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package org.cdlib.xtf.servletBase;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException;
import org.cdlib.xtf.util.*;

/** Common members and methods for servlet configuration classes */
public abstract class TextConfig
{
  /** Servlet we are part of */
  public TextServlet servlet;

  /** Logging level: "silent", "errors", "warnings", "info", or "debug" */
  public String logLevel = "info";

  /** Max # of stylesheets to cache */
  public int stylesheetCacheSize = 10;

  /** Max length of time (in seconds) to cache a stylesheet. */
  public int stylesheetCacheExpire = 0;

  /**
   * Filesystem path to a stylesheet used to generate error pages
   * (no permission, invalid document, general exceptions, etc.)
   */
  public String errorGenSheet;

  /**
   * Turns on dependency checking for the caches, so that (for instance)
   * changing a stylesheet forces it to be reloaded.
   */
  public boolean dependencyCheckingEnabled = true;

  /**
   * Turns on latency reporting for the servlet.
   */
  public boolean reportLatency = false;

  /**
   * Enables a cutoff size for latency reporting (if {@link #reportLatency}
   * is true.) Specifies the number of bytes after which a latency message
   * will be printed, even if the output is not complete.
   */
  public int latencyCutoffSize = 0;

  /**
   * Amount of time (in seconds) that a request is allowed to run
   * before we consider it a possible "runaway" and start logging warning
   * messages. Default: 10 seconds
   */
  public long runawayNormalTime = 0;

  /**
   * Amount of time (in seconds) after which a request should
   * voluntarily kill itself. Default: 5 minutes (300 seconds)
   */
  public long runawayKillTime = 0;

  /** Whether session tracking is enabled. Default: true */
  public boolean trackSessions = true;

  /**
   * Which URLs to apply encoding to, if session tracking enabled and
   * user doesn't allow cookies. If null, no URL rewriting will be
   * performed.
   */
  public Pattern sessionEncodeURLPattern = null;

  /** Whether to print out a stylesheet profile after each request */
  public boolean stylesheetProfiling = false;

  /**
   * Whether to allow browsers to cache XTF pages. Defaults to true
   * for backward compatibility but set to false in new XTF
   * installations, which is safer.
   */
  public boolean allowBrowserCaching = true;

  /**
   * List of parameters to tokenize specially. Default: empty (meaning use
   * default tokenizer for all parameters.)
   */
  public Map tokenizerMap = new HashMap();

  /** All the configuration attributes in the form of name/value pairs */
  public AttribList attribs = new AttribList();

  /* Private temporaries for use during parsing */
  private String tokenizeParam;
  private String tokenizeTokenizer;

  /** Create a configuration and attach it to a servlet */
  public TextConfig(TextServlet servlet) {
    this.servlet = servlet;
  }

  /**
   * Constructor - Reads and parses the global configuration file (XML) for
   * the servlet.
   *
   * @param  path                Filesystem path to the config file.
   */
  public void read(String expectedRootTag, String path)
    throws GeneralException
  {
    try
    {
      // Read in the document (it's in XML format)
      EasyNode root = EasyNode.readXMLFile(path);

      // Make sure the root tag is correct.
      String rootTag = root.name();
      if (rootTag.equals("") && root.nChildren() == 1) {
        root = root.child(0);
        rootTag = root.name();
      }

      if (!rootTag.equals(expectedRootTag))
        throw new GeneralException(
          "Config file \"" + path + "\" " + "should contain <" +
          expectedRootTag + ">");

      // Pick out the elements
      for (int i = 0; i < root.nChildren(); i++)
      {
        EasyNode el = root.child(i);
        if (!el.isElement())
          continue;

        String tagName = el.name();

        // Scan each attribute of each element.
        for (int j = 0; j < el.nAttrs(); j++)
        {
          String attrName = el.attrName(j);
          String strVal = el.attrValue(j);

          // See if we recognize the property (if so, handle it).
          if (!handleProperty(tagName + "." + attrName, strVal))
          {
            // It is perfectly acceptable (and often necessary) for
            // the user to define pass-through tags. Somehow this got
            // forgotten in the onslaught of new features. So, if we
            // don't recognize the tag, just pass it by.
            //
            ; // do nothing
          }

          // Also put this tag in the attribute list so it can be
          // passed to the stylesheets.
          attribs.put(tagName + "." + attrName, strVal);
        }
      } // for i
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
      throw new GeneralException("Error reading config file " + path + ": " +
                                 e);
    }

    // Make sure that required parameters were specified.
    requireOrElse(errorGenSheet,
                  "Config file error: errorGen stylesheet not specified");
  } // constructor

  /**
   * Called when a property is encountered. Derived classes, if they don't
   * recognize the property, should call the base class version of
   * handleProperty().
   *
   * @param tagAttr   Combined element/attribute name being considered
   * @param strVal    It's string value
   * @return          true if handled, false if unrecognized
   */
  protected boolean handleProperty(String tagAttr, String strVal)
  {
    if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("logging.level")) {
      if (strVal.equals("0"))
        strVal = "silent";
      else if (strVal.equals("1"))
        strVal = "info";
      else if (strVal.equals("2"))
        strVal = "debug";
      logLevel = strVal;
      return true;
    }
    else if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("stylesheetCache.size")) {
      stylesheetCacheSize = parseInt(tagAttr, strVal);
      return true;
    }
    else if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("stylesheetCache.expire")) {
      stylesheetCacheExpire = parseInt(tagAttr, strVal);
      return true;
    }
    else if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("errorGen.path")) {
      errorGenSheet = servlet.getRealPath(strVal);
      return true;
    }
    else if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("dependencyChecking.check")) {
      dependencyCheckingEnabled = parseBoolean(tagAttr, strVal);
      return true;
    }
    else if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("reportLatency.report") ||
             tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("reportLatency.enable") /* old, for backward compat */)
    {
      reportLatency = parseBoolean(tagAttr, strVal);
      return true;
    }
    else if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("reportLatency.cutoffSize")) {
      latencyCutoffSize = parseInt(tagAttr, strVal);
      return true;
    }
    else if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("runawayTimer.normalTime")) {
      runawayNormalTime = parseInt(tagAttr, strVal);
      return true;
    }
    else if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("runawayTimer.killTime")) {
      runawayKillTime = parseInt(tagAttr, strVal);
      return true;
    }
    else if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("trackSessions.track")) {
      trackSessions = parseBoolean(tagAttr, strVal);
      return true;
    }
    else if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("trackSessions.encodeURLPattern") &&
             strVal.length() > 0)
    {
      try {
        sessionEncodeURLPattern = Pattern.compile(strVal);
      }
      catch (PatternSyntaxException e) {
        throw new GeneralException(
          "Config file property " + tagAttr +
          " must be a valid regular expression");
      }
      return true;
    }
    else if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("tokenize.param") ||
             tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("tokenize.tokenizer"))
    {
      if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("tokenize.param"))
        tokenizeParam = strVal;
      else
        tokenizeTokenizer = strVal;
      if (tokenizeParam != null && tokenizeTokenizer != null) {
        tokenizerMap.put(tokenizeParam, tokenizeTokenizer);
        tokenizeParam = null;
        tokenizeTokenizer = null;
      }
      return true;
    }
    else if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("stylesheetProfiling.profile")) {
      stylesheetProfiling = parseBoolean(tagAttr, strVal);
      return true;
    }
    else if (tagAttr.equalsIgnoreCase("cacheControl.allowBrowserCaching")) {
      allowBrowserCaching = parseBoolean(tagAttr, strVal);
      return true;
    }

    // Not recognized.
    return false;
  } // handleProperty()

  /**
   * Utility function - parse an integer value. If a valid integer isn't
   * specified, throws an exception.
   *
   * @param tagAttr   Name of the element/attribute being considered
   * @param strVal    It's string value
   */
  public static int parseInt(String tagAttr, String strVal)
    throws GeneralException
  {
    try {
      return Integer.parseInt(strVal);
    }
    catch (NumberFormatException e) {
      throw new GeneralException("Integer value expected for " + tagAttr);
    }
  } // parseBoolean()

  /**
   * Utility function - parse a boolean value. Allows "true", "false",
   * "yes", "no", "1", or "0". If not one of these, throws an exception.
   *
   * @param tagAttr   Name of the element/attribute being considered
   * @param strVal    It's string value
   */
  public static boolean parseBoolean(String tagAttr, String strVal)
    throws GeneralException
  {
    if (strVal.equalsIgnoreCase("true") ||
        strVal.equalsIgnoreCase("yes") ||
        strVal.equals("1"))
    {
      return true;
    }

    if (strVal.equalsIgnoreCase("false") ||
        strVal.equalsIgnoreCase("no") ||
        strVal.equals("0"))
    {
      return false;
    }

    throw new GeneralException(
      "Boolean value expected for " + tagAttr + " (value must be one of: " +
      "'true', 'false', 'yes', 'no', '1', or '0')");
  } // parseBoolean()

  /**
   * Utility function - if the value is empty, throws an exception.
   *
   * @param value     Value to check for null or ""
   * @param descrip   If thrown, the exception uses this as the message.
   */
  public static void requireOrElse(String value, String descrip)
    throws GeneralException
  {
    if (value == null || value.equals(""))
      throw new GeneralException(descrip);
  } // requireOrElse()
} // class TextConfig

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I appreciate companies that pay attention to sustainability and have social responsibilities - even when they're not required to.
The property is atop a hill and it is absolutely gorgeous. The hills are lined with flowers, and the grounds are full of life - lot's of happy little honey bees.
We were at the winery for a joint event with Blue Apron. Blue Apron is starting to include Benziger wine in their delivery. It's perfect for when you don't want to pop open a whole bottle.
Would I come back? Definitely - the property is beautiful, the tasting is affordable, and the wine is good.
Let me know if you visit & what you think! A special thank you to my co-photographer @beatsiewheatsie for accompanying me.


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Ousmane Coulibaly (ur. 23 lutego 1969) – burkiński piłkarz grający na pozycji obrońcy. W swojej karierze rozegrał 28 meczów w reprezentacji Burkiny Faso.

Kariera klubowa
W swojej karierze piłkarskiej Coulibaly grał w klubie Racing Bobo-Dioulasso.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
W reprezentacji Burkiny Faso Coulibaly zadebiutował 5 stycznia 1994 w zremisowanym 1:1 towarzyskim meczu z Mali, rozegranym w Bamako. W 1998 roku powołano go do kadry na Puchar Narodów Afryki 1998. Na tym turnieju rozegrał dwa mecze: grupowy z Algierią (2:1) i w ćwierćfinałowym z Tunezją (1:1, k. 8:7). Z Burkiną Faso zajął 4. miejsce. Od 1994 do 2001 rozegrał w kadrze narodowej 28 meczów.

Bibliografia

Reprezentanci Burkiny Faso w piłce nożnej
Piłkarze Racingu Bobo-Dioulasso
Uczestnicy Pucharu Narodów Afryki 1998
Urodzeni w 1969

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Russia has started the development and engineering of a unified satellite communication system for military use; when completed the system will give the country's Ground Forces considerable superiority over the communication technologies of the ground forces of leading foreign states, according to Gen. Maj. Alexander Galgash.
It will be a multi-echelon system, Galgash told Life Zvuk radio broadcaster.
The major echelons will be space, aerial and ground.
He further explained that while the ground forces are involved in operations on the ground, the communication services, taking into account the physics of the process, use all the echelons from the ground to aerial and space.
There is currently development and engineering work going on within these echelons, which will provide ground forces with a unified third generation system of satellite communication in the space echelon (the system currently in use is of the second generation, the Gen. Maj specified).
There will also be orbital and ground groups which will provide communication in any part of the world.
In the aerial echelon it will be provided by rebroadcasting transmitters which will be mounted on various flying and lifting devices including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), helicopters and aircraft. By using the physics of allocation process and radio-wave transmission they will increase the transmission range and ensure the command of troops operating in different areas.
The ground echelon is the basis of the field component in the operative strategic system, Galgash said. It will consist of mostly "Redoubt" mobile communication complexes, a basic set of hardware connections and hardware communication control tools.
"Redoubt" allows a combination of different means of communication in a single radio network. The complex provides a reliable and uninterrupted communication with a wind speed of 30 m/s and at a temperature from —50 degrees C to +55 degrees C with remote antenna control, automatic control system, communication security and information protection.
"Redoubt" is equipped with an efficient life-support system, which makes its use more comfortable for the crew of the complex.
The complexes will provide communication for high ranking officials, successfully blocking the network from external unauthorized use, videoconferencing, telephone communication, data transmission and automated command of troops.
According to Galgash, this would bring up the percentage of cutting-edge communications technology in the Ground Forces to 45 percent, which is scheduled to go further up to 70 percent by 2020.


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Dodgers @ Rockies June 3, 2018: Wood vs. Bettis
Allan Yamashige 06/03/2018	Game Threads Leave A Comment
After an improbable Dodgers slugfest, the team handily took the series against the Rockies last night by a score of 12-4. Alex Wood (3.75 ERA/ 3.20 FIP/ 2.50 DRA) and the Dodgers (28-30) go for the sweep against Chad Bettis (3.68/4.30/3.76) and the Rockies (30-28). The Dodgers look to continue their recent run, going 12-4 in their last 16 and taking four of five against Colorado this season. Also, they're undefeated in June. The consecutive losses for the Rockies have put the Diamondbacks back into first place at 30-27, putting the Dodgers 2.5 back. After the blowout last night, the Dodgers (+34) now own the seventh best run differential in the league, tied with the 37-22 Milwaukee Brewers. That's fine. A win today will get the Dodgers back to just one game below .500 for the first time since April 28.
Denver, CO.
Blackmon
Grandal
Muncy
Pederson C Iannetta
Forsythe
McMahon
Wood (R)
Bettis (R)
The Dodgers use yet another different lineup today, and that makes it their 58th different lineup in game number 59. Their only lineup that repeated exactly featured Alex Verdugo, Tim Locastro, and Kyle Farmer. Joc Pederson starts in center after his four hit game yesterday. Pederson had a rough first two weeks, but has a 138 wRC+ and .870 OPS since 4/16. That includes a scorching 184 wRC+ and 1.062 OPS over the last two weeks. He's up to a 119 wRC+ on the season, which is ahead of Giancarlo Stanton (114), Gary Sanchez (109), Didi Gregorius (109), and Anthony Rizzo (108). Joc back? Unfortunately, you can only apparently have one young left-handed power hitter at a time as Max Muncy starts in front of Cody Bellinger today because baseball is terrible and cares not for your Rookie of the Year Award.
Out of 86 starters with 60+ innings, the advantage looks goes to Alex Wood.
Bettis and Wood are each coming off their second worst starts of the season. Wood allowed five runs over 5.1 innings and after giving up just four homers on the year, he gave up three in that start alone. Bettis gave up five runs on 10 hits through six innings in his last start. Bettis overall has been solid for the Rockies, sitting 90-92 MPH with his fastball. He pairs it with three off-speed pitches in a slider, curve and changeup. The right-handed Bettis is a reverse-splits guy, with right-handed hitters producing better against him (.852 OPS), than LHB (.730) over the course of his career. The same holds true this season as he's held LHB to a .619 OPS, compared to a .771 OPS for righties.
A ton of things go into the makeup of a pitcher, but some similarities between the todays' two starters exist. Bettis throws his changeup 26.8% of the time, the fourth most of all starters behind only Sean Manaea, Kyle Hendricks, and Wood. Wood throws his slider more than Bettis, but their hard vs. breaking ratios are pretty similar. Wood throws 43.7% sinkers, compared to 44.3% fastballs for Bettis. Naturally, this means that 56.3% of the pitches Wood throws are off-speed, slightly ahead of Bettis at 55.7%. Those off-speed usage rates rank only behind Lance McCullers and Matt Boyd. I wouldn't call them "junk-ballers", but they're approaching that area. Wood has also generated 47.2% ground balls and 31.5% fly balls, compared to 47.0% and 31.7% for Bettis which is eerily similar. Now, that's all fun but put that aside and Wood is simply the superior pitcher. He strikes out more, his command is better, and he has a better history of strong performance. The advanced stats still really like Wood, and he looks to bounce back from his five run outing against the Padres. Also of note, as neither team will see many fastballs from the opposing starter I looked into how each team has fared against off-speed stuff but found no likely advantage —— they're tied for 12th in wOBA at .271.
Roberts on possibility of sending Bellinger down to minors to work things out: " I don't know. We're not there yet. … Obviously we'd have to really think thru it. We haven't got to that point yet. But you can see it's been tough sledding for him for 1st 2 months of the season"
— Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr) June 3, 2018
Bellinger is slumping, and luckily the main options to cover for him in Muncy and Pederson are playing very well. Hopefully Bellinger and the team figure it out soon.
First pitch is at 12:10 on SNLA.
About Allan Yamashige
Just a guy living in Thousand Oaks, CA who happens to love the Dodgers and statistics. Hated baseball practice as a kid, but writing about adults doing baseball is alright.
@AllanYamashige
Previous 2018 MLB Draft Profile: CF Nick Schnell, Roncalli HS (Ind.)
Next Dodgers 10, Rockies 7: Dodgers rally late for a sweep in Colorado

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Snake Skins and Oil
All snakes regularly slither right out of their skins, and so the snake collection at the Biblical Museum of Natural History regularly provides us with sloughed-off skins. (One of our larger snakes once shed an immaculate nine-foot skin in the evening. I spread it out on the floor to dry overnight. When the secretary came in the next morning and saw it, she coincidentally jumped out of her skin!)
A woman who works in a store that I frequent has been asking me for a while for the shed skin of a snake. I assumed that she wanted it as some sort of novel household decoration, but yesterday she told me the reason, and it was quite different. She has unfortunately been unable to conceive for several years, and she was referred to a Holy Rabbi who told her to hang the shed skin of a snake in her home.
I literally (literally) slapped my palm over my face.
"What?" she asked.
"That's complete nonsense!" I said.
She attempted to reassure me by explaining that this Holy Rabbi certainly possessed special powers. After all, he knew all kinds of things about her, such as the name of her husband, which there was no earthly way of his knowing!
I facepalmed again. "How did you get to him?" I asked.
She explained that an associate of his heard about her and referred her.
"Is it not possible," I gently suggested, "that this associate used Google, or some other means, to find out this information?!"
Her face fell for a moment, but she recovered herself and said that she didn't think that this was likely. It was more likely that the Rabbi had special powers. Besides, she said, even if it's not true, what harm does it do to hang up the snakeskin?
"True," I admitted. "It doesn't do any harm. As long as you didn't give him any money."
No, she insisted, he's not that kind of person. He didn't ask for any money -
"Oh, good," I interjected -
- he just has a tzedakah box on his desk, she continued, in which she placed 500 shekels.
(See too my post Karma and Chameleons)
Isn't it darkhe ha Emori(sorcery) to indulge in these practices?And isn't it avodah zarah(idolatry)believing anything other than H'K'B'H'can help you?
David Ohsie May 18, 2017 at 4:42 PM
Isn't it darkhe ha Emori(sorcery) to indulge in these practices?
The categories are not so simple. According to the Rambam, if it works, it is not Darchei Emori, so if the person is just kind of foolish and thinks it works, it may not be a violation. It would be for those who know better. According to the Ran, as long as you are not asking for help from spiritual/astrological powers other than God, it is not Darchei Emori.
And isn't it avodah zarah(idolatry)believing anything other than H'K'B'H'can help you?
You can answer your own question: Is it Avodah Zarah to go the doctor?
dlz May 18, 2017 at 6:17 PM
Would anyone do anything if they themselves KNEW it doesn't work? It seems that the permission is only if it is, perhaps, widely accepted that it works. It is very hard to believe that one person's belief would remove the issur.
As far as going to the doctor, that is derech haTeva. Hanging a snakeskin is obviously not.
Thanks,David Ohsie.
The comparison with visiting a doctor is nonsensical:you don't pray to/ask supernatural things from a doctor.
You wrote "And isn't it avodah zarah(idolatry)believing anything other than H'K'B'H'can help you?"
Does the doctor help you? Is the doctor something other than God? Your question didn't say anything about the supernatural.
You are mentioning something that is a difficulty in the Rambam's position. His position on Darchei Emori is basically "don't do stupid spooky stuff that doesn't work, since it will lead to idolatry which is also stupid spooky stuff that doesn't work". But then he is faced with question of how Chazal could have done some stuff that looks like that. His answer is they thought it worked. I'm guessing that when people sell they various snake oil cures, they always say "trust me, I've done this before at it works".
The Rambam himself accepted (or at least did not reject) various supposed phenomena that we would recognize today as superstitious. See some examples here. For example, looking into the eyes of a wild ass will improve your vision and tuberculosis is caused by being around cats.
KikesOnBikes May 18, 2017 at 1:29 AM
Nachum Sokolov once remarked "If only this עם חכם ונבון would've also had some שכל".
David Ilan May 18, 2017 at 2:31 AM
I hope you gave her the skin gratis, if she does have a son he should be blessed by the presence of the skin to be a Rationalist. Then the money will have gone to good use.
Avi May 18, 2017 at 8:09 AM
A fool and her money were parted. Just because this "Rabbi" is a Rasha Gamur doesn't change the reality that the gullible look for magical fixes, and they'll find them -- even if they don't cost 500 shekel.
Michael Sedley May 18, 2017 at 3:31 PM
Does she get a refund from the Tzdaka fund if she hangs up a snake skin and still is unable to conceive (or is that inconceivable)?
Anyway, wish her bracha and hatzlacha and hope that she is able have children, with or without a snakeskin on the wall.
joel rich May 18, 2017 at 3:39 PM
I'd go with this image
https://www.ou.org/oupress/files/Divrei-HaRav-653x1024.jpg
Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin May 18, 2017 at 4:01 PM
LOL, that's great! I will add it.
That picture improved the post immensely :).
G*3 May 18, 2017 at 4:38 PM
> It was more likely that the Rabbi had special powers.
I find it hard to understand people who think using magic is more likely than using Google.
They want to believe it. It somehow is a better world that way.
I can understand the attraction of a mystical world, if I tilt my head and squint real hard. It's the thinking that the supernatural is more likely than the mundane that's hard to understand.
Maybe she didn't mean that supernatural powers are more probable, but that it's more likely that a Rabbi had magic powers than that a holy man would lie. That's more understandable, if awfully naive.
dlz May 21, 2017 at 12:45 PM
I don't think it's naive at all to believe that a holy man would not lie. What IS naive is her believing that that person is really holy.
DF May 18, 2017 at 6:04 PM
Its hard to fathom how people can be so naïve. But then I look at politics today, and the millions of people who are each certain that the millions of others are corrupt/gullible/mean-spirited/racistsexistmisognisthomophobe/immoral/ignorant, etc, and I am no longer so shocked. So I still think they're naïve, because I cant change the way I view things, but I take it in stride.
Mankind has always been beset by foolishness and truly rational people are in the minority. Unfortunately, irrationality in the 'modern' world appears to be on the rise. Nor is there a shortage of people willing and able to take advantage of the naïve.
I have some reservations about your citations from the Rambam and Ran. I believe that the Rambam was referring only to Kame'as (amulets) when he distinguished between a permissible and a forbidden type. Kame'as had been part of Jewish life since ancient times and can't be properly termed 'darchei Emori' (Gentile customs). Even the texts employed in such amulets are based on Jewish writings - not Gentile. Those that can be labeled as irrational Gentile customs would be labeled as forbidden by the Rambam - even if they were believed to be effective.
I also find it difficult to believe that the Ran would label matters ostensibly in the category of 'darkei Emori' as being permissible if the practitioner doesn't invoke 'spiritual powers'. It seems to me that to invoke the aid of such presumed powers falls under 'avodah zarah', since it's a form of worship, rather than 'darkei Emori'. The latter merely refers to adopting irrational Gentile customs even if worship is not involved or implied. I believe that the Talmudic examples of 'darkei Emori' support that contention without the need for reinterpretation.
Y. Aharon
I also find it difficult to believe that the Ran would label matters ostensibly in the category of 'darkei Emori' as being permissible if the practitioner doesn't invoke 'spiritual powers'.
He states it quite explicitly here
After these prefaces let it be clearly stated that when Abbaye and Rava say that all those who seek to effect a cure are not operating within the framework of "the ways of the Emorites," they are not necessarily assuming that this cure is dictated by reason. Their meaning is, rather, that all those who seek to effect a cure based upon the tendency of certain things [because of the phenomenological properties residing in them] to favorably alter the condition of the sick person — all who operate from this orientation are not operating within the framework of "the ways of the Emorites." For whatever one makes use of, be it drugs or words, for the sole purpose of favorably altering the condition of the sick person is in no way forbidden and partakes in no way whatsoever of "the ways of the Emorites." And even the drawing of a particular design is permitted for therapeutic purposes, as indicated in the Gemara (Sabbath 65a): "One may walk out [on the Sabbath] with a coin on the tzinit. What is the tzinit? The sole of the foot [in this case, an infected sole]." The Gemara then asks: "Why necessarily a coin? If hardness is the curative factor, why not use a shard? If [the absorption of] silver is the curative factor, why not use silver plate? And if the design is the curative factor, why not draw a design on wood? Abbaye answered: 'It is to be understood from this that all three factors in combination are necessary.'"
And we are speaking here of a curative agent of this type [the phenomenological; in the above case, the design]. For there is no difference whatsoever between resorting to this or to the herb called "fiunia" in Arabic. And all that the Gemara permits is of this type. What it forbids because of "the ways of the Emorites" and what is acknowledged to be forbidden by the Gemara is of a different type whatsoever. There were certain primitive peoples who sought, by act or word, to derive benefit from certain objects by drawing down to them the favor of certain heavenly powers. All things of this type, whether they have some basis in fact or none whatsoever, were forbidden because of "the ways of the Emorites" and the ways of idol-worship.
Unfortunately, irrationality in the 'modern' world appears to be on the rise.
I don't see any evidence of this. I see evidence of the opposite.
I will say that the rise of Trump supports your point :).
I believe that the Rambam was referring only to Kame'as (amulets) when he distinguished between a permissible and a forbidden type.
"It is not inconsistent that a nail of the gallows and the tooth of a fox have been permitted to be used as cures: for these things have been considered in those days as facts established by experiment. They served as cures, in the same manner as the hanging of the peony over a person subject to epileptic fits, or the application of a dog's refuse to the swellings of the throat, and of the vapours of vinegar and marcasite to the swelling of hard tumours. For the Law permits as medicine everything that has been verified by experiment, although it cannot be explained by analogy."
See also my citations above from Herbert Davidson.
Klaghorn Leghorn May 18, 2017 at 8:08 PM
Why requisition a snake skin when a supplication with a real live snake would probably prove more efficacious. And they don't charge anything for their services.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iUdc5h10zTo
Sabi May 18, 2017 at 9:49 PM
An internet search reveals that according to the Trotula, a medieval compendium of women's medicine, one way to ease the childbirth process was to "let the woman be girded with a snake's skin from which the snake has emerged."
Once I heard a nice lecture by the director of the organization Puah, Rabbi Menachem Borenstein, Sh'lita. Puah offers help for people who have trouble conceiving children, with all sorts of solutions that are in accordance with halachah. Rabbi Borenstein said in his lecture that there are, what he calls, "קבלנים" (literally, "contractors", instead of מקובלים, Kabbalists) who take a brief course in Kabbalah, learn some lingo, and think that they can pull the wool over people's eyes. There was one case of a woman who went to such a קבלן, asking for help in conceiving a child. The pseudo-mystic said that she'll give birth within a year, and he will be the sandek at the child's bris.
Well, 12 months passed. She started to think, "Maybe he meant it to be a שנה מעוברת?" She waited another month--neither the year was מעוברת, nor was the unfortunate woman a מעוברת. (Rabbi Borenstein's oratory skills are amazing! The lecture was very entertaining, as well as being informative.)
Eventually, the woman went to Puah. Rabbi Borenstein and his staff diagnosed her problem: apparently her ovulation was too early, and by the time she would go to mikvah, the odds of conceiving were significantly reduced. He prescribed a pill to delay the time of ovulation, and, Boruch Hashem, she conceived and had a child. (I don't think the קבלן ended up being the sandek, however.)
--Yehudah P.
David Ilan May 18, 2017 at 10:57 PM
He? (R. Borenstein) prescribed a "pill"? Is he an MD or did her refer her to an endocrinologist with experience in fertility?
Looking at the Puah website (http://www.jewishfertility.org/diagnosis-treatment.php)
it seems Rav Borenstein is not a doctor, but, from the wide range of treatments, it's clear that he works closely with doctors.
Nachum May 21, 2017 at 1:15 PM
Did she really think she'd give birth within a month if she wasn't even pregnant? She should have caught on that the guy was a quack within three months.
That is, of course, Puah's solution. Other poskim will find heteirim to lower the amount of time a woman has to wait to go to the mikva.
ahg May 19, 2017 at 12:18 AM
While certainly wishing her well, I wouldn't give her a snake skin. If she should conceive, and I hope she does, she would then regard it as "proof" that the snake skin worked and perpetuate the nonsense by sharing her "remedy" with others.
Maybe give her the snakeskin, but then say that it will only help if she has 100% emunah sheleimah that it won't work.
Ephraim May 21, 2017 at 7:05 PM
"According to the Ran, as long as you are not asking for help from spiritual/astrological powers other than God, it is not Darchei Emori."
Not quite. The Ran allows effective spiritual remedies, unlike the Rambam. (Actually, the distinction may be purely theoretical. The Rambam, when presented with a proven 'segulah' would consider the effect natural, with the mechanism yet unknown to science.)
Drasha 12 is not the only place the Ran discusses the matter...
The Ran on Shabbat (67?) writes that the remedies natural or supernatural must be effective, or perhaps at least not proven ineffective. He writes similarly in his חידושים on סנהדרין נב, and חולין. Also see Drash 4.
David Ohsie May 22, 2017 at 2:36 AM
This isn't true. Let's first deal with the fundamental distinction:
The Rambam thinks that everything that is Assur is ineffective and everything effective is permitted. This is because he thinks that Darchei Emori and Witchcraft are prohibited due to being ineffective mumbo-jumbo that will lead to following AZ. Of course, just a failed experiment can't be assur, so he adds that the practice must be obviously silly to begin with.
The Ran (and Ramban) think that there are some things which are effective, yet prohibited because there are certain powers which are off limits for Jews. They have been given substitutes like Nevuah. So the Ran has to distinguish between prohibited stuff that works vs. unprohibited stuff that works. In Drasha 12, he says that the stuff that you can't do, even though it might work, is to try to gain favor with heavenly powers.
I need some time to look at your other sources. I don't remember anything that contradicts in Drash 4, but I'll look. The other source, I probably never saw (I'm not so knowledgeable).
OK, so I think that the Ran that you refer to is here. He does say that if any incantation or anything else is known to be effective then it is OK (but he is probably not including a prayer to a planet, as he says in Drash 12.) whereas if something has been proven ineffective, then it would be prohibited (presumably only if it involves segulah). He also says that in all likelihood this only applies to things proven ineffective, but anything doubtful is OK. Have snakeskins been proven ineffective? Not to my knowledge. They would be regared as ineffective in our theoretical framework, but not that of the Ran. I can't see how he would object (I don't speak of the Ran if he were alive today and knew what we know today. Perhaps he would change his mind. But using his framework which is to accept that the Gemara supports the use of occult [segulah] powers, snakeskins seem pretty harmless).
ב ל דבר שיש בו משום רפואה. כין
לחש כין כל דכר כיון שאנו
יודעין שהוא מרפא והכי מוכח
כתוס׳ ואפשר דאף לחשין שאין
אגו יודעין אס יש כהן משום רפואה
מומרים מספק ולא אסרו אלא אותם
שכדקו ואין מועילין וכתב הרשב״א
ז״ל שכן נראה שפירשו כתוס׳ אלא
שראיתי להר״ר יונה ז״ל שחשש ככל
קמיע שאינו מן המומתה משוס דרכי
האמורי:
Good summary, David. The Rambam is tricky to understand. The way I understand is that he's trying to maintain a balance between his rationalism and the strict halacha. The Mishna certain permits weird remedies. For most authorities, effective remedies are permitted even if they are "segulot". (For the moment, let's exclude segulot with AZ overtones.) That how most understand the Mishna that deals with fox teeth, locust eggs and gallows nails- they are indeed non-natural remedies that are effective. Yet, the Rambam writes in his Guide that they work "in the same manner" as natural remedies. Here, the Rambam deviates from the usual understanding of the Mishnah. However, he does write that they were "considered in those days" to be natural- implying that is his own era, they were not considered natural remedies. Now, for those who believe in segulot, there's no contradiction: even if Chazal felt those effective remedies to be non-natural they would still be permitted. But the Rambam, is compelled to interpret the Mishna to deal with remedies that are naturally effective- at least as understood at the time of the Mishna.
(Still, there's the Mishna in Yoma, dealing with rabid dog liver as a forbidden remedy for rabies. There, the Rambam explains that the remedy is forbidden because a Torah violation may only be transgressed for a natural remedy, not for a segulah. By implication, a segulah remedy, presumably effective, would be permitted were no Torah violation is involved.)
I found my notes on דרכי האמורי, and here's what I found from the ר"ן:
ר"ן שבת :
כל דבר שיש בו משום רפואה. בין לחש בין כל דבר כיון שאנו יודעין שהוא מרפא והכי מוכח בתוס׳ ואפשר דאף לחשין שאין אנו יודעין אם יש בהן משום רפואה מותרים מספק ולא אסרו אלא אותם שבדקו ואין מועילין וכתב הרשב״א ז״ל שכן נראה שפירשו בתוס׳ אלא שראיתי להר״ר יונה ז״ל שחשש בכל קמיע שאינו מן המומחה משום דרכי האמורי
חידושי הר"ן סנהדרין נב:
...שהתורה אסרה כל מנהג מיוחד לנמוסי ע״א שמא ימשך האדם אחריהן כמותם וכן נמי אם הכותיים נהגו באיזה מנהג שאין לו מבוא בדרכי הטבע ולא נתאמת הנסיון העושה כמותן יש בו משום דרכ"א...וכן פירש הרמב״ם. והנראה בביאור דבריו — שמאחר שכתוב בתורה או שאפשר לנהוג כמנהג זה ע״פ הטבע — אין מנהג זה מיוחד לנכרים
חידושי הר"ן חולין ס"פ בהמה המקשה:
כל שיש בו משום רפואה אע״פ שאינה ניכרת שרי, שלא אסרה תורה משום דרכי האמורי אלא אותם מעשה תוהו שלהם שאין בהם תועלת
Gavriel M May 22, 2017 at 6:54 PM
כל המאמין בדברים אלו, וכיוצא בהן, ומחשב בליבו שהן אמת ודברי חכמה, אבל התורה אסרה אותן--אינו אלא מן הסכלים ומחסרי הדעת, ובכלל הנשים והקטנים שאין דעתן שלמה.
Gavriel M: you've really mellowed out.
Baal Ha Boss May 25, 2017 at 1:42 PM
Cynicism aside.
I met once a Sefardi "Mekubal" of sorts, who I must admit did not strike a very impressive image of a Tzaddik for one reason or another.
However, he did correctly know my name (one letter out), my father's name, my age (one year out) and the fact that someone I knew suffered from a specific medical condition, just by looking at me. We had never met before. I believe it is called Chochmas Hapartzuf and I believe it does exist.
Oddly enough, the story repeated itself, when I met an Indian fellow in the West End (london) several years later, who likewise guessed my age, number of children and other stuff. This one however demanded £50 for his services, which I gracefull declined!
Neil December 24, 2018 at 9:16 AM
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Malkinola insulanus är en spindelart som först beskrevs av Alfred Frank Millidge 1991.  Malkinola insulanus ingår i släktet Malkinola och familjen täckvävarspindlar.

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This subtle energy point is about 9" below the feet in a direct line with the Base Chakra and Hara. Activating the Earth Star is important as it is our alignment point with Mother Earth and the magnetic grid and allows us to effectively ground and focus energy. Being properly grounded in this way is essential for us to attune fully with our Higher-Selves, Ascended Masters, Heaven and other star systems. AS ABOVE, SO BELOW!


Like the EBM07, the EBM11 moves to the lighter side of the Eight Ball Mafia. The forearm and sleeve both feature a pink winged heart with a crown over the classic grunge deathscapes that you expect to find on every Eight Ball Mafia cue.
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Михаило Мирон је био српски пјесник и драмски писац. Рођен је у Пјешивци, Столац, 25. новембар 1879. Умро је у Сарајеву 16. априла 1964.

Биографија
Потиче из фамилије Пичета. Име је сам касније промијенио у Мирон.
Гимназију похађа и завршава у Мостару. На Бечком универзитету од 1905, студира филозофију и класичну филологију гдје брани докторску тезу Платон и Шопенхауер (1910). Послије Првог свјетског рата објављује двије збирке пјесама "Заратустрин рат", 1921. и "Романија", 1923. Написао је расправу Платон и Шопенхауер, 1923, којом је и докторирао на Бечком универзитету. Сарађује у Гајрету, уредника А. Хифзи Бјелевца, Народу Пере Слијепчевића, те је сарадник СПКД Просвјета.
Мироново дјело Старина Новак изведено је у Народном позоришту у Сарајеву 27. 11. 1927. године. 27.11.1930. изведен је Миронов Херцег Стјепан, а трагикомедија Ловци, играна је на сцени Сарајевског позоришта 12. 12. 1935. године.
Радио је као професор у Тузли и Сарајеву до 1941, када је пензионисан.

Књижевни рад
Књижевним радом почео се бавити веома рано. Као ученик објављује пјесме од 1902. у Босанској вили, Срђу, Српском књижевном гласнику, затим у Књижевној критици, на челу с Боривојем Јевтићем, часопису који је на извјестан начин настављао традиције Младе Босне. Био је члан Групе сарајевских књижевника, са Исаком Самоковлијом, Јованом Палавестром, Боривојем Јевтићем, Марком Марковићем, Хамидом Диздаром и другима.

Драмска дјела
 Старина Новак
 Херцег Стјепан
 Арслан-бег (1925)
 Стјепан Томашевић, посљедњи краљ босански
 Сократ
 Ловци (трагикомедија)

Види још
 Драма
 Писац
 Сарајево
 Српски писци

Референце

Литература
 Мирон, Михајло, Изабрана дјела НИРО "Задругар" Сарајево 1985.
 Лешић, Јосип, Народно позориште Сарајево 1921 – 1971,Штампа НИП Форум, Нови Сад, 1971

Рођени 1879.
Умрли 1964.
Сточани
Српски песници
Српски књижевници из Босне и Херцеговине


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Cephaloschiza är ett släkte av skalbaggar. Cephaloschiza ingår i familjen Melolonthidae.

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Driving through Malta, Montana one day I drove past this row of grain bins at a grain elevator. The morning sun combined with the augers to create eye-catching shadows on the side of the grain bins. I snuck onto the lot, rolled down my window, and grabbed this quick agriculture shot. I'm sure the men working at the elevator that day were wondering what I was doing. But when a good photo op presents itself, it really doesn't matter how goofy you look.


In an undisputed contest, scoring 1498 points, Stratford PAL Jr. Rifle Club defeated Minnesota Centershots. Their second win in a row, Stratford PAL Jr. Rifle Club is in fourth place in their Division with a 3 - 2 record. Stratford PAL Jr. Rifle Club was led by Rose Reynolds who shot a 379. The remaining contributing members were Hope Kavulich, Haley Reynolds, and Kayley Pasko. Stratford PAL Jr. Rifle Club is from Stratford, CT, and is coached by CPT Alan Wilcoxson and Josie Burzynski-Smith.
Minnesota Centershots dropped to 1 - 4 on the season. They are currently in seventh place in their Division. Minnesota Centershots is from Anoka, MN, and is coached by Rob Krukoski.
Next up Stratford PAL Jr. Rifle Club will compete against Carrollton High School from Carrollton, GA. Carrollton High School currently has a 2 - 3 record. Minnesota Centershots will compete against Lander Jr. Rifle Club from Lander, WY. Lander Jr. Rifle Club currently has a 1 - 4 record.


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Анатолий Ильич Горбачёв — советский хозяйственный, государственный и политический деятель, Герой Социалистического Труда.

Биография
Родился в 1935 году в деревне Кянда. Член КПСС.

С 1950 года — на хозяйственной, общественной и политической работе. В 1950—1990 гг. — матрос на РТ-83 «Северный», матрос, третий штурман, капитан на рыболовном траулере РТ-88 «Печорец», капитан РТ-115 «Мезень», капитан-директор БМРТ-418 «Кильдин», капитан-директор БМРТ-446 «Онекотан», капитан-директор БМРТ-0119 «Певек», капитан-директор большого морозильного рыболовного траулера «Виктор Миронов» Архангельского производственного объединения рыбной промышленности Министерства рыбного хозяйства СССР.

За повышение эффективности использования ж/д, авиационного, водного транспорта и рыболовных судов был в составе коллектива удостоен Государственной премии СССР за выдающиеся достижения в труде 1979 года.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 19 августа 1988 года присвоено звание Героя Социалистического Труда с вручением ордена Ленина и золотой медали «Серп и Молот».

Умер в Архангельске в 1993 году.

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Dayton, OH – This project consisted of the interior renovation of an existing movie theatre facility for future use as Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church. The program includes worship, fellowship and administrative spaces that were carved from the existing building's structural layout.


After her husband was murdered, Iowans rushed to help this widow and her 3 boys. This is their Christmas gift.
Her husband's murder left an immigrant mother with three boys to raise in an apartment. But Iowans helped her buy a home, just before Christmas.
Much has been taken from this mother of three boys.
Her homeland: She and her husband were Christian refugees who suffered religious persecution in western Myanmar and moved to Des Moines in 2011.
Her name: U.S. immigration officials wrote it down wrong, so Ester Kim instead officially became Ester Kiim.
Her husband: Stephen Kim was gunned down execution-style in front of his boys April 22 while parked at University Terrace Apartments in Des Moines. No one has been arrested.
But during this Christmas season, the people of Iowa have tried to give Ester Kiim and her 3 sons something back — a home for the holidays.
Helped by an outpouring of community donations that reached $300,000, Ester and her boys moved from an apartment into the first home the family has ever owned.
After the Dec. 15 closing, 9-year-old Suan, 7-year-old David and 5-year-old Martin excitedly raced from room to room of their Clive brick ranch home.
Lights and a "Merry Christmas" sign were quickly strung up outside. Inside, a large portrait of her husband hung on the wall.
To Ester, 30, this home means a stable life.
"This is where our hearts and minds will be," she said. "Every time we go out, we have a place to go home.
When Stephen Kim was killed, a shocked community rallied.
More than $75,000 was donated to a GoFundMe account, and the Catholic community in Des Moines that the family joined stepped in with donations through parishes and the children's school.
Thirty anonymous donors also came forth to give $55,000 to Anawim Housing, a nonprofit in Des Moines that provides housing solutions for those in need.
Anawim administered the money that went toward the home's purchase, though Ester found the home on her own.
Ester said she was surprised that people she didn't know empathized so deeply with her, as if the tragedy had happened to their family.
The children staked out the three small bedrooms in the upstairs of the home that is 1,144 square feet upstairs, with 600 finished square feet of walk-out basement that quickly became a play area adorned with a large Christmas tree.
The home not only is a symbol of community support but also her husband's dream of a home for his family.
He worked two jobs, at Windsor Windows and Cool Basil restaurant, and tried hard to save. His 401K and life insurance paid for $100,000 of the $217,000 home.
It's been difficult since his death, said Ester, speaking through her English translator and her husband's lifelong friend, Nang Bawmkhai.
When they go to places around town that the boys' father loved — to the park or fishing — they are reminded of him.
"It's hard, but I'm trying to stay focused because I have to raise three kids," said Ester, who has taken a job cleaning at the children's school. "I try to forget the difficulty that I am going to face, but I am struggling sometimes to help the kids. I tell myself I need to wake up early and help them go to school. I pray to God, 'Stay with us. Help us work through this.'"
The family went to Stephen's workplace recently. The boys said they saw visions of their father there.
"Is he still with us?" they asked their mother.
Police officials said they have no new information to share on the investigation, but Ester tries not to focus on the killer.
"There has to be an answer for this, because we are not in an area where people can just kill like this," she said. "But the fate is the fate,and we cannot control that fate. This was my husband's time. For those that shot and killed my husband … I don't know why they do this, but as a Christian, I am not trying to harbor any bad (feelings). Forgiveness is one of the things we are embracing."
Next to her husband's photograph on the wall are the framed words that remind her of him.
Stephen often asked how he could help build a better community where he lived. He prayed often with Ester and the boys.
In Myanmar, Christmas meant gathering as a community to share in a feast. Only in America did they exchange gifts, a new tradition that gave Stephen much joy.
For what she was given this Christmas, she offers the only thing she can.
"I have nothing else to return to those that helped us, other than to pray for them and other than to say thanks to them," she said.


To pick up where we left off, our brain had created the supersign of the thing  then stored it in the memory. We also learned that a supersign contains the objective and subjective parts which are respectively perceived and conceived .
The supersign of the thing is the first and rock-bottom MEANING that our brain has created . So if you move away from the thing and come back, your eyes will receive the same visual data, then your brain compares it with the supersign; they match; so your brain will read the emotional tag which was bad due to the painful experience ; so, based on the earlier assessment, you get prepared for the best reaction.
If the relationship between the thing and its supersign/meaning is based on the physical resemblance, we can call it iconic .
If your eyes are closed and you smell the thing, your brain can recollect the whole supersign of the thing which is another advantage of supersign. Let's call this connection indexical .
The indexical connection is the first step to prediction. Animals even use this connection to scent-mark their territory. The smell of an animal is an index of its presence, then the animal's brain can judge if it is related to danger or not .
Animals definitely didn't learn it overnight. To understand how our body has evolved to react to, say, a tiger, let's do this thought experiment. Imagine (with that empty mind) you saw the tiger. How would you react?
You see that the tiger is moving, it might roar which conveys its level of energy to intimidate you. You would definitely feel fear . Since you're not trained for this situation, you could easily panic then you'd run away. The tiger would chase you.
As the protagonist of the story, you wouldn't die. We fast-forward the time to the point that while running, you'd realize that the tiger was faster than you. Then would there be any solution left for you to survive? Yes, to faint.
Freeze is the last fold of the triptych of instinctive responses which are called fight-flight-freeze, and its mechanism is totally different from fight or flight. It's very important to know that, your body decides when to pass out and you have no conscious control over it [9,10]. Because your heartbeat drops, so your face becomes pale (bloodless), your metabolism and other internal functions stop and your body temperature plummets, all done to fake death. Isn't it genius?
The freeze mode is what you experience the most in a tense and insecure workplace when you're not the boss. You will be emotionally loaded, therefore, rationality is thrown out the window. Then, you are socially expected to control your aggression and you can't run away from it, because you'll lose your job. So, the only possible reaction will be to freeze [11,12].
We use the freeze mode in three other situations: in hiding, fighting and grieving.
Hiding is what our ancestors found a solution while being chased. If you could find a place to hide, it would be more beneficial because you didn't need to spend all that energy which you might need later for another reaction. Then you need to lower the vital signs so the tiger wouldn't get suspicious and find you. So, you'll go to the freeze mode.
In a fight, the freeze mode buys you some time to think, evaluate and plan out the best strategy. That's why when you see an animal your first reaction would be to stay as motionless as possible.
We learned that in the freeze mode our body stops spending energy. That's what we call sadness . When we are bereaved two things happen: first the proximity of Death  releases the stress hormones such as cortisol and tears discharge them so we feel relieved after crying . Secondly, we've lost someone dear which means a great source of energy . That also makes us stressed out, besides our brain needs to re-evaluate the situation to see how you can cope up with the world without them.
After this lachrymose detour, we will get back to the main path and see how our brain connects many signs in the head and how supersigns grow.
Think about the reasons that the tiger might chase you apart from being hungry or finding you as a threat?
Since we're wired to fake Death, how can we judge lying if we do it to survive? What premises does this argument need to conclude that lying is not ethical? or in what situations is lying allowed?
What are the drawbacks of indexical relations which lead to wrong evaluation?
 We're gonna discuss meaning after we define concepts.
 The thing must've hurt your finger if you followed the story from here.
 We're borrowing the terms icon and index from the terminology of semiotics.
 If the picture of the rose reminds you of its scent, then the image is one of its indexes.
 A valid question would be if animals remember the tiger from its scent or directly relate the smell to fear.
 That's why the freeze mechanism is very instinctive; because first of all, you don't have time to think about it, secondly, if you think about it, it means that your brain is working so the fight or flight response would be activated, so you'd show some vital signs.
 If you realize in meetings, your opinions aren't accepted or your boss says my way or highway, then there's no reason to fight.
 You might be wondering why I'm talking about all these reactions in a math blog. Because the understanding of human behaviors and reactions makes us aware of students performance. When students phase out in an exam, their body chooses the freeze mode, so the brain stops functioning and they'll fail. Why do they freeze? Because they find themselves unable to deal with the questions. Why so? Because of many emotional reasons and most importantly low confidence. Since we know the problem, it will be easier for us to plan out the best strategy to deal with it.
 For more information, you can refer to Emotional intelligence by Daniel Goleman.
 Hearing about a death, increases the probability of dying in mind. That's why after a plane crash people are more afraid of flying, though the chance is more or less the same. You can refer to "Thinking fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman.
 Since the first post in which we defined energy as the second fundamental fact in life, we've seen its presence in every situation directly or indirectly. That's why the most important thing is to come up with the simplest principles which allow you to analyze everything.
 The featured image is from "The Son's Room" by Nanni Moretti.
 Long-term sadness is counter-productive and dangerous. Because you might not be ready to quickly react to a danger.


Happy Christmas Eve everyone! I'm sure you're all excited for tonight and tomorrows festivites. I spent all day Friday baking, wrapping presents, finally finished decorating my cactus, and listened to all my favorite Christmas records. Woo hoo! Christmas Eve was always a big celebration with my family growing up. If you came from an Italian family (my father was Italian) you know The Feast of the Seven Fishes, and thats what we did. That was our day to spend together before the rest of the family came Christmas Day. For my whole life holidays were hosted at our house, up until my parents sold the house and flew south for retirement. So if you host, you know Christmas Day and any major holiday is filled with stress, prep, and lots of clean up (and also joy).
In the last few years I started doing my own tradition of Adult Milk & Cookies. My holidays are much more mellow these days, some spent alone, with friends, or at my sisters house. One day I hope to have a nice big house where I can invite my family and friends over and have a big celebration reminiscent of holidays past. I know you're going to tell me to becareful what I wish for, but I'd like nothing more than to decorate, cook, bake, make drinks, and set a table. I am a natural host, which makes sense that I kind of do it for a living.
I wish I had more time to dedicate to the blog because I would have posted so many more recipes this month. I've been running out out time and I really wanted to post a classic Brandy Alexander cocktail, a Tom & Jerry, and Eggnog. I could only pick one so I went with the Alexander because that is usally what I make for Christmas Eve to serve with cookies. Since I couldn't make and shoot an Egg Nog post in time I decided to turn my cookies into Egg Nog. You read that right, EGGNOG SNICKERDOODLE COOKIES!!!
Both of these recipes are quite easy to make, so they are perfect if you're pressed for time or waited til the last minute to get something together. I always do this. Don't sweat it. Whip up a batch of these to go with cookies that take about only 20 minutes to make with ingredients you might already have handy! This is a Brandy Alexander but I have been known to make these with Rum. Rum works great, especially Dark or Spiced. Vodka, Gin, or Bourbon would work in a pinch as well.
Add all ingredients to tin, shake with ice, strain into coupe glass, and garnish with freshly grated nutmeg.