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An insight into the craftsman's techniques
Katia Viegas Wesolowska
Metals Conservator
Figure 1. Monstrance (303-1874) before treatment. Photography by Katia Viegas Wesolowska (click image for larger version)
This article describes the conservation of a seventeenth century Dutch monstrance (Museum no. 303-1874), and the manufacturing techniques used to produce it. Recognition of the techniques and the materials from which an object is made allows for the selection of appropriate conservation treatments and a better appreciation of the craftsman's work for both the conservator and the museum visitor.
The term 'monstrance', from the Latin monstrancia (monstrare= to show), was originally used for any container made by gold or silversmiths to display either the Sacred Host or the relics of a saint. Today, the term is used specifically to refer to vessels displaying the Blessed Sacrament. They are used only in the Catholic Church, mainly for the ceremony of Corpus Christi.
The monstrance (Figure 1) was made in Haarlem, capital of the Province of North Holland, in the late seventeenth century. It is made of silver which has been partially gilded (parcel gilt), decorated with white enamel, garnets, turquoises, rock crystal and pearl simulants. The imagery on the foot includes the symbols for the Evangelists and representations of three Apostles, Peter, James and John, looking up at the container for the host (representing the Transfiguration). Above and below the host are scenes which symbolise the Eucharist, Passover and the Fall of Manna from Heaven.
Figure 2. Dismantled object. Photography by Katia Viegas Wesolowska (click image for larger version)
Previous unrecorded treatments may date back to the mid 1950s. Since then the surface has become heavily tarnished. The tarnish was concentrated in areas where the gilding had blistered, exposing the silver beneath. There were areas of distortion that were considered disfiguring to the object; and an old adhesive which secured two stone settings to the crown had broken down. After careful examination, it was decided to dismantle the object for treatment (Figure 2). By doing so the object could be seen from the inside which would aid in the identification of the maker and the methods and date of construction.
Once dismantled each part was recorded using digital photography. The monstrance is made of silver, a metal that can be formed by cold-working and/or casting. In this case, there is evidence of both. Lost wax casting was used for the figures, scrolls and columns, and the central images of the Ascension and the Fall of Manna were cold-worked from a sheet of silver. They are examples of repoussé work which has been chased (engraved). Repoussé refers to a method of tracing the design on the front and raising the relief from the back. Chasing work is done on the front of the metal piece. The tool marks from punches and tracers are visible on the inside. Chased, repoussé and cast pieces were joined with solder and also by mechanical means using screws and pressure fitting.
Figure 3. Set of hallmarks revealed after dismantling. Photography by Katia Viegas Wesolowska (click image for larger version)
Once complete the silver pieces were mercury gilded. In this process it is possible to gild on selected areas of the metal. Pieces were gilded only where the metal can be seen to reduce the amount of gold required. The method of mercury gilding involves applying an amalgam of gold and mercury onto a degreased surface, usually silver or copper. The surface is then heated until the mercury evaporates, leaving behind the gold layer bonded onto the surface. This technique allows various layers of gold to be applied, and creates a tight bond with the substrate metal. To further confirm that this process was used on the monstrance, one of the pieces was analysed using x-ray fluorescence. The results showed a residual amount of mercury on the surface.
The same set of four hallmarks was found on various parts of the monstrance, proving these to be all of the same provenance and maker (Figure 3). The first mark, a crowned lion, is of the Provincialen gekroonden Leeuw, which guaranteed a higher content of precious metal (875/1000) in Holland. 1 The second mark, the town mark, is of the town of Haarlem (as noted in existing Museum records). The date letter was found to be of a later date than the one in the Museum's records. It is from 1674. The maker's mark had not been previously identified because the only visible mark was indistinct. A clearer stamp was found when the monstrance was dismantled. It was identified as the stamp of Jan Van der Pille from Haarlem, Holland. He was a goldsmith working mainly on church metalwork during the mid seventeenth century. The museum records have been modified according to the findings.
Figure 4. Detail of damaged pearl simulants. Photography by Katia Viegas Wesolowska (click image for larger version
Treatment proposals were discussed with a metalwork curator. The treatment began with the removal of the old lacquer using acetone. The heavy tarnish was removed using Goddard's Long Term Silver Foam. Where this was not effective, Duraglit 'Silvo' Silver Polish Wadding was used. The surface was degreased with acetone and a coating of Frigilene nitrocellulose lacquer was applied with a brush to protect the surface from further tarnishing. The crown was decorated with gem stones and pearl simulants. Some gems were held in position with adhesive which had broken down and the gems had become loose in their settings. Once dismantled the adhesive was removed mechanically. Originally the gem settings would have been bolted into the crown and secured with a nut. The original pin was worn, so it was re-threaded and a nut made to secure the setting. The new pieces were carefully identified with a V&A logo micro stamp for future record. Further treatment options were discussed with a curator and it was decided to re-shape the distorted cross. The monstrance was then carefully re-assembled using the digital photographs as a guide.
Figure 5. Monstrance after treatment (click image for larger version)
The bright lustrous pearls were in a fragile state. They were examined under the microscope for identification. It appeared that the pearls were made of thin glass filled with a waxy substance (Figure 4). The pearls were identified as pearl simulants in the form of small glass beads coated internally with a material called 'essence d'orient' and then filled with wax for internal support. This particular technique originated in France. Essence d'orient is a material made from ground iridescent fish scales (from the bleak fish) mixed with a lacquer. The time scale of this project did not allow for the possibility to treat the pearls, but a sample pearl was stored for future research.
Figure 5 shows the reassembled monstrance after treatment was completed. The information revealed by this treatment allowed records to be updated and provided a valuable insight into the craftsman's techniques
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Besides , you  use service connection->nuget->External Azure Server to share Nuget Package.

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Никола́й Па́влович Па́влов-Сильва́нский (13 февраля 1869, Кронштадт — 30 сентября 1908, Санкт-Петербург) — русский  и архивист, государственный и политический деятель.

Автор работ по истории России времён Петра I, общественных движений XVIII—XIX веков, крестьянства, а также историографии, автор концепции развития «русского феодализма».

Биография

Ранние годы
Родился  года в Кронштадте в семье военного врача Павла Николаевича Павлова-Сильванского (1833—1897). Учился в Омской гимназии; в 1884 году был переведён в гимназию при Петербургском историко-филологическом институте, после окончания которой в 1888 году с серебряной медалью поступил на историко-филологический факультет Санкт-Петербургского университета и окончил его в 1892 году с дипломом 1-й степени. По завершении университета остался на кафедре русской истории с целью подготовки к получению профессорского звания. Одновременно с этим был принят на службу в архив Министерства иностранных дел.

Архивная и преподавательская работа
В 1895 году провалил экзамен по всеобщей истории и не прошёл магистерские испытания, что не позволило ему начать практику профессорско-преподавательской деятельности в государственных университетах. С 1899 года работал в Государственном архиве Министерства иностранных дел. Находясь в чине делопроизводителя 4-го класса фактически замещал директора архива. В 1906—1908 в нескольких учебных заведениях Санкт-Петербурга, в частности, в высшей вольной школе П. Ф. Лесгафта, читал курсы русской истории и истории русского права. В 1907 году получил должность профессора истории русского права Высших женских курсов.

Политическая деятельность
В 1890-е годы увлекался социологическими идеями легального марксизма. Позже состоял в партии кадетов. В ходе революции 1905—1907 годов проявил демократические симпатии.

Научная деятельность
На формирование научных взглядов Павлова-Сильванского оказали влияние подходы русских историков С. М. Соловьёва, В. О. Ключевского и С. Ф. Платонова. Одновременно с этим, большую роль в формировании учёного сыграли идеи крупного представителя «юридической школы», историка русского права В. И. Сергеевича.

Среди основных научных заслуг Павлова-Сильванского отмечается попытка доказательства существования в России в XII—XVI веков феодального общества, идентичного феодальному строю Западной Европы, произведённое методом сравнительно-исторического анализа в работах «Феодализм в Древней Руси» (1907); «Феодализм в удельной Руси» (издана в 1910 году). При этом русский феодализм сводился им к сумме социальных и политико-юридических отношений. Часть (М. М. Ковалевский, С. Ф. Платонов, Н. И. Кареев, А. Е. Пресняков, М. Н. Покровский и др.) современных ему историков в целом поддержала эту концепцию, в то время как другая (М. Ф. Владимирский-Буданов, Ф. И. Леонтович, В. И. Сергеевич и др.) выступила в жёсткой критикой.

Признаются также заслуги в изучении реформаторской деятельности Петра I.

Павлов-Сильванский также одним из первых русских учёных внёс вклад в изучение крестьянских движений и общественной мысли России XVIII—XIX веков (взгляды А. Н. Радищева, П. И. Пестеля и других).

Умер от холеры в Санкт-Петербурге  года. Похоронен на Преображенском кладбище; в 1912 году перезахоронен на Смоленском православном кладбище рядом с родителями.

Публикации
 Сочинения: Т. 1—3 / Н. П. Павлов-Сильванский. — : тип. М. М. Стасюлевича, 1909—1910.
 Сочинения: в 3 т. — Репринтное издание 1909—1910 гг. — : Альфрет, 2016. — (История России).
 Проекты реформ в записках современников Петра Великого: Опыт изучения русских проектов и неизданные их тексты. — Санкт-Петербург: тип. В. Киршбаума, 1897. — [4], IV, [2], 141, [3], 86 с.
 Павлов-Сильванский Н. П. Опыт изучения русских проектов и неизданных их текстов. — 1897.
 Закладничество-патронат // Известия императорского археологического общества. — Т. IX.
 Закладничество-патронат / [Соч.] Н. Павлова-Сильванского. — : тип. И. Н. Скороходова, 1897. — 52 с.
 Феодальные отношения в Удельной Руси / Н. П. Павлов-Сильванский. — : Тип. «В. С. Балашев и К°», 1901. — 82 с.
 Государевы служилые люди: Происхождение русского дворянства / [соч.] Н. Павлова-Сильванского. — : Гос. тип., 1898. — V, [3], 330 с.
 Государевы служилые люди. Происхождение русского дворянства. — Ленанд, 2015.
 Декабрист Пестель пред Верховным уголовным судом / Н. Павлов-Сильванский. — Ростов-на-Дону: А. Сурат, [1907]. — VIII, 174 с. — (Русская историческая библиотека; № 15).
 Феодализм в древней Руси / Н. П. Сильванский. — : Брокгауз-Ефрон, 1907. — [4], 149 с. — (История Европы по эпохам и странам в средние века и новое время / Изд. ред. Н. И. Кареева и И. В. Лучицкого) .
 Акты о посадских людях-закладчиках. — : Тип. М. А. Александрова, 1909. — XXI, [1], 276 с.

Примечания

Литература
 Валк С. Н. Вступительная лекция Н. П. Павлова-Сильванского // Вопросы историографии и источниковедения истории СССР. — -, 1963. — С. 618—626.

 Горский А. А. О «феодализме»: «русском» и не только // Средние века. — Вып. 69 (4). — , 2008. — С. 9—26.
 Глава 4. «Феодализм»: «классическая» модель и действительность // Горский А. А.. — : Олимп, Астрель, 2010. — 224 с. ISBN 978-5-271-23786-7, ISBN 978-5-7390-2373-5.
 Невелев Г. А. Н. П. Павлов-Сильванский — историк декабристов // Освободительное движение в России Вып. 1. — 1971.
 Муравьёв В. А. Две лекции Н. П. Павлова-Сильванского («История и современность», «Революция и русская историография») // История и историки: историографический ежегодник. 1972 / отв. ред. М. В. Нечкина. — , 1973.
 Свердлов М. Б. Общественный строй Древней Руси в русской исторической науке XVIII—XX вв. — , 1996.
 Чирков С. В. Н. П. Павлов-Сильванский и его книги о феодализме // Павлов-Сильванский Н. П. Феодализм в России. — , 1988 (Памятники исторической мысли).

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Выпускники филологической гимназии
Выпускники историко-филологического факультета Императорского Санкт-Петербургского университета
Архивисты Российской империи
Кадеты
Авторы Энциклопедического словаря Брокгауза и Ефрона
Авторы Русского биографического словаря
Декабристоведы
Умершие от холеры
Похороненные на Смоленском православном кладбище
Похороненные на кладбище Памяти жертв 9-го января
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package com.wordpress.tipsforjava.swing;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

/**
 *  Convenience class to align the text of JMenuItems within a specified
 *  JPopupMenu to be either CENTER or TRAILING aligned. The default for
 *  trailing would be right aligned  unless the component orientation is
 *  changed.
 *
 *  The class can be used in one of two ways. For a static popup menu you
 *  can just invoke the statick alignText() method once the menu has been
 *  created. For dynamic popup menus you can use this class as a
 *  ContainerListener on the popup menu so as menu items are added or
 *  removed the remaining items are adjusted accordingly.
 *
 *  @author Rob Camick
 *  @author Darryl Burke
 */
public class PopupMenuAlignment implements ContainerListener
{
	public static int CENTER = SwingConstants.CENTER;
	public static int TRAILING  = SwingConstants.TRAILING;

	private int alignment;

	/**
	 *  Use this class as a listener to handle dynamic changes to the
	 *  popup menu.
	 *
	 *  @param alignment  alignment of each menu item. Either
	 *                    CENTER or TRAILING
	 */
	public PopupMenuAlignment(int alignment)
	{
		this.alignment = alignment;
	}
//
//  Implement the ContainerListener
//
//  The menu items in the popup menu are dynamically aligned
//
	public void componentAdded(ContainerEvent e)
	{
		JPopupMenu popup = (JPopupMenu)e.getContainer();
		alignText(popup, alignment);
	}

	public void componentRemoved(ContainerEvent e)
	{
		JPopupMenu popup = (JPopupMenu)e.getContainer();
		alignText(popup, alignment);
	}

	/**
	 *  Align the menu items contained with the popup menu.
	 *
	 *  @param popup      the popup menu
	 *  @param alignment  alignment of each menu item. Either
	 *                    CENTER or TRAILING
	 */
	public static void alignText(JPopupMenu popup, int alignment)
	{
		int maxWidth = 0;

		//  Find the largest text string

		for (int i = 0; i < popup.getComponentCount(); i++)
		{
			Component c = popup.getComponent(i);

			if (c instanceof JMenuItem)
			{
				JMenuItem menuItem = (JMenuItem)c;
				FontMetrics fm = menuItem.getFontMetrics(menuItem.getFont());
				maxWidth = Math.max(maxWidth, fm.stringWidth(menuItem.getText().trim()));
			}
		}

		//  Align each menu item

		for (int i = 0; i < popup.getComponentCount(); i++)
		{
			Component c = popup.getComponent(i);

			if (! (c instanceof JMenuItem)) continue;

			JMenuItem menuItem = (JMenuItem)c;
			String actionCommand = menuItem.getActionCommand();
			String text = menuItem.getText().trim();
			ComponentOrientation orientation = menuItem.getComponentOrientation();

			StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();

			//  Padding will be added to the right, so add text now

			if (! orientation.isLeftToRight())
			{
				sb.append( text );
			}

			//  Calculate the number of padding spaces to add

			FontMetrics fm = menuItem.getFontMetrics(menuItem.getFont());
			int spaceWidth = fm.stringWidth(" ") * (alignment == CENTER ? 2 : 1);
			int spaces = (maxWidth - fm.stringWidth(text)) / spaceWidth;

			for (int j = 0; j < spaces; j++)
			{
				sb.append(" ");
			}

			//  Padding has been added to the left, so add text now

			if (orientation.isLeftToRight())
			{
				sb.append( text );
			}

			menuItem.setText(sb.toString());
			menuItem.setActionCommand(actionCommand);
		}
	}
}


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Q: Force exact match for `gem list` gem list rails used to match everything that began with "rails" (and the documentation still claims it works that way) but at some point it started matching everything that includes rails anywhere in the name.  This can get ridiculous, as there are (at the moment I write this, but I'm sure it goes up practically by the hour) 2,764 items that match "rails":
gem list rails --remote | wc -l
2764

Can Rubygems be made to only return exact matches by default?  I don't see any commandline switches that force an exact match.  Perhaps a setting in ~/.gemrc?
Obviously I can do this by piping the output to other utilities, but that's kind of a pain to do every time you just want to (e.g.) check the latest version of a gem, and it's a lot slower, and forces you to stop and think about a detail that (IMO) is a distraction from whatever problem you're working on.
gem list rails --remote | grep '^rails '

Is there a good way to make this the default?

A: You are basically entering a regex on the command line, so
gem list -r ^rails$

does an exact search without piping. I'm using rubygems 2.0.6 and 2.4.5 and it worked on both versions.
I couldn't find anything to put in .gemrc, though. You could easily set up a wrapper shell script for your most common case.

A: If you want to search for gems starting with "rails" you can use a search string starting with '^':
gem list ^rails+ --remote

I've tried list with version 1.8.24 of rubygems, where the behaviour is as described in the documentation, but for rubygems 2.2.1 you'll have to use this one.

A: It seems they added an option in version 2.7.3 or thereabouts. I don't have it in 2.5.1.
http://guides.rubygems.org/command-reference/#gem-list
-e, --exact - Name of gem(s) to query on matches the provided STRING

If you are on Windows, you have to use quotes for the REGEX or else it won't work.
gem list "^pg$" --remote --all


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Vallverdu: "I can help Berdych to achieve what he's never accomplished"
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TENNIS – Vallverdu was Andy Murray's coach for five years, now he works with Tomas Berdych and the two are set to meet in the Australian Open semifinal on Thursday. Spanish tennis writer Rafa Plaza caught up with Vallverdu in Melbourne ahead of this clash, and got all the lowdown from the Venezuelan coach regarding both players. By Bruno Bergareche Sans
AO2015: Interviews, Results, Order of Play, Draws
Read the original interview in Spanish here
Tomas Berdych and Andy Murray are poised to lock horns in the semi-finals of the Australian Open. If there's one man who knows the keys to this match up it's Dani Vallverdu. The28 year old Venezuelan is now working with the Czech player after a spell of over five years in the Scot's corner. Spanish tennis writer Rafa Plaza caught up with Vallverdu in Melbourne ahead of this clash, and got all the lowdown from the Venezuelan coach regarding both players.
Question. Why did you end your working relationship with Andy Murray?
Answer. It was a joint decision. The World Tour Finals finished in London and two days later we sat down in his home. We talked calmly about the issue and reached the conclusion that it was the best thing for both of us. We've always tried to find solutions together. That was the nice thing about when we sat down together. We were trying to find solutions so that he could rediscover his motivation and win Grand Slams again. I've got a 15 year long friendship with Andy, since we were in Barcelona together. We worked together for over five year. In any professional relationship there comes a stage where you feel things are working or not. When we sat down, we discovered that perhaps they weren't working as well as in the past. That doesn't mean that we stopped being 100% committed to the relationship. We wanted everything to go well. It was a critical moment in Murray's career because they're the last three or four seasons of his career. As his friend I want him to reach as high as possible. And with the dynamic we were in it was going to be difficult to find that spark that was no longer alive. We've gone through a lot of good moments. Also through bad ones, which wear you out a bit. It was simply the right moment to leave it. In my case, to think about what I wanted to do and where I wanted to take my professional career. And for Andy, to look for other options that would ignite that spark once again.
Q. What does it mean to you to be in Berdych's corner?
A. A personal challenge and a professional opportunity. I've got the chance to help Tomas achieve things he still hasn't accomplished. And to keep him at the standard he's been at in the last five years, which is also very difficult. He's had a fantastic career, but there's that sensation that he can achieve more. That's the interesting thing about the position I'm in now: I can help him to achieve what he's never accomplished. And it is possible. He's got the level of play, the attitude and the determination to do so. There are a lot of players who have the quality or the capacity, but not the attitude.
Q. Are you ready?
A. I've acquired sufficient experience in the last five years after everything I've gone through with Murray, there have been a lot of important moments. Besides, my relationship with Tomas in these weeks has been excellent. We've spent few weeks together but our relationship has been good, fluid. I'm excited about what's ahead. I'm ready to do it.
Q. Do they have similar personalities?
A. They're quite similar. Introverted and respectful. On court, Tomas is a bit more reserved than Andy, but that's normal. At that level, personalities are very similar, especially from a tennis point of view. The determination and hunger to in is very similar in both of them.
Q. In the quarter finals he defeated Nadal, who had got the better of Berdych in their previous 17 encounters. How did you help him?
A. After losing to Nadal 17 consecutive time, he learned a lot of things. When you sit down to look at the videos of their matches you discover a lot of things: you can see how he was winning the points and how he was losing them. We both sat down and saw some things that were quite clear and that he didn't see before. Nadal wasn't in his best form on Tuesday, but Berdych played an impeccable match. He didn't let him into the game, despite the fact that he improved a lot in the third set. The difference in level was evident there. Things can change. Nadal wasn't at his level in the first two sets, but at the same time Tomas was playing exactly as I wanted him to play. Berdych would have probably won the match if Nadal was in good form also. It's down to the small details. Things you don't see. And when someone shows you them you can see that what was happening is very clear. It wouldn't make any sense if I told you what it is, but at this standard, details are very small. These players have been on tour for 10 or 15 years and see tennis in a clear way. They know each other very well and know the tactics for every player.
Q. At 4-4 in the third set, the Spaniard had two break points to get back in the match. Berdych didn't crumble, which would have been the case on other occasions.
A. It could be that I have helped him or that he has learnt himself from what has happened in previous matches. Maybe, it's a combination of both. The truth is that we spoke about that. He's quite an open person, who listens and also asks questions. I'm not going to lie, we spoke about that mentality. He sent a message to the locker room: "I went through tough moments against Nadal in the third set and knew how to react quite well". That's what impressed me most about yesterday's game. He knew how to deal with those difficulties. When you're winning a match easily, it can turn into a difficult encounter. It's complicated to adapt to the game and realise what is happening mentally. And Tomas did that perfectly. I'm very satisfied, especially with regards to the future. It's a sign.
Q. Tomorrow, Murray awaits. "I'm not playing Dani, I'm playing Berdych", said the Scot in the build up to the clash.
A. I expected it. I'll tell you an anecdote. In December I was travelling to Europe and I said to a friend that they would face each other in the semi finals of the Australian Open. Both head into the game in fantastic form, both physically and mentally. I'm happy for Andy and Tomas. Logically, tomorrow I'm going to focus on helping Berdych to win. At the end of the day my job with him is to do what we did today: prepare the match, but when they play it's down to them.
Q. He mentions in his biography that you're the only person that knows what he's thinking at all times. Does that give you the edge ahead of the semis?
A. A small advantage. At that level, players know each other extremely well. Tomas and Andy have faced each other 10 times. I will tell Berdych a couple of things about Murray's mentality, how he takes on matches and what he will be thinking. But one of Andy's best qualities, especially in matches against top opponents, is that he plays with a plan and sees if it works or not. From there, he has the capacity to change and execute other options. Not a lot of players can do that. I'm going to tell him how I think he should play, but he might possibly change half way through the match. That's why it will depend on Tomas to find out what his opponent id doing in the match. It depends on them because I will be watching from the stands. My work ends today.
Q. The locker room agrees that Murray is playing more aggressively than in 2014…
A. Andy is playing like he did when he won both his Grand Slams and the gold medal at the Olympics. He's competing with quite a balanced mould of tennis, playing quite aggressively, which has worked quite well. That's how he has to play. He's played a great tournament until the semis. His level is at the adequate standard.
Q. Is Berdych ready to win a Grand Slam? Is the time now?
A. He's always been ready to win a Grand Slam. He's proven that by showing his quality consistently. The matches he's lost have been against the best players of all time. At this stage of his career, Berdych understands how to prepare for the most important games, especially from a mental point of view, he knows what is really valuable in these encounters. In the first years of your career you think about things that aren't as important. And Tomas now knows what to focus on to be able to win these top level duels.
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Everything being equal, the job started out normal enough until three quarters of the way through
'the process' their tech-guys came in and said "hey, you do know that there's a maximum capacity for programs". W-H-A-T ! Ours had mushroomed into twice that capacity. Jeez, I was 3/4's ready to hand back their deposit check. It was one of those Do or Die moments. As it turns out, their particular system came complete with a computer that assigns out functions. It all came down to how it was laid out to both the client and the techs. Although we could actually have downloaded additional files to this system, it's gonna take a major learning curve every time they wanted to change programs. So, I offered Amazon to the rescue with a module that'll be up & running with no limits...and program changes are done via a plug-in USB thumbnail stick. We start off with New York & California as initial starts points. With hopes that it'll catch on to their other satellite branches.
Betcha didn't think 'Fantasy Sports Leagues' came about from a frustrated game developer who wanted to be a part of the Major Leagues no matter how insignificant. Harold Richman had no idea he was creating the Monopoly of Baseball in 1961 when he launched his board game: Strat-O-Matic.
When we spoke with Hal there was an immediate bond... due largely to the world of comics. In particular Marvel Comics. Yep, that Marvel as in - ABE FCU. The very same who's creator we mourn with the passing of the comic book legend Stan Lee last week. Hal went on to say that without advertising in the pages of comic books, Strat-O-Matic would never have gotten off the ground level. He particularly enjoyed Stan's Soapbox, where Stan would sound off about bigotry, bullying, anti this & that and that acceptance and tolerance were king. Excelsior!
In February 2011, Strat-O-Matic celebrated its 50th anniversary with an opening day event at the Community Church of New York. This was a change from the normal opening day festivities of fans lining up outside the company's headquarters in Glen Head to pick up their new baseball products. At this event, over 500 people attended and heard from panelists including Doug Glanville, Rick Peterson and STATS, Inc. founder John Dewan.
In a Strat-O-Matic game, each athlete is represented by a player card, on which are printed various ratings and result tables for dice rolls. A player, who may play solitaire or against another player, is in charge of making strategic and personnel decisions for his/her team, while determining the results of his/her decisions by cross-referencing dice rolls with a system of printed charts and tables. (The basic scheme may be understood in connection with the adjoining images, representing the baseball game. One die selects which column is used on either the batter or the pitcher card, while the other two dice specify the outcome within the column.)
Over decades, Strat-O-Matic has segued into other sports as well - Football, basketball and hockey came into play in their own rights to form new Strat-O-Matic fans.
BTW, we've been honored to have Stan's signature and dated ('91) comment framed and hanging in our foyer. Not that there's anything wrong with that - Excelsior!
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What to cook right now: Holiday appetizers, chocolate-mint Christmas cookies, garlic bread "fries," broccoli 5 ways.
The Big Dish: Chile-and-cumin-rubbed salmon is a delicious holiday dinner; leftovers can become fast pastas and spiced salmon sandwiches.
Genius Idea: The spice rub for this salmon becomes a spice paste when you add olive oil. It's also a flavor shortcut—no need to season leftovers.
In this clever take on a classic lobster roll, roast salmon replaces lobster and yogurt stands in for mayonnaise. Topping the rolls with potato chips adds crunch and fun.
Genius Idea: The light, creamy poppy seed dressing is the surprise here—it's not what you'd expect on a juicy citrus salad.
7-Minute Snack: Skip labor-intensive potato frying and just add potato chips for crunch.
This silky, dark caramel sauce would be delicious on ice cream, pound cake and fresh strawberries.


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A 2015-ös Betfred snooker-világbajnokságot 2015. április 18. és május 4. között rendezték, hagyományosan a Sheffieldben található Crucible Színházban. Ez volt a 78. világbajnokság.

Díjazás
A összdíjazást a tavalyi verseny után idén tovább emelték. A világbajnokságon az egyes szakaszokig eljutó játékosok az alábbi díjazásban részesülnek:

Főtábla

Naptár

Ágrajz

Selejtezők
Az első három kvalifikációs kört 2015. április 8. és 15. között bonyolították le.

Jegyzetek

Források
2015-ös snooker-világbajnokság; snooker.org

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Leeds United at Brighton: Preview, viewing info, lineups, fixture controversy, a damp squib?
Brighton is hoping for fireworks to light up the Monday night Sky as Leeds opt to keep powder dry until the summer.
By Linnerz Feb 29, 2016, 8:17am GMT
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It felt like a case of "after the Lords Mayors parade" at home on Monday night when the Whites hosted Fulham. Leeds season being almost over after the FA Cup exit last Saturday, it unexpectedly came back to life in the shape of a rare goal for Leeds United via Lewis Cook. A 35 yard thunderbolt acting as a defibrillator gave fans hope if not for this season then next.
Brighton meanwhile will be hoping for fireworks of their own as they continue their promotion push in front of a TV audience. The Seagulls currently soaring high are only 4 points off automatic promotion. It will be Leeds United Head Coach Steve Evans's job to mastermind the snuffing out of any bright sparks present in the Brighton attack. With Brighton hammering 4 passed Bristol in their last fixture, Leeds' back line may have some fire-fighting to do.
United have seen more blank sheets than thunderbolts this season, as Matt Robinson described in his article on Saturday, and whilst Evans says his team are heading south with victory in mind, he also asks fans to keep their powder dry until the summer when he expects to build a top 6 team.
Houghton has promotion credentials, gained with Newcastle, but has yet to prove himself as a Premier League Manager. With a point to prove, a draw will not be enough: he will demand an explosive performance akin to a pyrotechnic display to light up the Sky at night.
Sky changes
It's well documented this game has been rescheduled for the sake of TV. Both Sky TV and Massimo Cellino are blaming the other for the late change that may dissuade fans from attending. Some of the 2,300 tickets allocated to traveling Leeds fans were still unsold on Saturday. We would normally sell out this allocation, and the figure is well down on last season's overall average away attendance of 2775. I blame the day of the fixture and not our form or the fact its on TV at all. It's the fact it is a Monday evening and there's an obvious difficulty in getting to the South Coast on a Monday night.
Brighton moved to into their new home just shy of 5 years ago in May 2011. The Falmer (Amex) Stadium has a capacity of 30750 and despite their league position, tickets were still available. This could change as kick off approaches and the home fans get behind their promotion push.
Leeds fans had already bought transport and accommodation for the original fixture. Ten fans from the Scarborough Supporters branch forked out £1,300 in transport and accommodation for the original Brighton date only to find the game moved. Not an isolated incident, 100 Leeds fans from Norway did similar for the Forest game before that was changed by Sky. My view is "yes televise the event, but don't change the date of the event." The Norwegian fans were grossly out of pocket and a crowd funding appeal has been launched to help them cushion the financial loss. Have Sky contributed? Doubtful.
The Football League should push Sky TV to avoid messing with fixture dates and offer fans direct compensation for expenses lost due to date changes and perhaps offer subsidized transport to make it easier to attend on days such as Monday. Or don't Fair Play rules apply to Sky? I wonder what would happen should fans change the date they are to pay for their Sky TV subscriptions at the last minute?
Brighton and Hove Albion started 2016 badly, losing at home to Wolves and away to Rotherham, but have since recovered, losing only once in their last 5 games: a defeat away at Cardiff, 4-1. Their remaining 4 games include 1 draw and 3 wins. They have scored 11 whilst conceding 6.
Leeds United accidentally lost away to Watford in the FA Cup, but their last 5 league appearances reads 3 draws, 1 loss and 1 win. They have scored 3 and conceded 3... in five games. There's an eye-popping statistic for you.
Leeds have faced the Seagulls 21 times at Brighton. Drawing 5, Brighton have won 9 of the clashes and Leeds 7.
Leeds United players to watch
Alex Mowatt made a rare start since injury lay off v Fulham and may be edging back to the form he showed last season. Mowatt held the wonder goal reputation until his former academy teammate Lewis Cook's stole the limelight v Fulham last Monday. Mowatt will be eager to reclaim the hotshot reputation. He's due a goal and may just provide Monday evening.
Stuart Dallas has been an ever present for Leeds and Northern Ireland this season but his form had dipped recently, culminating in Evans resting him. However, he influenced from the bench on Monday and Evans claims the rest helped him come back to his best. Dallas is also overdue a goal but he's been Leeds's best provider so far this season with 4 assists.
Brighton players to watch
The Seagulls top scorer, Tomer Hemed is an Israeli international who has featured in La Liga for Mallorca and Almeria. He scored 28 goals in La Liga and has 12 international goals.
Once coveted by Leeds, Anthony Knockaert was a January signing and has impressed the home fans. Signed from Standard Liege for a rumoured 2.5m, the attacking midfielder has scored once in his first 5 appearances.
Brighton and Hove Albion v. Leeds United
Football League Championship
Falmer Stadium, Brighton
SKY TV, BeIN Sports
11:45am PT / 2:45pm ET / 7:45pm BT
Silvestri, Wootton, Cooper, Bamba, Taylor, Coyle, Bridcutt, Diagouraga, Cook, Mowatt, Doukara
Subs: Peacock-Farrell, Berardi, Adeyemi, Murphy, Carayol, Erwin, Antenucci
Stockdale, Bruno, Dunk, Goldson, Rosenior, Knockaert, Stephens, Murphy, Kayal, Baldock, Hemed
Subs: Mäenpää, Greer, Calderon, Wilson, Zamora, Sidwell, Skalak
Draw 12/5
Brighton 5/6
I can be excused for going for a draw again. One thing Evans seems to have got right is the defence and barring errors we don't concede many. In their attempts to get goals, Brighton's defence has been on the leaky side. I'm going for 1 -1 (again).
Evans is confident he will be backed in the transfer market in the summer. That's when he predicts doubters will eat humble pie. But will he be here next season? Vote in our poll below. And don't forget, you can sign up for SB Nation and leave a comment below, as well as follow us live throughout the game on Twitter at @ThruItAllLIVE. Thanks for reading.


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Sonic Youth – Dirty (1992) & 100th Post!
Posted on March 12, 2012 by mrprozakc
I find it hard to believe I've reached 100 posts. I don't think I've ever held on to an enterprise for so long and up to such a satisfying, round, psychologically wholesome number. I've thought a lot about how I could possibly celebrate this date, and I couldn't really come up with anything flashy or really festive. My favorite thing to do, at all times, is to just listen to and play music, and write about it. It's a limited skill set, I know, but it's managed to keep me happy through this seemingly endless winter over here, and through all the seemingly endless winters I've been lucky enough to have to go through. So I guess that's what I'll do, today, as I try on most days – listen to this great album, and try to put a bit of the experience into words.
Sonic Youth feels like one of those bands which demands a serious baggage of information in order to be approachable by a would-be critic. The same vibe applies to the uninitiated listener as well, although, in my opinion, I think it's a myth that works mostly against the band's musical way of expression. For some reason, I get the feeling Sonic Youth is considered one of those proto-hipster bands which only true razor-thin musical tastes can hold any claim of understanding as a whole. Luckily, I'm not going to attempt a history of the band, since it's been around a very long time now, experimenting and playing with a myriad of styles and genre bending their way across the decades. I'll just try to write about Dirty, their 1992 album, the first of their discography I ever listened to, and the one which I still enjoy the most.
Sonic Youth are known as sort-of tonal mad scientists, a rock band on the fringe of dissolution into noise, an outfit prone to sudden bouts of amplifier feedback ritual and worship. Blixa Bargeld of Einstürzende Neubauten fame would praise their unique and heretic approach to their own music and their musical instruments (tens of busted up and experimented upon guitars kept in cardboard boxes all over the stage, like so many broken furniture parts) as he was deciding to leave Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds on account of Nick's heroine fever-dream music being just a little bit too mainstream back in the early nineties. Kurt Cobain used to idolize them and covered one of their songs with Nirvana. That's how much of an impression Sonic Youth leave, while somehow managing to stay in the shadows of the industry, thoroughly askew in their abrasive sound armor plating, merely flirting with pop sensibility on some albums and completely smashing it against the wall in others.
Dirty is one of those albums which are more accessible, more radio friendly, if you will, although I think that's saying a bit much. Sonic Youth sounds on this album like that band you've always wanted to make when you were an adolescent in the mid nineties, but never had the balls to pull off, not really being sure if you wanted to rock for the statement or for the chicks. I've never heard a band manage to pull off making noises with guitars in such a way as to make it seem very complicated and artful. This music sounds to me like some form of heavy, toxic, extremely pure grunge concentrate, a sort of fanged punk mutation with less jumping around and more gritting of teeth, sensual in its approach of noise and relentless in its construction of sexy, simple, furious songs which pound themselves into your head and stay there for good. I haven't listened to Dirty in over five years, and yet when I played it for myself yesterday it felt like not a day had passed, I could recognize the sound instantly, and it was scintillating.
The grunge reference comes up mostly because of the fact that Kim Gordon's singing style reminds me so much of Courtney Love's, and Hole is one of my favorite bands of the nineties, but that's not to say Dirty is a grunge album – the vibe is very different, although I find it hard to explain. I guess it has to do with the background – Sonic Youth come from New York and draw a lot of strength from The Velvet Underground's pioneering work, which is all very nice, but doesn't overlap with grunge's direct lineage. There's a much more detached, "meta" feeling about this music, even though it's every bit as massive and powerful as any of the Seattle scene's outfits of the age.
In any case, enough musical history nitpicking. Do yourselves a favor and play this album loud, or with a good pair of headphones. It wants to scrape at your ears, and it'll be a very pleasurable kind of pain if you're anything like me. Thank you very much for sticking with me for 100 posts! I'll see you soon!
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Q: Problem Extending Django-Oscar's layout.html The problem appeared after I added a template to a minimal webapp. The template extends django-oscar's layout.html. Nothing else in the project extends layout.html.
My goal is simply to be able to use django-oscar templates to form the basis of web pages in my webapp. For some reason I am having no end of issues. This is only the latest error message. I have been struggling with this for days! When I resolve one issue, another shows up.
I made a minimal git repo for this problem: https://github.com/mslinn/django_oscar_problem
The repo has a requirements.txt file in case anyone wants to install the PIP modules necessary run the program.
I tried to ensure that I had the simplest possible project that shows the problem. In README.md I show the complete error message displayed in the web browser.
# /templates/welcome.html

{% extends 'oscar/layout.html' %}
... etc ...

# main/urls.py

from django.urls import include, path
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.home, 'home'),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls, 'admin'),
    path('hello/', views.hello, 'hello'),

    path('', include(apps.get_app_config('oscar').urls[0])),
]

# main/views.py

from django.shortcuts import render

def home(request):
    return render(request, "welcome.html", {})

I then ran the webapp with:
$ ./manage.py runserver

The error message in the web browser after visiting http://localhost:8000 is:
ValueError at /

dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required

Request Method:     GET
Request URL:    http://localhost:8000/
Django Version:     3.1.6
Exception Type:     ValueError
Exception Value:

dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required

A: The problem is here:
urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.home, 'home'),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls, 'admin'),
    path('hello/', views.hello, 'hello'),

    path('', include(apps.get_app_config('oscar').urls[0])),
]

The arguments you're passing to path() are not quite right. The signature for path is:
path(route, view, kwargs=None, name=None)

i.e., the third positional argument is expected to be kwargs passed to the view function - but you've passed a string instead, which is what causes the somewhat obscure error. I think you intend this to be the name, in which case you need to supply that as a named argument, i.e.,:
urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.home, name='home'),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls, name='admin'),
    path('hello/', views.hello, name='hello'),

    path('', include(apps.get_app_config('oscar').urls[0])),
]

Note that this then results in a new TemplateDoesNotExist error in your sample repo - this is because the location of the templates directory is not somewhere that Django knows to look. You can fix this by adding the path to that directory to the DIRS configuration in your template settings, which is currently set to [].


All four of these appliances are known to be used to store and chill wines with varying degrees of success. If you're in the least bit serious about your wines though you will already know that a traditional refrigerator is NOT a good way to store your wines, especially if you want to chill them to their ideal drinking temperatures. A normal fridge is simply too cold for wine. Nevertheless, a discussion differentiating a traditional refrigerator from a wine refrigerator is in order, serving to further emphasize just why you should never store your wines in your regular fridge.
Refrigerators should definitely be lauded for doing their job well, which is to keep a wide variety of your perishable foods and drinks cool enough to slow down the process of aging. What refrigerators are NOT good at though is storing wine. Wine requires a special temperature range to thrive and remain intact, with the 40 degrees Fahrenheit average in normal refrigerators being a little too cold for both red and white wines, but especially reds. Wine fridges, on the other hand, are specifically designed with a temperature range that is ideally suited to the storage of wines.
With regards to the vibration, normal refrigerators have a sole purpose of cooling their contents down and so no attention is given to minimizing vibrations — vibrations which are not too wine-friendly. A wine fridge, on the other hand, is designed to minimize potentially wine-spoiling vibrations that mess with the wine's maturation process.
The same goes for humidity — albeit the other way around. A traditional fridge basically does away with humidity during the cooling process, whereas a wine fridge maintains the level of humidity required to form a natural part of the wine's maturation process. If you're particularly storing corked wines you'll have some idea of the fact that the cork does its wine storage and maturation job bests if it has a natural amount of moisture in it — moisture which would otherwise be eliminated in a traditional refrigerator. Other considerations incorporate factors like filtration of internal air to eliminate odors which could potentially contaminate the integrity of your wines.
So now that you have no doubt in your mind that a fridge isn't good at all for your wines, we can explore the differences between a wine refrigerator, a wine cooler, and a wine cellar (electronic), with the view of picking out the best option for you.
Now if we weren't allowed to elaborate and were asked which one you should choose between a wine cooler, a wine refrigerator, and an electronic wine cellar, we'd push you towards a wine refrigerator. Fortunately, though WineCoolery is here to give wine enthusiasts the most detailed and useful information with the view of helping you make the most out of your wine-loving exploits, so some detail is in order.
While reading through various wine cooler reviews you will notice that wine refrigerators are generally more expensive than most wine coolers. This is because wine fridges are generally more powerful than wine coolers, making use of compression-based cooling technology. This means that a wine fridge has a bigger impact on the environment, but also that it reaches the temperature you set it to much faster AND it also maintains that temperature with great accuracy. You might have to put up with a little more noise, though.
Depending on the size and capacity of a wine cooler, it generally makes use of thermoelectric cooling technology, although some bigger wine coolers are similar to wine refrigerators in that they make use of compression-based technology. Wine coolers tend to be more portable than wine refrigerators though and so are more versatile in both their designs and their application (under counter, countertop, and freestanding).
Finally, electronic wine cellars are often referred to interchangeably with wine coolers, just as wine coolers are often interchangeably referred to as wine refrigerators. An electronic wine cellar in the true sense of the phrase is what it says on the bottle — a wine cellar that is operated electronically. Think of a traditional, built-in wine cellar that you'd normally have in your basement and then just imagine that all its functions were electrified. You get a wine cooler that is built to last longer and one which is primarily built to store some vintage and collectible wines, which means the temperature it can reach internally is not affected by the outside air temperature, as long as it's placed in the ideal wine storage spot.
So, in a nutshell, your choice between a wine refrigerator and a wine cooler (sometimes referred to as a wine cellar) ultimately comes right back down to your wine storage needs. If you have vintages and collectibles to store, a wine cellar (electronic wine cooler) is in order. If you have delicate wines, some of which you regularly consume, a wine refrigerator will serve you best. If you have a variety of wines to store and to keep optimally chilled for quick and easy decanting, a wine cooler will serve you best.
This isn't a be-all and end-all selection criteria however, because a lot more factors need to be considered when choosing a wine cooling appliance, such as your budget, how many bottles you want to store, how portable you want the unit to be and how wildly temperatures fluctuate in your area or wherever you want to keep your wines.


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'The Little Hours' - Movie Review
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A bizarrely American take on a part of The Decameron. And for once, it being "American" isn't all bad. An entirely American cast goes to Italy and improvs very old bawdy stories in modern American English. It sounds bizarre and it is, but it's also pretty funny. Alison Brie, Kate Micucci, and Aubrey Plaza are three nuns - none of whom are exactly righteous sisters of God - in a nunnery with a drunken priest (John C. Reilly in a pleasantly subdued role) and, shortly added into the mix, a good-looking young man (Dave Franco) that all of the women want to sleep with. It gets weirder from there.
Whether or not you'll like the movie is going to be very dependent on your sense of humour. It's crass and crazy, but worked for me in part because the rivalries and tensions of the nunnery are portrayed as being essentially the same as those of the rest of the world. And, as much as religious orders try to portray themselves as being separated from the rest of us, they're still human.
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New World Conditions Catalyze the Evolution of a New World Spirituality – Part 2
April 1, 2011 By Marc Gafni 2 Comments
1 The Evolutionary Context of World Spirituality
2 World Spirituality Transcends and Includes the Perennial Philosophy
3 What to take this into practice with a community of like-minded integral evolutionaries?
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The Evolutionary Context of World Spirituality
Why? Because the Perennialists made one huge mistake. They intentionally ignored the evolutionary context. Schoun and Smith not only ignore it, they identified and rejected evolution as being the enemy of eternity. In their understandable desire to locate modern man in the ground of eternity, they intuitively viewed the dynamic emergence of evolution as a threat. This is a huge mistake. Evolution and Eternity are not enemies. Rather, Evolution is the nature of Eternity. Or at least evolution, or what Alfred North Whitehead called Becoming, is One taste of Eternity. Evolution is a mechanism of eternity's emergent properties as eternity chooses to manifest in the world of time. Evolution is no less than the chosen mechanism of the mystery.
We now realize that everything is evolving, including consciousness itself.
In the language of Kuk, heavily influenced by the old evolutionary teachings of Luria and the Zohar:
The theory of evolution, which is presently conquering the world, is aligned with the most profound secrets of Spirit, more than with any other philosophical theories.
Evolution, which proceeds on an ascending trajectory, provides an optimistic base for the world, for how is it possible to despair when one sees that everything is evolving and ascending?
And when we penetrate the very center of the principle of ascending evolution, we discover that it is the divine principle, which is enlightened with absolute clarity. For it is Infinity in realization which realized itself through bringing infinity from infinite potentiality to infinite actuality.
Evolution enlightens all dimensions of reality, all of God's manifestations.
All of reality evolves and ascends, as is evident in its parts, and this ascension is general as well as particular.
It rises to the highest peaks of absolute good.
What we now realize, as Kuk, Bergson, Aurobindo, De-Chardin, Gebser and so many others have shown, is that "all dimensions of reality" are evolving. We realize that consciousness itself is developing. Evolution is not the enemy of the mystery. Evolution is the mechanism of the mystery. This is the great paradox and lived koan of evolution and eternity.
The enlightened realization of the Kabbalists, who realized that consciousness itself evolves through us, dramatically influenced Fichte, Schelling, and the other German Idealists who are the modern founders of Evolutionary Spirituality.
But what was an esoteric realization held by an elite few has itself dramatically evolved. We now realize that evolution takes place in the biosphere itself. And the evolution taking place in the biosphere is an expression of the evolution, which is the very nature of all levels of reality. What Kuk understood, we are now able to ground in empirical cross-cultural research–called structuralism–which reveals the unfolding stages of consciousness through human history. We are able today to identify distinct levels in the evolution of Consciousness. as revealed by the cross-cultural research of contemporary developmental theorists including Jean Gebser, Clare Graves, Jean Piaget, Jane Loevinger, Suzanne Cook-Greuter and many more.
Religion and Spirituality are expressions of consciousness. If consciousness is evolving in distinct stages, then it is obvious and readily apparent that religion must be evolving in those very same stages. So it is clear as day that when we say "religion" we need to identify what kind of religion we are talking about. Are we talking about what Jean Gebser called Mythic Religion, or about Rational Religion, Pluralistic Religion, or Integral Religion.
Each one of these levels, or stages of development–mythic, rational, pluralistic, and Integral–refracts the core and profound insights of religion through its own particular level of consciousness. Each one transcends and includes the precious level. Okay, you ask, what does that mean in practical terms?
For the religions at all of these levels, for example, kindness is a core value. There is a clear spiritual obligation to kindness that is expressed at all four of these evolutionary levels of consciousness. But what kindness means differs substantively at each level. The simplest expression of this distinction is that at the mythic level of religion the primary obligation to kindness is limited to those of ones faith community. And while it may be extended to others through this or that method of hermeneutic expansion, the core community of concern remains the particular faith community of which one is a part. A second example: In a wonderfully made home movie on ancient china, which was ruled by mythic religious consciousness, the hero is an enlightened Chinese patriarch who is in a deep love relationship with his consort. At some point in the plot his consort disobeys him. He beats her with a cane, all the while shedding tears but realizing that this is what he must do. When he finishes, she thanks him for his "kindness." At the mythic level of consciousness, the violation of masculine authority by the feminine was understood to require beating as an appropriate response. And such beating was understood to be an expression of kindness.
At the level of rational religion–when the consciousness of Western Enlightenment comes on line, kindness extends beyond the particular faith community. And because the first wave of proto-feminism began to show its head as one of the expressions of deepening human rights, the notion that a man would beat his wife for disobedience, as an act of kindness, slowly becomes not only absurd but also illegal and actionable. However, at the level of rational religion, sharp distinctions between the genders remain in place, and women are still not equal in any sense. Kindness to the feminine does not include, for example, equal pay for equal time or a host of other basic rights.
At the pluralistic level of religious consciousness kindness extends both beyond narrow faith communities and transcends gender distinctions. Kindness itself has evolved. However, the pluralistic level of religion, to a large extent, lost the ability to make discernments and penetrating judgments to reflect natural hierarchies between values, lifestyles, moral choices, or forms of government. All forms of rankings were considered, by definition, unkind or worse. This resulted in a liberal abandonment of values. The tragic upshot is that the religious right per se hijacked values. Moreover, the sense of spiritual and religious obligation to kindness, and to specific sets of actions that support kindness, was undermined initially in rational religion, and most dramatically in pluralistic levels of spirituality and consciousness. The result again is that self-help and community-based welfare organizations, as part and parcel of an organized community, abound on the religious right, which holds a premodern, largely mythic view of religion. These are almost entirely absent in the fragmented and diffuse community structures of the liberal left, which is rooted, if at all, in rational or pluralistic modes of religion.
It is only at the Integral level of consciousness that kindness evolves once again in a way, which transcends both gender discrimination, as well as the limitations of ethnocentric mythic religion. Moreover, at the Integral level of consciousness the obligation to kindness, both as a general virtue and as it relates to specific acts of kindness, is reclaimed. Indeed it is only at the Integral level of consciousness that a significant post-mythic and post-rational notion of genuine obligation is reclaimed at all.
World Spirituality Transcends and Includes the Perennial Philosophy
Said slightly differently, World Spirituality = Perennial Philosophy in an Evolutionary Context, with all that this implies. To spell out all of the implications would take more space than we have available in this communication. But let us at least make some key points on this utterly essential issue.
It might be fairly stated as follows. To suggest that World Spirituality consists of the perennial philosophy–that is to say of the shared truths of the great traditions–is to be almost certain that World Spirituality will be rejected as an evolutionary emergent.
And this is so for two very different reasons.
1. First, if this is what World Spirituality is, the traditions themselves will roundly reject it. If the pre-requisite for an emergent World Spirituality is the abandonment of the traditions in the form of reducing their distinctions to a set of common shared truths, then the traditions themselves will be the fiercest opponents of World Spirituality. Again, for two reasons. First, no one likes to be put out of business. Second and more profoundly, the greatness of the traditions often lies in each ones unique insight, and not in the common truths they share with the other great religions.
Often the perennialist writers and the interfaith proponents of religious perennialism posit as their essential distinction the difference between the depth structure and surface structures of a religion. The argument goes somewhat as follows. The religions differ only in their surface structures, which are determined by the contextual factors of culture and language. Surface structures might include rituals, laws, and specific forms of worship. Underneath, however, are said to be depth structures, which the religions share in common. Depth structures might include the core worldview of the religion, as well as its ethical and mystical core. This argument is absolutely true, but partial. There are highly important depth structures that are shared in common to some significant extent both by the mystical and ethical strains of virtually every great religion. This is true. And the gathering of the shared depth structures of the religions was one of the great spiritual projects of the latter half of the twentieth century. Writers such as Fritz Schuhon, cited above, and those influenced by him, including Aldoxus Huxely, William Stoddard, Gerard Heard, and many others put forth the core shared tenets of the perennial philosophy of religions.
However, and this is a huge however, the differences between the religions are not only rooted in the surface structures of the religions. It is more accurate to say that the religions contain surface structures, on the one hand, and two distinct forms of depth structures, on the other hand. There are, for sure, the depth structures that are shared by all the religions to which the perennialists correctly pointed. However, there are also the depth structures that are singular and distinctly rooted in the deepest well of revelation and contemplative insight that nourishes and sustains the tradition. The distinction between these insights might well be termed the Unique Self of every religion. Unique Self = True Self, which is enlightened consciousness, + perspective, which is the irreducibly unique perspective of every significant culture.
Buddhism, for example, made huge contributions in understanding and training mind states. Talmudic Judaism made a huge contribution to ethics and social activism in the form of Tikkun Olam, the responsibility to heal and repair the world based on the infinite dignity of every unique self. Christianity made a huge contribution to the evolution and propagation of the biblical teachings on forgiveness. While each of these traditions dealt with significant depth in all of these three areas, it is fair to say that each of these religions was also a specialist, with a highly evolved and unique area of excellence.
Each great tradition has its own radically unique worldview, its own distinct medicine, and its own radically wondrous particular contribution to the music of spirit. It would be precisely accurate to say that each tradition is an instrument in the symphony of spirit. It is not only true that all the instruments produce music much like all the religions intuit and enact spirit. It is also true that each instruments produces utterly unique music just as each religion enacts utterly distinct forms of spiritual expression. It would be not only ignorance of the most base kind, but tragic, to reduce all the traditions to their shared truths. And the key opponents of this reductionist dishonoring of the religions would be none other then the religions themselves. This cannot be the goal of an evolutionary World Spirituality.
2. But to make the common truths of the great traditions the exclusive or even primary content of World Spirituality would be a monumental mistake for a second reason as well. It is absolutely true that the distinction between the surface structures of the religion and the shared depth structures of every tradition is a crucial insight in the evolution of consciousness and a key part of World Spirituality. This by itself however is woefully insufficient as the core of World Spirituality. For essentially what that would mean is that World Spirituality is the shared truths of the premodern traditions. In this reading World Spirituality itself would be a regressive movement. It would be regressive because it would suggest that we be guided by a spirituality rooted in the common insights of the of the premodern traditions[1]. That would take us back before modernity and before premodernity, which is exactly where we do not want to go.
Now do not misunderstand this point. The premodern traditions of Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and more are wildly deep on many levels. The premodern traditions are radically profound at a level of interior understanding, which is most likely beyond anything we know today in our interior reaches. The radical inner focus on spirit in the premodern age as well as, some would say, the receptivity to the graces of revelation, yielded a depth of interior vision and knowing which is virtually beyond imagination.
At this same time the mainstream of all these traditions remained premodern in many essential ways which includes ethnocentricity, various forms of the marginalization of the feminine, a lack of historical consciousness, a profound disparity between the elite and the common person, an underdeveloped sense of human rights and much more. Each system at its core thought that its truth was primary, if not exclusive, and that in time history would validate its truth claim as the only authentic truth claim. And it is precisely that form of premodern religion that is once again sweeping the globe with disastrous results, as evidenced in the meteoric rise of fundamentalisms world over.
So to develop a World Spirituality, which shares the best of the pre-modern traditions while a correct evolutionary step in the right direction is certainly not the goal of an emergent and evolving world spirituality.
Rather we want a World Spirituality that shared the best of premodern, modern, and post modern insight. That would be an enormous leap in the evolution of consciousness. Let's bring on board in World Spirituality, the deepest insights of all the great traditions including all of the great modern and postmodern traditions. This would include the best insights of psychology and psychoanalysis not least of which would recognize and actively engaging what Freud called the unconscious and Jung called the shadow. It would also include fantastic advances in family systems, economics, law, the healing arts, negotiation theory and conflict resolution as well as the best insights of systems and chaos theory. It would naturally embrace all of the best insights of modern science. It would include critical advances in health care, forms of governances, and human rights. It would include the leading edge understandings in the postmodern disciplines of hermeneutics, phenomenology, metrics and developmental thought.
A World Spirituality of this kind is urgently needed today to heal the fragmentation that lies at the very core of the world's heart. It is only this kind of leading edge evolutionary emergent, which will have a wide enough embrace to catalyze a shared world commons. It is only from the space of shared world commons that we can write a new source code of human culture rooted in ever-higher levels of mutuality, recognition, union and embrace. It is only such a World Spirituality rooted in such a source code, which will be powerful enough to catalyze the evolution of love. It is only through the evolution of love, which is the evolution of love, which is the evolution of God that we will be able to inspire and write a new Cosmic Scroll. It is only in a new Cosmic Scroll that all the great religions and all the great systems of knowing and doing will have a place and will therefore no longer seek to usurp the place of an other. It is only in the context of such a Cosmic Scroll that every unique human being, will have a dignified, honored and beloved place and peace will ripple across the globe.
[1] Ken Wilber and I just had an awesome and spirited discussion about this precise point, a few days ago as we were engaging in one of a series of regular private dialogues which humbly and tentatively seek to lay the foundation of an emergent World Spirituality. All of the insights that emerge from these dialogues are evolving a vision of a World Spirituality based on Integral Principles. Ken is both a co-catalyst and active leading partner as well as inspiration and in the emergence of this movement and we are currently preparing a book to formally outline the theoretical underpinning of a World Spirituality based on Integral principles.
Dr. Marc Gafni holds his doctorate from Oxford University and has direct lineage in Kabbalah. He is a Rabbi, spiritual artist, teacher, and a leading visionary in the emerging World Spirituality movement. He is a co-founder of iEvolve: The Center for World Spirituality, a scholar at the Integral Institute, and the director of the Integral Spiritual Experience, as well as a lecturer at John F. Kennedy University. The author of seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints and Mystery of Love, Gafni's teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni is considered by many to be a visionary voice in the founding of a new World Spirituality and one of the great mind/heart teachers of the generation.
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Marc Gafni is a visionary scholar, philosopher, and wisdom teacher. He is teacher-in-residence and co-initiator of the Center for Integral Wisdom. He is the leading theorist and teacher of Unique Self enlightenment, an emergent post-postmodern wisdom lineage which builds on his national bestseller Soul Prints, winner of the Nautilus Award for Best Spirituality Book, as well as the highly acclaimed Your Unique Self (2012) and Radical Kabbalah (2012), which is based on his doctoral dissertation at Oxford University.
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or feel deprived while losing weight. The G.I. Diet is really the easiest, healthiest, most effective eating plan ever!
Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2005.
Characteristics: 92 p. ;,16 cm.


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The Dark Side of the Moon: The Incredible Story of What Really Happened in Poland During the Russian Occupation 1939-45 (1st Edition)
jan peczkis|Saturday, June 11, 2011
This book (review based on 1946 edition) is probably the first English-language book on the subject of Polish deportees. In the Preface, poet T. S. Eliot summarizes the Polish sacrifices and contributions to the Allied victory in WWII, and puts the Polish experience in the broader context of the barbarization of Europe because of the Nazis and Communists.
This work is not for the fainthearted. After providing historical background, it describes the horror faced by Poles loaded into trains and deported into the interior of the Soviet Union. The privations were frightful. The conditions on the trains were impossible. There were commonly 50-60 people per rail car (p. 61), not the 25 cited by certain Russian revisionists, who are trying to downgrade the total number of Polish deportees to only a few hundred thousand.
In some camps, including those in the Arctic Circle, Novaya Zemlya, and Kolyma, virtually no one could survive more than 2-3 years of captivity. (p. 21). Other camps are described as follows: "Dysentery and tsinga are endemic. Out of a camp of 10,000 men, some 2,000 die every year, a considerable proportion of these from exhaustion." (p. 120). The authors recount the gruesome effects of scurvy on the human body. (p. 108). Those who were too ill to work were frequently shot on the spot. (p. 119).
Various bits of historical information are included in this book. Did you know that, in 1914, 80% of the tsarist Russian nation was illiterate? (p. 16). From 1935 through early 1939, the Nazi German government tried to entice Poland to an alliance against the Soviet Union--a treacherous request met with uncompromising refusal. (p. 40).
The authors mention Poland's earlier history, and how the Partitioning powers had created a self-serving unfavorable view of Poles in the west. The authors conclude: "The purpose is always the same, just as the formulae are the same, because the source never changes; and this purpose is to carry out, to justify and to make permanent the annulment of Poland's place in Europe; and, by doing so, to throw Europe herself to the thrust of one New Order or another." (p. 30). It is sobering to realize that this is also happening today, with attacks on Poland for her patriotic and religious traditions, by Euro-enthusiasts, internationalists, Holocaust-Industry profiteers, and others with their anti-Polish agendas.