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Mar 04, 2020, 05:55AM
Voters vs. Me
Todd Seavey
For libertarians, it has never been a Super Tuesday.
Ten years ago, conservative Ramesh Ponnuru humiliated libertarian David Boaz, who was then trying to draw attention to how big the neglected libertarian vote is in America. Ponnuru pointed out that while there might be more libertarians than you'd expect—and while he sympathizes with them on many issues—they often seem to be a reverse-indicator of where the American electorate is headed.
If there's a candidate truly eager to end most government programs, shrink the military, and tackle the federal debt, the odds are he dropped out of whatever political race is going on at the moment way back when the primary season was just starting. The eventual winner will likely be promising more "free stuff" (via government spending or regulatory actions) of one kind or another, and above all promising not to tinker too much with any of the existing free stuff.
So, as I write this on Super Tuesday, without too much stake in how the Democrats vote, it wouldn't be such a dumb predictive model to bet that the results will yield the candidates I hate most coming out on top and the ones I come closest to being able to tolerate shocking the world with their poor showings. That's how it usually goes.
Before I name and rank those five Democrats, I should add that Trump obviously has the Republican nomination sewn up—and add that I haven't got the slightest idea who the Libertarian Party nominee will be and usually don't, since the Party (as opposed to the broader, lower-case libertarian movement) is so small it produces relatively little in the way of reporting, statistical samples for predictions, or personality cults big enough to make cultural waves in advance of the tiny-but-decisive national convention. You pretty much have to attend, ideally as a delegate, to have any idea what they'll end up doing (in May in Austin, TX this time around).
The last time I checked, I think Jacob Hornberger sounded like the least-bizarre full-fledged libertarian (as opposed to mushy fellow-traveler) seeking the nomination, but we can revisit that competition in May, if you care.
So, despite Biden having a resurgence in the polls, the bet-against-libertarians model would tend to say the smart money going into Super Tuesday was on a Sanders triumph, since he's obviously the most explicitly and sweepingly anti-free-market, socialist, communist-regime-friendly candidate the Democrats have to offer. If he actually ends up president, I'll have to console myself, not for the first time, with the comedy value of it all and hope he'll be passionate/crazy enough on one or two issues that the centrists normally bungle to get some sort of good results, like ending federal restrictions on pot or something.
Biden is the living embodiment of the aforementioned bungling centrists and old and batty enough that there's very little chance of him wising up at this late stage and fixing any of the problems of an overweening federal government $23 trillion in debt, not even on the military side since he's a proud interventionist. Under Biden: no surprises, no improvements. Perhaps I should regard him, an avatar of mindless stasis, as in some sense worse than Sanders by libertarian standards, in which case, by the time you read this, he may have eked out a Super Tuesday victory after all.
Elizabeth Warren is a creepy stealth-demagogue in my view—not the mainstream one, I know—and she has shown herself willing to ask virtual economic nonsense-questions in Senate hearings for the sake of getting some cheers from supporters. She also displays Tourette's-like bursts of surprisingly autocratic thinking, including her talk of using executive orders to do things like erase student debt. But she seems smarter than Biden and capable of thinking about economic trade-offs, which might make her slightly less dangerous than Biden.
It's not that I think Biden is a stealth-communist. His track record is long. But he, like his pal Obama, is so thoroughly a creature of politics that I don't believe economic consequences weigh in his mind a tenth as much as party-political calculations about where the votes are, how to look like a big shot in clashes with Congress, etc. Warren might actually alter some budget numbers in an intelligent way. I'll reluctantly call her arguably only the third-worst outcome by libertarian standards, meaning she probably will have had only a middling performance on Super Tuesday.
According to my pessimistic model, Bloomberg should be having a surprisingly bad day as I type this, since one could argue he's the second-best, maybe even the best, option in the Democratic race by libertarian standards. Don't get me wrong—that's a reminder how awful the Democrats are. Bloomberg's still an arrogant nanny-state gun-banner, carbon-dioxide-hater, and unhealthy-diets-restricter. He's barely more deserving of power than the three fiends I've already listed. However, to an even greater degree than Warren, he understands markets and is probably the candidate most likely to tackle the federal debt, arguably the most important political issue facing America. We'd end up surveilled and finger-wagged in ways I shudder to contemplate, but we might see the stock market continue to rise, and that's half the battle in this material world that needs more wealth and less poverty.
Finally, like many libertarians and conservatives, I have a soft spot for Tulsi Gabbard—about half the age and 20 times the surfing skills of the other candidates—who would likely be just as bad a welfare-statist as any of the others but seems to have strong enough antiwar convictions to offer the highest odds of shrinking that part of the government and shows enough independence of mind and tolerance of dissenting voices to perhaps prove educable or at least establishment-bucking on econ matters. If nothing else, she demolished establishment darling Kamala Harris earlier in the race, so we have that to thank her for. I assume she's getting about one percent of the vote as I type this.
Again, none of them is even close to acceptable or worthy of my vote, all of them defined mainly by the checklist of things they want to add to an already enormous government's duties, with that asterisk for Gabbard's admirable antiwar tendencies. But my preference, were I forced to vote in the Dem primary at this point, from best to worst, would be roughly: Gabbard, Bloomberg, Warren, Biden, Sanders. Thus, the stupid public, which does the actual voting in this obscene, topsy-turvy system, will probably have picked, from most votes to least, something like the exact opposite: Sanders, Biden, Warren, Bloomberg, Gabbard. It makes you wonder why I bother trying.
On a brighter note, each of those five would, in his/her own way, make an amusing Trump foil: respectively (using the likely voter picks), a socialist (instead of right-leaning) populist, a doddering old establishment guy, "Fauxcahontas," a rival New York billionaire (who even shares Trump's weird habit of talking about how sexually attractive his own daughter is, though that may just be how the elite roll), and someone to rival Trump's antiwar/Russia-friendly tendencies. Comedy-wise, we can't lose, and they're all winners.
—Todd Seavey is the author of Libertarianism for Beginners and is on Twitter at @ToddSeavey.
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Resident Type
Residents Map
Past Resident
2013: Gallery Jordanow, Hendrik Müller, Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation, PHASEONE
Moritz Partenheimer works with photography to create surreal worlds of their own kind, composed of sites in various locations around the world. He studies the urban microcosm and investigates urban space to define its identity. His focus is on inconspicuous sites, the sort of surroundings that are composed of things we come across every day. His pristine settings seem to be void of human presence, however, their traces are discernable and become an expression of the space wherein the portrayed objects replace humankind. It is through his formal reduction and concentration of the selected objects that we come to better understand their artificial, natural or cultural beauty.
Moritz Partenheimer (born 1979, Munich) studied at the Bauhaus-University, Weimar and at Pratt Institute, New York. In 2006, he graduated from Bauhaus University with a master's degree and moved to Munich. Recent solo shows include Points of Interest, Gallery Jordanow, Munich; Lost in Translation, Gallery Binz & Krämer, Cologne; and Lost Paradise, Kunstverein Heinsberg. His group exhibitions include Lost in Translation, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Bildspuren – Unruhige Gegenwarten, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Germany; and Ist das ein Portrait, Gallery Karin Sachs, Munich. His work is represented in numerous private collections, as well as public collections, including Museum Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. He lives and works in Munich and Cologne.
Moritz Partenheimer, Points of Interest, 2011, C-print, 47 × 56 in. (119.38 × 142.24 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Moritz Partenheimer, Points of Interest, 2011, C-print, 47 × 40 in. (119.38 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Moritz Partenheimer, Gateway 1, 2013, C-print, 57 × 66 in. (144.78 × 167.64 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Germany
Charlotte Eifler
KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Studio #214
Andrea Flemming
Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
Fritjof Mangerich
Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur and Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung
2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Mira Gáberová
Mira Gáberová creates complex projects, in which cooperation with other artists plays a pivotal role. These projects emerge either from social participation or from a constant holding of a mirror up to the artist. The main feature reflected in many of her recent works is doubt. The injection of doubt which questions the multi-faceted reality and multitude of possibilities which the artist can use to investigate it. Gáberová tries to rethink and return to the past and create new solutions, which were originally dismissed or unseen. She is intereted in a lonely human existence, a tragedy of a frozen moment or a very simple and slow action that can last for eternity. An intentional pathos, a distinctive feature of her previous works, is newly – through drama, tragedy and melancholy- transformed into an absolute impossibility and a constant fight for the meaning and reconcilement with a chaos. Though being still inspired by pathos and exaggeration, her attention has shifted more to formal limits of video and work with deconstruction and various forms of authorial cooperation, interpretation and appropriation of artistic material by other artists.
Mira Gáberová (born 1979, Lučenec) lives and works in Prague. In 2006, she graduated from the Departement of Painting and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava. Her recent solo exhibitions include Sleepings, Hit Gallery, Bratislava; Behind the Tree, Kabinet Gallery,Brno; Scene, Jeleni Gallery, Prague; Sisyphus' Love, Synagogue, Trnava. Her group exhibitions include FILM. Directed by Artists, Nitra Gallery, Nitra; Crazy Curators Biennale III, CK Castle, Poznaň; PragueBiennale, Microna Building, Prague, Czech Republic. Interventions in the Gotic Collection, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava; Donumenta, Stadtische Galerie Leerer Beutel, Regensburg; and Essl Award, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg.
Mira Gáberová, Fridge Gallery, 2008-2011, Series of 8 exhibitions. Courtesy of the artist and Fridge Gallery.
Mira Gáberová, Performance Group, 2012, Performance project with 8 performances, video installation and practice book. Courtesy of the artist.
Mira Gáberová, Sad, 2005-2013, Carbon-paper drawings, 24 × 17 in. (60.96 × 43.18 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Mira Gáberová, Scene, 2012, Video, loop, 1 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Mira Gáberová, Sometimes I Want to be Everything and Sometimes I Want to be Nothing, 2010, Projection, 2 min 16 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Slovakia
Lýdia Pribišová
Jana Kapelová
Foundation for a Civil Society
Radovan Čerevka
2013: Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Eunji Cho
Eunji Cho activates the movement and inherent energy of urban remains, traces and suspended matters such as mud, stone and dust through performance, installation, situationist intervention and writing. She explores the slippage that arises when a modern subject enters another territory and becomes a minority, colonized, and the "other." In her recent works, she focuses on the socio-psychological landscape of surface elements of the city interpreted by her own intuition and methodologies. Her artistic practice retains a minimalist approach to explore the ways in which certain objects are used in her works. Cho uses a range of media including drawing, video, performance and installation
In 2012, Eunji Cho had her 5th solo exhibition, Poem In Action, at RM Gallery, Auckland. Her selected group exhibitions include Walking Drifting Dragging, New Museum, New York, 2013; Play Time, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, 2012; Dtang, the Mud Said, Duesseldorf Festival, Duesseldorf, 2012; tempus fugit, Kuenstlerverein Malkasten, Duesseldorf, 2012;Media Scape, Nam Jun Paik Art Center, Yongin, 2011; 7th Gwangju Biennale: Annual Report, Gwangju, 2008; Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang,2007; The Multicultural in Our Time, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2010; and Cittadellarte Venice, Venice University, Venice, 2005. She also has a female duo performance band, Michelangelo Pistoletto Band and sings about love and cities in various cities all over the world. Eunji Cho lives and works in Seoul.
Eunji Cho, Exodus Mud Poem, 2008, Mud from Paju New Town City Performance at 7th Gwangju Biennale.
Eunji Cho, Poem in Action, 2012, Mud Installation view RM Gallery, Auckland.
Eunji Cho, The Organic Flag, 2007, Mud and flag Installation view Yangju City Hall, Gyeongsang-do, Korea.
Eunji Cho, Dtang, The Mud Said, 2012, Performance FFT, Duesseldorf Festival.
Eunji Cho, Real Estate Box Empty Seongam 123 Project, 2010, Collaborative project Seongamdo, Ansan, Korea.
Residents from South Korea
United States, South Korea, China/Hong Kong, Canada
National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
United States, Indonesia
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
Kim Dokyun (KDK)
LIG Art Space

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High Magick
A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row
By: Damien Echols
Narrated by: Damien Echols
5 out of 5 stars 4.8 (73 ratings)
A Course in High Magick
Evoking Divine Energy to Heal Your Past, Transcend Your Limitations, and Step Into Your True Potential
Damien Echols credits the practice of magick for helping him survive his wrongful imprisonment on death row - and allowing him to create the circumstances that led to his freedom. With A Course in High Magick, he shares the essential teachings on magick for anyone committed to personal transformation and service to a greater purpose. Here he introduces listeners to the history of magick, offers guided exercises and meditations, presents step-by-step instruction in key techniques, and more.
Only get High Magick if you are ready for a serious life change
By Amazon Shopper on 11-29-18
The Mystical Qabalah
By: Dion Fortune
Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
Dion Fortune's classic, The Mystical Qabalah, explores all aspects of the Qabalah, including the esoteric sciences of astrology and tarot, which form the basis of the Western Mystery Traditions. It provides a key to the practical working of this mystical system for both novice and initiate alike.
Not 100% accurate narration
Chaos Magick
By: Seth Cardorra
Narrated by: Persephone Rose
How will you change the world? Warning: This is a heavy duty grimoire full of magick, abstract magical theory, paradigm modeling, and subversive ideas. A collection of occult texts including Blood Magick, Post-Modern Magick, and Tactical Magick, in addition to more spells, projects, history, and other writings.
Fascinating and thought provoking 🤔
By Mandymay💄👠👛 on 01-30-18
Occult Magick
By: Lorne Cross
Narrated by: Anders Magnus Anderson
Occult Magick is a system for crafting powerful spells that will transform your life, your actions, and yourself into their most potent versions. It can be used to attract wealth, maintain health, provide protection, and unleash devastating attacks. Drawing from a blend of witchcraft, chaos theory, hermetic rituals, and indigenous sorcery this book is your manual for no-nonsense results based magick.
Super Informative
By Jonaah Fire on 12-27-18
The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic
A New Translation
By: Eliphas Lévi, John Michael Greer - translator, Mark Anthony Mikituk - translator
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Filling a huge gap in our spiritual culture, here - at last - is a comprehensive and elegant translation of the 1854 French masterwork of occult philosophy. The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic reignited the esoteric spiritual search in the West and led to the emergence of Madame Blavatsky, Manly P. Hall, and the New Age revolution.
A performance tour de force!
By Brian Allen on 06-29-17
The Miracle Club
How Thoughts Become Reality
By: Mitch Horowitz
Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
A guide to creating miracles in your own life through the power of thought.
Wow this is life changing
By Joey Holman on 10-16-18
The Book of Magick Power
By: Jason Augustus Newcomb
Narrated by: Richard Di Britannia
This is the most comprehensive book on the subject of modern practical magic to date. Practical magic makes real and observable changes in yourself and your environment through the invisible forces that manifest and transform your reality.
By Dennis W on 11-01-16
Astral Magick
Beyond Projection
Astral Magick is the traveler's guide to results-based astral projection and beyond, using a blend of occult spellcraft, mythic understanding, and personal empowerment to set you on the path to becoming a limitless adventurer in the otherworldly realms of the astral plane.
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By T. Williams on 01-29-19
Magick: Ritual and Reality
Magick is real. Reality is yours. What is presented before you is a collection of my three previous texts on magick, ritual, and reality. My intent is to provide a comprehensive tome that can help you to empower yourself and increase your quality of life, with a strong sense of adventure and a firm foundation of magickal theory.
Egregores
The Occult Entities That Watch Over Human Destiny
By: Mark Stavish, James Wasserman - foreword
Narrated by: Mark Stavish
One of most important but little known concepts of Western occultism is that of the egregore, an autonomous psychic entity created by a collective group mind. An egregore is sustained by belief, ritual, and sacrifice and relies upon the devotion of a group of people, from a small coven to an entire nation, for its existence. An egregore that receives enough sustenance can take on a life of its own, becoming an independent deity with powers its believers can use to further their own spiritual advancement and material desires.
Veteran Author with Excellent Reading
By david thompson on 06-28-19
Protection and Reversal Magick
A Witch's Defense Manual
By: Jason Miller
Narrated by: Terrence Bayes
You could be the target of a spell or curse and not even know it! All people, witches or not, are susceptible to these attacks. The difference: witches and magicians can do something about it. Now you can too. Protection & Reversal Magick is a complete how-to manual on preventing, defending, and reversing magickal attacks of any kind.
Who chose this narrator?!
Aleister Crowley's Liber Al vel Legis
The Book of the Law
By: Aleister Crowley
Narrated by: Dennis Logan
Liber AL vel Legis, also known as The Book of the Law, is the central sacred text of Thelema. Channeled by Aleister Crowley and transcribed by his wife Rose Edith Crowley, The Book of the Law has become a cornerstone of New Age thought.
Narrator is horrible!
By Samech on 02-15-18
Real Magic
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe
By: Dean Radin
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
The chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) turns a critical eye toward such practices as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis. Are such powers really possible? Science says yes. According to noted scientist and best-selling author of The Conscious Universe, Dean Radin, magic is a natural aspect of reality, and each of us can tap into this power with diligent practice.
Pertinent but lackluster
By Marci B on 05-22-18
The Secret History of America
Classic Writings on Our Nation's Unknown Past and Inner Purpose
By: Manly P. Hall, Mitch Horowitz - editor
Writer and scholar Manly P. Hall (1901-1990) is one of the most significant names in the study of the esoteric, symbolic, and occult. His legendary book The Secret Teachings of All Ages has been an underground classic since its publication in 1928. The Secret History of America expands on that legacy, offering a collection of Hall's works - from books and journals to transcriptions of his lectures - all relating to the hidden past and unfolding future of our nation.
By lindentree on 06-06-19
The Black Toad
West Country Witchcraft and Magic
By: Gemma Gary
Narrated by: Tracey Norman
The Black Toad explores potent examples of the folk-ceremonial magical practices and witchcraft of the south-west of England; dealing especially with Devon and the author's homeland of Cornwall. Within the West Country, the popular belief in witchcraft and its attendant charms, magical practices and traditions continued to be observed and survived long after such ways had faded in most other parts of the British Isles. Described within The Black Toad is a collection of some of the fascinating magical practices and lore of the West Country's cunning folk and early modern witches; ways that have survived and evolved within the rarefied Craft of the area's modern day witchcraft practitioners of the old persuasion. As this book affirms, these ways of the Old Craft and Cunning Arte include a belief in and working relationship with the spirit forces of the land, the Faerie, animal and plant lore, as well as the magical use of Psalms to cure or curse, the invocation of Christ and the power of the Holy Trinity. For all those who are interested in learning about the Old Path as it is taught and practised today by West Country witches this book of practical magic and sorcery will be a revelation. As the late Cecil Williamson, founder of the witchcraft museum in Boscastle, North Cornwall and a modern cunning man himself, said and Gemma Gary's excellent book proves - It still goes on today.
The Hermeticism Collection
The Kybalion, Corpus Hermeticum: The Divine Pymander of Hermes, and The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus
By: Three Initiates, Hermes Trismegistus, Manly P. Hall
Narrated by: Arthur Rowan
Hermeticism is a religious/philosophical ideology based upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus (ancient Greek god). This Hermetic collection contains the most influential Hermetic writings: The Kybalion, Corpus Hermeticum: The Divine Pymander of Hermes, and The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus.
By jacko on 04-13-19
Quantum Sorcery Basics
By: Magus Zeta
Narrated by: Tessa Petersen
You can master your world with magick! Even if you have no interest in religion or sorcery, this book can still help you to achieve your dreams. Magick is not something that is done. It is an aspect of the world we live in. We live in a world that is dominated and maintained by quantum mechanics.
The narrator is boring... information is good.
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The Daemonic Companion
Creating Daemonic Entities to Do Your Will
By: Baal Kadmon
Narrated by: Resheph
What you are about to hear is not for the faint of the heart. You will be creating a powerful spiritual entity - an entity that will know you better than you know yourself. It will know all your secrets, your weaknesses, and your strengths. It will also be your servant. It will do whatever you tell it to do, both for good or ill. Although it is you who will create it, its energy and life force traces back deep into primordial time. People throughout history, and even to this day, call upon these entities for help.
Not your average greasy whitewashed kid's stuff
New York Times best-selling author Damien Echols presents an unabridged audiobook of the spiritual practices that helped him survive and transcend his ordeal on death row.
At age 18, Damien Echols was sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit. "I spent my years in prison training to be a true magician," he recalls. "I used magick - the practice of reshaping reality through our intention and will - to stave off incredible pain, despair, and isolation. But the most amazing feat of all that practice and study was to manifest my freedom." With High Magick, this best-selling author shares his first audiobook on these powerful spiritual techniques.
Though modern culture has consigned "magic" to fiction, stage illusions, or superstitions about witchcraft, the magick Damien learned is an ancient Western tradition equal to the Eastern practices of Buddhism, Taoism, and yoga in its wisdom and transformative power. Here he brings you an engaging and highly accessible guide on how to bring magick into your own life, including:
What is High Magick? Damien clears away the stigma and reveals the history and core teachings of this extraordinary art
The Four-Fold Breath - a foundational meditation practice to train your mind and body to channel subtle energies
The Middle Pillar - how to bring divine energy into the central channel of your body for empowerment and healing
The Qabalistic Cross - a centering technique to help you stay balanced and protected regardless of circumstances
The Lesser Rituals of the Pentagram - powerful ceremonies for banishing negative energies and invoking energy to manifest your goals
Working with angelic beings and thoughtforms
Guidance for overcoming your doubts, enhancing your visualization skills, creating talismans, practicing magick ethically, and much more
"Magick is a journey," writes Damien. "It's a continuously unfolding path that has no end. You can study and practice magick for the rest of your life and you will still never learn everything that it has to teach you." If you're ready to discover your untapped potential for co-creating your reality with the energy of the divine, then join this extraordinary teacher to begin your training in High Magick.
Read by the author. Foreword by Eddie Vedder.
Download the accompanying reference guide.
©2018 Damien Echols (P)2018 Sounds True
Yours for Eternity
In Case We Die
Volcano Spirit
EXCELLENT Book on High Magick
Like the author, I am self (and spirit) taught. People have asked me over and over for instructions on how to get started with the magical approach that I've used all my life, but writing about it was just not where I was at. Now, I have a book that I can refer folks to. I love the audible version the best because then I can focus all my brain power on paying attention to the concepts. I love his voice. And I love the way he, like I, tells folks that there isn't anything hard about it. This book makes it possible for folks to learn by doing and see for themselves how following the magical approach to life is rewarding and fun. More and more, you will connect with what I call "the Universe" or "the energies." Get this.
Amanda Glenn
OZARK, AL
What better than to hear the voice of the offer read his own book!
This is a fantastic book with many great spiritual practices that anyone can use. He breaks things down so well and his knowledge is vast! Love hearing his voice on his books!
This Book Can Transform Your Life
The story in this book is very inspiring, and the exercises themselves can change your life. It is presented in a way that is easy to understand. There is so much helpful information in this book. I've been practicing yoga and meditation for many years, and this is one of the best books on energy work that I've ever read. I highly recommend the companion audiobook:
"A Course in High Magick"
Lonescout
This book actually exceeded my expectations. I wish I had stumbled upon it a few years ago. I think this is a wonderful starting place for those wanting to learn Magick of any sort, but especially for High Magick, obviously. Mr. Echols also has a very inspiring story of Perseverance and Hope. Well done, Damien Echols; Thank You.
Slapdash
I have been a student of the Golden Dawn teachings, practical Magick, and the Qaballah/Kaballah for many years, and overall I find the context of this book, as far as I have read it, to be pretty good. However .... I would think that when an author cares about his product, and decides to read his own book, he would take the trouble to check how words are properly pronounced. Many of the terms come from Hebrew, and due respect should to be given to their correct utterances. I can't listen to another moment of the ear-bashing Kwaabalaah ... really? That's what Echols says. Reminds me of nothing more than a frog croaking, and i lose track of what he's saying completely. It would have been so simple for him to ask a Hebrew speaking person or simply go onto You Tube, it's all there. K-a-b-a-ll-a-h. There is no Kwaaa. Or even Quaaa. Same goes for the names of God and the angelic names. Pathetic pronunciation. I understand that he is apparently self taught from books in prison, and I have respect for that, but he's no longer there, and should have done due diligence before reading his own book and foisting it on listeners. How can an author destroy the integrity of his own work so badly? I'm done with this one, I find it unbearable. Anyone wishing to study from his book, please research pronunciation before adopting his.
Audio does not work properly
Having issues with the audio. It's a shame because I like the fact that Damien is the narrator and was looking forward to reading along with him.
E. B. Terry
The author explains beautifully . A wonderful voice. He is intelligent and clear. Love his non preaching approach of simply sharing what has worked for him , which is huge in his case , a life of indescribable suffering and injustice to surviving. A beautiful human being.
James Strachan
Excellent Book
Pleasure to listen to, concise information without all the new age mumbo jumbo or difficult, verbose scripts of certain orders.
Will definitely return to this audio many times over as it is a valuable goldmine of occult knowledge that is easy to access and absorb.


in the Republic of Belarus, the Convention on the Rights of the Child entered into force on October 31, 1990.
We would like to inform about the vociferous problem of persistent violations of children's rights in today Belarus. It consists in the way juvenile justice is administered: it is accompanied by violations of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (Beijing Rules). Up to now, Our House has been contacted by the parents and relatives of 29 adolescents who have become the victims of persistent violations of their rights by the state, in particular, by police officers, investigators, prosecutors, the court, and the punitive system.
The report was prepared in the framework of Our House's campaign "Non-Children Case" ("Ne-Detskoye-Delo"), aimed at the protection of children's rights against the Belarusian state.
Upon studying the materials provided by legal representatives, we would like to share with you the terrifying data that require international attention.
As a result of a disproportionately severe interpretation of article 328 CC, since 2015 at least 29 minors have been sentenced to a cumulated 270.6 years of imprisonment, from them 23 minors sentenced to a cumulated 219.6 years for the alleged trafficking of a total of 43.85 grams of different types of drugs. Yet four of them are imprisoned for a total of 38.8 years although no drug at all was found in their possession at the time of their arrest.
In 18 cases out of 29, during the detention and interrogation, parents or guardians were not notified; in one more case, parents were informed just partially (not completely); in case of another one we have no information. Thus, at least 62% of parents were not notified during the detention of their children; interrogation and detention took place without the participation of legal representatives.
Against 23 children out of 29, various tortures were applied during detention by the police; there is no information about two children. Thus, at least 79% of the children were tortured by the police.
Police officers, by tortures and coercion, forced 3 children (out of 29) into selling drugs to other children and adults. In addition, the Belarusian legislation has art. 172 of the Criminal Code about "involving minors in committing a crime." Out of the 29 criminal cases described above, only a single criminal case under this article was institited against the adults who had involved those children into committing crimes. Thus, while the state puts children in jail, only once lawsuit is brought against the adults who provide these children with narcotic drugs.
Out of the 29 children, only two were not placed in pre-trial custody immediately after their detention (but later they were nevertheless placed there); on one child (orphan) there is no information. But the reason why those two children were not placed in custody immediately was that a police officer was going to use them as provocateurs and drug dealers. Thus, we can state that actually 100% of the children were placed in pre-trial custody. We draw your attention to the fact that the Belarusian investigation did not consider other, milder measures of restricting the freedom of minors until trial, such as putting a minor under a supervision as provided in art. 123 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Belarus.
Only in one of the 29 cases, the investigation attempted to establish the identity and guilt of those adults who involved the children in illegal activities. Criminal cases against the adults who had involved adolescents in a criminal offence were not instituted (except one case), and courts did not take into account the influence of these unidentified adults persons on the children as a mitigating circumstance. Moreover, in most criminal cases, the guilt of children, in our opinion, has not been proven. At all stages of proceedings against any of the 29 children, the principle of increased legal protection of minors in criminal proceedings was not applied. It was only regarding to 2 children that a social examination of minors was conducted after their detention and at least formal reports on the examination were attached to these cases.
During detentions, a vast majority (68-75%) of the children did not receive medical or other assistance (some children ended in intensive care units due to the lack of timely medical assistance); the problem of access to medical care in prison exists both at the pre-trial and post-trial stage. 10 children out of 29 suffer from chronic diseases, but they also do not receive full medical care.
Besides, about 75% of children had problems with obtaining secondary school education, and almost 45% were not allowed to obtain secondary education at all.
We continue to follow for the cases and collect additional information concerning the violations of the rights of minors in Belarus.


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President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed reports he is limiting an FBI investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But he emphasized a strong preference for the probe to be completed quickly because it's been "unfair" to Kavanaugh and his family.
Trump also appeared to undermine Kavanaugh's own statements rejecting claims that he abused alcohol in the past. The president said that during Thursday's hearing before the Senate, Kavanaugh was open about his "difficulty" with alcohol and the fact he "drank a lot" as a young man. That's likely news to Kavanaugh, who in his testimony Thursday vehemently denied having ever blacked out from alcohol. Questions regarding Kavanaugh's drinking come amid concern he deliberately mischaracterized his drinking habits at last week's hearing and as more of the judge's former Yale classmates come forward to say he lied to lawmakers.
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Codebase was not hosted on our servers.
I did not have access to the servers/services.
The codebase was written in Ruby.
The database engine powering the site is PostgreSQL.
There is no support for PostgreSQL on campus.
So ultimately, we cannot host the same codebase on campus for the backups. And while I could be provided with a db dump, I would need to figure out a way to convert it to mysql (or sql server if we hosted on a Microsoft Server) and write up the app that supports it. Sounds like a whole lotta work and not very flexible.
So the only real option would be to figure out some sort of mirroring tool (along with mirroring whatever media on the other server was linked to in the pages) to help with this task. I had tried things with wget but was not getting the results I wanted (primarily, creating relative urls with their html replacement. I was also not getting localised links to files as everything was assumed to be from the root (which this site was not going to be); if someone knows how, please post below!). I was used to using SiteSucker for the mac (which, oddly enough, crashed on the site; I'll get into that in a bit). In any event, this was on the mac and we needed a tool that would work on any linux server. I could try and write something myself but that would be an awful lot of reinventing the wheel (and would probably be a square wheel given what I said above).
Localise urls / convert urls to point to appropriate html files.
We first specify the starting point - in this case, it is "http://example.org" (note that httrack prefers for arguments with urls and blacklists/whitelists to be in parentheses).
We can specify where the mirror will go using the -O flag (note that $backupDirectoryPath is a path I defined earlier on in my script - I will post this up on pastebin so you can see what I had in full).
The quotations where I have "+" with something are urls from which it is allowed to download, and process. If you do not specify any, it will only download from the domain you specify. You can technically tell it to download everything from every domain that is come across (so you could spider the entire web provided you have the room for it).
-v flag just means it will be verbose and tell you what is going on.
And that's it (as a start). I tried running the above and while it would start to crawl through the site, it started taking far longer than I had anticipated (about 25 hrs in total) and far more space than I expected (6.1 gigs last I checked). I also found that the links had been broken off which I'm not entirely sure on but the basic gist of why it took so long and the space issue was that while there wasn't a huge amount of content on the site, the site had a lot of tags and there was a page with tag-based faceted filtering where you could continue applying more tags even without any results (last I checked, there were approximately 500 tags...given they could be in any order and all the tags could be applied in the filtering, there were 500 factorial combinations - suffice to say, its a HUGE number). My guess is because of the number of files that were being created for processing, it was taking up a lot of space, time, and unable to process the files properly (so the real functionality that I wanted, pagers, were not working).
Whereby it is saying "Download from example.org to this directory I specify and download everything from example.org and amazon s3. However, avoid anything from example.org that fits the faceted filtering page format (so urls such as http://example.org/archives/recommended/tags/architecture, are avoided while still allowing me to download first level tagged pages such as http://example.org/archives?tags=California; so it is still fairly useful :)). Based off this change, the mirroring now takes 1 hour (when the campus is busy) and occupies 200 megs of space. Big difference!
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Chris Brewster is Professor of International Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. He was successively a steeplejack, a union official, an official in the Ministry of Labour, a personnel manager in the construction and aviation industries, a journalist and consultant. During that time, he obtained his doctorate from the LSE before becoming an academic. He researches in the field of international and comparative HRM. Chris is a frequent international conference speaker and has worked in universities around the world. He has written or edited more than thirty books, including, recently, the Handbook of Research on Comparative Human Resource Management; International Mobility; Managing Performance Abroad: a new model for understanding expatriate adjustment; and Varieties of HRM: A Comparative Study of the Relationship between Context and Firm. He has also published more than a hundred book chapters and well over 200 articles in refereed journals. In 2002 Chris was awarded the Georges Petitpas Memorial Award by the practitioner body, the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to international human resource management; and in 2006 Chris was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Vaasa, Finland.
Chris will address the Conference theme by discussing wicked problems (and proposed wicked solutions) in management research. Specifically, Chris will draw on current debates and practices in management to argue that the trajectory of management research is taking us in the wrong direction; we need a fundamental rethink of what we are doing and who we are doing it for.
Helen Sullivan
Professor Helen Sullivan is a public policy scholar whose work has shaped understanding of the changing nature of state-society relationships and its implications for public governance, policy and practice. As Director of the Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy, she heads Asia-Pacific's leading public policy school. Helen's work focuses on boundaries in public policy and the ways these are constructed, contested and crossed in contemporary contexts. She is widely published, the author or editorof six books and numerous academic articles and policy reports. Her award winning scholarship includes the IRSPM Kooiman award in 2008 , while her contribution to teaching is acknowledged by her fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (UK). Helen's career is shaped by a commitment to bridging the gap between academia and practice. In 2013 she founded the Melbourne School of Government, a cross-university, multi-disciplinary, externally orientated institution focused on impact. In 2015 she led the Pathways to Politics Program for Women, a groundbreaking partnership between the University of Melbourne and the Trawalla Foundation to increase the representation of women in politics. In 2017 Helen was made a National Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia in recognition of her contribution to public policy and administration. Helen appears regularly in print, broadcast and online media commenting on contemporary public policy issues. She is the Editorial Advisor to the Australian Journal of Public Administration, on the editorial boards ofCritical Policy Studies,and Public Administration Review, and an elected member of Institute of Public Administration Australia Australian Capital Territory Council.
Helen will address the Conference theme by discussing collaborative futures in complex times. She will draw upon her own extensive experience and research in the context of collaborations in times when wicked problems abound.
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Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2013-2014
Egypt, Arab Rep., 2013 - 2014
UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)
United Nations Children's Fund, El-Zanaty & Associates, Ministry of Health and Population
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Egypt, Arab Rep. EGY
The Egypt sub-national Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) was carried out in 2013-14 by El-Zanaty & Associates in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Population. Financial and technical support was provided by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Egypt Country Office, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, and UNICEF Headquarters.
The global Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) programme was developed by UNICEF in the 1990s as an international household survey programme to support countries in the collection of internationally comparable data on a wide range of indicators on the situation of children and women. MICS measures key indicators that allow countries to generate data for use in policies and programmes, and to monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other internationally agreed upon commitments.
This MICS aims at providing data for monitoring system of the 'Integrated Perinatal Health and Child Nutrition Programme' (IPHN) implemented by the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) in Egypt with the support of UNICEF. The IPHN covers selected rural districts in 6 governorates, 4 in Upper Egypt and 2 in Lower Egypt.
The MICS in the rural districts cover by the IPHN programme in Egypt was conducted as part of the fifth global round of MICS Surveys (MICS5). The IPHN programme is implemented by the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in collaboration with UNICEF in selected disadvantaged rural areas of Upper and Lower Egypt. The survey has been specifically designed to respond to the data needs of the IPHN program and of its monitoring system (which adopts the model of the Monitoring Results for Equity System, developed by UNICEF). The specific focus of this MICS is on perinatal care. In the MoRES framework developed for the IPHN program, this survey complements the data provided by the routine administrative data collection system and by evidence provided by a qualitative study on perinatal care and nutrition.
The IPHN programme has been initially conducted, since 2008, as a pilot in selected rural village/Family Health Units (FHUs) in 3 Upper Egypt governorates, and then – starting in 2012, it has been expanded in new FHUs in Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, covering a total of 6 governorates at the time of the survey. A total of 2.5 million people were living in the areas of intervention at the time of the survey.
Consistently with the focus of the survey on perinatal care, this household survey considered as eligible for the interviews ever-married women age 15-49 and children under five. A total of 7046 households were successfully interviewed with response rate of 99.9 percent. A total of 5847 ever-married women age 15-49 were successfully interviewed and 5090 questionnaires were completed for children under-5.
The results of the survey are representative of the full area covered by the IPHN and for three subdomains, namely the pilots FHUs in Upper Egypt, the FHUs of Upper Egypt expansion phase, and the FHUs of the Lower Egypt expansion phase.
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The survey covered all de jure household members (usual residents), all women aged between 15-49 years, all children under 5 living in the household.
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The sample for the survey was designed to provide estimates for a large number of indicators on the situation of children and women in IPHN areas, and for the three domains: Upper Egypt pilot area, Upper Egypt expansion area, and Lower Egypt expansion area. The Family Health Unit (FHU) catchment areas in the villages of the IPHN within each region were identified as the main primary sampling units (PSUs) and the sample was selected in three stages. Within each stratum, a specified number of FHUs were selected systematically with probability proportional to size, where 10 FHUs were selected from Upper Egypt Pilot phase, and 17 FHUs from Upper Egypt Expansion phase, and 11 FHUs from Lower Egypt Expansion phase. Then a number of enumeration areas were selected systematically with probability proportional to size from each FHU catchment area. A total of 234 EAs in the selected FHUs were thus selected, 60 from Upper Egypt pilot, 108 from Upper Egypt expansion, and 66 from Lower Egypt Expansion.
After a household listing was carried out within the selected enumeration areas, a systematic sample of 30-31 households with women age 15 to 49 and/or with children under-5 years was drawn in each sample enumeration area for a total of 7067 sample households. The sample was stratified by the three domains, and is not self-weighting. For reporting results for the entire IPHN area, sample weights are used.
A stratified three-stage cluster sampling design has been adopted:
1- First stage: systematic selection of a sample of FHUs with probability proportional to size (PPS) of the FHU (population/households).
2- Second stage: systematic selection of a sample of Enumeration Areas with PPS to get a sample of EAs from each selected FHU.
3- Third stage: systematic sample of households selected from each EA When a household is selected, all ever-married women (15-49 years) and mothers or caretakers of children (0-4) years were eligible to be interviewed.
The sampling procedures are more fully described in appendix A in document "Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2013-14 - Final Report" pp.161-164.
Out of the 7,067 households selected for the survey, 7,050 were found to be occupied. Of these, 7,046 were successfully interviewed for a household response rate of 99.9 percent.
In the interviewed households, 5,859 ever-married women (age 15-49 years) were identified. Of these, 5,847 ever-married women were successfully interviewed, yielding a response rate of 99.8 percent.
In addition, 5,096 children under-5 were listed in the household questionnaire. Questionnaires were completed for 5,090 of these children, which corresponds to a response rate of 99.9 percent.
Overall response rates of 99.7 and 99.8 percent are calculated for individual interviews of ever-married 15-49 year-old women and under-5s respectively.
The sample was stratified by the three domains, and is not self-weighting. For reporting results for the entire IPHN area, sample weights are used.
There is one supervisor for each of the 9 data collection teams in the field.
The questionnaires for the Generic MICS were structured questionnaires based on the MICS5 model questionnaire with some modifications and additions. Household questionnaires were administered in each household, which collected various information on household members including sex, age and relationship. The household questionnaire includes List of Household Members, Education, Household Characteristics, Water and Sanitation and Hand Washing.
In addition to a household questionnaire, questionnaires were administered in each household for women age 15-49 and children under age five. The questionnaire was administered to the mother or primary caretaker of the child.
The women's questionnaire includes Women's Background, Access to Mass Media and Use of Information/Communication Technology, Marriage, Birth History, Desire for Last Birth, Maternal and New-born Health, Post-natal Health Checks, Illness Symptoms, Attitude Module, and Woman and Husband's work status.
The children's questionnaire includes Child's Age, Birth Registration, Breastfeeding and Dietary Intake, Immunization, Growth Monitoring, Care of Illness and Anthropometry.
The questionnaires were based on the MICS5 model questionnaire. The previous mentioned sections were taken from the MICS5 model Arabic version questionnaires and customized, then translated into Egyptian Arabic. Additional questions were added to respond to the data needs of the monitoring system (MoRES) of the IPHN, especially in antenatal and postnatal sections. A pre-test of the questionnaires was conducted in November 2013. Based on the results of the pre-test, modifications were made to the wording and translation of the questionnaires.
Data were entered using the CSPro software. The data were entered on eight microcomputers and carried out by 8 data entry operators, one data entry supervisor and one assistant. In order to ensure quality control, all questionnaires were double-entered and internal consistency checks were performed. Procedures and standard programs developed under the global MICS5 programme were used and adapted to the Egypt questionnaire in the survey. Data processing began simultaneously with data collection in mid-December 2013 and was completed with the clean data set in late January 2014. Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software program, Version 18, and the model syntax and tabulation plans developed by UNICEF were used for this purpose. In addition the country specific tables that were designed for the survey specific questions were developed using SPSS by the data processing expert of El-Zanaty and reviewed by UNICEF experts at the regional office as well as headquarters.
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Sampling errors are a measure of the variability between the estimates from all possible samples. The extent of variability is not known exactly, but can be estimated statistically from the survey data.
The following sampling error measures are presented in this appendix for each of the selected indicators:
- Standard error (se): Standard error is the square root of the variance of the estimate. For survey indicators that are means, proportions or ratios, the Taylor series linearization method is used for the estimation of standard errors. For more complex statistics, such as fertility and mortality rates, the Jack-knife repeated replications method is used for standard error estimation.
- Coefficient of variation (se/r) is the ratio of the standard error to the value (r) of the indicator, and is a measure of the relative sampling error.
- Design effect (deff) is the ratio of the actual variance of an indicator, under the sampling method used in the survey, to the variance calculated under the assumption of simple random sampling based on the same sample size. The square root of the design effect (deft) is used to show the efficiency of the sample design in relation to the precision. A deft value of 1.0 indicates that the sample design of the survey is as efficient as a simple random sample for a particular indicator, while a deft value above 1.0 indicates an increase in the standard error due to the use of a more complex sample design.
- Confidence limits are calculated to show the interval within which the true value for the population can be reasonably assumed to fall, with a specified level of confidence. For any given statistic calculated from the survey, the value of that statistic will fall within a range of plus or minus two times the standard error (r + 2.se or r – 2.se) of the statistic in 95 percent of all possible samples of identical size and design.
For the calculation of sampling errors from MICS data, programs developed in CSPro Version 5.0, SPSS Version 21 Complex Samples module and CMRJack have been used.
A series of data quality tables are available to review the quality of the data and include the following:
- Age distribution of household population
- Age distribution of eligible and interviewed women
- Age distribution of children in household and under-5 questionnaires
- Birth date reporting: Household population
- Birth date and age reporting: Women
- Birth date and age reporting: Under-5s
- Birth date reporting: Children, adolescents and young people
- Birth date reporting: First and last births
- Completeness of reporting
- Completeness of information for anthropometric indicators: Underweight
- Completeness of information for anthropometric indicators: Stunting
- Completeness of information for anthropometric indicators: Wasting
- Heaping in anthropometric measurements
- Observation of birth certificates
- Observation of vaccination cards
- Observation of women's health cards
- Observation of bednets and places for handwashing
- Presence of mother in the household and the person interviewed for the under-5 questionnaire
- School attendance by single age
- Sex ratio at birth among children ever born and living
- Births by calendar years
- Reporting of age at death in days
- Reporting of age at death in months
The results of each of these data quality tables are shown in appendix D in document "Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2013-14 - Final Report" pp.171-184.
Childinfo UNICEF mics@unicef.org http://www.childinfo.org/mics4_surveys.html
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- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download.
United Nations Children's Fund, El-Zanaty & Associates, Ministry of Health and Population. Egypt Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2013-14, Ref. EGY_2013_MICS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [url] on [date].
http://mics.unicef.org/surveys
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Q: Generate OpenAPI RestTemplate Client with Client Credentials Oauth2 Auth: How to obtain Access Token? I'm currently setting up a RestTemplate client using the Maven plugin for OpenAPI3. I've provided an OAuth Client Credentials security scheme and I've set it up as my global security:
components:
  securitySchemes:
  OAuth2:
    type: oauth2
    flows:
      clientCredentials:
        authorizationUrl: https://someurl.somewhere/auth
        tokenUrl: https://someurl.somewhere/token
        scopes:
          read: Grants read access
          write: Grants write access

security:
  - OAuth2:
    - read
    - write

What bugs me is the fact, that there is absolutely no code being generated, which tries to receive the access token from the provided auth endpoint. The only OAuth related method I can find is:
public void setAccessToken(String accessToken)

But this means that I have to write the code to retrieve the token. Should I do that?
Furthermore my expectation was, that I'll just provide OAuth endpoints, client ID and client secret in the final application, which would use the client.


The very phrase 'tragedy of the commons' is a reference to the prototypical example of such a tragedy: sheep grazing on common pasture land. The idea is that when the pasture (the "commons") is owned collectively, then each peasant has an incentive to graze more than his fair share of sheep. The incremental drop-off in the quality of the pasturage is borne by everyone else, while he gets an extra sheep. Since everyone does it, the result is massive overgrazing and lots of starving sheep.
Well, okay, so it's a parable about the awful, ineluctable consequences of not having private property in land. But the parable presupposes that you have private property in sheep, does it not?


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 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
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 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
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 * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
 */

/*
 * BayesNet.java
 * Copyright (C) 2004 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 *
 */

package weka.classifiers.bayes.net.estimate;

import weka.classifiers.bayes.BayesNet;
import weka.classifiers.bayes.net.search.local.K2;
import weka.core.Instance;
import weka.core.Instances;
import weka.core.Option;
import weka.core.RevisionUtils;
import weka.core.Statistics;
import weka.core.Utils;
import weka.estimators.Estimator;

import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Vector;

/**

 * BMAEstimator estimates conditional probability tables of a Bayes network using Bayes Model Averaging (BMA).
 *

 *

 * Valid options are:

 *
 *
 -k2
 *  Whether to use K2 prior.
 *

 *
 *
 -A <alpha>
 *  Initial count (alpha)
 *

 *

 *
 * @author Remco Bouckaert (rrb@xm.co.nz)
 * @version $Revision: 1.8 $
 */
public class BMAEstimator
    extends SimpleEstimator {

    /** for serialization */
    static final long serialVersionUID = -1846028304233257309L;

    /** whether to use K2 prior */
    protected boolean m_bUseK2Prior = false;

    /**
     * Returns a string describing this object
     * @return a description of the classifier suitable for
     * displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui
     */
    public String globalInfo() {
      return
      	  "BMAEstimator estimates conditional probability tables of a Bayes "
        + "network using Bayes Model Averaging (BMA).";
    }

    /**
     * estimateCPTs estimates the conditional probability tables for the Bayes
     * Net using the network structure.
     *
     * @param bayesNet the bayes net to use
     * @throws Exception if an error occurs
     */
    public void estimateCPTs(BayesNet bayesNet) throws Exception {
        initCPTs(bayesNet);

        Instances instances = bayesNet.m_Instances;
        // sanity check to see if nodes have not more than one parent
        for (int iAttribute = 0; iAttribute < instances.numAttributes(); iAttribute++) {
            if (bayesNet.getParentSet(iAttribute).getNrOfParents() > 1) {
                throw new Exception("Cannot handle networks with nodes with more than 1 parent (yet).");
            }
        }

        BayesNet EmptyNet = new BayesNet();
        K2 oSearchAlgorithm = new K2();
        oSearchAlgorithm.setInitAsNaiveBayes(false);
        oSearchAlgorithm.setMaxNrOfParents(0);
        EmptyNet.setSearchAlgorithm(oSearchAlgorithm);
        EmptyNet.buildClassifier(instances);

        BayesNet NBNet = new BayesNet();
        oSearchAlgorithm.setInitAsNaiveBayes(true);
        oSearchAlgorithm.setMaxNrOfParents(1);
        NBNet.setSearchAlgorithm(oSearchAlgorithm);
        NBNet.buildClassifier(instances);

        // estimate CPTs
        for (int iAttribute = 0; iAttribute < instances.numAttributes(); iAttribute++) {
            if (iAttribute != instances.classIndex()) {
                  double w1 = 0.0, w2 = 0.0;
                  int nAttValues = instances.attribute(iAttribute).numValues();
                  if (m_bUseK2Prior == true) {
                      // use Cooper and Herskovitz's metric
                      for (int iAttValue = 0; iAttValue < nAttValues; iAttValue++) {
                        w1 += Statistics.lnGamma(1 + ((DiscreteEstimatorBayes)EmptyNet.m_Distributions[iAttribute][0]).getCount(iAttValue))
                              - Statistics.lnGamma(1);
                      }
                      w1 += Statistics.lnGamma(nAttValues) - Statistics.lnGamma(nAttValues + instances.numInstances());

                      for (int iParent = 0; iParent < bayesNet.getParentSet(iAttribute).getCardinalityOfParents(); iParent++) {
                        int nTotal = 0;
                          for (int iAttValue = 0; iAttValue < nAttValues; iAttValue++) {
                            double nCount = ((DiscreteEstimatorBayes)NBNet.m_Distributions[iAttribute][iParent]).getCount(iAttValue);
                            w2 += Statistics.lnGamma(1 + nCount)
                                  - Statistics.lnGamma(1);
                            nTotal += nCount;
                          }
                        w2 += Statistics.lnGamma(nAttValues) - Statistics.lnGamma(nAttValues + nTotal);
                      }
                  } else {
                      // use BDe metric
                      for (int iAttValue = 0; iAttValue < nAttValues; iAttValue++) {
                        w1 += Statistics.lnGamma(1.0/nAttValues + ((DiscreteEstimatorBayes)EmptyNet.m_Distributions[iAttribute][0]).getCount(iAttValue))
                              - Statistics.lnGamma(1.0/nAttValues);
                      }
                      w1 += Statistics.lnGamma(1) - Statistics.lnGamma(1 + instances.numInstances());

                      int nParentValues = bayesNet.getParentSet(iAttribute).getCardinalityOfParents();
                      for (int iParent = 0; iParent < nParentValues; iParent++) {
                        int nTotal = 0;
                          for (int iAttValue = 0; iAttValue < nAttValues; iAttValue++) {
                            double nCount = ((DiscreteEstimatorBayes)NBNet.m_Distributions[iAttribute][iParent]).getCount(iAttValue);
                            w2 += Statistics.lnGamma(1.0/(nAttValues * nParentValues) + nCount)
                                  - Statistics.lnGamma(1.0/(nAttValues * nParentValues));
                            nTotal += nCount;
                          }
                        w2 += Statistics.lnGamma(1) - Statistics.lnGamma(1 + nTotal);
                      }
                  }

//    System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[1].getClassName() +w1 + " " + w2 + " " + (w2 - w1));
                  if (w1 < w2) {
                    w2 = w2 - w1;
                    w1 = 0;
                    w1 = 1 / (1 + Math.exp(w2));
                    w2 = Math.exp(w2) / (1 + Math.exp(w2));
                  } else {
                    w1 = w1 - w2;
                    w2 = 0;
                    w2 = 1 / (1 + Math.exp(w1));
                    w1 = Math.exp(w1) / (1 + Math.exp(w1));
                  }

                  for (int iParent = 0; iParent < bayesNet.getParentSet(iAttribute).getCardinalityOfParents(); iParent++) {
                      bayesNet.m_Distributions[iAttribute][iParent] =
                      new DiscreteEstimatorFullBayes(
                        instances.attribute(iAttribute).numValues(),
                        w1, w2,
                        (DiscreteEstimatorBayes) EmptyNet.m_Distributions[iAttribute][0],
                        (DiscreteEstimatorBayes) NBNet.m_Distributions[iAttribute][iParent],
                        m_fAlpha
                       );
                  }
            }
        }
        int iAttribute = instances.classIndex();
        bayesNet.m_Distributions[iAttribute][0] = EmptyNet.m_Distributions[iAttribute][0];
    } // estimateCPTs

    /**
     * Updates the classifier with the given instance.
     *
     * @param bayesNet the bayes net to use
     * @param instance the new training instance to include in the model
     * @throws Exception if the instance could not be incorporated in
     * the model.
     */
    public void updateClassifier(BayesNet bayesNet, Instance instance) throws Exception {
        throw new Exception("updateClassifier does not apply to BMA estimator");
    } // updateClassifier

    /**
     * initCPTs reserves space for CPTs and set all counts to zero
     *
     * @param bayesNet the bayes net to use
     * @throws Exception if something goes wrong
     */
    public void initCPTs(BayesNet bayesNet) throws Exception {
        // Reserve space for CPTs
        int nMaxParentCardinality = 1;

        for (int iAttribute = 0; iAttribute < bayesNet.m_Instances.numAttributes(); iAttribute++) {
            if (bayesNet.getParentSet(iAttribute).getCardinalityOfParents() > nMaxParentCardinality) {
                nMaxParentCardinality = bayesNet.getParentSet(iAttribute).getCardinalityOfParents();
            }
        }

        // Reserve plenty of memory
        bayesNet.m_Distributions = new Estimator[bayesNet.m_Instances.numAttributes()][nMaxParentCardinality];
    } // initCPTs

    /**
     * Returns whether K2 prior is used
     *
     * @return true if K2 prior is used
     */
    public boolean isUseK2Prior() {
        return m_bUseK2Prior;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the UseK2Prior.
     *
     * @param bUseK2Prior The bUseK2Prior to set
     */
    public void setUseK2Prior(boolean bUseK2Prior) {
        m_bUseK2Prior = bUseK2Prior;
    }

    /**
     * Returns an enumeration describing the available options
     *
     * @return an enumeration of all the available options
     */
    public Enumeration listOptions() {
        Vector newVector = new Vector(1);

        newVector.addElement(new Option(
            "\tWhether to use K2 prior.\n",
            "k2", 0, "-k2"));

        Enumeration enu = super.listOptions();
        while (enu.hasMoreElements()) {
                newVector.addElement(enu.nextElement());
        }

        return newVector.elements();
    } // listOptions

    /**
     * Parses a given list of options.

     *

     * Valid options are:

     *
     *
 -k2
     *  Whether to use K2 prior.
     *

     *
     *
 -A <alpha>
     *  Initial count (alpha)
     *

     *

     *
     * @param options the list of options as an array of strings
     * @throws Exception if an option is not supported
     */
    public void setOptions(String[] options) throws Exception {
        setUseK2Prior(Utils.getFlag("k2", options));

        super.setOptions(options);
    } // setOptions

    /**
     * Gets the current settings of the classifier.
     *
     * @return an array of strings suitable for passing to setOptions
     */
    public String[] getOptions() {
        String[] superOptions = super.getOptions();
        String[] options = new String[1 + superOptions.length];
        int current = 0;

        if (isUseK2Prior())
          options[current++] = "-k2";

        // insert options from parent class
        for (int iOption = 0; iOption < superOptions.length; iOption++) {
                options[current++] = superOptions[iOption];
        }

        // Fill up rest with empty strings, not nulls!
        while (current < options.length) {
                options[current++] = "";
        }

        return options;
    } // getOptions

    /**
     * Returns the revision string.
     *
     * @return		the revision
     */
    public String getRevision() {
      return RevisionUtils.extract("$Revision: 1.8 $");
    }
} // class BMAEstimator


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The main objective of this Act is to provide effective recognition, protection and conservation of Aboriginal cultural heritage.
The main objective of this Act is to provide effective recognition, protection and conservation of Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage.
The main objective of this Act is to amend the Aboriginal Land Regulation 2011 to declare an area of available state land as transferable land.
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(b) help people in welfare reform community areas to resume primary responsibility for the wellbeing of their community and the individuals and families of the community.
The objectives are achieved primarily through the operation of the Family Responsibilities Commission (FRC).
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Рафаэ́ль Фрю́бек де Бу́ргос (, артистический псевдоним, настоящее имя Рафаэль Фрюбек; 15 сентября 1933, Бургос — 11 июня 2014, Памплона) — испанский дирижёр немецкого происхождения.

Биография
Из семьи немецких эмигрантов. Учился игре на скрипке (преимущественно) и фортепиано в консерваториях Бильбао и Мадрида (в 1950-53). В 1953-55 гг. служил в армии, где занимал пост дирижёра военного духового оркестра. В 1956-57 гг. (?) обучался симфоническому дирижированию у Курта Айхорна и Г. Э. Лессинга в Мюнхенской высшей школе музыки. В 1958 вернулся в Испанию, в 1958-62 возглавлял Симфонический оркестр Бильбао. В дальнейшем руководил известными симфоническими оркестрами Европы и Северной Америки, среди них Национальный оркестр Испании (руководил им в 1962-78), Монреальский симфонический оркестр (1974-76), Венский симфонический оркестр (1991-96), симфонический оркестр Берлинского радио (1994-2000), Национальный симфонический оркестр Итальянского радио в Турине (2001-07), Дрезденский филармонический оркестр (2004-11), Симфонический оркестр Датского радио (2012-14). Занимался также оперным дирижированием, в т.ч. в 1992-97 занимал пост музыкального руководителя Немецкой оперы в Берлине.

Фрюбек де Бургос записал с различными оркестрами около 100 компакт-дисков, главным образом, классико-романтического репертуара. Известны его записи «Илии» Мендельсона, «Реквиема» Моцарта, «Carmina Burana» Орфа, «Кармен» Бизе, оркестровых сочинений Фальи. Особого внимания критиков удостоились записи музыки Рихарда Штрауса.

Награды и звания
 Серебряный Знак почета за заслуги перед Австрийской Республикой
 Золотая медаль Общества Густава Малера в Вене
 Приз Хасинто Герреро
 Почётный доктор Наваррского Университета (с 1994)
 Почётный доктор Университета Бургоса (с 1998)

Примечания

Литература
 Jacobs A., Goodwin N. Frühbeck de Burgos // The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. N.Y., London, 2001.
 Pâris A. Le nouveau dictionaire des interprètes. Paris, p. 330.

Ссылки

 Биография Рафаэля Фрюбека де Бургос на сайте фестиваля симфонических оркестров мира
 Рафаэль Фрюбек де Бургос на сайте Мариинского театра

Академические музыканты Испании
Выпускники Мадридской консерватории
Почётные доктора Бургосского университета
Почётные доктора университета Наварры

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n.b. This is a philosophical article and not a technical article. There are no correct answers to the questions that I will pose – only compromises.
I'm considering what the "best" declaration syntax would be. Historically, there have been two categories: which I will call qualifier-focused and type-focused. An example of qualifier-focused would be the Pascal family. An example of type-focused would be the C family. Odin, like Jai, have been experimenting with an name-focused declaration syntax. These categories place emphasis on different aspects of the declarations.
Some languages have a hybrid approach to the syntax of declarations. Python uses a form of name-focused for general variable declaration but qualifier-focused for function, class, and import declarations. Most modern derivatives of the C family may use type-focused for most declarations but use qualifier-focused for import declarations.
There are some issue regarding all three approaches.
Qualifier-focused declarations have a tendency to make you define all declarations at the top of a scope and/or group declarations together of the same kind together. This nudges the programmers to not intermingle declarations and assignments. Depending on the views of programmer, this can be viewed as a positive aspect.
Every declaration must be associated with a type and thus be part of the type system. This is one of the reasons why void is in C. If a function must specify the return type, the solution to this is to create a "non-type", i.e. void. Having a void type does cause issues in the type system in general but I will not consider those in this article.
Name-focused has three aspects to the declaration, the left hand side (lhs), the right hand side (rhs), and the middle part. The lhs aspect are the names of the entities to be declared whilst the rhs aspect of the declaration are forms of expressions. This means that all declarations must be a declaration of an expression. This does mean that all declarations must be assigned with a form of expression. The middle part denotes the type which could be optional.
In a self-contained language, having only expression assigned declarations is not a problem. The difficulty comes from interfacing with foreign code, such as C, and having a consistent syntax. In C, there are two forms of function declarations: function prototypes and full functions with bodies. A function prototype is not a form of expression. A function with a body which can be thought of a named lambda function.
An inconsistency with name-focused is with variable declarations without an assignment (x: int;). It is implied that the declaration has an implicit rhs expression, the zero/default value. It is also implied that the declaration must be a variable declaration (and not a constant declaration).
I will be open, I have a minor bias towards qualifier-focused due to Pascal being one of my very first languages. So when I started creating Odin, the language that I am designing and making, I started with a very Pascal syntax (including begin and end) but when the language became "public", the syntax changed to be closer to that of Jonathan Blow's language, Jai. I was intrigued by the idea of the name-focused syntax with its very elegant approach to type inference. However, I have had doubts about the syntax for quite a while. At one point, I struggled to find a solution to the issue of foreign procedures and foreign variables. Originally, I solved the issue for foreign procedures with replacing the procedure body with a #foreign tag. However, this approach cannot be applied to a foreign variable declaration and still be consistent. On an impulsive whim, I switched the entire declaration syntax to a Go-like qualifier-focused style for 2 weeks. (I have done this switch twice.) The solution to the foreign entities was to have a procedure lambda without a body by replacing the body with --- and surrounding all foreign declarations in a foreign block. In Odin, a procedure without a body cannot be distinguished from a procedure type and thus there needed to be a way to specify a procedure literal/lambda without a body.
There are two reasons for this conflict that I have between qualifier-focused and name-focused. The first is that name-focused is elegant and terse to write compared to qualifier-focused. The second is the "ugliness" of qualifier-focused with conjunction with other forms of statements.
It does look slightly better but it is still "dense". These parentheses make it less "ugly" for some reason and it's not self apparent as to why the separation between the two words by punctuation improves matters.
:= is a pragmatic solution to this aesthetic problem with the qualifier-focused var. However, this is not to say that the := operator is great. In Go, it has extra semantics to make Go feel more like a "dynamic language" (variables will be shadowed with :=). Even if you had both var and :=, and that they did the exact same thing, it does beg the question: why have two things that do exactly the same thing?
I have been researching the topic of syntax in language design for a long time now. It's been an interesting topic and I think I should actually write most of my findings. I hope this condensed explanation of the issues with regards to declaration syntax has aided others as to my predicament.


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They are not easily damaged from severe weather conditions, and they add a unique rustic appearance. However, wood is more susceptible to conditions that allow mold and mildew to take over. Cleaning needs to be done regularly, and it may require a costly professional treatment with chemicals if contaminants are resilient. Wooden shingles can last up to 50 years, but most homeowners have it replaced sooner due to the changing appearance over time.
Slate shingles or tiles are great for all types of climates because they are extremely durable. The extra investment can actually last longer than the lifetime of the homeowner if installed properly. Less expensive alternatives do not have the same durability, but offer the same attractive look to finish the home. Replacing old asphalt or wooden shingles can come at an additional fee if the home is unable to support a big increase in the weight of material. Always have a professional roofer evaluate the condition of the home to be sure that slate is an option without additional home improvements.
Cover all of the bases and compare every aspect when choosing a material for a full roof replacement. Asphalt may be the best option in a pinch when money is limited. More durable and unique materials come at a higher price, but can equal out to the same value as they take much longer to require replacement. Consult your local Summerville experts to make the best decision for your home.