I realize, as I'm typing the title that the I've been using the "Hearts/Farts" category for reviews for several years now! I used to say hearts if I love, or farts if I hate the product . But things aren't so black and white anymore, or at least I've matured enough to recognise it. Some things are really in the middle–as in this case with MAC's newest base product.
The product comes in slim but hefty glass bottle with a pump that locks. I like the packaging although anything in glass is best kept sitting in your makeup desk (hence, not a travel option). Out of the pump, the product feels runny yet balmy (not watery) as the swatch above. I usually apply it with my fingers, but I also tried applying it with a sponge, as suggested.
It wears comfortably (like "nothing") and sets to almost.. nothing. The pigments on it have a very curious way of disappearing on the skin upon application. I even did an IG post of me applying this product to illustrate this point. Anyway, I'm a fan of really natural, really thin bases so I appreciate the idea behind this product. The finish is glowy and moisturised, although coverage isn't tops. I also had problems making my concealer sit on top of it, the Maybelline Age Rewind concealer which I love and been using for a long time looks obvious and thick with this on. I never seem to have problems with it with my go-to-base, so I actually bought a new concealer to try and remedy this. I really want to make this product work on me, so I'll keep experimenting!
In these photos, I'm wearing it in one even layer and then applied some more on the center of my face using fingers. It applies very easily, and spreads evenly although fingermarks are noticeable with this much more than other bases I tried. Again, partly maybe to the balmy (as compared to watery) base.
I did not use powder to set, although I brushed on some contour powder under my cheekbones. The finish is very skin-like, and gives a veil of smoothness to my complexion.
After about a week of daily use, I finally realised what my issue is with this base: it doesn't set. Maybe because of its balmy, skincare-y nature, the product moves around and transfers significantly. I also experience oily-ness after a few hours of wear, which I remedy by blotting with paper. At this point, my makeup is almost unnoticeable. I loathe to have to apply powder over it coz the finish is so natural, but I guess that's the next obvious step.
These things considered, the MAC Next to Nothing Face Colour is a great complement to an existing base routine. On its own, it gives a natural, super skin-like coverage with a bit of an enhancing effect. It is not a one-stop-shop product, rather one that should work best in conjunction with others. Unfortunately for me, I have no time (or patience) to work with multiple products. But I still use it anyway! Follow me on IG where I'll probably post an update as to how I can wear this best! If you have tips with this product that have worked for you, please let me know!
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Terrorist attack Sweden; it is time for the Swedes to wake up
A truck attack on pedestrians in a crowded shopping district of Stockholm, Sweden, shows all the signs of Islamic terrorism, and the Swedish government bears the blame for importing large numbers of potential terrorists, security experts tell WND.
At least four people were reported dead Friday, with 15 injured, as a man hijacked a beer truck and plowed it into a crowd of people before crashing into a department store on Stockholm's busiest street. An aerial video of the scene shows hundreds of panicked pedestrians running for their lives.
Robert Spencer, author of the Jihad Watch blog, said the trend has been building for the past year with vehicles being the weapon of choice by Islamic terrorists. The vehicle attacks by Muslims actually started in Israel, where it continues to happen with almost no coverage by international media.
"We have seen a spate of attacks recently in which jihadists used their cars as weapons. There was a vehicular jihad attack yesterday in Israel," Spencer noted. "The jihad attack recently in London followed the same pattern."
The Islamic State, also called ISIS, issued a call in September 2014 for jihadists in the West to use their vehicles to "kill them" wherever possible. Full Story
Shootings Soaring in Sweeden
In a period of two weeks earlier this year, five explosions took place in the country. It's not unusual these days — Swedes have grown accustomed to headlines of violent crime, witness intimidation and gangland executions. In a country long renowned for its safety, voters cite "law and order" as the most important issue ahead of the general election in September.
Shootings in the country have become so common that they don't make top headlines anymore, unless they are spectacular or lead to fatalities.
Gang-related gun murders, now mainly a phenomenon among men with immigrant backgrounds in the country's parallel societies, increased from 4 per year in the early 1990s to around 40 last year. Because of this, Sweden has gone from being a low-crime country to having homicide rates significantly above the Western European average. Social unrest, with car torchings, attacks on first responders and even riots, is a recurring phenomenon.
Shootings in the country have become so common that they don't make top headlines anymore,
Unless they are spectacular or lead to fatalities. News of attacks are quickly replaced with headlines about sports events and celebrities, as readers have become desensitized to the violence. A generation ago, bombings against the police and riots were extremely rare events. Today, reading about such incidents is considered part of daily life.
In response, the Swedish government has launched an international campaign for "the image of Sweden" playing down the rise in crime, both in its media strategy and through tax-funded PR campaigns. During a visit to the White House in March, Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Löfven admitted that his country has problems with crime and specifically shootings, but denied the existence of no-go zones. Sweden's education minister, Gustav Fridolin, traveled to Hungary last week with the same message. Full Story
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Water makes up more than half of our body weight. To sustain this amount of water in our bodies, we're advised to drink six to eight glasses of fluid per day. Water is the healthiest drink we can reach for – no sugar, no calories – but is it always the best way to rehydrate on hot days?
The answer is: it depends. It seems water is sufficient for most people most of the time, but the best way to rehydrate depends on who and where you are, and what you're doing.
"The needs of a physically active person with an outdoor job on a hot day may be different from the person who lives in an air-conditioned house, who drives an air-conditioned car to an air-conditioned office," says Ron Maughan, professor at St Andrews University's School of Medicine.
The obvious answer is that the active person will need to drink more fluid than the sedentary one – but there's more to it than that.
When we sweat, we lose water and salt, so we need to replace both. If we consume too much of either, the body will take steps to even things out using osmosis, which is the process of passing water through cell membranes.
"Replacing lost fluid just with plain water means the body has too much water and not enough salt, so to even things out, it will get rid of water by producing urine," Maughan says.
For this reason, milk can actually be more effective than drinking water. Milk naturally contains salt and lactose, a sugar, which we need in small amounts to help stimulate water absorption in the gut, Maughan says. Coconut water is also effective, as it contains salt, potassium and carbohydrates.
Milk also contains electrolytes and macronutrients, which are absorbed into the body. This slows down the time it takes water bound up onto these molecules to travel across the stomach and small intestine, allowing the body to better absorb and retain liquids.
Since milk contains enough sugar for this process to occur, but milk is very different to sugary drinks. In fact, sugary drinks can dehydrate us in the short term, Maughan says, because of their high concentration of solutes, which are substances that can be dissolved to make a solution.
Cell membranes, which water travels through to get around the body, only let through water and very small molecules. Water moves from the side of the cell with the lower concentration of solutes to the side with the higher concentration, keeping things in equilibrium.
This means the first thing that happens is that water passes into the intestines to digest it – taking it away from other parts of the body which might need it.
That said, evidence suggests sports drinks containing electrolytes – which include sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium – can be better at hydrating us than water.
"Sports drinks designed to target these physiological mechanisms slow the transition of liquid across the small intestine where it's reabsorbed into body," says Owen Jeffries, a lecturer in sport and exercise physiology at Newcastle University.
Athletes lose high amounts of sweat over prolonged periods of time, so it's important for them to replace the electrolytes they lose. But there's no need for the rest of us to drink sports drinks to stay hydrated. A balanced diet, alongside the normal drinks we consume, will contain sufficient fluids for a person to get everything they need, says Sophie Killer, a performance nutrition consultant for elite and professional sports players.
"Sports drinks contain carbs, which [are] essentially sugar – not necessary if you're sitting at a desk all day as you don't need the extra energy," she says.
The same goes for salt, which many people consume too much of already.
"Sodium plays an important role in hundreds of biochemical reactions in the body, and it's the electrolyte we lose in the highest quantity in our sweat when we exercise," Killer says.
The average person, with the average exercise regime, doesn't lose so much water that they need sports drinks, says David Nieman, a professor of biology at Appalachian State University and director of the Human Performance Laboratory at North Carolina Research Campus.
But hydration is important among the general population, especially since studies show that one in five of us are dehydrated within a given week.
Having a glass of water and a piece of fruit before going on a run will do the trick, says Neiman, who has found that eating fruit during exercise aided recovery.
"Half a banana contains sugars and 24 types of polyphenols. This will keep water in the body, and contains nutrients to support exercise," he says.
This advice also applies to children, says Gabriella Montenegro, nutrition researcher at the Center for Studies in Sensory, Impairment, Aging and Metabolism in Guatemala. In her research, she found that children who regularly consume fruit and vegetables are better hydrated. She recommends children and elderly people in particular, who are at higher risk of dehydration, eat more fruit and vegetables.
Consuming any carbohydrates, in fact, will help slow down the absorption of water into the body and help us retain what we drink, Killer says.
"The simplest thing to do is to have water with a meal because it will allow the body to slowly absorb fluid and retain it, allowing it to cross the membranes and get to where it needs to be to hydrate you, rather than going straight to the bladder, causing an increase in urine production," she says.
Another way to stay on top of our hydration is to drink tea and coffee. Some people worry caffeinated drinks dehydrate us, but this is only true when we drink large doses of caffeine and not enough water.
Caffeinated drinks do make the body produce more urine, but they also contain water, which will usually more than compensate for the fluid caffeine makes you lose, says Maughan. In fact, he says, tea and coffee are a good way to hydrate because we're likely to drink more of something we enjoy. (Read more on this in BBC Future's article: Do coffee and tea really dehydrate us?)
Sometimes even high doses of caffeine don't result in dehydration – if the drinker is well accustomed to it. Regular caffeine-drinkers are less susceptible to the diuretic effect of caffeine. In a 2014 study involving 50 male coffee-drinkers, Killer found that drinking four cups of coffee a day for three days provided the same levels of hydration as the equivalent amount of water.
"Coffee contributes to daily fluid requirements, and in regular coffee-drinkers, the kidneys adapt to retain fluid from coffee," she says. "There's no reason moderate amounts of coffee or tea would dehydrate those who are used to having regular caffeine."
Staying hydrated depends not just on what we drink, but how we drink it. The body goes between being mildly dehydrated and over-hydrated as part of daily life, and will only register dehydration once it gets to a certain level, Jeffries says. At that point, it might be already past the optimum moment to take in fluid.
"If the body is telling you you're thirsty, there needs to have been relatively significant changes there to alert our perceptual awareness," he says.
To combat this, he advises drinking water throughout the day to maintain our hydration levels. Drinking a lot of liquid in one go can cause more water to pass through the body and come out as urine without hydrating us first.
"Drinking a litre of water quickly overwhelms the bladder, it's not truly hydrating you. Your urine may well be clear but that's not a representation of hydration status," Killer says.
It might sound like athletes get the better deal, while the rest of us are stuck with plain water. But water is underrated, experts argue.
"Water is often the forgotten nutrient," says Killer. "It's free, it's healthy, and it doesn't damage our teeth."
Montenegro says hydration hasn't been studied so much in the last few years, but there's probably more to it than we realise.
"Water stopped being important – but it's a very important nutrient," she says. "I'm sure there's many more metabolic things associated with hydration that haven't been studied yet."
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I've been tired of the same old, same old for lunch lately. I've gotten stuck in a rut having the same thing over and over. The kids don't seem to mind, but I do! Also, I'm really looking for GOOD food and I'm just stora eating lunch to get me through til dinner, but not really enjoying it.
Also since we are homeschooling I don't have a lot of time to get lunch on the table and by the time I start you'd think the kids were going to die of starvation and that I hadn't fed them a morstle for the last 30 days! I also REALLY dislike making lunch as I just want to eat and get kids to rest time so that I can have some rest time as well.
All that adds up to quick lunches that don't hold a lot of excitement for me! Also, the kids love corn elbow mac, but since we aren't doing dairy there aren't very many options to put on top. We had been doing a lot of pesto all summer while the basil was proliferating, but that is now used and done for the season.
I did my usual internet searching to get some ideas. I used this recipe from Produce on Parade. I was really suprised at how good it was and it really made the sauce creamy. It wasn't too strong of a flavor, but it was enough to add flavor to the pasta. The kids liked it which is always fantastic too!
Of course as per my usual as well, I used the recipe as a guide, but did my own thing. The recipe posted below has a lot in common with the one on Produce on Parade, but I also added some of what I wanted as well.
I highly recommend it and hope you give it a try!
Cover and cook for about 20 minutes until chard is wilted and softened.
Pour desired amount of sauce over the pasta and top with non-dairy cheese and sriracha if desired.
We liked our smothered in sauce!
This recipe actually made double what we needed for a 16 oz bag of pasta. So we will have more for lunch later this week, or I may add some grilled chicken to the pasta and serve for dinner.
I did originally make this for a lunch and it only took 30 minutes from walking into the kitchen to food on the table! Super quick and simple and delicious!
Let me know what you think once you give it a try!
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Still craving mac and green! Lost my recipe but now it is found! Tonight's Dinner!!! Yum!!


PONDSIDE—Watertown-based developer SMC Management Corporation need to present more specifics about its plans to turn a closed nursing home at 81 S. Huntington Ave., was the general opinion expressed at the June 7 meeting of the Jamaica Pond Association (JPA) board.
The Pond View Inn at Longwood plan calls for a 40-unit hotel, adding two stories onto the three-story former Pond View Nursing Home., overlooking the Jamaicaway and Olmsted Park to the rear. The Mission Hill neighborhood begins across S. Huntington from the site. The developers plan to find a national hotel operator to run the inn, which will largely cater to visitors to the Longwood Medical Area.
SMC lawyer Peter Fulton said the project would need to win approval from the city for a number of zoning variances before it can move forward. The new stories would not put the building above the 45-foot height limit for the area, but the existing front- and side-yard setbacks are too small, and the new floors will bring the building way above the allowed floor-area-to-lot-size ratio.
Hotel operations are also a forbidden use on the property.
Space for parking on the site is tight. Andy Hill of Valet Parking New England Parking Solutions (VPNE), which is consulting on the project, said there is little hope of adding spaces to the 9-car parking lot currently on the site.
City zoning would require 14 spots for the 40 rooms. Hill said VPNE had proposed two options to the developer. One would involve cramming as many cars onto the lot on the ground floor of the building's sloped property as possible and having a valet on duty at all times to extract hotel patrons' cars. The other would include the installation of a hydraulic lift to create two levels of parking.
Steep charges for parking and prominent advertising of public transportation options to and from the hotel would limit the need for parking, Hill said. If there was a major car overload at the site, VPNE "has transportation assets within one-eighth of a mile of the site," including parking lots, vans and valets, Hill said.
Fulton said his understanding was the plan is to have two staffers—a receptionist and maintenance person—on duty at all times. Pointing out that does not account for housekeeping staff, the JPA board said they would like to see more details about how the hotel would be run.
JPA board members and community members also said they would like the developer to hire a landscape architect to come up with a design for the rear of building on the Jamaicaway. And concerns were raised that the initial drawings of the buildings new stories are too modern and do not reflect the original building's design.
Rich Giordano, a Mission Hill resident, was the most critical of the plan.
"It's a speculative venture. It's like building an office building without tenants signed up," he said of the hotel plan. The developer hopes to enter into a management agreement with a national hotel chain—possibly Holiday Inn Express—but has not secured that agreement.
Giordano, who is a board member of both of Mission Hill's community development corporations (CDCs)—Mission Hill Neighborhood Housing Services (MHNHS) and Back of the Hill CDC—said MHNHS looked at installing a hotel at its prominent four-story One Brigham Circle commercial and retail development in the early 2000s.
Like the 81 S. Huntington plan, the Brigham Circle hotel would have served visitors to the nearby Longwood Medical Area (LMA). Despite the fact that One Brigham is right next to the LMA, they found "the financials were unfeasible," Giordano said. The hotel would have needed 80 percent occupancy to make it work. "That is unheard of," he said. The One Brigham Circle project was much larger and more expensive than the proposed S. Huntington hotel.
Giordano strongly recommended that the JPA request a copy of the hotel's business plan, a request that JPA members were already considering in the hopes that it would shed more light on the complicated parking plan the developers are proposing.
Mission Hill's Back of the Hill CDC operates a 125-unit senior housing development across Huntington Avenue from the Pond View site, and Giordano asked the developer to meet with the Back of The Hill board before moving forward.
The development team agreed to do that.
Saying that the hotel proposal is "the biggest change to the zoning parameters" he has seen in the neighborhood in 15 year on the board, JPA board member David Moir recommended that the board convene a community task force, including Mission Hill neighbors, to review the proposal.
It is unclear whether the JPA will do that, but Moloney, who head the JPA zoning committee, said he will draft a letter to the developer outlining the concerns raised at the meeting, and the board will likely take the issue up again soon.
SMC principal Stephen Chapman last month told the Gazette the company hoped to "fast-track" the project, beginning construction in 90 days.
"We'll be back," Tom Donnelly an investor in the project, and head of TJP Construction the construction contractor for the project, said immediately the meeting.
"We are going to retrench a little bit and try to address the concerns of the community," Chapman said in a Gazette phone interview following the meeting.
Chapman, who said his area of expertise is large-scale residential development, said SMC still hopes to get through the approval process and begin work in September.
The sale of the property by the Wettenbergs to SMC will not be finalized until after development plans are finalized, Chapman told the Gazette.
Correction: The print version of this article incorrectly indicated that the JPA Board would not take the hotel proposal up again until September.


The Grand Lobby of Heinz Hall hosts thousands of concert goers each year. The Lobby features a 50-foot-high vaulted Venetian ceiling supported by ornate columns, and serves as the perfect setting for a small group performance to serenade guests before they move to the main hall. The Grand Lobby offers 20' x 15' performance space and is available for 30 minutes prior to most musical events at Heinz Hall. Some fees may apply.
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Newborn boy killed in single car crash Saturday night in Hackensack
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HACKENSACK — A newborn boy was killed Saturday night in a single-car crash.
The unidentified 4-week-old boy and his parents were the occupants of a black sedan that careened into a utility pole on Passaic Street near Franklin Place about 9:20 p.m., according to a prepared statement from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office.
Denise Bruan, who lives four doors down from where the crash happened said she was getting ready for bed at the time of the crash. She didn't hear the impact of the car hitting the pole but she could hear yelling.
"You can hear the screams," she said. "I heard it from my bedroom — a lot of screaming — so I was apprehensive to open up the door. I didn't want to intrude in case it was somebody that was sick or there was a fight. They'll be in my prayers."
The conditions of the boy's parents, Hackensack residents, is not known. A prosecutor's office spokeswoman declined to answer any follow-up questions.
Photos from the scene show a black sedan that appears to have crashed head-on into the pole near Franklin Place. The car's front end was damaged and investigators had draped a sheet over the front end of the cabin.
Broken pieces of plastic that appeared to come from the car were left on the street Sunday afternoon.
The baby boy injured his head in the crash, and later died at Hackensack University Medical Center, according to the prosecutor's office.
An infant's car seat could be seen in the rear of the vehicle.


The 20th annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (SLGFF) is closing this weekend with a plethora of screenings taking place at downtown Seattle's AMC Pacific Place Cinema (600 Pine St., fourth floor). Highlights include the local debut of acclaimed director Sebastia´n Silva's Nasty Baby starring Kristen Wiig, the gender-bending old school Hollywood horror parody Hush Up Sweet Charlotte with director Billy Clift in attendance and the acclaimed Aussie documentary Gaby Baby that recently found itself at the center of controversy when this sweet, captivating chronicling of children of Gay parents found itself banned by an Australian school board.
Rounding things out is the sports-themed documentary Out to Win directed by Small Town Gay Bar filmmaker Malcolm Ingram. Not so much an analysis of the effect Gay athletes are having on professional sports leagues or a discussion of the reaction of the NFL to Michael Sam's coming out right before the 2014 draft, the film instead is a life-affirming, remarkably positive celebration of sports stars who have lived their life openly and honestly, more often than not after their pro careers had come to an end. Featuring interviews with a number of notable and familiar faces, including Billy Bean, Brittney Griner, Jason Collins and tennis icons Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova, the film doesn't dig particularly deep, yet still maintains an air of hopeful positivity that's truly inspiring.
At the heart of the conversation is former University of Washington legend and NFL great Dave Kopay, Ingram spending a lot of time focusing on his coming out during the mid-1970s and the response to his biography The David Kopay Story co-written by Perry Deane Young and published in 1977.
Talking with him via phone while he was at the airport waiting to fly to Seattle for the film's Closing Night presentation, the LGBT icon and former professional running back for the San Francisco 49ers and Washington Redskins (amongst other teams) had no trouble expressing just how proud he was of the film and how touched he was by Ingram's handling of the subject matter.
That 'doing something' was to confirm in the wake of the all-pro tight end's death in 1985 from AIDS that the two of them were indeed romantically involved during their playing days. Kopay also reconfirmed the rumors about Coach Lombardi's locker rooms being homophobia free zones where the focus was on playing the game and not on any individual players sexual proclivities.
Our conversation continued on for another few minutes, speaking about his continued love for the University of Washington and his pledged $1-million endowment to the UW's Q Center ('I guarantee you that's where it is going'), how many concussions he suffered as an NFL pro (over '40 or 50'), how he keeps fit ('I swim a mile every other day'), and his thoughts on Pope Francis ('he might be the first real Pope I've ever seen since I've been on this planet').
He ends our conversation by recounting a story of a day in 1967 where he was walking down a California beach, a moment in time that means a great deal to the football star.
Out to Win is the SLGFF's Closing Night film playing Sunday, 10/18, 6:30 pm at AMC Pacific Place. Former NFL great and UW Husky All-American Dave Kopay will be in attendance. Make sure you say hello.
As for some of the other films closing out the festival, here are some brief capsule reviews written by myself, Paul Torres and Gary Kramer.
After the death of her actress mother Amanda (Malin Akerman), the last thing high school senior Max (Taissa Farmiga) wants to think about is 1980s slasher cult favorite 'Camp Bloodbath.' See, her mom was the chief 'Scream Queen' from that little gem, playing one of the counselors brutally butchered by a deranged madman hacking and slashing his way through the camp with a blood-stained machete. It's the role that made her famous yet also left her hopelessly typecast, handicapping Amanda's career in ways she was never able to overcome.
Still, on the anniversary of the film's original release, Max is talked into making a personal appearance at a special screening by her best friend Gertie's (Alia Shawkat) older brother Duncan (Thomas Middleditch). After a freak accident sees the theater burst into flame, the teenager literally cuts the screen in two in hopes she and her friends can escape. Thing is, she's inadvertently sent them all stumbling literally inside the movie itself, Max, Gertie, Duncan, potential boyfriend Chris (Alexander Ludwig) and his narcissistic ex-girlfriend Vicki (Nina Dobrev) face-to-face with the world of 'Camp Bloodbath,' and that includes the character portrayed by Amanda, the perpetually cheery (yet still doomed) camp counselor Nancy.
Director Todd Strauss-Schulson's (A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas) and screenwriters M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller's The Final Girls isn't the first film to utilize a movie-within-a-movie scenario where the main characters discover themselves on the other side of the celluloid screen (Disney's just used this conceit twice, in fact, for its insanely popular Teen Beach Movie series), but that doesn't make it any less inventive. Working as both an irreverent, giggly eccentric homage to the '80s slasher movie craze as well as a solid little scare flick in its own right, it's the somewhat surprising poignant maturity and warmth at the center of this lunacy that makes this anarchic hybrid memorable. The relationship between Max and Nancy, how the very real daughter of a not-particularly-successful actress relates to the fictional character she was best known for, that stuff is marvelous, giving the film an infectious energetic kick.
There are a lot of wonderful touches sprinkled throughout, not the least of which is the way Strauss-Schulson and company play with genre conventions, doing so in a way that's intrinsically humorous yet still also shows reverence and respect for films like Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, Madman and The Burning. The key group portraying the doomed set of counselors, Pitch Perfect favorite Adam DeVine, freewheeling comedian Angela Trimbur, firebrand Chloe Bridges and relative newcomer Tory N. Thompson, are all superb, while Shawkat, Middleditch, Ludwig and especially 'The Vampire Diaries' starlet Dobrev all add agreeably able support as the 21st century youngsters stranded in an alien, and innately artificial, cinematic world.
None of this would work, however, if neither Farmiga nor Akerman were up to the challenge, and to say both are anything less than divine would be an outright falsehood. The former, so good in her older sister Vera Farmiga's Higher Ground as well as in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring, is just delightful, adding a level of realism and human decency I can't say I saw coming. As for Akerman, she's incredible, her performance touchingly sublime the way she navigates the emotional interiors of a fictional character coming to grips with her own inauthenticity, who still grows to have motherly feelings for a stranger she's learned the most unfathomable of truths from.
The movie goes on a little long, overstaying its welcome if only by the tiniest, most infinitesimal of margins. Even so, the climax is just plain terrific, while a closing hospital sequence recalling a certain classic slasher sequel (of the non summer camp variety) is close to perfect. Strauss-Schulson does a nice job handling this absurdist mayhem, balancing humor, action and scares with confidence. The Final Girls is an impressive little love letter to 1980s teen slasher horror of yore, and I for one can't help but think it's a movie I'm going to be watching again relatively soon.


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package org.apache.hadoop.ha;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.nio.channels.FileLock;
import java.nio.channels.OverlappingFileLockException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;

import org.apache.hadoop.util.Time;
import org.apache.zookeeper.PortAssignment;
import org.apache.zookeeper.TestableZooKeeper;
import org.apache.zookeeper.WatchedEvent;
import org.apache.zookeeper.Watcher;
import org.apache.zookeeper.Watcher.Event.KeeperState;
import org.apache.zookeeper.ZKTestCase;
import org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper;
import org.apache.zookeeper.server.ServerCnxnFactory;
import org.apache.zookeeper.server.ServerCnxnFactoryAccessor;
import org.apache.zookeeper.server.ZKDatabase;
import org.apache.zookeeper.server.ZooKeeperServer;
import org.apache.zookeeper.server.persistence.FileTxnLog;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;

/**
 * Copy-paste of ClientBase from ZooKeeper, but without any of the
 * JMXEnv verification. There seems to be a bug ZOOKEEPER-1438
 * which causes spurious failures in the JMXEnv verification when
 * we run these tests with the upstream ClientBase.
 */
public abstract class ClientBaseWithFixes extends ZKTestCase {
    protected static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ClientBaseWithFixes.class);

    public static int CONNECTION_TIMEOUT = 30000;
    static final File BASETEST =
        new File(System.getProperty("test.build.data", "build"));

    protected final String hostPort = initHostPort();
    protected int maxCnxns = 0;
    protected ServerCnxnFactory serverFactory = null;
    protected File tmpDir = null;

    long initialFdCount;

    /**
     * In general don't use this. Only use in the special case that you
     * want to ignore results (for whatever reason) in your test. Don't
     * use empty watchers in real code!
     *
     */
    protected class NullWatcher implements Watcher {
        @Override
        public void process(WatchedEvent event) { /* nada */ }
    }

    protected static class CountdownWatcher implements Watcher {
        // XXX this doesn't need to be volatile! (Should probably be final)
        volatile CountDownLatch clientConnected;
        volatile boolean connected;
        protected ZooKeeper client;

        public void initializeWatchedClient(ZooKeeper zk) {
            if (client != null) {
                throw new RuntimeException("Watched Client was already set");
            }
            client = zk;
        }

        public CountdownWatcher() {
            reset();
        }
        synchronized public void reset() {
            clientConnected = new CountDownLatch(1);
            connected = false;
        }
        @Override
        synchronized public void process(WatchedEvent event) {
            if (event.getState() == KeeperState.SyncConnected ||
                event.getState() == KeeperState.ConnectedReadOnly) {
                connected = true;
                notifyAll();
                clientConnected.countDown();
            } else {
                connected = false;
                notifyAll();
            }
        }
        synchronized boolean isConnected() {
            return connected;
        }
        @VisibleForTesting
        public synchronized void waitForConnected(long timeout)
            throws InterruptedException, TimeoutException {
            long expire = Time.now() + timeout;
            long left = timeout;
            while(!connected && left > 0) {
                wait(left);
                left = expire - Time.now();
            }
            if (!connected) {
                throw new TimeoutException("Did not connect");

            }
        }
        @VisibleForTesting
        public synchronized void waitForDisconnected(long timeout)
            throws InterruptedException, TimeoutException {
            long expire = Time.now() + timeout;
            long left = timeout;
            while(connected && left > 0) {
                wait(left);
                left = expire - Time.now();
            }
            if (connected) {
                throw new TimeoutException("Did not disconnect");

            }
        }
    }

    protected TestableZooKeeper createClient()
        throws IOException, InterruptedException
    {
        return createClient(hostPort);
    }

    protected TestableZooKeeper createClient(String hp)
        throws IOException, InterruptedException
    {
        CountdownWatcher watcher = new CountdownWatcher();
        return createClient(watcher, hp);
    }

    private LinkedList<ZooKeeper> allClients;
    private boolean allClientsSetup = false;

    private RandomAccessFile portNumLockFile;

    private File portNumFile;

    protected TestableZooKeeper createClient(CountdownWatcher watcher, String hp)
        throws IOException, InterruptedException
    {
        return createClient(watcher, hp, CONNECTION_TIMEOUT);
    }

    protected TestableZooKeeper createClient(CountdownWatcher watcher,
            String hp, int timeout)
        throws IOException, InterruptedException
    {
        watcher.reset();
        TestableZooKeeper zk = new TestableZooKeeper(hp, timeout, watcher);
        if (!watcher.clientConnected.await(timeout, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS))
        {
            Assert.fail("Unable to connect to server");
        }
        synchronized(this) {
            if (!allClientsSetup) {
                LOG.error("allClients never setup");
                Assert.fail("allClients never setup");
            }
            if (allClients != null) {
                allClients.add(zk);
            } else {
                // test done - close the zk, not needed
                zk.close();
            }
        }
        watcher.initializeWatchedClient(zk);
        return zk;
    }

    public static class HostPort {
        String host;
        int port;
        public HostPort(String host, int port) {
            this.host = host;
            this.port = port;
        }
    }
    public static List<HostPort> parseHostPortList(String hplist) {
        ArrayList<HostPort> alist = new ArrayList<HostPort>();
        for (String hp: hplist.split(",")) {
            int idx = hp.lastIndexOf(':');
            String host = hp.substring(0, idx);
            int port;
            try {
                port = Integer.parseInt(hp.substring(idx + 1));
            } catch(RuntimeException e) {
                throw new RuntimeException("Problem parsing " + hp + e.toString());
            }
            alist.add(new HostPort(host,port));
        }
        return alist;
    }

    /**
     * Send the 4letterword
     * @param host the destination host
     * @param port the destination port
     * @param cmd the 4letterword
     * @return
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static String send4LetterWord(String host, int port, String cmd)
        throws IOException
    {
        LOG.info("connecting to " + host + " " + port);
        Socket sock = new Socket(host, port);
        BufferedReader reader = null;
        try {
            OutputStream outstream = sock.getOutputStream();
            outstream.write(cmd.getBytes());
            outstream.flush();
            // this replicates NC - close the output stream before reading
            sock.shutdownOutput();

            reader =
                new BufferedReader(
                        new InputStreamReader(sock.getInputStream()));
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            String line;
            while((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                sb.append(line + "\n");
            }
            return sb.toString();
        } finally {
            sock.close();
            if (reader != null) {
                reader.close();
            }
        }
    }

    public static boolean waitForServerUp(String hp, long timeout) {
        long start = Time.now();
        while (true) {
            try {
                // if there are multiple hostports, just take the first one
                HostPort hpobj = parseHostPortList(hp).get(0);
                String result = send4LetterWord(hpobj.host, hpobj.port, "stat");
                if (result.startsWith("Zookeeper version:") &&
                        !result.contains("READ-ONLY")) {
                    return true;
                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // ignore as this is expected
                LOG.info("server " + hp + " not up " + e);
            }

            if (Time.now() > start + timeout) {
                break;
            }
            try {
                Thread.sleep(250);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                // ignore
            }
        }
        return false;
    }
    public static boolean waitForServerDown(String hp, long timeout) {
        long start = Time.now();
        while (true) {
            try {
                HostPort hpobj = parseHostPortList(hp).get(0);
                send4LetterWord(hpobj.host, hpobj.port, "stat");
            } catch (IOException e) {
                return true;
            }

            if (Time.now() > start + timeout) {
                break;
            }
            try {
                Thread.sleep(250);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                // ignore
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    public static File createTmpDir() throws IOException {
        return createTmpDir(BASETEST);
    }
    static File createTmpDir(File parentDir) throws IOException {
        File tmpFile = File.createTempFile("test", ".junit", parentDir);
        // don't delete tmpFile - this ensures we don't attempt to create
        // a tmpDir with a duplicate name
        File tmpDir = new File(tmpFile + ".dir");
        Assert.assertFalse(tmpDir.exists()); // never true if tmpfile does it's job
        Assert.assertTrue(tmpDir.mkdirs());

        return tmpDir;
    }

    private static int getPort(String hostPort) {
        String[] split = hostPort.split(":");
        String portstr = split[split.length-1];
        String[] pc = portstr.split("/");
        if (pc.length > 1) {
            portstr = pc[0];
        }
        return Integer.parseInt(portstr);
    }

    static ServerCnxnFactory createNewServerInstance(File dataDir,
            ServerCnxnFactory factory, String hostPort, int maxCnxns)
        throws IOException, InterruptedException
    {
        ZooKeeperServer zks = new ZooKeeperServer(dataDir, dataDir, 3000);
        final int PORT = getPort(hostPort);
        if (factory == null) {
            factory = ServerCnxnFactory.createFactory(PORT, maxCnxns);
        }
        factory.startup(zks);
        Assert.assertTrue("waiting for server up",
                   ClientBaseWithFixes.waitForServerUp("127.0.0.1:" + PORT,
                                              CONNECTION_TIMEOUT));

        return factory;
    }

    static void shutdownServerInstance(ServerCnxnFactory factory,
            String hostPort)
    {
        if (factory != null) {
            ZKDatabase zkDb;
            {
                ZooKeeperServer zs = getServer(factory);

                zkDb = zs.getZKDatabase();
            }
            factory.shutdown();
            try {
                zkDb.close();
            } catch (IOException ie) {
                LOG.warn("Error closing logs ", ie);
            }
            final int PORT = getPort(hostPort);

            Assert.assertTrue("waiting for server down",
                       ClientBaseWithFixes.waitForServerDown("127.0.0.1:" + PORT,
                                                    CONNECTION_TIMEOUT));
        }
    }

    /**
     * Test specific setup
     */
    public static void setupTestEnv() {
        // during the tests we run with 100K prealloc in the logs.
        // on windows systems prealloc of 64M was seen to take ~15seconds
        // resulting in test Assert.failure (client timeout on first session).
        // set env and directly in order to handle static init/gc issues
        System.setProperty("zookeeper.preAllocSize", "100");
        FileTxnLog.setPreallocSize(100 * 1024);
    }

    protected void setUpAll() throws Exception {
        allClients = new LinkedList<ZooKeeper>();
        allClientsSetup = true;
    }

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        BASETEST.mkdirs();

        setupTestEnv();

        setUpAll();

        tmpDir = createTmpDir(BASETEST);

        startServer();

        LOG.info("Client test setup finished");
    }

    private String initHostPort() {
        BASETEST.mkdirs();
        int port;
        for (;;) {
            port = PortAssignment.unique();
            FileLock lock = null;
            portNumLockFile = null;
            try {
                try {
                    portNumFile = new File(BASETEST, port + ".lock");
                    portNumLockFile = new RandomAccessFile(portNumFile, "rw");
                    try {
                        lock = portNumLockFile.getChannel().tryLock();
                    } catch (OverlappingFileLockException e) {
                        continue;
                    }
                } finally {
                    if (lock != null)
                        break;
                    if (portNumLockFile != null)
                        portNumLockFile.close();
                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                throw new RuntimeException(e);
            }
        }
        return "127.0.0.1:" + port;
    }

    protected void startServer() throws Exception {
        LOG.info("STARTING server");
        serverFactory = createNewServerInstance(tmpDir, serverFactory, hostPort, maxCnxns);
    }

    protected void stopServer() throws Exception {
        LOG.info("STOPPING server");
        shutdownServerInstance(serverFactory, hostPort);
        serverFactory = null;
    }

    protected static ZooKeeperServer getServer(ServerCnxnFactory fac) {
        ZooKeeperServer zs = ServerCnxnFactoryAccessor.getZkServer(fac);

        return zs;
    }

    protected void tearDownAll() throws Exception {
        synchronized (this) {
            if (allClients != null) for (ZooKeeper zk : allClients) {
                try {
                    if (zk != null)
                        zk.close();
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    LOG.warn("ignoring interrupt", e);
                }
            }
            allClients = null;
        }
    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
        LOG.info("tearDown starting");

        tearDownAll();

        stopServer();

        portNumLockFile.close();
        portNumFile.delete();

        if (tmpDir != null) {
            Assert.assertTrue("delete " + tmpDir.toString(), recursiveDelete(tmpDir));
        }

        // This has to be set to null when the same instance of this class is reused between test cases
        serverFactory = null;
    }

    public static boolean recursiveDelete(File d) {
        if (d.isDirectory()) {
            File children[] = d.listFiles();
            for (File f : children) {
                Assert.assertTrue("delete " + f.toString(), recursiveDelete(f));
            }
        }
        return d.delete();
    }
}

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Q: Чем отличаются функции начинающиеся с void от int в Си? Одни начинают функции с int, другие с void.
Чем вот этот вариант ... :
int increaser(int* x) //используем указатель
{

 (*x)++;
 //return (*x);

};

... отличается от этого ? :
void increaser(int* x) //используем указатель
{

 (*x)++;
 //return (*x);

};

Слышала (из курса от Специалиста), что void используют при программировании драйверов.

A: Первая функция, обязательно требует чтобы из нее был произведен возврат данных типа int, любой иной тип или вообще игнорирования возврата значение, вызовет ошибку.
Вторая функция, не требует чтобы вы что-то возвращали, возврат при этом допустим, но это предположительно — плохой тон. Что те , что иные функции, используются одинаково в программировании драйверов. С типами на столь низком уровне работают серьёзно.

A: Первая функция возвращает значения типа int (32битное целое) с которым можно в дальнейшем работать, вторая функция ничего не возвращает (слышал как некоторые в шутку называют тип void пустышкой)

A: Вот пример:
int incr1(int *p)
{
    ++(*p);
    return *p;
}
void incr2(int* p)
{
    ++(*p);
}

int main()
{
    int m[] = {1,2, 3};
    m[0]  += incr1(m); // выражение справа возвращает целое  m[0] которое равен 2
    //тогда прибавив  к m[0]  еще и это значение, получим m[0] == 4
    cout << m[0] <<endl;
    // а другой функцией можем только инкремент осуществлять
    incr2(m);
    // и не можем это присвоить чему то
    // просто наращиваем m[0] еще на  единицу
    cout << m[0]; // 5
    return 0;
}

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A new study published this week shows that Gen Z (18-24) and Millenials (25-34) choose Apple iPhones and Apple Music's paid audio subscription services. These two demographic groups are the power users when it comes to listening to music every day with 9 in 10 tuning in.
Only 25% of Americans pay for at least one music subscription service and Apple is their number one choice with Spotify slightly behind them as noted in the Fluent study report chart below.
Fluent's content marketing lead Mary Lister notes in her report that "Because Apple is the preferred device brand for Millennials and Generation Z, and there is a propensity for Apple users to stay within the iOS ecosystem. In line with this, Generation Z is much more likely to subscribe to Apple Music than their older counterparts.
As we see the vast spending power of Generation Z and millennials come to a head through music consumption, we expect to see more industries turned to gold, platinum, and silver by the burgeoning tech wizards."
With only 25% of Americans paying for a music streaming service you can understand why Apple's head of Apple Music Jimmy Iovine has been pounding the table for some time now making the case that the freemium music business model is bad for music artists everywhere. At the moment, Iovine appears to be a lone voice in the wilderness.
Iovine has said that "Free is a real issue. This whole thing about freemium, maybe at one time we needed it. But now it's a shell game."
That's a dig at Apple Music competitor Spotify, which offers its streaming service as both a paid subscription and a free tier with advertising. "These companies are building an audience on the back of the artist."
Iovine added that Apple could easily amass hundreds of millions of users if it were willing to offer a free tier for Apple Music. But considering the service as it is now, he thinks he and the company have "built something powerful enough that it will work."
With Apple building a new level to their service with TV and movie content over time, it's a way to move adults 35 and older into Apple Music's subscriber base. At the moment it's clearly the weakest demographic as noted in the Fluent study chart below, but it's one that is willing and able to pay for premium entertainment while gaining the Apple Music service as part of the package.


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Nondualism as a separate and distinct tradition in Hinduism begins rather late and yet has exerted a tremendously powerful influence, both in India and—much later—in the West. For example, the very fact that this book concerns the topic of "nondualism," as opposed to "emptiness" or "rigpa" or another Buddhist term hints at the fact that the discussion, particularly in America and Europe, has lately been fueled by teachers of Advaita.
Advaita Vendanta begins with the Commentary on the Mandukya Upanishad, written by Gaudapada around theseventh Century CE. We saw earlier that the Mandukya Upanishad contains passages that can be interpreted as describing a philosophy of nondualism. Writing almost 1300 years later, Gaudapada draws on elements of the Buddhist theory of emptiness to re-interpret the Mandukya Upanishad in a strongly nondual manner.
Gaudapada's main doctrine is called the theory of "no origination" (ajātivāda), which states that the entire world is nothing other than an illusion. Nothing mundane ever actually comes into existence (i.e "originates"), because only Brahman (i.e. "God") is real. The entire phenomenal world is simply a dream or fantasy, and is ultimately unreal (maya). As we've already seen, this view was common in Mahayana Buddhism. Some selections from Gaudapada's Commentary give the gist of his philosophy:
II. 31. As dream and illusion or a castle in the air are seen (to be unreal), so this whole universe is seen by those who are wise in Vendānta.
II. 32. There is no dissolution and no creation, no one in bondage and no one who is striving for or who is desirous of liberation, and there is no one who is liberated. This is the absolute truth.
III. 19. The birthless One is differentiated only through illusion, and in no other way. For if differentiation were real then the immortal would become mortal (which is absurd).
III. 28. There is no birth for a non-existent thing either through illusion or reality. The son of a barren woman is not born either through illusion or reality.
III. 46. When the mind does not disappear nor again is dispersed, when it is motionless and without sense-images, then it becomes Brahman.[1]
There is some controversy over the extent to which Gaudapada was influenced by Buddhism. Gaudapada uses intellectual arguments and images directly drawn from Buddhist sources to construct his philosophy. While traditional Vedantins must admit these parallels, they maintain that he merely was merely using common content from the contemporary discussion to make his own, original point.
In my opinion, he seems to be taking Buddhist philosophy and retroactively reading it into the Mandukya Upanishad to give the philosophy a "Hindu" source. This is not really necessary, since the Buddha was probably drawing from these Upanishads himself, as we have seen.
Gaudapada's philosophy is called Advaita Vedanta. Advaita as we have already seen, means "nondual"—Sanskrit: "not" (a-) "dual" (-dvaita). Vedanta literally means a "limb" (-anta) of the Vedas, and refers to a class of literature that is considered to be a commentary on or continuation of the Vedas.
Gaudapada was the paramguru (guru's guru) of Shankara,[2] who is recognized as the founder of the Advaita Vedanta movement, and is a towering figure in modern Hinduism. Shankara was born in India (probably sometime in theeighth century) when Hinduism had been in decline for many centuries.
Shankara's personal history—even when the obviously mythological portions are elided—tells the story of a young man who seems to have been marked for destiny. A childhood prodigy in Sanskrit and the ancient scriptures, Shankara left home early and found his guru (Govinda, a student of Gaudapada), who taught him the basics of Advaita. From that point onward, Shankara was unstoppable, walking the length and breadth of India to teach Advaita, reform what he saw as degenerate practices, debate with religious scholars, and re-ignite interest in Hinduism among the Indian populace.
The impact of Shakara's Advaita philosophy on modern Hinduism cannot be overstated. His many writings, charismatic personality, and dedication to the cause revitalized what had been a religion in decline. More importantly for our discussion, however, Shankara recast much of Hindu religion in a nondual mold. Nondualism became an underlying perspective on old practices and traditions. Even the many gods were seen to exist as part of the play of maya, just more manifestations of Brahman. Of course there have been many backlashes and counter- reformations from the dualist camps, but overall Shankara's nondualism has become one of the foundational outlooks of Hinduism. This in turn greatly influenced the modern discussion of nondualism in the West, as we'll see in an upcoming section.
The Philosophy of Advaita Vedanta
Shankara summarized his entire philosophy of Advaita in a single, pithy sentence:[3]
Brahma satyam jagat mithyā, jīvo brahmaiva nāparah — Brahman is the only truth, the world is illusion, and there is ultimately no difference between Brahman and individual self.
This, in a nutshell, is Advaita Vedanta. Shankara states that Brahman is the one and only reality, the one existence, the one without a second. It is pure consciousness, free from any taint, beginningless and endless. It is joy, forever beyond the reach of pain, indivisible, immeasurable, formless, nameless, immutable. [4] It is the infinite, omnipresent, omnipotent, incorporeal, impersonal, transcendent reality that is the ground of all being. [5]
Although such words are all attempts at describing Brahman, the highest Brahman is actually completely without any attributes whatsoever. This highest Brahman is called nirguna brahman, which literally means "Brahman without attributes." Any appearance of a God or deity of any kind (saguna brahman, lit: "Brahman with attributes") is merely Brahman taking on a mask or persona, and does not represent the actual nature of Brahman.
In Shankara's formulation the individual soul and Brahman are identical. The soul (atman) is not some small part of Brahman that eventually merges back into Brahman. The soul is actually the entirety of Brahman. According to Shankara (unlike in the Western religions, and some forms of Hinduism), each person does not have a unique, individual soul that then returns to Brahman upon enlightenment or death. Instead there is no individual soul whatsoever. There is only one Atman, and it is identical with Brahman. The false idea that there are many souls arises from the tricks of maya. Individuals (jiva) live in a state of ignorance in a body with senses, which causes the delusion that we feel as if we have an individual soul. In Shankara's metaphor, it is as if the one moon in the sky were reflected by many bubbles.
Critics accused Shankara of being a "secret Buddhist," and of more or less sneaking Buddhism into Hinduism. Indeed, it is hard not to compare his atman/Brahman concept to the Buddha-nature or storehouse consciousness ideas. They seem to just be different names for the same idea. For his part, Shankara vehemently denied this. He was an erudite philosopher, and used his extensive knowledge of Buddhism to show the differences between his teachings and the Buddhist view. A review of these differences, however, quickly shows them to be (in my opinion) very minor. Call it Brahman or Buddha-nature, it is nondual awareness either way.
Advaita Practices for Moksha, or Liberation
Enlightenment (Skt. moksha, lit: "liberation") is possible, according to Advaita, by overcoming the delusion of maya, and thereby seeing the identity of Atman with Brahman. We see that there is absolutely no difference, that they are one and the same.
There are several well-known Advaita techniques for achieving liberation. Probably the most famous traditional practice is that of neti-neti. As we saw in the Upanishad section, this is a statement from the Brihardaranyaka Upanishad, describing Brahman as "not this, not that." The practitioner applies this statement to any and all sensory experiences (including thoughts) that arise in consciousness. This is done as an active, phenomenological inquiry, not the rote repetition of a mantra. Whatever arises is seen to be the product of maya, of something other than perfect, nondual awareness. It is just an illusion. This practice functions as a kind of pointing out instruction that constantly draws attention to awareness itself, rather than the object of awareness.
Another practice is the mantra aham brahma'smi, which means, "I am Brahman," (also found in the Brihardaranyaka Upanishad). This sentence is called the "great proclamation," because it not only represents the philosophical understanding of the essence of Advaita, but it is also said to be the realization or proclamation of a yogi at the moment of enlightenment: "Eureka! I am Brahman!"
There are of course many other practices, some of them from the "do nothing" school that emphasizes the pre-existing condition of nondual awareness, in a manner reminiscent of the dzogchen tradition – i.e. "You are already there."
There is a fascinating story about the Advaita practices of Ramakrishna, probably the most famous Indian saint of thenineteenth Century. At the time of the story, Ramakrishna was already a master of dualistic mysticism, fully steeped in the meditation of the Goddess Kali. Nevertheless he agreed to receive the Advaita teachings from a wandering, naked, ash-besmeared master of nondualism named Totapuri.
Totapuri regarded all forms of worship, so dear to Ramakrishna, as childish and ridiculous. He instructed Ramakrishna the basics of Advaita Vedanta, saying:
"Brahman is the only Reality, ever pure, ever illumined, ever free, beyond the limits of time, space, and causation. Though apparently divided by names and forms through the inscrutable power of maya, that enchantress who makes the impossible possible, Brahman is really One and undivided. When a seeker merges in the beatitude of samadhi, he does not perceive time and space or name and form, the offspring of maya. Whatever is within the domain of maya is unreal. Give it up. Destroy the prisonhouse of name and form and rush out of it with the strength of a lion. Dive deep in search of the Self and realize It through samadhi. You will find the world of name and form vanishing into void, and the puny ego dissolving in Brahman-Consciousness. You will realize your identity with Brahman, Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute."
He also taught Ramakrishna the practice of formless meditation (technically different than nondual meditation, but nevertheless a major step in that direction), but that first night as Ramakrishna sat to meditate, he was immediately lost in dualistic absorption of the Goddess Kali. When he reported this failure to Totapuri the next day, his teacher picked up a tiny shard of glass from the ground and stuck it into the skin between Ramakrishna's eyes, ordering him to concentrate on that spot. So Ramakrishna sat in meditation, and when Kali arrived again, he – in his own metaphor – picked up the "sword of nondual wisdom and cut her down with it." She instantly disappeared and Ramakrishna was thrust into a nondual absorption that lasted several days. He thanked Totapuri, saying, "If you had not come, I would have lived my whole life with the hallucination. My last barrier has fallen away."
But Totapuri himself had not yet finished expanding the depths of his own nondual awareness. Several months after his teaching of Ramakrishna, Totapuri contracted a severe case of dysentery. His incapacitation made it impossible to meditate, and so – in the classic style of an Advaitin monk – he grew disgusted with the limitations of his body. In his view the body was nothing more than an illusion or obstacle on his path, and now it was being more of an obstacle than usual. A free soul cares nothing for the body. So one night Totapuri strode into the Ganges determined to drown his body and be rid of this annoying object. But the tide was out and he ended up walking all the way across to the other side unharmed. Dumbfounded, he looked back at the Kali Temple gleaming in the moonlight and experienced a sudden, deep awakening. He saw the power of the absolute not just in the formless, but now also in the form of the temple, the goddess, the river, even his body. Thus Totapuri experienced the elimination of the distinction between form and the formless, and went to a much deeper level of nondual awareness. As the Heart Sutra maintains, the perfection of wisdom lies in the realization that emptiness and form are one, not two.
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[1] Translation by Eliot Deutsch, in The Essential Vedanta: A New Source Book of Advaita Vedanta
[2] Shankara – As is typical for an important figure in Hinduism, Shankara has a bewilderingly large number of names by which he is known. Commonly he is also called Shankacharya. Acharya, means a guru or religious teacher, specifically the head of a spiritual lineage, so this name means "Shankara the Teacher." Shankara founded several important lineages, and the heads of these lineages are today each known, confusingly, as Shankaracharya. To distinguish the original Shankaracharya from these successors, the historical figure is often referred to as Adishankacharya, which means the "Original Shankara the Teacher." Adding to the confusion, Shankara is also spelled "Sankara" in English."
[3] Quote from Brahma Jnanavali Mala
[4] Summarized from Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination, translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood
[5] From Wikipedia's Advaita Vedanta article
This article was first published in November, 2014
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TO PLUCK AT WILL: FRUIT TREES IN COMMON PROPERTY
Geography and You|Issue 146, 2020
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Issue 142 - 143, 2020
Understanding Caste and Class - Categories and Measurement
The caste has been a unique social institution in India. It has also emerged in a new form after the mandalisation of caste in the early 1990s resulting in the extension of reservation to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in government jobs and also in admissions to colleges and universities. The relative size of population of various caste groups particularly of the OBCs is also a matter of debate. Census does not provide population data on OBCs, however, it is possible to assess it from nationally representative sample surveys. Further, the correspondence between caste categories and class has been a matter of debate. This paper presents an assessment of class within caste categories based on data from nationally representative sample surveys.
The Middle Class - As the Class of No Class
An attempt to understand some of the ambiguities around what it means to be middle class in India has been made in this paper. It also discusses the influence that the middle class supposedly has on Indian politics despite these uncertainties.
A Stove Called Yerofeyich
Auntie Nina even pinched herself in the side, but no – it wasn't a dream.
how to hit the reset button
When emotions are spiraling out of control, it's time to go within and meditate.
Blessings, Interrupted
Social service agencies struggle to adapt to the disconnected world of COVID