The only thing better than carving pumpkins? Eating them!
In fact, pumpkin-flavored everything is so popular at this time of year that Starbucks' famous Pumpkin Spice Latte may be sold out at your local branch.
The latte is such a cult favorite that some locations are temporarily running out due to high demand, Starbucks spokeswoman Lisa Passe confirms to SELF. But since the stores are usually able to re-order and get back in Pumpkin Spice, within a day or two, we can "rest assured," says Passe. "There is no widespread pumpkin outage!" PHEW!
The Pumpkin Spice Latte may be delicious, but Marjorie Nolan Cohn, registered dietitian and spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, points out that a Venti-sized one has a whopping 470 calories and 15 grams of fat. A better option? Go for a Tall instead with skim milk--and skip the whip cream. The result? A reasonable, 200-calorie treat that's fat free, too!
SELF's Pumpkin Pie Cupcakes. These tasty treats contain only 11 calories per cupcake and offers up to 26 percent of your daily dose of vitamin A; far better than a slice of the real stuff which can have over 300 calories per slice.
Maine Root Pumpkin Pie Soda. Made with "organic evaporated cane sugar, carbonated water, natural extracts, and spices and botanicals," this fizzy treat is a great alternative to sodas packed with artificial colors and flavors.
Pumpkin ravioli. A great to for dining out, pumpkin ravioli is especially good in a sage-based sauce. Making it at home? Buy the frozen stuff at the grocery and toss with a bit garlic and olive oil.
SELF's Pumpkin and Fontina Flatbread. Easy and delicious--just the thing to prepare for a cozy dinner at home.
Spicy pumpkin soup. Paired with spices, pumpkin is positively mouth-watering. Panera Bread's curried pumpkin soup is a tasty lunch option, or make your own spicy pumpkin and split pea soup with SELF's simple recipe.
Pumpkin ale. What better way to toast the end of an autumn day at work? Try Sam Adams' Harvest Pumpkin Ale, which is brewed with over 17 pounds of real pumpkin per barrel. Or, scope out the beer section of your grocery store for picks like Brooklyn Brewery's Post Roast Pumpkin Ale. Cheers!


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Hilary Plum
Watchfires
Rescue Press 2016
Today, I speak with Hilary Plum. She's the author of Watchfires (Rescue Press, 2016), which isn't so much a book as an exploratory biopsy of our body politic and our collective psyche. Plum examines our moment at the cellular level—whether that's a cancerous cell or a terrorist cell—with the aim of understanding what's happened to us in the Iraq War, in the attacks on 9/11, at the Boston Marathon bombings, or in the time-out-of-time we experience when we suffer from chronic illness. How do we make sense of a global world where drones, autoimmune disease, migrants, suicide, and mass violence all feel interconnected? That's exactly what Plum sets out to do. In prose as keen and incisive as a scalpel, she locates and exposes the malignancies of our time. She doesn't offer us a cure—who could?—but she gives us a brilliant diagnoses of how deeply the disease and diseases from which we suffer run.
Eric LeMay is on the creative writing faculty at Ohio University. His work ranges from food writing to electronic literature. He is the author of three books, most recently In Praise of Nothing: Essay, Memoir, and Experiments (Emergency Press, 2014). He can be reached at eric@ericlemay.org.
Eric LeMay
Eric LeMay is on the creative writing faculty at Ohio University. He is the author of five books, most recently Remember Me. He can be reached at eric@ericlemay.org.
Also Hosted By Eric LeMay
Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Johnson
Where are the Snows
Maiden to Mother
Sarah Durham Wilson
No Bad Parts
Lisa Marchiano
Slim Confessions
Sarah Minor,
A Generation's Worth
Stephen Jenkinson
Paper Concert
The Mare and the Mouse
Martín Prechtel
Rescuing the Light
A Glossary of Urban Voids
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
The Best of Brevity
Zoë Bossiere and Dinty W. Moore

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Summary: The Black Horn: The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee Watt tells the story of the first African American French Hornist hired by a major symphony in these United States. Today, the number of African Americans who hold chairs in major American symphony orchestras are few and far between, and Watt is the first in many years to write about this uniquely exhilarating--and at times painful--experience. The Black Horn chronicles the upbringing of a young boy first fascinated by the sound of the French horn. Watt walks readers through the many obstacles presented by the racial climate in the United States both on and off stage in his efforts learn and eventually master an instrument little considered in the African American community, with even the author's own father, who played trumpet, seeking to dissuade the young classical musician in the making. Opposition from within the community--a "middle instrument suited only for thin-lipped white boys, "Watt's father once chided--and from without, Watt document his struggles as a student at an all-white major music conservatory as well as his first job in a major symphony orchestra after his conservatory canceled his scholarship. Watt subsequently chronicles his triumphs and travails as a musician, sometimes alone when confronting the realities of race in America and the world of classical music. This work will surely interest any working classical musician and student, particularly those of color, seeking to grasp firsthand the sometimes troubled history of being the only "black horn."


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The Next President of the United States Will Likely Support Legalisation
Why the Potential Next President Represents a New Era for Cannabis
Sen. Bernie Sander's presidency would be radically different from that of President Trump. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who recently announced his bid to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, is the only one among the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates with marijuana legalisation as one of his cardinal objectives. Having openly admitted to using the drug several years back, he has a strong history of drug reform initiatives, particularly those in favor of marijuana legalisation, dating back to his time as mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He's also only one of the few presidential candidates ever to receive an "A+" rating from NORML for their legislative track records, though he's has emphatically stated that he isn't trying "to encourage anybody to smoke marijuana."
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are on different ends of the spectrum when it comes to marijuana legalisation
Bernie Sanders has been at odds with President Trump over the President's substance abuse initiatives, publicly criticising the Justice Department's recent move to scrap guidelines on federal marijuana enforcement priorities. He also blasted Attorney General Jeff Session for putting plans in motion to rescindthe Cole memo. "No, Attorney General [Jeff] Sessions. Marijuana is not the same as heroin," he charged the Attorney General in a statement. "No one who has seriously studied the issue believes that marijuana should be classified as a Schedule I drug beside killer drugs like heroin. Quite the contrary. We should allow states the right to move toward the decriminalisation of marijuana, not reverse the progress that has been made in recent years," he added.
Sanders reached out to congratulate the Canadian people for the successful legalisation of recreational marijuana in the country. He also congratulated a Seattle judge for rescinding incarceration orders for past cannabis-related misdemeanor convictions that were issued prior to legalisation. And he didn't take long to present marijuana legalisation policies as vital part of his campaign promises.
Sen. Bernie Sanders' History of Drug Reform
During his years as a representative, Sen. Bernie Sanders spearheaded a number of legislative initiatives to push for fundamental changes to the federal cannabis laws, including the Marijuana Justice Act, the Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act, and many others. He was the first senator to ever propose a bill to end federal cannabis prohibition, and the first major presidential candidate to support marijuana legalisation. Over two decades ago, he cosponsored a House bill to legalise medical marijuana. Throughout the 107th, 108th and 109th senate, Sanders supported and cosponsored bills to legalise and regulate industrial hemp. He also supported bills that exempt banks from federal prosecution if they open their doors to marijuana businesses in legal states. Sanders has also supported at least four bills to prevent the federal government from interfering in legal medical marijuana states.
His Most Recent Stances on Marijuana Legalisation
1. Marijuana is far less harmful than the other drugs strung together with it in Schedule 1, and it should be de-scheduled accordingly. During a rally at George Mason University -- one of the many in which he made promises about marijuana legalisation on his 2015 campaign trail, Sanders said "Right now, marijuana is listed by the federal government as a Schedule I drug—meaning that it is considered to be as dangerous as heroin. That is absurd". He continued "In my view, the time is long overdue for us to remove the federal prohibition on marijuana." In a campaign at the University of Iowa, he expressed his dismay at how "marijuana is listed side-by-side with heroin". "I know that you are an intelligent group of people and, very seriously, I know and I hope very much that you all understand what a killer drug heroin is," he added.
2. The need to address the glaring disparity in the proportion of racial groups arrested for marijuana-related offenses, as blacks are more likely to be incarcerated than whites, despite rates of usage being roughly the same among all racial groups.
Bernie Sanders is poised to heal the rift in race relations opened by the disparities in proportion of blacks arrested for marijuana-related issues vs the proportion of whites
"We must recognize that blacks are four times more likely than whites to get arrested for marijuana possession, even though the same proportion of blacks and whites use marijuana," Sanders commented in a press release, adding that criminal justice system needs reforms that remove prohibitions from marijuana.
3. Young people should not receive punishments for non-violent marijuana-related offenses that are heavier than punishments meted out to Wall Street bankers for financial crimes. "If some kid in Iowa or Vermont today is picked up possessing marijuana, that kid will get a police record that will stay with him for the rest of his life, but the executives on Wall Street who drove this country into the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, whose greed and illegal behavior resulted in millions of Americans losing their jobs, their homes, their life savings, these executives who pay billions of dollars in settlement agreements with the government, not one of them has been prosecuted. Not one of them has a criminal record." Sanders said while speaking at a rally in Iowa in 2016.
Will Marijuana Legalisation be set in Stone in a Sanders Presidency?
Many of Sander's most iconic career moments have revolved around marijuana issues. A push to end the drug war was a key point in his 2020 bid announcement speech. And to further cement the prospects of legalisation in a Sanders presidency, there's also the fact that support for legalisation is shoring up on the foreign scene. The United Nations is on course to deschedule cannabis, and New Zealand will hold a referendum on the legalisation of recreational marijuana in 2020.
So far, polls show that more than two thirds of electorates in New Zealand are in support of legalisation. Many areas of the world are moving toward legalisation, and a president of the United States who is in favour of legalisation will be another huge victory for supporters of the movement.


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import * as angular from "angular";
import modal from "angular-ui-bootstrap/src/modal";
import dropdown from "angular-ui-bootstrap/src/dropdown";
import angularMessages from "angular-messages";

import {DATA_MODULE} from "../data/data.module";
import {CONFIG_MODULE} from "../config/config.module";

import AlertModalService from "./alert-modal.service";
import caMapModalButton from "./ca-map-modal-button.directive";
import caNavBar from "./nav-bar.directive";
import caPasswordConfirmation from "./ca-password-confirmation.directive";
import ConfirmModalService from "./confirm-modal.service";
import {fileInput} from "./file-input.directive";
import UploadModalService from "./upload-modal.service";
import AlertModalInstanceCtrl from "./alert-modal-instance.controller";
import CaMapModalButtonCtrl from "./ca-map-modal-button.controller";
import CaPasswordConfirmationCtrl from "./ca-password-confirmation.controller";
import ConfirmModalInstanceCtrl from "./confirm-modal-instance.controller";
import EmailObfuscatorCtrl from "./email-obfuscator.controller";
import MapModalInstanceCtrl from "./map-modal-instance.controller";
import NavBarCtrl from "./nav-bar.controller";
import UploadModalInstanceCtrl from "./upload-modal-instance.controller";
import YearCtrl from "./year.controller";
import SharedRouteParamsService from "./shared-route-params.service";
import SelectUploadModalInstanceCtrl from "./select-upload-modal.controller";
import SubPageService from "./subpage.service";
import {caSubpagePreview} from "./ca-subpage-preview.directive";

export const COMMON_MODULE: string = "caLondonApp.common";

angular.module(COMMON_MODULE, [DATA_MODULE, modal, dropdown, angularMessages, CONFIG_MODULE]);

angular.module(COMMON_MODULE)
    .service("AlertModalService", AlertModalService)
    .service("ConfirmModalService", ConfirmModalService)
    .service("SharedRouteParamsService", SharedRouteParamsService)
    .service("SubPageService", SubPageService)
    .service("UploadModalService", UploadModalService);

angular.module(COMMON_MODULE)
    .controller("AlertModalInstanceCtrl", AlertModalInstanceCtrl)
    .controller("CaMapModalButtonCtrl", CaMapModalButtonCtrl)
    .controller("CaPasswordConfirmationCtrl", CaPasswordConfirmationCtrl)
    .controller("ConfirmModalInstanceCtrl", ConfirmModalInstanceCtrl)
    .controller("EmailObfuscatorCtrl", EmailObfuscatorCtrl)
    .controller("MapModalInstanceCtrl", MapModalInstanceCtrl)
    .controller("NavBarCtrl", NavBarCtrl)
    .controller("SelectUploadModalInstanceCtrl", SelectUploadModalInstanceCtrl)
    .controller("UploadModalInstanceCtrl", UploadModalInstanceCtrl)
    .controller("YearCtrl", YearCtrl);

angular.module(COMMON_MODULE)
    .directive("caMapModalButton", caMapModalButton)
    .directive("caNavBar", caNavBar)
    .directive("caSubpagePreview", caSubpagePreview)
    .directive("caPasswordConfirmation", caPasswordConfirmation)
    .directive("fileInput", fileInput);

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Dr. Kopp's Biography — Sandra Kopp, M.D., F.A.A.D. is an eminent NYC board-certified dermatologist and Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Mount Sinai. She is devoted to providing compassionate, cost-effective, and comprehensive care to each individual patient by tailoring treatment regimens to fit their unique dermatological needs. She firmly believes that patients should play an active role in their medical care and focuses on prevention and education, stressing the importance of healthy lifestyle habits to ensure overall physical and mental health. Her objective is to achieve natural appearing results and enhance self-confidence and overall quality of life. Dr. Kopp sees patients of all ages and varied cutaneous disorders, from rashes to skin cancer, as well as all cosmetic concerns. She has a unique interest in global health, specifically international dermatology, infectious disease and telemedicine. She has worked in Africa, Europe, and Central and South America. During training she received the American Academy of Dermatology International Resident's Grant to practice dermatology in Botswana. After graduation she was chosen to participate in the "Passion to Heal" initiative with a team of leading dermatologists in Narok, Kenya. Dr. Kopp earned her B.S/M.S. in Biochemistry/Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Lehigh University. She attended UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School where she was inducted into the elite Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Society. After her internship at St. Vincent's Medical Center she returned to UMDNJ-RWJMS for Dermatology Residency. Dr. Kopp has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters for the leading dermatology reference books. She is a member of the AAD, ASDS, ISD, SPD and a consulting dermatologist for the New York Rangers. Our mission at Schweiger Dermatology Group is to provide outstanding comprehensive dermatology care to our patients with a unique focus on exceptional customer service. The needs of the patient are at the core of everything we do. Our commitment to this mission is carried out by our team members for whom we provide an enriching and respectful work environment that fosters professional development.


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Reviews are a great way to distill the benefits and drawbacks to a mattress. That said, it can be easy to get lost in the noise of hundreds of brands that seemingly have great reviews. These mattresses are given mixed reviews by customers. Some report feeling comfy in their new bed, but others report not feeling as good.
Overall, support is important for spine alignment and overall comfort of a mattress over the long term. Most folks experience these mattresses as supportive, but rarely, some customers have complained about supportiveness.
Edge support is an important attribute for solid mattresses and for those that need extra time getting in and out of bed. These mattresses are competitive when it comes to edge support, but some who are heavier may experience some decline.
Placing a bowling ball on a mattress at different points is a great way to measure even support. These mattresses do a great job at providing support for most customers, but there are some that mention issues with even support long term.
If a brand invests in good materials, design, and quality control, durability should follow. Some sleepers may have disagreements with companies if they don't have these attributes. Sadly, these mattresses get mixed feedback from customers on lasting comfort. Some have reported finding a good night's sleep, but others have complaints about discomfort over a short time. Do a final rundown of the reviews before you purchase.
Customer reviews can be difficult to get at and even harder to understand -- especially with all of the marketing being done by companies and retailers. Customers, sadly, don't give these mattresses as high reception as others in the industry. There are still sleepers who are perfectly cozy with these products, but others that are not as much. Read on below to get the details on the specifics.
These mattresses don't fit the needs of everyone in terms of support. Though most report initial comfort and support of the spine, some have had issues with lasting alignment. If this brand is on your short list, make sure to read more about it before purchasing.
Edge support is always important to those who like sitting on the side of the bed. Other customers don't find it to be a major sticking point for them. Overall these mattresses aren't as supportive over the long term so if edge support is important, make sure to do extra research.
Mattresses with lasting comfort are amazing, but not always easy to find. Sadly, customers are not always pleased with the durability of these mattresses. This means that some mattresses still may last years and years, while other sleepers may find their mattress falters quickly. If you are heavier in body type, you may want to do extra looking before buying.


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When searching for protection scope as a global understudy in the USA, there are regularly a couple of choices for you to consider. The three most normal ones are sketched out in our "School medical coverage in the US" protection clarified article – however essentially it comes down to a school commanded design offered by your school, a school supported arrangement (likewise offered by your school), or the choice to pick your own particular arrangement.
With a school ordered arrangement, you must choose the option to take your school's protection design. It is frequently incorporated into the cost of your educational cost, and you are naturally enlisted into it when you begin classes. With a school supported protection design, your school may enable you to buy your own protection scope, however that arrangement will regularly need to meet certain advantage levels before it will be acknowledged. This is known as a waiver or consistence shape. With the third alternative, you have flexibility to pick any protection design, and once in a while that arrangement should meet certain levels of scope.
When you do have the alternative to buy your own scope, you should ask yourself, "What is the better choice for me?", and with this blog entry we will layout some of your primary contemplations.
School protection designs shift, however one thing is without a doubt, you have no control of the sort of plan they offer and the arrangement benefits. You will likewise not have the capacity to change, modify or pick a superior arrangement that is more suited to your necessities. As a rule, schools will dependably endeavor to offer the most ideal scope, however when you have high advantage designs (some that could be ACA consistent) this frequently prompts higher premiums, and here and there higher out of pocket costs. You additionally need to consider that there could be advantages and impediments inside the approach that don't address your issues. Once more, you have no influence over this.
With obtaining your own particular protection design, your school may characterize a few advantages your arrangement should incorporate, however beside that, you ought to have the decision to discover an answer that works for you. There are various distinctive choices and suppliers that can offer a scope of advantages and lower or no deductibles to suit your requirements. In short you will have decision and control to discover an arrangement that works for you, and incorporates the advantages you need.
The cost of your school protection versus your own protection design will likely be a main factor in whether you decide on some choice. The cost of school protection designs keeps going up, particularly in the event that you school design is an ACA consistent arrangement. While the advantages may be more complete, that has likewise implied that costs need to rise as needs be to make up for these plans with better advantages. Some school designs are presently costing up to $2,500 per school year or more.
On the off chance that you buy an arrangement all alone, you have the control to discover an arrangement that fits inside your financial plan. Singular protection designs that you buy all alone can be as low as $300 or $400 per school year for the more fundamental levels of scope, and after that climb from that point. This enables you to discover an arrangement that works for your financial plan and advantage prerequisites. It might require a tad bit of research to ensure the arrangement will work for you, and you know about every one of the advantages and restrictions – yet it can be an extraordinary approach to spare cash!
While advantages and evaluating are a justifiable reason motivation to take a gander at other protection choices, you likewise need to take a gander at your very own circumstance. For instance, on the off chance that you have a current therapeutic condition, a considerable lot of the alternatives that you can buy all alone wo exclude scope instantly for that restorative condition – they will regularly have a holding up period before they will cover those advantages. On the off chance that your school protection design is an ACA consistent arrangement, at that point these advantages will be secured quickly with no holding up period. So in spite of the fact that you may spare cash with another choice, your school's protection design will give you the scope you require.
Another great illustration is whether you are carrying over any relatives with you, for example, your better half/spouse and kids (also called your wards). Some school designs won't enable you to protect your wards on their arrangement, others will. On the off chance that your school does not permit wards, at that point you should scan out choices only for them, which now and again can be elusive on the off chance that you (the essential understudy) is not guaranteed on a similar arrangement. You will either all need to search for an arrangement together, or simply protect your significant other and youngsters on a different ward design.
As should be obvious, your own circumstance may really drive you towards some arrangement alternative, and might not really give you a tremendous measure of adaptability, regardless of the possibility that you wanted to pick one choice over the other in view of advantages or cost!
By the day's end, you should measure your own circumstance with the advantages and evaluating of school or individual protection intends to locate the correct adjust. On the off chance that you are hoping to spare cash, buying your own particular protection design is frequently the most ideal path forward as you can look for the arrangement that fits in with your necessities and spending plan. Be that as it may, as sketched out above, there could be factors preventing you from doing that, for example, a current therapeutic condition or in the event that you are carrying relatives with you.


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Q: Google Cloud Storage Notification with Pub/Sub and docs In the docs about GCP Storage and Pub/Sub notification I find this sentence that is not really clear:

Cloud Pub/Sub also offers at-least-once delivery to the recipient [that's pretty clear],
  which means that you could receive multiple messages, with multiple
  IDs, that represent the same Cloud Storage event [why?]

Can anyone give a better explanation of this behavior?
Thanks!

A: Google Cloud Storage uses at-least-once delivery to deliver your notifications To Cloud Pub/Sub. In other words, GCS will publish at least one message into Cloud Pub/Sub for each event that occurs.
Next, a Cloud Pub/Sub subscription will deliver the message to you, the end user, at least once.
So, say that in some rare case, GCS publishes two messages about the same event to Cloud Pub/Sub. Now that one GCS event has two Pub/Sub message IDs. Next, to make it even more unlikely, Pub/Sub delivers each of those messages twice. Now you have received 4 messages, with 2 message IDs, about the same single GCS event.
The important takeaway of the warning is that you should not attempt to dedupe GCS events by Pub/Sub message ID.

A: An at-least-once delivery means that the service must receive confirmation from the recipient to ensure that the message was received. In this case, we need some sort of timeout period in order to re-send the message. It is possible, due to network latency or packet loss, etc, to have the recipient send a confirmation, but the sender to not receive the confirmation before the timeout period, and therefore the sender will send the message again.
This is a common problem is network communications and distributed systems, and there are different types of messaging to address this issue.

A: To answer the question of 'why'
'At least once' delivery just means messages will be retried via some retry mechanism until successfully delivered (i.e. acknowledged). So if there's a failure or timeout then there's a retry.
By it's essence (retrying mechanism) this means you might occasionally have duplicates / more than once delivery. It's the same whether it's PubSub or GCS notifications delivering the message.
In the scenario you quote, you have:

*

*The Publisher (GCS notification) -- may send duplicates of GCS events to pubsub topic

*The PubSub topic messages --- may contain duplicates from publisher

*

*no deduplication as messages come in

*all messages assigned unique PubSub message_id even if they are duplicates of the same GCS event notification

*PubSub topic Subscription(s) --- may also send duplicates of messages to subscribers

With PubSub

Once a message is sent to a subscriber, the subscriber must either acknowledge or drop the message. A message is considered outstanding once it has been sent out for delivery and before a subscriber acknowledges it.
A subscriber has a configurable, limited amount of time, or ackDeadline, to acknowledge the message. Once the deadline has passed, an outstanding message becomes unacknowledged.
Cloud Pub/Sub will repeatedly attempt to deliver any message that has not been acknowledged or that is not outstanding.

Source: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/subscriber#at-least-once-delivery
With Google Cloud Storage
They need to do something similar internally to 'publish' the notification event from GCS to PubSub - so reason is essentially the same.

Why this matters

*

*You need to expect occasional duplicates originating from GCS notifications as well as the PubSub subscriptions

*The PubSub message id can be used to detect duplicates from the pubsub topic -> subscriber

*You have to figure out your own idempotent id/token to handle duplicates from the 'publisher' (the GCS notification event)

*

*generation, metageneration, etc.. from the resource representation might help

If you need to de-duplicate or achieve exactly once processing, you can then build your own solution utilising the idempotent ids/tokens or see if Cloud Dataflow can accommodate your needs.

You can achieve exactly once processing of Cloud Pub/Sub message streams using Cloud Dataflow PubsubIO. PubsubIO de-duplicates messages on custom message identifiers or those assigned by Cloud Pub/Sub.
  Source: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/faq#duplicates

If interested in a more fundamental exploration of the why we see:
There is No Now - Problems with simultaneity in distributed systems

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1. Story of the Week: Viral Tsunami II
With more than 85,000 new cases reported Friday, the U.S. is seeing its worst coronavirus spread ever, breaking the record set July 16 by more than 10,000 cases. While the death toll has remained flat, this was the deadliest week for some states, like Wisconsin, which set a record Wednesday with 47 fatalities. While this has led to heightened restrictions in many jurisdictions, White House pandemic task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx warned that such measures won't suffice, as much of the spread is from household gatherings — now increasing as the holidays approach.
Sources: NYT, Fox News
2. Coming Up: The Election's Home Stretch
Some 50 million Americans have already cast ballots in what may be the highest-turnout election since 1908. Yesterday many were still analyzing Thursday's surprisingly calm final debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, at which the favored challenger may have lost some swing-state votes by saying he'd move away from fossil fuels. Trump ridiculed the idea, especially after Biden's subsequent walk-back saying he meant he'd phase out subsidies for such fuels. On Nov. 3, the final in-person ballots will be cast, but neither candidate is likely to emerge victorious that day as election workers struggle to count unprecedented numbers of mail-in ballots.
Sources: The Guardian, Fox News, Politico
3. Sudan to Normalize Israel Relations, Trump Says
In another foreign policy breakthrough, President Trump announced Friday that Sudan would become the third Arab nation to recognize Israel under his watch. The move comes on the heels of Washington agreeing to remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism — freeing up trade and aid lifelines — once Khartoum paid $335 million into a fund for U.S. terror victims. In a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump asked if his election rival, "Sleepy Joe," could have equaled his accomplishment. Meanwhile, Iran said America used "ransom" to secure the deal.
Sources: AP, Washington Post, Reuters
4. Attention Shoppers: Costco Has COVID-19 Tests
Do try this at home. The retail giant is offering saliva tests for the coronavirus on its website for $129. Customers who spit into a tube, seal it and send off their kit to a lab are told they'll get results 24 to 72 hours after the lab receives it. Experts say such saliva tests are as accurate as those using a nasal swab, and other stores, such as Albertsons and Safeway, are also selling the kits in some U.S. states. Meanwhile, drugmakers AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson announced Friday they'd be resuming final-stage trials of COVID-19 vaccines.
Sources: Fox Business, News and Observer, AP
5. Also Important …
French President Emmanuel Macron has predicted that France, now reporting 1 million total infections, will be fighting COVID-19 through summer 2021. An elderly couple has been found dead amid Colorado's record wildfires. And a Navy plane has crashed into a residential neighborhood in southern Alabama, killing two crew members.
In the week ahead: Tomorrow U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo begins a six-day trip through Asia. Chileans will vote on a new constitution Sunday. And on Monday, Senate Republicans are expected to confirm the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett in spite of Democrats' last-ditch efforts to stop it.
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1. Buehler Pitches Dodgers to World Series Lead
It was definitely not Walker Buehler's day off. The 26-year-old right-handed pitcher threw 10 strikeouts and allowed just three hits and one run to lock down the Tampa Bay Rays and propel his L.A. Dodgers to a 6-2 victory in Game 3 of baseball's World Series last night. With home runs from Justin Turner and Austin Barnes (uniquely also scoring with a sacrifice bunt) in neutral Arlington, Texas, the Dodgers now lead the series 2-1. The performance left Buehler somewhat chill, like his cinematic namesake, saying, "I think the more you do these things, the calmer you get."
Sources: ESPN, USA Today, MLB
2. How Trees in Chile Could Stop the Pandemic
You don't have to believe this. Lots of miraculous "remedies" have been touted amid the pandemic, so a South American tree extract used to make Slurpees and root beer would appear to follow the pattern. But proponents of saponin, a bubbly brown goo from Chilean soapbark trees, say that it's an adjuvant (i.e., a catalyst for the body's immune reaction to vaccines). Refined into FDA-approved QS-21, this inoculation ingredient is worth $100,000 a gram, but it should only add about $5 to the cost of that shot many around the world are hoping to receive.
Source: The Atlantic
3. The Facebook Friend Who Wasn't Dying
The circumstances were tragic: an old friend who was entertaining to follow on social media, who maybe shared a bit too much, was stricken with a rare disease whose expensive treatments weren't covered by her health plan. Friends poured more than $100,000 into a GoFundMe campaign before it abruptly stopped, writes journalist Sarah Treleaven, who knew the "sick" woman from high school. "Cindy" was exposed as a fraud and was prosecuted by Canadian authorities, leaving a collection of distraught and angry donors. But the biggest victims of such scams, Treleaven notes, are those who can't afford legitimate medical care, but are regarded with suspicion.
Sources: One Zero
4. Till Death Do They Part With Marital Congress
Even in 2020, "going all the way" often involves a narrow path to an altar. That's what the Pew Research Center discovered in its recent survey of 4,860 Americans. Twenty-five percent felt that sex out of wedlock is unacceptable — no matter how committed participants might be, OZY reports. While that's far fewer than the 42 percent who objected in 2001, consider this: Extramarital lovemaking was illegal in Virginia until March. A key factor in those views? Religion is huge, with 55 percent of service-attending Americans opposing fornication, a difference likely to become more pronounced as their numbers continue to dwindle.
Sources: OZY
5. Will 'Borat' Lead Filmmaking Out of the Wilderness?
It's not the mankinis. But there's something about Borat Subsequent Moviefilm that other filmmakers need to think about, argues Catherine Shoard, the Guardian's film editor. Released Friday on Amazon, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's sequel is replete with stunts that are gold for social media marketing. And its topical relevance, including an already-viral scene with Rudy Giuliani "tucking in [his] shirt," and launching amid the U.S. presidential election, could be the standard for post-pandemic auteurs. So even if there aren't enough Borat-loving (or -hating) undecideds to swing the election, it might help the industry decide where it's headed.
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>adopted/embraced the word "chic" as "sheek" or "sheak" (how often is "ch"
traditional Japanese culture AND the "Hi Tech" one!
>non-native sounds of "f" and "v" (katakana "hu" with a subscript "i"
>subscript "i" gets you a "v". Why, the contortions? 'Cause it's foreign.
>I guess, point of above paragraph: loanwords and cultural ebb and flow.


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Trinidad ready for schoolboy clash with Jamaica
ORANE BUCHANAN - Staff Reporter
St Benedict's coach Randolph Boyce
President of the Secondary School's Football League (SSFL) in Trinidad and Tobago, Merere Gonzales, is elated by the resumption of the Caribbean High School Football Championships, which allows footballers in the twin island republic to rub shoulders with their counterparts from Jamaica.
The competition will be held in January with Trinidad and Tobago's big two, St Benedict's College and Fatima College, playing the winners of the ongoing ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup and daCosta Cup competitions.
St Benedict's College are the champions of the SSFL, with Fatima the beaten finalists.
"Well, it's always a feeling of great elation, excitement, and joy - with the utmost and greatest expectation - when any efforts or platform can be made or created so that the youths of the Caribbean can get a chance to showcase themselves, and more importantly, compete against each other, and in this case, Trinidad and Tobago with SSFL and Jamaica with ISSA, that has two of the strongest football countries within the Caribbean," Gonzales said.
The Championships, which will be broadcast by a regional sports television station will feature qualifying matches on January 13, with the final set for January 15, when the top two teams will clash for a cash prize of US$10,000.
"It augers well because it will only enhance and develop a pathway for football within the Caribbean. I would want to say, moving forward, that I think we could, as an impetus, in the future try to incorporate one or two other interested Caribbean countries, so, therefore, the pool increases from two to about seven schoolboy teams," said Gonzales.
St Benedict's coach, Randolph Boyce, was grateful for the revival of the initiative and revealed that his charges are ready for action.
"My players are very excited about it, and as a coach, I am as well. The fact of the matter is that they're so many different benefits in this. There's the social aspect of it and playing and learning from each other's culture," said Boyce.
Boyce says he has been paying attention to the style of play at the schoolboy level in Jamaica.
"Looking at Jamaica play at the school level on the television, it looks exciting and interesting, and we could get to understand the different playing styles and different cultures and the way how they do things.
"It will also be educational for the boys as well, in terms of getting to play against another team from in the Caribbean and see how their football is played," he added.
orane.Buchanan@gleanerjm.com


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The actor Clive Swift has died at the age of 82.
Clive Swift appeared in two Doctor Who stories. In 1985 he appeared with Sixth Doctor Colin Baker in the story Revelation of the Daleks, playing Jobel, the chief embalmer of Tranquil Repose on Necros.
Swift returned to the series in 2007 appearing with David Tennant in the Christmas special Voyage of the Damned, as Bayldon Copper an employee aboard the Titanic.
Swift was best known for his role as Richard Bucket in the British television comedy series Keeping Up Appearances.
Clive Swift was born in Liverpool in 1936. After stydying English literature at Cambridge University he became a teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
In the 1960's he made his first apperance on British television appearing in Theatre Night. He had regular roles in the BBC Comedy series Dig This Rhubarb. Regular TV roles followed including playing Major Bagstock in Dombey and Son, Inspector Waugh in Thirty-Minute Theatre and Albert Benbow in Clayhanger.
In 1982 he played Bishop Proudie in the BBC adaptation of of Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles.
Between 1990-1995 he starred in 42 episodes of the British sitcom, Keeping Up Appearances playing Hyacinth Bucket's long-suffering husband, Richard. Written by Roy Clarke and staring Patricia Routledge the series has become the BBC's best selling series in its long history, seen around the world.
Later appearances included parts in Midsomer Murders and Peak Practice.
Thirteen million watched his apperance in Doctor Who in 2007 alongside singer Kylie Minogue. To promote the story Swift did a famously grumpy interview with Doctor Who Magazine, berating the interviewer for his 'silly' questions.
Swift was married to novelist Margaret Drabble between 1960 and 1975 and was father to daughter Rebecca, who died in April 2017. He is survied by his two sons.


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Nairobi's once feared building
By OKANDE | 9yrs ago
By AUSTINE OKANDE
NAIROBI, KENYA: Standing at the junction of Nairobi's Uhuru Highway and Kenyatta Avenue, the once dreaded Nyayo House is unmistakable.
At about 84 metres high and 27 floors, Nyayo House, which once dominated the city's skyline, has been known over the years more for its infamous basement torture chambers, which used to play host to political dissidents, human rights activists and their lawyers.
Information from the Kenya National Archives indicates that the plan to put up the building was hatched in 1973 and its building commissioned by the Ministry of Public Work. However, its construction started in 1979 and was completed in 1983.
Originally to be named Nairobi House, it was renamed Nyayo House.
The structure, which has two wings — North Wing and South Wing — was designed by Ngotho Architects and was constructed by Laxmanbhai Construction at an estimated Sh219 million.
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Currently hosting the Immigration offices and Nairobi Provincial Headquarters, Nyayo House today, is one of the busiest buildings in the city with well-lit reception area, orderly queues of people waiting to be served or go into a lift.
The staircases, once a no-go zone, are open to the public and the administrative police at the gate are friendlier, a stark contrast from what one would encounter at Nyayo House in the early 1980s as the building was heavily manned by mean-looking armed police officers.
Torture chambers
The horror of Nyayo House torture chambers would only be known to the public in early February 2003, when the doors to the chambers were opened to the public, steered by former Nairobi Provincial Commissioner Cyrus Maina.
This followed long sittings by the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) where torture victims were accorded the opportunity to share their ordeal.
It was at the TJRC that some of the victims revealed that those considered rebels to the then government were roughed up and beaten by officers from the Special Branch, now the National Intelligence Service, in some of the building's secluded floors.
Among the victims of the 'Nyayo torture chambers', according to the TJRC report, included CORD leader Raila Odinga, Koigi wa Wamwere, Imenti Central MP Gitobu Imanyara, Githunguri MP Njehu Gatabaki and journalist Bidan Mbugua.
Others included the late George Anyona, the late Wahome Mutahi and legendary benga artiste Ochieng' Kabaselleh, who is alleged to have succumbed to his injuries soon after being released.
Reports claim that the Kanu regime converted the strong rooms at Nyayo House into torture chambers in the early 1980s, claims that were disputed by architect Gideon Mutemi Mulyungi from the Ministry of Works, who told the TJRC last year, that the rooms were initially designed to store cash and sensitive and valuable documents from government departments.
According to the plans showed to the TJRC, the strong rooms were in the basement with 12 cubicles measuring about two-and-a-half metres long and two metres wide.
Reports during the TJRC also revealed that the walls were built with "reinforced concrete" to resist fires, make them soundproof and deter intruders. The rooms had no naturally ventilation, therefore artificially aerated through special piping in the roof and walls.
Revealed also in the TJRC report is that a note was made on the building plan indicating that all doors from the lift, except those to the basement, the fifth, tenth, 15th and 23th floors, were to be sealed with concrete slabs.
The contractor said they were instructed to ensure the lift served only those departments, which needed access to the strong room.
The departments, which were allowed access to the strong rooms, included the police special branch, senior officers in the provincial administration and Nairobi provincial commissioner.
Further claims were also made that the police special branch installed controls to flood the cells with freezing water or blast them with hot gritty air or clouds of dust to convert the rooms into torture chambers.
Today, the fifth floor of this once feared building, still hosts the office of the Nairobi PC and senior officers in the Provincial Administration.
Through the past, Nyayo House has undergone reconstruction.
For instance, the basement, otherwise referred to as the 'Nyayo torture chambers', has now been converted into a parking space for 62 cars.
Nyayo House Nairobi Uhuru Highway
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Q: Change hover colour of button in navbar in MVC bootstrap I took an example theme and changed the navbar to the same colour as the background (so it's invisible but present). Now when I hover over a button glyphicon it disappears because the hover colour is also the same as the background. I know I need to change something in the CSS but I'm not sure how.

            <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
                Toggle navigation

            </button>

   ---- BELOW IS THE BUTTON I WANT TO CHANGE

            <form class="navbar-form navbar-left">

            </form>

            @Html.Partial("_LoginPartial")

A: The :hover selector is used to select elements when you hover over it.
Example:

div {
  width: 200px;
  height: 100px;
  background-color: red;
  color: white;
}

div:hover {
  background-color: blue;
}

Hover me

A: I think the default color which is mentioned in the below bootstrap class
.btn:hover
{

}

is same as the background which you changed for your nav bar. If you want to get some other color for hover you can change color in the above mentioned code of bootstrap.css/bootstrap.min.css files.


A method for compatibly tuning a video signal receiver to an image processing device involves generating (47) a prompting message for display to prompt a user to initiate a command response. First and second signals are generated (20) Each signal incorporates the prompting message (14, 50) but only one of the signals is compatibly tuned to the display. The first and second signals are alternately provided to the display (52) and the prompting message is legibly displayed when the compatibly tuned signal is provided. The signal that is compatibly tuned to the display is selected (15) in response to the command (60).
In a system in accordance with the principles of the present invention, communication compatibility is determined by the response of a user to a prompting message recognized by the user. The prompting message is communicated in compatible and non-compatible communication modes The user recognizes the prompting message in a compatible communication mode whereby the user does not need to know the required modulator channel setting.
The inventor has recognized that it is advantageous to minimize the knowledge and tasks required of a user in setting u p and re-configuring video receiver equipment Specifically, that it is desirable that a video receiver system (such as a satellite, terrestrial, or cable receiver or VCR), attached to a video accessory (such as a TV receiver), be capable of ensuring modulator channel compatibility with a minimum of user interference Further that such compatibility is achievable without a user needing to know the required modulator channel setting.
to provide an oscillation frequency control signal to VCO 40 The amplification and processing provided by unit 35 ensures the stability of the PLL. The processing provides compensation in the form of filtering, for example, as known.
The resultant VCO 40 output frequency determined by microprocessor 15 is the carrier frequency used by modulator 50 Modulator 50 frequency modulates this carrier frequency with either a prompting message produced by generator 47 under direction of microprocessor 15 or the input signal containing video program information from source 14. The modulated output signal from unit 50 is provided to TV receiver 52 for display of either the prompting message or video program information. In another embodiment modulator 50 may also provide a composite video output signal combining a prompting message and video program information in a single image The modulated output signal from unit 50 may also be provided to other units as required.
Microprocessor 15 employs the process of Figure 2 for selecting a modulator channel for the video receiver modulator system 12 (Figure 1) that is compatible with TV receiver 52. The system 12 modulator channel is selected to be compatible with TV receiver 52 without the user knowing the required modulator channel setting This advantageously simplifies the modulator channel selection process and reduces user involvement in the process. Another advantage of the system is that it does not require use of an additional display device (separate from the video program display device e g unit 52) for indicating a modulator channel setting to a user.
In step 205, following the start at step 200, PLL 2 0 under direction of microprocessor 15 selects an initial modulator channel carrier such as cable television channel 3, for example, and outputs the corresponding channel 3 carrier frequency Fc to modulator 50. In step 210, generator 47, under direction of microprocessor 15, generates a prompting message for output to modulator 50. In step 215, the prompting message is modulated with the carrier Fc selected in step 205 and the modulated output signal is provided to TV receiver 52 for display to a user Receiver 52 is advantageously used to display either the prompting message or the video program content thereby eliminating t h e need for a separate display device. However, in another embodiment a separate display device may be used for display of the prompting message.
The prompting message may take the form of any message such that, when it is displayed on unit 52, it prompts a user to initiate a command response such as pressing a button on remote control unit 60. The message may say "Press Select Button on the Remote", for example, and does not need to show a required modulator channel setting Alternatively, the prompting message may comprise an image element identified as a user prompt in a video receiver operation manual or may comprise other text, an icon, a graphic element, or a flashing image, for example Further, instead of commanding a user to press a button on remote unit 60, the message may direct a user to press a keyboard button, or a switch on the video receiver, or a switch on accessory equipment communicating with the video receiver Alternatively, a user may be directed to select an icon on a displayed menu using a cursor type control, for example. It is sufficient that the prompting message and associated user response mechanism provide microprocessor 15 with a feedback response indicating the user has been able to read the prompting message displayed on unit 52.
incompatibility The opportunity for a user to make an inadvertent selection in step 225 may be mitigated by requiring a more complicated response For example, in step 225, more than one button or a specific button press sequence may be required or a menu item may have to be selected to indicate assent to the selection of the modulator channel.
said prompting message excludes reference to modulator channel settings.
selecting said modulator output channel carrier in response to said user initiated command, said selected modulator output channel carrier being said one of said first and said second modulator channel carriers providing said legibly displayed prompting message.
means (15,60) for selecting said modulator output channel carrier in response to said user initiated command, said selected modulator output channel carrier being said one of said first and said second modulator channel carriers providing said legibly displayed prompting message.
said prompting message is at least one of a) a text message, b) an icon, c) a graphic element, d) a flashing image and e) an image element identified to a user in video receiver operation information as a prompt.
said first and said second modulated signals are alternately provided to said display means for display of said prompting message for a limited time period upon a video receiver condition including at least one of a) video receiver setup, b) power-on initialization, c) recovery from a fault condition including a power interruption and a software error, and d) a user initiated command.
said first and said second modulated signals are alternately and cyclically provided to said display means for repetitive display of said prompting message.
Dated this 20th day of JANUARY 1999.


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Dogen on Truth Part 2 - Third talk of St. Dorothy Sesshin 2008
By Zoketsu Norman Fischer | Oct 21, 2008
Location: St. Dorothy's Rest
In topic: Dogen
Dogen on Truth Part 2 - Third talk of St. Dorothy's Sesshin 2008. This talk os based on Dogen's writing of "Dotoku" or "Expressing the Truth" as found in the Shobogenzo, Nishijima and Cross 3 volume translation.
Dogen on Truth Part (2 of 2)
By Zoketsu Norman Fischer | October 21, 2008
Abridged and edited by Rysuen Barbara Byrum
Life is so unspeakably complex and elegant and so radically simple, and language and thought are such blunt instruments. Language and thought are so unspeakably complex and elegant, and so radically simple - if we only could only appreciate them and set them in their proper balance. Skin, flesh, bones, and marrow - everything is deep beyond depth, and everything is right here on the surface. Right in front of our noses, every single day, ultimate reality is unfolding itself. We don't have to go very far to look.
In these few days of sesshin we've been trying to appreciate Dogen's teachings - trying to understand what Dogen is telling us. And about now I'm wondering if we have understood anything at all. Or, if we are, what is it that we are understanding? Or is understanding actually possible? Do we even know what we mean by understanding in the first place? These are the things that I am wondering about these days.
Maybe to understand is actually a feeling of understanding. Maybe that's what understanding is - a feeling of understanding. And what do we understand? Maybe we don't know anything! Probably that's right. Probably we don't understand anything. Nothing at all. But it is undeniable that we feel a sense of understanding. And we feel a sense of having being understood. Understanding and having been understood. We would be foolish to think that we could verify that we understood anything at all. Or maybe we have understood plenty of things, and they're all wrong. But actually that wouldn't really matter, because the feeling of understanding, the feeling of being sheltered, the feeling of being understood and appreciated, is unmistakable, and there is no denying this. This is of the nature of certainty - that we feel understanding.
It would probably be good to imagine that we're not actually understanding a word of Dogen at all. And, really, how could we possibly think that we could understand Dogen, over this unspeakable abyss of eight or nine centuries? In a whole world of culture and language, how could we possibly understand what Dogen felt and what he meant by what he wrote?
James is reading Hee-jin Kim's great book on Dogen, Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist, and he was quoting for me a passage from Kim, interpreting Dogen and the idea of meaninglessness. I think that's exactly right. Part of what Dogen wants to communicate to us is the meaninglessness of meaning. Meaning, if it really matters at all, must also be beyond meaning - just as we learned yesterday, to our astonishment, that expressing the truth absolutely requires nonexpression of the truth. And as we were also discussing yesterday, real speaking requires the ability to be silent, and true doing requires the ability to non-do.
Sometimes in his writings, Dogen dismantles the truth. He purposely takes it apart. The human truth, the Zen truth, the Buddhist truth - he reduces it, basically, to a pile of indecipherable words, on purpose. Every now and then we experience this as we read him. That makes us realize, as we get through our anger and our frustration and our feelings that we're stupid, how dependent we are on meaning and understanding and knowing. It's shocking to realize how dependent we are on these things. We see that knowing supports our self-clinging and our Frankenstein-like self-consciousness. Knowing strengthens our sense of security, even though we are full of anxiety all the time.
So meaninglessness is the meaning of meaning. It's painful only when we're looking for some two dimensional meaning to hang our hat on. But when we really feel meaning's power to transform us, then we feel meaning's meaninglessness, and we are absolutely inspired by it. Freed by it. And then finally we can relax. We know that there's nothing to worry about, and we can begin to feel our lives deeply and fully - to feel the feeling of our understanding.
So with this in mind, we will go back and read a little bit more of Dōtoku, Expressing the Truth. As we've been discussing in the seminar, we have been learning something about Dogen's technique of using a couple of stories, having a theme, using a couple of Zen stories, and then interpreting them in exactly the way that they were not understood before. He precedes all with a kind of introduction, in which he discusses the theme and sets the tone for the story. So yesterday we went over the introduction, and now we can read the two stories, and then read Dogen's comments on them. So, here's the first story:
Great master Shinsai of Jōshū preaches to the assembly, "If you spend a lifetime not leaving the monastery, sitting in stillness without speaking for ten years or for five years, no one will be able to call you a mute. Afterwards you might be beyond the buddhas."
Those are Jōshū's words. That's the story. Dogen comments:
So when we are "ten years or five years in a monastery," passing through the frosts and flowers again and again, and when we consider the effort spent in pursuit of the truth, that is "a lifetime not leaving the monastery"; the "sitting in stillness," which has cut all interference off by sitting, has been innumerable instances of expressing the truth.
So sitting in a monastery and not saying a word basically for your whole life is "innumerable instances of expressing the truth."
Walking, sitting, and lying down, "without leaving the monastery" may be countless instances of "no one being able to call you a mute." [Meaning constantly speaking. No one will be able to say you haven't been speaking all the time, if you sit for your whole lifetime in a monastery and don't say anything.] But we do not know where "a lifetime" comes from; if we cause that lifetime not to leave the monastery, it will be "not leaving the monastery."
And then there's my favorite line in the whole thing. Dogen says,
But what kind of path through the sky is there between "a lifetime" and "a monastery?"
Isn't that a wonderful thing to say? "What kind of path through the sky is there between a lifetime and a monastery?" I think you appreciate in sesshin that so many things we think we're finding out about ourselves are different in the next moment, and we can't say anymore what's going on. We realize all the time that life is really lived in silence, even when we think we're speaking. Even when we think we're doing something, there's a deep stream of silence flowing underneath. "What kind of path through the sky is there between a lifetime and a monastery?"
Sometimes people ask me, "Wasn't it really a hard transition from living all those years in a semi-monastic life? Without money, without any ordinary things? Wasn't it like a really jarring transition?" And the secret is - and I'll tell you now - the secret is I never actually left the monastery. I've never really been able to see the difference between the monastery and Penn Station at rush hour in New York City. It's pretty much the same thing. Of course, on the surface there is plenty of difference, but when you come down to it, it is pretty much the same thing.
So what kind of path through the sky is there between a lifetime and a monastery?
We should solely intuit and affirm "sitting in stillness." Do not hate "not speaking." "Not speaking" is the expression of the truth, being right from head to tail. "Sitting in stillness" is "a lifetime" or two lifetimes: it is not just one or two periods of zazen. [Every period is a lifetime.] If you experience five years or ten years sitting in silence without speaking, even the buddhas will be unable to think light of you. Truly, even the eyes of Buddha will not be able to glimpse you, and even the power of Buddha will not be able to sway, this sitting in stillness without speaking - because "you will be beyond even the buddhas." Jōshū is saying that it is beyond even the buddhas to describe as "mute" or to describe as "non-mute," that which "sitting in stillness" without speaking expresses.
So, "a lifetime without leaving the monastery" is a lifetime without leaving the expression of the truth. [So, life is expressing the truth, whether we are speaking or not speaking. Expressing the truth is a lifetime without leaving the monastery.] Sitting in stillness without speaking for ten years or five years is the expression of the truth for ten years or for five years; it is a lifetime without leaving nonexpression of the truth; and it is being unable to say anything for ten years or five years. [It's both, as we learned yesterday. Both must be included.] It is sitting away hundred thousands of buddhas. ["What are you doing?" "Oh, I'm sitting a bunch of buddhas away. I'm sitting the buddhas away."] And, it is hundred thousands of buddhas sitting away "you."
When you sit on your cushion, buddhas are sitting you away. And sometimes it feels like that, gradually being worn down by the buddhas, until there's nothing left! Pulverized.
In summary, the buddhas expressing the truth is a lifetime without leaving the monastery. Even mutes [even those who always remain in silence] can have a state of expressing the truth. Do not learn [don't think, in other words] that mutes lack expression of the truth. Those who have expressions of the truth are sometimes no different from mutes.
And here he means people who talk a lot about truth and about dharma might as well be mute. They're just jabbering. They're not saying anything. And the person who says nothing might be expressing the truth more.
You could hear their silent voices, and we can listen to their silent words. How could one who is not silent hope to meet with the silent, or hope to converse with the silent one? Given that they are silent, how are we to meet them, and how are we to converse with them? Learning to practice like this, we should intuit and master the state of silence.
So that's the first story, and the second story is not too long, so I think we have time to do this. The second story is also an unusual story. You're beginning to discern a pattern here, in terms of Dogen's provocatively citing these stories that have to do with saying nothing, as he writes his essay about expressing the truth. So here's the other story.
In the order of Great Master Shinkaku of Seppō there was a monk who went to the edge of the mountain [meaning away from the monastery, far away, because the monasteries are referred to as mountains] and, tying together thatch, built a hut. Years went by, but he did not shave his head. Who can know what vitality there was inside the hut? [Meaning there was a great power in his practice.] Though circumstances in the mountains were desolate indeed. He made himself a wooden dipper, and he would go to the edge of a ravine to scoop water and drink. Truly, he must have been the sort who drinks the ravines.
There's a saying in Zen, "Drinking the whole river in a single gulp," meaning completely turning the whole world, right here where you are. This is high praise for the hermit monk. In the monastic life there is a constant conversation between the conformity of the daily round of monastic living, which by necessity is a highly conformist, ritualized way of life, versus the freedom this life is supposed to foster. There have always been hermits, who are completely nonconformist. So that's the situation here. This monk is completely nonconformist, living in his own rhythm and his own way, and apparently with great insight and Zen power.
As the days and months came and went like this, rumors of his customs [of his practice] secretly leaked out. Consequently, on one occasion a monk came to ask the master of the hut, "What is Bodhiharma's intention in coming from the west?" [The typical Zen question to test someone's understanding.] The hermit said, "The ravine is deep so the dipper's handle is long."
In other words, our silent life is immeasurably deep, and that is why the world is so complicated, and gives us so many, many useful problems. The monk was staggered by this profound answer. He rushed back to the mountain and told Seppō about this encounter, and Seppō said, "I'll have to go to see for myself, and I'll go test him myself." So Seppō sets off to see him, bringing with him an attendant, who is carrying a razor, because, remember, the monk didn't shave his head. It is the commitment of a monk to keep his head shaved, and it's very nonconformist not to keep your head shaved.
So he goes with a razor. He goes directly to the hut, and as soon as he sees the monk, he says to him, "Express the truth, or I will shave off your hair." Dogen comments:
We must understand "express the truth or I will shave off your hair" seems to say that not to have the head shaved would be to have expressed the truth. [After all, the monk is expressing himself in his life - his lifestyle.] What do you think? If this expression of the truth is an expression of the truth, this hermit might finally go unshaved. Those who have the power to hear this expression of the truth should listen, and should proclaim it to others who have the power to hear.
And then hearing this, the hermit washes his hair and comes before Seppō to have his head shaved. Dogen comments:
Has he come as the expression of the truth, or has he come as the nonexpression of the truth? Seppō shaves the head of the hermit at once.
And that's the story. So Dogen now gives a little comment to the story.
This episode is truly like an appearance of the udumbara flower. [A rare flower that only blooms every thousand years or so.] It is not only difficult to meet; it may be difficult even to hear. It is beyond the scope of bodhisattvas in the seven sacred stages or ten sacred stages and is not glimpsed by bodhisattvas in the three clever stages or seven clever stages.
In other words, this is a great story. It's Dogen's hyperbolic, medieval Japanese way of saying, "Wow, this is fantastic! Nobody could touch this."
Sutra teachers and commentary teachers, and adherents of mystical powers and apparitions, cannot fathom it at all. "To meet the Buddha's appearance in the world" means to hear a story like this. Now, what might be the meaning of Seppō's "Express the truth and I will not shave your head." When people who have never expressed the truth hear this, those with ability may be startled and doubting, and those without ability will be dumbfounded. Seppō does not ask about "buddha," he does not discuss "the Way," he does not ask about "samadhi," and he does not discuss "dharani." Inquiry like this, while seeming to be a request, also seems to be an assertion.
In other words, Seppō, in his statement, is expressing the truth. "We should research this in detail." So whenever Dogen says that, he means sit with this as a koan. Really understand this for your own life.
The hermit, though, because of his genuineness, is aided and abetted by the expression of the truth [of Seppō] itself and is not dumbfounded. Showing the traditional style, he washes his head and comes forward. This is a Dharma standard at which not even the Buddha's own wisdom can arrive. It may be described as, "manifestation of the body," as "preaching of the Dharma," as "saving of the living," or as "washing the head and coming forward." Then, if Seppō were not the real person he is, he might have thrown down the razor and roared with laughter. [When he saw the monk coming forward, with his hair clean and ready for shaving, he might have roared out laughing.] But because Seppō has real power and is a real person, he just shaves the hermit's head at once. And truly, if Seppō and the hermit were not "buddhas alone, together with buddhas," it could not be like this. If they were not two buddhas together, it could not be like this. The black dragon's pearl is tirelessly guarded by the black dragon, but it rolls naturally into the hand of a person who knows how to take it. Let us remember [reviewing now] Seppō testing the hermit, the hermit seeing Seppō, expression of the truth, nonexpression of the truth, the hermit having his head shaved, and Seppō shaving his head. So, in conclusion, there are ways for good friends in the expression of the truth to pay unexpected visits. And between friends who are unable to say anything, although they do not expect recognition, the means are already present for their selves to be known. [In other words, through their saying nothing, and through their needing to say nothing, their communication is complete.] When there is learning in practice of knowing the self, there is the reality of expressing the truth. [In other words, expressing the truth does not need to be something extra or more than needs to be done.]
So I think this is a sweet story. I really like that story, and I remember hearing it many times, long ago.
So, as we learned, the expectation would be that this nonconformist hermit, when asked, "Express the truth, or I will shave your hair off," would express the truth. He would make an expression, and there are many Zen stories in which people do make an expression. The typical, ordinary Zen thing would be to make some powerful, individual expression of the truth. Dogen tells us that Seppō is expressing the truth himself, and the hermit monk expresses the truth through fully according with simple monastic decorum, rather than feeling he's got to express himself. He submerges himself as his expression. In other words, this is Dogen's wonderful paradox: How do you express the truth that transcends monastic decorum? Through monastic decorum. You express freely, without attachment to, without being stuck on. As an expression of freedom, you conform.
It might be a little deceptive, because when we hear a "shaved head," we might think this has to do with ordination vows, but it doesn't, because this monk is already ordained. It's just about custom and decorum. If, when the monk presented his head to be shaved, Seppō had laughed and thrown down the razor, then, as Dogen says, Seppō would not have gone far enough. He would have been making some personal expression; but to really own one's personal expression, one can go beyond it and simply express oneself through someone else's words - through a tradition, through a custom. So Seppō shaves the head, rather than laughing and being jolly, as would have happened in a conventional Zen story. So this is completely upside down. Dogen says that we can overthrow the monastic forms and express the dharma freely by simply taking up the monastic decorum, exactly as it is.
So, for all of us, the real trick here and the real lesson here is to be able to take up and put down, at the right time, whatever is appropriate to the situation. To express ourselves by being completely in tune with life as it is now, in this time and place. Sometimes it's about silence - it's about returning to a quiet mind, absolutely not talking, even when we meet a friend, and even when there's something to say. Sometimes it's like that. Like this week in sesshin. It's very simple and very quiet, and we express the truth with a wiping cloth and a setsu.
The point is, can we wholeheartedly pick up an appropriate response in a given situation, and put it down when life changes, so we are ready for every new joy and every new disaster?
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Q: user_path(user) undefined local variable or method `user' I'm trying to add a Profile page for the users of my App.
I followed railscasts 250 & 274 to set up my user authentication & added the below to get a user profile.
users/show.html.erb

<%= @user.name %> Profile

  email:
  <%= @user.email %>

layouts/_navbar.html.erb
<%= link_to "View your Profile", user_path(user) %>

users_controller.rb
  def show
    @user = User.find(params[:id])
  end

This throws back a undefined local variable or method 'user' error.
So I tried adding both of these lines to my application_controller.rb :
@user = User.all

&
@user = User.all.find(params[:id])

But these returned the following error respectively
undefined local variable or method `user'

&
undefined local variable or method `params'

I have resources :users in my routes.rb file & I've also tried adding get 'users/:id', :to => 'users#show', :as => 'user' without any success.

A: To go to the show page of the user that is currently logged in:
<%= link_to "View your Profile", current_user %>

Leave the show action as it was and the routes just with resources :users

A: I think the problem is in your layouts/_navbar file. You'll need to define user.
Use the helper: <%= link_to "View your Profile", user_path(current_user) %>
Or: <%= link_to "View your Profile", url_for({ :controller => 'users', :action => 'show', :id => current_person.id }) %>


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Certain cases have arisen where third parties assisting lay litigants, ostensibly as McKenzie friends, go beyond the narrow scope of assistance that may be given. Consequently, the work of the courts and the interests of the litigants have been hindered on occasion.
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• quietly give advice on any aspect of the conduct of the case.
• manage a litigant's case outside court (eg, by signing court documents).
The practice directions also clarify that a lay litigant may have only one McKenzie friend and that, notwithstanding the right to have assistance from a McKenzie friend, the court retains the power to refuse to permit such assistance and it may also regulate the manner in which assistance is provided, which includes the power to withdraw the permission to have a McKenzie friend.
The practice directions are an important reminder regarding the scope of the assistance that may be given by McKenzie friends, particularly in the context of increasing judicial concern that McKenzie friends may be a hindrance to litigation. The practice directions set out a useful summary of what may and may not be done by a McKenzie friend, which anyone acting as a McKenzie friend should be made aware of. Perhaps more importantly, it specifies the powers of the court to further circumscribe or limit the capacity of a lay litigant to engage a McKenzie friend, to which the lay litigant should pay heed.
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