Natural or Artificial Psychedelics – Which are Best?
As promised in a previous post I'm going to try adding a few videos in which I explore particular subjects. These are unscripted and so inevitably I think of extra stuff to say once I press 'stop'. This one presents as few thoughts about the relationship between natural and artificial psychedelics, and an exploration of where we consider the limits of nature and culture to be.
Having access to this range of psychedelics means we can explore the potentials of this space, and that's what humans do. Our ancestors discovered the chemical key that unlocked the DMT in Psychotria viridis and rendered it orally active. They invented ayahuasca. The work of Hofmann, Shulgin, Manske, Nichols et al. is part of this lineage, this tradition of entheogenic chemical exploration.
Sure 'natural' organic psychedelics are great, but I come from a culture where our entheogenic revival was initiated by LSD. This laboratory product was what transformed Western culture. It opened the way for the return of the plant medicines into the society I inhabit. For that I give thanks to the Bunsen burners, the reaction vessels, the pipettes, and of course to the curious twist of fate whereby a Swiss chemist 'accidentally' ingests this incredibly potent substance that his alchemy has brought to birth. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Finally, on the matter of the relative benefits of organic or synthetic psychedelics I think we should be mindful of the option of Arch-Mushroom curandera Maria Sabina (Peace Be Upon Her).
Albert Hofmann visited María Sabina in 1962 and brought her a gift; a bottle of psilocybin pills that Hofmann had synthesized. After trying the pills Maria Sabina announced that there was little difference between their effects and that of the Psilocybe mexicana she used in ceremony. She then thanked Hofmann saying that with these pills she would now be able to serve people as a healer even when the mushrooms were out of season.
This is a great story. A respected shaman sees no great difference between a spirit from the laboratory or from the landscape. And more than this, she explains, why she is pleased to have Hofmann's medicine; to use it when the natural substance is not available, and to use it to help others.
My culture did not have access to entheogens for many generations (they were there in the landscape but we had forgotten them). Since the time of Eleusis we've been cut off from 'the medicine'. It took that chance laboratory discovery, and subsequent archetypal bicycle ride, to return my society to a connection with the psychedelic gnosis. Like Maria Sabina says, when the plant medicine isn't available the synthetic spirit is just as good so long as we keep to our intention – to take these trips for the benefit of ourselves and for all beings.
Nikki and I are holding a series of retreats at St.Nectan's Glen. The May retreat is fully booked but please keep an eye on our Facebook page and/or send us your email so we can keep you up to date. We are planning another retreat in July, then September and November.
I'm presenting a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the first intentional LSD trip on Bicycle Day, 19th April in London. This will be a participatory ritual journey, from Eleusis to Acid.
I'm is also facilitating a day long workshop on Sigils, Talismans and Magic Signs at Treadwell's in London.
Nikki and I have the honour of providing the opening and closing ceremony at the Third Summer of Love gathering in Amsterdam in July. This is going to be an awesome entheogenic ceremony. The next day (yeah, really!) we'll be providing talks for the Netherlands Psychedelic Society, and the day after that, a workshop on magic and altered states of consciousness. Stay tuned for more details.
In August we'll be in Wales to run a shamanic workshop We're also speaking at Beyond Psychedelics in Prague in June and Ozora in Hungary at the end of July.
The community of practice—the sangha, coven, temple or wider network of esoteric practitioners (such as the IOT)—is really important to me. I know myself well enough to know that, while I can do solitary work (including my 'baseline' practices of yoga and mindfulness mediation) it's in community with others that I thrive.
One example of this is how, while I've written 12 books, most of these works have been co-authored with other writers. Bouncing ideas off each other and working collaboratively is what I love and I've been fortunate to have been doing this with my dear friend Greg Humphries since we met in 1998 (beginning with a sequence of rituals that culminated at the total eclipse of the sun in Cornwall in 1999). Greg and I have now produced our second book. Well, really Greg has done most of the work—the lion's share of the text is his, as are all the wonderful artworks, drawings and photographs that accompany the words.
This new book is about one of our favourite practices, psychogeography. For us this a series of tactics in walking that allow us to come into a special type of relationship with landscape. These methods allow us to reveal the occult 'hidden' aspects of reality; the sacred in the everyday, the possibility of multiple narratives in spaces accessed by disrupting the dominant discourse (like what you are 'supposed' to find interesting when you wander round a historic house as we were doing earlier this week).
Psychogeography was the theme of a workshop I ran recently at Treadwell's bookshop, from which I received some great feedback (like the review here). An interesting thing about psychogeographical explorations is that they attract a wide variety of people who sense that there are many possible relationships with the world we inhabit besides the narrow-bandwidth that is often served up as 'being normal' (or 'acceptable' or 'permitted' or similar). Excellent examples of both practical techniques for engendering these new states of awareness, as well as a deep theoretical exegesis of psychogeography, are to be found in the new work Rethinking Mythogeography… by Phil Smith. Phil is a seasoned traveller in non-ordinary spaces, creating plays and site-specific installations amongst other things. In his new book (which like the one by me and Greg, is replete with evocative photographic images) he explores the town of Northfield in Minnesota, counterpointing it with observations of the hidden histories of locations such as A la Ronde in Devon.
Phil writes beautifully, capturing in his prose the mythic intent and surreal outputs of 'disrupted walking'.
The magic of the ordinary may at first strike you in flashes or by the sudden falling of a shadow across a scene; but if you can hold onto those moments for a while, stay calm and not grab for the first wonder, then—like the passing freight train—the magic will begin to steam around you in unfolding loops, in strings like movies or stories or chains of DNA.
The book by Greg and me comes out just as Greg (finally!) gets a major exhibition of his work. This will be happening at the Penwith Gallery in Cornwall (23rd March to 6th April) as part of the 80th celebration for St Ives School of Painting. Visitors will have the chance to see some of the amazing objects that Greg creates. These include a handmade, exquisitely carved longbow, with hand-stitched leather bow case and hand-forged and fletched arrows. This magical object, from an imagined Albion ('Bring me my bow of burnished gold…'; part of the weapon is indeed gilded), is part of a series of pieces that bring together Greg's skills in bushcraft and green woodworking with his magical world-view. Get along to the show if you can.
In other news, the Black Mirror Research network (exploring how '…artists have used esoteric, magical and occult philosophies as sources of inspiration') and the Plymouth College of Art have a conference next month Seeking the Marvellous: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women & Surrealism. Over two days in sunny Plymouth some of the leading academics in the field will be speaking about important female surrealists and occultists including both Ithell Colquhoun and blogofbaphomet favourite Leonora Carrington.
I'm pleased to say that Alexa and Kat have invited me to work with them on some forthcoming podcasts. Stay tuned to The Psychedelic Salon and this blog for details!
Meanwhile I've been writing about psychoactives for a forthcoming collection of essays on psychedelics (I was pleased to be asked to contribute by the erudite and playful Erik Davis who interviewed me recently for his podcast). Writing longer stuff means that I've had less time for blogging here so I'm planning to start some vlogging (as I believe the young people call it…). There is an initial video here and more to follow. Please like, share and subscribe and all that.
Away from the virtual world, Nikki and I are looking forward to running a series of retreats at St.Nectan's Glen. I've written about this space many times before on this blog so to have a newly built retreat centre there that we are helping to develop, and to hold space at this sacred location, is a great honour. Details of our May retreat can be found here.
Nikki is also going to take part in a panel discussion alongside Dave King and Danny Nemu at the inaugural meeting of the Durham Psychedelics Society (for those who don't know, Durham University is famous for its learning and researching in the fields of Biblical studies, Christian theology and the sociological and the anthropological study of religion). We're both super excited to be speaking at the wonderful Beyond Psychedelics conference in Prague, (the call for papers is open now but closes soon!) and later this year at the Ozora festival in Hungary (7 days, 25,000 people and 24 hour psytrance, what's not to like?).
On a more one-to-one level I'm also really pleased to find myself in a situation where I'm being asked to mentor and support people as they explore their own spiritual development. Part of the delight of this has been to be able to share my knowledge and experience but without adopting any kind of guru role. I offer my services in this respect as a Kalyanamitra (Sanskrit) or kalyanamitta (Pali), that is as a 'spiritual friend'—someone who is walking a similar path and can provide support and encouragement to others, along with suggestions for practices and technique—but without any pretence to 'knowing the answer'.
I get a huge amount out of this sharing of ideas. It's great when this happens in a formal academic context (I'll be teaching this year on the Spirituality & Ecology Masters Degree at Schumacher College) as well as in less formal learning settings (check out our Deep Magic pages for updates) and in peer-support environments too. Like many of us I understand things best when I'm exploring ideas with others.
As social creatures making these interpersonal connections, we have the possibility of developing both a collective intelligence (a group mind) and also of allowing the community to enable our own individual understanding. There's a simple example of this; you may have had the experience of calling IT support and explaining the problem with your computer. As you do the explaining, even if the helpdesk person says very little, you are creating a new neural connection and often realize how to fix the problem as you are speaking. Making words to describe the problem to another person creates a new pathway for information to move through, often leading to insight and discovery. (You can try a similar process when looking for your keys by simply repeating 'keys, keys, keys…' which measurably increases how quickly you find your keys). Holding space with and for people, so that they can speak their truth, and come (like finding our lost keys) to moments of self-realization, is a real privilege. I think having a background in chaos magic helps, since while I have my story to tell and experiences to share that may inspire others, I'm not a 'better' or a 'more powerful magician' than anyone else. I'm also not interested in cheerleading for any particular paradigm, so while there are pagans and magicians who attend the sessions I curate, there are plenty of participants present who would not identify with those terms.
For me, as a group person and as an individual who thrives on collaboration, this diversity is wonderful. While I enjoy those more 'inward facing' conferences and meetings (where everyone is dressed in black, sporting various spooky bits of jewellery and making niche gematria jokes), making occulture accessible, intelligible and relevant to new audiences is, at least for me at the moment, where it's at.
This proposal is an open invitation and not a strict program or dogma for prescription.
LSD, DMT, Psilocybin, Peyote, Ayahausca and other psychedelics, enthoeogens, shamanic medicines and hallucinogenic chemicals are generally illegal and targeted by nation states and supranational organisations like the United Nations, G20 etc. Production, distribution and possession are heavily penalized in the majority of countries around the planet, even though there have been some advances towards their accepted uses in spirituality, psychiatry, psychotherapy and neuro-research in various territories.
exploitation. It is also a war against consciousness itself, who gets to experience it, how it gets transformed and who gets to control and define it. The psychedelic community is a revolutionary and subversive explosion of colour, love, possibility and positivity which has suffered since its inception from state repression, disruption, investigation and infiltration.
with the psychedelic movement are based on 'drug' experiences which are criminalized and forbidden. Someone has to produce and supply the psychedelic and entheogenic medicines which are so prevalent and so there is a responsibility from the community to support those people who get caught.
A proposed psychedelic prisoner solidarity group would have to decide about a centralized or decentralized structure; their relationships to other entities such as government bodies, trade unions, penal reform organisations such as the Howard League for Penal Reform, Amnesty International, and prison abolition groups such as the Anarchist Black Cross.
The group would need at least four or five core activists in order to be effective at a wider level, needing all the usual resources that a group like this requires: laptops, phones, printer, photocopier etc. It would be thought that a small group which has a such a broad remit and potentially vast interaction with many incarcerated psychonauts and wider society could suffer from being overwhelmed with cases and avenues of expansion beyond its means. The group should be a means to collect and unify many drug war prisoners without being based on individuals solely. This is to focus on the overall picture of repression and to prevent the ebb-and-flow of interest due to a particular case coming to an end or to give the illusion that the group could be a solution to all the problems that an imprisoned person may suffer from. The group should not be a charity based organisation but a means of struggle for the acceptance of psychedelic substances and their positive uses. This also means the family and friends who are supporting their imprisoned loved one do not have to spend all their time doing the public outreach which could be achieved by the impact of a psychedelic prisoner solidarity group, if they wish to focus on more important issues, like practical help to the one inside.
social repression and criminalization, for a better future and healing for all.
We can't let those psychedelic chemists, entheogenic suppliers and drug war prisoners behind bars remain there, and we cannot fail those people who the state wishes to jail for many years, in some cases, for multiple lifetimes, like William Leonard Pickard. A movement for social change can be judged on how well it treats those who go to prison in defense of its principles, as a movement which forgets its prisoners, forgets itself.
If you're interested in this proposal please get in touch.


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Betting market: The market is posting a slew of numbers for this game, ranging anywhere from Packers -7.5 to -9.
Weather report: Green Bay is going to have some very Green Bay-ish late December weather. Temperatures will be a bit below freezing, but wind speeds should play more of a factor.
Trends to know: Matthew Stafford has played in 11 games in his career where winds were gusting above 10 mph on average, and he is 2-9 against the spread, failing to cover the spread by 4.9 points per game.
As Mark noted, it'll be cold at Lambeau Field with an average temperature of 26 degrees during the game. Many bettors think cold temperatures impact scoring but that's not true.
Draft order: The Packers' comeback win over the Jets last week proved costly, as they only have a small chance to get a top-10 draft pick now (Green Bay currently has the 14th selection).


At times it's hard to decide what to put together to get the perfect "Look" for that special occasion. My habit is to pull out every accessory I have, try it on, check it out in the mirror. Decide if I feel good wearing it. Do I look good in it? You know the routine. The SWEETHEART WHITE LACE DRESS is the perfect dress to get your creative juice going.
Eva Mendes used the old-school glamour factor with matching bracelets on each arm. And dark, crisp jacket lends a chic contrast to white sheaths. Follow Zoe Saldana who chose a structured blazer with a dress style for a sophisticated evening look, Kate Walsh sported an angelic white an edge with a lightweight motorcycle-style leather jacket.
I found this enlightening article on fabfashionfix to help you create your perfect look. Interested? .
How Leather Outfits Can Redefine the Personality of a Working Mom?


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Official opening of Belfast City Hall's new exhibition space and new look 'The Bobbin' Cafe
The official reopening of The Bobbin social enterprise café coincides with a brand new tourist attraction being unveiled at Belfast City Hall on Monday 15th May.
The City Hall's east wing on the ground floor – where The Bobbin is located - has been completely renovated to facilitate an extensive new exhibition area.
'Belfast City Hall: a journey from past to present' offers a journey from the city's past to present, showing the vibrancy and diversity of Belfast City Hall across six themed zones and 16 separate rooms.
• The City, Growth and Governance, • The City at Work and Play, • City Speech and City Streets, • The City Commemorates, • The Reflection Space, and • The City Celebrates.
The exhibition is presented within the original architecture of City Hall as designed by Alfred Brumwell Thomas in the late 1890s. It has its own dedicated reception area and entrance is free to members of the public. There is a charge for commercial groups and a £3.50 hire charge for headphones if you wish to listen to an audio tour. A commemorative booklet is also available for just £1.
A free guided tour of Belfast City Hall is also available for those wishing to further explore the building. Led by an experienced guide, the tours last around an hour and covers the history of the building and its finest features, including the Council Chamber.
After the exhibition and/or tour, there is the opportunity to relax over refreshments, coffee and cake or a spot of lunch at The Bobbin. The café had temporarily closed while the renovations were taking place and was greatly missed. It reopened last month with a new look, new menu and even more space and customers have been taking to social media ever since to share their photos and good wishes.
The Bobbin is run by Belfast-based Loaf Catering and Cafes, a social enterprise supporting people with learning disabilities and autism get training and jobs in the catering industry. In addition to The Bobbin, it comprises of an outside catering branch 'Loaf Catering' and Loaf Café & Bakery which can be found on the city's busy Grosvenor Road, directly opposite the Royal Victoria Hospital.
All of The Bobbin's profits go to its parent organisation NOW Group, a social enterprise supporting people with learning difficulties and autism into jobs with a future. The Bobbin provides 15 training and work experience places each week for people with a learning disability.
The café's new menu has been very popular with customers since its launch. There's lots of new dishes to sample including Irish wheaten bread with hot smoked salmon and scrambled eggs or a breakfast floured bap with sausage, smoked bacon & black pudding for breakfast. Lunch options include Loaf's famous traditional pork sausage roll (voted best in Belfast) with homemade secret recipe relish; Irish beef stew served with homemade wheaten bread; or seasonal soup of the day served with a selection of fresh artisan breads.
The Bobbin also has a new space – a separate room for group bookings. If you would like more information or to make an enquiry relating to the group booking space, please call Piia Laurtis, Café Manager, on 028 9050 2068 or email: thebobbin@nowgroup.org
From Monday 15th May, The Bobbin's opening hours will be as follows: Monday – Wednesday: 9am – 5pm Thursday: 9am – 7.30pm Friday: 9am – 5pm Saturday & Sunday: 10am-5pm
*The Belfast City Hall exhibition area opens to the public on Tuesday, 16 May. For more information on exhibition space and tours, call 9027 0456 or log onto to www.belfastcity.gov.uk/cityhall
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Low-light, poor quality surveillance is now something of the past. With the help of the Longse Starlight cameras, darkness becomes visible and your properties can always be kept under control.
This Longse Starlight camera adopts a 1/2.8-inch Starvis back-illuminated CMOS sensor, with a 2 MP HD lens and delivers 1920 x 1080 full colour HD quality under poor light conditions.
The core feature of the starlight camera is the light sensitivity technology. This is obtained by noise suppression and is the latest in sensor technology. Furthermore, the cameras' WDR (wide dynamic range of light) and IR-Cut (built-in infrared cut-off filter) prevents over exposure and colour deviations.
There are various uses for the Longse Starlight camera, from parking lot security, driveway security, security at harbours, to high-volume traffic areas and city centres.


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Q: One loader screen with several .fla I've got loader screen in one .fla and several other .fla files that should use it. How can I use this one loader with all other files?
thank you.

A: Not sure why you are getting downvoted, this is a pretty standard question in Flash-land.
Basically, the .swf that gets published by your preloader .fla needs to be able to load in and then display the .swf's published by your other .fla's. You would put code that looks like this into your preloader:
var swf1:MovieClip;
var swf2:MovieClip;

function loadFirstSwf():void {
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, firstSWFLoaded);
loader.load( new URLRequest( "swf1.swf" ));
}

function firstSWFLoaded(e:Event):void {
swf1 = MovieClip(e.currentTarget.content);
e.currentTarget.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, firstSWFLoaded);

loadSecondSwf();
}

function loadSecondSwf():void {
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, secondSWFLoaded);
loader.load( new URLRequest( "swf2.swf" ));
}

function secondSWFLoaded(e:Event):void {
swf2 = MovieClip(e.currentTarget.content);
e.currentTarget.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, secondSWFLoaded);
whatever();
}

function whatever():void {
// logic here to do whatever you need to do next.
}

loadFirstSwf();

Note that this isn't the most efficient architecture - I tried to keep it as simple as possible, not being sure of your level of AS3 experience. A few things to note:
1) You're calling these sequentially. When the first one finishes, it gets the second one, etc. You can add a third and fourth and etc. This is to make explicit the order in which they arrive. You can also fire them all at once, but it requires some additional logic to make sure you know what's coming from where because they can finish in different order than you start them. This is a common rookie mistake and I'm trying to set it up so that you don't have to deal with it.
2) You're making sure that you remove the event listeners from your loaders after you extract the loaded .swf. This just makes sure that they don't hang around in memory forever.
3) You're not actually listening for progress using this example - if you'd like to, you can use loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progressHandler) and then put code in your progress handler to listen for the actual current state of the load.
So, the example above is super simple but should work. If you want to get something more robust, or if you're dealing with a lot of child swf's, look into using something like LoaderMax from GreenSock - that's a free third-party library that helps you manage the loading of multiple files easily.
Cheers and I hope that helps!

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Today is the day. Let us join together in ceremony and prayer. Let us do our cleansing and find our space on this Sacred Earth. Let us light our fires and make our offerings. Let us sing our songs, dance our dances, drum our drums and open our hearts. Let us Honor those who died at Wounded Knee, naming the names. Let us find connection with All Our Relations. Let us embrace those who have gone before us. Let us find compassion and healing as we move forward in a Sacred Way. Let us make a better place for our descendants.
Please share these posts and encourage people to join us in ceremony, in ritual, in prayer on Tuesday December 29th, the 125th anniversary of the Massacre at Wounded Knee, at Noon in your own time zone.
Meditation on the prayer of "All My Relations": The Native Americans pray "All My Relations". This is a statement of humility, connection, and compassion. It is an acknowledgment of the Ancestors and a recognition of the Descendants. In doing this working, in joining the global prayer, in "Reclaiming the Heart of Our Humanity" we come to a closer understanding of what this prayer "All My Relations" really means.
That All My Relations is a statement of connection seems self-evident. But it doesn't just honor or acknowledge relatives of bloodline. It calls to a connection with the whole tribe, the community. It makes it possible for us to connect, in an interfaith community, praying to heal our multi-generational wounds. It touches ancestors of the blood, ancestors of the heart and ancestors of the spirit.
It is also a statement of connection to those ancestors that are very different from us. It is a connection to our ancestors on BOTH sides of this massacre, and of any conflict. It is a connection to people we may not understand or approve of, but who are indeed our relations. It is a connection across race, or species because the bear people are our relations, the wolf people are our relations, the bird people, the fish people. The tree people are our relations. The stone people are our relations. The earth we dwell upon is mother to us all and we are all her people. All My Relations.
All My Relations is a statement of humility, because it recognized our human inability to determine the best possible outcome for all. We're not even good at always finding the best possible outcome for ourselves! How could we know what would best serve the memories of our Ancestors and honor their work? How could we know what will best serve our Descendants? How can we know what the best possible outcome will be for the Animal people? The Plant people? The Stone people? The Earth? So we prayer to the good of All My Relations in humility for our own limited vision.
All My Relations is a statement of compassion. Every religion has some version of "do unto others" or "what goes around comes around". Acknowledging a direct connection to the harm and benefit our actions cause shifts our awareness of the impact of those actions. When we harm our relations, we harm ourselves. When we damage our lineage, we damage ourselves.
The other side of that is that we recognize our capacity to stand where our misguided, confused, fearful Relations stand and make their mistakes. All My Relations includes both sides of the argument. All My Relations includes those who lash out in fear and anger. All My Relations includes those whose actions aim only to benefit themselves.
To truly heal our multi-generational traumas we must be willing to take in compassion All Our Relations. We must be willing to honor and acknowledge the fear, the hurt, the loss, the pain, the greed, the anger, the jealously, the hopelessness and meet those feelings with love. One hour of prayer, one anniversary of recognition is only the beginning of this work.
The invitation we were issued at the Parliament of World Religions also calls for us to move forward in a Sacred Way. That is the true working, for All My Relations.
I really hope you are all sharing these posts. It would be great to share in "Reclaiming the Heart of Our Humanity" on December 29th and Noon. The more the merrier in this kind of global interfaith work.
In my last post I talked about cleansing and creating a sacred space. In this one I'm going to talk about prayer, or ritual, or the working.
Transformation: Fire is transformative, and since we are looking to transform from the 125th anniversary of a horror to a world where those things don't happen fire seems like a good focus.
Depending on your circumstances, lighting a fire might not be easy or practical. I have a fireplace, but even a candle will work. If you've chosen to take time out on your lunch hour visualizing a fire can be effective. There are Kundalini Yoga techniques that build internal fire energy.
However you choose to create fire, remember that this particular fire is sacred. It is symbolic of the divine energy we are calling upon to manifest this transformation. There is a Buddhist philosophy that says the first step to changing the world is changing yourself. In doing this work the hope is we will transform our own understanding of our relationship to these events and carry that change out into the world.
Offerings: The other nice thing about fire is that it will accept offerings. We can offer up gifts, like additional candles or our incense or smudge sticks, in thanksgiving. Expressing gratitude for the help fire gives us in transforming is very appropriate.
We can also offer our own emotions to the fire. This can be especially useful if you can not work with an actual flame. Sitting in meditation with the reality of our history can raise up powerful feelings. Allowing ourselves to experience those feelings fully, and then give them over to the flame is a very transformative process.
There are other things that can be offered as part of this working, part of this prayer. Drumming would be appropriate as would singing and dancing. As this is an interfaith working bringing something to offer from your own faith tradition is very appropriate. Or you could simply allow yourself to be present in the moment and trust that your body, your heart will know what to do.
It is very difficult for white Americans to sing or dance or move directly from our spirit. We tend to edit ourselves. We wonder, "How do I look?" We wonder, "How do I sound?" We ask ourselves, "Am I doing it right?" But if we can find a way through to that child-like trust, If we can truly let go and allow spirit to move through us, that is also a very transformative act.
Two more days, and hopefully two more posts.
No, this post isn't about the "Incident at Wounded Knee", although part of the reason that had so much impact is because of the history of the Massacre taking place on the same land. This is a posting for those who are interested in joining us in prayer and healing for those who were chased down, and shot down, and buried in the mass grave at Wounded Knee.
Praying, to my mind, is a very personal thing. Approaching the Divine sincerely is not something anyone can tell you how to do it "right". However, for an event like this I'm happy to offer some suggestions of things you might want to try.
Cleansing: Many rituals and acts of prayer start with some form of cleansing. This can be anything from a full ritual bath to an energetic cleansing like grounding and centering. In many Native American practices cleansing is done with smoke, or smudging. Commonly smudge sticks are made with sage or sweetgrass.
The cleansing practice can be constructed as a small prayer in and of itself. The water, or smoke can be blessed. Prayers can be made about being prepared – appropriate and able (I hate the notion of worthy) – to do the work at hand. Any "excess" can be returned to the earth for recycling and renewal.
May my heart and mind be blessed.
Creating Sacred Space: There is no need to do this work in a separated space. To the Native Americans every place you stand on this planet is sacred. But many of us appreciate a small act to acknowledge that sacred work is distinct from our mundane lives. Some of us need a special space so that we know to avoid distractions. Because this is a prayer, not just for Wounded Knee, but for all those massacred in similar situations it seems to me that the most appropriate way to create sacred space is to acknowledge the 4 directions.
North, East, South, and West are the compass points that cartographers have used for ages to define the land. Many of us have associations with those directions, as do the Native tribes. However, those associations are not universal.
Where I live, and in my spiritual tradition, North is associated with winter, darkness, silence, and wisdom. If I lived in Argentina North might be associated with warmth and growth. In my spiritual tradition West is associated with water, compassion, sunset, and healing. The sunset in the West is globally true, but it's hard to associate West with water if you live with the ocean only a short trip to the East.
In religions where the spiritual center is a geographic point, like Mecca, where you stand in relation to that point impacts your association with the directions. Even where we stand relative to Wounded Knee, South Dakota, may impact how we establish this space.
So I leave the specifics up to you. Establish the sacredness of where you stand by recognizing where you are in the world at this moment. Honor what is in each of the 4 directions. Honor the sacredness of the Earth upon which you stand.
Wounded Knee means many things to many people. Then there are those who've never heard of the place. American history is taught with a carefully edited eye to the white mans point of view. But to most of the Native people of this continent Wounded Knee stands as a tipping point. It is the Ferguson of the era of conquest and oppression of the indigenous people of this land.
This year, on December 29th, is the 125th anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee. It is a massacre that took place because the white army perceived the natives as dangerous and unruly. It took place because there was no understanding or appreciation of different points of view, different religious practices. It took place because a failure to communicate lead to a "need" to control, to take away human and civil liberties, and to respond with brute force to a perceived threat.
There are many tellings of what happened at Wounded Knee. I read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee back in 1974. On line there are several accounts eye witnesses, official reports, and of course wikipedia. All the versions agree that the natives were practicing their religion illegally. (The practice of the Ghost Dance was banned) They all agree that hundreds of men, women and children were killed. They don't all agree on why.
The massacre at Wounded Knee is a living injury in the hearts of the Native people. These are their ancestors, and they are honored with dance, and song and story, and a reenactment of the ride to escape the soldiers.
When I was at the Parliament of World Religions I attended several seminars led by Chief Arvol Looking Horse. He is one of the spiritual leaders of the ride. This year, on this anniversary, he called on us a spiritual leaders to join together and help heal the hearts of those massacred unjustly. He asked us to pray not only for Wounded Knee, but for all those killed in massacres because they are perceived as "other" or "threatening" simply for trying to make their way in the world.
So I created a Facebook event and will write on and off for the next week about things we can do. Let us join together, in spirit, in ritual, in prayer. The Natives pray "all my relations" and recognize that we are all related, we are all one. These are our relatives, our ancestors who have died at Wounded Knee, in Boznia, at Tiananmen Square, in Rwanda, in Syria. These are our relations killed in the Holocaust, in the streets and prisons of the USA, in the Ukraine.
As Chief Looking Horse invites us, let us stop the massacres, let us heal hearts, let us move forward in a Sacred Way.
We live in a world where time is measured with precision to the second. Even so, our experience of time seems much more subjective. In this season when the nights are long and dark there is a natural slowing down. In this season when the holiday rush is upon us there seems to be an imposed speeding up. Maybe it's this juxtaposition that has me struggling to make a schedule, stay on track and get anything accomplished.
I love the nights at this time of year, especially when there is snow on the ground muffling the sounds. There is a peacefulness that descends with nightfall. Lighting a fire in the fireplace and wrapping up in a warm blanket, hot drink in hand is clearly what's called for on evenings like this. I look at my "to do" list and think that all I really want is to curl up with a good book.
I have shopping to do. Of course there is holiday shopping, but there is also the every day kind of shopping that is somehow more complicated this time of year. Even the grocery store seems more crowded, parking is harder to find and stopping in anywhere requires shopping to a soundtrack of carols. Getting anything seems to take forever. In addition to these complications are my allergies.
Thankfully I'm not allergic to pine, as are several of my friends. They come out of the stores stuffy and sneezy and it doesn't let up until January. My allergy is cinnamon, and it's bad. Even the scent of cinnamon will puff up my face and start my tongue swelling, my throat closing. At least it's easy to identify and I can usually walk away. But the grocery stores have started stocking cinnamon brooms and cinnamon scented pine cones!
SO many good spices that aren't cinnamon!
Maybe if I should start exploring grocery delivery. Then I could stay home curled in my blanket while the delivery drivers did my shopping. But I don't want to return to the days when I couldn't do anything. I enjoy being able to be out and about (and carry my 1 grocery bag to the car rather than going to drive-through). I have the energy to spend browsing the shelves for gifts. I just don't have the time.


In Milwaukee, the Major League Baseball Brewers have held a "Sausage Race" at home games since the 1990s, allowing fans to root on their favorite human in a giant wiener costume — actually, five different humans in five different tube meat styles: Brat, Polish, Italian, Hot Dog, and Chorizo.
Starting on Opening Day, the Padres of San Diego have instituted their own human mascot race. But here, at Petco Park, it's all about the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. You can root for Ron Burgundy, Champ Kind, Brian Fantana or Brick Tamland at each Padres home game.


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By Fernando Cabaleiro, Naturaleza de Derechos – Extract from Navdanya International Report The Future of Food – Farming with Nature, Cultivating the Future – November 2019
In Argentina, patent law does not allow plant patents. However, shortly after obtaining the marketing authorization of the first genetically modified soybeans in 1996, the Monsanto company claimed rights of Intellectual property before the state agency responsible for granting patents (INPI – National Institute of Industrial Property) for a double-stranded recombinant DNA molecule and plant cells with the insert of that molecule.
The state agency rejected Monsanto´s request because the law is very clear: plants cannot be patented. Consequently, Monsanto went to court arguing that the patent law violated their property rights.
In November 2015, the Federal Chamber of Civil and Commerce of the City of Buenos Aires rejected Monsanto´s claim to patent the plants. In its decision the court was blunt, it stated that the recombinant DNA molecule, the plant cells transformed by it and the plants generated from them included in Monsanto´s request, were not included in the protection provided by the patent systems because they did not comply with the provisions established by law.
The court considered that any technical contribution made in the field of biotechnology which has an industrial application is not necessarily patentable as mere innovation is not comparable to inventiveness. It said that what was present in this case was a modification of a matter already existing in nature which does not constitute any human creation, an essential requirement for proceeding with the patenting as stated in the legislation. The ruling of the Chamber was confirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, in April 2019.
Even with that judicial decision, both Monsanto and Bayer went back to the justice system. Now that the claims consist of the recognition of patenting rights of genetic sequences, both companies maintain that the genetic sequences are constructions that are made artificially in the laboratories. Therefore, according to these corporations, they would not be part of the plant. This would make them patentable. They also argue that genetic sequences are inventions with surprising results that are not derived from a regular technique.
Both legal actions are ongoing. From Naturaleza de Derechos we question this claim for two specific reasons. First, it is not an invention. Second, it is reductionist to segment, separate, the genetic sequence of the plant. Once the molecule inserted with the genetic sequence is introduced into the plant, it forms part of it in an inseparable way. Therefore, the non-patenting of plants includes all its components: organelles, genes, leaves, bulbs, stems, etc.
On the political level, Monsanto and Bayer are pressuring the legislature to modify the Seed Law. In Argentina, use of seeds, falls within the scope of the UPVO Act 1978. Under this law farmers are allowed to save seeds, build their own varieties from them and exchange them without any restrictions or conditions. Along with the patent claim, Monsanto and Bayer are demanding that the use of seeds by the farmers be absolutely banned for three years, through modifications in the Seed Law. With this change in the law, farmers would not be able save seeds and will be forced to buy them in each sowing season.
While the bill proposes an exemption for farmers from family, peasant and indigenous agriculture, the requirements for the validity of the exemptions are impractical and cumbersome. In reality, what is sought after with the change in the Seed Law is control by the agribusiness corporations and large seed companies over all varieties of seeds, not only over GMOs. Hence, this amended law would promote a seed oligopoly, which by proscribing farmers' use of seeds, would put the genetic diversity and food sovereignty at serious risk.
We reject intellectual property over plants as well as the Seed Bill as they only aim to strengthen the incentives for the commercial development of plant varieties that have the maximum trade potential and that require agrotoxics associated with the industrial production model of GMOs. Continuing this way, plant varieties created ancestrally by peasants and indigenous communities which possess a high genetic diversity and resilience to climate change would be gradually replaced by those produced by the private sector oligopoly of transnational companies with a high degree of uniformity and vulnerability, eroding the very basis of agricultural diversity.
Closely connected to the defence of freedom of seeds for their non-patenting and their own use as a human right is the commons and the community rights such as free access to seeds, adequate availability of food, biodiversity preservation, public health, food security and sovereignty. If these community rights are affected, the rights of mother earth, small farmers, indigenous communities and peasants, and indirectly, all consumers (especially the needy, the old, children, pregnant women and people with certain pathologies) are also affected.
It must be assumed that what is at stake is not something minor, it is our own freedom as stewards of nature's given fruits. We have to think not only of the current society we are a part, but also of future generations. This way of thinking is something too alien for agribusiness merchants but too important and crucial for our steadiness and conviction, because the freedom of the future generations depends on the fact that we keep ours intact.
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Brooks Newmark announced as next minister for Civil Society
July 16, 2014 Selnet
David Cameron has announced that Brooks Newmark will be the next minister for civil society.
Newmark is the MP for Braintree. He has been an MP since 2005. He has sat on the Treasury Select Committee since 2012.
He is involved with various charities including PARC, a respite centre based in Braintree for children with severe disabilities, Farleigh Hospice and A Partner in Education, which he founded in 2010.
He is still a trustee for A Partner in Education which has been set up to furnish a new school in Rwanda. Over the three years since it has been registered with the Charity Commission its total income has been £4,200 with an expenditure of £24,000.
Nick Hurd tweeted his congratulations saying that Brooks Newmark "is an old friend and I am relieved and delighted that he is picking up the baton. A very decent and thoughtful man".
In 2010 Newmark was appointed a senior government whip with responsibility for the Department of Business and the Wales Office and later was given responsibility for the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister until September 2012. During this time, Newmark was a Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury.
Before entering politics, Newmark was a senior partner of Apollo Management LP, an international private equity firm.
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Ribble Valley Business Awards 2014
July 3, 2014 Selnet
The Ribble Valley Business Awards (or RVs) is all about championing the people and enterprises that make Ribble Valley such a great place to live, work and visit.
This awards initiative – new for 2014 – is organised by the volunteer mentor team at Enterprising People – a project offering free, one-to-one mentoring support for local people and organisations with innovative ideas they want to make happen.
This first of what we hope will become an annual and prestigious part of the local business calendar will be officially launched for entries in July 2014, with the winners announced at a glittering awards ceremony at
NOMINATIONS WILL START ONLINE IN JULY.
To see a full list of awards and sponsors, please click here.
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Recycling Lives Wins Second Queen's Award for Sustainable Enterprise
April 24, 2014 Selnet
After winning a Queen's Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development in 2010, recycling and waste management firm Recycling Lives has just scooped the award for the second time.
On this occasion, it was the company's recently launched "Flat Panel Display recycling and employment project" at HMP Kirkham that impressed the judging panel.
By establishing a busy recycling centre within the prison, and integrating the training and work experience opportunities there with the six-stage charity programme available at its own premises, Recycling Lives offers prisoners at HMP Kirkham the chance to secure supported accommodation and stable employment after release.
Granting the award for a second time to Recycling Lives, the office for the Queen's Awards for Enterprise stated:
Widely accredited for its environmental management, the company targets niche recycling markets, processing previously unrecyclable items, such as flat screen displays, and making working components available for re-sale where possible.
Thus, Recycling Lives diverts products from landfills and contributes significantly to environmental improvement. Through its work, the organisation offers ex-offenders, homeless people and long-term unemployed individuals routes to employment via rehabilitation, training and accommodation, enabling them to develop vital social and employability skills.
Bu supporting charities, social enterprises, community ventures and ethical businesses, Recycling Lives sets a benchmark not only for the sector, but for industry in general.
Recycling Lives was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Preston, Lancashire. The company is considered a social business by its directors, having expressed a commitment in 2011 to working only on projects which demonstrate a positive social impact.
In addition to its earlier Queen's Award, Recycling Lives was championed for its commitment to positive social impact in a 2012 Government white paper entitled "Social Justice: Transforming Lives". The company's founder and chief executive, Steven Jackson OBE, was also recognised in the 2013 New Year Honours List for Services to Employment and the Community in Lancashire.
Mr Jackson commented on this latest award, saying:
We're all incredibly proud here at Recycling Lives: to be recognised not once but twice by the Queen's Awards for Enterprise is a huge honour.
For years, Recycling Lives has sought to develop effective and creative solutions to recycling and waste management challenges that prioritise not only environmental sustainability, but social and economic sustainability as well.
Organisations need to see that it is absolutely possible to build up and sustain a successful commercial business while making Corporate Social Responsibility a primary concern.
In addition to expanding its commercial recycling and waste management activities, Recycling Lives hopes to extend its social impact via its charity-led Community Dotcom services.
The company's nationwide Community Dotcom schemes, including SkipHireNetwork.org, OfficeClearanceNetwork.org, BulkyWaste.org and ScrapCarNetwork.org, enable charities and ethical businesses to deliver reuse and recycling services to householders across the country.
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Lloyds Bank and Bank of Scotland Social Entrepreneurs Programme
March 20, 2014 Selnet
If you've got an idea for a project to improve your local community, this programme can help make it happen.
We're offering a fully funded year of learning and a grant to help you get started on a new idea or scale up an existing social enterprise.
During the programme you will develop as a leader and obtain the skills needed to take your organisation to the next stage.
The programme is incredibly practical and students can expect to learn from their peers, build new networks and be challenged by practitioners.
The programme is split into Start Up and Scale Up:
Both programmes offer:
Fully funded 14 day learning programme
Grant (either £4,000 or £15,000)
Mentor from Lloyds Bank/ Bank of Scotland
Start Up will get your new project or idea off to a flying start.
Scale Up will help you grow an established social enterprise.
European Structural Investment Framework for Lancashire
EU Structural and Investment Funds Strategy for Lancashire Final – 31-01-14 LEP Board
The European Structural Investment Framework outlines how funds will be used to increase productivity levels for key economic sectors, promote sustainable employment growth and tackle the barriers to employment for Lancashire's most disadvantaged communities and increase capacity to unlock the economic potential of Lancashire's businesses and residents.
Liz Tapner, Chief Executive of Selnet Ltd and a ONE Lancashire Director along with consultations from the wider sector has represented the Social Enterprise and Third Sector and this is where the process is at to date.
LCC notes:
Please find attached the copy of the ESIF 31st January 2014 Submission, This document has gone to the National Growth Board and comments and feedback will be issued. Therefore the document is likely to change between now and possible national endorsement/approval in May 2014.
Once we have feedback and have been given more detail on the processes for selecting projects, etc we will arrange a further stakeholder event to discuss the implementation of the ESIF (in the context of the ERDF/ESF/EAFRD national Operational programmes).
Selnet chief meets Nick Hurd MP to represent Lancashire's Third Sector
February 7, 2014 Selnet
Liz Tapner, Chief Executive of Selnet Ltd (Social Enterprise Lancashire Network) was asked to represent the Lancashire LEP (Local Enterprise Partnership) at a ministerial visit at St Georges Hall on 23rd January 2014 to launch the Liverpool City Region pilot of The Social Investment Business (SIB) Local Impact Fund. It's aim to offer simple unsecured finance and investment readiness support to charities and Social Enterprises in the Liverpool City area. There are 2 pilots as part of the current EU programme Liverpool and Northamptonshire.
A group of LEP representatives from across the North West had a private meeting with Chair at SIB Sir Stephen Bubb and Nick Hurd MP who gave recognition to the economic significance of the Third Sector as a growing and viable sector that needs affordable long-term finance.
Mr Hurd also acknowledged, the need for local staged investment and the value of the representatives local knowledge and intelligence to enable then to meet real local issues & needs
Questions from the session included how the LEPs are planning to support social enterprise as part of their economic growth strategy? To this Liz Tapner was able to respond that she has been working with the LEPs Technical Assistance Group who are currently writing Lancashire EU Structural Investment Funds Strategy (ESIF) enabling them to consult with Third Sector front line service delivery organisations and their support agencies.
Liverpool City Region is showing great leadership in supporting the social sector by setting up a Local Impact Fund, how does Lancashire plan to provide similar opportunities? Through strong partnerships with Social Enterprise North West, Selnet, ONE Lancashire and her position within the Technical Assistance Group, Liz is championing ongoing support and investment to the Social Enterprise Sector in Lancashire and is keen to work with the Social Investment Business and the LEP to include setting up a Local Impact Fund amongst other initiatives.
Read the following post Third Sector Representation in Lancashire's Growth Plans to find out more about Lancashire's growth development plans and how our sector is being represented.
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Q: Memoir class and Turkish Characters in Header I want to use the Memoir class based template offered by gablin presented here.
I am using Turkish babel package. There is a problem with one Turkish character in heading that is İ (dotted I). If the character İ is the first letter, there is no problem as seen following.

But if the İ is not the first letter, it is seen as I (not dotted). For example:

The following is what I want:

How can I fix this issue?
MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt, twoside, openright, turkish]{memoir}

\RequirePackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[style=numeric-comp,sortcites=true]{biblatex}
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\usepackage{amsmath}
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During the time period from May 1, 2006 to April 30, 2007, the center for new media culture RIXC in Riga in collaboration with co-organisers (OKNO/Belgium, TESLA/Germany, PROJEKT ATOL/Slovenia, ELLIPSE/France, Performing Pictures/Sweden) organised the project WAVES which investigated electromagnetic waves as the principle material – the medium – of media art.
Since more than 100 years, electromagnetic waves have been used for communications - from the wireless telegraph to radio, television, satellite, mobile phones and now also wireless network technologies. Despite a rich tradition of media art work using waves, the most creative experimentations with/within the electromagnetic spectrum often have remained invisible, leaving the innovative potential of waves underexploited.
At large, the project is a manifestation of creative explorations, discoveries and new ideas for both past and future. Artistic expressions of "waves" from the last century was brought into spotlight, and the potential for future innovation revealed.


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'Perhaps I've been unusually lucky, but in my experience, editors, far from coercing and squashing writers, do exactly the opposite, elucidating them and drawing them out, or, when they're exhausted and on the point of giving up (like marathon runners hitting the wall), coaxing them to go the extra mile...
When people speak of writer's block, they think of the writer stalled over a blank page, or of throwing scrunched-up bits of paper - false starts - into a waste-bin. But there's another kind of block, which is structural, when you've written tens of thousands of words, but can't figure out which are superfluous and what goes where. Something's wrong, but you don't know what it is, and that can make you desperate...
And that's why editors matter, not as butchers and barbers, but because what's wrong with a book can be something the author has repressed all knowledge of, something glaringly obvious which, the moment an editor or other reader identifies it, you think, yes, of course, Eureka, and then you go back and fix it.'
Blake Morrison in an excellent piece about editors as an endangered species, in the Guardian
'I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.'
— John Cheever
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Waithera Gaitho is the Founder and Executive Director of Alternatives Africa (Alternatives), a non-profit social enterprise whose vision is to contribute towards socio-economic development for national transformation.
She has over ten years of progressive professional experience gained from working with the United Nations (nine years), Corporate Sector, Government and Civil Society. Waithera holds a B.A in International Relations, an M.A in International Studies and has plans of pursuing a Doctorate in Public Policy and Governance in the very near future.
As a youth expert and socioeconomic development advocate representing the interests of youth-led micro and small enterprises (including those situated in low income/informal settlements), Waithera has served in various leadership and board positions. Presently, she serves as the youth representative of the Federation of Women Entrepreneurs Association (FEWA), chairs the Kenya Young Parliamentarians Association (KYPA) Reference Group and an active member of the KEPSA Gender and Youth Sub-Sector Board-presently spearheading the establishment of the KEPSA Youth Sub-Sector Committee.
Finally, born and partly bred in the informal settlement of Kawangware, she is passionate about sharing life lessons, experiences and accrued wisdom with young Kenyans from all walks of life and economic strata, through the Words of Wisdom Platform.
She will be speaking to us this week on economic growth driven by the youth.


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Jack Szostak
Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Jack Szostak is a biologist, Nobel Prize laureate, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Szostak has made significant contributions to the field of genetics. His achievements have helped scientists to map the location of genes in mammals as well as to develop techniques for manipulating genes.
His research findings in this area are also instrumental to the Human Genome Project. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and is credited with the construction of the world's first yeast artificial chromosome.
Currently his lab focuses on the challenges of understanding the origin of life on Earth, and the construction of artificial cellular life in the laboratory.
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Q: Float underflow in C explanation I am solving one of C Primer Plus exercises dealing with float underflow. The task is to simulate it. I did it this way:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<float.h>

int main(void)
{
    // print min value for a positive float retaining full precision
    printf("%s\n %.150f\n", "Minimum positive float value retaining full precision:",FLT_MIN);

    // print min value for a positive float retaining full precision divided by two
    printf("%s\n %.150f\n", "Minimum positive float value retaining full precision divided by two:",FLT_MIN/2.0);

    // print min value for a positive float retaining full precision divided by four
    printf("%s\n %.150f\n", "Minimum positive float value retaining full precision divided by four:",FLT_MIN/4.0);

    return 0;
}

The result is
Minimum positive float value retaining full precision:                 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000011754943508222875079687365372222456778186655567720875215087517062784172594547271728515625000000000000000000000000
Minimum positive float value retaining full precision divided by two:  0.000000000000000000000000000000000000005877471754111437539843682686111228389093327783860437607543758531392086297273635864257812500000000000000000000000
Minimum positive float value retaining full precision divided by four: 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000002938735877055718769921841343055614194546663891930218803771879265696043148636817932128906250000000000000000000000

I expected less precision for min float value divide by two and four but it seems the precision is ok and there is no underflow situation. How is it possible? Did I miss something?
Thank you very much

A: Incorrect method of assessing precision as code simple divides FLT_MIN (certainly a power of 2) by 2.
Instead start with a number that is just above a power of 2 so its binary significand is something like 1.000...(maybe total of 24 binary digits)...0001. Insure values printed are originally float.  (FLT_MIN/2.0 is a double.)
Notice below that the precision is lost when the numbers becomes less than FLT_MIN: minimum normalized positive floating-point number.
Also consider FLT_TRUE_MIN: minimum positive floating-point number.  See binary32
#include <float.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
  char *format = "%.10e %a\n";
  printf(format, FLT_MIN, FLT_MIN);
  printf(format, FLT_TRUE_MIN, FLT_TRUE_MIN);

  float f = nextafterf(1.0f, 2.0f);
  do {
    f /= 2;
    printf(format, f, f);  // print in decimal and hex for detail
  } while (f);
  return 0;
}

Output
1.1754943508e-38 0x1p-126
1.4012984643e-45 0x1p-149

5.0000005960e-01 0x1.000002p-1
2.5000002980e-01 0x1.000002p-2
1.2500001490e-01 0x1.000002p-3
...
2.3509889819e-38 0x1.000002p-125
1.1754944910e-38 0x1.000002p-126
5.8774717541e-39 0x1p-127  // lost least significant bit of precision
2.9387358771e-39 0x1p-128
...
2.8025969286e-45 0x1p-148
1.4012984643e-45 0x1p-149
0.0000000000e+00 0x0p+0


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The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - Volume 31, Issue 2, 1982
Epidemiologic Features of Strongyloides Stercoralis Infection in an Endemic Area of the United States *
Peter D. Walzer, James E. Milder, John G. Banwell, George Kilgore, Marilyn Klein and Ruby Parker
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1982.31.313
The epidemiologic features of Strongyloides stercoralis infection in Kentucky were studied by an analysis of clinical cases at the University of Kentucky Medical Center (UKMC); by an analysis of parasitologic records of the Kentucky Bureau for Health Services (KBHS); and by a prospective stool survey of school children in Clay County, located in southeastern Kentucky, an area of the state previously found to be highly endemic for intestinal parasites. S. stercoralis was the most common parasitic infection diagnosed at UKMC. The patients were predominantly white male adults who were over 50 years old, had an associated chronic or debilitating medical illness, were of low socioeconomic background, and resided in southeastern Kentucky. S. stercoralis was a common parasitic infection at KBHS and the patients showed a similar geographic distribution. Of 561 Clay County children surveyed, 23.7% harbored one or more intestinal parasite pathogens and 3.0% had S. stercoralis. Thus, S. stercoralis remains highly endemic in Kentucky and may cause disease even in geriatric patients.
Prevalence and Intensity of Schistosoma Haematobium Infection in Six Villages of Upper Egypt *
C. L. King, F. D. Miller, M. Hussein, R. Barkat and A. S. Monto
A cross-sectional survey for Schistosoma haematobium infection in 5,998 individuals, representing 31,803 persons in six rural villages of the Qena governorate, Upper Egypt, was completed. There were 2,223 persons (37.1%) excreting S. haematobium eggs identified by the nuclepore membrane filtration technique of a single urine specimen. Prevalence of infection ranged from 23.9% to 64.0% among the six villages. Quantitatively the overall geometric mean egg-count was 48.1 eggs/10 ml urine. A survey of proximal canals was conducted and 9 of 4,312 Bulinus snails were infected with schistosomes (0.21%). The stools of 2 of 507 adolescent males were positive for S. mansoni. No Biomphalaria snails were found. When these findings are compared to past studies, S. haematobium prevalence appears to have substantially increased.
Interaction of Salmonella Paratyphi a and Schistosoma Mansoni in Hamsters *
Isis A. Mikhail, Gene I. Higashi, David C. Edman and Sabry H. Elwan
It has previously been shown that Salmonella paratyphi A associates with adult Schistosoma mansoni worms in animal models and in patients with schistosomiasis, resulting in Salmonella infections that are difficult to manage unless the helminthic parasite is eliminated. In the present study, characteristics of this association were explored. In vitro, fresh serum, but not heat-inactivated (56°C, 30 minutes) serum, from normal hamsters (NH) and schistosome-infected hamsters (SIH) equally inhibited bacterial growth. When either group of animals was given S. paratyphi A intracardially, there was a decline in recoverable bacteria in the blood for 3 days, but after the third day, the number of bacteria increased in SIH whereas NH blood became sterile. Co-cultivation of S. paratyphi A in Earle's medium with live worms yielded more bacterial growth than occurred in the medium without worms, suggesting that nutritional factors are involved in the relationship. An intimate association in vivo of bacteria and trematodes was confirmed by culturing Salmonella from both worm surfaces and homogenized worms, with more bacteria being recovered from female worms. Although the bacterial infection induced a significant hepatic shift of adult worms in SIH, oogram analyses were normal and no lethal effect of bacteria on worms was noted.
The Cultivation in Vitro of Cells Derived from Adult Schistosoma Mansoni
Thomas H. Weller and Susan K. Wheeldon
We describe media and a cultural system that routinely supports development in vitro of plaques of several types of cells derived from adult Schistosoma mansoni. The results permit description of several types of cells observed in cultures and of criteria developed for the comparative evaluation of the supportive capacity of different media. Methods for the harvesting of worms, of their preparation for culture, and of the maintenance of cultures are detailed. The evolutionary development of the supportive media is summarized with comments on selected variables.
Deposition and Maturation of Eggs of Schistosoma Mansoni in Vitro: Importance of Fatty Acids in Serum-Free Media
George R. Newport and Thomas H. Weller
A serum-free medium which supports miracidial development in some eggs deposited by adult Schistosoma mansoni in vitro is described. Derivation of the medium involved examination of the supportiveness of nine chemically defined media, selection of one promoting the highest degree of worm oviposition, and supplementation of the latter with various serum fractions. The serum fraction supporting egg maturation was nondialyzable, and precipitated at 50–60% ammonium sulfate saturation. This fraction could be replaced by bovine serum albumin; however, the supportive activity disappeared if this material was delipidated. Addition of soybean lecithin, or stearic acid, to fatty-acid-free, albumin-supplemented media yielded intermediate results, while similar addition of other nonesterified fatty acids proved non stimulatory. A fatty acid mixture, rich in stearic acid, was then developed which, when added to delipidated-albumin supplemented media, supported a degree of egg development comparable to that obtained with media supplemented with 8% newborn calf serum.
Human Proliferative Sparganosis in Venezuela: Report of a Case *
Ruben Moulinier, Enrique Martinez, Jaime Torres, Oscar Noya, Belkisyole A. de Noya and Oscar Reyes
A case of human proliferative sparganosis, the first in the southern hemisphere, is reported. The patient had multiple nodular, papular, acne-like lesions, gynecomastia, and large subcutaneous abscesses. Laboratory findings showed that he also had severe anemia of the type associated with infection and chronic diseases, leukocytosis, eosinophilia, and severe hypoalbuminemia and hypergammaglobulinemia. His cellular and humoral immune responses were unaltered. New aspects on the functional repercussion of the parasitism of the human host by Sparganum proliferum are discussed. Treatment with mebendazole was ineffective; the patient's tolerance for the newer drug praziquantel was extremely poor.
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (Elisa) for the Detection of Antibody to Cysticerci of Taenia Solium
Arwin R. Diwan, Millicent Coker-Vann, Paul Brown, D. B. Subianto, R. Yolken, R. Desowitz, A. Escobar, Clarence J. Gibbs Jr. and D. Carleton Gajdusek
An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of antibody to cysticerci of Taenia solium has been developed that employs a pork muscle antigen control for the cysticercus test antigen, somewhat improving the serological distinction between infected and uninfected subjects. Serum antibody to cysticercus was detected in 79% of classical neurocysticercosis patients from Mexico, and in 61% of a group of cysticercosis patients with an unusually rapid invasion of the central nervous system in an endemic focus of disease in Irian Jaya. Antibody was absent in a group of healthy American laboratory personnel, and in residents of a non-endemic region of Papua New Guinea. Additional tests on sera from patients with other parasitic diseases showed that cross-reactivity may occur in some patients with schistosomiasis, echinococcosis, and possibly angiostrongyliasis; however, these parasites are not known to cause human infection in Irian Jaya.
Subcutaneous Zygomycosis Caused by Basidiobolus Haptosporus: Presentation of a Case Mimicking Burkitt's Lymphoma *
Achiléa L. Bittencourt, Geraldo Serra, Moysés Sadigursky, Maria Das Gracas Santana Araujo, Maria Cristina Santos Campos and Luiz Carlos Medrado Sampaio
We report the fifth case of subcutaneous zygomycosis caused by Basidiobolus haptosporus in Brazil. The lesion appeared as a tumor in the right mandibular area mimicking Burkitt's lymphoma of the jaw. In this patient evaluation of cellular immunity with the lymphoblastic transformation test yielded normal results.
Rotavirus Infection in Nigerian Infants and Young Children with Gastroenteritis
Morris O. Paul and Edward A. Erinle
In a study conducted over a 5-month period (September 1979 to January 1980), rotaviruses were detected by counterimmunoelectrophoresis in the feces of 16 (13.8%) of 116 infants and young children between 1 and 48 months old with acute, sporadic gastroenteritis, at Ife, Nigeria. The highest frequency of rotavirus infection was found in the 7- to 12-month age-group (18.9%). Males constituted 61% of the sample and excreted rotavirus at a significantly higher rate than did females (P < 0.01). Rotavirus infection was higher in the drier months of November–January (19.3%) than during the rainy months of September and October (8.5%).
Bloodmeal Sources of Aedes Triseriatus and Aedes Vexans in a Southern Wisconsin Forest Endemic for La Crosse Encephalitis Virus *
T. R. Burkot and G. R. DeFollart
The micro enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to specifically identify bloodmeal sources of Aedes triseriatus Say and Aedes vexans Meigen collected at a site endemic for La Crosse (LAC) encephalitis virus. Deer were the source of 65% of Ae. triseriatus and 94% of Aedes vexans bloodmeals, respectively. Chipmunks and tree squirrels, which are considered to be the major vertebrate amplifying hosts of LAC virus, were the sources of 8% and 16%, respectively, of the bloodmeals of Ae. triseriatus, the vector of LAC virus. The relatively small proportion of vector bloodmeals taken from the amplifying hosts raises further doubts as to the significance of vertebrate amplification in perpetutation of La Crosse virus in nature, i.e. whether vertebrate amplification alone is sufficient to make up for the shortfall of virus infection that occurs during vertical transmission.
Evaluation of the Efficiency of Transovarial Transmission of California Encephalitis Viral Strains in Aedes Dorsalis and Aedes Melanimon *
Michael J. Turell, William C. Reeves and James L. Hardy
California encephalitis (CE) virus was transmitted transovarially by its natural vector, Aedes melanimon. Vertical transmission rates ranged from 13–26% in geographical populations of Ae. melanimon infected with CE virus by intrathoracic inoculation. No consistent pattern of transmission rates was detected for location or time of year mosquito collection. Vertical transmission rates ranged from 9–29% in Aedes dorsalis inoculated with CE viral strains isolated from Ae. melanimon collected in California. The month or year of viral isolation had no effect on the efficiency of vertical transmission. However, a viral strain isolated from the Owens Valley was less efficiently transmitted than strains from the Sacramento Valley, and strains from the San Joaquin Valley were intermediate in efficiency. Filial infection rates were highest in first ovarian cycle progency and declined with increasing ovarian cycles in both Ae. dorsalis and Ae. melanimon.
Sensitivity to Carbon Dioxide in Mosquitoes Infected with California Serogroup Arboviruses *
Michael J. Turell, James L. Hardy and William C. Reeves
Ten species of mosquitoes became sensitive to CO2 following intrathoracic (i.t.) inoculation of California encephalitis (CE) virus. These included field-collected Aedes melanimon, Aedes nigromaculis and Culiseta incidens and laboratory-clonized strains of Aedes dorsalis, Aedes triseriatus, Anopheles freeborni, Culex peus, Culex pipiens pipiens, Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus and Culex tarsalis. Another California serogroup virus, Jerry Slough (=Jamestown Canyon) (JS), also induced CO2 sensitivity in nearly 100% of infected female Ae. dorsalis, Ae. melanimon and Cx. tarsalis. Sensitivity to CO2 developed in Ae. dorsalis and Cx. tarsalis within 3 days after i.t. inoculation of CE virus, remained at a high level through day 10 after inoculation and decreased gradually with time until by 30 days postinoculation nearly all mosquitoes were nonsensitive. In contrast, Ae. dorsalis infected transovarially with CE virus were not CO2 sensitive. There was homologous but no heterologous interference to the development of CO2 sensitivity when Ae. dorsalis infected transovarially with CE virus were inoculated with CE or JS viruses.
Two other bunyaviruses, Main Drain and Turlock, produced CO2 sensitivity in 3–10% and 0%, respectively, of infected Ae. dorsalis, Ae. melanimon and Cx. tarsalis. Two togaviruses, St. Louis encephalitis and western equine encephalomyelitis, did not induce CO2 sensitivity in Ae. dorsalis and Cx. tarsalis.
Characterization of Rickettsia Tsutsugamushi Strains in Two Species of Naturally Infected, Laboratory-Reared Chiggers *
Akira Shirai, David L. Huxsoll, Alexander L. Dohany, Richard D. Montrey, Robert M. Werner and Elsie Gan
The strains of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi found in naturally infected, laboratory-reared Leptotrombidium (Leptotrombidium) arenicola and L. (L.) fletcheri chiggers were characterized by direct immunofluorescence (FA) and by mouse and monkey virulence tests. The strains existing in the L. (L.) arenicola chiggers consisted of different combinations of TA716, TA763, TA686, Karp, and Kato. In addition to these five strains, Gilliam was found in the L. (L.) fletcheri chiggers. Results indicate that individual chiggers can be simultaneously infected with several antigenic strains of R. tsutsugamushi. Although these antigens appear to remain stable within familial lines when several generations were viewed, the antigenic patterns observed in two succeeding generations did not always correlate. This variable expression of antigens was considered to be due to a quantitative fluctuation from one generation to the next in the strains of rickettsiae combined with a lack of sensitivity of the direct FA test in detecting small numbers of antigenically different rickettsiae. Phenotypic variation was considered to be a less probable explanation. Morbidity and mortality were minimal in ICR mice fed upon by individual chiggers of either species, but infection rates were 85–99%. Tissue suspensions prepared from mice infected by L. (L.) arenicola produced higher mortality and longer duration of illness in mice than those prepared from L. (L.) fletcheri-infected mice. Silvered leaf and cynomolgus monkeys were fed upon by the two species of chiggers or inoculated with the mouse tissue suspensions. In both cases, minimal clinical responses were observed.
Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine (2–8 Strain) and Parent (SA 14 Strain) Viruses in Culex Tritaeniorhynchus Mosquitoes *
Bo Quan Chen and Barry J. Beaty
The Japanese encephalitis vaccine virus (JE 2–8) and its parent virus (JE SA 14) strains were compared for their ability to infect, to replicate in, and to be transmitted by Culex tritaeniorhynchus mosquitoes. Both viruses replicated in the mosquitoes after intrathoracic infection. The JE 2–8 vaccine was transmitted to 1/36 (3%) of suckling mice bitten by intrathoracically infected mosquitoes; however, the parent JE SA 14 strain was transmitted to 46/46 (100%) of the mice bitten. In oral infection trials, only 4/36 (11%) of the Cx. tritaeniorhynchus mosquitoes ingesting the vaccine JE 2–8 strain became infected, whereas 19/19 (100%) of those ingesting the parent JE SA 14 strain became infected. The vaccine JE 2–8 strain did not revert to virulence during passage in mosquitoes.
Acute Interstitial Nephritis in Snake Bite
Visith Sitprija, Rampai Suvanpha, Charn Pochanugool, Sauwaluck Chusil and Kriang Tungsanga
Acute renal failure with prolonged oliguria was observed in a patient following the bite of a Russell's viper (Vipera russellii siamensis). Renal biopsy revealed interstitial nephritis in addition to tubular necrosis and mesangial proliferation usually noted. There was no deposition of immunoglobulins. The finding expands the spectrum of renal changes in snake bite.
Differences in Host Choice between the Sibling Species of Treehole Mosquitoes Aedes Triseriatus and Aedes Hendersoni *
Roger S. Nasci
Adult treehole mosquitoes were collected by vacuum-sweeping of vegetation in urban, suburban, and rural woodlots in northern Indiana. The sibling species Aedes triseriatus and Ae. hendersoni were identified by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Blood meals were identified by the modified precipitin method. Ae. triseriatus fed predominantly on chipmunks and deer, and Ae. hendersoni fed mainly on tree squirrels and racoon. The relative rates of feeding on the major hosts were variable depending on the location of collection, and probably reflected differences in host density. No blood-feeding on humans was detected.
The Effects of Precocene II on Reproduction and Development of Triatomine Bugs (Reduviidae: Triatominae)
Christine Tarrant, E. W. Cupp and W. S. Bowers
Precocene II is a botanically derived chemical that inhibits the production of juvenile hormone (JH) in insects. The effects of this anti-JH compound on molting and growth by Rhodnius prolixus and Triatoma dimidiata and reproduction in R. prolixus were tested and the efficacy of precocene II as a fumigant was assessed. Precocene II induced precocious metamorphosis in both species when applied by either contact exposure or fumigation, and this effect could be prevented by juvenile hormone replacement therapy. The dosage effective in inducing precocious metamorphosis in T. dimidiata was similar to the EC50 previously reported for R. prolixus. The morphology of precocious adultoid T. dimidiata of different instars was similar to Rhodnius adultoids of corresponding instars. However, T. dimidiata was more sensitive than Rhodnius to the molt-inhibiting effects of precocene II. Rhodnius nymphs were fully susceptible to the anti-JH action of precocene when exposed for 24 hours one week before feeding. Precocene II was highly toxic to adult female Rhodnius and treatment of newly emerged females prevented oogenesis.
Libero Ajello
In a recent report by Rose and Hay, a case of lobomycosis was described as the first to be diagnosed in Guyana. I wish to point out, however, that an extraordinarily severe case of that disease of 56 years' duration in a lifetime resident of Guyana was described in 1976 by Jag Bhawan et al. In addition, the cases of lobomycosis that have been diagnosed by several investigators among dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) occurred in Florida waters off the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts, not in the Caribbean sea as stated by Rose and Hay.
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Q: Check if word in dictionary and get value from another column I have these two datasets:
stemmed <- data.frame(
  stem = c('super puper', 'only for you')
)

super <- data.frame(
  word = c('super', 'puper', 'you'),
  weight = c(0.5, 0.1, 0.3)
)

I check if a word is in the positive-and-negative dictionary and calculate how many times. I have a loop like this:
for (i in 1:nrow(stemmed)){
  words = strsplit(as.character(stemmed$stem)," ")
  stemmed$super[i] <- sum(words[[i]] %in% super$word)/length(words[[i]])
}

(By the way if you know how to improve this code, please tell me.)
Now I want to calculate not only the number of words but the weight (sum of weights of words, contained in super$weight).
So I tried to do something like this in the loop:
if (words[[i]] %in% super$word) {
 stemmed$super[i] = sum(with super[super$word==words[[i]],],
                        sum(super$weight))}

I want to get a data frame like this:
stem             super
super puper      0.6
only for you     0.3

I don`t know how to solve this issue...

A: There are loads of way of doing this.
By following your approach, I would wrap it into a sapply
> final <- stemmed
> final$super <- sapply(stemmed$stem, function(x) {
  sum(super$weight[super$word %in% unlist(strsplit(as.character(x), " "))])
})
> final
           stem super
1  super puper   0.6
2 only for you   0.3

A: > data.frame(stem=stemmed$stem,
       super=sapply(lapply(strsplit(as.character(stemmed$stem), " ") ,
                           function(txt) super$word %in% txt),
                    function(idx) sum(super$weight[idx])))
          stem super
1  super puper   0.6
2 only for you   0.3

A: I think I found a solution for your, but I used data.tables instead of data.frames. The advantage of this solution is that no apply/looping is used.
library("data.table")
library("reshape2")
stemmed <- data.frame(
    stem = c('super puper', 'only for you')
)

super <- data.table(
    word = c('super', 'puper', 'you'),
    weight = c(0.5, 0.1, 0.3)
)

# Step 1: Split the words
split_words <- strsplit(as.character(stemmed$stem), " ")
names(split_words) <- stemmed$stem
# Step 2: melt it to a data.table
result <- data.table(melt(split_words))
setnames(result, names(result), c("word", "stem"))
# Step 3: Find the weight by merging it with super
setkey(super, word)
setkey(result, word)
word_weights <- super[result]
# Step 4: Filter the NA weights
word_weights <- word_weights[!is.na(weight)]
# Step 5: Now aggregate by stem to find the weight per stem
final_result <- word_weights[, list(super = sum(weight)), by = stem]
> final_result
           stem super
1:  super puper   0.6
2: only for you   0.3

A: You probably want to use match.
stemmed <- data.frame(
  stem = c('super puper', 'only for you')
)

super <- data.frame(
  word = c('super', 'puper', 'you'),
  weight = c(0.5, 0.1, 0.3)
)

# this line may be out of loop
words <- strsplit(as.character(stemmed$stem)," ")

for (i in 1:nrow(stemmed)){
  stemmed$super[i] <- sum(words[[i]] %in% super$word)/length(words[[i]])
  # get weights for super words
  w.index <- na.exclude(match(words[[i]],super$word))
  if (length(w.index) > 0) stemmed$super[i] <- sum(super$weight[w.index])

}

#~ > stemmed
#~           stem super
#~ 1  super puper   0.6
#~ 2 only for you   0.3