Stephen is doing one of his very rare two day intensive courses on how to use the lo p'an (luopan) in Singapore on 14-15th November 2013. Nobody can truely say they have mastered feng shui till they know how to use the lo p'an and its secret formulae.
During the 1970s and 1980s he was the driving force behind Askin Publishers, producing lovely editions of classic magical works such as Agrippa's Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy and the Archidoxes of Magic by Paracelsus, several titles by Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Dr Donald Laycock (The Enochian Dictionary) and others, all of which are now collector's items. The first of these was a huge quarter leather edition of the primary source book of Enochian magic, the True & Faithful Relation of what passed between Dr John Dee…and some Spirits. During this period he co-wrote books with Francis King, including the still popular Techniques of High Magic, which has gone through many editions since it was first released. Also with Francis King he wrote Nostradamus, following this with the best selling Millennium Prophecies. His interest in Western geomancy spurred him on to create the most complete and classic work in that field Terrestrial Astrology which has been considerably expanded and reprinted, and can be ordered here: Geomancy in Theory and Practice.
In the late 1990s he published and owned a number of monthly magazines such as Wining and Dining, Healthy Living, Alternatives and XL. Later in the decade he was publisher of a number of client and affinity group publications such as 050, ARP and Goldlife.
In 1998 he was responsible for launching and publishing the first full colour magazine on feng shui, Feng Shui For Modern Living, which was distributed in 41 countries with translated editions in German and even in Chinese. At its peak the English edition sold over 121,000 audited copies per month, and Stephen was nominated at the PPA awards as UK 'Publisher of the Year' (the UK print media equivalent of the Oscars).
In 2003 he migrated to Malaysia/Singapore to facilitate his researches into feng shui, and helped found the International Feng Shui association in Singapore, which is now in its 10th year.
In 2004 he began publishing Source Works of Ceremonial Magic with co-author David Rankine. The first title was The Practical Angel Magic of Dr. John Dee's Enochian Tables, opening the doors on real 17th century angel magic in a way never done before. This was followed by The Keys to the Gateway of Magic and then The Goetia of Dr Rudd, a complete 17th century version of the four books of the Lemegeton as used by a practising magician. He then produced a new edition of three versions of the most famous grimoire, the Key of Solomon as The Veritable Key of Solomon. More recently they deciphered and translated the Grimoire of St Cyprian, the Clavis Inferni.
He also edited and published the 16th century manuscript of Sepher Raziel: Liber Salomonis with Don Karr, and facilitated the publication of The Magical Treatise of Solomon or Hygromanteia, the forefather of the Key of Solomon.
In 2006 he published The Complete Magician's Tables with tables of Magic, Kabbalistic, Angelic, Astrologic, Alchemic, Demonic, Geomantic, Grimoire, Gematria, I Ching, Tarot, Pagan Pantheon, Plant, Perfume and Character Correspondences in more than 835 Tables, four times as many tables as Aleister, Crowley's Liber 777, or any other imitator.
In 2008 he completed the Guide to the Feng Shui Compass, the most detailed study of the Chinese luopan in any language. In 2011 he completed a project that he had planned since his teens, to edit and rectify the text of Dr John Dee's Spiritual Diaries (1583-1608) which was a fully corrected (against the original manuscripts) edition of A True & Faithful Relation of what passed for many yeers between Dr. John Dee...and some spirits. This mammoth work ran to 680 folio pages, with thousands of footnotes and corrections.
He was educated at Sydney University graduating in English Literature, Geography and Ancient Greek Philosophy, and was awarded his Ph.D in Classics from the University of Newcastle for a thesis on magic. His interests include feng shui, ancient civilisations, geometry, travel, computers, magic and the Middle Ages. He is the author of more than 36 books published worldwide in more than 20 different languages. His books have had introductions by such diverse people as Colin Wilson, HRH Charles Prince of Wales, and Jimmy Choo shoe designer to the stars.
He spends his time writing, teaching and researching feng shui and the Western Hermetic tradition.
Hear Stephen Skinner talking about real magic.
* Pages: 524 pages, 8" x 10"
This manuscript grimoire contains magical formulae and procedures dating back to 1520, which were brought together in 1789 by Dr. Ebenezer Sibley. After his death in 1799 copyists like Frederick Hockley continued to add chapters and even whole 'books' to the manuscript. Finally in the 19th century this particular copy was made by a master calligrapher. Although there are a number of other manuscript copies of the Clavis or Key to Unlock the Mysteries of Magic located in libraries spread around the world (14 at last count), this one is totally unique. It is 45% longer and more complete than any other copy, and illustrated with a large number of pentacles from the Key of Solomon, featuring 8-12 for every one of the 7 planets.
Methods involving the use of the Demon Kings to compel the lesser spirits, which have never appeared in any other published grimoires, are explained in detail. As well as the pentacles there are many talismans for very practical purposes, such as compelling a thief to return your stolen goods, causing destruction to your enemies, creating love between two people, or just for casual 'amorous intrigues,' curing some diseases, and for defending your home against both burglars and malicious spirits. This extraordinary grimoire marks the high point in Victorian illustrated grimoires.
This is the first book in English on Flying Star feng shui which explains how it compatibly relates to Eight Mansion feng shui, and provides 216 giving lower kua Flying Star charts with 24 Mountain direction indicator, as well as all of the variant Substitution Star (ti kua) charts. Although the 'Flying Stars' were originally related to the stars of the astronomical Big Dipper asterism, in their feng shui usage they are simply terms for changing types of subtle ch'i (qi) energy present in our living environment, our homes, and our workplaces.
Flying Star assumes there is a very real link between the present time, the time a building was built, its directional orientation, the birthdates of its occupants and the consequential changing luck of its occupants. Contrary to popular mis-conception, Flying Star feng shui is completely compatible with Eight Mansion feng shui. The effects of using Flying Star feng shui correctly can often be impressive and very rapid, often within 10 days. Flying Star feng shui is one of the components of Hsüan K'ung (Xuan Kong), which is in turn part of the San Yuan School of feng shui, which relies upon the 8 Trigrams kua (gua) and their combinations. By contrast San He (the other great school of feng shui) relies upon combinations of the 5 Elements (in their yin and yang forms) with the 12 Earthly Branches, forming 60 chia-tzu (jia zi) or dragons.
Much of the knowledge in this book comes from the Chinese text of perhaps the most famous Hsüan K'ung (Xuan Kong) master of the 20th century, Shen Chu Reng and his book on Flying Star entitled San Yuan Ti Li Tai Hsüan K'ung.
Solomonic magic is a major part of the grimoire tradition. This volume is about the methods of Solomonic magic used in Alexandria and how they have been passed via Byzantium (the Hygromanteia), to the manuscripts of the Latin Clavicula Salomonis and its English incarnation as the Key of Solomon. Jewish techniques like the use of pentacles, oil and water skrying were added along the way, but Solomonic magic (despite its name) remained basically a classical Greek form of magic. Amazingly, this transmission has involved very few changes and the 'technology' of magic has remained firmly intact. The emphasis in this book is upon specific magical techniques such as the invocation of the gods, the binding of demons, the use of the four demon Kings, and the construction of the circle and lamen. The requirements of purity, sexual abstinence, and fasting have changed little in the last 2000 years, and the real reasons for that are explained. The use of amulets, talismans and phylacteries or lamens is outlined along with their methods of construction. The structure of a Solomonic evocation puts into perspective the reasons for each step, the use of thwarting angels, achieving invisibility, sacrifice, love magic, treasure finding, and the binding, imprisoning and licensing of spirits.
The facing directions and timing of evocations have always been crucial, and these too have remained consistent. Practical considerations such as choice of incense, the timing of the cutting of the wand, utilisation of rings and statues, use of the Table of Evocation, or the acquisition of a familiar spirit are also explained. Techniques of Solomonic Magic is thus a follow on book from Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic. This volume is based on the magicians' own handbooks rather than the opinions of theologians, historians, anthropologists, sociologists or legislators. The emphasis is on what magicians actually did and why. Tools used by magicians in 7th century Alexandria, 15th century Constantinople and 19th century London are very much the same. More than 70 illustrations (many in colour) of magical equipment like the wand, the sword, wax images and magical gems, drawn from a wide range of manuscripts are reproduced and examined. This is the most detailed analysis of Solomonic magic, from the inside, ever penned.
These more than 840 magical tables are the most complete set of tabular correspondences covering magic, astrology, divination, Tarot, I Ching, Kabbalah, gematria, angels, demons, Graeco-Egyptian magic, pagan pantheons, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Taoist and mystical correspondences ever printed. It is more than five times larger and more wide ranging than Crowley's Liber 777.
New columns include the spirits from Faust's Höllenzwang and Trithemius' Steganographia. Types of magic and their Greek identification headwords; the meanings of a wide range of nomina magica; planetary incenses; and the secret names for ingredients, all from the Greek magical papyri. Also the names of the gods of the hours and the months which must be used for successful evocation.
The source of the data in these tables ranges over 2000 years, from the Graeco-Egyptian papyri, Byzantine Solomonike, unpublished manuscript mediaeval grimoires and Kabbalistic works, Peter de Abano, Abbott Trithemius, Albertus Magnus, Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Dr John Dee, Dr Thomas Rudd, Tycho Brahe, MacGregor Mathers (and the editors of Mathers' work, Aleister Crowley and Israel Regardie), to the mage of classical geometric shapes, modern theories of prime numbers and atomic weights. The sources include many key grimoires such the Sworn Book, Liber Juratus, the Lemegeton (Goetia, Theurgia-Goetia, Almadel, Pauline Art), Abramelin, and in the 20th century the grimoire of Franz Bardon.
Magical objectives include love (by attraction, compulsion, insomnia and 'love's leash'), health, invisibility, foreknowledge and memory. There are detailed sections on bowl and lamp skrying, the sending of dreams, encountering a god, and the Mystery rites for fellowship with the gods. First steps include the invocation of the paredros, the daimon assistant and the correct purity and fasting procedures. Encounter Thesallos of Tralles who persuaded an Egyptian priest to manifest a god for him, and the techniques that his Egyptian priest used to do this.
Feng Shui History tracks the evolution of feng shui in detail in China from 221 BC till the present day, and then its spread throughout SE Asia, and finally to the rest of the world in the last 35 years. This has never been done before in English. The only information on the history of feng shui occurs as scattered chapters in a number of books, but these books often repeat the same tired generalisations, and include many largely erroneous statements.
This book has been meticulously researched, from authoritative Chinese texts and the analysis of many antique lo p'ans, and gives the real history of feng shui. It contains the biographical details of many masters, and tracks the developments and people involved in propagating feng shui in the US, UK, Europe, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, in the 20th century, right up to date in 2012. It clearly shows the different feng shui methods and masters, and how they relate to each other.
1. "Feng shui is 6000 years old." In fact the characters 'feng shui' were not used in this context before 320 CE. Even the older names (ti li, kan yi, etc.) for this practice do not occur in any surviving texts before 221 BC.
2. "Feng shui derives from the Yi Jing." In fact, apart from the 8 trigrams being used as basic directional indicators, no feng shui compass shows the 60 hexagrams till 1600 CE, and not the full 64 hexagrams till 1824.
3. "The feng shui compass derives from a magnetised spoon revolving on a plate." In fact this incorrect deduction made by Wang Chen-To in 1946 (and later reluctantly repeated by Needham) was completely discredited by several researchers in the 1990s.
This is a completely revamped and reader-friendly edition of A True & Faithful Relation of what passed for many Years between Dr. John Dee... and some Spirits, transcribed and prefaced by Meric Casaubon in 1659. Now re-edited by Stephen Skinner, with a detailed introduction, appendices, extensive footnotes, supplementary texts, additional illustrations, and a Dee timeline.
This book has been totally re-set, re-formatted and updated, incorporating over 5000 corrections from the original notes of Meric Casaubon, Elias Ashmole and William Shippen and with reference to the original manuscript written by Dee. Sections which were originally missing from Casaubon's edition have been added. Angels, spirits, people, places, dates and times have been fully footnoted, and Casaubon's errors corrected. The reader will find this a much more accessible entrance to the world of Dr Dee's conferences with angels and spirits, and a welcome improvement.
* SWCM : Vol. 9.
This manuscript is a grimoire, a manual of practical magic, a sorcerer's handbook.
It is a composite grimoire drawn from a number of different sources. It is not the sort of grimoire which has a complete method of calling up a set register of spirits, like the Goetia, nor does it have a wide range of pentacles or talismans like the Key of Solomon.
It is however quite special as it was also was a practising Cunning man's grimoire, a very interesting blend of learned and local village magic. It also contains a lot of critical astrological information (including its own set of astrological tables) which are an important part of magic, but which don't feature to a large extent in other grimoires. It goes way beyond Planetary days and hours, to detailed aspects of timing and also contains magical operations connected with the 28 Mansions of the Moon and image magic, which were usually absent from Solomonic grimoires.
The 28 Mansions of the Moon belong to a different magical tradition which owes its origins to Arabic and Indian roots, rather than the Greek roots of Solomonic magic. This manuscript literally stands at the crossroads of several different magical streams.
The Key to the Latin is a full translation of the more than 50,000 words printed in Latin in Dee's Diaries originally published in 1659 by Meric Casaubon as A True & Faithful Relation..., and fully corrected and republished by Stephen Skinner as Dr John Dee's Spiritual Diaries (see above). Now you can finally read all of Dee's Latin passages.
Many of the insights provided by this text have never been picked up, or noticed, by Dee's biographers in the past. This volume should be read in conjunction with the edited version of Dee's Diaries, illustrated above. Both are available direct from www.GoldenHoard.com or from Llewellyn.
This is the true ancestor of the Key of Solomon. This book is sometimes called the Hygromanteia, and this book has hidden behind the mistaken idea that all of it is a work on water divination, a scholarly mistake that has hidden the true value of this book for centuries. Throughout history thousands of people have been fascinated by the grimoire the Key of Solomon. This is the original Greek book of magic that was the source of the Key of Solomon, and in turn the ancestor of most of the grimoire-based ceremonial magic practiced in Europe and the US today. It is therefore the key to understanding the grimoires.
This is a ground-breaking work. For the first time (outside of a handful of pages in academic works) the full Greek original of the Key of Solomon has been translated into English. Till now it has only existed in Bysantine Greek manuscripts.
Contrary to popular opinion the Key of Solomon was not translated from a Hebrew original. During the gradual decline and fall of the Byzantine Empire, this precious text, along with many others, was taken to Italy. This may have happened when Constantinople was sacked in 1453. It is quite likely that it was taken to Venice, where parts of it were translated into Latin and Italian.
Abridged Latin copies entitled the Clavicula Salomonis circulated in Europe, going through many changes, languages and versions to become the Key of Solomon as we know it (some of those manuscripts are published as Volume IV of the present series). Now for the first time you can read the whole text (large portions of which were left out of the Latin translations) derived from 17 different manuscripts.
This is the most complete history of Western geomancy in any language.
The second section of the book is concerned with the practice, manipulation and generation of geomantic figures as standardized in Europe, and gives practical examples as a guide to the interpretation and practice of the art. Also covers astro-geomany which relates astrology and geomancy. This is shown in the cover picture which clearly shows Islamic astronomers at work whilst geomancers look for portents of the future in the sand.
Sepher Raziel - also called Liber Salomonis is a full grimoire in the Solomonic tradition from a rare sixteenth century English manuscript. It is completely different from the Sepher Raziel ha-Melakh published by Steve Savedow, and is the oldest grimoire so far published in the Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic series. It shows clear signs of Hebrew and Greek roots, quoting both Solomon and Hermes.
Semiforas or a Book of Names and their virtues and properties, being seven 'semiforas' attributed to Adam and seven semiforas attributed to Moses.
The Sepher Raziel text is given in two forms: an exact literal transcription of the 16th century English with no changes in spelling or wording, and a full modern annotated English version for easier reading.
It is unique in that instead of being weighed down with many prayers and conjurations it addresses the summoning and use of both the four Archangels, Michael, Raphael, Gabriel and Uriel as well as their opposite numbers, the four Demon Kings, Paymon, Maimon, Egyn and Oriens. The later are shown in their animal and human forms along with their sigils, a resource unique amongst grimoires. These manuscript illustrations of the Demon Kings do not appear anywhere else.
The text is in a mixture of three magical scripts, Greek, Hebrew, cipher, Latin, (and reversed Latin) with many contractions and shortforms, but it has been expanded and made plain by the editors. The title of the manuscript, Clavis Inferni sive magia alba et nigra approbata Metratona, literally means 'The Key of Hell with white and black magic as proven [tested] by Metatron'.
It was the fall of Constantinople in 1453 that released a tide of Greek reading scholars into Western Europe, particularly Venice. With them came much of the magical and Hermetic knowledge which the Greeks in their turn had inherited from the Egyptians. The Key of Solomon was one such text. It is therefore essential to the understanding of such magical texts that one understands exactly how the Byzantines understood the nature of daemons. Psellus forms the bridge between the ancient world, Byzantine Greek, and the grimoire conception of the nature and use of daemons.
Michael Psellus (1018 – 1178 C.E) was one of the most notable writers and philosophers of the Byzantine era. The Byzantine domain was effectively the eastern Greek speaking part of the Roman Empire centred on Byzantium (Constantinople, modern Istanbul) which split off from the Latin West in 364 C.E. Its intellectual legacies helped lay the foundations for the Italian Renaissance.
Hailing from Constantinople, Psellus' career was an illustrious and practical one, serving as a political advisor to a succession of emperors, playing a decisive role in the transition of power between various monarchs. He became the leading professor at the newly founded University of Constantinople, bearing the honourary title, 'Consul of the Philosophers'. He was the driving force behind the university curriculum reform designed to emphasize the Greek classics, especially Homeric literature. Psellus is credited with the shift from Aristotelian thought to the Platonist tradition, and was adept in politics, astronomy, medicine, music, theology, jurisprudence, physics, grammar and history. He was well qualified to speak about daemons.
The Key of Solomon is the most important and influential of all European grimoires. This is the most beautiful and detailed version of this grimoire ever published. With a comprehensive introduction by Stephen Skinner and David Rankine. This is a book that every practicing magician or scholar of the occult must have. The source is two French manuscripts scribed for a French aristocrat in 1796. This is not the earliest, but it is the most detailed version of the Key of Solomon. The book contains three separate versions of the Keys, in order to cover as much of the material as possible. It is much more complete than the Mathers' 1909 edition. It includes a full commentary on all the 144 extant manuscripts of this grimoire, including illustrations from the earlier Greek manuscript precursor of the Key of Solomon, which is also published by Golden Hoard (see The Magical Treatise of Solomon elsewhere on this site).
a Compendium of Classical feng shui. Including a history of feng shui, a detailed description of 75 rings of the lo p'an, and a feng shui time line.
How to read the San He and San Yuan lo p'an, with an explanation of each ring in detail, the history and background of feng shui and the lo p'an (luo pan).
This large book is 448 pages in size, and packed with detailed information which is very clearly explained, so that after reading it anyone should be comfortable reading even the most complex lo p'an. This book is the result of 30 years of research and practice. More than 75 rings are documented, illustrated, tabulated, and classified by Plate and School, with their use and history. Anyone reading the book can go from being a complete novice to complete familiarity with any lo p'an, ancient or modern. It clearly explains for the first time in English how feng shui developed and the relationship between the San He and San Yuan Schools.
There are 65 Tables, 174 illustrations, and 32 full colour plates. These include rare pictures and analyses of Ming and Ch'ing (Qing) dynasty lo p'ans.
Every technical term, book title, or person's name, is carefully footnoted in traditional Chinese characters with supporting pinyin and Wade-Giles transliterations.
Stephen was nominated as Publisher of the Year in the 1999 PPA Awards (like the Oscars of Publishing) for his production of Feng Shui for Modern Living magazine.
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Thiel: Astros scandal is beyond Manfred's grasp
By Art Thiel February 9, 2020 38 Comments6 Mins Read
Albus Dumbledore, leading candidate for a new position in MLB — ethicist. / youtube.com
Dark arts?
Somehow the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal has taken a trip down Diagon Alley into the world of Harry Potter.
The phrase from Hogwarts was borrowed by the Astros baseball-operations staff as a label in 2016 to describe an Excel spreadsheet program designed to out-smart the opposition by nefarious means.
That was not previously disclosed in the nine-page summary released last month regarding the investigation into the sign-stealing scandal by the Astros, which continues to stain MLB.
In fact, there were a number of facts previously unknown about how the story evolved until Wall Street Journal reporter Jared Diamond Friday afternoon pulled open the cloak of invisibility that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred apparently tried to keep in place to limit damage.
Diamond reported he saw MLB documents, including a Jan. 2 letter from Manfred to since-fired GM Jeffrey Luhnow, that disclosed Astros director of advance information Tom Koch-Weser claimed that Luhnow was in the know on the operation. Emails from Koch-Weser seen by MLB investigators were sent to Luhnow regarding "Codebreaker," the name given to the algorithm by its inventor.
Derek Vigoa, at the time a front office intern but now the Astros' senior manager for team operations, reportedly devised the program for deciphering the signs of the opposing catcher by logging each stolen signal into a spreadsheet, a practice that extended to some road games. From the WSJ story:
Other Astros employees told MLB's investigators that they believed Luhnow knew about Codebreaker, but they provided no definitive proof. Matt Hogan, now the Astros' manager of pro scouting analysis, told investigators there was no effort to hide the use of Codebreaker in front of Luhnow when he visited the video room. In fact, he told them, "it would have been something to show we were working and get validation of our work." Luhnow denied seeing evidence of sign-stealing during those visits.
In October 2018, Luhnow met with Koch-Weser to discuss a potential contract extension. In preparation, Koch-Weser outlined his arguments for an extension in a Slack post that included the term "dark arts." He wrote, in part: "Lastly, I know the secrets that made us a championship team, some of which he[']d definitely feel a lot safer if they were kept in-house." Koch-Weser told MLB investigators that during his meeting with Luhnow, he used either the term "dark arts" or "codebreaking" to tout his efforts. Luhnow denied that Koch-Weser referenced either of those things.
Koch-Weser also used the term "dark arts" in the Astros' Advanced Scouting Department's 2019 budget Excel spreadsheet. Luhnow acknowledged that he reviewed the document but denied reading the tab "dark arts" was written in and denied that any discussion of "dark arts" took place during the budget meeting.
The story also said Luhnow received information about Codebreaker in emails, but when asked by MLB investigators, Luhnow claimed he didn't finish reading the emails.
Two major points stand out here.
Previously, Manfred's original report said the sign-stealing, by using in-house technology for rules-breaking, was "player-driven," even though no players were punished — they were given immunity in exchange for their cooperation. Also not in the original report was use of the banned technology for some road games, according to WSJ's reporting.
Those mischaracterizations call into question the veracity of Manfred's report about the investigation, which was done completely in-house, and is still underway. The only inkling as to why that happened was that MLB found no evidence that Luhnow knew of the scheme apart from the claims of other Astros employees.
Nevertheless, that conclusion should have been made public, as well as the existence of the cheating on the road. Because the void creates a larger question: What else is being hidden, and why?
The answers to the questions are one or more of the following:
Ignorance, incompetence or intent to deceive.
None of these are a good answer.
Even though baseball now has an office of investigations, its conclusions are interpreted by a commissioner's office that serves the 30 team owners, not the public. Their priority is the best business interests of the game. As irked as some owners may be regarding cheating (say, the Dodgers, who lost each of the past two World Series to teams suspected to have cheated), the business of the game is best served by minimizing, marginalizing and misrepresenting the consequences of these misdeeds.
But the WSJ story suggests that Manfred may be mishandling it. In the absence of thoroughness or transparency, or both, information threatens to drip throughout the season. Every time the Astros come to a town, or an ex-Astro plays for another team, the scarlet letter hangs above them.
Baseball will receive some cover from the industry's fans in the media who vote on the game's awards and tend to tut-tut the scandal by finding false equivalencies in corked bats, scuffed baseballs loaded with Vaseline, and primitive sign-stealing techniques a century old that get sepia-toned into quaintness. This episode is not eccentrism that makes baseball colorful.
We are learning, slowly, that the Astros, from the top of the org chart to the assistant trainers, devised and operated a scheme to defraud the game over parts of three seasons at a scale and a sophistication previously unknown, and in spite of a September 2017 letter from Manfred to cease and desist. The weak defense offered that all teams do some version of the same thing is all the more reason to bring down the hammer harder on the most egregious miscreants.
Given its long history in the American culture, as well as its many scandals, baseball should be the first sport to appoint an ethicist, someone independent of the payroll but imbued with the authority to demand that everyone color inside the lines, or be expelled. In keeping with the Potter theme, let's call it the Dumbledore Imperative.
Imagine that — an iconic American institution running toward what's right instead of away from what's right.
That is neither the skillset nor the mandate of the commissioner's office. In this particular case, it appears that Manfred has blown his first at-bat, and there's reason to wonder whether he deserves a second AB, or instead hire a pinch-hitter to run an independent investigation. And if he doesn't, please explain.
If Manfred still believes his punishments should include no players or other baseball-ops perps, then let's just permit the Astros to run 85 feet to first base, while everyone else sticks to the old-fashioned 90.
coug73 on February 9, 2020 8:29 am
Say it ain't so, Art. Cheating in sport and life is a universal trait of humans. Our society claims to disdain cheating but also romanticizes the clever cheater evening up the odds or getting acceptable results. The charade of sportsmanship in sport is at best a glorified moment while cheating when exposed is quickly dealt with by superficial means and forgotten by many. However! I believe there are substantial numbers of people in sport and society who strive to live honorable lives.
art thiel on February 9, 2020 10:48 am
I think all of us who've lived a little know that cheating is a part of all levels of life, coug. But shrugging just normalizes it. Sportsmanship is absolutely NOT a charade, and I'm sorry to read you think so. I think you don't really mean it because of your last sentence.
It's my experience that there are many who hold it to be worthy, and some aspire but succumb. The Lance Armstrong-level crooks are relatively few, but occupy out-sized places in our memories when caught.
I've covered nine Olympics in person so I know a little about state-level organized cheating. I've also met many clean athletes who've striven honorably and are aggrieved by the crooks. They're my heroes.
Tian Biao on February 9, 2020 12:14 pm
" . . . there many who hold it (sportsmanship) to be worthy, and some who aspire but succumb." yes, but there is a third category: those who don't hold it worthy, who simply don't care, who will use any means possible, legal or otherwise, to get what they want. I would put the Astros in that category: the total lack of contrition by Altuve and Bregman, and by Hinch, seems to indicate that they have no understanding of the damage they caused, no sense of wrongdoing, and no regrets at all, beyond getting caught.
Your point above is noteworthy: the commissioners are CEOs, they'll take the quickest way out of any moral dilemma, and they won't punish the owners, who are their bosses. Manfred also won't punish the players: that leaves the folks with the least power, ie the managers and GM's, as the expendable crew members (star trek reference). it's a sorry state of affairs.
art thiel on February 9, 2020 2:54 pm
We'll see what the players say when spring training starts. I get that most pro sports careers are short, but standards are set for every industry and business. Sports, to me, need a higher standard than the minimum.
Good point about the easiest targets. We all can manage/coach better than the guys doing it, right?
coug73 on February 9, 2020 2:04 pm
I honor sportsmanship, however what I too often see doesn't meet the standard. Coach it, play it and live it. Last paragraph, true.
bevdog on February 9, 2020 8:48 am
Well done Art. Plain and simple: Cheating is cheating. It stains the game of baseball and brings into question its credibility.
Thanks. Beware the threat from cynicism regarding rule-breaking.
Bruce McDermott on February 9, 2020 11:11 am
Hmmm. Anybody who remembers Gaylord Perry's gymnastics before every pitch, for just one example, and the way his pitches broke thereafter, understands that there was plenty of "cynicism about rule-breaking" in baseball, way back. For years and years, nothing was done about it. At least Perry was rule-breaking in plain sight, though. This sign-stealing stuff is more nefarious because it was hidden.
We long-timers all have our emery-board stories of baseball cheaters. But just because nothing has been done, doesn't preclude doing something different. You recall tort reform, right?
Husky73 on February 9, 2020 6:21 pm
"We are all part of the same hypocrisy, Senator." (Michael Corleone)
jafabian on February 9, 2020 7:49 pm
And with the Astros it involved the whole team if not the organization whereas with Perry it only involved him.
Kevin Lynch on February 10, 2020 10:02 am
Yes, Gaylord Perry! Now in the Hall of Fame. Someone should build a spread sheet for Dumbledore that includes all the players who created advantages for themselves, allowing the ethicist a way to evaluate 'edge' and results. Start with Cobb sliding spikes high into second base. Include the Black Sox, spitballers past and present, steroids, Astros, etc. Then rank the magnitude of the offenses with their likely impact on games won and lost.
Will Ganschow on February 9, 2020 8:58 am
As coug73 references the 1919 BlackSox scandal allow me to continue. To save the popularity of baseball the owners agreed to appoint an independent commissioner, Mountain Kenneshaw Landes. His power over the game was absolute, something the owners agreed to. The parallels here to our current national nightmare I don't think are a coincidence. All of these major sports institutions of ours are national resources. What if Congress assumed the power of appointing commissioners and the terms under which they served. Hmmmmm, maybe that could extend to some other ares of our national life.
Good point about Landes, but the office has devolved over time to a CEO post designed to help grow the business. None among Manfred, Goodell, Silver or Bettman has policing among their priorities, although it falls to them as a side gig when the public, or an owner, temporarily becomes outraged.
While I was a little tongue in cheek with my Dumbledore reference, I believe that the position of ethicist is a worthy aspiration, especially in a time when we're losing sight of right from wrong. Sports can be a lifeline in an ocean of moral ambiguity.
Will Ganschow on February 9, 2020 2:38 pm
Wow, looked it up. It should be Kenesaw Mountain Landis. So it looks like you think an internally appointed rules enforcer would do the trick. Maybe we could get that person from the Dept. of Justice.
I'd sooner take volunteers from the local pub.
I'm not sure an ethicist would work, but I'm sure about what hasn't worked.
I don't think we want to put that much power into one man's hands. We see what is happening in the other Washington with a dictator wanna-be, who "trusts" Putin, "admires" Xi and "fell in love" with Kim.
art thiel on February 9, 2020 10:58 pm
I certainly don't want more abusers of power. My idea is for the ethicist to make a call about violations of norms, customs, values and rules of the game, and let his logic shape the punishment without being the executioner. It would be unique, but I'm ready to set a precedent.
Jonathan M Perez on February 10, 2020 5:39 am
Bill Simmons, going back as far as his Grantland days, has advocated for the creation of a "Sports Czar". Sort of like a Ministry of Sport. Their duties would fall to resolving scandals like this, or the kneeling issue in the NFL, or say prevent carpetbagging out-of-towners from stealing a franchise and moving it. Essentially a non-partisan advocate for fairness in sports.
art thiel on February 12, 2020 8:42 pm
I didn't realize Simmons' advocacy, but it follows my point about an ethicist. The advent of legalized gambling in the states may ironically provoke the need for governance over the integrity of outcomes.
James on February 9, 2020 2:20 pm
50% of the US population approves of cheating, see: Trump. Nothing is going to be done about it. If there were a god, all the cheaters, criminals, republicans, drug addicts, and terrorists would be euthanized.
I understand your point. I refuse to give into it.
jafabian on February 9, 2020 10:07 pm
IMO there's enough evidence to warrant breaking up the Astros. Make them comparable to an expansion team. But MLB would never do that.
Franchise demolition isn't warranted, but I'd prefer to make that decision AFTER an independent investigation.
1coolguy on February 9, 2020 11:35 pm
Another snowflake with his head up it. Please go away and post elsewhere.
I have read a dozen stories on The Dis-Astros' cheating scandal. This is the best piece of journalism on the subject.
Well, thanks.
DB on February 10, 2020 9:04 am
And your's is the best comment, H-73!
So the 1919 WS was found to be crooked, with 8 White Sox (the Black Sox) players banned for life. The games were rigged and the Sox gave away a few games and the Reds won the series.
What this column tells me is, just as USC had to forfeit their national championship for much less a grievance, the Astro's should forfeit their series wins and all those involved should be banned for years, depending upon the player and management person's involvement.
Cheating over many games is completely inexcusable, let alone to include playoffs and a WS. Give the Dodgers their due and suspend / ban all involved, immediately.
Manfred's mandate to run the business successfully puts him at odds with the belief than fans have that he should run it ethically. He should eliminate the conflict of interest by bringing on an independent investigation and hire an ethicist.
John on February 9, 2020 11:58 pm
Think about this. Fay Vincent, Commissioner from 1989 to 1992, was essentially ostracized by the owners for his handling of the 1990 lockout by the owners. That's when the owners, starting with Bud Selig, decided that the commissioner did their bidding and not the greater good of baseball. I think that's why we're seeing the lack of accountability by Manfred despite evidence showing more involvement within the Astros organization.
The sad result is going to be that the Astros are going to have a pall hanging over them, just as you noted, and it's going to be the pervasive thought whenever the Astros win big in games, even against the M's. I am surprised, so far, that I haven't seen a meme showing an Astros jersey with a bright scarlet A on the jersey. Maybe ballparks that Houston visits, this coming season, will allow fans to bring in garbage can lids to bang on just to mess with Houston's hitters.
I believe that prior to Bud Selig, baseball commissioners had greater enforcement powers and it got to a point that the owners didn't like it. Now, we see commissioners whom are bending to the owners will, not the public as you've noted, and the game loses some of its allure because of the actions of an organization. Too bad that Frank Robinson is no longer around to be in charge of discipline.
You're tracking it well. The financial investment in the franchises, players, RSNs and MLB.com are so significant owners demand a commissioner who puts business first, second and third. Ethics are tied for last.
Ultimately, the finger points at all of us. However much we love it, Baseball is a for-profit private enterprise in the entertainment industry. There is incentive to play fair, but not as much incentive as there is to win and get rich for some. Fans vote with their feet and eyeballs. As long as we tolerate these kinds of scandals through our attention and attendance, there is little reason for ownership to do much. As we see, their impulse is to cover up and move on. If fans began routinely boycotting Astros games, seriously affecting revenue, we might see some real action.
You're right that we are responsible for indulging the miscreants. And Manfred's light touch enables them. If you ask fans if they would take a WS win if they knew substantive cheating influenced the outcome, most would say yes.
ll9956 on February 11, 2020 4:08 pm
If the fans want to their disdain for the Astros' behavior, they should stay away from the ballpark in droves. Picture an Astros home game on a sunny July day with, say, 200 spectators in the stands. Picture how it would play if this kept up all season.
Fans are certainly entitled to boycott, but the the gates of teams hosting the Astros shouldn't be victimized.
ll9956 on February 13, 2020 12:00 am
I stipulated that it would be an Astros home game.
Richie Rich on February 13, 2020 3:22 pm
I actually expected more of an outcry from players on other teams. All of the success was at the expense of another team, another player. I suspect that other teams are guilty of various levels and styles of cheating – the money in the sport is too big – and don't want to call attention to themselves.
Bah-humbug – I'm just grouchy.

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New Mexico has a law known as the "Grandparents Visitation Privileges Act." The word "privileges" in the title is key. Grandparents do not have an automatic right to see their grandchildren over the objection of one or both parents. That is because the law presumes parents have the right to raise their children as they see fit (with a few exceptions), including the right to decide with whom and how the children interact with other people, such as extended family members and grandparents.
Under the statute, a "grandparent" means the biological grandparent or great-grandparent, or a person who becomes a grandparent or great-grandparent due to the adoption of the child by a member of that person's family. Note that it does not include step-grandparents or step-great-grandparents.
In order to be able to file a Petition for Grandparent Visitation, the grandparent must have "standing" to bring the court case.
There is a past or pending divorce, legal separation or paternity case involving the specific child.
One or both parents of the child are deceased.
The child lived with the grandparent for at least three months if the child was less than six years old at the beginning of the three-month period and that child was later removed from the grandparent's home by the parent or other person.
The child lived with the grandparent for at least six months if the child was more than six years old at the beginning of the six-month period and that child was later removed from the grandparent's home by the parent or other person.
The child is being put up for adoption in certain situations.
If you do not fit the criteria of at least one of the categories, then you lack standing and cannot even get your foot in the courthouse door to ask a judge to force visitation with the grandchild over one or both parents' objection.
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Under the 14th amendment of our national Constitution, parents have a fundamental liberty right to make decisions about the care, custody, and control of their children. That means it can be very difficult to get the judge to order visitation by a grandparent over the objection of one or both parents.
A grandparent stepping in and actually raising grandchildren, as opposed to babysitting or visiting them, is a growing trend across the country, including in New Mexico. The most common scenario seen is a mother with one or more children (usually with absent fathers) who suffers from drug or alcohol abuse or a significant mental health disorder. The mother drops the kids off with the grandparents, disappears for weeks or months, and then returns one day wanting to take the children back with her. The pattern continues to repeat itself, disrupting the children and emotionally devastating the grandparents who become worried about the grandkids' safety and well-being.
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A caregiver designated in writing by a parent to be the guardian.
If the judge does appoint a Kinship Guardian, then the judge can also require a parent to pay child support to the guardian. The judge can also set up a visitation schedule between the child and parent if such visits are in the child's best interest.
The judge has the power to appoint a Guardian ad Litem (lawyer for the child) if a parent participates in the court case and opposes the appointment of the Kinship Guardian. Anyone – including the child who has reached age 14 – may ask the judge to end the Kinship Guardianship. The person making this request must have a transition plan to show how the child will be reintegrated into the parent's home or that of a new guardian.
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Buddhism, Australia's second largest religion
by Jake Mitra, The Buddhist Channel, April 14, 2015
Perth, Australia -- The spotlight will fall on Perth's growing role as a cultural and tourism hub for the Australasian region over the August 8–9 weekend this year, when more than 1,000 international and Australian delegates will gather for a unique conference hosted at Perth's Convention & Exhibition Centre: the 9th Global Conference on Buddhism, themed on Resolving Conflict with Mindfulness.
The conference, featuring a diverse and distinguished line-up of international speakers, both Buddhist and non-Buddhist, will also underline the significant part now played by Buddhism in Australia's national spiritual life - Buddhism is the country's second largest religion.
The non-profit Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BSWA) organising this conference is also the largest such English-speaking organisation outside of Asia. The Society's Perth-based Spiritual Director and Abbot, British-born Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera or 'Ajahn Brahm' (ajahnbrahm.org), convener of the conference, is a renowned Buddhist leader and the author of many books, including world best-sellers.
He is in demand worldwide as a speaker, drawing thousands, from California to Singapore. He is known as a 'revolutionary Buddhist', having been thrown out of his own Thai monastic order for the 'sin' of instigating the historic first full ordination of Buddhist nuns for more than 1,000 years in 2009, in WA (see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/).
BSWA points out that this conference is for everyone, not only Buddhists. Mindfulness is a universal technique that can be practised by all.
The Australian national conversation today is a-buzz with discussions of mental health, personal well-being, stress-management, and the importance of mindfulness training when coping with modern life. Many Australians are asking, what is 'mindfulness' and where can we find it? This conference hopes to provide some answers.
Conference speakers will address and confront conflict in its many forms - religious intolerance, gender stereotyping, digital and online distractions, anxiety, depression and even suicide - and will provide solutions as well as coping strategies to deal with them.
What have a British professor of mathematics and astrology with knowledge of psychic phenomena, a Nepalese-Tibetan movie star, an Aussie larrikin Catholic priest, an Australian radical feminist Buddhist nun, a Catalan cyborg who hears colours as sound through a surgically brain-implanted antenna, an Australian-Chinese psychotherapist, a robotics engineer from Sri Lanka and a Norwegian-born Buddhist monk all got in common? They will all speak at the 9th Global Conference on Buddhism.
More information and all speaker biographies are at www.9gcb.org
'Participants can expect to take away from this conference, at the least, valuable and compassionate, practical information and guidance on how to live a more rewarding and contented life,' says Mrs Cecilia Mitra, current BSWA President, 'Their mental well-being should improve, and they will also benefit from the cumulative wisdom of a diverse array of speakers with different life experiences. Buddhists will find their understanding of Buddhist theory and practice enhanced. And everyone will come away thoroughly entertained!'


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Cooloongup Primary School (5606)
The local intake area for this school is displayed on the map below:
Shaded areas indicate optional local-intake areas - please refer to the map description for further details.
LIA Map - Please read this map in conjunction with any other map/s displayed to determine a Local Intake Area (LIA).
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All questions regarding the School Local Intake Area are to be directed to the school - see Contact Details
The following defines the local-intake area of this school:
COOLOONGUP PRIMARY SCHOOL (Government Gazette Dec 1995)
From the intersection of Rae Road and Read Street, southsoutheast along Read Street to a point adjacent to the northern arm of Frome Way, in an eastnortheasterly direction from this point to and along Frome Way to Breaden Drive, south along Breaden Drive to Norring Street, in an eastnortheasterly along Frome Way to Breaden Drive, south along Breaden Drive to Norring Street, in an eastnorthereasterly direction between Raby Court, Lara Court, Greta Court and Rydal Court to the north and Tanby Place, Windale Place and Tbora Place to the south to and across Linville Avenue and Wilmott Drive to Grange Drive, continuing in a general northeasterly direction along Grange Drive to Ennis Avenue, northwest along Ennis Avenue to Rae Road and in a westsouthwesterly direction along Rae Road to Read Street.
The boundary parts of Read Street (east side), Breaden Drive (both sides), Ennis Avenue (west side), Rae Road (south side) and the boundary street of Grange Drive (north side) are included within the area for Cooloongup Primary School, while the boundary parts of Frome Way (both sides) are excluded from the area for Cooloongup Primary School.
The following is an optional area for Cooloongup, Bungaree and safety Bay Primary Schools:
The area bounded by Read Street (west side), Rae Road (south side), Waikiki Road (both sides) and Malibu Road (north side).
The following is an optional area for Cooloongup and Hillman Primary Schools:
From the intersection of Dixon Road and the proposed Garden Island Highway, westsouthwest along the proposed Garden Island Highway to Ennis Avenue, southeast and south along Ennis Avenue to Willmott Drive, east from this point to Mandurah Road and in a general northerly direction along Mandurah Road to Dixon Road.
The boundary parts of the proposed Garden Island Expressway (south side), Ennis Avenue (east side) and Mandurah Road (west side) are included within the optional area.
The local-intake area maps are based on a written description of the local-intake area (LIA) for the school as published in the WA Government Gazette. Although the map closely represents the LIA description, for some houses near the boundary (especially on street corners), it may be necessary to refer to the written description. The street address of a residence is used to determine whether that dwelling is inside a particular LIA. While local-intake areas for most schools do not change from year to year, changes may be made to local-intake areas as required. Such changes are published in the WA Government Gazette and subsequently the local-intake area map will be updated.


Children may practice their reading skills by reading to a dog from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday and again on April 6. The Read to a Dog event will be held at Reed Memorial Library, 167 E. Main St., Ravenna. No registration is required. For more information, call 330-296-2827, ext 300.


With the arrival of the Chinese new year, it might be fitting to start with a Chinese proverb: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
It is only three months until the election, and like the Scottish referendum and the Olympics before it, major political and social events seem to provide an excuse for some businesses to put off major strategic decisions.
It should also be said that, with the economic recovery well under way, we can't fall back on the excuse of the recession any longer, either. And although confidence is being tested in Europe and markets remain relatively volatile, we must all learn to deal with the new economic landscape that we now inherit.
For management teams, this means that that any growth strategies developed months ago and sitting on PowerPoint slides and flipcharts should be dusted down and put up for consideration at the next board meeting.
Whether it is to invest in a new IT system, break into a new market or explore new products and services, the time is now to get ahead of the curve or even just back on track and keep pace with competition.
If opportunities are not grasped, others will capitalise on indecision. Through our work with businesses across the economy, we see that companies are well underway in scouring the market for talent to kick-start new projects.
No doubt, interims will be the first port of call for many. By bringing in an experienced professional, a business can move quickly and drive forward a new strategy right away, but with the security of a short-term contract.
Caution will still hold back some in the market, but it will be boards that have the vision and poise to implement new initiatives that will succeed in the coming years. So, if you want to have some proverbial trees in the future, it is best to get out your trowel and start planting seeds today.
Good article Grant. The UK is managing to lead the G7 countries in terms of growth despite the economic situation in the EU which is our biggest trading bloc. There is an immense pool of knowledge, experience and expertise in the interim sector ready to help organisations take advantage of the improving economic outlook. It's been a long haul since the economic woes of 2007/8 but now the outlook seems to be positive. A good time for organisations to invest particularly with the cost of borrowing at an all time low. As a body of interim managers we are ready and able to help them.
I agree with your view Grant. Those that act now will secure the best available Interims at a reasonable price whereas those who wait until after the election may (hopefully) be faced with greater competition for Interim talent and have literally to pay the price for their hesitation/procrastination. "Fortune favours the brave" is as true today as it was in Roman times.


After too many years, I finally got some new glasses. The old pair were… well, old… scratched, and soldered back together after breaking in half more than a year ago. The county's new insurance package included a plan accepted at LensCrafters, so I went there today and, true to their advertising, had my glasses in "about an hour". The exam and tests went well, my eyes are in good shape for my age. That's always nice to hear. Now all I have to do is adapt to the new lenses. That usually takes a couple of days.


Sabina Playa Hotel is located 100 m from the sandy beach. The closest cities to the hotel are Manacor (22 km), Son Servera (4 km) and Arta (16 km). Located in Cala Bona, the hotel offers 132 rooms and was renovated in 2014, air conditioning and an elevator are available. To make your stay more comfortable a conference room, a reception, a lobby and a lounge are available. The staff in this 6 storey hotel speaks German, Spanish and English. Mobility on holiday is simplified through motorbike, bike and car rental. The hotel features a fresh water swimming pool, seasonally open with a separate children's pool. Sunshades and sunbeds are available for an additional fee at the beach and free of charge at the pool. Distance from the hotel to: Safari Zoo (4 km), Castell Capdepera (15 km), Cafe del Sol (800 m), Cuevas Drach (13 km), disco (400 m) and airport PMI (50 km). The hotel is within easy reach of bus stops, bars and restaurants, tourist information, supermarkets, shops and city centre.


Bed bugs in the Toronto area have existed for years, and continue to be a growing problem. The psychological effects tend to take a greater toll on any individual, more than the actual bites.
Many cases are reported daily from various regions in Toronto regarding the extent of the infestations and the damage wrought. Small they may be, but they can turn your life upside down before you know it, and lead to severe psychological consequences.
Bed bugs are not considered deadly because they do not transfer fatal diseases. The infections caused by these parasites can be easily treated, and are mostly cured within a week. Sometimes, you won't even need dedicated treatment; this condition may vary from person to person.
It may seem that a bed bug infestation is no big deal – a little bit of pain and irritation, an inconvenient extermination procedure, and some extra expense. Though these discomforts are easily bearable, the sleepless nights and the psychological impact it can have is not. Bed bugs may infect you mentally more than they do physically; itching, irritation and marks are just the start. They will take the comfort out of your days, and the rest out of your nights. This may lead to different mental issues such as anxiety, emotional distress, insomnia and stress.
As soon as you start experiencing these symptoms, you will definitely want to tell your landlord or call for pest control services, specifically companies specializing in bed bug extermination. From this point, packing and gathering your household items in one place is a hectic job. In some cases, people fear that the bugs may survive within the belongings they have packed.
Paranoia often follows. Bed bug victims feel highly sensitive as if something just bit them, even when this is not the case. When the extermination process is complete, the infested person can generally remain unsatisfied. People usually fear to unpack their stuff as they fear the bugs may have survived and will make a new home. They are frightened to use public benches, street furniture. Sometimes, they even avoid going to new places for fear of infestations, or bringing bed bugs home again.
The worst psychological effect that bed bugs leave behind is the sleeplessness – staying awake all night, due to the constant anxiety. Victims become so paranoid, that even if their own clothing touches their body, they will assume it to be a bed bug. These are not just fragments of mental issues, these are serious problems. Bed bug infestation is wrongly perceived as an embarrassment in our community, and that is why people hesitate or avoid consultation over this bed bug phobia. Due to this infantile perception of our society, people have faced deadly consequences.
A case was published in May 2013 about a patient who committed suicide. She experienced mental turmoil for a very long time, but the bed bug infestation triggered it to the peak.
People should not be reluctant or embarrassed to consult a doctor for any cause, no matter how small it seems to be. Health is a treasure, never compromise on it. Take care of your health and leave the bed bug extermination to the professionals, such as Swift-X Pest Control. Get fast and effective treatment today and rid your mind of the worry for good.


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Everything you need to know about Record of Ragnarok Anime Release Date!
BySchulu Duo May 13, 2021
Record of Ragnarok focuses on ancient mythology showing a war between the human civilisation and the Gods. The manga received recognition due to its brilliant storytelling and diverse complex characters. As of March 2021, the manga had sold over six million copies in circulation.
It has been announced that the popular Japanese manga series would be licensed by Netflix for an anime adaptation. If you are curious to know about the upcoming adaptation and the exact release date, we've gathered all the details for you.
About the manga Record of Ragnarok
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Based on a manga series of the same name written by Shinya Umemura and Takumi Fukui and illustrated by Ajichika, Record of Ragnarok began its publication on November 25, 2017. As of March 18, 2021, ten volumes have been released.
The plot of the series follows the union of various deities assembling to decide the fate of humanity. After 7 million years, they conclude that humans are beyond redemption and must go extinct. However, the valkyrie Brunhild proposes to give the human race one last chance and hence the battle of Ragnarok was decided to test the worth of the humans.
To make the battle fair, each human is given a Valkyrie which transforms into a powerful weapon. The humans engaged in the battle include Jack the Ripper, Buddha, Lu Bu, Nikola Tesla, and also Adam. The Gods consist of Beezlebub, Heracles, Shiva, Thor, Zeus, to name a few.
Record of Ragnarok anime Release Date
The Netflix series is produced by Warner Bros Japan and animated by Graphinica. The trailer of the anime was released by the creators which confirmed the show's status. However, the trailer did not give any exact release date, simply that it would come out in June.
We can expect the release date to be announced anytime soon. As Netflix usually reveals the release dates of the shows before its premiere. Until then, stay tuned for the latest updates!
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Council / SIC has 'sympathy' for pension protesters, says convener
Chris Cope, local democracy reporter
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State pension protestors in Lerwick earlier this year. Photo: Peter Johnson/Shetland News
THE CONVENER of Shetland Islands Council (SIC) says there is a "great deal of sympathy" within the local authority and its elected members for the ongoing local protest against changes to the state pension age for women.
Janet Ainsworth, from Vidlin, has led weekend protests at the Tesco roundabout at Lerwick since February over a change to the age women can claim their state pension.
The changes have been brought in by the gradual equalisation of the pension age for men and women by 2020. This was accelerated to 2018 by the 2011 Pension Act, which will also increase the pension age to 66 by October 2020 and to 67 by 2026.
SIC convener Malcolm Bell" 'a great deal of sympathy'. Photo: Shetland News
These changes have seen some women, particularly those born in the 1950s, placed in a position where they have to work up to five years more before being able to claim the state pension.
Ainsworth wrote to SIC convener Malcolm Bell to express her wish for the council to publicly back the national protest.
She claimed that nationally nearly 160 councils had signed up to supporting the protesters' plight.
Responding to her message, which also asked councillors to attend the latest protest at midday on Saturday, councillor Bell said:
"I think there is a great deal of sympathy within the council for the cause Mrs Ainsworth is promoting, but it is a matter for councillors to decide how to express that support individually or collectively."
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Condemnation as vandals damage eight vehicles in N.I. town
A parked car had its driver door dented.
Stanley Campbell
Vandals caused damage to eight vehicles in Cookstown in the early hours of yesterday.
Police are appealing for information regarding the incident in the Cooke Avenue area of the town.
Sergeant Wickham -Thomas said: "Shortly after 3:40am, it was reported that a number of vehicles parked in the area were damaged. Seven vehicles had their wing mirrors damaged and another car parked in the area had its driver side door dented.
"Enquiries are continuing and we would appeal to anyone who witnessed these incidents of criminal damage to contact police on 101, quoting reference number 459 2/6/19.
" Alternatively, information can also be provided to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 which is 100% anonymous and gives people the power to speak up and stop crime."
Ulster Unionist councillor Trevor Wilson said: "I want to condemn the vandalism of parked cars in the Cooke Crescent area of Cookstown last night and appeal to anyone that has any information about this incident to contact the police immediately so the culprits can be apprehended."
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Your logo is a representation of your business. It acts as a visual association. When you see the American Express logo, the McDonald's golden arches and the adidas logo, you know what each represents.
Every emotion you've felt around that business surfaces when you see that logo. It's important that time and thought go into your logo, and that it's designed with your whole business in mind.
All you need to get a logo is a business idea. But before you launch from idea to logo – you'll need to take a few elements into consideration. You'll need to consider colours, fonts and style (look and feel) because whatever you choose as your logo, needs to be associated with the right emotions for your brand. If you have a spirituality business, big bold colours might not work. Whereas if you are a big corporation, you could use bolder fonts and colours.
If you want to be seen as a leader in your field or area of expertise, your logo needs a certain level of professionalism. It needs to be sharp (not blurry), aligned (symmetrical) and you need it in a range of formats to ensure you can use it across multiple mediums. For example, a jpeg form is fine for some uses, however you might need a .png file for others. Having your logo professionally designed will ensure these boxes are ticked.
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Q: How to interpolate nuxt-link's `to` prop? I've been searching this for a while but can't seem to get it right. I have a basic Nuxt project with the following directory structure (ignore the fun.vue) :

The idea is to be able to navigate to a single post with paths like http://localhost:3000/posts/1
This works, if I manually go to .../posts/1 I get my page defined in _id.vue.
The problem is that, in my index page, I cannot get <NuxtLink> to go to single post pages. I have a basic v-for looping over my fetched posts array, like so:
<template>

      {{ post.title }}
      <NuxtLink to="`posts/${post.id}`">Link to post</NuxtLink>

</template>

I would expect, upon clicking on the 2nd post's link for example, to navigate to posts/2, but instead I get /%60posts/$%7Bpost.id%7D%60. Why isn't the template string converted normally? I've also tried using a computed value with no success, and the Nuxt Routing docs haven't been of much help.
Highly appreciate any help regarding this.

A: You forgot the semicolon:
:to="`/posts/${post.id}`"

or even better
:to="{ name: 'post-id' }" // post-id or basically the name you gave to your component

As shown here: https://router.vuejs.org/api/#router-link-props

A: You can use something like this
the ":" in front of it will make it dynamic and you can use template literals
in between those double quotes
<NuxtLink :to="`posts/${post.id}`">Link to post</NuxtLink>

A: I tried your code in my development environment. You also may forgot to add "/" in front of "posts":
<NuxtLink :to="`/posts/${post.id}`">Link to post</NuxtLink>

If you put your code without "/" in a Nuxt "layout", it adds "posts" iteratively to your "URL" and makes the destination wrong:
http://localhost:3000/posts/posts/2

This happens when you click on post 1 and after to post 2.

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#Dieselgate and the car lobby: The map of lobby influence
Since the VW scandal started to unravel, the extent to which EU governments and regulators have either looked the other way or actively participated in dirty (air) decisions is one of the main questions the new European Parliament inquiry committee on "Dieselgate" will have to address.
The scandal has highlighted the clear lack of transparency in decision-making, unequal access of various stakeholders to power, and conflicts of interest in the implementation of EU legislation. This has led us to the situation in which the automotive industry not only actively lobbies to weaken EU environmental legislation, but is arguably so successful in doing so that it actively participates in both the drafting of emissions rules and in their (deeply flawed) implementation – with the collusion and support of national governments and key EU decision-makers.
The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament commissioned a study on the influence of the car lobby as the first in a series of publications and communications that aim to lift the veil on lobbying and potential conflicts of interest in political decision-making. The report shows that key Member States and car companies were clearly against progressive measures and blocked those in different ways, whilst the European Parliament's ENVI committee and civil society organisations were working to protect human health and the environment.
The vote on the RDE Objection: Refusing back-room deals
The report, "EU NOx emissions: how the automotive industry shaped policy" by InfluenceMap, deals with an issue that will be high on the agenda of next week's plenary session in the European Parliament: the vote on whether or not to object to an under-the-radar decision taken last October which would water down current emissions rules.
The limits on NOx emissions were decided upon democratically in 2007, with the European Parliament acting as a key counterweight in the defence of citizens against the automotive lobby and various Member States. However, the progress made to protect citizens and consumers will be undone if the European Parliament does not object and stand up to defend health: the health of both our citizens and our democracies.
The decision in question was taken by technical representatives of the EU Member States in a closed-door meeting organised by the European Commission. If it is not rejected by the European Parliament, it would create in a de-facto loophole for the car industry to continue to emit more pollution than is allowed by EU law.
This is why it is essential that Members of the European Parliament vote in favour of an objection, raised by the Greens/EFA, against any undemocratic undermining of our environmental protections. To abstain or vote against the objection is to legalise the illegal and will be taken as a sign of lenience on fraudulent behaviour by the automotive industry and citizens alike.
Key findings from the InfluenceMap Report:
• The industry lobby, including the European trade association ACEA, have invested significant resources in "successfully" weakening and delaying EU car emissions regulation. They exercise influence by seconding their staff to work for key bodies in the European Commission and through meetings and position papers, press releases and public statements.
• ACEA, along with manufacturers Daimler and BMW in particular have committed significant resources to influencing the development of the Real World Driving Emissions (RDE) aspect of EU NOx policy. They do this in part through seconding specialist staff to key EC committees, such as the TCMV, and through the issuance of technical papers and positions, for example, defining what constitutes a fair measure of vehicle emissions. The RDE testing procedures are a key aspect of EU NOx policy. It appears that the European automotive sector's involvement in this process has delayed and weakened the final RDE formulation.
• In general, the automotive industry has fought against stricter emissions regulation by proposing to weaken standards, delay their implementation or argue that they need to maintain competitiveness or that NOx emissions are not THAT bad for your health (in the report BMW, Daimler, Fiat Chrysler, PSA Peugeot and Citröen Volkswagen, Renault and Ford were assessed). Peugeot in 2014 purported that Euro 5/6 engines do not release noxious particles. The French industry association CCFA claimed that in 2014 modern diesel engines with filters could reduce NOx emissions equivalent to clean air levels. The CCFA has also been reported to critique the WHO findings linking diesel to cancer.
• The automotive industry also influenced certain Member State governments for a lower Conformity Factor ahead of the TCMV meeting on October 28 2015. For example PSA Peugeot Citroen (Peugeot) influenced the French Government. In Germany the VDA was influencing on behalf of the German companies, although Daimler and BMW were also directly involved in the process. Ford also influenced the office of the UK Prime Minster against an ambitious Conformity Factor policy.
• Member States heavily "influenced" by their national car industries, have in turn weakened and delayed regulation on NOx emissions (at the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles or TCMV meeting of 28 October 2015). Spain and Italy have also been proposing the weakest standards, but Germany was apparently the most active in fighting for weaker compliance standards/levels, along with the UK and France (in the report France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK were assessed specifically).
• The relationship between government and the car industry is particularly close in Germany, where the current President of the VDA (Matthias Wissman), previous to his VDA appointment in 2007, served in government in the ruling Christian Democrat Union party. The German Chancellor Merkel herself has reportedly intervened directly globally on behalf of the German automotive industry on NOx regulations.
• The European Commission already knew that real world diesel emissions were far higher than the lab results and that defeat devices existed, though they have claimed that they were unaware of any widespread use of these devices.
The InfluenceMap study ranks the various actors involved in the decision-making process on Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) car emissions and places them on a scale of 1 – 100, depending on how ambitious they were when it came to defending public health and placing strict limits on car NOx emissions.
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The study analysed 5 countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. We will produce an infographic per country)
– Mixed response: public statements support regulation, but position papers reveal otherwise
– Produced a complementary scheme to implement Euro 5/6
– Called for less stringent implementation of emissions standards
– Inconsistent position on emissions regulation (NOx)
– Possible delaying tactics by calling for a total revision of proposed emissions testing reforms
– Warned against "too much ambition"
– German government has a strong connections with the car industry: BMW, VW and Daimler
– Mixed but predominantly negative position on EU emissions policy (NOx)
– Complained that testing real driving emissions was "complex and onerous" and not cost-effective
– Has called for delayed reform and very weak implementation of emissions rules (a high "conformity factor")
– Has consistently advocated for weaker standards
– Highlighted the adverse impact of stronger emissions standards on economic activity, investment and employment
– Has called for real driving emissions testing to be delayed and for weaker implementation of emissions rules
– Advocated for low compliance standards and a delay of the proper implementation of emissions standards
– Apparently, the UK agreed privately with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to undermine EU emissions policy
– The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has questioned scientific evidence that NOx is harmful for health
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Nobody likes a snob, except for other snobs.
If people who oppose Donald Trump's bid for the Presidency want to sabotage their own position, the easiest way to do that is to mock and insult working-class whites who support him.
You have probably seen the memes are floating around social media. Trump supporters are white trash, inbred redneck know-nothings motivated by hate and bigotry. They are clueless about the facts. The memes are often accompanied by unflattering photographs along the lines of what you see on "The people of Wal-Mart" or other websites that exist to mock America's favorite target group.
But let's face a bit of reality: Trump has struck a chord with working-class white voters. In fact, Trump is dominating Hillary Clinton in polls among voters without a college education. Working-class whites feel they have been ignored while politicians - especially the elites of both parties - are looking out for everyone but them. Many of those people see Trump as their hero and the one candidate who will look out for them. Whether that support is justified or not, it is there and is a political reality.
So when working-class whites see Democrats, Libertarians, independents and #NeverTrump Republicans insulting Trump supporters as white trash, what do you think their reaction will be? Do you think they will rethink their support for Trump or that they will be hardened in their support of him? What about working-class whites who are on the fence but considering Trump? Do you really think insulting them will convince them Trump is a bad choice? It is much more likely that Trump will gain their votes.
I suspect the cultural antipathy toward working-class whites is at least some of what is driving the backlash against "political correctness" among those voters. They feel (and this is justified) that they are the only group that it is culturally acceptable to bash, ridicule, stereotype and mock. Working-class whites (especially white men working in industries like construction) took some of the hardest hits during the 2008 recession. It is not surprising when they embrace someone who positions himself as their hero. And again, it does not matter whether that support is justified. You have to deal with reality.
I am not a supporter of Donald Trump. I have expressed frustration with his voters during the primary election. But disagreements on ideological or strategic grounds is a far cry from the hateful rhetoric and stereotyping of working-class whites we are seeing from some on the anti-Trump side. That sort of attitude plays into Trump's hands and he is a master at exploiting it. It is really simple, actually: Nobody likes a snob, except for other snobs. Embracing snobbery is the most effective way to support Trump that I can think of.


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Software Engineer at Microsoft
Around the time I joined WWC, I had been questioning whether I wanted to stay a CS major. I was having a difficult time adjusting to the some of the classes I was taking and was feeling overwhelmed. The WWC members at the time welcomed me into the organization and made me feel part of a real community. I formed bonds and friendships that have lasted years later. I'm proud to have been part of an organization that cares so much about uplifting women and allies in the computing field. I was fortunate to serve in different officer positions over the years, which taught me a lot about taking on responsibilities and balancing extracurriculars with school work. Through the support of the organization, I was able to attend conferences like Grace Hopper, lead a session on how to get an internship, network with representatives from companies in the DFW area, and more. Overall it was a fantastic experience, and I miss those good times!
Being a member of this women-empowering student organization enables women (and male allies) interested in pursuing careers in computing and engineering to find a community of like-minded individuals. At this stage in these students' academic career, especially for women, it is incredibly important to receive the proper mentorship and community bonding to nurture these individuals and give them confidence to excel in the competitive field of tech, just as much (and potentially even more!) as their male counterparts. Women Who Compute successfully accomplishes this goal by providing excellent opportunities via technical workshops, themed socials, and professional networking events. I am beyond grateful to have been given the opportunity to be a part of Women Who Compute throughout my entire academic career, as it helped me develop and strengthen my technical and soft skills, as well as led me to some of the most driven, intelligent, and passionate women at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Being a part of WWC for 4 years, including 3 years of serving as secretary and being President, I have seen WWC transform into something incredible. This club is a platform for women AND men to feel more included and has developed into a safe space to include women from all different background in tech. Through WWC, I was able to make long-lasting friendships, obtain advice from my peers who were further along in my major, and meet with inspirational leaders from the tech industry. The events are really well structured, bringing in a variety of speakers, along with unique events; and the entire WWC leadership team only wants the best for you. Don't think twice about joining WWC!
Women Who Compute has greatly contributed to my growth academically, emotionally, and professionally. Being around other exceptionally talented female engineers has inspired me to give my all in everything I do. I not only gained technical skills by being the organization's web developer, but I've also gained confidence to achieve my goals in tech. I truly enjoyed being in this club, and I will miss my fellow officers when I graduate.
Women Who Compute is a community for women pursuing careers in engineering and computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas. We aim to provide opportunities for mentorship, personal and professional development, and social bonding with women of paralleled interests in computing.
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The question; "What's new?" is answered by the Bible; "All things in Christ!"
God has and will make all things new because of the greatness of His power and plan. Salvation itself is a reversal — we were once dead in sins but are now alive unto God, Ephesians 2:1.
One reason why the Gospel is called "Good News" is because of what God can do for an honest willing person. God can make all things new.


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JENNIFER KOH, JONATHAN VINOCOUR, WILHELMINA SMITH & ORION WEIS
THE BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART CONCERT
UNDERWRITTEN BY DINA BAKER
Beethoven: String Trio Op. 9 No. 2, in D
Nina C Young: Spero Lucem
Brahms: c minor Quartet No. 3, Op. 60
SUSANNA PHILLIPS
Alabama-born soprano Susanna Phillips, recipient of The Metropolitan Opera's 2010 Beverly Sills Artist Award, continues to establish herself as one of today's most sought-after singing actors and recitalists. Starring roles with the Metropolitan Opera include Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Rosalinde in a new staging of Strauss's Die Fledermaus as part of the annual New Year's Eve gala, and Musetta in La Bohème.
Some of Phillips' 2013-14 orchestral engagements include Fauré's Requiem with Charles Dutoit and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra as well as with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Phillips also joins the St. Louis Symphony to sing Ellen Orford in a concert performance of Peter Grimes, under David Robertson, at Carnegie Hall on Britten's 100th birthday and in St Louis.
For more information, click here to visit the artist's website.