, the workshop, the forge or furnace, the shipyard, or what not—then rest is realized indeed. For who else but such as they can realize it? It is a luxury almost worth being poor to enjoy. The healthy sleep—the breathing deep and regular—the unbroken and profound repose—the night as it passes soothing and renewing the whole frame. Yes, nature surely keeps her choicest blessings for the slumber of health—and nothing short of that can ever know what true sleep is.
– Walt Whitman, Manly Health and Training, With Off-Hand Hints Toward Their Conditions (1858) (Available in full here)
*Note: This document, recently unearthed by a graduate student perusing the catacombs of knowledge, must reveal that something like the "yogic" spirit is universal, for Whitman seems alone to have come up with this wholesome advice. (Yoga, as we have it, was unknown to him, though a certain New Englander, noticing Whitman's elective affinity for the East, recommended some books.) We are inclined to style this event: "qualified revelation." Against revelation, we've long since speculated that knowledge is synthesized "inside" the metaphysical subject, that is, in the mind of the individual, whose bifurcated faculties – loosely speaking: reason and sensation, the one active, the other passive – cognize the world on the basis of a highly suspicious egoic unity. (And let it be clearly observed that even the so-called "black box" – the mind as referred to in computational and neuro-scientific discourses – is beholden to this suspicious unity: evidenced by the typically metaphysical distinction between what is inside the box and what is outside.) Never mind that the journalistically authoritative "naturalistic" reductionism which passes for insight among philosophical careerists cannot tolerate the existence of such a subject! (The so-called "hard problem of consciousness.") If our claim concerning "qualified yogic revelation" – what a slogan! – were to be met with a skepticism respectable in the 1700s – "What do you mean revelation? It was Whitman's opinion!" – we would with the best intentions refer our interlocutor to that other question: "Where did Whitman come from?" And if necessary, the questioning would be referred back and back until the mind fell into its nothingness. The return to sanity first made possible by this abyssal adventure would mean becoming whole: that holism which knows on the basis of existential experience that fact and value cannot be separated and that there is more to truth than correspondence with the facts!
When the warrior has unwavering discipline, he takes joy in the journey and joy in working with others. Rejoicing takes place throughout the warrior's life. Why are you always joyful? Because you have witnessed your basic goodness, because you have nothing to hang on to, because you have experienced that sense of renunciation we discussed earlier. Therefore, your mind and body are continually synchronized and always joyful. This joy is like music, which celebrates its own rhythm and melody. The celebration is continuous, in spite of the ups and downs of your personal life. That is what is meant by being continually joyful.
The principle of meditative awareness also gives you a good seat on this earth. When you take your seat on the earth properly, you do not need witnesses to confirm your validity. In a traditional story of the Buddha, when he attained enlightenment someone asked him, "How do we know you are enlightened?" He said, "Earth is my witness." He touched the earth with his hand, which is known as the earth-touching mudra or gesture. That is the same concept as holding your seat in the saddle. You are completely grounded in reality. Someone may say, "How do I know you are not overreacting to the situations?" You can say simply, "My posture in the saddle speaks for itself."
At this point, you begin to experience the fundamental notion of fearlessness. You are willing to be awake in whatever situation may present itself to you, and you feel that you can take command of your life altogether, because you are not on the side of either success or failure. Success and failure are your journey. Of course, you may still experience fear in the context of fearlessness. There may be times on your journey when you are so petrified that you vibrate in the saddle, from your teeth to your hands to your legs. You are hardly sitting on the horse–you are practically levitating with fear. But even that is regarded as an expression of fearlessness, if you have a fundamental connection with the earth of your basic goodness.
Cheering up is not based on artificial willpower or creating an enemy and conquering him in order to make yourself feel more alive. Human beings have basic goodness, not next door, but in them already. When you look at yourself in the mirror you can appreciate what you see, without worrying about whether what you see is what should be. You can pick up on the possibilities of basic goodness and cheer yourself up, if you just relax with yourself. Getting out of bed, walking into the bathroom, taking a shower, eating breakfast–you can appreciate whatever you do, without always worrying whether it fits your discipline or your plan for the day. You can have that much trust in yourself, and that will allow you to practice discipline much more thoroughly than if you constantly worry and try to check back to see how you are doing.
– Chögyam Trungpa, Shambhala, The Sacred Path of the Warrior (1984)
Learning to see – habituating the eye to repose, to patience, to letting things come to it; learning to defer judgment, to investigate and comprehend the individual case in all its aspects. This is the first preliminary schooling in spirituality: not to react immediately to a stimulus, but to have the restraining, stock-taking instincts in one's control. Learning to see, as I understand it, is almost what is called in unphilosophical language 'strong will-power': the essence of it is precisely not to 'will', the ability to defer decision. All unspirituality, all vulgarity, is due to the incapacity to resist a stimulus – one has to react, one obeys every impulse.
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1888) (Translated by R.J. Hollingdale)
*Note: This invites comparison with the yogic concept pratyahara.
And now and then one hears from the lips of a traveler strange tales, tales of mysterious performances, of formidable feats practised in the observance of strange ritual. The masters of the art have nearly always served a rigorous spiritual apprenticeship. Self-discipline is the clue to their prowess. The man of God, in short, seems to have it over the gladiator.
– Henry Miller, The World of Sex (1941)
The destruction of the onto-theological foundation entails the destruction of moral science: "Thus, if you ask a genuine man who acts out of his own ground: 'Why are you doing what you do?,' he will reply, if his answer is correct: 'I do it because I do it!'" As a rose that flowers without why, man's life is an unexplained blossoming out of his own core. "Those who, with their deeds, look after something, those who work for a why, are bondsmen and hirelings."
–Reiner Schürmann, Heidegger and Meister Eckhart on Releasement (1973) (Eckhart sermons: DW I, 92, 3-6; DW II, 253, 4f)
Even the wise act according to their nature.
All beings follow their nature.
So what can suppression accomplish?
–Bhagavad Gītā (1993) (Translated by Michael von Brück; my translation from the German)
In the dust-wiping type of meditation (tso-ch'an, zazen) it is not easy to go further than the tranquilization of the mind; it is apt to stop short at the stage of quiet contemplation, which is designated by Hui-neng 'the practice of keeping watch over purity'. At best it ends in ecstasy, self-absorption, a temporary suspension of consciousness. There is no 'seeing' in it, no knowing of itself, no active grasping of self-nature, no spontaneous functioning of it, no chen-hsing ('Seeing into Nature') whatever. The dust-wiping type is therefore the art of binding oneself with a constructed rope, an artificial construction which obstructs the way to emancipation. No wonder Hui-neng and his followers attacked the Purity school.
– Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, The Zen Doctrine of No-Mind (1949)
The thought: 'I am the doer' is the bite of a poisonous snake.
To know: 'I do nothing' is the wisdom of faith.
–Ashtavakra Gita (2005) (Translated by Bart Marshall)
I wish to speak to the despisers of the body. Let them not learn differently nor teach differently, but only bid farewell to their own bodies – and so become dumb.
'I am body and soul' – so speaks the child. And why should one not speak like children?
But the awakened, the enlightened man says: I am body entirely, and nothing beside; and soul is only a word for something in the body.
The body is a great intelligence, a multiplicity with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a herdsman.
Your little intelligence, my brother, which you call 'spirit', is also an instrument of your body, a little instrument and toy of your great intelligence.
You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this – although you will not believe in it – is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, stands a mighty commander, an unknown sage – he is called Self. He lives in your body, he is your body.
There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom. And who knows for what purpose your body requires precisely your best wisdom?
Your Self laughs at your Ego and its proud leapings. 'What are these leapings and flights of thought to me?' it says to itself. 'A by-way to my goal. I am the Ego's leading-string and I prompt its conceptions.
–Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, A Book for Everyone and No One (1883) (Translated by R.J. Hollingdale)
Everything leads to the belief that, at the present moment, a more accurate knowledge of Indian thought has become possible. India has entered the course of history, and, rightly or wrongly, Western consciousness tends to take a more serious view of the philosophies of peoples who hold a place in history. On the other hand, especially since the last generation of philosophers, Western consciousness is more and more inclined to define itself with reference to the problems of time and history. For over a century, the greater part of the scientific and philosophical effort of the West has been devoted to the factors that 'condition' the human being. It has been shown how and to what degree man is conditioned by his physiology, his heredity, his social milieu, the cultural ideology in which he shares, his unconscious –and above all by history, by his historical moment and his own personal history. This last discovery of Western thought–that man is essentially a temporal and historical being, that he is, and can only be, what history has made him–still dominates Western philosophy. Certain philosophical trends even conclude from it that the only worthy and valid task proposed to man is to assume this temporality and this historicity frankly and fully, for any other choice would be equivalent to an escape into the abstract and non-authentic and would be at the price of the sterility and death that inexorably punish any betrayal of history.
It does not fall to us to discuss these theses. We may, however, remark that the problems that today absorb the Western mind also prepare it for a better understanding of Indian spirituality. Indeed, they incite it to employ, for its own philosophical effort, the millennial experience of India. Let us explain. It is the human condition, and above all the temporality of the human being, that constitutes the object of the most recent Western philosophy. It is this temporality that makes all the other "conditionings" possible and that, in the last analysis, makes man a "conditioned being," an indefinite and evanescent series of "conditions." Now, this problem of the "conditioning" of man (and its corollary, rather neglected in the West, his "deconditioning") constitutes the central problem of Indian thought. From the Upanishads onward, India has been seriously preoccupied with but one great problem – the structure of the human condition. (Hence, it has been said, and not without reason, that all Indian philosophy has been, and still is "existentialist.")
With a rigor unknown elsewhere, India has applied it self to analyzing the various conditions of the human being. We hasten to add that it has done so not in order to arrive at a precise and coherent explanation of man (as, for example, did nineteenth century Europe when it believed that it explained man by his hereditary and social conditioning), but in order to learn how far the conditioned zones of the human being extend and to see if anything else exists beyond these conditionings. Hence it is that, long before depth psychology, the sages and ascetics of India were led to explore the obscure zones of the unconscious. They had found that man's physical, social, cultural, and religious conditionings were comparatively easy to delimit and hence to master. The great obstacles to the ascetic and contemplative life arose from the activity of the unconscious, from the samskāras and the vāsanās–"impregnations," "residues," "latencies"–that constitute what depth psychology calls the contents and structures of the unconscious. It is not, however, the pragmatic anticipation of modern psychological techniques that is valuable, it is its employment for the "deconditioning" of man. Because, for India, knowledge of the systems of "conditioning" could not be an end in itself. It was not knowing them that mattered, but mastering them, if the contents of the unconscious were worked upon, it was in order to "burn" them. We shall see by what methods Yoga conceives that it arrives at these surprising results. And it is primarily these results which are of interest to Western psychologists and philosophers.
As we said earlier, the problem of the human condition–that is, the temporality and historicity of the human being–is at the very center of Western thought, and the same problem has occupied Indian philosophy from its beginnings. It is true that we do not there find the terms "history" and "historicity" in the senses that they bear in the West today, and that we very seldom find the term "temporality." In fact, it was impossible that these concepts should be found under the particular designations of "history" and "historicity." But what matters is not identity in philosophical terminology. It is enough if the problems are homologizable. Now, it has long been known that Indian thought accords considerable importance to the concept of māyā, which has been translated–and with good reason–as "illusion," "cosmic illusion," "mirage," "magic," "becoming," "irreality," and the life. But, looking more closely, we see that māyā is illusion because it does not participate in Being, because it is "becoming," "temporality"–cosmic becoming, to be sure, but also historical becoming. It is possible, then, that India has not been unaware of the relation between illusion, temporality, and human suffering. […] What modern Western philosophy terms "being situated," "being constituted by temporality and historicity," has its counterpart, in Indian philosophy, in "existence in māyā."
To repeat, it is not a matter of purely and simply accepting one of the solutions proposed by India. A spiritual value is not acquired after the fashion of a making a new automobile. Above all, it is not a matter of philosophical syncretism […] still less of the detestable "spiritual" hybridism inaugurated by the Theosophical Society […] The problem is more serious. It is essential that we know and understand a thought that has held a place of the first importance in the history of universal spirituality. And it is essential that we know it now. For, on the one hand, it is from now on that, any cultural provincialism having been outstripped by the very course of history, we are forced […] to think in terms of universal history and to forge universal spiritual values.
The conquest of absolute freedom, of perfect spontaneity, is the goal of all Indian philosophies and mystical techniques, but it is above all through Yoga, through one of the many forms of Yoga, that India has held that it can be assured. This is the chief reason we have thought it useful to write a comparatively full exposition of the theory and practices of Yoga, to recount the history of its forms, and to define its place in Indian spirituality as a whole.
–Mircea Eliade, Foreword to Yoga, Immortality and Freedom (1954) (Translated by Willard R. Trask)


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Q: javascript user's input validation I'm creating a program in which I need to validate user input.
The User should be able to write float numbers and some letters like 'k' for thousand or 'm' for million.   Allowed are: digits, and only one letter from the list(g,k,m,n,u) and only one '.' for decimal numbers. If user puts different sign, two letters from the list, two dots, follows letter by another sign - nothing displays in textbox.
What i did so far is not working at all. I cannot even create a list with allowed signs. How can i solve this? I've seen almost every page on the web about regexp..
function signFilter(e)
{
    var keynum;
    var keychar;
    var numcheck;

    if(window.event) // IE
    {
        keynum = e.keyCode;
    }
    else if(e.which) // Netscape/Firefox/Opera
    {
        keynum = e.which;
    }
    keychar = String.fromCharCode(keynum);
    numcheck = /[0-9GMkmpu.]/;
    return numcheck.test(keychar);
}

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/tryit.asp?filename=tryjsref_onkeydown
Here is sample code for input. Nothing i try gives resonable result. (of course, i removed '!'from return).

A: Your regex is just testing the presence of one of the chars into [ and ]. What you are trying to do is testing for the presence of any other char in the string.
I suggest you had a ^ sign like : [^0-9GMkmpu.], so you will be able to detect any wrong char in the string.
With the regex you wrote something like : aaaaaaaaakhhhhhhhhh will return yes.

A: From the code you provided, it looks like you are testing the string one character at a time.
The code you have to only validates that correct letters are inputted, but as a whole, the final string created from the keypresses may not be in the format you expect.
For example, a string 123.123.321.m are all valid characters, but the final string is not valid.
Basically, you need to add validation that checks the final string inputted.
A regexp like this could help you in validating the final string input.
numcheck = /^[0-9]*\.?[0-9]+[gkmnu]?$/

This regexp says

*

*optionally match 0-9

*next, optionally match a dot

*next, match at least one number

*the end of the string may end in one character from the set

A: /^[0-9]*[\.]*[0-9]*[Mkmpu]*$/

This one is quite flexible and handles sereval cases such as ".57m" "57" "57m" "57.m" "57.57m".

A: This works
http://jsfiddle.net/mplungjan/KvJQx/
window.onload=function() {
  document.getElementById("t1").onkeypress=function(e) {
    var keyNum =  (window.event)?window.event.keyCode:e.which;
    var keyChar = String.fromCharCode(keyNum);
    return /[0-9GMkmpu\.]/.test(keyChar);
  }
}

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Yesterday we had a beautiful day of snow. I didn't have to be anywhere, our neighbor across the street who helps us had his plow blade thing on his truck, the wood stove was going- so I thought – let it snow! It did and we have 12″ of beautiful fluffy snow.
Marigolds and onion skins for natural dyeing at NOFA.
The drum carder which made these batts is my second favorite fiber processing tool. The combs on the left are the first.
These workshops start soon but for today I will enjoy watching the birds at the feeder and watching my cat Pippi watch the birds at the feeder. I will enjoy hearing children nearby sledding and screaming with fun. At least I think it is fun screaming, not screaming because our bold coyote is coming around and I sit here hearing them and doing nothing to scare it away.
I bet you could spin coyote- but that doesn't grab my interest right now. Ugh. Back to thinking about sweet little lambs!
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Dr. Kaveh Khajavi and Georgia Spine and Neurosurgery Center are one of 19 surgeons & practices currently featured on Becker's Spine Review as one of the Spine Practices & Surgeons With Research Foundations.
Dr. Khajavi recently co-founded the Institute for Neurosurgical and Spinal Research Foundation, a scientific research organization designed to facilitate research collaborations among minimally invasive spine surgeons. The foundation also collaborates with other spine surgeons participating in data collection and research, with studies focusing on clinical outcomes and comparative effectiveness for minimally invasive procedures and emerging technologies. The practice has been collecting outcomes since 2003 and has more than 1,000 patients in the database.


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Cleveland in HDR – The 6th City Collection
Cleveland Photos by Brent M. Durken
Sunset over Cleveland
A shot of the Downtown Cleveland skyline overlooking the East Side neighborhoods of Cleveland just after sunset on a warm summer evening. The rooftops of the Hough and Fairfax neighborhoods can be seen in the foreground.
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Guitar Mania Cleveland
Today's Cleveland Photo: GuitarMania Cleveland
From the GuitarMania website:
"GuitarMania® is a Greater Cleveland community public art project that has raised $2 million for its two benefiting charities – United Way of Greater Cleveland and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's education programs. The project consists of large, 10-ft-tall Fender® Stratocaster® guitars creatively transformed into works of art by local artists and national celebrities. The guitars are displayed on the city streets of Cleveland for residents and visitors to enjoy from the end of May through October, 2012. Corporations, organizations and individuals sponsor the guitars and select from a variety of local artists to paint, sculpt or decorate them. Celebrity artists also paint and decorate guitars."
http://www.cleveland.com/guitarmania/
Here's a Fun Fact:
Did you know that Cleveland was originally spelled "Cleaveland," named after General Moses Cleaveland. The "a" was dropped so that the name could fit into a newspaper's masthead. For more cool fact about Cleveland check out the Citiview Cleveland website: http://citiviewcleveland.com/
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Old County Courthouse
2012 marks the 100th birthday of the Cuyahoga County Court House on Lakeside Avenue. The courthouse was designed by Charles Morris along with Lehman and Schmitt and is one of the finest examples of the Beaux-Arts style in the city.
For more info: http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=LAS1
"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space". – Philip Johnson
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CLEVELAND UNION TERMINAL
From the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: "The Cleveland Union Terminal and the Terminal Tower, Cleveland's most familiar landmark, was the largest construction project of the 1920s in the city. Originally intended for the north end of the Mall, the railroad terminal was located on Public Square Oris and Mantis Van Sweringan following a public referendum in 1919. Excavation of the site began in 1924. The entire depot and office complex was designed by Chicago architects Graham, Anderson, Probst & White. The unprecedented engineering for the project included foundations 250′ deep for the tower, the demolition of more than 1,000 buildings, and the construction of many bridges and viaducts for the railroad approaches. Construction on the steelwork began in 1926, and the 708′ Terminal Tower was completed in 1927, the tallest building in the world outside New York City until 1967.
For more info: http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=CUT
Today's Quote: "All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem". – Martin Luther King Jr.
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Skyline of Cleveland
The Cleveland Skyline – Cleveland got the nickname "The 6th City" during the early 1900's when its population made it the 6th largest city in the country. Cleveland had the sixth largest population in the 1910, 1930 and 1940 U.S. Federal census. As of the 2010 Census, the city proper had a total population of 396,815. That makes Cleveland the 45th largest city in the United States. That being said Cleveland is part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area, which in 2000 had a population of 2,945,831, and ranked as the country's 14th largest.
Today's Quote: "I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature". – John D. Rockefeller
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Dining room of the Greenbrier Suite
Today's photo was taken in the formal dining room of the famous Greenbrier Suite. Located inside the Terminal Tower, the Greenbrier Suite was the Van Sweringen brother's private mansion. What impressed me about this room was the beautiful hand painted wall paper.
For more info: http://blog.cleveland.com/pdmultimedia/2011/08/take_a_tour_of_secret_terminal.html
Today's Quote: "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody". – Bill Cosby
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Port of Cleveland
The Port of Cleveland is located on the shores of Lake Erie at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. The port handles between 11 million and 16 million tons of cargo and generates approximately $1 billion in trade each year. The moon can be seen in the background behind the Terminal Tower.
Today's Quote: "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats". – Howard Aiken
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Carl B. Stokes Federal Court House
Carl B. Stokes Federal Court House Building is located on the right side of this photo that was taken in the Flats. This 24 story tower was completed in 2002 and was named for Carl B. Stokes who was the first African-American mayor of a major U. S. city. Some of the other buildings that can be seen in this photo are the Terminal Tower, Key Bank Building and Sammy's in the Flats.
http://rickzimmerman.hubpages.com/hub/The-Carl-B-Stokes-Federal-Court-House-Biuilding
http://www.sammys.com/
Today's Quote: "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." – Albert Einstein
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The Avenue at Tower City Center
The Avenue at Tower City Center from about.com : "The Terminal Tower at Public Square, built in 1930, is the architectural symbol of Cleveland. Originally set atop the Union rail terminal, the beautiful ground level space has been transformed into a spacious and beautiful shopping and entertainment complex called the Tower City Center.
The floors are marble, the railings are polished brass, and the ceilings are hand-painted. Retail stores are tucked into vintage spaces as well as new wide-open, light and airy lofts". http://cleveland.about.com/od/shoppingincleveland/a/avenue.htm
For more info: http://www.towercitycenter.com/
Today's Quote: If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? – Thomas Jefferson
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Cleveland's Bridges
Today's photo was taken near where Cuyahoga River meets Lake Erie on a warm summer evening. I like this photo because it shows not only the river but a few of Cleveland's amazing bridges and buildings in the background.
Check out more about Cleveland's historic bridges: http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=B19
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment" – Jim Rohn
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Severance Hall Lobby
Crop Rocks and the East Bank of the Flats
Panoramic Cleveland Skyline
Sunset on the Cuyahoga River
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland
East 4th Street
The West Side Market
North Coast Rapid Station and First Energy Stadium
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Q: Anonymous functions in MySQL? I wrote a query for a client that used a stored procedures. Turns out they can't grant my user write access to the database, so I can't store my procedure. Can I turn my stored procedure into an anonymous function inside my query, as to keep the functionality without using a stored procedure?
$establishFunction = mysql_query("DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS fn_distance_cosine;
CREATE FUNCTION fn_distance_cosine (
    latitude_1 DOUBLE,
    longitude_1 DOUBLE,
    latitude_2 DOUBLE,
    longitude_2 DOUBLE
)
RETURNS DOUBLE
DETERMINISTIC
SQL SECURITY INVOKER
RETURN ACOS(
      SIN(RADIANS(latitude_1)) * SIN(RADIANS(latitude_2))
      + COS(RADIANS(latitude_1)) * COS(RADIANS(latitude_2))
      * COS(RADIANS(longitude_2 - longitude_1))
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A: If you can't do stored procedures, you probably can't do functions either because they won't have the security rights for that either.
Option #1 - Have their own DBA vet the SQL statements and then make the modification to the database to house the stored procedure.
Option #2 - Your other option is to move that code out of the database and into the PHP. So yes, you can move it into the PHP but it won't be nearly as fast or efficient as having the database engine do it.

A: No you can't have anonymous functions.  If your client can't grant you proper permissions to add this function, then why did they ask you to write one? If your DB user account can't install the function, then surely that have someone with proper user account to be able to create this function for you  based on your SQL.
Also why a function instead of a stored procedure?  You could put all of that logic you are doing in several DB queries in a single call like:
call give_me_my_data(lat, long)
It seems odd that you would use some db-based logic and some php-based logic (with a number of unnecessary queries) to get at the data you need, rather than just go all the way and define a stored procedure that would clean up your PHP code to make only a single query.

A: Can you get a separate database on the same mysql server? Then you might be able to declare the procedure in there and then use it in your query by explicitly prefixing with the database name. I'm not entirely sure if it'll actually work, but I would guess it does.


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Dürer, according to the diary of his trip to the Netherlands during 1521-21, sold or gave away copies of this print more frequently than any of his others.
It has been repeatedly asserted that this engraving was to be part of a projected series representing the four human temperaments. Only two others have been so far identified, Melencolia I, and Knight, Death and Devil. Although they correspond in size, Dürer never gave away all three as a set. Occasionally he gave away St Jerome and Melencolia I as a pair.
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Once again, I want to thank everyone for the great efforts made soliciting donations for Buddy Poppys on Veterans Day weekend. We were able to bring in a considerable amount of funding for our programs. This is the work of the VFW and I'm proud to say our Post has done more than its share.
On December 7th I attended the dedication of the new WWII Memorial at Wesley Bolin Plaza which has been constructed on the site of the existing memorial to the USS Arizona. The Auxiliary President and I laid a wreath at the memorial in remembrance of the American servicemen and women at Pearl Harbor. Our Post was well represented by other members that day as well. This is also the work of the VFW.
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Upcoming events include the Ladies Auxiliary Cancer Aid & Research Spaghetti Dinner on January 5th and the Department Voice of Democracy-Patriots Pen/Teacher of the Year Banquet in Casa Grande on January 11th.
Keep in mind that there is always a Ladies Auxiliary Dinner on the 2nd Friday of the month and a Cootie Fish Fry on the 4th Friday. The Cooties also host some veterans from the Arizona State Home who really appreciate getting out and being with other veterans. It's a great way to have some fun and support your Post. All Post and Auxiliary members are also welcome to participate in the monthly Dog Races the Cooties host at the VA Medical Center, Community Living Center or the AZ State Home. Keep your eye on the board in the Canteen for dates. This is also your Post at work. Come join us.


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Where to spend the long summer evenings in Manchester
By Susan Griffin
The summer weather may have been a little changeable this year to say the least, but it's finally hotting up.
Here's just a few ideas how to make the most of long summer evenings from a gin cruise and outdoor screenings to a Japanese garden and Nordic feast.
The Gincident Gin Cruise
All aboard the Gincident this summer, a three-hour gin cruise that sets sail from Castlefield Bowl on a round trip to Media City. Along the way you'll be treated to seven cocktails (two long and refreshing gin and tonics and five cocktails), with some insightful commentary from the Liquorists team, and some sharing platters to tuck into. This has sold out for the last four years so don't hang about too long before booking – and check out their summer strawberry jam gin afternoon tea gin cruise with I Love MCR® on 12th July while you're at it, too.
Stage and screen at Dunham Massey
Photo: Charlotte Jopling
The Chapterhouse Theatre Company will be presenting three classics stories in the stunning grounds of Dunham Massey over the summer. Pack a hamper and immerse yourself in the world of The Secret Garden (6th July) or Pride and Prejudice (10th August). There are also outdoor screenings as part of the Summer Nights Film Festival (29th-31st August), including Grease and Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again.
Sounds of the City
Whether indie or pop's more your thing, they'll be something to suit your tastes when Sounds of the City returns to the Castlefield Bowl from 6th to 13th July. Headline acts including The Wombats, Elbow, and Kylie Minogue and Hacienda Classical are set to be joined by surprise guests when they take to the stage at the amphitheatre-like venue.
Paying tribute at Festwich
Enjoy some of the world's best tribute acts at Festwich on 27th and 28th July at St Mary's Park, Prestwich. Now in its eighth year, the line-up includes Link n Park, Wrong Jovi, Kings ov Leon and Planet Duran across two stages with beer tents, food stalls and kids' activities. Tickets are free, but you'll need to book ahead as you won't be able get any on the day.
Open air theatre at Ordsall Hall
Stunning Ordsall Hall in Salford is the backdrop for open air theatre productions during the summer months. This includes Three Inch Fools, who'll be using inventive props for their take on Macbeth on 21st June, and all-female and all-male troupes from cycling actors The Handlebards who'll be performing The Tempest on 3rd August and Much Ado About Nothing on 11th August. Don't worry about organising drinks and nibbles as you can pre-order picnic packages from £5.95.
The Lawn Club pop-up
The Lawn Club has returned to Hardman Square in Spinningfields in pop-up form, so make the most of it by grabbing one of the rattan chairs on the veranda or a deck chair out on the turf and enjoy a sundowner cocktail and street food. It's open every day until the end of summer until 8pm Monday to Wednesday and 11pm Thursday to Sunday.
A Midsummer Nordic Feast
As part of the series of art-meets-food supper clubs at Manchester Art Gallery, chefs are creating immersive dining experiences served within the gallery space. On 28th June, it's the turn of local chef Mary-Ellen McTague who will be creating a Midsummer Nordic Feast, a four-course Scandinavian banquet inspired by the Nordic Craft and Design exhibition. This will be served in the glass-roofed atrium with ambient music and design, a drinks reception and an introductory talk from the exhibit's curator.
Japanese Garden at Club Brass
The roof top terrace at Club Brass in Hotel Gotham has been transformed into a Japanese Garden this summer by Manchester-based Frog Flowers. Although the space is typically only open to members and hotel residents, a special guest pass is available until the end of August. Priced £25, it includes a signature ROKU gin cocktail of your choice.
Summer Beer Thing
Photo: Summer Beer Thing instagram
May the sun be scorching when Summer Beer Thing takes place at Sadler's Yard (until 11pm on 28th and 29th June and until 8pm on 30th June). Described as a celebration of the 'very best beer styles from the north west's and beyond brewing scene', there will be over 60 beer options at any one time and as well as food from Margot Pizza and Vaso Kitchen among others. Evening sessions tickets are priced from £5.
Festival Square
Manchester International Festival photo by Tarnish Vision
The biennial Manchester International Festival returns to the city in July. The hub of the action will be in Albert Square, temporarily renamed Festival Square from 5th July. Here you'll find food and drink stalls, family friendly activities and free live music from world-renowned artists including reggae legend Horace Andy, DJ The Black Madonna and hip-hop supremo DJ Yoda.
Spinningfields summer screenings
Head to the Spinningfields outdoor courtyard just in front of The Oast House every other Monday and Tuesday evening for the popular Summer Screenings event. Films including Mamma Mia!, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Crazy Stupid Love, as well as three live Royal Opera House screenings, will be played on the big screen. You can order food and drink from the bar, and even purchase some popcorn for £2. No tickets necessary. Just be there for a prompt 7pm start.
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2. NYCUDL Coach/Staff/Board Holiday Party - December 11th. RSVP Now!
Thank you for another historical season of debate in New York City. Please join us to celebrate this Holiday Season at our office on Tuesday, December 11th from 6pm-8:30pm. All staff, board members and coaches are welcome!! It is a Pot Luck so make sure you bring a dish or drinks! And please RSVP because we will be ordering many other goodies and drinks!
3. MS Public Forum Coach Survey!! Double Flighting versus Double Debating!
A couple coaches asked about Double Flighting versus Double Debating. And this was a topic at the last middle school coaches meeting. As you know our MS Public Forum Tournaments are pretty much at capacity - increasing number of students and limited number of rooms. So we do what the national debating circuit does called "Double Flighting" - two debates or "Flight A and Flight B" back to back in the same room with the same judge. This does extend the tournament schedule. But also (a) accommodates more debaters; (b) reduces strain on judge recruitment of schools (1/2 the judges needed since they judge two debates back to back in the same round); (c) learning - rather than two debates simultaneously, and debaters speaking over each other, 1 debate at a time.; (d) listening - all teams should go to the round and listen to each other. THE OTHER OPTION IS "DOUBLE DEBATING" - two debates simultaneously in the SAME classroom with different judges. The primary benefit here is speed of schedule. Two debates at once in the same classroom will speed along the schedule and leave early. This would require (a) more judges so is not for schools who have problems recruiting judges; (b) debaters would be talking over each other especially in smaller classrooms. Which is why the national, state, and local scene usually prefers double flighting to double debating. But if primary consideration is speed of schedule, then Double Debating has been used at some tournaments as well. And feel free to message erik@debate.nycas well with any other comments. Click here! for Poll!
For middle school events, we offer four divisions for public forum debate (Beginners, Novice, Intermediate, Advanced), two divisions for parliamentary debate (Beginners, Advanced) and one division for Congressional/City Council Debate.
Beginners is meant for debaters from schools debating for the first time, in the process of building or rebuilding debate programs, or schools facing some other exceptional circumstance. Longtime UDL members with stable programs, schools with experienced coaches and schools with debaters with middle school debate experience are not eligible for Beginners. All teams registered in Beginners are automatically placed on a waiting list, pending approval by the Executive Director.
This is for students in their first year of debate. A team should only be registered in the beginners/novice division if all members of the team are first-year debaters. If a team competes in both novice and open/advanced or intermediate divisions in a single season, they can choose which division they want to compete in during the City and State Championship Tournament. Any debater or team can choose to compete in the open/advanced division. Four or more tournaments counts as a year of experience.
Students with 1-2 years of middle school UDL debate experience should register for the intermediate division. Four or more tournaments counts as a year of experience.
Students with two or more years of middle school UDL debate experience should register for the open division. Four or more tournaments counts as a year of experience.
General Reminders! Top 10 Reminders!
NYCUDL Debaters on the Big Screen at the African Diaspora Film Festival! Last week our debaters were featured on the evening news. The next few weeks our debaters will be on the Big Screen! "Harlem Legacy "follows two middle schoolers from P.S 161 Pedro Albizu Campos Middle School, who defy both academic barriers and racial stereotypes through the "rigorous academic sport of debate." Showing at the Riverside Church and Columbia University the first week of December! http://bit.ly/2A2DGxN On SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2ND the FREE SCHOOL AND STUDENT screening will be held . That screening is free for students and teachers. The schools have to sign up. The forms and more information to sign up are available here: https://nyadiff.org/ny-2018/download-schedule/.
3. TOPICS AND REGISTRATION FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL TOURNAMENT #3!! Getting Ready for Tournament #3!!!! New topics!!! New Registration! Click here to Register your teams! Deadline is always the Monday of the week of the tournament at 5:00pm! Parliamentary Debate & City Council/Congressional Debate at JHS 278/Marine Park and Public Forum Debate at Hunters Point Community Middle School!
This House would grant adolescents the right to their own medical decisions.
This House would implement a carbon tax.
This House supports Bill DeBlasio's SHSAT admissions proposal.
Resolved: The United States federal government should impose price controls on the pharmaceutical industry.
4. Permission Slips! All students need to complete a 2018-2019 permission slip for the season! - https://www.tfaforms.com/348080. And please let us know if you do not see your school on the list.
5. 2018-2019 Tournament Calendar! Save the dates! NEW CALENDAR SYSTEM!
9/29 - NYC Middle School Tournament #1 - PS 161 (Confirmed). CITY COUNCIL DEBATE WORKSHOP!
6. Register Now for the 2018-2019 Debate Season! New School Membership Form is now Live! DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS DECEMBER 31ST FOR NEW SCHOOLS! After that date you can still register but tournament participation and training will take place the following season.
Our 2018-2019 Membership Form is now Live. Click here! Membership pricing remains the same as last year - $999.00 is our regular membership, $599.00 Title I NYC public schools that demonstrate need, and membership fees are waived for schools that can host Tournaments (minimum requirement of 50+ classrooms, auditorium, cafeteria, and help with set up). Membership benefits include: monthly tournaments, tournament meals, curriculum, professional development, site visits, drop in Debate Center, Debate Club, Summer Camp scholarships, outreach visits, Girls Debate League, debate field trips, law firm debate nights and more! We will also be piloting Congressional Debate at our middle school tournaments after rave reviews from City Champs and State Champs and a new grant to support. Questions about membership please contact erik@debate.nyc or 917-455-1079. When you complete the membership form, you will be sent an invoice. Schools that have not paid 2017-2018 membership invoices - please do so immediately! Registration for next school year - https://go.debate.nyc/school-registration-2018-2019.
7. Introducing You to Your Support Coordinators! Schedule a Visit! Training! Meeting!
We have several School Support Directors who will be your point person with the league to help you with tournament registration, curriculum, and can even schedule several visits and meetings via phone, video or in person. You must be a registered NYCUDL member school to schedule meetings!!!
a. Middle School Public Forum Debate Director (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island): Mr. Taylor Wofford (taylor@debate.nyc). Click here to Schedule Meeting.
b. Middle School Public Forum Debate Director (Bronx): Ms. Loretta Brady (loretta@debate.nyc). Click here to Schedule Meeting with Loretta for Bronx middle schools!
d. High School Director: Mr. Aubrey Semple (aubrey@debate.nyc). Click here to Schedule a meeting with Aubrey for high school member schools.
8. CITY COUNCIL AND CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE!
We are so proud to announce the expansion of our Congressional Debate pilot as "City Council Debate." For years we have offered it at City and State Champs, and due to growing demand of students and coaches, we are expanding Congressional Debate to all our parliamentary tournaments. Several benefits of Congressional Debate; (1) Do not need a partner; (2) Civic Engagement with local and national officials and debating actual legislation; (3) engaging in City Council Debate Topics as well as Congressional Debate Topics! (d) Large Teams! We do have a registration cap, but Congressional Debate is a great option for large programs so not to exclude students.
Monday, October 15th is the Topic Nomination deadline. Students can submit their legislation by clicking here!
Legislation Packet for Middle School Tournament #2! Three new resolutions will be added after we receive nominations on October 15th! Click here for the first three resolutions!
Thank You for your support to make debate accessible for all!


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