The sun shone brightly down on Altador. The nearby sea shimmered as boats traveled across it. Laughter floated up into the air like bubbles, as three young Lennies raced toward the Altadorian Archives. The youngest, Max, reached up with his small blue wing to open the elaborate door, struggling with its weight. A yellow Lenny pranced up behind him, smirking boldly, and pushed open the door as if it weighed nothing at all.
"Well, you were too slow!" Sarah taunted menacingly.
"Will Grandpa tell us a story today?" inquired Max.
"Hmmm, I guess I could do that," said Finneus softly. The Altadorian Archivist, and grandfather to the three children, had just come out of his cluttered office to greet them. The slight breeze rustled his feathers as he slowly made his way toward them.
"GRANDPA!" the three grandchildren shouted in unison, clamoring to give their grandpa the first hug.
Finneus motioned for the children to follow him as he walked into a room scattered with stacks of books, all varying in size, shape, and topic. He settled himself in an old, red overstuffed armchair that sat in a corner below a stained glass window, and stretched his wings, while Max climbed onto his lap and snuggled up.
"Grandpa! Read this book!" cried Sarah, dragging a large dusty book toward the chair.
Finneus began to dust the book off, to reveal a cover, made of deep brown leather and fancy golden writing that seemed to dance across it.
"What does it say, Grandpa?" asked Max, who hadn't yet reached the age of going to Neoschool to learn to read, as he stroked the words softly, similarly to how one would something very delicate.
"It says 'A Time Before Our Own'," Finneus whispered softly, barely loud enough for everyone to hear.
Finneus adjusted his monocle, cleared his throat, and began to read.
A long time ago, many, many years in the past, the world of Neopia was very different than we know it today. Unlike today, Neopia was entirely covered with water, save for just a few islands. The most famous of which is what today we call Krawk Island, but that isn't where this story begins.
Our story begins underwater, in the chain of cities and towns that spread across the floor of the sea, the centre of which was, of course, Maraqua. Maraqua was indeed magnificent, but it couldn't hold up to the kingdom of Sachep, which was ruled by King Cazlt, a Maraquan Lupe.
King Cazlt was a very powerful, wise, and strong king. He was probably the greatest king in all of history. He lived in a castle made from the sand of the Great Whirlpool Landing. The Great Whirlpool Landing was a place that held much mystery. It was said that each time a whirlpool began there, a great event would occur. Whether it was a good event or a bad event depended upon the direction the whirlpool swirled; the severity of the event depended on the strength of the pool. It was also said that any building made from sand that was picked up in a whirlpool that predicted a positive event would protect anyone who lived inside from any horrors predicted by the pools. But, in order for that to be true, everyone who was in the same kingdom as the building had to believe in it, and sadly the last few believers only included the King himself, and his most loyal advisers.
A small village on the outskirts of Sachep was situated directly on the Great Whirlpool Landing. The pets who lived there were direct descendants of Sahse, a Maraquan Ixi.
Sahse was one of the few pets who could interpret the whirlpools. She lived on the edge of a cliff, high above the other townspeople, where the view of any whirlpool, was much clearer.
It was morning, a time where usually, in the underwater world, the floor glittered and shone. Sahse yawned, feeling as if the world had slowed, and glanced out her window. Something was different; the sky didn't gleam, it was dark, dreary and dismal. A large cloud of dust, floating in the water, shadowed the town. Many would just assume that nothing was wrong, but Sahse knew much better. She craned her neck to get a better view. Out the window of the cottage was a great swirling vortex, better known as a whirlpool.
Sahse ran as fast as her ancient legs could take her out to her invention, a creation that could tell the direction of the whirlpool. She watched in horror as it spun to the left, the way whirlpools spin whenever something bad was going to happen. It was clear to Sahse that this was the strongest whirlpool she had and ever would witness in her long life. Sahse knew she must warn the town below before the whirlpool got any worse.
She rushed toward the town, crying out for everyone to leave immediately and head toward King Cazlt's castle. The townspeople were prepared for such a journey, having always kept bags full of supplies by their front doors or in their sheds, so they would be able to leave the town within minutes of hearing Sahse's cries.
The trip to the castle would take a full day, if everything went without trouble. Everyone worried. No one really knew exactly what the event would be. Would it happen to the king's city? Would they be able to reach the castle in time to save everyone from the horrors that may befall them? No mind was settled on the long walk.
As they walked toward the castle, they passed through more towns that lay on the long path to King Cazlt's Castle. As they did, more and more pets became aware of what was happening, and joined along side them. No one wanted to look back as the convoy walked on, no matter how important their home was, for the ominous cloud of dust was growing, and it seemed to be following them. Everyone who knew of Sahse was asking her what was going on, and what would become of their villages, but Sahse remained quiet, refusing to tell anyone what she knew. Her face held a grimace of fear and of worry, not unlike the others within the growing group. It was hard to tell time, for the lack of light, but all those in the growing procession knew that they would soon be at the city gates.
The city could be seen over the horizon, and it seemed to glow. Knowing the city was so close, the crowd began to run toward it, joyous that their long trip had finished. But, in fact, there was much more to come.
As soon as they had arrived, Sahse asked for an immediate meeting with King Cazlt. Sahse entered the large throne room. Fancy golden etchings ran down the floor, which was tiled with seashells, and up to King Cazlt's tall throne.
"Come on, Cazlt! This is serious! We have to abandon the kingdom, there is no other choice!" Sahse cried to the king.
"How will I be able to know if my city will remain? I am not prepared to leave it behind just yet." King Cazlt spoke gravely, averting his eyes from his window and the view of the ever-growing cloud.
Floating on the azure waves high above the underwater city was a fleet of ships from Krawk Island, carrying a large cargo of dubloons. The captain, an old, grey Krawk, stood at the head of the fleet. He noticed a shadow, growing larger, as if it were moving toward the fleet. He whipped out his telescope, and pressed it to his eye, so he could better see what caused the giant shadow. To his horror, he saw a giant sea creature, much like the overgrown Slugawoo lingering about the ruins of old Maraqua today, speeding toward the ship.
"All hands on deck!" he ordered. "Save our ship! And the dubloons!" he added, a tinge of selfish greed in his voice, as he ran to steer the ship away from the enormous creature.
But he was too late! The giant Slugawoo-like creature smashed into the ship, snapping it in two as though it were made of toothpicks, the valuable cargo quickly sinking to the sandy sea floor. A ship behind the captain's own in the fleet threw out a rope for the waterlogged crew to climb to safety. As soon as the final crewmember was accounted for, the fleet sped as fast as they could out of the treacherous waters.
Back in Sachep, things were getting worse by the minute. As the chests full of heavy dubloons sunk, they smashed into buildings and undersea mountains. Everything was being crushed and destroyed. Sahse's begging to King Cazlt became much more urgent and after much persuasion, King Cazlt finally agreed to bring his kingdom to safety.
Just outside the Kingdom of Sachep, a large, underwater canyon lay. Unable to find a better safe haven than the canyon with the small amount of time left, King Cazlt was forced into choosing it.
"Do not panic!" King Cazlt stated, attempting to calm the nervous crowd that had gathered in his courtyard. "We have a plan for your safety," he continued, motioning toward Sahse.
The crowd nodded in understanding, as they walked out of the courtyard, whispering to themselves. Suddenly, a great shadow overcame them, causing them to look up. They gasped as one, stampeding back into the courtyard. Their gazes fell upon Sahse and King Cazlt for guidance. However, neither could give anything more than a hopeful glance.
Finally, the day had come that all the citizens of Sachep, with all their belongings wrapped in seaweed and tucked into shell purses and backpacks, had to journey to Khmet Canyon. Everyone was too worried to notice much of what was happening to their surroundings. What everyone did notice was that Sahse seemed uneasy. Many of the citizens went out of their way to ask her if she was all right, but she would merely shrug and turn away. Soon after, a young Maraquan Kougra tugged on Sahse's shawl, readying to ask her if she was all right. At this time, the water level began to fall, becoming increasingly shallow by the minute. Noting this, Sahse turned to tell what was on her mind.
"Why?" inquired a young Maraquan Uni.
Again, the crowd set off, but at a much faster pace. Soon they reached the canyon, but by then the water was no more than twelve feet about their heads. One by one, the citizens filed into the depths of the canyon, under the watchful eyes of King Cazlt and Sahse, both of whom were taking a head count. Finally, the last citizen jumped in. Sahse and Cazlt were about to follow them in, when they realized that their skin felt oddly dry. The water had drained to what used to be the ocean floor, and had halted at the canyon, which was now a river.
In despair, they walked toward the kingdom, to see if anything had survived. To their surprise, the castle still stood, and had barley a scratch on it, that wasn't there before. Then they realized, the Khmet Canyon was not part of the kingdom, and because all the citizens were on the way to the canyon, there was no one in the kingdom. Since no one was in the kingdom, there was no one in the Kingdom to believe, or not to believe in the power of the sands that the Castle was made of. So they walked inside.
Many months had passed since the citizens left for the river, and many things had changed. For one, the Kingdom of Sachep no longer existed, but in its place, the Kingdom of Sakhmet. King Cazlt and Sahse had changed the name of the kingdom, in honor of the canyon, which was now a river. In addition, dubloons occasionally could be found lying in the sand, left over from the shipwreck years before. In the years to come, the new kingdom of Sakhmet would come to glory, much like its prior magnificence back, many, many years ago.
Finneus finished, closing the book, and glancing at his grandchildren, who sat looking at him in wonder.
"Is it true, Grandpa?" questioned Max.
"Yes, it's true," Finneus replied with a smile.
Finneus waved to his grandchildren, the book tucked under his wing, as they made their way home. As they disappeared from view, he turned toward the archives and slowly walked toward his office.
His head snapped around at the sound of an intercom crackling to life. "Balthazar," a booming voice spoke to him. "Glad to see you're awake..."
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Fold, Scrunch or…
My life turned into a joke at the weekend – literally!
We've all heard that old gag about the person being in a public toilet cubicle and the person in the next cubicle says "Hello?"
And the gag teller replies with 'Hello' and starts conversing with the other cubicle dweller only to be talked over, as it turns out other cubicle dweller is on the phone.
Well there was me at the weekend having to quickly and unexpectedly use a public convenience.
There was I, sitting, all systems operating, so to speak, when I discovered there was no toilet paper in the holder!
EEEEK! I was definitely in a bit of a pickle.
Then I heard someone take up residence in the next cubicle! Brilliant! Saved!
I enquired with a hesitant but loud enough "Hello?"
My voice echoed off the 1970s tiling.
No response.
I repeated "Hello?" this time a bit louder.
I thought "Bitch is ignoring me".
And then a few seconds later came the sound I longed to hear as she said "Hello?"
Relief flooded over me and with thankfulness I said "Oh hi, do you have any toilet paper in that cubicle you can spare?"
But the end of my sentence was cut off as she said "Hi, yeh, I'm here, I'm just in the toilet, I'll meet you at Coles in a minute." into her phone, and continued to have a full blown conversation while sitting on the potty!
Bitch.
There I was, totally alone, no handbag (and resultant residue of tissues and receipts that may have come in handy) and no idea of how to get out of the situation.
Let's just say that I'm now intimate with the number and quality of layers of paper it takes to make up a loo roll tube.
The difference between this event being a disaster and an amusing anecdote is mindset. Over the years I've trained my mind to look for the humour in everything as I scan life for material in writing and performing stand-up comedy, but the by-product is the discovery of how wonderful a humorous re-frame of life can be in coping with life's lumps and bumps.
Both laughter and tears are responses to stressful situations – they each release tension in either one way or another. If we choose to respond in tears and sadness it closes down our options and leaves us without choice, a victim of circumstance.
If we choose laughter (which can also involve tears, but of a different kind) it takes away the power the situation may have had over us, we keep our sovereignty of life and we retain the ability to make positive choices in how to get under, over, past or through the situation with significantly less stress and sadness.
And that includes being stuck in a 'situation' in a toilet cubicle with no toilet paper. I felt a bit like Indiana Jones in that cubicle. I thought, 'what would Indy do?' And you can bet I was also thinking "Possible comedy material!" – after all, most comedy is born out of someone else's pain!
So, after all that, I have one question for you;
Do you fold, scrunch… or scrape?
I conduct courses and workshops teaching how to speak with influence and authority, and to develop your powers of humour and comedy for pleasure, public speaking and life coping skills.
The next Comedy Course for Beginners starts in Adelaide on 15 October – email me on maggie@funnyfarm.net.au for details
The next workshop The Power of Comedy in Business will take place in Melbourne on 25 October – for details click this link
By Maggiein comedy, communicate, drama, feelings, Happiness, humanity, in the flow, life, women, womens' comedy September 29, 2014 616 WordsLeave a comment
I Close My Eyes and Jump
Goodness gracious what a week!
I had always imagined that when days arrive that will change my life, they would be huge and dramatic. Maybe fireworks and heavenly choirs, marching bands and trumpets, a boom or two of thunder and lightning splitting the sky.
But what really happened was an unprecedented overwhelming wave of peace, and then deep, deep inside I heard a quiet, loving voice say very firmly "No, enough. It is time now".
And the decision that had to be made wasn't scary. I have no doubts about the way forward, and indeed it seems to be the most natural, normal thing in the world.
So, what actually happened is that this week I resigned from my well-paid job to devote my life to coaching and training, to helping people get happy (and therefore successful) quickly and easily, and to have fun doing it using a combination of comedy and cutting edge science (for those that don't know me I'm also an actor and comedian).
Just to re-emphasise, on Tuesday I had a six-figure, relatively safe government job, and now, after I work my notice, in about 3.5 weeks time I'll be working for my own business Elegant Concepts Group.
What I've done goes against all conventional wisdom. Women my age (52) find it increasingly difficult to get decent work in the corporate sector, and those who tread cautiously would say that it really isn't the time to be striking out on one's own.
However, here's the crux of the matter; for the past 30-odd years – most of my working life – I've been suppressing who I really am in order to fit into the 'corporate box'. I've been living a double life; appearing on stage either in theatre or comedy in the evening and by day I've been hiding my true passions to fit in with everyone else, and in the process I've been exhausting myself physically, emotionally and spiritually. I have also been disappointing myself for not standing up for whatever oddity I feel I must be.
I have often looked with envy at people who love their 9 to 5 jobs and wished for some of the peace of mind they seem to have. But maybe they too are hiding their passions in some way to fit in with what our society asks of us. I know that for me, as I've got older, it has been increasingly difficult.
And then I had the health scares of the past couple of months (see previous post) to bring me to very sharp awareness of the fragility and transient nature of our time here on earth.
The key has been a question of alignment. I've been out of alignment and not living my values, and yet that is what I ask my clients to do, to live according to their values. How can I ask that of them when I haven't done it myself? That non-alignment has probably been at the basis of my health and stress problems. I can hear my old Scottish mum's voice in my head "Ye cannay be the servant of two masters." And that's why I'm now giving up on one and following, with such a happy heart, the other.
I have the advantage of a fabulously supportive husband, my lovely Steven, who in his own quiet way has been pointing out my fierce defence of this middling stance for some time. And now I've stepped out of no-man's-land and made the commitment he is with me all the way.
So, here goes. The countdown is on. I have my methodology and content that I want, no – need – to deliver, my products for individuals and corporates are almost ready, and even in the past few days opportunities have opened up that I would never have even noticed before. The Universe responds.
I close my eyes,
I take a big breath, and
By Maggiein 50, baby boomer, comedy, communicate, drama, dream, Energy, faith, family, feelings, Happiness, humanity, in the flow, life, Mum, Progress, spirituality, women October 6, 2013 663 Words5 Comments
Stuffed Mums Strike Again!
How do I describe the afternoon I've just experienced?
Along with my Three Stuffed Mums colleagues Kate and Kehau I spent the afternoon at Goolwa, a small town south of Adelaide at the mouth of the mighty river Murray, and had the biggest amount of fun. We were there to perform a Three Stuffed Mums show as part of 'Just Add Water' – the Country Arts SA Regional Centre for Culture festival that takes the arts to the regions and for a year settles in and works with the people who live locally. A main part of the festival is that projects there should leave a lasting legacy for the community.
Three Stuffed Mums project was to perform our show there and then over a period of a few weeks teach and coach local mums in standup or other ways of telling their own stories with humour. Then at the end we'll present a showcase with the women performing their work. Today was the show and we'll conduct the course from May to July.
It had become plain to us that women these days can feel isolated in bringing up children, and that they might not realise we all go through the same challenges. We had women coming to our shows the past two years and saying to us afterwards "Thanks! Now I feel normal!"
As far as stand up goes, this show today has to be one of the highlights of my ten year comedic career. The feeling of over 200 people cacking themselves with laughter at you is rather heady, and even more so that they were mostly women and they knew exactly what I was talking about.
I had a ball and so did everyone else. And now we have the opportunity to pay so much forward with the course – can't wait!
By Maggiein Adelaide, baby boomer, children, comedy, communicate, family, feelings, humanity, Mum, Parenthood, Three Stuffed Mums, women, womens' comedy April 29, 2012 310 WordsLeave a comment
A Generation of Stupid Girls
It occurs to me that we have succeeded in raising a generation of stupid girls.
Not that this applies to all girls, I have to say. Thankfully there remains a decent cohort of sensible, balanced young women who have self-respect aplenty, ambition for better lives and a sense of their worth in society.
Society, however, hasn't contributed to this, though. It gives the sensible women no worth while at the same time promoting the living Bratz dolls that are better camera fodder.
I detect that one of the major changes took place when the television program 'Sex and the City' became popular, and a whole set of false values were sold to our girls. The importance of designer shoes, no matter your income level; the importance of promiscuity; overall the importance of materialism.
At the same time we had the rising tide of celebrities being implicitly positioned as role models via their constant presence in a material-hungry and morally vacant press, while their behaviour wasn't really fit for anyone to witness, never mind emulate.
And so on the cusp of a new decade, forty odd years after the women's movement began to enjoy the first fruits of its long-fought battle to gain equal rights, we have the spectacle of girls in their early teens dressing like prostitutes and calling it fashion, and by that I mean no disrespect to prostitutes – they're women with a job to do. Could a girl dress as a welder and then be surprised when people think she's a welder – even if she is 13?
The cult of pleasing men has reached ridiculous proportions amongst the teen and twenty something women.
We have the 'trend' of bisexuality displayed by young women for the viewing pleasure of their partners or any onlooker who's passing, and we have the growing feeling that one should always accompany one's male partner to a strip club to view the ladies, as to do otherwise would not be cool. It brings memories of University and Stuart Hood's work on 'women as the watched, and men as the watchers'. One can only wonder how the young woman struggling to come to terms with her own genuine lesbianism feels when she sees so many others try it 'off the peg' for a bit of a laugh.
I often work with young female journalists. To a woman they look like gorgeous china dolls, and I wonder what happened to all the talented female writers who don't happen to look like that? Are they automatically discounted from the shortlist because of their looks? The same stringent quality controls are very obviously not applied to the male equivalents.
I shiver when I hear young women declare 'I'm not a feminist', because by saying that you are telling everyone that you do not believe that you deserve equal rights, you are negating the pain, suffering and sometimes deaths of women who walked before you in order to gain the freedoms that you take so much for granted.
Worst of all your mothers and grandmothers have allowed this to happen.
Shame on all of this. We have sold our daughters' and granddaughters' futures to a world where they're held less than worthy if they don't look like a model while achieving that PhD.
Maybe it's more apparent to me coming from a non-Australian background, but I'm still shocked at the way a good proportion of Australian men speak about women; the utter disrespect, arrogance and ridicule that is the starting point for any interaction with the opposite sex depresses me on a regular basis. This is in contrast to the many Australian men who I know who do treat women well, who know how to be real gentle-men and have no problem with being on an equal footing with women. So how come the latter never get the limelight in this macho society. What are the Neanderthals afraid of?
I certainly never heard men speak of women like this in Europe or UK. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but that it's not tolerated openly in society, which is a starting point.
The hero worship of the Sam Newmans, Shane Warnes and the like is beyond belief in a supposedly modern society. Until women – especially young women – get the guts to say 'no' and stop playing the gender politics game to the agenda set by the Neanderthals – whether on a domestic, professional or political level – and start working together with the many men who do want to work together with us, it will remain as it is, and our daughters and granddaughters will have been cheated of their legacy – a world where they can ditch the stilettos and the diets and still feel they're worth something.
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IT and property entrepreneur Shaf Rasul, www.shafrasul.com, is one of Scotland's most successful businessmen. He now features in an online version of the BBC's Dragons Den alongside American Julie Meyer and host Dominic Byrne of the Chris Moyles Radio 1 Breakfast Show. Edinburgh-based Rasul has an estimated wealth of £48million, according to the recent Sunday Times Rich list. His core business interests include optical-media distribution business E-Net Computers which he established in 2000. It is now the largest storage media distributor in Europe and one of the biggest buyers of optical storage products in the world. As well as expanding E-Net Computers, Rasul has developed a venture capital investment portfolio, worth in the region of £30million, which focuses on property, asset management and internet technology. Rasul, who is a guest columnist for the Scottish Sun and The Hirer, also has an arm dedicated to management buy-ins and buyouts which provides teams with the funding, buying power and exposure to the supply and distribution networks required to expand their business.
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The Day Job...
Peter founded Grant Management (GM), in 1997. The company helps people invest in traditional Residential property, by sourcing, renovating, furnishing and managing property as a "one stop shop" solution.
The company has roughly doubled in size each year, primarily through client referrals and word of mouth. It now has a FT staff of 90, and manages some 1,850 properties in 12 cites across the UK.
Clients range from private individuals with just one flat, to hi wealth clients with a property portfolio.
In 2006 Grant Management became involved with property funds, and now runs three funds of up to £100m on behalf of institutions and hi wealth clients. Shareholders include Bank of Scotland and Sir Tom Hunter.
Putting something back...
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Global trees allows individuals and companies to calculate their carbon footprint through the web site and go Neutral by planting trees. Grant Management went carbon Neutral in December 2006.
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In this time of changes it's important to pause and cleanse yourself regularly. There are many ways to cleanse yourself and the indigenous peoples of the Earth have been doing so for hundreds of years with the plants and stones of their regions. No matter what you use like: smudging with sage, incense made of frankincense, vanilla bean pods, healing crystals or lavender water each of these purifiers help calm the mind and release negative energy. So take a deep breath, stop whatever your doing and perform a cleansing ceremony to release the old and begin something new.
Since this last month has been a roller coaster of events and energies I'm offering helpful words from Mother Mary and a FREE live broadcast to connect with your spirit guides.
Enjoy my loves and keep up the good work walking your path!
A Voice from Spirit – Mother Mary – The Flowers or the Thorns?
My Beloved Children, today I'd like to share with you one of my favorite parables about how we live life. For life is what we live everyday. Some days life can be one pain after another as we seem to fall and stumble through our lessons and decisions. But other days life seems like sweet delights, filled with excitement, surprises and love. When we understand the connection of life and the balance between lessons and joy we begin to realize all days are really both pain and pleasure. Our point-of-view can change depression to joy, financial loss to abundant spiritual gain and overwhelming loss to grateful understanding. Each day you choose how you will live that day. As much as we desire a blissful life our daily lives will still bring us lessons. We can then turn fear to joy with understanding that our tests are really joys. Here is my story for you because you are all my children, my roses, in my garden of life.
The Flowers or the Thorns?


* Fixler is a student of R. Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch, and I used some of the time we were together to clarify the details of R. Rabinovitch's position that there is no halakhic prohibition in using an electronic key card on Shabbat, or in walking through a door that opens electronically, or even using an electronic faucet where the water comes out when you put your hand under it. Without getting into the halakhic details, I think one thing is sure, namely, that the future will bring more such lenient decisions in this area. The changing circumstances of modern life will create enormous pressure for lenient decisions, as modern technology which helps us in so many ways also creates many problems regarding Shabbat. For example, how long until it will be impossible to access an apartment building in New York and other big cities without using a key card? The day is probably coming when private apartment doors will also use key cards, not to mention numerous other such Shabbat-problematic technological advances that will be unavoidable aspects of life in the future. Therefore, I believe that some future poskim will return to R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach's position that if there is no creation of heat or light, then technically there is no violation of Shabbat.
* Here is another story about Harbin told by R. David Abraham Mandelbaum. In 1943 his father and his friend, both yeshiva students in Shanghai, came to Harbin where they visited the university. While there, and presumably in the library, they found on one of the tables a Sefat Emet on Kodashim. The two students were very surprised, since how did this book end up in such a far-away place? They grabbed the book and quickly exited.
The story as told is quite shocking to me and I am surprised that it was reported, for how was this not thievery? Presumably, the university acquired the book from one of the local Jews who donated it. Or perhaps at the time the yeshiva students were visiting the man who was studying the book had gone out to the restroom or he had left the book there from a previous visit. If such was the case, when the man returned he would have been very upset to find that his book was taken. It appears that the two yeshiva students simply felt that they had a right to take the book, as it did not belong in a Chinese institution.
This reminds me of how many years ago I walked into the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary and saw that they had installed an anti-theft system to prevent anyone from removing a book without it being checked out. Upon inquiring I was told that this was necessary as some people thought it was OK to take books from the library, as they felt that they were "liberating" the books from the clutches of those who had no right to them, that is, the Conservatives. I never took that claim seriously and always assumed that a thief is a thief, and the people stealing the books – no matter how big their kippot or how long their beards – did not have any religious justification worked out. Subsequent experiences have shown me that these sorts of thieves will steal from anyone if given the chance, even if it means pretending to be kollel students. (I won't elaborate further, but some European readers will know what I am referring to). But in the case from Harbin, it seems obvious that the reason for taking the book was precisely because the yeshiva students felt that there was no reason for the Sefat Emet to be in a Chinese institution. As mentioned already, I do not see how this can be justified halakhically, as we are not talking about a Jewish book that was, for example, confiscated by the government for anti-Semitic reasons.
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        public string PlayerId
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by Rishal Hurbans 4 years ago 4 min read
Thursday 19 May 2016 marked the kickoff of the first AI hackathon meet up in Johannesburg, South Africa. The meet up is planned to happen monthly with a focus on growing a community around learning and practicing concepts in artificial intelligence.
The evening started with drinks and pizza where everyone got to socialize and network with their peers. Some interesting conversations around AI and innovation sprouted.
Rishal Hurbans and Gail Shaw gave a short talk introducing AI concepts and algorithms. The talk was light and useful to anyone without a background in AI.
The first concept that the meetup group will be tackling is Machine Learning. The Machine Learning for Beginners GitHub repository included a getting started guide for Python and R. The repository demonstrates a simple example for learning the difference between an apple and orange based on its weight and texture. It also includes an example for learning classifications of the Iris flower species – the Iris dataset is a popular dataset used for testing and learning in the area of data science. The two examples serve as a quick getting started guide for beginners in machine learning and people not familiar with the Scikit Learn library for Python. The Scikit Learn library provides a number of built-in classifiers and prediction algorithms for machine learning which makes getting up and running simple and easy.
The Hackathon
The hackathon session included an exercise and dataset where the group were challenged to create an algorithm to classify password strength. The dataset consists of 50000 randomly generated passwords for use as training data and 25000 randomly generated passwords for use as testing data. The password strength is measured by detecting the use of uppercase characters, numbers, special characters, and length. More information on the exercise can be found here.
The key aspect of the hackathon was to think about the properties of the password that are most likely to be useful for machine learning, and thereafter, preparing the data such that it can be consumed by a machine learning classifier. Often data, as it exists, is not suitable for machine learning. Removing redundant features, removing unnecessary features, and choosing the correct types of features are an important part of the process.
The group split up into small teams of two or three where they discussed solutions and hacked away at some code. The outcome was interesting as different teams had different approaches to the problem, and conducted various experiments to learn more about the performance of the machine learning classifier.
Some teams chose Boolean features for the occurrence of numbers, special characters, and upper case characters; whilst other teams counted the occurrences of the mentioned features. Some teams represented the output as a percentage of accuracy, and other teams visualized the output in good looking charts. One of the most interesting outcomes were the experiments that teams conducted to test the threshold for learning by reducing the training set and testing the outcomes of the machine learning.
Here's some insight from a few of the participants:
The approach I used was to extract the data into a list of inputs and targets, then mapping a feature extraction function to each password to get a list of feature sets that map nicely with the target array. The feature extraction function extracted four features from the data:
An integer value representing the length of the password subtracting 8,
Three bit/boolean value representing if the password contains an uppercase letter, a digit and a special character.
Three learning algorithms were trained using the input data set and then these classifiers were used to predict the strengths of the password in the testing set. The results of the predictions were compared to the target values, with the error being calculated as the difference between the prediction and the target. The accuracy (error = 0) of each method used is as follows:
Stochastic Gradient Descent: 62.552% accuracy (15638 / 25000)
K-nearest neighbours: 99.998% accuracy (24997 / 25000)
Random Forests: 100.000% accuracy (25000 / 25000)
-Kevin Gray
We decided on the following stack: Jumpy, Pandas, re and obviously sklearn.
Since we needed to generate features, we decided that the apply function of a pandas series would work out really well. For each series you can apply a function which is "applied" to each element in the series.
Given this, we wrote two functions. The first function parses the file by just opening it and iterating over each line. Each line is split using regex to strip out the password and the score. The second function, called count_chars, counts the number of characters in the password. It takes a password and a set of characters from the string module and returns the count of characters. We can then apply the function using the syntax below:
training.password.apply(lambda x: count_chars(x, string.ascii_uppercase))
So from the latter function and the len function we created the features below.
upper_case_count
lower_case_count
punc_case_count
password_len
We then used the cross_val_score to evaluate how well the model generalizes and got an average score of 99%. Checking this against the test set we got approximately the same accuracy. We ran some performance checks on the code and found the following:
Parsing either file takes about 5.72 µs
Creating all the features takes about 6.91 µs
-Bradley, Stuart, Kirton
The "Machine Learning for Beginners" documentation and exercises are available on GitHub. If you're interested in AI, join us on Meetup.
Rishal Hurbans
Founder at Prolific Idea. Author of Grokking AI Algorithms. Solutions Architect at Entelect. Innovator at Intel.
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Do this using the A and D keys. Feel free to edit the map, it's a .png file. If you make it to the end of the map it'll spawn ten lovely, little vases for you.
I used sfxr, GraphicsGale free, and Eclipse. It's written in Java and should work on every OS.
-Changed vase graphic. It has a potato in the middle now.
Basically the level can be fully changed by editing the /res/maps/0.png image. The map is loaded by reading the image and depending on the RGB of the map, a wall is put, the player position is set or the exit is set.
I didn't add support for more than 1 map, unfortunately.
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It's an error you get when using an older version of Java to try and run a program written with a newer JDK.
One sec I'll update the post, it requires java 1.7 to run without error.
Not bad, spent more time on it than I would perhaps have liked. Gets infuriating as I sometimes seem unable to avoid crashes. The sounds left something to be desired but it stayed true to the theme. Nice concept in general.
Interesting concept, fun to control the vase. I kind of wish you could rotate gravity faster, though.
I think the game is too hard myself. I've never actually completed it. And yeah, the gravity takes too long to rotate, I should have made it follow the mouse.
Nice concept, gets really hard quite fast.
:O Very nice concept, really hard, I liked it!
Nicely done. Very smooth but challenging control mechanic. I smashed a lot of vases, but had a lot of fun doing it!
Very challenging, but great idea!
Thanks so much guys! Really appreciate it!
I quite like the concept, but I think the controls let it down. what you want to do most of the time is send it in one direction, then reverse gravity at the last minute. Since you have to go through a whole bunch of other directions before you get to the one you want, you are more or less guaranteed to smash into something that you weren't even thinking about. Maybe you could try defining gravity by the mouse cursor's direction relative to the center of the screen?
Good idea. I liked when you mess it up and there is nothing to do but watch you get harmed. With patience, it is possible.
Really good idea - I'm a sucker for any game that involves messing with gravity!
Very nice idea altough it's a bit hard to control the vase. At some point I just started floating on empty space after restarting the level.
I'm probably just bad at it, but I found it a little *too* difficult because changing the direction of the gravity felt a bit slow. If the gravity spinner went round faster or maybe it was controlled by the mouse position, I might be able to get to the end of the level!
@Casino Jack I know exactly what you mean, if I were to re-visit this game I would definitely change the controls.
Cool concept, and pretty hard lol.
The pot mechanic was cool and a bit fun to play with, but the actual gameplay was a bit more 'hug the wall'. Still, it took a minimalist idea and really delivered well in an interesting control scheme and a nice pot mechanic. I feel that if the game was stage-based, less maze-like and more obstacle-puzzle like, it would have been a more enjoyable experience.
Really good and fun, but challenging!
I quite enjoyed this game. It was pleasantly and surprisingly difficult to play. I'm actually finding it quite difficult to think of anything wrong with it.
Thanks for all your feedback guys!
It was incredibly hardville, and we couldn't beat the first level. Concept was good, and the controls were good if the gravity wasn't so powerful.


In this 2005 interview, Alan Jones, Executive Secretary of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of the Valley of Cleveland (32nd Degree Masons) discusses his career as a Mason; the history of the Masonic orders in Cleveland and Ohio; and the history of the Cleveland Masonic and Performance Arts Center located at East 36th and Euclid Avenue. Jones first discusses his family's long involvement in Masonic organizations in Pittsburgh, and then his own introduction to Masonic orders in Cleveland as an adult in the 1980s. Jones identifies and discusses a number of Masonic orders, past and present, that used the building at East 36th and Euclid, which was built in 1918. Jones also provides a good description of the Masonic way of life and why it continues to be attractive to men living in Cleveland and its suburbs. Finally, Jones discusses the challenges that the Masons have had maintaining the building at East 36th and Euclid over the years.
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  [ "$contents" = "$(cat folder1/nested.dat)" ]
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat folder2/nested.dat)" ]

  assert_pointer "main" "file1.dat" "$contents_oid" $contentsize

  # Remove the working directory
  rm -rf file1.dat file2.dat file3.dat folder1/nested.dat folder2/nested.dat

  echo "checkout should replace all"
  GIT_TRACE=1 git lfs checkout 2>&1 | tee checkout.log
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat file1.dat)" ]
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat file2.dat)" ]
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat file3.dat)" ]
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat folder1/nested.dat)" ]
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat folder2/nested.dat)" ]
  grep "Checking out LFS objects: 100% (5/5), 95 B" checkout.log
  grep 'accepting "file1.dat"' checkout.log
  ! grep 'rejecting "file1.dat"' checkout.log

  # Remove the working directory
  rm -rf file1.dat file2.dat file3.dat folder1/nested.dat folder2/nested.dat

  echo "checkout with filters"
  git lfs checkout file2.dat
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat file2.dat)" ]
  [ ! -f file1.dat ]
  [ ! -f file3.dat ]
  [ ! -f folder1/nested.dat ]
  [ ! -f folder2/nested.dat ]

  echo "quotes to avoid shell globbing"
  git lfs checkout "file*.dat"
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat file1.dat)" ]
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat file3.dat)" ]
  [ ! -f folder1/nested.dat ]
  [ ! -f folder2/nested.dat ]

  echo "test subdir context"
  pushd folder1
  git lfs checkout nested.dat
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat nested.dat)" ]
  [ ! -f ../folder2/nested.dat ]
  # test '.' in current dir
  rm nested.dat
  git lfs checkout . 2>&1 | tee checkout.log
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat nested.dat)" ]
  popd

  echo "test folder param"
  git lfs checkout folder2
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat folder2/nested.dat)" ]

  echo "test '.' in current dir"
  rm -rf file1.dat file2.dat file3.dat folder1/nested.dat folder2/nested.dat
  git lfs checkout .
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat file1.dat)" ]
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat file2.dat)" ]
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat file3.dat)" ]
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat folder1/nested.dat)" ]
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat folder2/nested.dat)" ]

  echo "test checkout with missing data doesn't fail"
  git push origin main
  rm -rf .git/lfs/objects
  rm file*.dat
  git lfs checkout
  [ "$(pointer $contents_oid $contentsize)" = "$(cat file1.dat)" ]
  [ "$(pointer $contents_oid $contentsize)" = "$(cat file2.dat)" ]
  [ "$(pointer $contents_oid $contentsize)" = "$(cat file3.dat)" ]
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat folder1/nested.dat)" ]
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat folder2/nested.dat)" ]
)
end_test

begin_test "checkout: without clean filter"
(
  set -e

  reponame="$(basename "$0" ".sh")"
  git lfs uninstall

  git clone "$GITSERVER/$reponame" checkout-without-clean
  cd checkout-without-clean

  echo "checkout without clean filter"
  git lfs uninstall
  git config --list > config.txt
  grep "filter.lfs.clean" config.txt && {
    echo "clean filter still configured:"
    cat config.txt
    exit 1
  }
  ls -al

  git lfs checkout | tee checkout.txt
  grep "Git LFS is not installed" checkout.txt
  if [ "0" -ne "${PIPESTATUS[0]}" ]; then
    echo >&2 "fatal: expected checkout to succeed ..."
    exit 1
  fi

  contentsize=19
  contents_oid=$(calc_oid "something something")
  [ "$(pointer $contents_oid $contentsize)" = "$(cat file1.dat)" ]
  [ "$(pointer $contents_oid $contentsize)" = "$(cat file2.dat)" ]
  [ "$(pointer $contents_oid $contentsize)" = "$(cat file3.dat)" ]
  [ "$(pointer $contents_oid $contentsize)" = "$(cat folder1/nested.dat)" ]
  [ "$(pointer $contents_oid $contentsize)" = "$(cat folder2/nested.dat)" ]
)
end_test

begin_test "checkout: outside git repository"
(
  set +e
  git lfs checkout 2>&1 > checkout.log
  res=$?

  set -e
  if [ "$res" = "0" ]; then
    echo "Passes because $GIT_LFS_TEST_DIR is unset."
    exit 0
  fi
  [ "$res" = "128" ]
  grep "Not in a git repository" checkout.log
)
end_test

begin_test "checkout: write-only file"
(
  set -e

  reponame="checkout-locked"
  filename="a.txt"

  setup_remote_repo_with_file "$reponame" "$filename"

  pushd "$TRASHDIR" > /dev/null
    GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 clone_repo "$reponame" "${reponame}_checkout"

    chmod -w "$filename"

    refute_file_writeable "$filename"
    assert_pointer "refs/heads/main" "$filename" "$(calc_oid "$filename\n")" 6

    git lfs fetch
    git lfs checkout "$filename"

    refute_file_writeable "$filename"
    [ "$filename" = "$(cat "$filename")" ]
  popd > /dev/null
)
end_test

begin_test "checkout: conflicts"
(
  set -e

  reponame="checkout-conflicts"
  filename="file1.dat"

  setup_remote_repo_with_file "$reponame" "$filename"

  pushd "$TRASHDIR" > /dev/null
    clone_repo "$reponame" "${reponame}_checkout"

    git tag base
    git checkout -b first
    echo "abc123" > file1.dat
    git add -u
    git commit -m "first"

    git lfs checkout --to base.txt --base file1.dat 2>&1 | tee output.txt
    grep 'Could not checkout.*not in the middle of a merge' output.txt

    git checkout -b second main
    echo "def456" > file1.dat
    git add -u
    git commit -m "second"

    # This will cause a conflict.
    ! git merge first

    git lfs checkout --to base.txt --base file1.dat
    git lfs checkout --to ours.txt --ours file1.dat
    git lfs checkout --to theirs.txt --theirs file1.dat

    echo "file1.dat" | cmp - base.txt
    echo "abc123" | cmp - theirs.txt
    echo "def456" | cmp - ours.txt
  popd > /dev/null
)
end_test

begin_test "checkout: GIT_WORK_TREE"
(
  set -e

  reponame="checkout-work-tree"
  remotename="$(basename "$0" ".sh")"
  export GIT_WORK_TREE="$reponame" GIT_DIR="$reponame-git"
  mkdir "$GIT_WORK_TREE" "$GIT_DIR"
  git init
  git remote add origin "$GITSERVER/$remotename"

  git lfs uninstall --skip-repo

  git fetch origin
  git checkout -B main origin/main

  git lfs install
  git lfs fetch
  git lfs checkout

  contents="something something"
  [ "$contents" = "$(cat "$reponame/file1.dat")" ]
)
end_test