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Posted by Kim Graber | Apr 27, 2016 | Business, Risk/Compliance, Technology
On Wednesday April 27, MasterCard unveiled its M/Chip Fast, which is an almost identical version of Visa's Quick Chip For EMV. Both approaches cut down on some authentication so that the EMV card can be removed a couple of seconds after the shopper dips it. And both Visa and MasterCard are only pushing it for retailers that have the greatest need for speed, which has the unfortunate result of guaranteeing vastly different EMV experiences as shoppers go from merchant to merchant.
In a GuestView this week, Mercator Advisory Group's Tim Sloane argued that by encouraging different kinds of EMV experiences, the card brands might be impeding the rapid adoption of EMV.
In MasterCard's statement, the brand said it was important that it join Visa's effort and that EMV can only succeed through industry standardization. "MasterCard called for the industry to activate current action-oriented forums like the Payments Security Taskforce and the EMV Migration Forum to align behind a common approach to address perceptions of speed of a chip card transaction," the statement said, before quoting Ajay Bhalla, president of enterprise risk and security for MasterCard saying "Ultimately, we all want to deliver great experiences for consumers and merchants. That's why we believe that M/Chip Fast or any similar product should be implemented in consultation with the industry. With that holistic view, interested merchants can easily integrate this with their current systems to provide both speed and security for all chip cards."
In an interview, Bhalla stressed the need for standardization. "There should be a common standard for this," he said.
Bhalla did say that MasterCard's M/Chip Fast process was "very similar" to what Visa rolled out, but "the way the transaction is signed off on is a little different. The only difference is in the signing off."
Sloane expressed some concern with how both approaches will deal with PIN updates.
"Mercator reviewed the Visa technology and, based on that review, we believe it will not be able to update the PIN. Consumers are hard pressed to remember a PIN that is randomly assigned to them, so issuers typically enable the user to assign their own PIN. They might ask for this before issuing the card, which eliminates the problem but increases card production complexity. In a prepaid card, the user is rarely know before the card is produced, eliminating that option," Sloane said. "As a result, as prepaid cards become EMV enabled–think Social Security program—they will need the ability to update the PIN. If this Visa approach eliminates PIN updates then the issuer may need to direct the cadholder to a location that has PIN update support. Who will keep this list is unknown to me."
Asked about the chip PIN update implications of M/Chip Fast, Bhalla said "The PIN issue is not a big issue" and pointed out that "most banks allow you to change your PIN at the ATM."
Bhalla also said he was not worried about the increased risk of a man-in-the-middle-attack—which he confirmed was indeed "a theoretical risk" with these approaches—because MasterCard uses many "layers of security" along with "things happening behind the scenes."
Both brands knew of these implementation options before the U.S. EMV liability shift about six months ago but opted to wait until late April to offer them. Speaking just for MasterCard, Bhalla said his team miscalculated how much shoppers and merchants in the U.S. would complain about the reader's retention of the EMV card until the transaction was complete.
"We may have underestimated the behavior change that was needed after decades" of magstripe usage, he said. "There was a little bit of a mismatch in expectations" of merchants, he said, adding that he expects those concerns to dissipate somewhat over the next six months.
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Aaron: (putting the date on the digital recorder, he has asked what the year is) When you're as old as I am, the year is as a snap of the fingers! It's all one flowing time. You create these artificial distinctions. I recognize there is day and night that gives you this 24-hr period, and yet the time is constantly changing through the time zones around the world. Even the phases of the moon are artificial distinctions. If you travel far enough out from Earth, the moon looks different. No days, no phases of the moon; no hours or minutes; just now.
I asked Barbara to include in the handout what you commonly know as the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic. You have heard me speak of the lifetime in which I was incarnate at the time of Jeshua, and heard him offer such prayers, when people asked him, "How should we pray?" He said, "Do not pray to anything outside you but pray to that sacredness which is within everything." This Father, Mother, Cosmic Birther, it's not separate from you.
(Reading from the translation) Our Father, Which art in Heaven–that is this core of divine sacredness which we each can find, each expression of that divine can find within the sacred space within the heart.
Hallowed be Thy Name–the sacredness. Hallowed–blessed. Be Thy–the word Name to me refers to the sacred sound OM. Blessed be that sacred sound which dwells in the innermost heart of everything.
I'll go on to talk about this step by step as we read through it today, at different intervals. But please do not think of this sacredness as anything separate from you. And when you say Thy will be done, you're not saying, "I'll do whatever you want," you're saying, "I obey this sacred sound within me, this sacred wisdom and clarity and love. I will listen for that and no matter how quiet it is and no matter how loud the ego's voice is, I will keep coming back to that sacred sound within the heart. That is the will I will follow and not the voice of ego."
I want to invite your questions of any kind to me and to Heather in this 45 minutes before she must leave, and then we'll come back to our program.
Heather, I want to thank you so much for sharing of yourself with the group.
Heather: Thank you so much for inviting me. I have learned so much from Aaron and Barbara. It was a great pleasure to be here with you all. Thank you so much for inviting me.
Aaron: Thank you. So we open the floor to you.
Q: I thought we were going to do an exercise on soul retrieval?
I think a lot of the journeys we did over the last 2 days, day and a half, quite a lot of them are advanced journeys. So I've taken bits from different practices of shamanism and brought them in for you because I knew that you could advance very fast. Even a beginning journey is usually a 3-day workshop and so we've done some of that. Some of the advanced practiced, of transfiguration, but it's a lot of work so just allow yourself to integrate this, to process some of this stuff, and of course, practice.
The most empowering part of journeying is the guide connection. So if you went to your guide and he came back with this, it's like, "Oh, I need clarity," so you go back to your guide and you continue that dialogue, you and the guide, and that creates a very strong alliance. The potency of the shaman is really the shaman, or like Barbara is a shaman, of her alliance with her helping spirit, her guide, that there's absolute faith and trust and she can go in and ask a question and get the answer very quickly.
So I think that's what Barbara and Aaron do, and I hope that you will develop by practicing journeying, and so that you can go in and get an answer. If you have a dream, go to your guide, "I'd like to understand this dream better," and your guide will help you. You can go back into a dream and finish the dream.
Q: Would you come back next August?
Heather: I would love to. I would love to. Just invite me and I'll be here. Thank you very much.
Q: I thought we were going to journey into a rock.
Heather: Well you did the crystal journey with Barbara.
Q: And so if we did want to try a rock, we'd do it the same way?
Heather: Yes. Remember how you did the rattle? Hold the rattle in your hand and go and ask that to show you its essence. And then communicate, "Thank you for working with me as my instrument to take me on journeys and working with me for the highest good, always in service to the light." Remember you did that and you saw the essence? I did it at the end of a journey.
So even my drumstick, I journey to the essence of the drumstick to ask it to work with me, and my drum. I don't have a lot of accoutrements. I like to keep things simple. This is my altar, very simple. But the journey, the visualization with Aaron, replaced the rock journey. We just began to run out of time a little and, you know, we've had such a blessing to have Aaron come through, and to have the Brother and Sister of Light come through, to give you an idea of the guides and the differences. So I think that was an enormous gift and confirmation for this class.
Q: Can a rock tell you its history or the history of the place it's in?
Aaron: If our weather permits, we will go outside later today or tomorrow morning and hug trees and join with the energy of the trees. I'm also going to lead you on a different kind of journey than Heather did to meeting your higher self or guide. I teach it a bit differently. Heather, I take people into a, I would not say a dangerous but an uncomfortable situation, and allow them to experience a place where they feel they need help. They learn to reach for that help and to find it there, to travel on with the help walking along with them, supporting them along this slightly arduous journey. Then they come to an open space where they can sit with this helper, this guide, just sit and share energy and get to know each other. We don't do this with drumming or rattles, just as a guided meditation.
Heather: Yes, perfect. In core shamanism, all of this is done without guided meditation but it takes a long time. You have to go to a tree, go down the tree, or up it, and so it takes a long time. So I have developed this guiding you to a sacred space to work well and the guides love it, they're absolutely waiting there. It makes for what would normally be a 3 day workshop, but we can bring it into one day, half a day.
So the ultimate is for everybody to connect to their guides, their power animal guides, quickly, swiftly, lovingly and with comfort and ease. And so once you've connected then our work is to develop that friendship and deepen that friendship, and the deeper you get, then you needn't use your drums. You can use them in the meditation but the intent was to connect you to your guides and deepen that relationship, to be working on your own and to be working with Aaron.
The weather kept us all inward like bears, gathering our wisdom. But had the weather been good, Aaron and I were going to do a kind of joint journey together for you all on the edge of the lake where you'd have half a leg in the water, half a leg out, so you could merge with the water and the earth and the sun and the trees, and it would have been... but perhaps that's not what we were meant to do since we didn't get the weather for it. But I'm sure you'll have wonderful opportunities to practice this with Aaron. So there'd going to be drumming outside and you'd be working more in nature.
Q: You can just stand outside and you'll be connected to water (it is raining hard).
Aaron: In Brazil there is a wonderful waterfall at the Casa with very powerful energy, very high crystal-type energy. It felt wonderful merging both with earth and water, really with all of the elements. There's fire in it, there's air in it. But one is especially aware of the earth quality, the crystalline energy, and of course the water. When one stands under it, the whole sense of self dissolves, there is just a flow of elements. One becomes the elements, one knows the elements from within.
Some of you have been with me on Emerald Isle and done the meditation where I had you lying on the sand at the water's edge with gentle waves just coming up and sometimes lapping at your feet. We have a wonderful video of N, I think, sitting on sand but allowing herself to be moved as the waves came in, one of them coming in waist high and just washing her over, floating on the beach, moving lightly with the water and feeling the sand settling under her and the hot sun beating down, the breeze blowing.
This is what I had hoped to do with you this weekend but it's fine that we didn't do it. As Heather said, we've been guided more to go within, in a different way. But perhaps next August we'll do it. We definitely will not try it in November!
Q: Have you ever recorded your journey, or have you ever written–you do such a beautiful job, Heather, of setting the intention and calling the spirits and setting the space. Have you written about that?
Heather: No, it just comes up from inside, but a friend about a year ago, last June, I was invited to teach for a minister in New Jersey. The workshop was held in the Masonic Lodge. I thought, "Whoa, I thought only men were allowed in here." But it was fascinating because the walls were half blue, just like at the Casa. And of course King Solomon was the first entity that came through for John of God. For many years he was primary guide.
So the minister took me up and showed me. They have triangles and the eye and the compasses. So I showed a video of John of God there and then we did the spirit canoe. And I did about 4 healings. A friend of mine videotaped it. And it was amazing to see the video because everybody was so centered. You could see them all, like they were really navigating the rivers. It was fascinating. But I haven't recorded anything, no.
It was amazing to see that because you know, some people were on chairs, some were on the floor. Originally the feedback was, "what are we doing?" Then they really got into it. We did about 4, I guess, and it was fun to see that. The minister in the front said he was being sprayed with water.
Q: When we do our journeys at home, is it okay for our animals like our cats to be in the room with us?
Heather: They love it. I used to, somebody was doing some work on my house and she had a little poodle. I would go into my little healing room with a client and close the door. And as soon as I started either Reiki or drumming, she would come and scratch at the door and then she would jump in, sit on my lap, and when the energy finished and I closed off the beams, she'd jump down and go back out.
They love it. You can direct the healing energy to your animals. So if you transfigure into your divinity and sit up, then just send the energy to your animals. They'll come around you, they'll feel it; they'll tell you when they've had enough. See them as healthy, divine, and holy.
Everybody you're working on, you always see them whole... never the pity because that creates more pity energy for them. Always see them as healthy and well.
Aaron: Some of you will remember when Deep Spring classes were held in Barbara's living room. Barbara's cat had her own zafu. At the start of the meditation she would come and sit there in the middle of the room. As soon as the closing bell rang, the cat would get up and walk out.
Q: How do we live with our crystals day to day?
Aaron: I'll talk more about that with you... Barbara will bring her whole tray of crystals down, I don't know if she plans to do that this week or not until November.
Live with them day by day as you would with a dear friend. You don't ignore a dear friend. If you have beautiful flowers, you add fresh water and you thank the flowers when you come into the room. You notice them. You open your heart to them. You look at the beauty of these flowers, with gratitude and appreciation. You might take a certain flower and just hold it for a moment, feeling its energy.
With the crystals because of their deepened intelligence, you also can hold them while you meditate, just holding it in your lap, holding it in your hands. This crystal is a bit big to hold in that way, but hold yours in your hands as you meditate. Then ask for its help.
For example, if the mind is very restless, note "restless, restless," noting how the restlessness feels in the body, the direct experience of the restlessness in the mind and body. You are not trying to fix it, just aware of it. That which is aware of restlessness is not restless. Be present with that restlessness.
But then at a certain point you can ask the crystal, "Is there something I need to know about this restlessness?" Ask that crystal energy. The crystal is not separate, just as in the Lord's Prayer the divine is not separate. You're asking the question of the innermost crystal of your heart. You're using this material crystal as a way to connect to the inner crystal. So you're asking your own highest wisdom, "What is this restlessness about?" And then letting go, not searching for an answer, just present and allowing clarity to come. And if it doesn't come then there's just restlessness. Or anxiety, tension, anger, fear, sadness. So you can ask your crystal in this way. It connects you to the crystal of inner heart.
When you ask in this way, the answer is a mix of your own deepest wisdom and the wisdom of this material crystal, which has its own intelligence.
Take care of the crystal simply by your friendship. Let me put it in this way. I would not say, don't let others handle your crystal, but if they handle it then cleanse it with clear water. Bring it into the sunshine. Invite it to release any negative or distorted energy it's picked up. It will cleanse itself when invited.
Don't stuff it into a dark corner. You can literally bury the crystal in the earth for a short time. I don't mean for months, I mean for an hour or overnight. Invite it to gather earth energy into itself and release what it wishes to release into the earth. Then bring it out in the morning, wash it off and bring it into the sunshine again.
Ask it what it needs. Do you have anything to add to that, Heather?
Heather: No, perfect. I agree with the cleansing process. Even add a little kosher salt in the water. Just let it be. I sleep with mine. It becomes your helping spirit, your best buddy. Think of it in that way. I have ones that John of God gave me and I carry them all the time. Once I forgot, my set. For 10 years I've had them and I told the entity I'd forgotten them, could I connect to them? And he said, "Would you forget to eat?" And I said no. He went and got me another set and gave them to me. And I carry them with me always. And they are like my best friends in a sense. Yes, put them in the sun, put them in the moon. They'll tell you what they want because they need to be in nature, too.
Aaron: Shortly into her time of visits to the Casa, one of the entities came to Barbara in meditation after her return to Michigan and he said that he wanted her to begin working with crystals. She emailed Heather who was in Brazil and asked if Heather could buy some crystals for her and bring them back, as she'd bought just one small one, smaller than the ones I gave you last night.
Heather was traveling on to another country, and said she could not travel all that way with crystals but she suggested somebody who had been part of that first group that Barbara was with, with Heather. She said he has some that he's brought back. He should be able to sell you some.
Barbara emailed this man. He immediately emailed back and said of that Entity, that specific Entity who had told Barbara to get crystals, "He came to me this morning and said that he wanted crystals for you; he chose this one and this one and this one. He is preparing them for you and I will send them out." The man didn't want any payment, just said, "This is a gift that the Entity wants you to have."
Barbara always travels with those crystals. They are not the biggest ones she has but they are very special to her.
Q: Do all the entities work with crystals? Do you know?
Aaron: When you say all the entities, all the Casa entities, do you mean?
Aaron: They do not work with crystals there in terms of literal crystals, but there's a large crystal in the entities' current room. There's crystalline energy under the ground. The crystal energy supports their work. So it's not that they're holding the crystal and using it to magnify their energy; they have no need of that.
Barbara standing in front of Joao's chair, in the Entities current Room.
The large crystal referred to above is behind her.
Heather: That's true. Sometimes the entities have suggested, – we're working a lot in the Casa, I volunteer a lot there, – and they suggest the male/female crystals which come from very deep in the ground. The entities have us work with those. But they themselves (don't hold crystals). John of God has his own crystals, he doesn't need to carry them with him anymore, of course. He loves crystals, he loves the energy from crystals, the potential for crystals. And the Entities very much honor the work with crystals. They don't say salt (for cleansing); they say Casa water, or sun, sunlight, or the moonlight.
But it is true as Aaron said, best to keep these that Aaron has given you as your own personal crystals. You don't want people touching them. You can just say gently, well these crystals are something I work with and I prefer not to (have them handled). And not even have it in a display place when you're working, keep it in the bag and then have it beside your bed or in your office where you're working on your own. So it's your energy that it's working with, to keep it special, to keep it as your sacred (support)... Every shaman has in their medicine bag one stone or crystal that they keep covered from other people, it's their sort of sacred one, and I think since Aaron chose these for you, and they are very, very sacred crystals, I would keep it as such.
Barbara is one of the only people that I know that isn't Brazilian that pronounces Medium Joao's? name absolutely correctly. It's not an easy name to say.
Aaron: I have taught her. (laughter) This crystal Barbara has displayed here and makes available to people is what she considers her public crystal. It is a crystal with powerful energy. When she works at home, it's often on the table. Her own private collection of crystals that she works with in her daily work, she does not let other people handle; they are for her. But occasionally, if there is a special need, she'll offer one to somebody to use for awhile and when she gets it back, she cleanses it. She will always ask permission of the crystal first.
Q: Two questions about crystals. My crystal has the glue from the sticker on it. Would I leave it as is or clean it with soap and water. (Yes.) And then what about the electromagnetic field from computers and things like that, is that detrimental to the crystals?
Heather: I think that because there's such a vast electromagnetic field everywhere now, airports, everywhere, that I kind of feel that my higher self, if you will, or the divine, creates a force field that protects us from anything like that, because eventually I feel, and we'll ask Aaron this, that as humans we're evolving, and so a lot of the foods that have made people unwell in the last 10 years or so, that if we can take in everything as light and without fear–I had lots of allergies when I left Brazil. Then when I got back on my spiritual path, I saw everything as light so I didn't have those big reactions anymore. I ate sensibly but if I ate wheat or butter, I would be bright red within seconds. But now I eat it, I take everything in as sacred and my body will transmute that which I don't need anymore or is not good for it. But I eat a sensible diet.
And by the same way I don't want to live in fear of these (computers) because these help us a lot. So I think the crystals can help bounce that (what is negative) away from us. We are evolving as beings so this (energy) just passes, doesn't have any effect. Just sort of like the headlights of a car.
Q: Are there certain words you say for when you're taking in food?
Heather: I give thanks to all who brought me this food and to the food itself for coming to be nutritious for me. And I take in all the food as nutritious and pure light. And I ask my body to release anything with gratitude that doesn't serve me in my highest purpose. So just think of it as, it just goes out, it doesn't have to linger in me.
Q: My son is going to want this crystal. And I was thinking I'd let him use it on me. I think he wants to use it on my mother. But from what you're saying here, I should not let him do that.
Heather: I think you can ask Aaron that, since it was a gift from Aaron. And Aaron's your primary teacher so I would ask Aaron that. Or you could always get him another crystal and let him work with that.
Q: That's another question: how do I choose a crystal for him?
Aaron: I would suggest you not share it with E and in January we'll find a crystal for E. He would need a different energetic crystal, very different than (this), something that will center him more.
Q: Do you wear your crystal or carry it? I mean I have on my shirt in this little string pouch. Do you wear yours or carry it in your pocket?
Heather: I do, I carry it in my pocket. My working crystals, they're a pair, male/female, they're slightly bigger, so when I'm at the Casa I have them in my pocketbook always. In the beginning the entities say, "Where are your crystals?" and I'd lift my shirt up. But I used to have these bulges in my pocket so now I wear them in a pocketbook. But I always take a little stone or a little crystal that I'm drawn to and have it in my pocket. I like seeds or stones and I love holding stones.
This is a stone that came to me that has a little triangle in the middle. But when I'm walking on the beach, sometimes I'll look with the intention for heart crystals, stones, but not every one do I pick up. Sometimes I pick it up and I hear it say No. I ask permission. So little stones like that, this for me carries immense power. And when I'm thinking, I'll hold it.
On my altar I'll always have a shell, so you're representing the elements. Little tiny crystal in here. Small is very powerful, I feel. You can just put a little shaving of a crystal or a seed in your pocket, on your altars, I was just going to mention that yesterday, to represent the elements, on your altars. So a feather for air. You can always put a fresh flower on, you know, for the earth. Little bowl of water I often put out if I'm doing a lot of work, and then I return that to the earth at night, asking for that to take any dense energy and become healing for the planet, for that to transmute it. A stone or crystal. And a shell, a simple shell. From a South American point of view we always have a shell.
Aaron (off mic, Heather has mic): Would you go into Barbara's room and bring 2 crystals out? There is one very small irregularly-shaped crystal. Would you bring that and also the longest wand? Thank you.
Heather: Here (pointing to her altar) I have 2 fir cones that I used instead of a drum when I first started journeying with Sandra Ingermann. So I've had these for about 14 years. And then little stones. I always have a little stone in my pocket. And jeans have the perfect pocket, this little pocket here. I think it used to be for lighters. A watch pocket. My father used this (showing an object) on his scarf when he was riding.
Heather: That is from the Salish community, it's a way of community healing. All communities have a specific way of healing and that's a beautiful one which I just happen to love very much, where everybody can participate. To try and bring this sense of community, you all have a wonderful community here in Deep Spring and Barbara's. So a community healing of course is more powerful. It was very easy for me to get to that space of non-ordinary reality. I was right there. Whereas if I were journeying on my own it might have taken me 10 minutes or so, 15, but so you're going down the river and the whole community is holding that intention of the healing for you. So I think it's just a lovely opportunity for people to experience the non-ordinary and the ordinary. And the rowing, you know some people break sweats with that, they can feel the resistance of the water, they can feel the canoe turning around and coming back home. It's just a nice community and it carries with it of course a lot of history. We were calling in the ancestors, I'm sure we had some Salish ancestors here joining us for that ritual.
P has brought in the two crystals Aaron requested.
Aaron: This very small crystal which did not come from the Casa is what is called a Lemurian seed crystal. Have you seen these before? I will pass it around... Barbara will cleanse it afterward.
These Lemurian seed crystals can be very large; they can be small. This none is small, but powerful. (Hands it to Heather.) Please tell me about its energy as you experience it.
Heather: Well at the beginning, I connected to see the essence of this beautiful crystal and I saw the light coming in and a lot of indigo blue energy around it. And now it's just expanding and expanding. And the energy of it is filling this room. And it is yellow and white, and it has the colors of all the spectrum. And from indigo blue it's now absolute white light. And it fills this room, and is just very effervescent crystalline energy. Very light and touching my heart, feels like a lot of very, very vibrant energy, very effervescent. Like the bubbles in champagne only finer. Thank you so much.
Aaron: At the ending of Lemuria, the crystalline structure of Lemuria became buried very far under the earth. Some of these crystals actually ended up in deep mines in Brazil and other places. So as these crystals now allow themselves to be found, they carry a more direct seed of Lemuria. Of course all crystals have some connection to Lemuria, but these carry a very strong Lemurian energy. They're very much a reminder of who you are, and who you were then. Pass it around and let each person hold it and feel its energy for yourself.
This wand has bits of that Lemurian seed crystal but it's not fully a Lemurian seed crystal. It's a very powerful energy, different than many crystals. This one came from the Casa.
It would have been more powerful if it was left rough at the bottom but it was polished all the way around. The polishing diminished its power. So it has traces of that Lemurian seed energy but not as strong as the small one.
You'll see that while this is a beautiful and radiant crystal, it's a very different energy than that wand. What do you feel in that one, Heather?
Heather: I'm getting an image of Jesus... It's a very calming energy, very different from the other crystal. This is very centering but the potential of it is vast. It is a much more masculine energy. Very willing to be of service.
Aaron: Can you feel the touch of that Lemurian seed crystal but that little one had much more of that power.
Heather: The small one had much more effervescence, much more light, very fast, seemed to be. This one is more steady, a little denser.
Aaron: Feel how it contrasts with this (Barbara's public crystal), which is a beautiful crystal filled with rainbow light.
Heather: This is showing me it comes from a mountain of a crystal, very deep in the earth. It's very grounding, it's very healing for the heart. It radiates love energy. It's like I'm seeing its mother/father crystal is this enormous mountain crystal right in the core of the Earth. But it is happy to be of service, it's happy to be with Barbara.
Aaron: Most of the crystals which I gave to each of you last night are similar to this from the Casa, very happy to be of service, filled with love. Crystals, like all beings, are evolving, and your crystal will grow with you. So it's not a stagnant object but it will develop. It will develop with you.
This crystal cluster is in a friend's home near the Casa.
It shows crystal in a more natural form.
Aaron: Before you pack up your altar, Heather, let us just do a brief prayer and gathering together.
Q: Can oneget any crystals that have not been touched by human hands?
Heather: (amid background chatter)... everything has been touched because they're cut and brought to the Casa. I have been into the field where they're natural. They're very powerful, these, and they're all blessed by the entities.
I am very sad to leave. It has been wonderful.
Aaron(mic off): We offer our gratitude to this wonderful mix of human and spirit. great Masters, benevolent beings, earth, water, air and fire spirit, all the small beings, the faeries and others. We ask for their continued support in our intention to be servants in this world. We ask their help to observe the arisings of the ego and transcend them so that we may live our lives from the highest place of love with the highest intention of good for all beings, and the deepest knowledge of our oneness with all that is.
I thank this daughter of light, Heather, for joining us. Whatever good has come from this gathering, we offer it out freely to all beings, that all beings may be happy and find peace.
Heather, I offer you the microphone if there's something you wish to add.
Heather: I'd like to thank you all. I'm sad to leave. I carry you in my hearts wherever I go. And I know that you'll have powerful, wonderful work with Aaron and Barbara, and all together shining your lights out brilliantly into the universe. And everybody that comes in contact with you will feel and see and sense that connection of oneness that you carry, and they will feel comforted, and their pain and suffering will be lessened.
Thank you so much for inviting me. Thank you so much for your generosity on all levels. God bless you all.
Group: (shungo!) We love you, Heather!


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For summer 2015 Tate St Ives will continue its biennial series of one-room displays by a mix of contemporary and historic artists.
The record breaking Light Show from the Hayward Gallery features 20 installations and sculptures by international artists from the 1960s to the present.
Artists frequently think beyond the unique object, to work with a group of closely related images that together express an artistic vision in its entirety.
Characterised visually by abstract, geometric forms without apparent narrative or symbolic content, Minimal Art emerged in America but influenced art globally. Focussing on the Australian context from the 1960s till now, this exhibition examines Minimalism and its critical counter-point Post-Minimalism highlighting their continuing relevance for contemporary art.


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Q: Split URL using SQL and add to database I am trying to split URL and get each part as domain, category, subcategory etc and insert each part into a table. For example:
"www.mydomain.com/toolsanddownloads/dailymealplanner.html?languageid=6"

The purpose is to do 404 redirect if page don't exist. I am tryomg to write SQL statement usinng CTE and get each part of the domain
;with cte AS
(
 SELECT
    CASE
    WHEN RIGHT(RTRIM(URL),1) = '/' THEN LEFT(URL,LEN(URL)-1)
    WHEN RIGHT(RTRIM(URL),5) = '.html' THEN LEFT(URL,LEN(URL)-5)
    ELSE URL
    END AS URL1,
       StartPos = CharIndex('//', URL)+2
  FROM [dbo].[404RedirectTemp]
)

SELECT URL1, SUBSTRING(URL1, 8, CHARINDEX('/', URL1, 9) - 8) AS DomainName,
       REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(URL1), CHARINDEX('?', REVERSE(URL1)) + 1,
       CHARINDEX('/', REVERSE(URL1)) - CHARINDEX('?', REVERSE(URL1)) -1)) AS CategoryName,
       SUBSTRING(URL1, CHARINDEX('?', URL1) + 1, LEN(URL1)) AS QueryParameter
FROM cte;

I an getting always the last bit for category name and is wrong because some URL's are
http://www.mydomain.com/toolsanddownloads/dailymealplanner.html?languageid=6
some
"www.mydomain.com/toolsanddownloads"
"www.mydomain.com/toolsanddownloads/dailymealplanner.html"

What i want to achieve is is no matter how many sections URL has I want to get them all as columns:  domain, categories, subcategories, brand, product
If domain has only categories to get categories, if categories and subcategories to get subcategories
i have over 4000 URL in temp table which i want to loop through each one and update other table for 404 redirect

A: How about converting to rows and treating like an array index. For example:
Lets setup sample environment
create table #url (id int, url varchar(500));
insert into #url select 1, 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18660573/split-url-using-sql-and-add-to-database';
insert into #url select 2, 'www.mydomain.com/toolsanddownloads';
insert into #url select 3, 'www.mydomain.com/toolsanddownloads?test=2&b=4';
insert into #url select 4, 'www.mydomain.com/toolsanddownloads/dailymealplanner.html'

Clean the data up a bit (prob on a temp table to leave raw logs alone)
update #url set url = replace(url, 'http://','');
update #url set url = replace(url, '?','/^');
update #url set url = replace(url, '&','^');

now the fun stuff
with rslt as (
SELECT row_number() OVER( partition by id ORDER BY (SELECT 1)) depth
, value = y.i.value('.', 'nvarchar(4000)')
  FROM
  (
    SELECT id, x = CONVERT(XML, ''
      + REPLACE(url, '/', '')
      + '').query('.')
      from #url
  ) AS a CROSS APPLY x.nodes('i') AS y(i)
)
select case
    when value like '^%' then 'querystring'
    when depth= 1 then 'Domain'
    when depth=2 then 'categories'
    when depth=3 then 'subcategories'
    when depth=4 then 'brand'
    when depth=5 then 'product'
    end section
    , case when depth>1 and charindex('.', value)>0
        then left(value,charindex('.', value)-1)
         else value end section
    from rslt;

Results look like this:
Domain              stackoverflow.com
categories          questions
subcategories       18660573
brand               split-url-using-sql-and-add-to-database
Domain              www.mydomain.com
categories          toolsanddownloads
Domain              www.mydomain.com
categories          toolsanddownloads
querystring         ^test=2^b=4
Domain              www.mydomain.com
categories          toolsanddownloads
subcategories       dailymealplanner

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Laptop and PC repair can be of two kinds. It could either be a software or a hardware repair. Software repair consists mostly of the problems associated with the operating system. The operating system is the platform which gets all computer parts integrated into a single unit. At times, the operating system gets slow and is not able to perform well. The operating system could be given a boost by giving it a tune up job. In this way, it would run faster and efficiently. If a virus invades your system then it becomes a little difficult to handle operations. The virus from any external or internal source could damage your system. To make sure that your system is virus free, you need help from an expert. He would tell you how your system can be returned to normal without re-installing the operating system. At times the operating system needs to be re-installed but it should always be the last resort.
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Half-Life: Alyx VR Game to Launch in March
In 2007, Half-Life 2: Episode Two had just been released as the newest entry to the universally-acclaimed first-person shooter franchise, Half-Life by Valve. Episode Two was to be the mid-point of the Half-Life 2 episodes, soon followed by Episode Three. However, it famously never came. The wait for any information concerning the next game would take months. Months then turned to years. After a decade of waiting, it became increasingly clear to fans that they may never see another Half-Life game.
However, that would change. This November, Valve announced their flagship virtual reality game: Half-Life: Alyx. For the first time in twelve years, Valve released a trailer for a Half-Life game, along with a new website, Steam store page and tons of information.
Half-Life: Alyx is a VR-only game where you literally take the hands of Alyx Vance, the protagonist's sidekick from the previous games. The game is a prequel, set to take place between the events of Half-Life 1 and 2. Valve rehired some of their best writers to get the story up to Half-Life standards. On top of that, they have been communicating with the franchise's ex-lead writer, Mark Laidlaw, to keep the lore intact.
The game is compatible with most VR headsets, the only condition being that the headset must have hand-tracked controllers. That being said, Half-Life: Alyx is designed with the Valve Index in mind, Valve's own top of the line headset. Because of this, the game supports cutting-edge features such as finger tracking and room-scale VR, wherein you can physically walk around the game world. If you're not up for walking, or you want a cheaper VR setup, the game also supports just standing and sitting VR.
Of course VR is very hardware intensive. Most people (including me) will have to upgrade their computers if they want to be able to play Half-Life: Alyx. According to the system requirements, the game will run on the SteamVR platform, require Windows 10 and a Core i5-7500 or Ryzen 5 1600 processor, and need at least 12 GB RAM as well as an Nvidia GTX 1060 or AMD RX 580 graphics card to generate the VR experience.
As for the gameplay itself, it will most likely be fundamentally the same as previous games where you have a set linear path, health and ammo that you must replenish by scavenging for supplies, and a variety of weapons to choose from. The only difference is that you will be doing all of this in virtual reality. You no longer check your health by glancing at a HUD on your monitor; you have to physically look down at an indicator on Alyx's gloves. You don't point and shoot with a mouse and keyboard; you aim using the hand-tracked controllers. You cannot pick up objects by just pressing E; you have to reach over and grab them. The game offers around 12-15 hours of gameplay, making it one of the first full-length VR exclusive games ever made.
Perhaps the best part of this whole event is getting to see all of Tyler McVicker's theories confirmed. Tyler McVicker is an independent gaming journalist who runs the YouTube channel Valve News Network. He was the first journalist to pick up on this game way back in 2016. For the past four years he's talked about nearly all information he could get on the game, either through leaks or insider information. Almost none of the Valve fan community took him seriously until now, and he couldn't be happier.
The game itself is $59.99 on Steam, but is 10% off if pre-ordered. You can also get the game for free if you buy an Index headset or Index Controllers before the end of 2019.
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You know how certain outfits just make you happy? This is my happy outfit. It's totally casual but somewhat fashion-y. I'm wearing jeans – of course – and added two fun new additions to my wardrobe to make it more interesting.
Maje is one of my very favorite brands and Reed gave me two different Maje tees for Christmas. I especially love the floral embroidery and French phrase on this one. I'm going to be wearing it a ton.
This red faux fur coat from Lulu's is my new favorite. It's so cozy and comfortable, but looks chic with practically everything. Here is the cream version too.
By the way, my friend Aleph took these pictures – he's the best!
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Final battle heats up
Argentinian music producer Hernon Sforzini plans to step up promotion for his all-star album, Sly and Robbie vs The Roots Radics: The Final Battle, this month. The set contains songs by top reggae singers backed by the Taxi Gang and Roots Radics Band.
On June 29, Sforzini will release videos for two of its singles during an exposé in Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital. The visuals are for Full Moon, Plant A Tree by Sly and Robbie with Lee "Scratch" Perry and Things Must Get Better — a collaboration between Roots Radics and The Congos.
"There will be an avante premier of the videos at La Usina del Arte in Buenos Aires — a beautiful and historic building dedicated to the arts. We are also advancing 12 video clips [one for each song] which will be shown all together as a film in different places where we will sell the album," Sforzini told the Jamaica Observer.
Final recording sessions for The Final Battle took place last year in Buenos Aires and at Tuff Gong studios in Kingston. It was released April 15 on vinyl, compact disc and digitally.
Saxophonist Dean Fraser, keyboardists Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul and Sidney Mills, Addis Pablo on melodica, Marcus Uranis from American band Groundation, and the SOJA brass section of Rafael Rodriguez Morales and Hellman Escorcia were part of Sly and Robbie's Taxi Gang.
In addition to Perry, they backed Horace Andy, Luciano, Mykal Rose, The Mighty Diamonds, and Ken Boothe.
The 'Radics' were led by founder and bass player Errol "Flabba Holt" Carter. His side included drummer Kirk Bennett, keyboardist Lloyd "Obeah" Denton, guitarist Earl "Chinna" Smith and percussionist Bongo Herman.
They also backed Toots Hibbert, Pablo Moses, Max Romeo, Brinsley "Aswad" Forde, and Freddie McGregor.
Describing the set as "an historic album", Sforzini said he and his team have aggressively promoted The Final Battle on radio, social media, television, and magazines.
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The 42-year-old Sforzini is from Lanus, a city in southern Argentina. He has worked with several reggae acts including Israel Vibration, Steel Pulse, The Congos, and Andrew Tosh.
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During the Thanksgiving & Christmas season, Ewe will encounter all types of shoppers! First, Ewe will meet the "Bargain" shopper. "Bargain" shopping sheep are the type Ewe will see camping outside the store for days! It's all about the thrill of the bargain.
Are we there yet? Ewe have to let me in. It's been 5 days out here!
 Another shopper ewe may encounter is the "Sophisticated" shopper! These shoppers are easy to recognize. They are dressed to the hilt & are looking to purchase a "Quality" gift.
I got these high heels at Macy's in New York!
While shopping, Ewe might also bump into the "Angry" shopper. The "Angry" shopper doesn't want to shop at all! He wonders why we even have holidays like Christmas & Thanksgiving! Sheep should avoid this shopper!
Did ewe know that I can't "Bear" slow cashiers! I'm not in the mood for waiting!
Our next shopper is the "Browser".The "Browser" is not interested in buying anything, however, will think about it! Browsers are somewhat miserly, having cobwebs in their wallets due to a lack of use! Browsers normally have difficulty buying for others.
Just Looking! Ewe know I can't spend anything on someone other than Myself!
Our next shopper is the "Happy" shopper! The "Happy" shopper was born to shop! They love everything about shopping!They could even use the mall as a forwarding address for their mail!
I've got the Joy, Joy, Joy, down in my heart!And I'm so Happy,so very Happy!
with Jesus, the real "Reason for the Season". They see shopping as a way to express their grattitude to those they know & love.
It's all about Jesus! Besides, God loves a cheerful giver!
As Ewe approach this holiday season, be mindful to keep Ewer focus on Jesus! Why not invite the Good Shepherd to go shopping with Ewe!
"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, ad they shall call His name Immanuel, which is translated , "God with us"."
That's a "quality" choice,very sophisticated! Make sure Ewe dress to the hilt! God Bless Ewe & Thanks for commenting!!


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Contra Costa Celebrates World Breastfeeding Week
Archived. This is an older press release from 2015 and may not contain the latest information. Please view our current press releases for 2022 items.
Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS) and its partners invite the public to learn more about the health benefits of breastfeeding for infants and mothers at several free community events planned during the 23rd Annual World Breastfeeding Week, Aug. 1 to Aug 7.
The Contra Costa Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program hosts daily celebrations at public health centers across the county featuring breastfeeding education, referrals and community resources.
Wednesday, Aug. 5: 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Concord WIC Site*, 2355 Stanwell Circle in Concord, and also at the Brentwood Health Center, 171 Sand Creek Road, Suite A in Brentwood.
Thursday, Aug. 6: 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Richmond WIC Site*, 100 38th Street in Richmond.
Friday, Aug. 7: 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Pittsburg Health Center, 2311 Loveridge Road in Richmond.
* The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano Counties will offer free produce to attendees at these events.
Aug. 1 to Aug. 7: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, 2500 Alhambra Road in Martinez. The "Breast Milk Express" pulls into the main lobby, with resources and referrals to assist breastfeeding and ideas about how to make breastfeeding "work at work."
Breastfeeding is important to community health. Research shows that infants who are breastfed for at least the first six months experience five times fewer illnesses, three times fewer ear infections and are less likely to develop asthma or become obese. Mothers who breastfeed lose postpartum weight faster and have lower risks of ovarian and breast cancer.
World Breastfeeding Week, celebrated in more than 170 countries, is intended to highlight the important health benefits of breastfeeding.
For more information, visit cchealth.org/wic/breastfeeding. For 24-hour help, call the Contra Costa Breastfeeding Support line at 1-866-878-7767.
Karl Fischer, 925-383-8845


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Haven't watched Netflix's 'Bodyguard' yet? It's a binge-worthy political thriller
Streaming / 15 May 2019, 12:54pm / Liam Karabo Joyce
Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes star in Bodyguard on Netflix. Picture: Supplied
This about to sound as cliched as it gets but it will get better. Sit tight. One day while lazing around, I decided to browse what was on offer on Netflix. With my picky and sometimes arb taste in television, the browsing lasted a good 15 minutes. Until I found Bodyguard which looked like a tall glass of water in the African desert. After watching the trailer, I watched three episodes with not a single break to the bathroom. Just like quicksand, Bodyguard swallowed me up.
"Bodyguard" is a British political thriller series that is created and written by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Productions, part of ITV Studios, for the BBC. Bodyguard was made by the creators of successful long-running tv drama, Line of Duty and has some elements of it.
The six-part series features an ensemble cast led by Richard Madden who is best known for his role as Rob Stark on "Game of Thrones," Keeley Hawes, Gina McKee, Sophie Rundle and Vincent Franklin among others. The series began broadcasting on BBC One on 26 August 2018 achieving the highest viewing figures for a new BBC drama in the multichannel era and the highest BBC viewing figures since 2008.
The BBC commissioned the series from the then independent World Productions in 2016. After ITV Studios Global Entertainment bought the company in 2017, they have handled international distribution for the series. Netflix agreed to a distribution deal to broadcast the show outside the United Kingdom.
The series is set around the fictional character of Police Sergeant David Budd, a British Army war veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, who is now working for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch of London's Metropolitan Police Service. He is assigned as the principal protection officer (PPO) for the ambitious Home Secretary Julia Montague (played by Keeley Hawes), whose politics he despises.
In the opening scene, Budd is on a train to London Euston with his son and daughter when he foils a suicide bomber's plot to blow up the train. Due to his actions, both terrorists avoid being shot, enabling them to be arrested. His heroism catches the attention of his boss and he promoted to serve on the detail of Julia Montague, the Home Secretary.
Budd's job, which he loves becomes increasingly difficult as Montague becomes a target of terror attacks following her proposed "Snoopers Bill". Add that to lines being blurred in the form of a sexual relationship between the two and things get very complicated. Let's be honest, as much as it is their job, you'd also probably treat your bodyguard a lot differently if he saved you from a relentless man firing bullets at you.
With drama shows, every episode reveals something new, not with Bodyguard. The show is very fast paced which can sometimes be overwhelming, but in this instance the pace is perfect. And to be fair the episodes are 60 minutes long. The acting by Madden and Hawes is fantastic.
"Bodyguard" is like a puzzle with a thousand pieces and just when you think you are almost done adding it all together, a few more exciting pieces drop on your lap.


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In my early 20's, I went through Rolfing, a form of deep-tissue bodywork, and I nervously anticipated the 5th session, the one that goes deep into the belly. But instead of gobs of repressed emotional pain, what poured out was love - waves and waves of love that I'd pushed down due to embarrassment, fears of closeness, and my struggles with my mother.
It felt fantastic to let love flow freely. Compassion, empathy, kindness, liking, affection, cooperation, and altruism are all in our nature, woven into the fabric of human DNA, the most social - and most loving - species on the planet. Love is a natural upwelling current inside us all. It doesn't need to be pushed or pumped, it needs to be released. If authentic love in any of its forms is bottled up, it hurts. For example, one of the greatest pains is thwarted contribution.
Has any aspect of your own love stopped flowing freely?
Besides feeling good in its own right, opening to love heals psychological wounds, builds resilience, and supports personal growth. In your brain, love calms down the stress response and reduces activation in the neural circuits of physical and emotional pain. It nourishes moral behavior and helps keep you out of needless conflicts with others. And cultivating a loving heart is central to spiritual practice in every tradition.
The Practice.
Begin with the experience of love in any form, such as caring, goodwill, friendliness, support, appreciation, seeing the good in others, compassion, fondness, kindness, or cherishing. Can you soften and open to this experience? In a particular relationship or in general, can you make room in your body and mind for love?
Is it painful to feel love because it stirs up old frustrated longings . . . so that you dial down the love to suppress the longings? If so, this is understandable and common. Try to help yourself by letting the longings flow, too, so that they gradually ease and release. Meanwhile, bring awareness back to the love itself, which will lift and protect you. Amazingly - flowing in or flowing out, love is love; wounds from not receiving love are often soothed and even healed by giving love.
Sometimes people feel overwhelmed when they connect to others with love. Repeatedly sensing into your breathing and body can help you feel stable as "me" while opening to "we." See what it's like to feel both loving and centered in your own strength, respecting and sticking up for your own needs; fences make for good neighbors.
Since the brain gradually tunes out what it's used to, try to see others newly, taking some seconds at least to recognize the being behind the eyes. For example, I'll imagine another person laughing with friends, or feeling hurt, or as a young child.
No one can stop you from loving. I once had a difficult relationship issue and I finally realized that I could simply love this person even if the love needed to be mainly if not entirely internal to me. Not coincidentally, I began feeling better in the relationship and over time, the other person became more comfortable with me.
You can offer your compassion and good wishes even if there is nothing you can do to make a situation better. Your love is still sincere and still matters. What others do with your love is on them, not you. All you can do is make the offering. You can love even as you disengage from sticky entanglements, wishing people well even if you need to step back from them.
Love comes from an inner freedom in which you're not controlled by negative reactions. It also leads to a greater freedom in your mind, relationships, and world. Love is a kind of solvent, gradually dissolving the neurotic knots inside your head. In touch with love, you feel less vulnerable and have more room to breathe, speak, and act with others. And walking through the world - whether down a busy street or out in the woods - as no one's enemy, giving others no cause to fear you, with good wishes and kindness in your heart and face, you feel more like stepping freely into today, and into tomorrow.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. He's been an invited speaker at NASA and Google, and at Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and other major universities, and he's taught in meditation centers worldwide. His forthcoming book (May 2020) is Neurodharma. His books are available in 28 languages and include Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha's Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, NPR, and Radio New Zealand, and he offers the free Just One Thing newsletter with 150,000 subscribers, plus the online Foundations of Well-Being program in positive neuroplasticity that anyone with financial need can do for free.
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Eurofighter Typhoons of the Italian Air Force have replaced the last of the air forces' F-16 jets to leave the Typhoon solely responsible for the defence of Italian airspace. Entering into service in 2004 and now operational with four Typhoon Squadrons across both northern and southern Italy – two at Grosseto air base and two at GioiadelColle – Eurofighter is, from today onwards, the only air defence asset in the Italian Air Force. Replacing the F-16 as a more modern weapon system, the Typhoon aircraft will bring to the air force operational benefits thanks to better effectiveness and capabilities of the new fighter as well as offering logistics benefits due to the standardization of having only one operational line for air defence duties.
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Q: Proving the ''Countable Complement Extension Topology'' defines a topology The ''Countable Complement Extension Topology'' $\tau$ on $\mathbb{R}$   is the topology whose open sets of the form $$\widetilde{U}=U\setminus A,$$ where $U$ is a standard open set and $A$ is some countable set. The terminology borrowed from the very popular book Counterexamples in topology. I could use some help to show that arbitrary unions of open sets is open (which is needed to check that this defines a topology).
My attempt: For me it is easier to look at this problem from the closed sets point of view. Closed sets of $\tau$ are of the form $$V=\widetilde{V}\cup A$$ for some usual closed set $V$ and countable $A$, and I want to check that arbitrary intersections look again a closed union a countable. Let write $\bigcap_{\gamma\in\Gamma} (V_\gamma\cup A_\gamma)$. Now certainly $A_\gamma\cup L_\gamma=\overline{A_\gamma}$, where $L_\gamma$ is the set of limit points of $L_\gamma$, which will by countable. Now  $(V_\gamma\cup \overline{A_\gamma})$ is closed, so $\bigcap_\gamma (V_\gamma\cup \overline{A_\gamma})$ is closed. And moreover there exists some set $\Delta\subset L_1$ such that $$\bigcap_\gamma (V_\gamma\cup A_\gamma)\uplus\Delta=\bigcap_\gamma (V_\gamma\cup \overline{A_\gamma}),$$ and therefore the result follows.
Is this correct? Is there an alternative/easier way to show that the union of open sets is open?
Thanks in advance for your time,
Some background: In the (aforementioned) book $\tau$ is defined as the topology generated by $\tau_1\cup\tau_2$, $\tau_1$ being the usual topology and $\tau_2$ the countable complement topology. From there I can show that sets of the form $U\setminus A\;\;$  ($U$, $A$, as before) are indeed open in $\tau$, and form a base of $\tau$, but I am having difficulty seeing that the most general open looks like that.
EDIT: For completeness, I add here a sketch of the proof that arbitrary unions of elements in $\tau$ look again like $\widetilde{U}$. To do that, consider a counatble base $\{(a_n,b_n)\}_n$ of the standard topology, and use it it to write each of the $\widetilde{U}_\gamma$. Then express $\cup_\gamma \widetilde{U}_\gamma=\cup_\gamma U_\gamma\setminus A_\gamma$ as $\cup_{n\in J} (a_n,b_n)\setminus A_n$, where $J\subset\mathbb{N}$ is the index that tells you whether $(a_n,b_n)$ is contained in some $\widetilde{U}_\gamma$, and $A_n$ is constructed as intersection of the $A_\gamma$ (precisely for those $\gamma$ such that $(a_n,b_n)$ is contained in $U_\gamma$). From here, the result follows easily since $\cup_n A_n$ will be countable.

A: The final remarks are more to the point. Indeed if $\tau_1$ is the usual topology and $\tau_2$ the co-countable one on $\mathbb{R}$, then we define the topology $\tau = \tau_1 \lor \tau_2$ (the sup in the lattice of topologies) as the smallest topology that contains $\mathcal{S} = \tau_1 \cup \tau_2$. And by definition $\mathcal{S}$ is a subbase for $\tau$ and a standard theorem then learns us that the finite intersections from $\mathcal{S}$ are a base for $\tau$.
What do intersections $O_1 \cap \ldots O_n \cap U_i \cap \ldots U_m$ look like, where the $O_i$ are from $\tau_1$ and the $U_i$ from $\tau_2$? As topologies are themselves closed under finite intersections we get all sets of the form $O \cap U$ where $O \in \tau_1, U \in \tau_2$. A non-typical member of $\tau_2$ is $\mathbb{R}$ or $\emptyset$ which results in either $O$ or $\emptyset$ as the intersection.
A more typical set from $\tau_2$ is of the form $U =\mathbb{R}\setminus A$, $A$ countable and then $O \cap U = O \setminus A$. (This includes all members of $\tau_1$ when we take $A = \emptyset$ and all members of $\tau_2$ if we take $O = \mathbb{R}$). So the basis (it is a basis for a topology as it covers $\mathbb{R}$ and is by definition closed under finite intersections) is $$\mathcal{B} = \{O \setminus A: O \text { Euclidean open }, A \text{ at most countable }\}$$
So all open sets are just unions from families from $\mathcal{B}$. All relevant questions about a topology (like continuity ,connectedness ,compactness) can be decided just by knowing the elements from a base. Exercise: find an explicit open set $O$ not from $\mathcal{B}$.

A: Counterexample: Consider the topology on $\mathbb{R}^2$: A set $U$ is open iff $\forall x\in\mathbb{R}, \{y\in\mathbb{R}: (x,y)\in U\}$ is open. In this topology, the open sets are made by "vertical slices of open sets of $\mathbb{R}$".
Now, let $U_x=\{x\}\times\mathbb{R}=\{(x,y)\in\mathbb{R}^2: y\in\mathbb{R}\}$, $A_x=\{(x,1),(x,1/2),(x,1/3),(x,1/4),\cdots\}$, then $$\bigcup_{x\in\mathbb{R}}(U_x\setminus A_x)=\mathbb{R}\times(\mathbb{R}\setminus\{1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ...\})$$
cannot be expressed as $U\setminus A$, where $U$ is an open set, and $A$ is a countable set.
Suppose it can, then since $\mathbb{R}\setminus\{1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ...\}$ is not open, the section of $U$ at any $x$ must be bigger than that, that is, $$\forall x\in\mathbb{R}, \mathbb{R}\setminus\{1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ...\}\subsetneqq\{y\in\mathbb{R}: (x,y)\in U\}$$
so $\forall x\in\mathbb{R},\exists y\in\mathbb{R}, (x,y)\in A$, thus $A$ must be uncountable.


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Are we doing our best for the health of people with trisomy 21?
World Youth Alliance in collaboration with Jerome Lejeune Foundation and two members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Miroslav Mikolasik and Marek Jurek hosted a debate with people with Down Syndrome and renewed European Researchers C. Mircher, L. Meijer, M. Dierssen, Y. Herautl and J. Fortea on the 21st of March 2017 in the European Parliament. MEP Peter Liese and the president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, were also speakers at the conference.
Other MEPs present during the conference were MEP Skripek, MEP Morgano, MEP Plura, MEP Petir, MEP Lybacka, MEP Zuscinova, former MEP Casini, MEP Ujazdowski and MEP Buzek who launched the social media #socksbattle4ds Campaign.
Mr. Mikolasik said that there is "too much selfishness in our world". Many countries want to free their country of children with problems. But "today is a day that needs to be linked to solidarity with children with problems. We have to ask ourselves, "how can we help each other to help to carry this burden together".
"There is nothing about us without us". This slogan was stated by MEP Liese, to demonstrate the idea that "no policy should be decided by any representative without direct participation of members of the group affected by that policy".
The presence of people with Down syndrome during the conference marked the importance to fight marginalization of this group from political, social and economic opportunities.
Doctor and researcher C. Mircher introduced the institute Jerome Lejeune and its objectives: first, the institute takes medically care of people with Down syndrome from birth throughout their whole life. In France, there are around 50.000 people with Down syndrome.
The institute does also clinical research, which is enabled through their biobank. A biobank is "a type of bio repository that stores biological samples for use in research".
Their research is focused on the improvement of cognitive functions of people with Down syndrome, but also reach out to other deceases. "Shoot for the moon even if you miss, you will land among the stars" this quote from Oscar Wilde explains that if you are aiming for something, even if you don't achieve it, you will still be somewhere better than were you started. So research is something which must be done!
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"We have to work for the next budget, to establish the right to freedom". Those were promising words from the president of the EP to give more money to improve the quality of life of people with Down Syndrome.
Professor and researcher Mara Dierssen explained the case of Dyrk1a, which has an important role in how the neurons work.
DYRK1A activity reduces plasticity and leads to learning and memory deficits.
She said that "early cognitive intervention is the only routine therapeutic approach used for amelioration of intellectual deficits in individuals with Down's syndrome, but its affects are limited. We hypothesized that administration of a green tea extract containing epigallocatechin 3-gallate (EGCG) would improve the effects of non-pharmacological cognitive rehabilitation in young adults with Down's Syndrome."
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She concluded that "down syndrome can be treated with targeted therapies designed to interact with a special molecular target associated with cognitive impairment. Targeted Dyrk1A therapies can improve cognitive function increasing functional connectivity and cortical excitability in the brain."
Her message is to enable people with DS to speak up, be heard and influence government policy and action, to be fully included in the community. She also proposed to establish an EU alliance for Down Syndrome research, because research on intellectual disability therapies is a benefit for all: "Better treatments for other cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer; Improvement in patient's integration in education and workforce: Reduced need of care; Reduces disease treatment cost."
Doctor Y. Herautl demonstrated that data showed that during the last 60 years, people with down syndrome's life expectancy increased from 12 to 6o years! He also drew a link between Alzheimer and Down syndrome: "Alzheimer's disease in the main medical problem and cause of death in adults with down syndrome."
He said that "research in Down Syndrome is essential to enhance their quality of life it a unique research opportunity: Help them, help us!". According to him, Europe is in the best position to lead the research in this area because Europe has the numbers, the health system and the scientists with the will to do it.
"Not perform research in people with Down Syndrome is a new form of discrimination!"
During the last part of the conference, three young ladies with down syndrome took their place at the panel desk among the speakers, where they could ask the speakers several questions, and provoked the MEPs to establish a budget to fund research in the areas of down syndrome to increase quality of life of people with down syndrome.
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Foam-you can get foam sheets in A 4 or large chart paper size sheets and in different thickness.I found that cala lilies are best made with the thinner type of foam sheet.
To cut the Foam :use scissors, dies or foam punches .
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I am again so grateful to my readers and blogger friends for the loving and supportive comments you write.I hope you enjoyed this handmade foam flower tutorial.
I have made flowers from some crazy materials .Here are links to some "non paper" flower tutorials.
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