Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament controls the placement of biocidal products on the market through the BPD in order to protect humans, animals and the environment. The BPD also aims to standardize and control the European biocidal market so that the regulation of biocidalproducts can be harmonized within the EU. At present, there are over 200 existing active substances being evaluated under the BPD's Review Program to ensure these pesticides pose negligible risks to human health and the environment.
In Ireland, the Department of Agriculture and Food (DAF) is the authority for biocide legislation implementation. EU directive 98/8/EC is given effect in the Irish law by Statutory Instrument S.I. No. 625 of 2001. In order to register a biocide, Irish citizens and companies would need to contact the Pesticide Registration and Control Division of DAF in Celbridge, County Kildare.
On the 19 January 2012, the European Parliament voted to implement stricter safety standards on all biocides within the EU in an attempt to increase health safety and standardization.


A wealth of strange creatures; ancient monsters and man made creations roam the world of Bloodfest. The Hidden Government Army are tasked to fight them using their extraordinary abilities, and records have been kept detailing both common and uncommon encounters.
If you are unfamiliar with any of the terms used, you can examine a glossary int the World of Bloodfest.
Brought back to life when a lost soul finds a human corpse and inhabits it. The lost soul quickly transmutes its Auralithalic structure into a fluid resembling blood, and reanimates the corpse by coursing through it.
It is noted that through this process, blood will leave the destroyed body violently, despite the zombie not having a heartbeat.
Zombies adapt a feral existence. The lost soul possessing it only wishes to live again, but a corruption has taken place, leaving the soul and the zombie with only the primal instincts to hunt and eat.
A commonly encountered monster on record and easily dispatched, there has never been a vast outbreak as encountered in Tristel City on the Pacoven Island of Entertainment. The zombie rising was thought to have started on a neighbouring island, in the town of Dedmar.
Devised as a Perfect Army experiment in 2010, volunteers for the project were subjected to massive strength enhancements and mutations to their natural Auralithalic design. Their skin has turned purple due to a massive increase in bloodflow throughout their body. The result was an initial failure, and the Super Humans rampaged through the K Lab and murdered most of the staff. A deliberate sabotage to the experiment was suspected, and the Super Humans have been pacified for further investigation before the project is renewed.
Earliest sketch of a Super Human (1998).
Concepts for varying types of Super Human enemies in the Bloodfest video game (2002).
A guardian monster, summoned into being by an unknown person. It was encountered by Sierra Squad.
Kezyrek appeared at the Pasture, the unmarked burial site for fallen Hidden Government soldiers. It had a body made of black liquid, and was impervious to gunfire. Only magics and traditional weaponry could take it down.
Void born monster that had stepped into our world, appearing at the Huayna Potosi mountain range in Bolivia.
A lumbering giant comprised of dark energy, something had attracted the monster to the area. It's presence in the world was causing Auralithalic anomalies, quickly detected by the Hidden Government Air Force.
November Squad were charged with urgently destroying the beast before a complete study of it could take place.
Concept design of the Waldgesit long before Call of the Conjurer was drafted (2004).
A wood spirit encountered in Holland, summoned into being by an unknown spell caster.
Created when the roots of ordinary tree, running underground, entwine with buried human remains. If the spirit of that person still lingers, it will fuse with the tree and draw energy from it.
The human remains must be destroyed to stop a Waldgeist from returning.
Korrigan design during the writing of Typhoon of Fire (2014).
Sirens usually confined to the dark sea trenches. A school of them made their way into the sewers of Paris, where their used their charming magics to lure local workers into the depths.
Monster design during the writing of Typhoon of Fire (2014).
The result of rogue experiment, combing human and plant life to create immortal beings. Headed by Dr Weissrot, local people around the Malaysian region of Sabah were kidnapped and subjected to tests. When the Malaysian military investigated, they too were brought in and experimented on, creating monsters with battle experience.
The limb of some enormous creature summoned into our world. Captain Mason and his team had to stop the ritual before the giant being made itself known.


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California is one of the few states with a right to privacy written in its state Constitution. The right to privacy extends to both government employees and to employees in the private sector. While Californians have a right to privacy, the validity of drug-testing procedures depends on a "balance test." Under the test, an employer's reason for drug testing is weighed against the employee's right to privacy. Whether a drug-testing procedure is lawful depends on whether the drug test was pre-employment testing, random testing, or reasonable suspicion testing.
Generally, employers are allowed to require employees to pass a drug test as a condition of employment so long as the employer tests all applicants for the position and does not single-out a specific applicant based on race or disability. On the other hand, random drug testing in California is generally not legal for employees whose jobs do not impact public safety.
Can Employees Who Use Medical Marijuana in California be Terminated For Using Medical Marijuana?
In November of 2016, California joined a handful of states in legalizing adult recreational use of marijuana with the passage of Proposition 64. While medical marijuana has been legal in California since the Compassionate Use Act was passed in 1996, it is now legal for any adult over the age of 21 to possess and use up to one ounce of marijuana. However, while marijuana use is now legal in California, using the substance may still impact your current or future employment opportunities. The passage of Proposition 64 has not changed the ability of employers to screen applicants or randomly test current employees for marijuana use. In addition, California courts continue to uphold an employer's right to terminate employees for testing positive for marijuana. Employers can terminate an employee for marijuana use even if it is done with a valid prescription for a medical condition or disability.
The Americans with Disability Acts ("ADA") prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities for employment. These laws require employers to make "reasonable accommodations" for disabled employees to enable them to perform their job. Medical marijuana advocates argue that marijuana should be considered a "reasonable accommodation" for individuals using marijuana to treat medical conditions. They further contend that termination for medical marijuana use violates employee rights.
California courts disagree. In 2008, the California Supreme Court ruled that employers have a right to drug test and fire patients who test positive for marijuana, regardless of their medical use. The court opined that because California Fair Employment and Housing Act does not require employers to accommodate illegal use, an employer can lawfully terminate an employee who uses medical marijuana. More recently, in 2012, the Ninth Circuit similarly held that the ADA does not offer job protection for medical marijuana users because marijuana is an illegal substance under Federal law.
What Can I Do if I'm Terminated for Medical Marijuana Use?
The law is continuing to evolve as more and more states legalize medical marijuana and marijuana for recreational use. If you have been terminated for medical marijuana use, it is important to speak with a qualified California employment lawyer who handles wrongful termination. They can help you assess your situation and will be knowledgeable about any changes to California law regarding medical marijuana use in the workplace.


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Name of Organization Concord High School Band Boosters Club
Address PO BOX 2114, Concord, CA 94521-0014
Activities Booster club, Other youth organization or activities, Other school related activities
Assets $100,000 to $499,999
Revenue for 2013
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Contributions, gifts, grants, and similar amounts received $0 $0 $18,540
Program service revenue including government fees and contracts $94,921 $115,612 $113,805
Membership dues and assessments $5,485 $6,924 $5,695
Investment income $200 $65 $81
Total expenses $107,566 $111,530 $94,885
Total net assets $187,674 $201,767 $246,808
Excess/Deficit for the year $-6,960 $11,071 $43,236
Net assets or fund balances at beginning of year $195,050 $187,674 $201,767
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Tolle does it again
October 15, 2005 October 21, 2006 Jon
Eckhart Tolle, author of the spiritual bestseller The Power of Now has a new book, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose , on the bookshelves. I've just started it, so it might be a little while before I can review it in depth, but my initial impression is that this book is very powerful. So powerful, in fact, that I've often had to put it down after reading a couple of pages. The teacher's presence is felt through his words.
It seems that in this book, Tolle will go more deeply into what he's taught in the The Power of Now , as well as describe in much greater detail the nature of the ego, and the social and global consequences of awakening and unconsciousness. I greatly look forward to reading this.
Superb Translation of Thomas
August 14, 2005 August 6, 2007 Jon
I just came across the perfect translation of The Gospel of Thomas . It's The Gospel of Thomas: the Gnostic Wisdom of Jesus , by Jean-Yves LeLoup, translated by Joseph Rowe.
This is a double translation. LeLoup translated the gospel into French and wrote a wonderful, meditative saying-by-saying commentary, originally published in 1986. Fortunately, Joseph Rowe has now translated the entire work into English. (It strikes me that this process is much like the history of the superb Jerusalem Bible , which also was a French translation first.)
Trust me when I say this is not just another Thomas translation. From the Introduction:
Pope Gregory I said that only a prophet could understand the prophets. And it is said that only a poet can understand a poet. Who, then, must we be in order to understand Yeshua?
July 18, 2005 January 8, 2007 Jon
This book rocks? kicks butt frims. I definitely consider it the best of the Potter series so far, and leads to the possibility that the final book might have a markedly different format from these first six.
Best line:
The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a combination of Dark Magic and gum disease.
I'm not really a Harry Potter fan
So why am I on page 300 of a book that went on sale less than 24 hours ago?
(I'll just say this: it does a lot better than Revenge of the Sith in giving backstory on the dark lord.)
May 17, 2005 January 14, 2021 JonLeave a comment
We live in an explosion of spiritual writing. In addition to tons of recent books on Christian inspiration, there are breakthroughs in scholarship, archaeology, and an ocean of writings on meditation, the New Age, and Eastern religions. In the flood of information, it's only natural to wonder—What do I read? What will help me with something I don't already know? What will be forgotten in five years, and what will endure?
Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now is a superb book already being hailed as a classic. Although nothing changes about enlightenment itself, Tolle has a wonderful new gift for teaching it. Dramatic teachers of enlightenment have sometimes described their transformation by the Divine Presence in startling terms, saying "I am God," and such, which might highlight the profundity of their transformation, but does little to help their disciples to understand the way in. Other teachers, such as Thich Nhat Hanh, say almost nothing about enlightenment per se, and instead concentrate almost exclusively on the way in, mindfulness. Tolle strikes a middle ground; although he places greater emphasis on the means, he does not play down the profundity of his enlightenment. And no wonder! Enlightenment actually saved his life. He was near the point of suicide when suddenly he came to the realization of the false self and the true self, and awoke the next morning to a world of wonder which he's lived in for years now.
time is mind
Eckhart's genius as a teacher lies in his insights which may never been as clearly worded as before. The core of Eckhart's understanding of enlightenment is that the "mind" (in the sense of conventional thought, feelings, sense of separateness and ego) is inextricably tied up with time (past and future). The way to get out of the activity of mind—the false self—and into the awareness of true reality is to step out of time, into the Now.
The Now is not part of "time," but is simply how eternity is experienced by finite beings. The time is now. It is always now; it always has been now, and always will be now. The concept of past and future is a function of the mind, recalling past Nows and anticipating future ones. The past gives a sense of identity, (and thus the sense of being separate from God), as well as resentment, regret, and other emotions. The future gives hope for better things in the future, as well as fear and anxiety. Both sides of time remove us from the present moment, which is the only place where we exist, and where God exists. Salvation can only happen in the Now.
a brilliant clarity
Are questions and objections starting to surface in your mind? Great. The entire book is arranged in a Q and A format, answering questions such as yours. And Tolle's answers are always lucid, understanding, and genuine, with the conviction of someone who knows and is not just guessing. Furthermore, Tolle's suggestions are practical. Although like many enlightened teachers before him, (Jesus, the Buddha, St. Francis, Peace Pilgrim) he lived homeless for some time after his transformation, he later returned to the world of work, and gaining insight on how to use the Power of Now in day-to-day life. A particularly insightful chapter is "Enlightened Relationships" which goes beyond all popular surface psychologizing, to the real issue, (almost never discussed), that underneath it all, we want others to do what they cannot: bring us into ultimate happiness, and they can't, only realizing our own connection with the Ultimate directly can bring us into that level of fulfillment. Because of that, relationships need to be worked on from the standpoint of the present and being, but from projecting the other with impossible demands.
Another important aspect of Tolle's contribution to the enlightenment literature is a neutral language. Eckhart occasionally uses phrases from Christian and Buddhist spirituality, but prefers to use neutral words which are as objective and clear as possible. For instance, he says "Being" and "the Unmanifested" instead of "God," to avoid the problems caused by our conceptions of God interfering with encountering the Ground of Being. Phrases like "realizing your connection with Being" are much less likely to cause confusion than terms such as "becoming God," from early Christian mysticism. The non-dramatic language helps us accept that enlightenment is obtainable, and its neutrality is equally accessible to people coming from different spiritual traditions, as well as those coming to spirituality for the first time.
portals into the unmanifested
Of course, simply reading The Power of Now won't make you enlightened. As Tolle would say, only "intense presence" can do that. However, throughout the book, he gives numerous exercises to touching the Presence. (One of which, feeling the inner energy body, is very like S. K. Goenka's vipassana method and quite similar to the practice in the short 13th-century Christian classic, The Book of Privy Counseling.) Another "portal" is to listen to the silences between sounds. Tolle gives numerous other examples of how to make everyday life, as well as meditation time, into spiritual practice, no matter where one is on their journey. His idea is to cultivate the conscious, awakened state of mind, and gradually make it your dominant state of being. Tolle knows that Awakening isn't to be sought, but experienced. Now.
His insights are sometimes startling in their profundity. He has a succinct definition of enlightenment: "your natural state of felt oneness with Being." His answer to whether love is a portal to the Unmanifested is, "No, it isn't….Love isn't a portal, it's what comes through the portal into this world." How true, since God is love.
Do you want to go beyond devotional spirituality? Do you want the Presence of God to transform you into That likeness? Read this book or listen to the audio version again and again, and practice the techniques continually. As of this writing, I think I'm getting a glimpse of the other shore.
Dandelion Wine
February 13, 2005 Jon
I finally posted my review of Dandelion Wine. It was much harder for me to write than I expected; it's so difficult to find to words to speak further about what Bradbury has expressed so perfectly. Something else that makes it difficult is that Dandelion Wine brings up memories of insights and revelations long-lost in childhood. Not only does reading it require processing, but writing about it does, too.
I re-read Dandelion Wine this year, and I was struck by how much had gone completely past me before–for instance, how very *Buddhist* this picture of small-town Americana is, with its lessons on the impermanence and *dukkha* of the world, grasping as the cause of suffering, the freedom of non-attachment, and the courage required of compassion.
It even has a story in it about reincarnation–I never remembered that being there! It's an amazing book. If it's been a while since you've read it, treat yourself again.
I also posted a poem I wrote on Dandelion Wine, and the original AANVVV version of it as well. A few days ago, I posted my review of The Wisdom of the Enneagram along with mini-reviews of other Enneagram books and links to major Enneagram information sites
February 13, 2005 January 21, 2021 JonLeave a comment
the holy glimpse
All children start out as natural mystics. Unfortunately, most of us forget our childhood mysticism almost completely. But one person who does remember is Ray Bradbury, an American genius of the mystic heart. Bradbury is an unusually versatile writer—the eternal misplacement of his books on the science-fiction shelves obscures his range, which spans from drama, mystery, and horror, to whimsy and heart-whirling poetry. Yes, a significant portion of his output is sci-fi, but all of it is what I call "spi-fi"—spiritual fiction—whether set in outer space, small-town Illinois, or Los Angeles.
Douglas opened one eye.
And everything, absolutely everything, was there.
The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.
And he knew what it was that had leaped upon him to stay and would not run away now.
I'm alive, he thought. . . .
The grass whispered under his body. He put his arm down, feeling the sheath of fuzz on it, and far away below, his toes creaking in his shoes. The wind sighed over his shelled ears. The world slipped bright over the glassy round of his eyeballs like images sparked in a crystal sphere. Flowers were suns and starry spots of sky strewn through the woodland. Birds flickered like skipped stones across the vast inverted pond of heaven. His breath raked over his teeth, going in ice, coming out fire. Insects shocked the air with electric clearness. Ten thousand individual hairs grew a millionth of an inch on his head. He heard the twin hearts beating in each ear, the third heart beating in his throat, the two hearts throbbing his wrists, the real heart pounding his chest. The million pores on his body opened. . . .
"Tom!" Then quieter. "Tom . . . does everyone in the world . . . know he's alive?"
"Sure. Heck, yes!"
"I sure hope they do," whispered Douglas. "Oh, I sure hope they know."
Dandelion Wine is set in Green Town, Illinois, (a pseudonym for Waukegan) in the summer of 1928. It's episodic, a novel woven from short stories of the magic and tragedy of life seen through the eyes of Bradbury's alter ego, Douglas Spaulding.
Douglas is a normal twelve-year-old who finds himself suddenly jolted into the awareness of life itself, the experience of truly being alive. (See excerpt.) Douglas is amazed to actually be awake to Reality, and flabbergasted that he had been asleep till then.
The entire world is fresh and new, and Douglas resolves to never go back to sleepwalking through life, but to hold on to this sacred awareness forever. He begins writing a spiritual journal, divided into two sections, Rites and Ceremonies, and Discoveries and Revelations, thus inviting the summer to begin its majestic unfolding.
There's only one problem, one which everyone who knows this experience can identify with, which is that all experiences, even these holy glimpses, are transitory. Yet their beauty invariably makes us who experience them to want to hold on. We become "seekers", wanting to live in the Kingdom of heaven, even though the wanting itself lowers the curtain.
This tricky thing of holding on permeates Dandelion Wine. The problem is not of recording moments and returning to them—the past is honored throughout. For instance, one wonderful character is Colonel Freeleigh, an old man who becomes a living time machine for Douglas and his friends, who takes them to his memories of the Civil War or of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Bradbury repeatedly uses the image of bottling the wonder of a moment, a day, or a place, by capturing its air or pressing wine to be bottled and aged. Bottling dandelion wine is a yearly tradition for Douglas' family:
The wine was summer caught and stoppered. And now that Douglas knew, he really knew he was alive, and moved turning through the world to touch and see it all, it was only right and proper that some of his new knowledge, some of this special vintage day would be sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks…
Rather, the problem is what the Buddha called tanha—grasping to find happiness or identity itself. One of Douglas' neighbors decides to create a Happiness Machine, and ends up destroying it for the grief it causes.
impermanence and suffering
From its beginning of unbridled hope, the summer immerses Douglas in increasing levels of disappointment and pain. At first, some of the hurts are almost trivial, such as the final ride of the town's beloved trolley, but they increase quickly. Just as the Buddha experienced the whole world of suffering from four tragic sights in one day, Douglas experiences the whole world of suffering from the events of one summer.
His best friend moves away, leaving him feeling like part of him has been torn away. Douglas is left with only his younger brother to share his thoughts with, and begs him never to leave:
"You can depend on me, Doug", said Tom.
"It's not you I worry about," said Douglas. "It's the way God runs the world."
Tom thought about this for a moment.
"He's all right, Doug," said Tom. "He tries."
Life forces Douglas to grow up quickly. He witnesses a deadly hit-and-run accident, and takes on the burden of keeping it secret to avoid sending the drivers to jail. A serial killer terrorizes Green Town, and Douglas is there when he claims another victim. The awareness of death and suffering becomes inescapable. Over the course of the summer, most of the old people he has come to know and love pass on.
the freedom of non-attachment
Douglas is learning a lesson that so many of us never learn—that nothing lasts, and because of our desperate attempts to hold on to changing things and people, we suffer. There's an interplay of youth and age taking turns teaching the importance of not holding on and accepting change.
For instance, Tom, just two years younger than Douglas, is largely still in a stage of innocence. He has never lost his essential trust, and accepts everything as it comes, good and bad, with peace and joy. Tom acts a spiritual director for his older brother.
Another case: Neighborhood children torment old Mrs. Bentley by telling her they don't believe she was ever young, or that the little girl in her photographs was ever her. She finally sees that she's wasted decades reliving memories of her youth, and sets herself free by burning all her keepsakes and "admitting" to the kids that she never had a past.
Another old woman and a young man recognize each other from a previous life, where he had been too old, and she too young. As she senses her death approaching, she gives him instructions so they can sync up in their next life:
You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. If it is at all convenient, die before you are fifty. . . . I advise you this simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born.
And finally, there is Great-Grandma, who announces her death to her family like a Zen master to his disciples. She compares shedding the body to a snake shedding its skin and the body shedding its cells. She sees her true self as a boundless being that includes all she loves:
Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count.
For Douglas, this is the straw that breaks him. He can deal with all the death he's encountered so far, but not the loss of his own loved ones. A few days later, faced with the undeniable fact of his own mortality, the young mystic himself has lost the will to live, and lies dying of a mysterious fever in his bedroom.
the practice of awakening
I will not discuss how Douglas is saved (read the book!), but I want to point out the change in his purpose from his revelation at the beginning of summer to its conclusion. Spiritual experiences such as Douglas' at the beginning of the book are not rare. Yet most people's minds are so full of noise, that they cannot make an impact, like the grain choked by the weeds in Jesus' parable. Worldly concerns never give them a chance to grow, and so we live life as though nothing ever happened, as though we were not touched by God, and did not glimpse for a sacred moment the overwhelming divine Presence in all things. We don't hear the alarm, and never rouse from the slumber we mistakenly call life.
Others, though, see this for what it truly is—actually seeing the nature of things, the meaning of life itself, God within all. We are amazed by the beauty and wonder of life, and overflow with unbearable love. Our spirits open up.
There is only one thing left: Our own ego's desire to hold on—for this to be the once-and-for-all transformation, "Big E" Enlightenment, theosis, union with God. The flipside of this attachment is aversion, an unwillingness to accept life as constant change, full of sorrow as well as joy, and love it all anyway.
When Douglas renews his commitment to life, he does so unconditionally. He goes to work as a spiritual warrior, eager to do whatever he can to bring more love and beauty into the world, not shy of the difficulties and pain. He relishes living for its own sake, not for the joys that come from it. The light-hearted final story presents the Spaulding kitchen as the field of battle between light and darkness. It's a charmer.
Dandelion Wine is an amazing book. It's a genre apart, blurring distinctions between novel, short story, prose, and poetry. It should be read slowly, savoring the words in the heart as Douglas savors a taste of dandelion wine in his mouth. This has been one of my favorite books since I first read it in high school. But I've never really seen it till now. A year ago, in his Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment, Jed McKenna made the assertion that Moby-Dick was an epic on awakening by an unrecognized spiritual master. Perhaps it is; I'll have to read it again, sometime. But I know without a doubt that Dandelion Wine is. Simply put, this one of the greatest books ever written. Let it touch you.
Related pages and posts:
My poem Dandelion Wine: Uncap! Drink! Relive!
Dang Experiences! (Blog entry)
Let's Get Small (Blog entry)
A History of God
December 7, 2004 March 6, 2021 JonLeave a comment
a history of the concept of god
Is the Universe wholly apart from God, or is Creation in some sense, a part of God? Is God solely One in nature, or is there a Threeness, or a Manyness, or an Infinitude to God? Is God knowable or beyond knowledge? Is God personal or impersonal? Does God have feelings? Billions of people have had an opinion on these matters, and that's the subject of this groundbreaking book. Those who depend upon the unshakeableness of their beliefs may find this book upsetting or worse, but to those who consider and question their faith, Karen Armstrong's A History of God will be challenging and illuminating, and perhaps, as I found it, even thrilling.
The title goes for brevity over accuracy. Perhaps it could have been titled "A History of the Idea of God in Judaism, Christianity and Islam," but that would have lacked panáche, to say the least. Armstrong concentrates on the changes in the concept of God, particularly the unique aspects of monotheistic theology, for instance, God as separate from Creation, God having a "personal" nature, and so forth.
religious cultures in conflict
Armstrong makes theological history simply fascinating. Beginning with the evidence for near-universal worship of a Sky God in prehistory, Armstrong traces the shift from the Sky God to the Earth Mother to polytheism, and then focuses on the revolutionary development of Abraham's faith in one God which would clash with Canaanite, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian paganism for the next 1500 years. Many Christians interested in objective Biblical scholarship are familiar with the "Documentary Hypothesis" of the Pentateuch stemming from sources J, E, P, and D. Yet never have I seen an attempt to reconstruct the history and interplay of these perspectives throughout ancient Israel and the surrounding regions, and not in my wildest dreams would I have imagined it would be so illuminating…
For instance, Armstrong shows the revolutionary effect of the prophets in Judaism, beginning with Isaiah, at the time when the J and E material was still being written. She shows that prophetic Judaism was an "Axial religion," a development of the Axial age when cities became the centers of culture in Asia and the Mediterranean. Other Axial religious developments included the teachings of Socrates, Plato, Zoroaster, the Upanishadic sages, the Buddha, Lao-tse, and Confucius. These all taught a universal ethic, insisting that God or the Absolute needed no temple, transcended all, was accessible to or within everyone, and that compassion was the highest virtue.
The prophets' teaching that "God desires mercy, and not sacrifice," was in sharp contrast to the priestly, Temple-based establishment, which insisted the Temple was the ultimate dwelling on God on Earth, having chosen the Israel out of all the nations. (This was the beginning of a clash which would endure until John the Baptist and the ministry of Jesus.)
But this is just the beginning. Instead of specializing on a single religion or period in time, Armstrong boldly takes up all the threads of theology throughout the four millennia of the monotheistic religions. With them, she weaves a tapestry of our collective religious experience which can help us understand our faith and ourselves better. Subsequent chapters focus on the life of Christ, early Christian theologies, understandings (and misunderstandings) of Trinity, the influence of Greek philosophy upon Christianity and Islam, mysticism, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and Fundamentalism.
three persons or three personae?
A special treat is her insight on Trinitarian thought. It was a surprise to learn that the term "persons" in "One God in three Persons" came from the Latin word personae, referring to the masks of characters in a drama. Personae was the Latin translation of the Greek word hypostases, "expressions." The different words used in Greek and Latin to describe the Trinity reflected (and influenced) very different understandings of God's nature. For the Eastern bishops, the Trinity described how One God, whose essence (ousia) is mysterious, ineffable, utterly beyond and above being known or described in any way, imparts his energies (energeia) to Creation through the expressions (hypostases) of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In other words, the Eastern view of the Trinity reconciled knowledge of God as both personal and beyond personal, knowing and loving in his expressions, and yet beyond any human conception at all in essence. Have you ever heard it like that before?
world-wide paradigm shifts
Brilliant also is her ability to relate the historic phenomena of mysticism, reformation, rationalism, and fundamentalism beyond just the Christian perspective, into a world-wide perspective simultaneously developing in all "the religions of God." Her revelation that the Reformation was not just a Protestant reformation, but a universal one is a brilliant example. As the printing press spread, the authority of the written word took on unprecedented dimensions. Galileo, she points out, was condemned by the Catholic Church not because his heliocentric universe conflicted with any doctrine or dogma, but because it contradicted an extremely literal reading of the Bible.
Especially helpful is her knowledge about Islamic history with revealing treatments on philosophical and mystical eras in Islam, before the relatively recent phenomenon of Islamic Fundamentalism. It was fascinating to learn that some Sufi schools were so devoted to Jesus that they adapted the Shahada to "there is no God but God, and Jesus is His Prophet."
However, A History of God has minor but significant flaws: Awkward sentences abound, and her lack of direct experience with conservative American Protestantism makes her disdain for it seem less than objective. Furthermore, errors like "Maurice Cerullo" (i.e. Morris Cerullo) make it feel insufficiently edited, particularly in the age of the Internet. However, none of these are fatal flaws by any means; Armstrong has created a landmark work, undoubtedly unique in its combination of depth and scope. What can I say, but read it!
Hardcore Zen:
April 4, 2004 January 21, 2021 JonLeave a comment
Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and the Truth about Reality
© 2003 by Brad Warner
Published by: Wisdom Publications 206 pp.
not your grandmother's zen book
You won't find Hardcore Zen at the bookstore by looking for a cover with a pretty "Zen" picture. This one is about showing us what we don't want to see; in keeping with that spirit, the cover features a toilet. Brad Warner uses many expressions of the kind which Captain Kirk described as "colorful metaphors" in Star Trek IV, some of which are really striking, "like a pit bull [on] a postman's ass," to quote Brad. This ain't your grandma's Zen book.
A friend asked me a couple of years ago what I found so valuable about Buddhism, and I replied that Buddhism seemed obsessed with reality. Brad seems to agree, and the difference between reality and "religion" is a running theme throughout the book.
Brad is a married American Zen priest living and teaching in Tokyo, whose day job is making Ultraman monster movies. In keeping with that theme of learning from reality, Brad teaches Zen from his own life, and the book is about one-third autobiography, and two-thirds hard-hitting Zen lessons. He discovered Zen while a punk-rock musician studying at Kent State University (at the same time I was there, BTW). From there he went to Japan, and found employment in making cheesy monster movies, a Soto Zen master, and a wife. Hmm, did I say hard-hitting? Isn't Zen supposed to be something like a spacious room covered with floor cushions, perfumed with incense, New Age music rippling through the air, and a copy of The Art of Tea on the coffee table? No, it isn't; It's about discovering your true nature, and Brad's mission is to shock us into realizing how desperately we avoid our reality, even with most of what we consider "spirituality."
Hardcore Zen is does have some flaws. Sometimes Brad seems to condemn whatever awakening experiences and traditions which are not like the Zen ideal. My suspicion is that although enlightenment is only one thing, all who experience it do so differently, and will use different terms to describe it.
a brilliant introduction
But if you can take an occasional jibe to your tradition, you'll find that Warner Roshi is an excellent teacher. His explication of the Heart Sutra is the best I've ever read, and his chapter on the "The World of Demons" by itself is worth much more than the price of the entire book. Brad explains how practicing zazen lifts the lid on the things we've tried to hide from ourselves, and often reveals what we didn't want to see: makyo (our psychological demons). This extremely helpful chapter gives excellent advice on how to cope when we start seeing ourselves as we really are instead of how we've told ourselves we are. Beyond that, this chapter also has the most lucid explanation of the "no-self" concept in Zen, which can be helpful even to those who have been practicing Zen for years.
The next chapter, "In My Next Life, I Want to Come Back as a Pair of Lucy Liu's Panties" (I wonder what his wife thinks of that title!) follows, with the clearest explanation I've ever seen on how the Buddhist concept of rebirth differs significantly from the general idea of reincarnation. Brad shows how our concepts of the afterlife are usually far off the mark because we don't understand this present life, which happens in the present moment.
"No Sex with Cantaloupes" (great chapter titles, huh?) is a delightful perspective on personal and social Buddhist morality through the ten training precepts, with an emphasis on its importance: "There are nitwits out there who'll tell you Buddhism, particularly Zen Buddhism, isn't concerned with morality, that it's enlightenment that really counts. They're wrong. Enlightenment is crap. Living morally and ethically is what really matters."
That leads into another "hardcore" message: the waste of searching for "enlightenment." Soon after I realized that enlightenment is real, and there actually are people who maintain a constant awareness of non-duality, I succumbed to the disease of enlightenment-seeking, and from which my own teacher had been trying to cure me. Something clicked in me when reading this:
Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, every single goddamn moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are. But here's the thing. That mess is itself enlightenment. You'll eventually see that the "you" that's a mess isn't really "you" at all. But whether you notice your own enlightenment or not is entirely inconsequential. Whether you think of yourself as enlightened or not has nothing to do with the real state of affairs.
This is an extremely important point which all the thousands of enlightenment seekers in the world would do well to take to heart. The bottom line, Brad says, is that reality is real. Enlightenment isn't escaping from it, but going into it, and finding the treasure inside every part and every moment. Hardcore Zen ends with a compelling appeal to practice zazen, the concentrated practice of looking at reality. Zazen can change us, and the world, from within, by destroying the self-interest that comes with the myth of self. He closes with some clear, simple instructions for beginning Zen meditation, written with the confidence of a master who has himself been transformed by this practice.
Brad also has a website with some wonderful pages written in his inimitable style, at Sit Down and Shut Up!»
Update, December 5, 2004. Brad has now moved back to the US, and is living in Hollywood, California. I've also updated the link above with his new URL
December 28, 2002 January 21, 2021 JonLeave a comment
by Karen Armstrong,
© 2001 by Karen Armstrong
Published by Penguin Books 205 pp.
an insightful biography
Karen Armstrong, the author of the best-sellers A History of God, The Battle for God, and Islam: A Short History, is known for her reputation as a lucid and insightful historian of Western religions, with a particular expertise on Islam. Leaving the interplay of monotheistic history might seem like a departure for her, but it really isn't. Even in A History of God, Armstrong referred often to happenings in the Buddhist world to give an even wider perspective to Western religious history. Apparently, she has an inside connection; she dedicates this book to Lindsey Armstrong, her Buddhist sister.
There are many excellent biographies of the Buddha available, especially coming from a faith perspective, such as Thich Nhat Hahn's Old Path, White Clouds. However, Armstrong predictably applies her historian's ability to capture the sense of the time and presents Siddhatta Gotama (aka Siddhartha Gautama; Armstrong uses Pali forms consistently in this book) in the context of his time and culture. She begins with a frank assessment of the difficulty of a historian's work in capturing Gotama's life. Although the massive Pali canon bursts at the seams with his conversations and accounts of events in his life, they are conspicuously stylized for recitation, and they deliberately avoid revealing his personality. Furthermore, they were not committed to writing until hundreds of years after his death, so a historian must use them judiciously. Nevertheless, Armstrong dives into the accounts, separating the oldest accounts from later ones, and embellishments from history. Her style might seem somewhat repetitive to someone familiar with Buddhism, but she wants to build a clear understanding with a reader who knows nothing on the subject. Generally, her style is clear and fresh, only occasionally does her perspective get in the way, for instance, in psychologizing Mara the tempter's appearance as Buddha's subconscious "shadow."
looking around the buddha
Armstrong's greatest accomplishment here is in looking around the Buddha to give the reader a sense of the social and political situation in upper Ganges basin, the family life of a prince of a major tribe, and the interweaving threads of his family and companions throughout his life. For instance, we find that becoming a sanyasin, a renunciate monk, was not at all uncommon. Armstrong shows us that thousands of young people throughout the region were sick of the structure of their society and resolved to "go forth" as renunciates, rebelling against a world-system that seemed evil and meaningless by dedicating themselves to finding the key to total liberation from it. For them, total liberation meant never having to return to this realm where ultimately sickness and death prevail. So pervasive was the dissatisfaction with the state of things, that Armstrong says these mendicant monks were seen as "heroic pioneers" and were "honored as rebels" by society as a whole.
The account of the six years between Gotama's "going forth" to becoming the enlightened one is particularly fascinating. We learn surprisingly specific information of the teachers he had, the philosophies they upheld, the disciplines he practiced, and why he ultimately found all of them lacking. From there, we learn of his dedication to the practice of mindfulness, the discovery of the Eightfold Path, and his enlightenment.
Much Buddhist writing is simply dreary. Unenlightened Buddhists not only lack the experience which they seek, but they may not have the environment of joyous enlightenment around them to fuel their quest with joy. Non-Buddhists who write on Buddhism routinely misinterpret vital but difficult concepts such as nirvana, anicca, and anatta, sometimes even believing them to signify a quest for annihilation! (Amazing the persistence of such ignorance.) Armstrong is the first writer I've come across who successfully communicates the incredible joy the Buddha radiated, which drew tens of thousands of people to his radical way of life. People saw something passionate and compelling in him! In short, this book will certainly give readers new insight into the Buddha, and might give many new insight into Buddhism itself.


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If your firm is new to legal tech, there are some simple ways you can ease your team into this world.
As previously mentioned, case management software will likely be a welcome innovation in most firms.
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- A main water intake steelpipe is 2500mm, combined with a hydroeletric power generation plant.
- Three main delivery pipelines are provided with diameters of 1600, 1400 and 1200mm. Material proposed is steel. Total length of the main pipelines is 47km.
- The pipeline design includes all main pipelines.
- The network also incorporates numerous regulating devices and management installations, in order to ensure optimal operation.
- The area covered is 25.200 ha (252 km2).


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11 Incredible Facts About The Global Coffee Industry
Eric Goldschein
Nov. 14, 2011, 10:20 AM
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Coffee is more than popular: it's ubiquitous. No other beverage is as revered or respected. It can be seen in offices, during commutes, and on kitchen counter tops worldwide.
Coffee exporting alone is a $20 billion dollar industry, mostly consumed by industrialized nations while being produced by the world's underclass. It's so beloved today, you would never know drinking coffee once carried the death penalty.
After crude oil, coffee is the most sought commodity in the world
Flickr - Professor Bop
There's no shame in coming in second place to oil. Coffee is worth over $100 billion worldwide.
That puts it ahead of commodities like natural gas, gold, brent oil, sugar and corn.
Worldwide, we drink over 500 billion cups of coffee every year
Overseas Development Institute
And of that number, 14 billion are Italian espresso coffees.
Coffee farms are the economic livelihood of over 25 million people.
Flickr - Nestlé
Coffee is grown in over 50 countries in Asia, Africa, South America, Central America and the Caribbean. And 67 percent of the world's coffee is grown in the Americas alone.
Despite the different flavors and varieties, there are really only two types of coffee
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Arabica and robusta are the two main commercially grown and sold coffee beans.
Arabica is the more common type of bean grown (70 percent of coffee is Arabica), and it's considered more flavorful. Robusta is hardier and cheaper, most commonly seen in instant coffee jars.
Over half of Americans over the age of 18 drink coffee daily
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American coffee drinkers average 3 and a half cups of coffee every day.
Coffee is the source of 75 percent of America's caffeine
Substantially more than any tea, soda or energy drink.
Coffee shops are the fastest growing niche in the restaurant business
If it seems like there are coffee shops popping up everywhere around you, you might be right — coffee shops have a seven percent annual growth rate.
Starbucks, by far America's coffee giant, is the third largest restaurant chain in the U.S.
90 percent of the world's coffee production takes place in developing countries
Team at Carnaval.com Studios / flickr
And its consumption takes place in industrialized nations. The top three producers of coffee are Brazil, Vietnam and Columbia.
Finland drinks the most coffee per capita in the world
Flickr/Ari Helminen
Meanwhile, the first major coffee producing country to appear on the list is Brazil at number 13.
The United States ranks 25th per capita, but we consume the most coffee overall.
"Fair trade" coffee is still a small portion of the market, but it is the most popular fair trade commodity in the world
Flickr - BashaSide7
"Fair trade" coffee was instituted to provide growers with better conditions and a higher cut of the profit.
Under fair trade rules, the coffee importer has a direct relationship with the grower, and pays more to maintain that relationship. Prices fluctuate, but most recently coffee farmers in fair trade cooperatives got $1.26/pound for their Arabica coffee, while regular coffee prices were around $0.70 to $0.90.
Companies like Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts and McDonald's all carry fair trade coffee.
According to the World Wildlife Fund, of the 50 countries with the highest deforestation rates from 1990 to 1995, 37 were coffee producers
Coffee was traditionally grown in the shade. In order to increase yields, outside organizations pushed growers towards planting their crops in the sun.
New techniques include using chemicals and chopping down forests, which allow for greater output but diminish the coffee's taste and ruin the habitats of the surround fauna.
As a side note, "shade-grown" or "bird-friendly" coffee is now marked up and sold at a premium.
BONUS: In the beginning, coffee was blamed for riots, seditious speech and Satan worship
Flickr - Invisible Hour
Coffee wasn't always so popular. Originally discovered in Ethiopia, coffee has been banned in places like Cairo, Egypt and Turkey, where repeated offenders were allegedly sewn into a leather bag and tossed into the ocean.
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text:
class ERB
  Revision = '$Date: 2009-01-10 15:17:58 -0600 (Sat, 10 Jan 2009) $' 	#'

  # Returns revision information for the erb.rb module.
  def self.version
    "erb.rb [2.0.4 #{ERB::Revision.split[1]}]"
  end
end

#--
# ERB::Compiler
class ERB
  class Compiler # :nodoc:
    class PercentLine # :nodoc:
      def initialize(str)
        @value = str
      end
      attr_reader :value
      alias :to_s :value
    end

    class Scanner # :nodoc:
      SplitRegexp = /(<%%)|(%%>)|(<%=)|(<%#)|(<%)|(%>)|(\n)/

      @scanner_map = {}
      def self.regist_scanner(klass, trim_mode, percent)
	@scanner_map[[trim_mode, percent]] = klass
      end

      def self.default_scanner=(klass)
	@default_scanner = klass
      end

      def self.make_scanner(src, trim_mode, percent)
	klass = @scanner_map.fetch([trim_mode, percent], @default_scanner)
	klass.new(src, trim_mode, percent)
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      def initialize(src, trim_mode, percent)
	@src = src
	@stag = nil
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      attr_accessor :stag

      def scan; end
    end

    class TrimScanner < Scanner # :nodoc:
      TrimSplitRegexp = /(<%%)|(%%>)|(<%=)|(<%#)|(<%)|(%>\n)|(%>)|(\n)/

      def initialize(src, trim_mode, percent)
	super
	@trim_mode = trim_mode
	@percent = percent
	if @trim_mode == '>'
	  @scan_line = self.method(:trim_line1)
	elsif @trim_mode == '<>'
	  @scan_line = self.method(:trim_line2)
	elsif @trim_mode == '-'
	  @scan_line = self.method(:explicit_trim_line)
	else
	  @scan_line = self.method(:scan_line)
	end
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      def scan(&block)
	@stag = nil
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	  @src.each do |line|
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	  @src.each do |line|
	    @scan_line.call(line, &block)
	  end
	end
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      end

      def percent_line(line, &block)
	if @stag || line[0] != ?%
	  return @scan_line.call(line, &block)
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      def scan_line(line)
	line.split(SplitRegexp).each do |token|
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	  yield(token)
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      def trim_line1(line)
	line.split(TrimSplitRegexp).each do |token|
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      def trim_line2(line)
	head = nil
	line.split(TrimSplitRegexp).each do |token|
	  next if token.empty?
	  head = token unless head
	  if token == "%>\n"
	    yield('%>')
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	      yield(:cr)
	    else
	      yield("\n")
	    end
	    break
	  end
	  yield(token)
	end
      end

      def explicit_trim_line(line)
        line.scan(/(.*?)(^[ \t]*<%\-|<%\-|<%%|%%>|<%=|<%#|<%|-%>\n|-%>|%>|\z)/m) do |tokens|
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      def is_erb_stag?(s)
	ERB_STAG.member?(s)
      end
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    Scanner.default_scanner = TrimScanner

    class SimpleScanner < Scanner # :nodoc:
      def scan
	@src.each do |line|
	  line.split(SplitRegexp).each do |token|
	    next if token.empty?
	    yield(token)
	  end
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      end
    end

    Scanner.regist_scanner(SimpleScanner, nil, false)

    begin
      require 'strscan'
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        def scan
          stag_reg = /(.*?)(<%%|<%=|<%#|<%|\n|\z)/
          etag_reg = /(.*?)(%%>|%>|\n|\z)/
          scanner = StringScanner.new(@src)
          while ! scanner.eos?
            scanner.scan(@stag ? etag_reg : stag_reg)
            text = scanner[1]
            elem = scanner[2]
            yield(text) unless text.empty?
            yield(elem) unless elem.empty?
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      end
      Scanner.regist_scanner(SimpleScanner2, nil, false)

      class PercentScanner < Scanner # :nodoc:
	def scan
	  new_line = true
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		yield(PercentLine.new(scanner.scan(/.*?(\n|\z)/).chomp))
		next
	      end
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            yield(text) unless text.empty?
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	def scan
	  new_line = true
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          etag_reg = /(.*?)(%%>|-%>|%>|\n|\z)/
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          while ! scanner.eos?
	    if new_line && @stag.nil? && scanner.scan(/[ \t]*<%-/)
	      yield('<%')
	      new_line = false
	      next
	    end
	    scanner.scan(@stag ? etag_reg : stag_reg)
            text = scanner[1]
            elem = scanner[2]
	    new_line = (elem == "\n")
            yield(text) unless text.empty?
	    if elem == '-%>'
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		yield(:cr)
		new_line = true
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	    elsif elem == '<%-'
	      yield('<%')
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	      yield(elem) unless elem.empty?
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          end
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      Scanner.regist_scanner(ExplicitScanner, '-', false)

    rescue LoadError
    end

    class Buffer # :nodoc:
      def initialize(compiler)
	@compiler = compiler
	@line = []
	@script = ""
	@compiler.pre_cmd.each do |x|
	  push(x)
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	@line << cmd
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	@script << (@line.join('; '))
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	return unless @line
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	@line = nil
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		out.push(content)
		out.cr
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		out.push(content)
	      end
	    when '<%='
	      out.push("#{@insert_cmd}((#{content}).to_s)")
	    when '<%#'
	      # out.push("# #{content.dump}")
	    end
	    scanner.stag = nil
	    content = ''
	  when '%%>'
	    content << '%>'
	  else
	    content << token
	  end
	end
      end
      out.push("#{@put_cmd} #{content.dump}") if content.size > 0
      out.close
      out.script
    end

    def prepare_trim_mode(mode)
      case mode
      when 1
	return [false, '>']
      when 2
	return [false, '<>']
      when 0
	return [false, nil]
      when String
	perc = mode.include?('%')
	if mode.include?('-')
	  return [perc, '-']
	elsif mode.include?('<>')
	  return [perc, '<>']
	elsif mode.include?('>')
	  return [perc, '>']
	else
	  [perc, nil]
	end
      else
	return [false, nil]
      end
    end

    def make_scanner(src)
      Scanner.make_scanner(src, @trim_mode, @percent)
    end

    def initialize(trim_mode)
      @percent, @trim_mode = prepare_trim_mode(trim_mode)
      @put_cmd = 'print'
      @insert_cmd = @put_cmd
      @pre_cmd = []
      @post_cmd = []
    end
    attr_reader :percent, :trim_mode
    attr_accessor :put_cmd, :insert_cmd, :pre_cmd, :post_cmd
  end
end

#--
# ERB
class ERB
  #
  # Constructs a new ERB object with the template specified in _str_.
  #
  # An ERB object works by building a chunk of Ruby code that will output
  # the completed template when run. If _safe_level_ is set to a non-nil value,
  # ERB code will be run in a separate thread with <b>$SAFE</b> set to the
  # provided level.
  #
  # If _trim_mode_ is passed a String containing one or more of the following
  # modifiers, ERB will adjust its code generation as listed:
  #
  # 	%  enables Ruby code processing for lines beginning with %
  # 	<> omit newline for lines starting with <% and ending in %>
  # 	>  omit newline for lines ending in %>
  #
  # _eoutvar_ can be used to set the name of the variable ERB will build up
  # its output in.  This is useful when you need to run multiple ERB
  # templates through the same binding and/or when you want to control where
  # output ends up.  Pass the name of the variable to be used inside a String.
  #
  # === Example
  #
  #  require "erb"
  #
  #  # build data class
  #  class Listings
  #    PRODUCT = { :name => "Chicken Fried Steak",
  #                :desc => "A well messages pattie, breaded and fried.",
  #                :cost => 9.95 }
  #
  #    attr_reader :product, :price
  #
  #    def initialize( product = "", price = "" )
  #      @product = product
  #      @price = price
  #    end
  #
  #    def build
  #      b = binding
  #      # create and run templates, filling member data variebles
  #      ERB.new(<<-'END_PRODUCT'.gsub(/^\s+/, ""), 0, "", "@product").result b
  #        <%= PRODUCT[:name] %>
  #        <%= PRODUCT[:desc] %>
  #      END_PRODUCT
  #      ERB.new(<<-'END_PRICE'.gsub(/^\s+/, ""), 0, "", "@price").result b
  #        <%= PRODUCT[:name] %> -- <%= PRODUCT[:cost] %>
  #        <%= PRODUCT[:desc] %>
  #      END_PRICE
  #    end
  #  end
  #
  #  # setup template data
  #  listings = Listings.new
  #  listings.build
  #
  #  puts listings.product + "\n" + listings.price
  #
  # _Generates_
  #
  #  Chicken Fried Steak
  #  A well messages pattie, breaded and fried.
  #
  #  Chicken Fried Steak -- 9.95
  #  A well messages pattie, breaded and fried.
  #
  def initialize(str, safe_level=nil, trim_mode=nil, eoutvar='_erbout')
    @safe_level = safe_level
    compiler = ERB::Compiler.new(trim_mode)
    set_eoutvar(compiler, eoutvar)
    @src = compiler.compile(str)
    @filename = nil
  end

  # The Ruby code generated by ERB
  attr_reader :src

  # The optional _filename_ argument passed to Kernel#eval when the ERB code
  # is run
  attr_accessor :filename

  #
  # Can be used to set _eoutvar_ as described in ERB#new.  It's probably easier
  # to just use the constructor though, since calling this method requires the
  # setup of an ERB _compiler_ object.
  #
  def set_eoutvar(compiler, eoutvar = '_erbout')
    compiler.put_cmd = "#{eoutvar}.concat"
    compiler.insert_cmd = "#{eoutvar}.concat"

    cmd = []
    cmd.push "#{eoutvar} = ''"

    compiler.pre_cmd = cmd

    cmd = []
    cmd.push(eoutvar)

    compiler.post_cmd = cmd
  end

  # Generate results and print them. (see ERB#result)
  def run(b=TOPLEVEL_BINDING)
    print self.result(b)
  end

  #
  # Executes the generated ERB code to produce a completed template, returning
  # the results of that code.  (See ERB#new for details on how this process can
  # be affected by _safe_level_.)
  #
  # _b_ accepts a Binding or Proc object which is used to set the context of
  # code evaluation.
  #
  def result(b=TOPLEVEL_BINDING)
    if @safe_level
      th = Thread.start {
	$SAFE = @safe_level
	eval(@src, b, (@filename || '(erb)'), 1)
      }
      return th.value
    else
      return eval(@src, b, (@filename || '(erb)'), 1)
    end
  end

  def def_method(mod, methodname, fname='(ERB)')  # :nodoc:
    mod.module_eval("def #{methodname}\n" + self.src + "\nend\n", fname, 0)
  end

  def def_module(methodname='erb')  # :nodoc:
    mod = Module.new
    def_method(mod, methodname)
    mod
  end

  def def_class(superklass=Object, methodname='result')  # :nodoc:
    cls = Class.new(superklass)
    def_method(cls, methodname)
    cls
  end
end

#--
# ERB::Util
class ERB
  # A utility module for conversion routines, often handy in HTML generation.
  module Util
    public
    #
    # A utility method for escaping HTML tag characters in _s_.
    #
    # 	require "erb"
    # 	include ERB::Util
    #
    # 	puts html_escape("is a > 0 & a < 10?")
    #
    # _Generates_
    #
    # 	is a > 0 & a < 10?
    #
    def html_escape(s)
      s.to_s.gsub(/&/, "&").gsub(/\"/, """).gsub(/>/, ">").gsub(/</, "<")
    end
    alias h html_escape
    module_function :h
    module_function :html_escape

    #
    # A utility method for encoding the String _s_ as a URL.
    #
    # 	require "erb"
    # 	include ERB::Util
    #
    # 	puts url_encode("Programming Ruby:  The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide")
    #
    # _Generates_
    #
    # 	Programming%20Ruby%3A%20%20The%20Pragmatic%20Programmer%27s%20Guide
    #
    def url_encode(s)
      s.to_s.gsub(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_\-.]/n){ sprintf("%%%02X", $&.unpack("C")[0]) }
    end
    alias u url_encode
    module_function :u
    module_function :url_encode
  end
end

#--
# ERB::DefMethod
class ERB
  module DefMethod  # :nodoc:
    public
    def def_erb_method(methodname, erb)
      if erb.kind_of? String
	fname = erb
	File.open(fname) {|f| erb = ERB.new(f.read) }
	erb.def_method(self, methodname, fname)
      else
	erb.def_method(self, methodname)
      end
    end
    module_function :def_erb_method
  end
end

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