In the Holy Dzogchen Area there are sixteen meditation retreat centers each of which provides for hundreds of male and female practitioners and are cared for by Dzogchen Monestary masters.
In the seventeenth century, the main Dzogchen Meditation Retreat Center was established by Dzogchen Masters Pema Kundrol Namgyal and His Holiness the Third Dzogchen Rinpoche, at the Siltrom Snow Mountain where Padmasambhava had previously meditated. Traditionally, more than one hundred practitioners lived at the retreat center at any one time. These practitioners would stay in retreat anywhere from three years to their entire life. The Dzogchen Meditation Retreat Center's main group practice is the Drupchen Kabgye (the Eight Heruka Mandalas), especially that of Buddha Vajra Kilaya (Dorje Phurba). The Vajra Kilaya mantra is continually recited by groups of twenty-five lamas, twenty-four hours a day. This mantra, with its healing, liberating power, resonates everywhere around the Center. In the early history of the Dzogchen Retreat Center, thirteen Dzogchen practitioners, including Ju Lama Osel, attained Rainbow Body.
For one to two years, it consists of the outer and inner preliminary training according to Kunzang Lamai Zhal Lung (The Words of My Perfect Teacher) and other texts. This preliminary training may be repeated three times or more.
For one or two years, there are instructions from the Yonden Dzo among other texts, the practice of the outer, inner, and secret Guru Yogas, and the fast path of P'howa, the transference of consciousness.
For one to two years, the practices of the First Empowerment, according to the great recitation manuals of Nyingthig and other texts, including the Guru Rigdzin Dupa, Yidam Palchen Dupa, Dakini Dechen Gyalmo, and Dharmapala practices. The Konchok Chindu is always practiced when doing feast ceremonies. All of these ritual practices are based on mandalas.
For two or three years, the practices of the Second Empowerment according to the Dzogchen Vima Nyingthik and other texts, including Channel (nadi) Movement meditation, Wind (prana) Holding meditation, Cell (bindu) Variation Meditation with Chandali (tunmo) Fire Meditation and yogic exercises.
For two or three years, the practices of the Third Empowerment, according to the Dzogchen Khandro Nyingthik and the introduction of the Six Bardos, among other texts, including Tablam Mahamudra meditation and Bardo Experience meditation.
For three or four years, the practices of the Fourth Empowerment, according to the Yeshe Lama, Lama Yangthig, and seventeen Dzogchen Tantras including the highly secret practices of trekchod, togal, and the dark retreat practice.
Practitioners who want special training for the development of fearless action will perform four different Chod practices (White, Variegated, Black, and Red Chod), each one hundred times in one hundred different special places. These practices take two to four years to complete.
Practitioners who complete these retreat practices become Mahayogis or Mahasiddhas. They may then teach other practitioners, continue to live at the retreat center, or go into solitary retreat. Many famous Mahasiddhas--Ju Lama Osel, Chewu Rigdzin Chenpo, Chod Nyen, and Pema Tsewang, along with many others--achieved enlightenment at the Dzogchen Meditation Retreat Centers.
contact your local Dzogchen Shri Singha Dharma center.
The Dzogchen Meditation Retreat Centers were destroyed in 1959 and have not yet been rebuilt. This special retreat tradition is almost lost. There are only a few old lamas remaining who hold this unwritten sacred tradition. It is our deepest wish to reestablish the Dzogchen Meditation Centers and tradition. Please help us by contributing. We rejoice in the great merit of your support.


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Tickborne Diseases of the United States
Tickborne Relapsing Fever
Tick ID
Overview of Tickborne Diseases
Borrelia miyamotoi Disease
Colorado Tick Fever
Ehrlichiosis
Heartland and Bourbon Virus Diseases
Powassan Virus Disease
Rickettsia parkeri Rickettsiosis
Tickborne Diseases Abroad
Tick Bites/Prevention
Tick Bite Prophylaxis
Borrelia hermsii, B. turicatae
Where Found
TBRF occurs most commonly in 14 western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Most cases occur in the summer when people vacation and sleep in rustic cabins. However, TBRF can also occur in the winter months when fires started to warm a cabin activate ticks resting in the walls and woodwork. In Texas, TBRF may be associated with cave exposure.
~7 days, followed by recurring febrile episodes that last ~3 days and are separated by afebrile periods of ~7 days.
Facial palsy (rarely)
Common Findings on Routine Laboratory Tests
Normal to increased white blood cell count with a left shift
Mildly increased serum bilirubin
Mild to moderate thrombocytopenia
Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate
Slightly prolonged prothrombin time (PT) and partial thromboplastin time (PTT)
Organisms are best detected in blood (by microscopy or culture) obtained while a person is febrile.
Observation of Borrelia spirochetes in smears of peripheral blood
Serologic testing is appropriate for convalescent samples drawn 10–14 days post-illness onset.
Tickborne Relapsing Fever treatment regimen
Duration, Days
Adults Tetracycline 500 mg four times per day, orally N/A 10
Erythromycin 500 mg four times per day, orally N/A 10
Ceftriaxone* 2 g per day, IV N/A 10-14
Children weighing <100 lbs. (45.4 kg) Erythromycin 12.5 mg/kg four times per day, orally 2g/day 10
*For CNS involvement
NOTE: When initiating antibiotic therapy, all patients should be observed during the first 2–4 hours of treatment for a Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction.
NOTE: Acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring intubation has occurred in several patients undergoing TBRF treatment.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Acute respiratory distress syndrome in persons with tickborne relapsing fever—Three states, 2004–2005. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2007;56(41): 1073–1076.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tickborne relapsing fever—United States, 1990–2011. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2015 Jan 30;64(3):58-60.
Christensen AM, Pietralczyk E, Lopez JE, et al. Diagnosis and management of Borrelia turicatae infection in febrile soldier, Texas, USA. Emerg Infect Dis 2017 May;23(5):883-884.
Dworkin MS, Anderson DE Jr, Schwan TG, et al. Tick-borne relapsing fever in the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada. Clin Infect Dis 1998 Jan;26(1):122-31.
Hayes E B and Dennis DT. Relapsing fever. In: Kasper DL, Fauci AS, Longo DL, Braunwald E, Hauser SL, Jameson JL, eds. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. 16th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2004:991–995.
Rawlings JA. An overview of tick-borne relapsing fever with emphasis on outbreaks in Texas. Tex Med 1995.
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An orange cone cast in asphalt in downtown Montreal
Latest News / By Ashley Cornell, email: [email protected] / January 21, 2023 January 21, 2023
In a scene representative of downtown chaos, an orange page, poured into the tarmac and now into the snow, greets visitors outside one of Montreal's most prestigious hotels.
• Also read: Downtown Montreal: A quarter of orange cones are useless
"I can imagine the tourists arriving in Montreal seeing that and I find it a bit unacceptable. It's not good for the image of downtown or that of the Ritz-Carlton," said Peter McGill City Councilor Serge Sasseville.
The latter posted on Twitter on Friday a photo of this "extremely ugly" cone planted on a sidewalk on Sherbrooke Street to illustrate their ubiquity in Montreal.
On the pavement in front of it is an orange cone with bitumen freshly laid over it @RitzCarlton of Montreal in the Peter-McGill neighborhood @CentervilleMTL. Even though I'm their councilman and they ask me when he'll be removed, I can't answer them pic.twitter.com/dLOYqOLW17
— J.Serge Sasseville (he/him-he/him) (@SergeSasseville) January 20, 2023
Three other large cones and a white-orange barrier surround it. When asked by the Journal, the city justified the use of this installation pending the installation of a new lamppost.
The cone is thus used to protect the base of the lamppost already installed underground, "due to the lack of more suitable materials, which are currently being ordered", writes the publicist Camille Bégin.
The asphalt was poured to make the sidewalk safer for pedestrians. "But I think we should have done everything at once," says Mr. Sasseville. When we dig to install a standpipe, we make sure to install the lamppost at the same time!"
If the cone surfaced last Wednesday, it's not known when it will be removed. Just yesterday, the Montreal Chamber of Commerce presented a study that found a quarter of the metropolis' cones were useless.
"This is a case that illustrates the problem well. That doesn't make our downtown attractive at all while we're trying to bring workers back," he summarizes.


text: Jorja Smith has gone on to create a name for herself as Britain's most exciting R&B songwriter, with a masterful knack for crafting melodies that make you feel like you could be anywhere from a smoky Parisian jazz club to a North London warehouse party. Jorja grew up in the industrial West Midlands town of Walsall. Both of her parents were musical, and BBC Radio 1Xtra was constantly playing in the kitchen, blasting out bassline classics like T2's "Heartbroken" as she did her homework. Encouraged by her parents, she started playing keyboard at the age of 8, and was learning to sing classical by secondary school. It's something that still influences her now, and you can hear it in the vast range of her voice or in certain moments. In 2018 she released her debut album 'Lost & Found' to critical acclaim, peaking at #3 in the UK charts.


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I do quite a few speaking events around the south west on how to get the most from your online investment. Be that getting to the top of Google, how to effectively use Twitter and Facebook for your brand, getting more from AdWords or understanding what's important in Google Analytics.
When I was asked to pop along and speak at Discuss and Do I was thrilled. Frome is such a vibrant town filled with lots of cool artisan type shops doing "upcycling" and modern things like that.
I was a little trepidatious too, as the February event was billed as "a three day festival in Frome to inspire businesses and artistic ventures and help them to become more successful.". There's a serious danger, I thought to myself, that I could be stood in a room for an afternoon waving my arms about (as is my custom) at a lot of 'alternative' types and some ladies who have "set up a boutique dahhhhling".
Actually, it was a fantastic event attended by designers primarily, designers of websites, gardens, textiles, landscapes. There were photographers, videographers and a chef. From 'normal' jobs there were bookkeepers, payroll services, a shop keeper and a lawyer... we're meeting up for coffee soon to see how we can make sure local businesses don't get caught with their hands in the EU Cookie Law jar. It was a delight as ever to see Speed Rebel too, though we didn't get a chance to chat much. We will soon, no doubt.
Most fun of all, though was Sarah Godsill who does live sketching of events and weddings. It's her sketch illustrating this post. Good isn't she? There's another one here.
Discuss and Do in Frome is a great way to get local businesses discussing ways they can do things better and ways they can do things better together. Other towns should take a leaf out of their book. Check out their site for more events: Discuss and Do website.
I do hope they ask me back!


On May 21, I was invited to preview the next movie in the line of films by the Kendrick Brothers. If you are not familiar with who they are, these are the filmmakers that brought us Fireproof, Facing The Giants and Courageous.
The Kendrick Brothers are Christian filmmakers that have taken us on several journeys that cover the gamut from marriage, to faith and back to fatherhood. This time that trip takes on an a voyage to restore our faith and ability as it pertains to prayer.
The film is the story of an African-American family that is in turmoil. The disparity between the husband, wife and little daughter is acted out incredibly by a magnificent cast, Patricia Striver, T.C. Stalling, and Alena Pitts. They are a young family is distress as they appear to have it all. But the one thing missing is God.
Along comes an incredible older African-American woman, played by Karen Abercrombie. Her character steals the show, and steers the movie. Her no nonsense approach to helping the young wife and mother to realize who is trying to destroy her marriage and family is direct and will lead you from laughter to tears.
The story is one that opens that door to being clear on the importance of prayer. Using prayer and the power it has as a weapon against the true enemy that invades our relationships. We spent more time fighting each other than fighting the enemy. War Room is a film that helps to show us who the enemy really is, how we can build a strategy to beat him and how to put that strategy into action.
It will be in theaters starting on August 28. I was able to see it early and I am very glad that I did. The Kendrick Brothers have, once again, brought us a film that is well worth seeing.
I would encourage everyone to have a look at this incredible film. Not often do we get to see films that give us Godly values, and too far often do we see them with African-Americans in premier roles.


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• Thrombolysis for acute stroke.
• Intrathecal Baclofen pump refilling and programming.
its work in Neuro Sciences.
Neuro Sciences or Neurology is a branch of Medicine which deals with disorders of the brain, spinal cord and nerves. All diseases which affect the brain and nervous system come under the preview of Neurology. Neurologist or Neuro physicians are trained to identify such cases. Symptoms of neurological diseases can range from headache, alteration in consciousness, dizziness, spinning sensation, double vision, paralysis or weakness of face, or limbs, numbness and tingling, imbalance, stiffness of limbs, abnormal movements, tremors, jerks, convulsions etc. Common disorders include stroke, brain hemorrhage, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, migraine, meningitis, encephalitis, epilepsy, peripheral neuropathies, spinal cord disorders etc.


Nuclear medicine technologists operate equipment that creates images of areas of a patient's body. They prepare radioactive drugs and administer them to patients. The radioactive drugs cause abnormal areas of the body to appear different from normal areas in the images.
Nuclear medicine technologists typically need an associate's degree from an accredited nuclear medicine technology program. Formal education programs in nuclear medicine technology or a related healthcare field lead to a certificate, an associate's degree, or a bachelor's degree. Technologists must be licensed in about one half of the states; requirements vary by state.
Employment of nuclear medicine technologists is projected to grow 2 percent from 2014 to 2024, slower than the average for all occupations. An aging population may lead to the need for nuclear medicine technologists who can provide imaging to patients with certain medical conditions, such as heart disease. However, employment growth may be tempered as many medical facilities and third-party payers encourage the use of less costly, noninvasive imaging technologies, such as ultrasound.
This occupation supported 20,900 jobs in 2012 and 20,700 jobs in 2014, reflecting a decline of 1.0%. In 2012, this occupation was projected to increase by 20.1% in 2022 to 25,100 jobs. As of 2014, to keep pace with prediction, the expected number of jobs was 21,700, compared with an observed value of 20,700, 4.6% lower than expected. This indicates current employment trends are worse than the 2012 trend within this occupation. In 2014, this occupation was projected to increase by 1.4% in 2024 to 21,000 jobs. Linear extrapolation of the 2012 projection for 2022 results in an expected number of 25,900 jobs for 2024, 23.3% higher than the 2014 projection for 2024. This indicates expectations for future employment trends are much worse than the 2012 trend within this occupation.
Contributing Writer. "Nuclear Medicine Technologists." , https://careertrend.com/nuclear-medicine-technologists.html. Accessed 18 April 2019.


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Take a musical tour of Latin America with these soothing songs for relaxation and bedtime. Latino culture is full of rhymes, cradle songs, and lullabies. In our collection, artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico and Peru perform traditional and new nursery melodies. Listen and download the Latin American lullaby songs on our website and enjoy them along with your child.


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Who needs Osama bin Laden anyway?
Who needs Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda anyway, when we've got the Nuclear Mafia and their lapdog regulators to do us in?
Item #2 (below) is a recent report about the Brown's Ferry General Electric Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactors -- which are the same design as the reactors in trouble in Fukushima. All three reactors at Browns Ferry were suddenly forced to SCRAM during storms earlier this week when offsite power was lost after tornadoes tore up scores of power lines. The reactors are currently in "cold" shut down (one isn't quite there yet...). "Cold" is a relative term, of course.
None of these reactors should EVER be restarted. Period. But we all know there's no stopping the TVA.
Browns Ferry is the site of the most notorious fire in U.S. commercial reactor history, in 1975. But fires didn't stop 'em. These tornados won't stop 'em.
Apparently only a meltdown -- or a cascading series of meltdowns like in Japan -- will stop the TVA (another spoiled child of Al Gore Sr.).
Today's items:
(1) Dr. Helen Caldicott: Unsafe at any dose
(2) Brown's Ferry nuke plant planning to melt down sooner rather than later...
(3) Contact information for the author of this newsletter
(1) Dr. Helen Caldicott: Unsafe at any dose:
Dr. Caldicott had a great piece in the New York Times yesterday:
UNSAFE AT ANY DOSE
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/opinion/01caldicott.html
It's also available here:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/02-9
Meanwhile, George Monbiot has published a "how to become a journalist" article, revealing his secret: Just pick a topic other journalists know even less about: "It's surprising how quickly you can become an "expert" in a particular field: simply because so few other journalists will know anything about it. You will find opportunities, and opportunities will find you." He's certainly done that with nuclear power!
From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/alabama-tornadoes-nuclear-power-2011_n_854929.html?ref=fb&src=sp
Alabama Nuclear Power Plant Loses Power From Tornadoes, Could Be Down For Weeks
Posted: 04/28/11 12:18 PM ET
NEW YORK  A nuclear power plant in Alabama that lost power after violent thunderstorms and tornadoes on Wednesday will be down for days and possibly weeks but the backup power systems worked as designed to prevent a partial meltdown like the disaster in Japan.
The Browns Ferry nuclear power plant, one of the biggest in the country, provides power to 2.6 million homes. It has three reactors that are similar in design to the Fukushima Daiichi reactors crippled by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11.
"The reactors will remain shut until we have restored the reliability of the transmission system," said Ray Golden, spokesman for the Tennessee Valley Authority, which owns and operates the 3,274-megawatt Alabama plant.
When the plant lost power, the reactors automatically shut down and emergency backup diesel generators kicked in to cool the nuclear fuel. In Japan, the reactors also automatically shutdown when they lost power due to the earthquake but the backup generators were wiped out by the tsunami, allowing the fuel to overheat.
The repairs to the U.S. reactor's transmission lines would take days and could possibly take weeks, Golden said, but the plant itself was undamaged.
The tornadoes and thunderstorms left a trail of destruction across northern Alabama and northern Mississippi on Wednesday, killing at least 131 people in Alabama, according to Alabama's Governor Robert Bentley.
The storm knocked out power to about 300,000 homes and businesses, primarily in the northern parts of Alabama and Mississippi, Golden said.
In addition to the Browns Ferry nuclear power plant, the Tennessee Valley Authority operates several other facilities and provides power to about 150 municipal utilities, which distribute electricity to some 9 million people in seven states.
The federally owned power generator said its two nuclear power plants in Tennessee -- Watts Bar and Sequoyah -- were largely unaffected by the storm. Sequoyah continues to provide power to customers and Watts Bar was already shut for scheduled maintenance when the storm hit.
As of 6 a.m. EDT, the Tennessee Valley Authority had restored 12 large transmission lines but still had another 78 out of service, said another spokesman, Scott Brooks.
TWO REACTORS COOLED TO SAFE TEMPERATURE
Two of the units are cooled to a safe temperature so that the water around the reactor's core will not boil away -- as happened at Japan's Fukushima. The third unit should be in cold shutdown soon.
The Browns Ferry nuclear power plant is located in Decatur on the banks of the Wheeler Reservoir along the Tennessee River about 170 miles north of the Alabama state capital of Montgomery.
It has three units -- the 1,065-MW Unit 1, the 1,104-MW Unit 2 and the 1,105-MW Unit 3 -- which are of similar design to the Fukushima Daiichi reactors.
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
Copyright 2011 Thomson Reuters
Comment by markofthetides:
06:35 PM on 4/30/2011
"The nation's top nuclear regulator cast doubt Thursday on whether reactors in the U.S. are prepared for the type of days-long power outage that struck a nuclear power plant in Japan"
Just a couple of days and we can have a very nasty problem.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/29/us-nuclear-power-blackout_n_855424.html
That's from the head of the NRC, he should know.
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Dirtbag Leftism: What White People Ignore in Their Love for 'Parasite'
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"Parasite is a masterpiece of cinema, but its success in a white supremacist state is not wholly pure."
By Melissa Lee / February 9, 2020
2019 was a major win for progressive film. In just one year, American cinema released The Irishman, Just Mercy, When they See Us—the list goes on. All of these works received critical acclaim for their emotional depictions of issues ranging from police brutality to union busting.
Perhaps most notable is how honestly they contend with income inequality. These titles go beyond the superficial sentimentality of Oscar-bait by explicitly addressing the widespread danger of neoliberalism. They resonate with audiences through their critiques of capitalism, tapping into the nation's dissatisfaction with establishment politics.
Arguably, the most influential leftist film right now didn't come from America. South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho's Parasite centers around a destitute family who lives in one of Seoul's many low-rent basement apartments. Their luck changes, at first for the better, when the son Ki-woo gets a job tutoring the daughter of a wealthy real estate tycoon.
The unique success of Parasite defies the trend of non-English films performing poorly at the box office and awards shows. It is the first South Korean movie that the Academy Awards has nominated for Best Picture and the fourth-highest grossing Palme d'Or winner of all time in the US.
So beloved is its story that whispers of an American remake recently made rounds on the internet. Backlash from members of the #BongHive, a name derived from Beyonce fans' Beyhive, made me wonder: Is the root of Joon-ho's success a familiarity with American neoliberalism, a force informed by white supremacy? Or an obfuscation of it?
My friend and I saw Parasite at E Street Cinema. The movie theater sits in the heart of downtown DC, surrounded by glassy high-rises and hip restaurants. Members of the audience were mostly like us: college-educated twenty-somethings with office jobs and progressive ideals.
When I took my seat, I scanned the audience for anyone who wasn't white. There was my friend who's Korean-American, a black woman a couple of rows in front of us, and me. I tried to focus on the trailers, all of which advertised European films with exclusively white ensembles. Meanwhile, the white man next to me bragged to his date about teaching English in Korea. I rolled my eyes when he claimed that his former students were smarter and more studious than the public school kids here. (68 percent of DCPS students are African American, 18 percent Latinx). He said this was his third time seeing the film.
His words reframed my initial viewing. Throughout the showing, I thought about the model minority myth and its role as a propagator of anti-blackness. In my head, I counted the numerous instances of American awards shows ignoring black talent. In 2018, the overwhelmingly white Academy chose not to nominate The Hate U Give, a film about racialized police violence, for an Oscar in spite of its critical and commercial success. Green Book, a prime example of a white savior movie, won Best Picture that year. Then in 2019, the Golden Globes snubbed When They See Us, a gut-wrenching limited series that tells the true story of five low-income black boys falsely accused of rape. The winner for its category wound up being an all-white historical thriller that takes place in Soviet-era Russia.
When I compared Parasite to past lily-white award-contenders, I wanted to feel relief. At least this movie had people of color in it, I thought. That was a good thing—right? My stomach twisted itself in knots.
In her 2016 book The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority, sociologist Ellen Wu explains that white politicians across the political spectrum manufactured the stereotype of the hard-working Asian American immigrant during the Civil Rights era in order to discredit concerns about wealth inequality and anti-black oppression. At the same time, US foreign policy allowed for capitalist economies in the far east to grow, closening Asians' proximity to whiteness. Colorism only aided in the success of these countries, the media of which portrays their inhabitants as light-skinned.
Today, as capitalism further convolutes the true meaning of liberation, there are white supremacists who fetishize East Asian women and use Japanese anime characters to disseminate fascist propaganda. Many white separatist groups cite the ostensible financial development of racially homogenous countries like South Korea when advocating for the genocide of non-white people, including Asians, in their home countries.
Parasite is a masterpiece of cinema, but its success in a white supremacist state is not wholly pure. Like Joker, an anti-capitalist origin story of the titular comic book villain, Parasite spends no time pondering racial inequality. While critics have already pointed out how Joker promotes white male rage by allowing white men to process their own financial victimhood while also ignoring their relative privilege, Parasite-mania in America has gone largely unexamined.
I don't believe that a South Korean director should feel obligated to address whiteness in a country where 99% of its people identify as ethnically Korean (though South Korean neoliberalism exploits migrant workers from poorer, browner countries in South and Southeast Asia). However, the financial success of Parasite is due in part to white supremacy's use of Asian media as an escape from the groups it views as inherently inferior and, by extension, itself.
Parasite goes one step beyond Green Book, allowing white viewers to feel down with a universal cause by not portraying whiteness at all. White people can safely project themselves onto Ki-woo, a good-natured man whose alabaster skin and Korean nationality place him at the perfect narrative distance: recognizable enough to be relatable on a superficial level, foreign enough to seem nonthreatening and exotic.
The meteoric growth of Bong Joon-ho's influence parallels that of dirtbag leftism, a dangerous ideology that attempts to separate identity from class. In the fight against conservative economic policies, American leftists must embrace anti-racism and intersectionality if we want to progress as a nation. As a writer, I believe in weak theory, which refutes rigid hierarchies and interpretations of ideas. Forms of oppression do not supersede each other by order of importance. They are a network that works together to inflict harm.
South Korean capitalism is neither a perfect equal to our own capitalist system nor an irrelevantly foreign concept nor something in between. It is one part in a destructive framework, one that will never go away until we face our own inequalities issues directly. While the general conceit of Parasite could easily take place in Los Angeles or New York, treating its setting as a far-away corollary of the US erases the harm of the American racial caste system.
After the movie, while I was walking home from the metro, I saw a homeless man. He'd fallen asleep on a heating vent, his possessions splayed out around him. He was like most homeless men in the city: black, elderly. Invisible. As I passed by him, I wondered what the white man in the theater would think. Had Parasite finally imparted its themes of love and hope finally to him? Would he be able to connect the Ki-woo's struggle to that of black and latinx communities, groups disproportionately affected by austerity?
When I made it home to my parents' house, I cried. I didn't care what the racist man chose to believe. I cared because his views impacted people like me and the homeless man regardless of what I thought. With the growing likelihood of a recession and the rise of fascism, my already tenuous financial situation becomes more uncertain.
By Megan Howell
Edited By Caleb Zimmerschied
Tags: Asian Representation, Best Picture, Bong Joon-Ho, Cho Yeo-jeong, Foreign Film, Kang-Ho Song, Korean Film, Parasite, Park So-dam, The Oscars
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Bulls attempted to break the tough resistance of 1.2780 yesterday, but they failed to hold above the level and the price retraced back down.
After false breakout of 1.2780 resistance, the price corrected down right away, breaking the ascending trend line of 1.2740 on the way. This levels is now acting as the key barrier for the bulls.
If bears manage to hold below 1.2740, the price will keep correcting down to the next targets at: 1.2655, 1.2600, 1.2555.
Alternative scenario: to continue the uptrend, bulls have to break and hold above 1.2780.


On behalf of the ECDP 2016 Scientific Committee I want to thank you for attending the 13th European Congress on Digital Pathology, May 25th-28th in Berlin. We are proud to have been able to organize this event.
We do hope that you found this congress informative and worthwhile. Its primary goals were to bring together European researchers, clinicians and industry working in the field of Digital Pathology, to discuss in an open dialogue the issues facing our community today and to develop possible strategies for improving the quality, accuracy and effectiveness of our professional activities in key areas.
Scientific presentations are available online.
We believe that our diverse and dynamic group of speakers and panelists provided in-depth insights into their research and were able to share their experience and ongoing development efforts in the field. We also hope that they could obtain valuable feedback from colleagues and guests attending the congress.
Finally, please make sure you mark your calendars for next year's workshop to be hold in Finland. Detailed information about it will be published on society web site.
Thank you again for being part of such a wonderful congress experience. Your attendance and positive spirit made this event a great success. We hope the time spent together both productive and enjoyable. There is nothing more powerful than when this community gathers to share experience, ideas and hope.
We are so happy being your host to having you as part of the growing ESDIP family.


I have signed up for my wife, Jude, a prospective new member.
Please reach out if any spots become available. Keen to attend.
Hi, are there still spots available or is 17 the maximum number?
Hi all, it looks like this session is fully booked. I'd ask anyone who has reserved a space and who cannot attend to let us know by clicking the button at the top to say you can't make it. This will make your space available for someone else. Thanks!
For those of you still trying to book a space, please check back when you can. I'm sorry for the delay!
Thanks for letting us know Fola, hopefully we will see you at a ride soon!
I am looking for you near York Gate. Can't find you. Can you tell me how to catch up with you?
I'm not at the session but the group is almost certainly in the inner circle of Regents Park.
Thanks all for a great skills session this morning!
Thank you all for a fun and informative session!
Thanks for a great session, looking forward to attending a group ride.


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Angel Has Fallen (R) is in theaters now. This sequel finds Mike Banner in an awkward position, in more ways than one. When everyone in the president's security detail is killed, except him, he must go on the run to track down the hit squad that's framing him, before they succeed in another assassination attempt. Connections from his past may help or hinder, as Mike once again proves he's one tough cookie who's very dedicated to his job. The body count is high here, but the twists and turns prove very satisfying.
Our rating: 4.17 out of 5
Don't Let Go (R) is in theaters now. This BH Tilt movie has a very interesting premise. Jack is an LA cop who's very devoted to his young niece, and provides some stability for her during family issues. When his brother's family is murdered, Jack starts receiving calls from his dead niece. In her world, the murders haven't happened yet, so Jack has to figure out how to keep her safe and unaware of what's to come, as the clock ticks down, details change, and he struggles to solve the murders, before they even happen. This is a thrilling, violent ride full of twists and turns.
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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (TVPG) is streaming exclusively on Netflix. This prequel to the 1982 Jim Henson movie introduces a variety of characters from different Gelfling tribes. Each has their place in Thra, and their spiritual leader has entrusted the Skeksis with responsibility over the Crystal of Truth. When a Gelfling discovers the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power, he must spread the news and recruit allies for a rebellion, in order to save the planet. The puppetry is excellent, not only in the main characters, but in a vast supporting cast of enchanting creatures, as only the Henson magic could create. The story is enthralling (although there's so much packed into the first episode, we were almost overwhelmed) and we can't wait to watch all 10 episodes.
13 Reasons Why: Season 3 (TVMA) is streaming exclusively on Netflix. This season delves into the aftermath of Season 1's tragedies and Season 2's trial and revelations. A new character, Ani, narrates this season, offering a new perspective. We see how past actions and consequences have affected students, and how their allegiances shift as there's a new mystery to solve. As always, we don't know who's telling the truth and what new details will come to light as the season progresses. The story shift and new narrator is dividing the audience a bit, but we're reserving judgement on this one.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (PG13) is in theaters now. A group of teens goes exploring where they shouldn't, upsetting the ghost of a misunderstood young girl. As everyone involved is either killed, terrorized or disappears under very unusual circumstances, our young protagonists must figure out a way to save themselves from a similar fate. Lots of good jump scares here, plus some creepy monsters and disturbing images. Not for the faint of heart, but not overly gory either.
Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time (TV14) is an Amazon Prime exclusive. There are some laugh out loud moments here, as Jim does his usual self-deprecating schtick. The jokes are new, and there's nothing political or foul – just good clean making fun of friends and family. And maybe one or two horse jokes…
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette (PG13) is in theaters now. Bernadette is a brilliant former architect, who left the field suddenly and devoted her entire life to raising her daughter. Now that her daughter is going away to school, she has to figure out what to do with her life, given that her only other connection is to a virtual assistant.
Ready or Not (R) opens today. New bride, Grace, discovers on her wedding night that she's married into a very eccentric family, that fears they will die if they don't kill her that night. She can't escape, but that doesn't mean she won't fight – and fight she does. It's a super violent adventure, with quite a bit of humor, one powerful female protagonist – and one all-purpose wedding dress.
Our rating: 4 out of 5
Guava Island (TVMA) is streaming on Amazon Prime. This short film is about a small island nation with rich natural resources and the dictator-like figure who controls the economy. It's also a big music video for actor Donald Glover (aka singer Childish Gambino). Rihanna has a non-singing role as his love interest. It's an interesting project, full of political statements and music, but maybe a little too thin on storyline.
Seven in Heaven (PG13) is available for rental and streaming on Netflix. Although this is a Blumhouse production, it's more of a time paradox film than horror. Two teens emerge from the closet after a party game, only to discover that the people they know are quite different and that their alternate selves lead different lives as well. The new timeline is much more violent and they have to determine how to get back to their own time.
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Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) is in theaters now. Unlike the TV series, this is not aimed at preschoolers or young kids, as the story follows a 16-year-old Dora (not a 6-year-old one). Being unfamiliar with the show was not a drawback for us. The movie is fun and campy, quickly moving from a fish out of water story with Dora in the big city, back to a jungle adventure, with some new companions who are now out of THEIR element. Of course Backpack and Boots the monkey are part of the action, but there are also some new friends and foes. The kids in our audience enjoyed the heck out of the slapstick, plus nude and poo gags. While we enjoyed the movie in general, we couldn't help wondering about the intended audience for a teen Dora film.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) is in theaters now. Red is enjoying his hero status on Bird Island, until the Pigs want to call a truce on the prank war. There's another island that's threatening both of them, and the former enemies have to learn to work together against the Eagles. This one might be even better than the first – it's rife with pop culture references and innuendo, plus tons of celebrity voices. Standout newcomers include Leslie Jones, Tiffany Haddish and Awkwafina. This is more than just a movie based on a game, as we learn more about the characters and their families. There are Lots of laugh out loud moments here – it's a fun watch.
Blinded by the Light (PG13) opens today. Based on a true story, this music-infused coming of age story follows Javed, a Pakistani teen trying to navigate life in 1987 England. As economic woes hit his family, they are also targeted by bigots and hate groups. Javed is struggling to be part of his traditional family, but still grow as a person, and he grapples with father/son issues. When he discovers the music of Bruce Springsteen, he finds a new light (and love) in his life, which makes the struggle even more intense. This is an enlightening film from a historical perspective. It also strikes a chord with anyone who has struggled to become their own person, in the face of family or societal pressures. And if you love movies that take place in the 80s (including all the music, hair and wardrobe), here's one to add to the list.
Teen Spirit (PG13) is available for rental. This is the story of Violet, who enters a singing competition in an attempt to get out of her small town on the Isle of Wight (UK). It's a bit weird to us that an older man, a veritable stranger to her, becomes her manager/guardian for the purposes of the competition, but his skill set does come in handy. Elle Fanning's vocals are good, and it's interesting to see the process of the contest and how fame affects the character. It's a bit of a strange film but it has its moments.
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It is a fight that will thrill many in the boxing world. Anthony Joshua's representatives have confirmed that talks about a heavyweight boxing bout with Wladimir Klitschko are at an advanced stage.
Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn stated that he is '70 per cent sure' that the fight can be delivered. This will be exciting news for boxing fans who will no doubt have been disappointed by the recent capitulation of Tyson Fury, the British WBA, WBO and IBO world champion (he confessed to taking cocaine and could lose his boxing licence).
Fury was due to have a rematch with Klitschko this July but the match has been blighted by postponements (by Fury). Recent negative press around the man from Morecambe, including sexist comments, also bring into question his ability to represent the sport of boxing honourably at the highest level.
26-year-old Joshua meanwhile has been a model statesman for the sport since he turned professional after winning gold at the 2012 London Olympic games. He is undefeated in his 17 professional matches, winning all by knockout, and recently defended his IBF title, defeating Dominic Breazeale earlier in the year at the O2 arena.
His meteoric rise up the heavyweight category will not have come as a surprise to many who have long recognised his talent. However, given his modest 17 professional fights compared to 40-year-old Klitschko's 68, this will no doubt be his biggest test yet.
The Watford-born fighter has previously indicated a desire to fight in Africa and if he is able to defeat Klitschko, there will be greater calls from his fans across Africa for him to stage a fight on the continent and emulate the great Mohammed Ali.
Although Joshua can't yet be spoken of in the same breath as Ali, he is no doubt building a strong reputation within boxing, which can only be further enhanced by defeating Klitschko.
Either way, we're hooked on his social feeds.


Larry Kelter's Back to Brooklyn is the sequel to My Cousin Vinny, coming 25 years after the release of the classic legal comedy that brought us the unforgettable Mona Lisa Vito and Vincent Gambini. Reading Back to Brooklyn is like stepping into a comfortable, old pair of shoes (in the best possible way). It picks up right where My Cousin Vinny leaves off, with Vinny and Lisa preparing to leave Alabama, after Vinny's unlikely victory defending his cousin in a murder trial in the fictitious Beechum County.
I found that I had been subconsciously preparing for this job for decades, ever since I first saw the film. I just didn't know it at the time. I was grooming myself for the job every time I parroted lines from the film, at parties and in daily conversation. When I sat down at the keyboard I found myself in Vinny's mind, speaking in Joe Pesci's voice. And from there the rest was less daunting. Sure, I had to come up with a plot and a reveal worthy of the film, without the use of magic grits or Positraction. I hope readers will feel my story measures up.
I'm originally from Brooklyn, so I guess you could say that growing up I was a motorhead. Of course I wasn't at Lisa's level but I did my own oil changes, and tune-ups (in the days before electronics came into play). I replaced a few carburetors and did some brake jobs. Cars were always in my blood and still are to this day. I drive a Mustang GT and can't get enough of the growling exhaust or the power generated by the double overhead cam V8. On the flip side, I worked in the fashion industry for several years. I was a general manager for Izod LaCoste, the brand with the famous alligator emblem. So, yeah, I know a thing or two about fashion. I also went to school in Bensonhurst Brooklyn. Most every girl at FDR High School was a facsimile of Mona Lisa Vito with dark hair and big brown eyes walking down the corridors in skintight Levi's and platform shoes. I had an affinity for Mona Lisa Vito even before she debuted on the big screen. And that's the God's honest truth.
I've always identified with the film. No, I'm not an attorney but I am originally from Brooklyn and I grew up around that kind of My-Cousin-Vinny humor, that Brooklyn wise guy humor. "Yeah, you blend." Like most novelists, I have a hankering to get involved in the movie business at some level, to write a script, and be part of that world. Over and over I kept asking myself, "What kind of screenplay do I have a talent for?" The answer was always the same, "Comedy," and my favorite, of course, was My Cousin Vinny.
I mean, after all, Vinny and Lisa are still making us smile twenty-five years later. Dale Launer did such a remarkable job sculpting Vinny and Lisa. And the performances of Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei…the bar was set pretty damn high.
But before moving on to my recommendation, here are my couple of minor issues with the book. The book has its humorous moments, but I found there were too many easy jokes (like I said, minor issues). Many of the supporting characters feel like stereotyped caricatures, but I'm not from Brooklyn, so maybe there are guys on every street corner that are representative of Kelter's characters. Finally, Kelter plays it pretty fast and loose with rules of evidence and courtroom procedure, but most non-lawyer readers aren't going to know any differently and it doesn't otherwise detract from the story.
I read Back to Brooklyn while on several days of vacation, and it was just the sort of thing I needed to help me unwind. It's a comedic legal thriller with a good time had by all (except for the guy that gets killed – he kind of had a rough go of it). Larry Kelter captures all the charm and endearing flaws of Vinny and Lisa, and I enjoyed the chance to engage them in another adventure. If you're looking for a fun read with familiar characters, Back to Brooklyn may fit the bill.
Back to Brooklyn released on May 22, 2017, and you can order it from Amazon for $8.99.
Other book reviews: Dean Karnazes's Road to Sparta, Portia Porter's Can You Stiff Your Divorce Lawyer?, Diana Glyer's Bandersnatch, Jeff Goins's The Art of Work, Merrilyn Tarlton's Getting Clients, and Nic Pizzolatto's Galveston.


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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The Supreme Court's decision to preserve Obamacare subsidies has drawn sharp rebukes from Republican Presidential hopefuls, who warn that the victory for health care might eventually pave the way for similar advances in education and the environment.
"The Supreme Court has decided, apparently, that every American should have access to quality health care," said Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas). "What if it decided to say the same thing about education? I don't mean to be an alarmist but, after today, I believe that anything is possible."
Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) also blasted the Court, telling reporters that "a government that protects health care is one small, dangerous step away from protecting the environment."
"The nightmare that I have long feared is now suddenly upon us," Paul said. "Mark my words, we are on a slippery slope toward clean air and water."
On the campaign trail in Iowa, the former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee raised another doomsday scenario, telling his audience, "If the Court thinks people should be allowed to see a doctor when they want, they probably also think that people should be able to marry anyone they want. My friends, that is not what God intended when He created America."
Speaking from New York, candidate Donald Trump offered his own scathing critique of the Supreme Court. "You look at them in their robes, and you say, 'Those robes look freaking cheap,' " he said. "When I'm President, we're getting more expensive robes."
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Phnom Penh is the capital and largest city of Cambodia. Despite its reputation as a 'rough' city, Phnom Penh is easy to get around and is a great introduction to Cambodia. For Western visitors, even those who have visited other Asian cities, Phnom Penh can be a bit of a shock. It can be very hot and its infrastructure is lacking. But things are changing. Development is on the rise and infrastructure is improving rapidly. Beautiful wide boulevards, fine colonial architecture and a park-like riverfront with cafés and restaurants make Phnom Penh a worthwhile destination.
Sisowath Quay is a boulevard that runs along the banks of the Mekong and Tonle Sap. It is home to cafés and shops and the better class of bar, and is popular with tourists and ex-pat Westerners. The Royal Palace and its two magnificent pagodas in the Palace Grounds are worth seeing.
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum was a school converted into Cambodia's most important prison in 1975. The museum is easily accessible and a must-see for everyone interested in Cambodia's recent past.


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Q: AWS CloudSearch uploaded PDFs content not indexed I am attempting to upload PDF to CloudSearch via the console. While the document is added, the content is not effectively searchable. The console generates SDF formatted JSON like this:
[ {
  "type" : "add",
  "id" : "Sample.pdf",
  "fields" : {
    "content_type" : "text/plain",
    "content_encoding" : "windows-1252",
    "resourcename" : "Sample.pdf",
    "content" : "%PDF-1.6\r\nCatalogx^½]ÛrÜ6�}Ÿ¯˜ÊÃ{...}\r\n%%EOF"
  }
} ]

When I attempt to search for document content, the text readable above ("PDF", "Catalog") appears, but not any of the "useful" content of the document.
I was surprised to see that:

*

*the content/type was text/plain instead of appliation/pdf, and

*the content was not encoded as something like base64

I then hand-crafted my own batch XML file to attempt the same:
<batch>
    <add id="pdftest1">
        <field name="content_type">application/pdf</field>
        <field name="resourcename">Sample1.pdf</field>
        <field name="content">{copied from aws console output}</field>
    </add>
</batch>

and
<batch>
    <add id="pdftest2">
        <field name="content_type">application/pdf</field>
        <field name="resourcename">Sample2.pdf</field>
        <field name="content">{base64 encoded pdf contents}</field>
    </add>
</batch>

It is possible to have CloudSearch search the "useful" contents of a PDF without converting the PDF to a text file first?
If so, what am I doing wrong?
Edit 6/27/2016
The CloudSearch command line interface generates batches that work by converting the PDF to raw text. Not sure why the AWS CloudSearch console does not do the same.
C:\Downloads>cs-import-documents --source .\Sample.pdf --output .\1.json

produced:
[ {
  "type" : "add",
  "id" : "xmlC:_Downloads_Sample.pdf",
  "fields" : {
    "content_type" : "application/pdf",
    "created" : "Fri Jun 17 11:14:45 EDT 2016",
    "resourcename" : "Sample.pdf",
    "content" : "6/17/2016 [... remaining text omitted for brevity ...]
  }
} ]

The AWS documentation includes:

Amazon CloudSearch console provide a way to automatically generate
  properly formatted JSON or XML from several common file types: PDF,
  Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, CSV, text, and
  HTML.

This appears to be incorrect as of 6/24/2016 (or I've missed something in my usage of the console).
This leaves me with an alternate question: what is a reasonably efficient way to daily get several hundred new PDFs located in an S3 bucket into CloudSearch? Specifically:

*

*Does the CloudSearch API offer the "pdf-to-text" as part of their API?

*Must I use the CS CLI to perform the conversion?

If the CLI is the recommended way to go, that seems inefficient in that (I assume) the CLI must pull the PDF from S3, convert to text, and then push the resulting SDF to CloudSearch. It seems ... odd that AWS would not provide an API call against CS that would do precisely this for me.  Perhaps they do offer it and I'm missing it?

A: Same problem here.
I am working on document management project (C#, WPF)
and want to indexed large Amount of PDFs on CloudSearch from S3.
Following Process worked for me as my requirement. I'm not able to find any other solution.

*

*Manual configure the index

*

*Example fields : 'filename','text','path','modifieddate'

*Code to add document to CloudSearch
// Find all files in root folder create index on them
        List<string> lstFiles = listAllFilesOnCloud("[BucketName]");

        foreach (string strFile in lstFiles)
        {
            string FileName = System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(strFile);
            string Text = ExtractTextFromPdf("https://s3.amazonaws.com/" + strFile);
            string Path = strFile;
            DateTime ModifiedDate = DateTime.Now;

            string headerText = Text.Substring(0, Text.Length < 150 ? Text.Length : 150);
            foreach (var docs in ltDocumentTypes)
            {
                if (headerText.ToUpper().Contains(docs.searchText.ToUpper()))
                {
                    DocumentType = docs.DocumentType;
                    Vault = docs.VaultName; ;
                }
            }

            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(DocumentType))
            {
                DocumentType = "Default";
                Vault = "Default";
            }

            IndexDocument docDetail = new IndexDocument();
            docDetail.filename = FileName;
            docDetail.text = Text;
            docDetail.path = Path;
            docDetail.modifieddate = ModifiedDate;

            UploadDcoumentOnCloudSearch(docDetail);
        }

Used ITexSharp to exract text form pdf.

A: Finally, I was able to get it to work! The way it worked for me is to us cs-import-documents AWS Cloudsearch command.
cs-import-documents --source "c:\test.pdf" --output "C:\test.sdf"
It produced a .json file. I uploaded this to the Cloudsearch through the console and the search provided results.
Good luck,
Raj

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Clara Chuchio ist eine Ortschaft im Departamento Santa Cruz im südamerikanischen Anden-Staat Bolivien.

Lage im Nahraum
Clara Chuchio ist zentraler Ort des Kanton Clara Chuchio im Landkreis (bolivianisch: Municipio) Warnes in der Provinz Ignacio Warnes im westlichen Teil des Departamentos Santa Cruz. Die Ortschaft liegt vier Kilometer nordöstlich des Flughafens von Santa Cruz, Viru Viru Internacional, auf einer Höhe von  am Río Chuchio, der weiter nördlich in den Río Chané fließt.

Geographie
Clara Chuchio liegt im tropischen Feuchtklima vor dem Ostrand der Anden-Gebirgskette der Cordillera Oriental. Die Region war vor der Kolonisierung von tropischem Regenwald bedeckt, ist heute aber größtenteils Kulturland.

Die mittlere Durchschnittstemperatur der Region liegt bei knapp 24 °C (siehe Klimadiagramm Warnes), die Monatswerte schwanken zwischen 20 °C im Juni/Juli und 26 °C von November bis Februar. Der Jahresniederschlag beträgt etwa 1300 mm, die Monatsniederschläge sind ergiebig und liegen zwischen 35 mm im August und 200 mm im Januar.

Verkehrsnetz
Clara Chuchio liegt 27 Kilometer nördlich der Departamento-Hauptstadt Santa Cruz und siebzehn Kilometer südlich der Stadt Warnes.

An Clara Chuchio vorbei führt die 1.657 Kilometer lange Fernstraße Ruta 4, die das Land in West-Ost-Richtung durchquert, von Tambo Quemado an der chilenischen Grenze bis Puerto Suárez im Dreiländereck Brasilien-Bolivien-Paraguay. Die Straße führt von Westen kommend über Cochabamba, Villa Tunari und Montero nach Warnes und dann weiter über Santa Cruz und Roboré nach Puerto Suárez und über die Grenze in das brasilianische Corumbá.

Einundzwanzig Kilometer nördlich von Santa Cruz zweigt eine Landstraße von der Ruta 4 in östlicher Richtung ab und erreicht Clara Chuchio nach sechs Kilometern.

Bevölkerung
Die Einwohnerzahl der Ortschaft ist in den vergangenen beiden Jahrzehnten auf ein Mehrfaches angestiegen:

In der Region sind die Quechua die zahlenmäßig wichtigste indigene Volksgruppe, im Municipio Warnes sprechen 13,5 Prozent der Einwohner die Quechua-Sprache.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 Reliefkarte der Region Santa Cruz 1:250.000 (PDF; 7,88 MB)
 Municipio Warnes - Übersichtskarten Nr. 70201
 Municipio Warnes - Detailkarte und Bevölkerungsdaten (PDF; 819 kB) (spanisch)
 Departamento Santa Cruz - Sozialdaten der Municipios (PDF; 4,99 MB) (spanisch)


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I recently came across this old but quite interesting book "The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival" by Sir John Glubb.
The book was originally published in 1976, and is no longer in print. Old copies are difficult to find, but PDF versions of the book are available online.
The book is only 26 pages. However, it packs quite a lot of thought-provoking information into such a small space. Sir John Glubb also proposes several controversial theories concerning the life cycle and demise of empires.
Sir Glubb undertook a historical study of the lifecycle of empires covering a span of 3,000 years of recorded human history, from Assyria and Persia through the British Empire. He observes that all empires survive as empires for around 250 years, corresponding to 10 human generations.
The book acknowledges that most empires do not have well-defined start and/or end dates. However, there is a reasonable degree of expert consensus on when a nation achieves the status of being an empire, and when such an empire fails or falls, reverting to a nation or falling under the control of a new empire.
Sir Glubb further observed that all empires pass through six stages of existence.
The Age of Pioneers (Outburst): The rapid development of a nation, often of insignificant status, to conquer rivals and become an empire. Pioneers are typically motivated by either greed or admiration of the existing empire.
The Age of Conquests: This includes commercial expansion and dominance as well as military power and dominance.
The Age of Commerce: The "glory and honor" of the Age of Conquest gradually is replaced by the desire to earn money and profit.
The Age of Affluence: As wealth pours into the empire, the commercial classes grow immensely wealthy. Art, luxury, and architecture flourishes during this period. The empire shifts from the militaristic quest for glory, to the defense of its wealth, luxury, and privilege. Conquest becomes viewed as an immoral, uncivilized act, and pacifism achieves moral superiority.
The Age of Intellect: Wealthy patrons endow colleges and universities, giving rise to the pursuit of knowledge. Interestingly, the author provides ample evidence for this period of intellectual development across 3,000 years of history.
The Age of Decadence: The final period of empires, characterized by defensiveness, pessimism, materialism, and frivolity. The empire experiences a significant influx of foreigners, and transitions to a welfare state. Religious institutions are substantially weakened. Eventually, the empire spirals into selfishness and the loss of a sense of duty. Empires ultimately fail due to a diverse range of mostly external causes and forces, the result of the internal decay of the empire destroying its ability to resist such external forces.
Sir Glubb packed this book with many direct references to many empires both ancient and contemporary. He patiently assists the reader in relating the rise and fall of historical empires to our modern empires, including Britain (1700 to 1950) and the USA (1776 to ???).
I highly recommend this book for individuals with an interest for history. I also recommend this book for managers and leaders. I believe that some of these historical lessons attributed to empires can provide insight into the rise and fall of commercial empires and entities.
Posted on 2016-09-10 2016-09-10 Categories GeopoliticsTags empire, geopolitics, historyLeave a comment on The Fate of Empires: Sir John Glubb 1976
Japan and the Shackles of the Past: T. Murphy 2014
I had the privilege of hearing Taggart Murphy speak a few weeks ago at our Rotary Club of Bangkok South luncheon meeting. Murphy is an engaging and genuinely interesting speaker, and I was very interested to hear his thoughts on Japanese politics, economics, and culture. His presentation inspired me to purchase his recent book "Japan and the Shackles of the Past", which was published in December 2014 by Oxford University Press.
Murphy is a Professor of International Political Economy at the MBA Program in International Business at the Tokyo campus of the University of Tsukuba. He is also a former Investment Banker, and was a Non-Resident Senior Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
"Japan and the Shackles of the Past" is very well researched and presented, and is organized into two parts. Part One is titled "The Forging of the Shackles" and presents a very thorough political, economic, and cultural history of Japan. Murphy diligently educates the reader in the historical and cultural foundations upon which Japanese society has been constructed.
Part Two is titled "The Shackles Trap Today's Japan", and is organized into chapters focused on "Economy and Finance", "Business", "Social and Cultural Change", "Politics", and "Japan and the World."
Murphy has very thoroughly researched and presented both the rich historical background and the complex, opaque, and frequently contradictory nature of modern day Japanese culture and politics.
The final chapter of the book "Japan and the World" primarily deals with Japan's current events and geopolitical challenges and strategy starting in mid 2010. With out a doubt, this is by far the most interesting and thought provoking chapter in the book. Murphy skillfully analyzes, interprets, and anticipates Japan's current events and strategy by frequently referencing the foundational material presented in the previous 10 chapters.
It is clear in the final chapter that Murphy has shifted his author's perspective from cultural and economic historian to geopolitical and economic analyst and strategist. He objectively explains current events, and then presents his subjective analysis of these events based on his extensive knowledge of Japanese history and culture.
Murphy does not evaluate Japan in a vacuum; he is always careful to diligently explain the broad geopolitical and economic external forces which are confronting and challenging Japan. He observes that "China is the greatest power in the region; it always has been and always will be." He notes that though China has had periods of internal weakness, the latest and longest such period having began with the Opium Wars, "there is simply no plausible way in which China's re-emergence as the preeminent power in Asia can be derailed."
Of the USA, Murphy notes that "the United States does not fundamentally care about Japan. That does not mean to say that many Americans do not have some sort of personal tie with the country and thus regard it with affection." He further explains that "American elites rarely see Japan as anything other than a military asset, as a tool to realize a dream … that the United States can somehow achieve … a world where it faces no potential threat, no potential challenge — 'full spectrum dominance' to use the language of America's deluded military planners." He describes this dream as a "tragic and foolhardy illusion." Murphy discusses President Eisenhower's warning of the emergence of a military – industrial complex "that would destroy American democracy unless brought to heel." He anticipates that "the American Empire is doomed to failure because it is structurally and institutionally ignorant of the wider world. Only a demolition of the national security state can remedy this ignorance."
Murphy explains that "China wants the United States out of Asia far more badly than the United States wants to stay in the region; Beijing has embarked on a long and high-stakes game to see it happen. The stakes may be equally high for Tokyo, but they are not for most Americans, and when that becomes clear, the US – Japan 'alliance' will crumble, leaving Japan alone and friendless."
Murphy discusses Japan's need to rejoin Asia. He notes that "Japan's original sin lies in its attempts to separate itself from Asia. The sin is understandable but the repercussions have been horrendous." Looking to the future, Murphy observes that it "seems safe to predict the coming close of the 500 – year ascendancy of the West and the return of the fulcrum of human history to East Asia. Japan has potentially a central role to play in this, but only as an Asian country accepted by its neighbors as such."
I highly recommend reading Taggart Murphy's "Japan and the Shackles of the Past". It is a great compliment to my other two recent recommendations, "Asian Godfathers" and "How Asia Works", both by Joe Studwell.
Posted on 2015-12-07 2015-12-15 Categories GeopoliticsTags geopolitics, japan, japanese historyLeave a comment on Japan and the Shackles of the Past: T. Murphy 2014
Asian Godfathers: Joe Studwell 2007
Regardless whether you were born and raised in SE Asia, are an expat in an SE Asian country, or are an immigrant to SE Asia, if you seek a better understanding of SE Asian politics, business, and history, you need to read Joe Studwell's landmark book "Asian Godfathers".
I personally consider "Asian Godfathers" to be more than just an interesting historical study on the rise of the region's leading tycoons. This book serves as an important reference document to understand the power, influence, goals, and in some cases "dark secrets" of the most influential people in SE Asia.
Studwell does a very good job of introducing the concept of the Godfather, the historical context which gave rise to influential persons and families, and a summary of how to establish oneself as a Godfather. Joe brings context to the Asian Godfather by discussing the rise and fall of American Godfathers; most of whom were substantially curtailed and controlled by Theodore Roosevelt's "Bureau of Corporations" Federal Reserve Act, along with the Glass-Steagall Bill (which was effectively repealed in 1999 by President Clinton).
Though SE Asian governments continue to evolve in both form and governance, and many have taken steps in recent years to minimize the influence of non-democratic powerful influences, Godfathers and their influential families continue to wield significant power in their domestic political and economic systems.
The final section of the book "Cast of Characters" contains a brief summary of each of the Asian Godfathers and/or the influential families which derive their power and influence today from an influential Godfather ancestor.
"Asian Godfathers" is a fascinating book, enjoyable to read, and very informative and enlightening. Though it was published in 2007, it remains very relevant today, and I highly recommend it to anyone who wishes to better understand SE Asian power and politics.
Posted on 2015-11-09 Categories GeopoliticsTags geopolitics, godfather, se asiaLeave a comment on Asian Godfathers: Joe Studwell 2007


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Install or update the FontoXML development tools and it's requirements, and make sure you have placed a valid Fonto (developer) license on your system.
Open a command prompt in you editor instance folder.
Run the fdt editor upgrade command.
Optionally select addons to add and/or remove.
Select Upgrade FontoXML Editor instance... and press enter.
Refer to the upgrade instructions for the versions between the old version of your application and the version you are upgrading to for details on configuration changes required for the new version.
Update any localization message bundles you may have using the new messages-template.json file and the localization tools.
If all is well, remove the created backup folder.


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Данные водного реестра
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We're gearing up for our 2012 "Best" lists – the best charge cards, the best cash rewards cards, the best cards from each credit card company – and there's one category we're really looking forward to. This year, we're going to review the best credit card company commercials. Everyone has their favorites, right? Jimmy Fallon, Alec Baldwin, Chevy Chase (bet you can't figure out which card company Chevy Chase endorsed) and other TV celebrities all play a role, too.
This year, there's no shortage of whimsical, funny, poignant – and even goofy – credit card commercials.
Make no mistake the card companies and their advertising agencies are brilliant – they choose what works and what we're left with is plenty of fun commercials and an idea that we can't live without the credit card. So, as we're gearing up for the "Best Of" season of sorts, we thought we'd break it down and take a look at a few of the great commercials from each company – with the goal of culminating them into the best of the best. This week, we take a look at Chase credit card commercials. From the fantastic Super Bowl ad that still has folks buzzing to the unique black and white Chase Sapphire commercial with "The Boys Are Back in Town" playing in the background, Chase raised the bar – and we wouldn't expect anything less from the banking giant.
And by the way – be sure to let us know your favorite, too – we've not declared our own winners yet, so if we missed something or if you were inspired by any of these – give us a heads up!
Up first is the aforementioned Chase Sapphire Preferred commercial with Dad and his two young sons out for lunch together. The catch is "Not every meal is about food". It's classic – it speaks of family, and while its focus is on money and credit, the corner diner is perfect – not too pretentious and it's believable (really, how many of us are going to take our two boys on a Saturday afternoon for lunch in some regal restaurant?). Milkshakes, burgers and time well spent. We say this is 32 seconds of our time well spent, too. It's the feel good Chase Commercial of the year. The classic "The Boys are Back in Town" by Irish rockers Thin Lizzy is the perfect accompaniment too. You'll be craving a Chase Sapphire preferred, an afternoon with the little ones – and a milkshake, too.
Next up, we take a look at the Chase Freedom "Cash Back Footloose" commercial. Now, in all honesty, this wasn't one of our favorites. I love the classic music that's become popular in many of today's contemporary commercials, but please – give me the originals. Still, the sweet hound dog in this commercial, another sepia toned but with the classic blue shadings, redeems the commercial in its entirety. It's not Kenny Loggins, but it's not bad either. Ben Grant makes it count – and the cash back examples shown in the ad are great, too.
Of course, no "Best of" list is complete without the adorable Drew Brees commercial that debuted during this year's Super Bowl. Let's face it – Chase scored huge when it landed Drew Brees. It was a home run (I know….I know…touchdown is a better word), but it it gave us everything a television commercial should be – plenty of product placement that's in use, a great sports figure, sweet kids and the power of technology. It just doesn't get any better than that, right?
2005 was the year of sentimentality for JPMorgan Chase. There were two tear-jerker commercials, both involving how quickly time slips away.
In this first one, we watch a family evolve and the jist of the commercial was the 90 Chase credit cards that applicable at every stage of our life. The "100 Years" tune by Five for Fighting is playing in the background as Mom and Dad walk down the aisle, begin their family and then see that family grow to include grandchildren. It's a classic favorite – and it definitely served its purpose. You see several of the co-branded cards, including the Disney – Chase card, as well as the Amazon – Chase card.
There's simply no denying the power of the television commercial. When they're done right, they are powerful marketing tools and money makers for the companies the commercials showcase. The credit card companies have truly honed in on what the American consumer is looking for – and what he needs. While we're showcasing JPMorgan Chase in this post, be sure to check back as we tackle the other big credit card game changers, including Capital One – everyone loves Jimmy Fallon, right? We also take a look at one we actually didn't like (gasp) from Citi. All we'll say at this point is the commercial has an awesome tune and it includes rock climbing. The reason might surprise you, too.
So what are your favorite commercials from credit card companies? Have any that work because of the classic rock or beautiful lyrical pieces? Maybe it's a great actor at the helm that makes it work for you? What ever it is (or isn't), let us know – we want all the input we can get as we embark on this end of year tradition. Leave us a comment, tweet us or leave us a post on Facebook.
I want to know where the diner from the Chase Sapphire Preferred commercial is, so that I an avoid it at all costs. Burgers, shakes, and fries for three people costs $65 there!


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The Beat 07-'06 • Brian Dring
At the top of tonight's news is the new release from Curaçao's songbird Izaline Calister entitled Kanta Hélele (Network). Her fourth album signals a change in direction away from the jazzy keyboard-dominated arrangements of previous recordings toward a more acoustic guitar sound, such as the Brazilian-flavored title track and the Antillean waltz 'Bisami Si (SayYes)', both of which could belong on a Toots Thielemans album with their laid-back instrumentation and melodica flourishes. There are also a few ballads such as 'Kerido Amigu' and the heart-aching 'Nada den Mi Man' written for her widowed father.
As with previous albums, there are also the dance-floor arrangements of Curaçao's staple, the African-derived 6/8 groove known as tumba. The red-hot salsa antiyana opener 'Mi So Den Boso' is a classic in the style of the legendary Macario Prudencia, while the playfully upbeat Cuban-flavored salsa of 'Dia Bo Pagami' belies the seriousness of the lyrics, which talk of an unreliable friend who won't pay back money.
Since her earliest albums Izaline has explored and rejuvenated the fascinating but still relatively unknown musical traditions of her homeland and writes almost all her lyrics in Papiamento, the language unique to the Dutch Caribbean islands. Already she is being hailed as Curaçao's cultural ambassador to the world. This album is one more step in her journey.
Q & A with Izaline Calister
Brian Dring: I noticed that your sound is less jazz-oriented and more acoustic on this album and also that some members of your band (the keyboardist and bassist) have changed. Did the change in musical direction result from their departure or did you consciously change your style first?
Izaline Calister: No, it was a conscious change. I really wanted to move more toward the acoustic roots side of my cultural background. I started on that path with Krioyo. Because I had signed with the world-music label Network Medien, I thought it would be a great opportunity to start exploring the rootsy, more folk side of Curaçaoan music. I loved that experience especially because I knew I could always incorporate jazz or classical influences without people really noticing. So when Krioyo was done, I started noticing that I wanted to go deeper into the roots, more than I had been doing. This time I wanted to stay with the traditional Curaçao groove and keep the content of the songs more important than the individual capabilities of the musicians and avoid the jazzy approach. I wanted the musical part of the songs to tell more about where I come from and the lyrics to tell more about me. That's why I think this is my most personal cd ever. I also wrote most of the 11 songs on the album by myself, so you get to know a lot about the woman on the cover.
The change in the band members was just a natural turnover I guess. Fortunately we could plan it so I had enough time to work with the new band before starting the writing and recording process.
Q: The new band sounds great. Did you already know the new musicians and where did you find them?
A: Thank you! I think so too. I already knew these musicians and had been admiring their work for a while already. We even played together on different occasions in other band situations or jam sessions around Amsterdam or in Curaçao. So I immediately knew who I wanted to work with. It felt like a blessing when they all had time in their schedules and a genuine enthusiasm to join my band.
Q: Where do you spend most of your time these days and how much time do you spend touring?
A: These days I am resting a bit from the hectic time I had during the recordings and later for the release of Kanta Hélele. We are doing some summer festivals but that is not that tiring since most are in the Netherlands, Germany and Austria and don't involve much travel. We are playing the North Sea Jazz festival 2006 soon and I want to make a great and lasting impression there. So I am preparing some surprises. I have four gigs a week I would say and now in summertime it is less. I try to get some rest in the summertime because at the beginning of September the tumultuous life starts again. I am starting a tour in October when we go to Curaçao to present the new cd. I am also going to Austria in September where I will be opening for Tania Maria. The new cultural season promises to be full and exciting. I am really looking forward to that.


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namespace paddle {
namespace imperative {
extern std::string LayerDebugString(const std::string& op_type,
                                    const NameVarMap<egr::EagerVariable>& ins,
                                    const NameVarMap<egr::EagerVariable>& outs);

extern std::shared_ptr<GradOpNode> CreateGradOpNode(
    const framework::OperatorBase& op,
    const NameTensorMap& ins,
    const NameTensorMap& outs,
    const framework::AttributeMap& attrs,
    const framework::AttributeMap& default_attrs,
    const platform::Place& place,
    const std::map<std::string, std::string>& inplace_map);

TEST(test_eager, eager_debug) {
  std::shared_ptr<egr::EagerVariable> x_in(new egr::EagerVariable("x_in"));
  std::shared_ptr<egr::EagerVariable> y_in(new egr::EagerVariable("y_in"));
  std::shared_ptr<egr::EagerVariable> vout(new egr::EagerVariable("vout"));
  imperative::NameVarMap<egr::EagerVariable> ins = {{"X", {x_in}},
                                                    {"Y", {y_in}}};
  imperative::NameVarMap<egr::EagerVariable> outs = {{"Out", {vout}}};
  LayerDebugString("mul", ins, outs);
}
TEST(test_create_node, eager_node) {
  auto op = framework::OpRegistry::CreateOp("mul", {}, {}, {}, false);
  framework::Scope scope;
  auto ctx = framework::RuntimeContext({}, {});
  imperative::NameVarMap<egr::EagerVariable> ins = {{"X", {nullptr}},
                                                    {"Y", {nullptr}}};
  imperative::NameVarMap<egr::EagerVariable> outs = {{"Out", {nullptr}}};
  CreateGradOpNode((*op.get()),
                   ins,
                   outs,
                   framework::AttributeMap{},
                   framework::AttributeMap{},
                   platform::CPUPlace(),
                   {});
}
TEST(test_var_helper, eager_var_helper) {
  framework::Variable var0, var1, var2, var3, var4, var5, var6, var7, var8;
  InitializeVariable(&var0, paddle::framework::proto::VarType::FEED_MINIBATCH);
  InitializeVariable(&var1, paddle::framework::proto::VarType::STEP_SCOPES);
  InitializeVariable(&var2, paddle::framework::proto::VarType::LOD_RANK_TABLE);
  InitializeVariable(&var3,
                     paddle::framework::proto::VarType::LOD_TENSOR_ARRAY);
  InitializeVariable(&var4, paddle::framework::proto::VarType::STRINGS);
  InitializeVariable(&var5, paddle::framework::proto::VarType::VOCAB);
  InitializeVariable(&var6, paddle::framework::proto::VarType::READER);
  InitializeVariable(&var7, paddle::framework::proto::VarType::RAW);
  ASSERT_ANY_THROW(
      InitializeVariable(&var8, paddle::framework::proto::VarType::FP64));

  auto egr_tensor = std::make_shared<egr::EagerVariable>();
  auto egr_tensor2 = std::make_shared<egr::EagerVariable>();
  egr_tensor->MutableVar()
      ->GetMutable<phi::SelectedRows>()
      ->mutable_value()
      ->mutable_data<float>(platform::CPUPlace());
  egr_tensor2->MutableVar()->GetMutable<framework::LoDRankTable>();
  VLOG(6) << "egr_tensor create with ";
  ASSERT_TRUE(platform::is_cpu_place(GetPlace<egr::EagerVariable>(egr_tensor)));
  ASSERT_TRUE(GetDataType<egr::EagerVariable>(egr_tensor) ==
              framework::proto::VarType::FP32);
  GetCachedValue<egr::EagerVariable>(
      egr_tensor,
      framework::OpKernelType(framework::proto::VarType::FP32,
                              platform::CPUPlace()));
  SetCachedValue<egr::EagerVariable>(
      egr_tensor,
      framework::OpKernelType(framework::proto::VarType::FP32,
                              platform::CPUPlace()),
      egr_tensor2);
  ASSERT_ANY_THROW(GetPlace<egr::EagerVariable>(egr_tensor2));
  ASSERT_ANY_THROW(SetType<egr::EagerVariable>(
      egr_tensor, paddle::framework::proto::VarType::LOD_TENSOR_ARRAY));
}
}  // namespace imperative
}  // namespace paddle

USE_OP_ITSELF(mul);


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A Missouri appeals court panel cleared the way Friday for voters to decide a November ballot initiative that could shake up of the state Legislature by requiring districts to be drawn to achieve "partisan fairness" and imposing new lobbying limits.
The ruling overturned a decision issued a week ago by a state judge who said the so-called Clean Missouri initiative violated the state constitution by addressing multiple topics.
The Western District appeals panel disagreed, ruling that the "multiple provisions all relate to a single central purpose: regulating the legislature to limit the influence of partisan or other special interests."
Republican-aligned attorneys for those opposing the measure said they would appeal to the state Supreme Court. But time is running short. Missouri law sets a Tuesday deadline to make changes to the Nov. 6. ballot. The state's high court previously turned down a chance to hear the case in place of the appeals panel.
As it stands, the measure would appear on the ballot as Constitutional Amendment 1.
"We hope this brings an end to it and that the people can vote in November on whether they want to adopt these changes," said attorney Chuck Hatfield, who represents Clean Missouri.
The initiative has been opposed in court by the president of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a Republican voter who was represented by the law firm of Missouri Republican Party Chairman Todd Graves.


Nothing remains the same for two consecutive moments. Heraclitus said we can never bathe twice in the same river. Confucius, while looking at a stream, said, "It is always flowing, day and night." The Buddha implored us not just to talk about impermanence, but to use it as an instrument to help us penetrate deeply into reality and obtain liberating insight.
We may be tempted to say that because things are impermanent, there is suffering. But the Buddha encouraged us to look again. Without impermanence, life is not possible. How can we transform our suffering if things are not impermanent? How can the situation in the world improve?
We need impermanence for justice and for hope. If you suffer, it is not because things are impermanent. It is because you believe things are permanent. When a flower dies, you don't suffer much, because you understand that flowers are impermanent. But you cannot accept the impermanence of your beloved ones, and you suffer deeply when they pass away. If you look deeply into impermanence, you will do your best to make them happy right now. Aware of impermanence, you become positive, loving and wise. Impermanence is good news.
Without impermanence, nothing would be possible. With impermanence, every door is open for change. Impermanence is an instrument for our liberation.


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