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'Thou hart more than 'atmakers…'
The cover of Late Checkout shows a gritty-looking urban landscape. Rather than just picking a cityscape at random, those excellent people at Books Covered remained true to the book and selected a shot of Stockport where much of the book's action is set. Those who know the area will recognise the church as St Mary's and the building to the left as Bank Chambers, both just off Stockport Market.
Although there are numerous examples of crime fiction set in Manchester, I'm not aware of much set specifically in Stockport. My first two Marie Donovan books had some scenes set in Stockport, but ranged more widely around north west England. Much of Late Checkout, though, is set in the town and wider borough of Stockport, and that will also be true of its forthcoming sequel, Dark Corners.
Stockport's an oddly atmospheric place, although parts of it are just odd. The 'heart' of the town is an anonymous shopping precinct built literally over the top of the River Mersey (for years, a reliable pub quiz question was which Football League ground was closest to the Mersey, but Stockport County kiboshed that through repeated relegations). Beyond that, though, a network of streets wind up through different levels, so that your perspective on the place always feels slightly out of kilter. Joy Division recorded Unknown Pleasures here. We have a Unicorn Brewery which brews Unicorn Bitter. We have one of the largest brick-built edifices in the world in Stockport viaduct. We have a Hat Museum. And we have our own pyramid, just off the M60.
I was once the intended victim of a spectacularly inept attempted mugging in one of the alleyways connecting the lower and upper parts of the town. I was already walking away when the two teenage assailants were interrupted by an elderly lady with a shopping trolley. They both fled. I don't know if that's typical, but I don't imagine there's any more crime in Stockport than in other similar urban areas. Even so, we've had our share of killings over the years, sometimes gangster-related. One or two of those I've appropriated, in suitably fictionalised form, in past books—including in one case transposing the murder to the Mongolian steppe. The killings in Late Checkout, though, are entirely fictional. So are the locations in which they occur, but I've tried throughout, as I did in the two Marie Donovan books, to set them in a real and recognisable landscape. And however fictional they may be, they're still probably no less likely than a Unicorn Brewery or a motorway-side pyramid.
Oh, and the title of this piece? That comes from some glorious sleeve-notes written by the ever-entertaining former Beatles publicist Derek Taylor for an album recorded in Stockport by the Liverpool group Scaffold. The notes conclude: 'Good old Stockport. Thy 'eart beats strong and thou hart more than 'atmakers.' So now you know.
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1. Grand Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izhbitza, author of Mei HaShiloach. Died 7 Teves 5614.
2. Grand Rabbi Yaakov Leiner of Izhbitza, son of Mei HaShiloach, author of Bais Yaacov, Sefer Hazmanim. Died 15 Av 5638.
2a. Grand Rabbi Shmuel Dov Asher Leiner of Biskivitz, son of Mei HaShiloach, author of Naos Deshe. Died Acharaon Shel Pesach, 22 Nissan 5665.
3a. Grand Rabbi Moshe Chaim Sokochevski of Biskivitz-Reivitz, son-in-law of Bais Yaacov, Rebbe in Biskivitz after his uncle the Naos Deshe, later relocating to Reivitz, Poland.
4a. Grand Rabbi Yehoshua Avraham Alter Sokochevski of Reivitz, son of Grand Rabbi Moshe Chaim Sokochevski of Reivitz.
3.Rabbi Shlomo Klepfish of Lublin, son-in-law of Bais Yaacov, published Bais Yaacov on Chumish.
3a. Grand Rabbi Gershon Chanoch Henech Leiner of Radzin, son of Bais Yaacov, author of Orchos Chayim, Sod Yesharim, Tiferes Hachinochi,and Dalsos Shar Ha'ir, among many other seforim. The Rebbe is referred to by Radziner Chasidim as the Orchos Chaim, based on his phenomenal work on the Tzava'ah - the will - of the Tana Rabbi Eliezer HaGadol. This work was written by the Rebbe basically without any open books to his advantage, in only 12 days, during his trial on a libel fabricated against him by his adversaries. When the Rebbe published this work, he commented to his chasidim that he's happy that he got to print his Tzava'ah. In the larger world the Rebbe is better known as the Ba'al HaTecheles. The Rebbe was brilliant in both the revealed and the hidden Torah. He was also extremely knowledgeable in several scientific fields, like chemistry, engineering and medicine. He spoke several languages fluently, and used them frequently while prescribing medicines in Latin to the countless people who turned to him for help. At the age of sixteen, the Rebbe had already formulated a spectacular idea: he would compose a "gemarah" of a sort on the mishnayos of Seder Taharos, as there is no Talmud Bavli on that tractate. In order to accomplish this, he gathered all the relevant material from the whole Bavli shas, Yerushalmi shas, and all other Braysos etc., and presented them in chronological order in a sefer he called Sidrei Taharos on Maseches Keilim. He later did the same with all the other tractates of Seder Taharos. The task took him ten years to complete. He worked tirelessly for the restoration of the techeles of the tzitzis. He made use of his vast knowledge to research the topic, and traveled to Italy four times to conduct his study. While there he visited what was then the largest aquarium in the world, in the coastal city of Naples, and upon studying the different sea creatures, he came to the conclusion that the original Techeles was extracted from the secretion of a squid called the cuttlefish (in Hebrew known as the Dionon). Rumors have it that on one of the Rebbe's visits to Rome; he succeeded in persuading the Vatican to allow him a quick glimpse of the Holy Vessels of the Beis HaMikdosh, to match his findings with the techeles on the priestly garments. He published several books on the topic, such as Sefunei Temunei Chol, Pesil Techeles, and Ein HaTecheles , and succeeded in influencing many Gedolim with his work. At the same time, there were Gedolim who opposed to the Rebbe's discovery and did not agree with his findings. There was, however, a small number of Gedolei Yisrael who would practice the rediscovered custom of techeles, like the Maharsham of Berzan who possessed a tallis with techeles fringes. All his chassidim and followers wear them, as do Breslov chassidim to this day. The Rebbe was also known for his standpoint on machine matzos, and after extensive research he found several serious problems in the process of making them. He then distributed an announcement by which he required the Rabbonim to address those problems and to note it on the hechsher that they provide. He was the first rebbe known as "The Radziner Rebbe". Died 4 Teves 5651.
4a. Grand Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Elazar Leiner of Radzin, son of Orchos Chaim, author of Tiferes Yosef. One of the more famous and very influential leaders of Polish Jewry. The Rebbe was one of the founding members of Agudas Yisroel, and served as its vice president until his passing. Died 26 Shvat 5689.
5a. Grand Rabbi Shmuel Shlomo Leiner of Radzin, son of Tiferes Yosef. Established the Radziner Yeshiva Sod Yesharim in Radzin, Poland. The Rebbe was known for encouraging resistance to the orders of the Nazis and the Judenrat and for urging people to break out of the ghettos, flee to the forests and take up arms. The story goes that in his last moments, the Rebbe was wrapped in his father's tallis as a Nazi soldier took him into the Wladawa cemetery at gunpoint. At one point, the Nazi pushed him. The Rebbe turned around and slapped hin across the face, and kicked him. This obviously stunned and angered the Nazi greatly. The Rebbe was immediately shot to death on that day, 29 Iyar 5702.
3b. Rabbi Yerucham Meir Leiner of Radzin, son of Bais Yaacov, author of Zohar HaRakiya, Sefer Gilgulei Neshamos, published the fourth volume of Beis Yaacov.
3c. Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Lublin, son of Bais Yaacov, published the second volume of Mei HaShiloach. One of the important community figures in Lublin. Rabbi Mottia Leiner (as he was referred to lovingly by Radziner Chasidim) was one of the staunch supporters of his great-nephew Grand Rabbi Shmuel Shlomo Leiner of Radzin, and was very instrumental in finally convincing him to become the Radziner Rebbe in his father's place.
3d. Grand Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel Leiner of Radzin-Chelm, son of Bais Yaacov, author of Likutei Divrei Torah. son of Bais Yaakov, author of Likutei Divrei Torah. While his older brother, Grand Rabbi Gershon Chanoch Henech Leiner of Radzin was Rebbe, he was by his side and his top talmid. He was highly respected for his honesty and righteousness. After his brother's death, he moved to Chelm and continued the Radziner line there. Died 27 Shvat 5680.
4d-1. Grand Rabbi Gedaliyahu Leiner of Radzin-Chelm, son of Likutei Divrei Torah, killed in the Holocaust al Kiddush Hashem.
4d-2. Rabbi Ovadya Leiner of Radzin-Chelm, son of Likutei Divrei Torah. Lived in Warsaw. Considered by Radziner Chasidim to be an exceptionally special and holy person, and his cousin Grand Rabbi Shmuel Shlomo Leiner of Radzin would send many people to him to receive his brachah.
4d-3. Rabbi Chaim Simcha Leiner of Radzin-Ludmir, son of Likutei Divrei Torah, author of Dor Yesharim, Sefer Refuos/Darchei Chaim.
4d-4 Rabbi Chananya Dovid Leiner of Radzin, son of Likutei Divrei Torah, published Bais Yaacov on Sefer Vayikra.
4d-5. Grand Rabbi Yerucham Leiner of Radzin, son of Likutei Divrei Torah, author of Tiferes Yerucham. Moved from London to America. Considered to be the continuation of the Radziner line in America. He was an expert in all areas of Torah and scholarship. There existed very few admorim/tzaddikim since the beginning of Chassidus who were also lamdanim in both the Polish and Lithuanian styles of learning, bibliographers, Jewish historians, very learned in Kabbalah works, philologists, and masters of both the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. He was such an admor/tzaddik. He studied and visited with R. Yitzchak Hutner and they were good friends in later life. They always treated one another with special respect. The shteibel he built in Boro Park was under the auspices of his oldest son, Grand Rabbi Yaakov Leiner of Radzin-Boro Park. Died 20 Av 5724.
5d. Grand Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Radzin, son of Tiferes Yerucham. Republished many of the seforim of the Izhbitza-Radzin dynasty. Died 3 Shvat 5751.
6d-1.Grand Rabbi Yaakov Leiner of Radzin, son of Grand Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Radzin, was Rebbe in Boro Park, where he maintained a shteibel and kollel. Although Reb Yaakov was totally familiar with the Chassidic thought of his illustrious ancestors, he was first and foremost a lamdan, in the style and spirit of the Rebbe Gershon Henoch, who also wrote the classic Sidrei Taharos, Ma'mar Sefunei Temunei Chol, Ma'mar Pesil Techeiles, and other lomdishe works. Reb Yaakov had a phenomenal memory and a very sharp, incisive, and inquisitive mind. But even more so than Reb Gershon Henoch, Reb Yaakov felt especially to his grandfather, Rebbe Yerucham Lainer (d. 1964), who passed away when he was but two years old. He was Reb Yaakov's inspiration throughout his tragically short life. Indeed, Reb Yaakov published all the writings of his glorious grandfather a few months before his death and considered that work to be his crowning achievement. He studied at Yeshiva Chaim Berlin and then Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood. He received unique and excellent semichos from the Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim, HaGaon Rebbe Yitzchok Kolitz, zt''l, and HaGaon Rebbe Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, shlita. Died 5 Iyar 5769.
6d-2. Grand Rabbi Moshe Leiner of Radzin, son of Grand Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Radzin, current Rebbe in Bait VeGan, Yerushalayim, Israel, where he maintains a shteibel and kollel. His beis midrash distributes a monthly parsha sheet entitled "MiMa'ayan HaShiloach" comprised of divrei torah from the Izhbitza-Radzin dynasty and occasionally rishimos of the Rebbe shlita. The Rebbe shlita learned by R' Meyer Soloveitchik shlita in Yerushalayim.


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The massive growth of technology is influencing various fields such as engineering, medicine, film industry, rocket science, defense, nuclear power plants, etc. Also, it plays a significant role in school as well as college student's life. Whether it is the assignment, research work for the project, homework, understanding the concepts, etc. it can be easily done with the help of the internet. Learning new skills and gaining information about the current or ancient topics, sharing informative data, or even staying connected with family and friends can be done over the internet. There are some eLearning apps which provide a platform for learners to educate themselves online by offering them courses related to the subject of their interest along with required study materials. For example, mathematics concepts such as calculus, physics concepts such as current electricity, chemistry concepts such as subatomic particles, biology concepts like DNA structure or preparing concepts for competitive exams such as NEET, GMAT, IAS, GRE, CAT and so on are explained in-depth in an easy and interesting way. One such eLearning app is BYJU'S where you can find all the study materials from textbooks to sample papers on the same platform.
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Demand For A Global Collaboration To Improve Online Education
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Experts say 2020 will be a turning point for online education, both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
A lack of access to technology, unprepared teachers and faculty, and ethical concerns are among the challenges facing the implementation of online education worldwide, according to Unesco's Assistant Director-General for Education.
About 40% of students do not have access to the internet, Stefania Giannini warned. Unesco reported in March that about half of the world's student population was not attending physical classes.
"Global cooperation is the only answer to this crisis – especially to support countries that don't have the capacity to know-how, or have the resources to deploy, distance learning," Ms Giannini added during a dialogue on online education and the pandemic co-hosted by Tsinghua University.
She hoped that the online conversation, which included about 30 panellists from 21 institutions in 15 countries, would "pave the way for a new cooperation between universities".
Stephen Toope, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, added that "we will only learn enough to make progress on the immense challenges of online education through collaboration at a global level."
Qiu Yong, Tsinghua's President, called 2020 a "historical watershed" that will witness "the rise of online education at an unprecedented scale."
Professor Qiu added: "It is foreseeable that the form of campus-based education will be profoundly reshaped after the pandemic."
Tsinghua was among the many Chinese and Hong Kong universities that moved their teaching to online platforms earlier this year. Tsinghua's Institute of Education has summarised some of its experiences in an interim report, "Integrity, Resilience and Reform: Evaluation and Implications of Tsinghua University's Emergency Online Education".
"We share a common belief that education should not be interrupted under any circumstances," Professor Qiu said. "It is our compelling obligation to ensure the continuation of education."
"We are encouraged by facts and expertise," said Peter Salovey, Yale University's President. "And yet we are humbled by the questions that remain unanswered."
"The pandemic has shown the world how much we need ideas and solutions," he continued. "And it has reminded me and many of us why the research and scholarship being conducted on college and university campuses in China and the United States and other nations throughout the world are so vital to society."
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This 19 page paper provides a comprehensive overview of the social welfare policies beginning with the Progressive Era through the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. Notables discussed include Roosevelt's New Deal, including legislative acts, programs and constitutional amendments, the founding of the NAACP and National Urban League, the first White House Conference on Children and the beginning of the mental health movement. Other topics include the Social Security Act, Johnson's Great Society, the cutbacks by Nixon, Reagan, and Bush. The writer comments on the Welfare reform movements of the 1970s and the 1990s. other related topics are discussed. Bibliography lists 19 sources.
Logical Vietnam Argument Perspectives
4 pages in length. Opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vast and varied as the number of soldiers killed in combat; that some are decidedly more apropos to the real reasons behind the war speak to the way in which certain accounts try to hide the truth behind a façade of political responsibility. Three examples of different Vietnam perspectives include Patrick J. Hearden's book entitled The Tragedy of Vietnam, Larry L. King's article "Machismo In the White House" and "Why Are We in Vietnam" by Lyndon Johnson illustrate these diversities in such a way to make one think at least one of them is talking about a different war entirely. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Q: possible numbers from given numbers using permutations and combinaitions I know this may be trivial, But i searched google and stackexachange to find the solution or the method to find the solution.
The problem in hand is I am given a number say "12345" and I should find out all possible 5 digit numbers using 1,2,3,4,5 and only 5 digits not 4 or less digits. so we have 5! values here. But If i have repeated numbers like say "11234" or "11223" then how to solve it. If there is a 0 in the given numbers then initial 0 is in valid.
Any help in finding the formula for this please? (I have learnt some 12 years ago.. so dont recollect permutations and combinations exactly to solve it myself)
PS: My numbers will never range from (0-9) it will always the digits given in the original number

A: The number of different strings of length 5 from the alphabet $\{1,2,3,4,5\}$ is what you want to calculate. There are $5^5$ such strings, as each element of the string can be chosen in 5 different ways and you then apply the "rule of product".
However, you then mention that, "If there is a 0 in the given numbers then initial 0 is [invalid]." Now, this is not really the same question. You said you were given the alphabet $\{1,2,3,4,5\}$. If this is actually the case, you wouldn't have to worry about zeros. Then again, if you did have the alphabet $\{0,1,2,3,4,5\}$ instead, then you would have to deduct the strings of types "0xxxx","00xxx","000xx","0000x", and "00000" from $6^5$ which would be the total number of strings. I will let you figure out how many strings of type "0xxxx", etc. there are.
EDIT: The question is somewhat unclear but I notice, from the discussion in the comments above, that you are not looking for selections with repetition (?). In that case, I believe what you are looking for is a formula, also given by barak manos in the comments above, namely $\dfrac{5!}{2!2!1!}$ for "11223" for example.
To derive this, you have to realize that $5!$ is first how many ways we can permute five elements. Then, if you see the two '2':s as different, you can permute them in $2!$ ways, the '3':s in $2!$ ways, and the '1':s (trivially) in $1!$ way. The formula is then to divide the total number of permutations ($5!$ in your case) with the product of all the ways you can permute each set of elements that are "the same" (the '2':s and the '3':s in the example).
Ex. How many words can we create from "BANANA"? Answer: $\dfrac{6!}{3!2!}$ (omitting the $1!$).
Hopefully I have interpreted your question correctly, otherwise, please make it clearer.

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Michigan Church Reaches Community with Classic Cars
Dwight Smith has always had an affinity for classic cars, which when showcased on a summer's night tend to bring people together.
So when Dearborn (Mich.) Christian Fellowship, a Christian Reformed congregation, was looking for ways to reach out to the surrounding neighborhood, Smith—a church member who spent 40 years working for the Ford Motor Company—figured a monthly car show would go a long way toward bringing people in.
Five years later, the church's Cruiz-In remains an effective ministry tool, even if visitors think they're coming to just another summer car show where they'll find classic Mustangs, showpiece Porsches, and just about everything in between.
"It's been fun to reach out to our neighbors," Smith said. "We're just out to have a good time, to say, 'this place is welcoming—we want to have you here.'"
Smith and the church's community outreach director, Dale Werth, have seen the monthly showcase grow—often attracting a new collection of car enthusiasts each month. They advertise the Cruiz-in in different classic car periodicals, and are always prepared to tell car owners about the church's mission in Dearborn if people ask.
But if people don't inquire about the church, that's fine, too. The ministry is more about kindness than about trying to recruit Sunday morning visitors.
"Once they get here, they'll see signs that we have a Christian school here and that we have [Vacation Bible School], so they can see what the church is all about and what's going on here," Smith said. "But for the most part, we just want this to be a fun neighborhood event."
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This is also breakbeat with some added dub elements to it so it might not sound like much you've heard of. BPM is 120 and root key is C.
DAW: Reason 4 (i still have never upgraded) Nothing else.
Another thing is the "harsh" frequenty's, typically in the 2,5k range Cutting out "harsh" frequency's can really clear up youre high end and make it sound more pleasent.
A good way to find them is to just hook up a mclass eq, set the width to the narrowest it can go, increase the gain (alot: +6db minimal) and sweep around till you find that youre ears start ringing and youre afraid your ear drums might burst (lowering youre output volume is recommended :P ) Then just decrease the gain.
A funny little note though, the mclass has "given" frequenty nummbers (162, 312, 625 (?) 1.3 2,5 and 5) all those ranges are problem frequency's. The lower ones tend to create muddiness (not that i found it a problem in youre song) and the higher ones are the once's creating "harsness". You might find you even want to increase the high end in youre mix after doing so!
You can do this eq trick on individual instruments, busses or final mix, but i'd reccommend doing so on at least your busses (if you have any). The thing is that, theyre mostly not that annoying on individual instruments/ channels, but tend to built up.
Sorting them out at the source is always the best though, but usually requires you having loads of eq's in youre overall project.
Another thing i found (could be a matter op opinion) is that, half way in the track it sounds a bit squashed. Did you run in trough a single compressor and or maximizer? And multiband compressor could sort that out.
I have just one compressor, one equalizer, and one maximizer (in this case used as a limiter) on the overall EQ of the entire track (all instruments ran thru). WHat you may be hearing, is that i included a scream distortion on the overall EQ as well, which makes the higher frequency's perhaps more noticable as they are being distorted slightly (it's not much, but its there).
get used to tweaking eq and compressors.
vocoderboy is right... As much as we like to think of ourselfs as musicians in a way. We actually are a bunch of nerds sitting behind a desk clicking our mouse 10.000 times a day strengthening our index finger to the point were we could point the hulk to death.
But, i'd recommend using distortion on individual channels and doing eq after the distortion for cleaning up, if youre machines is up to it.
But youre right, using distorion can enhacne the dirty frequency's alot, espacially on the high end. But it does depend in the type of distortion. If you want to fix that, youre actually better fordoing eq before the distortion, but have the distortion enabled when you sweep to find those frequency's.
But when you get to know eq, you'll find tweaking alot faster cause you usually end up doing the same type over and over.
just because I'm a nerd it doesn't mean I'm not a musician, it means I'm a better musician.


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 PK-35 (disambiguation)
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SWAC (сокр. от , Западный автоматический компьютер Бюро стандартов) — второй электронный цифровой компьютер, созданный в 1950 году в Национальном бюро стандартов США (NBS) в Лос-Анджелесе (США). Спроектирован Гарри Хаски. Первым компьютером NBS был SEAC, установленный в Вашингтоне.

Предыстория
В 1945 году в NBS были создано подразделение "Национальные лаборатории прикладной математики", которое должно было предоставлять вычислительные услуги для других правительственных организаций, и руководящий совет NBS по прикладной математике. Первоначально Лаборатории  планировали закупить компьютеры у какой-либо из частных фирм (с начала 1948 года велись переговоры с Echert-Mauchly Computer Corporation и Raytheon), однако, в связи с тем, что разработка электронных компьютеров этими компаниями затягивалась, в мае 1948 года руководящим советом по прикладной математике было принято решение о постройке собственного компьютера в Вашингтоне (будущего SEAC). Одновременно было решено приобрести у Echert-Mouchly Computer Corporation три компьютера UNIVAC (находившиеся на тот момент в стадии разработки), которые затем должны были быть установлены в бюро переписи населения (Census Bureau), в центре материально-технического снабжения ВВС (Air Materiel Command), и в Институте численного анализа (Institute of Numerical Analisys, INA), входившего в состав Лабораторий прикладной математики. Закупка компьютеров должна была оплачиваться из военного бюджета, однако, по ряду бюрократических причин это оказалось невозможным, поэтому в октябре 1948 года руководящий совет принял решение о постройке второго компьютера в институте численного анализа, который находился в кампусе Калифорнийского университета  в Лос-Анджелесе (UCLA).

Команда проекта

Для руководства проектом привлекли Гарри Дугласа Хаски (Harry Douglas Huskey), который ранее участвовал в разработке компьютеров ENIAC, EDVAC и Pilot ACE. Работа была начата в январе 1949 года. Команда состояла из трёх проблемных групп, занимавшихся оперативной памятью (Б.Ф. Амброзио (B.F.Ambrosio), Гарри Ларсон (Harry Larson) и Билл Ганинг (Bill Gunning) из Rand Corporation), арифметическим устройством (под руководством Эдварда Лейси (Edward Lacey)) и устройством управления (под руководством Дэвида Рутленда (David Ruthland)).

Основные конструктивные решения

За основу сначала была взята конструкция, разработанная в проекте EDVAC с памятью на основе ртутных линий задержки, однако военные, финансировавшие проект, потребовали, чтобы NBS строил компьютеры, отличающиеся по конструкции от других проектов, финансировавшихся из государственного бюджета. Поэтому Хаски обратился к опыту профессора Ф.К. Вильямса из Манчестерского университета по использованию в качестве устройств памяти электронно-лучевых трубок (ЭЛТ), которые получили наименование трубок Вильямса. Этот опыт был тем более интересен, что он обещал более высокую скорость доступа к памяти и тем самым - более высокую производительность компьютера. Было решено, что компьютер должен иметь поразрядно-параллельное арифметическое устройство и параллельные шины данных, чтобы максимально реализовать преимущества памяти на ЭЛТ. При разработке проекта также уделялось очень большое внимание экономичности и надёжности создаваемого компьютера. С этой целью разработчики старались использовались только массово производимые, коммерчески доступные компоненты - лампы, электронно-лучевые трубки - что способствовало как снижению цены, так и облегчало эксплуатацию будущего компьютера. Для облегчения обслуживания компьютер старались строить из типовых блоков, которые при выходе их из строя можно было бы легко заменить на запасные. Компьютер почти на 80% состоял из таких блоков. Вместе с компьютером были разработаны диагностические стенды, которые позволяли проводить автономную диагностику и ремонт неисправных блоков, в то время как компьютер продолжал решать свои основные задачи.
Компьютер был построен в соответствии с фон-Неймановской архитектурой с хранением программы в памяти. Разрядность числа составляла 36 бит с дополнительным битом для знака - всего 37 бит в машинном слове. Знаковые числа представлялись модулем и знаком, т.е. ноль мог иметь как положительный, так и отрицательный знак. Числа представлялись с фиксированной точкой, при этом использовалось популярное в то время представление с "левой" точкой, когда считалось, что все значения чисел являются дробными и лежат в диапазоне от -1+2−36 до 1-2−36. Оперативная память была выполнена на 37 электронно-лучевых трубках, каждая из которых отвечала за хранение "своего" бита слов. Каждая ЭЛТ обеспечивала ёмкость в 256 бит, таким образом, общий объём памяти составил 256 слов по 37 бит. Цикл обмена с памятью составлял 16 мкс. В связи с небольшим объёмом оперативной памяти компьютер был снабжён дополнительной памятью на магнитном барабане ёмкостью 4096 слов. Обмен с барабаном производился блоками по 8, 16 или 32 слова, время обмена составляло 17 мс. В компьютере была реализована 4-адресная система команд, в которой каждая команда (кроме команд ввода и вывода) содержала адреса двух аргументов, адрес результата и адрес следующей команды. В систему команд входили следующие команды: сложение, вычитание, округлённое умножение (с 37-битовым результатом), умножение с полным результатом (74 бит), сравнение, извлечение битов по маске, ввод и вывод. В составе арифметико-логического устройства (АЛУ) были реализованы три регистра - буфер чтения из памяти, аккумулятор и R-регистр - расширение аккумулятора для хранения сомножителя и расширенной части произведения. В качестве устройств ввода/вывода использовался телетайп (Flexowriter) и считыватель перфоленты. Позднее компьютер снабдили устройством считывания перфокарт (IBM 077) и устройством вывода перфокарт (IBM 513).

SWAC был смонтирован в 3 шкафах, изготовленных на заказ, и был для своего времени очень компактным. В нём насчитывалось 37 ЭЛТ, 2600 ламп и 3700 полупроводниковых диодов. При работе он потреблял  30 КВт электрической мощности.

Достигнутые результаты и эксплуатация компьютера
Сборка SWAC была закончена в июле 1950 года, а 17-19 августа состоялась его официальная приёмка, в ходе которой был проведён небольшой симпозиум по вычислительной технике и демонстрация компьютера. В момент приёмки SWAC оказался самым быстрым в мире компьютером. Он выполнял каждую команду, кроме умножения, деления и ввода-вывода, за 64 мкс (15'625 оп/сек). Умножение и деление выполнялись за 384 мкс, а команды ввода-вывода — в соответствии со скоростью соответствующих устройств. Этот рекорд держался достаточно долго — до появления компьютера Whirlwind, и до его оснащения ферритовой памятью, что произошло только в 1953 году. Компьютер использовался для решения различных задач численного анализа, в частности, для поиска простых чисел Мерсенна (числа вида 2p−1, где p — простое число). С использованием SWAC математику Рафаэлю Робинсону удалось найти 5 наибольших таких чисел, для последнего показатель p был равен 2297. На SWAC также изучались процессы циркуляции атмосферы Земли. В ходе решения этой задачи было обработано 750 000 входных значений и получено сопоставимое количество результатов. Время решения составило 325 часов. SWAC показал себя достаточно надёжным в эксплуатации. Среднее время продуктивной работы составляло 53 часа в неделю, или 70 % от общего времени функционирования компьютера.

Проблемы с памятью
Основной проблемой при эксплуатации компьютера была ненадёжность памяти на основе трубок Вильямса. Несмотря на то, что команда разработчиков снизила плотность записи по сравнению с первоначально планировавшейся, память давала сбои из-за двух проблем. Первая была связана с тем, что люминофор в дешёвых ЭЛТ был загрязнён хлопковыми волокнами, которые обугливались под действием электронных пучков, и становились проводниками. Из-за этого до 1-2% поверхности всех ЭЛТ были дефектными и не держали заряд. Для борьбы с этим явлением трубки отбирали, помечали на них дефектные места и старались настроить схемы управления таким образом, чтобы растр на трубке не пересекал дефектные зоны. Второй проблемой было растекание заряда между ячейками - при слишком частом обращении к одному адресу памяти образующееся при записи облако вторичных электронов оседало на соседних ячейках каждой из трубок, что приводило к стиранию данных в этих ячейках. Программисты при составлении программ должны были следить за тем, чтобы каждая ячейка памяти использовалась в программе не слишком часто.

История названия

В начале работ создатели SWAC дали ему рабочее название ZEPHYR — по названию ласкового западного ветерка. Под этим названием он достаточно долго появлялся в различных документах. Затем ему дали более прозаическое название «Компьютер института численного анализа». Ближе к завершению работ руководство NBS потребовало, чтобы в названиях обоих разрабатываемых компьютеров присутствовало бы NBS. Так появились названия National Bureau of Standards' Eastern/Western Automatic Computer и аббревиатуры SEAC и SWAC на их основе.

Дальнейшая судьба компьютера
С 1950 по 1954 годы SWAC эксплуатировался в Институте численного анализа. В 1954 году INA был выведен из состава NBS, а компьютер был передан Калифорнийскому университету (UCLA). Там он эксплуатировался до своего списания в декабре 1967 года. Отдельные сохранившиеся детали SWAC в настоящее время выставлены в Музее науки и промышленности (Museum of Science and Industry) в Лос-Анджелесе и в других музеях США.

Ссылки

 IEEE Transcript: SWAC—Standards Western Automatic Computer: The Pioneer Day Session at NCC July 1978
A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century. Edited by N. Metropolis, J. Howlett, and Gian-Carlo Rota. ACADEMIC PRESS, INC.New York, 1980. pp. 419–431
BRL Report № 1115 March 1961. A Third Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
A Survey Of Automatic Digital Computers 1953. Office of Naval Research. Department of the Navy. Washington D.C., 1953.
Margaret R. Fox Papers, 1935—1976, Институт Чарльза Бэббиджа, Университет Миннесоты. Коллекция документов содержит отчёты, включая оригинальные отчёты по ENIAC, UNIVAC и многим другим ранним работам, проводимым в NIST; описания и историю SEAC, SWAC и DYSEAC.

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Recognizing the oversight, the Legislature in 1985 adopted a bill to tax the casual sale of mobile homes. The Revenue Department in Tallahassee already had been collecting tax on those sales but without statutory authority.
Revenue Director Randy Miller said a "scrivener's error" left the tax out of the statute.
When the error was brought to light last year, legislators imposed the sales tax on non-dealer mobile home sales and made the law retroactive. They said it always was the intent of the state to tax those sales.
Dominic Calabro, director of Florida TaxWatch, a non-profit government watchdog group, questioned the retroactive tax.
The latest available statistics show there are 26,000 mobile homes in Broward, 19,673 in Palm Beach County and 14,498 in Dade.
Larry Wood, director of collection and enforcement for the Department of Revenue, said if the state loses the case challenging the sales tax, it would create a tremendous burden on his department.
"It would be a nightmare."


ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Darius Kasparaitis will end his playing career and begin a coaching career with Russian giant, SKA St. Petersburg.
Kasapaitis was one of two NHL-calibre hockey players from Lithuania.
Just like New Jersey's Dainius Zubrus, Kasparaitis hails from Elektrenai, a 14,000-person town that is known as Lithuania's hockey hotbed.
At age 14, Kasparaitis left Elektrenai to join Dynamo Moscow where he played his first game in the Soviet league as a 16-year-old before transferring to the New York Islanders in 1992, the same year he was picked fifth overall in the NHL Entry Draft.
The defenceman played 946 NHL games for the Islanders, Pittsburgh, Colorado and the New York Rangers until 2007 and continued his career with Russia's SKA St. Petersburg.
Unlike Zubrus, who represented Lithuania, Kasparaitis chose to play for Russia after the split-up of the Soviet Union.
Kasparaitis won Olympic medals of each colour – gold (Albertville 1992), silver (Nagano 1998) and bronze (Salt Lake City 2002). He also won the 1992 World U20 Championship with Russia.
Kasparaitis missed the 2009-2010 season due to a groin injury and was offered a contract with AIK Stockholm as he was living in the Swedish capital with his family. But Kasparaitis refused the offer last weekend and decided to embark on a new career. The 37-year-old will become the assistant coach of Ivano Zanatta for SKA St. Petersburg.


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Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Western Philosophy: C 1600 To C 1900
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.
Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world.
This edition includes a commentary on the text by the translator and Michael Tanner's introduction, which explains some of the more abstract passages in Beyond Good and Evil.
Frederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair of classical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879. He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. A powerfully original thinker, Nietzsche's influence on subsequent writers, such as George Bernard Shaw, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre, was considerable.
If you enjoyed Beyond Good and Evil you might like Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, also available in Penguin Classics.
'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker'
Michael Tanner
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A Dictionary of Philosophy (Revised Second Edition) by
The Prince (Everyman's Library) by Niccolo Machiavelli
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ARISTOTLE Rhetoric and On Poetics (The Franklin Library)
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Theo Hobson The Spectator Will the Church's division over women clergy re-ignite?
It is nonsense for Ruth Wilde to suggest that Bishop Michael's sermon was criticised for him not speaking like a "white person". Had the wonderful oratory of the bishop been as flat as the tones of the Dean of Windsor, 2 billion people may have fallen asleep. It is precisely because Bishop Curry preached like an African American that he stirred the souls of countless listeners.
No mention of love. Seriously?
Can someone shed some light on what Woodward is talking about?
Kate I find the word 'love' four times in +Paul's address. And I find the whole tone as loving as it is challenging.
The advantage of the word 'serve' is that it is obviously about action. So was 'love', in the New Testament, but nowadays most people use it to describe an emotion.
Dear Kate, with Rod I did note the mention of the word 'Love' in Bishop Paul's message. Further, it speaks of where that love is derived from – the very basics of the Christian life: Prayer, worship and contemplation. This is the root of Christian Love. There is none other.
It isn't nonsense FrDavidH. Perspective really depends on your social media "bubble." There were a lot of negative comments about ++Michael's homily that used words like, wasn't dignified, lacked class, inappropriate, insulting to mention slavery, etc. Those all boil down to not speaking white. I also saw some outright racial slurs. From my perspective, Ruth Wilde is spot on. I do agree with Woodward that there's no need to compare ++Michael with Justin or the Dean of Windsor, but I didn't see any of those comparisons in my social "bubble," so I don't know what prompted the article.
Not to mention the negative reactions in the Quire from some of the royals. I hardly think the Dean of Windsor would have had similar reactions, if he had preached for 13 minutes.
No, those were reactions to style and delivery and perhaps even accent. Mistaken reactions, of course–to an African-American style of preaching that was outside certain comfort zones.
They got that wrong. Ed Miliband got it right, and signaled the error to those who apparently needed a signal.
The word love might be in the address but it is not in the slogan. Contrast that with Bishop Michael's address which – rightly – made love the centre of everything.
Serve is most definitely not a substitute. There is no fire.
It is time we dropped all these trite and unhelpful slogans and get back to what Christ taught us about love. Love the Lord your God with all your might and your neighbours as yourself. That's it. We don't need modern inventions which send people off in the wrong direction.
Kate … and Michael Curry's sermon was criticised by some because there was 'only' the language of love and he gave the word no content. Hard to win I say (and no – I don't agree with the criticism either). But here we have been copied in to a message from a warmly including and inspiring bishop to the folk in his own diocese. I have no trouble hearing the love in it and I for one trust him to know how to speak to the communities he knows – and that they will understand his message.
Since we are still on the Royal Wedding, can anyone throw light on why the Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London said a prayer at the service? The service was obviously carefully composed to reflect the interests of all concerned, but I can't see the connection in this case. If it was 'ecumenical' then one has to point out that there was no Free Church or Roman Catholic representation.
'Whoever wants to be first of all must be servant of all…The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many'.
That's hardly a modern invention.
Read about Coptic Bishop Anba Angaelos on Wikipedia. There is an impressive listing of his service to many interfaith organizations. The Queen awarded him an OBE for services to international religious freedom.
But that's an explanation not an exhortation or commandment. So by all means include that in the address but in terms of exhortations stick to the one about love and drop the slogans which mislead by directing focus away from love.
I know Bishop Paul means well but I disagree with him nonetheless.
I think he is a friend of Prince Charles who has shown a special concern for the diminishing and persecuted ancient churches of the Middle East.
Just as "heart" in the OT meant the seat of the will, so too it has come to be identified with emotion. Feelings.
Bishop Paul struck a number of wrong notes.
So much for a "liberating" God. And yes, I know we are meant to find perfect freedom in service. But I get a bit worried whenever anyone, much less a bishop, tells us that we should "submit." And submit publicly, too, apparently….
Substitutionary atonement, mentioned above, meanwhile, is an ancient concept, but hardly one that has wide credibility or broad adherence. Theological guilt-tripping gets us nowhere.
Often read this blog and fascinated to see that no one has commented on the barriers to Ordained Ministry by more ordinary folk. I thought that article was so very true.
A Nigerian bishop, Felix Orji, wrote an article that said that following regarding Bishop Curry's address at the royal wedding: "I wish he had preached penal substitutionary atonement because that is the crux of the gospel", adding that "royalty and celebrities … desperately needed the gospel".
I thought "He died to save us all" — the conclusion of the hymn Curry cited, and which he said is the manifestation of divine Love — is Atonement language. How is it so many seem to have missed that?
Tobias, to the extent we are parsing "There Is a Balm in Gilead" as an authoritative statement of atonement theology, you are misquoting it.
Which is not quite as atonement-y as your "died to save us" rewrite.
Besides, "save" begs the question, don't you think? Atonement–dividing God into bloodthirsty Judge and innocent Victim–is not necessary to the concept of salvation.
Jesus saves us because he shows us–the crucifixion being the ultimate example–what love really is.
The shift work point is a good one, I think.
I think the threshold for ordination is set too high. We should lower it, ordain people and grant people PTOs with little or no training – selecting on personality and spiritual gifts not education. Those who want a permanent office / tenure etc can train for that *after* ordination. I don't see why ordination requires much training, although I understand that offices do.
I met the Dean of Windsor many times when he was Bishop of Lynn. He is a delightful, amusing and unstuffy person – and was a loss to the diocese of Norwich when he went to Windsor. Had he preached, his personality would doubtless have shone through. His role in the royal wedding was confined to the introductory part of the wedding service and the final blessing; why he should be criticised for not making this as 'exciting' as a sermon is beyond me.
Marc, some of the criticism of the Dean was on his passive demeanour as Curry preached. I pointed out (on another forum) that when the preacher is situated behind you you can't watch them, and if you move you run the risk of distracting people from the sermon.
Surely, the Dean of Windsor is one of the finest preachers in the Church of England – both theologically sound and spiritually uplifting. We should thank God for such a great proclaimer of the Good News of the Gospel.
Tobias – thanks. I think we agree on Curry's point.
I also agree with Janet about the Dean's dilemma. He was in the frame but facing another direction. That is a real pickle.
Like Janet I think he did right by being impassive and not moving–thus minimizing distraction. It was the responsible and indeed courteous approach.
Substitutionary atonement doesn't have to be penal. 'Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures' doesn't necessarily need to mean 'Christ took the punishment for our sins according to the scriptures'. Joel Green and Mark Baker examine this and many other New Testament images of atonement in their very fine book 'Recovering the Scandal of the Cross' which I highly recommend.
Christopher I think you must be reading a rather different Old Testament to the one I've been reading these last 59 years. Is there any other collection of books more descriptive of emotion and feelings?
The seat of the emotions in Hebrew is the bowels.
KJV retains a lot of this in its literalistic psalter translation.
A good primer is HW Wolff's Anthropology of the OT.
Hebrew leb (heart) is the seat of decision making. Will.
The point has nothing to do with emotionalism in the OT but following on from Tim Chesterton, how words like 'love' and 'heart' get morphed by readerships.
My experience in various English cathedrals (and, for that matter, most churches) is that clergy remain impassive during a sermon by a visiting preacher. That seems totally appropriate. Isn't all the fuss about the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Dean of Windsor just modern 'hype' – ignorant, disrespectful and unnecessary? This was a 'Solemnisation of Holy Matrimony' in contemporary form with the solemn parts (including, of course, the final blessing) properly solemn. Overall, the service was a joyful occasion and, surely, the two elements were complementary to each other.
Pull the other one Christopher. I knew exactly what point you were making, and it wasn't that.
All kinds of words get morphed – not just words like 'love' and 'heart' that you seem so petrified of. Haven't you noticed? Read some Shakespeare.
Andrew, I'm rather surprised at your reaction. Neither CRS nor I are downplaying the importance or role of emotion (I'm a folk musician, how could I???). We're simply saying that the biblical authors tended not to use the word 'heart' to symbolize it. As CRS says, they used the bowels instead (hence the KJV 'bowels of mercy' – or, to use the contemporary N. American phrase, 'scared s__tless'!).
Or take his willing soul to Heav'n.
"…not just words like 'love' and 'heart' that you seem so petrified of" — quoi?
You do seem to get worked up.
I do recommend Wolff's fine book. All emotions in Hebrew are psychosomatic, not abstractions.
Blessings on your day in Exeter!


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I could feel my mouth becoming dry as the Mustang slid into a spot in front of the obnoxious white building. It stood on a corner lot, bordered by a First Care clinic on one side, and a car dealership loudly claiming to have the best prices around on the other. When I first got my driver's license, I had gone to see 'Dealmaker Dave,' as he advertised himself in the local paper, about test driving a used Jaguar convertable.
I've always had a thing for the car. Not that I would spend the attrocious amount of money on actually purchasing one, but I've always thought that it conveyed a certain class. It was the style. It was like the difference between a hot neon Kawasaki race bike and a classic Harley Cruiser. It's the feel, the look.
Dealmaker Dave wasn't as excited as I was about test driving the car, however.
He gave me the same look as the family of four in the White Castle as I walked in. Perhaps I read too much into it, maybe it's self consciousness. The father and mother watched as Pete swung open the door, loudly proclaiming the entrance of his royal bodyguard as I strode in, surveying the crowd for suitability. He slipped in as the door swung closed behind him, the regular noise of people chatting away reduced to the din of burgers sizzling away their fat on the hot grill and workers in blue shirts yelling back and forth to each other in the regular workaday chatter of fries and Cherry Cokes.
It's the look of hope and disapproval. Hope that their children, watching us with their own apprehension and admiration, would not end up like the two pie-eyed teens that sauntered into their mists. In a cruel twist of fate, these two Woodstock day trippers turned suburban yuppies somehow found it within themselves to disapprove of the two characters they were viewing that so obviously had the munchies.
I pulled on the collars of my ratty jean jacket, pulling it back up onto my shoulders and continued on past the family of four to the order window, sauntering coolly and purposefully. I heard Pete giggle behind me and tossed a smile to a group of girls gossiping in the corner. The surroundings were sharp and vivid, as I stood behind a little boy with his mother in line. White brilliance shone off the walls and sparse furnishings typical of the smaller Castles. The full glass partition opened like a window over the grill where two Assistant Managers double-teamed twenty burgers, one laying them down as the other flipped and passed them on to a short, skinny girl with buns, ketchup, and relish.
The little boy looked up to me, his mouth open, as his mother tried to keep him faced forward. Looking down, I smiled at him, giving a little wave and a 'Hi', which caught a nervous look from the mother, and a big grin from the boy.
Before I realized it, I was standing at the counter, looking into the eyes of a cute sophomore. The giddiness I was feeling helped mask my nervousness. Regardless of images, reality sat in the back of my mind, reminding me of my so far uneventful male-female relationship life. I was stupidly grinning.
"Did you want to order?" Her tone indicated that she had already asked me and I had missed it.
Pete suddenly appeared at my side, making sure I got enough and the right things.
"Yeah, 15 burgers," I began.
"Fries, don't forget fries, man. God, I love those fries," Pete looked at the girl behind the counter, "Don't you like the fries?"
"They're OK, how many you want?"
"Four, and two Cokes," I replied quickly. Too quickly.
"No, man, we gotta get at least six, yeah, six fries." Pete was uncharacteristically chatty, I decided. "And four Cokes, man." I told him he couldn't eat that much, and drink two Cokes. He was poking me in the side. "Yeah, six fries, four Cokes."
"Six fries and two large Cokes," I finished, stupid grin on my face, watching the numbers on the register blip and light up as they climbed and climbed. Five-sixty-four.
As I paid and got my little plastic number '53', I had to wonder. Why 15 burgers? That's not an even number.


I am not a spiritual guru. In fact, based on the scriptures of a certain bible-like book, I am a walking abomination: I love boiled shrimp and broiled mussels in a garlic sauce (Abomination); my favorite pieces of garment are a stretched jeans over a three-dollar mesh jockstrap with a cotton and spandex waistband (Abomination); I am covered in tattoos—half of them are bible quotes, but I'm not sure Leviticus makes exceptions based on context (Abomination); I do not go running from the room when a person of any gender is on their period (Major no-no); and we must not forget the one that has set the stage for how we treat all the other very specific rules (given only to a few chosen people while they wandered through the desert thousands of years ago), the one that most people quote when trying to vilify a person for breaking scriptural benison law (regardless of if you actually follow that religion or not), the one that most Christians consider the epitome of evil and disgust—that which a certain religious document that some would call the Bible says should put us to death: I do not always stand when a man with gray hair walks into a room.
Not to mention the whole gay thing….
But because I've had AIDS since my early twenties I am acutely aware of my mortality; and because of this, I am acutely fixated on the disposition of my soul and the metaphysical systems that may keep me on a "good and righteous" path.
Yup, I admit it! I'm one of those.
I may not be a Kabbalah string-wearing zealot, but I am far enough along the path of "enlightenment" to know that no matter how infinitely small the chances of Nirvana…you can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket.
So I'm half-naked at the "straight gym" in Hollywood, dressed in a conservative green crop-top that reads "kiss me I'm Irish" and "kiss me red" shorts that are so short you could measure my testosterone levels with one downward glance. And I am sitting in one of those rusty old black and broken abdominal crunch machines that I've used obsessively for the last ten years at the beginning of every workout until my uterus is so cramped I pause for worry of ruining my fertility…and after all these years of fervent gym-going, I still have not achieved not even one indentation of an ab.
Many are called, but few are chosen, I guess.
It's the middle of the day and not many are here, but I am facing a small herd of delicious heterosexual men who are sweating, lifting weights, and bending over in ways that should make my testosterone levels even more visible in my tasteful red shorts, but instead, I am scribbling ferociously in my emergency sunshine yellow mead notebook like I need to be sedated: My eyes are wild and my hands are moving so fast they have started to emit an acrid grey blurry smoke, because I have been hit by inspiration.
And only amateurs go to the gym to workout.
I am contemplating the concept of forgiveness. Writing to myself and to the Universe about what it means to allow space for another person to do you harm and still love them as they do it.
"Forgive them," I write in the battered almost full notebook that I carry with me at all times.
I know it doesn't sound that profound, but mind your business! Some of us don't like being hurt.
I do everything I can to prevent it.
I may pretend to be kind and long-suffering when everyone is looking. But when you have turned your beautiful face from mine, my ego tries to defend itself just as savagely as the next girl.
In my natural state you get just one chance to make a mistake with me, but I think being HIV-positive has given me a higher tolerance for pain and an intimate understanding that there is usually a path through the bad back to the good… Until there isn't.
So I finish scratching in my journal, pouring all my wrath and pride into this poor little crazy person notebook.
"Forgive them," I write two hundred more times until my wrist locks-up. I dry my tears and go back to the locker room, get naked, and blatantly ogle straight men while they shower; and try my best to make space to love someone who has done me harm-because only amateurs use the gym to workout.
So though I often get it wrong… And still eat meat with blood in it (Abomination), I must say having AIDS for so long does make it a little easier for me to transcend into the metaphysical realm and make fundamental life adjustments. I think it has something to do with dancing so often with death.
But tomorrow I have a CT scan (with contrast) from throat to the middle of my chest; and if it's bad….
I don't want to die angry and hurt.


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