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Young, Jessica. "Joy Kogawa". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 19 February 2019, Historica Canada. https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/joy-kogawa. Accessed 20 January 2020.
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Joy Kogawa
Article by Jessica Young
Updated by Jessica Young
Last Edited February 19, 2019
Joy Nozomi Kogawa (née Nakayama), CM, OBC, poet, novelist, activist (born 6 June 1935 in Vancouver, BC). Joy Kogawa is one of the most influential Canadian authors of Japanese descent. She is celebrated both for her moving, fictionalized accounts of the internment of Japanese Canadians and her work in the Redress Movement to obtain compensation and reparation for her community. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia, as well as Japan's Order of the Rising Sun.
Joy Kogawa in front of Joy Kogawa House in 2005. (courtesy Dan Toulgoet, flickr)
Joy Kogawa spent her early childhood in Vancouver. Her parents were first-generation Japanese-Canadians	(Issei) who immigrated to Canada before she was born. Her mother taught kindergarten and her father was a minister. Though Kogawa was a second-generation Japanese-Canadian (Nisei), she was raised in a predominantly White, middle-class neighbourhood.
When Kogawa was six years old, she and her family were among the thousands of Japanese Canadians forcibly removed from their homes and interned	during the Second World War. They were moved first to Slocan, in the British Columbia	interior, and later to Coaldale, Alberta.
After finishing high school in Alberta, Kogawa attended the University of Alberta in 1954, as well as the Anglican Women's Training College and the Royal Conservatory of Music	in 1956. In 1968, she attended the University of Saskatchewan.
After working as a teacher, a staff writer for the prime minister and a freelance writer, Kogawa became the writer in residence at the University of Ottawa	in 1978. She moved to Toronto in 1979.
Kogawa began her literary career as a poet with her first poetry collection of tightly controlled verse, The Splintered Moon (1968). This was followed by A Choice of Dreams (1974), Jericho Road (1977) and Six Poems (1978), in which Kogawa explores her Japanese ancestry. Kogawa's later poetry publications include A Song of Lilith (2000) and A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems (2003).
Joy Kogawa is best known for her award-winning novel Obasan (1981), one of the Literary Review of Canada's 100 Most Important Canadian Books. Obasan is a semiautobiographical, lyrical and heart-rending account of the losses and suffering endured by Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. The story is told from the perspective of a middle-aged woman, Naomi Nakane, as she remembers her experiences as a young girl.
The novel has become a touchstone for the internment of Japanese Canadians. By the late 1980s, the novel was being taught in schools and universities	across Canada. The word "obasan" also translates to "woman" in Japanese, and many scholars and critics have praised the novel for its strong feminist undertones.
Obasan played a critical role in the Redress Movement to obtain compensation and reparation for Japanese Canadians. Both Ed Broadbent and Gerry Weiner read passages from the novel during the official redress settlement and apology in Parliament in 1988.
Kogawa continued Naomi's story in her 1992 Itsuka, which was revised and published under the title Emily Kato in 2005. Kogawa took on another complex issue in her 1995 novel, The Rain Ascends. Here, a middle-aged narrator must find a way to accept that her father, an Anglican minister, is a pedophile.
Kogawa has also published two picture books about these events, Naomi's Road (1986) and Naomi's Tree (2009), as well as a young adult novel in Japanese, titled Naomi No Michi. A children's opera	based on Naomi's Road was premiered by Vancouver Opera in 2005.
Kogawa was the writer in residence at the University of Toronto in 2012–13. In 2016, she released a memoir titled Gently to Nagasaki, a self-described "spiritual pilgrimage."
Joy Kogawa House
In 2006, Kogawa, with the support of the Land Conservancy of British Columbia and the Save Kogawa House committee, saved her family's original Vancouver home from imminent demolition. The house was built between 1912 and 1913 and is located in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Marpole, which became known for its growing Japanese population before the Second World War.
The Nakayama family lived in the home from 1937 to 1942, when the federal government confiscated the property under the War Measures Act. When the Nakayama family were forcibly relocated to Alberta, their property — including boats, furniture and cars — was sold to pay for their internment. As a result, the family home was sold in September 1944. The family was never to return to their Marpole home.
The home is described in great detail in Kogawa's first novel Obasan, and Kogawa has stated that "the longing for that house was forever." She sent letters to the residents of her former family home, asking if they would be willing to sell the home back to them, but never received a reply. The house, now operated by the Historic Joy Kogawa House Society, serves as a literary landmark. The space is used for author residencies, public tours and special events.
Joy Kogawa was married to David Kogawa from 1957 to 1968. They have two children together.
Joy Kogawa was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1986 and the Order of British Columbia	in 2006. The Japanese government also honoured her with the Order of the Rising Sun in 2010 "for her contribution to the understanding and preservation of Japanese Canadian history."
She received a National Award from the National Association of Japanese Canadians in 2001. In 2008, she was awarded the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award, honouring an outstanding literary career in British Columbia. Since 2004, "Joy Kogawa Day" has been recognized in Vancouver on 6 November.
Books in Canada First Novel Award (1981)
Canadian Authors Association Book of the Year Award (1982)
Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1982)
Member, Order of Canada (1986)
Urban Alliance Race Relations Award (1994)
Grace MacInnis Visiting Scholar Award (1995)
National Award, National Association of Japanese Canadians (2001)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Association of American Studies (2001)
Member, Order of British Columbia (2006)
George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award (2008)
Member, Order of the Rising Sun (Japan) (2010)
Doctor of Laws, University of Lethbridge (1991)
Doctor of Letters, University of Guelph (1992)
Doctor of Laws, Simon Fraser University (1993)
Doctor of Divinity, Knox College, University of Toronto (1999)
Doctor of Letters, University of British Columbia (2001)
Doctor of Laws, Queen's University (2003)
Doctor of Laws, University of Windsor (2003)
Doctor of Letters, University of Victoria (2017)
The Splintered Moon (1968)
A Choice of Dreams (1974)
Jericho Road (1977)
Six Poems (1978)
Woman in the Woods (1985)
A Song of Lilith (2000)
A Garden of Anchors (2003)
Obasan (1981)
Itsuka (1992)
The Rain Ascends (1995)
Naomi's Road (1996)
Naomi's Tree (2009)
Gently to Nagasaki (2016)
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Post Mortem and Analysis
On the theory that there is much to talk about re: results of Toronto's October 25 municipal election, All Fired Up in the Big Smoke has assembled its crack team of observers to dissect what happened, why and what's next. This week, well, we just said. They'll discuss the outcome of Monday's election.
Cityslikr (heretoforth, CS): Well, the verdict's in. Rob Ford won and everyone who didn't vote for him is to blame. Especially hipster urbanites who never took him seriously and spent the entire campaign mocking, ridiculing and denigrating him and those supporting him. We didn't get the anger.
Acaphlegmic (heretoforth ACA): Truer words have never been spoken. Which is why I've decided to go live amongst them.
CS: What? Live amongst whom?
ACA: There you go, getting all elitist. Whom! Amongst people who say 'who' not 'whom'.
US (heretoforth US): But are still OK with the word 'amongst'.
CS: What do you mean you're going to live amongst them?
ACA: We can't understand a people or empathize with them until we've seen through their eyes, walked a mile in their shoes. So I am venturing forth to live amongst them. To observe them. To understand what motivates them. To truly get under their skin in order to grasp their hopes, their dreams.
CS: So you're like what? Margaret Mead of the inner suburbs?
US: Try Dian Fossey.
ACA: See? That's just what everyone's talking about. Mocking. Ridiculing. Denigration.
CS: But I don't get what you mean, 'live amongst them'. You going to hang out at the Jack Astors at Sherway Gardens?
ACA: There it is again. The mocking and ridicule. They don't just shop, you know.
US: Yeah. They have to take regular breaks to fill up their Hummers and SUVs.
ACA: Mock away, my friend, mock away but you better start getting used to the fact that you're in the minority now and start acting accordingly.
CS: Technically that's not true. Ford did only get 47% of the vote which is why [turns to look directly into pretend camera] you should support RaBIT, the Ranked Ballot Initiative of Toronto. To start making every vote count.
ACA: Cling to that little pipe dream all you want, buddy. Me? I'm going to where the real action is. Larry's garage.
[inserting very prominent … here to signify a monstrously large pause in the conversation. A really big one.]
CS: Who's Larry?
ACA: Larry. You met him Monday night here, drinking. We got to talking afterwards. His son, Larry Jr., just got married, and he and the wife are moving into the trailer that's parked in the driveway. So, Larry-pere offered me the garage. You should see this place! It's not a garage. It's like a 2nd home. All decked out. Like this 140" plasma screen TV. Ping pong table. Bar. You name it. A sound system like you would not believe! 4 speakers, maybe 8. I don't know. Speakers all over the place. I have not listened to that much Foghat since… I don't know… June of '77, maybe.
CS: And you're going to live there. In Larry's garage.
ACA: You betcha! Live there and observe. Eat the food they eat. Play the games they play. Learn what it is that's important to them. Rob Ford knows. I should too.
US: So you're embracing your inner mullet?
CS: (to US) And you? No, wait. Let me guess. You're moving to Calgary.
US: Well, hey. They took a bold step into the future. We fearfully clung onto… some misguided view of the past. Where we paid no taxes and there was no traffic congestion.
CS: Which brings up something that struck me about the election. There's all this talk about the downtown-suburb divide, the angry car driving, backyard BBQing Ford supporters versus us effete bike riding, latte loving urbanistas. Yet right here, smack dab in the downtown core, we had three open council seats, none of which were filled with what you'd call new, forward thinking, vibrant Nenshites. Ward 19 went stolidly status quo, replacing old time moderate lefty Pantalone with old time moderate lefty Mike Layton, ignoring a much more interesting progressive candidate in Karen Sun. Ward 18 went hardcore centrist Ana Bailão. Ward 17 and Cesar Palacio—
US: Palacio didn't retire, did he?
CS: Didn't he? How could you tell? They had this dynamite challenger, Jonah Schein, but went with their tried and true non-entity incumbent relic.
ACA: What's your point? I gotta cut out soon. There's some sort of… sporting event everybody's getting together to watch at Larry's.
CS: My point is, maybe this city's not nearly the outpost of progressive politics we downtown elites would like to think it is. We live in this little bubble, dreaming of bike lanes, complete streets and being just like Portland when, in fact, we're nothing more than another small minded North American burg concerned only with paying as little as we can and getting as much as we want. Rob Ford as our mayor shouldn't come as a surprise. He's not the anomaly. David Miller is. He was the outlier. Ford's just a regression to the mean.
US: Nice. Regression to the mean. Works on a couple levels, too.
ACA: Blah, blah, blah. You guys just don't get it! There's nothing to analyze here. Nothing to deconstruct. People are just pissed off. End of story. Rob Ford gets it because he's pissed off too. Guaranteed!
CS: No, we get the whole anger bit. What we don't understand is how Rob Ford is going to help in any way to deal with it. What in his platform will help lessen the anger.
ACA: Wh-wh-wh-what are you talking about? Rob Ford isn't going to lessen the anger. The last thing he wants to do is assuage the resentment.
US: You might want to curtail the use of words like 'assuage' with Larry's crowd.
ACA: Right. The last thing Rob Ford wants to do is the dumb word for assuage the resentment. Without resentment, he's just another self-interested politician wrapping his own narrow concerns into a populist package.
US: Exactly. And what are we doing in the face of that? Caving in and taking the blame. We got out-politicked, no question. That's what we should be examining now not shouldering the blame for the perceived grievances of 47% of the population who refused to engage in an honest discussion about the real problems this city has to deal with. We spent very little time here, writing about Ford's appearance or operatically sized personal failings. We kept asking, over and over again, how his policies on public transit and cutting spending were going to help address the city's problems. The response? Wrapping themselves in a cloak of victimhood like pouty teenagers. Stop picking on me. You don't understand. The guy's not even sworn into office yet and he's already backtracking on one big doozey of a campaign nose stretcher about replacing streetcars with buses, claiming he never said that, his opponents said he did. Then he gives a babblingly incoherent radio interview and calls it a smear campaign, so he can withdraw further into the safe cocoon of sympathetic press coverage at the Toronto Sun, National Post and AM talk radio. We've seen this movie before, guys. Remember. George W. Bush.
CS: Yep. I think we can now officially stop looking south at the Americans and smugly laughing at who they elect into office. Or their eating habits. Did you see where Canada broke the record for sales of KFC's Double Down?
ACA: (standing) Are we done here? I really don't want to miss the first quarter… or half of the… thing.
CS: Godspeed to Larry's garage. Godspeed us all to a Larry's garage somewhere.
ACA: I'll be in touch. Under an alias. Send you my serial exposé of the Ford movement.
CS: Stay safe, Serpico.
(Rolling up his collar, Acaphlegmic skulks from the office.)
CS: So, the battle for hearts and minds has just begun.
US: Fuck that. I'm traveling to the Continent. Rent out my house and follow in the steps of Byron, Shelley, Keats. They want elite? (Pulls out his pipe) I'll give them elite.
CS: No, don't. You've already set off the smoke detector once.
US: I disconnected it.
CS: It stinks. Don't.
(Urban Sophisticat puffs away at the pipe, trying to get it to stay lit. Eventually a smoke detector goes off in the distance.)
CS: This is going to be a long 4 years.
— submitted by Cityslikr
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The Bloody Aftermath
Is it discombobulation I'm experiencing? I am distracted, to say the least.
Not wanting to get out of my bathrobe today, I made the short jaunt to the office wearing it. Hey. It's unseasonably warm out there, my friends. And it's not like it's a long commute. A couple, 3 stops. And needless to say, I wasn't alone, wearing morning flannel on the streetcar. At least I had the decency of wearing something under the robe, unlike someone sitting next to me, let's call him 'Brett Favre', who absolutely refused to cross his legs.
My fears of what I would find (or not) at the office when I got here were well founded. Against my better judgment I'd left Acaphlegmic alone when I headed out to mourn and commiserate with the crowds reeling from last night's election results. He'd rounded up a couple fellow Ford supporters, and they were cleaning out our bar stock while singing Eye of the Tiger and other Rocky theme songs. I should've kicked them out but had little fight left in me.
This a.m. not only was all the liquor gone but most of the office had been ransacked as well. Don't get me wrong, I point no fingers at the character of Ford supporters. Acaphlegmic is not a stranger to petty larceny, so I'm keeping the blame entirely in house on this one.
The more startling aspect of what I was looking at, over and above the fact that the office had been largely cleaned out of its contents, all the windows were sealed up with that plastic wintertime shrink wrap. Why, I wondered. The place was a sweatbox no matter what time of year.
Yes, it's going to be a strange next 4 years.
Which is probably why Acaphlegmic will fit into the Ford era so perfectly. My other colleague, however, might not be so adaptive to the change. I'd met up with an ashen faced Urban Sophisticat along my magical misery tour last night. Much of his lack of colour could be explained by an adverse reaction to the evening's election outcome. Some had to be due to the fact that I'd found him out on a patio furiously puffing on a pipe. A pipe?!
"They want to call me an 'elite'?" he told me in response to the quizzical look on my face. "I'll give them elite." He then inhaled a little too defiantly, sucking smoke deep into his lungs and setting off on an extended coughing spell. Poor Urban Sophisticat. He hasn't the constitution to cope with the coming 4 years. They'll eat him alive. I wanted to give him a hug of deep consolation and assurance but between the hacking and smell of singed hazelnut, well, we're not that close. I moved on before he started expiring blood.
That is not to say I possess an unassailable sang-froid about the Ford situation. What's eating me this morning is the idea that I'm very much responsible for this fiasco. Perhaps if I hadn't started this thing and joined in on the municipal politics conversation way back in January, things would not have transpired as they did. Before we here at All Fired Up in the Big Smoke appeared on the scene, there was only 1 Ford at City Hall. Now there are two. How can't that be our fault? Maybe if we'd just kept our big yaps shut and simply continued doing what we were doing (I was content enough at my millinery work), things would not have turned out so very, very badly.
Of course, correlation does not imply causation. I may be taking myself a little too seriously, magnifying my importance in all this, way out of proportion. (You think?) But as I sit here, in my robe, in a plundered office, I cannot help but think that as a part of a movement, we did not beat back the storm of anger that descended upon the city. We did not/could not counter the anti-everything sentiment that swept over us last night. Instead, we chose the route of ridicule and disdain; dismissive of the feeling of alienation and outrage that was allowed to run amok, allowing the unbelievable to become the improbable that blossomed into the inevitable. Rob Ford's success was our failure. There's nobody else to blame.
Accept it. Learn from it. Move on. A much bigger battle lies ahead.
And why is it so fucking hot in here!
— over-heatedly submitted by Cityslikr
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Election Day. Vote. Vote. Vote.
It's here. Election day. (Or Election Day, as the auto-correct insists on my writing it.) 294 days since this Campaign 2010 kicked off, back in blustery, blowy, blizzardy January. Yes, I am guessing what the weather was. It might've been cold, crisp and bright. But we can agree that it was January.
Partisan bickering and jostling has subsided somewhat. A general agreement has been reached at least between the hours of 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Vote, people. Whatever else you do, however which way it is you plan to cast your ballot, just go and do it. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote.
The common sentiment on why this is important seems to be, if you don't vote, you can't bitch. Let's take that a bit further. If you are an eligible voter who doesn't vote, if you can't find the time during this 10 hour period to take 15 minutes, ½ an hour, 2 hours to make it to your appointed polling station and cast a ballot (having already not gone to advance polls earlier this month), then what you're really telling everyone is that, fuck it, you don't give a shit about what happens in this city. You are letting it be known that you're not an engaged citizen or active participant. You're just somebody who lives here.
Much has been made throughout this campaign about the disengagement between City Hall and the general public. Less than 40% of the electorate voted in the last municipal election here in 2006, including an eye-poppingly low 18% of the 18-34 year-old demographic. Electoral reform is clearly needed, through ranked ballots to increased powers at the community council level.
But it is a two-way street, this civic disengagement. When less than 4 in 10 of us actually bother to vote, it sends a message to those that do get elected that a solid majority of us don't care, aren't following what's going on and, ultimately, it doesn't matter what happens down at City Hall. It gives our representatives carte blanche. A green light to run roughshod and to say, when we do raise our heads in indignation (our heads only ever raise in indignation, it seems), oh hey, I thought you weren't paying attention…
So, no excuses, OK? Do your democratic duty and get out and vote. I don't care who for (maybe I do, just a little) or if you make a point of going in and spoiling as a form of protest. Just vote, be counted and have your voice heard. As our Twitter friend bikeroo wrote, "Hey Toronto, vote like your city depends on it!"
— already having votedly submitted by Cityslikr
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Mayoral Endorsement III
My Endorsement For Mayor: HiMY SYeD.
He calls himself The Peoples' Mayor. It is not empty campaign rhetoric. As Mr. SYeD correctly points out, this race has been all about things. Tax cuts, subways and gravy trains. Where are the people?
Semantics, you say? A little, perhaps. But our front running candidates have all been talking about what they are going to do for people, to people. HiMY SYeD talks about what he'll do with people. Civic engagement sits at the very core of his campaign. While Mr. Smitherman has attempted to buttress his left flank by rolling out the likes of John Sewell and David Crombie as his emissaries on the local democracy front, HiMY SYeD represents the very essence of it. Inclusion isn't something he'll seek to do as mayor, a single plank in his policy platform. Inclusion is the engine that drives his candidacy.
The sad irony of that is just how excluded Mr. SYeD has been during the course of this campaign. No bigger travesty manifested itself over the last 10 months than how independent voices – not just HiMY SYeD – were so summarily and systematically shut out. Well into the proceedings, with a majority of Torontonians expressing immense discontent with the gang of 6, then 5, then 4, then 3 candidates on offer to them, no one with the power to do so thought to address those concerns. Not anyone in the mainstream media who could've simply said (after a quick look at Mr. SYeD's campaign material), what the hell, let's try this one on for size. Instead they held onto the term 'fringe' right to the bitter end. Not any of the front running candidates who could've flashed a sign of selflessness to the electorate by demanding a seat at their debate table for HiMY SYeD. Choosing their self-interest above the interests of the general public, and letting us know in a not very subtle manner exactly the kind of mayor they will be.
Mario Cuomo, a leading candidate of ours in the Best President of the United States Who Never Was race, said "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." Well, HiMY SYeD was our bard in campaign 2010. In a wave of turgid, uninspiring, squalid, vacuous words, he spoke to us, no… dare I say it? Fan by brow. I do declare we find ourselves becoming a little flushed… sang to us in beautiful, elevated language, with his vision of empowerment and hope.
Because of HiMY SYeD I now know about a place called Curitiba, Brazil and its former mayor, Jaime Lerner. Curitiba was a city facing much more dire problems than Toronto is (or will even come close to having to face regardless of Monday's election outcome) with much fewer resources to deal with them. But with the guiding hand of Jaime Lerner the city transformed itself into a modern urban centre, brimming with innovative ideas on public transit and sustainability.
Because of HiMY SYeD I now know about a man named Jeb Brugmann and his book, Welcome to the Urban Revolution. I now know how little I really do know about how cities function, develop and grow (and somewhat depressingly, I realize just how little many of our candidates running for municipal government know about new urban ideas as well). But I also now know that there are many smart and original thinkers and activists, contributing mightily to the public discourse. HiMY SYeD is one of those people.
Most importantly, because of HiMY SYeD I have not grown disenchanted or disillusioned about the political process or prospects here in Toronto despite overwhelming proof and evidence that I have every right to be one or both of those things. Witnessing his resilient spirit and indefatigable sense of civic duty in the face of shameful inattention and even hostile disregard on the part of serious opinion makers, buoys me with hope and resolve. In this campaign, the battle for the heart, soul and mind of Toronto has been rancorous, divisive and not a little disheartening. Unless the unexpected happens on election day, it certainly doesn't promise to be any less so as we settle back down into trying to build a better city.
I want to be part of that because I know HiMY SYeD will continue to soldier on and contribute to the ever evolving urban fabric of Toronto regardless of the outcome on Monday.
The lunatic ravings of a cock-eyed optimist, blind to the realities on the ground? Nope. I've thought long and hard about this and am fully cognizant of the repercussions of my decision. While I always vote in the hopes of casting my ballot for the winning candidate, that urge must be tempered with the fundamental reason we participate in the democratic process in the first place. To publicly declare what kind of city (province, country) we want to live in. Let it to be known here and now that the kind of Toronto I want to be part of is one where HiMY SYeD is mayor.
My heart tells me it's a vote for 2010 but my head says 2014 and the future. But the future will actually come much sooner than that. October 26th, to be precise. When we wake up to see what we've created and a majority of us won't be at all pleased. The work to make it right will begin immediately. HiMY SYeD will be there, on the frontlines to battle back those forces who will be bent upon, will believe they have a mandate to pull apart everything that has been accomplished over the last 7 years.
That's a fight I want to be a part of and which is why I, Cityslikr, am endorsing HiMY SYeD for mayor of Toronto.
—endorsingly submitted by Cityslikr
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Mayoral Endorsement II
My Endorsement For Mayor: Joe Pantalone.
Although I may still vote for George Smitherman. I mean, David Crombie just endorsed him. Come on!
But I'm still endorsing Joe Pantalone.
I am that living, breathing, mushy middlist voting cliché everyone has been on about for the past week or so. The Smitherman team wants me. The Anybody But Ford coalition hounds me. We few, we unhappy few, we band of political brothers (and sisters) apparently hold the key to the outcome of Monday's election. In our hands, lies the future fate of our city. Oh, the weight of such responsibility.
I, for one, know that George Smitherman will make a more capable mayor than Rob Ford. What I'm not as convinced about is if the city will be any better for that. Yes, Smitherman's decked out his outerwear finery with the bow of John Sewell and ribbon of David Crombie. Perhaps that's the silent signal to me that Smitherman will not ignore my concerns if he's elected to City Hall. Just cross my fingers and hope that all the other stuff he's been far more vocal about throughout the campaign, the right of centre meat and potatoes of tax freezes/cuts and job elimination through attrition, is just political posturing, necessary in the negative atmosphere that's polluted election 2010.
It's a leap of faith I'm just not sure I'm prepared to take.
I like living in Toronto. The past 7 years have not struck me as the dysfunctional quagmire many pundits and electioneering candidates have tried to make it out to have been. I'm not alone in that assessment. Check out here, here and here if you don't believe me. There have been hiccups, no question. Some self-inflicted, others far beyond our control (i.e. the economic meltdown and subsequent recession). All things considered, I feel better about living in Toronto than I did in 2003.
I bought a house and had to pay the then newly instituted municipal land transfer tax. Came with the territory, as the city tentatively tested new powers granted to it through the City of Toronto Act. The Vehicle Registration Tax had no affect on me as I don't own a car and if there's one major difference I have with Joe Pantalone it's his pledge to remove it if elected. People may not like it. It may be regressive. But I think we should use all the tools at our disposal to make owning a car in this city a grind.
My garbage and recycling is picked up as often as I need it to be. I don't mind the exercise shoveling snow from my own walk. I can walk home at night through a back alley, slightly drunk, playing with my telephonic gadget with very little fear of having harm done to my person. I spend more money per month on my Rogers bill than I do on services the city provides to me and I am much more satisfied with what the city delivers.
As you're probably thinking as you read this, yes, I am one of the fortunate people living in Toronto. Indeed, I may do even better under a fiscally conservative regime at City Hall, what with all those taxes being cut and frozen under either a Ford or Smitherman administration. Except that, what I see emerging from both these candidates is a city more desperate. They've said little to absolutely zero about combating poverty, about continuing to work on fixes for our high priority neighbourhoods. Their transit plans are woefully short of properly dealing with congestion. One term of either a Ford or Smitherman mayoralty will result in a city that's less livable. So all of us will be the worse for it.
Since I am also convinced that out there in the bigger, wider world, we may not yet be through the economic shit storm that started blowing through back in ought-8, and senior levels of government seemed pumped to begin budgetary slicing and dicing at the behest of what should be discredited neo-liberal voices that they are still mysteriously listening to, I trust neither Rob Ford or George Smitherman when the inevitable calls for further cuts start to ring out. I can already here the post-election statement from Ford or Smitherman. It's much worse than I thought it was but don't worry, it'll only hurt a little.
No, in what will inevitably be a rough next few years, I am much more comfortable with the idea of Joe Pantalone as our mayor than anyone else. He will not turn on us. He's had 30 years fighting for a fairer, more equitable and livable city, through good times and bad. He has the city's best interests at heart. That, I know, is not true of Rob Ford. George Smitherman has not convinced me he does, either.
Read these Pantalone endorsements at ChangeToronto and blogTO. They are much more eloquent and thorough in their endorsements of Joe Pantalone than I'm being. Then for fun, take a glimpse at NOW's Alice Klein endorsement of George Smitherman.
If there's anything that's pushed me more firmly into the Joe Pantalone camp, it's the hectoring self-righteousness coming from those who've decided strategically voting in order to stop Rob Ford from winning is our only recourse. Hey. Fair enough. I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to tell you who you should or shouldn't vote for. Yes, Rob Ford is a despicable man. Yes, he'll make a despicable mayor. But spare me the hysteric he'll be Sauron who actually gets hold of the ring and transforms Toronto into Mordor if he gets elected mayor narrative. It leaves me cold. We will live to fight if this grisly scenario comes to pass.
In answering for my self @arvelomcquaig's quandary, I can't decide if a Ford mayoralty is more worse than a Smitherman mayoralty than a Smitherman mayoralty is worse than a Pantalone mayoralty, yes, yes I believe a Mayor Smitherman would be significantly worse than a Mayor Pantalone than a Mayor Ford be worse than a Mayor Smitherman. Or, to put it another way, a Mayor Ford and Mayor Smitherman are more closely related than are a Mayor Smitherman and Mayor Pantalone.
For that reason (as convoluted as it may be) I, Urban Sophisticat, am endorsing Joe Pantalone as Mayor of Toronto.
— endorsingly submitted by Urban Sophisticat
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In an era of constant stimulation, boredom has become our children's worst enemy. A long car ride without the distraction of a screen is unfathomable. Unscheduled summer days are few and far between. Schools fight boredom with hours of homework and after-school sports; meanwhile, parents wage their own war by arming their homes with electronic stimuli.
But is boredom really a bad thing?
"Experts say our brains need boredom so we can process thoughts and be creative. I think they're right. I've noticed that my best ideas always bubble up when the outside world fails in its primary job of frightening, wounding or entertaining me."
Bestselling author Mitch Albom agrees. Lamenting our children's increasingly busy summers, he calls on parents to "lighten it up."
"Sometimes doing nothing is doing something. Sure, camp can be fun, and travel ball is exciting, but if we cram in activities from the last day of school to the first, we're ignoring an important fact: The way kids work during the academic year—honestly, you'd think homework was a full-time job—a mental break may be needed. These are young minds, young bodies. Replenishing the juices by kicking back is not a bad idea. And if not in childhood, then when?"
"Adults are cramming as much as they can into their children's days under the misguided notion that boredom is a bad thing. Then, in the precious hours of free time they have, kids turn to TV, computers, and video games to keep themselves entertained. The result? A generation of kids who are adept at following rules -- whether in a classroom, on the soccer field, or on their PlayStation -- but who are at a complete loss when it comes to innovating, designing, tinkering, or doing anything that requires drawing from their own imaginations."
Has our over-stimulated, over-scheduled culture created a generation of children who don't know how to be bored? What can parents do to help their children learn the joys of boredom?


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Q: Can a workflow start a console app in SharePoint? I would just like to know, if it is possible to start a console app from a workflow in SharePoint?

A: Well i don't think this is a good idea. You are asking to start a exe from workflow. This is against security.
This questions has been asked earlier with a nice answer.
Have a look at it.
Click here
However you could start a PowerShell Script using workflow and in that PowerShell script you can call your Console app.

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Q: Can I call a second instance oft the tinyMCE-editor within a tinyMCE-dialog? I have a textarea witch I can edit with tinimce.
I created a plugin witch saves or splits the Text into different strings (containing Text in different Languages separated by some special-tags within the title tag. It looks like :
Title="|tag-d| some german text |tag-e| some english text |tag-f| some french text ...
These texts can be edited by the user in a Tinymce-dialog  (this works fine!)
   editor.windowManager.open({
      title: "Info",
      defaults: {type: 'textbox', multiline: 'true', minWidth:600, minHeight:100},
      body: [
      {name: 'deutsch', label: 'deutsch', value: deutsch},
      {name: 'franzoesisch', label: 'französisch', value: franzoesisch},
      {name: 'englisch', label: 'englisch', value: englisch},
      {name: 'italienisch', label: 'italienisch', value: italienisch},
      ],

Now what I want to do is editing these Texts with another tinymce-instance so the user can format and specially add some links to the selected text  of each language. How do I call tinymce for the different textboxes under consideration of the words the user has selected?
Any hints?

A: This seems possible.
All you will have to do is to write the text you would edit in a Tinymce-dialog into a textarea on your page and then init a tinymce for this textarea.
This new editor would open and you would need to write the contens back when the user is done (on button click).


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Q: What is the best Windows Multiple Buffer Manager that supports pasting and custom shortcut keys? I'm looking for an app that would let me specify a bunch of pregenerated replies and/or strings that I'd be able to paste ideally like this:

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*by assigning specific shortcut combos to specific replies/strings

*by having a generic paste key which would conveniently pop up the list of strings that can be pasted, ideally without having to touch a mouse

*preferably there would be a possibility to set a master password, in case any of the strings are actually passwords themselves

I hope you see where I'm going with this. Example usage could be:

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*support center operators who wants to send canned emails or IMs

*quick unimportant password pastes

*forum signatures

*use your imagination

Of course, free and open source is preferred.
Also, I'm looking for a Windows version at the moment.

A: This is an interesting idea, maybe a good small summer project. The only open source clipboard manager for Windows that's worth mentioning is Ditto. It has a lot of good features, the clipboard sync is a pretty amazing idea, although it doesn't support password protection of the buffer - but hey, it's open source as you requested, if you have the knowledge to tweak the code then go for it!
It stores data in a sqlite database though, which you could password protect with TrueCrypt. Then you'd only need to authenticate once when you log in.
Another possibility is to use AutoHotkey. If the people using this computer aren't fairly tech savvy, you could compile your script with AHK2EXE and that should be fine. Although if they do know their way around things they may know about disassembling and programs like ollydbg which will show the password strings in plain text.
An example:
!p::
InputBox, password, Enter Password,, hide
if (password == "secret")
{
    Send My Secret Text.
}
else
{
    MsgBox Access Denied.
}
return

or use a regular clipboard manager for standard clipboard tasks, and use AHK with a master password to store all other passwords:
passes =
(
SuperUser:secret
StackOverflow:secret2
Meta:secret3
Gmail:secret4
)

!p::
InputBox, password, Enter Master Password,, hide
if (password == "secret")
{
    MsgBox %passes%
}
else
{
    MsgBox Access Denied.
}
return

As previously stated, this is not a secure method if savvy users will be on this system, however it's fine to protect against the average user if compiled with ahk2exe. No real point since you could use one of many password managers, but it is an easy way to have them available in a few key presses. I'd recommend the Ditto and TrueCrypt method though.

A: Just randomly found Texter (made by one of Lifehacker's editors) while browsing MakeUseOf.
It's almost exactly what I was looking for (except it doesn't seem to work with pasting ssh passwords).
Edit: a much better free alternative: PhraseExpress.


TORONTO - Small gains in key commodity prices couldn't stop the Toronto stock market from losing further ground Monday as concerns about China's economy took the spotlight.
The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 119.38 points to 14,625.32, extending the near 300-point decline suffered in the final two sessions last week.
The Canadian dollar gained 0.87 of a cent to 88.28 cents US.
Weighing on equity markets was a new manufacturing activity report that indicated growing economic weakness in China.
HSBC said its purchasing managers' index declined to 50.0 in November from 50.4 in October on a 100-point scale in which numbers below 50 show activity contracting. The bank said domestic demand was sluggish and new orders were weak.
China's economic growth slowed to a five-year low of 7.3 per cent in the latest quarter.
"With an economy that's been incredibly supported by investment, as well as exports and manufacturing activity, to see data start to slow a little bit — that is obviously a bit worrisome in terms of the rate of growth for China," Craig Fehr, an analyst with Edward Jones in St. Louis, Mo., said in an interview.
"With the broad decline we're seeing in commodity prices, coupled with the concerns about slowing growth outside North America, I would expect to see those sectors continue to be volatile, if not under pressure, in the near term."
On the TSX, the gold sector was the biggest gainer as December bullion lifted $42.60 to US$1,218.10 an ounce, the first time it has closed above $1,200 since late October.
The mining and metals sector fell 2.7 per cent even as March copper rose five cents to US$2.90 a pound.
Energy stocks also fell, down 1.4 per cent, despite the January crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange rising $2.85 to US$69 a barrel.
Oil prices are experiencing "a little bit of a bounce after the incredibly sharp drop" over the past couple months, Fehr said. The commodity has seen prices plunge around 35 per cent since mid-summer because of lower demand and a glut of supply, due in large measure to greatly increased production in the U.S. Midwest.
Last week, the OPEC oil cartel decided to ignore calls for a cut in production in hopes such a cut would put a floor under prices.
On Wall Street, early figures suggested U.S. retail sales over Thanksgiving weekend fell short of expectations.
The Dow Jones industrials dropped 51.44 points to 17,776.80 while the Nasdaq slid 64.28 points to 4,727.35 and the S&P 500 index faded 14.12 points to 2,053.44.
The National Retail Federation reported that early discounting, more online shopping and a mixed economy meant fewer people shopped over the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend. The group said that 133.7 million people shopped in stores and online over the four-day weekend, down 5.2 per cent from last year, according to a survey.
Total spending for the weekend was expected to fall 11 per cent to US$50.9 billion from an estimated $57.4 billion last year.
In the energy sector, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ) is dealing with a spill of about 60,000 litres of crude oil in a remote area of Alberta. The Calgary-based company reported on Thursday that the spill was caused by a mechanical failure near Red Earth Creek, Alta., about 350 kilometres north of Edmonton. It shares rose 14 cents to $38.10.
On Tuesday, bank earnings season gets underway in Canada with the Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) releasing its fourth-quarter and 2014 fiscal year results. Canada's other big banks will follow with Royal (TSX:RY) reporting Wednesday, CIBC (TSX:CM) and Toronto-Dominion (TSX:TD) on Thursday. Scotiabank (TSX:BNX) and National Bank (TSX:NA) close out the week with their results.


There is nothing planned about the Maine-based duo Melon Shades. Their tempo, melody, every rise and fall: each the result of the partnership between Skidmore first-year Henry Raker '22 and his hometown friend Shawn Russell. The musicians never take themselves too seriously, and this is perhaps most noticeable on their debut album's cover — inspired both by Russell holding a melon with shades on and a rogue mouse that nearly got the best of them (escaping from beneath their sofa).
The duo formed after a mutual friend suggested Raker attend a music gathering outside of Russell's home. After that first encounter, the two "linked up mentally and musically and just had a lot of fun," explained Russell. Their first release was produced in a living room with a field microphone provided by Raker; it is hazy and jazzy, funky and experimental — matching its mostly improvised nature.
While most of Melon Shades' music is unplanned, some songs would start with a chord progression that either Raker or Russell had previously written. From there, it depended on a combination of the "summer day that we were involved with and then meeting in my living room and sharing what music we had been listening to," explained Russell.
Having a similar taste in music made it easier for the duo to play around in a way that helped them get to know each other musically. The technique worked, and the two were often surprised by what they could come up with in the moment.
Throughout the whole album — even the more "out there" songs — the duo is able to build and mold space within their music. When listening, especially to longer pieces like "Henry Sleeps" (originally titled "Henry Dies") and "Reverse," the songs seem to naturally break apart into chunks.
"We potentially bend time in the songs," explained Russell. "When it comes to tempo, we'll sometimes change time signatures experimentally, without even thinking about it." Raker explained this phenomenon by equating their music-making style to visiting a Tudor mansion. While you may be walking through the same house (or listening to the same song), new rooms and passages greet you and feel different. Some songs are just bigger houses than others.
And while Raker and Russell haven't been able to play together as much as they'd like since last summer, the hometown friends will reuinte briefly for a show on Feb.8 at Skidmore's elusive Laundromat venue where the band's boyish charm and fun-loving approach is sure to shine through in the upcoming performance, carrying them right into whatever next summer may hold for them.
Want to hear what music inspires Melon Shades? Check out the playlist below!


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Na konci města  is a 1955 Czechoslovak drama film, directed by Miroslav Cikán. It stars Miloš Nedbal, Gustav Heverle, and Vlasta Vlasáková.

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Frampton Marsh Nature Reserve. Photo: Andrew Tryner/Lincolnshire County Council.
A photographer has been snapping some beautiful pictures of Lincolnshire's natural coast as part of a bid to attract more tourists.
Andrew Tryner has been up and down the coast taking the pictures and showcasing the beauty on our doorstep.
Free in every sense, the coast offers miles of clean sandy beaches away from the bustle of holiday resorts.
Each part of Lincolnshire's natural coast offers something different, with nature reserves, walking routes, beach huts, cycling paths and cafés all ready to be explored.
Lincolnshire County Council has launched a new website and brochure aimed at bringing new visitors.
The move is hoped to boost the local tourism economy, while promoting walking, cycling, swimming and birdwatching.
Councillor Colin Davie, executive member for economy and place, said: "Lincolnshire is well-known for its seaside towns, which have been popular holiday destinations for generations, but we want to remind people that our wonderful coast has much more to offer.
"During the warmer months, our unspoilt beaches are the ideal location for paddling, picnics, sandcastles, beach cricket and kite flying.
"And those with an interest in the natural world, will love the new North Sea Observatory, recently revamped Gibraltar Point and our many other nature reserves.
"Of course, we'd also recommend visitors take the time to go inland and visit some of our lovely village pubs and historic market towns, or add variety to their walks or cycle rides by covering the coastal grazing marshes and the Lincolnshire Wolds.


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Author: Rami Sivan, Priest, Dharma teacher, counselor, Gov. Advisor (1998-present)
(Adapted from Introduction to the Upanishads by Dr. Radhakrishnan)
Concept of God in the Vedas
The Rig Veda is the root text upon which the other Vedas depend. The Rig consist of hymns to different deities i.e. Agni, Mitra, Varuna, Indra, Soma and so on.
The hymns were used in yajñas (Sacrifices) in which oblations of ghee (clarified butter) and other substances were offered into the sacrificial fire.
These devas were conceived of as the Principalities underlying and governing the different phenomenon of nature, such as fire, sun, wind, rain etc., on which life itself, agriculture, and prosperity depended.
Nature, though presided over by different devas, is subject to the Cosmic Law (called Ṛta), which regulates the whole world, the process of nature and all living beings.
In the sūktas each of these devas was praised and extolled with the same epithets and declared to be 'the Supreme'.
Although the Vedic religion appears to be polytheistic, there is the peculiarity in that each of the many devas is praised and extolled as the Supreme Being, the Creator of the universe and the Lord of all the Gods etc. The portfolios of cosmic management were also not unique to one deva only as in Greek mythology, but were reallocated according to the devotion of the poet.
Max Muller who was one of the first western scholars to translate the Vedic hymns, coined the term 'Henotheism' to differentiate the Vedic theology from simple polytheism. Henotheism means that one god is elevated above all other gods to the post of Supreme Being.
Whether one considers the Vedic religion is polytheism or henotheism, depends largely on the perceived basis of this phenomenon. If praising and exalting of each god to the supreme position is not based on the real belief in his supremacy but only a willful exaggeration and poetic hyperbole, then it is simple polytheism.
If on the other hand, the Vedic seers really believed in what they have said in their hymns, henotheism would be a better name.
In actual fact in Rig Veda we come across many passages where it is clearly stated that the different gods are only manifestations of one Ultimate Reality called by various names such as Agni, Yama etc.
Ekaṁ sad viprā bahudhā vadanti. ….
The Truth is ONE but the wise describe it in various ways
Many scholars have observed a gradually development in Vedic thought.
They have postulated that the idea of God gradually evolved from polytheism through henotheism, to reach its culmination in monotheism.
This hypothesis may be true but henotheism is not merely a transitional phenomenon.
Indian "monotheism" even in its most developed form, retains the belief that though the Godhead is one, it has countless manifestations in the many devas, anyone of which may be worshipped as a form of the Supreme Godhead – unity in diversity.
Even today in India, we have five divergent cults of the Saivism, Vaiṣṇavism, Sāktaism, and the Gānapatya and Saurya cults. All flourishing side by side but all based on a philosophy of one Supreme Godhead.
In Rig Veda, the belief in this fundamental unity of all gods is only a part of a greater theology which can be more clearly learnt from the famous Puruṣa-sūkta.
The Puruṣa-sūkta (Rig Veda 10.90) reveals that all existence i.e. wealth, heavens, planets, gods, living and non-living objects are conceived of as parts of one great Being (Puruṣa), who pervades the perceptible universe, but also extends beyond it. In Him all that is, has been and will be, are united.
The poetic insight of the hymn, not only indicates that the universe is one organic whole, but that the Supreme Reality is both immanent and transcendent (God pervades the world, yet He is not exhausted, thereby, He remains also beyond it). In terms of Western Theology, this concept is called panentheism (pan-all, en-in, theos-God) not pantheism — that is, all is not equal to God, but all is in God, who is greater than all.
This one hymn, reveals a variety of ideals that inspired the Vedic mind; monism, panentheism and organic symbiosis of the world.
In another hymn of Nāsadīya Sūkta (Rig Veda 10.120), we come across the concept of the Impersonal Absolute. Here, the reality underlying all existence the primal One, from which everything originates cannot be described, it says, either as nonexistent or as existent (na asat, no sat). It is the concept of the Indeterminate Absolute, which is the reality underlying all things, but is in itself indescribable.
Both Personal and Impersonal are conceived here as the two aspects of the same Reality.
THE Vedānta system of philosophy is the heart of modern Hinduism which is properly known as sanātana dharma — the "Eternal Path".
This system of philosophy[1] commonly referred to as the Vedānta — composed of Veda = knowledge and Anta = end; literally refers to "the end of the Vedas or final conclusion of knowledge".
The corpus of the Vedas[2] consist of four major divisions[3] the last sections of each Veda are the texts known as the Upanishads and their central topic of investigation is the Ground of Being, or Ultimate Reality called Brahman[4].
The Rig Veda is the root text upon which the other Vedas depend. The Rig consist of hymns to different deities i.e. Agni, Mitra, Varuna, Indra and so on.
The hymns were used in Sacrifices (yajñas) in which oblations of clarified butter (ghee) and other substances were offered into the sacrificial fire.
Nature, though presided over by different devas, is subject to the cosmic law (called Rta), which regulates the whole world, the laws and processes of nature and all living beings.
In the hymns of the Veda (sūktas) each of these devas was praised and extolled with the same epithets and declared to be 'the Supreme'.
Although the Vedic religion appears to be polytheistic in its approach, there is a peculiarity in that each of the many gods is praised and extolled as the Supreme Being, the Creator of the universe and the Lord of all the Gods etc.
The portfolios of cosmic management were also not unique to one deva only as in Greek mythology, but were reallocated according to the devotion of the poet.
Max Muller who was one of the first western scholars to translate the Vedic hymns, coined the term 'Henotheism' to differentiate the Vedic attitude from simple polytheism. Henotheism means that one god is elevated above all other gods to the post of Supreme Being.
In the Rig Veda we come across many passages where it is clearly stated that the different devas/gods are only manifestations of one Ultimate Reality called by various names such as Agni, Yama etc.
ekam sad viprā bahudhā vadanti. ….
Many scholars have postulated a clear development in Vedic thought.
The idea of God gradually evolved from simple polytheism through henotheism, to reach its culmination in monotheism.
Indian monotheism even in its most developed form, retains the belief that though the Godhead is one, it has limitless manifestations in the many devas, anyone of which may be worshipped as a form of the Supreme Godhead.
Even today in India, we have five divergent cults of the Śaivism, Vaiṣṇavism, Śāktaism, and the Gānapatya and Saurya cults. All flourishing side by side but all based on a philosophy of one Supreme Godhead of which all other forms are also manifestations.
Indian monotheism in its living forms, from the Vedic age till now, has always believed in unity of the gods in the Godhead.
The Puruṣa-sūkta (Rig Veda 10.90) reveals that all existence i.e. wealth, heavens, planets, gods, living and non-living objects are the parts of one great Being (Puruṣa), who pervades the perceptible world, but also stands beyond it. In Him all that is, has been and will be, are united.
The poetic insight of the hymn, not only indicates that the universe is one organic whole, but that the Supreme Being is both immanent and transcendent (God pervades the world, yet He is not exhausted, thereby, He remains also beyond it).
In Western Theology, this concept is called panentheism (pan–all, en–in, theos–God) not pantheism — that is, all is not equal to God, but all is in God, who is greater than all. This one hymn, reveals a variety of ideals that inspired the Vedic mind; monism, panentheism and organic symbiosis of the world.
In another hymn of Nāsadīya Sūkta (Rig Veda 10.120), we come across the concept of the Impersonal Absolute. Here, the reality underlying all existence; the primal One, from which everything originates cannot be described it says, either as nonexistent or as existent (na asat, no sat). It is the concept of the Indeterminate Absolute, which is the reality underlying all things, but is in Itself indescribable.
When we try to establish the relationship between the idea of the Ultimate Reality as a Person and the concept of it as an Indeterminate Absolute, we find that even in the description of the Ultimate Reality as a Personal Being, there is mention of its transcendent aspect, which cannot be described in terms of the objects we perceive in the world.
Most of the important foundational principles of the Vedānta are found in Rig Veda but they have been presented through poetry.
The Sanskrit word for a poet — Kavi also means a sage, a seer or a visionary.
The method by which the sages arrived at these views, their reasoning and the arguments put forth in support of them, are not found in the Vedic texts themselves. Thus there is no systematic philosophical methodology to be found in the Samhita portion of the Vedas. All attempts at a systematic philosophical investigation are to be found in the latter sections of the Vedas known as the Upaniṣads, where questions about ātman, Brahman and the cosmos are raised and discussed at length.
Some of the Upaniṣads are written in verse and they follow the pattern of the hymns of the Rig Veda, while others, though written in prose, also lack the support of cogent philosophical reasoning. Some of them are in the form of dialogues where propositions are presented and supported by arguments.
[1] From the outset it is important to note that English terms do not do justice to the Sanskrit terms. "Philosophy" is a poor translation of darshana — which means a view of Reality and includes philosophy, theology and spiritual practice.
[2] The ancient collections of Hymns in Sanskrit dating back more than 5000 years
[3] Samhita, Brāhmaṇa, Araṇyaka and Upaṇiṣad.
[4] Brahman must not be confused with Brahmin which is the priestly caste.


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Thomas' layup lifts Cal women over No. 8 Stanford 81-80
Originally published January 31, 2019 at 10:28 pm Updated January 31, 2019 at 11:13 pm
MICHAEL WAGAMAN
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — California guard Asha Thomas had two options as she glanced at the game clock with the final seconds ticking down — drive to the basket or pass across the court.
An opening in Stanford's defense made the choice an easy one and gave the Bears the signature win they've been looking for this season.
Thomas converted a left-handed layup at the buzzer, lifting California to a dramatic 81-80 win over No. 8 Stanford on Thursday night.
"Days like today are the ones you just never forget," Bears coach Lindsay Gottlieb said. "Any win against Stanford feels extra special because of how darn good they are, how well prepared they are. It means a lot for our confidence and I think it means a lot for our resume."
Thomas, who also hit two free throws with 9.5 seconds left, missed her first six shot attempts before driving in for the game-winner to help the Bears (14-6, 5-4 Pac-12) win their fourth in five games.
It came not long after Kristine Anigwe fouled out, leaving the Bears without their leading scorer and rebounder.
"The play was basically a high ball screen and then on the other side it was a pin down for somebody else coming," said Thomas, a 5-foot-4 senior. "I saw the lane open on that left side, took my little self to that lane and got where I needed to go."
Cal had to hold off celebrating as the play was reviewed. When officials confirmed Thomas' score, the Haas Pavilion crowd burst into loud cheers.
"Stanford really makes you feel uncomfortable. For us, we thrive when we're uncomfortable," Anigwe said. "I got my fifth foul and I knew something big was going to happen."
Anigwe had 25 points and 24 rebounds for Cal. Jaelyn Brown scored 18 points and Kianna Smith added 16.
DiJonai Carrington had 23 points and 12 rebounds for Stanford (17-3, 7-2). Alanna Smith scored 21.
The teams play again on Saturday at Stanford.
"It came down to one play," Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. "We didn't get a stop when we needed to down the stretch."
The Bears were in control most of the game but fell behind 78-77 when Alanna Smith went around Anigwe for a layup with 30.7 seconds remaining.
After Thomas put Cal back in front with her first points of the game on the two free throws with 9.5 seconds to go, Carrington made a pair of free throws to give Stanford an 80-79 lead.
Gottlieb called a timeout to advance the ball to midcourt, and Thomas dribbled briefly before driving to the basket.
It was a significant blow to Stanford, which lost to Utah 74-58 last Sunday. With the loss to Cal, the Cardinal dropped 1½ games behind Oregon in the Pac-12 standings.
"We're disappointed and we're hungry," Carrington said.
Stanford: The Cardinal had won 19 of the last 22 in this series but couldn't get the stops they needed down the stretch. Stanford wasn't sharp and got out of sorts late in the second half when calls didn't go its way. With a rematch against Cal in two days, VanDerveer's team doesn't have much time to lick its wounds.
California: The Bears got a big win. That it came against their Northern California rivals who were coming off a tough loss made it that much better. … Anigwe's streak of double-doubles extends to last season and is the fifth-longest in women's Division I history.
BEEN A WHILE
Stanford had not lost consecutive conference games since 2015.
CLOSING IN
Anigwe needs 21 points to become Cal's career scoring leader and could get the milestone Saturday at Maples Pavilion.
"It's tough. Anigwe's a very aggressive player inside and you have to pick your poison," VanDerveer said.
Stanford: Hosts rival California at Maples Pavilion on Saturday.
California: Plays at Stanford on Saturday.
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