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require 'KLDCriterion'
require 'GaussianCriterion'
require 'GmmKLDCriterion'
require 'SimpleKLDCriterion'
require 'Sampler'
require 'IndGmmSampler'
require 'GmmSampler'
require 'grader'

function kld_grad_check()
   kld = nn.KLDCriterion()
   skld = nn.SimpleKLDCriterion()

   -- test Gaussian
   print("Gaussian")
   input = torch.randn(2,5)
   target = torch.randn(2,5)
   grader.checkCriterionGradInput(kld, input, target)

   -- test Gmm
   print("Gmm")
   input = torch.randn(2,5)
   target = torch.randn(8,5)
   grader.checkCriterionGradInput(kld, input, target)

   -- test batch Gaussian
   print("Batch Gaussian")
   input = torch.randn(10,2,5)
   target = torch.randn(10,2,5)
   grader.checkCriterionGradInput(kld, input, target)

   -- test batch Gmm
   print("Batch Gmm")
   input = torch.randn(10,2,5)
   target = torch.randn(10,8,5)
   grader.checkCriterionGradInput(kld, input, target)
end

function kld_speed_test()
   kld = nn.KLDCriterion()
   skld = nn.SimpleKLDCriterion()

   -- speed test kld
   print("Speed test KLD")
   input = torch.randn(200,2,100)
   target = torch.randn(200,2,100)
   grader.speedTest(kld, input, target)

   -- speed test skld
   print("Speed test SKLD")
   input = torch.randn(200,100)
   target = torch.randn(200,100)
   grader.speedTest(skld, input, target)
end

function gmm_kld_check()
   local kld = nn.KLDCriterion()
   local gkld = nn.GmmKLDCriterion()
   local input = torch.randn(1,2,8)
   local target = torch.randn(1,2,8) + 1000
   local out = kld:forward(input, target)
   local gout = gkld:forward(input, target)
   print('kld '..out)
   print('gkld '..gout)
   -- dmulv, dpmulv = kld:backward(input, target)
   -- dgmulv, dgpmulv = gkld:backward(input, target)
   -- print((dmulv - dgmulv):abs():max())
   -- print((dpmulv - dgpmulv):abs():max())
end

-- require 'cunn'
function gmm_kld_grad_check()
   kld = nn.GmmKLDCriterion()

   -- test Gaussian
   print("Gaussian")
   input = torch.randn(2,5)
   target = torch.randn(2,5)
   grader.checkCriterionGradInput(kld, input, target)

   -- test Gmm
   print("Gmm")
   input = torch.randn(2,5)
   target = torch.randn(8,5)
   grader.checkCriterionGradInput(kld, input, target)

   -- test batch Gaussian
   print("Batch Gaussian")
   input = torch.randn(10,2,5)
   target = torch.randn(10,2,5)
   grader.checkCriterionGradInput(kld, input, target)

   -- test batch Gmm
   print("Batch Gmm")
   input = torch.randn(10,2,1)
   target = torch.randn(10,100,1)
   grader.checkCriterionGradInput(kld, input, target)
end

function sampler_forward()
   sampler = nn.Sampler()
   input = torch.randn(5,2,3)
   output = sampler:forward(input)
   print(output)
   input = torch.randn(1,2,3)
   sampler:forward(input)
   print(output)
end

function ind_gmm_sampler_forward()
   sampler = nn.IndGmmSampler()
   input = torch.randn(5,10,3)
   mu, lv = unpack(input:split(5,2))
   lv:fill(-1000)
   output = sampler:forward(input)
   print(mu)
   print(output)
end

function gmm_sampler_forward()
   sampler = nn.GmmSampler()
   input = torch.randn(5,6,3)
   mu, lv = unpack(input:split(3,2))
   for i = 1,3 do
      -- mu[{{},i}] = torch.Tensor({1,2,3}):view(1,3):expand(5,3)
      mu[{{},i}]:fill(i)
   end
   lv:fill(-1000)
   out = sampler:forward(input)
   print(out)
end

function gaussian_forward()
   gauss = nn.GaussianCriterion()
   input = torch.randn(2, 10)
   mu, lv = unpack(input:split(1, 2))
   x = torch.randn(10):zero()
   print(gauss:forward(input, x))
   -- gauss:backward(input, x)
end

function gaussian_grad_check()
   gauss = nn.GaussianCriterion()

   print("single channel")
   input = torch.randn(2,1)
   target = torch.randn(1,1)
   grader.checkCriterionGradInput(gauss, input, target)

   print("multi channel")
   input = torch.randn(4,5)
   target = torch.randn(2,5)
   grader.checkCriterionGradInput(gauss, input, target)

   print("batch")
   input = torch.randn(10, 4,5)
   target = torch.randn(10, 2,5)
   grader.checkCriterionGradInput(gauss, input, target)
end

-- kld_grad_check()
-- ind_gmm_sampler_forward()
-- gmm_kld_check()
-- gmm_kld_grad_check()
-- gmm_sampler_forward()
gaussian_grad_check()


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Terror's Identity by Sarah Maury Swan
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Fiction: Young Adult
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—Joey Madia, founding editor of www.newmystics.com
Sixteen-year-old Aidan Knox's life turns upside down when he, his sister, and his mother enter a witness protection program and begin a dangerous new life because of his father's work investigating a terrorist organization operating in the U.S. How will he remember the details of his new life with a new name and a made-up past? And will he be able to settle in to a new school and all that entails? Whom can he trust and can he keep his mother and sister safe?
Terror's Identity will keep you urging Aidan to succeed and empathize with his having to make new friends in a new school and new town.
Sarah Maury Swan and her husband transplanted themselves from Maryland a little more than five years ago from a horse farm. Their new roots have slipped deep into Carolina's fertile artistic soil, and Sarah enjoys letting the welcoming, fertile atmosphere nourish her writer's soul. Terror's Identity is her first published novel, but certainly not her first published piece of writing. She is an active member and past president of Carteret Writers. She also belongs to the Society of Children's Writers and Illustrators-Carolinas Chapter. She is a frequent winner in the Carteret Writers' annual contest and took Honorable Mention for nonfiction in this year's Pamlico Writers' annual contest.

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Special Library Edition Newsletter - Volume 1
Who's Who in Corporate America™
Marquis Who's Who Releases A Brand New Benchmark for Corporate Accomplishment
Marquis Who's Who, LLC, BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NEW JERSEY — April 6, 2011 — Marquis Who's Who, LLC, publisher of the preeminent Who's Who series including Who's Who in America® and Who's Who in the World®, has just announced the coming release of its newest title, Who's Who in Corporate America™. With over 1,300 pages holding more than 30,000 biographies, this resource immediately takes a place at the forefront of references covering corporate America—and stands out as the new benchmark for corporate accomplishment.
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Xameçadim Maomé ibne Maomé Ali Juveini () era um estadista persa e membro da família Juveini. Serviu como tesoureiro (mustaufi) dos xás da Corásmia   e seu filho Jalaladim Mingueburnu . Teve ao menos um filho chamado Badim Maomé Juveini, cujos filhos Ata Maleque Juveini e Xameçadim Maomé ibne Maomé Juveini se tornariam figuras influentes nos primeiros tempos do Ilcanato dos mongóis.

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Can you imagine holding public meetings open to everyone – except reporters who want to cover them? That's exactly what the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did last year. But, after complaints from the Association of Health Care Journalists, HHS has agreed to make it a policy that public meetings are open to the media.
In November, HHS held a series of "listening sessions" in 10 cities to gather input on an important aspect of the Affordable Care Act. These meetings were publicized among thousands of invited "stakeholders," and anyone who heard by word of mouth could also attend.
But apparently no media advisories went out and, worse, reporters who happened to learn about the meetings were barred from attending. The meetings were not transcribed or recorded.
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The meetings sought input on the definition of "essential benefits," the minimum that would be covered by plans sold on health insurance exchanges. This was a key aspect of carrying out the health care law; in the end, HHS decided to leave that question to the states.
Please watch out for any violations of this principle, and let us know about them.


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I: The Tree Of Wyrd And The Star Game
Herewith a useful overview of some of the renaissance alchemical, and the ancient hermetic, roots of the Order Of Nine Angles.
The above is a Renaissance illustration of the septenary Tree of Wyrd, from the book Azoth Sive Aureliae Occultae Philosophorum published in 1613 CE, which illustration includes the three fundamental alchemical substances, Salt, Sulphur, Mercury, whose nine transformations form the "nine angles" of the O9A and which nine angles are represented by the pieces of the O9A's Star Game thus:
Both of the above illustrations were included in the O9A text ἀρρενόθηλυς: Alchemical And Hermetic Antecedents Of The Seven Fold Way Of The Order Of Nine Angles. {1}
The Star Game itself is an esoteric representation of the septenary Tree of Wyrd. That is, of the nexion between the acausal and the causal and which nexion is also represented by our psyche as human beings, a complex psyche hinted at in many medieval and Renaissance alchemical texts {2} and in modern times – for example by Carl Jung, whose inspiration was Renaissance alchemical texts – represented in terms of archetypes, a collective unconscious, the anima and animus, and 'a shadow aspect'. {3}
The septenary Tree of Wyrd also represents the anados (ἄνοδος), the hermetic journey or alchemical/occult quest up through the seven spheres, anciently described in the Poemandres tractate of the Corpus Hermeticum {4} and described in more recent times by the Seven Fold Way of the Order of Nine Angles {5}.
Which overview reveals that the Occult tradition of the O9A is independent of, different from, and an alternative to the Qabala based tradition used by the majority of modern Occultists. {6}
R. Parker
2018 ev
{1} The ἀρρενόθηλυς text is included in the compilation available from The Esoteric Hermeticism Of The Order Of Nine Angles.
Refer also to O9A Texts 2018.
{2} See, for example, (i) Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, published in 1652 CE, (ii) Theatrum Chemicum Praecipuos Selectorum, published in 1550 CE, and (iii) De Alchimia Opuscula Complura Veterum Philosophorum, published in 1613 CE.
{3} Regarding the Star Game, see https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/the-star-game/
{4} See Myatt's translation of and commentary on the Poemandres tractate, available from Corpus Hermeticum: Eight Tractates.
{5} Regarding the O9A Seven Fold Way, refer to the ἀρρενόθηλυς text, such as the chapters titled Perusing The Seven Fold Way, and Alchemy And The Sinisterly-Numinous Tradition.
A recent overview of the Way is available at A Modern Practical Guide To The O9A Seven Fold Way.
{6} For further details, refer to O9A texts such as (i) the aforementioned The Esoteric Hermeticism Of The Order Of Nine Angles, (ii) Some Anti-O9A Propaganda Exposed (pdf), and (iii) https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/hermetic-origins-of-the-order-of-nine-angles/
II: The Order of Nine Angles Rite of The Nine Angles
A Comparison with the Ceremony of Nine Angles by Aquino
And A Brief Study of The Meaning of The Nine Angles
For well over thirty years many of those involved with modern occultism and/or satanism – influenced consciously or otherwise by the Church of Satan (CoS) and/or by the Temple of Set (ToS) – have alleged, without providing any evidence, that the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) based their 'nine angles' on the term 'nine angles' used by Michael Aquino in the CoS's Ceremony of Nine Angles and described by him in texts such as Commentary on the Seal of the Nine Angles.
These allegations, of the O9A thus being influenced by the ToS and the CoS, were made despite the O9A having published their Rite of the Nine Angles, and continued even after the O9A published various texts explaining how their term re-presented or manifested, in terms of numinous symbols, the nine basic combinations of the three fundamental alchemical forms as described by their 1970s septenary Star Game, and therefore related to the seven spheres of their septenary system which itself was a symbolic or archetypal representation of the nexus between causal and acausal space-time. Thus, according to the O9A, these nine combinations are important for an understanding of the anados historically described in Hellenic texts (such as the Pymander tractate of the Corpus Hermeticum) dating from or before the second century CE and which anados was the quest, through the seven spheres, for gnosis and wisdom {1}.
For the O9A, the 'nine angles' were therefore an important aspect of their initiatory, experiential, Seven Fold Way, exoterically and esoterically. A means, as they made clear in their MSS, of symbolizing, objectifying, consciously understanding and integrating into the psyche, various archetypal forms as a prelude to the 'individuation' that was their grade of Internal Adept. Hence, for example, how in MSS such as Emanations of Urania, Notes Toward A Heuristic Representation of Cliology, the 'nine angles' (aka the nine basic pieces of the Star Game – α(α) α(β) α(γ) β(α) β(β) β(γ) and so on) could be used to symbolize/explain Jung's 'personality types'.
Hence, also, how for the O9A their various 'nine angles' rites of sorcery were invokations/evokations of their Dark Gods, since the Dark Gods could be considered (a) to have their origin, their existence, their reality, in our human consciousness/unconscious/imagination so that, in effect, they are symbols/archetypes, and/or (b) to have an objective existence as living entities in acausal space-time (in an acausal universe) with it being for the individual following the experiential Seven Fold Way to discover, by using the Dark Arts of the O9A, which of those two explanations might best re-present Reality or if indeed there was a third and esoteric explanation which each initiate needed to dis-cover for themselves.
Given the continuing allegations made against the O9A in respect of the term nine angles, it is instructive to compare, and comment upon, Aquino's Ceremony of Nine Angles and the O9A's Rite of Nine Angles.
1.0 The Ceremony of Nine Angles
From The Satanic Rituals.
This ceremony is to be performed in a closed chamber containing no curved surfaces whatsoever. No open flames are to be in the chamber except for a single brazier or flame pot. General illumination is provided through controlled starlight or moonlight, or via concealed ultraviolet devices. Above and behind the altar platform should appear the outline of a regular trapezoid. The celebrant and participants all wear masks or headpieces to blur or distort the true facial features […]
Celebrant: N'kgnath ki'q Az-Athoth r'jyarh wh'fagh zhasa phr-tga nyena phragn'glu […]
Hail, father and lord of the angles, master of the World of Horrors. We speak the Bond of the Nine Angles to the honor of the flutes of the laughing one […]
Shub-Niggurath: Through the angles I speak with the hornless ones, and I pledge anew the bond of the Daemons […]
All: From the First Angle is the infinite, wherein the laughing one doth cry and the flute wail unto the ending of time […]
From the Eighth Angle are the Masters of the Realm, who raise the temple of the eight trihedrons unto the Daemons of creation, whose seal is at once four and five and nine […]
From the Ninth Angle is the flame of the beginning and ending of dimensions, which blazeth in brilliance and darkness unto the glory of desire.
From the Commentary on the Seal of the Nine Angles by Aquino:
The Ceremony of the Nine Angles was […] conceived as a noetic vision and GBM [Greater Black Magic] expression.
First angle: Unity. The concept of the Universe as the totality of existence.
Seventh angle: the destruction of the status of monotheism by the addition of a line/angle to the hex. The legacy of the First Beast of Revelation […]
Eighth angle: The temple containing the trihedral angles is a truncated pyramid […]
Ninth angle: the culmination of this dynamic process: the Black Flame in its perfection: the 'will to power' of Nietzsche in a glory of desire […]
The Ceremony, dating from 1972, uses a variety of props, a language style reminiscent of the rituals of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, as well as invented words in homage to Lovecraft, for dramatic effect, making it a kind of occult psychodrama, familiar from some of the ceremonies of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, although Aquino's psychodrama is rather more refined. As Aquino's Commentary suggests, it was invented by him to express a particular type of weltanschauung, the esoteric content of which is entirely redolent of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Crowley, the Church of Satan, with bits of the pseudo-mythology from the fictional stories of Lovecraft added. That is, it is entirely redolent of the modern qabalistic-indebted Western occultism developed by (some would say invented by) The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Crowley, et al.
2.0 The Nine Angles Rite According to Anton Long and the O9A
The following extracts are from the O9A text The Rite of Nine Angles.
The rite may be undertaken on either the autumnal equinox (for the Dabih gate) or the winter solstice (for Algol). The Naos rite is suitable for southern climes and will not be given here although in form it is the same as the version given.
Ideally, the rite should be undertaken either:
a) on a hill-top of pre-Cambrian rock which lies between a line of volcanic intrusion and another rock – in Britain, this other rock is 'Buxton'
b) in an underground cavern where water flows [this applies only to the 'chthonic' form]
c) in a glade consecrated beforehand within a circle of nine stones (the first stone being set on a night of the new moon with Saturn rising, the second at the full moon and so on: the first stone marking the point on the horizon where Saturn rises). [Note: this applies only to the 'natural' form of the rite.]
Further, the time is right when, for Dabih, Venus sets after the Sun, and the Moon itself occults Dabih or is near to it; and, for Algol, when Jupiter and Saturn are both near the Moon which is becoming new, the time before dawn. These conditions mean that the energies are available to enhance the working.
The rite exists in three versions – the natural form, the chthonic, and the solo. The chthonic form may be combined with the Ceremony of Recalling and the Sacrificial Conclusion undertaken according to Tradition […]
The chthonic form involves a Priest and a Priestess as well as at least one cantor trained in sinister Esoteric Chant together with a congregation of male and female […]
All the forms require a crystal tetrahedron made of quartz [a minimum of three inches in height (no bevelled edges) although six inches and > is more effective].
Chthonic Form
If the special conditions cannot be met [(a) and Algol are most effective; (b) and Dabih are generally for channelling into specific events/individuals] then a hill-top containing volcanic quartz is suitable.
The crystal should be placed on an oak stand with a sheet of mica between it and the wood [this enhances still further the effect of the crystal and is a recent modification). The Priest, Priestess and Cantors stand near the crystal, while the congregation (of at least six – three male and three female) form a circle around them. The congregation dance moonwise and according to their desire chant "Atazoth" as they do while the Cantor(s) vibrate in E minor "Nythra kthunae Atazoth".
After this vibration the cantor and Priest (or two Cantors if there are two) vibrate in fourths the "Diabolus" chant [see set texts] while the Priestess places her hands on the crystal, visualizing the Star Gate opening (as in I).
After the Diabolus, the Priest signals to the congregation who begin an orgiastic rite according to their desires. The Priest and Priestess then vibrate "Binan ath ga wath am" a fifth apart (or an octave and a fifth) while the Cantor(s) vibrate "Atazoth". If two Cantors are present, this Atazoth vibration begins in parallel: the next "Atazoth" is a fifth apart as is the third. After this, they then chant, in fifths, the 'Atazoth chant' according to tradition [see set texts). While the Cantors are chanting the Priest and Priestess continue their visualization.
If only one Cantor is present, the "Atazoth" vibration is continued nine times and then the 'Atazoth chant' undertaken by the Cantor and the Priest, in fifths.
The Rite, dating from the early 1970's (around the same time as the Aquino Ceremony), gives a plethora of esoteric details not found in the modern qabalistic-indebted Western occultism developed by and practised by The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Crowley, CoS, ToS, et al; and not found in the pseudo-mythology of Lovecraft. For instance, a cantor trained in sinister Esoteric Chant. The chant itself. The technique of vibration/chanting a fifth apart (or an octave and a fifth) and/or in parallel. The use of a crystal tetrahedron.
There are none of the 'dramatic declamations' found in Aquino's Ceremony. And there is no detailed 'commentary' separate from the rite to explain what is meant, what is going on, what is to be expected; or why such things as Dabih, or pre-Cambrian rock, are or may be important; or why there are three versions of the rite; or even whether the rite is an evokation or an invokation {2}. Perhaps most interesting of all, the 'nine angles' are not even mentioned in the rite itself.
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The two occult workings are clearly very different, with nothing whatsoever in the O9A Rite to suggest or even imply that Aquino's Ceremony was used either as a source or as inspiration.
The Ceremony of Nine Angles continues, and (like the ToS) creatively adds to, the modern qabalistic-indebted Western occult tradition. Compared to that tradition, the O9A Rite seems strange, almost 'non-Western', with only a few elements that someone studying or following that modern Western tradition would find familiar, as in – for instance – the terms priest and priestess, and as in the optional orgiastic rite (which, interestingly, can be replaced with the congregation chanting the Diabolus in fifths).
In addition, while there is a commentary by Aquino on his Ceremony, and the ceremony itself has been much discussed within and without the ToS, there is no commentary on the O9A Rite, and neither has the O9A published any explanations concerning it. For the O9A view is that it is practical occult experience, and the individual judgement, and knowledge, arising from such practical experience, which matter.
3.1 The Meaning of The Nine Angles
As the Ceremony of Nine Angles and the Commentary by Aquino (and later texts by the ToS) make clear, the 'nine angles' of the CoS/ToS are clearly Euclidean, be such two dimensional (as in the trapezoid) or three dimensional (as in the geometry of solids) and are, esoterically, imaginatively or metaphorically used to express various aspects of the modern qabalistic-indebted Western occult tradition, including the additions made by the ToS. These aspects include what has been termed 'sacred numbers and geometry', the qabala, ratios such as pi, and certain shapes regarded as having esoteric meaning, such as the pentagram.
The inspiration for these 'nine angles' is (i) that modern qabalistic-indebted Western occult tradition, and (ii) the creativity/imagination (or 'greater black magic') of individuals (such as Aquino), trained in and indebted to, that tradition.
In contrast, the 'nine angles' of the O9A are exoterically (that is, in terms of current geometry) more akin to a Riemannian (causal) metric and thus non-Euclidean, although – as various ONA texts have mentioned – should be more accurately described as aspects of the acausal-causal geometry of a nexion for which no mathematical representation currently exists, although some topological representations (such as a Hilbert space) may be useful in suggesting how such an acausal-causal geometry might be mathematically represented.
Esoterically, the 'nine angles' of the O9A are represented in a dual manner: (i) in the Star Game when that game is used (played) as a Dark Art (for instance as Aeonic sorcery), with there thus being a natural or inner alchemy (a symbiosis, presencing) involved between mortal(s) – player, players – and various acausal energies; and (ii) as a modern re-presentation, sans denotatum {3}, of the Hermetic anados and thus of the septenary system, of our consciousness, and of those supra-personal (archetypal, 'supernatural', cosmic) energies/forces beyond the causal.
The inspiration for – or the tradition used by – the Order of Nine Angles/Anton Long was the ἄνοδος (septenary, Hermetic, or otherwise) described historically in various Hellenic, Indic, Persian, and alchemical texts, such as the Pymander tractate of the Corpus Hermeticum and the Arabic MS Al-Kitab Al-Alfak, and which Arabic MS may have been influenced by texts such as Shams al-Ma'arif {4}.
(1) The 'nine angles' as described by Aquino is something Aquino created as part of the Temple of Set belief system, based as that system is on the modern qabalistic-indebted Western occult tradition invented (or put together) by The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Crowley, et al.
(2) The Aquino 'nine angles' system has no basis in the 'nine angles'/nine emanations and the septenary ἄνοδος described historically in various Hellenic, Indic, Persian, and Arabic, texts.
(3) The O9A based their 'nine angles' and their septenary system on those historical texts, and not on what Aquino or anyone else in modern times wrote or created, and not on the modern qabalistic-indebted Western occult tradition.
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{1} See Myatt, Mercvrii Trismegisti Pymander (2013), which is Myatt's translation of and commentary on the Pymander/Pœmandres part of the Corpus Hermeticum.
{2} Update, 11/11/13. It has been brought to my attention (kudos to DL9) that an original, and short, 1970s typewritten O9A MS concerning the Rite of Nine Angles included some information about the Rite. This MS was published, in the 1980s, in Stephen Sennitt's LHP Nox zine, and was later included in the book compilation The Infernal Texts: Nox & Liber Koth (Falcon Publications, 1997).
Although this typewritten MS does not explain or even hint at why such things as Dabih, or pre-Cambrian rock, are or may be important; or why there are three versions of the rite; or whether the rite is an evokation or an invokation, it does briefly state (a) that the Rite of Nine Angles represents the central mystery of alchemy; (b) that the grade ritual of Internal Adept "may be regarded as necessary preparation for the Rite of Nine Angles", and that (c) "only through the female are the forces represented by the three alchemical substances and their nine combinations capable of being released in a physical way (cf. Oliphant's Sympnuemata, p. 101f)…"
The MS also contains an interesting and early reference to the importance of empathy in the sinister tradition of the O9A: "…and it is the empathy the individual possesses for their surroundings and the forces that makes the rite successful. Such empathy is the only aim of the grade ritual of internal adept and, indeed, of initiation itself, and for the natural form of the Rite of Nine Angles this empathy approximates to the Taoist Wu-Wei."
Another early O9A MS, also published some years later in the 1980s in Nox, made mention of the fact that "the nine angles are represented in the septenary Star Game of the Order of Nine Angles."
{3} Sans denotatum exoterically means an apprehension devoid of all abstractions/opposites/denoting, including the denoting described by the terms deity/deities and by allegories, symbolic or otherwise. Several of The Dark Arts of the O9A are devoted to cultivating this type of apprehension, one of which Arts is The Star Game.
{4} In respect of historical sources for terms/concepts such as nine angles, nine emanations, nine spheres, and a septenary system:
I. Re the septenary system and the anados, qv. Myatt, Mercvrii Trismegisti Pymander (2013), which is Myatt's translation of and commentary on the Pymander/Pœmandres part of the Corpus Hermeticum.
II. Re the Nine Angles, qv. what Professor Connell Monette of Al Akhawayn University, Morocco, wrote:
A further possibility suggested by ONA texts is that it refers to nine emanations of the divine, as recorded in medieval Sufi texts. It is equally likely that the Order has borrowed from classical Indian tradition that arranges the solar system into nine planets, and the world itself has nine corners; or perhaps from the Sanskrit srivatsa, a special mark with nine angles that indicates the supernatural or the heroic.
On the nine angled srivatsa, Gonda states that: 'This [mystical] figure has nine angles: the number nine often occurs in connection with auspicious objects, powers and ceremonies related to material welfare'. See Gonda, J. 'Ancient Indian Kingship from the Religious Point of View', Numen, Vol. 4, Fasc. 1 (Jan., 1957): 24-58.
The Indian belief that the world has nine corners is attested even in medieval European sources, e.g. Father Emanual de Veiga (1549-1605), writing from Chandagiri in 1599 who states 'Alii dicebant terram novem constare angulis, quibus celo innititur.' (Others said that the Earth had nine angles, by which it was lifted up to Heaven), see Charpentier, J. 'Treatise on Hindu Cosmography from the Seventeenth Century', Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1924): 317-342.
It is clear despite claims that the term 'nine angles' was introduced in the twentieth century, the term is centuries older, especially in esoteric or cosmological discourse. See Pingree, D. The Latin Version of the Ghayat al-Hakim, Studies of the Warburg Institute, University of London (1986); Ritter, H. ed. Ghāyat Al-Hakīm Wa-Ahaqq Al-Natījatayn Bi-Altaqdīm (Leipzig : B.G. Teubner, 1933); al Buni, Shams al-Ma'arif (Birmingham: Antioch Gate, 2007).
See also the book by Reitzenstein and Schaeder Studien zum antiken Synkretismus aus Iran und Griechenland, (Studien der Bibliothek Warburg), Teubner, Leipzig, 1926.
III. In respect of the Nine Spheres qv. David Myatt's commentary on the Hermetic text 'the Divine Pymander' where he quotes the Latin text of the Somnium Scipionis as described by Cicero, in De Re Publica, Book VI, 17, and gives his own translation:
Novem tibi orbibus vel potius globis conexa sunt omnia, quorum unus est caelestis, extimus, qui reliquos omnes complectitur, summus ipse deus arcens et continens ceteros; in quo sunt infixi illi, qui volvuntur, stellarum cursus sempiterni. Cui subiecti sunt septem, qui versantur retro contrario motu atque caelum. Ex quibus summum globum possidet illa, quam in terris Saturniam nominant…
Nine orbs – more correctly, spheres – connect the whole cosmic order, of which one – beyond the others but enfolding them – is where the uppermost deity dwells, enclosing and containing all. There – embedded – are the constant stars with their sempiternal movement, while below are seven spheres whose cyclicity is different, and one of which is the sphere given the name on Earth of Saturn […]


Looking at the interior makes you want to get acquainted with its host, because interior is really bold with personality. It is difficult to imagine everyday life in the following colors, but agree that each idea has the right to be realized. Anyway, there are people who like electric blue walls, while most of people certainly prefer much softer tones.
This extravagant apartment is located in Kiev, its total area is 120 m2. How you can see in photos each of the room has very bright and expressive colors. Interior designer has been very brave to use so many different color combinations. The only place in the house, which is in neutral shades, is bathroom, it gives a little bit peace and soften bright color palette.
Whatever our views are on each of the following color combinations, but sometimes it is necessary to look at the unusual and completely different point of view that would be like an encouragement to use more expressive colors. Do not be afraid to experiment, but keep in mind the main purpose why interior should be in such shades as well as the desired emotions which you would like to get.
For example, this is a dynamic interior in the South American color shades. As inhabitants of this land is bold and temperamental, as well this interior design gives a lot of power. But remember that bright colors do not always give energy, they also subtract energy if there is too much intense.


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square inches, nonetheless, it was enough to send me all over town buying every copy of the magazine I could find, sending them to my friends & relatives. I was sure I was going to be famous (and rich)!
Though I have yet to walk down any red carpet, I was to learn that though I was on the road to success, for me the road is more often a maze than a straight shot to the Emerald City. And, I was surprised to find that (as I matured) my inner picture and description of "success" kept changing too.
All these years later, I've discovered that my calling to be an artist is a rich and complex gift.
the billboard work, that I couldn't comfortably oil paint. Implementing a friend's suggestion, I switched to painting on ceramics. Completing a series of images, I sent them to the Ann Sacks Tile & Stone store in Portland, Oregon. Kohler Plumbing Industries had just purchased the store as the flagship for a national chain and I found myself serendipitously in the tile business!
I quickly joined a business class, bought a kiln and learned about the ceramics business. After selling art tile with AST&S for several years, I branched into other retail venues, eventually teaming up with a tile manufacturer and supplying my Cristina Acosta® Signature line of ceramic tile to Home Depot stores, among others.
My career as an artisan tile maker lasted about ten years, including a sideline making tabletop pieces such as pitchers, bowls and platters. Though I no longer do production work, I create some projects for how-to articles in books and magazines and for my home design projects.
I also license images for manufacture.
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To Cristina Acosta,the warm look and feel of Wicanders flooring is as important as its sustainability. Wicanders Cork Oak just feels so good to walk on. The mildly cushioned sensation is an experience unlike any other flooring product. Warm and giving, Wicanders floors are as glowing to the touch as they are to the eye. Cristina chose the "Natural" color shade from WicCork's Original Collection. The varied texture and pattern of her choice, balances the vital energy of her colorful designs with soothing natural tones of Wicanders Cork Oak to create a visual flow throughout the home.
As the spirited author and illustrator of the artist's guide, "Paint Happy", Cristina Acosta's color and design expertise are held in high esteem. As a color consultant, she guides clients in selecting a color palette for their home or business that lets the true nature of each space sing. Cristina's choice to remodel with Wicanders Cork Oak was made in careful consideration of design, environment, and the health of her family.
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Background: In elderly subjects frailty and malnutrition are very common and can lead to serious health hazards, increase mortality, morbidity, dependency, institutionalization and a reduced quality of life. In Austria, the prevalence of frailty and malnutrition are increasing steadily and are becoming a challenge for our social system. Physical training and adequate nutrition can invert it.
Methods/Design: In this randomized, controlled trial 80 malnourished, frail, community-dwelling patients (≥ 65 years) hospitalized in wards for internal medicine are recruited. Additionally, 80 lay volunteers (≥ 50 years) named buddies are recruited and subsequently trained regarding health enhancing physical activity and nutrition in three standardized training sessions. These buddies visit the malnourished, frail subjects at home twice a week for about one hour during an initial period of 10-12 weeks. While participants allocated to the intervention group (n=40) conduct intervention to improve their fluid intake, their protein and energy intake, perform strength training and try to increase their baseline activities, the control group (n=40) only gets home visits without any special intervention. After 10-12 weeks, both, the intervention and the control group, receive the nutrition intervention and the physical training. Health, nutrition and frailty status, physical fitness and body composition and chronic inflammation of buddies and frails are recorded before the intervention, after 10-12 weeks, and after 6 and 12 months.
Discussion: To the investigators knowledge this trial is the first of its kind to provide nutrition and physical activity intervention to malnourished, frail, community-dwelling subjects by trained lay buddies, in which the health status of buddies is also expected to improve. This study assesses the effectiveness of such an intervention. If successful, the intervention offers new perspectives for the management of frailty and malnutrition.
Several trials have found that nutritional supplementation can elicit an increased rate of skeletal muscle protein synthesis following a single bout of exercise in both young and older individuals. However, there have been no studies that have investigated if nutritional supplementation and exercise can cause a sustained increase in physical functioning and fat free mass, particularly in older adults with functional limitations. This study will compare the effects of a nutritional supplement versus a placebo on exercise training induced changes in physical functioning older adults who are at risk for mobility disability.
A minimum of 205 healthy elderly individuals (at least 65 years old) are recruited as subjects. Upon inclusion, each individual will be randomized into one of the five groups stratified according to gender (M/F) and 30s chair stand (<16/16 or above). The five groups are: Heavy Resistance Training (N=35), Light Intensity Training (N=35), Protein Whey (N=50), Protein Collagen (N=50) and Carbohydrate (N=35). The individuals randomized into one of the supplementation groups (Protein Whey, Protein Collagen or Carbohydrate) will be blinded to the supplement content. Assessments will be performed at Baseline (before intervention start), and after 6 and 12 months of intervention and again at 18 months (after 6 months of follow up). The primary outcome is change in quadriceps muscle cross sectional area from Baseline to 12 months of intervention. The primary hypothesis is that by applying the intension-to-treat analysis, the Light Intensity Training group will increase quadriceps muscle cross sectional area just as much as the Heavy Resistance Training group. The two training groups will gain more muscle mass than the Protein Whey group, which will gain more than the Protein Collagen and the Carbohydrate groups that will lose the quadriceps muscle cross sectional areas.
To evaluate the effectiveness of a multifactorial intervention program based on physical activity and diet, memory workshops and review of medication, to modify frailty parameters, muscle strength and physical and cognitive performance in people 65 years or older with a positive screening for frailty. Secondly, to assess changes in falls, hospitalizations, nutritional risk, disability and institutionalization or home-care.
The purpose of this study is to develop and examine the effectiveness of an intervention program for frail older patients admitted to hospital aimed at preventing functional decline and other hospital related negative outcomes.
The MID-Frail STUDY project focuses on the use of interventions designed to improve functional status and enhance quality of life (rather than traditional treatments such as glucose- and blood pressure- lowering) by acting on the mechanisms involved in producing frailty and its progression to adverse outcomes.
The purpose of this study is to assess the status of perceived autonomy and to evaluate the effectiveness of individually tailored programmes on perceived autonomy in physically frail older people living in nursing homes.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a nutritional supplement with an amino acid called leucine along with resistance exercise are effective in the improvement of muscle strength and quality of life in elderly people.
Three months intervention study, investigating the effect of nutrient supplementation (including 20g of milk protein) twice daily with or without additional heavy resistance exercise three times weekly on muscle size, structure and function in 30 subjects at least 83 years of age. Primary hypothesis is that the group conducting exercise improves muscle size, structure and function.
The purpose of the study is to test the effect of a dietary supplement beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB) with and without Vitamin D to prevent and reverse the losses of muscular strength and functionality in older adults. The second aim of the study is to determine if HMB and Vitamin D improves markers of bone turnover in adults aged 60 plus years.
In the present project (Multidomain Intervention to preveNt Disability in ElDers, MINDED), we propose to conduct a pilot study aimed at estimating the effects of a multidomain person-tailored preventive intervention (based on physical activity, cognitive training, and nutritional modifications) on frailty status, physical performance, cognitive function, nutritional status, health-related quality of life, and use of health care services. In addition, we will perform cost-effectiveness analyses of the proposed intervention. The project will yield the necessary preliminary data to design a definitive full-scale Phase 3 randomized clinical trial.
The general hypothesis is that administration of testosterone to healthy, older men for 52 weeks (1 year) following a cycle of 4 weeks of testosterone administration and 4 weeks without testosterone (i.e., monthly cycled regimen) will provide the same gains in muscle strength, muscle mass, and bone density as standard of care (SOC), continuous administration of testosterone for 52 weeks.
– Evaluate the program's impact on the ability of the body to produce energy.
The main purpose of this randomised controlled trial is to study if a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and follow up for community-dwelling elderly people can improve outcomes such as health and health-related quality of life among both patients and relatives, feeling of safety among both patients and relatives and reduce costs, compared with usual care.
The investigators' general hypothesis is that nutritional factors, including protein/energy malnutrition and/or an impaired response of muscle to nutrition, and inactivity play significant roles in developing sarcopenia, the involuntary loss of muscle mass and function with age. Therefore, age-specific prolonged interventions including nutritional manipulations and/or exercise may help to reduce, stabilize, or even reverse sarcopenia.
The aim of this study is determine the effects of Tai Chi exercise, as compared to an education-based control intervention, on cardiovascular and balance system function in older people at risk of developing frailty. We hypothesize that long-term Tai Chi training will improve specific nonlinear properties associated of cardiovascular and balance dynamics in this population.
Frailty is a geriatric syndrome leading to physical deterioration including muscle wasting (sarcopenia) and unintentional weight loss. There are currently no approved therapies for frailty. Ghrelin is a hormone produced by the stomach that stimulates appetite centers in the brain. The investigators already know that a single dose of Ghrelin improves food intake immediately after the dose in frail older people. In addition, exercise programs have been shown to improve strength and function in older people. In this study, the investigators are trying to find out if a joint intervention of ghrelin and resistance training will improve walking, balance and leg strength in frail elderly people.
This intervention study tests training methods to stabilize or improve functionality in the high risk group of prefrail elderly persons.
In the present study the aim was to determine the prevalence of sarcopenia and to evaluate the effectiveness of an exercise program and vitamin D supplementation in enhancing muscle mass and strength in community-dwelling older adults with osteopenia/osteoporosis.
The unique characteristic of our study lies in the attempt to reverse the functional impairment experienced by sarcopenic patients with hip fracture using nutritional intervention. What makes this study different from prior studies is that it will be conducted in a hospital setting, unlike most prior studies, which were conducted in a community setting. The association between muscle mass and strength, inflammatory indices, and functional impairment versus dependence and fragility will also be measured.
The hypothesis of our study is that nutritional intervention enriched in metabolites of essential amino acids (beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate) is effective for treating sarcopenia in elderly patients with hip fracture and improves functional level.


Living intensely with this story (for several months now!) one of the things that's kept thrilling me—and kept me at it—is one of the themes lying at the heart of Emma. In short: charity.
Charity is really a type of love, but of a specific kind. For a definition, charity is a "provision of help or relief to the poor…benevolence or generosity toward others…an indulgence or forbearance (a goodwill) in judging others." Most importantly, it's a love directed (primarily) towards "one's neighbors as objects of God's love." And I think that's where Emma starts getting highly exciting!
So what does charity look like?
Beginning as a heart attitude, it's solid—which means it's action, whether that action takes shape in speaking or doing. It doesn't mean we can't make definitive judgments—or that we're obliged to agree with everyone else—but it is a daily love extending over the many little frictions tending to occur most often between us and those closest to us (in the home, or in a wider circle of similarly very familiar faces).
Hearkening back to an earlier point, charity is the oil that's to keep daily life running smoothly. It can't possibly be a solely inward virtue and (by definition) it can't be turning inward even on its own particular circle of friends. While running deep, it's also to run broad and full—spilling out and extending to everyone we touch.
Charity in Emma isn't a sugary sweetness. It doesn't prohibit confrontation. True loving concern for another sometimes involves speaking hard truths. When someone is going severely astray to their own (and other's) hurt, it's unloving to let them continue on their wayward path. Yet the confrontation is always done with the best interests and good of the other person held forefront.
So charity is love at the daily testing point. It's a largeness of vision to see around circumstances, allowing for growth and change. And—always ready with genuine kindness—charity springs from a heart of grace.
So, I guess charity could be similar to agape? Or maybe that's different. This is an excellent piece. Emma' actions to those less fortunate than her stuck out to me from the first time I read it. I think it's one of the reasons Mr. K loves Emma, because she is dutiful in helping the poor, but she does kindly and not in a condescending way. That could be why Mr. K scolds her so harshly after her comments to Miss Bates. Because I think he knows that Emma wouldn't have normally said such a thing, but having Frank Churchill around made her forget practically all her sense and good manners.
Wow! This is certainly a much deeper look at the themes of Emma than I've ever taken. Well done!
"Knightley's love for Emma does not break up the dance. He does not take Emma off into a corner and he does not operate by tricks and charades. Rather his love for Emma overflows in general charity toward his neighbor."
"Charity in Emma isn't a sugary sweetness. It doesn't prohibit confrontation. True loving concern for another sometimes involves speaking hard truths. When someone is going severely astray to their own (and other's) hurt, it's unloving to let them continue on their wayward path. Yet the confrontation is always done with the best interests and good of the other person held forefront."
Those two parts stuck out to me the most. :) Great post!


I just started a rebuild of a 1924 engine.
I should like some advice on a few points.
- The camshaft have a fiber timing gear. It is looking good but I wonder if I should change it by an old good iron one or a new nylon or Aluminium? What can I use to clean the old fiber gear ? Is White-Spirit OK ?
- The solid tappets will be change by adjustable tappets but in the past I saw the adjust screw go down in the tappet hole when the valve is closed so the tappets are hard to adjust. Can I grind off 3/8" from the studs the tappets go in??
Thanks, Have a fine weekend.
The fiber timing gear looks good BUT I would replace it with a new Aluminum gear. Others may have different advice.
I used the adjustable tappets with self locking screws in my 21 Touring rebuild.
These are available from Langs. They worked fine for me.
I didn't machine the tappet guide holes on mine.
You can purchase a thin adjusting wrench or grind down one of your own if you want to keep from doing this.
You also can purchase a thin wrench from Langs for this purpose.
Some do machine down the guide holes. You can do that if you prefer.
In any case I would purchase a rebuilt Mag ring since you have your engine apart.
Is that a rebuilt one in the right hand pic?
Thanks for the advice. Yes the Mag ring is rebuild. I do this myself the way I found in the MTFCA manuel. Sending one to the US to be rebuild and buy one in the US make it triple the price so I tried it myself. I don't make any short cut, take it all apart, clean the copper wires, insulate them and make new coils. The first I did 8 years ago and is still working.
Too nice to put in a dirty old engine.
You should hang it on the wall!
I like the old solid lifters.
They don't get out of adjustment.
I wonder if they looked that good when new? Nice work. Agree with Bob. It would make a hell of a garage clock.
I assume the '24 has a starter and a generator. That's reason enough to get rid of the fiber timing gear. I know, some people have used them for years with no trouble. Yet. But my experience with this one shows what can happen.
I'd go with a good original Ford gear or a new bronze one.


A beautiful setting & with such easy access to both Canterbury & Folkestone & a pub in the village - perfect!
A delightful country home set in a glorious rural location with far reaching, rolling countryside views, adjoining the village of Denton & close to Broome Park Golf Club. HSR services from Canterbury & Folkestone are also within easy access.
Services: Mains water & electricity. Drainage to private system. Oil fired central heating & hot water system (services not tested).
From Canterbury, take the A2 towards Dover/Channel Tunnel & exit towards Womenswold/Snowdown/Adisham/Nonington. At the roundabout take the 2nd exit on to the A260 & turn left to stay on the A260. Drop in to the village of Denton on the corner, turn right on to Agester Lane (identified by our 'For Sale' board). The hedge lined driveway to The Coach House is then on the left, after a short distance. Viewings strictly by appointment via Humberts.


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5 unique places to visit in Germany
January 8, 2022 Maitri Jha Germany, things to do
Located in the heart of Europe, Germany today maintains the continent's most powerful economy. However it is probably best known for its World War II history and the country's even more recent times when it was split into East and West; everybody knows about the Berlin Wall, which came down less than 30 years ago. There's a load of culture, natural beauty, and much older history to discover in this large European nation. Germany has many tourist attractions, there are many places which attract tourists from the world.
A federal state and the capital city of Germany, Berlin is widely associated with its World War II history and former division of East and West Germany by the Berlin Wall during the Cold War. Since the fall of the historic wall in 1989, Berlin today is now a vast, unified city diverse in ethnic groups and abundant in sightseeing attractions, culture and nightlife. Many tourists are drawn to Berlin's famous historic structures, which include the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag. Although most of the Berlin Wall was demolished, there are some portions still standing near Checkpoint Charlie and Reichstag.
Best known as the origin of the world famous Oktoberfest, Munich is one of the best places to visit in Germany with a great culture scene. Munich is home to several sophisticated opera houses and theaters like the National Theatre. The city center is an attractive blend of classic and modern architecture, teeming in historic churches, medieval walls and royal palaces as well as bustling shopping centers and nightlife venues. Munich's Oktoberfest began in 1810 with a royal wedding celebration. Today, this famous beer festival draws millions of visitors every year to take part in the revelry that involves several gigantic beer tents, delicious Bavarian food and millions of liters of beer.
The most photographed building in Germany, Neuschwanstein Castle, is also one of Europe's most popular tourist destinations. Nestled among the breathtaking beauty of the Bavarian Alps near the town of Fussen, this fairy-tale castle served as the inspiration behind Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty Castle. Constructed in the late 1800s, Neuschwanstein Castle was never built for defense purposes as most castles. Instead, this castle was created as a fanciful retreat King Ludwig II of Bavaria who had a reputation for abiding in daydreams instead of reality.
With historic treasures like the medieval Old Bridge, the Heidelberg Castle, the Church of the Holy Spirit and the Knight St. George House, it is no wonder that Heidelberg is a popular tourist attraction. The city center's main street, Haupstrasse, is packed with pubs, restaurants, museums, art galleries, shops and markets selling the likes of beer steins, cuckoo clocks and German sausages. Home to Germany's oldest university, Heidelberg's long academic history can be retraced along the Philosopher's Walk, a scenic footpath often walked by many earlier philosophers and professors.
As one of the largest Baltic seaports in Germany, Lübeck is located in the country's northern-most state, Schleswig-Holstein. Founded in 1143, Lübeck served for several centuries as the capital seat of the Hanseatic League. Although it was the first German city to be bombed and damaged during World War II, Lübeck still retains much of its medieval architecture, making it a popular tourist destination. A walk through the narrow streets of the Altstadt offers views of historic sites like the stunning cathedral, the 12th century Town Hall and the old city gates of which the Holstentor is the most famous.
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As a standalone server, the server does not provide directory information to other computers or get directory information from an existing system. The local directory can't be shared.
As a server connected to a directory system, you can set up the server to provide services that require user accounts and authentication, such as file and mail services, but use accounts that are set up on another server.
As an Open Directory replica, a server hosts a replicated version of a directory. The replica is synchronized periodically with the master.
As an Open Directory master, a server can provide directory information and authentication information to other systems as the host of a shared LDAP directory.
As you plan directory services for your network, consider the need to share user and resource information among multiple Mac OS X computers. If the need is low, then little directory planning is necessary; everything can be accessed from a local server directory. However, if you want to share information among computers, you need to set up at least one shared directory.
If you intend to set up multiple servers, it would be extremely inefficient to populate each server with the same user accounts. Instead, your Mac OS X Server computer can be a node connected to a directory system. In this role, the server gets authentication, user information, and other directory information from a directory system hosted on another server or servers. The Mac OS X server still gets some directory information locally from its own directory and provides authentication based on this information for local users. This puts one server at the pinnacle of your setup and other servers that obtain their directory information from this original server. This server does not have to be an Open Directory server; it could be another directory server such as Active Directory.
Open Server Admin. Select Open Directory in the Available Servers list. Click the Settings button in the toolbar, then click the Change button near the top of the window. Select "Connected to a directory server" from the Server Configuration Assistant and follow the steps.
Open Directory Utility (located in /Applications/Utilities). If necessary, click the Lock icon and authenticate to make changes, and then click the Show Advanced Settings button.
Click the Add (+) button and type the fully qualified domain name of the Open Directory master.
Enter the Computer ID (usually the Computer Name of the server that will connect to the Open Directory master).
You can then view your Open Directory master server in the Directory Servers list.
Your server is now bound to another Mac OS X Server Open Directory master.
Click the Change button in the Settings pane to open the Server Configuration Assistant.
Enter a Name, a Short Name, and a Password for a new account that will administer the shared LDAP directory. You can use the default user name and diradmin as the password as your initial LDAP account.
Once you have set up your server to be an Open Directory master, you can configure other computers on your network to access the server's shared LDAP directory.
Once you have added accounts to the Open Directory directory on your server, do not change the Open Directory role setting. If you do, you may lose all your account information and orphan your users' data.
Determine a standard for your UNIX user UIDs as you enter user records. Perhaps have your administrators in a separate range for easier searching. Workgroup Manager allows filtering, and UNIX user UID or UNIX group ID GID is a powerful way to search for users or groups.
To recap, you began with a local database for your local users. That database still exists. The administrator of that database is ladmin. You have now created a secondary, shared LDAP database. The administrator of that database is (by default) diradmin. Each database is separate and requires different authentication to manage either one. You have also created a Password Server database to store LDAP user passwords and a Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC). You will learn about those later in this book.


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Canadian women are creating the most stunning lingerie with the most beautiful messages too
Strip down and feel confident in your underwear, as well as your own skin.
Brittany Toole · CBC Life · Posted: Jul 10, 2017 12:54 PM ET | Last Updated: July 10, 2017
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The right piece of lingerie can be an instant confidence-booster and the six companies listed below certainly understand this.
These Canadian lingerie companies have made it their mission to empower women by encouraging them to embrace their bodies — their campaigns feature women of all shapes and sizes, looking and feeling their most confident. As pretty as artwork, composed of delicate and feminine pieces you'll be sure to swoon over.
It may not surprise you that these lingerie companies were all founded by women. The women behind these well-crafted garments want you to feel confident and sexy in your own skin – and lingerie. And that's not hard when their collections are as gorgeous as these.
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Fortnight Lingerie
Handmade in Toronto, this elegant line of lingerie is meticulously crafted by a team of craftswomen – it takes 25 steps and components to make just one of their bras. Known for their gorgeous body suits, Fortnight Lingerie has attracted praise from high profile fans such as Khloe Kardashian and they have been featured in fashion magazines the world over. The brand hopes to "make women feel confident and beautiful in their own skin". Italian jerseys, European lace and the brand's own "Power Mesh" combine to create a line of timeless garments that work support and flatter too.
Named after its founder and designer, this Toronto-based line aims to empower women by encouraging them to embrace their own sexy, rather than the one dictated by industry standards. The brand features lingerie and loungewear made for comfort and style, with pieces made with jerseys, knits and soft elastics to that move with the wearer. They recently launched the The Self Love Club – a movement focused on creating dialogue focused on self love, acceptance, and embracing one's individual beauty. Not a mere marketing ploy, the company's site explains, "The club is not us, the club is not purchasing a garment, the club is you and your attitude." A brand that offers comfortable undergarments and empowers women to love themselves – we consider that a worthy addition to our underwear drawer.
Sokoloff Lingerie
Made in Montreal, this lingerie is designed and crafted in the city itself, with a focus on promoting healthy body image in its wearers and flattering an array of shapes. Named after its designer, Sofia Sokoloff, the company encourages women to embrace their own beauty and imperfections. Unlike many big-name lingerie companies, Sokoloff have forgone the common padding in lingerie, and opted for the soft-cupped bras instead. The pieces are delicate and lacy, with clean lines, and certainly worth coveting.
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With Love Lingerie
With Love was founded by Carrie Russell and is designed for the woman who wants her entire wardrobe to be fashionable – including her undies. The beautiful thing about this company is that it strives to flatter all shapes and even provides the option for custom-made pieces sewn to the wearer's measurements. You can take home a one-of-kind piece of handmade beauty instead of relying on a size chart. All pieces are made ethically in Toronto, and the company even participates in micro loans to help seamstresses and designers in war torn or economically depressed areas.
Ellesmere Lingerie
Founded by designer Julia Rechel, Ellesmere is based in Montreal and uses a selection of delicate silks and lace — each and every piece is hand sewn to fit and flatter, and they're totally swoon-worthy. The line was launched last year and Ellesmere says the collection is made up of pieces inspired by "the Arctic North and its parallels with city life". As cool as the brand's goal of seeking to empower its wearers to feel their most confident in skin and their skivvies.
Less is A'mor
Also made right here in Canada, this luxury lingerie brand is handmade in Toronto. Created by designer, Irina Shirad, the brand encourages women to embrace their sensuality. Known for their lingerie and harnesses, this company aims to have each of their hand-crafted pieces help a woman embrace her sexuality and feel her most confident and beautiful. Just like the other brands on this list, Less is A'mor believes the underpinnings a woman chooses to dress herself in can help her feel confident and sexy — demonstrating just how powerful a lacy little number can truly be.
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Q: Text Field Validation With REGEX and Proper Error Message In Rails 4 At First, my question may seems as a duplicate one to you, but surely not, I will explain why, because all the stack overflow answer regarding name validation, text field validation explain about validation with a message only...!
My requirement is different that in my validation check I need to allow only characters(Using REGEX), and if anything else entered, error must be displayed. How can I achieve it ?
Please dont report it as duplicate as I will get blocked with next false reporting..... if you stil find it as a duplicate question please comment me the link that I have not yet seen in comment box, then I will delete my question, anyhow I dont need to get locked in using stack overflow... :(

A: Maybe this
class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base
  validate do |thing|
    errors.add_to_base("Custom error message") unless thing.my_attribute =~ /THING_REGEX/
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end

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Late last month a few dozen inner city activists did what millions of Sydneysiders do weekly: they boarded a bus and headed west to the suburbs. A minibus picked the group up near the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo and drove an hour inland to Parramatta, the proposed new home of the Powerhouse Museum. After 100 years in Ultimo, the Baird government has decided to sell the existing city site to developers while providing the property market with boundless opportunities to get rich quick in Sydney's western suburbs.
Up for sale in Ultimo is a heritage building: an old power generation site that was adapted to house Australia's largest collection of technology and innovation artefacts. As real estate deals go, the $200 million Powerhouse land grab is small potatoes. The Powerhouse sits in the middle of a multi-billion dollar development goldmine. To the north is the $6 billion Barangaroo South project, adjoining the $3.4 billion Darling Harbour redevelopment which flows onto the $2 billion Central Park complex.
The recently demolished Sydney Entertainment Centre, which is just a stone's throw from the Powerhouse site demonstrates just how much inner city cultural facilities are worth to developers. The former live music arena is being replaced with a billion dollar complex featuring a 40 storey tower and another 25 storey tower complete with 1400 apartments and 22,000 sqm of commercial office space. Imagine what they will squeeze onto a similar site now housing the Powerhouse Museum.
Once the Powerhouse site in Ultimo is sold off, the Baird government will run out of City land to flog to developers. With plans for the massive Bays Precinct redevelopment on hold while various government agencies fight over the future of the Rozelle Goods Yard, the State government's redevelopment arm, UrbanGrowth has shifted its attention to Parramatta: the proposed home for the Powerhouse Museum.
Thirty five kilometres from Ultimo, UrbanGrowth is flogging a property asset worth $2 billion. In North Parramatta, the State government plans to sell off a vast expanse of open space which contains some of Australia's oldest buildings. The original Parramatta Female Factory was built between 1818 and 1821 and many women were incarcerated within its sandstone walls. The site also housed a vast insane asylum and is still used by NSW Health. The 146 hectare facility is almost two and a half times larger than Callan Park. In Rozelle, a similar heritage site has been preserved from the threat of development by an Act of State Parliament.
Jack Mundey and the CFMEU have put a Green Ban on the Western Sydney site, the same action that saved the Rocks from redevelopment in the 1970s. The National Trust of Australia (NSW) has strenuously objected to the proposed high rise development. The lush suburban grounds contain Australia's oldest surviving public building, the Vice-Regal Headquarters dating back to Governor Phillip in 1788 (almost 100 years before Callan Park first opened in 1885). Overlooking the Parramatta River amidst verdant bushland, the Vice Regal Headquarters was once home to 12 colonial leaders.
UrbanGrowth proposes to house thousands of people on the site by building a massive residential and commercial complex complete with 30 story high rises. In response to community concerns UrbanGrowth scaled back the original proposal from 4,100 to 3,900, in what can only be seen as a meaningless gesture.
The Baird government is instead proposing to move the Powerhouse Museum from Ultimo to the site of the former David Jones carpark in central Parramatta, where yet another $1.2 billion real estate project is planned. Community groups in both inner Sydney and the western suburbs fear that a new Powerhouse museum in Parramatta would be much smaller than the existing Ultimo institution.
Jon Hillman, Vice President of the North Parramatta Residents Action Group said that people are starting to connect a raft of mega property deals mushrooming across Sydney with undisclosed developer donations to the Liberal Party. Last month The NSW Electoral Commission announced it was withholding $4.4 million in public funding from the NSW Liberal Party until the identities of donors, which include a number of property developers, was revealed. In 2010, the Liberals appear to have funnelled developer donations from a federal campaign fund to finance the NSW state campaign in violation of a 2009 state wide ban on developer donations.


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