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Amazing Grace - Acknowledgements and Introduction
Chapter One: The Face at The Window
Chapter Two: The Lost Boys and Girls
Chapter Three: Another Window Opens on Strange Connections
Chapter Four: Dead Babies and Iron Skillets
Chapter Five: Jane Eyre Redux
Chapter Six: Violets and Bulls in the Graveyard
Chapter Seven: Trapezes and Dog Days
Chapter Eight: The Farm
Chapter Nine: The Stand Off
Chapter Ten: Shrinks and Rebels or Being Fifteen is an Awkward State
Chapter Eleven: Graveyards, Psychopaths, Psychics, and Meetings on the Bridge
Chapter Twelve: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Chapter Thirteen: Oysters on the Half Shell
Chapter Fourteen: Pearls in the Oyster
Chapter Fifteen: Blitzkrieg
Chapter Sixteen: Dances with Sunlight
Chapter Seventeen: Mirror! Mirror! On the Wall...
Chapter Eighteen: The Wolf and the Dove
Chapter Nineteen: The World's Most Beautiful Baby
Chapter Twenty: Minks and Turkey Basters
Chapter Twenty-one: Parties, Mosquitoes, Hives, Hypnosis and Fishing Boats
Chapter Twenty-two: The Devil in the Details
Chapter Twenty-three: In The Forest
Chapter Twenty-four: The Poisoned Apple
Chapter Twenty-five: The Boat Ride to Damascus
Chapter Twenty-six: Another Face at the Window
Chapter Twenty-seven: The Noah Syndrome or The Lost Love
Chapter Twenty-eight: The Ark in Montana
Chapter Twenty-nine: The Dream
Chapter Thirty: A Knight in Armor
Chapter Thirty-one: The Cleft in the Rock
Chapter Thirty-two: Moving to Montana
Chapter Thirty-three: Synchronicity City
Chapter Thirty-four: That's Hollywood!
Chapter Thirty-five: The Crane Dance
Chapter Thirty-six: Hailing the Universe
Chapter Thirty-seven: Missing Child, Missing Time
Chapter Thirty-eight: Flying Black Boomerangs
Chapter Thirty-nine: Flying Black Boomerangs Redux
Chapter Forty: Aliens, Demons and Vampires
Chapter Forty-one: Aunt Clara
Chapter Forty-two: Green Slime
Chapter Forty-three: Hungry Aliens, Stinky Demons, and the Return of Keith
Chapter Forty-four: Comets and Cassiopaeans
Comets and Catastrophes
Fire And Ice: The Day After Tomorrow
Climate Change Swindlers and the Political Agenda
Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction!
The Younger Dryas Impact Event and the Cycles of Cosmic Catastrophes - Climate Scientists Awakening
Majesterium and the Tipping Point
The Golden Age, Psychopathy and the Sixth Extinction
New Light on the Black Death: The Cosmic Connection
The Hazard to Civilization from Fireballs and Comets
Wars, Pestilence and Witches
Thirty Years of Cults and Comets
Comet Biela and Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
Tunguska, the Horns of the Moon and Evolution
Letters From the Edge
Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets: Damages, Disasters, Injuries, Deaths, and Very Close Calls
Cosmic Turkey Shoot
Impact Hazards on a Populated Earth?
Cosmic COINTELPRO Timeline
Cosmic COINTELPRO Timeline - Introduction
JFK: The Debris of History
The Gladiator: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Bushes and the Lost King
Sim City and John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy and All Those "isms"
John F. Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover, Organized Crime and the Global Village
John F. Kennedy and the Psychopathology of Politics
John F. Kennedy and the Pigs of War
John F. Kennedy and the Titans
John F. Kennedy, Oil, and the War on Terror
John F. Kennedy, The Secret Service and Rich, Fascist Texans
John F. Kennedy and the Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy
Jupiter Nostradamus Edgar Cayce and the Return of the Mongols
Jupiter, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and the Return of the Mongols Part 1
Jupiter, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and the Return of the Mongols Part 10
The Cassiopaean "Hit" List
The Cs Hit List 01: Prophecy, Prediction, and Portents of Things to Come
The Cs Hit List 02: Space and Weather Science Gone Wild
The Cs Hit List 03: History Is Bunk
The Cs Hit List 04: Nature, Nurture, and My Monkey Genes
The Cs Hit List 05: Dr. Greenbaum and the Manchurian Candidates
The Cs Hit List 06: Let's Do the Planetary Twist to the Tune of the Brothers Heliopolis
The Cs Hit List 07: Sun Star Companion, Singing Stones and Smoking Visions
The Cs Hit List 08: Of Oracles and Conspiracies: TWA 800, 9/11, H1N1, and VISA
The Cs Hit List 09: DNA, Rational Design and the Origins of Life
The Grail Quest and the Destiny of Man
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man I
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part II: The Terror of History
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part III: Time
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part III-Time, cont.
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part III-2: Time, cont.
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part IV: Machiavelli and the ETs
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part V: The Chalice and the Blade
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part VI: A View of History from Us in the Future
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part VII: The Nordic Covenant and the Coral Castle
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part VIII: Oak Island and the Shepherds of Arcadia
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part IX: Alchemy and St. Germain
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part X: The Fulcanelli Phenomenon
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part XI: Rennes-le-chateau and the Accursed Treasure
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part XII: The Priory of Sion
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part XIII: Visa to Magonia
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part XIV: The Shepherds of Arcadia Reprise
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part XV: Jesus: The Man and the Myth
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part XVI: The Crucifixion: The Big Lie
The Wave Volume 1
The Wave Chapter 1: Riding The Wave
The Wave Chapter 2: Multi-Dimensional Soul Essences
The Wave Chapter 3: Dorothy and The Frog Prince Meet Flight 19 in Oz or, "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!"
The Wave Chapter 4: The Cassiopaeans Get Taken Out of the Closet and Go for a "Test Drive"
The Wave Chapter 5: Perpendicular Realities, Tesseracts, and Other Odd Phenomena
The Wave Chapter 6: Animal Psychology or That which was A, will be A. That which was not-A, will be not-A. Everything was and will be either A or not-A.
The Wave Chapter 7: Balloons, Anti-balloons and Fireworks or Laura Falls Into the Pit and Ark Comes to the Rescue
The Wave Chapter 8: Everywhere You Look, There Is the Face of God
The Wave Chapter 9: The Beast of Gévaudan, Spring-Heeled Jack, Mothman, And Other Dimensional Window Fallers
The Wave Chapter 10: The Truth Is Out There, But Trust No One!
The Wave Chapter 11: Roses Grow Best In Manure
The Wave Chapter 12: All There Is Is Lessons
The Wave Chapter 13: All There Is Is Lessons (Some Further Remarks)
The Wave Chapter 14: All There Is Is Lessons, or Candy Will Ruin Your Teeth
The Wave Chapter 15: All There Is Is Lessons, or He Hideth My Soul in the Cleft of the Rock
The Wave Chapter 16: All There Is Is Lessons, or Laura Finds Reiki and Ends Up in the Soup... Pea Soup, That Is
The Wave Chapter 17: All There Is Is Lessons, or Wandering Around in Third Density Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
The Wave Chapter 18: All There Is Is Lessons, or A Trip to "Alligator Alley"
The Wave Chapter 19: All There Is Is Lessons, or Dr. Greenbaum and the Soul Hackers
The Wave Chapter 20: Black Lightning Strikes... or Marjoe Gortner Meets Ted Patrick
The Wave Chapter 21: Roswell Revisited or Shades of the X-Files
The Wave Chapter 22: The Nexus Seven Meet the Cassiopaeans
The Wave Chapter 23: Lucifer and the Pot of Gold or The Quest for the Holy Grail of No Anticipation
The Wave Chapter 24: The Bacchantes Meet Apollo At Stonehenge And Play The Third Man Theme
The Wave Chapter 25: A Walk In Nature Among The Names of God Where We Have An Interview With the Vampire And Discover a Cosmic Egg
The Wave Chapter 26: The Tree of Life
The Wave Chapter 27: Stripped to the Bone The Shamanic Initiation Of The Knighted Ones: Technicians of Ecstasy
The Wave Chapter 28: Technicians of Ecstasy: The Shamanic Initiation Of The Knighted Ones Part 1
The Wave Chapter 29: The 3-5 Code: The Journey From Jerusalem To Oak Island Via the Pyrenees
The Wave Chapter 30: Grape Wine In a Mason Jar: Jesus, Di and Dodi Take Off From the Denver Airport In Winter to Rain Contrails Upon Our Heads
The Wave Chapter 31: The Priory of Sion and The Shepherds of Arcadia
The Wave: Chapter 32 Torah, Kaballah, And When I Dream…
The Wave Volume 5/6
The Wave Chapter 33: Introduction
The Wave Chapter 34: The Channel
The Wave Chapter 35: A Strange Interlude
The Wave Chapter 36: A Vile Superstition
The Wave Chapter 37: Critical Channeling
The Wave Chapter 38: The Feminine Vampire
The Wave Chapter 39: The Court of Seven
The Wave Chapter 40: Secret Agents From Alpha 1
The Wave Chapter 41: The Realm of Archetypes
The Wave Chapter 42: The Tradition
The Wave Chapter 43: The Head of Bran
The Wave Chapter 44: The Crane Dance
The Wave Chapter 45: The Gulf Breeze
The Wave Chapter 46: The Theological Reality
The Wave Chapter 47: Semiotics and The Content Plane
The Wave Chapter 48: The Juvenile Dictionary
The Wave Chapter 49: Frequency Resonance Vibration
The Wave Chapter 50: Shifts in the Matrix
The Wave Chapter 51: The Psychomantium
The Wave Chapter 52: The Cryptogeographic Being
The Wave Chapter 53: Strange Birds
The Wave Chapter 54: Glimpses of Other Realities
The Wave Chapter 55: Albert Einstein, Free Energy and the Strange Deaths of Morris K. Jessup and Stefan Marinov
The Wave Chapter 56
: Intolerance, Cruelty, and the Economics of Intelligence
The Wave Chapter 57: It's Just Economics
The Wave Chapter 58: Alien Reaction Machines
The Wave Chapter 59: An Encounter with the Unicorn
The Wave Chapter 60: The Unicorn's Closet
The Wave Chapter 61: Ira's Inner Cesspool
The Wave Chapter 62: Secret Games at Princeton
The Wave Chapter 63: Murdering the Feminine
The Wave Chapter 64: Crossing the Threshold
The Wave Chapter 65: The Way of the Fool
The Wave Chapter 66: The Zelator
The Wave Chapter 67: Food for the Moon and the Burning House
The Wave Chapter 68: As Above, So Below
The Wave Chapter 69: The Whirlpool of Charybdis, the Sirens and the Navigator
The Wave Chapter 70: You Take the High Road and I'll Take the Low Road and I'll Be in Scotland Afore Ye!
The Wave Chapter 71: If I Speak in the Tongues of Men and Angels or, Jaguars: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Love and Complex Systems
The Wave Chapter 72: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Love and Complex Systems: Debugging the Universe
Truth or Lies Part 1
Who Wrote The Bible
The Ark of the Covenant and The Temple of Solomon
The House of David
The First Torah and the First Temple
The Tribe of Dan
Egyptian Chronology: I'm My Own Grandpa!
9-11 alchemy aliens Amazing Grace Bible Cassiopaeaen Experiment Cassiopaeans Cass Transcripts channeling Christianity CIA COINTELPRO comets conspiracy destiny of man Fulcanelli grail quest gurdjieff High Strangeness history hyperdimensional reality Laura Knight-Jadczyk Ponerology psychopath psychopaths psychopathy religion Rockefeller Foundation The Grail UFO
Answers to Questions From Readers
Laura Answers Questions from Readers: Cassiopaea in Russia
Transient Passengers
Flight 990, Mars Probe, Contrails and Weather Anomalies, Montaukees, Ong's Hat, Philip K. Dick, and other Curiosities
Diet and Health Questions and Can Smoking be Good for You?
Enlightenment and Ascension
Channeling and Alien Abduction
Channeling and Exorcism Part 1
Reincarnation Part 1
SRT and Channeling
The Case For The UFO
The Whirling Dervishes
The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins by Burton L. Mack
The Stargate Conspiracy
Richard Dolan's "UFOs and the National Security State" - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes
The Haunted Universe by D. Scott Rogo
Sophie's Choice
Ancient Israel, Religious Delusions and Growing Up
Stan Gooch's "Cities of Dreams"
Cometary Showers, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
Binary Stars: Does our Sun have a Dark Companion?
The Voice of Reason During Millennial Madness
Has Nibiru/Planet X Been Sighted? Part 2
Is the World Coming to an End? Not necessarily - but the future doesn't look bright!
Will the World End on Thursday?
The Floyd Void or, Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and assorted Prophetic Considerations
Meteor Clue To End of Middle East Civilisations Found
94% - Dave McGowan, Hurricane Katrina, Peak Oil and the Cassiopaeans
Comet Elenin Update!
Earthquake Axis Shift - Is the West Coast of the U.S. Next?
Witches, Comets and Planetary Cataclysms
Fallout Around the Breakfast Table
Comet Elenin: Harbinger of What?
Witches, Comets, and Planetary Cataclysms
Disclosure and Comets
All For One and One For All
Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax
On Radiometric Dating
Companion Stars and Cometary Showers: Doomsday?
The Nature of Punctuational Crises and the Spenglerian Model of Civilization
A Survey of Channeling
Abortion, Psychopaths and Mother Love
Abovetopsecret: Ethics and Google Bombs
Abovetopsecret.com, Project Serpo Psy-ops, and the Pentagon's Flying Fish.
Al Gore and the Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy
Alex Jones and 911 Scholars: The Parable of the Good Shepherd
Alien Abduction, Demonic Possession, and The Legend of The Vampire
Aliens and Cosmic COINTELPRO
Aliens Don't Like to Eat People That Smoke!
America: Who Is Responsible?
America's Nervous Breakdown
Amir Peretz and The Faith Based School of Politics
Anti-semitism, British Academia and the Israel Lobby
Beware The Ides of April: Cho Seung-hui and the Mosaic Distinction
Big Lies, Small Lies, Brazen Lies
Burton Mack and 9-11
Chaos and Consent: Working Towards the Fuhrer
Chemtrails? Contrails? Strange Skies
Comments on the Pentagon Strike
Condoleezza Pregnant: Giving Birth to Monster
Critical Notes on Val Valerian
Crocodile Condi vs Baby Babs Boxer
Darkness Over Tibet - Part 1
Did Nostradamus Predict 9-11 and WWIII?
Eíriú-Eolas Breathing and Meditation Program
Enochian Aliens? Agents of Cosmic COINTELPRO and The Stargate Conspiracy?
Four and a Half Years
Freedom of Association, Smoking and Psychopathy
From the Fire Comes Light Part 1
From Where I Sit: Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
George W. Bush: A Cancer on the Body Politic
Happy New World
Hasbara, Shmuel Rosner and the Israel Factor
How to Spot COINTELPRO Agents
Indecent Haste... Hypocrisy, Saddam and Stoning Satan
Internet Free Speech Under Threat! Eric Pepin - Higher Balance Institute Sue QFG for 4.47 Million Over SOTT Forum Comments!
Is Cassiopaea a Cult, or under attack by COINTELPRO AGENTS?
Is Mel Gibson a modern day Suetonius?
Karl Rove's Rewriting of History is Nothing New - Hopefully, there will be another Procopius to Write About the Neocons
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: The Wally-World of Wickedness!
Laura Knight-Jadczyk Interview on BBC Radio
Let's All Light Up!
Living in Truth
Making Sense of Political Complexity
Montalk.net Disclaimer
My Mother Will Never Dance Again...
Mysterious Smoke Rings or When is a Cloud not a Cloud?
O.H. KRLL, Val Valerian, the Cassiopaeans and other mysterious beings...
Official Culture in America: A Natural State of Psychopathy?
Order out of Chaos
Organic Portals Part 1
Paris Under the Nazis - New York Under the Neocons - The Darker Context
Paul Craig Roberts sez "We Are All Prisoners Now"
Picknett and Prince on the Cassiopaeans
Post-Election Reality Check
Protocols of the Pathocrats
Reader's Comments on "Adventures with Cassiopaeans"
Ross Institute: COINTELPRO or Agent of Mossad?
Schwaller de Lubicz and the Fourth Reich Part 2
Signs of the Times Attacked by Abovetopsecret.com Psy-ops!
Smokescreens, Snowjobs and Long Knives
SOTT-Cassiopaea: Anti-Cult, Anti-Defamation and Psychopath Free Zone
Stupid Is as Stupid Does
Supplement to the St. Pete Times Article: "The Exorcist in Love"
Tales From The Crypt: The Mummy Returns to Bring Religious War
Terrorism and the Three Sillies
The Beast of Revelation and His Empire
The Companions Devoted to Liberty
The Destruction of the 911 Truth Movement
The Gift of the Magi to the Elect - A Christmas Essay
The Man Behind the Curtain - Operation Pincer Memorandum
The Most Dangerous Cult in The World
The Most Dangerous Idea in the World
The Mystic vs. Hitler
The Politics of History
The Trick of the Psychopath's Trade: Make Us Believe that Evil Comes from Others
The True Identity of Fulcanelli and The Da Vinci Code
To Bee or not to Be
Transmarginal Inhibition
Truth Is Public Property
Truth, Lies, Reality
Ultra-terrestrials and 9/11
Underwater and Undgerground Bases: SOTT Interview with Richard Sauder
V is for Vendetta, COINTELPRO and the Alternative Media
War Crimes and Conscience
WAR?
Where Troy Once Stood: The Mystery of Homer's Iliad & Odyssey Revealed
Will the REAL "Dr. Grant Gartrel(l)" please stand up?
World Cup Zidane - Materazzi : Italy's Shameful Win
Albert Einstein, Free Energy and The Strange Deaths of Morris K. Jessup and Stefan Marinov
Chemical Hallucinations, Mind Control, and Dr. Jose Delgado
Cosmic Spam: "We are contacting you for a mutually beneficial transaction..."
Evidence That a Frozen Fish Didn't Impact the Pentagon on 9/11- and Neither Did a Boeing 757
HAARP and The Canary in the Mine
Mahmoud Ahmad and The Secret Cult of 9-11
Mass Mind Control
MOSSAD and Moving Companies: Masterminds of Global Terrorism?
The Inquisition and the Origins of Fascism and Mind Control
The New Pearl Harbor Who Benefits?
William Milton Cooper Killed in Entrapment
Word Control = Thought Control = World Control
Dossier 9-11 and After
The Global Game of Survivor: America's Next Four Years
The Mossad Happy Dance
World Trade Center Terrorist Attack: Those who Do Not Learn From History Are Doomed to Repeat It
HAARP, Weather, Roswell Rods, 4th Density Battles & Bleedthrough and 7th Density
Discernment Or Machiavelli and the ETs Part 1
Discernment Or Machiavelli and the ETs Part 2 - The World Inside the Devil
Gnosticism and the Christian Myth
Questions About Ascension
Shocks and Signs of The Times
Stalking or Precis on The Good and The Evil
Supernovae: Vehicle of Ascension?
The Cult of the Plausible Lie
The Way Out is the Way In
Why You Don't Create Your Own Reality - an antidote to fatuous New Age paradigms
Born from the Ashes and Blood Part 1
Christianity or Machiavelli and The ETs
Cosquer - The Cave Beneath the Sea
Hoagland, Hyperdimensions, Space and Time
Judaism and Christianity - Two Thousand Years of Lies - 60 Years of State Terrorism
St Malachy and The Toil of the Sun
The Genesis of Evil on a Macrosocial Scale
Knowledge and Being
A Course in Knowledge and Being, Part 1
New Age COINTELPRO
Swerdlow Controlled via Satellite? or "reductio ad absurdum"
NWO & Global Elite
666 - The Mark of the Beast?
The Denver Airport Material
The Denver Airport Material Image Catalog
The Greenbaum Speech
Our Haunted Planet
Crop Circles Catalog
EgyptAir Flight 990, Sacred Geometry, Y2K, Origins of the Tarot, Schools of Ascension and other Disinformation
Flying Black Boomerangs and Clapham Wood
Monsters: Chicken Man, Demons, and Ica Skulls
The Chilbolton Crop Circle and The Cassiopaeans on Crop Circles
The High Strangeness of Dimensions, and the Process of Alien Abduction
Psychopathy Studies
A basic hypothesis of Psychopathy: Excerpts From The Mask of Sanity, by Hervey Cleckley, 5th edition
A Structural Theory of Narcissism and Psychopathy
Discussion of Psychopathy Traits: Excerpts From The Mask of Sanity, by Hervey Cleckley, 5th edition
Eight Ways to Spot Emotional Manipulation
How Psychopaths View Their World
Psychopath vs. Antisocial Personality Disorder and Sociopathy
Psychopaths in Sheep's Clothing: An Excerpt from the book In Sheep's Clothing By George K. Simon
The Inner Landscape of the Psychopath
The Psychopath - The Mask of Sanity
The Psychopath as Physician: Excerpt from The Mask of Sanity by Hervey Cleckley, M.D.
The Psychopath In History: Excerpts From "The Mask of Sanity" by Hervey M. Cleckley
What Is a Psychopath?
The UFO Phenomenon
It's difficult to describe the state of my mind after the return of the "Prodigal Son." All of my do-gooder programs had been effectively activated in a powerful way in by the perception of physical and spiritual danger to Frank. My rescue program, mother program and save-the-lost-and-heal-the-wounded program – all were on hyperdrive with one object: Frank. His plight had been so eloquently described when he said: "I think what they mean is, when you can channel as I can, because I channel almost continuously, this has a good side and a bad side. Now, the good side you know. The bad side you don't know. The bad side is very hard to live with. I cannot even describe the state of my mind."
I realized at this point that what had been done to Frank as an infant and a young child, was that he had been programmed or engineered to be a channel, in the sense of being almost empty inside of anything that was essentially "him." It was almost as though he had been drilled through, like with a well digging machine, cored out and reconfigured. I began to understand that, in this sense, he was "the channel," in the same way a pipe that is sunk into the ground is a channel for the water or oil to be extracted. I also understood that it depended entirely upon who or what he was connected to, as to what was drawn through this pipeline.
In a sense, my perception of him was that he was as helpless in his dilemma as a newborn baby.
My idea at this point was rather simple: obviously, Frank very desperately needed to be connected to me in order for the Cassiopaeans to be the well from which the information he channeled was drawn, and it was crucial to his development and survival that this connection be sustained and further developed. I had the idea that, just as a pipe is made wet by what passes through it, the more he channeled the Cassiopaeans, the more saturated he would be with the STO messages, and the more likely it was that the healing of his own soul would take place. His free will had been so violated, so decimated, that the only way to rebuild it, to restore it, to restore his soul, so to speak, was to channel with me as regularly and as often as possible. Just as a mother feeds a baby so he will grow, I committed to "feeding" Frank so that he would grow into the great soul that I was sure he was capable of becoming. Whether or not he had been a higher spiritual being who had become helpless by agreeing to be born, and who had afterward been attacked and manipulated by dark forces to create this condition, didn't really matter. I was committed anew to "helping" him. And I was committed with full heart and soul and mind.
Frank, on the other hand, having been exposed as being something other than the higher spiritual being that he had so repeatedly claimed – having acted in a way that belied such a claim and in fact, having given evidence of very dark self – had to reorganize himself as well.
Now, it would be rather easy for me to just write it all off as having been victimized by a conscious con-man, and that is always a possibility. But the fact seems to be that in human dynamics, each participant in a drama is, at some level, firmly convinced of the rightness of their view and perceptions. The test is, of course, how closely their views align with factual data and observable evidence.
As we have just seen, chemistry can play a huge role in our perceptions. What we view for all of our lives in a certain way, can be changed in an instant of soul-shock. And most often, after the shock wears off, the programmed or accepted view, gradually displaces the clarity and we go back to sleep in our illusions and narcissistic constructs of reality. This is why the Cassiopaeans repeatedly encourage us to dig, dig, dig for facts and evidence. Don't listen to opinions; check the facts.
We have explored, to some extent, the idea that the psychological make-up of an individual can be the real reason they do something or behave a certain way. But beyond that, what we were in the process of learning from the Cassiopaeans was that this so-called psychological dynamic was merely the tool with which battles between forces are fought in hyperdimensional realities. The significance of this point cannot be overemphasized, because until the individual fully grasps the idea that their very thoughts, emotions, and perceptions can be augmented by external forces – which can include brain chemical alteration – and how drastically this can change their perceptions, they have no possibility of developing the ability to truly act with free will.
As I have said before: any woman who has experienced PMS knows how changes in chemistry can so completely alter perception and thinking, that it is utterly terrifying to think that this might be the constant state in which we live: a bag of hormones and brain chemicals that keep us connected to the Matrix as food.
I had, of course, gone back to sleep in my narcissistic images of myself as the rescuer and do-gooder and healer of all wounds and mother to every lost child; images that had been inculcated into me from childhood, as the readers of Amazing Grace already know. That's the real reason of the psychological substrate. The theological reason was, of course, that, utilizing such programs as the tool, I was most definitely set up to be energetic food.
The question arises at this moment as to why I would refer to such seemingly positive self-images as narcissistic? Aren't people who rescue and do good and heal and function as mothers pursuing paths of service to others?
Indeed they are. The difference is: are they functioning from a position of truth or wishful thinking? And this is, ultimately, the difference that I was about to learn, even though it took me another year to get even the first phase of the lesson under my belt. It's an ongoing project!
All of us here in this reality are, to one extent or another, predators or prey. The husband who is energetically fed upon by his employer cannot refuse because he would lose his job. So, he goes home and feeds on his wife. The wife is afraid to refuse because the husband might leave and she is helpless and must care for her children. But she is deficient in energy and she must get it somewhere, so she manipulatively indulges her children so that they will give her praise and love, and thereby feeds on them. She may also abuse them psychologically to feed on their suffering. She doesn't see that she is feeding on them; she is behaving mechanically according to the programs of the Matrix which keep the whole machine complex running to constantly siphon energy off and pass it up the line to – well, to whom?
Our fourth density STS hyperdimensional Controllers of the Matrix, perhaps?
It is in this context that the theological reality becomes all important. Aside from just thinking or talking about the psychological substrate, the tools of the battle, we need to see the clear distinction between the forces. As above, so below.
In an STS hierarchy, as described above, there is an ultimate feeder, or recipient of the energy that is gathered and passed along through the interstitial spaces of our reality – the threads of consciousness that connect us to our family, friends and associates. In the case of the STS reality, this is a Thought Center of Non-being which is where consciousness goes that has been ultimately matterized. Because, consciousness that is being drawn to the idea of non-being cannot actually become nothing, or die, but it can go to sleep for a very, very, very long time. In short, consciousness that is subsumed into the STS hierarchy ultimately becomes primal matter.
In some philosophies, this truth that a certain pathway will lead to matterization is openly taught – at least in the inner circles. To achieve this "oneness of eternal sleep" is the primary objective. Exercises and tasks of almost superhuman darkness are undertaken in order to be granted this eternal rest. The problem, however, as the higher teachers of this pathway very well know, is that in order for this oneness to be achieved, as they desire it, all else in the cosmos must be brought to a halt – the eternal expansion and cycling of creation must be ended – God must be killed, or at least effectively put back to sleep.
What this means is that the idea of "being" must be destroyed. Like a snake that attempts to swallow its tail in order to end its own existence, the STS pathway seeks to swallow all of creation into the sleep of non-being.
When we wake up and realize that we feed on those below us, and are in turn fed upon by those "above us," we naturally want to ask what is the alternative? And the Cassiopaeans have presented an alternative: STO, something that is hardly conceivable in our reality, a circle of symbiotic giving and support where no violation of free will occurs, and where the energy commutates and expands for All, instead of disappearing along an ever-narrowing, one-way street to the top of an STS pyramid.
It is in the gaining of knowledge about how our archetypal images are twisted so that we are manipulated to feed the STS pyramidal hierarchy that we have the chance to become free of it and join the STO circle of commutating, shared energy and joyful creation.
In other words, when we are locked in a dynamic that is fundamentally STS, there is no equal sharing of energy. One or the other participants is the predator and one or the other is the energy food, and the energy of both is being drawn off to some higher being who is manipulating the situation for this very purpose. And it is not always easy to discern this unless we are fully aware of the theological reality and learn to read the very small signs. The Matrix is cleverly designed to conceal itself, but as all mechanical systems, it is not perfect. With careful attention and awareness, the man behind the curtain can be seen.
What this means is that when my images of positive orientation were activated, they were activated narcissistically so that I thought I was doing all those good things for another soul that was truly asking. But the truth was, that other soul was not asking; I was being manipulated to give my energy of helping, mothering, healing, doing good, to the STS dynamic which ultimately seeks to kill all of those things by draining the energy of those who are configured that way. And I was being tricked to do it by the activation of my illusions about how these things operate rather than keeping my eyes open to the truth that I had already seen.
Frank had also experienced a shock, I am sure. I can only speculate that he may have perceived the darkness within which was revealed by his behavior. There is altogether the possibility that he was so locked in his narcissistic image of himself as a higher spiritual being who was simply too good for this earth that even this revealing event could not penetrate that shell of illusion. What is certain is that he was at least aware that the members of the group, and probably society at large (at least those members of society who ascribe to truth, honor, courage, decency), would view his little lapse as a clue to a hidden persona of darkness. There had been a serious crack in the image he presented of himself, and it had almost resulted in the complete loss of his ostensible quarry.
What was his quarry? What did Frank want?
Well, the evidence of the many clues scattered throughout the text, as well as the observations of the other participants and witnesses, was that his psychological make-up drove him to seek fame and fortune – with a strange twist: he felt he was entitled to it, that he deserved it and ought to have it, but had no intention of doing any work for it. He was, essentially, a coat-tail rider. But the Cs have said that there was another reason: "He was programmed for the specific purpose of "downloading" from you secrets coded into you before birth of your present body. He failed because you were incorruptible. He is now charged with the mission, in concert with Vincent Bridges, of destroying your ability to accomplish your mission."
That, then, becomes the theological reason behind the real reason.
But, as we have noted, there was another dynamic at work that the Cs have identified:
Q: Was that the reason that you encouraged Terry and Jan to be present? To counterbalance Frank's negative energy?
A: Yes. Frank would have killed you with his STS draining rather soon otherwise.
And here is where we arrive at the crux of the matter: Because of my lack of awareness of the theological reality, I had fallen victim to what is called in Jungian psychology the "feminine vampire." This designation is not really gender oriented in the sense that a woman preys on a man. The archetype is that of the person of power or force or energy who is victimized or fed upon by an individual who seems to be completely disempowered. Allow me to quote from Jungian psychologist, Barbara E. Hort's book Unholy Hungers, keeping in mind that the dynamic she describes is the real reason, and behind it is the theological reason. She tells the story in terms of a knight rescuing a damsel in distress, but more often than not, in our world, the opposite is true: women rescue men due to their mother instinct which is precisely the same dance.
It may seem incomprehensible that a powerful person could be victimized by a psychic vampire who seems to be completely disempowered. Yet there are few lures more potent for a powerful champion than rescuing a grateful waif in distress. How exciting it is to save someone from the jaws of tragedy, particularly if the recipient is adoring and appreciative! You, the noble champion, journey alone down the desolate nighttime road, when there appears by the wayside a sweet little mist who is weeping in loneliness and alluring despair. Ah, you think, here is a perfect chance for me to put my sword to its proper use! Here is someone to save! And how charmingly pathetic she is! Perhaps there will be some love for me at the end of the heroic rescue!
Your sword flashes up, and you dash to her aid – slaying all foes, fixing all woes, and paying each bill that she hands you. You parry and thrust, parry and thrust, cutting off hundreds of dragon heads, past the point of exhaustion, for two adoring eyes are watching and their owner must not be let down. Onward you march, beyond fatigue, beyond all means, until your every resource is spent. But still you fight on, despite your depletion, to rescue the sweet, helpless mist, for how could you let down the poor little thing? Whatever would become of the helpless mist without you and your sword to defend her against the cruel world?
The dance between an empowered masculine victim and the feminine vampire who hides under the veil of vulnerability may be the most insidious vampiric duet of them all. So many of us have gone to our physical, financial and spiritual graves never realizing that we have been duped, never relenting in the deployment of our swords, never stanching the flow of our blood, and all for the sake of a pitiable feminine vampire? How can we be so powerful and yet so blind?
But really, our gullibility is no mystery. When we embark on the path of the Champion, when we don the armor of empowerment, we expect our vampires also to be draped in the cloak of power. We never suspect that a vampire might veil itself in the guise of weakness and vulnerability. What's more, when the Champion Archetype is active in our psyche, we strive to serve those less fortunate than ourselves, so when we come upon the sweet mist by the side of the road, is it any wonder that we bleed on its behalf? What a cruel ruse this is, for in fact the mist is a vampire who will feed on us by exploiting the very nobility of which our Championhood is based.
In the beginning, the man was happy to rescue the pathetic damsel, who, coincidentally, had just one or two more little traumas that she hoped he would be kind enough to rectify. Thus began a long series of heroic rescues, each one of which was appreciated by the woman only long enough to resuscitate her hero before she needed his next valorous deed. …
She is Spider – the incarnation of the Terrible Mother as a devouring weaver of fate and bringer of inevitable death. …
… In A Dictionary of Symbols, J.E. Cirlot interprets the image of the spider at the center of her web to represent the Gnostic notion that "evil is not only at the periphery of the Wheel of Transformation but in its very centre – that is, in its Origin." The image of the Great Spider on her web is symbolically synonymous with another ancient image of the negative Feminine, one that is found at the center of many web-like labyrinths. The image is that of the Gorgon Medusa …
Why is it so difficult for us, even when we are empowered, to kill the feminine vampire? One reason may be that the ethic of nobility asserts that the strong should protect the weak. …
In all cases, the empowered victim perceives that life has bestowed on him or her some opportunities that the feminine vampire never had. For the pitiful vampire's sake, the victim strives to excel in ways that are not personally meaningful, because he is made to feel that turning aside to more meaningful pursuits is a deadly abandonment of the poor, disadvantaged vampire. Clearly, this vampiric duet is insidious and pervasive which is why a model for its deactivation is very important to our psychic health. …
Because the archetype of Medusa, like that of the feminine vampire, is as complicated as it is dangerous … the creature that best embodies the inner nature of the feminine vampire is the needle-fanged, cold-blooded, venom-spewing serpent. …
… The Medusan vampire slithers up in silent hunger behind her unwary prey, freezing her target with her stare (pitifulness and wiles of the damsel in distress), and then sinks her fangs into the petrified victim, spitting out the venom of her embittered rage, and then leaves the lifeless body behind as she gathers her sinuous coils of deceptive lethargy and sniffs the air for the scent of hot blood, waiting for the next victim who will prolong her life … The Medusan vampire relies on snakelike subtlety to capture her prey. …
[The true hero] must be able to sense the Medusan viper who lurks under the veil of imploring vulnerability … note the term "sense" rather than "see." The myth tells us that it is extremely dangerous to look directly on the truth of this entity, for the vision will immobilize and destroy us.
This means that the key to our approach to the Medusan vampire is to do it reflectively. If we have spent time in the company of someone who is a feminine vampire, we already have some Medusan behavior on which to reflect. By engaging in reflective exercises, we can safely bring the light of our consciousness to bear on the monster we wish to deactivate, without looking her full in the face and risking petrification [by the pitifulness of her projected situation]. … Have we been pulled by our compassion to give more to this pathetic being, who seemed to be suffering unfairly? [Have we felt guilt at the thought of abandoning her when the problems seemed too great? Has she induced guilt by claiming how worthless she is, so that you, fair champion, can assure her that she is not, indeed, worthless, but merely disadvantaged or in need of rescue?] If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then we are probably dealing with a feminine cvampire [a Medusa who is slowly turning you to stone].
If [this individual] evokes your compassion, remember that Medusa's story was pathetic, too, but that did not lessen her dangerousness. Whenever we feel the itch of the pity for a feminine vampire, we would be wise to recall the image of Perseus as he backed slowly toward the Gorgon … we must hold the image of Perseus close to our hearts and remember that if he had dropped his guard, let his attention waver for a moment, or glanced backward out of guilt or compassion, then we would have been transformed into yet another of Medusa's yard ornaments.
An awareness of the feminine vampire's nature is critical to her deactivation, but it is not sufficient. In the stories of Perseus and Oedipus, the call of greater deeds and a higher good kept the champion from yielding to the ruses of the feminine vampire. (Hort 1996, 113–114, 134, 136–137, 143–144, 146–147)
Where Frank was concerned, I admitted him into my life out of courtesy and compassion. He was so desperately lonely and "different" and in need of help, companionship, acceptance and true self-esteem. He used all the words at his command to produce the belief in me that he was an empathic soul, striving for resonance with other souls. He was very interested in me and my life, and I perceived this as part of his seeking of resonance.
At first, all of his questions about me and my experiences seemed to be sincere interest, and I answered them and indulged his need for information. It is also true that, at the beginning I experienced surges of uneasy suspicion. Very often, his questions were entirely too personal, too probing, too hungry for information that was private. But I was trying to be polite, to accommodate him in a courteous way, and I discarded these suspicions.
Frank made detailed inquiries about my thoughts, my health, my life, my state of affairs. It was as if he were conducting an in-depth interview with an important person. No one in my experience had ever been really interested in what I thought about anything, nor had they made me feel that anything about my life was important, and so I answered the questions about my thoughts, and soon found myself answering all the other questions as well.
The skill of guileless cross-examination is the chief tool of the feminine vampire, because information is power; when you have information about people, you have a means of exploiting them, which is, after all, the primary objective of the vampire.
I didn't realize that my answers were like money in the bank to Frank – hoarded, to be used later for manipulation.
At the point of the almost breakup, I had come to the realization that Frank's interviews were followed by his demand that I listen to his litany of woes and the favor of my time to the point of utter exhaustion. Since he had been so concerned about my well-being, asking such careful and detailed questions, how could I be so discourteous as to refuse to listen and comply with his need for time and energy?
The end result was, of course, that I was hit with a double whammy. Not only did I feed Frank with my energy, I also gave him information that he could use to exploit and control me.
Of course, it is true that a vampire does not become a vampire without having been bitten and infected. The Jungian psychologists would like to think that the infection is passed on from parent to child, that this condition results from early childhood victimization by the parents. It certainly seems to be true that parental programming of a child is part of the means by which the infection is spread, but it also seems that there is something far more insidious at work here: hyperdimensional beings, literally the archetype of the ancient vampire.
Frank's conscious memories of his abductions and torment at the hands of aliens as well as the fact that he did not fight back were all clues. But there were many more clues that developed over the next couple of years.
There is, of course, in any such person, some sort of vestigial soul. It may be a soul that is growing and which will, at some point in the future – perhaps another lifetime – begin the process of spiritualizaton of its matter environment. On the other hand, it may be a soul that is diminishing, or in the process of matterization, compaction, or subsumation of consciousness to the STS hierarchy. It's really hard to tell. My guess – and it's only a guess – is that at this point in history, the types of souls that will be incarnated are not so much the immature kind as they are those that are potentially at the point where this all-important choice is being made – to choose the wishful-thinking, STS path of ultimate matter, or to choose the STO path of spiritualizing matter.
The STS choice is, essentially, the default choice of this density. And, by being the choice that is presented as natural by the Controllers of the Matrix, it is generally the easiest. It is the path of least resistance, most especially in terms of giving ourselves up to our emotions or intelligence of the heart, as it is being promoted nowadays. It is also, very often, the obvious choice, or the sensible choice or even the logical choice. This "obviousness" and "sensibleness" and "logicalness" are, of course, based on the rules of the Matrix that dominate our reality.
The STO choices, on the other hand, are far more difficult to see, and thus, more challenging to make and follow. We have already looked at a couple of examples of this in our little exploration of what Christianity may or may not have originally taught, as well as the fact that many individuals lack the ability to comprehend the deeper meaning of systematic harassment as Castaneda explicated it. Thus it seems that one of the symptoms of those who consistently make STS choices, is that they develop a kind of semantic aphasia. They may be able to grasp a certain, limited, literal meaning of a word or a concept, but they are simply unable to think any higher than that. I have observed certain people who certainly had the intellectual capacity to do so, but they didn't have the drive. This is the result of the fact that as the STS mind is fed, the person becomes less and less able to grasp the deeper meanings of things, the hidden reality that is exemplified by the alchemist Fulcanelli in his exposition on cabala, or the "language of the birds." At the same time, those who are making the STO choices become more and more able to reach into these higher realms of pure thought.
What seems apparent to me is that this is not just a single choice, it is a daily choice, a moment-by-moment choice and that once an individual wins just one little battle against the mechanical nature of the STS reality and default choices, and moves even momentarily into that STO realm, it strengthens the ability, however incrementally, to make the next STO choice that is presented. And, for the most part, these choices have to do not only with seeing what is, but in choosing how to respond to it: creatively or destructively, with truth or wishful thinking and narcissistic personal opinions.
Thus it is that a person who chooses to understand Castaneda's term systematic harassment in a materialistic way, as opposed to the deeper perception of the theological reality behind it and the example he gave, has effectively made the choice for the default mode of STS understanding or what is "obvious, sensible and logical," based on the rules of the Matrix-reality language structure. Such choices of perception, made over and over again, result in a sort of hardening of the categories, or being matterized. The point is that as long as there is life, there is hope, and even if the surface appearance of the events would suggest that I had been victimized by a conscious psychopath in my interactions with Frank, I tend to think that we ought to give a certain amount of the benefit of the doubt, within limitations, to anyone we encounter. There may, indeed, have been some part of him that was truly asking, and I was giving to that part as well as the part that was manipulating.
In a very real sense, the psychic vampire, or the STS feeding machine, is very well described in terms of criminal psychology. The chief traits of the criminal personality are weakness, immaturity, and self-delusion mixed with a strong desire to deceive other people. The weakness is an important factor because it seems to be the root of the inability to "think higher" beyond the Matrix reality. Such thinking requires great effort of a certain kind, and many individuals simply do not want to do it. It's too much like work. Even people who can do enormous physical work, do not seem to have the ability to understand what work is truly valuable. They may spend days, weeks, months, looking up endless words and permutations in dictionaries, but the ability to push into the deeper reality, that comes from a certain strength of the soul, is simply not in them.
Such individuals have amazing skills at self-justification and rationalization for what they do. They are also masters at appealing to the sympathies and emotional triggers of other people. They also, most definitely, have a well-developed ability to shut off what they do not want to see or admit to. They are generally cowards, but with a twist: their greatest fear is that others will see them as weak, so they create a persona of bombastic strength and power that simply does not exist.
Criminals are also hypersensitive to what is said to them, and will become angry all out of proportion when they perceive that they are being put down, but are also completely insensitive to the feelings of others to whom they may address great cruelty. Of course, when someone can be used by them, they take great pains to pretend sympathy.
In the words of one criminologist, the criminal mind suffers from a series of faulty blocking mechanisms. In other words, in the terms of the Cs and the STS reality: wishful thinking. They are blind and deaf to anything that contradicts their view of themselves and the world. They literally see things differently.
Now, it is obvious that we are all in this condition to one extent or another. And it is this very wishful thinking that keeps us in the Matrix. As strange as it may seem, studying the criminal mind has the same effect on us that the ghosts of Christmas had on Ebenezer Scrooge – it makes us more aware of the reality we ignore.
Vampires that are not fully formed may desperately try to cover up the growing vampire seed within by doing good deeds. This isn't done consciously, mind you. At this point, the narcissistic view of the self is so powerful that looking in the mirror and seeing the true emptiness of the soul is impossible. Such an event would result in the total meltdown of the entire personality structure, and the subconscious defense mechanisms won't allow that.
Rather than facing and dealing with the real issues, acknowledgment of the darkness within, acknowledging mistakes and lies and manipulations of others, being truly sorry, and truly asking for help such people desperately seek to eradicate what they subconsciously suspect about themselves in any way they can. The chief method is by doing good deeds through projecting the darkness in their own soul onto someone else.
Of course, that is just the psychological real reason, and not the theological reason. The archetypal forces will use this mode of behavior – will stimulate such thinking – in order to accomplish their own goals. The individual will be persuaded in their own mind that, by following a certain course of action, they can – little by little – eradicate the dreaded shadow that haunts their mind. And of course, the darkness is "out there." But this then becomes the tool of the head vampire at the top of the food pyramid, to both enhance feeding potentials, as well as to destroy any threat to the status quo.
Vampire lore tells us that holding up a mirror to a literal vampire is a dangerous task. In psychological terms, holding up a mirror to a person in whom the vampire archetype is active is also problematical at best. It is at such a moment that the individual can make one of three choices: denial, growth, or despair. In criminal psychology terms, they have the choice to continue their criminal behavior with the strong likelihood of ultimate destruction; to radically change; or just commit suicide and get it over with. The individual who chooses to not change and grow, to not acknowledge the emptiness of the soul, effectively chooses to become a full vampire. Such a person has no capacity for true human compassion, but they have endless forms that they may take on to pursue the goal of obliterating the threat to their survival as a vampire.
Such a person, faced with such a revelation about themselves are most often completely unable to give up their illusory perfection and celebrity status. They cannot disentangle themselves from the programmed illusion and delusion of the narcissistic self-created in a fake bio and credentials. They must believe that they are the fake self, because in the deepest recesses of their subconscious minds, they feel that they are nothing at all. And in the theological reality, that is what they are making true. By being controlled by this psychological program, they utilize their energy to manifest that archetype.
The Matrix supports such behavior. The illusion, the wishful-thinking reality in which such a person lives, consists of a firm conviction that they are, indeed, of the light – a higher spiritual being – and that they must destroy that which has mirrored back to them the horrible truth of their lies and imperfection – a truth that is backed up by evidence and witnesses. They galvanize all their energy to strike and destroy; to banish the darkness, so that they can live in the everlasting light that is promised them for their "service."
The pernicious vampire who has had a glimpse of himself and his emptiness, and has projected this emptiness onto another, knows instinctively that he needs to utilize his "other forms" to survive and ultimately destroy the threat to his being. These other forms can consist in what may seem, initially, to be changes in behavior. This manifests, again, in the psychological belief of the individual that by doing good deeds he can vanquish the vampire "out there." He will do favors for others, believing that this is a good, compensatory deed that will earn him salvation. But in his heart of hearts, he knows that the person he is doing the favor for is someone he has wronged. In fact, he believes that by doing something for someone he has wronged without confessing that wrong, or even acknowledging it, that it is all that much more a good deed.
The pernicious vampire will give time and energy to a group or a cause that he really holds in contempt. He will do things for people he secretly disdains, and he will do it all the more sweetly if he thinks it will strengthen his chances for survival. Such a vampire who has gone deeper under cover will patronize people who he is really, secretly, exploiting. And he will most certainly proclaim that he is a follower of beliefs that he secretly desecrates, and his actions will most ultimately demonstrate that he is not truly an advocate of such ideas in his soul.
In some cases, when the darkness in a single person becomes too great to bear, he or she will project it onto a whole group of human beings. They will then go and seek out a group of neighbors and friends with similar darkness that they want to unload, and they form an agreement about what group they want to project their multiplied lawlessness and iniquity onto. In this way, they don't have to hide their darkness because they can join together in a public orgy of projection. They believe that if they can destroy whomever they have collectively projected their darkness onto, that they will be collectively purged and will all be fresh and new and perfect together. The only problem is: in such a dynamic, the individual and collective darkness only grows in this miasma of vampiric revelry, and as it grows, they must project more and more to cleanse themselves. What they do not realize is that they are, step by incremental step, killing their own souls. Because by feeding the vampire inside the self, that vampire archetype grows stronger and stronger, and this is a manifestation of the eating of the soul of the infected victim by the hyperdimensional vampires, and thus represents the theological reality.
Of course, as noted already, this is an incremental process.
When a con-artist deliberately deceives someone, he keeps his human feelings separate – compartmentalized. He may be, essentially, two people: a human being to his wife and family and friends, and a criminal to his victims. All psychological studies show that if he continues on such a path long enough, he ultimately becomes less and less human with everyone. Like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, each time the STS behavior or wishful thinking is indulged, each time it is not resisted and overcome, it becomes stronger and stronger. And its ultimate objective is to destroy its victim who, in the throes of his own destruction, reaches out to try to save himself by destroying others.
In the most mundane sense, this manifests in our real world as people who have no manners, who have no class, who have no nobility of soul and who are incapable of recognizing it, nor do they understand that they don't have it. They then attempt to compensate for their lack by declaring it to be of no value, therefore not having it does not diminish their value within the structure of their wishful thinking. In addition, because it is something not possessed, they must attack it and those who possess it.
Getting back to the matter at hand, Frank tried to obliterate the darkness within by a course of good deeds, or more precisely, by curtailing some of his previously draining activities, including his regular rants about committing suicide. He became more helpful and generous in his words, to me at least. He never did – nor could he, it seems – actually overcome his lethargy long enough to do anything physical for any of the group.
But what is most important at this point is the fact that Frank had most definitely begun the process of projection. And the objects of this projection were varied, but most particularly Terry and Jan and S**, all of whom actually did a lot of work for and with the group.
And me? Well, I was as easy to manipulate as any doting mother of a brilliant, helpless child. Fortunately, as we will soon see, the Cs were not so easy to manipulate.
Tags: energy drain, vampire
Posted in The Wave Volume 5/6
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NY Attorney General Names Team That Will Investigate Cuomo
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday appointed a former federal prosecutor and an employment lawyer to investigate allegations that Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed female aides.
Joon Kim was the acting U.S. Attorney in Manhattan for parts of 2017 and 2018.
He'll join the employment lawyer Anne Clark in conducting the probe.
James said the pair are "independent, legal experts who have decades of experience conducting investigations and fighting to uphold the rule of law."
The appointments came as New York lawmakers were privately debating whether to join calls for Cuomo to resign from office, or urge patience while the investigation is ongoing.
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Q: PCRE To Get Date from middle of string The string:
Destiny 2 12_9_2017 8_08_31 PM.mp4

All these strings will have 5 parts.

*

*Game

*Date

*Time

*AM/PM

*Extension

How would I regex to get the date and time (separately, 2 separate functions) when the game can vary greatly (various length, spaces, colons, hyphens in the title).
For example, it would have to work with all of these strings.
Destiny 2 12_9_2017 8_08_31 PM.mp4
Assassin's Creed: Origins 12_9_2017 8_08_31 PM.mp4
Ori and the Blind Forest - Definitive Edition 12_9_2017 8_08_31 PM.mp4

And be able to get the date (which isn't padded with 0's) from that string no matter the game.

A: I would define the following functions:
function getGameDate($input) {
    preg_match('/(\d+_\d+_\d{4})\s+\d+_\d+_\d+/', $input, $re);
    return $re[1];
}

function getGameTime($input) {
    preg_match('/\d+_\d+_\d{4}\s+([^.]*)/', $input, $re);
    return $re[1];
}

print(getGameDate("Destiny 2 12_9_2017 8_08_31 PM.mp4") . "\n");
print(getGameTime("Destiny 2 12_9_2017 8_08_31 PM.mp4") . "\n");
print(getGameDate("Assassin's Creed: Origins 12_9_2017 8_08_31 PM.mp4") . "\n");
print(getGameTime("Assassin's Creed: Origins 12_9_2017 8_08_31 PM.mp4") . "\n");
print(getGameDate("Ori and the Blind Forest - Definitive Edition 12_9_2017 8_08_31 PM.mp4"));
print(getGameTime("Ori and the Blind Forest - Definitive Edition 12_9_2017 8_08_31 PM.mp4"));

Nothing magical happening here, except that you'll notice that I match both the date and time, then capture only the former.  This is deliberate, because both the date and time have the general pattern of 3 numbers separated by underscores.  We need to make sure we capture the right one, so by including both we cover this edge case.
Demo

A: You can try with this pattern
$str = 'Destiny 2 12_9_2017 8_08_31 PM.mp4';
preg_match('/\d+\S+ \d+\S+ [A|P]M/', $str, $date_time);
echo $date_time[0];

// Or with this '/((\d+\S+){3}\s){2}[A|P]M/'

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By The Associated Press, Data Skrive
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Jared Rodriguez had 21 points in Idaho State's 61-53 victory against Montana-Western on Tuesday.
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Q: how to save Spark Streaming RDD line by line in the DStream and save each line in table cassandra using spark-cassandra-connector I have a RDD containing 4 lines, each line contains 4 fields separated by a comma, I want to record line by line in a table Cassandra also contains the same number of fields as the RDD line, I think it is necessary to browse each RDD Line by line, for example:
RDD:
test1,2017-07-12T09:30:48.024-0700,19,Status
test1,2017-07-12T09:30:49.026-0700,91,Status
test2,2017-07-12T09:30:48.025-0700,21,Status
test2,2017-07-12T09:30:49.027-0700,83,Status

If I want to do it with SQL will be like this
insert into key3.table1(topic_name, date_time, mesure, status) values("test1","2017-07-12T09:30:48.024-0700",19,"Status")

insert into key3.table1(topic_name, date_time, mesure, status) values("test1","2017-07-12T09:30:49.026-0700",91,"Status")

insert into key3.table1(topic_name, date_time, mesure, status)  values("test1","2017-07-12T09:30:48.025-0700",21,"Status")

insert into key3.table1(topic_name, date_time, mesure, status) values("test1","2017-07-12T09:30:49.027-0700",83,"Status")

I want to do the same thing but with the predefined methods of DStream like foreachRDD, transfrom, filter, map. I tried several times but it did not work, here is the code I used
package org.apache.sparkwordcount

import com.datastax.spark.connector.streaming._
import com.datastax.spark.connector.SomeColumns
import org.apache.spark._
import org.apache.spark.SparkConf
import org.apache.spark.streaming._
import org.apache.spark.streaming.StreamingContext._
import org.apache.spark.streaming.kafka._
import com.datastax.spark.connector.cql.CassandraConnector
import com.datastax.driver.core.Session
//import org.apache.kafka.serializer.StringDecoder
import _root_.kafka.serializer.StringDecoder

object SparkCassandra {
    def main(args: Array[String]) {

     val sparkConf = new SparkConf()
         .setAppName("KakfaStreamToCassandra").setMaster("spark://127.0.1.1:7077")
         .set("spark.cassandra.connection.host", "127.0.0.1")
         .set("spark.cassandra.connection.port", "9042")
     .set("spark.cassandra.auth.username","cassandra")
     .set("spark.cassandra.auth.password","cassandra")
     .set("spark.cassandra.connection.keep_alive_ms","3600000")
     .set("spark.cassandra.connection.timeout_ms","3600")

    /*CassandraConnector(sparkConf).withSessionDo { session =>
      session.execute("CREATE KEYSPACE test3 WITH REPLICATION = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': 1 }")
      session.execute("CREATE TABLE test3.words (word text PRIMARY KEY, count int)")
      session.execute("insert into test2.words (word,count) values('ddd',1)")
    }*/

     val topics = "test1,test2"
     val ssc = new StreamingContext(sparkConf, Seconds(2))
    val keysspace="sparkcassandra"
    val table="kafkatable"
     val topicsSet = topics.split(",").toSet
     val kafkaParams = Map[String, String]("metadata.broker.list" -> "localhost:9092")
     val messages = KafkaUtils.createDirectStream[String, String, StringDecoder, StringDecoder](ssc, kafkaParams, topicsSet)

     val lines = messages.map(_._2)

     val words = lines.flatMap(_.split("\n"))
        //.saveToCassandra(keysspace, table, SomeColumns("topic_name", "date_time", "mesure", "status"))

     words.print()

     //val wordCounts = words.map(x => (x, 1L)).reduceByKey(_ + _)

    //lines.flatMap(_.split(","))
      //.saveToCassandra(keysspace, table, SomeColumns("topic_name", "date_time", "mesure", "status"))

        // messages.foreachRDD { rdd => rdd.foreach { record => println(record._2)}}

     ssc.start()
    //words.getClass
     ssc.awaitTermination()

}
}

If you have ideas or you can correct me my code please do not hesitate


Sobbing into her hands, John Ritter's widow on Monday gave jurors in a wrongful-death trial a minute-by-minute account of events leading up to the actor's death in 2003. Amy Yasbeck sometimes could barely speak through her tears as she recounted the last hours in which she was summoned to a hospital and told her husband was having a heart attack and needed an angiogram.
She said that Ritter, who was in a hospital bed, was "scared" and asked Dr. Joseph Lee, one of the two defendants in the lawsuit, if he could get a second opinion before he agreed to the procedure.
"Dr. Lee said, 'No, there's no time. You're in the middle of a heart attack,'" Yasbeck testified.
She said Lee asked Ritter to sign a consent form and read him its details.
Asked by her lawyer, Moses Lebovits, what happened next, Yasbeck broke into gasping sobs.
"I leaned down to John's ear and said, 'I know you're scared but you have to be brave and do this because these guys know what they're doing.' And he was brave for all the time I saw him," she said.
Yasbeck said that as Ritter was wheeled down a hall on a gurney he used sign language to say "I love you." She said she mouthed the same words back.
"He went around the corner and that's the last time I saw him," she said.
Ritter, 54, fell ill earlier in the day while working on the sitcom "8 Simple Rules … for Dating My Teenage Daughter" and died of a torn aorta at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. His family is suing Lee and a radiologist, Dr. Matthew Lotysch, who did a body scan on Ritter two years earlier, for $67 million.
The doctors deny wrongdoing. The radiologist has testified the aorta was normal in the scan but Ritter had coronary artery disease at a relatively young age.
Shortly after that, she said, a doctor who had arrived from the Disney studios came out and told her Ritter was "crashing" and that a surgeon had been summoned.
At some point - after she was joined by Ritter's ex-wife, Nancy Ritter, and their son Jason - the surgeon came to them.
"He said it was over and John's dead, that they worked on John for a long time but the damage was done by the time he got there. It was a fait accompli and John was dead," Yasbeck said.
Yasbeck then told of going home to tell her 5-year-old daughter, Stella, that her father had died. She waited until the next morning because the child was asleep.
The testimony was offered in part to demonstrate to jurors the devastation suffered by the family from the loss of Ritter. In the courtroom audience, his brother, Tom, wiped his eyes.
Nancy Ritter, who was married to the actor for 19 years, also took the stand and testified about his importance to their three children and his decision to have a complete body scan two years before he died.
She said she urged him to do it and when it was over he told her it had gone well.
"He implied to me that he was reassured he was OK. Maybe he was protecting me," she said.
The plaintiffs rested their case after Yasbeck's testimony and the defense opened its presentation with a brief appearance by Ritter's personal trainer, who said the actor was concerned about improving his health and was working out regularly.
The current lawsuit follows settlements with the hospital and eight other medical personnel for about $14 million.


Co-trainer Johno Benner is happy with Scott Base and Wyndspelle ahead of Saturday's Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings.
Otaki trainers Johno Benner and Hollie Wynyard will have two strong chances in Saturday's Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings, and the couple couldn't be happier with their charges heading into the mile feature.
Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m) winner Scott Base ran home strongly in the first leg of Hawke's Bay's triple crown, the Gr.1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m), while Group Two winner Wyndspelle pleased connections with his sixth-placing.
Benner has been pleased with the pair's work since their first-up run and believes they will both relish the step-up in distance to a mile.
All going to plan both runners will back-up in the Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) on the last day of the carnival, before Scott Base could potentially continue his spring campaign in Australia, where his trainers have previously campaigned Group One winners Humidor and Vespa.
"There's two weeks into the last one (Livamol Classic) which is appealing enough for them both, but we'll just get through Saturday," Benner said.
Benner said he and partner Wynyard enjoy training out of their small operation at Otaki, where they have access to the nearby beach, which has been well utilised by Scott Base and Wyndspelle since their return from Hastings.
"We have twenty in work the entire time, we have a nice set-up right on Otaki racecourse," Benner said. "We have got Otaki to ourselves really, it has good training facilities and we are really happy here.


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"Pure and shining" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) soprano Clara Rottsolk has been lauded by The New York Times for her "clear, appealing voice and expressive conviction" and by The Philadelphia Inquirer for the "opulent tone [with which] every phrase has such a communicative emotional presence." In a repertoire extending from the Renaissance to the contemporary, her solo appearances with orchestras and chamber ensembles have taken her across the United States, the Middle East, Japan and South America. She specializes in historically informed performance practice, singing with ensembles including American Bach Soloists, Tempesta di Mare, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Les Délices, Pacific MusicWorks, St. Thomas Church 5th Avenue, Virginia Symphony, Atlanta Baroque, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Piffaro—The Renaissance Wind Band, Colorado Bach Ensemble, Trinity Wall Street Choir, Seraphic Fire, New Mexico Symphonic Chorus, ARTEK, and the Masterwork Chorus under the direction of conductors including Joshua Rifkin, Bruno Weil, Paul Goodwin, Jeffrey Thomas, Andrew Megill, John Scott, David Effron, and Daniel Hyde.
The Soprano joins Les Délices for several tours of French Baroque programs in Texas, the Northwest, and the Northeast, The American Classical Orchestra for Mozart's Great Mass at Lincoln Center, Bach Collegium San Diego for Handel's Messiah, as well as the role of Eurydice in Offenbach's Orphée in the 2017-2018 season. She will return to St. Thomas Church 5th Avenue for Vaughan Williams' Dona nobis pacem, and to the Colorado Bach Ensemble for Bach's B Minor Mass. During the 2016-2017 season Ms. Rottsolk joined Bucks County Choral Society for performances of Mozart's Requiem and Sametz's Child's Requiem, Bach Festival Society of Winter Park for Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, San Francisco Early Music Society for programs alongside Archetti Baroque Strings and ARTEK, New Mexico Symphonic Chorus for performances of Messiah, and Pro Musica Rara for Bach Cantatas. She performed with Peter Conte at the Longwood Gardens for Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder and returned to the Colorado Bach Ensemble for Bach's St. Matthew's Passion and to Cleveland with Les Délices.
Highlights of her 2015-2016 season include debuts as Eurydice in Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice with Opera Grand Rapids and as Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo with the Carmel Bach Festival, as well as concerts of Bach's Easter and Ascension Oratorios with American Bach Soloists, Bach's Christmas Oratorio and St. John Passion with Colorado Bach Ensemble, Handel's Messiah with Spire Ensemble, recitals of 19th and 20th century mélodies with Byron Schenkman, and a new staged biographic exploration of Torquato Tasso with ARTEK.
Her recordings are Myths and Allegories, French Baroque cantatas with Les Délices and "supple and stylish… and unflaggingly attractive" (Gramophone Magazine) Scarlatti Cantatas with Tempesta di Mare on the Chandos-Chaconne label. Due out soon are a recording of new compositions by Rachel Matthews, including three songs set to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, as well as Monteverdi Madrigals with ARTEK.


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Biotech leaders see benefits of industry cluster
resource—http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/299968458868353.php
By Scott Foster, Ottawa Business Journal Staff
Mon, May 31, 2004 12:00 AM EST
Marcel Sbrollini, CEO of Robustion.
Fuelled by the activities of several bio-product companies in Ottawa and surrounding area, local biotech leaders are quietly preparing to unveil the region's newest industry cluster.
Traditionally, Ottawa's clustering phenomenon has been restricted to the telecom sector. But it's about to engulf manufacturers and researchers in the "eco-industrial" space, involved in the production of alternative fuels such as bio-mass, bio-gas and bio-diesel.
The eco-industrial cluster could stretch as far west as Renfrew, south to Cardinal and east to Moose Creek. The Greenbelt Research Park on
Woodroffe Avenue
could act as a nucleus, said Rainer Engelhardt, CEO of the Ottawa Biotechnology Incubation Centre.
Randy Goodfellow, CEO of BioProducts Canada, points to a dozen or more local companies that would make the proposed cluster a strong one. They include Iogen Corp., LaFleche Environmental Inc., Casco Inc., Ensyn Technologies Inc, Topia Energy Inc. and Robustion Technologies Inc.
While the cluster is still at the talking stage, industry heads are already envisioning the economic benefits it could create.
For example, bio-product companies often produce byproducts that could easily act as "feedstock" for other companies in the same space, said Goodfellow.
Mutually beneficial relationships could be formed if one company's byproducts are passed on to another, he said. The donor of the byproducts could defray disposal costs, while the recipient could easily incorporate the materials into its operations, said Goodfellow.
LaFleche Environmental in Moose Creek, just east of Ottawa, is already exploring material-sharing arrangements with Topia and Ensyn, said Goodfellow.
Andre LaFleche, owner of LaFleche Environmental, operates a bioreactor at the landfill he owns in Moose Creek. Wood waste, or biomass, could be gathered from the site to provide companies such as Ensyn with feedstock, he said.
Ensyn specializes in a
biomass refining process to produce light liquid "bio-oil", from which natural value-added chemicals and fuels are recovered. The company is currently building a manufacturing plant in Renfrew that will eventually turn wood waste into an adhesive solution that binds other products together, said Goodfellow.
Makers of bio-diesel, such as Topia, produce glycerol as a byproduct, which can be used as a feedstock by companies such as Ensyn, said Goodfellow. Glycerol can be converted such things as hydrogen and syn gas.
Across the road from his landfill, LaFleche hopes to build a bio-digestor for agricultural waste that will produce methane. That gas can be turned into electricity or thermal energy, which can accommodate a company's energy needs, he said, adding the bio-digestor is expected to be operational in 2006 or 2007, once zoning issues are worked out. When complete, the site is expected to be an eco-industrial park.
LaFleche said he has already met with people from Ensyn and Topia who have expressed interest in the idea.
South of Ottawa, in Cardinal, Casco is processing corn into high-fructose sweeteners used in such products as Coca-Cola, said Goodfellow.
"There's already discussions between various folks who see such byproducts as a starting point. Some of the spent grains are often used for livestock feed," he said.
Meanwhile, the Greenbelt Research Farm on Woodroffe is home to the Ottawa Biotechnology Incubation Centre, which comprises companies that conduct ag-biotech research. Also on the farm site is Robustion Inc., a company that specializes in the combustion process and turns spent coffee grounds into fire logs.
Company officials rave about the Greenbelt site, saying it provides the perfect environment for larger-scale field
trials for products still under development.
This is partially due to the equipment left behind by Agriculture Canada's Centre for Farm Animal Research, they say. The federal department vacated the land in the 1990s, leaving it to the National Capital Commission.
For Robustion, moving to the site was affordable since the necessary mixing, drying and conveyor equipment, including indoor and outdoor silos, was already there, says Marcel Sbrollini, the company's chief executive.
For these reasons, the Greenbelt site could act as a good nucleus for a future eco-industrial cluster, said Engelhardt.
"To have that type of facility where you can maintain research livestock animals and large tracts of land to carry out field trials, it hardly exists anywhere else in North America."
The local biotech industry could be doing a lot more to promote the eco-industrial cluster idea and put it into practice, said Engelhardt and Goodfellow.
"(Material-sharing) isn't going on as much as it should be locally," said Goodfellow. "I know there are various agreements that folks have about wanting to work together and trying to find ways to cooperate. But these things must still be tacked together to help it happen."
What's not being done well is the marketing of this "tremendous capacity" outside Canada, added Engelhardt.
He and others have broached the cluster subject to the province and there are positive signs from both Ontario and the federal government.
For example, in March the federal government released its innovation roadmap on bio-based feedstocks, fuels and industrial products. The roadmap is expected to be implemented in the fall and will hopefully give the relatively new industry the momentum it needs to thrive, said Goodfellow.
In the meantime, Robustion's Sbrollini intends to get a better idea of who's out there.
"We need to take the time to do this, find the synergies and have the resources to allocate toward those initiatives. For instance, we know of the OBIC partners and we've talked with them but we don't have a solid idea of what we could do jointly."
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Millennials carry more debt than previous generations That might be why most respondents admitted they would delay marriage for seven years—and having children for eight years—if the right career opportunities came up.
Long-term relationships are not in trouble, though.
In fact, 54% said they would pass up a career opportunity to stay in a long-term relationship.
Most respondents—86%—would move if their significant other was offered a job in another city, state or country. If a relationship threatened their career, though, that's a different story ... which brings us to our next point.
Millennials earn a median annual income of less than $26,000, or $13 an hour, in every state except Washington, D.C.
But the amount of money it would take for them to sacrifice relationships varied.
a raise of $64,000 to delay marriage.
or they haven't found someone they liked enough to date (45%).
end a relationship for a significant raise (37% vs. 26%).
It would also take much less money for men to delay having a relationship, getting married, or having children compared to women.
Women, however, would end a relationship for less money and would be more likely to give up a long-term relationship if it jeopardized a career.
This probably comes as no surprise, but millennials are waiting longer to get married.
However, the age at which they're willing to settle down and get married is higher than it ever has been. On average, respondents said they are waiting until age 35.
Unsurprisingly, older millennials were less likely to give up relationships for their careers. This might be because they're closer to the age of wanting to settle down.
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Ethics & Intimidation At The Center of Valentino's Allegations Against Sheriff Morgan
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan is the main target of a complaint filed with the Florida Commission on Ethics, by former County Commissioner Gene Valentino.
Valentino declined WUWF's request to be interviewed, saying he prefers to wait until the Commission on Ethics takes up the case, which he believes will be next month or in February.
Filed in October, the complaint names Morgan in connection with three allegations.
The first is that he left Valentino what the former commissioner calls a "threatening" message on his office voicemail, regarding a private conversation between Valentino and then-Administrator Randy Oliver.
"I'm not sure where Mr. Oliver's coming from, but I reiterate to you Gene, that I ain't happy," said Morgan on the voicemail. "If this goes forward, bring your flak jacket and helmet, because there will be fireworks and blood in the water."
Morgan says such accusations come with the turf as an elected official. He added that both state and county attorneys reviewed the voice message, and found no cause to take action. He calls Valentino's complaint "baseless."
"I've yet to have one filed by just a citizen who thinks, or verifies, that there's something wrong, and none of them have been founded," said Morgan. "They're used primarily, and sadly, as harassment for elected officials. This one is in that very same category."
Allegation number two claims that a campaign video for Doug Underhill, who beat Valentino in the Republican primary, was produced by ECSO employee David Craig, using ECSO resources.
Allegation number three claims that Morgan accused the County Commission of criminal negligence, involving the April explosion at the County Jail.
A fourth allegation involves Chief Deputy Eric Haines. Valentino alleges that when former County Administrator George Touart died in January, Haines refused to lower the U.S. and state flags at county facilities to half-staff for a week. Morgan says that would have violated flag protocol.
"The President of the United States can order our colors to be at half-staff throughout the nation," Morgan said. "At the state level, the governor can order the U.S. flag and state flag lowered. They're the only ones who can do it for a period of mourning."
As commissioner, Gene Valentino and Sheriff David Morgan had a largely adversarial relationship. But Valentino maintains that his ethics complaint is separate from any past disputes.
If the Florida Committee on Ethics decides to hear the complaint, an investigator will determine if there's probable cause for an evidentiary hearing. If it finds that an ethics violation has occurred, sanctions can range from a public reprimand, to a fine to removal from office.
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Q: Custom sort buttons in jquery tablesorter headers so my table contains 3 kinds of data per cell.. i'd like to ask if it's possible to add 3 sort buttons per header cell that sets the data in the cell that will be sorted, and at the same time, sort the rows?
a header cell contains something like this:
[Header Title]
- - - - - - - - - -
[sort by A] [sort by B] [sort by C]

and a data cell contains something like this:
[data A] | [data B] | [data C]

when i click on [sort by B] button, the cells should be sorted by their [data B] values

A: I am seeing this type of requirement right for the first time and out of curiosity, I tried a demo of it (only the structure but not the functionality).
I see it as every possibility that it can be done with ease, and on the basis of the click of the either of the sort by items, the respective data can be sorted using any sorting algorithm, written in the JavaScript, just one needs to call the respective method in the JS.
Please find the code below:
HTML:

      Column 1

          Sort by 1
          Sort by 2
          Sort by 3

      Column 2
      Column 3

        Text 11
        Text 12
        Text 13

        ABC 11

        Pqr 11

        Text 21
        Text 22
        Text 23

        ABC 21

        Pqr 21

        Text 31
        Text 32
        Text 33

        ABC 31

        Pqr 31

JS:
function sortBy1(){}
function sortBy2(){}
function sortBy3(){}

A: If you are using my fork of tablesorter, there is already a question/answer here on Stackoverflow relating to sorting two sets of data in a cell. I slightly modified the code to allow for 3+ data sets per cell. Here is the demo:
$(function() {

  var $cell;
  $('table').tablesorter({
    theme: 'blue',
    textSorter: function(a, b) {
      var x = a.split('|'),
        y = b.split('|'),
        i = $cell.filter('.active').attr('data-index');
      return $.tablesorter.sortNatural($.trim(x[i]), $.trim(y[i]));
    },
    initialized: function() {
      $cell = $('table thead th').find('span');
      $cell.click(function() {
        // activate percentage sort
        $(this)
          .addClass('active')
          .siblings()
          .removeClass('active');
        return false;
      });

    }
  });

});


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Home » News » Steam Summer Sale 2020: Live With Skyrim, Doom, GTA 5, And More
Steam Summer Sale 2020: Live With Skyrim, Doom, GTA 5, And More
Summer is always a busy time for deals, and while huge sales from Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation have already ended, one of the season's biggest gaming sales just launched. Every June, Steam users look forward to an absolute truckload of PC games going on sale as part of the platform's annual Summer Sale, and the time has finally come: Steam Summer Sale 2020 is live now, as predicted by a developer at SteamDB back in May. The sale includes major discounts on a ton of great games, from Rainbow Six Siege and Disco Elysium to Skyrim, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Grand Theft Auto V, and Terraria. It's one of the best times of the year to bulk up your game library. Don't miss it if there are any titles you've been looking to snag.
Steam Summer Sale 2020 dates and times
Steam Summer Sale 2020 kicked off Thursday, June 25, and will run until July 9, ending at 10 PM PT / 1 PM ET / 6 PM BST.
Steam Summer Sale 2020's best deals
As usual, literally thousands of games are seeing major markdowns across nearly every genre, from first-person shooters and action-adventure games to city-building games, horror games, and more. See our full roundup of Steam Summer Sale 2020's best game deals for our recommendations on what to grab.
A Plague Tale: Innocence — $15.29 ($45)
Jackbox Party Pack 6 — $21 ($30)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain — $6 ($20)
Valkyria Chronicles 4 – Complete Edition — $17 ($50)
Doom Eternal — $30 ($60)
Disco Elysium — $30 ($40)
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun — $6 ($40)
Helldivers — $10 ($20)
Tabletop Simulator — $10 ($20)
Total War: Warhammer II — $20.39 ($60)
Dragon Quest Builders II — $36 ($60)
Titanfall 2 — $9.89 ($30)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Special Edition — $16 ($40)
Outer Wilds — $16.65 ($25)
Dark Souls III – Deluxe Edition — $21.24 ($85)
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot — $36 ($60)
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order — $30 ($60)
Rainbow Six Siege — $8 ($20)
Grand Theft Auto V — $15 ($30)
Rust — $20 ($40)
Cheap games under $10
If you're on a tight budget this summer, you can fortunately find some incredible games for dirt cheap in the Steam Summer Sale–some of them are just a few bucks. Games like Celeste, Undertale, Darkest Dungeon, and Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice will all cost you less than $10 right now, and they're absolutely worth playing. For more budget recommendations, see our roundup of the best cheap games under $10 in Steam Summer Sale 2020.
Celeste — $10 ($20)
Undertale — $3.39 ($10)
Moonlighter — $6.79 ($20)
Darkest Dungeon — $6.24 ($25)
Papers, Please — $5 ($10)
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice — $9 ($30)
Best PC exclusives on sale
Most multi-platform games make their way onto Steam at some point, but there are still plenty of games that launch on PC and don't get ported to other platforms right away. For that reason, it's worth paying extra attention to PC exclusives during Steam Summer Sale, as you're likely to find the best prices on these games that you'll find in a long time. Put that gaming PC to good use and check out our list of the best PC exclusives on sale at Steam, including Total War: Three Kingdoms, Gears Tactics, and Half-Life: Alyx.
Half-Life: Alyx — $45 ($60)
Gears Tactics — $40.19 ($60)
Total War: Three Kingdoms — $45 ($60)
XCOM: Chimera Squad — $15 ($20)
Black Mesa — $13 ($20)
Steam Summer Sale theme and trading cards
While last year's Steam Summer Sale had a unique Grand Prix theme, Steam Summer Sale 2020 looks to have a more generic summer road trip theme. There's no real mini-game this year, but you can earn Summer Sale trading cards. You'll get one trading card for every $10 USD that you spend; plus, you'll earn one card a day during the sale by completing your Discovery Queue. You can then craft those cards to gain levels for the Summer Road Trip Badge.
A "Road Trip Special" is also available during the Steam Summer Sale. You can save an additional $5 on any purchase of $30 or more. The discount is applied at checkout. There's also a free sticker to claim each day the sale is live.
Steam Summer Sale introduces Points Shop
Steam has launched the Points Shop alongside the Summer Sale, which will now be open year-round and lets you earn points as you shop. You'll earn 100 points for every dollar you spend, whether that's on a game, DLC, application, soundtrack, or in-game items. Those points can then be redeemed for Profile or Chat items, including animated avatars, frames, backgrounds, and badges.
You can also redeem your points to get a background or emoticon for games you already own, including those that were previously associated with trading cards. Another new feature: Community Awards, which let you reward reviews or other user-generated content that you find particularly insightful, heartwarming, or notable in some other way. There are also badges you can earn by rewarding others' content.
Unlike previous Steam sales where items you earned expired after a certain amount of time, any Point Shop items will be yours to keep and have unlimited uses, with the exception of a special Summer Golden Profile that you can purchase–it'll display for up to 30 days.
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The algorithm for building a Menger sponge is simple in principle. Start with a cube. If you haven't yet reached the desired level of recursion, divide the cube into 27 sub-cubes and discard the 7 that don't touch any of the main cube's edges. Then recursively apply the method to the remaining 20 sub-cubes.
The following code shows the recursive MakeSponge method that this program uses.
// Make a Menger sponge.
// See if this is depth 1.
// Just make a cube.
If the remaining depth of recursion is greater than 1, the method calculates the dimensions of the cube's 27 sub-cubes. It loops through the possible cubes and calls itself recursively for those that aren't in the middle of the sub-cubes in the X, Y, or Z direction.
That's all there is to it. Like many recursive fractals, the code is remarkably short. It's also not too confusing (although that's not true of all short programs that draw fractals).
A much harder question is whether there is an easy way to not draw faces of cubes that lie inside the fractal. For example, if two cubes sit side-by-side, then you don't need to draw their common face because it is buried inside the solid. These fractals contain a LOT of faces, so the potential savings could be significant.
My book Essential Algorithms: A Practical Approach to Computer Algorithms describes a lot of other interesting algorithms including some two-dimensional recursive algorithms. For more information including a table of contents, go to the book's Wiley web page.
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