An Englishman born in Highbury, London in 1926, George Martin had a profound passion and interest in music from the age of six, which was influenced by his parents when they bought a piano for their house. He would later work for Electrical Musical Industries, taking role as the head of Parlophone Records and acting as a producer for the label.
As a composer, producer, and musician, George Martin became an influential figure in the shape and form of music during the 1960's. His work, being most popularly associated with helping the rock band group, "The Beatles," aided in introducing their talent in a groundbreaking manner and them all much critical success. Their image was shaped from being a typical boy band, to being an important and influential group of the rock n' roll music genre.
"Please Please Me" was their first album aided by Martin and exposed them to the aspects of creating music, and the encouragement of their separation from the amateur style they originally used. The group made a transition from writing and recording short songs to experimenting with different combinations of sounds and tape arrangements in the studio.
When the Beatles began to have greater access to instruments that allowed for these combinations, Martin expanded upon the sounds that were possible from this grouping, often twisting the recorded tapes to high speeds and playing them backwards or overlaid with new sounds.
Martin's production talents began to achieve new heights when it began to seem as if he was under the hazy atmosphere that the Beatles invoked, bursting of tranquility and novelty. People soon began to admire his techniques and identified uncommon aspects that existed in the recordings, which were characteristic of his ideas and aid with the band.
Their universally accepted magnum opus, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," could not have achieved such a seminal and loved status without the help of Martin. In particular, the songs, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "A Day in the Life" shaped the way rock and roll was perceived in the public due to their innovative dubs by Martin during mixing.
While "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" stretched a psychedelic headspace over the public, "A Day in the Life" demonstrated Martin's composition of the orchestral arrangements that were present in the song, and his premier quality level was evident in nearly every bridge of it.
The result of Martin's sound with the Beatles was not limited to just the band. Artists in the rock genre such as the group "Nirvana," used similar recording techniques to influence the genre even more, citing Beatles albums specifically. The way production in other genres is ordered is an effect on how Martin very precisely achieved a sound to give the songs more meaning and organization; songs are separated by bridges and bars to allow a specific sound to be heard during that part of the song.
It was not just a sense of how a song sounded, but how it was arranged, composed, organized, split, and formulated. Specifically regarding rap and trap music, the process of taking apart a song to add effects and overlays of voices was popularized by Martin and used to great critical success. Producers such as Kanye West and Earl Sweatshirt have used this technique extensively, though, if they may be unaware of its origins in regards to the prime era that Martin created.
Martin was therefore one of the greatest producers to have ever lived and his production work will nonetheless continue to impact arising groups and musicians, if they observe his musical bravura.


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What a realistic solution to Myanmar's Rakhine State crisis might look like
Hunter Marston
The Bangladesh-Myanmar agreement is only the first step on a long road to restoring stability in Rakhine State.
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, December 2017 (Photo: Catholic Diocese of Saginaw/Flickr)
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Myanmar and Bangladesh recently announced an agreement for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh to return to Myanmar. After Pope Francis visited both countries last week, international attention has again focused on chances of a breakthrough to this crisis – envisioning how a peaceful, negotiated solution might look is an urgent task.
While the details of the deal remain hazy, a few basic facts have emerged. The agreement builds on a memorandum signed between the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh following a similar Rohingya refugee crisis in 1992-3. Myanmar has agreed to resettle refugees in temporary camps, protect their freedom of movement and issue identity cards to those who can prove they previously resided in the country. But as Luke Hunt notes, the requirements to prove residency are unrealistically stringent: people chased out of burning homes and forced to flee violence, often without any supplies, will find it all but impossible to provide paperwork to prove they or their kin lived in Myanmar.
Besides, the agreement is only the first step on the long road to restoring stability in Rakhine State. Myanmar will have to make genuine political concessions to ensure peace. The military must drastically reduce the scope of its 'clearance operations' and the police provide security for vulnerable Rakhine and Rohingya alike - all of which should be monitored by a neutral, international third party, ideally the UN. The military's decision to replace the head of Western Command (responsible for Rakhine State) is a small step in the right direction. But much more change is required to educate police in the importance of preventing violence and protecting civilian populations in conflict zones. Allowing UN 'blue helmets' access to critical areas in Rakhine State can ensure further accountability. While that may be anathema to the Myanmar military, or Tatmadaw, it may be the only palatable compromise to avoid further international condemnation.
The international community's role
Washington has expressed support for the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi and decried the military's complicity in crimes against humanity. Shortly after returning from his trip to Myanmar, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced the US would label the violence in Rakhine State as 'ethnic cleansing,' a term that stops short of genocide, which would necessitate international action. Nonetheless, Tillerson made it clear the US is considering targeted sanctions against members of the Tatmadaw proven to have a role in atrocities committed in Rakhine.
US policymakers have repeatedly urged Aung San Suu Kyi to follow through on her commitments to implement the recommendations of the international commission on Rakhine State that was led by former UN chief Kofi Annan. This includes repatriating and resettling all Rohingya pushed into neighboring Bangladesh, and charting a clear path for them to obtain citizenship (which many held prior to the 1982 citizenship law and 1983 census, which effectively excluded Rohingya). But for all its rhetorical gestures, Washington has yet to detail a clear Myanmar policy.
Beijing recently proposed a three-step solution to the crisis. According to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the first stage should be a ceasefire to restore order, the second strengthening exchanges between Myanmar and Bangladesh to solve the issue, and the third involving international help to develop Rakhine. Such a solution may sound simplistic, but a return to first principles is now in order. Clearly development alone does not hold all the answers. As I've written before, Myanmar's societal problems will require decades of education and slow-changing shifts in cultural attitudes to resolve.
Any near-term solution is required to ensure peace and basic human security for hundreds of thousands affected by the violence. Bangladesh now hosts the bulk of the Rohingya population internationally, having taken in more than 600,000 refugees fleeing atrocities in Rakhine State. Myanmar will need to take a more active approach toward possible policy solutions - while domestic Buddhist nationalism and support for the military's campaign against the Rohingya is widespread, the government (and military) must realise that the crisis is now an international one. Regional instability has already undermined international investment and provoked fierce criticism from countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia. Myanmar must do something to ameliorate the situation if it is to maintain regional support for its democratic and economic reforms.
Envisioning peace
What would a realistic solution look like? For starters, it will need to guarantee security to vulnerable populations in Rakhine, and not just Rohingya. Rakhine Buddhists also need to be assured they will be safe from attacks by Muslim groups (an underreported but extremely potent concern inside Myanmar). That means allowing some independent monitors in Rakhine who can also serve as a check on the military's heretofore brutal counterinsurgency tactics. Second, a compromise deal will need to eventually allow the reintegration of these two estranged communities, as separation will only make future conflict more likely. Finally, a solution will need to guarantee the Myanmar government that international humanitarians or foreign agents will not intervene in domestic affairs, a perennial fear of Myanmar's military.
Given Myanmar's paranoia about foreign meddling, the two sides should continue talks directly with the goal of a compromise agreement on how to manage almost one million people displaced by violence since 2012. Bangladesh should also engage countries such as Pakistan, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia, already home to many diaspora Rohingya. Together they can seek out resettlement alternatives to Rohingya unwilling to return to Myanmar due to fears surrounding their safety, or for other reasons, or those barred by the Myanmar government's stringent repatriation process.
The international community, including China, can help to damp down ethnic tensions by urging Myanmar and Bangladesh to continue talks, with the goal of an end to bloodshed and the peaceful return of those displaced by violence. Global partners can also lend more humanitarian assistance to refugees in Bangladesh and support reconstruction in Rakhine State.
But first, restoring stability in Rakhine State will require stakeholders to think about the big picture and engage in dialogue.
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Per my battery widget my discharge rate is 1% per 10-11 minutes. It was 1% per 21 minutes 2 days ago. Nothing significant has changed since then. This happened a few days ago and doing the wipe cache partition seemed to correct it. Not this time. What gives?
Sounds like a rouge app running or something syncing way too often...my battery drains at less than 1% when I leave it on overnight and don't touch it, and I have Google sync, a Comcast email, facebook, twitter, Kik messenger, and weather all doing things. Have you installed any apps lately? Have you checked your running processes?
nothing different that I can think of, no odd apps running.
Did any of the apps got updates?
Last week Photo Grid app got updated and started devouring battery even after force closed - it finished my battery from 100% to 7% in 5 hours.
You didn't mention this in your OP - what does the battery history screen shows? What eats all the power?
Sounds like that might have been the culprit - it was probably constantly polling.
All of a sudden my battery stats are only up to date from the last reboot instead of the last full charge.
This is in the native battery meter and GSAM pro. In the GSAM pro I checked the settings and it is supposed monitor since the last full charge, which is how it's always worked, but now all of a sudden it isn't.
Anybody know how to fix?
No. That isn't happening with my phone. Are you sure that it's getting a full charge?
Yes, I even rebooted my phone 2 more times since and it is resetting every time. And with GSAM, it seems to be linking to the native battery monitor now because I have the settings to track it since the last full charge.
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By Josh Levenson	 December 1, 2019 12:13PM PST
Black Friday might now be in our rear-view, but there's no shortage of quality soundbar deals continuing over the weekend in advance of Cyber Monday. Specifically, everything from home-theater-in-a-box bundles to standalone flagships — all from the likes of Bose, Roku, and even Sonos — have been discounted, so there's bound to be something out there that will tickle your fancy.
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The training is set to be attended by Judges assigned outside the National Capital Judicial Region (NCJR). To date, the Supreme Court and DOJ-OOC have trained more than 60 Judges, most of whom are assigned in the NCJR.


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BLET NEWS FLASH BLET mails ballots for Tentative National Agreement
by Cesar Damian | Nov 9, 2017 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, November 9 — Balloting has begun for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen's (BLET) tentative national agreement with the National Carriers' Conference Committee, which governs rates of pay, benefits and work rules for over 25,000 locomotive engineers and trainmen.
On November 9, 2017, ballots, instructions, and a synopsis of the agreement were mailed to locomotive engineer members working for the following railroads:
• Belt Railway Company of Chicago;
• BNSF Railway Company;
• Consolidated Rail Corporation;
• CSX Transportation, Inc.;
• Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company;
• Kansas City Southern Railway Company (including Kansas City Southern Railway, Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, MidSouth Rail Corporation, Gateway Western Railway, SouthRail Corporation, and Texas Mexican Railway Company);
• Longview Switching Company;
• Norfolk Southern Railway Company;
• Portland Terminal Railroad Company;
• Soo Line Railroad Company;
• Union Railroad Company;
• Union Pacific Railroad Company; and
• Winston Salem Southbound Railway Company.
Ballots, instructions, and a synopsis of the agreement also were mailed to conductor and trainmen members working for the Texas Mexican Railway Company.
Voting will conclude on Thursday, November 30. Members who have not received a ballot by Wednesday, November 15, should request a replacement by calling the BLET National Division at (216) 241-2630, ext. 222. When connected with the extension, please leave the following information:
• your name, address and phone number;
• the division to which you belong;
• the railroad for which you work;
• the date you were promoted to locomotive engineer;
• your date of birth; and
• the last four digits of your Social Security number.
Members also have the option of leaving their e-mail address if they wish their ballot, instructions and synopsis e-mailed to them instead of receiving it via first-class mail. However, e-mail requests for ballots will not be accepted because personal information is required to verify eligibility before a ballot can be issued.
BLET National President Dennis R. Pierce encouraged all eligible members to closely review the ratification packet and other materials being made available online. "This has been a particularly difficult bargaining round and your Advisory Board recommends that you vote YES on the proposal before you," President Pierce said. "Voting on your union contract and deciding your own future is one of the benefits of belonging to a Union. I encourage all eligible members to become educated on the issues and to participate in this most important process of union democracy."
The BLET reached the Tentative National Agreement as part of a coalition with five other unions. The Coordinated Bargaining Group (CBG) is comprised of: the American Train Dispatchers Association; the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (a Division of the Rail Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters); the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen; the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers; the National Conference of Firemen and Oilers / SEIU; and the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers. Collectively, the CBG unions represent more than 85,000 railroad workers covered by the various organizations' national agreements, and comprise over 58% of the workforce that will be impacted by the outcome of the current bargaining round.


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Kaaboo Del Mar was back again this past weekend. Did you have a chance to get out this year? I had a lucky chance to go on Sunday and I made the most of it! Check out the fun food tasting, interviews, and cocktails plus amazing art from our Sunday at Kaaboo. Left Shark was awesome!
Don't Be a Chicken - Dress like a cow for free food!
We had so much fun at KyXy Slumber Party 2018! Check out photos from the event above, and see a more complete gallery on our Facebook Page here!


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Was Oxford a Good Poet?
2020 is the 100th anniversary of Looney's book Shakespeare Identified. Hearts aflutter, Oxies are busy tooling up to celebrate as if their man was the Bard himself.
They instigated the SI100 Programme at this year's Ashland conference where they shared out all sorts of Apostolic Activities amongst themselves to spread the faith.
You have to wonder if any of them have actually read it. In his desperate attempts to link Oxford's work with Shakespeare's, Looney '"finds" a wealth of figurative language' in passages bereft of figures of speech, while praising the 'terse genius' he appears to detect in Oxford's rambling prose. He claims:
"our case will either stand or fall" as readers are convinced that De Vere's poetry does in fact "contain the natural seed and clear promise" of Shakespeare's verse ..."
Now the subject of Shakespearean quality in Oxford's verse is a frightening spectre for the Hedingham tribe. Our own sniper platoon has been starved of opportunities for a clean shot on this central claim of Looney's. Fans of the Earl will almost never discuss his poetical works. They fall back on two tactics. They either invite the unwary to join them in an assumption of Shakespearean quality, as Roger Stritmatter did when pontificating about the work of Edward Dyer, or they claim that Oxford's published poetry is all juvenilia (usually misspelt juvenalia—they all read the same inaccurate Oxfordian tracts).
The consequences of Stritmatter's venturesome assessment of 'My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is' were Dyer indeed. When challenged to discern the Shakespearean qualities which he claimed were obvious to anyone as clever and well-read as he was, our Roger simply vanished like the Cheshire Cat. Not a discernible Shakespearean quality anywhere. Not wishing to press the point too hard, we gave up the chase after he had run away from the issue 15 times. In recording his many exits, we did no more than make a large feature article of his failure to reply, with a few small but entirely justified visual aids. We try to restrain ourselves from referring to it more than twice a week.
That was just over two years ago.
In the intervening months we have tried again and again to elicit more discussion of the Shakespearean qualities in Oxford's, or even Shakespeare's, verse. Something seems, however, to have made them apprehensive about addressing what Stritmatter pejoratively calls 'aesthetic issues'.
In The American Libraries Association Magazine, Oxfordian Michael Dudley, himself a librarian, had the opportunity to review the forthcoming First Folio Tour, organised by The Folger Library for the 400 anniversary celebrations in 2016. After some non-partisan discussion of the tour and its significance, Dudley took the opportunity to beg for an Oxfordian seat on the bus. The article came with a comments section and very soon there was a merry discussion going on.
It didn't go well.
The first disastrous reverse was yet another Stritmatter own goal. Keen to display a new Oxfordian trinket, the SAQ's own version of Baldy Pevsner claimed that William Basse worked for a relative of the Earl. Jumping swiftly to his conclusion, assuming everyone would join him, he announced that Basse's eulogy was therefore part of the cover-up of the identity of the true author. Just this one slight biographical detail, he claimed, constituted an "overwhelming preponderance of evidence". He fell over so badly in the attempt to defend this proposition, we've discretely covered it in a separate article here. Then, to our amazement, this appeared. An announcement of Shakespearean quality in Oxford's verse!
Michael Dudley: For anyone who doubts or disparages Edward de Vere's writing for being non-Shakespearean, I would refer them to his poem "Women's Changeableness" (http://www.elizabethanauthors.... which Oxford's discoverer J. Thomas Looney realized resembled the style of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. The first stanzas read:
If women could be fair and yet not fond,
Or that their love were firm, not fickle still,
I would not marvel that they make men bond
By service long to purchase their good will;
But when I see how frail those creatures are,
I laugh that men forget themselves so far.
To mark the choice they make, and how they
change, How oft from Phoebus do they flee to Pan;
Unsettled still, like haggards wild they range,
These gentle birds that fly from man to man;
Who would not scorn and shake them from the fist,
And let them fly, fair fools, which way they list?
Looney realized -- as many of you who are familiar with Shakespeare may as well -- that this poem is remarkably Shakespearean. Note the references to classical mythology (e.g., Juliet wishing the sun to go to "Phoebus' lodging") the easy and familiar use of legal terminology (bond and purchase) the metaphoric use of hawking - an aristocratic sport - and the "frailness" of women -- as Hamlet said, "Frailty thy name is woman"; women are compared to "haggards" -- wild, untamed hawks -- something Othello does as well ("If I do prove her haggard")…I'm not sure how much more Shakespearan (sic) two stanzas of poetry could possibly be!
"I'm not sure how much more Shakespearean two stanzas of poetry could possibly be!" cries Dudley.
Well, the least, little resemblance would be a start.
In the recent 'doubter' publication "30 second Shakespeare" edited by Ros Barber, a Marlovian, there is a chapter devoted to the strength of Shakespeare's women. Will wrote strong determined women, witty intelligent women, noble leaders and tarts with hearts. It's not, therefore, unfair to conclude that he liked women.
If you look at this poet's sentiments, in the first verse, you can see a man who deprecates the whole sex. The poet has no specific grievances, nor any evidence of a recent falling out nor disastrous argument. No painful disagreement, no complaints about desertion, no open wound from a cutting remark, all of which are easy to find in the sonnets. This poet isn't addressing an individual female, he's listing his complaints about the whole gender.
By the penultimate line, he is positively scornful. He's doesn't share Will's appreciation of the fair sex. In fact he laughs at men who do.
If this poem were to contain identifiable Shakespearean qualities, we would expect some characteristically well-turned phrase, some intensely compressed thought or some eye-opening expression of an emotion that is unique and illuminating.
This poet can't do it. In fact, this poet writes in clichés. This poet thinks women are 'fickle' and 'frail', 'fond' and 'fair', 'fools' and other things beginning wth 'f'. You will very rarely find a well-used phrase appearing unaltered in Shakespeare's work. Dekker uses the well-worn phrase "looks daggers". Will subverts it to a more writerly "speaks daggers", when he has need of it.
This poem is almost entirely composed of pedestrian thought expressed in a second-rate, unremarkable, unoriginal language.
It is nothing like Shakespeare but it makes a good benchmark as the poet has chosen an image for his last four lines which is a match for one Shakespeare uses in Othello. Haggards are hawks caught from the wild for training and therefore not an unusual choice for an image of untameability and independence. Here are Shakespeare's haggards in Othello.
…If I do prove her haggard,
Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,
I'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,
To prey at fortune…
Compare this to Oxford's lines:
Oxford can't do complex imagery. He struggles even with the simple variety. Here we have an elementary image of birds flying away in whatever direction they choose (with some unShakespearean alliteration). There's nothing uncommon in the expression. Apart from the alliteration and the rhyme, there is hardly anything to distinguish the verse from prose. Oxford shakes his haggard wild and lets them fly. 'Haggards wild' isn't pukka even in the 16c. Gascoigne has this to say about Oxford's poetical construction here:
You shall do very well to use your verse after th nglishe phrase, and not after the maner of other languages: The Latinists do commonly set the adjective after the Substantive: As for example Femina pulchra, ædes altæ, &c. but if we should say in English a woman fayre, a house high, &c. it would have but small grace: for we say a good man, and not a man good, &c.
Artificially poetical 'haggards wild', then. Haggards hackneyed, dull and conventional. Shakespeare whistles them off and lets them down the wind. Different altogether.
The quality of an image relies on the creation of a vivid visual counterpart to the poet's thought. Comparing women to 'haggards wild', as Oxford does with his blunt poetical twist, is no more than a conversational commonplace. It's a simple, misogynistic slur, though perhaps no more than par for the Elizabethan course.
Shakespeare never, ever contents himself with a par score when it comes to expressing important ideas. Shakespeare's haggard image is a fully developed conceit. Will is entirely original where Oxford is hackneyed, entirely personal to Othello where Oxford is conventionally generic, and imaginatively detailed where Oxford is offhand and blank. The meat of the image is one of loving attachment and the effort involved in forcing himself apart from an unfaithful partner. It's a common enough topic but unlike Oxford's generic condemnation, Shakespeare creates an image that develops, like a photograph in dark room tray, each reading enhancing the detail until the high resolution final article is complete. The trailing jesses are clearly visible, the wind palpable. Othello won't simply let Desdemona go. He imagines her down the wind to prey at fortune in a flurry of coloured ribbon in some great, rocky valley or on a wild fenland plain. Having switched on our imaginations, we can finish it off. We can imagine the rest.
The poets are oil and water, chalk and cheese, Bankside professional genius and uptown aristocratic medocrity.
Thank you, Michael Dudley (and Roger), for giving us the opportunity of pointing out the difference.
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Declaration of Reasonable Elimination
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Glove-maker's son?
Is it important?
Were plays written by courtiers?
What makes Oxfordians tick?
Where have all the Oxies gone?
Why is there an authorship 'debate', anyway?
Why pick Oxford?


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We are here early and we have it all to ourselves. It's day 2 of my retreat for the women in my year-long mastermind, here in Glacier National Park in Montana. There is a misty haze over the mountains that surround us and I can't tell where the sky ends and the water begins. Everywhere I look, there is a hue of cerulean so beautiful I'm convinced the most skeptical of beings would believe in the divine after one glimpse.
I hear more screeching as they go deeper into the lake. Their legs and arms break the glass-like illusion on the surface with ripples that go on forever.
Half-joking, half-not, I lean over to one of the women who is still standing next to me in a bathing suit, contemplating whether she wants to go in or not. I ask her, if entering that lake equalled the level of dedication you have to your mission, how would you enter it?
That's all I needed to hear, she says. And now I am watching her run full-force into the frigid waters and dive head-first.
I am smiling big now, half-proud and half-recognizing myself in this passionate, unbridled action.
I would have done the same damn thing, I say to myself, chuckling.
A few seconds later, I say the same thing to woman #2 standing beside me. She's not sure if she should even put on her bathing suit. Looks cold and I don't do well with the cold, I hear her thinking.
She has been battling the demon of fear for the last month. Feeling deeply called to the next level of her calling, but afraid of what others will think.
How do you get over the fear?, she asked me just a few weeks ago on a call.
You don't, I said lovingly, but firmly. You can be led to the water, but no one can make you swim in or drink of the water. It's always up to you whether you drink or go in. And once you do, you'll look back and wonder why you were so afraid in the first place.
how would you enter it?
She wades into the water, hesitantly and finally is waist deep.
I dare you to dunk your whole bodies in the lake!
I am yelling this across the lake as a dare, as their coach, lovingly pushing them to the edge. Wanting them to see that sometimes the uncomfortable things are the most exhilarating.
The human body & soul needs change, needs to experience new edges.
It's the ego that feels fearful of change.
I want them to get this teaching on a whole other level. A visceral one.
To trust the messages from their soul & their bodies even more deeply, even when the ego says, I can't do this, it's too cold, I'm not built for this. Run away.
5 minutes later they are holding hands, wet from head to toe, and emerge shrieking and laughing from their full-bodied dunk under the surface of the water.
That wasn't so bad, woman #2 says to me later. Once I got in, I realized it was actually nice and I could handle a lot more than I thought I could!
Later that night, I found out that the original, indigenous name of this lake was "Lake of Sacred Dancing Waters." The Kootenai tribe performed sacred dancing and singing ceremonies right on the banks where I had stood watching the women with delight.
How perfect, I think to myself, as I close my eyes and drift off into slumber before another day of deep, transformational, leadership work.
I see the ceremonious way the women held hands blessing & washing away their fears with this glacial baptism. I hear the song of their delighted cries as they emerge all anew.
It's a few days later, the retreat is now over and my friend Sara texts me.
I haven't seen her in over 18 years. We were roommates in college and good friends. She looks exactly the same as she did 18 years ago. And her pleasant personality, easygoing nature, and big heart have remained intact.
Want to go on an adventure? I can't tell you what it is yet, but it's with my friend Denver. He's a world-famous biologist! You'll love him. But you'll have to be ready at 8am.
Ugh, I hear my ego say. I am so exhausted after holding the deepest space for the women who came to my retreat. All weekend I weathered projections & fears, clearing myself out repeatedly. All weekend, I held steady for them as the container, while egos were triggered, and old demons came to the surface to be released. For four days, I have watched them rise more into their leadership, come closer together, laugh, cry, & step it up in a big way. I won't lie. I can feel my body reaching its threshold of exhaustion.
I was hoping to sleep in until 10, my ego grumbles. What if I'm pushing myself too hard? And it's going to be 95 degrees today while we are outside. That might be dangerous.
But I know by now to say yes to adventure. Yes to the unknown. Yes to opportunities that may only come around once in a lifetime.
Yes, I text back. I'll be ready.
The next morning, I am traveling in a beat up truck, being driven by a man who was once on the cover of National Geographic, eating cherries, and spitting the pits out the window, with my friend Sara in the backseat.
I imagine all the cherry trees we are giving birth to as we drive towards the Mission Mountains and marvel at the glaciers in their peaks. These mountains were also used to conduct sacred ceremonies by the Salish and Kootenai tribes, long ago.
One day someone will drive through here, looking for the strength to keep going and there will be cherry trees lining this roadway, welcoming their tired hearts.
It is so hot now, Denver says, I don't know if we will get to see any wildlife. Let's hope we do.
If I was an animal, I'd be hiding under a tree by a river by now, I say.
We are driving through the National Bison Range now. I am praying to see a Bison. I've never seen one up close, but I have dreamed about them.
I remember a dream my sister told me once. In that dream, she saw a Wooly Mammoth, and she cried as she walked up to him and touched his matted fur. I knew exactly how she felt. This is how I feel about the Bison. There is something ancient there, something that is asking me to remember an important thing that I forgot.
I want to see a Bison.
I send out my heart's voice like long tendrils into the yellowed-grass hills.
Come to me, brother Bison. Come to me, please.
Just a few minutes later, we spot one. Just 8 feet away. Hiding behind the grass.
He is a big one. His nose is the size of my head. Half of his fur is missing, a natural process that occurs during the summer to endure the heat.
I jump out of my car.
I want to cry and laugh all at the same time.
My voice grows thick with awe and emotion.
Then, we are seeing so many of them. A mother with two calves. Entire families resting by the river. Two males engaged in a battle of dominance.
And suddenly, I remember what I forgot.
As a totem animal, the bison is a symbol of enduring strength and abundance. I read this on my phone as we drive past the Flathead River for one last goodbye. We are far away from the Bison now.
I close my eyes to feel the hot sauna-like wind on my face. The slight sunburn on my arms.
I see that Bison in my mind's eye. Walking slowly across the plane. Sun beating down. Breathing heavily. Enduring and pushing ahead with such strength and grace.
Doing what needs to be done because it is his mission. Because it is his sacred calling.
Discomfort is not something he runs from. He moves forward, despite fear, despite discomfort, despite the risk.
He does it because that is how he is built.
That is how we are built.
We were built to endure discomfort for the greater calling of the soul.
We were build to handle so much more than our ego thinks it can handle.
We were built to handle it with grace.
And that is when the path to abundance opens up.
A few days prior I took most of the women in my mastermind to see Wonder Woman. As we are walking out of the movie theatre with wonder and power in our eyes, I tell them the story of Gal Gadot. She was just about to quit acting for good, when she got the part of Wonder Woman.
Most people give up or stop taking risks right before the world opens up to them.
We must be willing to endure some discomfort to get what we want.
If the Bison only ever chooses to stay comfortable, it dies.
I am canoeing across Flathead Lake now. There is a kind man who likes my curly, messy hair, rowing me in his kayak as we talk about spirituality and our favorite books. His open blue eyes draw me in as he tells me the story of his life, the pain he has endured, and all he has overcome.
And now I am surrounded by people with wide, alive eyes, drinking margaritas, and dancing. Little universes with stories of pain and triumph, spinning around, seeking connection.
I am twirling and twirling in my long dress in the middle of the floor.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Text;
using IrcD.Channel;
using IrcD.Commands;
using IrcD.Commands.Arguments;
using IrcD.Core.Utils;
using IrcD.Modes;
using IrcD.Modes.ChannelModes;
using IrcD.Modes.ChannelRanks;
using IrcD.Modes.UserModes;
using IrcD.ServerReplies;
using IrcD.Tools;
using Mode = IrcD.Commands.Mode;
using Version = IrcD.Commands.Version;

namespace IrcD.Core
{

    public class IrcDaemon
    {
        public const string ServerCrLf = "\r\n";
        const char PrefixCharacter = ':';
        const int MaxBufferSize = 2048;

        // Main Datastructures
        public Dictionary<Socket, UserInfo> Sockets { get; } = new Dictionary<Socket, UserInfo>();

        public Dictionary<string, ChannelInfo> Channels { get; } = new Dictionary<string, ChannelInfo>();

        public Dictionary<char, ChannelType> SupportedChannelTypes { get; } = new Dictionary<char, ChannelType>();

        public Dictionary<string, UserInfo> Nicks { get; } = new Dictionary<string, UserInfo>();

        #region Modes

        public ModeFactory ModeFactory { get; }

        public RankList SupportedRanks { get; }

        public ChannelModeList SupportedChannelModes { get; }
        public UserModeList SupportedUserModes { get; }

        #endregion

        // Protocol
        public CommandList Commands { get; }

        public ServerReplies.ServerReplies Replies { get; }

        public List<string> Capabilities { get; private set; }

        private bool _connected;
        private bool _restart;

        private readonly byte[] _buffer = new byte[MaxBufferSize];
        private EndPoint _ep = new IPEndPoint(0, 0);
        private EndPoint _localEndPoint;

        public ServerOptions Options { get; }

        public ServerStats Stats { get; }

        public string ServerPrefix => PrefixCharacter + Options.ServerName;

        public DateTime ServerCreated { get; }

        #region Events
        public event EventHandler<RehashEventArgs> ServerRehash;
        internal void OnRehashEvent(object sender, RehashEventArgs e)
        {
            ServerRehash?.Invoke(sender, e);
        }

        #endregion

        public IrcDaemon(IrcMode ircMode = IrcMode.Modern)
        {
            Capabilities = new List<string>();

            // Create Optionobject & Set the proper IRC Protocol Version
            // The protocol version cannot be changed after construction,
            // because the construction methods below use this Option
            Options = new ServerOptions(ircMode);

            //Clean Interface to statistics, it needs the IrcDaemon Object to gather this information.
            Stats = new ServerStats(this);

            // Setup Modes Infrastructure
            ModeFactory = new ModeFactory();
            SupportedChannelModes = new ChannelModeList(this);
            SupportedRanks = new RankList(this);
            SupportedUserModes = new UserModeList(this);

            // The Protocol Objects
            Commands = new CommandList(this);
            Replies = new ServerReplies.ServerReplies(this);
            ServerCreated = DateTime.Now;

            // Add Commands
            SetupCommands();
            // Add Modes
            SetupModes();
            //Add ChannelTypes
            SetupChannelTypes();
        }

        private void SetupCommands()
        {
            Commands.Add(new Admin(this));
            Commands.Add(new Away(this));
            Commands.Add(new Connect(this));
            Commands.Add(new Die(this));
            Commands.Add(new Error(this));
            Commands.Add(new Info(this));
            Commands.Add(new Invite(this));
            Commands.Add(new IsOn(this));
            Commands.Add(new Join(this));
            Commands.Add(new Kick(this));
            Commands.Add(new Kill(this));
            Commands.Add(new Links(this));
            Commands.Add(new List(this));
            Commands.Add(new ListUsers(this));
            Commands.Add(new MessageOfTheDay(this));
            Commands.Add(new Mode(this));
            Commands.Add(new Names(this));
            Commands.Add(new Nick(this));
            Commands.Add(new Notice(this));
            Commands.Add(new Oper(this));
            Commands.Add(new Part(this));
            Commands.Add(new Pass(this));
            Commands.Add(new Ping(this));
            Commands.Add(new Pong(this));
            Commands.Add(new PrivateMessage(this));
            Commands.Add(new Quit(this));
            Commands.Add(new Rehash(this));
            Commands.Add(new Restart(this));
            Commands.Add(new Server(this));
            Commands.Add(new ServerQuit(this));
            Commands.Add(new Service(this));
            Commands.Add(new Stats(this));
            Commands.Add(new Summon(this));
            Commands.Add(new Time(this));
            Commands.Add(new Topic(this));
            Commands.Add(new Trace(this));
            Commands.Add(new User(this));
            Commands.Add(new UserHost(this));
            Commands.Add(new Version(this));
            Commands.Add(new Wallops(this));
            Commands.Add(new Who(this));
            Commands.Add(new WhoIs(this));
            Commands.Add(new WhoWas(this));

            if (Options.IrcMode == IrcMode.Rfc2810 || Options.IrcMode == IrcMode.Modern)
            {
                Commands.Add(new ServiceList(this));
                Commands.Add(new ServiceQuery(this));
            }

            if (Options.IrcMode == IrcMode.Modern)
            {
                Commands.Add(new Capabilities(this));
                Commands.Add(new Knock(this));
                Commands.Add(new Language(this));
                Commands.Add(new Silence(this));
            }
        }

        private void SetupModes()
        {
            SupportedChannelModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelMode<ModeBan>());
            if (Options.IrcMode == IrcMode.Rfc2810 || Options.IrcMode == IrcMode.Modern)
                SupportedChannelModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelMode<ModeBanException>());

            if (Options.IrcMode == IrcMode.Modern)
                SupportedChannelModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelMode<ModeColorless>());

            SupportedChannelModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelMode<ModeInvite>());
            if (Options.IrcMode == IrcMode.Rfc2810 || Options.IrcMode == IrcMode.Modern)
                SupportedChannelModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelMode<ModeInviteException>());

            SupportedChannelModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelMode<ModeKey>());
            SupportedChannelModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelMode<ModeLimit>());
            SupportedChannelModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelMode<ModeModerated>());
            SupportedChannelModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelMode<ModeNoExternal>());
            SupportedChannelModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelMode<ModeSecret>());
            SupportedChannelModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelMode<ModePrivate>());
            SupportedChannelModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelMode<ModeTopic>());
            if (Options.IrcMode == IrcMode.Modern)
                SupportedChannelModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelMode<ModeTranslate>());

            if (Options.IrcMode == IrcMode.Modern) SupportedRanks.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelRank<ModeHalfOp>());
            SupportedRanks.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelRank<ModeOp>());
            SupportedRanks.Add(ModeFactory.AddChannelRank<ModeVoice>());

            SupportedUserModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddUserMode<ModeLocalOperator>());
            SupportedUserModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddUserMode<ModeInvisible>());
            SupportedUserModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddUserMode<ModeOperator>());
            SupportedUserModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddUserMode<ModeRestricted>());
            SupportedUserModes.Add(ModeFactory.AddUserMode<ModeWallops>());
        }

        private void SetupChannelTypes()
        {
            ChannelType chan = new NormalChannel();
            SupportedChannelTypes.Add(chan.Prefix, chan);
        }

        public void Start()
        {
            if (_connected) return;

            do
            {
                _restart = false;
                _connected = true;

                MainLoop();
            } while (_restart);
        }

        public void Stop(bool startAgain)
        {
            _connected = false;
            _restart = startAgain;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Start a IRC Server to Server Connection
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="server"></param>
        /// <param name="port"></param>
        internal void Connect(string server, int port)
        {

            var ip = Dns.GetHostAddresses(server).FirstOrDefault();
            if (ip != null)
            {
                var serverEndPoint = new IPEndPoint(ip, port);
                var serverSocket = new Socket(serverEndPoint.AddressFamily, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
                serverSocket.Connect(serverEndPoint);

                // sockets.Add(serverSocket, new ServerInfo(this));

            }

        }

        private void MainLoop()
        {

            foreach (var port in Options.ServerPorts)
            {
                _localEndPoint = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, port);
                var connectSocket = new Socket(_localEndPoint.AddressFamily, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);

                connectSocket.Bind(_localEndPoint);
                connectSocket.Listen(20);

                Sockets.Add(connectSocket, new UserInfo(this, connectSocket, Options.ServerName, true, true));
            }

            while (_connected)
            {
                try
                {
                    var activeSockets = new List<Socket>(Sockets.Keys);

                    Socket.Select(activeSockets, null, null, 2000000);

                    foreach (Socket s in activeSockets)
                    {
                        try
                        {
                            if (Sockets[s].IsAcceptSocket)
                            {
                                Socket temp = s.Accept();
                                Sockets.Add(temp, new UserInfo(this, temp, ((IPEndPoint)temp.RemoteEndPoint).Address.ToString(), false, String.IsNullOrEmpty(Options.ServerPass)));
                                Logger.Log("New Client connected!", 4, "MainLoop");
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                try
                                {
                                    _buffer.Initialize();
                                    int numBytes = s.ReceiveFrom(_buffer, ref _ep);
                                    foreach (string line in Encoding.UTF8.GetString(_buffer, 0, numBytes).Split(new[] { '\r', '\n' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries))
                                    {
                                        Parser(line, Sockets[s]);
                                    }
                                }
                                catch (SocketException e)
                                {
                                    Logger.Log("ERROR:  (Socket reset) " + e.Message + "(CODE:" + e.ErrorCode + ")", 4, "E1" + Sockets[s].Nick);
                                    Sockets[s].Remove("Socket reset by peer (" + e.ErrorCode + ")");

                                }
                            }
                        }
                        catch (Exception e)
                        {
                            Logger.Log("Unknown ERROR: " + e.Message, 4, "E2" + Sockets[s].Nick);
                            Logger.Log("Trace: " + e.StackTrace);
                        }
                    }

                    // Pinger : we only ping if necessary
                    foreach (var user in from user in Sockets.Where(s => s.Value.Registered)
                                         let interval = DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(-1)
                                         where user.Value.LastAction < interval && user.Value.LastAlive < interval
                                         select user.Value)
                    {
                        if (user.LastAlive < DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(-5))
                        {
                            // Ping Timeout (5 Minutes without any life sign)
                            user.Remove("Ping Timeout");
                        }
                        else if (user.LastAlive < DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(-1) && user.LastPing < DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(-1))
                        {
                            user.LastPing = DateTime.Now;
                            Commands.Send(new PingArgument(user));
                        }
                    }
                }
                catch (Exception e)
                {
                    Logger.Log("Unknown ERROR: " + e.Message);
                    Logger.Log("Trace: " + e.StackTrace);
                }

            }

            // QUIT Server
            foreach (var user in Sockets.Values.Where(u => !u.IsAcceptSocket).ToArray())
            {
                user.Remove("Server Shutdown");
            }

            foreach (var serverSocket in Sockets.Values)
            {
                serverSocket.Socket.Close(5);
            }

            Sockets.Clear();
            Channels.Clear();
            Nicks.Clear();
            GC.Collect();
        }

        private void Parser(string line, UserInfo info)
        {

#if DEBUG
            Logger.Log(line, location: "IN:" + info.Nick);
#endif

            if (line.Length > Options.MaxLineLength)
            {
                return;  // invalid message
            }

            string prefix = null;
            string command = null;
            var replyCode = ReplyCode.Null;
            var args = new List<string>();

            try
            {
                int i = 0;
                /* This runs in the mainloop :: parser needs to return fast
                 * -> nothing which could block it may be called inside Parser
                 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
                if (line[0] == PrefixCharacter)
                {
                    /* we have a prefix */
                    while (line[++i] != ' ') { }

                    prefix = line.Substring(1, i - 1);
                }
                else
                {
                    prefix = info.Usermask;
                }

                int commandStart = i;
                /*command might be numeric (xxx) or command */
                if (char.IsDigit(line[i + 1]) && char.IsDigit(line[i + 2]) && char.IsDigit(line[i + 3]))
                {
                    replyCode = (ReplyCode)int.Parse(line.Substring(i + 1, 3));
                    i += 4;
                }
                else
                {
                    while ((i < (line.Length - 1)) && line[++i] != ' ') { }

                    if (line.Length - 1 == i) { ++i; }
                    command = line.Substring(commandStart, i - commandStart);
                }

                ++i;
                int paramStart = i;
                while (i < line.Length)
                {
                    if (line[i] == ' ' && i != paramStart)
                    {
                        args.Add(line.Substring(paramStart, i - paramStart));
                        paramStart = i + 1;
                    }
                    if (line[i] == PrefixCharacter)
                    {
                        if (paramStart != i)
                        {
                            args.Add(line.Substring(paramStart, i - paramStart));
                        }
                        args.Add(line.Substring(i + 1));
                        break;
                    }

                    ++i;
                }

                if (i == line.Length)
                {
                    args.Add(line.Substring(paramStart));
                }

            }
            catch (IndexOutOfRangeException)
            {
                Logger.Log("Invalid Message: " + line);
                // invalid message
            }

            if (command == null)
                return;

            FilterArgs(args);
            if (replyCode == ReplyCode.Null)
            {
                Commands.Handle(info, prefix, command, args, line.Length);
            }
            else
            {
                Commands.Handle(info, prefix, replyCode, args, line.Length);
            }
        }

        private static void FilterArgs(List<string> args)
        {
            args.RemoveAll(s => string.IsNullOrEmpty(s.Trim()));
        }

        /// <summary>
        ///
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="nick"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public bool ValidNick(string nick)
        {
            if (nick.Length > Options.MaxNickLength)
                return false;

            if (Options.IrcMode == IrcMode.Modern)
            {
                if (nick.Any(c => c == ' ' || c == ',' || c == '\x7' || c == '!' || c == '@' || c == '*' || c == '?' || c == '+' || c == '%' || c == '#'))
                    return false;
            }

            if (Options.IrcMode == IrcMode.Rfc1459 || Options.IrcMode == IrcMode.Rfc2810)
            {
                if (!nick.All(c => (c >= '\x5B' && c <= '\x60') || (c >= '\x7B' && c <= '\x7D') || (c >= 'a' && c < 'z') || (c >= 'A' && c < 'Z') || (c >= '0' && c < '9')
                                    || c == '[' || c == ']' || c == '\\' || c == '`' || c == '_' || c == '^' || c == '{' || c == '|' || c == '}'))
                    return false;
            }

            return true;
        }

        /// <summary>
        ///
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="channel"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public bool ValidChannel(string channel)
        {
            return SupportedChannelTypes.Any(t => t.Value.Prefix == channel[0]) && (!channel.Any(c => c == ' ' || c == ',' || c == '\x7' || c == ':'));
        }

        public void ConnectFromServer(UserInfo info)
        {
            //
        }

        public void ConnectToServer()
        {
            //
        }

    }
}

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