So why would anyone BIM, or Building Information Modeling? Unless you are doing a power plant or some very specialized industrial job, our guys in the field can work things out, right? Not exactly, first let me start with some definitions so we can all be speaking the same language.
Building Information Modeling (BIM) - The science/art of putting the building elements that will be constructed on a project into a computer program that includes 3D spatial information along with other key data about the components that go into the building (cost, manufacturer, schedule, warranty, etc).
Virtual Construction (VC) - The same as BIM, but without the extra info, just a 3D modeling effort.
Right now I am willing to bet that most of the companies that say that they BIM are really only doing VC. I know most of the large General Contractors out there really push that they BIM, but I have not seen many models that combine schedule, warranty, and all of the other data that it possible. Given the technology and benefits, I would say that most jobs should be utilizing VC, not just the specialized ones.
Let me give you an example. I am in the process of building a house, which is a great experience to learn from and is also a good experience to look at VC. On the second floor I have a corridor that runs parallel with the roof joists, which is pretty standard. The corridor is about 4' wide. For lighting we laid out downlights that run down the center of the corridor since there are large closet doors and many other doors in this area and wall sconces did not work. Well as luck would have it one of the joists is located directly center of the corridor, which leaves me as a Owner only a few options.
Add structural support to an already framed house so that downlights can be accommodated.
Fight with contractor about what he should have known.
As far as the contractor, they could be in for a world of trouble. Depending on how the drawings can be interpreted and who signed off on the wood packs can be a sticking point, I mean the drawings clearly showed a downlight and the contract says that the Contractor is to notify the Owner of any conflicts in the drawings. Even if he can win it through court, I could make his life miserable in fixing the problem and not paying him for months (and any subcontractor obviously has it a more difficult than that being down stream of the Builder).
As a veteran of the industry I obviously did not hurt the Builder and am working on a surface mounted solution to the problem. I understand where the breakdown was, it was in VC. I could visualize most of the house from a set of 2D drawings, but the actual install methods I could not (like the joists). When multiple systems got put in place the conflict became clear, but since we were not using VC I had to see it in the field which costs me time and money. If we would have done it in VC it would have been easy to see on the screen and move the joist packs 6" which would have solved the problem.
I have about a half dozen other examples from this 50% complete project (I am keeping my fingers crossed that no other ones come up). Imagine the number of examples I would have if both my wife and me were not engaged in the Architectural/Construction industry? For people who can't visualize the documents, you add another component to the mix beyond conflicts between trades.
Whether you are a designer or subcontractor the technology is out there and becoming cheaper every year, please look into BIM or at least VC. I am not saying that each house should be modeled (not sure if I would model the next one or not), but if you can find advantages in wood construction, I am sure there are advantages in offices, hospitals, retail, ballparks, and industry.


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Titchmarsh News in Print Since 1861
If you thought the Titchmarsh Times was the first and only regular publication produced in the village, think again! The monthly Titchmarsh Parish Magazine was first printed in 1861 – over 150 years ago – when Queen Victoria was on the throne.
Each issue included details of the births, deaths and marriages in the village alongside important dates and holidays. There would also be some kind of story or editorial marking recent events. In October 1866, for example, the magazine reported on the 5th annual Harvest Festival. That year the lesson was read by Revd S.C. Haines – Chaplain to the Lunatic Assylum in Northampton!
Fast forward some fifty years and in June/ July 1920 we find mention of the Church organ, "an unusually fine instrument, the like of which is seldom found in a village church", being in need of "a thorough overhaul and tuning", details of the Village Fete which was to feature Thrapston Town Band and "a great many competitions", and a piece on Northampton General Hospital concerning its dire financial position; "The problem of Hospital Management has become acute owing to the greatly increased cost of evrything associated with its administration". Nothing new then!
Thanks to the work and dedication of Sylvia Prestwich and Terry Higgins, over a thousand issues from 1861 can be downloaded from the website.
Browse the archive by selecting a year below. Note, this is a very large archive and may take time to load.
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The foot never changes. However, what we put around the foot seems to change rapidly. If feet could talk my guess is they'd express how severely traumatized they were. More so women's shoes than men's shoes. Men's shoes have evolved but have always seemed to follow a basic template that makes them more susceptible for cobblers and designers to explore a variety of skins, fabrics and embellishments that seem more like plausible updates than re-incenting the wheel. One such company that has been dressing American men's feet since 1758 has been Walk Over Shoes. If any shoe company knows about the gravitational pull of men towards a familiar template, it's Walk Over which would explain why their footwear is comfortable, familiar and handsome with just enough noise to not be considered 'bells and whistles'. For Spring/Summer 2012 Walk Over examines the colorful infusion in mens footwear with vibrant topstitching and bright soles and revamped classics like saddles and bucks for a new generation of footwear aficionados. For more information, lace up and glide on over to WalkOver.com.


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Home Auto Nissan wows fans with 370Z NISMO reveal
Nissan wows fans with 370Z NISMO reveal
The Japanese car company arrived at- this years ZDayZ - the annual gathering of American Nissan and Datsun performance car enthusiasts - with a surprise guest: the latest iteration of its hardcore sports coupe.
| Updated on: 20 May 2014, 11:20 AM
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The Japanese car company arrived at- this year's ZDayZ - the annual gathering of American Nissan and Datsun performance car enthusiasts - with a surprise guest: the latest iteration of its hardcore sports coupe.
Due to hit the dealerships in July, the 2015 370Z NISMO is more a subtle reworking than a complete overhaul.
It still has a 350-horsepower 3.7-liter DOHC V6 engine under the hood, but suspension has been tweaked significantly for the new model so more of that power can be used more of the time.
But for the first time, the car will be offered with a seven-speed automatic transmission complete with rev-matching on the downchange and a manual mode complete with paddle shifts. However, the purists needn't worry as the six-speed manual transmission is still alive and well and will continue to be offered as the standard configuration on the car.
Apart from the transmission, the biggest changes are in terms of exterior styling and internal in-car tech and comfort. The car gets new alloy wheels and a redesigned aerodynamics package which includes a smaller rear spoiler.
Inside, the sports seats have been redesigned in collaboration with Recaro, meaning that they're exclusive to the 370Z NISMO and have been developed to offer comfort, feedback and support tuned to the car's handling and performance characteristics. And they're trimmed in leather and Alcantara too.
Other new toys include a hard-drive based navigation system with 7-inch touch screen, a Bose sound system, reversing camera and everything the connected driver needs to synch a smartphone handset to the dashboard.
When the car goes on sale this summer, the 370Z NISMO will be offered in a choice of just four colours -- red, black, silver or white.
The car's reveal was one of the highlights of this year's ZDayZ, which was held in North Carolina and concludes Monday. As well as giving fans the chance to see the 370Z NISMO before anyone else in the world, the event offers racing, a car show, fine dining and mountain road drives.
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Q: Adding key to registry I would like to create a batch file, that will add registry key, not manually, but full automaticly by .BAT file. This link goes about adding everything but not the key. This link shows how to add everything, and how to add key manually, but it requires user interference, which I am trying to avoid.
Is there possibility to add KEY (non REG_*) to "folder?" in registry by one simple batch file?

A: In a command prompt type REG /? and you will see the functionality available in your batch file.
REG ADD /? will give you more info on actually adding the key.  If you're planning on running this from SCCM, you may need to specify 32/64 bit registry as it may cause some errors.
Actual Examples of REG ADD:
REG ADD HKLM\Software\MyCo /v Data /t REG_BINARY /d fe340ead

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Don Cheadle (Avengers Infinity War) leads a group of outsiders on a daring mission to take on Wall Street in the new Showtime series Black Monday.
BLACK MONDAY takes viewers back to October 19, 1987 – aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in the history of Wall Street. To this day, no one knows who caused it … until now.
It's the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world's largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine and the glass ceiling. Starring Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells and Regina Hall.


Freddie Gibbs breaks down his favorite verse from Scarface's "Homies & Thugs" for our series VERSES.
Boy what you know about homies and thugs Gangsta Gibbs?
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Faces of 19 men and women currently on the Northamptonshire Police 'most wanted' list
IN COURT: Who's been sentenced from Northampton, Daventry, Boughton, West Haddon and Pattishall
Charity chief's concern as only a fraction of domestic abuse cases in Northamptonshire end with someone being charged
Police vow: 'Officers will continue to work tirelessly to track down anybody responsible for this heinous crime'
By Joanna Morris, Data Reporter
Tuesday, 30th November 2021, 2:43 pm
Domestic abuse crimes soared in Northamptonshire over the last six years with more than 12,000 recorded during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, figures show.
Nearly 850,000 such crimes were reported to police across England and Wales last year — but charity Women's Aid says that is merely "the tip of the iceberg."
Rates for many other crimes dropped during a year that included coronavirus restrictions and national lockdowns, yet domestic abuse rose by six percent nationally.
Northamptonshire Police recorded 12,000 domestic abuse cases in a year — but believe thousands more were not reported
Home Office data shows Northamptonshire Police recorded 12,385 offences in the 12 months from March 2020, making up one-fifth of all offences recorded during that period.
That is the equivalent of 16 for every 1,000 people in the area, up from 14 the previous year.
And the area has seen an 83 percent rise in domestic abuse offences since 6,770 were logged in 2015-16, when records began.
The data shows women are disproportionately more likely to experience abuse and they have accounted for more than three-quarters of those killed in domestic homicides since 2018 nationally. One woman was killed in Northamptonshire in that time.
Farah Nazeer, chief executive of Women's Aid, said to tackle domestic abuse, society must work together to tackle the "inherent sexism and misogyny which underpin women's inequality and violence against them".
She said: "Women will not report domestic abuse if they aren't confident they will be believed and action will be taken on their behalf.
"We all have a part to play in unlearning sexism."
The figures suggest most cases of domestic abuse will not see perpetrators charged, with just seven percent of cases concluded in the county last year resulted in a charge or summons.
Ms Nazeer said work was needed to restore faith in policing after more than three-quarters of investigations were dropped due to evidential difficulties nationally – more than half because the victim pulled out of investigations.
In Northamptonshire, 83 percent of cases were closed due to problems gathering evidence in 2020-21 and 48 percent abandoned because the victim did not wish to support the investigation.
Chief Constable Nick Adderley has made domestic abuse one of his policing priorities alongside tackling knife crime, anti-social behaviour and serious organised crime.
He said: "We are targeting repeat victims and continuing to take action against offenders and reduce victimisation.
"In addition, more officers – including all new recruits – will be given dedicated training in this area to raise awareness across the board."
In Northamptonshire, Police made 331 domestic abuse-related arrests during a month-long campaign run to coincide with football's European Championships — including a number of 'most wanteds'.
Detective Inspector Mark Hopkinson, from the Domestic Abuse Team, who led the campaign said: "My officers will continue to work tirelessly to track down and arrest anybody responsible for this heinous crime which has such devastating consequences for victims, children and often the wider family too.
"We know many incidents go unreported. Nobody should have to live in fear and I urge victims to come forward.
"We work closely with statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure anyone who suffers domestic abuse gets the help they need.
"There will no doubt be victims who haven't reported offences which happened during lockdown and I urge them and anyone suffering from domestic abuse to call their local police on the non-emergency 101 or, in an emergency, always call 999.
"You can also call the national 24-hour domestic abuse helpline on 0808 2000 247 or if you're deaf or hard of hearing, use our textphone service on 18001 101."
■ Visit the Northamptonshire Police website for help and advice on domestic abuse.
Roadworks: When drivers might need to steer clear of the M1, A45, A5 and A43 this week
Gardeners warned to watch out for stolen machinery offered cheap following Northamptonshire village break-in
Ten domestic abuse arrests every day in December during Northamptonshire Police crackdown
IN COURT: Who's been sentenced from Northampton, Daventry, Long Buckby and Earls Barton
Who's been sentenced from Northampton, Daventry, Wootton, Flore and Potterspury
Police data reveals Northamptonshire businesses suffered most thefts committed by employees in UK
Who's been in court from Northampton, Daventry, Roade and Nether Heyford


Greetings from the Cleaveland airport, I'm on my way back to Yale from California. This past week I've been attending y the First Kepler Science Conference at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. It has been a full week of talks and posters on extrasolar planets, planet formation, and stellar astrophysics with emphasis on results from Kepler.
I gave a talk in the Kepler mission and exoplanet statistics session presenting Planet Hunters and our first results. My talk and the entire conference was recorded and the videos are available to view here.
There were lots of interesting talks highlighting what a treasure trove the Kepler data set is. The Kepler team announced the detection of over 2,000 planet candidates identified in the first five quarters of Kepler observations and the discovery of Kepler's first confirmed planet (Kepler 22-b) orbiting in the habitable zone of a solar-type star. The habitable zone has been dubbed the goldilocks zone because it's the region around the star where it not too hot and not too cold for liquid water to exist. So if Kepler-22b is rocky it might have liquid water on its surface, but we don't currently have a good mass estimate for Kepler-22b so we don't know what its composition is. Kepler-22 b is bigger than the Earth, with a radius of 2.4 times the radius of the Earth. It orbits its star every 290 days, so the Kepler team has just been able to see three complete transits of the planet.Kepler 22-b was called the Kepler team's "Christmas Planet" says Kepler principal investigator (PI) Bill Borucki because one of the transits occurred near Christmas. You can find out more about Kepler-22b here and view the light curve here.
In other exciting new, lots more data and possible planets are coming our way in the next year. The new public release schedule for Kepler data was presented on the first day of the conference. Quarters 4, 5, and 6 (spanning observations fromDec 2009-Sep 2010) will be released on Jan 7, 2012. Quarters 7, 8, and 9 (Sep 2010-Jun 2011) will be released on Jul 28, 2012. Quarters 10, 11, 12, and 13 (Jun 2011-Jun 2012) will be released on Oct 28, 2012. There's bound to be interesting and new things waiting to found as we add and more.
Past the nominal misson, if the mission is renewed, the Kepler data will no longer have a proprietary period. If NASA awards funding for an extended mission, then beyond November the Kepler light curves will be made available to public as soon as the raw data is downloaded from the spacecraft and processed through the Kepler data processing pipelines. This is going to be an exciting prospect for the exoplanet community and for Planet Hunters.
Fellow zooites and Planet Hunters Daryll (nighthawk_black), Kian (kianjin), and Tom(Tom128) attended the conference too. They'll each be guest bloggers in the up coming weeks to share their impressions and highlights of the conference.
That's a bundle of good news! Nice to see the citizen scientists were well represented, too. There should be lots to do in the years to come.


Yep, I'm still trying to find my groove here on this new blog, just started last month. However, this coming week and next month, I have a few things scheduled that ought to help me (and you) find a groove with which we both can work.
At the end of each month, I will write a Movie of the Month, Album of the Month, and Book of the Month post. For this month, the schedule will be Wednesday, April 26, for the movie post; Friday, April 28, the album post; and Sunday, April 30, the book post.
In May, my wife Kim and I will be doing a series on our favorite Netflix and Amazon Prime TV shows every Wednesday, alternating among mine, hers, and ours.
I'm thinking that should help, at least to start. From there, I might add other features, but the basic schedule will be this: What I'm Reading posts on Sunday with The Sunday Salon posts; What We'reWatching posts, Wednesdays; and What I'm Listening To posts, Fridays.
Since this past week, I didn't write a post on Wednesday or Friday, I'll just let you know what we've been watching and what I've been listening to here along with what I've been reading.
Reading: I picked up a copy of Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction by Eric Foner from Overdrive at the Free Library of Philadelphia. I've had an interest in that time period ever since having a class in college about the Civil War, in which we used another book by Foner. It always has stuck in my mind and so I thought why not revisit Reconstruction with Foner, one of its most prominent historians. I'm also waiting to see a few other ebooks from FLP to become available, and when they do, I'll decide which one I'll choose for my next fiction read.
Watching: Kim and I are just getting to Season 13 of NCIS on Netflix, but not trying to gobble it up too quickly before Season 14 comes out on Netflix, hopefully later this summer, along with the latest season of Criminal Minds that I'm eagerly anticipating. We also did start Season 3 of Bosch, but unlike the first two seasons, this one isn't grabbing me as quickly. We will continue to watch, but we're not in a rush.
So what are you reading, watching, or listening to this past week that my readers and I should take note of?
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I had a groove but the last few weeks have killed it. I need some quiet time and some quality time at home to get it back, but that should happen in May. In the meantime, I'm going to be looking to see what you recommend. A lot of the shows you love, my husband does as well. Have you watched Ripper Street on Netflix? I see that being something you would love.
I like it that you have a new blog and new plan for your blog. I am currently watching Dr. Who, the newest season is finally on BBC America; I am listening to The Hate U Give…It is amazing. I'm listening to my iTunes playlist, which is massive.
I would love to find my groove as well. Somehow I just need the one or two things that I WANT to blog about and then I know I will be writing everyday. Ugh, so hard!
I love the features you are doing – so I will be eager to check them out.
I do love the themes you plan to spotlight…I am always interested in Netflix, Amazon Prime, and new movies.
Your new blog post themes will have me back here over and over!! always looking for new shows on netflix. I just finished Travelers. The bad thing is I find a bunch of shows and then have to waaaaait for the next season to come out!! I'm loving the quality writing and unique ideas!!
I just got home from an amazing library conference, and I'm happily stacking and snapping my finds. I'm putting on my pencil pants and planning to spend the day writing. I'm reading (still) Hamilton along with Anne Lamont's newest Hallelujah Anyway and my book group's A Pair of Jesus Boots.
Sounds like you got your groove back too…after last weekend.


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Detroit Tigers Rumors
Nelson Cruz would add power to Tigers' outfield, but doesn't seem like a likely fit in Detroit
Enough with the relievers. Would outfielder Nelson Cruz be a good fit with the Tigers if he declines his qualifying offer?
By Rob Rogacki@BYBRob Nov 6, 2013, 8:02am EST
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Nelson Cruz has hit 135 home runs over the past five seasons with the Texas Rangers, but like Jhonny Peralta, Cruz will hit the free agent market after serving a 50 game suspension last season. He still may accept his qualifying offer from the Rangers -- which would make this article obsolete -- but will the Tigers show interest if he declines?
Season PA HR RBI BB% K% AVG OBP SLG wOBA wRC+
2013 456 27 76 7.7% 23.9% .266 .327 .506 .359 122
Career 3182 157 489 7.9% 22.3% .268 .327 .495 .353 114
Cruz was signed by the New York Mets as an amateur free agent back in 1998, but broke into the big leagues with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2005 after spending four years with the Oakland Athletics. Cruz was shipped to Texas as part of the Carlos Lee at the 2006 trade deadline, but didn't make his mark until 2009. He played in a then-career high 128 games and hit .260/.332/.524 with 33 home runs, 76 RBI, and 20 stolen bases. Since then, he has hit 102 home runs with an .838 OPS in the past four seasons.
Why should we care?
Power, power, and more power. Cruz's bat would add even more thump to the middle of the Tigers' order, including the "home run power" that can change games in a heartbeat. Cruz has hit at least 24 home runs and slugged at least .506 in four of the past five seasons. Let's put that into perspective: his .460 slugging average in 2012 -- the lowest figure he has posted since 2007 -- would have been third on this year's Tigers club behind Miguel Cabrera and Torii Hunter.
Another plus working in Cruz's favor is his tie-in with the Biogenesis suspensions from last season. Some teams and fans view that as a black mark on Cruz's record, which will lower his contract demands considerably. In addition, Cruz was given a qualifying offer by the Texas Rangers. If he declines the $14.1 million offer to become a free agent, the team that signs him will forfeit their first round draft pick. Few teams will make it over both of these obstacles, limiting the amount of competition that the Tigers could face if they have their eyes set on the Dominican slugger.
Why should we stay away?
Cruz burst onto the scene with the Texas Rangers in 2009, so it's easy for people to overlook the fact that he's 33 years old. Power is typically one of the first tools to decline as a player ages, but Cruz has the type of natural strength that should prolong his productivity for a couple seasons. However, there's always the risk that Cruz will drop off quickly as he gets older. He is a career .268 hitter with a 22.3% strikeout rate, so his fall from grace could be fairly swift.
Anyone who has watched Fox's playoff coverage over the past few seasons has seen Cruz's attempt at a David Freese fly ball in the 2011 World Series. If Cruz catches that ball, the Rangers are World Series champions. As we saw, however, Cruz's range in the outfield is lacking. This deficiency can be masked in a smaller park, but would likely be exposed in Comerica's expansive outfield.
Will he end up in Detroit?
It's hard to see the Tigers showing interest in Cruz after Dave Dombrowski's comments that the Tigers would not look to re-sign Jhonny Peralta. This has nothing to do with either player being suspended last year -- at least, not in my eyes -- but rather because they are similar players. Sure, Cruz is a natural outfielder who hits for more power than Peralta, but it would seem odd if the Tigers were to give him a contract when they have another slow, plodding right-handed hitter who has expressed interest into returning to the club in 2014.
Detroit Tigers 2013-14 offseason targets: Who could be wearing the Olde English D next season?
Tigers offseason target: Stephen Strasburg
Tigers offseason target: Nelson Cruz
Tigers offseason target: Joe Nathan


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The Last Bounty Hunter is a live-action laserdisc video game released by American Laser Games in 1994. Like almost all of the games produced by the now-defunct company, it was a rail shooter and, like the two installments in the Mad Dog McCree series before it, was set in the Old West. Filmed at Old Tucson Studios in Tucson, Arizona, it was one of the company's last releases before it was forced to close down. It was also re-released by Digital Leisure in 2002 and was eventually packaged with Fast Draw Showdown by Global VR as an arcade cabinet under the name Six Gun Select.
The storyline of The Last Bounty Hunter is relatively simple, as is the case with most rail shooters similar to it. The player steps into the shoes of an anonymous bounty hunter who rides into a busy town in order to track down and bring to justice four outlaws whose control over the territory is widespread. Handsome Harry, Nasty Dan, El Loco, The Cactus Kid and their respective gangs are terrorizing the peaceful citizens of the county and it is up to the player to defeat them.
The beginning of the game pits the player against a group of bandits attacking a fort commanded by a United States Army general, Clinton Briggs. With each scenario, the player fights his way to the final enemy, one of the four outlaws, each of whom can either by wounded and apprehended or shot dead. The point, or "cash", bonus is higher if the final boss is taken alive, by means of shooting the gun out of their hand before they can fire. However, this must be done within a small target area, and within a certain amount of time to prevent them from firing first. Once in a while, the action will take a break to a setting which involves a duel with one enemy or a group of men standing in which only one actually takes part in the duel. The player must shoot only after the shooter goes for his gun and not shoot any of the other men. In the meantime, the player must battle their gangs in settings such as a train station, a casino and the scorching heat of the Great Plains. The ending sequence depends on the way in which the criminals were brought to justice. Depending on who was captured alive, they might come back and try to either bribe or shoot you. There are also stages that appear randomly depending on the current stage selected. One example is starting with El Loco causing different scenes for the Handsome Harry or Nasty Dan levels.
The player receives an amount of money for each neutralized outlaw; this money translates into points. Throughout the game, three different weapons can be used: the standard six-shooter, the seemingly more powerful shotgun, and a gun that holds more bullets then the normal six-shooter, which can be found as a bonus at times by shooting oxen skulls, hanging lanterns, and wooden wheels. Showdowns take place at random, though more frequently and with greater diversity than in Mad Dog McCree; one of the gunfighters is Wes Flowers, the star of another American Laser Games release, Fast Draw Showdown.
As in other related games, shooting and reloading are done exclusively via mouse or light gun. Getting hit or firing upon a civilian results in the loss of one of three lives and an appropriate sequence involving a gravedigger. There is one load/save slot and a second player can be introduced at the start of the game.
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Much like that of the earlier Crime Patrol, The Last Bounty Hunter's acting is generally considered average, yet offset by humour. Examples include an overweight sheriff who literally flees at the first hint of trouble, to the point of abandoning the jail during a break-out, and various one-liners by almost all of the characters, such as the Undertaker, whose lines include "Have you considered our layaway plan?" and "Good thing you're such a lousy shot, or we'da never met!", or the an elderly doctor, who has lines such as "I've gotta practice! YOU need to!".
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What the new science of psychedelics teaches us …, by Michael Pollan (a summary by Pat Evert)
A New Door
Set is the mind-set or expectation one brings to the experience, and setting is the environment in which it takes place. Compared with other drugs, psychedelics seldom affect people the same way twice, because they tend to magnify whatever's already going on both inside and outside one's head. Carl Jung once wrote that it is not the young but people in middle age who need to have an "experience of the numinous" to help them negotiate the second half of their lives. Several experimenters said they had lost their fear of death completely. The reasons offered for this transformation were intriguing but also somewhat elusive. "Individuals transcend their primary identification with their bodies and experience ego-free states," one of the researchers was quoted as saying. They "return with a new perspective and profound acceptance." LSD appears to disable such conventionalized, shorthand modes of perception and, by doing so, restores a childlike immediacy, and sense of wonder, to our experience of reality, as if we were seeing everything for the first time. The study demonstrated that a high dose of psilocybin could be used to safely and reliably "occasion" a mystical experience—typically described as the dissolution of one's ego followed by a sense of merging with nature or the universe. Two-thirds of the participants rated the session among the top five "most spiritually significant experiences" of their lives; one-third ranked it the most significant such experience in their lives. What is striking about this whole line of clinical research is the premise that it is not the pharmacological effect of the drug itself but the kind of mental experience it occasions—involving the temporary dissolution of one's ego—that may be the key to changing one's mind. The efficiencies of the adult mind, useful as they are, blind us to the present moment. We're constantly jumping ahead to the next thing. We approach experience much as an artificial intelligence (AI) program does, with our brains continually translating the data of the present into the terms of the past, reaching back in time for the relevant experience, and then using that to make its best guess as to how to predict and navigate the future. One of the things that commends travel, art, nature, work, and certain drugs to us is the way these experiences, at their best, block every mental path forward and back, immersing us in the flow of a present that is literally wonderful—wonder being the by-product of precisely the kind of unencumbered first sight, or virginal noticing, to which the adult brain has closed itself. The good thing is I'm seldom surprised. The bad thing is I'm seldom surprised.
If everyday waking consciousness is but one of several possible ways to construct a world, then perhaps there is value in cultivating a greater amount of what I've come to think of as neural diversity. With that in mind, How to Change Your Mind approaches its subject from several different perspectives. A couple of terms to note are "entheogens"—from the Greek for "the divine within" and "psychedelic" means simply "mind manifesting."
A Renaissance
THREE 2006 EVENTS helped bring psychedelics out of their decades-long slumber:
—Griffiths's landmark paper, "Psilocybin Can Occasion Mystical-Type Experiences Having Substantial and Sustained Personal Meaning and Spiritual Significance." In time, what he was learning about "the mystery of consciousness and existence" in his meditation practice came to seem more compelling to him than his science. "I was going through the motions at work, much more interested in going home in the evening to meditate." these substances had the potential to heal not only individuals but humankind as a whole and that the best path to their rehabilitation was by way of credible scientific research. So there were scattered hopeful signs in the early 1990s that conditions were ripening for a revival of psychedelic research. The tiny community that had sustained such a dream through the dark ages began, tentatively, quietly, to organize.
—The second watershed event of 2006 came when the U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision ruled that the UDV, a tiny religious sect that uses a hallucinogenic tea called ayahuasca as its sacrament, could import the drink to the United States, even though it contains the schedule 1 substance dimethyltryptamine, or DMT. The ruling was based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.
—Thirdly, Bob Jesse and his colleagues would eventually lead to their collaboration on the 2006 study of psilocybin and mystical experience at Johns Hopkins. They believed "it would be a big mistake if medicalization is all that happens." Why a mistake? Because Bob Jesse was ultimately less interested in people's mental problems than with their spiritual well-being—in using entheogens for the betterment of well people. Descriptions of such psychedelic experiences always sound a little thin.
"You have to imagine a caveman transported into the middle of Manhattan. He sees buses, cell phones, skyscrapers, airplanes. Then zap him back to his cave. What does he say about the experience? 'It was big, it was impressive, it was loud.' He doesn't have the vocabulary for 'skyscraper,' 'elevator,' 'cell phone.' Maybe he has an intuitive sense there was some sort of significance or order to the scene. But there are words we need that don't yet exist. We've got five crayons when we need fifty thousand different shades."
Many of the volunteers I spoke to reported initial episodes of intense fear and anxiety before surrendering themselves to the experience—as the sitters encourage them to do. Safest way to return to normal is to entrust self unconditionally to the emerging experiences. Guides are instructed to remind volunteers they'll never be left alone and not to worry about the body while journeying because the guides are there to keep an eye on it. If you feel as if you are "dying, melting, dissolving, exploding, going crazy etc.—go ahead." Volunteers are quizzed: "If you see a door, what do you do? If you see a staircase, what do you do?" "Open it" and "climb up it" are of course the right answers.
I could feel my body dissolving, beginning with my feet, until it all disappeared but the left side of my jaw. It was really unpleasant; I could count only a few teeth left and the bottom part of my jaw. I knew that if that went away I would be gone. Then I remembered what they told me, that whenever you encounter anything scary, go toward it. So instead of being afraid of dying I got curious about what was going on. I was no longer trying to avoid dying. Instead of recoiling from the experience, I began to interrogate it. And with that, the whole situation dissolved into this pleasant floaty feeling, and I became the music for a while.
The supreme importance of surrendering to the experience, however frightening or bizarre, is stressed in the preparatory sessions and figures largely in many people's journeys, and beyond. Boothby, the philosopher, took the advice to heart and found that he could use the idea as a kind of tool to shape the experience in real time. He wrote: Early on I began to perceive that the effects of the drug respond strikingly to my own subjective determination. If, in response to the swelling intensity of the whole experience, I began to tense up with anxiety, the whole scene appears to tighten in some way. But if I then consciously remind myself to relax, to let myself go into the experience, the effect is dramatic. The space in which I seem to find myself, already enormous, suddenly yawns open even further and the shapes that undulate before my eyes appear to explode with new and even more extravagant patterns. Over and over again I had the overwhelming sense of infinity being multiplied by another infinity. Now it is hardwired in my brain so I can connect to it and do often. He had had a meditation practice before psilocybin, but "now I had the motivation, because I had tasted the destination"; he was willing to do the hard work of Zen now that he had gotten a preview of the new modes of consciousness it could make available to him. The idea that we can now approach mystical states of consciousness with the tools of science is what gets Roland Griffiths out of bed in the morning. "As a scientific phenomenon, if you can create a condition in which 70 percent of people will say they have had one of the most meaningful experiences of their lives . . . well, as a scientist that's just incredible."
Bemushroomed (natural history)
Where did these mushrooms grow, and how? Why did they evolve the ability to produce a chemical compound so closely related to serotonin, the neurotransmitter, that it can slip across the blood-brain barrier and temporarily take charge of the mammalian brain? If the experience of transcendence is mediated by molecules that flow through both our brains and the natural world of plants and fungi, then perhaps nature is not as mute as Science has told us. In the process may we begin to unpack the mystery of their existence and spooky powers.
Paul Stamets acknowledges the challenges of ever proving it to anyone's satisfaction yet deems it "more likely than not" that psilocybin "was pivotal in human evolution." Now consider all this from the mushroom's point of view: what might have started as a biochemical accident has turned into an ingenious strategy for enlarging the species' range and number, by winning the fervent devotion of an animal as ingenious and well traveled (and well spoken!) as Homo sapiens. In McKenna's vision, it is the mushroom itself that helped form precisely the kind of mind—endowed with the tools of language and fired by imagination—that could best advance its interests. How diabolically brilliant! No wonder Paul Stamets is convinced of their intelligence. Our own species and the challenging circumstances in which we find ourselves today. Homo sapiens might have arrived at one of those periods of crisis that calls for some mental and behavioral depatterning. Could that be why nature has sent us these psychedelic molecules now? Alexander von Humboldt believed it is only with our feelings, our senses, and our imaginations—that is, with the faculties of human subjectivity—that we can ever penetrate nature's secrets. "Nature everywhere speaks to man in a voice" that is "familiar to his soul." I'm thinking, for example, of the "earth's Internet," "the neurological network of nature," and the "forest's immune system"—three Romantic-sounding metaphors that it would be foolish to bet against. Instead of seeing nature as a collection of discrete objects, the Romantic scientists—and I include Stamets in their number—saw a densely tangled web of subjects, each acting on the other in the great dance that would come to be called coevolution. "Everything," Humboldt said, "is interaction and reciprocal."
I and my wife ingested the pschodelic mushrooms:
I felt as though whatever it is that usually divides me from the world out there had begun to fall away. Not completely: the battlements of ego had not fallen; this was not what the researchers would deem a "complete" mystical experience, because I retained the sense of an observing I. But the doors and windows of perception had opened wide, and they were admitting more of the world and its myriad nonhuman personalities than ever before. In one way I knew this scene well—the garden coming briefly back to life after the heat of a summer day has relented—but never had I felt so integral to it. I was no longer the alienated human observer, gazing at the garden from a distance, whether literal or figural, but rather felt part and parcel of all that was transpiring here. I had felt the personhood of other beings in a way I hadn't before; whatever it is that keeps us from feeling our full implication in nature had been temporarily in abeyance. There had also been, I felt, an opening of the heart, toward my parents, yes, and toward Judith, but also, weirdly, toward some of the plants and trees and birds and even the damn bugs on our property.
Some of this openness has persisted. I think back on it now as an experience of wonder and immanence. The fact that this transformation of my familiar world into something I can only describe as numinous was occasioned by the eating of a little brown mushroom that Stamets and I had found growing on the edge of a parking lot in a state park on the Pacific coast. This disclosed the wonder that is always there in a garden or wood, hidden in plain sight—another form of consciousness "parted from [us]," as William James put it. It is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing them all, our kith and kin. In this sense, I guess Paul Stamets is right to think the mushrooms are bringing us messages from nature, or at least helping us to open up and read them. Maybe to be in a garden and feel awe, or wonder, in the presence of an astonishing mystery, is nothing more than a recovery of a misplaced perspective, perhaps the child's-eye view; maybe we regain it by means of a neurochemical change that disables the filters (of convention, of ego) that prevent us in ordinary hours from seeing what is.
The first wave (history)
Part I: The Promise – Volunteers on LSD appeared to be losing their minds. Humphry Osmond wrote that the extraordinary promise of LSD was to allow the therapist who took it to "enter the illness and see with a madman's eyes, hear with his ears, and feel with his skin." Cohen came to think of it instead as something he called "unsanity": "a state beyond the control of the ego." In half a dozen or so papers published in the early 1960s, the foundation's researchers reported some provocative "results." Seventy-eight percent of clients said the experience had increased their ability to love, 71 percent registered an increase in self-esteem, and 83 percent said that during their sessions they had glimpsed "a higher power, or ultimate reality." Those who had such an experience were the ones who reported the most lasting benefits from their session. Don Allen told me that most clients emerged with "notable and fairly sustainable changes in beliefs, attitudes, and behavior, way above statistical probability." Specifically, they became "much less judgmental, much less rigid, more open, and less defended." But it wasn't all sweetness and light: several clients abruptly broke off marriages after their sessions, now believing they were mismatched or trapped in destructive patterns of behavior. "I have no doubt that all that LSD all of us had taken had a big effect on the birth of Silicon Valley."
Part II: The Crack-Up – "I learned that the brain is an underutilized biocomputer . . . I learned that normal consciousness is one drop in an ocean of intelligence. That consciousness and intelligence can be systematically expanded. That the brain can be reprogrammed." Timothy Leary said, Listen! Wake up! You are God! You have the Divine plan engraved in cellular script within you. Listen! Take this sacrament! You'll see! You'll get the revelation! It will change your life! As with Hubbard and Huxley and Osmond before him, psychedelics had convinced Leary that they had the power not just to heal people but to change society and save humankind, and it was his mission to serve as their prophet.
Academic psychiatrists were also made uncomfortable by the spiritual trappings of psychedelic therapy. Charles Grob, the UCLA psychiatrist who would play an important role in the revival of research, wrote in a 1998 article on the history of psychedelics that "by blurring the boundaries between religion and science, between sickness and health, and between healer and sufferer, the psychedelic model entered the realm of applied mysticism"—a realm where psychiatry, increasingly committed to a biochemical understanding of the mind, was reluctant to venture. With its emphasis on set and setting—what Grob calls "the critical extra-pharmacological variables"—psychedelic therapy was also a little too close to shamanism for comfort. For so-called shrinks not entirely secure in their identity as scientists (the slang is short for "headshrinkers," conjuring images of witch doctors in loincloths), this was perhaps too far to go. Many of the scientific camp objected to the researchers taking the drug also and called them "disqualified as competent investigators, rendering their conclusions biased by their own ecstasy." In 1965, Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan admitted sixty-five people for what it called LSD-induced psychoses. With the media now in full panic mode, urban legends about the perils of LSD spread more rapidly than facts. With pictures of crazed people cowering in corners, the story warned that "an LSD trip is not always a round trip" but rather could be "a one-way trip to an asylum, a prison or a grave." LSD truly was an acid, dissolving almost everything with which it came into contact, beginning with the hierarchies of the mind (the superego, ego, and unconscious) and going on from there to society's various structures of authority and then to lines of every imaginable kind: between patient and therapist, research and recreation, sickness and health, self and other, subject and object, the spiritual and the material. What is the story of the first-wave researchers if not a story about searching for an appropriate container for these powerful chemicals? They tested several different possibilities: the psychotomimetic, the psycholytic, the psychedelic, and, still later, the entheogenic. None were perfect, but each represented a different way to regulate the power of these compounds, by proposing a set of protocols for their use as well as a theoretical framework. Where Leary and the counterculture ultimately parted ways with the first generation of researchers was in deciding that no such container—whether medical, religious, or scientific—was needed and that an unguided, do-it-yourself approach to psychedelics was just fine.
Journeying Underground (travelogue)
The psychedelic world had gone underground, therapists, working with a variety of psychedelic substances in a carefully prescribed manner, with the intention of healing the ill or bettering the well by helping them fulfill their spiritual, creative, or emotional potential. Many of these guides are credentialed therapists, so by doing this work they are risking not only their freedom but also their professional licenses.
Trip One: LSD
The otherworldly experiences of Leo Zeff had humbled him, opening him up to possibilities and mysteries without closing him to skepticism—or to the pleasures of everyday life on this earth. Instead of turning away from any monster that appears, move toward it, stand your ground, and demand to know, "What are you doing in my mind? What do you have to teach me?" Hallucinations = to wander in one's mind. Love is everything is most often the take away lesson, when the ego's grip on the mind is relaxed but not eliminated. I had survived! Had roused no sleeping monsters in my unconscious! and grateful it had been productive. All that day and well into the next, a high-pressure system of well-being dominated my psychological weather. Being in no hurry to move on to the next thing and then the thing after that. I had been granted a taste of a slightly other way to be—less defended, I would say, and so more present.
Trip Two: Psilocybin
I would need a whole new first-person pronoun. For what was observing the scene was a vantage and mode of awareness entirely distinct from my accustomed self; in fact I hesitate to use the "I" to denote the presiding awareness, it was so different from my usual first person. Where that self had always been a subject encapsulated in this body, this one seemed unbounded by any body, even though I now had access to its perspective. That perspective was supremely indifferent, neutral on all questions of interpretation, and unperturbed even in the face of what should by all rights have been an unmitigated personal disaster. Yet the "personal" had been obliterated. Everything I once was and called me, this self six decades in the making, had been liquefied and dispersed over the scene. What had always been a thinking, feeling, perceiving subject based in here was now an object out there. I was paint! The sovereign ego, with all its armaments and fears, its backward-looking resentments and forward-looking worries, was simply no more, and there was no one left to mourn its passing. Yet something had succeeded it: this bare disembodied awareness, which gazed upon the scene of the self's dissolution with benign indifference. I was present to reality but as something other than my self. And although there was no self left to feel, exactly, there was a feeling tone, which was calm, unburdened, content. There was life after the death of the ego. This was big news. Yet this by itself strikes me as a remarkable gift: that we can let go of so much—the desires, fears, and defenses of a lifetime!—without suffering complete annihilation.
Trip Three: 5-MeO-DMT (or, The Toad)
Yes, "the toad," or to be more precise, the smoked venom of the Sonoran Desert toad (Incilius alvarius), also called the Colorado River toad, which contains a molecule called 5-MeO-DMT that is one of the most potent and fast-acting psychotropic drugs there is. I had the feeling—no, the knowledge—that every single thing there is is made of love. "After what seemed like an eternity but was probably only minutes, you start to reassemble and come back into your body. I managed, barely, to squeeze out the words I had prepared, "trust" and "surrender." These words became my mantra. I was no more. Unfortunately, the terror didn't disappear with the extinction of my "I." Every touchstone that tells us "I exist" was annihilated, and yet I remained conscious. "Is this what death feels like? Could this be it?" That was the thought, though there was no longer a thinker to have it. I felt for the first time gratitude for the very fact of being, that there is anything whatsoever. I decided I needed to practice being with stillness, being with other people as I find them (imperfect), and being with my own unimproved self. To savor whatever is at this very moment, without trying to change it or even describe it. The journeys have shown me what the Buddhists try to tell us but I have never really understood: that there is much more to consciousness than the ego, as we would see if it would just shut up. And that its dissolution (or transcendence) is nothing to fear; in fact, it is a prerequisite for making any spiritual progress.
Your Brain on Psychedelics (the neuroscience)
How do you get from the ingestion of a compound created by a fungus or a toad (or a human chemist) to a novel state of consciousness with the power to change one's perspective on things, not just during the journey, but long after the molecule has left the body? How did that chemical opening lead, ultimately, to what I felt and experienced? To the dissolution of my ego, for example, and the collapse of any distinction between subject and object?
The default mode network is the place where our minds go to wander—to daydream, ruminate, travel in time, reflect on ourselves, and worry. All these functions may belong exclusively to humans, and specifically to adult humans, for the default mode network isn't operational until late in a child's development. Robin Carhart-Harris has described the DMN variously as the brain's "orchestra conductor," "corporate executive," or "capital city," charged with managing and "holding the whole system together." And with keeping the brain's unrulier tendencies in check, nodes in the default network are thought to be responsible for autobiographical memory, the material from which we compose the story of who we are, by linking our past experiences with what happens to us and with projections of our future goals. The price of the sense of an individual identity is a sense of separation from others and nature. But, the loss of the sense of self, experienced by meditators, is where the usual boundaries we experience between self and world, subject and object, all melt away. This sense of merging into some larger totality is of course one of the hallmarks of the mystical experience. It deactivates the brain's default mode network. This can be achieved any number of ways: through psychedelics and meditation. One of the brain's main functions is to reduce uncertainty by telling itself stories. Think of the mind as an uncertainty-reducing machine with a few serious bugs in it. This is where psychedelics come in. By quieting the default mode network, these compounds can loosen the ego's grip on the machinery of the mind. The brain operates with greater flexibility and interconnectedness under hallucinogens. Communications within the brain are radically reorganized when the default mode network goes off-line. One of the most interesting things about a psychedelic experience is that it sharpens one's sensitivity to one's own mental states, especially in the days immediately following.
Baby consciousness is so different from adult consciousness as to constitute a mental country of its own, one from which we are expelled sometime early in adolescence. Is there a way back in? The closest we can come to visiting that foreign land as adults may be during the psychedelic journey. Both focused attention and self-reflection are absent in young children. In The Philosophical Baby, Alison Gopnik draws a useful distinction between the "spotlight consciousness" of adults and the "lantern consciousness" of young children. The first mode gives adults the ability to narrowly focus attention on a goal. (In his own remarks, Carhart-Harris called this "ego consciousness" or "consciousness with a point.") In the second mode—lantern consciousness—attention is more widely diffused, allowing the child to take in information from virtually anywhere in her field of awareness, which is quite wide, wider than that of most adults. (By this measure, children are more conscious than adults, rather than less.) The adult brain directs the spotlight of its attention where it will and then relies on predictive coding to make sense of what it perceives. This is not at all the child's approach, Gopnik has discovered. Being inexperienced in the way of the world, the mind of the young child has comparatively few priors, or preconceptions, to guide her perceptions down the predictable tracks. Instead, the child approaches reality with the astonishment of an adult on psychedelics. Gopnik believes that both the young child (five and under) and the adult on a psychedelic have a stronger predilection for the high-temperature search; in their quest to make sense of things, their minds explore not just the nearby and most likely but "the entire space of possibilities." These high-temperature searches might be inefficient, incurring a higher rate of error and requiring more time and mental energy to perform. High-temperature searches can yield answers that are more magical than realistic. "Children are better learners than adults in many cases when the solutions are nonobvious" or, as she puts it, "further out in the space of possibilities," a realm where they are more at home than we are. "We have the longest childhood of any species," Gopnik says. "This extended period of learning and exploration is what's distinctive about us. I think of childhood as the R&D stage of the species, concerned exclusively with learning and exploring. "The child's brain is extremely plastic, good for learning, not accomplishing"—better for "exploring rather than exploiting." Consciousness narrows as we get older," Gopnik says. "Adults have congealed in their beliefs and are hard to shift," she has written, whereas "children are more fluid and consequently more willing to entertain new ideas. If you want to understand what an expanded consciousness looks like, all you have to do is have tea with a four-year-old, or drop a tab of LSD. "The short summary is, babies and children are basically tripping all the time." Psychedelics make us more open and boost creativity. As for the unwell, the patients who stand to gain the most are probably those suffering from the kinds of mental disorders characterized by mental rigidity: addiction, depression, obsession. It seems plausible to me that the psychedelic experience could help us get out of those states, create an opportunity in which the old stories of who we are might be rewritten.
Psychedelics in Psychotherapy (the trip treatment)
One: Dying
This is precisely where psychedelic therapy seems to be operating: on a frontier between spirituality and science that is as provocative as it is uncomfortable. The pharmacological toolbox for treating depression—which afflicts nearly a tenth of all Americans and, worldwide, is the leading cause of disability—has little in it today. There are almost forty-three thousand suicides every year in America (more than the number of deaths from either breast cancer or auto accidents). People who had been palpably scared of death—they lost their fear. The fact that a drug given once could have such an effect for so long is an unprecedented finding. Our fear of death is a function of our egos, which burden us with a sense of separateness that can become unbearable as we approach death.
I sat up and spoke with Tony and Krystallia. I mentioned that everyone deserved to have this experience . . . that if everyone did, no one could ever do harm to another again . . . wars would be impossible to wage. The room and everything in it was beautiful. Tony and Krystallia, sitting on [their] pillows, were radiant! They helped him to the bathroom. Even the germs (if there were any present) were beautiful, as was everything in our world and universe. I know I've had no earthly pleasure that's ever come close to this feeling . . . no sensation, no image of beauty, nothing during my time on earth has felt as pure and joyful and glorious as the height of this journey. Aloud, he said, "Never had an orgasm of the soul before." Many also described an encounter with their cancer (or their fear of it) that had the effect of shrinking its power over them. The cancer is something completely out of my control, but the fear, I realized, is not. Dinah's epiphany gave way to feelings of "overwhelming love." The uncanny authority of the psychedelic experience might help explain why so many cancer patients in the trials reported that their fear of death had lifted or at least abated: they had stared directly at death and come to know something about it, in a kind of dress rehearsal. A high-dose psychedelic experience is death practice, says Katherine MacLean, the former Hopkins psychologist. You're losing everything you know to be real, letting go of your ego and your body, and that process can feel like dying. And yet the experience brings the comforting news that there is something on the other side of that death. Both the NYU and the Hopkins trials, some 80 percent of cancer patients showed clinically significant reductions in standard measures of anxiety and depression, an effect that endured for at least six months after their psilocybin session. There was a shift from feelings of separateness to interconnectedness. In most cases, this shift was accompanied by a repertoire of powerful emotions, including "exalted feelings of joy, bliss, and love." Difficult passages during the journey were typically followed by positive feelings of surrender and acceptance (even of their cancers) as people's fears fell away. The ego is a mental construct that performs certain functions on behalf of the self. Chief among these are maintaining the boundary between the conscious and the unconscious realms of the mind and the boundary between self and other, or subject and object. It is only when these boundaries fade or disappear, as they seem to do under the influence of psychedelics, that we can "let go of rigid patterns of thought, allowing us to perceive new meanings with less fear." At first, the falling away of the self feels threatening, but if one can let go and surrender, powerful and usually positive emotions flow in—along with formerly inaccessible memories and sense impressions and meanings. No longer defended by the ego, the gate between self and other—Huxley's reducing valve—is thrown wide open. And what comes through that opening for many people, in a great flood, is love. Love for specific individuals, yes, but also, as Patrick Mettes came to feel (to know!), love for everyone and everything—love as the meaning and purpose of life, the key to the universe, and the ultimate truth. So it may be that the loss of self leads to a gain in meaning. Patrick Mettes lived seventeen months after his psilocybin session, and according to Lisa those months were filled with a great many unexpected satisfactions, alongside Patrick's dawning acceptance that he was going to die. Patrick had changed.
Two: Addiction
As one lifetime smoker put it to me in terms so simple I found it hard to believe, "Smoking became irrelevant, so I stopped." Psychedelics had returned me to the child's wider sense of wonder. A part of my brain that had gone to sleep was awakened, a feeling of connectedness to everything. These sessions deprive people of the luxury of mindlessness—our default state, and one in which addictions like smoking can flourish. It's literally a reboot of the system. Albert Einstein called the modern human's sense of separateness "a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness." Peyote is not harmful to these people . . . It is a better antidote to alcohol than anything the missionaries, the white man, the American Medical Association, and the public health services have come up with. I have more self-acceptance, and that is a gift. Do you see the world as a prison or a playground? People come out of these experiences seeing the world a little more like a playground. We are descendants of those who found the experience of awe blissful, because it's advantageous for the species to have an emotion that makes us feel part of something much larger than ourselves. Awe promotes a sense of the 'small self' that directs our attention away from the individual to the group and the greater good. An experience of awe appears to be an excellent antidote for egotism.
Three: Depression
My mind works differently. I ruminate much less, and my thoughts feel ordered, contextualized. I had this overwhelming feeling—it wasn't even a thought—that everything and everyone needs to be approached with love, including myself. The default mode network appears to be the seat not only of the ego, or self, but of the mental faculty of time travel as well. The two are of course closely related: without the ability to remember our past and imagine a future, the notion of a coherent self could hardly be said to exist; we define ourselves with reference to our personal history and future objectives. As meditators eventually discover, if we can manage to stop thinking about the past or future and sink into the present, the self seems to disappear. "This is who I am." "I don't deserve to be loved." "I'm the kind of person without the willpower to break this addiction." Getting overly attached to these narratives, taking them as fixed truths about ourselves rather than as stories subject to revision, contributes mightily to addiction, depression, and anxiety. Of all the phenomenological effects that people on psychedelics report, the dissolution of the ego seems to me by far the most important and the most therapeutic. The loss of ego or self (what Jung called "psychic death") they're suggesting is the key psychological driver of the experience. It is this that gives us the mystical experience, the death rehearsal process, the overview effect, the notion of a mental reboot, the making of new meanings, and the experience of awe. When the ego dissolves, so does a bounded conception not only of our self but of our self-interest. What emerges in its place is invariably a broader, more openhearted and altruistic—that is, more spiritual—idea of what matters in life. One in which a new sense of connection, or love, however defined, seems to figure prominently. "The psychedelic journey may not give you what you want," as more than one guide memorably warned me, "but it will give you what you need."
The posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) is believed to be the locus of the experiential or narrative self; it appears to generate the narratives that link what happens to us to our abiding sense of who we are. Brewer believes that this particular operation, when it goes awry, is at the root of several forms of mental suffering, including addiction. "It's one thing to have cravings," as Brewer points out, "but quite another to get caught up in your cravings." When we take something that happens to us personally, that's the PCC doing its (egotistical) thing. Brewer thinks that by diminishing its activity, whether by means of meditation or psychedelics, we can learn "to be with our thoughts and cravings without getting caught up in them." Achieving such a detachment from our thoughts, feelings, and desires is what Buddhism (along with several other wisdom traditions) teaches is the surest path out of human suffering. I discovered my trips had made it easier for me to drop into a mentally quiet place, something that in the past had always eluded me. Maybe it was the specific content of the image, and the mere thought of bidding adieu to my ego, watching it float away like a hot-air balloon, that had the power to silence my default mode network. We remain a long way from understanding exactly what happens to consciousness when we alter it, either with a molecule or with meditation.
In Praise of Neural Diversity (epilogue)
Several of the researchers and therapists I've interviewed nevertheless look forward to a time, not far off, when psychedelic therapy is routine and widely available, in the form of a novel hybrid of pharmacology and psychotherapy. George Goldsmith envisions a network of psychedelic treatment centers, facilities in attractive natural settings where patients will go for their guided sessions. I, for one, sincerely hope that the kinds of experiences I've had on psychedelics will not be limited to sick people and will someday become more widely available. Not only did my guides create a setting in which I felt safe enough to surrender to the psychedelic experience, but they also helped me to make sense of it afterward. Just as important, they helped me to see there was something here worth making sense of. This is by no means self-evident. For much like the depressed patients I interviewed in London, who described being nourished and even inspired by their furloughs from the cage of depression, the experience of some other way of being in the world survives in memory, as a possibility and a destination. One of the gifts of psychedelics is the way they reanimate the world, as if they were distributing the blessings of consciousness more widely and evenly over the landscape, in the process breaking the human monopoly on subjectivity that we moderns take as a given. To us, we are the world's only conscious subjects, with the rest of creation made up of objects; to the more egotistical among us, even other people count as objects. Psychedelic consciousness overturns that view, by granting us a wider, more generous lens through which we can glimpse the subject-hood—the spirit!—of everything, animal, vegetable, even mineral, all of it now somehow returning our gaze. Spirits, it seems, are everywhere.
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Simon joined FSN Capital in 2016. Prior to this, he was an analyst at Goldman Sachs in London. He also has experience from Cinven, Citigroup and Nomura. He holds an BSc. in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden.


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This text presents the basic system concepts while providing more detail and rigor than the conceptual descriptions found in many operation management texts. Mathematical decision models and tools for improving systems are described. In discussing production systems, the authors go beyond addressing the basic what questions, and provide guidance on how, when and why as well. Discover the best Computer Systems Analysis & Design in Best Sellers. Find the top most popular items in Amazon Books Best Sellers. Data Science [2 Books in 1] Discover How Data Analytics and Machine Learning Are Changing the Rules of Marketing and Business. Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale.
{2) "PUr POOUCT0N SYSTEMS A production system may be viewed as consisting of three basic omponents a at of rules, a data bae, and an interpreter for the rules. In the simplest des•gn. a rule is an ordered pairof symbol saings, with a left and right hand, de (LH0 and RHU) the rule at has a . If the production system produces one individual product, it's a project or one-shot system. For an example of production systems of this sort, consider a house, an oil painting or a yacht. Even if a builder erects dozens of houses a year, each house is an individual project.
It is a chain of interrelated activities of production process and other support services activities of an manufacturing environment such as order processing, product design, design and manufacturing of tools, die, mould, jigs, fixtures and gauges, selection of material, planning, managing and maintaining control of the processes, production. Production system, any of the methods used in industry to create goods and services from various resources.. Underlying principles. All production systems, when viewed at the most abstract level, might be said to be "transformation processes"—processes that transform resources into useful goods and services. The transformation process typically uses common resources such as labour.
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The book can be used as a reference for teachers and students, or as a manual for professionals within the field of by: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Elmaghraby, Salah Eldin, Design of production systems.
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The book addresses these interdependencies proposing an integrated approach to flexible production system design. Since traditional system architectures are not always the most efficient solution to face new production contexts a new manufacturing system architecture named Focused Flexibility Manufacturing Systems – FFMSs is also introduced.
Examples of research from an industrial engineering perspective in the production system design area are the technology focused book by Bennett (), methods based on Integrated Definition for.
Production technology is one of the key branches of mechanical engineering. With increase in the demand of different products, production technology also changed proportionally.
Having such a great advancement in the production of products, there is a significant reduction of human efforts and also production time is reduced by one-fourth.
Here, design of production systems involves defining the problems, objectives and outlining the alternative course of action (problem-solving), and the evaluation, choices among alternatives and detailed design of proposed production systems (decision-making). 43 System Interface Analysis, Design, and Control 44 Human–System Integration 45 Engineering Standards, Frames of Reference, and Conventions 46 System Design and Development Documentation Decision Support Series 47 Analytical Decision Support 48 Statistical Influences on System Design 49 System Performance Analysis.
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PRODUCTION SYSTEMS 1. PRODUCTION SYSTEMS By Naeem Akram Noor College of Business & Sciences 2. What is production. Production can be explained as an act of either manufacturing or mining or growing of goods (commodities) generally in bulk for trade.
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Design of production Systems• This is the preliminary stage of the production process. It is the art of planning, or creating systems for production and provision of products and services. In designing systems for both services and products, various factors have to be considered and these include: Capital requirements Required skills for the.Production systems can be classified as Job-shop, Batch, Mass and Continuous production systems.
Fig. 1 Classifications of production systems Job-Shop Production Line layout needs major change with the changes in the product design.
3. High investment in production facilities. 4. The cycle time is determined by the slowest operation.
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sqlparse is a non-validating SQL parser module for Python.

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Airbnb enlisted Greystar and other landlords to list rental properties that are also eligible for short-term stays in an effort to attract tenants who want to become hosts themselves.
Based in San Francisco Airbnb is rolling out the initiative in more than 25 markets, including Los Angeles, San Diego, Newport Beach and Phoenix, according to a statement Wednesday. Potential tenants can browse apartments on Airbnb's website and use a calculator to see how much income they could generate from timeshare accommodation.
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Share our vision of Building a Nation through Education! You can make a positive, lasting impact on this country that ranks at the bottom of the U.N. Development Index – a measurement of a country's achievement in health, knowledge and standard of living. Congo's potential for growth in the heart of Africa is tremendous. Education is the key. We need your help as we grow the TASOK (The American School of Kinshasa) Alumni Scholarship Fund in support of education. Let's raise $25,000!
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