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How Instagram Changed My Relationship to Writing
Mar 23, 2018 by Katy Diamond Hamer Leave a Comment
@katyhamer Instagram screenshot from February 28th, 2018, For the press preview of "Martial Raysse at Levy Gorvey Gallery, New York
Started in 2007, Eyes Towards the Dove has been my foray into writing about art after being a novice poet scribbling in notebooks over the years and filling sketchbooks with musings. There is so much joy that I feel putting my thoughts about an artwork into the written language; dissecting forms and colors whether in two-dimensional or three-dimensional space via the written word. I've invested time and energy over the years into this labor of love with conviction, if not financial gain. However, something started to change once I joined Instagram; paragraphs were replaced by images and captions. Rather then invest 8 hours writing an article gathering photos and captions, I could now post a photograph or a carousel of photographs with a short caption and get a similar result, feedback from my peers and colleagues. At first this felt like reward enough but as time has gone by, I've grown distant from words, the delicious descriptions of art that I so often am drawn to and fueled by. The withdrawal has been painful. In the discomfort I've found mostly silence. Images in the realm of social media allow for dialogue and engagement but are at once enlightening and limiting. Passion is connected to love and love is connected to desire. What happens when the desire starts to falter and recognition that quality of life can be better emerges?
Instagram, Screenshot taken March 23rd at 12:22, statistics and numbers are likely to change.
Words can pay the bills. This is a fact. It's something I've learned over the last couple of years and have been so grateful to say that I've paid my rent with words that have been published in magazines, including Cultured, Galerie, Lenny Letter, The Creative Independent, SEEN/New York Magazine, Artnet, and others. Yet, I've also accrued debt and lost money, even on press trips. Eyes Towards the Dove has given me the freedom to post exactly what I want without being edited, without agenda -favor or advertising- other than my own. Even now, sitting in my tiny Brooklyn apartment, sun streaming in the window as snow melts outside, the written word and sounds of keys clicking on the keyboard assist in helping me feel alive. The last few months, I've sat, marginally touching the keyboard and scrolling through Instagram pictures, looking at the lives of others and contemporary art both near and far. I actively and happily participate in this digital feed by documenting visits to galleries, museums, events, and press conferences in order to share with others. The fact that there is an immediate response, is something we cannot take for granted. This is how social media works, it allows for instant connection through distance. In my lifetime, I've participated in Myspace, Friendster, Facebook, Instagram and very limited engagement on Twitter which has been my least personal favorite. I've made real friends and have acquaintances both near and far. I've gone on dates with men I've met on these platforms and looked for others who might be dating material. Most of all, I've looked at art, dripping and all-encompassing on my tiny iPhone screen.
The screen.
The art I've sought out on Instagram is probably not unlike the art I've posted myself or written about here. One of the biggest differences is that the act of looking requires less time and energy than writing an entire article. This conundrum is something that I need to remedy. It's something I've thought about for months, while scrolling, liking and commenting. The reality is that I, like most of us, need to make money and I've yet to figure out how clicks can transpire to dollars and yet know that many out there making this happen. It's led me to a fork in the road. On one side is my writing, the lush green brush of a forest and on the other side, shiny corporate buildings glistening in the sunshine, light fractals bouncing from one to the other. Both options are visually appealing. Undoubtedly, one feels more prosperous than the other. One has a fleshy exposed underbelly while the other is protected, a bit more secure and solid.
I'm at the precipice and have to admit that age and experience have everything to do with it. I admire the Millennial vigor and the zest they bring to journalism. I admire the influencers who show people their gorgeous lives documented in photographs giving others something to strive for, imitate or envy. I admire the writers who have started, finished and sold books. I admire the craft of writing and am blown away by the visibility I've been able to foster over the years. It's the industry that I struggle with. Freelancing has its pluses but is also very difficult. It requires budgeting for months in advance as sometimes payment can take from 3 to 6 months and even a year. This is disheartening but also par for the course.
What does art look like? Try to describe it without words, without language. We can show it and look at it, but without language as a method used to decipher the semiotics of the visual, what is there? Considering the contemporary and all that has come before using the vernacular as a way to communicate has been a delight for me. Optically, I could describe it as a multitude of crystals hanging from a ceiling. At various heights, the crystals catch and refract light from an open window, casting hundreds of prisms around the room, a lush carpet underfoot. This is how I feel about writing about art. It releases magic.
Today, the goal is to keep going. To remember that words are just as strong as images on Instagram, if not stronger. Words matter.
Who do I look towards for inspiration? I look towards Jerry Saltz, Roberta Smith, Linda Yablonsky and Holland Cotter. Their voices remain strong and steady and each one has persisted through curveballs of life, health issues, the economy, and the uncertainty of the art world. I truly believe that journalists and art writers play a tremendous role in the art market and are probably one of the most undervalued components. There are ways to make financial security more manageable including teaching, doing artist talks, working as a guest critic, writing catalogue essays, etc. It is a world of diamonds and cubic zirconia, glamour and shabby chic, smiles and smirks but those who persevere will find that the physical world shrinks. I can travel to many urban centers around the globe and find people I know or at least those who I'm familiar with through art fairs and exhibitions. While the world is big, the art world is relatively small and in my experience, faces are friendly, but I'm sure that could change based on what someone has to offer. The fact of the matter is that everyone wants good press, or at least considered press and the latter is much harder to come by. Now I may not be an expert, but I am a participant and a grateful one at that.
Salvador Dalí, "The Persistence of Memory" (1931) Oil on canvas, Part of the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
There are so many moments in my life that I can pinpoint to the art I happened to be looking at. This goes back to the first time I saw the "Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dalí at the Museum of Modern Art at 16 years old. Then in 1999, a show called "Sensation" opened at the Brooklyn Museum causing a stir, with controversial works by Chris Offili and Damien Hirst. Visiting the Picasso Museum in Barcelona in 2000, I finally understood the choices artists have and how cultural and artistic movements are made. Also in 2000, a sculpture by Tony Ousler stood out to me at Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and I remember staring at the strangeness of the blinking eyes giving animated life to an inanimate objects. Larger than life, the paintings of Jenny Saville at the Saatchi Gallery in Swiss Cottage (its original location) blew me away as she seemed to know how bodies work from the inside out, moving flesh on the surface of the canvas in large, squishy strokes. Not long after, I lifted my head inquisitively to look at the Fibonacci number series as portrayed in neon by Mario Merz in "From Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972" at the Tate Modern (2001). Also, never forgetting the second time I saw sculptures by Arte Povera artist Jannis Kounellis at Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato, 2003. His installation included large slabs of meat hung directly on the gallery walls, dripping with blood, a gallery attendant told me they needed to be changed every few days due to the smell. This is something that due to health concerns would never be shown in the US. It was years later when I was able to speak to Kounellis at Gallery Gavin Brown, the artist disclosing that this particular work was all about painting. My heart soared.
In 2007, Lyle Ashton Harris, an artist who I now call friend, was featured in the first ever African Pavilion in the Venice Biennale and I remember being part of tour with curator Simon Njami. Njami's catalogue text, "The Shock of Being Seen" still resonates today and gave words to the conjuring of what it means to be brown body, assigning accountability to those who enforced slavery, the kind that continues today through other forms of injustice. At dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012, Tino Sehgal, Theaster Gates, Ryan Gander and Ceal Floyer all found ways to occupy space through bodies, air, sound and architectural intervention. Being present for their works and performances sent chills through my being. If reaching the sublime is the goal or Stendhal's syndrome, art will continue and those who look will carry on. Who are the artists today who I feel have the aesthetic resonance to truly capture our time in a way that corresponds smartly with art history? The first who come to mind are artist's I've been following for several years and all have a subtle relationships with space and leap into territory all their own. These include Donna Huanca, Michael E. Smith, Ryan Gander and Sondra Perry. Other contemporary favorites include Tala Madani, Gian Maria Tosatti, Ed Atkins and Korakrit Arunanondchai. Creating new dialogues around painting, sculpture and installation these artists are all quite different and yet similarly have something that many working today do not have, the power to incite feeling.
Donna Huanca, Installation detail from "Water Scars" at Valentin, Paris, 2015, Image courtesy of the artist
Feeling.
Ideally art should invoke something; the past, the present, love, loss, the presence of the body or the absence of the body. In the distant past, artists made work in order to feel closer to God or nature. This is not very different today, however contemporary artists strive to undo what has been done. Some do this better than others. I often respond to artists who know how to handle vacancy and make room for the frame of the viewer, even when invisible.
What does this all mean? In 2012, I paused my art making practice with the goal to be able to look at it more objectively. In the last three months I've felt this way about my writing and granted space accordingly analyzing where it can be leveraged for the type of success I desire. A few years ago, a therapist who was very dear to me said she'd like to see me thrive rather than just survive. Since 2011, as a freelance writer I've been offered $0, $50, $150, $250, $300, and $350 per article on the web and up to 97 cents a word for print, catalogue texts excluded. Rates aren't often discussed between colleagues and I don't know if this is average or not. For many years I did other projects to make writing work and the debt emerged once I just transferred to writing exclusively. With debt and a yearning for more challenges, I've come to realize that freelancing is no longer ideal. Who knows, there might be a book in my future, a staff position, or employment at a university or corporate institution. Fashion companies I love have been partnering with artists and bringing branded contemporary art content to a diverse and global audience. I'm not sure what the future holds, it will probably involve freelance to some extent, but my heart and mind are open and I know for a fact that…
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Young members of the town of Kassen go forth on what should be a simple coming of age event, but instead, find themselves face to face with an aroused spirit.
About 3 months ago, a group of tomb robbers broke into and looted the Crypt of the Everflame. While this alone would be a tragedy, the robbery had one unintended consequence. When the thieves broke open the sarcophagus containing Asar's body, his foul spirit stirred from its slumber, rising as a skeletal knight. While most of the tomb robbers escaped, Asar's bones now wander the halls of the tomb, using evil magic to turn the crypt into a deadly lair. Just before the start of the adventure, the traditional group of pranksters left the town to prepare the crypt, only to be set upon by Asar and his newly risen minions. Unfortunately, no one made it back to town to warn them of the danger.
This year's quest for the Everflame is special: it has been 4 years since the mayor last decided to send a group of young heroes to the crypt. The adventure begins during a solemn ceremony in the town square, in which the characters are sent out to retrieve the Everflame. Although almost everyone knows that the challenges they will face are nothing more than tricks and illusions, the entire town plays along, unaware of the very real danger that lurks ahead.
The campaign starts on the 4th of Neth (November), 4709 AR
Now their campaign complete, the young heroes can never again return to being simple farmers and villagers.
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Ekat Kassen was a crusader and fortune seeker who came to serve Lastwall in the year 4515 ar. While he fought with distinction, he soon realized that he wanted more from life and left the Lastwall military to find his fortune elsewhere. His travels took him all over the region around Lake Encarthan, and he decided to settle down in 4522 after a very profitable adventure. Using a sizable portion of his fortune, he set out to tame a small area of the Fangwood on the banks of the Tourondel River, making it a natural stopover for those traveling up and down the river to Skelt. For the next 10 years, the town, which was then known as Kassen's Hold, grew and prospered. All that changed when Asar Vergas came to Kassen's Hold with a host of mercenaries under his command. Asar was an old companion of Ekat, and the two had traveled together for some time before splitting up just after Ekat's last adventure. Over the years, Asar became sure that Ekat had cheated him after that adventure. Promising great wealth to his mercenaries, Asar raided the town relentlessly for 2 months. Finally, the townsfolk managed to locate Asar's camp in an ancient crypt deep in the forest, and Ekat himself went out to deal with his old companion. The battle was terribly bloody, with only a few townsfolk coming back to tell the tale. In the end, Asar was slain and his mercenaries scattered, but Ekat suffered a mortal wound. He died 2 days later, on the 11th day of Neth, 4535. In honor of their beloved founder, the townsfolk buried Kassen in the ancient crypt, interring his bones in a place of honor, above the simple sarcophagi used to inter Asar, his mercenaries, and the townsfolk that lost their lives in the bitter struggle. They placed an eternal flame above Kassen's final resting place, so that all who visited might find warmth in the wilderness.
Over the years, the Crypt of the Everflame has become an important part of the history of the town, now simply called Kassen. The townsfolk view the crypt as a memorial to those difficult first years of the town's history. Every autumn, a few of the townsfolk make a pilgrimage to the crypt to light a lantern from the flame and bring it back to town, where it is preserved all winter, a symbol of the town's resilience. Most years, the town mayor and a group of dignitaries perform this quest. Every few years, however, a handful of younger townsfolk are given the honor of lighting the lantern. Many see this as a passage into adulthood, a taste of adventure before settling down to work and marriage. The quest starts out as a solemn ceremony in town, where the townsfolk gather to wish the adventurers luck, just as it was when Kassen himself left to fight the mercenaries. When the adventurers return a few days later, the town holds a great celebration in their honor. This also marks the final harvest celebration before the long winter.
The quest itself is a relatively simple one. The adventurers must travel to the tomb (about 2 days' travel outside of town), venture inside, light the lantern, and return home. Over the years, this ritual has grown more elaborate—now, some of the townsfolk head there in advance to set up simple traps, puzzles, and illusionary monsters for the adventurers to overcome.
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Systematic Desensitization: Definition, History, Research
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Desensitization, commonly referred to as systematic desensitization, is a type of behavioral therapy technique in which patients gradually become exposed to certain fear stimuli in order to overcome the fear. Desensitization is a part of cognitive therapy treatment, or conditioning, that targets a specific phobia without addressing the causes of that phobia. Since its first practice in the mid-20th century, systematic desensitization has routinized the treatment and management of many phobias.
Key Takeaways: Desensitization
Desensitization, or systematic desensitization is a behavioral therapy that helps people overcome irrational fears through gradual exposure to the fear stimuli.
Desensitization does not take into account the underlying causes of the fears it treats.
The technique has been used successfully on people experiencing stage fright, test anxiety, and numerous phobias (e.g. storms, flying, insects, snakes).
Compared to regular psychoanalytic therapy, desensitization takes a shorter period of time to achieve results, can be conducted in groups, and requires limited training of counselors.
History and Origins
The first clinical use of systematic desensitization was described by the pioneer behavioralist Mary Cover Jones (1924), who found that both direct conditioning and social imitation were effective methods for eliminating children's fears. She concluded that the best way to break down maladaptive responses was to introduce the feared object while the child was enjoying him or herself.
Jones' colleague and friend Joseph Wolpe is credited with the operationalization of the method in 1958. He based his research on the simple idea that if a person could reach some state of relaxation that is antagonistic to anxiety or fear, and then experience that fear in some way, the overall impact of that fear would be reduced. Wolpe found that relaxation in the face of situations that had previously evoked anxiety tended to reduce the fear attached to the stimuli. In other words, Wolpe was able to substitute a relaxation response to a maladaptive neurotic habit.
Important Studies
Jones' study focused on a three-year-old boy named Peter who had developed a pathological fear of a white rabbit. Jones engaged him in eating—an enjoyable practice for him—and over time slowly moved the bunny closer to him, although always at a sufficient distance so as not to interfere with his eating. Eventually, Peter was able to stroke the rabbit.
Wolpe based his study on psychologist Jules Masserman's conditioned reflex experiments, which he produced experimental neuroses in cats and then cured them using desensitization. What Wolpe did was to devise other methods for treating the cats, in a manner he called "reciprocal inhibition." Like Jones, he offered the cats food when presenting the conditioned fear stimulus. He then applied those theories to clinical patients. He concluded that forcing people to face their fears often resulted in frustration, whereas combining relaxation with stepwise exposure to different levels of their fears (called a "hierarchy of anxiety") successfully weaned them from their phobias.
Wolpe reported a whopping 90 percent rate of cure or much improvement in a series of 210 cases. He also reported that his cases did not relapse and did not develop new kinds of neurotic symptoms.
Key Theories
Systematic desensitization is based on three hypotheses that underlie much of behavioral therapy:
It is not necessary to find out why or how a subject learned a phobia.
The methodology of stepwise exposure to increasing levels of a given fear does not lead to a replacement of learned behaviors.
It is not necessary to change the person as a whole; desensitization targets specific responses to phobias.
The existing response or neurotic behavior, said Wolpe, is the result of learning a maladaptive response to a stimulus situation, a conditioned fear. Systematic desensitization defines that fear as a true conditioned emotional reaction, and so a successful treatment involves the patient "unlearning" the response.
Usefulness of Systematic Desensitization
Desensitization works best on people with specifically definable fear responses. Successful studies have been conducted on people with fears such as stage fright, test anxiety, storms, closed places (claustrophobia), flying, and insect, snake, and animal phobias. These phobias can be truly debilitating; for example, storm phobias could make life intolerable to the patient for several months out of the year and bird phobias could trap a person indoors.
The rate of success seems to be related to the degree of sickness shown by the patient. As with all psychology, the least ill patients are the easiest to cure. Those things which do not respond well to the treatment are nonspecific or widely generalized states of fear or anxiety. For example, agoraphobia ("fear of the marketplace" in Greek, referring to a generalized anxiety around being in public), has proven to be comparatively more resistant to desensitization.
Systematic Desensitization vs. Psychoanalytic Treatment
Results since the 1950s have generally supported the effectiveness of systematic desensitization in modifying phobic behaviors and have demonstrated its short-term as well as long-term superiority over traditional psycho-dynamic treatment options. The success rate is often quite high. Benson (1968) cites a study by Hain, Butcher, and Stevenson of 26 cases of psychoneuroses. In that study, 78 percent of patients showed systematic improvement after an average of 19 sessions—one exhibited success after a one single hour and a half session. Follow up studies of a year later reported that 20 percent of the participants saw even more improvement, while only 13 percent saw relapses.
Compared to traditional psychoanalytical treatment, systematic desensitization sessions do not require a drawn-out process. Wolpe's average of success was only ten 45-minute sessions, depending on the client's ability to learn relaxation techniques. Others have found an average of about that found by Hain, Butcher, and Stevenson, 19 or 20 sessions. In contrast, psychoanalysis to identify and treat the underlying causes of a particular fear or sets of fears, as well as study the entire personality, can take hundreds if not thousands of sessions.
Unlike psychoanalysis, desensitization can successfully be done in small groups (6–12 people, for example). No elaborate equipment is required, just a quiet room, and the techniques are easily learned by school counselors and others in counseling roles.
In addition, desensitization is applicable to a wide variety of people, anyone who has good powers of visual imagery. They don't have to be able to verbalize and conceptualize their performance: Three-year-old Peter was able to learn to pet the bunny.
There is clearly a high success rate—although more recent studies suggest the long-term success rate is likely around 60 percent rather than Wolpe's 90 percent. But some scholars, such as psychologist Joseph B. Furst, see systematic desensitization as a method that oversimplifies the complexities of neuroses, fear, and anxiety. It ignores the social surroundings and practices of the patient which likely both originally caused and presently maintain the neurotic behaviors.
Desensitization has little effect on symptoms of depression, obsession, and depersonalization. However, as the treatment progresses, some patients report improved social adjustment. As they experience decreased fear, they report that they work better, enjoy their leisure more, and get along better with others.
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Three Killed in Road Accidents in Sangla Hill, Toba Tek Singh
At least three persons were killed and three other were wounded in two separate road accidents in Sangla Hill and Toba Tek Singh.
According to details, the first accident occurred in Sangla Hill at the Interchange Road where a mini-truck hit a motorcycle due to dense fog in the area, killing a youth on the spot and injuring two others.
Rescue teams reached the spot and shifted the dead and injured to hospital.
The second accident occurred in Toba Tek Singh in front of Agriculture University where a rashly driven tractor-trolley collided with a motorcycle, killing two persons on the spot and injuring another.
Rescue teams reached the spot and shifted the dead and injured to Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital. Rescue sources informed that the driver of the tractor-trolley managed to escape from the scene after the accident.
The post Three Killed in Road Accidents in Sangla Hill, Toba Tek Singh appeared first on Karachi News.


Fenergo, a leading provider of Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions for financial institutions, introduces Fenergo Digital Configuration Studio, a low to no-code administration suite that allows financial institutions to easily configure the Fenergo CLM solution to suit their organisational needs. Fenergo Digital Configuration Studio was designed in response to feedback from Fenergo's global regulatory and client community seeking a user-friendly administration console that can be maintained without the need for advanced programmer skills.
Financial institutions can easily configure Fenergo's out-of-the-box platform and tailor it to suit their exact technology and business environments. With the ability to oversee routine CLM configuration and deeper project-specific requirements, Fenergo Digital Configuration Studio allows business users to become self-sufficient in best practice configuration, testing, maintenance and trouble-shooting while reducing costs and overheads.
"Fenergo's community-based approach to our platform development enables us to gain a true understanding of our clients' needs. As our customers embark on digital transformation initiatives, there is a growing requirement to democratize technology and the no code Digital Configuration Studio was developed to meet that need. By putting configuration of our platform into the hands of the business user, our clients can benefit from a smarter, faster implementation," said Marc Murphy, CEO of Fenergo.
"We want our clients to be as agile as possible. Digital Configuration Studio enables this while ultimately helping them achieve their goal to digitalise the end-customer onboarding experience and reduce time to revenue," continued Marc.
Fenergo Digital Configuration Studio includes a data model, user interface, workflow, rules and localisation modules.


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578 is an even composite number composed of two prime numbers multiplied together.
What does the number 578 look like?
578 is an even composite number. It is composed of two distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of six divisors.
Prime factorization of 578:
2 × 172
(2 × 17 × 17)
See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 578 from the Numbermatics database.
Names of 578
Cardinal: 578 can be written as Five hundred seventy-eight.
Scientific notation: 5.78 × 102
Factors of 578
Divisors of 578
Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 343
578 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (343) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 235
Bases of 578
Binary: 10010000102
Hexadecimal: 0x242
Base-36: G2
Squares and roots of 578
578 squared (5782) is 334084
578 cubed (5783) is 193100552
The square root of 578 is 24.0416305603
The cube root of 578 is 8.3299541855
How big is 578?
578 seconds is equal to 9 minutes, 38 seconds.
To count from 1 to 578 would take you about four minutes.
A cube with a volume of 578 cubic inches would be around 0.7 feet tall.
Recreational maths with 578
578 backwards is 875
The sum of 578's digits is 20
Number 578 - Facts about the integer
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Soflab Technology – przedsiębiorstwo świadczące usługi IT. Spółka została utworzona w 2008 roku w Katowicach.

Oferta i klienci
Soflab Technology realizuje projekty dla przedsiębiorstw na polskim i zagranicznym rynku z sektorów: bankowości i finansów, ubezpieczeń, telekomunikacji, energetyki i przemysłu oraz administracji publicznej. Do podstawowych obszarów działalności firmy należą: zapewnienie jakości projektów informatycznych, w tym testy oprogramowania, zarządzanie danymi firmy i budowa rozwiązań Business Intelligence oraz bezpieczeństwo teleinformatyczne. Firma tworzy też własne rozwiązania jak narzędzie do maskowania danych Soflab GALL.

Soflab Technology jest partnerem Atlassian w zakresie sprzedaży licencji i wdrożeń narzędzi: Jira, , Bitbucket oraz partnerem przedsiębiorstw: , Inflectra, Infinite Data, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, CA Technologies,  i ExactSolutions.

Historia

 2008: Rozpoczęcie działalności Soflab Technology w Katowicach
 2009:
 Realizacja pierwszych projektów w obszarze zarządzania testami oprogramowania
 Liczba pracowników: 10
 2010:
 Utworzenie oddziału firmy w Warszawie
 Zawarcie pierwszej umowy ramowej
 2011:
 Otwarcie oddziału firmy we Wrocławiu
 Wdrożenie systemu zarządzania bezpieczeństwem informacji ISO/IEC 27001:2005
 Partnerstwo z dostawcami narzędzi testowania Neoload oraz Exact Solutions
 2012:
 Rozpoczęcie pierwszego w Polsce projektu wieloletniego outsourcingu testów oprogramowania i Quality Assurance w instytucji publicznej (służba zdrowia)
 Zawarcie umowy na wyłączność z amerykańskim producentem narzędzi do zarządzania testami Inflectra Corporation
 2013:
 Podpisanie kontraktu na pierwszy w Polsce projekt pełnego outsourcingu testowania i zapewnienia jakości     oprogramowania dla polskiego oddziału międzynarodowej korporacji w oparciu o SLA i monitoring KPI
 Liczba pracowników firmy przekracza 170 osób
 Ponad 1 000 zrealizowanych projektów
 2014:
 Otwarcie Centrum Testów Oprogramowania Soflab Technology w Warszawie
 Soflab Technology pierwszym w Polsce partnerem HP w modelu dostarczenia narzędzi testowania MSP
 2015: Soflab Technology zostaje Partnerem dostawców narzędzi Atlassian, CA Technolgies, Checkmarx oraz SmartBear
 2016: Soflab Technology rozwija obszar szkoleń, nawiązuje współpracę z ScaledAgile oraz iSQI  - powstaje nowy brand FabrykaJakosci.pl
2017: Organizacja hackathonu w Nysie i Wałbrzychu
2018:
Opracowanie nowego narzędzia do anonimizacji i pseudonimizacji danych - Soflab GALL
Soflab zdobywa pierwsze referencje z realizacji projektów związanych z robotyzacją procesów biznesowych (RPA)
2019:
Fabryka Jakości, szkoleniowa organizacja Soflab Technology, oficjalnie otrzymała certyfikat ISO 9001:2015
Soflab Technology rozwija ofertę w zakresie budowy rozwiązań do zarządzania usługami IT (ITSM)

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 2018 - Miejsce na liście 20 światowych liderów z dziedziny testowania oprogramowania
2017 - Miejsce na liście 20 światowych liderów z dziedziny testowania oprogramowania
 2016 - Wyróżnienie biznesowe "Gazele Biznesu" przyznawane firmom przez "Puls Biznesu" za dynamiczny rozwój
 2015 - Miejsce na liście 20 światowych liderów z dziedziny testowania oprogramowania
 2015  - laureat i złote godło w konkursie "Najwyższa Jakość Quality International 2015" pod auspicjami European Organization For Quality, polskiego Ministerstwa Gospodarki oraz Klubu Polskie Forum ISO 9000
 2011 – wyróżnienie "Jakość Roku" w ramach VI Edycji największego ogólnopolskiego konkursu, którego celem jest wspieranie i rozwijanie wśród przedsiębiorstw pro-jakościowego podejścia do biznesu.

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Children today spend far too much time in front of televisions and computers. True, educational software and some television programs teach while entertaining, but do these mediums spark or stifle children's expression and creativity?
Most children love being creative and having fun. And what better way than finger painting? Children will love making these paints as well as playing with them. You might be able to save some of your children's artwork for decoration by letting it dry.
So next time it's raining, and your children have "nothing to do", instead of turning on the television or playing another computer game, why not try some of these fun, inexpensive recipes.
You'll find nine recipes, including water colors, "scratch and sniff" paints, puff paint, instant finger paints, Jello finger paints, and salt and flour finger paints.
You do have to make this one ahead of time, but children will love watching you mix this up!
Mix vinegar and baking soda in small bowl. When mixture stops bubbling, add cornstarch and glycerin. Mix well. Pour mixture into bottle caps. Add several drops of food coloring to the mixture in the bottle caps. Let dry overnight.
Draw a picture. (You can trace a picture from a coloring book.) Paint the picture with watercolors. After the picture is dry, spread craft glue a little at a time over the colored parts of the picture. Sprinkle fruit flavored gelatin over the wet glue. Let your picture dry. The craft glue dries clear and you have a sweet smelling picture.
Mix shaving cream and glue. Divide mixture into separate small bowls. Add food coloring to make different colors.
This one is so easy and so much fun!
Spray shaving cream on your tabletop or on each child's paper. Add a couple of drops of tempera paint of your choice.
This sweet-smelling paint is wonderfully thick and glossy.
In a saucepan, blend 3/4 cup of cold water and cornstarch. Add hot water and heat until boiling stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Mix gelatin into remaining 1/4 cup of water and blend with liquid soap and cornstarch mixture. Add Kool-Aid for color and aroma. (You can divide the uncolored mix in half and color both sections separate colors.) Store in a covered jar in the refrigerator for 12 hours before using. Yields 3-4 cups.
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It's a clock with date and time.
Large scale helps folks keep track of day and date.
Easy to set up , can sit on a shelf or attach to a wall, easy clean design, day and date displays are a good size and easily read.
Some models have a different colour background on Saturday and Sunday, this was found to be useful.
Clock face is a little small and hard to see from a distance, the day flips over at midnight and midday, this makes a noticeable mechanical noise which can be disturbing if you wanted to use the clock in a bedroom.
One carer found that moving the clock at regular montly(ish) intervals helped their person remain aware of the information it shows.
Good, well made, large and easy to read clock, there are several versions, ones that show year rather than location were found more useful.


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Die 20. Bob-Weltmeisterschaft wurde am 11. und 11. Februar im Zweierbob und auf Grund einer wetterbedingten Verkürzung nur am 18. Februar 1961 im Viererbob auf der Olympia-Bobbahn Mount Van Hoevenberg im amerikanischen Austragungsort der Olympischen Winterspiele von 1932, Lake Placid ausgetragen. Nach 1949 wurden erst zum zweiten Mal Bob-Weltmeisterschaften in Übersee ausgetragen. Titelverteidiger Eugenio Monti gewann erneut wie im Vorjahr beide Weltmeistertitel.

Konstellation
Nach langer Wartezeit mit mehreren Anläufen hatte der internationale Bobverband FIBT für 1961 die Bob-Weltmeisterschaften wieder nach Lake Placid vergeben, da eine Verlegung des Olympischen Bobwettbewerbes nach Lake Placid in Ermangelung einer Bobbahn in Squaw Valley vom IOC abgelehnt worden war. Vor dem IOC-Beschluss hatte sich die FIBT schon darauf geeinigt, im Falle einer solchen Entscheidung 1960 anstelle der ausgefallenen Bobwettbewerbe eine Weltmeisterschaft im italienischen Cortina d'Ampezzo durchzuführen und 1961 die Weltmeisterschaften in Lake Placid stattfinden zu lasseen. Darüber hinaus stand der Bobsport aber weiterhin unter Beobachtung des IOC´s, eine Zulassung zu den Olympischen Winterspielen 1964 in Innsbruck galt im zeitlichen Umfeld der WM noch keinesfalls als sicher. Allerdings war schon 1959 vom IOC beschlossen worden, den Rennschlittensport 1964 erstmals ins Programm der Winterspiele aufzunehmen. Der Austragungsort Innsbruck schickte sich dementsprechend auch an, in Igls eine Rennschlitten- und Bobbahn zu bauen. Die endgültige Bestätigung für die Durchführung von Bobwettbewerben fiel aber erst auf der 58. IOC Session im Sommer 1961 in Athen. Allerdings schafften es die Organisatoren in Innsbruck bis zum Sommer 1961 nicht, eine Austragung der von der FIBT für den Januar 1962 in Igls geplanten Bob-Weltmeisterschaft zu garantieren. Somit wurde im Juli seitens des FIBT Präsidenten Rotta ein Tausch von Garmisch-Partenkirchen und Igls verfügt, wodurch die WM 1962 in Garmisch und 1963 in Igls stattfand.

Aufgrund dieser Unsicherheiten war die FIBT daher stark bemüht, möglichst viele Nationen dazu zu bewegen, Bobmannschaften nach den USA zu schicken. Letztlich gingen 10 Nationen an den Start. Die europäischen Verbände aus Frankreich und Polen entsandten wohl auch aus Kostengründen keine Bobs, die erhoffte Teilnahme von Argentinien und dem neuen FIBT-Mitglied Japan kam auch nicht zustande. Die größte Herausforderung war für die Bobteams die vielen Athleten unbekannte Bobbahn am Mount Hoevenberg, die unter den wenigen international zugelassenen Bobbahnen zu den schwierigsten zählte.

Zweierbob
An den Trainingstagen fuhren die üblichen favorisierten Bobs aus Italien, der Schweiz und Deutschland die besten Zeiten. Hinzu kam vor allem der Amerikaner Sheffield, der nachvollziehbarerweise von seinem Heimvorteil profitierte. Insgesamt gingen 19 Bobs aus 10 Nationen an den Start.

Der erste Lauf endete mit einer Überraschung. Titelverteidiger und -favorit Eugenio Monti fuhr nur die drittbeste Zeit während Max Angst aus der Schweiz Laufbestzeit fuhr. Die zweitschnellste Zeit fuhr das neu zusammgestellte britische Duo Nash/Dixon. Der zweite schwedische Bob musste bereits nach dem ersten Lauf aufgeben. In zweiten Lauf zeigte Monti sein ganzes Können und fuhr neuen Bahnrekord. Die Konkurrenz war über eine Sekunde langsamer, Max Angst verlor beispielsweise fast zwei Sekunden auf den Italiener. Durch zwei recht gleichmäßige Fahrten hatte sich Franz Schelle, Vizeweltmeister des Vorjahres im Zweierbob nach dem ersten Tag auf den zweiten Platz geschoben, allerdings mit schon fast anderthalb Sekunden Rückstand auf Monti. Auf Rang Drei lag nach einem eher mäßigen Sergio Zardini, 15 Hundertstel vor dem Schweizer Max Angst liegend. Die Briten Nash/Dixon hatten sich nach der nur elftbesten Zeit im zweiten Lauf schon aus dem Medaillenrennen verabschiedet. Der mit Außenseiterchancen gestartete Gary Sheffield lag nach dem ersten Tag auf Platz Fünf.

Am zweiten Wettkampftag musste Eugenio Monti im dritten Lauf als Erster an den Start, was sich prompt in der nur viertbesten Zeit äußerte. Landsmann Zardini verringerte mit Laufbestzeit den Abstand auf Monti um fast eine Sekunde und schob sich auf den zweiten Platz vor. Da Franz Schelle mit der nur sechstbesten Zeit über eine Sekunde auf Zardini verlor, rutschte er auf den dritten Platz ab, gefolgt von den zwei amerikanischen Teams, die nun plötzlich wieder Medaillenchancen hatten.

Im Finaldurchgang zog Monti nochmals alle Register und verteidigte mit einer Verbesserung des erst am Vortag von ihm aufgestellten Bahnrekord seinen Titel. Das der Vorsprung auf die zweitplatzierten Amerikaner Sheffield/Tennant mit über drei Sekunden so groß war, lag vor allem an der Konkurrenz, die sich selber schlug. Während Sheffield/Tennant sich mit der zweitbesten Laufzeit etwas überraschend Silber sicherten, rutschte Zardini noch auf den Bronzerang ab. Er riskierte zu viel und verlor durch zwei große Schwenker des Bobs mit der nur achtbesten Zeit fast zwei Sekunden auf die Amerikaner. Nicht viel besser erging es den Ohlstädtern Schelle und Göbl. Zuvor noch auf Bronzekurs waren sie noch einen Tick langsamer als Zardini und platzierten sich letztlich auf den undankbaren vierten Rang. Auch das zweite deutsche Team war vom Pech verfolgte. Der Bob von Hans Rösch kam ins Schleudern, wodurch Bremser Theodor Bauer aus dem Schlitten fiel. Pilot Rösch prallte gegen die Eiswand und brach sich einen Ellenbogen. Seine Teilnahme am Vierer-Wettbewerb fiel war damit ausgeschlossen.

Für Eugenio Monti war es der fünfte Weltmeistertitel im Zweierbob in Folge, ein Rekord, der erst 2020 von Francesco Friedrich gebrochen wurde.

Viererbob
Nachdem es bereits bei den kleinen Schlitten einige Unfälle auf der schwer zu fahrenden Bahn gab, setzte sich diese Serie bereits im Training der Viererbobs fort. Der für den verletzten Hans Rösch angereiste Josef Fraundorfer stürzte mit seiner Crew und zog sich eine Schulterverletzung zu. Letztlich wurde von der deutschen Mannschaftsleitung nur noch der Bob von Franz Schelle für den Wettkampf gemeldet.

Auch am ersten Wettkampftag sollten die Unglücksfälle nicht abreisen. Als Ersten traf es den Bob des Spaniers Sartorius. In der Zig-Zag-Kurve überschlug sich der Bob, Finger und Schlüsselbeinbrüche für die <Crew waren die Folge. Nachdem die Bahnarbeiter fast eine halbe Stunde benötigten, um die Bahn wieder herzurichten, startet Mitfavorit Zardini. Seine Trainingszeiten gaben Anlass zu der Hoffnung, das es diesmal mit dem ersten WM-Titel klappen könnte. Allerdings war die Bahn durch nächtlichen Dauerregen an einigen Stellen sehr glatt, an anderen Stellen recht aufgeweicht. Der Italiener hatte ebenfalls in der Zig Zag-Kurve seine Probleme, so dass es den Bob an die Wand schlug. Bremser Bonagura wurde aus dem Bob geschleudert und er erlitt einen Schädelbruch. Da Zardinis Bob nicht mit der kompletten Besatzung ankam, wurde er den Regularien nach disqualifiziert.

Nach diesen eher tragischen Ereignissen zeigte Favorit Monti, das man die Bahn auch beherrschen konnte. Mit Laufbestzeit übernahm er nach dem ersten Lauf die Führung. Dahinter kam es aus Gastgebersicht zu einer großen Überraschung. Der bereits 47-jährige Altmeister und Lokalmatador Stanley Benham war nur ganze zwei Hundertstel langsamer als Monti. Darüber hinaus blieben auch Franz Schelle, aber überraschend auch der Schwede Ahs und der Brite McGowan mit ihren Crews unter der Zeit von 1:10 Minuten und damit im Kreis der Medaillenkandidaten. Im zweiten Lauf fuhr Monti exakt die gleiche Zeit während Benham diesmal mit etwas mehr Abstand wieder die zweitschnellste Zeit fuhr. Während der Schwede Ahs die drittbeste Zeit erzielte, reichte es für Schelle diesmal nur zur sechstbesten Zeit. Dies bedeutete nunmehr Rang drei für Ahs mit 7 Hundertsteln Vorsprung vor Schelle.

Ein nächtlicher Föhneinbruch machte dann alle durchaus noch berechtigten Medaillenhoffnungen zunichte. Die weich gewordene Bahn ließ keinen regulären Betrieb mit den schweren Schlitten mehr zu. Reglementsgemäß wurde daher der Zwischenstand nach den beiden Läufen des ersten Wettkampftages zur Gesamtwertung erklärt. Dies stieß vor allem bei den Gastgebern nicht auf uneingeschränkte Zustimmung da zum Einen Benham um einen noch möglichen Titel gebracht worden war und zum Anderen auch im letzten Jahr die Viererbob-WM wegen warmen Wetters um eine ganze Woche verschoben worden war. Da die europäischen Bobteams allerdings zu festen Konditionen und Termine schon eine Chartermaschine für den Rückflug gebucht hatten, war an eine WM-Verlängerung nicht zu denken. Zudem war nach Auskunft der einheimischen Bahnarbeiter an eine Wiederherstellung der Bahn vor Mittwoch der folgenden Woche nicht zu denken. Von daher griff die FIBT auf die Regelungen in ihren Statuten zurück. Eugenio Monti gewann damit seinen siebten Weltmeistertitel und war damit alleiniger Rekordhalter. Stan Benham konnte nach seiner letzten Medaille 1954 in Cortina und seiner zeitweisen jahrelangen Sperre durch die FIBT nochmals Edelmetall in den Händen halten. Für Schweden war es nach 1953 erst die zweite WM-Medaille.

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const esbuild = require('esbuild');
const fs = require('fs-extra');
const minimatch = require('minimatch');
const path = require('path');
const {
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} = require('../common/ctrlcHandler');
const {compileJison} = require('./compile-jison');
const {css} = require('./css');
const {cyan, green, red, yellow} = require('kleur/colors');
const {getEsbuildBabelPlugin} = require('../common/esbuild-babel');
const {log, logLocalDev} = require('../common/logging');

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let RuleConfigDef;

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function Rule(config) {
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/**
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Rule.prototype.run = function (moduleName, deps) {
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  return this.matchBadDeps(moduleName, deps);
};

/**
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        mustNotDependErrors.push(
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};

const rules = depCheckConfig.rules.map((config) => new Rule(config));

/**
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 * - 3p/integration.js
 * @return {Promise<string>}
 */
async function getEntryPointModule() {
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    .map(getEntryPoint);
  const vendors = await fs.promises.readdir('3p/vendors');
  const vendorEntryPoints = vendors.map((x) => `3p/vendors/${x}`);
  const allEntryPoints = flatten(extensionEntryPoints)
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}

/**
 * @param {string} entryPointModule
 * @return {!Promise<ModuleDef>}
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async function getModuleGraph(entryPointModule) {
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  const result = await esbuild.build({
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      contents: entryPointModule,
      resolveDir: '.',
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    bundle: true,
    write: false,
    metafile: true,
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}

/**
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function getEntryPoint(extensionFolder) {
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    .filter((x) => fs.statSync(x).isDirectory())
    .map((x) => `${x}/${extension}.js`)
    .filter((x) => fs.existsSync(x))
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}

/**
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function flattenGraph(entryPoints) {
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}

/**
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 * @return {boolean} true if violations were discovered.
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function runRules(moduleGraph) {
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    );
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 */
function toArrayOrDefault(value, defaultValue) {
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    return value;
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  }
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}

/**
 * Flatten array of arrays if necessary.
 *
 * @param {Array} arr
 * @return {!Array}
 */
function flatten(arr) {
  return [].concat.apply([], arr);
}

module.exports = {
  depCheck,
};

depCheck.description = 'Run a dependency check on each module';

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text:
Why I Love Australia
I'm not sure how he gets through this without mentioning Shiraz, but aside from that I agree with every word:
WASHINGTON — In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia Gillard interrupted a speech by the minister of health thusly: "I move that that sniveling grub over there be not further heard."
For that, the good woman was ordered removed from the House, if only for a day. She might have escaped that little time-out if she had responded to the speaker's demand for an apology with something other than "If I have offended grubs, I withdraw unconditionally."
God, I love Australia. Where else do you have a shadow health minister with such, er, starch?
Read the whole thing, and send a nice "thank you" to Tim Blair.
World Stuff | Mr. Bingley | June 23, 2006 8:50 am
4 Responses to "Why I Love Australia"
Ebola - Can't catch me twice! says:
This is a place where, when the remains of a fallen soldier are accidentally switched with those of a Bosnian, the enraged widow picks up the phone late at night, calls the prime minister at home in bed and delivers a furious unedited rant — which he publicly and graciously accepts as fully deserved. Where Americans today sue, Australians slash and skewer.
Look, if we could just use pointy sticks on the opposition or the remnants of our poorly placed natives without legal recourse on their part….we would! =P
Ken Summers says:
"sniveling grub"
Not quite the same ring as "rat-felching snotweasel", but acceptable.
Finally got to finish the whole thing. I like it, except for the unfortunate omission of Australia's idiotic gun laws.
And the 'don't say nuthin' bad 'bout my Church' laws.
He's dead-on about everything else.


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Year 12, Issue 1
Posted: 24 February 2019
The special advice that Śrī Caitanyadeva has given to us about the easy way to get rid of desires, a way so natural to mankind, is nothing more than taking shelter of devotion. He has said (as recorded in Śrī Caitanya-candrodaya 8.24, by Śrī Kavi-karṇapūra, a contemporary associate and devotee of the Lord):
For men who are going to serve God after abandoning every worldly attachment with a desire to cross the ocean of worldliness (saṁsāra), the audience of viṣayīs – those sunk deep in worldly affairs and sex-life – is much more harmful and more fit to be abandoned than even sipping poison.
One may take poison and die; but one should never keep company with a viṣayī (an enjoyer of worldly objects) and viṣaya (the objects of enjoyment). He who begins hari-bhajana (service to Śrī Hari) but thereafter becomes entangled with worldly objects of enjoyment (viṣaya), is ruined.
Bharat, the Emperor of India, practised devotion with penances and progressed along the path. But he cherished a desire for some viṣayaother than Kṛṣṇa – a desire to perform a pious act – and because of that slight desire to serve a jīva's material condition instead of doing him true kindness, he had to be reborn as a fawn (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.7–8).
It is for this reason that we receive the teaching from the lotus feet of śrī gurudeva that we have no other duty to perform than serving Kṛṣṇa. Śrī gurudeva's only blessing is "May your mind rest in Kṛṣṇa."
Śrī Mahāprabhu has given those who seek true well-being this advice: totally shun the company of the emancipationists, who seek oneness with non-distinct brahma; they are more insincere than those who desire worldly enjoyments. We should shun all such bad company and associate with true sādhus (saintly devotees of God), whose only duty is to cut through the jīvas' accumulated evil designs. This is their natural motiveless desire (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.26–27).
Worldly people generally cherish a dichotomous heart, or duplicity. They speak one thing out loud, while concealing something different inside. And the funny thing is that they are anxious to present this duplicity of heart to the public as liberality or the virtue of conciliation. These double-tongued men give those who are candid and do not adopt duplicity themselves, the designations of sectarianist, bigot and so on. But we should associate only with those who are candid, not with anyone else. We should totally abandon evil company and keep it at the furthest distance. It is proper to keep a distance of a hundred cubits from horned beasts.
The common decision of men, whether discriminative or otherwise, is not identical with truth. The common sense of the people in blindly following, like simple cattle being herded, is always defective and prone to mistakes. It is a product of their mental faculty, and although some relative, temorary truth may appear in it, it is not the real truth.
Human intellect, driven as it is by rajah and tamah (the two lower modes of nature) cannot penetrate deliberations on unmixed sattva-guṇa (the highest mode). To cite a popular example, a person about to eat some pāyasa (sweet rice and milk porridge) was given friendly advice to mix in mortar made of lime, brick-dust and sand, in order to increase its volume. As a result, he could not benefit from the food. The mortar mixed in destroyed the taste of the porridge, choked his throat, burned his mouth and brought about a condition that could have caused his death.
If we are ever advised to add to pure bhakti, which is free from any of the three modes of nature, the many worldly practices of cultivating jñāna, yoga, karma and so on, which are born of the modes of nature, in order to make pure bhakti complete, it would be to our benefit to not accept such advice. It is detrimental to our true well-being, like the dessert adulterated by mortar.
Karma, jñāna, yoga, and so on, are the activities of fettered souls, being the functions of the body and mind, whereas bhakti is the function of the soul and the activity of the liberated being. Consequently, bhakti cannot be mixed with activities accomplished within the world of māyā, like karma, jñāna, and so on, which are foreign to the soul. When, however, these activities are performed while acknowledging the supremacy of bhakti, that bhakti, although mixed with karma and jñāna, may be helpful in leading one along the road to pure bhakti. When pure bhakti is attained, the mixed state no longer remains. Thus it has been said in the Pañcarātra (cited in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.8): "Acts that are prescribed in śāstra for service to Hari, constitute ordained bhakti, and through the performance of ordained bhakti, true bhakti is available."
Adapted from The Gauḍīya, Volume 8, Number 12, Part 2 of 2
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The U.S. Department of Commerce has just created a Board of Advisors for topics related to the Digital Economy. I will participate as one of the two co-chairs, along with Zoë Baird, President and CEO of the Markle Foundation. The Digital Economy Board of Advisors is to provide regular advice to the Secretary of Commerce from leaders in industry, academia, and civil society on the Department's new Digital Economy Agenda. The Agenda is focused on advancing the Internet and the digital economy across many frontiers, including promoting innovation, a free and open Internet, trust online, and Internet access for all Americans.
The Board of Advisors has been charged with taking a broad, strategic look at the digital economy, including how best to promote innovation and development of new technologies, and the impact of Internet policy issues such as cybersecurity and privacy on the digital economy. I expect the the Board of Advisors will consider whether, when, and how the U.S. government should take direct regulatory and policy action, and when not to do so. The Department of Commerce has a key leadership role within the U.S. government on these issues.
Read more about the Commerce Department's Digital Agenda here and see the Advisory Board's announced appointments here.


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He raced to a time of 8.13 in the finals to win by 0.02 seconds, score 10 team points and hit an NCAA Division II provisional time. Schmidt also led-off the for the men's 4x400m relay team, which placed fifth with a time of 3:27.03 to claim four team points.
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A few of us are planning a hiking trip to NZ in April. We cook and then dehydrate our own hiking dinners, and would like to know if we can bring these to NZ for our hike. Our dinners are typically meat based, and are dehydrated to the point where they resemble dry gravel.
"Home-made meals containing meat are not allowed entry. They must meet the below requirements to be considered entry into the country.
b) The product does not require further cooking before consumption, but may require rehydration or reheating prior to consumption.
c) The total weight of private consignments of camping meals containing meat pieces is 1 kilogram or less.
ii) In commercial packaging that states the product contains less than 5% meat ingredients.
All items arriving into New Zealand must be declared -on a passenger arrival card at the airport or postal declaration documents on mail items. A Quarantine Officer may need to look at the items.
Vacuum pack them, make your own fake labels and go. At worst they'll be confiscated and you will have to buy local products.
But I doubt that will happen. I had no trouble getting Strive meals through last year.
Declare them on entry as dehydrated camping food. No need to say it is home-cooked.
Some years ago, we were attempting to take our own food elements to NZ. There are restrictions on egg and poultry items and it's best to avoid that altogether. We were advised the least you would need would be the list of contents. It's still going to be at the discretion of the agent at the time. We, not long after, abandoned taking anything. It only complicates your passage. We have since found ways to get what we want and my visits number more than forty now.
I imagine the main reason you would persist would be because you are arriving in country at an unusual time and doubt the availability of foodstuffs whilst enroute to your trailhead. I arrive in ChCh at midnight often. I've always marvelled at how i'm sometimes shopping at 1am. I've had a motel accept groceries i purchased online and had delivered. I couldn't do any shopping at a big supermarket in Brisbane after 9pm.
Recently (9/10) went thru customs in Queenstown, declared my homemade dehydrated meals. They confiscated the meat (cow) products; mince, stew. Food and mouth disease the officer stated. What the heck. Didnt faze me. Still had the veg and a chicken stew.
I've taken my home-dehy food into NZ on many occasions without any issue.
1. Declare everything, have a printed list of ingredients.
2. Meat : no red meat, no salmon. Chicken and tuna are OK.
3. Dehy must be dry.
I take NZ bio-security very seriously. All my gear is thoroughly cleaned - I wear my boots through bio-security so they are easily inspected. Tent, pegs, pack etc are free of dirt, seed and other vegetative matter.
Once they see the obvious effort, the inspectors have generally been very chatty and not at all concerned about the food, usually glancing at the ziplok meal bags and waving them through. Only once has one inspector referred to another officer for advice (turns out it was his first night on duty !).


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HAMING, LAWRENCE E. "BUDDY," "LARRY," 82, passed away on Monday, May 16, 2011.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Lawrence Joseph and Kathryn Haming; his sisters, Catherine Jurige, Betty Martin and Mary T. "Boots" Hettel; and infant son, Gerard.
Larry is survived by his beloved wife of 56 years, Betty Konermann Haming; one sister, Helen Fleming; five sons and two daughters, Joseph B., Lisa Heck (Dan), George (Linda), John (Wanda), Stephen Gerard of Frankfurt, Germany, Philip F. (Dina) and Kate Flynn (Patrick); and 11 grandchildren, Jimmy, Betsy, and Emily Heck, Eric and Nicholas Haming, Conrad, Serena, Malcomb, Sawyer, and Juliette Haming, Samuel Flynn; and one great-grandson, Casper Heck.
After growing up in the St. Philip Neri parish, he was a founding member of St. Bernard Catholic Church and an active member of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church.
Larry retired from the Dupont Chemical Company after 36 years of service as a chemical operator and went on to work as a driver for the Funeral Auto Company. Buddy was a 1946 graduate of St. Xavier High School and a member of the 1945 Kentucky State Championship baseball team. He was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, an avid reader, storyteller, letter writer, horse-racing fan, and historian. Above all, Lawrence Haming was a gentleman who lived to serve God, his family, and the less fortunate.
The funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Francis of Assisi, 1960 Bardstown Road, with burial in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-8 p.m. Friday at Ratterman and Sons, 3800 Bardstown Road.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to Little Sisters of the Poor.