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As Barack HUSSEIN Obama stabs 'We the People' in the back with his oh so many LIES about ObamaCare and then adds more LIES to cover for his first LIES as he tries to pass the newest LIES off as an apology…let's NOT forget he honed his LYING skill by stabbing our ally and friend Israel in the back…and did it with his trademark smirk of a smile upon his LYING face.
And now enter stage our Traitor-of-State…oooops…I mean Secretary of State John 'Swiftboat' Kerry, who's in Geneva right now "to help narrow differences in negotiations" as he begins talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton about Iran ending its nuclear ambitions.
To begin talks with…just like his buddy Obama, Kerry just does NOT get that America does NOT 'talk' to the enemy to make deals…America does NOT cow-tow to those out to do her and her people harm…America tells the enemy what is expected of them and then gives them a time frame to follow through…and if they don't America makes sure they do.
At least in the old days that was the way it was…in the old days BEFORE Barack HUSSEIN Obama that is…BEFORE political correctness became this administration's weapon of choice…BEFORE Obama turned America into a laughing stock…BEFORE America was knocked down a few pegs by the likes of Vladimir Putin.
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But even with all the damage Obama and crew have done to America's reputation on the world stage one fact must remain…America and nations of conscience must NOT abide Iran getting nuclear capabilities…period…for rogue regimes who come complete with unstable religious zealots as leaders are a threat NOT only to the already shaky and faltering stability of the Middle East but to Europe and America as well.
And to Israel above all else…Israel…our one true ally in the entire Middle East…a beacon of democracy in a sea of islamic jihadists. Israel…a nation chosen by God for His everlasting protection is being thrown to the wolves as Kerry publicly bloviates that he's committed to doing "anything he can" to overcome America's differences with Iran. But these words speak of what is NOT outwardly being said but very much implied…Israel be damned.
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Yet Iran is hurting even while having some of the world's largest oil and gas reserves, for the sanctions to date appear to be working as they have cut Iran's daily crude sales revenue by 60% in the last two years, caused the value of the rial (Iran's currency) to plummet, and pushed inflation to over 40%…so why pull back and cut deals now when the sanctions are close to bringing Iran to its knees…close to having us the victors over Iran the enemy…why…
Why is Obama begging Congress to hold off on placing any more sanctions on Iran so, as he claims, NOT to undermine the new diplomatic openings…why…
Why cave now with many in Congress, including many Democrats, believing that it's been these very tough sanctions that have pushed Iran to the negotiating table to try and cut deals…why give in when we now have the upper hand…and why NOT have the sanctions lifted AFTER Iran has dismantled its enrichment facilities instead of before…why…
Why…the answer is simple really as it's because Barack HUSSEIN Obama is using the situation with Iran…and playing a very dangerous game in the process…to try and neutralize the effect of his Arab Spring gone horribly wrong…to 'save face' so to speak…to try and save his legacy…to be seen as the man who disarmed a rogue nation only to have that nation playing him for the fool that he is for they are getting everything without having to take apart…to dismantle…even one centrifuge.
And so while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to warn both Kerry and the world that Iran would be getting "the deal of the century" if they were granted what they want…a rollback of the sanctions that have crippled their economy by ending a freeze on up to $50 billion in overseas accounts, and having restrictions lifted on petrochemicals, gold, and other precious metals…in exchange for stopping enriching uranium to 20% (which is just a few technical steps from weapons grade), reducing its existing stockpiles, and agreeing not to activate its plutonium reactor at Arak…Kerry is doing Obama's bidding by tying to finalize this…as Netanyahu says…very bad deal.
"This is a bad deal…a very very bad deal…Israel utterly rejects it (lifting the sanctions) and what I am saying is shared by many in the region, whether or not they express that publicly" Netanyahu said just few days ago.
And how right he is…BiBi usually is…as Saudi Arabia has told Obama in NO uncertain terms that they do NOT like the catering to and placating of Iran that is currently going on by the Obama administration and its mouthpiece John Kerry.
But the bottom line is that as it stands now Iran is controlling the chess game in Geneva, and a game it is as they are manipulating Obama using John Kerry as their pawn…manipulating the game with phony gestures of halting their nuclear aspirations and ending an over 30 year break in diplomatic relations that Kerry is just playing into…while Israel will once again bear the brunt of and be the fall guy for yet another Obama administration ill-advised and very dangerous Middle East policy.
That is unless Israel now decides to change the rules of the game…wink, wink.
Diane Sori is the Editor of The Patriot Factor.
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We need big help in obtaining proof of us citizenship of my grandfather he was enlisted in Philippine Scout March 4, 1902 to March 3, 1905. a member of 27th company. We are in the process of applying derivative us citizenship thru my grandfather. What kind of papers do we need ? We all live a life knowingly that he was a us citizen and a us veteran with full benefits. But we are lacking any proof that indeed that he was a us citizen. Thank you very much in any help that you may lend.
For information on the military records of veterans you may write or call the Veterans Administration ((800) 827-1000 in the U.S.) and ask for a VA Form SF 180 (Request Pertaining to Military Records).
State your relationship, and tell them if the veteran is deceased. Give them as much of the following as you can: full name, birth date, death date, branch of military service (Philippine Scouts are "Army"), service number, SSN, service entry date, date left service, rank, unit served with in Philippines. Ask them to send his complete "201" file, including qualifications, promotions, assignments and decorations. State briefly why you want the information. Give your address and telephone number. Allow about eight weeks for a reply.
For further information, go to the PSHS website at <www.philippine-scouts.org>; under "Veterans Affairs and Benefits".
Hi - If you have not found the information you need, I can try to get it by genealogy. I will need as much information as you can provide. You can email this privately, or post back on the board.
Hope we can be help likewise in looking for proof of citizenship for grandfather, who was enlisted since 1919 philippine scouts , 25th f artellery, up to 1942 when he was KIA., may be any military records that will reflect his citizenship status. We trying to have a claim of derivative citizenship.


It is with deep sadness that I bring you the news of the passing of Bob Borrelli.
Bob was instrumental in the development of the HMC Mathematics Program. He joined the faculty in 1964 and retired in 2000 after thirty-five years of service during which time he had served multiple terms as department chair and as director of the Mathematics Clinic program (occasionally doing both jobs simultaneously). Bob played a pivotal role in the hiring of the second generation of HMC Mathematicians including Art Benjamin, Lisette de Pillis and Michael Moody. I had the privilege of teaching Fourier Analysis with Bob in my first year at HMC; he helped me understand how to teach and mentor our amazing students.
Three of Bob's true loves in his life were his vivacious wife Ursula, a good bottle of wine, and differential equations. Ursula was a force of nature and the perfect foil for Bob's ebullient personality. Bob's knowledge of wine was encyclopedic, and those of us who were fortunate enough to share a bottle with Bob knew we were in for a treat, and also a short lecture on the origin and the vintage of the bottle. Bob's passion for differential equations was shared by his longtime colleague and collaborator Courtney Coleman (and many, many others including Darryl Yong, Lisette de Pillis, Mike Moody and Ami Radunskaya). With Courtney he authored a textbook and built ODE Architect, a piece of visualization software used by a generation of HMC students. Those of us who were privileged to be at his 80th celebration got to see not only his love for Ursula, wine and ODEs but also to see how many lives Bob has touched and changed for the better.
Bob's legacy in the department include two awards he endowed (the Giovanni Borrelli Fellowship and the Giovanni Borrelli Prize) and the Interface journal which promotes undergraduate interdisciplinary journal and has been reinvented as the online Interface Compendium. More broadly, he co-founded the Glossary entry >>ccms-full<< doesn't exist! and infused the magic of the Clinic program into a summer program at UCLA, the Research in Industry Program for Students (RIPS). But his true legacy is the generations of mathematicians at HMC and beyond that he inspired to do great things.
Rest in peace Bob—you will always be loved by your colleagues and friends.
More information about Bob and his many accomplishments is available on his remembrance page on the college's website.
The Mathematical Association of America has elected Harvey Mudd College mathematics Professor Francis Su to be its 55th president.
The MAA is the largest professional society that focuses on mathematics at the undergraduate level.
One of the youngest presidents in MAA's history, Su will serve as president-elect in 2014, participating in the governance of the association and preparing for his two-year term as president.
Su's contributions to the MAA include serving on several editorial boards— Focus (2012–2014), American Mathematical Monthly (2007–2011), Math Horizons (2003–2008) and Spectrum (2000–2003)—and committees, including the Council on Meetings and Professional Development and the Association for Women in Science/MAA Awards Task Force. He formerly served as first vice president of the MAA (2010–2012).
The MAA previously recognized Su with the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics (2013), the James R.C. Leitzel Lecturer Award (2006), the Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member (2004) and the Merten M. Hasse Prize for outstanding mathematical exposition (2001).
Su joined the HMC faculty in 1996. His research interests include geometric and topological combinatorics, and applications to game theory and the social sciences. His article, "Teaching Research: Encouraging Discoveries," was featured in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 , published by Princeton University Press.
He is also the creator of the award-winning Math Fun Facts website and the Math Fun Facts iPhone app.
The results of the 2013 International Mathematical Contest in Modeling and Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling have been announced. HMC had four teams of students participating in the contest held in February.
Over 5000 teams participated worldwide. Two HMC teams earned the designation Honorable Mention (top 46%), and two were Successful Participants.
The MCM/ICM is analogous to an applied Putnam exam, in the form of a grueling 96-hour competition. As Ben Fusaro, creator of the contest in 1983, puts it: "Most problems that come up in business, government, or industry are solved by teams, are likely to take many hours, and would not be restricted to using only pencil and paper. Moreover, the answer must be presented to an executive who wants a clear, understandable response." Thus, during the contest, students work in teams of up to three students and have 96 consecutive hours to develop a mathematical model and write a formal paper describing their work. The team's papers are judged not only on their scientific and mathematical accuracy, but also on their clarity of exposition, insight and creativity.
Please join me in congratulating these Mudders on their excellent work.
The Mathematical Association of America has chosen Rachel Levy, associate professor of mathematics, to receive its 2013 Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning Faculty Member.
The award will be presented Aug. 2, 2013 at the MAA's MathFest in Hartford, Conn.
Levy is the fourth Harvey Mudd College faculty member to receive the award since its inception in 2003, and HMC is the only college to appear more than once on the Alder Award list.
The award honors faculty whose teaching is effective and extraordinary and extends its influence beyond the classroom. Recipients receive $1,000 and a certificate of recognition.
The Alder Awards committee cited Levy's "singular teaching style encompassing creative writing and presentations about mathematics, tips about meta-cognition and problem solving, and assignments tuned to be realistically messy," as some of the reasons she was chosen to receive the award.
Levy works extensively with students on research projects such as investigating the motion of thin liquid films with surfactants (such as the lining of human lungs), developing algorithms for the coordination and control of aquatic robots, and modeling whale footprints, slick patches observed on the ocean's surface in the area of whale activity.
Her efforts have enabled students to collaborate with mathematicians and physicists at other esteemed colleges—such as North Carolina State University, Duke University, the Claremont Graduate University and UCLA—and co-author research articles, which have appeared in publications such as the Journal of Engineering Mathematics. Levy also has been instrumental in obtaining funds from the National Science Foundation, Research Corporation and the Office of Naval Research, which have supported student research and two Clinic projects.
Levy has served as chair of the HMC Teaching and Learning Committee and as advisor to the College's Math Club and SIAM student chapter. She was recently appointed the editor-in-chief of SIURO, an online publication devoted to undergraduate research in applied and computational mathematics. She is part of an HMC team investigating the efficacy of an inverted classroom teaching model, in which HMC students watch videos of lectures at home and devote class time to small-group learning activities. Levy's recent project, Grandma Got STEM, has been featured in boingboing, slate.com (US and France), Australian radio (ABC) and the Israeli newspaper the Calcalist.
The MAA established the Alder award in 2003 and presented its first awards the following year. Associate Professor of Mathematics Susan Martonosi received the award in 2012, Professor of Mathematics Francis Su received the award in 2004, and former Associate Professor of Mathematics Lesley Ward received it in 2006.
The third annual Sacred SISTAHS math and science conference for middle- and high-school girls will be held Saturday, April 20, at Harvey Mudd College.
Although open to all girls, the event will focus on empowering young African-American girls by introducing them to successful academic and professional role models.
Speakers will include Lisa Cagnolatti, vice president of Southern California Edison's Business Customer Division, Ingrid Johnson, executive director of the Council of African American Parents, and motivational speaker Nicoline Ambe. HMC math Professors Rachel Levy and Talithia Williams also will present talks. Panelists will include JPL flight systems engineer Tracy Drain, ESRI support analyst Rashan Walker, Raytheon systems engineer Tyrie Mitchell and pediatrician Jana Webb.
A special parent session, facilitated by representatives from the Council of African American Parents, will share how parents can help their daughters choose the right college, complete applications and apply for scholarships.
The event is sponsored by Sacred SISTAHS (Sisters in Solidarity Teaching and Healing our Spirits), the HMC Mathematics Department, the Mathematical Association of America, and Transcendence Children and Family Services of Pomona.
Harvey Mudd College continued its reign as the top-scoring undergraduate institution in the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, seen by many as the world's most prestigious university-level mathematics competition.
Of the 42 HMC students who spent Dec. 1, 2012 taking the very hard six-hour exam, many scored well in both the team and individual categories. Across the U.S. and Canada, 4,277 students competed, and this year the median score was 0 out of a total of 120 points. Mudders Sorathan (Tum) Chaturapruek '14, Kevin O'Neill '13 and Peter Fedak '13 placed 11th out of 578 teams. In the individual category, out of 4,277 students, Chaturapruek scored 14th nationally and was recognized in the N1 category, which is the second-highest level of distinction possible in the competition (just under Putnam Fellow). He will receive a $1,000 cash prize. Tongjia Shi '16 scored 32.5th nationally and was recognized in the Honorable Mention category. HMC's top three scorers, Chaturapruek, Shi and Fedak also will receive the RIF Prize from the HMC Department of Mathematics.
The following students made the Putnam Top 500 list: Andrew Carter '13, Michael Earnest '13, Fedak '13, Emil Guliyev '13, Henry Huang '15, O'Neill '13, Joel Ornstein '14, John Phillpot '16 and Jeremy Usatine '14.
The competition was founded in 1927 by Elizabeth Lowell Putnam in memory of her husband William Lowell Putnam, a Harvard graduate who was an advocate of intercollegiate intellectual competition. The six-hour exam, composed of 12 problems, each worth 10 points, has been offered annually since 1938 to college students in the United States and Canada and is administered by the Mathematical Association of America.
HMC students first participated in the Putnam competition on Dec. 2, 1961 and, in 1991, the HMC team garnered third place.
Four-time Putnam Fellow and Stanford University mathematics Professor Ravi Vakil will present the fifth lecture in the Michael E. Moody Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Friday, April 19, in the Galileo McAlister Lecture Hall at Harvey Mudd College.
Vakil's talk, "The Mathematics of Doodling," will explore the mathematical aspects—patterns, shapes, numbers and more—of doodling.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Dessert and refreshments will follow the presentation.
Vakil is an algebraic geometer, whose work touches on other parts of mathematics, including topology, string theory, combinatorics, numbertheory and applied mathematics. He received his doctorate in mathematics from Harvard University and taught at Princeton University and MIT before joining the Stanford faculty in 2001. His honors include the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, an American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowship, a Sloan Research Fellowship and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
He currently serves as the 2012–2014 Mathematical Association of America's Pólya Lecturer and mentors talented mathematicians ranging from high school through graduate-level students. The Michael Moody Lecture Series illuminates the joy, wonder and applicability of mathematics. The series was established by the HMC Mathematics Department in honor of Professor Michael Moody, who served as the department chair from 1996 to 2002. Under Moody's leadership, the department revised its curriculum, rejuvenated the senior-thesis program and tripled the number of math majors. He was also a guiding force that led to the department's receipt of the American Mathematical Society's inaugural award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department in 2006. Moody passed away in January 2010, and later that year was posthumously named an Honorary Alumnus of Harvey Mudd College.
Learn more about the Moody Lecture Series.
At least 200 high school girls are expected to attend the Women Engineers and Scientists of Tomorrow (WEST) Conference on Saturday, March 2 at Harvey Mudd College.
Hosted by the HMC chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), the event will offer young women an opportunity to learn about careers in engineering, science and mathematics.
Participants can meet and talk with HMC students and faculty to gain insight into college life and post-graduation career options. They will attend two workshops from a selection of sessions in engineering, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and biology. This year's workshops include using color to solve crimes, making decisions using mathematics, and creating games and animations.
The engineering workshops offer the chance to design and build something, such as a "marble" track or LED circuit. They will be led by engineering professors Adrian Hightower, Liz Orwin, Qimin Yang and Ruye Wang. Chemistry workshops will be led by chemistry professors Lelia Hawkins and Katherine Van Heuvelen. Additional workshops will be led by mathematics Professor Susan Martonosi, computer science Professor Colleen Lewis, biology Professor Anna Ahn and Teaching and Research Postdoctoral Fellow Jacqueline Dresch.
Keynote speakers will be Northrop Grumman employees Qiong Jackson, system engineer manager, and Molly Kerr, system performance lead.
The WEST Conference will also include a luncheon, a college admissions talk, a student life panel and a tour of the HMC campus.
Harvey Mudd College alumnae Lindsay Hall '12 and Andrea Levy '11 are featured in Careers in Applied Mathematics, published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
The SIAM publication profiles 18 professionals who represent the diverse careers available to mathematicians in a variety of industries and fields.
"If you broaden your perspective on what you can do with your interests and passions, you might find yourself in a career that you never imagined—but end up loving," said Hall, a software engineer at Google Inc., who works on the Google Docs team.
Levy, a research analyst for the public policy research firm Acumen, LLC, shared how her work employs creative problem-solving skills that remind her of the logic puzzles she enjoyed as a child. "The applications of math are broad enough that you should be able to find an overlap between math and another one of your interests," she said.
Harvey Mudd College mathematics Professor Art Benjamin appears on the cover of the February 2013 issue of The Magic Circular, published by British magical society The Magic Circle.
Magician and editor Will Houstoun interviewed Benjamin for a Q&A article, which begins on page 45 of the publication.
Undecided students and mathematics majors can explore careers in mathematics and graduate study opportunities at the AfterMath Conference on Saturday, Feb. 9 at Harvey Mudd College.
More than 90 people have registered for the free event, which is expected to draw more than a hundred students from throughout Southern California.
The conference will feature expert lectures, hands-on workshops and panels with graduate students and those in industry.
"Our dream is to inspire a new generation of mathematicians, who will bring brilliance and diverse perspectives to solve outstanding mathematical problems, benefitting the world around us and leading us into a better future," said Assistant Professor of Mathematics Dagan Karp, co-founder of the Pacific Alliance for Mathematical Baccalaureates, which organized the event. Modeled after the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in Mathematical Sciences, PAMB works to broaden participation in mathematics in Southern California and Hawaii.
AfterMath keynote speaker Philip Kutzko, professor of mathematics at the University of Iowa, co-founded and directs the National Alliance, which aims to increase doctoral degrees awarded to students from underrepresented groups.
Panelists include representatives from Aerospace Corporation, Math for America, Mercer, University of California at Irvine, UCLA and HMC. The event will also include a graduate school fair.
AfterMath is supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Alliance and the HMC Department of Mathematics.
Harvey Mudd College will host the Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS) Feb. 16-17, 2013, making the College the first undergraduate institution to host the prestigious event.
Ardila is an associate professor of mathematics who investigates objects in algebra, geometry, topology, phylogenetics and optimization by understanding their underlying combinatorial structure.
Giansiracusa is a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow whose research focuses on moduli spaces, birational geometry and geometric invariant theory.
Yuan is an assistant professor of mathematics who studies Arakelov geometry, Shimura varieties and automorphic forms.
Yun is an assistant professor of mathematics whose research focuses on geometric representation theory.
Supported by a National Science Foundation grant and participating institutions, WAGS is held twice a year and draws participants—including students and experts in the field of algebraic geometry—from throughout the western United States.
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation announced the selection of 271 scholarship awards for the 2013–2014 academic year to undergraduate sophomores and juniors out of 1107 nominees.
Two Harvey Mudd College students were awarded Goldwater Scholarships: Samuel Gutekunst '14 and Sheena Patel '14.
In addition an Honorable Mention has been awarded to Andrew Turner '14.
The scholarships cover tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7500 per year.
Congratulations to Sam, Sheena and Andrew!
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowships were announced today and HMC students earned thirteen offers along with nine Honorable Mentions! The NSF received over 13,000 applications for the 2013 competition and made 2,000 award offers.
Fellowships were offered to Tselil Schramm '12, a joint CS/mathematics major, and Jenny Iglesias '12, a mathematics major.
Called out for honorable mentions were Brian Stock '09, a mathematical and computational biology major, and mathematics majors Louis Ryan '12 and Alice Paul '12.
For specific details (research field/proposed institution/current institution), you can view the Award Offers and Honorable Mentions List.
Harvey Mudd College math Professor Francis Su has won the 2013 Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics.
Given by the Mathematical Association of America, the award honors college or university professors who have been widely recognized as extraordinarily successful and whose teaching has had influence beyond their own institutions. It is the MAA's highest teaching honor.
The award was presented January 10 at the MAA's Joint Math Meetings in San Diego. Su received $1000 and a certificate of recognition.
Su joined the HMC faculty in 1996. His research interests include probability, game theory and geometric and topological combinatorics. His article, "Teaching Research: Encouraging Discoveries," was featured in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011, published by Princeton University Press.
He is also the creator of the popular award-winning Math Fun Facts website and the Math Fun Facts iPhone app.
The MAA previously recognized Su with the James R.C. Leitzel Lecturer award (2006), the Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member (2004), and the Merten M. Hasse Prize for outstanding mathematical exposition (2001).
Math Professor Art Benjamin won the Haimo award in 2000 and 2012 Haimo award recipient Matthew DeLong (Taylor University) is on sabbatical this year in the HMC Department of Mathematics.
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What Did You Expect? ****
By: David Sheward
Once again playwright Richard Nelson mixes politics and cooking for a rich feast of thought in What Did You Expect?, his second play in the series The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, at the Public Theater. Like his Apple Family plays presented from 2010 to 2013, this new trilogy focuses on a middle-class clan in Rhinebeck, New York, as they discuss their own economic and emotional crises which reflect the tumultuous state of the nation at large. Meg Gibson, Maryann Plunkett
Each play takes place during a single significant day during the 2016 election cycle. The first piece, Hungry, was set on March 4, the Friday after the Super Tuesday primaries. The current work takes place on Sept. 16 (also opening night), the Friday before the first debate between the major party candidates. (The third, Women of a Certain Age, will open on Election Day.) Once again we are in the family kitchen and a meal is being prepared. But this time, instead of dinner for themselves, the characters are fixing an elaborate picnic for a potential rich client of brother George, a carpenter desperate for employment.
All of the Gabriels are on financial and psychological edge, just as their countrymen are spooked by an hysterical national election between two equally mistrusted candidates ("Everybody's scared," George's wife Hannah remarks.) George and Hannah have recently sent their son to college while George's elderly mother Patricia has fallen victim to a cash-advance scheme. In order to raise funds, they are selling the beloved family piano. Meanwhile, memories are dredged up as the papers of Thomas, George's recently deceased brother, a playwright, are gone through by Karin and Mary, Thomas' first and third wives, both now living in the family house. They are seeking anything of literary value that can be sold.
Like the confused aristocrats of The Cherry Orchard, the Gabriels are bewildered by the shifts in their circumstances and have somewhat contributed to letting their security slip away. "What did you expect?," asks George's cynical sister Joyce. Mary's license to practice medicine has expired. Patricia's rent for her retirement home has gone unpaid for months. They are equally flummoxed by the country's political dialogue (or lack thereof) and the news media. "Everyone is screaming at each other," says Hannah of the state of election coverage. References to America's forgotten literary heritage provide ironic commentary on its shallow present. The picnic they are preparing for is meant to recreate a famous outing whose participants included Hawthorne and Melville, but it's being planned by George's possible patron, who is portrayed as frivolously wasting his wealth.
Directed with understatement by Nelson, the tightly-knit company is so natural it feels as if we are eavesdropping on private conversation rather than sitting in a theater. The verisimilitude is so deep you can almost feel the weight of the family's sadness as their scratched but cherished piano is sold. Jay O. Sanders captures George's flummoxed but earnest struggle to stay afloat amidst economic squalls while Lynn Hawley conveys Hannah's starchier pragmatism. Maryann Plunkett continues to astonish as the bereaved Mary, nursing her widow's sorrow and soldiering on while Meg Gibson's Karin hovers on the edges of the action, seeking a way into the family. Roberta Maxwell skillfully portrays Patricia's helplessness and the shadow of her previous strength. Amy Warren's Joyce balances anger with wry observations.
All of Nelson's Apple and Gabriel plays have captured frightening and real moments in America's national dysfunctional family drama. The politics are never forced, the dialogue is always life-like. Unspeakably moving in its intimacy and poignant sense of loss, What Did You Expect? is my favorite so far.
Sept. 16—Oct. 9. The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., NYC. Tue—Sun, 7:30 pm; Sat, Sun, 2 pm. Running time: one hour and 45 mins. with no intermission. $65. (212) 967-7555. www.pubictheater.org.
Photos: Joan Marcus
Amy Warren, Jay O, Sanders
Originally Published on September 23, 2016 in ArtsinNY.com
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Single Dad Gets Shamed For Hugging Gay Son, Reddit Has The Best Response
A single dad turned to Reddit to get the community's opinion after he snapped at his sister for accusing him
By Joel Balsam February 17, 2021
A single dad turned to Reddit to get the community's opinion after he snapped at his sister for accusing him of being creepy and perverted when he hugged his gay son.
His sister came to visit
A popular subreddit called AITA (Am I The A**hole), received a thought-provoking post recently. It came from user illbreakuo, a 32-year-old single dad of a 16-year-old.
In the post, the father described not having a good relationship with his family after he decided to raise his son on his own. However, he does still talk to his sister — a 42-year-old with a 15-year-old daughter.
"Few weeks ago [my sister] told me that she was really struggling financially and couldn't pay rent," the man wrote. "I told her she could stay with me for a bit until she got back on her feet."
She questioned his parenting style
So the man's sister moved in, and he immediately noticed a strain in her relationship with her daughter.
"The daughter went straight to where I told her her bedroom would be and didn't come out for dinner. She's been acting like that ever since, I don't know if it's usual because my sister isn't paying any attention to her."
Meanwhile, the sister was "acting snobby" towards the dad and his parenting style.
"She 'discussed' more like lectured me on my parenting styles and how 'no offense' but it's really dangerous to let 16 year old go out past 9 pm and have a boyfriend and give him so much freedom while he's still a kid. I tried my best to ignore it."
She accused him of being creepy
The day before the post, the man was in the kitchen with his sister when his son came in to say goodbye before going to a sleepover. The son hugged his dad and said "love you, bye" and then left.
"I think that's pretty f*cking normal, but my sister started looking at me weirdly and asked if he always does that, I asked her what he was asking and she straight up told me that it seemed creepy and perverted to have physical contact with my son."
At that point, the man lost it.
"I had it up to my neck at that point and I just snapped. I told her that just because her daughter has sh*tty relationship with her and refuses to talk to her doesn't mean that it's not normal to have close relationship with their child and she's actually sick and delusional for even thinking about something like [this].
She got offended of course and went upstairs to her room. We briefly argued after [a] few hours and she basically said that 'she had good intentions and didn't mean anything to offend me so much and I should apologize for insulting her and sticking my nose into her and her daughter's relationship'. We haven't talked after that and I haven't apologized to her."
So, the man took to Reddit to hear what the AITA community had to say.
Reddit's ruling
Despite the sister not weighing in with her side of the story, Reddit had a pretty clear idea of who was in the wrong, or in the site's lingo, NTA.
mashourmasher: "Just to clarify, your son has a boyfriend, correct? What's that sound Scoob? Why, nothing but the shrieks of an enraged homophobic family member!"
Crypticedge: "There's also the expectation of toxic masculinity where any sort of affection shown by a father to a son is an as inappropriate and creepy. She's a sh*tty sister, that's for sure."
raerae6672: "You have a loving and close relationship with your child. At 16 for your son to still be openly affectionate with you is a great thing. You have obviously been a loving parent and your is growing up to be secure in that love. You are doing great. Your sister is disgusting for suggesting otherwise. You were right to call her out."
"Child comfortable enough to come out young and have a boyfriend. Check. Comfortable with expressing emotions. Check. Comfortable with being honest with their parent about their plans. Check. Good parent checklist covered. You are a good dad and should remind yourself [of] these successes often. NTA."
Reddit user Frequent_Spell7240
9r7g5h: "I'm 27, and whenever I'm visiting my parents, we always hug and kiss and snuggle on the couch. It's always been this way, and is super normal."
Love and affection is part of parenting
It's unclear whether it was homophobia against the teenager, jealousy for the father and son's relationship, or if she was lashing out because she didn't want to have to ask for help, but the sister exhibited unquestionably problematic behavior here.
It is fine, and in fact a sign of a positive relationship, if a parent and child express love and affection for each other. Perhaps the sister will take this as a lesson to improve her own relationship with her daughter.
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Q: How to efficiently track rolling min / max values in a frequently updated sliding array Consider the following javascript data structure:
let sensors = {
  sensor1: {
    min: 1.00,
    max: 9.00,
    data: [
      {
        timestamp: 1517760374400,
        value: 1.00
      },
      {
        timestamp: 1517760374500,
        value: 2.00
      },
      {
        timestamp: 1517760374600,
        value: 9.00
      },
      {
        timestamp: 1517760374700,
        value: 1.00
      },
      {
        timestamp: 1517760374800,
        value: 3.00
      },
      {
        timestamp: 1517760374900,
        value: 1.00
      },
      {
        timestamp: 1517760375000,
        value: 9.00
      },
      {
        timestamp: 1517760375100,
        value: 8.00
      },
    ]
  },
  // sensor2, sensor3, etc...
}

Imagine there could be thousands of timestamped data for each sensor.
Initially you can easily set a min / max value, every time an object is added by checking if it is bigger or smaller than the current max
But the tricky part and my question is this:
What is the size of the array is limited - in this case we would set it to a length of 8.
Whenever a new item after item 8 is added (the limit is reached), the 1st item will be removed, and the nth item will be pushed into the end of the array.
The problem is that there can be more items with the same value, and even if there isn't we have no way of knowing which min / max is next without iterating the entire array once again
This is supposed to be scalable to thousands of array items, and is to be run roughly every second with ideally - as low cpu utilization as possible - I don't really think looping over thousands of items every second will be effecient enough.
Do you see another other ways of keeping track of min / max values of an array which is changing like this ever second?

A: Data structure:

*

*Queue size of N to store N item.

*Min / Max Heap to track the min / max item.

*A hash map to track the frequency of each item.
When you there is a coming data, update the frequency of the new item, if not there in the heap, add it.
When you need to pop an item, decrease the frequency, while frequency of head == 0, remove from the heap.
Head of the heap is the solution.
Pseudo code:

const swap = (data, i, j) => {
  let temp = data[i];
  data[i] = data[j];
  data[j] = temp;
}

class Heap {
  constructor() {
    this.data = [];
    this.inHeap = {};
    this.size = 0;
  }

  head() {
    return this.data[0];
  }
  // add item O(logN);
  add(number) {

    if (!this.inHeap[number]) {
      this.data[this.size++] = number;
      let current = this.size - 1;

      while (current > 0) {
        if (this.data[current >> 1] < this.data[current]) {
          swap(this.data, current >> 1, current);
          current >>= 1;
        } else {
          break;
        }
      }
      this.inHeap[number] = true;
    }

  }
  // remove head O(logN);
  remove() {
    this.size--;
    delete this.inHeap[this.data[0]];
    this.data[0] = this.data[this.size];

    let current = 0;
    while (current * 2 + 1 < this.size) {
      let next = current * 2 + 1;
      if (current * 2 + 2 < this.size && this.data[current * 2 + 2] > this.data[current * 2 + 1]) {
        next = current * 2 + 2;
      }

      if (this.data[current] < this.data[next]) {
        swap(this.data, current, next);
        current = next;
      } else {
        break;
      }
    }

  }
}

class Queue {
  constructor(maxSize) {
    this.maxSize = maxSize;
    this.size = 0;
    this.data = [];
    this.head = -1;
  }

  // add a number and return the removed item if any
  add(number) {
    let next = (this.head + 1) % this.maxSize;
    let removedItem = this.data[next];
    this.data[next] = number;
    this.head = next;

    if (removedItem === undefined) {
      this.size++;
    }

    return removedItem;
  }

  get(i) {
    return this.data[(this.head - this.size + 1 + i + this.maxSize ) % this.maxSize];
  }
}

class Solution {
  constructor(n) {
    this.n = n;
    this.queue = new Queue(this.n);
    this.heap = new Heap();
    this.frequency = {};
  }
  add(number) {
    let removedItem = this.queue.add(number);

    if (!this.frequency[number]) {
      this.frequency[number] = 1;
      this.heap.add(number);
    } else {
      this.frequency[number]++;
    }

    if (removedItem !== undefined) {
      this.frequency[removedItem]--;

      if (!this.frequency[removedItem]) {
        delete this.frequency[removedItem];
      }

      // remove head if frequency is zero
      while (!this.frequency[this.heap.head()]) {
        this.heap.remove();
      }
    }
  }

  size() {
    return this.queue.size;
  }

  get(i) {
    return this.queue.get(i);
  }

  max() {
    return this.heap.head();
  }
}

/*** use of solution here!! **/
let solution = new Solution(3);
let numberInput = document.getElementById("number");
let data = document.getElementById("data");
let maxResult = document.getElementById("max");
let heapData = document.getElementById("heap");
let queueData = document.getElementById("queue");
let frequencyData = document.getElementById("frequency");

function addNumber() {
  let value = parseInt(numberInput.value);

  if (isNaN(value)) {
    alert("Please input a number!");
  } else {
    solution.add(value);
  }

  maxResult.innerHTML = "Max: " + solution.max();

  // gather data
  let dataString = "";
  for (let i = 0; i < solution.size(); i++) {
    dataString += " " + solution.get(i);
  }

  data.innerHTML = "Data: " + dataString;
  heapData.innerHTML = "Heap: " + JSON.stringify(solution.heap.data.slice(0, solution.heap.size));
  queueData.innerHTML = "Queue: " + JSON.stringify(solution.queue);
  frequencyData.innerHTML = "Frequency: " + JSON.stringify(solution.frequency);

  numberInput.value = parseInt(Math.random() * 1000);
}
.input {
  display: flex;
}

.input input {
  width: 200px;
  padding: 5px 10px;
  outline: none;
}

.input button {
  padding: 5px 10px;
  border: 1px solid light gray;
}

div {
  padding: 5px 10px;
}

  <input type="text" id="number" />
  <button onClick="addNumber()">Add</button>

    Data:

    Max: undefined!

      Heap:

    Queue:

      Frequency:

A: Sounds fun. I think that you're going to run into a problem where you just don't know a priori whether a value is going to be an extreme (max/min) value in the future.
My thought would be to add an expiration counter to your current max & min values. This counter decrements each time you don't replace your rolling min/max. It is reset to 8 when it is updated with a new, fresh value. Min and max obviously have separate counters.
Now you only have to loop through your values if a counter decrements to 0 and your min/max value becomes stale (it is no longer in your list). If, for example, your min counter expires, you now have to identify the remaining minimum that is currently in your list of 8. In this case, you'll reset the expiration counter to match the number of iterations until that new min value gets removed from the list (8 - it's index).
That might save you some CPU cycles!

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Australian veterinary classrooms are increasingly diverse and their growing internal diversity is a result of migration and large numbers of international students. Graduates interact with other students and increasingly with clients whose attitudes, beliefs, values, and behaviors differ from their own. An understanding and respect for these differences has an impact on client communication and health care outcomes. The present study explored how students understand and are likely to deal with issues of cultural diversity in veterinary professional practice as well as the educational needs that students feel should be met in regard to preparation to engage productively with diversity in professional practice. The present study also explored the extent to which the rich diversity of the undergraduate student population constitutes an educational resource. A class of final-year veterinary students was invited to participate in a workshop exploring intercultural confidence in veterinary consultation. Twelve groups of six to eight students discussed a fictitious scenario involving a challenging clinical encounter with a client from a different culture. Students were reticent to see the scenario in terms of cultural difference, although they generally recognized that awareness of cultural issues in veterinary practice was important. They also tended to not see their own ethnicity as relevant to their practice. While some felt that veterinary practice should be culture blind, most recognized a need to orient to cultural difference and to respond sensitively. Their suggestions for curricular improvements to address these issues are also included.


Gurdjieff's foremost disciple explains self-remembering and recalls his first attempts to practice it. With great excitement and clarity, he offers a brilliant description of the lost-in-thought state.
The following excerpt comes from chapter seven of P.D. Ouspensky's book In Search of the Miraculous. The title used on this page, "Self-Remembering," does not appear in the book.
ON ONE OCCASION while talking with G. [Gurdjieff] I asked him whether he considered it possible to attain "cosmic consciousness," not for a brief moment only but for a longer period. I understood the expression "cosmic consciousness" in the sense of a higher consciousness possible for man in the sense in which I had previously written about it in my book Tertium Organum.
"I do not know what you call 'cosmic consciousness,'" said G., "it is a vague and indefinite term; anyone can call anything he likes by it. In most cases what is called 'cosmic consciousness' is simply fantasy, associative daydreaming connected with intensified work of the emotional center. Sometimes it comes near to ecstasy but most often it is merely a subjective emotional experience on the level of dreams. But even apart from all this before we can speak of 'cosmic consciousness' we must define in general what consciousness is.
"All this is rubbish," said G., "the usual scientific sophistry. It is time you got rid of it. Only one thing is true in what you have said: that you can know consciousness only in yourself. Observe that I say you can know, for you can know it only when you have it. And when you have not got it, you can know that you have not got it, not at that very moment, but afterwards. I mean that when it comes again you can see that it has been absent a long time, and you can find or remember the moment when it disappeared and when it reappeared. You can also define the moments when you are nearer to consciousness and further away from consciousness. But by observing in yourself the appearance and the disappearance of consciousness you will inevitably see one fact which you neither see nor acknowledge now, and that is that moments of consciousness are very short and are separated by long intervals of completely unconscious, mechanical working of the machine. You will then see that you can think, feel, act, speak, work, without being conscious of it. And if you learn to see in yourselves the moments of consciousness and the long periods of mechanicalness, you will as infallibly see in other people when they are conscious of what they are doing and when they are not.
I cannot say that what was said about consciousness became clear to me at once. But one of the subsequent talks explained to me the principles on which these arguments were based.
Some of those present said that during attempts at self-observation, what they had felt particularly strongly was an incessant flow of thoughts which they had found impossible to stop. Others spoke of the difficulty of distinguishing the work of one center from the work of another. I had evidently not altogether understood the question, or I answered my own thoughts, because I said that what struck me most was the connectedness of one thing with another in the system, the wholeness of the system, as if it were an "organism," and the entirely new significance of the word to know which included not only the idea of knowing this thing or that, but the connection between this thing and everything else.
G. was obviously dissatisfied with our replies. I had already begun to understand him in such circumstances and I saw that he expected from us indications of something definite that we had either missed or failed to understand.
"Not one of you has noticed the most important thing that I have pointed out to you," he said. "That is to say, not one of you has noticed that you do not remember yourselves." (He gave particular emphasis to these words.) "You do not feel yourselves; you are not conscious of yourselves. With you, 'it observes' just as 'it speaks,' 'it thinks,' 'it laughs.' You do not feel: I observe, I notice, I see. Everything still 'is noticed,' 'is seen.' … In order really to observe oneself one must first of all remember oneself." (He again emphasized these words.) "Try to remember yourselves when you observe yourselves and later on tell me the results. Only those results will have any value that are accompanied by selfremembering. Otherwise you yourselves do not exist in your observations. In which case what are all your observations worth?" These words of G.'s made me think a great deal. It seemed to me at once that they were the key to what he had said before about consciousness. But I decided to draw no conclusions whatever, but to try to remember myself while observing myself. The very first attempts showed me how difficult it was. Attempts at self remembering failed to give any results except to show me that in actual fact we never remember ourselves.
All that G. said, all that I myself thought, and especially all that my attempts at self remembering had shown me, very soon convinced me that I was faced with an entirely new problem which science and philosophy had not, so far, come across.
But before making deductions, I will try to describe my attempts to remember myself.
The first impression was that attempts to remember myself or to be conscious of myself, to say to myself, I am walking, I am doing, and continually to feel this I, stopped thought. When I was feeling I, I could neither think nor speak; even sensations became dimmed. Also, one could only remember oneself in this way for a very short time.
I had previously made certain experiments in stopping thought which are mentioned in books on Yoga practices. For example there is such a description in Edward Carpenter's book From Adam's Peak to Elephanta, although it is a very general one. And my first attempts to self-remember reminded me exactly of these, my first experiments. Actually it was almost the same thing with the one difference that in stopping thoughts attention is wholly directed towards the effort of not admitting thoughts, while in selfremembering attention becomes divided, one part of it is directed towards the same effort, and the other part to the feeling of self.
This last realization enabled me to come to a certain, possibly a very incomplete, definition of "self-remembering," which nevertheless proved to be very useful in practice.
I am speaking of the division of attention which is the characteristic feature of self-remembering.
I ⟶ the observed phenomenon.
I ⟷ the observed phenomenon.
Having defined this I saw that the problem consisted in directing attention on oneself without weakening or obliterating the attention directed on something else. Moreover this "something else" could as well be within me as outside me.
The very first attempts at such a division of attention showed me its possibility. At the same time I saw two things clearly.
In the first place I saw that self-remembering resulting from this method had nothing in common with "self-feeling," or "self-analysis." It was a new and very interesting state with a strangely familiar flavor.
And secondly I realized that moments of self-remembering do occur in life, although rarely. Only the deliberate production of these moments created the sensation of novelty. Actually I had been familiar with them from early childhood. They came either in new and unexpected surroundings, in a new place, among new people while traveling, for instance, when suddenly one looks about one and says: How strange! I and in this place; or in very emotional moments, in moments of danger, in moments when it is necessary to keep one's head, when one hears one's own voice and sees and observes oneself from the outside.
I saw quite clearly that my first recollections of life, in my own case very early ones, were moments of self-remembering. This last realization revealed much else to me. That is, I saw that I really only remember those moments of the past in which I remembered myself. Of the others I know only that they took place. I am not able wholly to revive them, to experience them again. But the moments when I had remembered myself were alive and were in no way different from the present. I was still afraid to come to conclusions. But I already saw that I stood upon the threshold of a very great discovery. I had always been astonished at the weakness and the insufficiency of our memory. So many things disappear. For some reason or other the chief absurdity of life for me consisted in this. Why experience so much in order to forget it afterwards? Besides there was something degrading in this. A man feels something which seems to him very big, he thinks he will never forget it; one or two years pass by — and nothing remains of it. It now became clear to me why this was so and why it could not be otherwise. If our memory really keeps alive only moments of self-remembering, it is clear why our memory is so poor.
All these were the realizations of the first days. Later, when I began to learn to divide attention, I saw that self-remembering gave wonderful sensations which, in a natural way, that is, by themselves, come to us only very seldom and in exceptional conditions. Thus, for instance, at that time I used very much to like to wander through St. Petersburg at night and to "sense" the houses and the streets. St. Petersburg is full of these strange sensations. Houses, especially old houses, were quite alive, I all but spoke to them. There was no "imagination" in it. I did not think of anything, I simply walked along while trying to remember myself and looked about; the sensations came by themselves.
Later on I was to discover many unexpected things in the same way. But I will speak of this further on.
Sometimes self-remembering was not successful; at other times it was accompanied by curious observations.
I was once walking along the Liteiny towards the Nevsky, and in spite of all my efforts I was unable to keep my attention on selfremembering. The noise, movement, everything distracted me. Every minute I lost the thread of attention, found it again, and then lost it again. At last I felt a kind of ridiculous irritation with myself and I turned into the street on the left having firmly decided to keep my attention on the fact that I would remember myself at least for some time, at any rate until I reached the following street. I reached the Nadejdinskaya without losing the thread of attention except, perhaps, for short moments. Then I again turned towards the Nevsky realizing that, in quiet streets, it was easier for me not to lose the line of thought and wishing therefore to test myself in more noisy streets. I reached the Nevsky still remembering myself, and was already beginning to experience the strange emotional state of inner peace and confidence which comes after great efforts of this kind. Just round the corner on the Nevsky was a tobacconist's shop where they made my cigarettes. Still remembering myself I thought I would call there and order some cigarettes.
Two hours later I woke up in the Tavricheskaya, that is, far away. I was going by izvostchik to the printers. The sensation of awakening was extraordinarily vivid. I can almost say that I came to. I remembered everything at once. How I had been walking along the Nadejdinskaya, how I had been remembering myself, how I had thought about cigarettes, and how at this thought I seemed all at once to fall and disappear into a deep sleep.
At the same time, while immersed in this sleep, I had continued to perform consistent and expedient actions. I left the tobacconist, called at my Hat in the Liteiny, telephoned to the printers. I wrote two letters.
Then again I went out of the house. I walked on the left side of the Nevsky up to the Gostinoy Dvor intending to go to the Offitzerskaya. Then I had changed my mind as it was getting late. I had taken an izvostchik and was driving to the Kavalergardskaya to my printers. And on the way while driving along the Tavricheskaya I began to feel a strange uneasiness, as though I had forgotten something. — And suddenly I remembered that I had forgotten to remember myself.
I spoke of my observations and deductions to the people in our group as well as to my various literary friends and others.
I told them that this was the center of gravity of the whole system and of all work on oneself; that now work on oneself was not only empty words but a real fact full of significance thanks to which psychology becomes an exact and at the same time a practical science.
I said that European and Western psychology in general had overlooked a fact of tremendous importance, namely, that we do not remember ourselves; that we live and act and reason in deep sleep, not metaphorically but in absolute reality. And also that, at the same time, we can remember ourselves if we make sufficient efforts, that we can awaken.
I was struck by the difference between the understanding of the people who belonged to our groups and that of people outside them. The people who belonged to our groups understood, though not all at once, that we had come into contact with a "miracle," and that it was something "new," something that had never existed anywhere before.
The other people did not understand this; they took it all too lightly and sometimes they even began to prove to me that such theories had existed before. A. L. Volinsky, whom I had often met and with whom I had talked a great deal since 1909 and whose opinions I valued very much, did not find in the idea of "self remembering" anything that he had not known before.
I did not want to argue with Volinsky. I had read Wundt. And of course what Wundt had written was not at all what I had said to Volinsky. Wundt had come close to this idea, but others had come just as close and had afterwards gone off in a different direction. He had not seen the magnitude of the idea which was hidden behind his thoughts about different forms of perception. And not having seen the magnitude of the idea he of course could not see the central position which the idea of the absence of consciousness and the idea of the possibility of the voluntary creation of this consciousness ought to occupy in our thinking. Only it seemed strange to me that Volinsky could not see this even when I pointed it out to him.
I subsequently became convinced that this idea was hidden by an impenetrable veil for many otherwise very intelligent people — and still later on I saw why this was so.
This article is reprinted from the book In Search of the Miraculous. Copyright © 1949 Harcourt Brace & Company. Copyright renewed 1977 Tatiana Nagro.
Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky (1878-1947) was an author, teacher, and student of George Gurdjieff.
The path to enlightenment often begins with the discovery that we are nearly always lost in thought. In other words, we are nearly always in a state of apparent unconsciousness. Ouspensky made this discovery and recognized its tremendous importance. In this book he describes that discovery and state better than anyone else has ever done. For this reason alone, this book is a classic that deserves to be in every serious seeker's library. Ouspensky's term for the opposite of "lost in thought" is "self-remembering," and this a very good term indeed. Self-remembering is what you do to keep yourself out of the unconscious, lost-in-thought state. When we describe Ouspensky's ideas this way it's obvious that he was recommending something very similar to Ramana Maharshi's Self-enquiry, but he didn't know this, and as far as we can tell from his books, he himself wasn't able to stabilize outside the lost-in-thought state. But his discovery of that state, and the excitement and clarity with which he describes it, make this book must-reading. We recommend it highly.
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Known serial disability discrimination litigant files again in California
By John Breslin | Jan 31, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO — A disabled woman suing a California hotel over claims of discrimination has filed dozens of lawsuits in that state and others in Arizona.
Theresa Brooke, who is from Arizona, most recently claimed the Liberty Inn Bakersfield failed to comply with the national and state standards in designing accessible parking spots.
But Brooke is better known for filing suits against hotels over the lack of pool lifts for disabled individuals, including 70 over a six-week period in 2016.
All of those claims of American Disabilities Act violations were dismissed by a federal judge, largely because she had not visited any of the hotels.
Brooke, who uses a wheelchair, is represented in this most recent case and in others by Phoenix attorney Peter Kristopher Strojnik, who has been involved in many suits alleging violations of the ADA.
Julie Griffiths of the California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse said she is well aware of both the attorney, Peter Kristopher Strojnik, and the plaintiff.
"His clients file against hotels and motels, particularly focusing on pools and pool lifts," Griffiths told the Northern California Record.
"I spoke with a small hotel owner who received one of these suits," Griffiths said. "But they cannot afford to go to court to fight it. 99.9 percent of these small businesses cannot afford the court process."
Griffiths said the issue of serial litigation over alleged disability discrimination is much worse in California because of a separate state law where plaintiffs can ask for more money.
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Brooke, who requires a wheelchair, filed a complaint Dec. 7 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging violations of the California Unruh Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
When contacted, Strojnik, who runs the Strojnik Law Firm LLC, which is listed in the court documents, immediately told the Record not to confuse him with his father, also named Peter Strojnik. Business records show that Peter Kristopher Strojnik is the agent for the Strojnik Law Firm.
But in three separate calls, the younger Strojnik refused to explain further or answer questions about the suit filed by Brooke.
The State Bar of Arizona website lists Peter Kristopher Strojnik as currently suspended, though he is listed by the California bar as still active.
The elder Strojnik is linked to the group Advocates for Individuals with Disabilities (AID), which was criticized by disability-rights groups for filing multiple lawsuits against hotels.
Arizona state attorneys in December filed a motion in federal court to label Peter Strojnik a "vexatious litigant" and limit his ability to file new lawsuits, according to ABC15 News in Phoenix, which also reported he has filed nearly 2,000 in recent years. His firm is Strojnik PC, according to business records.
The motion states that the move is necessary to protect the "District Court of Arizona and the public from Mr. Strojnik's abusive and bad-faith litigation practices."
The most recent suit claims that while Brooke was in the parking lot she found there was no label displayed highlighting that a parking spot was accessible for disabled people and that she could not navigate from her spot to the access aisle due to the steepness of the slope.
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The Vast Fields of Ordinary
By Nick Burd
Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues
Mar 17, 2011 | 320 Pages | Young Adult
May 14, 2009 | 320 Pages | Young Adult
Mar 17, 2011 | 320 Pages
About The Vast Fields of Ordinary
It's Dade's last summer at home, and things are pretty hopeless. He has a crappy job, a "boyfriend" who treats him like dirt, and his parents' marriage is falling apart. So when he meets and falls in love with the mysterious Alex Kincaid, Dade feels like he's finally experiencing true happiness. But when a tragedy shatters the final days of summer, he realizes he must face his future and learn how to move forward from his past.
About Nick Burd
Nick Burd attended the University of Iowa and received his MFA from The New School. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Vast Fields of Ordinary is his first novel.
Published by Speak
Mar 17, 2011 | 320 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780142418208
May 14, 2009 | 320 Pages | Young Adult | ISBN 9781101050804
People Who Read The Vast Fields of Ordinary Also Read
"A fascinating and dreamy first novel." –New York Times
"Bold. Engaging. Heartbreaking." -Ellen Hopkins, New York Times bestselling author of Crank
"A brilliant account of alienation and angst in the heartland." –Quest Magazine
"Nick Burd reaps a bounty from The Vast Fields of Ordinary." –Vanity Fair
"Burd is a terrific writer+he is a new talent to watch." –Booklist, starred review


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Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price.It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined — every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favour or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes." />The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games.Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price.It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined — every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favour or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.
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In wake of 2 deals, Marlins seek further upgrade for offense
Women's March shrinks to a mere 10K Trump haters who can't acknowledge the president's successes
By STEVEN WINE - Associated Press - Tuesday, December 3, 2019
MIAMI (AP) - The Miami Marlins will seek to add further pop to their lineup this offseason after acquiring slugging first baseman Jesús Aguilar and the versatile Jonathan Villar, who will be used primarily at third base and in the outfield.
"We improved our offense, but we had a long way to go," president of baseball operations Michael Hill said Tuesday. "So we're still exploring opportunities to improve our offense."
The Marlins acquired Villar on Monday from the Baltimore Orioles for minor league left-hander Easton Lucas and claimed Aguilar off waivers after he was designated for assignment last week by the Tampa Bay Rays.
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Adding bats was the primary goal at the start of the offseason after the Marlins finished last in the National League in runs and homers.
They also are shopping for bullpen help, including a closer. Starting pitching isn't a priority because young arms are the organization's strength.
"We believe in the starting pitching depth we currently have," Hill said. "We think this is championship-elite starting pitching. We're definitely happy with the quality and quantity."
Versatility should be a strong suit of the everyday lineup. Villar joins a roster that includes Brian Anderson, Garrett Cooper and Jon Berti, all of whom can play both the infield and outfield.
Villar has played 54 games at third and 13 in the outfield. He's also an option at shortstop (385 games) and second base (333).
"He's incredibly versatile and athletic," Hill said.
Villar batted .274 with 33 doubles, 24 home runs, 73 RBIs and 40 stolen bases in 162 games for Baltimore in 2019.
Aguilar was an All-Star for Milwaukee in 2018, when he had 35 home runs. This year he had 12 homers and 50 RBIs for the Brewers and Rays.
In another move Monday, the Marlins designated hard-throwing reliever Tayron Guerrero for assignment. He gave up 36 walks in 46 innings this year and had an ERA of 6.26.
"For a number of our young relievers, they need to get better and throw more strikes," Hill said. "As we win more games and compete for championships, guys are going to have to command the strike zone. Guys given an opportunity have to take advantage. If they aren't able to take advantage of that opportunity, we'll find someone who is."
The Marlins look to be more competitive next year after going 57-105 in 2019, their 10th consecutive losing season.
"Monday was just the first step in making additions to this club and putting ourselves in position to have a successful 2020 season," Hill said.
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Sunny Leone who is currently busy with her show Splitsvilla was recently accused of not returning Rs 5 lakh signing amount by Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi produces Bharat Patel. Reportedly, she has failed to return the amount that she had taken to do a special dance number in the film.
A report in Times Now suggests that neither did Sunny return the money nor did she turned up for the dance number. Bharat in a statement said, "According to the deal, Sunny was supposed to be paid a total of Rs 40 lakh for the song – Rs 5 lakh as signing amount, Rs 5 lakh after the look test, Rs 10 lakh during the rehearsals and the remaining Rs 10 lakh during the promotions. Sunny was paid Rs 5 lakh as the signing amount but after that when she was called to discuss the dates with the other actors and the other details that needed to be finalised before the shoot, she did not respond to the production team's calls and messages".
Patel even mentioned that they had hey had sent a legal notice to Sunny in 2017 regarding the same but did not receive any response from Sunny's end. A source close to Sunny told the daily that Sunny had allotted dates for the song "But there was a lot of back and forth on the dates and the makers kept changing the shoot dates. As a result, Sunny allotted her free dates to other projects. She's a professional. How would she keep dealing with so much back and forth?".
Sunny Leone started her acting career after appearing on Bigg Boss where she was approached by many Bollywood directors. She made her debut with Mahesh Bhatt's movie Jism 2 which bagged her recognition. Sunny Leone has a jam-packed year as she will be seen making her debut, into Kollywood as well as Tollywood industry this year.