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Title: RASE OSS
The Replicative Assessment of Spectroscopic Equipment (RASE) methodology is a semi-empirical approach to generating synthetic gamma-ray spectra for injection into a radionuclide identification algorithm of a vendor-provided detection system. RASE facilitates studies of the spectroscopic device performance and a quantitative assessment of its capabilities to correctly distinguish and identify isotopes of interest in realistic scenarios.
Sangiorgio, Samuele [1]; Mozin, Vladimir [1]; Kosinovski, Greg [1]; Chavez, Joseph [1]
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Sangiorgio, Samuele, Mozin, Vladimir, Kosinovski, Greg, Chavez, Joseph, and USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration. RASE OSS. Computer software. https://www.osti.gov//servlets/purl/1487335. USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). 30 Dec. 2017. Web. doi:10.11578/dc.20181218.10.
Sangiorgio, Samuele, Mozin, Vladimir, Kosinovski, Greg, Chavez, Joseph, & USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration. (2017, December 30). RASE OSS [Computer software]. https://www.osti.gov//servlets/purl/1487335. doi:10.11578/dc.20181218.10.
Sangiorgio, Samuele, Mozin, Vladimir, Kosinovski, Greg, Chavez, Joseph, and USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration. RASE OSS. Computer software. December 30, 2017. https://www.osti.gov//servlets/purl/1487335. doi:10.11578/dc.20181218.10.
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abstractNote = {The Replicative Assessment of Spectroscopic Equipment (RASE) methodology is a semi-empirical approach to generating synthetic gamma-ray spectra for injection into a radionuclide identification algorithm of a vendor-provided detection system. RASE facilitates studies of the spectroscopic device performance and a quantitative assessment of its capabilities to correctly distinguish and identify isotopes of interest in realistic scenarios.},
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Radiological Instrumentation Assessment for King County Wastewater Treatment Division
Technical Report Strom, Daniel J. ; McConn, Ronald J. ; Brodzinski, Ronald L.
The King County Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD) have concern about the aftermath of a radiological dispersion event (RDE) leading to the introduction of significant quantities of radioactive material into its combined sanitary and storm sewer system. Radioactive material could come from the use of a radiological dispersion device (RDD). RDDs include "dirty bombs" that are not nuclear detonations but are explosives designed to spread radioactive material. Radioactive material also could come from deliberate introduction or dispersion of radioactive material into the environment, including waterways and water supply systems. Volume 2 of PNNL-15163 assesses the radiological instrumentation needs for detection ofmore » radiological or nuclear terrorism, in support of decisions to treat contaminated wastewater or to bypass the West Point Treatment Plant (WPTP), and in support of radiation protection of the workforce, the public, and the infrastructure of the WPTP. Fixed radiation detection instrumentation should be deployed in a defense-in-depth system that provides 1) early warning of significant radioactive material on the way to the WPTP, including identification of the radionuclide(s) and estimates of the soluble concentrations, with a floating detector located in the wet well at the Interbay Pump Station and telemetered via the internet to all authorized locations; 2) monitoring at strategic locations within the plant, including 2a) the pipe beyond the hydraulic ram in the bar screen room; 2b) above the collection funnels in the fine grit facility; 2c) in the sampling tank in the raw sewage pump room; and 2d) downstream of the concentration facilities that produce 6% blended and concentrated biosolids. Engineering challenges exist for these applications. It is necessary to deploy both ultra-sensitive detectors to provide early warning and identification and detectors capable of functioning in high-dose rate environments that are likely under some scenarios, capable of functioning from 10 microrems per hour (background) up to 1000 rems per hour. Software supporting fixed spectroscopic detectors is needed to provide prompt, reliable, and simple interpretations of spectroscopic outputs that are of use to operators and decision-makers. Software to provide scientists and homeland security personnel with sufficient technical detail for identification, quantification, waste management decisions, and for the inevitable forensic and attribution needs must be developed. Computational modeling using MCNP software has demonstrated that useful detection capabilities can be deployed. In particular, any of the isotopes examined can be detected at levels between 0.01 and 0.1 μCi per gallon. General purpose instruments that can be used to determine the nature and extent of radioactive contamination and measure radiation levels for purposes of protecting personnel and members of the public should be available. One or more portable radioisotope identifiers (RIIDs) should be available to WTD personnel. Small, portable battery-powered personal radiation monitors should be widely available WTD personnel. The personal monitors can be used for personal and group radiation protection decisions, and to alert management to the need to get expert backup. All considerations of radiological instrumentation require considerations of training and periodic retraining of personnel, as well as periodic calibration and maintenance of instruments. Routine "innocent" alarms will occur due to medical radionuclides that are legally discharged into sanitary sewers on a daily basis.« less
Modeling Studies on the Transport of Benzene and H2S in CO2-Water Systems
Technical Report Zheng, L. ; Spycher, N. ; Xu, T. ; ...
In this study, reactive transport simulations were used to assess the mobilization and transport of organics with supercritical CO{sub 2} (SCC), and the co-injection and transport of H{sub 2}S with SCC. These processes were evaluated at conditions of typical storage reservoirs, and for cases of hypothetical leakage from a reservoir to an overlying shallower fresh water aquifer. Modeling capabilities were developed to allow the simulation of multiphase flow and transport of H{sub 2}O, CO{sub 2}, H{sub 2}S, as well as specific organic compounds (benzene), coupled with multicomponent geochemical reaction and transport. This included the development of a new simulator, TMVOC-REACT,more » starting from existing modules of the TOUGH2 family of codes. This work also included an extensive literature review, calculation, and testing of phase-partitioning properties for mixtures of the phases considered. The reactive transport simulations presented in this report are primarily intended to illustrate the capabilities of the new simulator. They are also intended to help evaluate and understand various processes at play, in a more qualitative than quantitative manner, and only for hypothetical scenarios. Therefore, model results are not intended as realistic assessments of groundwater quality changes for specific locations, and they certainly do not provide an exhaustive evaluation of all possible site conditions, especially given the large variability and uncertainty in hydrogeologic and geochemical parameter input into simulations. The first step in evaluating the potential mobilization and transport of organics was the identification of compounds likely to be present in deep storage formations, and likely to negatively impact freshwater aquifers if mobilized by SCC. On the basis of a literature review related to the occurrence of these organic compounds, their solubility in water and SCC, and their toxicity (as reflected by their maximum contaminant levels MCL), benzene was selected as a key compound for inclusion into numerical simulations. Note that considering additional organic compounds and/or mixtures of such compounds in the simulations was beyond the scope of this study, because of the effort required to research, calculate, and validate the phase-partitioning data necessary for simulations. The injection of CO{sub 2} into a deep saline aquifer was simulated, followed by modeling the leaching of benzene by SCC and transport of benzene to an overlying aquifer along a hypothetical leakage pathway. One- and two-dimensional models were set up for this purpose. The target storage formation was assumed to initially contain about 10{sup -4} ppm benzene. Model results indicate that: (1) SCC efficiently extracts benzene from the storage formation. (2) Assuming equilibrium, the content of benzene in SCC is roportional to the concentration of benzene in the aqueous and solid phases. (3) Benzene may co-migrate with CO{sub 2} into overlying aquifers if a leakage pathway is present. Because the aqueous solubility of benzene in contact with CO{sub 2} is lower than the aqueous solubility of CO{sub 2}, benzene is actually enriched in the CO{sub 2} phase as the plume advances. (4) For the case studied here, the resulting aqueous benzene concentration in the overlying aquifer is on the same order of magnitude as the initial concentration in the storage formation. This generic modeling study illustrates, in a semi-quantitative manner, the possible mobilization of benzene by SCC. The extent to which the mobilization of this organic compound evolves temporally and spatially depends on a large number of controlling parameters and is largely site specific. Therefore, for more 'truly' predictive work, further sensitivity studies should be conducted, and further modeling should be integrated with site-specific laboratory and/or field experimental data. The co-injection of H{sub 2}S with CO{sub 2} into a deep saline aquifer was also simulated. In addition, the model considered leakage of the supercritical CO{sub 2}+H{sub 2}S mixture along a preferential pathway to an overlying fresh-water aquifer, followed by reaction of the CO{sub 2}+H{sub 2}S mixture with that aquifer. A simple 2-D model that included a storage formation and a sealing aquitard was developed to simulate the movement of H{sub 2}S in a typical CO{sub 2} storage formation. Model results indicate that H{sub 2}S is stripped off at the edge of the advancing supercritical plume, because of the H{sub 2}S preferential solubility in water compared to CO{sub 2}. The magnitude of H{sub 2}S preferential dissolution, however, decreases with decreasing temperature and pressure. To capture this behavior and evaluate the breakthrough of H{sub 2}S through a leakage pathway (from the deep storage formation to a shallower aquifer), another model was constructed, considering a storage formation, an overlying aquifer, and a vertical leakage pathway between them.« less
Delayed Gamma-ray Assay for Nuclear Materials Safeguards. Comprehensive Technology Readiness Assessment
Technical Report Mozin, Vladimir
Spectroscopic analysis of beta-delayed gamma-rays emitted from fission products following active interrogation was investigated as a non-destructive assay technique for detection and characterization of nuclear materials in shielded and complex configurations. This measurement technique is expected to be applicable to a variety of applications within the nuclear material safeguards, arms control, and emergency response areas, where active neutron interrogation is acceptable. Potential applications of the delayed gamma-ray assay in the nuclear material safeguards area include characterization of U and Pu isotopic content in spent and unirradiated nuclear fuel, enrichment measurements, verification of bulk material in containers, and the characterization ofmore » nuclear wastes. In the arms control area, this method can be used as a part of warhead dismantlement measurements to confirm separation of components, and may be applicable in warhead confirmation. In the context of emergency response, it can be used for detailed diagnostics of an unknown item. At present, the delayed gamma-ray assay technology reliably qualifies for the Technical Readiness Level 3 (TRL 3). The R&D work completed under this project has successfully demonstrated the empirical proof-of-concept for this active interrogation technology for a variety of measurement configurations, neutron sources, and nuclear material samples. A robust first-principles analytical signature modeling methodology was developed, experimentally validated, and can be easily extrapolated to a range of realistic measurement scenarios. Several response analysis methodologies have been implemented and deemed reliable for a variety of active interrogation applications in the areas of nuclear material safeguards, arms control, and emergency response. The initial readiness level before the start of this project was assessed at TRL 0, since only fragmentary records of the signature observations and speculative statements of the relevant non-destructive assay applications existed at that time. The delayed gamma-ray technology readiness can be easily advanced to TRL 4 in a short period, if a certain measurement application is specified and set for a demonstration in a laboratory environment. The critical hardware components of the delayed gamma-ray measurement technology (neutron generators, gamma-ray spectrometers) are readily available as COTS and can be configured for a specific deployment configuration. The primary risk of the delayed gamma-ray assay methodology is defined by the applicationspecific uncertainties. Evaluation of the system performance can be effectively completed once the expected measurement purpose, nuclear material characteristics, dimensions, and radiation exposure constraints are specified. A minor risk can be associated with the delayed gamma-ray response analysis techniques. Several approaches were proposed and demonstrated primarily using the modeled signatures. The observed performance may not be easily transferrable to the conditions of a real measurement setup, and some additional R&D may be required. Overall, the delayed gamma-ray assay technology can be recommended for follow-up demonstrations addressing relevant measurement applications in the areas of nuclear material safeguards, arms control, and emergency response.« less
Combined magnetic and kinetic control of advanced tokamak steady state scenarios based on semi-empirical modelling
Journal Article Moreau, Didier ; Artaud, J. F. ; Ferron, John R. ; ... - Nuclear Fusion
Our paper shows that semi-empirical data-driven models based on a two-time-scale approximation for the magnetic and kinetic control of advanced tokamak (AT) scenarios can be advantageously identified from simulated rather than real data, and used for control design. The method is applied to the combined control of the safety factor profile, q(x), and normalized pressure parameter, beta(N), using DIII-D parameters and actuators (on-axis co-current neutral beam injection (NBI) power, off-axis co-current NBI power, electron cyclotron current drive power, and ohmic coil). The approximate plasma response model was identified from simulated open-loop data obtained using a rapidly converging plasma transport code,more » METIS, which includes an MHD equilibrium and current diffusion solver, and combines plasma transport nonlinearity with 0D scaling laws and 1.5D ordinary differential equations. The paper discusses the results of closed-loop METIS simulations, using the near-optimal ARTAEMIS control algorithm (MoreauDet al 2013 Nucl. Fusion 53 063020) for steady stateAT operation. With feedforward plus feedback control, the steady state target q-profile and beta(N) are satisfactorily tracked with a time scale of about 10 s, despite large disturbances applied to the feedforward powers and plasma parameters. We also show the robustness of the control algorithm with respect to disturbances of the H&CD actuators and of plasma parameters such as the H-factor, plasma density and effective charge.« less


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First Nations students awarded Arrow Energy scholarships
Published September 19, 2019 September 18, 2019 AuthorPaige Carfrae
Australian First Nations student Georgina Morris is one of five students awarded an Arrow Energy Scholarship.
Five Australian First Nations Griffith University students have received the Go Further Indigenous Tertiary Scholarship.
The scholarship, awarded by Arrow Energy, provides $5000 for part-time students and $10,000 for full time students, to support better educational outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
Second year Bachelor of Pharmacy student Georgina Morris (above) is a proud Aboriginal woman and now, a scholarship recipient.
Georgina plans to pursue a Doctor of Medicine after graduating with her bachelor's degree and to use the skills she gains to give back to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
"I decided to pursue pharmacy as I knew I would gain a deep understanding of medicine and patient care prior to further studying to become a medical practitioner," Georgina said.
"My long-term career goal is to work with Aboriginal patients in rural and remote locations as a part of the Royal Flying Doctor Service to satisfy my desire to see positive change in the well-being of the wider community.
"The health gap and life expectancy between Caucasian and Indigenous Australians is substantial and I hope the theoretical and practical skills gained throughout my university education combined with my drive to further understand the needs of the Aboriginal community will contribute to bringing these statistics closer together."
GUMURRII's Shane Barnes
Georgina said she had so far used her scholarship to purchase additional textbooks, which she would not otherwise have been able to afford and hopes to put some of the funding toward undertaking placement in a rural or remote location next year.
GUMURRII Student Support Unit's Shane Barnes said it was essential to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students with scholarships such as this one.
"Scholarships can change lives," Mr Barnes said.
"The financial assistance often enables students to undertake further education opportunities that may have otherwise been hard for them to access.
"Opportunities like this one which are afforded to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students could be the difference that pushes them to excel in university and beyond."
Categories Griffith Health, Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (GRIDD), GUMURRII, Health, home, News articles, School of Medical Science, School of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Student successTagged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students, Arrow Energy, Bachelor of Pharmacy, Doctor of Medicine, Georgina Morris, Go Further Indigenous Tertiary Scholarship, GUMURRII Student Support Unit, Royal Flying Doctor Service, Shane Barnes

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Noah Lyles to Give T.C. Williams Graduation Keynote Address on Saturday
James Cullum June 11, 2020 at 3:15pm
World champion sprinter Noah Lyles will give the keynote address at the T.C. Williams class of 2020 graduation on Saturday, June 13.
Lyles, a 2016 T.C. graduate and Olympic hopeful, will congratulate his fellow Titans in a virtual ceremony that will be featured on ACPS-TV Channel 71, Facebook Live and on its website.
The ceremony begins at 9:30 a.m.
Alexandria City Public Schools Superintendent Gregory Hutchings, Jr., on Thursday reminded the city to commemorate the occasion by lighting up their homes in red, white and blue. He also said that the George Washington Masonic Memorial will be also lit up that night.
"Please show your support by sharing photos and comments on our social media pages with the hashtags #TCW2020 and #TitansRising," Hutchings wrote. "On Saturday evening we want to see the entire city lit up in our Titan colors of red, white and blue. The George Washington Masonic Temple will lead the way."
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner will provide a congratulatory statement, and class president Amaya Chisolm will speak, in addition to Principal Peter Balas and Hutchings.
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Home » Latest Articles » Culture » Univision Introduces Their First Afro-Latina Co-Anchor of a Primetime Newscast— and Twitter Celebrates!
Univision Introduces Their First Afro-Latina Co-Anchor of a Primetime Newscast— and Twitter Celebrates!
For Afro-Latinas who rarely saw themselves on television growing up, there is great news: Univision is welcoming Ilia Calderón as the new co-anchor, alongside Jorge Ramos, for the evening newscast, Noticiero Univision. She is going to be replacing longtime anchor Maria Elena Salinas, who has had the job for over 30 years. Calderón isn't just making history at Univision, as Forbes points out, she's "making history as the first Afro-Latina to anchor a weekday primetime newscast for a major broadcast network in the United States." Period.
Her predecessor and the iconic anchor, Salinas, took to social media to congratulate Calderón, posing for a powerful selfie together and saying: "Happy that my dear and beautiful colleague @iliacalderon takes command of Noticiero Univision. Not only a great journalist and a good mother but with a great sensitivity to the needs of our Hispanic community. Proud of you dear Illi!"
Feliz de que mi estimada y guapísima colega @iliacalderon toma el mando de Noticiero Univision. No solo una gran periodista y buena madre sino con una gran sensibilidad hacia las necesidades de nuestra comunidad hispana. Orgullosa de ti querida Illi!
A post shared by Maria Elena Salinas (@mariaesalinas) on Nov 8, 2017 at 7:55am PST
According to Latina, this is not the first time that Calderón has been a "first." Calderón's career first began in her native Colombia, where she anchored a local newscast in Medellín. Afterwards, her career took her to become the first Black woman to ever host Noticieco CMI, a national news program in her country. She moved to Miami in 2001 and became Telemundo's first Black anchor when the network launched a weekend newscast. In 2007, she joined Univision for its Primer Impacto weekend edition and was later promoted to co-host of its weekday slot.
On Monday, December 11th, Calderón will debut in her new role after finishing up her current gig as the co-anchor of Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna. The Emmy Award-winning journalist spoke with Forbes about her new job, saying: "I'm happy, but at the same time, a little nervous. I'm so honored they gave me this amazing opportunity. It's an enormous responsibility to sit in Maria Elena's chair because she has kept the highest standards in journalism."
Univision will continue to work with a great journalist who isn't afraid to do difficult stories, such as interviews with KKK members earlier this year that garnered her national attention when a video clip surfaced with Ku Klux Klan grand wizard Chris Barker calling her a "n*gger" and a "mongrel."
At least Univision News' president, Daniel Coronell, seems to think so. In a statement, he said: "Ilia's professionalism and experience, together with her personal charisma, journalistic integrity, knowledge of the U.S. Hispanic community and proven appeal with our diverse audience make her the ideal person to succeed Maria Elena Salinas."
Calderón doesn't plan to let anything get in her way, especially not racism. Instead, she focuses on the positive, telling Forbes that she thinks it's a plus.
"As a journalist working for Univision, we have bigger responsibilities now in this country when racism and discrimination is coming to the surface," she said. "My role today as Black Hispanic immigrant will be to scrutinize who's in power and to be more vigilant of civil and human rights for all our viewers. I think this is also a great opportunity to show girls that are starting and attending college to do what I do today, that they too can make it. Keep up the hard work and dreams and one day you will succeed."
People on Twitter were equally thrilled to see Calderón's promotion.
Sabes Ilia te admire como fuiste a entrevistar a los miembros o jefes del Klanes supremacía blanca! ahí bien firme tú
— Mar Lourdes Gala (@galaernertina) November 9, 2017
Felicidades @iliacalderon https://t.co/MllaWQ01lc
— Will Rodriguez (@WRod17) November 9, 2017
She is deserving of this job. She is a terrific journalist.
— Christopher Aparicio (@Christo31624404) November 9, 2017
MUCHAS FELICIDADES ILIA Y SE LO TIENE MUY MERECIDO DIOS LA BENDIGA Y MUCHOS EXITOS MAS 🙏👐🙌❤
— Evangelina Hernandez (@Evahdz416) November 9, 2017
Mucho éxito en tu nueva etapa mi querida @iliacalderon Dios te bendiga en todo!!!! https://t.co/V6jz5SWcRS
— Lukas Málaga (@davmalaga) November 9, 2017
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Different was the reoccurring word used to describe the events of 2020 by Trevallyn Primary School's student leadership team. All four of the school's grade 6 student leaders said they were a little nervous heading into high school next year, but felt some comfort in the fact they had adapted to what was thrown at them this year. Trevally Primary School captain Daisy Barbour said it had been a very different year, but they all adapted. "It's been interesting of course, but during the lock down I kept in touch with friends a lot and every night we would be talking to each other so it wasn't too bad," she said. "I actually had a [birthday] party that we celebrated over Zoom." The 12-year-old is off to Riverside High School next year and said she was excited from what she had seen at orientation. "I'm looking forward to the classes, because they are very different to primary school," she said. "I definitely loved art and science." IN OTHER NEWS: For weeks the majority of pupils had to learn from home, with events and camps cancelled and excursions adapted, but it has not dampened the spirits of the 2020 primary graduating class as they look towards high school. The school's other captain Heidi Curtis is off to Launceston Grammar School next year. She said she was looking forward to meeting new friends, being more independent, and PE and art classes. "Being our last year of primary school it has been weird to have COVID and learning from home," she said. "It's only just kicked in that we're leaving." Vice-captain Henry Youngs will join Daisy at Riverside and said from the taster classes at orientation he was looking forward to his science classes. Trevallyn vice-captain Carmen De Michiel-Burnham said looking at the positives, it was great to be able to return to school after the initial lock down. She is off to St Patrick's College next year and said she was looking forwarding to getting involved in their music, dance and drama programs. What do you think? Send us a letter to the editor:
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GOODBYE PRIMARY: Trevallyn Primary School grade 6 pupils Carmen De Michiel-Burnham, Daisy Barbour, Heidi Curtis and Harvey Youngs.
Different was the reoccurring word used to describe the events of 2020 by Trevallyn Primary School's student leadership team.
All four of the school's grade 6 student leaders said they were a little nervous heading into high school next year, but felt some comfort in the fact they had adapted to what was thrown at them this year.
Trevally Primary School captain Daisy Barbour said it had been a very different year, but they all adapted.
"It's been interesting of course, but during the lock down I kept in touch with friends a lot and every night we would be talking to each other so it wasn't too bad," she said.
"I actually had a [birthday] party that we celebrated over Zoom."
The 12-year-old is off to Riverside High School next year and said she was excited from what she had seen at orientation.
"I'm looking forward to the classes, because they are very different to primary school," she said.
"I definitely loved art and science."
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For weeks the majority of pupils had to learn from home, with events and camps cancelled and excursions adapted, but it has not dampened the spirits of the 2020 primary graduating class as they look towards high school.
The school's other captain Heidi Curtis is off to Launceston Grammar School next year. She said she was looking forward to meeting new friends, being more independent, and PE and art classes.
"Being our last year of primary school it has been weird to have COVID and learning from home," she said.
"It's only just kicked in that we're leaving."
Vice-captain Henry Youngs will join Daisy at Riverside and said from the taster classes at orientation he was looking forward to his science classes.
Trevallyn vice-captain Carmen De Michiel-Burnham said looking at the positives, it was great to be able to return to school after the initial lock down.
She is off to St Patrick's College next year and said she was looking forwarding to getting involved in their music, dance and drama programs.
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How shall I understand the format of `/etc/resolv.conf`?
How shall I understand the format of /etc/resolv.conf?
So does nameserver 127.0.0.53 mean that my local machine is running a DNS server whose IP address is 127.0.0.53? How can I find out its process?
the domain part is taken to be everything after the first '.'.
What does this part mean? The above just mentions what values that can be set to something, and does not explain what this part in /etc/resolv.conf means. Why does my /etc/resolv.conf not have this part?
name; by default, it contains only the local domain name.
What does this part mean? What does search fios-router.home in my /etc/resolv.conf mean?
/etc/resolve.conf is the main configuration file for the DNS client, so its presence does not imply that you are running a DNS server.
Entries of type nameserver tell the host, which DNS server to use.
An entry of type search (if present) would allow computers from different domains to address each other by their respective host names.
The file is nowadays usually generated by NeteworkManager (for example, on my system, the file starts with the comment "Generated by NetworkManager") or by systemd-resolved.
is a system service that provides network name resolution to local applications. It implements a caching and validating DNS/DNSSEC stub resolver, as well as an LLMNR and MulticastDNS resolver and responder.
Wrong nameserver set by resolvconf and NetworkManager (Ubuntu SE).
DNS set to systemd's 127.0.0.53 - how to change permanently? (Ubuntu SE).
Yes, the first part indicates that your system is expecting a nameserver to be listening on localhost, in this case, specifically 127.0.0.53.
The second part is a search path that is appended to all searches not ending in a period (.). If you run, for instance, ssh blah, DNS will first try to look up blah, then try looking up blah.fios-router.home.
The search fios-router.home part is the last resolvable domain, i.e. your router (iirc Verizon).
127.0.0.53 is the IP address of the nameserver, so your assumption is correct.
resolv.conf is part of the standard way to resolve a host name to an IP address. It is part of the resolver library.
which means that the resolver library first looks in /etc/hosts and, if it cannot find it there, will use DNS.
Now DNS will query a DNS server. Which one is determined by /etc/resolv.conf. In addition, there are a number of additional parameters that you can use to help the DNS reolution, of which search (Try this domain first for the host) is probably the most used.
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Q: React Native - How to prevent re-render an "static" component I'm having a little issue here, trying to update a component using UseEffect React Hook, it ended rendering the whole parent component as well.
I reduce my code to this example, but still cannot find a solution. I don't understand why every time I change the "previewVisible" state, it renders the "Greeting" component. Already tried with UseCallback, memo, UseMemo ... I don't know what I am missing here.
  const [previewVisible, setPreviewVisible] = useState(false);
  const Greeting = React.memo(function Greeting({ name }) {
    console.log(Math.random(), "render");
    return <Text>{name}</Text>;
  });

  return (
    <View>
      <Greeting name={"bla bla bla"} />
      <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => setPreviewVisible(!previewVisible)}>
        <Text>Press me</Text>
      </TouchableOpacity>
      {previewVisible && <ModalPreview />}
    </View>
  );
};

In this example, I want to show or hide the "ModalPreview" but no render the Greeting component itself.

A: Move the greeting component implementation out of the parent component.
const App = () => {
const [previewVisible, setPreviewVisible] = useState(false);
  return (
    <View>
      <Greeting name={"bla bla bla"} />
      <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => setPreviewVisible(!previewVisible)}>
        <Text>Press me</Text>
      </TouchableOpacity>
      {previewVisible && <ModalPreview />}
    </View>
  );
};

Now you don't even need to use a memo, unless you want to use it multiple times with different props.
  const Greeting = ({ name }) => {
    console.log(Math.random(), "render");
    return <Text>{name}</Text>;
  };

A: Move the Greeting function with memo outside the parent function
snack: https://snack.expo.dev/@ashwith00/4903ce

const Greeting = React.memo(function Greeting({ name }) {
  console.log(Math.random(), 'render');
  return <Text>{name}</Text>;
});

export default function App() {
  const [previewVisible, setPreviewVisible] = React.useState(false);

  return (
    <View>
      <Greeting name={'bla bla bla'} />
      <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => setPreviewVisible(!previewVisible)}>
        <Text>Press me</Text>
      </TouchableOpacity>
      {previewVisible && <View />}
    </View>
  );
}

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It's not often I feel the pull of the stars in my life. This cycle around it is pulling hard and not pulling any punches with me in my life. If anything, it makes a decent non-corporal scapegoat.
March 6th had things blowing up in my life from the moment I woke up to the moment I closed my eyes to sleep that night. Everything I thought I knew I learned I did not. Everything, since I was 14, was rewritten in a matter of hours. The world, my world was knocked right off its axis. I'm still processing all of this.
I am now looking, considering ending one of the longest relationships I've ever had. From 14 to 40 and I have the strongest feeling it is now time to end it. I don't know if I am sitting here typing this in shock or in horror.
My metamores no longer live close to me. They are several states away and have been for a few years now. When we all had been closer, it was a good seven-year run together. But now, knowing what I now know, I can feel the need for a clean break, a clean ending of things.
I am married. I'm not a single woman raising children alone. I am poly and my husband is a happy satisfied man. I have no intentions of ever leaving my family, not even for a metamore.
sigh, I am not unfamiliar with long distance relationships. Until recently, I was involved with a quite a few. When I do this, I will be down to one long distance relationship, no play partners, no metamores; just my husband and me. I'm looking forward to that. Is that so strange?
I've been closing a lot of the doors to the past lately. It feels good taking a moment to pause and chew on this. I will still have a heart that falls often and a body that demands sensation. I will still be the same person I've always been. (I hear the laughter in the back row, hush now sweetheart.) Maybe I am closing a door on a larger chapter of my life, or am I turning the page to an even more exciting future? I know I am doing this for me. It's time for me to focus on me.
Integration of Personalities Has an Unexpected effect.
I've been quiet on the blogging front this summer. A whole lot has happened in the mean time. The most important part of this is my integration. I don't know if I can say I am DID any more or what. Not that identifying with the label matters. What mattered and continues to matter is my healing and mental health.
Integration was surprisingly and willingly chosen as self preservation. It's odd, splitting of personalties is a form of self preservation in the first place and facing a situation where reintegration was the correct answer for self preservation is well, odd. I knew that the splitting and switching was and had become a misused copeing mechanism that I could no longer rely on.
I knew that I had grown strong enough emotionally to face my fears head on. I have worked hard on facing the issues I have with C-PTSD and have made some amazing progress with self guided desensitization therapy. That alone has helped me gain confidence in my ability to over come any issues I face.
Over this summer, I have integrated into the original host personality. I have faced the deep grief head on and allowed myself to feel it, to cry, to weep and mourn. The one thing I faced was that we, my parts all accepted that integration wasn't death and even if it was, saving me was saving us and that was a noble and worth while action.
It was love that healed us, healed me.
Yet there have been some unusually issues that integration has caused. My alters were hyper magnified aspects of my core personality. Now that I am all back together, not one part of me is out of balance, nothing is in a hyper state of being. As time goes on, I am starting to lose the intensity of the memory of my alters. It is not that they are sleeping, but they are absorbed back into me.
This has impacted some of my relationships in unusual ways. My primary relationship is still solid. He doesn't quite understand but then this is a breath of fresh air for him. I am not rocking from one alt to another so wildly. For once I am consistent.
My other relationships on the other hand have been extremely rocky. It was them who helped guild and push me towards integration. One of them has been the catalyst of my integration. It was He who had my alters in full blown knock down drag out fight over what to do.
Only one mind, one leader could solve all the issues, so they woke me up. I believe it was only possible because I had matured along the way as I had slumbered. The only thing of me they had while I was separated was to chime my age; an age that had no correlation to my physical age. Once I had caught up, I was ready to face the world as I am. As I truly am, whole.
Now this all being said, I still have issues remaining. Those very issues that sparked the integration are now seen in a much different light. Isabella was an alt, as is Autumn and Jay. But Isa was the creative and sexual side of me. Isa is slave. In some ways I wonder if it is her being slave to her hyper magnified emotions and sexuality.
I have not been able to continue the relationship that Isa held with one particular man. I don't even have the same drives that drove her. In fact I am finding it hard to connect to that aspect, those feelings, even those motivations. This was not foreseen. I knew there could be a loss of things and a gain as well. But something so primal, so deeply developed I had no clue could be lost.
The emotions have not been lost. The motivation and desire has disappeared. I have become selfish. I am interested in what benefits me most. I haven't lost empathy, kindness or love. Yet where Isa was self sacrificing, self effacing, motivated by others desires of her, I am selfish, more interested in my goals, my dreams, my wants. It is very different and it points to the key issues that were behind the fight with myself, between the alts.
Autumn was the fighter, the protector, more logical yet with a creative streak as well. She was the rescuer as well. She feared that integration would allow the nature of Isabella to become the whole. She was wrong and looking back now I can see that wasn't even possible. Autumn represented the strength to over come any obstacle set in my path. It took years for her to grow as strong as she became. She could bet Isa in a fight and their were many. She even grew to learn love and friendship. She learned to not be afraid of her nature or afraid of rejection for it.
And it's odd. All these parts are me. All that they learned was what I learned. Their growth is my growth. Their relationships are my relationships. And one of them has broken.
Where Isabella could say she is slave, I can not. I have no idea if I will ever be. I can not even say I am submissive. Autumn could only say that she was non sexual. So what does that work out for me? I have no idea at all. It is something that I know I will decide as I continue growing and learning.
Loving more than one, so you like variety, do you now dear?
Funny how the oddest things bring up the strangest ideas. I was in an outstanding mood when my husband came home and we had a great evening. Everything was running smoothly and when he settled into bed, I curled up beside him wanting to cuddle and talk. I've been able to express a bit more about being DID with him and been willing to ask questions about myself.
Then I said something I didn't even expect to come out of my mouth. That me being DID is like being married to three different women. Poly by default. It startled me a great deal to think of this that way but it does help me understand some of his difficulties that he's endured while being in the dark all these years. And it makes my heart whimper even a bit more. He loves all of me, flaws and all.
Saying goodbye to someone you deeply love is heartbreaking. Being polyamorous isn't protection against such hurts. Add D/s into the mix and you have a recipe for change that you better be capable of handling or otherwise you'll drown under it.
And yet there are times saying goodbye is an action of strength, of growth. We may love that person but we have gone as far as we can in that form of relationship. Change becomes necessary to be a healthy person, releasing both parties to continue their personal growth. With luck, one day a different kind of relationship may be established, one without hurts and resentments and supportive of the best for the other.
I started blogging years ago with a single purpose in mind. I stated it no where and never mentioned it. Because I was afraid. You see, I was newly married and in shock to find out that my husband wasn't as dominant as he first appeared. In fact, this was just one more log to add to an already burning relationship that I was internally willing to throw away.
Yet I had a yearning, a desire I couldn't shake. I remember saying to myself, "Well, I'll just write for my Master so he can know me." I didn't even have a Master much less a clear idea of what that entails at a tender age of 26 / 27. That became the basis of why I write. I have a huge need to be known. Even though the irony is that blogging is the one medium I deeply censor.
It's that need, the need to be known and others that make love insufficiency. We can love deeply and still feel and be unfulfilled. It really should cause one to take a closer peek at their own personal needs. And for those of the submissive persuasion, an examination of what your needs truly are is in order. Today in my ruminations I have been shocked to realize that it is okay to have needs. And even more shocking, it's okay to express them.
I have failed in several relationships to express those needs. They were so deeply repressed I only had faint whispers of a feeling something wasn't quite right or as well as it could be. And I am now considering the possibility that having those needs met might mean the difference between happiness versus existence for me.
When I started writing this post I was thinking of several individuals who have impacted my life greatly over the last few years and in all the lessons that I have learned from each of them. Each one of them, I fell in love; some deeper, some not so much. I loved them all and still do in my own ways. And yet there is one where the love is so deep, the thought of never saying Hello causes me to weep. For him, I'll be anything he needs me to be, best friend, friend, acquaintance, even a stranger if that is what is best for him.
I feel to the depths of my soul a love that drives me, empowers me to be more than I am, just so I can feel his smile, his pride settle on my shoulders even if that is all there ever is. And yet, love isn't enough.
I want to say I am a slave but recent events in my life have called even that into question. What I know is that I am at least submissive and service oriented. I have limits, both internal and external. And I have needs. And I am happiest when serving and that service is both acknowledged and accepted. It is as if I was given all the energy needed to do the very things that makes me happy and empowers the one who I served.
But for most of my life my service to others have been in the nature of sacrifice not joy, of self-denial, not happiness, of pain, not pleasure. Those are second nature to me and quite dangerous. I neglect myself because someone asked it of me, unknowing most of the time. Being this, what I am requires a great deal of self-awareness and learning how to balance this core need to serve against my need for purpose in such a way that I support my health and happiness.
I want to say I live to serve but that's not quite right. I live because I breath. I serve because I need.
And I have a choice; I can serve in sorrow and pain or with joy and happiness.
And service is not obedience. That is perhaps best left for a different posting but I wanted to point it out that it is not the same at all.
And love is not required to serve. Because service is a far deeper core need than love, the need to serve is a bit more dangerous. Which explains why sub-frenzy is such an issue and leads to actions and events that are both painful and avoidable.
So love isn't enough to fill in all those other needs. Good thing love multiples and never spreads thin. But love is magical. Everything tastes better with love, everything looks better and brighter, even all the jagged areas of personality is smoothed down, and even flaws look attractive. It's supportive, it's protective, it encouragement. Love is the quality of desiring happiness for the other person instead of placing your own happiness as more important. It is "I am happy that you are happy." And it is nurturing and accepting and most of all healing.
I think the Greeks were on to something with the five kinds of love, just that I would argue they were stages to love, not so separate at all. Love may not be enough, but it is necessary.
I think i fell in love with a Narcissist.
He is a strong charismatic dominant figure with a way with words and a poetical soul. In short everything i could dream of. Intelligence and depth; except that i had no clue that his depth was only a reflection i was putting out there. I was falling in love with a projection of who I thought he was. I choose to ignore the troublesome red flags that popped up from the beginning.
When am i going to learn that i really need to learn to listen and trust my gut?
damn well that i shouldn't.
I should have stopped and stayed away. It took a whole lot of pain to pull away the first time. The chemistry was strong. I wanted to become what he wanted. I wanted to do, to be that, do all that he asked and thought. It excited me as much as it did him. We were both getting what we wanted as long as i did as i was told and didn't question him or my feelings. If i had only followed blindly, i think we could be happy. But it wouldn't be me, it would be a lost version of myself.
And this second time around, painful still, i fell into love. How cruel i have been to withdraw my obedience yet not deny my love? How cruel is it for me to say i have issues with topic x, y and z? How cruel is it to admit the amount of waiver i experience?
And it has ended no differently than i expected once i figured out the rules. He wants to be the greatest purpose in a woman's life, to the level of being the very reason she breaths. Such high lofty ideas, hmm?
I saw a picture in my G+ that went like this "you're the reason she breaths? How about oxygen? " it cracked me up! Yes, breathing is automatic and without it life ends. So can i extrapolate this idea to the point where it is an expression of she lives only for you…that her life is in your hands?
I don't think this is a healthy or even reasonably thought to maintain about a relationship. And who am I to fuss about this? I am the one who wants a Master, that i can worship both in body and in soul, someone i will look up to and admire, someone who knows me insight and out and sees me as more than i am and encourages me, a Master who is not afraid of me, my temper, my moods and the changes, someone who is genuinely interested in me. I know this is a tall order. And i should also add, someone who i can be fully free to be myself with, flaws and all. I want to be able to touch the person, curl my tender scarred heart at his feet Knowing i am safest here in his shadow.
I wanted to believe he was my dream as he wanted to believe i was his.
Might i have made some mistakes? Yes, quite a few sadly so. Still learning to be strong and to not waver. It's never good to bend for curiosities sake. Red flags are there for a reason. I am going to miss him as time goes on.
But to beg to be taken back? No. I didn't beg, ever. I will not beg. Had to be instructed to beg and whimper. It is not in my nature.
Why didn't i see it till now? His ego is huge! Barely know him and i should be begging to be with him? I should be talking and begging to be on the phone with him? That i should read his mind and know open ended things are set ups for me to act on?
Hell, he even prompted me to say i love you at the end of the call. How much pompous is that? He wanted his ego stroked. He went so far as to give me the tools to do it. Funny that way. He had to train me how to stroke him right.
If i am right, six months I'll hear from him again. No apologies, no fixing what went wrong, but it will be good, damn good. He knows money is an issue with me and so is independence and having limits. I am curious as to what he may come up with. We need to stay away from each other honestly. Toxic fire. Just on the off chance i am wrong, still would be best for him to stay away from me. Just too toxic, so not good for each other.
I may bend. It's the snap back that catches folks off guard.
And here is to hoping that brutal honesty will burn that bridge down good.


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Discovering Your Intuition and How to Connect with It
Hello and welcome to blog post three based off of the Phoenix Rising podcast. I have gotten some messages on social media and some texts from you guys listening to the podcast and it makes me so happy because it lets me know what I am sharing is helpful for you! It inspires me to continue to do it!
The last few weeks have been a little crazy for a lot of people and there's multiple reasons for that. Usually with the new year things get a little chaotic because people are working on resolutions, making this year so much different than the year before, we also are currently in a mercury retrograde which if you are not familiar with the mercury retrograde, I will not go into a ton of detail about it, but basically, it's the idea that mercury moves backwards slowly. It's moving in the reverse direction. It is actually an optical illusion, so it isn't actually happening, but from a spirituality and astrological standpoint what happens with us is we all get affected by it. This is usually a time where you might have some issues with your phone, technology is just not working properly, communication is really weird between you and people or things that you use to communicate with people like email, social media, etc., might not be working well. You also might experience some stuff that feels like a blast from the past. The purpose of retrograde is sometimes it brings back old things, old people, old projects, to revisit and kind of get a gauge of is it something you should continue doing or someone you should continue communicating with?
A lot of people see mercury retrogrades as negative, but they can have a really good, positive effect. It can also give an opportunity to reflect on where you've been, where you want to go moving forward, and what you want to take with you. If you've had some people from the past, or thoughts and ideas from the past, all of that you can contribute to mercury retrograde. If you're curious to learn more about it you can just Google about it.
On top of that there just seems to be a lot of people that seem to be experiencing a lot of shifts across the board from relationships, to changing jobs and careers, complete shifts in their energies and personalities. That's kind of what led me to wanting to discuss this today. We're going to discuss discovering your intuition but also learning how to connect with it consistently so that you can navigate all of this. It can be very uncomfortable experiencing a lot of change in your life and trying to get some direction. Your intuition is the tool you want to use to guide you through all of this. I'm calling this intuition because that's what sits and resonates with me. What I call intuition some people might call God, some people might call source, universe, guides, spirits, holy spirit, whatever you call it is not important as long as it is something that makes sense and resonates with you.
Another thing I want to address and why I want to talk about it is because I've heard multiple times from a lot of people how they're trying to get directions and answers in trying to get the right answers and choices, and they hear about people connecting with their intuition but that's just not something that they have or a skill that they have. That's just not the truth at all. Everybody has an intuition. You're born with it. Some people call women who have their sixth sense on picking up on things, on being maternal, that's not the case. We all have an intuitive side to us that is our most innocent, but also our most clear, authentic inner self that is constantly guiding and communicating with us. However, a lot of times it can feel like you don't have that, because you haven't put in the time and effort to understand it and develop a form of communication with it to know when it is speaking to you. It could also be pretty crystal clear with you, but you just do not like what it's saying for you. We're going to address all these things on how to really decipher whether if it's your intuition, brain, or if you're just making it up. That's what we're going to dive into today!
We all have different ways that we connect with our intuition, but the important thing is that you first learn how to discover it if you're not already super familiar with knowing what's intuitive and what is coming from your brain. The thing that keeps a lot of people from being able to clearly hear what is going on with their intuition is you have to learn to turn off the outside noise. That's the distractions, and one way you can tell if you haven't been connecting and you have a lot of outside noise going on is if you tend to wake up a lot during the night. Your mind has just been racing and I'm not talking about once in a blue moon that you have disrupted sleep, that's totally different. I'm talking about consistently waking up because your mind is racing.
Here's the way it works: Typically, if people don't take the time during their waking hours to sit in stillness and silence, to connect and to go within, you give your intuition no other choice of when to speak to except for when you lay your head down at night. You finally are shutting out the TV, social media, the noise of being around all these other people, and you finally experience silence. If you have issues sleeping because this is going on, the first thing I would recommend is take the time during your waking hours to get that same stillness and silence that maybe you're only getting when you sleep at night. I'm saying you don't have to do it for eight hours, maybe it's just 10-15 minutes. This takes the time for your intuition and subconscious to speak to you so that it's not waking you up at night.
Now, if that's not the case and you sleep fine you could still have way too much noise going on in your daily life that is distracting you from being able to hear your own thoughts and guidance. The best time that usually your intuition speaks to you is first thing in the morning, before you get on your phone, before checking emails or texting people back, whatever else you're doing that is mindless work, or at night like I just described before you go to sleep. The reason being is because your brain and your intuition has not taken on a ton of outside information to be impacted. It's had stillness, silence, it's fresh. First thing in the morning it's really easy to be crystal clear. If this is new to you and you don't already spend this time, you can sit down, focus on some breath work, and really just giving your conscious a break.
There are parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems. Your parasympathetic is what I am talking about with the subconscious. It's the same thing with your intuition. All these are the same things. In order to relax it, calm it down, and give it room to speak, you have to literally sit, calm down, be still, and be quiet. That's number one thing to really learning to connect with it. I was in the gym one day and I was talking about this with somebody and they just kind of shook their head and they were like, "I would rather do the hardest ten-minute work out I have ever done, than have to sit in silence with no noise or no distraction for ten minutes." It makes total sense. It gives a lot of people anxiety to have to do that and sit still, because you have nothing to face but yourself. You can't distract the thoughts and discomforts by scrolling through social media, but that is also the only way you will ever get the answers you are seeking. Discovering your intuition requires you first to sit still with yourself and take the time to check in with what's going on inside. This leads me to the next point.
We all have different ways that our intuition communicates with us. Some people are very big feelers, they feel things. You know this if you've said, "I have this feeling, I just know." This means you're a feeler. You deeply feel what your intuition is telling you. I'm also a huge feeler. Normally there's a lot of different things I can use as gauges to figure this out, but most of the time if I'm working on something new or I get this idea, all I will be talking about is how, "I get this feeling, I just know." If this is also you and you're nodding your head yes. That's your intuition. You probably are also an empath. I am definitely an empath.
Typically, if you are someone who is highly sensitive and empathic, you normally feel other peoples emotions, true intentions, energies. You're somebody who walks into a room and can immediately tell or sense that something is off, or you meet somebody new, and you can instantly tell their intentions. Like, "This person doesn't seem okay." "This person seems really light, bright, and they have really good energy about themself." That makes you an empath. Use this as a strength, as how your intuition communicates.
A way that I check-in with myself is I'll sit with myself in stillness with a piece of paper and pencil. I'll check-in and then I'll bring up an idea, person or a situation to my mind and I'll literally see how it feels in my body. The way you can do that if this is resonating with you as someone who feels empathic, notice how your body responds. Do you feel shortness of breath? Does your chest feel tight? Do your shoulders start to round out and close off? This would be your heart, so your heart is closing off to this. Or do you feel yourself opening up? You're breathing a bit deeper, you're feeling a little more relaxed, or maybe you feel something around your gut that feels excited, inspired, and different things that require different inspiration and energies. Pay attention to that, that's one tool that you can use. Really see that as almost your spiritual superpower. Use that in a way to guide yourself.
If you're not a feeler and you have no idea what I'm talking about it's totally fine. Some other ways that people get communication from their intuition is through thoughts. Sometimes they just have this thought pop-up in their mind, and they have no idea where it came from, but perhaps it's a really crystal-clear idea, or a crystal-clear message that comes to them from the form of thoughts and inspiration. Some people feel like they're having conversations with themselves, because they're answering their own questions. "Should I go to the gym today?" Immediately you get a voice back that's like, "No, you should take a day off, probably rest, and do some active recovery." "Really? I kind of want to go to the gym." "No today's not the day, you should really rest." Then you ignore that, and you go to the gym and you hurt yourself. You're like, "Dammit, I knew it." You just ignored your intuition. If that's how you feel like you get communication, you can practice this communication with an example I just gave, of kind of back-and-forth. It sounds crazy, but you're talking to your intuitive self.
You can also take out a piece of paper. There's something called automatic writing. The easiest way to practice automatic write is to write out a question and immediately write out the answer to that question. That might not make sense at first because you might be very confused and wanting to get the answer to what you're looking for. I would ask that you be open-minded to this, because you might surprise yourself if you remove judgement from it. Learn to create that space to be able to figure things out and trusting what comes up. You might get some pretty clear direction on that. There's been multiple times where my feelings and emotions are just all over the place, because I'm not grounded, that I use this tool to help ground myself.
When it's intuitive it doesn't require thought. Intuition is feeling, your brain is thinking. Don't give room for your brain to talk you in or out of a situation. Simply trust what comes up right away. You can do this for as long as you want. The goal with automatic writing is to really teach you that instead of going outside of yourself, asking your family members, asking a therapist, or anyone else who is not living in your body, life, heart, and brain, tell you what to do with your life. Ask yourself. The biggest thing that comes up for people with is a lot of times when you start to check-in with your intuition it might not match what your life currently looks like. It might require a lot of change. Give yourself the space and freedom, take out a pen and paper, start writing the questions that you are seeking the answers to, and try and get direction on. Also write out the answer and trust whatever comes up. Don't second-guess it.
The other way a lot of people get intuitive information, and this is also another way that I get intuitive information, is through dreams. There's something called lucid dreaming and I've considered this a portal for me. Lucid dreaming is basically where you are dreaming but you're conscious in the dream. If you've ever seen the movie Inception, while parts of the movie are kind of crazy and creepy, that concept is very close to lucid dreaming. It's basically where you can kind of control a dream, you are communicating, and actively participating in a dream, but you're accessing a very deep part of your subconscious that perhaps when you're awake your analytical and your conscious mind keeps you from being able to access. If you have lucid dreams regularly or this is something that you've experienced from time to time, what you can learn to do is participate in them. It's kind of one of those things where you can practice it in meditation, but you also have to open yourself up to the idea of it, and then your subconscious almost starts showing up in your lucid dream to help you with this.
There's been times in lucid dreams where I've had premonitions of things happening, and then in my waking life they've ended up happening. Or I will get very clear messages and information regarding other people in my life that I'm close with, and I share it with them. While it sounds crazy and makes no logical sense to me, it'll make perfect sense to them because this is not about your logical mind it's about your subconscious mind. That's another way that people get communication, and it is not so much about the form of communication, it is more about you discovering what resonates best with you, and then using that to your advantage to consistently check-in.
Now, I will warn you that usually when people start doing this and they start taking the time to sit in stillness with a pen and paper and they're going through this entire process with the intention of developing communication with their intuition. It may feel very overwhelming because:
You may have a lot of emotions and thoughts that have been going on in the background for a very long time that are going to come screaming at you because you've been ignoring it and shoving it down
If that does happen it's okay. Let those emotions be there, work through it, and eventually when you clear out all that inner noise and that mind chatter; it's going to be like someone turned up the volume and now you're really dialed into your intuition.
It can feel a lot like you are learning a foreign language except for you have no translator to tell you what things mean except for yourself.
This definitely has happened to me more as a lot of things have gotten stronger for me.
It can be very frustrating sometimes, because your intuition will speak to you in symbols. Like if the color green means something to you, or a bird, or a song, or a memory, if something has some sort of meaning to you, you might find that it's coming up a lot in your life. You might hear the same song three times in one day that means something about your life, that can be something in the form of communication. Perhaps it's a color. You've been seeing the same color everywhere you look. Look up what that color means. If you've been seeing green it usually represents a lot of different things around healing, around the heart, but it can also represent getting grounded in the earth and your life. Start paying attention to things that are repetitive. Usually, things that are repetitive are a form of communication from your intuition and there is something that it is trying to tell you in that.
The other part of that though is sometimes not quite as simple. Sometimes it's very literal, straight-forward, and to the point. Especially if you aren't getting it. This can be a little crazy feeling because if you've got this repeated thing going on, a repeated song playing over and over and your intuition is over here like, "God, he's is not paying attention. Listen to me. I've sent him six different people that have told him the exact same thing and he refuses to listen." This is the part where it comes screaming at you where usually something in life, and I'm not trying to give you a bad feeling where something is going to happen, but there is something that usually comes up to get you to pay attention. Maybe some stranger comes across the gym and slaps you in the face and is like, "Hey, quit eating sugar. It's ruining your body." Then they walk away, and you never see that stranger again. That's a very ridiculous example, but it could be something like that where your intuition has no choice but to wake you up. It's always better to just take the time and have this kind of communication with your intuition instead of having to experience one of those moments.
A lot of times as well, another way you can kind of gauge this is just ask it. If you're getting all kinds of symbols and things that you're like, "I feel like I am learning six different languages and I have no idea what any of it means." It's fine, don't go ask your three best friends and your family what it means, because they have no idea. Sit down with that pen and paper and write the question, or just sit in stillness and say, "You keep showing me the color red. I've looked it up, what it means doesn't really resonates with me. Can you please explain to me what the color red means and why I keep seeing it everywhere?" Sit and be open and something will come up for you. Maybe it's just a symbolism of love and letting you know that you're loved. Maybe it's letting you know that love is coming in. Maybe it's about passion, getting back to what you're really passionate about, and pursuing that instead of pursuing things that leave you feeling empty, bored, and lifeless.
Most of the time when we're talking to people and going through different things in life, here's the thing, it's not that you don't know what you want to do or that you don't know what you want. You know exactly what you want to do, and you know exactly what you want. It's just that when you check-in with yourself and your intuition, you may not necessarily like the answers or the things you have to do in order to get that. That has happened to me, it happens to all of us, it is not a fun time, and normally what we do is, "Hey, so this is what I want in my relationship and that's not what I'm in. What should I do?" Please don't take this as my advice to you, I'm just giving an example first of all. So, we check-in and we're like, we're in this zone man, we're Zen. We're deep-breathing and our body feels great. "Hi intuition, I'm really not sure if I'm in the right relationship. This is what my heart wants, and we have all these qualities, things, and ideas that we want, but this is what I'm in. What do I do?" Your intuition says, "Dear loved one, what you should do is stop trying to change things in people outside of yourself. First, give yourself that love that you're seeking and stop blaming everybody else that you don't have it. Then once you practice that love with yourself and you know what it feels like with yourself, then open yourself up to the possibility that maybe you can have that with somebody else. Maybe it's not with the person that you're with." That's the answer we get. What do we do then though? "Dear intuition, I'm not really sure what to do with my relationship." You know why? Because it would require you to take responsibility and give all the love you're seeking outside, within yourself, but then it would also require you to stop controlling, manipulating, or blaming other people AND it would put you in a place of having to open up to the idea of maybe what you want is not going to come from what you currently have. You might have to let go in order to have that. This happens all the time. We tell everybody, "I don't know what to do. I keep trying to find the answers." It's pretty clear, you just might not be liking what you're getting.
However, if you're not liking what you're getting, just keep checking-in, you're going to keep getting the same answers, eventually you're going to stop fighting it, but don't let the response you're getting keep you from developing that communicating and developing that relationship with yourself, because you still need to use that in all other areas of your life.
Different ideas of what you can do to practice this stillness, because I know it's hard when you first get into a meditation or a spiritual practice to really even understand how to do that. I want to make it clear that there is no wrong way for you to connect with yourself. There's no award, it doesn't matter how long you sit for. You do whatever feels right to you. Maybe sitting in stillness right now though isn't helpful for you and it's making you so frustrated and you're just creating all this mind chatter that you can't do it. Some other ways that you can get in that space are:
Sometimes music can take people to a different mental and emotional space
Being out in nature
Nature is very grounding
I mean leaving your phone and your headphones in the car and actually being out in nature
Writing and Journaling
There's a lot of different ways you can do this. All that matters is that it is something that brings you completely to the present moment, and it kind of turns off your analytical mind and your brain. It lets you connect with yourself. Whatever that is, that is the right way to do that for you. Keep that in mind, don't worry about how long it is. All that I want you to worry about is:
Does this feel right to me?
Does this get me in a place where I truly feel connected to myself so I can trust the answers that are coming up?
That brings me to my next point and probably one of the last points. How do you tell if it's your intuition, wishful thinking, or if I'm just making this stuff up in my head? Here's a couple of things that I use for myself and that you can use for yourself as well:
Your intuition is not emotionally charged
Very neutral
You're thinking with your brain instead of your intuition (feeling)
This is because your intuition is the part of you that's connected to the past. Any kind of trauma, resentment, whatever it might be it just is. When a message comes up that feels almost neutral, gentle, and just like a soft nudge, that more than likely is your intuition. If it's your brain it's a lot analyzing, thinking, justifying, and convincing.
I always tell people if you start to down the road of convincing yourself, convincing yourself it's the right job, person, thing for you, you're talking and talking and trying to make it make sense, it's not right. It's pretty easy. If you've got to convince yourself of it, it's not right. That's not your intuition. You already know the answer is no, you're just trying to make it seem like it's right because of other people's opinions, maybe you're scared, whatever it might be. That's one thing you can tell the difference between your intuition and your brain. When it's your intuition you just know. As cliche as it sounds, people say that all the time. Whereas your brain will try to explain it and try to tell everybody else about it to get them onboard. That's not how your intuition works. Intuition is neutral, it's not emotionally charged.
The other thing is intuition is a feeling. If you do the automatic writing thing and you try the Q&A, this is crazy but I actually notice I do this too, when I'm doing Q&A for myself and I can't tell whether it's my brain or my intuition, I'm not kidding but without even trying, when I'm functioning and giving myself answers from my intuition, I will write out things like, "I feel like this is the direction I need to head, and it really feels like this is where I need to go." When I'm functioning from my brain, I will write out things like, "I think I should try this and the direction might be to try this." I'm doing a lot of thinking, trying, and figuring out when it's my brain. When it's my intuition all I write out are things about feeling. If you try the exercise of the Q&A, that can be a good indicator as well.
Honestly the more you practice this, the more you're going to know. The more you're going to realize when it's your ego and your brain working and when it's your intuition. Keep with it. What it's like is a brand-new relationship. You have to learn yourself, how you communicate, how your intuition gives you signals, symbols, red flags, and green lights. You can't communicate in a new relationship one day a month and expect it to awesome, thriving, and everything that you want it to be. You have to show up, be present, and be willing every single day. It might start out that you have a five-minute practice in the morning and five minutes at night of doing this practice. However, what you will find out is as you continue to this, it's almost like you will end up needing it more and more.
I always use workout and fitness as my analogies because it's something that is very relatable for people of understanding the concept. It's kind of like that. The first day you work out it might be a little bit of a struggle. You hate it, your body hurts, your lungs are burning, and you might feel like you're going to die. That might be how it feels the first day, week, however long. The more you stick with it though and you see how much better you feel, how much lighter you feel, and you have more energy, and your body just feels cleaner, you become almost addicted to it in a healthy way though. It becomes a craving; you just can feel and know when you haven't moved in a while and you need to go exercise. It's the same way that your intuition works. It might be a little rough in the beginning. You might feel totally clueless and almost stupid with what you're doing, but when you stick with it, that will be the thing that you come back to regularly as your place for answers and for grounding. You may even realize that some of the things in your life don't actually fit anymore, because now you're no longer functioning from everybody else's answers for your life. You're totally functioning from the answers that you're getting for your own life, and you might have to make some changes. Ultimately though, this is how you discover your intuition. Shut out all the noise outside of yourself and spend time inside, figuring out what the heck is going on with you internally. The more you do that, the more you will start to hear it overtime. That volume, that frequency, all of that will get turned up and fine-tuned.
Hopefully this helps you! I really appreciate all of the response I've gotten about this podcast. My whole goal with this is to inspire and help you with learning to connect more to yourself. That way you can really connect more to your life and show up and live this life in every area as the most authentic, genuine, and happiest version of yourself. All of that starts within!
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SupplyStack raises €5 million to continue expansion in Europe
Antwerp, April 6th 2019 - SupplyStack announces the closing of its series A funding round of €5 million, led by Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen and Mainport Innovation Fund and existing investor Fortino Capital. SupplyStack delivers an easy-to-integrate and flexible visibility solution that monitors transport orders in real-time. "SupplyStack helps supply chain and customer service departments to contribute to a better customer experience and overall supply chain collaboration. With this new funding in place, we can tap into new European markets and go after our ultimate goal: turning the supply chain into a competitive differentiator and putting the end customer first", explains Nick Poels, CEO of SupplyStack.
Visibility and collaboration
SupplyStack announces the closing of its series A funding round of €5 million, led by Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen and Mainport Innovation Fund and existing investor Fortino Capital. SupplyStack launched its software in 2013 with the goal of helping B2B organisations obtain supply chains that are predictive, data-driven, deeply automated and continuously optimizing for business returns and environmental impact. The SupplyStack interface uses visibility and collaboration as a core capability to drive transport execution and automate work where possible. "It's our mission to remove friction in the supply chain. We bring users, systems and data together to offer end-to-end, real-time transport visibility that drives outcomes", states Poels.
Last year, SupplyStack was recognized as a notable vendor by Gartner in the 'European Context for Transportation Management System'. Currently, numerous leaders in the industry, including Sony, Umicore, DHL, Duracell and Atlas Copco, are using SupplyStack to accomplish their transport management. Transportation management systems (TMS) are becoming less expensive and easier to own. Now, companies of any size can get in the game. "As we evangelise customer centricity to our customers, it's our duty to practise what we preach. We want to provide an exceptional user experience so users don't simply adopt SupplyStack. They have to love it because it's effortless and intuitive."
Supply chain as a competitive advantage
For today's companies a competitive operation cost is key but according to SupplyStack a customer-centric supply chain is what should be the strategic business priority. As B2C experiences are influencing B2B expectations – also known as "The Amazon Effect" - the current supply chain systems are under pressure. According to Gartner, 75% of B2B organizations have immature capabilities when it comes to customer experience management. As customer retention is cheaper than acquisition, actively investing in customer satisfaction offers great value.
"In general, corporate customer experience is managed by the sales and marketing departments, in spite of the fact that the supply chain plays a key role in the customer journey. Organisations should realise that a late delivery can disrupt or disappoint and that an expedited delivery can delight or save a life. Putting the customer first will turn your supply chain into a competitive advantage", explains Poels.
LogTech is the new FinTech
The investment is a testimony to how quickly the logistics technology sector is growing. The industry is experiencing an influx of venture capital and new companies that has never been experienced before. "Logistic technology venture capital investments have seen rapid growth for the past few years. It's an industry that has been historically slow-moving: using spreadsheets, emails, and phone calls. This is rapidly changing now: LogTech is becoming what FinTech was 10 years ago", states Poels.
"The last few years have been fantastic. Together with our clients, we are building the technology, growing the team and finding our unique spot," says Poels. "We're really motivated to give supply chain and customer service professionals true satisfaction by providing them with the tools to be successful in their everyday job. It's time to co-create a new normal within the transportation management industry."
This new round of investment will allow SupplyStack to expand further in the countries in which they are already present, not to mention tapping into new European markets.
Fortino Capital is investing in SupplyStack for the second time. "We have supported the management team over the past three years and are excited to assist them during the next phase of further scaling-up their company. The team has the skills and focus to drive digitalisation in the logistics sector, and deliver a more efficient supply chain to its clients," says Steven De Troyer, Investment Director at Fortino Capital.
"We strongly believe in SupplyStack, not only because their technology delivers freight cost savings for the customer, but also because SupplyStack puts customer focus and customer information at the heart of its business", explains Isabelle Tennstedt, Senior Investment Manager at Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen. "That is exactly what determines whether a company can distinguish itself from the competition in a digital age."
SupplyStack can also count on support from the Netherlands with investments from Mainport Innovation Fund (Schiphol, KLM, the Port of Amsterdam, NS and TU Delft). "This is the first time we're investing in a Belgian start-up. The growth that SupplyStack has been able to achieve in only a few years' time is impressive, along with the fact that SupplyStack - instead of other established software providers - earned the trust of large organisations to support them in their logistics operations", says Thijs Gitmans, Fund Manager at Mainport Innovation Fund.
About SupplyStack
SupplyStack delivers an easy-to-integrate and flexible visibility solution that monitors transport orders in real-time in order to facilitate collaboration, drive execution and automates work where possible. Currently, numerous leaders in the industry, including Sony, Umicore, DHL, Duracell and Atlas Copco, are using SupplyStack to accomplish their logistics and transport management. In 2018, SupplyStack was recognized as a notable vendor by Gartner in their 'European Context for Transportation Management System'. www.supplystack.com
About Fortino Capital
Fortino Capital invests in small and medium-sized businesses with growth potential, across Europe with a focus on Benelux. Fortino Capital believes in the potential of visionary entrepreneurs with a focus on technology, E-commerce and digital transformation. Fortino Capital brings a strengthening of capital, expertise and experience in the areas of innovation, strategy and growth. For more information: fortino.be
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Knock On Wood Lucky In The KZN Breeders Million Mile
September 11, 2012 | Written by: admin
It was an emotional win for breeder George Rowles of Ivanhoe Stud as Knock On Wood took charge and flew to victory, winning the inaugural KZN Breeders Million Mile for owners, father and son Ormond and David Ferraris. Knock On Wood's previous start in the Gr 3 Jubilee Handicap saw him place 5th by 4.75 lengths behind Eton Square earlier in June.
The Scott Brothers were on hand to present George with the Des And Robin Scott Floating Trophy, which will see George Rowles being the first inscription for the inaugural Million Mile. Robin Scott presented the trophy to George Rowles and gave a very moving speech, particularly with the great history Ivanhoe and Scott Bros have contributed to South African racehorse breeding. It must be mentioned that Paul Hart, who will be going to the London Olympics will be riding a horse sired by George Rowles' stallion, Rocky Marriage.
Knock On Wood has now had 15 starts with 5 wins and 5 places – and with this win takes his earnings from R303 000 to R928 000. A 2009 Sibaya Yearling Sale graduate consigned by Ivanhoe Stud, he fetched R140 000 at the sale. His dam, Kiss Me Kate, has produced four runners and four winners, the last being an unraced two year old filly by Opera King named Katarina. From her four foals, they have produced 15 wins between them. Knock On Wood is a half-brother to Kismet and King William. An incredibly strong dam-line, this is the immediate family of Variety Club, Rhythmically, Secret Rites, Novenna and Monastery.
Coming off the false-rail, The Mouseketeer looked like he was going to hold on, but the four year old bay gelding by Muhtafal out of Kiss Me Kate (by Rocky Marriage/Northern Guest/Hobnob) took charge of the pack coming up the straight, with Black Wing trying to surge up, and held on for a 3/4 length second with last year's KZN Breeder 1600 winner, The Mouseketeer not far behind him. The winning jockey was Bernard Fayd'Herbe, with Knock On Wood trained by Ormond Ferraris.
As always it was an outstanding day in Durban with the Stewards Room booked out for the KZN Breeders' Race Day function, with a fantastic atmosphere that contained a lot of energy and excitement. Thank you must go to Koos De Klerk, Linda Norval and Keith Russon for organising an outstanding day and a sumptuous lunch. Following the Durban July theme of a Material World in order to bring awareness to the environment, a lot of florals were on display and Vibeke and Mike Meehan won Best Dressed Couple for the afternoon.
A tarot-card reader and a photobooth provided much fun and entertainment for the guests which included Tom Callaghan of the TBA, Roy Moodley and ex-Top Sport TV presenter Martin Locke amongst many of the guests and fellow breeders. A silent auction was well supported and raised a great deal of money for charity.
An added incentive was provided by the KZN Breeders Association and the chairman Koos De Klerk presented the first, second and third horses owners' of each race, a redeemable voucher against the purchase of a KZN-bred registered yearling at the upcoming sale on Thursday and Friday – a great start to get involved in purchasing a KZN-bred with the chance to win the Triple Million Challenge.
The horses have moved into the venue at Suncoast and the yearling inspections begin from Monday.
Congratulations to George Rowles on a deserved win from the KZN Breeders, as well as to all the winning connections with horses on our KZN Breeders race day.
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Dessert wine comes in many styles. There's late-harvest wines that are produced with noble rot, fortified wines that are high-alcohol wines due to the addition of spirits and much more. Though bolder wines like Cabernet tend to dominate the state, California does have a sweeter side.
Want to learn more about the different styles of dessert wine? Read the wine facts about the sweetest wines.
Chateau St. Jean: Chateau St. Jean has a late-harvest Riesling that's been affected by noble rot. A private, tailored tasting ($50) will allow you to customize your preference toward the sweeter side.
Heitz: This is your chance to taste wine in the style of Portugal's most famous export. The Heitz Ink Grade Port, made from a traditional blend of Portuguese grapes including Touriga Nacional and Tinta Roriz, was introduced in 1994.
Joseph Phelps: The Eisrebe ($55) is an iteration of "ice wine," the dessert wine style commonly made in cold climates, where grapes freeze on the vine at the end of harvest. Joseph Phelps picks Scheurebe grapes late in the season, then freezes them in a lab to concentrate sugar levels. Eisrebe is a play off of eiswein, the German word for ice wine, and the name of the Scheurebe grape.
Stony Hill: Look for the limited-availability Semillon de Soleil ($30), which is an Italian-inspired approach to dessert wine. The fruit is picked when ripe then laid out in the sun for about two weeks, which dehydrates the grapes and concentrates the sugars. Stony Hill recommends pairing this wine with fruity desserts or aged cheeses.
Far Niente/Dolce: Far Niente has a sister label specifically dedicated to dessert wine. Aptly named Dolce, the late-harvest wine is made in the model of Sauternes, a blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon affected by noble rot.
Frank Family Vineyards: Here, you have two options for sweet wines: the nutty, chocolaty Zinfandel Port ($65) and a late-harvest Chardonnay ($100) that is botrytized and tastes like nectar.


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