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Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint is a Canadian musician and fantasy author of dozens of books and short fiction. Many of his stories take place in the Newford universe. His works have received around 15 nominations for the World Fantasy Award, plus several nominations from the British Fantasy Society, Nebula Awards, Bram Stoker, and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards. Charles de Lint is most famous for his blending of urban fantasy and mythic fiction.
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Interview with Charles de Lint
Matthew Peterson: You're listening to The Author Hour: Your Guide to Fantastic Fiction which can be found at www.TheAuthorHour.com. I'm your host, Matthew Peterson, author of Paraworld Zero. My next guest is Charles de Lint, a Canadian fantasy author of dozens of books and short fiction. His works have received around 15 nominations for the World Fantasy Award, plus several nominations from the British Fantasy Society, Nebula Awards, Bram Stoker, and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards. Charles de Lint is most famous for his blending of urban fantasy and mythic fiction, which we'll talk a little bit about today. Thanks for being on the show.
Charles de Lint: Hey, thanks for having me.
Matthew Peterson: Now, I know you're most known for your Newford series. For those listeners out there not familiar with your work, can you give us a little summary of the Newford series?
Charles de Lint: Newford is just a very large urban North American city in which a lot of people have paranormal experiences. One of my favorite reviews for one of my books was, and it was for a Newford book, was someone said that I'm doing for fantasy what Stephen King does for horror. In other words, it's ordinary everyday people who have an account with something strange, and then I explore how it affects their life. My characters usually tend to be more on the fringes of society. So they're, you know, artists, musicians, homeless people, you know, outlaws, that kind of thing.
Matthew Peterson: And you have books and you have lots of short fiction. Lots of stories, right, that are set in Newford?
Charles de Lint: Yeah, people ask me to do something for an anthology. They always give you a theme, like, I don't know, vampires, or something. And I always like to see how I can fit it into my Newford stories. My favorite stretch was when I was asked to do a Hellboy story.
Charles de Lint: So actually Hellboy does visit Newford at one point.
Matthew Peterson: So is there something, like, special about this city, or is it just, special with the world, like the whole world is like this, or is it just the Newford city?
Charles de Lint: No, it's like in every city except, 'cause you know most people don't realize that there's stuff going on. Much of the urban fantasy that's happening today, they have these different races of werewolves and vampires and things like that.
Charles de Lint: And they're kind of hiding from society. It doesn't have the same feel as that. It's more just ordinary folks kind of have a strange encounter.
Matthew Peterson: Strange encounters.
Charles de Lint: We see how it affects their lives. A lot of stories also deal with very much real world concerns. Whether it's abuse or homelessness or environmental concerns. And the one point I always try to make strongly in the stories is that the magic doesn't solve anything. Those kind of problems have to be solved from the people themselves.
Matthew Peterson: From the people, yeah.
Charles de Lint: Well, it's not fair otherwise.
Matthew Peterson: Snap you fingers and the problem's solved.
Charles de Lint: You know, some kid reads a. . . has a horrible home life and she reads a book, and you know the fairies came and saved the kid in the book, you know, she's going to be all depressed because fairies didn't save her.
Matthew Peterson: Didn't save her.
Charles de Lint: Instead you see the kid maybe did an outreach program or whatever and got help that way, then maybe that, the real world kid thinks maybe that's something she could try as well.
Matthew Peterson: Now I understand that you have a big collection of short fiction in the Newford series that's coming out, Muse and Reverie.
Charles de Lint: Basically it's just volume 5 of the short stories. Every time I get a certain batch, enough to put a book together, Tor seems to be kind enough to put them out in a collection. So this is just the fifth collection of these stories. And the nice thing about this, which is kudos to my readers for supporting it, because the first book that must have come out, oh, I don't know, you know, 12, 14 years ago, and it's still in print.
Charles de Lint: Pretty cool for stories.
Matthew Peterson: I understand one of your earlier novels, Moonheart, that's one of Tor's best-selling trade paperbacks in the Orb line?
Charles de Lint: Yeah, well apparently. Maybe not anymore, but it was at one point.
Matthew Peterson: Yeah, it's one of them.
Charles de Lint: That's not a Newford book. I was doing sort of a contemporary fantasy in other settings before that.
Charles de Lint: That one's set in my home town of Ottawa. I have books that were set in rural areas around Ottawa. I had a book set in Cornwall, England, you know, just various places.
Matthew Peterson: And one of your latest novels, The Mystery of Grace, is that in the Newford series, or is that a stand alone novel?
Charles de Lint: No, basically what happened is, although I have one more collections worth of short stories that are already finished and done--so there will be one more Newford collection after Muse and Reverie--I'm just taking a break. 'Cause, you know, I've written a lot about that city. It seems like every single person... it's a large city, but it seems like every single person has had some type of magical experience. It doesn't feel very fresh.
Charles de Lint: So I've gone off to do different things. So Mystery of Grace is set in the Southwest.
Matthew Peterson: Southwest.
Charles de Lint: In the Southwest.
Matthew Peterson: And you've done some young adult novels as well. I mean it's not all adult. What are some of the young adult [novels] that you've done?
Charles de Lint: Well, actually I did one of the teen, years ago called The Dreaming Place for Atheneum, but more recently an editor, named Sharyn November, at Viking approached me a few years ago . . .
Matthew Peterson: I know Sharyn, yeah.
Charles de Lint: I ended up doing a number of books with her. First one was a collection called Waifs and Strays, and then after that it was The Blue Girl, Little (Grrl) Lost and Dingo. And I just turned in a new one to her yesterday, actually, and I don't even have a title for it.
Matthew Peterson: Ah! You've turned it in; you don't have a title?
Charles de Lint: Yeah, well, I have a title, but nobody likes it.
Matthew Peterson: Nobody likes it, yeah. Publishers like to change those.
Charles de Lint: I've done it before where I've just given a title to something, turned it in and then, you know, years later you'll see in bibliographies, people are looking for this obscure book and it was just the old title or something else.
Matthew Peterson: Yeah, I did that with my publisher once. Next thing I know it was listed on Amazon and it was coming out like in the next month, and I'm like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, I haven't even written this thing yet." [laughs] It's not even the title anymore.
Charles de Lint: [laughs]
Matthew Peterson: I haven't read Little (Grrl) Lost, but I like the covers of those, of Little (Grrl) Lost and Dingo.
Charles de Lint: I've been pretty lucky with all my covers, actually.
Charles de Lint: Since with TOR and then with Viking, I've been very lucky with those covers. They have a nice mood to them. They're well executed. So I have no complaints.
Matthew Peterson: Oh, yeah. That's good, 'cause you never know what you're going to get with that cover, and I kind of scanned through a lot of your different covers and they're very well done--gotta say that for you.
Charles de Lint: The thing is, is that, you know, even though everyone says don't judge a book by the cover, we all do.
Charles de Lint: So we just can't help it. If the cover's attractive, you know, then it attracts us, and if it's like a dog, even though it's by someone we know and like, we're still a bit reluctant to pick it up. It's sad.
Matthew Peterson: Yeah. I agree. Yeah. I understand that you write some music as well, with the flute or fiddle and guitar.
Charles de Lint: Well, I play a lot of music and I've written a number of songs. There was a point, one of the books, Little Country, I think it was, I decided to include an appendix of tunes that the character had written, which are just tunes that I had written. They were in that sort of Celtic idiom where it's jigs and reels: 6/8, 4/4, that kind of thing. I haven't been doing as much. I don't do much Celtic music anymore. I do... I'm more interested in story songs, kind of Americana.
Matthew Peterson: Oh, okay. Yeah.
Charles de Lint: It's just another way of telling stories basically. So what writing I've been doing in music, it has been focused on that instead.
Matthew Peterson: So do you actually play the instruments as well?
Charles de Lint: Oh, yeah. I've been playing for years and years. In fact I wanted to be a musician long before I wanted to be a writer. That's what I wanted to do. I just was playing Celtic music at the time, and it was like totally the wrong choice of music.
Charles de Lint: That was at the point when there just was no such thing as world music. You know, nobody knew what that kind of music was.
Matthew Peterson: Yeah, well, they're both difficult fields to get into. You know, both music and writing.
Charles de Lint: Oh, yeah, anything in the arts are killer. You always want to tell people who want to be a musician or an artist or a writer...
Matthew Peterson: or an athlete.
Charles de Lint: "Think about it . . . The only reason you should do it is if you can't not do it, 'cause boy there's a lot of heartbreak involved."
Matthew Peterson: Yeah. Let me ask you this last question before the commercial break.
Charles de Lint: Sure.
Matthew Peterson: You know, you've been writing a lot and you're kind of taking a little break of Newford. What can we expect in the future from you?
Charles de Lint: Well, I've got... the setting for The Mystery of Grace was at the American Southwest, and I'm planning at the moment to do three books there. So I did that one. The young adult one I turned in is in that setting. And then I'm going to do one more adult novel and then I don't know. I'll see where I go after that. I'd give you more plot sort of information, but I find that if I talk about the plot of a book I don't feel like writing it anymore.
Matthew Peterson: Yeah, yeah.
Charles de Lint: So, I just don't.
Matthew Peterson: Yeah, well, that's fine. Well, thank you so much. I've been speaking with Charles de Lint, author of lots of different books, fantasy, and lots of short fiction as well. So take a look at it. Thanks for being on the show, Charles.
Charles de Lint: Thanks for having me. Take care.
Matthew Peterson: Alright, that's it for today. Be sure to visit www.TheAuthorHour.com to listen to all the bonus questions that didn't make it onto the live show. Next week, I got four authors who write young adult novels: James A. Owen, Frank Beddor, John Flanagan, and James Dashner. See you then.


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California's Bureau of Cannabis Control is in the middle of taking public comment for recently proposed regulations.
In El Cajon, sales of "cannabis goods" are not allowed for storefronts or deliveries.
"We've been against the proliferation of cannabis in El Cajon from pretty much every perspective," said El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells.
The El Cajon City Council will consider Tuesday sending a letter to Bureau of Cannabis Control in opposition to allowing deliveries anywhere in the state.
"Proposition 64 was pretty clear that part of the trade off was cities would be able to have some control over how marijuana is dispensed," Wells said. "We think that this new push to allow delivery inside the city is really outside of the spirit of (Proposition) 64 which in essence takes away our local control."
The Bureau of Cannabis Control said the public comment period ends on Aug. 27 and will have finalized regulations by the first week of December.
The Bureau of Cannabis Control already believes licensed marijuana deliveries are already legal under state law to any California jurisdiction. A spokesman said part of the newly proposed regulations are meant to clear up any confusion. Some critics, like the League of California Cities, disagree and said the existing law is vague.
This week the city council's of El Cajon and San Marcos are considering sending letters in opposition to proposed state pot rules specifically concerning marijuana deliveries.
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Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man: The complete Yaffa cover gallery
Here's a cover gallery of my complete run of Yaffa/Page Publications' Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man series, with notes following:
#1, c. November 1977
#2, c. April 1978
#3, c. December 1978
#4, 1979
#5, c. June 1980
#7, c. May 1981
The first four issues are regular/magazine-sized issues, and the rest are 'short' digest-sized, apart from #9 which is a 'tall' digest-sized issue.
Update: https://notesfromthejunkyard.blogspot.com.au/2017/10/peter-parker-spectacular-spider-man-10.html
The dates are approximations based on available information.
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Daredevil #5 and iron Man #5: The folly, the anoma...
The Yaffa/Page Publications Marvel series: A profi...
Kid Colt Outlaw #5: Unintentionally unnumbered
Federal Marvel comics: May 1984
Dating the Yaffa Marvel digests - 1984
Marvel's Greatest Comics! The Yaffa editions
Ghost Rider #10: MAY 1982
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The Charmed reboot may have been controversial, but you know what they say — there's no such thing as bad publicity. Charmed appears to have thrived on the controversy, being the first freshman series on The CW to get a full season order!
The CW President Mark Pedowitz announced today that the network has ordered a full, 22-episode season from Charmed as well as three additional episodes of All American and Legacies. That takes the total number of episodes in All American and Legacies first season up to 16. If you're wondering why Charmed got singled out for more episodes than the other two freshman series, it most likely has to do with the sizable increases in ratings once delayed viewing was factored in. All American and Legacies have both seen upticks in delayed viewing, but Charmed has seen its linear ratings more than double in key demos in Live+7 viewership.
This full season order bodes well for Charmed's chances of renewal, especially considering The CW will be losing so many shows from its roster when spring rolls around. iZombie, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Jane the Virgin are all on their final seasons this year, and while that doesn't guarantee that The CW will be less likely to cancel its freshman series, it certainly makes it a less competitive race than usual.


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Police: Man, 65, Pulls Gun, Shoots Attackers In Queen Village
March 1, 2016 / 11:19 PM / CBS Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (CBS/AP) — Police say a 65-year-old man pulled a gun and shot two men who were beating him near his home in Philadelphia.
It happened around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 700 block of South 2nd Street in the city's Queen Village neighborhood.
Authorities say a 20-year-old man and a 21-year-old man started accosting the man and his wife and the altercation soon turned physical. That's when police say the man pulled his .45-caliber handgun and shot both of the younger men.
Police say the younger men were taken to a hospital and the 65-year-old man was treated for injuries to his mouth and head. Investigators say the older man had a license to carry.
It's unclear if the men will face any charges.
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Beyond beauty: Taiwan from above (2013)
Andy Birtwistle 2022. Beyond beauty: Taiwan from above (2013). in: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis and Wenchi Lin (ed.) 32 New Takes on Taiwan Cinema University of Michigan Press.
Andy Birtwistle
Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis and Wenchi Lin
Taiwan; Documentary; Ecocinema
32 New Takes on Taiwan Cinema
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Ensemble and otherness: The jazz musician in Robert Altman's Kansas City (1996)
Birtwistle, A. 2022. Ensemble and otherness: The jazz musician in Robert Altman's Kansas City (1996). Savoirs en prisme. (16 (part 2)), pp. 59-74. https://doi.org/10.34929/sep.vi16.257
Jack Ellitt as director: Documentary films of the 1940s
Birtwistle, A. 2021. Jack Ellitt as director: Documentary films of the 1940s. Journal of British Cinema and Television. 18 (3), pp. 329-359. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0577
Start here: Sounding the materiality of the compact audio cassette
Birtwistle, A. 2021. Start here: Sounding the materiality of the compact audio cassette. Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture. 2 (2), pp. 192-217. https://doi.org/10.1525/res.2021.2.2.192
Material resistance: towards a politics of listening
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Le Moulin: audiovisual non-synchronization and the making of a historical documentary
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Big Paul: The death of video and the return of the repressed
Birtwistle, A. 2019. Big Paul: The death of video and the return of the repressed. in: Lissel, E., Jutz, G. and Jukić, N. (ed.) Reset the Apparatus! A Survey of the Photographic and the Filmic in Contemporary Art Berlin/Boston De Gruyter. pp. 91-104
Start Here - the art of the audio cassette
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Meaning and musicality: sound-image relations in the films of John Smith
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Review: Sync: Stylistics of Hieroglyphic Time James Tobias, Sync: Stylistics of Hieroglyphic Time. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2010, 304 pp.
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Birtwistle, A. and Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury 2013. Listen. in: Stone, H. (ed.) John Smith Canterbury Sidney Cooper Gallery.
Electroacoustic composition and the British documentary tradition
Birtwistle, A. 2016. Electroacoustic composition and the British documentary tradition. in: Greene, L. and Kulezic-Wilson, D. (ed.) Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media: Integrated Soundtracks Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 387-402
Noise, agency, and the sound of obsolete technology
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Photographic sound art and the silent modernity of Walter Ruttmann's 'Weekend' (1930).
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Radical conformity: Len Lye and the theorisation of film practice
Birtwistle, A. 2015. Radical conformity: Len Lye and the theorisation of film practice.
Heavy weather: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tsai Ming-liang, and the poetics of environmental sound
Birtwistle, A. 2014. Heavy weather: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tsai Ming-liang, and the poetics of environmental sound. Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 32 (1), pp. 72-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2012.757529
White noise: the representation of modernity in the films of Pai Ching-jui
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Douglas Gordon and cinematic audiovisuality in the age of television: experiencing the experience of cinema
Birtwistle, A. 2012. Douglas Gordon and cinematic audiovisuality in the age of television: experiencing the experience of cinema. Visual Culture in Britain. 13 (1), pp. 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2012.641780
The Turner Prize: lead monkey of democracy
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Noise, memory, monotony and drones: the sound of film technology
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White Noise: The representation of Modernity in the films of Bai Jing-rui
Birtwistle, A. 2009. White Noise: The representation of Modernity in the films of Bai Jing-rui.
Disorganising organised sound: The silent modernity of Walter Ruttman's Weekend
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Cinesonica: sounding film and video
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L'Adventurra (The Adventure)
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Robert Altman's Kansas City (1996) and the spaces of jazz
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Stories of the Eye - Harbouring History
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Marking time and sounding difference: Brubeck, temporality and modernity
Birtwistle, A. 2010. Marking time and sounding difference: Brubeck, temporality and modernity. Popular Music. 29 (3), pp. 351-371. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143010000243


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"I do owe Katrina a lot." - Bharat director Ali Abbas Zafar on Katrina Kaif
When Priyanka Chopra made a sudden exit from Ali Abbas Zafar's Salman Bharat with Salman Khan as the male lead, it was Katrina Kaif who came to rescue and replaced Priyanka Chopra as film's leading lady. Katrina' sweet gesture sure made Ali emotional as he recalls their bond. The filmmaker feels really obliged to Katrina. Ali and Katrina goes long back. Katrina is very good friend of Ali and she was the leading lady of Ali Abbas Zafar's directorial debut Mere Brother Ki Dulhan. When Ali needed her the most, she came in his support.
Talking about Katrina's support, Ali said to a leading daily, "I do owe a lot to Katrina. When you make a tent-pole film like this, which everyone talks about, there is a lot of pressure that's riding on you and you will make that film only once in your life. Considering that, the decisions have to be unemotional. Often, emotional decisions can backfire. I have taken the decision of roping in Katrina unemotionally. Luckily, Katrina's dates were also available. Obviously, the schedule is going to change a lot. She also has two other films in her kitty, but we will work around that."
It must have been an awkward moment for Ali when he must have approached Katrina for the film for a script that was initially written for Priyanka Chopra. To this, Ali said, "Maturity and time also teach you a lot of things. Sometimes, you have to keep your ego aside. It is not a show where people are coming first or second. It's important to enjoy the process. In Bharat, the character does justice to Katrina's presence, and that is why I think she has chosen to do the film. We have been close friends and even in the past, I have told her that if she doesn't like a film that I have offered her, she can always choose to say no. Our friendship does not come in the way of our professional relationship. And she has said 'no' to me a couple of times. We work on many scripts, more than the ones that actually are made into films. I have offered Katrina many roles between the time that I made Gunday and Tiger Zinda Hai and she's said 'no' to a lot of those roles. There is nothing wrong with an actor refusing a role you've offered them because they might not share the same passion when it comes to the story. I keep my emotions on the back foot when it comes to my profession. Tomorrow if a superstar, male or female says no to me, I won't take it to heart."
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Aeon Centre of Cosmology
Contours of the Binary Creation
by Thea Messages, 4 May 2015
Prominent in the Indian news is the burning issue of marital rape, whether or not to amend existing laws to criminalise the act. The debate in Parliament further added fuel to the fire when the Minister dismissed the question by stating that rape in marriage did not exist insofar as in Indian culture marriage is a 'sacrament', the implication being that therefore there cannot be any question of rape. As was to be expected, his statement set the cat among the pigeons. Advocates of women's rights were quick to condemn the statement as being patriarchal and revealing of the prevailing mindset that marriage actually denotes ownership of women by men; but how far will they go in bringing about a mindset shift, the necessity of which was made evident by the Minister's statement?
Communism sought to change the mindset of the population by doing away with the conventions fostered by the old order in which religion was the most prominent binding force. Matrimony was one such tradition. It was seen to attack the very foundation of the egalitarian society Marx and Lenin sought to introduce. The truth be told, as marriage stands today it is a means to subjugate women in most cases. The Indian Minister made that clear enough when he brushed aside the right of a woman to protect herself from the violence of rape, especially and above all rape perpetuated by her husband, by claiming that the sanctity of marriage precludes any question of rape taking place! What he really meant was that sex is an obligation in marriage and cannot be denied. The woman, 'owned' by her husband when she enters marriage, must succumb to that obligation even if it be by force.
This slavery was sought to be done away with by Communism, but the irony is that one minor form of patriarchy was simply replaced by a major one: the patriarchy of the all-powerful State. This reveals that it is not such a simple problem to solve because the root-cause must be dealt with, and that lies deep within the psychological constitution of the human being, particularly women.
In the mid 1980s I wrote a paper entitled The New Way of Woman. One of the main points I made was that if the condition of women was ever to change in the world, the shift had to come first in women themselves.
There is a larger issue to question here: The entire structure of civilisation – east, west, north, south – is binary. I call it the Binary Creation. Marriage is a critical element in that structure: it is the glue that holds it together; in that is included almost everything civilisation as we know it across the globe has created. Therefore it is cherished by traditionalists of whatever hue.
But at the behest of the Zeitgeist, society has a way of challenging those old structures because they stand in the way of a new breath of freedom women can now experience, provided they realise that these institutions are the shackles of their own choosing. They ostensibly 'protect' women and offer them the security in law they would otherwise lack. And it is this lust for security that is the favourite tool of those who oppose the new times.
In the zodiac based on the Vedic correspondences of the signs, this aspect of life is conveyed very clearly in the fourth sign Cancer. If we view the zodiac as a 'journey', the journey of an individual from the moment he or she takes a first independent breath as one enters the wheel of Earth time, the fourth stage is seen as the plunge of the Divine Spark we all carry within, fully into this creation of dense Matter. It therefore marks the stage when the ego becomes the axis around which the individual's life experiences revolve. But hidden within is that Divine Spark, veiled initially – because that very fact is the purpose of birth on this third planet of our solar system: it is here, and only here, that the soul incarnates to experience its fall into the oblivion matter imposes, and to remain hidden there until Time encourages that Spark to grow in intensity into a flame that eventually illumines every nook and cranny of the many layers (veils) beneath which it lays hidden – but also protected.
The ego-axis causes us to find succour in those veils. In common parlance, they are our 'comfort zone'. There is no better way to describe the nature of Cancer in the Journey and what it offers the human being on this often perilous though intriguing, and always mysterious voyage so unique to Earth life.
In the Veda this stage is personified as Diti, the Mother of Division. Though she lacks unity Diti plays an important role in our lives because she lies at the root of the Binary Creation; the ego, as our axial balancing structure, is her tool. Thus, on that foundation we create societies, from primitive to the apparently more enlightened, with the many institutions and laws that serve Diti in securing the perpetuation of her binaryinterests and maintaining the status quo. In this dark, dense world of Matter, the quest for security is the paramount goal, along with the propagation and survival of the binary creation. Darwin got it wrong: it is not the survival of the species that drives evolution; it is the quest for the supremacy of Diti's creation in this particular round of the Precession of the Equinoxes as seen in the Map of the 12 Manifestations. The purpose or goal set before us as an evolving species in this vast cycle of 77,760 years is the establishment of a civilisation that has surpassed the binary and entered the realm of the Mother of Unity; she is known as Aditi in the Veda, or Capricorn in the zodiac where she stands in direct opposition to Diti of Cancer.
The key feature of a unitary creation is that each thing is in its rightful place. Nothing needs to be discarded (i.e. destroyed) but putting all aspects of material creation 'in their place' introduces an integral and harmonious balance such as we have never known, at least in the current Great Circle. But it is a destiny we cannot avoid: to establish a society in which women will play prominent roles, as seen in the Aditi/Diti axis of the Goddesses. For indeed, the ego-axis is not the full story. It is the reality of fragmentary perception demonstrated in a linear appraisal that cuts the zodiacal wheel in half, unmindful that there is another, higher hemisphere – that the Journey is of 12 stages: six constitute the lower hemisphere whose regent is Diti; six are the higher, ruled over by Aditi. When only the lower forms the totality of our world Diti then supplies our needs, good 'mother' that she is; foremost of which is the ego-axis. This implies that nothing can be 'in its rightful place' because one's universe (journey through time) consists only of six stages, central to which is Diti (Cancer), the Mother of Division. In this condition we abide in a woeful state of incompletion.
Our civilisation, societies the world over are the outcome of this fragmentary appreciation of life. Diti would be another name for Eve. In the Biblical tale the task and its trajectory are made evident: the Old Testament offers a very exact description of the Mental/Binary Creation of Adam and Eve. It lays bare the trials and tribulations of the races on Earth that bear the burden of the Old – the Mental/Binary structure – in the throes of a process of ever greater division (Diti's expertise) until finally in the last book of the New Testament, The Revelation, the conquering principle of the Soul is described and the new order of Unity, based on the number 12, can then take its place on the planet with the perception of a complete system by unveiling the higher hemisphere and each thing can be put in its rightful place. The entire denouement is centred on the number 12. The descent of the 'City of Light', as described in the final chapters of The Revelation, measures 144, the square of 12, further divided into four quarters (the gates) – i.e., the zodiac. (See The New Way 3, Chapter 3, Karma and the Human Cell, or the Genesis of Man.)
The zodiac is the horoscope of the Earth. All the details of our collective and individual journeys are contained in its twelve sacred symbols. This is the gift provided to humanity to serve as an anchor as we move across turbulent waters to reach the shores of the new world of Unity and Truth. In The Magical Carousel, the new myth for the new age, the corresponding attributes of the Diti/Aditi axis (Earth's actual orbital axis around the Sun, balanced on the December/June solstices) are clearly explained. Regarding Diti the key symbol is presented at the entry to the sign Cancer, the Crab, as the children Val and Pom-pom are carried out of Gemini-land by a large bird:
Darkness encloses them, like being suspended in a black onyx stone…Before long they stop descending and can see the approaching surface of water which slowly becomes illuminated… The bird glides smoothly over the water, circling many times until finally he seems to find what he is searching for. Gently and with great care he deposits Val and Pom-pom on what appears to be a rock slightly protruding above the top of the water…
…Tired now after the long journey and in spite of their fear, they curl up close to each other and fall into a deep sleep… For a long while they remain like this – who knows how long really – until they are awakened from their slumber by a soft rocking motion.
'What?' cries Val, 'the rock is moving! We're moving, Pom-pom. Wake up!'
They shake the sleep out of their frail bodies and in no time are wide awake, with eyes enormous and shiny in the pitch darkness… After a seemingly endless ride very soon the rock cautiously emerges from the water and to the amazement, horror, fright and wonder of Val and Pom-pom, they see it is a huge crab they have been sleeping on, an enormous coral-coloured Crab! (The Magical Carousel, Aeon Book, pp.32-33.)
The shock the children receive is when the solid rock they thought they were sleeping on begins to move. This describes the ego-axis better than any more complicated definition. It is believed to be stable and to provide the firm security creatures on Earth desire and cherish. But the tale describes the true condition: Stability of the ego is a gross illusion. Given this introduction the remaining passage through the Queen of Night/Diti's realm (Cancer) is simply the temptation presented to the children of the myriad distracting disguises Diti dons to beguile her audience and provide individuals in her care with all the comforts and security demanded in the unstable world of fragmentation and division.
This is our world, the world we have created for ourselves. And this is what is being dismantled brick by brick. But the key of higher knowledge that the zodiac provides is the map that assures us of a grand resolution. As a global civilisation we are in the process of opening up the higher hemisphere to the conscious experience of all humanity and the shift from a binary to a unitary creation, the implication of which is that the measure of 12 has become our integrated field of perception and the foundation of a new world order. The Mother made the matter clear in her letter on the subject: with the ego in place we cannot reach the higher realms of the Supermind.
Diti is not alone, for her cherished ego-axis indeed offers no stability, just as the moving rock/crab indicates. Stability arises only with the discovery or unveiling of the other end of the axis – that then actually brings an axis into being. It is Aditi, the Mother of Unity. In The Magical Carousel she is known as Omanisol. And to convey the sense of permanence and stability she represents in evolution, the chosen symbol is no longer a rock/crab but the magnificent sacred Mountain, her abode and apex of the Journey. As the children scale the mountain they finally emerge at the summit:
A woman sits before them.
She is clothed in robes that blend with the mountain, in fact she herself appears to be a continuation of the mountain itself. She sits on the ground with legs crossed and covered by the robes, immobile and breathing ever so slightly, in a manner which makes one feel the physical life in her is suspended. Her face is not old but rather ancient, and her half-closed eyes reveal an understanding that is of the nature of the mountain over which she presides. Omanisol is cloaked in an aura of serenity and strength, of timelessness and intensity, which becomes a part of the children merely by being in her presence…. (pp.111-112.)
There is not even a hint of instability in this imagery. Omanisol presides over the entire universal manifestation; all the worlds, subtle and dense are a part of her dominion. She presides over those vast spaces but she also resides in the deepest recesses of our hearts. Indeed, this sacred Mountain (reproduced in the Gopurams of every Hindu Temple) is not reached by any extension outside or in the beyond. Omanisol is the Earth herself. That is, she embodies the Earth's sacred and divine Purpose within our Sun's planetary family.The Magical Carousel maps out the way to reach this soul-essence of our very planet (Omanisol) in Chapter 9, as the children leave the land of Sagittarius carried by the Centaur to the border:
'They gallop off at great speed, crossing the violet and fuchsia coloured land, for the Centaur makes every effort to fulfil his mission properly to bring the children to their destination on time. He travels so swiftly they seem to go even faster than sound and light, and at a certain moment the very space around them disappears, they are almost unaware of moving at all and seem to have entered a point right within themselves.' (p.102)
Earth creatures need be wary of only two adversaries: Inertia and Incompletion. In fact, they go hand-in-hand. In each of the stages/lands the children experience there is in evidence a pernicious effort to hold them back, to halt the journey, to stop the movement, thereby never reaching the higher realms of the supramental Truth-Consciousness; otherwise known as the Solar World. There is no evil other than this: Inertia; no 'sin' – original or otherwise; and Inertia is simply another meaning of Death: one is held back so tightly, compressed till one is forced by the power of Inertia to exit the material plane. Thus, there is simply incompletion for the mental human species. Death intervenes and cuts the Journey short so that one never reaches the Solar World, the abode of Omanisol. In such a condition of incompletion nothing can find its rightful place.
When the ego is our pivot the higher potential we all carry within cannot come to fruition: the field – or our material base – does not accommodate the abundance of energy required to reach the Summit. The field of life must be made to encompass the full circle (see diagram) and all four quarters must be cleansed of those disfiguring veiling substances the ego structure creates, those beguiling disguises Diti so artfully displays in order to distract the travellers who visit her realm.
We are those travellers. Collectively, as representatives of the mental species we stand right in the middle of her realm. To pin us down she has enlarged her 'wardrobe' of disguises to a degree never before imagined. But the Time-Spirit is the vahana/carrier of each Soul in evolution. We can never succumb to Inertia under whatever guise. The Time-Spirit impels us forward; and in this culminating 9th Manifestation our collective destiny is to open up to our evolving collective consciousness the full 12 by penetrating 'realms very few reach'. In the words of the great wizard and philosopher, Heropidus Heronimous:
'You are about to discover the last three realms, the regions very few consciously reach. Remember Heropidus Heronimous and all his teachings, for in those realms this knowledge is used. Good-bye my little ones, good-bye…' (Ibid, p.102)
Posted in Messages and tagged Binary, Cancer, Capricorn, India, Map of the Manifestations, Mind, Sacred Feminine, Veda, Zodiac.
2 thoughts on "Contours of the Binary Creation"
Lori Tompkins 4 May 2015 at 6:57 pm
Thea, This is such a helpful message … towards being more aware of the binary forces at work and of the need to center. Regarding:
'Darwin got it wrong: it is not the survival of the species that drives evolution; it is the quest for the supremacy of Diti's creation in this particular round of the Precession of the Equinoxes as seen in the Map of the 12 Manifestations.'
I am not understanding 'the quest for the supremacy of Diti's creation' as being what drives evolution.
I understand what is next:
'The purpose or goal set before us as an evolving species in this vast cycle of 77,760 years is the establishment of a civilisation that has surpassed the binary and entered the realm of the Mother of Unity; she is known as Aditi in the Veda, or Capricorn in the zodiac where she stands in direct opposition to Diti of Cancer.'
Can you further expand on your seeing of 'the quest for the supremacy of Diti's creation' as a driving force of evolution?
Thea Post author 5 May 2015 at 2:36 am
It is very much like what I write about the Old Testament. The date Creationists give for the beginning of it all is very accurate. However, not the beginning of God's creation but it was then that the Mental supremacy was set to be demolished with the advent of the Supermind and the 9th Avatar. Jews and Arabs stand for the Mental and Vital principles; and you must agree that they do embody these principles. They are at war with each other and it will remain so until India steps up to the plate and starts demonstrating the Third Way that is housed on her soil. For now she is stuck in the mud and does not see her role clearly, only in bits and pieces. It takes courage to move on…
This is the same. Darwin was looking at evolution from the aboluste perspective: a very long stretch of time during which humans evolved from primates, etc. But actually what we grasp of the process from this point in time is the situation we are faced with at present. We study the 9th Manifestation and the task to be accomplished during this period of 6480 years. And that is the displacement of Mind in favour of the next higher principle. But to accomplish that we must 'raise the pivot' from the sex centre (the ego-axis I write about) to the higher position (the centred man of Leonardo's famed drawing that has played such an important part of my work). Leonardo drew it just as it is: we must raise the pivot of our consciousness-being so that we set a new purpose in the volutionary process – no longer atavistic but a 'higher' purpose. This is explained in 'The Magical Carousel' well enough – the transition from Virgo to Libra, emergence in the higher hemisphere because of dedication to 'a higher cause'.
It is pointless to dwell on the entire evolutionary process from the beginning because it has been handled differently. I hate speculation so we will leave it at that.
Tell me if I have missed something. Thea
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"Best Buy had a corporate undisclosed policy of discouraging and denying customers the benefits of its price match guarantee," Manzheley said in his deposition. "Management mandated that all price match requests that resulted in a product being sold at less than 5 percent above cost would be denied. Best Buy provided a financial incentive for denying proper price match requests." That incentive involved weekly bonuses, he wrote.
Juan Ortiz, another former Best Buy employee, made similar comments in his court deposition, adding that one technique used to discourage those price matches was "a multi-level procedure to request a price match in which the customers would have to escalate their price-match request to at least three levels of Best Buy representatives to have their request considered." The theory was that most consumers would give up.
Among other techniques that he saw in the Connecticut stores he worked in, according to the deposition, was that the store "denied customers' price-match requests claiming that the local competitor was out of stock, without calling or checking" and "denying that the advertisement was from a local competitor regardless of its source."
In case some are wondering whether Ortiz might have worked under a renegade store manager who made these rules up, he said in his deposition where he learned to do these things: "I learned these and other techniques at Best Buy's district facility in White Plains, New York, and Best Buy's training store in Westchester, New York."
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We offer these deposition quotes not to establish whether they did or didn't happen—Best Buy didn't respond to our request to comment for this story—but to illustrate some of the many challenges when chains try and embrace merged channel strategies.
What seems like a bold and obvious strategy at headquarters becomes infinitely more complex in the field. And something as mundane as regional sales bonuses can set off a domino effect that can undermine—and potentially derail—the largest merged channel (and even cross-channel) efforts.
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And yet, price matching—especially where it involves matching Web pricing—is considered fair game. The problem is that these programs—price matching, buy-online-and-pick-up-in-store, money-back guarantees, etc.—are also the heart of the store's brand reputation. The store's GM may see a world of difference between overcharging a credit card $150 and improperly denying a price match that would have delivered to the customer $150 in savings, but the customer won't. Both sour the brand quickly and send customers elsewhere.
Back in October 2008, Circuit City tried dealing with another merged channel hurdle: having the same pricing online and offline. Traditionally, E-Commerce pricing has been lower because of the lower overhead. But when the chain owns both, why not split the difference and equalize all prices? As Circuit City pointed out at the time, that chain's price matching policy and the Web's relentless price comparison sites made having multiple prices ridiculous.
The Circuit City plan and strategy was a good one. OK, so the chain needed to announce that it would permanently close its doors within a few months. I said it was a good strategy, not a perfect one.
Focus On The Realities
Faced with one of the nastiest economies in recent memory, retailers these days are panicking and E-Commerce is the big target. Canadian Tire has already surrendered its home delivery and financially troubled Borders has all but halted E-Commerce investments. And when Circuit City announced it was shutting down, the Web was an almost immediate casualty, while the stores were permitted to live during the clearance sales.
But this is when E-Commerce and mobile commerce are needed the most, and need to be integrated the most, with all other channels. To do that, though, corporate must focus on what realities exist in the stores. If, for example, memos had stressed that improperly denying a price match was a firing offense, then store managers would get no bonus if any improper price match allegation was confirmed within their jurisdiction.
Dictating the broad vision but leaving the logistical details to lower-level managers is simply begging for plans to be derailed. Some execs think the silence provides cover. "We didn't tell them to cheat, so we're blameless."
Web projects never make any money, right? This statement has got to be the mother of all self-fulfilling prophecies. Done properly, multiple merged channels strengthen all sales and give the brand meaning. Allow policies to be set at the store level, with instructions of silence, and you'll guarantee that your brand will have meaning. But your stockholders won't like what that meaning will be.


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Numbered Daze
We're still not in the proper headspace for editorializing or, according to the warning labels, operating heavy machinery. But the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan demands commentary. Fortunately, William McGurn wrote a great piece for the Wall Street Journal that we're sharing here in its entirety.
A TALIBAN 9/11 - Joe Biden rushed the Afghanistan pullout for a political speech he wanted to give
William McGurn, Wall Street Journal, 8/23/21
What on earth will Joe Biden say this Sept. 11?
We know what he planned to say. He hoped to use the 20th anniversary to proclaim himself the president who had succeeded in doing what none of his predecessors— George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump —could: end the "endless war" in Afghanistan. The purpose of the artificial deadline was to provide Mr. Biden a dramatic backdrop for the speech he wanted to give.
The bungled exit has scuttled that plan. Worse, it has forever surrendered 9/11 to the Islamist fundamentalists. It is now what they meant it to be in 2001: their day of victory.
Part of this victory belongs to al Qaeda, which seared the date 9/11 into America's memory. Today al Qaeda's leaders have regained the haven that they used to plan and carry out the 9/11 attacks, under the same Taliban hosts who refused to give them up even after President Bush declared the U.S. wouldn't distinguish between the terrorists who attacked us and those who harbored them.
The Taliban victory is bigger still. Over the weekend, propaganda attributed to the Taliban's Badri 313 unit featured a photo of its fighters, clad in captured American gear, raising the Taliban flag in a parody of the iconic World War II image of Marines raising the Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi. They intend to rub it in.
And why not? They won.
Back on the home front, some are arguing that it is only the botched execution, not the decision to retreat itself, that is at issue. Some further accuse President Biden of eliding responsibility by deliberately conflating the two, which he did again Sunday by emphasizing how "absolutely correct" he was in making the call to bug out.
But there is a cheaper argument about what went wrong, embedded in throwaway lines like "20 years of failure." U.S. mistakes in Afghanistan were real, numerous, and often costly. But to write off the entire enterprise as a failure because Afghanistan didn't transform itself into Belgium in 20 years is not serious.
Yes, there was too much optimism about remaking Afghanistan as a liberal democracy. But a more modest measure of success might yet acknowledge there is something to be said for staving off the worst—a Taliban victory. Just as we have managed in Korea, where we have 28,500 U.S. troops and there is still officially a "forever war" going on between North and South.
For as corrupt and incapable as the Afghan government was, it was a significant improvement over its predecessor—and now its successor. Not to mention Afghan women and girls whose lives are about to return to pre-medieval times. Whatever the waste and foolishness on America's part, it's doubtful those desperate Afghans climbing the walls at Kabul airport would be as quick to dismiss it all as 20 years of failure.
Not to mention the hit to U.S. credibility. Our most important military alliance—NATO—stands broken and discredited by the man who campaigned as the seasoned expert in diplomatic affairs. Armin Laschet, who is favored to become the new German chancellor, called the pullout a "debacle." In the U.K., a House of Commons debate featured adjectives like "shameful" and "cruel and humiliating." This from our friends.
On Sunday the president absurdly claimed that Moscow and Beijing read our graceless exit from Afghanistan as somehow enhancing U.S. capabilities and resolve elsewhere. To the contrary, Xi Jinping is quickly moving to replace U.S. influence in Afghanistan with China's. And Vladimir Putin is acknowledging what he thinks of Mr. Biden's resolve by telling the U.S. not even to think of relocating some of our forces in neighboring countries that he considers part of Russia's sphere of influence.
So a question for those who still believe Mr. Biden was right to pull us out: Do they also believe his assurances that our loss of on-the-ground intelligence, an air base in a strategic part of the world, and an ally instead of an enemy in Kabul will all be compensated for with "over the horizon" capabilities?
No doubt most Americans have always wanted our men and women in uniform to come home. But the American people aren't children.
It's a pity that so few of our political leaders have been willing to make the hard argument that a continued presence in a highly strategic area might pay the kind of dividends our continued presence in, say, Germany, Japan and South Korea have. Especially given that U.S. combat responsibilities in Afghanistan had largely ended and the residual force would have been a fraction of the more than 100,000 troops we had there a decade ago (the Afghanistan Study Group suggested 4,500).
In three weeks we will mark the 20th anniversary of the deadliest attack on America's home soil. Those who gave shelter to the terrorists who pulled it off will be whooping it up in Kabul. What on earth can Joe Biden's speechwriters come up with now that won't make it worse?
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A Penny For Your Thoughts
In the past, I have promised daughter Jarlsberg that nothing bad will ever, ever, ever happen to Lance. Which is why today I envy Johnny so very, very much.
Cancer struck Penny so subtly that no one could quite figure out what it was. But within the space of a couple of weeks, it manifested itself in multiple ways and the rapid progression couldn't be stopped.
A very hard day for the Jarlsberg family. Hug 'em if you got 'em.
Rest in Peace, Penny (The Official Dog of Hope n' Change) 2013-2021
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Point Well Taken
If we "follow the science" of statistics, even a man who gets everything wrong will at some point say something that turns out right...
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Talibanistan
To the surprise of no one except the entire Biden administration, our alleged intelligence agencies, our wokest-ever military, and the mainstream media, Afghanistan has quickly been taken over by the Taliban while remaining Americans and betrayed allies scramble for survival and escape.
This is a devastating military disaster which will likely be viewed historically as the event which marked the end of America as a credible world superpower.
Not that this was difficult to see coming, especially with Clueless Joe as a figurehead for foreign policy decisions being made by the resurrected (from Hell) Obama administration.
So with no pleasure at all, we're presenting some posts from the vault to remind people that this disaster was long in the making and that current attempts to blame Trump are not only disingenuous but disgusting.
Tonight, the president will make a speech from West Point in which he reveals his (not very) top secret new strategy for Afghanistan: sending 30,000 additional troops while sulking about it, and promising Al Qaeda and the Taliban that we'll pull all of our troops out again as soon as humanly possible.
The president is hoping that committing troops will be seen as actual commitment...but unfortunately, he isn't fooling anyone except his former far-left supporters like Michael Moore, who are accusing Obama of becoming a bloodsucking, imperialist warmonger who will break the hearts of young, idealistic voters and discourage them from ever returning to the polls. One can only hope...
(November 21, 2010)
Not long ago, Barack Obama informed the world that the United States was embracing a new humility, because "there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive."
Which is why the Whitehouse must be groaning over Joe Biden's arrogant, dismissive, and derisive comment on the Larry King show that "Daddy is going to start taking the training wheels off" in the Afghan war, so the locals had "better practice riding." Yep, there's nothing patronizing about a statement like that!
Or a statement like "Daddy is going to spank you like the bad, bad girl you've been," which Biden didn't actually say aloud but which he may have been thinking...if we assume that he actually was thinking. Which we frequently don't. Of course, apart from Biden's statement being patently offensive to our allies, it's also a bit outdated; because when it comes to this administration, the wheels fell off their foreign policy a long time ago.
After thinking longer and more slowly than Rodin's statue of the same name, Barack Obama finally decided that the best way to handle the war in Afghanistan is to reluctantly commit more troops...but only for 18 months, after which we'll get the hell out of Dodge.
Of course, this strategy will only work if the Taliban and Al Qaeda don't know we're going to give up in July of 2011. So please, help keep the president's big secret and don't tell the bad guys!
Barack Hussein Obama unexpectedly flew to Afghanistan this week for three reasons: to raise the morale of American troops, to be photographed wearing a masculinity-enhancing flight jacket, and - most importantly - to give him a chance to say "Tollybon." Tollybon, tollybon, tollybon!
There are some sounds which have almost unbelievable power to shred nerves and annoy. Fingernails on a chalkboard. The cries of a baby in a movie theater. President Bush saying "nook-you-ler." But topping the list, for us anyway, is Mr. Obama's aggressively nuanced styling of the word "Taliban." When he says "Tollybon," the word is clipped and distinct, vowels are reshaped, and the sound is redolent with exotic spices from the Far East...as if to deliberately remind us that the president deserves special credibility because he was raised in a Muslim culture in Indonesia.
He spits the word out like an insult to plainspoken, unworldly Americans who lack his multi-cultural roots. And with that one word, Barack Obama reminds us that the conversation is really, and always, about him. Not the troops. Not the war. Not our country. Not even, truly, about the Taliban - even when speaking to the American men and women whose lives are on the line in a distant land.
Last Thursday, 2-star Major General Harold Greene, the highest ranking officer to be killed in Afghanistan, was buried at Arlington Cemetery.
Notice that we say "buried" and not "Barryed" - because the president didn't bother to attend the funeral and instead went golfing.
Of course, the vacationing president made a point of sending veep Joe Biden and...wait. What's that? Oh, we stand corrected. Obama didn't bother to send Biden either.
But he did send a remarkably clear message to members of our military: your lives, service, and deaths deserve only a 99¢ condolence card signed by the presidential auto-pen.
UPDATE: HIGH UNDEPLOYMENT NUMBERS
Have Your Cake and EAT IT Too (2021)
Why, no - this picture ISN'T Photoshopped. But thanks for asking!
We were really saddened to learn that Barack Obama has had to cut back the size of his 60th alleged birthday party owing to an obscure little thing called "Covid" which he apparently hadn't heard about. The original birthday plan, to be set at Barry's fabulously expensive estate in Martha's Vineyard, was for 500 guests and 200 (count 'em!) servants, who were no doubt looking forward to a day working in the "big house" instead of picking crops in the fields while singing mournful gospel songs.
But too many people noticed that this was basically a giant, flashing sign saying "You're a Dope If You're Still Masking or Still Worrying About Covid." Which is a message Democrats really don't want to spread since Covid panic is currently the most important distraction from Andrew Cuomo's multiple sex crimes.
Barry's birthday party has now been scaled way, way back and will only be for "friends, family, and unindicted co-conspirators." And even though we never got written confirmation, we're pretty sure that we would have been among the 500 guests for the original event. Or at least been disguised as a servant carrying a single, aerodynamically-sound cream pie.
But we're still sending our regards to the aging former president with this Blast from the Past remembrance of a previous birthday...
FROM THE VAULT: HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO (July 27, 2013)
According to at least one of his many Social Security cards, Sunday marks the alleged birthday of Barack Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama. The president is turning 52 which, by almost unbelievable coincidence, is also the exact number of weeks each year he lies his butt off, creates dissent, and cripples the American economy! There's one for Ripley's Believe it or Not!
The president has already been presented with a cake by Nancy Pelosi, whom a spokesman described as being "known for her affinity for dark chocolate." We can only pray that this is in reference to the cake itself, and not some personal gift she's planning on sharing with Obama involving lingerie and WD-40.
The birthday boy was able to enjoy not only his own slice of cake, but also an extra slice that was left over because, for reasons still unexplained, Ambassador Chris Stevens failed to show up for the party.
In any event, Hope n' Change Cartoons wants to wish the president the very happiest of birthdays.
Specifically, we "want to" - but can't and won't. Because what we really wish is that his sorry keester would be dragged before several investigating committees which would put him under oath about Benghazi, Fast & Furious, and the IRS attack on conservatives (you know, the scandals that the president and Jay Carney dismiss as being "phony.")
We wish we could ask him why people really can't keep their health insurance policies if they liked them, and why Obamacare is raising costs by preposterous margins and pushing people out of the system instead of in?
We wish we could find out why he hates small businesses and American energy production. We wish we could force him to tell us why he identifies with Trayvon Martin but not the black kids in Chicago being killed by other black kids, why the Ft. Hood massacre was an incident of "workplace violence," and why the White House is closed to ordinary visitors but is still wide open to celebrity galas and five-star (well, maybe one star and one crescent moon) Ramadan dinners?
But none of these wishes is likely to come true. No, this miserable little sheepdip who made his political name by squeaking "present!" in the Illinois Senate will be opening presents from his various sycophants, toadies, and special interest lobbyists.
And of course, he'll be opening a very special present from Hope n' Change Cartoons, too. And it will look a lot like dark chocolate. Bon appétit!
Carney draws a line in the sand. Specifically, the sand at Martha's Vineyard.
One of Those (CENSORED) Days
We all have them: one or more days in which every little thing that can go wrong does go wrong, and the universe seems designed solely for the grand purpose of driving us crazy. That's how my last 48 hours has been and I'm really, really hoping that I'm at the end of a bad luck streak rather than somewhere in the middle.
For instance, my annoying urinary tract infection wasn't quite gone (ouch) after finishing my antibiotics, so my doctor told me to come in for an office visit. I showed up early as I always do, confident that I could fill time playing games on my smartphone. Which immediately ran out of power. So I waited in an exam room for over an hour with nothing to do and nothing to look at. And more importantly, nothing to listen to - I have bad tinnitus and I'd just as soon be waterboarded as sit in a really quiet room. Usually, my phone can play some soothing white noise...but not this time.
So I was fairly unraveled by the time the doctor finally arrived. I described where my pain was, after which he had me drop my drawers so he could pinch, pull, twist, squeeze, and do other allegedly medicinal forms of origami with my genitals. I was then told that everything looked okay from the outside and the doctor had no idea why I was still feeling pain. So that was time well spent.
While standing at the checkout desk, one lens spontaneously leapt out of my eyeglasses (along with the teeny-tiny screw to hold the glasses together). So I was more or less blind when driving home, and arrived to find Mrs. J in the earliest stages of widowhood since I was gone WAY longer than expected and hadn't called.
Then today, I had to be filling out a "new patient" form online to see a new dentist. As previously reported, my old family dentist is quitting the business because he got tired of having to take remedial courses in fighting human trafficking, fighting the opioid crisis, installing an expensive filter to take environmentally dangerous silver out of any wastewater even though he hasn't done a silver filling in the last 20 years, and small practices like his are increasingly the target of violent drug thieves.
An amusing digression: not long ago, a violent guy came into the little office and threatened bodily harm to the dentist and his receptionist unless he was given a prescription for narcotics. The dentist managed to stall long enough to make a phone call to the police...
"I've got a guy here who says he's going to hurt us if we don't give him a prescription for drugs!"
"Are you a doctor?"
"So you can legally write a prescription for the drugs?"
"Yes..."
"Well, then write it for him! We don't care about those kinds of things." (click)
So yeah...there goes a good man and a fine dentist. But he did give me one last check-up and found a couple of cavities that had bloomed during the pandemic. So I contacted a new practice and was faced with that "new patient" form online. I filled it out (and it was a LONG sucker) but when I hit the "submit" button I got screaming warnings from my antivirus software that the information was about to be routed to a known phishing site. You know, the kind you'd rather not give your name, address, birth date, and social security number to.
I tried a second browser and got the same result. After which I alerted the dental office and was assured that "other people are filling out the form just fine." Yeah, I'll bet they are. But I was given the option to come in to the office at my leisure to fill out the 20 page form using their office iPad. Which for all I know still routes the information to Russian hackers.
Moreover, I was already a little touchy about the subject of computer security and identity theft since that same morning, I'd discovered that someone was using my charge card number to buy Major League Baseball hats and dine heartily at Buffalo Wild Wings about a thousand miles from where I live. So I had to cancel the card and will have to relink a new card to about a dozen sites.
Daughter Jarlsberg is changing her health insurance and has just set up a new Blue Cross Blue Shield policy through (God help us) Healthcare.gov. But here's the fun part: they won't give you a member ID until you've paid the first month's premium. To pay that premium, they give you a link to a handy website that you can't access unless you enter the member ID which you can't possibly have because you haven't paid yet and, apparently, never can.
This took me to a long, long phone call to customer service ("Home of English As a Second Language!"), during which an electronic eyebrow was raised because the service person discovered that my name was associated with a credit card that had just been canceled. Even I didn't believe my subsequent explanation that, oh yeah, someone chose today to buy...um...baseball caps with my number so I had to cancel the card a couple of hours ago.
But eventually, payment was sorta kinda made and that highly coveted Blue Cross ID number will soon be winging its way to our currently ant-infested mailbox along with a sprinkling of condolence cards from folks still under the impression I died at the doctor's office.
Which brings us up to this very moment, when it's time for my brief but still painful exposure to the day's news. Clan MacGregor, where is thy sting?


we actually mean a digital computer.
we substitute the expression on the right hand side of the : in place of cond.
register rb added in their place. The result is copied to the register ra.
If the op-code is 31, run is set to 0, that is, the processor stops execution.
once again, and so the fetch-execute cycle continues.
together, as is the enable input.
positive edge of the clock.
the input lines, as shown in the figure given.
input has to be high if the number is to be stored into the register.
through line 3. Subsequently, there are 2 select lines (as log24 = 2).
output of the multiplexer will be the input on line 3, as shown in the test circuit given.
further clarifies the working of a non-inverting tri-state buffer.
expression, and in this example, the condition is equivalent to LRD =1.
shown for a scenario where there are 5 registers that need to be interconnected.
use of a bus architecture, which is explained in the following sections.
extensively employ the bus architecture.
read into any other register.
value on the bus at a given time.
result before it is transferred to the destination register. This is shown in the figure below.
(opc=1): R4← R3 + R2.
binary number on the bus (the contents of register R3) to be loaded into the register A.
applied to LC to store the result in register RC.
steps are summarized in the given table.
number of shifts depends on the bit pattern applied on the control inputs S0, S1.
contents of the register R3 onto the bus.
number two places to the right.
register C. The second step is to transfer the contents of the register C to the register R4.
operation. These steps are summarized in the table shown below.


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Patricia Dorothy Hillas (called Tricia; born 1966) is a Church of England priest. She has served as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons since 2020 and a Canon of Westminster since 2021.

Early life
Hillas was born in 1966  in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to an Indian mother and a British father. She moved to the UK with her family in 1971. She trained as a social worker, before her ordination in 2002. She completed a MSc in conflict resolution and mediation in the 2010s.

Career
Before Hillas's ordination she was a youth and social worker specialising in supporting those diagnosed with HIV and AIDS.

She was ordained deacon in 2002 and priest in 2003. She served her curacy (2002 to 2005) at the Kensal Rise Team Ministry. From 2005 to 2014 she was vicar of St Barnabas Northolt Park. From 2014 until 2020 she was Canon Pastor at St Paul's Cathedral. She was inaugurated as Speaker's Chaplain on 4 March 2020 and appointed as the Priest-in-Charge of St Mary-at-Hill, City of London, at a similar time; but she resigned the parish post when she was appointed to her canonry.

Remaining Speaker's Chaplain, Hillas was also installed as a Canon of Westminster on 9 May 2021; she became Canon Steward and Archdeacon of Westminster shortly afterwards (before 31 May 2021).

In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, Hillas led a team supporting the families of victims.

On 13 May 2021, she led a short service to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Parliament in World War II.

Personal life
Hillas has been married to Andrew Hillas, who is head of the youth offending service for Southwark.

References

1966 births
Living people
21st-century English Anglican priests
Chaplains of the House of Commons (UK)
Malaysian emigrants to the United Kingdom
English people of Indian descent
Women Anglican clergy

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LAS VEGAS – True one-to-one advertising targeting on digital and linear television is being held back by too many competing standards, says the President of VM1, the dedicated Verizon agency within Zenith. "The interoperability of all these different systems and platforms and devices just don't play nicely together today. But over time it's definitely where we see the world going," Adam Shlachter says in an interview with Beet.TV at CES 2017.
From year to year at CES, Shlachter sees a lot of incremental changes in technology, particularly regarding connected vehicles and homes. "For me what's most interesting is what can we do with that? It's been a promise for a long time and I think it's going to become more of a reality now, particularly between the car and the home and the person itself," he says.
Uniform standards for targeting people with ads one-on-one and measuring the results will provide "better value for consumers and make more use out of the space that we play in," he adds.
The convergence of the digital and traditional media worlds now more than ever is opening a whole new world of opportunities from a creative standpoint, according to Shlachter. However, new approaches are needed to move things along.
"We have to get past the days of trying to fit one creative concept into a lot of different screens and formats, because we see that it doesn't work as well," Shlachter says before acknowledging that it's hard to create a lot of native experiences for every single platform across a 360-degree media plan.
Finding better ways to integrate data and technology to automate creative delivery will be more useful than trying to "create some one-size-fits-all messaging that may help us scale but may not pay off," he says.
In the meantime, Shlachter is excited about the one-to-many approach that Verizon took when partnering with other companies to live-stream the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2016. As Broadcasting & Cable reports, NBCUniversal produced a live stream of the parade separate from NBC's broadcast that was shot with 360-degree cameras and viewable on Verizon's YouTube page.
This video was produced as part Beet. TV's coverage of CES 2017 presented by 605. For more videos from the series, please visit this page.


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Deagu Head Office. Photo: Korea Gas Corp.
In a bid to help South Korean local shipyard weather their worst-ever slump, the State-run Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS), the world's largest LNG importer, will soon place shipbuilding and maintenance orders with them, says a report by Yonhap.
KOGAS will advance the schedule of placing orders for two new LNG carriers to the first half of next year and assign sizable maintenance work for its large LNG carriers to local shipyards, said its president Lee Seung-hoon.
The construction of a LNG carrier with a capacity of 3,500 tons normally costs a 150 billion won (US$134 million).
"At the moment, demand for global LNG is waning, which works to reduce demand for new LNG carriers," he said. "As new shipbuilding orders are declining, we are looking at an option to assign maintenance work to local shipbuilders as well."
His remarks came as the country's shipyards are faced with a sharp drop in new orders and increased costs stemming from a delay in the construction of offshore facilities.
The nation's big three shipyards -- Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. and Samsung Heavy Industries Co. -- racked up a combined loss of over 8 trillion won last year.