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Mata, Pita, Guru
Episode 127 - December 4, 2022 December 2, 2022
"Having Mata, Pita and Guru in one's awareness is considered to be fundamental to living a life in which you're not regularly organizing suffering for yourself but living a life in which you can design happiness consciously."
We could be forgiven for thinking that Mata, Pita and Guru, Mother, Father, and 'Teacher,' refer to specific people in our life. But as we've come to expect from Vedic wisdom, there is much more to these words than meets the eye.
In this episode Thom explains the connotative meaning of this triumvirate and the role that they play, moment to moment, in our lives.
While most of us see life as a series of events happening to us, those who view life through the lens of Mata, Pita and Guru, see it as a series of events happening for us. No points for guessing which approach leads to the least suffering.
The Three-Part Body of Knowledge
Mata – The Gestator
The Source of All New Moments
Purification Takes Place
Pita; The Instigator of Change
Source and Cause
Thought – A Stream of Energy and Intelligence
A Thing Stimulates You to Have a Thought
The Third Element – Guru
"We Can Make Money Out of This."
Truth of Snake-fear
Darkness Remover
Guru; The Shedder of Light
Mata, Pita, Guru — Fundamental to Living a Happy Life
Jai Guru Deva. Thank you for coming to my podcast, The Vedic Worldview. I'm Thom Knoles.
[00:56] The Three-Part Body of Knowledge
Very often in India, one hears Indians referring with great reverence to a triumvirate, meaning three-part body of knowledge, information that has three parts, triumvirate known as Mata, which means mother, Pita, which means father, and Guru, which means the one who sheds light, the one who removes darkness, the teacher. Mata, Pita, Guru.
And Mata, Pita, Guru is also expressed in all kinds of forms. One of these is, in certain members of Indian society, where a thing called the Yagyopavit, which is referred to as a sacred thread that's placed over one shoulder and crosses over the torso and is tied into a knot under the opposite side, and the sacred thread, the Yagyopavit, is made of three bits of linen that are waxed.
To the untrained eye, for those who have ever seen a bowstring, the string on an archery bow, it looks like a bowstring, and it has these three parts, and if somebody decides in their life to be a householder, or they decide to be a reclusive who lets go of all material possessions, never do they let go of the threefold string. There are other versions of this threefold reverence. Each one of these three will stand for one of Mata, Pita, or Guru.
[02:36] Mata – The Gestator
Mata needs to be addressed in some detail. The word Mata in Sanskrit is the word for mother, the divine source of birthing. So we're now going to make a distinction between source and cause.
Source, that which is the gestator, that aspect of the consciousness field, and consciousness always finds manifestation in the material world too.
So now we're talking about the whole field of consciousness and archetypes inside of the consciousness field that are detectable by the human consciousness state, these archetypes, and then the manifest forms that appear in response to recognition of the unmanifest.
Unmanifest consciousness, when recognized, when re-cognized, turns into the manifest, that which gestates, that which envelops, that which encloses, that which then gives birth to all relative features. Mata.
[03:56] Matrix
Mata gave us the Greco-Latin word, matrice or matrix. Forget about the movie. We're not talking about that concept.
The matrix, matrice is the narrow point of, let's say, an hourglass shape. You think of an hourglass where you have sand or some other substance inside of one bulbous part, and then all of that, by gravity, is drawn into a narrow neck, a tubular narrow neck through which it flows into another bulbous area, and this is what we call an hourglass, bulbous at two ends with a narrow neck connecting them.
The narrow neck of this is referred to this consciousness, legendary consciousness mythos, as matrice or matrix.
Mata, the mother, the birth canal from one state of existence through a highly defining narrowing and condensing of qualities into a blossoming and expansion of a new existence.
[05:21] The Source of All New Moments
To move from something embryonic and fetal into something expressive and self-sufficient, we require the Mata quality, the narrow neck. This is the birthing phenomenon. And we find this to be highly worthy of our reverence and recognition.
To recognize it, and to acknowledge it, and to have reverence for it, is considered to be a fundamental aspect of successful human consciousness.
What do we mean by successful? Most people, when you think that word, means you have a lot of money in your bank account. That's not successful. That's probably just some failure to recognize where true value is.
Successful means, that which can succeed, means succession, the movement from a less-evolved state to a more-evolved state. This is what succession means. And succession requires matrice, matrix. Mata.
Mata is that which gives birth to every new moment, every new minute.
[06:45] Purification Takes Place
Every second is a birthing into a field of all possibilities, from old pattern states into new states in which those useful patterns can come forward, and those things which are no longer relevant are left behind. Purification takes place. Mata, Mother, Mata.
So, this is not just talking about one's own biological and cultural mother, though it doesn't exclude her either. But it's not only that, it's not exclusively that. Mata is a much broader concept than that of simply our mother, but it does include her. It doesn't exclude her.
So we have to take care there. We don't want to trivialize the biological cultural mother that we have, but we're not exclusively referring to her when we say Mata. Mata.
[07:46] Pita; The Instigator of Change
Pita. Pita. Pita is the instigator of change, the thing that prods change into action. Pita; The masculine consciousness. Masculine consciousness has nothing to do with human genitalia. So let's not get all tangled up in a discussion of human genitalia. This is about a consciousness trend.
There's a consciousness trend, which does the gestation, does the birthing, and then a release into self-sufficiency. Then there's the masculine consciousness trend, which is the Pita quality. We've talked about mother, now we're going to talk about Mother as Source. Source.
[08:41] Source and Cause
Let's make a distinction between Source and Cause.
When you have a thought, there is a source of thought. What's the source of thought? The unbounded Consciousness field. You think of this in this way. On a daily basis, we have somewhere between 60,000 to a hundred thousand thought forms. Cognitive neuroscientists refer to these things as "cognitive processes," but that's just a fancy way of saying thoughts.
Every little memory, every little impulse, every little desire, every little thought that you have, every little tune that's playing in your head and all of that.
There's somewhere between 60,000 and a hundred thousand of these consciousness events, which we call thoughts occurring in the mind of a person in a given waking day. That sounds like a lot.
[09:47] Thought – A Stream of Energy and Intelligence
All right. Every one of these thoughts is a stream of energy and intelligence. Energy, on the one hand, because we know that all processes require energy and thinking is a process.
We can even measure the energy produced by thinking in terms of the electroencephalography, which is the method by which you place silver-chloride electrodes onto the scalp of a person, and you can measure the electrical output called, colloquially called, brainwaves.
The electroencephalography, the different frequencies of vibration, cycles per second of waveforms that appear on the scalp, amplified by a computer and printed out as brainwaves to give it some kind of graphic, and so then thought has energy in it, measurable energy. Thought also has discernment, discrimination, differentiation.
A thought is not just a random explosion of energy in any direction. A thought has mission in it. A thought is about a specific thing. And so thought, as a specific function, shows the discriminating value in thought, and this we're going to refer to as intelligence.
So thought is a stream of energy on the one hand, an intelligence, or discernment on the other. Intelligence. Therefore we can call thought a stream of energy and intelligence, and we're producing somewhere between 60,000 and a hundred thousand of these in a day.
If you only produce 60,000 or you produce as many as a hundred thousand, don't get too heady about what that means. If you're a voluminous thinker, you could be having a hundred thousand very stupid thoughts in a day, or you could be having 60,000 stupid thoughts, or you could have 60,000 genius thoughts or a hundred thousand genius thoughts.
[12:03] A Thing Stimulates You to Have a Thought
So volume is not where value necessarily is. We're simply making a point about the sheer amount of energy and intelligence that is apparent in the human mind daily.
Now let's look at the source of thought. This is the Mata that we're talking about. All of that energy and intelligence is coming from somewhere deep inside of us. That is the source of thought. This is the Mata quality.
Whereas the Pita quality, the cause of thought. Cause and source have to be looked at independently because they're independent of each other. A thing stimulates you to have a thought.
That which stimulates you to have a thought is the cause of thought, but it's not the source of thought. Something may stimulate me to have a thought, but it's my deep inner Consciousness that produces thought.
The source of thought and the cause of thought are two separate things. Mata; source. Pita; cause, the stimulus that which stimulates the phenomenology of thinking. That which stimulates the phenomenology of manifestation. The stimulator, that which stimulates. This is the masculine quality of the Consciousness field, the stimulating.
So stimulation and source. Source and cause. Mata and Pita. Mata, Pita.
[13:50] The Third Element – Guru
And now, let's bring in this third element, Guru. Guru. Guru provides us with the capacity to understand that which has had light shed on it.
When you think that you see a snake on the floor of your tool shed because the light is very poor, and it's actually just a rope or a cord lying on the ground, what turns out to be potentially a very useful object. The mind can create from it the hallucination of it being a snake, and you might think, "Snake, snake, snake," and all kinds of irrelevant behaviors will start up.
There's a great story in the Vedic literature, in the Upanishad, about a snake. Once upon a time, somebody thought they saw a snake in a toolshed, and they came out shouting, "Snake, snake!"
And in India, particularly in those times, cobras could be problematic socially since, even today, about 100,000 Indians die of cobra bites in a given year, which is quite an astonishing fact on its own.
"Snake. Snake, snake!" And so then everybody gets all alert. "There's a snake in the tool shed." It was not actually a snake. It was a rope lying on the ground, but the darkness allowed the consciousness of the person to construct a snake, and the hearts were pounding, and the blood pressure was going up, and people were having heart attacks and all of that.
[15:29] "We Can Make Money Out of This."
And then eventually the mayor of the village decided, "We can make money out of this. We're going to refer to this place as Naga Nagar." Naga Nagar means snake town.
And they set up hotdog stands and all kinds of things with a great big barrier rope around the whole area where the tool shed was, keeping the tool shed at a distance of about 30 or 40 yards.
And over there is the snake place and over here all the snacks. And here are some toy snakes, and pictures of snakes and the t-shirt that says I visited Snake Town and the special snake, food, and hot dogs, and so on and so forth. And so this whole thing turned into an industry.
And then, one day, some wandering forest yogi, in the middle of the night, wandering into this village, saw a great clearing, and in the middle of which was a tool shed. And he thought, "Well, I'll take shelter there because it looks like it might rain tonight."
So he goes into the tool shed, and lies down in the straw there and notices that there's a rope on the ground. And he wonders if anybody really needs that. It's always useful to have a rope with you if you're traveling around in the bush.
The next morning he heard all this hubbub beginning and turns out that the crowds were spectacular on that given day at Snake Town. Sales were high, people were buying snake dogs, and snake features, and snake balloons, and snake t-shirts, and whatnot. I visited Snake Town and all of that kind of thing.
[17:04] Truth of Snake-fear
And so the yogi comes out from the tool shed, and people see him and people, suddenly the whole place goes silent. "There's somebody who came out of the snake place. Oh, no, no!"
They start shouting. "Get away from there. Get away. Snake. Snake!"
He goes, "What? What? What do you mean?"
They said, "There's a snake in there. You can't be in that spot. It's a prohibited area."
He said, "Oh, I spent the whole night in there. There's no snake in there. Oh, do you mean this?" He says, holding up the rope.
And they said, "No, you fool. That's a rope. That's not a snake. That's a rope."
He goes, "That's all that was in there, just this rope." And people begin, and then the mayor realizes that this could be the end of the industry, all the industry of snake sales in Snake Town.
And so he said, "Let's get rid of this guy. He's about to completely destroy our entire legend of the town. And what kind of income will we have if we don't have snake fear? Fear-based administration is our industry."
And so people start throwing rocks at him, and they drive him out of town, chase him out with sticks and things. He runs off with the snake, the rope, and doesn't visit that village again.
[18:22] Darkness Remover
This is a story that's designed to illustrate the difference between having light shed on a thing or having only darkness, where shoddy guesswork rules our life, irrespective of the fact that we have Mata Pita, we have our source, we have our cause, the stimulus, what is it that helps us to discern what's actually going on?
The shedding of light. Guru, the word gu-, it means darkness; and -ru means remover. Darkness remover.
What is a darkness remover? Light. What does light do? The shedding of light on an object allows you to discern what that object is, where it is, its proximity to you, and what its qualities are, and whether or not it's worthy of much more consideration.
The shedding of light, the removal of darkness, Guru is a very, very essential part of living a life that is fulfilled.
The role of a Guru is the role of someone who is a shedder of light, a remover of darkness. And what is that? What plays that role? Well, anything from which you learn the truth of a situation, a form, or a phenomenon. A form could be a human person, could be a phenomenon, a style of thinking, a way of relating, and so on and so forth.
When we have our Mata Pita in relative darkness, that is to say, we're ignorant of our source, and we're ignorant of the things that stimulate us to have thoughts and their qualities, propaganda and whatever else is stimulating us to have thoughts, we are absent of that Guru function. We've not learned yet how to become wise by virtue of our own experience.
[20:40] Guru; The Shedder of Light
Guru is not necessarily only a human person, though a human person can play that role of Guru, and not necessarily always a wise and trusted counselor.
Guru could also mean that you had some experiences that were difficult for you to have, nonetheless were enlightening and illuminating for you, where you went down a particular track that was unsustainable, and you learn something from that, provided that you did learn, and you don't just keep going back into the ever-repeating known, provided that you did learn, and you can transcend your former mistake on what that quality was.
A mistake means there's a take, and there's a miss-take. A mistake means not the correct take. If you have learned from your miss-takes, then your miss-takes are also your Guru. If you have learned from anything, whatever it is that taught you anything is the Guru function.
If it turns out that, reliably, for a period of time in your life, there is someone who is able to, with consistency, shed light on what the heck is actually going on around you and in your life, then you might accurately refer to that person as Guru. But Guru is a function, not necessarily just a person.
[22:20] Mata, Pita, Guru — Fundamental to Living a Happy Life
Mata, source. Pita, those things that stimulate the source. Guru, that which sheds light on everything.
Mata, Pita, Guru, these three things never to be forgotten even by someone who has decided to be reclusive, maybe some forest Yogi in India who's decided to abandon all clothing except maybe a loin cloth or something, and is living in a cave. You'll still see them wearing their little string, the threefold string, the Yagyopavit, Mata, Pita, Guru.
This is a constant reminder that in order to live a life that is cognizant of our source, cognizant of that which is orienting our thinking, our source Mata, the orientation values, the Pita quality, and Guru that which sheds light on all of it.
Having this in one's awareness, Mata, Pita, Guru is considered to be fundamental to living a life in which you're not regularly organizing suffering for yourself but living a life in which you can design happiness consciously.
Jai Guru Deva.


ON JULY 14, Turkey's quirky Twittersphere was fixated on a single, seemingly enigmatic tweet — "The bird has flown away. Wishing the same for the remaining 80 million." For anyone familiar with the owner of the Twitter account, 60-year-old Turkish-Armenian linguist and dissident intellectual Sevan Nişanyan, it was quite clear, if extraordinary, what the tweet meant. Nişanyan, in jail since January 2014, had escaped.
Officially, the linguist was charged with "unlicensed construction in a historical heritage site" — apparently the only person ever jailed for such a crime in a country that's a haven for illegal construction projects (estimated at half of all buildings), including the gargantuan presidential palace.
Nişanyan's prison break is no grand tale of a meticulously planned great escape. "It was ridiculously easy — I just walked away. We had made lots of preparations, which turned out to be entirely useless," he chuckles over the phone from Athens, where he's now applied for political asylum. His voice is youthful and his English near-flawless.
As for his exodus to Greece, Nişanyan prefers to keep that bit under wraps. "Well, Turkey has a long coastline, that's all I'll say," he quips, I imagine with a wink.
Since the failed putsch on July 15, 2016, about 50,000 people have been thrown into increasingly overcrowded prisons in a massive purge of coup suspects and all manner of government opponents. Many are jailed simply for having fallen afoul of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his religious conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP). Nişanyan's incarceration, though predating the purge, seems no different.
It is not [a] "hate crime" to poke fun at some Arab leader who, many hundreds of years ago, claimed to have established contact with the Deity and made political, economic, and sexual profit as a result.
These were fighting words for the AKP, which emerged from the prominent Millî Görüş Islamist movement. Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ called Nişanyan's comment a "hate crime" and said "only ill-spirited people show such delirium." The pro-government press vilified him; demonstrations called for his death.
Nişanyan wasn't any easier on Turkey's previous rulers, being a constant thorn in the side of the Kemalists — nationalist, ultra-secularist devotees of the Republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk who used to dominate the military, bureaucracy, and economy. Nişanyan's most controversial book, The Wrong Republic (2008), challenged the founding myths of the nation. His insistence on discussing the Armenian Genocide, back when the subject was even more taboo than it is now (the Turkish government and most Turks deny it was in fact a genocide, contradicting most historians), infuriated all the major political factions.
In 1995, Nişanyan moved to a moribund, formerly Greek village near Turkey's Aegean coast, and eventually transformed it into a sort of personal utopia. Şirince was declared a national heritage site and soon became a top tourist attraction, known for its sweet fruit wines and restored boutique cottages. It was these constructions that eventually landed Nişanyan in jail. He also co-founded — with his friend, the famous mathematician Ali Nesin — a series of top-notch, unorthodox mathematics, philosophy, and theater schools in the village, hosting prominent academics from around the world.
Nişanyan concedes, however, that many of the country's best and brightest are fleeing in droves, whether they're political targets or simply those with the means to move to a more stable country. "Yes, it is a problem. Maybe we're taking over Europe, who knows," he jokes.
Nick Ashdown is a Canadian freelance journalist, writer, and photographer based in Istanbul, Turkey.


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With the first disappearance, the townspeople begin to mistrust outsiders. When the second girl goes missing, neighbors and childhood friends start to eye each other warily. And with the third disappearance, the sleepy little town awakens to a full-blown nightmare. The Church of Dead Girls displays Stephen Dobyns' remarkable gifts for exploring human nature, probing the ruinous effects of suspicion. As panic mounts and citizens take the law into their own hands, no one is immune, and old rumors, old angers, and old hungers come to the surface to reveal the secret history of a seemingly genteel town and the dark impulses of its inhabitants.


Seattle Mennonite Church – 3120 NE 125th St.
Come and learn about "Build Lake City Together" and how you can help shape the community where you live.
Build Lake City Together is seeking volunteers to participate in the community informed action plan. We need your voice in areas including housing, parks and open space, clean and safe, education, transportation and more.
Wan't to Party on "World Food Day"?
The Seattle Department of Transportation is looking for 8 to 10 people to participate in a discussion about finding your way around the city on foot. This discussion is part of a year-long project to design better walking directions and information to encourage Seattleites and visitors to walk more and further. These meetings will provide the City with critical early input from those who have first-hand knowledge of wayfinding challenges in Seattle.
The discussion will take place over 2 hours on October 10th at the Central Library (1000 4th Ave, Seattle 98104). There will be an afternoon (2pm-4pm) and an evening (5:30-7:30) session. Volunteers must be available on this date to be considered. Refreshments will be provided. Participants will be acknowledged for their time with a $60 Safeway gift card.
LCFF is extremely excited to be bringing back the Salmon Bake in conjunction with the Lake City Summer Festival and Parade". Annie Stocker of Two Dog Yoga has done a stellar job of improving on the classic salmon bake meal. She was able to bring on a couple wonderful chefs from 21 Acres (http://21acres.org/). We will have fresh dinner rolls baked by a local Lake Cityzen, a delicious seasonal fruit dessert and fresh greens from the Lake City Farmers Market.
More to come on the festival but for now….
We are so excited to expand our senior meal program, but we can't do it alone. We need a volunteers to fill a variety of positions to provide more hot, nutritious meals to North Seattle seniors. Below are our greatest volunteer needs. If you don't see something that is right for you, please forward these opportunities to a friend or neighbor who might be… our need is great! And don't forget that every volunteer shift includes a delicious, made-from-scratch lunch as a small token of our gratitude.


Ebanour romps to the win in the open timber race at the Elkridge-Harford Pt-to-Pt.
The weather forecast had everyone worrying that the Elkridge-Harford Pt-to-Pt would possibly be canceled because of snow this past Saturday! Luckily, the weather held and the several horses prepping for the spring sanctioned amateur timber races showed up to face off at the Monkton, Md. point-to-point. The open timber attracted nine "heavy hitters" from the timber racing world, including top timber horse Ebanour who edged out 2016 Maryland Hunt Cup winner, Senior Senator, by 1 ½ lengths. A look at the results shows a day of full fields for the day, which included a good showing of graduates who participated in the National Steeplechase Foundation Developing Rider Program over the years including John Brophy, Alex Fulton, Eric Portez, and McLane Hendriks. And welcome to Mackensie Rossman, who had her first ride over timber on Sumo Power. You can read about the day in the Baltimore Sun, which also includes some video. And Bob Keller captured some great images of the day.
For timber racing fans, springtime in Maryland means the road to the Maryland Hunt Cup and this Saturday, April 14thmarks the first sanctioned strictly timber hunt meet for those headed to "the big dance." A healthy field of maiden timber horse entries at the My Lady's Manor made for a split race. Professional riders Darren Nagle and Willie McCarthy stick around the mid-Atlantic this weekend to ride the My Lady's Manor feature $30,000 timber stake, foregoing the hunt meet at Tryon further south. Get the full details of the race here: Drift Society Heads My Lady's Manor.
Point to pointing heads to Fair Hill Pt-to-Pt, whose course is just outside the NSA office in Elkton, on Sunday. The overnights revealed eleven more junior entries than open entries, with over 100 total entries slated to run on the Sunday. Organizers are hoping the weather holds! Visit the Fair Hill Pt-to-Pt website to learn more about how you can get you can spectate.


Monyhull Church were looking for a website design after their old site proved difficult to maintain and the design past its sell by date. They also wanted the site to be easy to use for new people. The church has over 200 people every sunday and a real heart for the community.
The first part of the job was to break down the important information, new information hierarchy was introduced with the focus being people who have never visited the site or the church before.
Simpler language was used for big theological words and the tone open and friendly. Pastel greens were introduced throughout the site and headers made it clear what options were available.
A clear pathway to, finding out more about christianity and also about real life stories meant new comers could gain an understanding of the organisation quickly.


Long Island New York native Hoodie Allen, is hitting New Zealand shores in September for an intimate one night only show at Auckland's Neck Of The Woods.
This show comes highly anticipated after the release of his album Hype in September 2017.
Hoodie Allen is an independent American rapper who has a impressive four top ten hits in Billboard's Top Rap Albums under his belt, launching his recording career into overdrive. Allen started sharing his talents at frat parties and online before dropping his first EP All American which debuted #10 of the Billboard 200, following which each of his proceeding albums achieved a Billboard chart ranking. Allen has also worked with artists from a variety of genres such as; Ed Sheeran, Meghan Tonjes, and Blackbear, highlighting his versatility as an artist.
After extensive touring around Europe and America, the rapper is finally coming down under! Mark your calendars, and count your pennies because this show will not be one to miss!


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Randy Charlton
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Randy grew up in Waterloo, Iowa, where at the age of five his family began to attend a Bible preaching church. Church became a regular event in his life and at the age of eleven. While attending a week of Vacation Bible School, he became convicted of his sin and his need for a Savior. A faithful Sunday school teacher opened the Bible with him on the back stairway of the church and shared how he could be saved. Two years later, along with other members of his family, he was baptized as a public display of his faith in Christ. Randy attended Bible college for one year after high school and then returned home and began working for John Deere Waterloo Works. During a time of being laid off from Deere, Randy returned to Bible college, along with his wife and three sons, and graduated in 1989. He returned to Deere for a short time before accepting the call to pastor a church and administrate a small Christian school in Minnesota. Randy later pastored another church in Minnesota and two churches in Iowa before retiring from full time ministry at the end of 2018. Since that time, he and his wife Rita, have attended Saylorville Church and have been involved in various ministries. As the Senior Adult Director, it is his desire to see senior adults grow in their faith, remain active in the ministries of Saylorville Church and leave a legacy that impacts their families and others for the glory of God and the building of the Church.
Randy and Rita have three sons, three daughters-in-law, three grandsons and four granddaughters.
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Most of what I've been sewing lately I can't show you yet!! So sorry!
There have been a few collaborations ……..
I can't wait to show you this finished class sample!
And here, I arm-twisted asked my super talented friend to add her stitchery magic to another class sample.
I've also been trying to turn a French General into a Granny!!
Geddit? Sadly, this is more shhhhhhhh sewing! So no more details just yet!
Thank you for your patience! Wishing you all happy sewing time this weekend!


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BENECO Notice Of Scheduled Power Interruptions From August 14 To 19
Parts of Baguio City, La Trinidad, Tublay, Tuba, Buguias, and Bakun will experience electrical power interruptions in the coming week. In particular, the whole town of Bakun (except barangay Kayapa) will have no power on August 19 (Saturday) from 9:00 in the morning to 5:00 in the afternoon. Below is the full schedule of the power interruptions as per a notice disseminated by the Benguet Electric Cooperative (BENECO).
August 14, Monday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm - [Magsaysay, Liwanag, Loakan Proper, Bubon, Purok 7, San Luis Extension, Zarate Road, Middle Quezon Hill, Purok 3, Dominican Hill in Baguio City], [parts of Alapang, Alno, Pangablan, Asin Tuel, Balluay, Bagong, Botot, Bayuga, Banengbeng]
August 15, Tuesday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm - [whole of Central Tublay], [Kilometer 4, Capjaran, Central Pico, La Trinidad], [Chamomile Street, Sunnyside, Fairview, parts of MRR Queen of Peace, parts of Naguilian-Ferguson junction, Purok 5, Navy Base, parts of Polo field in Baguio City]
August 16, Wednesday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm - [Sayucong, Central Balili, La Trinidad], [Conit, Jappa, Shilan, La Trinidad], [Gabriela Silang, Baguio City]
August 17, Thursday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm - [Palew, Kahadong, Caponga, Tublay], [whole of Taloy Norte and Taloy Sur in Tuba]
August 18, Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm - [Coplo, Sablan, Gallano Aringay La Union, San Pascual, Tarong, Nangalisan, Tuba], [parts of Loo, Banooy, Sebang, Magmagaling, Baculongan Norte and Sur, Mansoyosoy, Buguias]
August 19, Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm - [parts of Sinipsip, Buguias, whole of Bakun except Kayapa]
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Liberated Guardian Supplement, April 15, 1971
The National Guardian was a radical, left newsweekly published out of New York City from 1948-1992. The paper was established by James Aronson, Cedric Belfrage, who were committed activists for the Progressive Party and Henry Wallace presidential campaign, as well as John McManus and Josiah Gitt, both liberal newspaper men, though Gitt quickly dropped out. In addition to the Progressive Party, the newspaper also held ties with American communists and the labor movement. The Cold War took a toll on the newspaper, with the decline of the Progressive Party and the rise of McCarthyism in the U.S. During the post-WWII era, the newspaper focused coverage on opposition to the Cold War and militarism, support for emerging anti-colonial struggles around the world, defense of those targeted by McCarthyism, advocacy for the black freedom movement. The newspaper continued to hold a cozy relationship with the Communist Party U.S.A., though it did break with the group over some issues, particularly support for independent political action beyond party control. The 1960s-era brought a new period of political rancor within the editorial ranks of the newspaper. In the end, the periodical changed leadership and renamed itself The Guardian. The Guardian took an increasingly Maoist line, supporting armed struggles against colonialism. During this period, the newspaper attempted to forge ties with SDS and SNCC, writing that "The duty of a radical newspaper is to build a radical movement." "We are movement people acting as journalists," the Guardian′s staff now proudly declared. The Liberated Guardian formed out of a workers strike at The Guardian newspaper in New York City in the Spring of 1970. The Liberated Guardian was notable for it strong stand in favor of armed struggle. An ideological and political split within the ranks of the Liberated Guardian staff led to the newspaper's demise in late-1973. The original Guardian pressed on and took on a more hard-line Marxist-Leninist ideology in the late-1970s, eroding that newspaper's reputation for investigative journalism. Readership and support for The Guardian declined through the 1980s and the paper ceased publication in 1992.
These pages are from an 8-page supplement focused on revolutionary art, COINTELPRO and FBI files, and debate within the anti-war movement over strategy.
Liberated Guardian
anti-communism, Anti-War, Cedric Belfrage, COINTELPRO, Cold War, Communist Party, CPUSA, FBI, Gay Liberation, Guardian, Henry Wallace, James Aronson, John McManus, Josiah Gitt, Leavenworth, Liberated Guardian, Maoism, Marxist-Leninism, McCarthyism, National Guardian, New York, Political Prisoners, Progressive Party, prostitution, Revolutionary Art, Rosenbergs, SDS, SNCC, Student for a Democratic Society, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Underground Press, Vietnam War
Liberated Guardian, "Liberated Guardian Supplement, April 15, 1971," Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed January 20, 2021, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/669.


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Jimmy Carter, 95, is hospitalized for urinary tract infection just days after returning home following surgery to relieve bleeding on the brain
The former president was admitted to a south Georgia hospital over the weekend
'He is feeling better and looks forward to returning home soon,' spokesman said
America's oldest living president has overcome several health challenges of late
He was released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta last Wednesday after recovering from surgery to relieve bleeding on the brain from a series of falls
Published: 17:44 EST, 2 December 2019 | Updated: 21:59 EST, 2 December 2019
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was admitted to a south Georgia hospital over the weekend for treatment of a urinary tract infection, a spokeswoman said Monday.
Deanna Congileo, a spokeswoman for The Carter Center, said in a statement that the 95-year-old former president was admitted to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus over the weekend.
'He is feeling better and looks forward to returning home soon. We will issue a statement when he is released for further rest and recovery at home,' she added.
Carter, America's oldest living president, has overcome several health challenges in recent years. He underwent surgery to relieve pressure on his brain from bleeding linked to recent falls last month.
Former President Jimmy Carter, pictured in November, was admitted to a south Georgia hospital over the weekend for treatment of a urinary tract infection, a spokeswoman said
The 95-year-old former president was admitted to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, pictured
Carter was also diagnosed with melanoma in 2015, announcing that the cancer had spread to other parts of his body.
After partial removal of his liver, treatment for brain lesions, radiation and immunotherapy, he said he was cancer-free.
A fall last spring required him to get hip replacement surgery.
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Then on October 6, he hit his head in another fall and received 14 stitches, but still traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, to help build a Habitat for Humanity home shortly thereafter.
He fractured his pelvis in another fall later that month and was briefly hospitalized.
Last Wednesday, Carter was released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after recovering from surgery to relieve pressure on his brain caused by bleeding from a fall.
Former President Jimmy Carter pictured following a fall in October
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Carter, a Democrat, was the 39th president of the United States, serving one term from 1977 until 1981.
He was defeated in his re-election bid by Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Carter went on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his humanitarian work and has lived longer after leaving the White House than any former president in U.S. history.
In November Carter reflected on his own mortality after suffering a broken pelvis when he fell in his home on October 21.
The former president taught a Bible lesson on life after death at a church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, where he has lived since leaving office in 1981.
Using a walker, the 95-year-old Democrat slowly entered the crowded sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church.
'Morning, everybody,' he said cheerfully.
With help, Carter sat on a motorized lift chair at the front of the room to teach a 45-minute lesson based on the Old Testament book of Job.
Referring to a cancer diagnosis that resulted in the removal of part of his liver in 2015, Carter said he was is 'at ease' with the idea of dying and believes in life after death.
More than 400 people were on hand in the main hall and smaller, overflow rooms where the lesson was shown on television.
Rev Lowden said Secret Service agents, relatives and fellow church members all discouraged Carter from teaching because of the injury, but he insisted.
'He is pouring out that you might see Christ while he is suffering,' Lowden told the crowd.
President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter in the White House, pictured in 1977. Carter, a Democrat, was the 39th president of the United States, serving one term from 1977 until 1981. He was defeated in his re-election bid by Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980
Carter remained for the worship service after teaching, sitting in a pew beside his wife, Rosalynn, and singing hymns with the congregation.
Carter, who surpassed George H.W. Bush as the longest-lived US president in history this spring, said: 'I assumed, naturally, that I was going to die very quickly,' he said of his 2015 cancer diagnosis.
'I obviously prayed about it. I didn't ask God to let me live, but I asked God to give me a proper attitude toward death. And I found that I was absolutely and completely at ease with death.'
'It didn't really matter to me whether I died or lived. Except I was going to miss my family, and miss the work at the Carter Center and miss teaching your Sunday school service sometimes and so forth. All those delightful things,' he said.
Jimmy Carter, 95, is hospitalized for urinary tract infection


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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Tuesday 9/03/2004Let nobody say that our greatest and most ancient universities are set in their ways. Today, top news terrier Graeme Wearden fearlessly penetrates the Oxford Internet Institute -- under the patronage of Oxford U itself -- to dig out hot poop on information warfare.
By Rupert Goodwins for Mixed Signals | March 12, 2004 -- 17:45 GMT (09:45 PST) | Topic: Innovation
Tuesday 9/03/2004
Let nobody say that our greatest and most ancient universities are set in their ways. Today, top news terrier Graeme Wearden fearlessly penetrates the Oxford Internet Institute -- under the patronage of Oxford U itself -- to dig out hot poop on information warfare. He got his story, but against the odds. For although the OII seeks to become -- take a deep breath -- "the world's leading multi-disciplinary academic centre focused on furthering understanding of the economic, political, institutional, scientific, legal and other social factors shaping the Internet and its implications for society," it's not entirely comfortable in the brave new world which it so wishes to understand.
For example, it's been set up since 2001 and has already divined that the Net is "a phenomenon that goes far beyond its basic technical capabilities and layers of diverse and increasingly powerful services and applications to encompass all the people, services, information, and technologies that are intertwined in this 'network of networks'." -- not bad going for three years of intensive intellectual analysis. But it hasn't quite twigged that people might want to access "this 'network of networks'" as part of their job, which is why the seminar Wearden attended ran in a room with no mobile phone coverage and not a sniff of Wi-Fi.
Undeterred, our sterling sleuth pulled out his laptop and proceeded to document the goings-on with the intention of filing later in the day. Oh dear. So intense is the cerebration, so focused the intellect at these things that the sound of someone typing provoked a sea of outraged glares. "It was like letting rip an enormous fart in the British Library Reading Room," the uncomfortable hack would have said afterwards were he as rude as I am, "only slightly less smelly".
However, he wasn't entirely blameless for the next outrage he perpetrated on the mighty minds of the OII. The day was wearing on and the discussions were wearing thin, and the quiet murmurings of the speaker merged seamlessly with the whisper of the air conditioning and his daydreams of sundrenched beaches… and feeling his attention wander, he elected to take what NASA call a Power Nap: a few minutes of sleep that refresh and reinvigorate. Spacemen do it, pilots do it, even captains at sea: but they take a precautionary measure that our hero neglected -- they remove their hands from the controls. As his hands slumped across the keyboard, the autorepeat kicked in and the keyboard buffer steadily filled -- until the computer decided enough was enough and started to bleep, loudly and repeatedly.
He woke up shortly afterwards: the speaker hadn't actually thrown a chalk eraser at his head but that was probably due to the podium being to heavy to act as a projectile.
Wearden's campaign for an honorary degree from the Uni, we hear, has some way to go.
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US President Donald Trump has said a sobering warning by his top infectious diseases expert about lifting pandemic restrictions too soon was unacceptable.
He accused Dr Anthony Fauci of wanting "to play all sides of the equation" in his testimony to lawmakers on Tuesday.
The president said he was especially dissatisfied with Dr Fauci's caution around reopening schools too quickly.
Covid-19 has infected nearly 1.4 million people in the US and killed 84,000, while ravaging the economy.
What did the US president say?
Speaking on Wednesday at the White House, Mr Trump took issue with Dr Fauci's comments to a Senate hearing a day earlier about the risks to children of reopening and his assessment that a vaccine was unlikely before classes could begin this autumn.
"Look, he wants to play all sides of the equation," Mr Trump said of his top coronavirus expert's concerns.
"I was surprised by his answer actually, because, you know, it's just to me – it's not an acceptable answer, especially when it comes to schools," the president told reporters.
He said "the only thing that would be acceptable" is giving older teachers and professors a few more weeks before they return.
"Because this is a disease that attacks age, and it attacks health," the president said.
"But with the young children, I mean, and students, it's really – just take a look at the statistics. It's pretty amazing," Mr Trump added.
The Republican president is keen to get Americans back to work and has praised governors who are moving to do so while criticising others for not acting aggressively enough.
The country is split over Mr Trump's focus on protecting livelihoods, critics accuse him of gambling with lives to serve his own political interests ahead of November's re-election bid.
The president's latest comments come amid reports of some young children being severely affected by an inflammatory syndrome that could be linked to the virus.
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How does a typical week for you go? Most likely there's work, running errands, dealing with family, friends, social gatherings, and the list goes on and on. We often get so wrapped up in our daily schedule that we forget those around us, especially those who we don't know and encounter for a moment. How come we can't see that we all carry a story?
For the past couple of weeks some of my twitter followers and I have been working to compliment 5 women each day. As simple as it sounds, I've only been able to compliment 5 each week because of my schedule and not remembering to do it. Over the weekend I was talking to my friend about our efforts, and he brought up a great point that every person we encounter has a story to tell and could help us growth personally or professionally. It all depends on if take the time to talk with them and form those relationships.
I've never thought about my interactions that way before, but it makes sense that we all carry stories and opportunities that can contribute to another person's growth and development. Our struggles, triumphs, and the people that we know make us who we are and other people have that too, and their stories may be similar to ours. It all comes down to us taking a little bit of time to start a conversation learn about one another.
This isn't to say that we all need to have in-depth conversations with everyone we meet, we just need to be aware of one another. It's easy to get stuck in our worlds, but there's so much to discover when we learn from one another. All of us have a story in which we carry with us, all we need is someone to share it with.


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Portable biomass densification technology
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HIKARI positive energy building
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Small three-wheeler EVs for transportation
Clean Motion has developed a small, efficient vehicle. The ultra-light Zbee is three-wheeled, electric vehicle aiming to achieve high efficiency and driving economy. Clean Motion claims its front-end crash structure and three-point safety belts give it improved safety features over competing lightweight vehicles. Zbee replaces conventional cars for short distance transportation of up to three people or light cargo. The company claims that Zbee uses 7% of the energy of the average fossil-fueled city car, with speeds of up to 45 km/h. Its lean form factor and lightweight fiber reinforced plastic body allow it to be parked easily.
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Ancillary services for PV power plants
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Solar service for urban multi-tenant buildings
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Remembrance Poppy Badge
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This metal badge features our trefoil and the red poppy which is a registered trademark and can be worn around Remembrance Sunday or throughout the year as a symbol of remembrance and hope.
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assignment where we're implementing a made up programming language inside of Racket.
earlier brief study of Macros.
by writing language B programs directly in terms of language A constructors.
evaluating sub-expressions in order to get results for larger expressions.
Now, here's what we know about macros.
We learned earlier that a macro extends the syntax of a language.
you expand the macro use using the macro definition before the program is run.
all before the rest of the implementation of the language sees anything.
So here's how this works, okay?
to take in language B syntax and produce language B syntax.
put into our program before we call the interpreter.
we're not going to add any struct definitions.
these Racket functions are a part of our programming language.
then it's that result that then we end up thinking as part of our program.
Which is then fed to the interpreter.
This all happens before we ever call a function like eval-exp.
quote macros in this language.
negations, additions, multiplications, booleans true and false.
this is the correct version that handles error messages properly.
And it's a big code that has one case for every kind of expression.
that's primarily a separate issue, okay?
in this language, like add of const 3 and const 4.
And if I ask what x is, I see it's just a program.
And if I evaluate it, I pass to my interpreter, x.
And what I get back is const 7.
writing programs in this language.
And see how they kind of act like macros.
So suppose I wanted an andalso, an and in my language.
So this is a Racket function.
All it is, I'm going to put a function body here, it's plain old Racket function.
Just a Racket function that I'm going to call with two expressions in my language.
And what I'm going to return is if-then-else e1 e2 bool false.
So I take in syntax, I return syntax.
bool true eq-num const 3 const 4.
Okay, and what I get back is expanded version.
I call this Racket function with some syntax, I get back a program.
y is the macro expanded version.
I go down here, but then 3 is not equal to 4, so I end up with false, okay?
So that is seeing how these Racket functions act like macros.
you need to do similar things on your assignment.
Suppose I wanted to act like my function had double.
to multiply e and the constant 2, all right?
constructs and the language we're interpreting a little bit more.
How about I have a macro that takes in a Racket list.
the expressions in that list together.
this function than xs because it's a list of expressions.
All right, so if the list is empty then return the const 1.
a program that when run, will be the multiplication of everything in this list.
let's create multiply out of the first thing in that list.
And the syntax I get by calling list-product on the rest of the list.
all of these macros we've defined.
you don't have to use them at the top of your program.
because that's how I defined the list product macro, if you will.
const 1 and const 2.
And this time I'll and that with just the constant true, okay.
I haven't interpreted anything yet.
And it's kind of big because it expanded everything out.
that's all nested multiplies all the way down.
second of all if my language had things like variables.
I could have variables in some of these expressions.
that we can then evaluate it and get our results.
then I could evaluate test and I would get true.
So that is the role of macros.
That is the sort of thing you will do on your homework assignment.
the optional material on macros where we looked at hygiene issues.
systems in most languages, because of the way it handles variable shadowing.
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Richtheim ist ein Gemeindeteil der Gemeinde Berg bei Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz im Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz in Bayern.

Geographie
Das Dorf liegt im Oberpfälzer Jura auf circa  südöstlich des Gemeindesitzes und beiderseits der Schwarzach.

Geschichte
Der Ort wurde erstmals 1311 als "Riuotheim" erwähnt. Der Ortsname bedeutet Siedlung bei einer Rodung.

1546 verkauften die Landschaftsverordneten des Fürsten Ottheinrich zum Schuldenabbau u. a. den Zehent zu Richtheim an den Rat von Neumarkt. Als im Dreißigjährigen Krieg 1639 die herzogliche Regierung von Amberg von den ihr unterstellten Ämtern Berichte über die Belegungsfähigkeit in den einzelnen Orten für das Winterquartier von Truppen anforderte, führte das Schultheißenamt Neumarkt nur fünf Höfe von Richtheim auf; alle anderen Höfe lagen kriegsbedingt wohl öd.

Gegen Ende des Alten Reiches, um 1800, bestand Richtheim aus 22 Höfen, für die vier verschiedene Ämter zuständig waren. Überwiegend gehörten sie zur Unteren Hofmark Berngau, nämlich ein Dreiviertelhof (= die Richtheimer Mühle), drei Halbhöfe, drei Viertelhöfe, zwei Dreisechzehntelhöfe, fünf Achtelhöfe und zwei Einsechzehntelhöfe. Das Pflegamt Haimburg besaß einen Halbhof, das Klosterrichteramt Gnadenberg einen Halbhof und zwei Viertelhöfe, die Reichsstadt Nürnberg den Achtelhof von Truchseß und den Einsechzehntel-Hof des von Tucherschen Mannlehens. Die Gemeinde hatte ein Hirtenhaus. Die Hochgerichtsbarkeit übte das kurfürstliche Schultheißenamt Neumarkt aus.

Im Königreich Bayern (1806) wurde Richtheim dem Steuerdistrikt Loderbach, um 1810/20 der Ruralgemeinde Loderbach zugeteilt, die außer Loderbach und Richtheim den Beckenhof und Riebling umfasste, später auch Kadenzhofen und zeitweise Bruckmühle. Diese Gemeinde wurde im Zuge der Gebietsreform in Bayern zum 1. Mai 1978 nach Berg eingemeindet.

1836 heißt es im Repertorium zum topographischen Atlasblatt Neumarkt: "Richtheim, D[orf] bey Loderbach, 20 H[äuser], 1 Wirthshaus, 1 Mühle (1 Mahl-, 1 Schneidgang) an der Schwarzach". Im 19. und weit bis ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein bewegte sich die Einwohnerzahl des Dorfes bei circa 30 Höfen um 100 bis 150. Sie stieg nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg bei reger Wohnbautätigkeit auf das Doppelte an.

Am 20. Mai 1860 wurde die Richtheimer Bäuerin Margaretha Herzog Opfer eines Raubmordes, verübt von ihrem Dienstknecht.

Einwohnerentwicklung
 1836: 135 (20 Häuser)
 1861: 125 (44 Gebäude, 1 Kirche)
 1900: 109 (21 Wohngebäude)
 1937: 155
 1950: 210 (31 Wohngebäude)
 1961: 252 (46 Wohngebäude)
 1987: 315 (85 Wohngebäude, 98 Wohnungen)
 2015: 368

Richtheimer Mühle
Das Mühlenanwesen von der Größe eines Dreiviertelhofes war das größte Anwesen in Richtheim; es gehörte bis zur Säkularisation dem Spital zu Neumarkt und wurde vom Amt der Unteren Hofmark Berngau verwaltet. Um 1800 saß auf ihr der Müller Thumann, der eine Monatsandacht vom guten Tod stiftete; eine Bruderschaft "vom Guten Tod" existierte in der katholischen Pfarrei Berg seit 1746. Die von der Schwarzach angetriebene Mühle, eine Mahlmühle mit einer Säge, war von 1843 bis 1914 im Besitz der Müllerfamilie Schechinger. Drei Jahre nach dem Erwerb der Mühle erbaute der Müllermeister Michael Schechinger eine neue Kapelle an der Mühle. 1914 bis 1991 saß die Familie Gmelch auf dem Mühlenanwesen: 1925 wurde der Mahlbetrieb eingestellt, nachdem schon zuvor der Sägebetrieb aufgegeben worden war. 1929 wurde das Mühlengebäude abgerissen.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Marienkapelle, 1846 erbaut vom Müller Schechinger auf seinem Grund, 1847 geweiht und ohne Meßlizenz; 1935 restauriert. Eine weitere Kapelle im Ort, die 1737 durch Sebastian Lang erbaut worden und auch der hl. Maria geweiht war, ist noch 1937 erwähnt.
 Johannes-von-Nepomuk-Figur bei der Brücke über die Schwarzach

Vereine
  Wanderverein Richtheim
 Kleintierzuchtverein Richtheim-Berg

Verkehrsanbindung
Richtheim ist über die Ausfahrt 92 a "Neumarkt/Opf." der Bundesautobahn 3 sowie über die Staatsstraße 2240 zu erreichen. Gemeindeverbindungsstraßen führen nach Beckenhof und Kadenzhofen.

Literatur
 Franz Xaver Buchner: Das Bistum Eichstätt. I. Band, Eichstätt: Brönner & Däntler, 1937.

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Ortsteil von Berg bei Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
Ort im Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
Ersterwähnung 1311
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ST. LOUIS — Mike Shildt wasn't sure what to expect in his first day as interim manager of the St. Louis Cardinals.
He certainly didn't foresee the treatment he received in a wild post-game celebration that occurred following the Cardinals' 6-4 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday.
"They got me in a laundry basket and they spin you around and then they go at you with a bunch of cold water to the point where I was hyperventilating," Shildt said.
"That guy knows his stuff, and you're happy to put a smile on his face and get the (first) win for him," Fowler said.
Rumours of discontent in the locker room, along with inconsistent play, spelled the end for manager Mike Matheny, who was fired after Saturday's 8-2 loss after six-plus seasons. The Cardinals were 591-474 during Mathey's tenure and made the playoffs in each of his first four years. But St. Louis failed to reach the post-season the last two years.
Pham erased a 3-2 deficit with a two-run single that highlighted a four-run outburst in the fourth. It was Pham's first hit since July 5. He entered the game in the second inning after starter Harrison Bader left with a knee injury.
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How to Find an Endometriosis Specialist
Few gynecologists have the skills and training to diagnose or remove endometriosis — chances are, you will have to search for one who does.
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Prepare to go the extra mile to find a doctor qualified to diagnose and treat endometriosis.
There are too many stories of women with endometriosis who were undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for many years.
Latia Lee, age 39, of Islip, New York, suffered for 23 years with undiagnosed endometriosis, a chronic disease in which endometrial-like tissue grows outside the uterus on various other organs. "My ob-gyn made me think my severe, debilitating menstrual cramps were normal, so I stopped asking about them. I thought it was normal to have my entire life revolve around my cycle. I even had a lung collapse, and the pulmonologist just said it was spontaneous," says Lee. When the other lung collapsed, Lee knew she had to advocate for her own care. She researched online and found that she had just about every single symptom of endometriosis.
More research brought her to Tamer Seckin, MD, the creator of the Endometriosis Foundation of America, who finally made the right diagnosis. "I felt validated that I finally had an answer," Lee says with palpable relief.
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Why the Delay in Diagnosis of Endometriosis?
While an estimated 10 percent of women of reproductive age are affected by endometriosis, it takes an average of 7 to 10 years from onset of symptoms to diagnosis, research suggests.
What gives? There are several problems. There's a shortage of endometriosis specialists, and general ob-gyns lack knowledge about and training in the disease. In fact, says Lora Liu, MD, an endometriosis surgeon at Seckin Endometriosis Center in New York City, "there is not yet an official fellowship for endometriosis surgery."
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If You May Have Endometriosis, Do Your Research to Find Proper Care
If you suspect that your symptoms are related to endometriosis, get thee to a specialist right away. There is no need to suffer for years with no diagnosis, a misdiagnosis, or improper care.
Search online for "centers for endometriosis care." These are centers that specialize in the disease, know what to look for, and know how to treat it. Latia Lee found Dr. Seckin through her own research, and even though he was out of network, she was able to successfully appeal to her insurance for coverage. (Many insurance companies will cover out-of-network specialists as in-network if there is no specialist within 50 miles of your home.)
Be prepared to travel. Claudia Wright, 28, for example, thought it was worth it to go all the way from Perth, Australia, to the Center of Endometriosis Care (CEC) in Atlanta to get appropriate care. "Ken Sinervo, MD, was my light at the end of the tunnel. I couldn't go on living like I was, and I couldn't find the care I needed at home. From the first point of contact with him, I knew he, and the multidisciplinary team he works with, could help me," she says. (If you do have to travel, the center usually will help with arrangements and discounted hotel rooms.)
Check out local and national endometriosis support groups, endo bloggers, and Facebook groups. Wright reports that she found the CEC by joining support groups and chatting with other women with the disease. She now has her own Instagram account, @me_myself_and_endometriosis, to share advice and tips about finding the right treatment.
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Questions to Ask Yourself and Your Endometriosis Specialist
Once you find a physician you think may be "the one," the Endometriosis Foundation of America recommends you ask the following. (If you live far away, many of these centers will do preliminary work over the phone at no charge.)
Does your doctor …
Specialize in the care of endometriosis?
Listen to you when you describe your history and symptoms? Answer your questions in a collegial way? Value your input?
Explain proposed treatment plans in a comprehensive, understandable way?
Ask the right questions? He or she should be interested in whether the symptoms flare up around menstruation.
Work with a team of specialists? When Lee had her surgery, her particular case needed five specialists on hand: a thoracic surgeon, urologist, general surgeon, colorectal surgeon, and Dr. Seckin, an endometriosis specialist and surgeon.
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What if You Can't Get to a Specialist Right Away?
Maybe the physicians can't see you right away or perhaps the visit will have to wait until you can travel to where they are. What do you do in the meantime to take care of yourself?
"Get the best care you can, where you can. If that means working with your local primary care physician who helps you manage collaborative care with the local gynecologist, and other specialists such as a physical therapist, urologist, or gastroenterologist, that's great. If it means coordinating care with your local ob-gyn who has compassion and does all they can to help you manage symptoms, that's wonderful," says Heather Guidone, the surgical program director at the Center for Endometriosis Care (CEC) in Atlanta.
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Dr. Liu suggests exploring these other avenues of care with your local physician:
Take pain medications such as NSAIDs as directed. Seeing a pain specialist may be a good option for some.
Hormonal therapy such as birth control pills, patches, and vaginal rings with both estrogen and progestin; progestin-only contraceptives that are available as pills, IUDs and shots such as Depo-Provera (medroxyprogesterone); and GnRH therapies such as Orilissa (elagolix) and Lupron (leuprolide) also may help reduce pain.
Complementary and alternative treatments such as stress management, diet, acupuncture, pelvic floor physical therapy, supplements, and more can help reduce symptoms.
Keep in Mind, These Methods Are Only a Stalling Tactic, to Manage Symptoms
Medication is a temporary solution. "These methods can manage the symptoms and pain of the disease but they do not treat the disease itself. The only treatment for endometriosis is to excise the diseased tissue. Utilizing these methods of medical management can often buy time until one can get under the care of an endometriosis specialist," says Liu.
A previous version of this story attributed specific treatment information to the wrong source. This was corrected on 05/15/2019. Everyday Health regrets the error.
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DENVER (AP) — Semyon Varlamov rescued Colorado's struggling offense with a stellar performance against Montreal.
Varlamov made 43 saves for his first victory in more than a month and the Avalanche matched the franchise record of 10 straight home wins, beating the Canadiens 2-0 on Wednesday night.
Carl Soderberg and Alexander Kerfoot scored to help Colorado equal the longest home winning streak in franchise history, set in 1994-95 when the team was the Quebec Nordiques.
Eric Lindros was as surprised as everyone else in the audience when a French-Canadian television talk show co-host presented him with a No. 88 Quebec Nordiques jersey.
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Arguing with my father has never achieved anything for me ever
(idea) by rischi Wed Aug 08 2001 at 0:26:27
I think I fell in love with her right then and right there<
If you've seen the map of India, you might have noticed how Jammu and Kashmir look like head of some animated figure. This head rests on a neck like part. This part has the state of Punjab. Or what's left of it after the Partition of India in 1947.
The family of Mehtas was landlord in a sizable village by the name 'Chak Bahattar' near 'Kariyala' in the part of Punjab, which is now in Pakistan. In landlord families, during British rule, the eldest son used to get the entire paternal property in inheritance from his father. Other children had to find other occupations or businesses to support themselves. So it was rather important to be the eldest son in a family.
But this family was battling a serious problem since about three generations - the men of the family had a rather short life span as most were succumbing to natural and unnatural deaths.
The head of family, Bhai1 Bhagwan Das had a younger brother who was in Police force. They had both seen death of their father and sons before they were thirty. The younger brother was doing pretty good and had arrested some big time dacoit of his time for which he was handsomely rewarded and appreciated. But he soon died of poisoning. The police suspected the allies of the dacoit he had captured but nothing was ever proven.
Around this time Bhai Bhagwan Das got worried. He was the only one left of his generation in the family and he had no children. He went with his wife to a revered 'pir'2 and promised that if he is blessed with children with long lives, he'll give his first born to the service of God. He was soon blessed with a boy child. True to his promise he went to the caretakers of the pir and asked them to take the child under their service. But for some reason better left to higher forces to understand, the caretakers pardoned the promise and asked him to raise the child himself and teach him ways of life.
This child was my Grandfather - Bhai Kul Ram Chhibber. Two brothers and two sisters followed him; but before any of them were even teenagers, my Great Grandfather - Bhai Bhagwan Das Chhibber died of snakebite in his fields one fateful evening.
Being the eldest, my grandfather inherited the lands as well as the responsibilities of his father. He had to give up his education at a very young age so that he could attend full time to his fields and can support education of his siblings. His younger brothers were good in studying and where one of them went on to join Police forces, the other went on to Join Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army to help in India's struggle for independence. They were both married in their early twenties to the girls from good families of same caste and they went their way.
The sisters were also married to affluent families with suitable boys of the same caste and finally my Grandfather got married as well. Being the family with low survival rate history; he fathered in all ten children. Six were sons and four were daughters. The 5th child, the fourth son, was named Chandra Mohan. He is my father. He was born just a couple of years before the fateful independence and partition of India.
I'm not sure if many readers of this W/U would be familiar with the horrific incidences and riots that were part of the partition of India. Though most of the western world is very familiar with Holocaust, the massacre involved in India's partition is largely transparent. I'll just state this much that if you were a Hindu living in the part of India that belonged to Pakistan during partition - you were either already brutally hacked to death or in all probability, were soon going to be. And situation was not very delightful for Muslims on the Indian side either.
When you own lands the size of a village, houses no smaller than mansions, and large herds of livestock - you don't move. Even if they keep telling you that you'll be compensated equally well at the new location. So my Grandfather did not move till it was very late. Till, so to say, the riots were visible within the range of sight.
By then, the refugee problem on Indian border was at its peak; the best of the lands were already given out to early movers. On that my grandfather was not carrying all the papers of his properties along. He stayed with his family in refugee camps for some time till he could contact his younger brother who was in the Police and was officially transferred to Indian side long back.
The servants at the original lands proved very honest and did arrange and send out all the property papers by mail to my grand father on receiving the communication. And my grandfather was compensated for his loss to some extent. But the lands were not that fertile or big. Livestock compensation was not enough. And anyway, when you are uprooted from your home abnormally - you can never be fully compensated.
My grandfather picked the pieces of his life and started working towards raising and educating all his children because by his own current experience due to lack of it, he understood that now, education was the only thing that'll help the next generation.
Such were the circumstances in which my father grew up. And so he grew up to be a man of conservative thought and extreme emphasis on education and saving money; with extra careful details to the money you spend, cloth you buy, food you eat, books you read. My father has two sons, my elder brother and me.
We both brothers never really subscribed to our father's philosophies. We were born and raised in a city. His ideas never made any sense to us while we were young. But we never argued with him. Arguing with my father has never achieved anything ever for my brother or me. We argued with our mother. She was our representative to him and his representative to us.
For a large part of my life and due to various reasons, my father was a constant source of shame for me. I was ashamed to go to my school with him. I was embarrassed to invite girls to my home.
And I started by disliking the way he dealt with life and fought with day-to-day circumstances. His politeness was always irritating. But now when I am out of his wings, when I see myself fighting the same fights he did at my age, I see that I act more and more like him everyday. And I feel sympathy, and oneness with him. I want to sit with him for hours and talk about life. But I can't. Years of conditioning prevents my brother and me from sharing smaller things in life with him. Maybe someday I'll be a better man than I am today and sit down with him some evening on the roof top of our house and talk for hours about what makes him happy, what makes him sad. Is he proud of me, does he think he raised me well ...
1> 'Bhai' (Brother) was a salutation awarded to my forefathers by the Sikh gurus for helping them. For several genarations, the eldest son in our family was raised as a Sikh; a practice still followed to an extent in some families.
2> Pir (or peer) is a Shrine. It's an Islamic place of reverence. I believe that a 'pir' tradition is strictly Sufi but I could be wrong; the following of a typical pir is never religion specific.
>Arguing my way to get an arranged marriage
Arguing my way to get an arranged marriage I think I fell in love with her right then and right there Don't take that tone with me, son hydrofluoric acid poisoning
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