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Osama bin Laden Killed in Pakistan, President Obama Confirms
Aaron Galloway Published: May 2, 2011
In a stunning development, President Barack Obama confirmed late Sunday evening that Osama bin Laden, the leader of terrorist group Al-Qaeda responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, was killed Sunday in Pakistan.
Obama made the announcement in a televised address shortly after 11:30 PM ET, about an hour after reports of bin Laden's death had made their way onto the Internet.
In his address, Obama revealed he had been briefed last August on a possible lead to bin Laden. Obama referred to the lead as "far from certain," adding that it took "many months" to determine that bin Laden was hiding within a compound deep inside Pakistan.
Last week, Obama concluded the United States had enough intelligence to take action, and today, authorized a "targeted operation" against said compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The operation was carried out by a small team of U.S. operatives, none of whom were harmed. Obama said that bin Laden was killed during a firefight, and the troops took custody of his body.
The death of Osama bin Laden comes nearly 10 years after the devastating attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, which Obama recalled in his address.
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Hey everyone, seeing as I messed up my first year at a different uni, I've decided to transfer to Man Met but it has been a bit of a nightmare. I finally have my MMU student number so can apply for accomodation, but it seems I have to wait a few days whilst I am put onto the system.
I was just wondering what the chances of living in Cambridge or Cavendish Halls would be...or am I too late and have no chance of being offered?
If you don't get MMU uni accom there's plenty of private halls still advertising rooms.
Thanks for the help, I haven't looked at private accomodation yet. I just really liked sharing with a lot of people last year, so Cavendish Halls seemed alright!
I hope I'm not too late! Does anyone think I have a chance?
There are lots and lots of private places which just means you dont have to apply through the university, you do it yourself.
They're also cheaper for the most part.
I put Grosvenor Halls as my first choice last year but the uni messed up my application and didn't realise I needed accommodation until about this time last year, I ended up in Wilmslow Park which wasn't one of my choices so I take it the All Saints halls were full. But like everyone's said, there's always rooms in private halls so they'll sort something out for you, I wouldn't worry about it.
There will be plenty of people on results day who have accomodation but choose not to come/go to Manchester Met, and the uni has to fill those halls somehow. Email them and ask about availability, and if there is little to choose from, wait until results day (even if you aren't actually getting results) and call or email about availability then, you should have more choice IMO.
Thanks everyone. I guess the only thing I can do is wait and hope for the best, nothing I can do to change it.


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Struggling with Berlin's artsy hype
30 Nov, 2012 Updated Fri 30 Nov 2012 12:13 CEST
Is life so easy for artists in Berlin that it saps them of their creativity? The Local's Marc Young debunks some overseas hype surrounding the German capital.
You know the party has gone on too long if you're reading about it in the New York Times.
Over-hyped in recent years as a hedonistic paradise for artists, Berlin would no longer seem to be the Promised Land for globetrotting bohemians. Why? Because the city apparently makes them too lazy.
That's at least the gist of an article causing a kerfuffle among Berlin's creative expat scene this week by detailing the drunken exploits of a hopeless band from Australia in the German capital.
In his lament, Robert Coleman argues the city is so cheap and such a blast compared to the likes of New York or London that artists, musicians and other creative types are simply unable to create here. Essentially there is no pressure to be successful if you can live life in a drug-induced haze yet still manage to pay your affordable rent.
"There were too few limitations, and we'd lost all motivation and willpower to ever say no," he writes. "Soon our self-imposed five-day-a-week rehearsal routine started to crumble in the face of hangovers, comedowns and various members going AWOL."
While he's hardly the first musician to be undone by drugs and drinking, what's getting people riled here is how Coleman pins much of the blame for his overindulgence firmly on the city he hoped would be a creative oasis for his band.
"One day, while taking a break from staring at a nudist at the Hasenheide [park], I realized that I'd ended up in a kind of artist's paradox: We had gone to Berlin because of the lifestyle it offered to artists, yet we were coming unstuck by that exact lifestyle. Berlin was ruining us."
As Coleman goes on to describe his band's adolescent antics — including one member getting jailed for massive property damage — it becomes clear why there has been a provincial and pointless Berliner backlash in recent years against arty newcomers in districts like Kreuzberg and Neukölln.
But besides making the mistake of extrapolating his own unproductive existence to all foreign artists living here, Coleman exposes himself as a classic victim of the city's hype, admitting he and his bandmates were nothing more than "creative tourists" on a short stopover to soak up Berlin's cool.
"It seemed that everyone we met was creative-minded and drawn to Berlin for the same reasons we were: to pursue their art. Except that very few of them seemed to have any coming exhibitions or book launches or gigs."
Trustafarians on speed
Of course, had he bothered to lift his head out of the pile of cheap speed he and his buddies were snorting, Coleman might have met some of the working artists who call Berlin home.
These aren't trustafarians from Brooklyn with a six-month pass to Berghain — the local club famous for serving up unending nights of debauchery. And they're certainly not immature Aussies thinking time spent in Berlin will make them the next David Bowie or Nick Cave. No, they're musicians like the Englishman Chris Corner or Peaches from Canada, who both live here permanently because they're inspired by the city.
(And what sort of wimpy rock musicians is Australia turning out these days, if Coleman admits he didn't know how to drink whiskey before coming here? Bon Scott must be rolling over in his grave.)
The Berlin art scene is equally fertile for foreign implants like someone as wildly creative as Iceland's Olafur Eliasson. Yet it also supports literally "underground" talents like the American Erik Smith.
Are there a lot of crap "artists" in Berlin? Undoubtedly there are. But getting upset because someone weaves garments from their own body hair, writes worse than a chimpanzee, or doesn't create anything at all is an even more absurd pastime. These are "lifestyle artists," as this article nicely explains.
Would it be better if such people were working mind-numbing jobs simply to make ends meet in a more expensive city? If they want to come to Berlin to make crappy art and music rather than sit in a call centre cubicle all day, that's fine by me. Bad art never hurt anyone.
With any luck, Coleman's documentation of his tribulations will have the salubrious effect of deterring some of his fellow creative tourists from coming to Berlin simply in the hope it will give their careers an artificial boost.
Besides, everybody knows Leipzig is where the cool kids are moving these days anyway.
Marc Young
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Rail services in Britain will be reduced to 72% of pre-pandemic levels over the next few weeks, and passengers are being asked to check before they travel that their service is running.
The cuts, which will be announced from Thursday, are less than the 50% reduction in services that had been expected. Train operators have focused on retaining services at morning and evening peak travel times so that key workers such as NHS staff can get to their workplace.
The rail industry argues that the timetable cuts will mean a more reliable service for passengers because rail staff can catch the virus like other key workers and cause disruption to more extensive schedules:
Brazil, Bolivia get AstraZeneca Covid jabs from India
Amid the global scramble for coronavirus vaccines, Brazil said Wednesday it would import two million doses of AstraZeneca's Covishield jab from India, AFP reports.
The inventory would add to some 10 million doses of China's CoronaVac as Brazil gears to start its vaccination campaign this month.
The biggest country in Latin America is the second-hardest hit globally by the pandemic, as the novel coronavirus has killed more than 204,000 people out of Brazil's population of 212 million.
Brazil has sent a plane to India, equipped with special freezers, to fetch the AstraZeneca vaccines - developed by the British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm in conjunction with Oxford University - a health ministry statement said.
A coronavirus victim is buried in Manaus, Brazil. Photograph: Michael Dantas/AFP/Getty Images
The plane should be back on Saturday - the day before Brazil's Anvisa health regulator is meant to announce whether or not it will give the green light for Covishield and CoronaVac to be rolled out in a nation-wide inoculation campaign.
Vaccination could begin "within a maximum of five days after authorization," the ministry said.
"We will vaccinate in January and Manaus will be the first to be vaccinated," said Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello, referring to the hard-hit city in the Amazon rainforest.
In Manaus, where there were haunting scenes last April of mass graves and corpses piled in refrigerator trucks, the health system is once again saturated as Brazil battles a second wave of infections.
Biden urges Senate to address coronavirus response while handling impeachment
Joe Biden has released a statement in which he calls for the Senate to address the coronavirus pandemic while dealing with the impeachment trial.
"Today, the members of the House of representatives exercised the power granted to them under our constitution and voted to impeach and hold the president accountable," Biden said. "This nation also remains in the grip of a deadly virus and a reeling economy. I hope that the Senate leadership will find a way to deal with their constitutional responsibilities on impeachment while also working on the other urgent business of this nation."
Earlier today Senator Mitch McConnell said that the impeachment trial will not take place until after Biden is inaugurated.
Inconsistent vaccine supply is making it difficult for GPs in England to book patient appointments more than a few days in advance, experts have warned, as the prime minister admitted there were significant disparities in local immunisation rates.
Doctors, NHS specialists and MPs told the Guardian that batches of the Pfizer and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine frequently arrived with only a couple of days' notice, requiring last-minute planning and creating uncertainty for patients.
Insiders said the distribution system was operating on a "push model" meaning that doctors could not order the vaccine but simply had to be ready to be receive batches whenever the NHS was able to deliver them:
GPs in England say inconsistent supply of Covid vaccine causing roll-out issues
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The number of rough sleepers identified for emergency help during the coronavirus pandemic was eight times greater than official estimates, Whitehall's spending watchdog has found.
Officials working on the Everyone In scheme to find accommodation for those at risk of being left on the street relied on a survey which found that 4,266 people slept rough, the National Audit Office said.
But between the end of March when the scheme was launched and November 2020, auditors said that 33,139 people participated in the scheme.
The figures have been disclosed as homelessness campaigners demand an urgent reboot of the government scheme in England to provide safe shelter for rough sleepers:
Covid: officials underestimated number of rough sleepers in England needing help
US state leaders are increasingly pushing for schools to reopen this winter — pressuring them, even — as teachers begin to gain access to the vaccine against the raging pandemic, AP reports.
Ohio's governor offered to give vaccinations to teachers at the start of February, provided their school districts agree to resume at least some in-person instruction by 1 March.
In Arizona, where teachers began receiving shots this week, the governor warned schools that he expects students back in the classroom despite objections from top education officials and the highest Covid-19 diagnosis rate in the nation over the past week.
"We will not be funding empty seats or allowing schools to remain in a perpetual state of closure," said Republican Governor Doug Ducey. "Children still need to learn, even in a pandemic."
Leaders of Arizona's major hospitals disagreed with the governor's position, noting at a news conference Wednesday that the state is teetering on the brink of having to ration life-saving care.
"We understand that learning and bringing our children together is very important," said Dr. Michael White of Valleywise Health. "But at this time with uncontrolled spread of the virus, we need to do things that we know will reduce the chance that the virus will spread and that is not gathering with people we don't live with."
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California leaders are facing mounting pressure to speed up distribution of the new coronavirus vaccine, announcing major steps this week to makes doses available to more people.
On Wednesday the state's governor, Gavin Newsom, said that all residents 65 and older will be able to get a vaccine. The move follows the announcement of new mass-vaccination sites at locations such as Disneyland and Dodger Stadium.
Despite high hopes, the state's vaccine rollout program has been painfully slow. California has received the most doses of any state in the country, but currently ranks in the bottom 10 states for doses administered per 100,000 people.Here's what you need to know about who is getting the Covid-19 vaccine in California, and when:
California's Covid vaccine rollout: what you need to know
Nationwide in the US, slightly more than one-third of the 29.4 million doses distributed to states have been administered, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The US Food and Drug Administration has authorised the vaccine from Pfizer and partner BioNTech SE and a second vaccine from Moderna Inc for emergency use. Both vaccines require two doses spaced a few weeks apart.
The chief science officer of Johnson & Johnson said the company is on track to roll out its single-shot coronavirus vaccine in March, and it plans to have clear data on how effective it is by the end of this month or early February.
In an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, Dr. Paul Stoffels also said J&J expected to meet its stated target of delivering 1bn doses of its vaccine by the end of this year as the company ramps up production.
New York pleads for more Covid vaccine
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday said the city would fall short of its inoculation goals unless it could get more vaccine, Reuters reports.
The mayor said short supplies were hampering New York City's efforts to increase its immunisation campaign. His appeal comes as the country as a whole struggles to meet an overall goal, with vaccinations now running far behind a target of 20 million people by now.
"We need the federal government, the state government and the manufacturers to step up and get us more supply immediately,* de Blasio said at a briefing.
The country's most populous city is adding vaccination sites across its five boroughs, including its two Major League Baseball parks, and has succeeded in loosening restrictions on who is eligible for vaccination, de Blasio said.
Both New York and California have opened inoculations to healthy people as young as 65.
New York is on track to inoculate 1 million of its more than 8 million residents by the end of the month, but only if it gets enough vaccine, he said.
"I confirmed with our healthcare team yesterday that even with normal supplies that we expect to have delivered next week, we will run out of vaccine at some point next week, unless we get a major new resupply," he added.
At the Javits Center in Manhattan which was pressed into service as a temporary hospital in April, health officials said they were prepared to vaccinate 10,000 people in 12 hours, with the ability to ramp up to 25,000 in a 24-hour period.
*We consider this a wartime mobilization, and that lives are on the line every minute of every day," state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker told reporters.
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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has warned the city will fall short of its inoculation goals unless it can get more vaccine.
Meanwhile the world has for the first time recorded more than 17,000 deaths in one day, according to Johns Hopkins University, as the global total nears 2 million.
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
New Covid-19 lockdown in Portugal to come into force from Friday. A new lockdown to bring a worrying rise in coronavirus cases under control will come into force in Portugal from Friday, prime minister António Costa announced, urging people to stay indoors and protect themselves.
New York pleads for more Covid-19 vaccine as daily US death toll hits record. As the United States recorded its highest single-day death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began, New York mayor Bill de Blasio on said the city would fall short of its inoculation goals unless it could get more vaccine.
UK passes 100,000 deaths involving coronavirus. More than 100,000 deaths involving coronavirus have occurred in the UK since the disease first appeared in the country almost a year ago. Public health experts have said it is a sign of "phenomenal failure of policy and practice".
African Union secures 270m Covid-19 vaccine doses from manufacturers. The African Union has secured a provisional 270m Covid-19 vaccine doses from manufacturers for member states to supplement the Covax programme, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa said.
Cuba suspends schools and public transport as it grapples with coronavirus surge. The Cuban government is once more shutting down schools, public transport and cultural activities across swathes of the Caribbean island during its worst outbreak of the coronavirus since the pandemic began.
Spain reports 38,869 new cases, its highest single-day rise in infections. The country also recorded 195 further deaths, while the number of cases per 100,000 people rose from 452 to 493.
Unilever workers will never return to desks full-time, says boss. The boss of Unilever, one of the UK's biggest companies, has said his office workers will never return to their desks five days a week, in the latest indication that coronavirus will transform modern working life.
Switzerland brings in tough measures to head off threat of third wave. Switzerland announced tough new restrictions Wednesday in a pre-emptive strike against a feared third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic caused by quicker-spreading variants of the virus.


There is something in us that cannot tolerate injustice for long. If we know God, we know there is a right and there is a wrong. The Holy Spirit illuminates that which is contrary to God's word, and the reaction in us can even be a visceral one. Ears burning, heart racing, chest pounding – the message is difficult to ignore.
When we sense this injustice, let us give thanks. Let us be thankful that the Holy Spirit is alive in us and that He is showing us what is awry. We may not know what to do to right the wrong, but the great news is that God is just!
God is just. It is the full, through-and-through character of God to be just. God doesn't just act justly, He is just.
One of the greatest kings in history, King Solomon, was an earthly example of God's wisdom. Solomon asked for wisdom and discernment between right and wrong, and God granted him his request. In 1 Kings 3, we peek into a situation where Solomon is presiding over two women who had just given birth in the same house. One woman's baby has passed away and the two women are now trying to claim the single living baby. Can you even imagine?
First, can you imagine how unjust the whole situation must feel to the woman whose baby passed away? And now, put yourself in the position of the woman who is now fighting for the precious newborn who is rightfully hers.
Solomon is dealing with an unjust situation all around, and it is his role to bring justice. This would be impossible without God's help, and 1 Kings 3 states that people were in awe and perceived that it was God's wisdom in Solomon that allows him to act with such justice.
Solomon had the wisdom of God in him and we can be thankful for the same Holy Spirit in us if we know Jesus. Even when we encounter injustice, and we will, we can be thankful that the Holy Spirit will awaken us to it and point us to the One who is ultimately just.
For an added layer of worship and study, we chose a beloved hymn for each day of our Give Thanks plan. Today, we invite you to listen to "Thy Mercy, My God" as we dwell on the truth of God's word together.
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Overlooked at the same time and may not be walking with God now because of it.
I pray daily for God to help me lay this down and move on but it has been a long hard struggle.
God is so good! Despite the fact that He knew Soloman would go off the rails, he still blessed him with wisdom etc. Soloman, sadly did some very unjust things to his own family/children, but eventually he was reconverted in his old age…and God saw that would happen, hence he allowed him to live. God is indeed merciful!
Injustices happening daily all around us. I once asked myself why do bad things happen to good people and why do good people do bad things? I also struggle once I have been wronged. I grew up being told that 2 wrongs don't make a right. Being the bigger person, being just, knowing right from wrong, not following the crowd, speaking up instead of remaining silent, turning the other cheek. Whether I get an apology or not, whether they confess to their wrongs or not, I'm called to forgive, show mercy, and love my neighbor. I need help in this area. I judge, complain, harbor unhealthy and ungodly feelings. I want them to know how much they hurt me. I want justice right then and there. How unfair it is. How we take matters into our own hands which normally doesn't end well. He is the one and only true Judge. He showed us love, grace, and mercy undeserved. We were pardoned of our sins, slate now blameless. I in turn must forgive.
I have been participating in SRT studies for about six months but rarely comment. SRT has been so important to me as I have been emerging from a season of drought and doubt. Thank you, SRT, for your ministry! Thank you also to those of you who almost daily poor out your heart as you reflect upon what you have read and what God is teaching you. Candacejo, Amy Kelly, Valanne, Misce, Ibukun, Janee, etc…your comments mean just as much as the writers of SRT themselves. Thanks to all for your transparency!
These hymns that are posted at the end of each day's reading have been such a blessing to me. They are soothing my aching heart and worried soul. Thank you, SRT ladies, for adding this extra blessing to this plan.
I'm seriously so glad to hear that, Lauren! I love them, too!
This is yet another reminder that God is so holy and just that we can't begin to comprehend. We may be in a very difficult circumstance, but God says "trust me " because God WILL provide for and protect those He loves. Where I sometimes find myself in trouble is when I allow a judgmental spirit to sneak in, especially when someone wounds me. This is how Satan works. How quickly we forget the "planks" in our own eyes when someone else's sin is glaringly obvious! God, forgive me for not forgiving and refusing to show mercy as you commanded.


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Social Media Impact on Children and the Violation of their Rights
development in the Internet. These sites have known great fame, remarkable spread and expansion in the use of social media in recent years. Social networking sites have emerged as a station that has changed the traditions of its users and has become
Medical staff in the crosshairs
The report deals with the definition of medicine and the doctor – the importance of the medical profession – the importance of the role of the doctor – the difficulties of the medical profession – cases of assault on medical staff –
The Threat of Overpopulation to Human Rights in Egypt
The report also stressed that Egypt, about 20 years ago, had an effective system for the family planning process. However, with a population exceeding 104 million people, today Egypt has become the first Arab country in terms of population, the third in
The Impact of Fraud and Scams on the Economic and Social Life of the Victims
issues its report on the impact of fraud on the economic and social life of the victims. It discusses the phenomenon of fraud, which has spread in the recent period, explaining the definition of fraud and scams, clarifying their forms, and studying
medical negligence is a presistent Symptom
)The medical profession is a humane, ethical and scientific profession. It has been distinguished among professions by honorable traditions, a code of honor, and an oath that is customarily taken by a doctor before he begins to practice the profession. The profession
A Case Study on Crimes in the Sharqiya and Dakahlia Governorates
A secure and stable society is a public demand, as safety is the source of the building and development of societies, and human being, since his birth, has normal and good instinct, and doesn't know anything about crime or harm, but the
Violence against women A bitter reality with different ages
Saeed Abdel Hafez, Chairman of the Dialogue Forum Foundation, stressed the need to have a comprehensive and integrated system to address and combat violence, as we must work to change the mentality and change the societal thought in this area, and adopt
Challenges of the COP27: Climate Justice and its impact on inclusive development processes
In this regard, human rights expert Saeed Abdul Hafez, president of the Forum for Dialog, expressed his opinion on climate justice and the responsibility of developed countries to finance poor countries; He said: "Civil society organizations are looking forward to the fact
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Derived units: some units called derived units are expressed in terms of fundamental units, such as units of area velocity, acceleration, pressure etc.
The following four'systems of units are internationally accepted.
CG.S units: In this system the fundamental units of length, mass and time are taken as centimeter, gram, and second respectively.
F.P.S units: In this system the fundamental units of length, mass and time are taken as foot, pound, and second respectively.
M.K.S units: In this system the fundamental units of length, mass and time are taken as meter, kilogram, and second respectively.
The M.K.S. units are called as gravitational units or engineer's units.
S.I. units (International systems of units): This system has six basic units, two supplementary units and twenty-seven derived units.
There are two suppletnentary units. One for measure of plane angle led the radian (rad) and other for solid angle called stearadian (Sr) some the derived units are shown in table below.
It is a fluid which possesses a definite volume. The volume may be vary slightly with change in temperature and pressure. Liquid can be compressed to a small extend. But for all practical purposes, it is regarded as incompressible.
It is fluid which have a tendency to expand and fill the container in which they are kept. They do not have any free surface. It is compressible fluids. Even a slight change in temperature it has a significant effect on its volume and pressure.
Some of the examples of fluids are water, air, hydrogen gas, honey, oil, paint, glycerin, blood etc.
Fluid mechanics is the branch of science which deals with the behaviour of a fluid at rest as well as in motion.
The behaviour of a fluid when it is at rest is called 'Fluid statics'.
The behaviour of a fluid when it is in motion without considering ij pressure force is called as 'Fluid kinematics'.
The behaviour of a fluid when it is in motion with considering pressure force is called as 'Fluid dynamics'.


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Mirna Lacambra i Domènech (Sabadell, 7 de juny de 1933) és una soprano i promotora musical catalana.

Biografia
Va estudiar música al Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu de Barcelona, on va cursar la carrera de piano, a més de solfeig, harmonia i estètica, i va obtenir el títols de professora de piano i cant. Al llarg dels estudis va obtenir màximes qualificacions. Va estudiar, també, repertori operístic i va començar a actuar al Gran Teatre del Liceu a partir de la temporada 1957-58.

Al llarg de la seva dilatada carrera artística com a cantant, l'han dirigida prestigiosos mestres com Anton Guadagno, Uve Munt, Leopold Hager i Giorgio Sebastian, entre altres. Ha comptat amb directors d'escena de la talla de Felsestein, Jean Pierre Ponelle i Friedrich. Ha interpretat òpera a nombrosos escenaris d'Europa, els Estats Units i Amèrica del Sud.

L'any 1982 va fundar l'Associació d'Amics de l'Òpera de Sabadell i quatre anys més tard, el 1986, abandonà la carrera musical per dedicar-se plenament a l'organització i direcció de les temporades d'òpera de Sabadell. Per mitjà d'aquesta associació, i amb col·laboració de la Generalitat de Catalunya, es va crear el circuit d'Òpera a Catalunya, que permet representar per diverses ciutats catalanes les diferents produccions operístiques produïdes a Sabadell.

També ha patrocinat l'Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès i el Concurs Engenio Marco per a Joves Cantants, refundat en l'Escola d'Òpera Sabadellenca. El 2001 va rebre la Creu de Sant Jordi i, el 2006, la Medalla de la ciutat de Sabadell al mèrit cultural.

Referències

Bibliografia
 Joan Cuscó i Aymamí. "Semblança de Mirna Lacambra". Sabadell: 1982. Revista Quadern, número 30, pàgines 179-181.

Enllaços externs
 L'alegria de viure: Mirna Lacambra, la diva amb nom de riu, a Ràdio Sabadell

Promotors culturals catalans del sud contemporanis
Cantants de l'àmbit metropolità de Barcelona contemporanis
Sopranos catalanes
Creus de Sant Jordi 2001
Sopranos que han actuat al Liceu
Alumnes del Conservatori del Liceu
Cantants sabadellencs
Naixements del 1933

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"Big Day Coming" är en sång av det svenska indiebandet Bad Cash Quartet, från 2001. Låten finns med som femte låt på gruppens andra studioalbum Outcast (2001) men utgavs också som singel samma år.

Låtlista
 "Big Day Coming" - 2:34
 "Outcast" - 3:23

Covers
 Det svenska indiebandet Hell on Wheels spelade in en cover på låten till sin EP Having Ones Luggage Labelled (2001).

Filmmusik
"Big Day Coming" användes i filmen Festival (2001).

Listplaceringar

Källor

Fotnoter

Svenska sånger
Sånger 2001
Svenska poplåtar
Musiksinglar 2001


The Dogecoin community started a petition on Change.org to get Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos to accept the cryptocurrency.
The petition has already gathered over 8,000 signatures.
The Dogecoin community recently took to Change.org, the campaign-hosting website, to petition Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, to allow his e-commerce platform to accept the cryptocurrency as a payment method.
Amazon was entreated to lead the way and become one of the top companies to experience the impact the adoption of Dogecoin would bring. The petition added that many small enterprises, charity organizations, and entrepreneurs worldwide have already adopted Dogecoin for the trading of goods and services.
At the time of writing, the petition to Amazon has collected 8,295 signatures. This gives it far more signatories than a previous one to Google Play and an ongoing one targeted at major cryptocurrency exchanges.
The petition to have Dogecoin accepted on Google Play had only 1,463 signatures, while the petition aimed at crypto exchanges is at 2,706 and counting. Dogecoin's petition comes at a time in which the cryptocurrency saw its price rise well over 50%.
Amazon, one of the world's largest retailers, ranked 83rd on Forbes' list of the top 2,000 biggest and most powerful public companies, does not accept any cryptocurrency at the moment. It is, however, possible to use Amazon gift cards purchased on Bitrefill with cryptocurrencies for the same purpose.
Previous petitions to have Amazon accept other cryptocurrencies like bitcoin as payment has fallen on deaf ears. Rumors of the e-commerce giant creating their own cryptocurrency surfaced in November 2017 when the company purchased the following domain names; amazoncryptocurrencies.com, amazoncryptocurrency.com, and amazonethereum.com.
Nearly a year later, there hasn't been any official announcement on Amazon's behalf. Some analysts believe Amazon purchased the domains in an attempt to stop cyber criminals from using them to phish its users.


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Raspberry Pi Add-ons in chennai
The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card–sized single-board computers developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools and third world countries.[5][6][7] The original Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi 2 are manufactured in several board configurations through licensed manufacturing agreements with Newark element14 (Premier Farnell), RS Components and Egoman. These companies sell the Raspberry Pi online.[8] Egoman produces a version for distribution solely in Taiwan, which can be distinguished from other Pis by their red colouring and lack of FCC/CE marks. The hardware is the same across all manufacturers. The original Raspberry Pi is based on the Broadcom BCM2835 system on a chip (SoC),[2] which includes an ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz processor, VideoCore IV GPU,[9] and was originally shipped with 256 megabytes of RAM, later upgraded (models B and B+) to 512 MB.[3][10] The system has Secure Digital (SD) (models A and B) or MicroSD (models A+ and B+) sockets for boot media and persistent storage.[11] In 2014, the Raspberry Pi Foundation launched the Compute Module, which packages a BCM2835 with 512 MB RAM and an eMMC flash chip into a module for use as a part of embedded systems.[12] The Foundation provides Debian and Arch Linux ARM distributions for download.[13] Tools are available for Python as the main programming language, with support for BBC BASIC[14] (via the RISC OS image or the Brandy Basic clone for Linux),[15] C, C++, Java,[16] Perl and Ruby.[17] As of 8 June 2015, about five to six million Raspberry Pis have been sold.[18][19] While already the fastest selling British personal computer, it has also shipped the second largest number of units behind the Amstrad PCW, the "Personal Computer Word-processor", which sold eight million. In early February 2015, the next-generation Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 2, was released.[20] The new computer board is initially available only in one configuration (model B) and features a Broadcom BCM2836 SoC, with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU and a VideoCore IV dual-core GPU; 1 GB of RAM with remaining specifications being similar to those of the previous generation model B+. The Raspberry Pi 2 retains the same US$35 price point of the model B,[21] with the US$20 model A+ remaining on sale.
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Purpose Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive type of glioma and has the poorest survival. However, a small percentage of patients with GBM survive well beyond the established median. Therefore, identifying the genetic variants that influence this small number of unusually long-term survivors may provide important insight into tumor biology and treatment. Patients and Methods Among 590 patients with primary GBM, we evaluated associations of survival with the 100 top-ranking glioma susceptibility single nucleotide polymorphisms from our previous genome-wide association study using Cox regression models. We also compared differences in genetic variation between short-term survivors (STS; <= 12 months) and long-term survivors (LTS; >= 36 months), and explored classification and regression tree analysis for survival data. We tested results using two independent series totaling 543 GBMs. Results We identified LIG4 rs7325927 and BTBD2 rs11670188 as predictors of STS in GBM and CCDC26 rs10464870 and rs891835, HMGA2 rs1563834, and RTEL1 rs2297440 as predictors of LTS. Further survival tree analysis revealed that patients >= 50 years old with LIG4 rs7325927 (V) had the worst survival (median survival time, 1.2 years) and exhibited the highest risk of death (hazard ratio, 17.53; 95% CI, 4.27 to 71.97) compared with younger patients with combined RTEL1 rs2297440 (V) and HMGA2 rs1563834 (V) genotypes (median survival time, 7.8 years). Conclusion Polymorphisms in the LIG4, BTBD2, HMGA2, and RTEL1 genes, which are involved in the double-strand break repair pathway, are associated with GBM survival.
Liu, Y., Shete, S., Etzel, C. J., Scheurer, M., Alexiou, G., Armstrong, G., Tsavachidis, S., Liang, F., Gilbert, M., Aldape, K., Armstrong, T., Houlston, R., Hosking, F., Robertson, L., Xiao, Y., Wiencke, J., Wrensch, M., Andersson, U., Melin, B. S., Bondy, M.
Supported by Grants No. 5R01CA119215, 5R01CA070917, and K07CA093592 from the National Institutes of Health (to M. D. Anderson); the American Brain Tumor Association and the National Brain Tumor Society; The Wellcome Trust; Grant No. R01CA52689 from the National Institutes of Health; University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Brain Tumor SPORE P50CA097257 (to University of California, San Francisco); the Swedish Research Council; Umea University Hospital excellence grant; the Cancer Foundation of Northern Sweden; the Swedish Cancer Society; Grant LSHC-CT-2004-502943 Mol Cancer Med from the European Union; and by acta oncologica through the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (to the Swedish centre).


Visa is seeking a Director to lead our Privacy oversight function to join the Compliance Risk Management team, which is part of the Risk Management group. The individual will evaluate Visa's Privacy program, and provide oversight to ensure our program meets internal standards, regulatory requirements and applies industry best practices to the program. The candidate will work closely with the Europe and Global Privacy program office to build the 2nd Line of Defense and provide input and expertise to drive a best in class Privacy program. The candidate will be responsible for the oversight of the Privacy Controls Framework, and will lead efforts to validate the effectiveness of those controls in mitigating risks. The candidate must be have a solid understanding of Privacy risks and controls, be current on Privacy regulations in the U.S., UK, and other parts of the world, and be able to effectively partner and communicate with multiple stakeholders. The position reports to the VP of Compliance Risk.
Identify synergies across the Risk functions to leverage activities, reduce duplication of efforts and minimize impact to business.
At Visa, everyone is a leader. We have a core set of principles that we share amongst our employees. These Leadership Principles apply to everyone at Visa, regardless of role, title, level, function or location. The successful candidate will possess the ability to lead by example, communicate openly, enable and inspire, excel with partners, act decisively, and collaborate.
Strong Excel, Power Point skills, and Word.


I'm still working out the circumstances and removing code to prove what is causing the issue, but at present, both the apache module and the cli php are core dumping with the following backtrace.
This will follow when I find out what's causing the issue.
Can you check if using the sybasect ext directly doesn't have this problem?
And can you provide some sample code?
Sybasect is fine as we're using it directly in our bug tracking system, this is the only system that uses dbx, producing sample code could be difficult, I'll see if I can strip it down to the really basic parts.
Here's code that reproduces the issue along with the definition of the table (the table is currently empty).
I'm going to run some tests on freetds to make sure this isn't a freetds bug.
From the SQL Profiler I can see that the use and the select is being executed on the SQL server.
I've successfully run tests using the tsql utility provided with freetds, I'm now at a bit of a loss as to what else to test, it looks like a fairly basic failure?
The following fixes the crash, but I'm not sure about side-effects so I won't consider it closed yet, which also means that I won't modify the dbx_sybasect.c source in cvs just yet. Feedback appreciated at http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=5398.
If you're using the source from pecl, the linenumbers are 204 and 242, respectively.


For my birthday I asked my parents for a Kindle. I wanted one, but only reluctantly. In Korea I read quite a lot of books. My friends out here always joke about me being a bookworm, which is funny because compared to my family I don't read that much. My brother has enough books to open his own library, seriously. Although I prefer books a kindle is so practical for travelling. I used my kindle for the first time in Bali and here is my verdict.
1. The main reason for getting a kindle; Books are bulky, heavy and take up room in a suitcase. My kindle is very small and light. It can hold loads of books.
2. When you board a plane you have to turn off all electronic equipment. Including a kindle. With a book you don't have to worry about turning it off. A book doesn't freeze and need to be restarted, which happened to me on the way to the airport. A book is trustworthy, as long as you don't rip out pages or put it in a shredder your reading won't be disrupted.
3. I'm not worried if my book gets scratched, dropped, lost or thrown in a puddle of water. It will dry! No one is going to bother to steal your ripped, battered, chocolate smeared book. Kindles are worth a lot more and therefore more of a risk.
4. The dictionary feature of the kindle is great, except that is isn't comprehensive enough. One of the first books I read on mine was 'Greyfriars Bobby' written in Scottish dialect. It was tough to work out what some of the words meant because they were either not in the dictionary or it came up with the wrong description.
5. If you're on the bus/train/plane and you finish your book, you have to either carry around two books to start your next one, or you have to wait until you can get your hands on your next reading material. With a kindle you can download a few books and therefore as soon as you finish one book you're ready to start the next one.
6. It just isn't the same as reading a book. The kindle screen is great, it has no glare and looks quite like a printed page, but it's not. You don't turn a proper page, and pushing a button will never be the same. There's no blurb on the back or cover on the front. If you've read a really good book you can't hand it onto a fellow traveller or bookreader when you've finished. A kindle will just never be as nice as reading a traditional printed bound book.


You'll need to have a lot of patience for this project. If you stick with it, you'll have a great understanding of how the continents move! Ask an adult to help you find a location where it is safe and acceptable to use pins that will remain undisturbed for at least a month. You don't want to use a nice wall in the house!


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Coleman Young's '30 Black' Podcast: Why Are Whites Afraid of Our Black Men?
Coleman A. Young II
On his latest "30 Black" podcast, Coleman A. Young II and his co-host Cathy Johnson discuss the latest cases of police shootings of unarmed black men, which continues to fuel protests across the country.
"I don't understand why white folks are afraid of our black men," says Johnson. "They see them as animals, not as human beings, that we are very aggressive...that we don't have a heart or any soul."
Young asks about police confrontations: How much black blood has to be spilled on the streets before we realize that enough is enough?
Chatfield's top aides raked in $1M serving other Michigan GOP lawmakers
January 01, 2021, 12:02 PM - Michigan Campaign Finance Network
Supino Pizzeria Hopes to Open Second Detroit Location Next Month
January 01, 2021, 11:25 AM - Metro Times
Craig Fahle Show: 2020 in Review (Oy, What a Year!)
Nearly 90,000 Covid shots given in first 3 weeks of Michigan vaccines


Who will be my 'Dive buddy'?
Q: Who will be my 'Dive buddy'?
The dives will be done on a 'buddy system' basis. The dive guide will not necessarily be in the water to accompany and lead the divers. The guides will stay on the surface for the divers' safety. The divers are expected to be experienced enough to read their compass, depth gauges and look after each other in order to have a safe dive.
Buddy team setup is always a critical issue: we do let our divers match themselves as much as possible and feasible. In cases where divers have not paired up themselves or where we are in doubt, dive guides sit down with divers and discuss their expectations and level of experience. We try to pair people so that similar interest, experience and dive duration matches. If there is an uneven number of diving customers at some dives and no three-person group is feasible, the guides will come along.


What software do you use to set custom freshrates?
This comment is not for this entry, but I don't know how contact with you for some question about your GLC fork at Github.
If you can say me any form of contact, please.


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Absorbing tale of psychiatrist Bergman trying to uncover Peck's hangups; Dali dream sequences, innovative (and Oscar-winning) Miklos Rozsa score help Hitchcock create another unique film. Based on novel The House of Dr. Edwardes by Francis Beeding; screenplay by Ben Hecht. In original theatrical prints, a key gunshot was shown in color.
Although the film is in black and white, two frames where the gun shot goes off while pointed at the camera are tinted red.
One of the first Hollywood films to deal with psychoanalysis.
The dream sequence was designed by Salvador Dalí, and was originally supposed to run for 20 minutes. It included a scene with Dr. Peterson covered in ants. Only part of it was filmed, and even less of it ended up in the release version.
The shot where the audience sees the killer's view down a gun barrel pointing at Peterson was filmed using a giant hand holding a giant gun to get the perspective correct.
The snow falling on John Ballentine and Dr. Peterson during the skiing scene was actually cornflakes.
David O. Selznick wanted much of the film to be based on his experiences in psychotherapy. He even brought his psychotherapist in on the set to be a technical advisor.
Once when she disputed a point of fact with Alfred Hitchcock on how therapy works, Hitchcock said, "My dear, it's only a movie."
Directors Cameo (Alfred Hitchcock): about coming out of the elevator at the Empire Hotel carrying a violin.


GREEN BAY – Four BayCare Clinic experts were honored during a research and medical education gala held Thursday, Oct. 1 on the Aurora BayCare Medical Center campus.
The annual event recognizes physicians and medical staff for advancing research and medical education.
Drs. Danqing and Danzhu Guo, BayCare Clinic Pain & Rehab Medicine, and Drs. Brandon Scharer and Jason George DeVries, both of Orthopedics & Sports Medicine BayCare Clinic, were honored Thursday night for their innovative approaches to patient care and delivery of medicine.
The Guos were presented the Innovation Award for their groundbreaking alternate technique for improving the surgical procedure of carpal tunnel release.
The procedure uses a local anesthetic, a proprietary metal impregnated thread, and a specially designed needle to cut through the tough, fibrous band that causes carpal tunnel syndrome. The needle and thread are manipulated using ultrasound guidance.
Another award of note was presented to Dr. Paul Summerside, former chief medical officer for BayCare Clinic. He earned a Lifetime Achievement Award.
For more information, contact Annette Paul, clinical trials research manager, Aurora BayCare Medical Center, at (920) 406-7979.


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Kallidus Group is a marketing agency with over 30 years of experience in the scientific space. We did some quality time in the lab before realizing our true calling was finding creative ways to promote the science as opposed to the actual doing of it. We now leave the science to you. But we can put the spin on it.
Our team motors at an entirely different level. They dig in, kick out and pull things off. A perfect mix of night owls and daylighters spanning time zones keeps production going longer, which lets us turn things around to you faster. Team Kallidus is also virtual, so the really cool office isn't amortized into our agency rate either.
Launching new technologies is in Jackie's blood. She has driven the definition, development, market strategy and global launches for so many products she stopped counting — but they run the gamut from instruments, software and consumables to web-based applications. Her mantra: it's not about what the product can do, it's about what the product can do for the customer, and every product message she coins speaks to that. Oh, and did we say she could write? If you read some marketing geek-prose that makes you stop, smirk and take notice, it's quite possibly hers. With a BS in chemistry, she earned her customer service, technical, product management and marketing stripes over a 20-year corporate career at Dow, Dionex, Caliper Life Sciences, Axela and LiquidTalk.
Tori's ability to understand client needs, come up with creative solutions, and organize information in innovative and clear ways provides the creative backbone for everything Kallidus does. Blessed with a BS in molecular genetics (don't ask), Tori has worked in and with biotechnology and life science companies for over 20 years, starting as a bench scientist and eventually following her passion into design and graphic presentation. Her background gives her concrete understanding of what your product does and why it's great, rather than a hazy recognition that scientists use it somehow to do something. As Creative Director, her guiding principle is that design should complement and enhance content, never eclipse it or replace it — if your audience can't find the information they want, the piece has failed, no matter how pretty or cool it is (not that she has anything against pretty or cool, by the way). She has extensive experience in corporate identity, logo design, web design, marketing collateral, trade show signage and direct mail. Delighted to craft your visual branding from the ground up, she's also comfortable working within existing brand guidelines or seamlessly expanding them to accommodate new products.
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It's that time of the month again! This Thursday at 10:00 in the Yellow Ribbon Room we will be getting together to make some cards and "catching-up" chat. The following cards will be available for your choosing.
Classes are $5.00 for supplies and if you have scissors, glue, tape, etc., please bring them. I am looking forward to seeing you and getting together to be creative. Also, being there are six cards this month, I am going to let you choose which four cards you would like to make. Please let me know if you plan on attending by e-mailing at stampinintuscany.blogspot.com or call 345-850-4334. This way I can make sure I have enough supplies for everyone. Thanks! See you on Thursday!


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Q: In jmeter : how to extract values from two different json response and use that extracted values as a parameter for new http request In jmeter: I'm using  two http requests in one thread group, so I'm getting two response from those http requests.
I need 'member id' from one response and some string(digest) from other response, in order to create third http request.
I have extracted 'member id' by using this regular expression: {"Id":(.+?)}
 which return me correct member id.
Response from 2nd request is string(digest) : "G9V6Su9PESaobcInErdD7Y8OKNo="
 I added one more regular expression to extract this string : "(.+?)"
I have added two debug sampler as I'm using two regular expression extractor.
then I pass extracted values 'member id' and string(digest)  as a parameter to third http request.
When I run it I'm getting error, my 3rd http request failed.
It's failing to pass extracted 'member ID', but its correctly pass string(digest)
In first debug sampler: its showing correct extracted 'Member ID' but some different values for digest field.
In 2nd debug sampler: its showing correct extracted 'digest' field but some different value for 'Member ID'.
I'm doing it all under one thread group
I'm new to jmeter, I don't know whether it is possible to extract field from two different response and use as parameter to create new http request.
if it possible how to do it please help me.
Thanks in advance.

A: I believe that it's due to including quotation marks (and who knows what else) into the "Id" regular expression, you need to surround it with quotes like:
{"Id":"(.+?)"}

Also the better way of working with JSON data is JSON Path Extractor which is available via JMeter Plugins project. See Using the XPath Extractor in JMeter guide (scroll down to "Parsing JSON") for more information on installation, usage, syntax, etc.

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These recordings were made by Chris Timson of Mr Punch's Studio. (For the technically oriented the main mic was a stereo large diaphragm condenser in Blumlein configuration with two Rode NT5's as outriders. I recorded into a Korg D888 then transferred the recording to Logic for mix down).


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Approaches to Personhood in Indian Thought (Essays in Descriptive Metaphysics)
Item Code: NAD775
Author: Ian Kesarcodi-Watson& J.G.Arapura
Publisher: Sri Satguru Publications
The truth of the self is something that needs to be subjected to philosophical inquiry anew in every age, and every clime, which means, on the one hand, standing on what is already known, and on the other, beginning from scratch but using the best tools at our disposal. 0 doubt analytical philosophy has furnished us with some excellent tools, which, however had been customalitly used for destructive purposes. Nonetheless, some very significant movements in the directions of constructive thought have taken place in analytical philosophy, the most notable among them having been Sir Peter- Strawson's attempt to produce a descriptive metaphysics. Dr. Kesrcodi- Watson has followed in his footsteps in several of his writings, and most of all in his magnificent effort here to analytically describe the truth of the self-spoken in the parts of the Indian tradition he has appropriately selected. And his description is also an original investigation right within Indian philosophy itself in that he searches out the threads of ideas pertaining to the self (a/man) a La personhood lying within the Taittiriya Upanisad's teaching on the five kosas, the Yoga Sutra teaching on ciuta-vrtti in relation to the 'how to', and the Buddhist Nagarjuna's philosophy of dynamic critique of the presumed 'thin' character of the self and the not-self (atman and anatman)
Dr. Ian Kesarcodi-Watson passed away on May 12, 1984, after a short but painful period of illness. He was just forty-five years of age, and had already shown tremendous potential in his philosophical thinking and writing." The last manuscript he had worked on for a while before leaving for the fatal overseas sabbatical was his doctoral thesis which he earlier had successfully submitted to the Department of Philosophy at Poona University (Pune, India) in 1982. It was' entitled, Approaches to Personhood in Indian Thought.
The manuscript had attracted the keen attention of Professor J.G Arapura of McMaster University, in Canada, with whom Ian Kesarcodi-Watson had studied in the late sixties. Following the author's demise, Professor Arapura kindly undertook to complete the revision and edit the manuscript and pen his own Foreword by way of introducing the work. He has done a remarkable job, and by this gesture has helped to bring the thoughts of Kesarcodi- Watson on this enormously important subject to the forefront of scholarly discussion: indeed a precious gift to modem metaphysics, whether we agree with his ideas or not.
Acknowledgement is also due to Mrs. Ihita Kesarcodi-Watson for agreeing to release for publication the manuscript from the deceased's estate. Mrs. Winifred Watson, still in anguish by the untimely death of her son, provided constant encouragement to those of us involved in taking the project to the conclusion envisaged, or so we trust, by the late author. His two children Purnima and Aditya and close friends have also been a source of inspiration. The Indian Books Centre happily accepted to publish the work in a monograph series under my editorship.
Stephen Hawking, generally considered the most brilliant living scientist, in his best-selling, popular book, A Brief Survey of Time, makes an arresting remark on the state of philosophy today, especially bearing on the dominance of Analytic Philosophy. He speaks of the philosophers' failure to keep up with the advance of scientific theories that describe what the universe is (scientific cosmology that is), with the result that the philosophers whose business it is to ask the why questions, complementary to science's own how questions, have failed in that cardinal respect, and have turned to narrow concerns with the gravest air of seriousness, in a way that seems rather anticlimactic. Hawking notes, "philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiry so much that Wittgenstein the most famous philosopher of this century said, 'the sole task of philosophy is the analysis of language'." Hawking exclaims, "What a come-down from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant!" (S. Hawking, A Brief History of Time, New York, Toronto, etc. Bantam Books, 1990, pp. 174-75). The great physicist quite rightly suggests that philosophy must justify its existence by asking the important questions about reality. Those pertaining to the cosmos are decidedly among them. But there are others, especially those pertaining to the meaning and end of human existence, and those pertaining to Ultimate Reality as such. Here we may say that the philosophers have to learn much from the religions. Even in respect of visions of the cosmos that would be so.
Raising these questions are the result of translating and rendering into thought and language some elements in our consciousness which are disposed to-and urge-such translation. Only a fraction of what lives and moves-and often sleeps-in our consciousness is actually rendered into thought, and only a fraction of thought gets successfully expressed as theories and only a fraction of these are confirmed by experiment (in science), analysis (in philosophy) or experience (spiritual realization and/or psychological unfolding).
The task of thought must always be to bring more and more of what lies hidden-or asleep-in consciousness into its own orbit and into rational expression in language. That no doubt precedes all theory-making intended to furnish clear pictures of states of affairs, namely, what is, as also of ideals, namely, what ought to be, and, again, all kinds of intersecting of what is and what ought to be, which forms the legitimate subject-matter of ethics in the best sense of that word.
The question about the self is among the great questions. Ian Kesarcodi-Watson's work, here introduced, deals with it in a new and truly penetrating way, but essentially upon the basis of select developments in the classical Indian tradition such as found in the non-dualist Vedanta of Sarikara, in Yoga-Sutra and Nagarjuna's Karikas. And it is noteworthy also that Ian approaches the question of the self with the tools of analytic philosophy in which he was well-schooled at Oxford, but decidedly with a metaphysical interest-so uncharacteristic of that philosophy in general. Ian, however, was profoundly influenced by Sir Peter Strawson's work, Individuals.
For a discussion appropriate to the Western context, Dr. Kesarcodi Watson titles his work Approaches to Personhood in Indian Thought, which also shows-and we are clearly so informed-that he himself is looking at the issue with Western eyes. And that is the very reason why he states at the very beginning that [as he saw it] a central problem for Indian thought is the nature of personhood. However, lest this view be misunderstood, he points out the Indian pre-occupation with the "self;" and the self, he inclines to argue, is "what makes a person, and hence contributes to personhood."
The category of person is certainly characteristic of Western ways of understanding what a human being in essence is. An d yet, before it entered metaphysics (and theology) it was a concept originated in the theatre, where it was appropriated by the legal tradition and then it became metaphysical theological. The term itself is of very low origin, and it is an irony that it came to stand for the ultimate essence of man (and of God); persona, prosopon, originally meant the actor's mask, through (per) which he sounded (sonat), and yet thereby became a definite character. [That is the dramatis persona which we still know about, say in Shakespeare's plays.] This led the way to the individual behind the mask to be perceived as a person-a great shift indeed-in the eye of the law, a being of value, in exchangeable, inviolable, and hence to be protected and treated as responsible at the same time. In the evolution of (Western) societies personal standing of individuals has varied while it has also gradually developed, tending towards universality and uniformity. The Western religious tradition has played a very important part in this. Women and children-and slaves most of all-had to fight their way to achieving personal standing. And yet the denial of it was mitigated in the spiritual sense by the concept of the individual and the older concept of the soul. However, in the West it is by the services of theology that the concept of person really got developed. The great Greek theologians like Ongen, Basil and the two Gregorys and the great Latin theologians like Augustine led the way. And metaphysics benefited from it all.
By contrast, the concept of the self had a poor and chequered history in the West. The Greeks really had no such concept. Historians of philosophy often blithely speak of the Socratic ideal of self-knowledge. Actually, it had nothing to do with knowledge of the self, as it simply stood for man's need to know himself, most of all his limitation. That is what the Delphic utterance "know thyself' (gnothi seauton) meant, and "thyself' -seauton-is but a reflexive pronoun. It did not even have the virtue that the parallel (and later) Western concept of person as the unique, in exchangeable, indivisible, individual acquired. The precept of "know thyself' was only meant to teach man humility, especially in respect of what he may hope to know as man. However, the older and the more authentic concept of the soul had a great history in Western metaphysics and consequently in theology, the high point of it probably having reached in Aristotle.
It is not until Hegel that the idea of Self (Selbst) came into genuine metaphysical use in the West, but then it mostly remained within speculative philosophy. In Hegel, however, we meet with for the first time in philosophy profuse use of expressions like "self-alienation," "self-interest," "self- sufficiency," "self-consciousness", etc. And we also meet with occasional use of self/selbst (Self/Selbst) substantially but always subordinated to the spirit in movement. It sometimes appears as "qua inner soul of the process" (cf. The Phenomenology of Mind, Baillie translation, Allen & Unwin, 1964 impression, p. 517), sometimes as the self which wants to know, for whose sake the unfolding panorama of knowledge is exhibited, the knowledge, however, being that which "knows God to be thought or pure Essence," and "knows this thought as actual being and as real Existence" i.e. "Existence as the negativity of itself, hence as self, an individual, 'this' and a universal Self' (cf. Ibid, p. 761). For Hegel, Self in the last resort is the bearer of the moods and passions of the World Spirit, implying some profound unity underlying the diversity of human selves.
However, Hegel's contemporaries, the Romantics, against whom he strove mightily, attenuated the meaning of the self and turned it into a kind of aesthetic subjectivity. And different kinds of empiricism and positivism followed in its wake, having started out by joining issue with the Romantics. The physiologists carne first who, to quote from an obscure author, "identified the self with a large ganglion in the nervous system," and argued that a hard blow on the head would make a person lose his self. [Gilbert Ryle but expresses the same view by way of very sophisticated analysis.] Freud thought of the self as the libidinal urge, foredoomed to frustration, for the benefit of civilization. Karl Marx spoke of it as the worker deprived of his tools. One person, however, who used the concept of the self in a most powerful, though destructive, way was Nietzsche in whom it took the form of the will to power, to life, to freedom, entailing immolation and creation.
Diametrically opposed, yet akin, to Nietzsche stands Kierkegaard, who had put himself forward as the iconoclast of Hegelian idealism. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are very similar: the latter with God would be like Kierkegaard, and the former without God would be like Nietzsche. Kierkegaard's greatest existential category was the Single One (Der Einzige). He too viewed the self from the point of view of will: "The more consciousness, the more will; the more will, the more self. A man who has no will at all is no self' (The Sickness Unto Death, translation by Lowrie, Princeton, 1944, p. 44). For this thinker who is regarded as the father of existentialism, the self became a very central concept. In both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche there is a clear turn to the individual as the "existing" self. In both cases "to exist" must be understood in the active sense; it entails decision, resolution and so on. Here the self is not something given but something always being achieved and held.
Theologian Paul Tillich, reverting to the older meaning of existence, uncouples the self and existence: "A self is not a thing which mayor may not exist; it is an original phenomenon, which logically precedes all questions of existence" (Systematic Theology, I, Chicago, 1951, p. 169). Yet the self is experienced in the form-of self-relatedness, questions pertaining to which always arise, and even when one negates it, one affirms it (cf. Loc. cit).
Martin Heidegger has engaged in huge discussions on the self. He makes a (to him) basic distinction between the "they-self" (Man Selbst), inauthentic, everyday, even when applied to "I" or "my own self," and "the phenomenon which is included in care ... defined existentially in a manner which is primordial and authentic (Being and Time, 303; Macquarrie translation, Harper, 1962, p. 351).
Dr. Kesarcodi Watson's work, basically analytical, concerned with the individual self inasmuch as it is what underlies person-hood, draws insights, as already stated, from certain great expressions in Indian philosophy rather than from classical Western ontology or from existentialism of any kind. There is a great advantage in this, in that it furnishes an unencumbered and altogether fresh start (i.e. even as a Western enterprise of thought, which is what Ian's work is). And immersed in the quest after the self, with no parallel in the West, where at least since the beginning of Christianity, the counterpart that held a similar primacy has been the person. The attempt that Ian makes to relate the person and the self, and to derive the one from the other, in a hitherto unprecedented way, is more than valid; it is a precious gift to modem metaphysics.
Author's Preface
Without doubt, a central problem for Indian thought, and hence for its understanding, has been and continues to be, the nature of personhood. By this, I will merely mean, whatever it is that makes an individual a person, as distinct from that which is non-personal. As will become clear, I, in common cause with the Indian thought I will deal with, shall be especially interested in that aspect of my being human I will call "myself." I will incline to argue this self to be what makes an individual a person, and hence to constitute personhood. I will, however, only incline to argue this, as it is not my primary concern to argue any case for "essences." I am concerned, through Indian thought, to understand personhood, especially so far as this means understanding me.
I have chosen this working carefully, for, whilst there can be no doubt that human beings -paradigmatic forces- are individuals, and that they are also personal, it is by no means clear that, in being personal-in exhibiting personhood-they are eo ipso individual. Unless we define personhood so that it entails individuality, in much the way that the Oxon philosopher, Sir Peter Stawson, has done in his work, Significantly titled Individuals, the nature of what it is that makes us personal must remain an open question, to be examined and resolved.
I have in this work examined a number of typically Indian resolutions to this question, both Hindu and Buddhist. But I have made not the slightest effort to be comprehensive, since my interest is not so much to cover the entire field, as to touch on a few places where solutions I myself consider arguing a case for a number of marks traditionally considered which any viable candidate for personhood must, even initially, satisfy. These are marks many Hindu thinkers rely upon in their arguments for or against such candidates, without ever clearly specifying them. This chapter is meant both to specify and argue for them.
I then move, in the next three chapters, to a study of one classical Upanisadic manner of approaching an understanding of personhood as Tillman-the teaching of the panca-kosas, often translated five "sheaths," described in Taittiriya II: 1-8. I conclude my discussion of this teaching with a chapter endeavouring to clarify certain things left unclear about the nature of atman, and how more fully to understand this nature. I eschew a verbal definition of this nature, having argued none such to be possible, but instead offer insight into certain positive conclusions we might offer about this nature, as a result of our investigation.
I have then offered a chapter on perhaps the most important intellectual development of this Upanisadic teaching, that found in the Yoga-Sutra of 'Patanjali, It is no accident that I have stressed the Yoga dariana, and not others, for, with the possible exception of the Sdmkhya Karikas, which are, however, later in date, and some of the later Vedantic commentaries, none among the original Sutra works of the schools as directly tackles the problem of knowing, and through knowing, realizing one's true-nature (sva-rupa), as does that of Patanjali. There is no better practical guide in the literature than the Yoga-Sidra. And since, to Patanjali, this quest for the ultimate in self-knowing, and hence in understanding of personhood, amounts to the quest for the ultimate samddhi, this chapter is largely an exposition of Patanjali's teaching on samddhi. Too little has been clearly said about the hierarchy of Patanjali's teaching in this area. In this chapter I have made an attempt to attain some clarity.
I have next devoted two chapters to the thinker who is generally regarded as the finest among Indian Buddhist thinkers, i.e. Nagarjuna. There are those, indeed, who consider him the finest among Indian philosophers. Statements of this' absolute kind are always risky, but I, myself, incline to this view. Opinion seems to favour either Nagarjuna or SaIikara. I, prefer Nagarjuna,
Without question, Nagarjuna's overriding concern was an understanding of "true-nature" - for which he used the term dharmata and paramount in this concern was the effort to comprehend the true nature of personhood. I have in these chapters simply offered an extended analysis of sections of Nagarjuna's major work, the Mulamadhyamakakorika. I first take his Alma- Pariksa, in this he offers his teaching on the nature of personhood, straight and without embellishment. In doing so, he gives voice to what I consider the orthodox Buddhist view prevailing both before and after him. Controversy has certainly raged between the Mahdydnists and the Theravatidins, and variants between, but in my view persons with deep understanding have not entered the argumentation. Since truth must be one, I would argue that enlightenment (boddhi-citta) must at bottom be one as well. It is always ignorance (avidya) that fosters dispute.
Be this as it may, the analysis I offer is not always of the usual kind. I shun the term "orthodox," as its meaning is controversial and unlikely to be acceptable to every thinking Buddhist. Nonetheless, my analysis seems to me to approximate my understanding of "the Truth". I would defend it as "right- teaching," though, in doing so, I might well find myself arguing with many a Buddhist, who may think it to be Hindu in essence.
Secondly, I have offered what might appear to be a novel exposition of Nagarjuna's teaching on Pratitya Samutpdda, co- dependent origination. Without a proper grasp of this, an adequate understanding of his teaching on "the self' would not be possible. Though a version of this has appeared elsewhere-"Are There Real Things?-borrowings from Na garjuna;" Indian Journal of Philosophy, V 91. 5, 1978, it has seemed to me appropriate to include it here as crucial to an understanding of the approach adopted by Nagarjuna, I consider this teaching one of the finest monuments to thought produced by the Buddhist tradition. Any reference to the Buddhist teaching on "self' would be the poorer without it.
Finally, I have drawn all the threads together in three chapters of my own thought devoted to certain problems arising from issues discussed in the preceding chapters (I to VIII). I have in the first instance offered an examination of personhood, thought' of as one's "inwardness," or what one inwardly is, as distinct from one's "outwardness," much inspired by the Indian teachings already discussed, but, nonetheless, offered in a manner that will enable it to stand (or fall) in its own right, simply in terms of what is said in this chapter. It is, in other words, an effort simply to elicit, in a contemporary way, the distillate of what seems to me acceptable in these Indian teachings.
In the second instance, I have offered a lengthy argument, in nineteen stages, meant to demonstrate the viability of the teaching that "every human person harbours an inner-source of wisdom which can be heard and heeded, or ignored," namely, the Hindu teaching of the indwelling operation of buddhi, in some understandings of this term. I consider this to contain crucial insights, absent in the West almost completely. And should it be defensible, as I contend that it is, then its lack in Western thought is a sad one indeed, amounting to a glaring factual oversight on the part of empirical psychology. For should the Hindu position be correct, then the presence of buddhi must simply be a factual aspect of our inwardness. I should add that I have employed the term "inwardness" precisely to avoid the narrow strictures imposed upon what we might in ourselves actually be by empirical psychology. It is a safer, since wider, term than "psyche;" and what in Hinduism is meant by" buddhi" may well have escaped notice in W estern thought precisely because it does fall outside its arbitrary limits. But what there is, there is, legislated boundaries notwithstanding.
I have finally added a brief chapter on what I consider to be an infallible test for candidates for personhood, as they are presented-the test of tiairdgya, or detachment. In doing this, I would claim to be doing no more than sanctioning a prime method already present in both of these great traditions-the Hindu and the Buddhist-though not perhaps articulated quite in the way I have attempted to do here.
It is hoped that, in presenting this work, not only some new ground gets broken, but much that is not new gets presented in a fresh and contemporary way. One big problem, present, as I see it in much that passes for "philosophy" when Indian Philosophy is discussed in India is the tendency to adhere closely to the commentarial and scholastic traditions. But efforts must be made on the basis of the immense riches of ideas and insights present there to think through issues afresh, in today's terms and accents-but with care
Editor's Preface VIII
Foreword IX
Author's Preface XXV
Chapter I : The Basic Marks of Personhood: A Prolegomena 1
I Introduction
II Personhood and Properities
III Personhood and Power
IV Am "I" Witnessable?
V Can "I" Witness Myself?
VI Two Father Conclusions
Chapter II: The Kosas- The General Theory Stated 11
II References and Major Arguments
III Taittiriya Upanisad, II: 1-8
IV Some General Themes
Chapter III : The Kosas- The General Theory Argued For 27
II Prana-Stuff as Actuating and Sustaining Annas-Stuff
III Manas- stuff as Actuating and Sustaining Prana-Stuff
IV Buddhi Stuff as Actuating and Sustaining Manas-Stuff
V Ananda-Stuff as Actuating and Sustaining Buddhi Stuff
Chapter IV: The Kasas- Some Aspects of the Theory 65
II The "Composition" of Annamayakosa
III The "Composition" of Pranamayakosa
IV The "Composition" of Manomayakosa
V The "Composition" of Vijnanamyakosa
VI The "Composition" of Annamayakosa(including a not on Ananda and Drugs)
Chapter V: Atman- The Theory Culminated 81
II Two Ways of Knowing Myself
III Argument and Beyong
IV Techniques
V To Clarity in Conclusion
VI A Final Word
Chapter VI: Patanjali- The Heart of His Approach 91
II The Initial Why and Wherefore
III How Do We Achieve "Self-Knowing"
IV How Do We Achieve Nirodha Stopping?
V The Need for "Oneness" in Knowing
VI Achieving "Oneness"
VII Self-Knowing Through "Oneness"
VIII Four Manners of Knowing One's Self
IX Samprajnata and Asamprajnata Samodhi
X Obstacles to "Oneness" and Its Stability
XI Sabija and Nirbija Samadhi
XII How Do We Overcome Samskaras?
XIII Conclusion
Chapter VII : One Buddhist Approach-Nagarjuna (I) 121
II The Anaysis-Parts (i) to (vii)
III Conclusion
Chapter VII : One Buddhist Approach-Nagarjuna (II) 129
II The Anaysis-Parts (i) to (xiv)
Chapter IX : Some Problems-"Inwardness" 145
II Inwardness, Its Meaning
III Inwardness- Continued
IV A Test for "What I Am"
V Knowing My Inwardness
VI Having and Being Experiences
VII Further to Inner-State (Citta-Vittis)
VIII Vasanas Distinguished from Another Kind of Inner Thing
IX Inner States, to Clarify
X A Second Major Point
XI An Existentialist Argument
XII Things Inword to Me, A Final Note
XIII What I Inword Am, an Initial Note on Its Knowing
XIV That I (My Self) Cannot Be Observed By Me
XV That My Self Cannot be Observed By Another
XVI The Mind and The Self
XVII Conclusion
Chapter X: Some Problems-Buddhi 177
II The Arguments- Points (i) to (xix)
Chapter XI : Some Problems- The Detachment Test (Vairagya) 195
The Self, Its Meaning
The Test, Presented
The Test, Elaborated
The Self, and Its Images
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It's been pretty quiet around here the last couple of months hasn't it? I've been kind of missing in action because I have been creating and teaching my very first online class "Your Creative Photography Roadmap" and for me it has been anything but quiet.
I've learned a lot from the experience and I want to share my biggest lesson learnt with you, because a series of unfortunate events all conspired to make these past couple of months both the toughest and most rewarding of my business life so far. And my biggest lesson?
The events of these past months forced me to try things I didn't know that I could do. They forced me to give it a go. They forced me to the edge and made me see that the edge was nowhere near where I thought it was.
It all started 18 months ago when I taught my first in person class at Squam Art Workshops in the US. I really enjoyed the process of teaching that class, which was all about how to discover your inner muse, using the things you love and weaving them into an image that really says something about you.
When I got back home I decided to revise and expand that content into a six week online class that would teach people how to make images that were more expressive, more personal and more creative, and I'd use that process of sorting through the things that attract you to help them develop an idea for a personal project. There'd be exercises to help them develop a mindset of using what they love to guide them through to what they wanted to share with the world.
It was a slightly overwhelming prospect to begin your first teaching experience not with how to do something…but rather with how to be something. I was up for the challenge but didn't have a clear plan about how to get it done, which is a real recipe for disaster when trying something new. Almost a year of procrastination later, I finally decided to do something about it.
Then the technical issues hit. I spent six months trying to find a piece of software that I could afford, and that could also help to deliver all of this content to people in an easy to understand format. The first four attempts ran into technical issues that I couldn't solve on my own and couldn't afford to hire someone to help with. I would build almost the whole site and then find a technical glitch that couldn't be fixed without more tech knowledge than I had and I would have to tear the whole thing down and start again. I was devastated and it happened FOUR TIMES.
On the verge of giving up, I found one last possibility. And it worked. But it was a much less complete solution, one that required me to do a lot more technical work than I had been expecting. On top of that I had to make graphics, find a video hosting service (went through three of those too), make it look decent on mobile, and complete a million other tasks as well as simply creating the content.
For a few days my head spun. I freaked out. I didn't know if I could do it.
I wanted to back out but I had started talking about the class with some of my followers and customers. I knew I had to give it a shot so I tried to calm myself down by writing a list. I wrote down every task that needed to be accomplished in order to create the class. Every single one. And then I took all of those tasks and I entered them into a task management app I use called Asana and I gave each one a due date.
It was October and I wanted to have the class ready by December. It was going to be tough but I felt better now that I had everything scheduled. I just needed to show up at my desk each day and do the things on the list. If I kept doing that, then I would be ready in time.
I made great progress for about a month and then everything got derailed again. Two members of my family were diagnosed with cancer within two weeks of each other. Their treatment was scheduled for December, right about the time I was supposed to be launching my class.
I didn't want to do it anymore. I wanted to be with them. I wanted to help. I didn't want to be recording videos and writing classes and wrangling with CSS and email marketing. In another tailspin, my timeline for my class went out of the window.
Early December came and went and I had virtually none of the content written.
There was no way I was going to be able to release the class in mid December, unless I launched and sold the class before I finished creating it.
This was never the way I had wanted to create my class. I knew that the pressure would be huge and that I'd have to ignore the screams of my inner perfectionist. But I had a choice to make. Let it go and give up, or hang on and have a go.
I don't like giving up so I decided to have a go anyway. Trying to distract myself from the pressure, I consoled myself with the idea that, if no one wanted to take the class it was probably better to find out before I spent so much time on it.
Mid December arrived and, having done far less than I was comfortable with, and having no time for the big launch I had planned, I put my class out into the world. My goal was to get 10 signups and I wouldn't do the class if there were any less than 5. I got more than my goal of 10 signups in the first day and by the time registration closed, I had 24 people in the class.
I was thrilled. But also a little freaked out. Now there was no choice. People were counting on me and I had to get it done. I reworked all of the due dates for the tasks I still had to do and I made a new plan to get the class ready before it began at the end of January.
I got back to work. The derailments came again and again and again. There were three surgeries over Christmas and New Year for my two relatives battling cancer. There was a Christmas lunch to plan and make with my mother who was doing it solo for the first time. Each time I reworked my due dates for the remaining tasks and each time it took less time to get back on track.
And I started to believe that, if I could get through this, I would have to change my assumptions about what I could handle. I started to understand that most of what pushes us off course is our own thoughts about how overwhelmed we are. Each time I was able to simply look at what needed to be done and adapt the timeline, I grew stronger. Each time I bounced back I knew that I could do more. Each time I didn't give up I knew that I didn't have to.
The limit of what we can do is nowhere near where we think it is. In fact, we don't have a clue.
If we go to the edge and just calmly look around, sometimes we realise we can take another step, and another, and another.
There's a reason that so many people want to create an online class but never finish it. It is hard. It is overwhelming. It is all consuming, sometimes at times when we can't afford to be consumed. But it is possible.
In late January "Your Creative Photography Roadmap" began. And the challenges didn't stop there. Every day I faced something new. Every day I learned something new. There were more tailspins, when I had to learn how to host a webinar, or when I had a crisis of confidence in my ability to edit an image while being recorded.
But through all of this, I have learned a new skill. I'm sure I've learned many but one in particular stands out. I have learned how to break something down into manageable pieces and somehow find the time to complete each one. I've learned how to stop the spinning and focus on what needs to be done. I've learned that I can do more than I think I can. I don't know where the line is, I don't know where the limit is. Maybe there aren't any.
Argh- autocorrect! REALLY enjoyed the class!!
Hello Sue!! So lovely to hear from you and that you are taking such an exciting step for yourself. Making progress is definitely difficult, especially at the beginning when it's just so overwhelming. Just find a way to keep going with little baby steps and you'll get there!
Thank you for this! Ready to head to my studio and read this…thank you.


Not that you need to know (or particularly care) about my gynecological haps, but I need to have my IUD replaced next month, or not. Either way, I have to place my feel in the cold, cold stirrups, scoot my business waaaaay down on the edge of the exam table and allow a licensed professional to clear out the cobwebs and remove my 5 year old IUD. It will be then that he/she (hopefully she), will insert another IUD…or not.
I have baby fever for some supremely selfish reasons. I probably shouldn't have a baby. I'm getting old. I'm tired. My eggs are tired. My youngest just turned 5. Logic has told me my baby making days are over but every time I see a chubby little baby girl wearing tights, bows, or sparkles, I have to resist the very real temptation to scoop up said adorable stranger child and smother her with stranger kisses. Disturbing? Yes. Outside the realm of possibility? Not so much.
Anyway, I'm telling myself I'm done creating small people for this earth but it hasn't stopped me from engaging in the following behaviors that are freaking even me out, check 'em out right here (and hide your babies)!